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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
French Satellite Spots 122 Objects In Possible MH-370 Debris Field
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French Satellite Spots 122 Objects In Possible MH-370 Debris Field
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Snowden leak shows French telecom giant colluding with spooks
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Virtual Reality French Experimental Theater Is The Trippiest Thing
Benoit Marini has spent years working with virtual-reality technology for the French company Dassault Systemes. As the director for the company’s Experiental Lab and Passion for Innovation program, he’s overseen several projects using illusory or reconstructed worlds, like an explorable version of the Khufu Pyramid. (It’s in his blood. His parents were both engineers and his mother used to crack open the TV and use a welder on it; he assumed this was normal.)
In 2012, he started touring his latest show: the experimental, virtual-reality dance production Mr. and Mrs. Dream. It’s bizarre, and I mean that in the best way. Based on the works of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, projectors, lights, and sensors (the dancers forbid the use of virtual reality goggles) combine to make the–uh–production something different, to say the least. Example scene: an apartment that crumbles away to reveal the universe hiding behind the exterior. (The French!)
I caught up with Marini at South By Southwest to talk about the project, coming soon to the U.S.
Popular Science: What is this project? How would you describe it?
Benoit Marini: The project is a mix between dance and 3-D technologies. It’s the marriage of art and science. It cannot be described as a ballet, as a traditional dance show. It’s not a play. It’s not a dance show. It’s a new kind of show.
As it makes the universe of Ionesco, which is really surreal, we decided to call that “virtual unreality,” because it brings life to fantasy, to something weird and strange, instead of giving life to something real.
The show involves two dancers, and they’re from the mind of the author, Eugène Ionesco, and we travel with them through his plays, through the interpretation of the dancers. I think the experience the people have when they come out of the show, they describe it as really unique.
PS: What’s the technical setup like?
BM: We designed a big box, called the Magic Box, because it creates an illusion, like a magician. This box is using screens on the side and on the back. On the floor there is a regular dance floor. Everything has the same color–it’s a light gray. We are using five or six projectors to project everything–everything is like one big universe, one big picture.
All of the projectors are located directly on top of the dancer. We use, for particular scenes, sensors located on the top to know their position in the space of the Magic Box. In other scenes, we’re using sensors directly on the bodies of the dancers so they can interact.
PS: Which part came first? The choreography or the technical side?
BM: When we started the project, they set up the music–it would not be the final music of the show, it would just be music that would be replaced by another original creation, from Laurent Garnier, who is a famous french DJ. They selected the music and searched for choreography, and during this time we were designing the box and creating the software. Then, during the rehearsals, they tried the test we’d prepared, they adapted and changed the choreography.
PS: Can you tell me about some of the specific scenes? There are surreal moments: You mentioned an apartment falls apart and you can see the universe outside of that. What are some other scenes you accomplished with this technology?
BM: I really like the first scene, because at the beginning, when you’re a spectator, you think it’s real. Time accelerates, a painting falls, there is a clock turning really quick, you see a storm, and everything starts to get old in the room and to vanish. The question it brings is: Is reality real, or only an illusion? This opening scene takes everyone into the fantasy world. You know you’re no longer in the real world.
All the scenes have their own meaning. You see a big character called The No Face–the character symbolizes God–and cells come from him, and that’s the rebirth of the character into the show. There’s one cell at the beginning–the dancers dance very close together–and then they split, like mitosis, and they have their own individuality.
PS: Tell me more about what you do in general. This was kind of a departure from the kinds of projects that you usually do?
BM: I’ve been working for Dassault for 14 years, and I’ve been working for the Passion for Innovation program [where the idea for the production was born] for 10 years. So we started small, with only a few people. But we started with a big project: it was about the Khufu Pyramid. We met a guy, and he had a theory, it was about the construction of the Khufu Pyramid. The Egyptians would know what would happen 10 years later, and they had a plan for that. It was related to the core of what we know. So we said, let’s use this theory and simulate it.
We changed the experience into experimental theater–it was like an immersive room, and people could learn in real time what was happening in ancient Egypt, and how this could be built.
I’ve also been working on realistic avatars–how you can quickly create your own avatar just by uploading one or two photos.
PS: Do you see this technology as something that could be used in more traditional theater? Will there be a virtual Death of a Salesman?
