MAGDALENA ANDERSSON ENFIN PREMIERE MINISTRE DE SUEDE

Cette fois est donc la bonne. Après une rocambolesque élection-démission en l’espace de sept heures la semaine dernière, la chef des sociaux-démocrates suédois Magdalena Andersson a été réélue première ministre lundi 29 novembre par le Parlement et va pouvoir devenir officiellement la première femme à occuper ce poste dans le pays.

Une nageuse de haut niveau

Née le 23 janvier 1967 dans la ville de Uppsala, Magdalena Andersson a d'abord connu une carrière dans le sport de haut niveau. Elle remporte le titre national de natation en Suède. En 1992, elle est diplômée d'un master en économie à l'Université de Stockholm avant de rejoindre la prestigieuse université de Harvard en 1995. À partir de 1996, elle commence à occuper différents postes dans le monde politique. D'abord conseillère politique pour le Premier ministre suédois, elle devient directrice de la planification dès 1998. Elle collabore avec différents ministères, notamment celui des Finances, dont elle prend la tête en 2014. À l'époque, elle était déjà la première femme à qui l'on confiait ce portefeuille.

Magdalena Andersson a été élue par les députés avec 173 voix contre, 101 voix pour et 75 abstentions. En Suède, un gouvernement est approuvé tant qu’une majorité absolue de 175 députés ne vote pas sa censure. Cette économiste de 54 ans succède au premier ministre démissionnaire, Stefan Löfven. Sauf improbable nouvelle surprise, l’élection clôt le feuilleton de la transition du pouvoir social-démocrate provoquée par le départ de ce dernier, qui avait passé la main au début du mois après sept ans au pouvoir et à moins d’un an des législatives de septembre 2022. La présentation de son gouvernement au roi Carl XVI Gustaf, qui marque officiellement sa prise de fonctions, est attendue mardi.

Lors d’une journée de parlementarisme stupéfiante mercredi dernier, Magdalena Andersson avait d’abord été élue première ministre, puis mise en minorité concernant son budget par l’opposition de droite et enfin contrainte de démissionner après le départ surprise des écologistes du gouvernement.

Une «situation historique»

Du fait de ce départ du parti des Verts, l'économiste et ancienne nageuse de haut niveau de 54 ans va diriger un gouvernement entièrement social-démocrate. «Elle sera désormais à la tête d'un gouvernement à parti unique. Donc, plus de surprises. Plus de crise, du moins pour l'instant», a déclaré Anders Sannerstedt, professeur de sciences politiques à l'université de Lund, pour qui l'épisode a été une «situation historique».

Bien qu'habitué aux complexités de son parlementarisme et confronté depuis 2018 à des rapports de force extrêmement compliqués au Riksdag, le pays nordique n'avait jamais vécu un tel scénario. Le président de la chambre chargé de piloter le processus de transition, Andreas Norlén, avait fait part de ses «regrets» devant l'image donnée au peuple suédois.

Un an avant les législatives

La succession à la tête de la Suède a lieu à moins d’un an des législatives de septembre 2022, qui s’annoncent serrées. Mme Andersson devra d’ici là parvenir à convaincre les électeurs. Avec quelque 25 % dans les sondages, le Parti social-démocrate garde son rang de première formation politique de Suède, mais est proche de ses planchers historiques. Il devra contrer son grand rival, le parti conservateur des Modérés, dans une nouvelle configuration. Ce dernier s’est rapproché de l’extrême droite des Démocrates de Suède et est désormais prêt à gouverner avec son appui au Parlement.

La nomination de Magdalena Andersson au poste de première ministre marque une étape importante pour la Suède, considérée depuis des décennies comme l’un des pays les plus progressistes d’Europe en matière de relations entre les sexes, mais qui n’avait pas encore eu de femme au plus haut poste politique, contrairement à tous les autres pays nordiques.

BRADLEY COOPER AND LADY GAGA

ON THEIR ALLEGED IDYLE DURING

THE SHOOTING AT STAR IS BORN

This speculation had reached new heights when the two actors, accomplices and entwined, performed the hit Shallow at the 2019 Oscars, for which they won the Oscar for best original song.

“We had everything orchestrated and planned. Of course we wanted people to believe we were in love.

And we worked hard on it. We worked for days. “, She had confided in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Four years after playing alongside Lady Gaga, it's the turn of the American actor to put things straight. Bradley Cooper explained that the performance was designed to play out like the central scene of the film, in large part to help him overcome his stress of singing live.

“Just on a personal level, it reduced my anxiety level,” the American Sniper comedian admitted.

“They [the characters Jackson and Ally, note] kind of fall in love in this scene in the movie.

It is this magical moment that happens to them on a stage in front of thousands of people. (...) It would have been so bizarre, if we were each on stools in front of the public ”, he affirmed in the Hollywood Reporter this Wednesday, November 17.

At the time, the actor in a relationship with the model Irina Shay, did not speak.

GENERAL EMIRATI AL-RAISI ACCUSES

OF TORTURE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF INTERPOL

The president of Interpol, appointed for four years, fulfills his functions part-time, on a voluntary basis, and retains his functions in his country of origin. The function of president is essentially honorary - the effective director of the organization being its secretary general, Jürgen Stock -, but human rights organizations and European elected officials are concerned about the arrival of Mr. Al-Raisi. Inspector General of the Emirati Interior Ministry, Mr. Al-Raisi is the target of several complaints for "torture" in France, where Interpol sits, and in Turkey, host country of the general assembly which has been held in Istanbul since Tuesday.

A fear for the Interpol mission

The office of president is essentially honorary - the real boss of the organization being its Secretary General -, but human rights organizations and European elected officials were opposed to the election of General Al-Raisi. They believe that it could undermine Interpol's mission.

However, the candidacy of the Emirati general, whose country has become in recent years the second largest contributor to the Interpol budget, had aroused the indignation of human rights organizations and European elected officials. "We are deeply convinced that the election of General Al-Raisi would damage Interpol's mission and reputation and seriously affect the organization's ability to effectively carry out its mission," wrote in mid-November, to the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen, three MEPs including Marie Arena, President of the European Parliament's Human Rights Sub-Committee.

In October 2020, nineteen NGOs, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), were already worried about the possible choice of the Emirati general, "member of a security apparatus which systematically targets the peaceful opposition".

