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Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election (reuters.com)
"France has voted for continuity," candidate Marine Le Pen said in the wake of her defeat in France's presidential election, conceding that Emmanuel Macron had a decisive lead. Reuters has ongoing coverage of Le Pen's concession phone call and reactions from world leaders. "France Rejects Far Right," read a headline at CNN, touting their own live updates and early results showing Macron with a 65.9% to 34.1% lead, "on course for a decisive win." Macron is schedule to speak at the Louvre museum (where the grounds were "briefly evacuated" this morning after discovery of a suspicious bag.) Quartz is calling 39-year-old Macron "the second Generation X president of a major world power" (after Canada's Justin Trudeau).
The election was closely watched after a 9-gigabyte trove of emails from Macron's campaign were leaked online. CNBC reports that "One of the most talked about emails makes reference to binge-watching Dr. Who and masturbating to the sound of running water. It sounds generally incoherent. It could be false, or maybe the person wrote it after a few too many." The New Yorker traces the leak to a right-leaning Canadian site, whose editor says he found the documents on 4chan. But Reuters is crediting WikiLeaks with providing "the largest boost of attention" to the leaked documents, according to an analysis pubished by the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, a D.C.-based think tank on international affairs. WikiLeaks tweeted about the leak 15 times, bragging to Reuters that "we were hours ahead of all other major outlets." On Friday WikiLeaks also disputed the Macron campaign's claim that the leak mixed real documents with fake ones. "We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us."
Saturday WikiLeaks noted that several of the Office files "have Cyrillic meta data. Unclear if by design, incompetence, or Slavic employee." And Saturday afternoon they added "name of employee for Russian govt security contractor Evrika appears 9 times in metadata for 'xls_cendric.rar' leak archive."
Meanwhile, on the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet voted from space. Feel free to discuss the election's results in the comments.
The election was closely watched after a 9-gigabyte trove of emails from Macron's campaign were leaked online. CNBC reports that "One of the most talked about emails makes reference to binge-watching Dr. Who and masturbating to the sound of running water. It sounds generally incoherent. It could be false, or maybe the person wrote it after a few too many." The New Yorker traces the leak to a right-leaning Canadian site, whose editor says he found the documents on 4chan. But Reuters is crediting WikiLeaks with providing "the largest boost of attention" to the leaked documents, according to an analysis pubished by the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, a D.C.-based think tank on international affairs. WikiLeaks tweeted about the leak 15 times, bragging to Reuters that "we were hours ahead of all other major outlets." On Friday WikiLeaks also disputed the Macron campaign's claim that the leak mixed real documents with fake ones. "We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us."
Saturday WikiLeaks noted that several of the Office files "have Cyrillic meta data. Unclear if by design, incompetence, or Slavic employee." And Saturday afternoon they added "name of employee for Russian govt security contractor Evrika appears 9 times in metadata for 'xls_cendric.rar' leak archive."
Meanwhile, on the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet voted from space. Feel free to discuss the election's results in the comments.
For rejecting fascism.
Congratulations to the French people.
In the U.S., he actually bet against the female candidate.
Yeah, i'm pretty sure those account for the 65-35 lead Macron has right now.
Though to be fair Macron was orders of magnitude better than Hillary. Maybe not as a public servant but at least at campaigning. Hopefullyâ post Trump the rest of the world will take the far right and the working class problems they play to seriously.
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French politics have long been sick, and the sluggish economy with little hope for young workers is a result.
Sick how?
In every election cycle where the French have a choice between change and stagnation, all the parties who pretend to be opponents in the lead-up band together and urge everybody to vote for which ever final candidate is desired by the rich globalist investors class. It never matters who the candidates are, the press and nearly all the parties band together to oppose change and oppose anybody opposed to globalism.
The French people will now get several more years of stagnation terrorism, EU domination, burdens of EU bailouts for Greece, EU mandated open borders, etc and then they will get another chance at change.....which they will again stupidly reject because they are told to.
So, the "sensible" thing to do would have been to put fucking neo-nazis in power ?
Do you actually KNOW what the Front National is ? Where they come from ? What they advocate ?
That's the problem with people who think that one form of extremism is an acceptable alternative to another form of extremism. They learn nothing from history. They're simply unintelligent, it's as simple as that. They're not evil, or hateful, or racist/sexist/whatever. They're just plain below average intelligence.
French citizen in North America voted on Saturday (local time). Our votes were counted yesterday.
Lots of angry russia bots posting here. I guess some are getting sent to siberia for their failure.
Kebabs are pretty tasty. Lots of people like Kebabs. You would also if you tasted one, but its hard to taste food when your head is up your ass.
You can whine all you want about SJWs or political correctness, but there is nothing sensible about fascism. There is nothing sensible about ISIS either. Not all muslims are extremists and not all extremists are muslim. Those are very simple truths that you choose to refute.
One extremist begets another. And so on. At least the French are more aware of this than Americans.
Egalité, fraternité, liberté. Vive la France!
Would you like me to spell out the 5 lunacies packed into that one phrase of his? Do you disagree, that, had Palin (or any Republican) said something remotely as idiotic as this, all newspapers and all TV-channels would've been dwelling on it for weeks and months? But, because Biden was a Democrat, you never even knews about this until now...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I'm not sure citing a President of Austria in regards to protecting the white race is a good look in Europe. Last time, it didn't work out so well for them.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Muslims have been in France for over a century. Unsurprising as France invaded and colonized the lands in which they lived.
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You (quite innocently I'm sure) left out at least one option. Russia performed the hack and planted false emails in the release because they didnt have any good dirt and some one fucked up a little in making the fakes.
As noted before, I'm sure it was a completely innocent mistake that you left out the biggest running theory right now as to what happened and the one the casts Russia in a poor light.
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Maybe there's something to that running water thing.
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The Panama Papers revealed extensive, documented financial ties between Putin and Clinton cronies:
And that is just one of the many documented financial ties between Podesta/Clinton and Putin's regime.
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The french two round system has come to their aid here. The initial intervention was the destruction of the previous mainstream front runner, the republican, Fillon. The most likely outcome was then a run off between Le Pen and a very weak socialist, Hamon, which she'd have had a good chance of winning. They were too late in trying to get to Macron to cause the kind of destabilization that they want because he did too well in the first round. We'll never find out exactly who "they" are - but we should take note to build some checks into the political system to keep it robust against these kind of influences.
This argument is so unfounded in reality that it now has its own Snopes aricle detailing why it's BS, quoting a couple relevant parts:
There are valid concerns with regards to immigration and integration of immigrants from everywhere (including eastern Europe) but this assumption that somehow the muslims will 'outbreed' other Europeans is statistically entirely unfounded and based on numbers that the far.right blogosphere has pulled out of their ass.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
Turns out "wikileaks has been duped" can mean just about anything you want it to mean. That's fucking amazing.
Does it have to be in bold for that to work?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I'm sorry, but Macron doesn't sound like the name of the head of state of an important country. It sounds like the name of a robot on "Futurama".
(And don't get me started on the depressingly worsening sequence of nitwit-scoundrels who've worked in the Oval Office.)
Could be worse. Len Pen could have been defeated by Le Sword.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.