BM: There is no limitation when you create 3-D worlds–you can create whatever you want. And this kind of immersive display can be used to examine life, so I hope there will be new kinds of shows using this immersive technology. This is the beginning, I think. In the future, we can use it on the stage, or make it bigger, with more sensors or people inside. But what we already have is still bringing people the illusion that you have something alive in front of you.
Virtual Reality French Experimental Theater Is The Trippiest Thing
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
French Tree-climbing Fad
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
3,000 euro Google search: French blogger gets fined for re-posting indexed govt files
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Monday, February 10, 2014
French president coming alone to White House this week
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France’s President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during the ceremony marking the adoption of a new constitution, at the Constituent Assembly in Tunis February 7, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials are giving a dismissive Gallic shrug to French President Francois Hollande’s personal drama and preparing a state visit to showcase strong U.S.-French cooperation on a host of global priorities.
Hollande, 59, who just broke up with his longtime partner after an alleged affair with a much younger actress, arrives solo on Monday to begin two days of pomp and ceremony including a high-profile visit to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate.
It will be the first state visit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in nearly 2-1/2 years, since South Korea’s president visited in October 2011.
Hollande’s split with journalist Valerie Trierweiler, who was considered the French first lady, prompted some anxiety initially at the White House since both Hollande and Trierweiler were named on the official statement announcing the visit.
But as with most things involving the “no-drama” Obama White House, officials quickly adjusted and are preparing to fete a solo Hollande at a state dinner on Tuesday night.
Officials looking for a previous experience like this need only look back to 2007 when then-President George W. Bush played host to his French counterpart at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, at an official dinner. Sarkozy had just split from his wife, Cecilia.
“It shouldn’t change anything and it won’t,” Anita McBride, who was chief of staff to first lady Laura Bush, said of Hollande’s visit. “He’s asked the people of France to respect his privacy, and I assume he means that for Americans to respect that too.”
At a time when American relations with Europe have been tested by revelations of National Security Agency eavesdropping and, more recently, a U.S. diplomat’s secretly recorded expletive to dismiss the European Union, U.S.-French relations have been productive.
This doesn’t mean Hollande is happy about the eavesdropping.
Hollande told Time magazine that this is a “a difficult moment, not just between France and the United States but also between Europe and the United States” because of spying practices that “should never have existed.”
‘A SOLID ALLY’
The United States and France, an alliance that dates back to the very founding of America in the late 18th century, are working together on Iran, Syria, restive North Africa and other global hot spots.
The collaboration is a far cry from a decade ago when the U.S.-led war on Iraq led to strains and French refusal to participate prompted some Americans to rename the classic fried-potato dish “freedom fries” instead of french fries.
“France is a solid ally of the United States but always retains its independence,” Hollande told Time.
Obama has shied away from having frequent state visits during his five years in office but is said to have been the driving force behind inviting the French leader to Washington. Officials say Obama and Hollande have a solid working relationship.
The two leaders start the visit with a pilgrimage to Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday. Jefferson was U.S. ambassador to France from 1785-1789, developing a taste for fine French wines.
The Monticello stop is intended to showcase the enduring alliance between the two countries. Jefferson, the third U.S. president, was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. Without French assistance, the fledgling American army might not have defeated the British.
On Tuesday, after a colorful arrival ceremony on the White House South Lawn, Obama and Hollande hold talks, then a joint news conference. Hollande will have lunch at the State Department with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry.
“During the visit, they will discuss opportunities to further strengthen our shared security, grow our economic and commercial partnership, and partner on the environment, climate change, and development,” the White House said.
Both leaders could use the glow from a successful visit to boost their images at home. Hollande, struggling to reduce chronic unemployment in France, has a 24 percent job approval rating, according to Ipsos.
Obama, after the rocky rollout of his signature healthcare law, saw his approval rating drop to about 40 percent, but it has rebounded slightly in recent weeks.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Jim Loney and Jonathan Oatis)
French president coming alone to White House this week
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Kidnapped French priest set free in the Cameroon
A French Catholic priest kidnapped in the Cameroon was released early Tuesday, after he spent weeks in the custody of Islamic militants in the far north of the country, near the Nigerian border.
Georges Vandenbeusch, 42, was kidnapped on November 13th about 18 miles from the Nigerian border, and appears to have been taken into Nigeria by his captors. Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility.