At the same time, several complaints for "torture" against Mr. Al-Raisi, who joined the ranks of the police force in his country in 1980 and worked within it for several decades, have been filed in recent months in France, where it sits. organization, and in Turkey, host country of the General Assembly.

The NGO Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) accuses in one of these complaints the Emirati general of "acts of torture and barbarism" against the opponent Ahmed Mansoor, detained since 2017 in a cell of 4 m2 "without mattress neither protection against the cold ”, nor“ access to a doctor, hygiene, water and sanitary facilities ”.

These procedures have so far not been successful.

"A signal to authoritarian regimes"

The election of General Al-Raisi will send "a signal to other authoritarian regimes", in particular that using Interpol to prosecute opponents abroad "is not a problem", explained before the election Edward Lemon, teacher at Texas A&M University and specialist in authoritarian regimes

A British report published in March concluded that the United Arab Emirates hijacked the system of red notices (international wanted notices) to put pressure on opponents.

Other countries are accused of doing the same.

In a thinly veiled reference to Mr. Al-Raisi, Czech Sarka Havrankova (the only other candidate for the presidency of Interpol) recalled Thursday morning on Twitter that the organization's statutes imply "to oppose arrests and arbitrary detentions and to condemn torture ”.

Once in office, General Al-Raisi will be "likely to work with like-minded governments [to his] to thwart reforms towards greater transparency of Interpol," said Edward Lemon.

The United Arab Emirates donated 50 million euros to Interpol in 2017 - an amount almost equivalent to the assessed contributions of the 195 member countries of the organization, which stood at 60 million euros in 2020.

This controversial election could also weigh on the maintenance of the headquarters of Interpol in Lyon: this week, two regional elected representatives of weight were concerned in a letter addressed to the French Minister of the Interior, Gérard Darmanin.

"An application marred by complaints would pose a real risk and could delegitimize the institution and its reception in our democracy", they warned.

GREEN SPD COALITION AGREEMENT

AND LIBERALS IN GERMANY

The SPD is preparing to take power in an unprecedented alliance with environmentalists and the liberal FDP party. The three formations distributed the ministerial portfolios: the Greens get foreign affairs and the climate, while the very important and prestigious morocco finance goes to the liberals.

The document does not give a name, but FDP chairman Christian Lindner, a champion of budget austerity, is considered a favorite to take on the post of chief financial officer. The doors of the Chancellery are now wide open for the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, 63, who is expected to be made chancellor in early December by the Bundestag. Germany will then turn the page on the Merkel years, which has only been managing current affairs for a month.

Negotiated for several weeks, the coalition contract, dubbed “Daring for more progress - alliance for freedom, justice and sustainability”, plans to return “in 2023” to the rules of budgetary austerity, including the constitutional debt brake. . After a year 2022 still marked by the pandemic, "from 2023 we will limit debt to what the constitutional brake allows", according to the contract, which however provides for "unprecedented" budgetary resources to meet climate objectives. Among these: the anticipated exit from coal in 2030 “ideally”, against 2038 previously. "This requires the massive development of renewable energies", notes the agreement,and involves "the construction of modern gas-fired power stations in order to meet the growing needs for electricity and energy in the coming years at competitive prices".

The coalition also wants to legalize cannabis, the sale of which in “authorized stores” will be reserved for “adults”. "This will allow quality control, prevent the transmission of contaminated substances and guarantee the protection of young people," said the government contract, specifying that "the social impact of the law" would be assessed after four years.

The agreement was finalized after vigorous negotiations. Time was running out, as the Covid-19 pandemic has never been so virulent. Sign of growing nervousness in the face of the outbreak of contaminations, Angela Merkel had received Tuesday evening at the chancellery the leaders of the parties of the future coalition called "traffic light". On Wednesday, the outgoing Minister of the Economy announced that the country will extend its aid to businesses until April 2022.

For the first time in sixteen years, the SPD, which came first in the legislative elections with 25.7% of the vote, will once again lead the government of the main European economy.

THE UNPOPULAR JOE BIDEN DRAWS FROM STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES TO BRING UP HIS COAT OF ARMS ON THE EVE OF THANSGIVING

COVID THE NEW MEASURES CONSIDERED

BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT

For two weeks, the number of contaminations has increased rapidly, in the order of 40 to 50% per week. The incidence rate, which measures the number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, is now greater than 100 throughout the territory, and particularly high in the South-East and the West. With, moreover, a Prime Minister, Jean Castex, who tested positive for Covid on Monday evening, like 30,000 people in France in the past 24 hours. A figure which marks a very strong increase in the space of a week.

Similarly, 6,000 classes are now closed, announced Tuesday the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. A real rebound. In a context where the World Health Organization (WHO) was alarmed on Tuesday about the "grip" of Covid-19 in Europe which could cause 700,000 additional deaths on the continent.

The number of cases explodes, but not hospitalizations

But the issue is whether this spike in infections will lead to a massive influx into the hospital, and for now, it is not. Around 8,000 Covid patients are hospitalized in France, including 1,300 in critical care services, against 6,500 and 1,000 respectively a month earlier. But for the Scientific Council, time is running out because this fifth wave can have "a significant impact" on the hospital, predicts Professor Delfraissy. "We think it will rise to 1,000 / 1,500 hospital admissions per day", but it will be "much more limited" than in the third wave (up to 2,500 per day), according to him.

A reminder for all adults, "this is the meaning of history", for Macron

Vaccination remains very effective in preventing severe forms of the disease. Almost 75% of the total population has been fully vaccinated in France. The outbreak of infections also remains lower than that observed in other European countries, including Germany or the Netherlands. The government attributes this to the health pass, in effect since July.

The prospect of a vaccine booster for all adults seems to be approaching, since the two bodies that advise the government during the pandemic are now considering it. "I would not be surprised if we are gradually moving towards vaccine booster shots for all adults who have been vaccinated, that's the meaning of the story", even advanced Emmanuel Macron on Friday during a trip to the North. Now, the Scientific Council and the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council (COSV) write it in black and white.

There remains the calendar for the vaccine booster campaign against the Covid and until what age to define to give visibility to citizens before the Christmas holidays.

The third dose currently only concerns people over 65 and people at risk of severe forms (as well as caregivers). This dose will be necessary to extend their health pass, and this mechanism will be initiated from December 15. The recall campaign must already be extended in early December to 50 years and over. HAS on Friday recommended a booster for those over 40, six months after their last dose. The Scientific Council invited “consider a vaccination booster for the entire adult population”, keeping the interval of six months after the primary vaccination.

