C'était il y a un peu plus de cinq ans. François Hollande, candidat à la présidence de la République, faisait campagne pour une France «apaisée». Il estimait que Nicolas Sarkozy l'avait fracturée et laissée dans un désordre économique et social rarement atteint. Aujourd'hui, le chef de l'État considère que son contrat est rempli. «Je laisse ce pays dans un bien meilleur état que celui que j'ai trouvé il y a maintenant cinq ans. Nous avons plus d'embauches, le chômage baisse, nous avons des investissements, une croissance qui repart», s'est-il félicité ce jeudi matin, lors d'un déplacement à Biars-sur-Cère, dans le Lot. » | Par Marie Visot | vendredi 21 avril 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
François Hollande laisse une France en mauvais état
C'était il y a un peu plus de cinq ans. François Hollande, candidat à la présidence de la République, faisait campagne pour une France «apaisée». Il estimait que Nicolas Sarkozy l'avait fracturée et laissée dans un désordre économique et social rarement atteint. Aujourd'hui, le chef de l'État considère que son contrat est rempli. «Je laisse ce pays dans un bien meilleur état que celui que j'ai trouvé il y a maintenant cinq ans. Nous avons plus d'embauches, le chômage baisse, nous avons des investissements, une croissance qui repart», s'est-il félicité ce jeudi matin, lors d'un déplacement à Biars-sur-Cère, dans le Lot. » | Par Marie Visot | vendredi 21 avril 2017
Présidentielle : les enseignements d'un premier tour hors norme
François Fil[l]on gagne haut la main... chez les seniors. Plébiscité chez les plus de 65 ans, (40,6 %), le candidat LR fait un carton dans les maisons de retraite. Emmanuel Macron séduit surtout les cadres et les professions intellectuelles (28 %). Quant à Marine Le Pen, c'est chez les chômeurs et les ouvriers qu'elle fait ses meilleurs scores, capitalisant plus de 29,9 % d'intention de vote dans ces catégories. Tels sont les premiers enseignements que réserve l'étude publiée par l'institut OpinionWay et réalisée le dimanche 23 avril, jour du premier tour, auprès de plus de 9 000 personnes inscrites sur les listes électorales. » | Par Baudouin Eschapasse | lundi 24 avril 2017
Relief in Berlin as Macron Wins First Round
Berlin can breathe a sigh of relief – for now. Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has taken the lead in the first round of France’s presidential election, raising hopes in neighboring Germany that its most important European partner will hold the line against a populist wave that threatens to upend the European Union.
The contest, however, is far from over and the final outcome is anything but certain. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen was nipping at Mr. Macron’s heels in Sunday’s poll, trailing him by just 2 percentage points in the first round according to preliminary results. » | Spencer Kimball | Sunday, April 23, 2017
Watters' Words: The Mainstream Media Exposed... Again!
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Présidentielle 2017 : Macron veut être le «président des patriotes face aux nationalistes»
Beer And Tobacco Are Kinda Good For You
Denial & Obfuscation about Islam Fuels Growing Distrust - Douglas Murray
The other panelists were Simon Jenkins (former Times editor and Guardian columnist) and Fawaz Gerges (an expert on ISIS and Al-Qaeda). The moderator was Clarissa Ward.
Excerpted from the Intelligence Squared event: "Don't give them what they want: Terrorists should be starved of the oxygen of publicity" | February 22, 2017 at The Royal Institution
Giving the Far Right a Voice - The Listening Post
Islam in the Heart of England and France
The city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, the heart of England, the place where the Industrial Revolution began, the second city of the UK and the eighth-largest in Europe, today is Britain's most dangerous city. With a large and growing Muslim population, five of its electoral wards have the highest levels of radicalization and terrorism in the country. » | Denis MacEoin | Sunday, April 23, 2017
Opinion: The Planet Can’t Stand This Presidency
President Trump’s environmental onslaught will have immediate, dangerous effects. He has vowed to reopen coal mines and moved to keep the dirtiest power plants open for many years into the future. Dirty air, the kind you get around coal-fired power plants, kills people.
It’s much the same as his policies on health care or refugees: Real people (the poorest and most vulnerable people) will be hurt in real time. That’s why the resistance has been so fierce.
But there’s an extra dimension to the environmental damage. What Mr. Trump is trying to do to the planet’s climate will play out over geologic time as well. In fact, it’s time itself that he’s stealing from us.
What I mean is, we have only a short window to deal with the climate crisis or else we forever lose the chance to thwart truly catastrophic heating. » | Bill McKibben | Thursday, April 20, 2017
Julie Bishop Hits Back at North Korea as Labor Backs 'Harder-edged' US Stance
Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, says North Korea should look after its “long-suffering citizens” rather than developing weapons of mass destruction after the regime pointedly warned Australia of a possible nuclear strike if Canberra persists in “blindly and zealously toeing the US line”.
Bishop issued a statement on Sunday declaring North Korea’s threats of nuclear strikes against other nations “further underlines the need for the regime to abandon its illegal nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs”.
“These present a grave threat to its neighbours, and if left unchecked, to the broader region including Australia,” the foreign minister said. “The North Korean government should invest in the welfare of its long-suffering citizens, rather than weapons of mass destruction.” » | Katharine Murphy, Political Editor | Sunday, April 23, 2017
North Korea Warns Australia of Possible Nuclear Strike If It 'Blindly Toes US Line'
North Korea has bluntly warned Australia of a possible nuclear strike if Canberra persists in “blindly and zealously toeing the US line”.
North Korea’s state new agency (KCNA) quoted a foreign ministry spokesman castigating Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, after she said the rogue nation would be subject to further Australian sanctions and for “spouting a string of rubbish against the DPRK over its entirely just steps for self-defence”.
“If Australia persists in following the US moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and remains a shock brigade of the US master, this will be a suicidal act of coming within the range of the nuclear strike of the strategic force of the DPRK,” the report said.
“The Australian foreign minister had better think twice about the consequences to be entailed by her reckless tongue-lashing before flattering the US.” » | Australian Associated Press | Sunday, April 23, 2017
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Ukip to Campaign to Ban Burqa and Sharia Courts, Says Paul Nuttall
Ukip will push to ban the burqa and sharia courts, Paul Nuttall has said, though he denied the Eurosceptic party was reinventing itself as an anti-Islam party.
In a BBC interview, Ukip’s leader also refused to confirm whether he would stand in the 8 June election, having been defeated in the Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection weeks ago.
Nuttall said the party’s policies were not singling out Muslims. He said there were no similar proposals to ban Jewish religious courts because the Jewish population was smaller than the Muslim population.
Nuttall had previously said in 2013 the party should not pursue a burqa ban, but he told the Andrew Marr Show that circumstances had changed. » | Jessica Elgot, Political Reporter | Sunday, April 23, 2017
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French Elections 2017: Disintegrating Left-Right Divide Sets Stage for Political Upheaval
French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that to the very end has brought little consensus or comfort and only one certainty: the result will be a political upheaval, whoever wins.
Even as they walk into their bureau de vote, many will still be undecided, faced with paper slips for an unprecedented 11 candidates, only four of them thought to be serious contenders for the Elysée palace. There is a nail-biting sense that anything could happen.
Do they vote for or against? Do they choose a candidate who represents their politics or one who, opinion polls suggest, is most likely to defeat the woman whose presence as one of two candidates in the second-round runoff in a fortnight seems a given, but whose name still provokes a frisson of fear for many: the far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen, with her anti-Europe, anti-immigration, “French-first” programme? » | Kim Willsher in Paris | Saturday, April 22, 2017
Marine Le Pen's Rise in 'Forgotten France'
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