More from GlobalPost: Seven dead in suspected Boko Haram wedding attack
French President Francois Hollande commended authorities in both Nigeria and in the Cameroon for helping to secure the release of Vandenbeusch, and he commended Cameroon President Paul Biya for his “personal involvement” in the matter,according to AFP.
“I am in good health and so grateful to those who worked for my release,” he told reporters before being taken to the French embassy,wrote Reuters.“(It was) terribly boring. I spent seven weeks with nothing to do, pacing in circles in my tent under a tree without a book to read or a person to talk to.”
France has stated that they did not pay a ransom to secure the release of Vandenbeusch, in an effort to dispel rumors that such payments have been made in the past.
“It’s long-term, very difficult team work” to free a hostage, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of the case, according to the Associated Press.“There were discussions, of course,” he added. “That is where Cameroon is extremely useful.”
Boko Haram, which translates in the Hausa language into “Western education is forbidden,” has been held responsible for over 790 deaths in 2012, and many others in 2013.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/131231/kidnapped-french-priest-set-free-the-cameroon
Kidnapped French priest set free in the Cameroon
Saturday, December 28, 2013
France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema
The economic stupidity in France is astounding. It’s hard keeping up with all the inane ideas of President Francois Hollande’s socialist administration. Here’s another one of Hollande’s ideas for your amusement.
RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion
France’s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture.The sites fall into the same category as video-on-demand services, the organization said; so they would be subject to French cultural protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their revenues to help subsidize productions.
“These platforms have been developing partnerships with audiovisual publishers and content providers for years, with which they share revenues from advertising,” the report [in French] said.
The watchdog has urged the French government to conduct research into the websites’ profit from professional productions and to determine how much they may be required to pay.
The obstacle which remains, though, is the fact that the legislation is only applicable to websites that are based in France. In the future, the organization is planning to demand all video-on-demand services to declare their existence to the CSA.
Culture Tax
Bloomberg reports France’s ‘Culture Tax’ Could Hit YouTube and Facebook
Should YouTube subsidize le cinéma français? France’s audiovisual regulator thinks so. In a report this week, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) says that video-sharing websites should be subject to a tax that helps finance the production of French films and TV shows.The so-called culture tax, totaling more than €1.3 billion ($ 1.8 billion) annually, is paid by movie theaters, broadcasters, and Internet service providers in France. The CSA contends that YouTube (GOOG), French video-sharing site DailyMotion, and their ilk are effectively providing video-on-demand services, which are already subject to the tax.
Separately, France is considering a tax on smartphones, tablets, and other devices as another source of revenue for cultural subsidies. A government-commissioned report, released in May, said that a sales tax of 1 percent should be imposed on electronic devices capable of accessing movies, music, and other content. The proposed tax would raise an estimated €86 million annually that would be used to finance the “cultural industries’ digital transition,” France’s Culture Ministry said at the time.
Trade associations for French Internet and technology companies spoke out against the proposal, which the government has not yet acted on. Rejecting the government’s assertion that a 1 percent tax would be “painless,” the groups warned in a statement in July that the government should be encouraging growth of the digital economy, rather than taxing it.
Subsidies For Films No One Watches
Forbes has some interesting comments as well. Please consider French Try Another Tax On Facebook, Google And YouTube
France is trying to impose another tax upon Facebook, Google and YouTube. It’s going to go into subsidies for all those French films that no one ever watches. Which is, of course, why they need subsidy.The basic background here is that the French are so proud and so confident of the superiority of their culture that they fear it will be wiped out by all these imports of American and other “Anglo” productions. They thus have various limits on how many of these imports there can be: even to the point that in the past they have had exemptions from the standard European Union strictures on the free movement of goods and services. They’ve even got a law stating that English cannot be used in advertising: this named after the Minister that brought it in, Jack Allgood.
There is just one small problem with this:
The obstacle which remains, though, is the fact that the legislation is only applicable to websites that are based in France.
The moral of the story is “Don’t base websites, start businesses, or expand businesses in France”.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis
France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema
France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema
The economic stupidity in France is astounding. It’s hard keeping up with all the inane ideas of President Francois Hollande’s socialist administration. Here’s another one of Hollande’s ideas for your amusement.
RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion
France’s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture.The sites fall into the same category as video-on-demand services, the organization said; so they would be subject to French cultural protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their revenues to help subsidize productions.