Masks, barrier gestures, gauges ...

Already back in French schools and in many departments, the mask could reappear more widely in France. In its last opinion of November 20, the Scientific Council called for "strengthening the barrier gestures, individual and collective, the impact of which on the circulation of the virus is very strong, in particular the wearing of a mask". He insisted on “the reintroduction of the mask in certain places.” With the masks, the installation of gauges in certain places welcoming the public could come to reinforce the anti-Covid measures. Topping the list: nightclubs, sports halls and entertainment venues.

Another opinion of the Scientific Council: the expansion of teleworking. But the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne instead called on companies to "mobilize again on this respect for barrier gestures, put the mask back on in meetings, when we are in shared spaces".

The objective for the government is to remain on the two tools that made it possible to cross the fourth wave: vaccination and therefore the recall as well as the health pass, a new confinement can no longer pass to the French.

THE REASONS FOR AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION

IN GUADELOUPE

Guadeloupe, hit hard by the Covid-19 epidemic this summer, has been shaken for a week by a movement originating from the challenge of the vaccination obligation of caregivers. But this mobilization degenerated into violence last week, after the call for resistance launched last Monday by a collective of unions and citizen organizations. A meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 22, 2021 at 6 p.m. around Prime Minister Jean Castex.

Reinforcements arrived on Sunday.

In an attempt to restore order, police and gendarmerie reinforcements (GIGN AND Raid) were dispatched this weekend from the metropolis and a curfew was decreed on Friday, without making it possible for the moment to prevent the continued looting and nighttime incidents, the prefecture also reporting several firearms firing against the security forces.

The dismantling of the blockades began Sunday, November 21, but the continuing violence the rectorate suspended Monday the reception of students in schools.

"Very explosive" situation

The Head of State described this Monday, November 22, 2021, the situation in Guadeloupe as "very explosive", according to him because of the local context, "historical" tensions but also "certain interests which seek a little to use this context and anxiety "linked to the vaccination campaign against Covid-19." Our priority is to continue to convince that vaccination is the best protection and not to give in to lies, the misappropriation of information ", Emmanuel Macron also insisted.

"Speed ​​up vaccination"

According to the latest available assessment of the Covid-19 epidemic, published last Wednesday by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Guadeloupe, the rate of protection of liberal caregivers stands at 85.3%, while it fluctuates between 85% and 100% for staff in hospitals on the island. But only 36.39% of inhabitants received at least one injection of the vaccine, against 89% in metropolitan France.

"We must speed up vaccination in order to protect the most vulnerable but also to create collective immunity in our archipelago," underlines the ARS in this situation.

Dialogue to restore confidence with the State,

If the mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre, Harry Durimel (EELV), interviewed by franceinfo, certainly agrees with the analysis of the ARS, he nevertheless underlines that it will "have to be a dialogue" to restore the confidence with the State, recalling that the populations of the Antilles remained marked by the scandal of pollution with chlordecone. "The chlordecone scandal gives credence to arguments for mistrust of the vaccine" [when it was banned in the United States as early as the 1970s; Editor's note], also underlines Pierre Odin, researcher in political science and specialist in social movements in the West Indies.

This toxic pesticide has in fact permanently contaminated the soil after its use from 1972 to 1993 in Guadeloupe and Martinique in banana plantations to fight against the weevil, an insect that ravaged plantations, and it is now suspected of being responsible for many diseases. , including cancers.

Towards a wider social movement

The mistrust and contestation of measures, such as the compulsory vaccination for caregivers and the establishment of the health care pass, is also superimposed on what appears to be a broader social movement. adds to this health crisis, to this fear of the vaccine and which means that we are there today, ”also commented the mayor of Pointre-à-Pitre Harry Durimel (EELV). A good part of the population is exposed to unemployment. Of which 50% among young people. In addition, the problem of access to drinking water affects many homes which suffer regular cuts due to the dilapidated nature of the network.

A DARK BELIER CAR IN A PARADE

CHRISTMAS IN THE UNITED STATES

But around 4.30 p.m. local time, a ram car suddenly burst in, mowing down some participants and killing at least five people. The car in question, a red SUV, entered at full speed in the middle of the procession after having destroyed the security barricades installed for the occasion.

She began her mad race behind a group of school musicians. At least five dead, according to an initial assessment that could increase

The first report shows five dead and 40 injured. The city of Waukesha, on its Twitter account, nevertheless indicated that the toll could be called upon to increase.

“Today our community faced horror and tragedy in what should have been a community celebration,” Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly said at an evening press conference, lamenting a "horrible and senseless act".

Dancers, high school music groups or even political figures were invited to invest the streets of this city of 70,000 inhabitants.

Due to the nature of the targeted event - a Christmas parade - many injured happen to be children. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, a city about 30 kilometers away, said a priest and students from the Catholic school in Waukesha had been affected.

A group of dancers invited to perform during the parade, the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies (Milwaukee dancing grandmothers) said on their Facebook page that several of their members were among the victims. A new press conference is expected to take place on Monday afternoon.

Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson announced that a person of interest had been arrested, without revealing more about his identity or involvement, and that the vehicle had been recovered. He said a police officer opened fire on the vehicle in an attempt to stop its course.

Suspect already accused of acts of violence

Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly, allegedly identified the person: she is already accused of acts of violence, two criminal cases being opened in Milwaukee County.

This brings Wisconsin back into the spotlight for the second time in just a few days. Last Friday, a Kenosha jury created a stir by acquitting Kyle Rittenhouse, this young white man who had killed two people with an AR-15 on the sidelines of protests against racism and police brutality on August 25, 2020 in this city located in the south of the state.

IN VENEZUELA THE CRUSHING VICTORY

OF THE CHAVIST NICOLAS MADURO

On the occasion of the regional elections which were held on Sunday, November 21, 2021, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won an overwhelming victory: out of 23 governors, 20 are Chavistas. The opposition even lost 2, going from 5 to 3 governors. The other results - namely the names of the 334 mayors and more than 2,500 councilors - have not yet been released, with the exception of Caracas.

Abstention was the main figure of the day, with 58.2% of voters who did not come to the polling stations.