“These platforms have been developing partnerships with audiovisual publishers and content providers for years, with which they share revenues from advertising,” the report [in French] said.
The watchdog has urged the French government to conduct research into the websites’ profit from professional productions and to determine how much they may be required to pay.
The obstacle which remains, though, is the fact that the legislation is only applicable to websites that are based in France. In the future, the organization is planning to demand all video-on-demand services to declare their existence to the CSA.
Culture Tax
Bloomberg reports France’s ‘Culture Tax’ Could Hit YouTube and Facebook
Should YouTube subsidize le cinéma français? France’s audiovisual regulator thinks so. In a report this week, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) says that video-sharing websites should be subject to a tax that helps finance the production of French films and TV shows.The so-called culture tax, totaling more than €1.3 billion ($ 1.8 billion) annually, is paid by movie theaters, broadcasters, and Internet service providers in France. The CSA contends that YouTube (GOOG), French video-sharing site DailyMotion, and their ilk are effectively providing video-on-demand services, which are already subject to the tax.
Separately, France is considering a tax on smartphones, tablets, and other devices as another source of revenue for cultural subsidies. A government-commissioned report, released in May, said that a sales tax of 1 percent should be imposed on electronic devices capable of accessing movies, music, and other content. The proposed tax would raise an estimated €86 million annually that would be used to finance the “cultural industries’ digital transition,” France’s Culture Ministry said at the time.
Trade associations for French Internet and technology companies spoke out against the proposal, which the government has not yet acted on. Rejecting the government’s assertion that a 1 percent tax would be “painless,” the groups warned in a statement in July that the government should be encouraging growth of the digital economy, rather than taxing it.
Subsidies For Films No One Watches
Forbes has some interesting comments as well. Please consider French Try Another Tax On Facebook, Google And YouTube
France is trying to impose another tax upon Facebook, Google and YouTube. It’s going to go into subsidies for all those French films that no one ever watches. Which is, of course, why they need subsidy.The basic background here is that the French are so proud and so confident of the superiority of their culture that they fear it will be wiped out by all these imports of American and other “Anglo” productions. They thus have various limits on how many of these imports there can be: even to the point that in the past they have had exemptions from the standard European Union strictures on the free movement of goods and services. They’ve even got a law stating that English cannot be used in advertising: this named after the Minister that brought it in, Jack Allgood.
There is just one small problem with this:
The obstacle which remains, though, is the fact that the legislation is only applicable to websites that are based in France.
The moral of the story is “Don’t base websites, start businesses, or expand businesses in France”.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis
France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Nearly 100 dead in CAR before French troops arrive
Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over 40 bodies, civilian and some military, have been brought for funeral preparations. Gunfire and mortar rounds erupted in the town, leaving scores dead and wounded. To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion allowing French troops to deploy in the country in order to protect civilians and insure security by all necessary means. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over 40 bodies, civilian and some military, have been brought for funeral preparations. Gunfire and mortar rounds erupted in the town, leaving scores dead and wounded. To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion allowing French troops to deploy in the country in order to protect civilians and insure security by all necessary means. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Shrouded bodies lay in a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Over 40 bodies, civilian and some military, have been brought for funeral preparations. Gunfire and mortar rounds erupted in the town, leaving scores dead and wounded. To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion allowing French troops to deploy in the country in order to protect civilians and insure security by all necessary means. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Seleka soldiers wearing lucky charms around their necks wait outside Bangui’s hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Fighting came to the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving dozens of casualties and posing the biggest threat yet to the new government just as the U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A young man screams in pain as he lies in a pool of blood on the floor of Bangui’s hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Fighting came to the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving dozens of casualties and posing the biggest threat yet to the new government just as the U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Seleka soldiers rest at their military camp in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Fighting came to the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving dozens of casualties and posing the biggest threat yet to the new government just as the U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Fighting swept through the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving nearly one hundred people dead and posing the biggest threat yet to the country’s new government. The U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims.
Witnesses and aid workers say at least 98 people are dead in Bangui after a day of clashes between the Muslim armed fighters who rule the country and a Christian militia who opposes them.
An Associated Press journalist counted 48 bodies at a mosque in a northern neighborhood late Thursday. Separately, Doctors Without Borders confirmed at least 50 people were dead at hospitals they are running.
The armed Christian fighters attacked the capital before dawn, in the most serious violence to hit Bangui since a March coup brought the Seleka rebel coalition to power. The former rebels are accused of committing scores of human rights abuses. The Christian militias who support the deposed president are implicated in massacres on Muslim communities.
In Bangui, people scurried indoors, some seeking sanctuary in a church. Inside a Bangui hospital, dozens of people with gunshot wounds lay on the floor or on wooden benches, waiting for hours to see a physician. Underscoring the chaos, even the president’s and prime minister’s homes were looted.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously authorized increased military action by France and African troops aimed at restoring security and protecting civilians in the volatile former French colony.
Speaking from the Elysee Palace in Paris, French President Francois Hollande promised that the 600 hundred troops in the country will be doubled “within a few days, even a few hours.” He said the Central African Republic was “calling us for help,” and he “decided to act immediately.”
The country’s prime minister welcomed the intervention while in Paris for a summit of dozens of African leaders hosted by Hollande. In his first reaction to the move, Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye told The Associated Press that he sees it “very positively” and that he had wanted a “firm reaction from France.” He called for fast action “to put an end to this violence and these atrocities.”
Tiangaye confirmed his house had been looted, describing the attackers as a group of Seleka who arrived in three pickup trucks.
“It’s true, my house was attacked and pillaged,” he said, adding that his family was evacuated beforehand and were safe.
Hours after fighting broke out, Central African Republic’s president, who was installed by Seleka earlier this year, said the clashes were over. By afternoon, the streets were empty of all but military vehicles and the four-wheel-drive trucks favored by Seleka.
Babacar Gaye, the U.N. special representative for the Central African Republic, appealed for calm in a joint statement from the U.N., European Union, African Union and France.
Seleka is an unlikely group of allies who united a year ago with the goal of forcing President Francois Bozize from the presidency after a decade in power. After thousands of rebels besieged Bangui in March, Bozize fled and the insurgents installed their leader Michel Djotodia as president.
Djotodia has increasingly sought to distance himself from Seleka, which has been blamed for scores of atrocities in Bangui, killing and raping civilians and stealing from aid groups and orphanages. He has even less control in the distant provinces where anger over Seleka human rights abuses fueled the formation of the Christian anti-balaka movement several months ago. Balaka means “machete.”
While the anti-balaka fighters include villagers defending their communities against Seleka attacks, the group is believed to be receiving support from Bozize allies. The anti-balaka fighters also have been implicated in massacres on Muslim civilian populations, which also have suffered under the Seleka regime and say they are being unfairly blamed for the destruction.
The U.N. Security Council resolution authorizes the deployment of an African Union-led force to Central African Republic for a year to protect civilians and restore security and public order. The AU force is replacing a regional peacekeeping mission whose presence has been mainly limited to the capital and a few northern cities.
The U.N. resolution also authorizes French forces, for a temporary period, “to take all necessary measures” to support the AU-led force known as MISCA, whose troop numbers are expected to rise from about 2,500 to 3,500.
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Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Lori Hinnant and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
Nearly 100 dead in CAR before French troops arrive
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Chemtrails: New analyzes in French laboratories
Filaments collected in the field in four places in France since the end of 2012
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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Samples collected from individuals, entrusted to Analytika (Center for Independent Research and Expetises Organic Chemistry, located in Cuers, Var, France). Evidence was such that a French local newspaper picked it up in one of their publications.
The report recently published by Analytika analysis provides scientific evidence of anthropogenic origin of these filaments.Among the many various known organic compounds are detected in the composition of fuels and lubricants for aircraft engines molecules, including several phthalates , “endocrine disruptors”.
Drôme and Ardèche: Mysterious Filaments fallen from the sky “Reliable Explanation”
Tailliez Bernard, founder and scientific director of Analytika, concerned that its investigations reveal the existence of a new form of pollution directly attributable to air traffic air. The scientific community and relevant authorities are now alerted. Must quickly improve their knowledge about the origin and consequences, health and climate of this new form of air pollution and publish their findings because: “ The filing requirement entitles know . “(Jean Rostand)gives Analytika thank the association ACSEIPICA and citizens who participated in sample collection and research, without a commitment as a citizen the subject matter would not have attracted the attention of the authorities.