And for good reason: if the regional Sunday marked the return of the opposition parties after the boycott of the previous elections, in particular the presidential election of 2018 and the parliamentarians of 2020, the opposition came back very divided on the attitude to adopt for this ballot.

"The question is whether, by voting, we accelerate the fall of the regime or if, on the contrary, we postpone it because we legitimize it", asked Ms. Machado Sunday morning in a tweet.

The radical right, embodied by Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado, continued to advocate abstention while Juan Guaido, an opposition figure on the international scene and interim president since January 2019, said he would not vote. Venezuelans, confused by the contradictory speeches of the opposition leaders, therefore responded by abstaining largely for the regional and local elections of Sunday, November 21, 2021.

The conditions seemed, however, to be met for a relatively democratic confrontation between the opposition and the Chavist power.

Indeed, the National Electoral Council (CNE) had been renewed by integrating two opposition rectors out of five. The government had accepted the arrival of observers from the European Union, the UN and the Carter Foundation. Most of the disqualified opposition parties had been rehabilitated. The most emblematic political prisoners had been freed.

But the opposition failed to agree to present a united front against the adversary, personal ambitions having prevailed.

THE WORRYING DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PLAYER

CHINESE TENNIS PENG SHUAI

Since then, the 35-year-old former world number 1 doubles player has made no public appearance. On Friday, three photos of her were relayed by a journalist affiliated with the Chinese government, who said that the 35-year-old sportswoman had just posted them on WeChat [Chinese equivalent of Whatsapp], without these photos being authenticated.

The shattering accusations were the first targeting senior Chinese Communist Party officials since the start of #metoo, a global movement against violence against women.

The rape charge

On November 2, a message posted briefly on the player's official Weibo account (equivalent to Twitter in China) publicly revealed an extramarital affair with former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli. From 2013 to 2018, he was one of the seven most powerful politicians in China, accusing Zhang Gaoli of raping Peng Shuai, before making him his mistress. Now in his seventies, the latter did not react to these statements. So far, it has not been possible to determine whether the post was personally posted by Peng Shuai.

Chinese internet censorship

Peng Shuai's post accusing Zhang Gaoli disappeared only half an hour after it was posted, but screenshots were taken to be quickly censored on the Chinese Internet. The accusation brought by Peng Shuai was however posted on Twitter - blocked in China -, which allowed him to know a world echo.

The concern of the world community

On Twitter, the hashtag #WhereIsPengShuai has grown. The biggest tennis players in the world have used it to express their concern about him. Former world number 1 Naomi Osaka said she was "shocked by the situation". “Honestly, it's shocking that she disappeared,” Novak Djokovic also told reporters. American Serena Williams said she was "upset and shocked".

“It needs to be investigated and we must not be silent,” she wrote on Twitter. "I hope that she will be found soon, because we are not talking about a tennis match or a competition here, but we are talking about human life", for his part declared the German Alexander Zverev. .

Friday, several countries, including the United States and France, said they were "concerned" about the fate of the Chinese player. The United Nations (UN) asked for proof that she was doing well.

The WTA, which manages the women's professional tennis circuit, called for "a thorough, fair and transparent investigation into the accusations of sexual violence made by Peng Shuai". Earlier this week, WTA boss Steve Simon said he had "confirmation from several sources including the Chinese federation that she was safe and not under physical threat."

The handling of this affair by China

In addition to internet censorship, Chinese state television CGTN on November 17 published a screenshot of an email attributed to Peng Shuai that it allegedly sent to the WTA leadership. The channel in English intended for the foreign public reveals its supposed contents: the accusations "are false" and Peng Shuai affirms that it "rests". " Everything is fine. Thanks again for hearing from me, ”the email concludes. The content of the message and its authenticity puzzled Mr. Simon.

Four photographs of the tennis champion were published Friday by Shen Shiwei's Twitter account, labeled "media affiliated with the Chinese state" by the social network. One photo notably shows the smiling player with a cat in her arms at what appears to be her home. The Twitter account in question says, in English, that these photos were posted privately by the player to wish a "good weekend" to her contacts.

Hu Xijin, influential editor-in-chief of the Chinese daily Global Times, says he has confirmation that these photos are "indeed current photos" of Peng Shuai. "In recent days, she has stayed at home in complete freedom and did not want to be disturbed," he said in English on Twitter, specifying that the player "will soon appear in public".

Critique of the Chinese elite

This is not the first time that people in China have disappeared for criticizing the Chinese regime. Whether we think of the billionaire of online commerce, the founder of Alibaba Jack Ma, or the artist Ai Wei Wei. For the Chinese regime, anything that can be interpreted as being instrumentalized abroad in order to weaken the legitimacy of the party or weaken the Chinese central power is perceived extremely negatively. But in the Peng Shuai case it is not only the accusation of sexual assault, it is indeed the target of the accusation which is extremely embarrassing from the point of view of Beijing, according to Antoine Bondaz, French researcher. to the Foundation for Strategic Research and China Specialist.

Is indeed implicated Zhang Gaoli, "not only the Vice Premier of the People's Republic, but also one of the members of the Select Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (seven leaders in total), ie the elite of the elite. However, since 2012, Xi Jinping has highlighted the virtuous, perfectly moral and irreproachable character of the elite within the party ”.

"If the Peng Shuai affair is politicized, we will have no more news" according to French researcher Antoine Bondaz..

THE BIG RETURN OF THE DIVA POP ADELE

“30” is no exception. Six years have passed since Adele's last album, and there is no doubt that the return of the British singer was eagerly awaited.

And Adele has made a comeback.

She made two Unes of the magazine "Vogue" and released in mid-October a first track ("Easy On Me") taken from the album. Last Sunday, the musician was also delivered in prime time on CBS to a river interview with Oprah Winfrey accompanied by a mini-concert, followed by 10 million Americans.

Finally, on November 19, she offers her last opus of twelve intimate titles, confiding on her torments in her thirties, including the birth of her son or the pain caused by her recent divorce from Simon Konecki.

With a hoarse and powerful contralto voice, recognizable from the first note, the interpreter of Hello sings in the first track "Easy on Me", a song which resembles what we know about her. But throughout the album, Adele mostly plays with genres:

the radiant opening track, Strangers By Natur, evokes a Somewhere Over the Rainbow from a remake of The Wizard of Oz directed by David Lynch. Cry Your Heart Out is a reggae-tinged hit that Amy Winehouse would not have denied.