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| Polymers or nanorods |
The full analysis here: (press)
In France it is reported through the streets:
Meanwhile, farmers in Spain Zamora and Clear Skies Association continue to provide visual evidence as polymers fallingin this video recently
In recent months they appear analysis of water, soil, blood and polymers: Analysis of water and soil carried on a farm on the outskirts of Lisbon – Portugal
Josefina Fraile , president of Earth SOStenible and member of the Spanish Association of Clean Sky, is involved in a TV show:
Chemtrails: New analyzes in French laboratories
Friday, October 18, 2013
French Rudeness due to Occult Attack
October 18, 2013
The French are “rude” due to stress from a
constant attack by its Masonic Jewish mind controllers,
says David Masada. He expresses the anguish and anger
of a patriot watching his country go “down the drain.”
Part One: “France Fights Masonic Jewish Hegemony”
by David Masada
(henrymakow.com)
In general, the French are rude because as a people, we are under attack.
Most of people just reflect back the aggression they are suffering themselves.
We are under an occult attack from the Masonic Jewish cabal that controls France. Although the majority of French cannot identify this source, we are reacting to the evil we are being fed by the media, politics and culture as a whole.
We’ve been uprooted as a Christian people, and the loss of Christianity as religion, ethic, moral values, communication, education and so on, is what’s turning us into reckless maniacs.
We do not know how to interact with others nicely because evil is being forced down our throat daily. This creates a deep sense of moral discomfort and insecurity. And when you add the constant influx of foreigners into the country, inspired by the Masonic Jewish cabal, you end up with a people that feels (the word is not too strong) terrorized.
I believe that’s this fear that generate all this rudeness and aggression. The recent law on gay marriage is just one example among many. (Majority of French are against it, but the law passes anyway; democracy is no longer majority rules)…
If the French are rude, that’s simply because they are suffering intensely…
FRANCE HAS EMBRACED JEWISH CONTROL
The economy, education system, mass media of France, are all under the yoke of organized Jewry. As terrible and anti-Semitic as it sounds, it is nevertheless true. The proof is that if you dare mention it, you’ll be banned forever from the media, will not work as journalist, will not be appointed to a company’s board, won’t be on any political parties’ list, nor run for the National Assembly. You won’t even stand a chance to compete for Miss France. (Yes, they have their hands on that too…)
(Left, Miss France 2012)
They not only want to confiscate all levers of power from the French population, they are also pursuing a long term plan to eradicate the native population. Hence, the massive campaign for abortion and miscegenation conveyed throughout the media as the latest proofs of “human progress” and “civilization”.
This obsession with the disappearance of the white people, stripping them from power in their own country, and forcing them to accept aliens from all over the world, is the work of organized Jewry (B’nai Brith, Freemasonry, etc.)
The life struggle of Jean-Marie Le Pen was to remove France from the hands of Freemasonry. If it is now obvious he failed, but his brave endeavor has nonetheless allowed some people to shake the veil of lies and deceit shrouding the French political circus.
THE REAL FIGHT: NATIONALISTS VS GLOBALISTS
As the fight is no longer between left and right, but between those abiding to the globalist agenda, ready to sell their country for the sake of a career in politics, and those who want to liberate the country from the grip of the enslaving globalists.
Will the Front National succeed? I tend to think that although they express the will of millions of French people, there is a very slim chance that it can bring things to fruition, partly because the European institutions won’t allow it, and moreover because the debt entrenchment tied to the Euro currency, will prevent the implementation of an independent policy.
(left, Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean Marie, is current leader)
The strategy of interdependence on financial matter was so well planned that it’s leaving nothing to chance in the political sphere.