With My Little Love we let ourselves be taken by these vocal notes, very inspired by the world of rap today. Moreover, Adele recently confided in an interview that these vocal notes had been inspired by Tyler, the Creator and Skepta, figure of British rap.

Oh My God just like Love Is a Game also differs from what the British artist used to offer in a more optimistic atmosphere for the rest of the singer's life. And from this fourth studio album emanates "an undeniable romantic optimism".

"I'm trying to party but all I can think about is coming home and dreaming about you." », Sings Adele in Interlude All Night Parking

Concert in London, broadcast on ITV, and a recording broadcast at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes (broadcast on TF1) this weekend.

COVID RECONFINATION AND COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN AUSTRIA

After having decided to confine unvaccinated people and then announced the containment of two regions, this general containment is a first in Europe since the spring. We must "look reality in the face", declared the conservative chancellor at a press conference in Tyrol, after discussions with all the regional governors.

“Despite months of persuasion, we have not been able to convince enough people to get vaccinated,” he said, lamenting the current overload of intensive care units. “Sustainably increasing the vaccination rate is the only way out of this vicious circle,” said Schallenberg, deeming it to be the “exit ticket” from the pandemic.

Austria recorded 15,000 new contaminations on Thursday alone.

"The dynamics of contaminations is not tenable", explained Thursday Wilfried Haslauer, governor (ÖVP, Österreichische Volkspartei, People's Party, Christian conservative) of the Land of Salzburg, where the seven-day incidence rate exceeded 1,700 cases for 100,000 inhabitants.

Almost 66% of the population fully vaccinated

Admittedly, under the pressure of the measures and the epidemic, the number of vaccinated has increased slightly in recent days, with 65.6% of the entire population having received two doses, which is lower than the European average ( 67%) and far from countries like Spain (79%) or France (75%). Mr. Schallenberg had called this rate "shamefully low" when he mentioned the plan to contain unvaccinated people.

But the current epidemic leap cannot be explained only by the low vaccination coverage. About 40% of symptomatic people positive for the coronavirus in the past four weeks had received two doses of the vaccine. Intensive care beds, however, remain almost entirely occupied by unvaccinated people. With nearly 500 patients in intensive care throughout its territory, Austria is still far from the situation observed in neighboring countries, all hit hard by this fourth wave.

Wave of contaminations in Europe

If Austria is the first to restore strict containment in a Europe where the Covid pandemic is racing, several countries - including Belgium, Sweden, Germany and Greece - have announced a tightening of health restrictions in the latter days . In Berlin, the health situation is so serious that Austrian-style confinement, including for vaccinated people, is not ruled out, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday. “We are now in a situation […] where we cannot exclude anything,” he lamented.

In France, where the fifth wave begins, the government has so far ruled out any reconfinement of the population. But voices are rising to tighten the screw a little more, with in particular an increased use of teleworking. This Friday, in an interview with "La Voix du Nord", Emmanuel Macron calls for a strengthening of the vaccination policy. It also leaves the door open to a generalization of the booster dose. On this subject, the Head of State said to await "the opinion of the health authorities".

The start of a fifth wave raises only "moderate concern" from the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC). In its latest risk assessment, published on Friday, the European disease agency, however, notes a clear epidemic deterioration within the European Union.

An evolution "currently characterized by a rapid and significant increase in cases and a low but slowly rising death rate", according to the Stockholm-based agency.

FRENCH ENERGY INDEPENDENCE GOES THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF AT LEAST 25 TO 30 REACTORS ACCORDING TO THE COUR DES COMPTES

She believes that we must immediately choose the energy policy we want, particularly in the nuclear field, to ensure our energy independence and our national sovereignty.

The construction of new means of electricity production - whether nuclear or renewable - "now calls for urgent decisions to guarantee our supply by the decade 2040", underline the magistrates in a thematic note.

This was already the conclusion of the recent report by the operator of the RTE network, while the French nuclear fleet is aging - it was, for the most part, built in the years 77 to 87 and will be obsolete in the 2050s - and that the electricity needs must increase by 35% to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Following this publication, Emmanuel Macron announced on November 9 the launch of a new nuclear program, while this theme was imposed before the presidential election of 2022. France is currently building a single new EPR reactor. generation, in Flamanville (Manche).

Between 25 and 30 reactors

EDF made a proposal to the State to initially build 6 new EPR models (EPR2) at an estimated construction cost of 46 billion euros. But the magistrates, for whom we cannot decarbonize French energy production without nuclear power, note that it would take a lot more (up to "25 to 30") to maintain a 50% share of nuclear power in electricity production in France. - beyond 2050. This would require "mobilization and an accelerated recovery effort in our nuclear industry" and would raise "the question of the number of available sites". They also note that EDF will not be able to finance new constructions on its own and that “risk sharing with the State will be necessary.

How to store, where to install, green energies ?

But nuclear is not the only one to raise questions: "the challenges to be taken up appear to be just as important for new renewable energies", notes the note. Even if there is no technological uncertainty on the wind or solar side, the latter face other challenges, particularly in terms of their storage or their implementation difficulties.

The Court concludes on the desire for a debate "on a better informed basis" when there is in particular "a significant risk for public finances". “There is no simple decision, no low-cost solution, no zero risk,” the authors stress.

To put it simply, the energy transition will cost the French dearly and necessarily involves nuclear power.

THE ELECTION OF DAVID LISNARD AT THE AMF SOUNDS LIKE A CAMOUFLET FOR

 EMMANUEL MACRON

New “electoral” snub for Emmanuel Macron five months before the presidential election. Members of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) have in fact led the 52-year-old Republican, David Lisnard, a staunch opponent to the head of state.

Faced with the winner, the UDI mayor of Sceaux led a list of elected macron-compatible with the added bonus of Edouard Philippe's desire to take advantage of this election to count his supporters and weigh on the future.

A very politicized election against the habits of the AMF since until then, the different political currents agreed in the name of the best interests of municipalities to influence national decisions.

This election therefore sounds like a referendum for or against the person of Emmanuel Macron. "By wanting to put the AMF back on the right track of his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron has transformed the ecumenical assembly into a counter-power", according to Maurice Bontinck in Charente libre.

In addition, this election only confirms the incomprehension between the Elysee and local communities. The municipal elections of 2020 did not make it possible to tip any large city into the hands of La République en Marche.

And the last regional ones were catastrophic for the majority, with the humiliating scores of certain ministers who left for the campaign ... LREM did not therefore succeed in establishing itself in the territories, testimony of the very vertical and solitary conception of power by the government. President of the Republic.

WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THE TERRORIST ACT

IN THE EXPLOSION OF A TAXI IN GREAT BRITAIN

"We're getting better hour by hour, but it will probably take some time, maybe several weeks, before we are sure we know what happened," police said.

A refugee from the Middle East

According to British media, Emad Al Swealmeen is a refugee from the Middle East who came from Syria or Iraq, converted to Christianity. According to The Sun newspaper, which claims that Al-Swealmeen was Jordanian, the counterterrorism police believe that the repeated refusals of his asylum application and his psychological problems may have prompted him to act. 'a taxi on Sunday, November 14, in front of a women's hospital in Liverpool (in the north of England), was described as a "terrorist incident" by the anti-terrorism police in charge of the investigation, Monday.

At a press conference, Russ Jackson, in charge of the region's counterterrorism police, claimed that the homemade bomb that exploded in the taxi, setting it on fire, had been "fabricated" and brought into the vehicle by the police. passenger.

Four men, aged 20 to 29, arrested on Sunday and Monday, were arrested as part of the investigation and released after their hearings, British police announced on Tuesday, who identified the alleged perpetrator, killed by the blast .

The United Kingdom has raised the level of the terrorist threat, from "important" to "serious", announced on television the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel on Monday, stressing that the facts of Liverpool represent the second act considered a terrorist after the murder of MP David Amess a month ago. This threat level means that the risk of attack is considered “highly probable”.

The driver described as a "hero"

The explosion, which left one dead and one injured, came on Sunday morning as the UK commemorated the victims of wars on Remembrance Day. It happened just before 11 a.m., as the nation silently prayed and hundreds of soldiers, veterans and members of the public gathered a few hundred yards from Liverpool Cathedral for a tribute.

According to The Daily Mail, the driver spotted that his passenger looked "suspicious" and locked him in the taxi, before escaping. He was injured in the explosion and the passenger, who was not formally identified, died, police said. "The threat of terrorism has not disappeared."

The taxi driver has been called a "hero" by politicians and tabloids, who have claimed he saved deaths. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday during a visit to a London medical center: 'This is an ongoing investigation, so I cannot comment on the details or say exactly what type of incident it is (…), but it seems that the taxi driver in question behaved with incredible presence of mind and bravery. "

Later in the day, the Prime Minister warned that "the British people will never be intimidated by terrorism".

"We will never give in to those who want to divide us by foolish acts , " added Mr Johnson.

THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF TAX HAVEN?

If the words still have a meaning then let's take a closer look at them !

The notion of Paradise is a notion common to most religions and it is opposed to hell.

The obvious conclusion is that everyone is living in a tax hell and we want to eliminate paradise for good.

When the citizens go out of their towns they can observe in the countryside shepherds leading flocks.

But have you seen many flocks of wolves led by a shepherd ? No, it is more common to see sheep, indeed a flock of sheep is easier to lead, the risk of being bitten or being devoured is almost zero.

Sheep are docile and easier to lead to the slaughterhouse !

States and politicians are Shepherds, and citizens are sheep !

Another important evidence is that it is easier to build a hell than a paradise.

Fiscal hell leads to poverty, to the dependence of citizens who, in order not to suffer additional punishments, blindly obey the directives given to them.

For the many States, which have put a tax hell in place, tax havens are proof that we can do otherwise, which is why they are the sworn enemy that we must destroy at all costs.

When we observe the top 10 countries in which the taxation is the highest in the world, it is clear that they are generally in debt for an amount greater than their GDP!

For these tax hells there is never enough money, we could double, triple the amount of taxes that they would always remain in debt!

These states behave like compulsive gamblers, like alcoholics, over and over again !

By definition hell is the punishment and Heaven the reward so why should the majority of citizens be punished, what original fault did they commit to suffer hell ?

All the maneuvers of the states of many nations which aim to destroy tax havens by implementing increasingly warlike measures hope that they will put an end to havens.

So here we are before the Eternal, fighting evil against good.

Should evil win at all costs, should hell become the norm ?

The citizens must do their conscience examination, they too often forget that they still have one weapon of choice against the politicians who manage the States, it is the vote during the elections.

Yes, by voting, citizens can overturn the table and make tax paradise the new norm, paradise and wealth for all, as a reality that is imposed on the whole planet!

Despite all the coercive measures to destroy paradise, the increasingly rogue regulations, the war led by a fierce battle (Common Reporting Standard "CRS", Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act "FATCA" ...) and communication, always more and more aggressive and dependent, the tax havens resist and organize themselves, and even, oh surprise, certain new havens appear, more discreet and more refined.

In the concert of states we are faced with a hypocrisy: most states are indeed waging a merciless fiscal war against each other. As proof, it suffices to observe the different tax rates in each country, for example in the European Union (Is France 27.31%, Is Germany 15%, Is Luxembourg 15%, Is Ireland 12.5%, Is Poland 9%, etc ...) and sometimes even within the same country, as for example in the different States which constitute the United States.

What if we made all the countries on this planet a tax haven by applying a tax rate of 2% globally ?

Yes, of course, expensive states should put themselves on a strong diet, thus discovering the virtues of savings and budgetary rigor.

Not possible !, impossible !! , this is what you will surely hear from everywhere, but ....

Everyone knew it was impossible, but a day came when a "fool", who didn't know it was not possible, tried to achieve this thing, and he succeeded in doing it  !!

What we do with it will not be the future. Prefer paradise to hell, we say impossible !?

Personally I like to think that a day will come when a “fool” will definitely transform hell, which has become too generalized, into “Paradise for all” !!!

MEDITERRANEAN MACARONIS GRATIN

-14 Oz macaroni

-12 Oz of tomato pulps

-1,5 Oz black olives

-1 tsp. capers

-2 chopped garlic cloves

5,5 Oz diced goat cheese.

Preparation

Cook the macaroni in boiling salted water. Allow 8 min for cooking. Drain them.

Mix them with the tomato pulp, the pitted and chopped black olives, the capers, the chopped garlic and the diced goat cheese.

Pour into an oiled dish.

Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.

Brown in the tea oven. 7 (410 ° F) 15 min.

An easy and quick family dish to cook that will delight your little tribe.