One thing is sure though, the Front National has already been infiltrated by Freemasonry. For example, the Freemason lawyer Gilbert Collard caused a sensation recently by joining Marine Le Pen. He now sits in the National Assembly as MP. (Although accounting for more than 20% of vote on national level, the FNP has only 2 MPs out of 577… that’s democracy according to Freemasonry dictatorship…)
Meanwhile, more than 80% of the French jails are filled with non native… (mostly Muslims…) A generous immigration policy is designed to attract even more migrants (more than 200 000 get residency visa and nationality follow every year… ) Their children get free schooling; their parents get child support, free medical care and so on, all at the expense of the working native population that get nothing in return, except violence, hatred and crime…
We are being replaced in our own soil…the crime rate is reaching an all-time high thanks to their policy of open border. We have now Eastern Europe mafia gang raiding jewelry store and looting private residences in the countryside on a massive scale. This surely should keep the police force busy, when they already have to face drastic budget reductions…
The chaos wished by our Supreme Masters the Freemasons is well under way… That will surely allow some more “social change” and “anti-terrorist” prevention campaigns… Now, I think I really understand the meaning of their motto: Ordo ab Chaos…
Entire sections of France’s big city suburbs are becoming no-go zones, where migrants organize themselves forming militia to protect their drug traffic and racket. The whole country is going down the drain, but still the media continues to portray the Front National (which never held power) as the cause of all trouble… That could be the subject of a good joke if reality was not so tragic…
To sum up, the proven satanic recipe for disaster is being implemented on France:
- Mass immigration
- Ever increasing debt
- National sovereignty fettered by European institutions
- Gay marriage
All those factors are now plainly visible, reaching the sight of even the most unaware propaganda sucker, but the true perpetrators remain as usual in the shadow… Who is brave enough to point his finger at them knows that it can cost him his career and even his life…
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Related – Herve Ryssen – Judaism is a Political Project
French Rudeness due to Occult Attack
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Kerry delivers a love letter to France, in French
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) arrives for a meeting with French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (2nd L) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris September 7, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Susan Walsh/Pool
PARIS |
PARIS (Reuters) – French, it is said, is the language of love.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flaunted his fluency in the language on Saturday to deliver something of a love letter to France, one of the few world powers that seems likely to join the United States in any military action against Syria.
Following the British parliament’s August 29 vote to reject any British use of force against Syria, which the United States accuses of gassing its own people with sarin, France has made no secret of its desire to play Washington’s supporting partner.
Speaking in French for eight minutes beneath the gold-painted cherubs of one of the Quai d’Orsay’s elegant salons, Kerry traced the history of U.S.-French relations beginning from the American Revolution, while glossing over their many tiffs.
“When he visited General de Gaulle in Paris more than 50 years ago, President Kennedy said, and I quote, ‘The relationship between France and the United States is crucially important for the preservation of liberty in the whole world,’” Kerry said.
“Today, faced with the brutal chemical weapons attacks in Syria, that relationship evoked by President Kennedy is more crucial than ever,” he added.
Not to be outdone, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius broke a taboo by speaking in English at a news conference in the Foreign Ministry’s elegant building on the banks of the Seine, where he once chided a reporter, “Here, sir, we speak French.”
While Kerry’s performance might be seen as flattering a French government that is one of the few to back U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for air strikes to deter Syria from using chemical arms, it may help convince a skeptical French public.
An IFOP poll published on Saturday showed 68 percent of French were against an intervention in Syria.
France took no part in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which it strongly opposed, but joined the United States, Britain and others in a military intervention that helped oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
POLITICAL LIABILITY, DIPLOMATIC ASSET
Kerry, who learned French as a boy, found his fluency a liability during his 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, feeding an image of the Democrat as a wealthy elitist that his Republican opponent, then-President George W. Bush, exploited.
As a diplomat, however, it is an asset, allowing him to speak directly to the French about their unhappy history with chemical warfare during World War One as one reason why the French government is sensitive to its alleged use in Syria.
“Some of the very first lethal chemical weapons attacks happened here, on French soil, during the First World War and a large number of these victims of these deadly, indiscriminate weapons were young French soldiers, just 19 or 20 years old,” he said.
Fabius, an experienced politician best known for having been France’s youngest prime minister, showed a rare moment of intensity and outrage about an August 21 attack in Syria in which the Syrian government is accused of using sarin gas.
Syria, embroiled in a 2-1/2-year-old civil war in which more than 100,000 are believed to have died, denies that.
“You have to look at the images of these children in rows with the shrouds over them, not an injury, not a drop of blood? And they are there and they are sleeping forever,” Fabius said, visibly shaken.
“There’s a dictator who did it and is ready to start again,” he said gesticulating with his fists. “This concerns us, too. You can’t say that globalization is everywhere except for terrorism and chemical weapons.”
As if to underscore their countries’ ties, Kerry and Fabius went for a walk outside the Foreign Ministry on a pleasant Paris evening, where, later, the sky to the west was lit with gold and to the east by a rainbow.
“France and the United States stand shoulder to shoulder. Some ask why? Just look at history. Each time that the cause is just, France and the United States stand together,” Fabius said.
“We are exceedingly grateful to have France by our side,” said Kerry.
(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) arrives for a meeting with French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (2nd L) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris September 7, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Susan Walsh/Pool
PARIS |
PARIS (Reuters) – French, it is said, is the language of love.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flaunted his fluency in the language on Saturday to deliver something of a love letter to France, one of the few world powers that seems likely to join the United States in any military action against Syria.
Following the British parliament’s August 29 vote to reject any British use of force against Syria, which the United States accuses of gassing its own people with sarin, France has made no secret of its desire to play Washington’s supporting partner.
Speaking in French for eight minutes beneath the gold-painted cherubs of one of the Quai d’Orsay’s elegant salons, Kerry traced the history of U.S.-French relations beginning from the American Revolution, while glossing over their many tiffs.
“When he visited General de Gaulle in Paris more than 50 years ago, President Kennedy said, and I quote, ‘The relationship between France and the United States is crucially important for the preservation of liberty in the whole world,’” Kerry said.
“Today, faced with the brutal chemical weapons attacks in Syria, that relationship evoked by President Kennedy is more crucial than ever,” he added.
Not to be outdone, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius broke a taboo by speaking in English at a news conference in the Foreign Ministry’s elegant building on the banks of the Seine, where he once chided a reporter, “Here, sir, we speak French.”
While Kerry’s performance might be seen as flattering a French government that is one of the few to back U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for air strikes to deter Syria from using chemical arms, it may help convince a skeptical French public.
An IFOP poll published on Saturday showed 68 percent of French were against an intervention in Syria.
France took no part in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which it strongly opposed, but joined the United States, Britain and others in a military intervention that helped oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
POLITICAL LIABILITY, DIPLOMATIC ASSET
Kerry, who learned French as a boy, found his fluency a liability during his 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, feeding an image of the Democrat as a wealthy elitist that his Republican opponent, then-President George W. Bush, exploited.
As a diplomat, however, it is an asset, allowing him to speak directly to the French about their unhappy history with chemical warfare during World War One as one reason why the French government is sensitive to its alleged use in Syria.
“Some of the very first lethal chemical weapons attacks happened here, on French soil, during the First World War and a large number of these victims of these deadly, indiscriminate weapons were young French soldiers, just 19 or 20 years old,” he said.
Fabius, an experienced politician best known for having been France’s youngest prime minister, showed a rare moment of intensity and outrage about an August 21 attack in Syria in which the Syrian government is accused of using sarin gas.
Syria, embroiled in a 2-1/2-year-old civil war in which more than 100,000 are believed to have died, denies that.
“You have to look at the images of these children in rows with the shrouds over them, not an injury, not a drop of blood? And they are there and they are sleeping forever,” Fabius said, visibly shaken.
“There’s a dictator who did it and is ready to start again,” he said gesticulating with his fists. “This concerns us, too. You can’t say that globalization is everywhere except for terrorism and chemical weapons.”
As if to underscore their countries’ ties, Kerry and Fabius went for a walk outside the Foreign Ministry on a pleasant Paris evening, where, later, the sky to the west was lit with gold and to the east by a rainbow.
“France and the United States stand shoulder to shoulder. Some ask why? Just look at history. Each time that the cause is just, France and the United States stand together,” Fabius said.
“We are exceedingly grateful to have France by our side,” said Kerry.
(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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French Government Employee Found Crossing Israeli Border With 334 Pounds of Gold, 1/2 Ton of Tobacco and More Loot
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
September 8, 2013
Last week a French consulate employee was arrested at a border checkpoint after a large quantity of gold, tobacco, checks and cellphones was found in his diplomatic vehicle.
Following the arrest he was deported back to France with his belongings confiscated. The french government has denied any involvement or knowledge about the shipment.
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Vincent Floriani, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, said the driver was travelling on his own account, privately, and not on behalf of the embassy.
He insisted that the French and Israeli authorities had cooperated fully. “We have absolutely no tolerance for this kind of behaviour,” he said.
AFP reported that the driver was carrying “152 kg of gold, mostly in bars; 500 kg of tobacco; hundreds of new cell phones; and nearly $ 2 million in checks.”
Its difficult to speculate what exactly was taking place here. Was it some sort of back end deal or clandestine shipment between governments? Was it a robbery or the results of massive arms deal? Leave your suggestions in the comments below.
Sources:
[1] French consulate worker arrested at Israeli border with 334 pounds of gold and $ 2 million in checks – Rawstory
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