BELARUS-POLAND

TOWARDS A SOLUTION TO THE CRISIS BY REPATRIATING MIGRANTS

Could the migration crisis at the border between Belarus and the European Union finally find a solution ?

Difficult to answer the question, no journalist being able to access the area.

According to images released by the Polish army and border guards, a crowd of migrants gathered on Monday November 15, 2021 at a closed border crossing between Poland and Belarus and according to the Polish Deputy Interior Minister , “thousands of migrants” are at this crossing point.

For its part, Minsk promises efforts to repatriate migrants as the European Union meets Monday in Brussels to adopt punitive measures against the country it accuses of having orchestrated migratory tensions.

Belarus is "actively" working to bring home migrants camping on the border with the European Union, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday, November 15, 2021, while maintaining that the latter, who are camping on the border with the European Union. Poland in increasingly precarious conditions, did not wish to leave.

"We are prepared, as we always have, to put them all on planes that bring them home," he said, according to the Belta state agency. Active work is underway to convince these people, but no one wants to return, ”he assured this Monday, November 15, 2021.

In any case, following pressure from European diplomats, on "a decision by the competent authorities of the United Arab Emirates", the Belarusian airline company Belavia announced on Sunday that Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and Yemenis have now been banned from flying since Dubai to Belarus. Turkey has also banned Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis from visiting Belarus. The private Syrian company Cham Wings Airlines has also stopped its flights to Minsk.

For its part, the Iraqi government announced the organization on Thursday of a first repatriation flight for Iraqi migrants stranded on the border between Belarus and Poland "on a voluntary basis".

Flight to Iraq

Iraq will repatriate Thursday (November 18) at least 200 of its nationals stranded at the border, said a spokesman for the Iraqi embassy in Moscow on Tuesday (November 16), including women and children, who contacted the diplomatic mission Iraqi woman in Moscow.

On the ground, many migrants, who have often gone into debt to pay for the trip, say they are determined to stay, despite limited access to food and basic necessities. The Belarusian Red Cross said it delivered three tons of aid on Tuesday (November 16th).

Faced with the European crisis opened by these migratory tensions on the eastern border of Europe, the latter must show solidarity with Poland and do everything possible to resolve the crisis. Indeed, if according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, “Russia is using this crisis to test and weaken our European Union, other countries such as those in the Middle and Near East also have their eyes fixed on Europe.

“ Migration is a great weapon against us. ", he added...

FINALLY BRITNEY SPEARS CAN RELIVE FREE !

Finally Britney Spears freed from the tutelage of her father !

She will be able to regain control of her life and her body.

A Los Angeles court in fact decided Wednesday to withdraw the guardianship of Britney Spears to her father Jamie, in accordance with the wishes of the singer who had described as "abusive" this measure which she has been asking for the cancellation for several years.

After opposing it, his father finally agreed to comply with his request in early September.

This supervision, set up in 2008 after mental disorders manifested by the star, remains however for the moment in force, but Jamie Spears has until further notice no longer a say in the management of privacy or of his daughter's finances, now in the hands of professionals.

The court is expected to rule on the end of this guardianship measure at a future hearing, likely by the end of the year. Jamie Spears "must be suspended on September 29, 2021 and the wardship must end quickly," wrote Mathew Rosengart, lawyer for Britney Spears, in a petition filed this week.

Judge Penny had set for November 12, 2021, a “short hearing” intended to formally endorse the end of the guardianship.

MIGRATION CRISIS AT THE GATES OF EUROPE INSTRUMENTALIZED BY BELARUS

Hundreds of migrants massed near Kuznica - in western Belarus - trying to enter Europe and pushed back by Polish soldiers. These images broadcast by Warsaw have been looping on social networks since Monday. They constitute the umpteenth episode in the long series of provocations in which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has embarked, from the hijacking of a Ryanair flight to Minsk to arrest an opponent last May to the use of migrants to pressure on the Europeans who are increasing the sanctions against the Belarusian regime.

A migration crisis instrumentalised by Belarus

Since last summer, Lithuania, Poland and Latvia have seen mounting pressure. The migrants would be flown to Minsk from the countries of origin and then escorted to the gates of the EU. The Europeans accuse the Belarusian dictator of having fueled a vast migratory crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border by issuing visas to refugees and sending them there. He would thus take revenge on the European sanctions adopted against his country to denounce its policy of repression of the opposition since the presidential election of 2020. Thus, the Belarusian dictator would use migrants for political ends. And by opening a migratory corridor passing through Poland, Lukashenko is targeting the heart of Europe.

“Sealing the Polish border is in our national interest. But today, it is the stability and the security of the whole EU which is at stake, has, in this direction, assured, Tuesday, the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, on Twitter. This is the reason why the Polish and European authorities speak of a "hybrid attack" from Belarus.

Since then, migratory pressure on the Polish and Lithuanian borders has continued to grow.

According to the European Commission, nearly 8,000 people have already crossed Belarusian borders to reach Lithuania, Poland and Lithuania.

Monday evening, the Polish authorities assured that between 3,000 and 4,000 migrants were currently in this border area, on the Belarusian side, and that fifteen thousand of them would still be scattered across the country. These are mainly Iraqi Kurds and Syrians, seeking to flee their country which is sinking into civil war.

To cope with the influx of these migrants from Belarus, Poland sent around 15,000 troops to the border, built a razor-sharp barbed wire fence there, and enforced a state of emergency, banning journalists and journalists. NGOs to access it. Few of the images and unofficial information come out of this border territory, 400 kilometers long.

Tuesday, November 9, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki clearly accused Russian President Vladimir Poutine, Minsk's main ally, of being the “sponsor” of this wave of migration. Accusations described as "irresponsible and unacceptable" by the Kremlin. On Wednesday, Morawiecki went further, accusing Belarus of "state terrorism".

For her part, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Vladimir Poutine, during a telephone interview, "to act" against "the unacceptable and inhuman instrumentalisation" of migrants by the Lukashenko regime.

The instrumentalization of migrants

"To scare Europe by using migrants as hostages is a new form of international diplomatic pressure", analyzes Catherine Wihtol de Wenden. Indeed, if this is the first time that Belarus has acted in this way, it is not the first country to do so. In February 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left his country's borders open to put pressure on Brussels. More recently, in May 2021, Morocco was accused of blackmailing Spain by smuggling its nationals into the enclave of Ceuta. But Europe does not give in to this kind of blackmail.

Firm and united reaction from Europe

The European Union suspended, on Tuesday, provisions aimed at facilitating the issuance of visas for officials of the Belarusian regime. A measure that “will not affect” “ordinary” Belarusian citizens, the EU Council said.

“We strongly condemn and reject the further instrumentalization of migration by the Belarusian regime. It is unacceptable that Belarus is playing with the lives of human beings for political ends, ”said Slovenian Interior Minister Ales Hojs, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.

In addition, Brussels announced Tuesday to monitor twenty countries, including Russia, for their possible role in the transport of migrants to Belarus. The other target countries are South Africa, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Côte d'Ivoire, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, Venezuela, Yemen. The EU is particularly interested in the frequency of flights organized from these countries and their occupancy rate.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on member states to approve new sanctions against Belarusian authorities and consider measures against airlines that bring migrants to Belarus.

PAUL RUDD ELECTED SEXIEST MAN

OF THE YEAR 2021

Here he is at the age of 52, voted “Sexiest Man” of the Year 2021 by People magazine. Paul Rudd has established himself, over the past decades, as an essential face of the small and big screen from the teen-movie Clueless to the Ant-Man saga via the Friends series.

“I will totally assume it. I'm going to appropriate this title ”, reacted with humor Paul Rudd, not sure to deserve this first place.

“I'm aware enough to know that when people find out I've been chosen for this, they'll be like, 'What ?' It is not false humility.

There are so many people who should have this title in my place ”. “I hope I finally get invited to these sexy dinners with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Michael B. Jordan. I think I would be on a lot more yachts. I can't wait to develop my life on yachts, ”the star still had fun.

After Michael B. Jordan, Dwayne Johnson and Idris Elba

The actor confided that his wife, Julie, is the only person he has announced to have won the title before it was official. “She was stunned,” he joked.

CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING COMFORT

HIS POWER FOR A THIRD MANDATE

An official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday called Chinese President Xi Jinping a "helmsman" and "leader of the people", two names so far reserved for Mao Zedong which reinforce the political weight of a president almost assured of a third term in 2022.

"As long as we keep Comrade Xi Jinping at its heart (...), the giant Chinese regeneration vessel will have a helmsman and will be able to brave all storms," ​​Jiang Jinquan, director of the CPC Political Research Bureau.

As expected, the 348 members (197 incumbents and 151 substitutes) of the sixth plenum of the CPC Central Committee approved, Thursday, November 11, a resolution "on the major successes and the historical record of the hundred years of the party's struggle" which, in the facts, allows Xi Jinping to remain in power, at the end of the 20th party congress, convened for the "second half of 2022".

"The central committee has launched a vibrant appeal to the whole party, the whole army and all the multi-ethnic Chinese people to unite more closely with the central committee of the party gathered around Comrade Xi Jinping", explains the A fourteen-page statement that reports on the resolution of the four-day closed-door plenary meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, which ended Thursday.

This historic resolution, only the third since the party's founding in 1921, strengthens the current president's base by placing him at the height of the founder of the Chinese regime, Mao Zedong, who also consolidated his authority with a historic resolution in 1945, just like Deng Xiaoping in 1981.

Party Secretary General, President of the Republic and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping amended the Constitution in 2018, which limited to two the number of terms of President of the Republic that a single official could exercise. A limit established in 1982 by Deng Xiaoping to avoid any Maoist drift. Xi Jinping therefore has a clear path to remain in power and open a new page in his name.

ASSAULT OF THE VICTORY CAPITOL OF DONALD TRUMP WHO OBTAINS SUSPENSION IN THE PUBLICATION OF MAISON-BLANCHE DOCUMENTS

A US court on Thursday, November 11, 2021 granted the former US president's request to temporarily suspend publication of White House documents that could implicate him in the attack on Capitol Hill. The court only validated the request of the former president of the United States.

These documents are requested by the special committee of the House of Representatives investigating the assault, and their publication was ordered Tuesday by a federal judge in the name of "the public interest" to understand "the events that led to the assault. January 6 ”.

Seized by Donald Trump's lawyers, an appeals court said Thursday that it had granted an "administrative injunction" and set the proceedings for November 30. The court clarified that this decision "should in no case be interpreted as a decision on the merits" of the case.

On January 6, thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered in Washington as Congress certified Joe Biden's Democratic victory in the November 2020 presidential election. The former real estate mogul addressed the crowd, hammering that the election had been "stolen" from him. Several hundred demonstrators then launched an assault on the temple of American democracy, sowing chaos and violence.

Joe Biden has already agreed to the publication of some 770 pages of documents which are kept at the National Archives, part of which was due to be sent to Congress on Friday. They include the files of former close advisers to Donald Trump as well as the daily newspaper of the White House - an account of his activities, trips, briefings and phone calls.

JOE BIDEN BARRED TO ADOPT HIS SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL REFORMS

It took 218 votes for Democrats to pass this $ 1,200 billion plan to modernize roads, bridges, high-speed Internet, and considered one of the most ambitious in modern American history. They obtained 228 against 206. The text he will receive for signature at the White House passed with the support of 13 Republican votes. Index of democratic fractures, six elected officials missed the call: members of the "squad", the very left-wing group gathered around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The second legislative project is however postponed for ten days: the Build Back Better Act (BBB), social and ecological reforms to the tune of 1,750 billion.

Joe Biden urgently needs to relaunch his presidency: the contrary signals seem to be accumulating in recent weeks with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the defeat of a Democratic governor in Virginia, Donald Trump in ambush or the polls. falling. This is why the tenant of the White House hoped Friday, November 5 to advance two major texts in the House of Representatives: this investment plan but also the vast program to overhaul the social protection system and the fight against global warming evaluated. to $ 1.7 trillion. In particular, the text provides for nursery school for all, a profound improvement in health coverage and significant investments inreducing greenhouse gas emissions - a real redefinition of the welfare state in the United States.

But the Democratic leaders had to give up a vote of approval of the second text, the centrist wing of the party demanding clarification of the costing.

Divisions within the Democratic Party

This social and environmental aspect is indeed the subject of very difficult negotiations within the Democratic Party, between the left wing and the moderate camp.All day, the Democratic President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, tried to put its troops in working order, and generate support for the president's plans. "The program that we are putting forward is innovative, historic, and that is what makes it a challenge," she declared in a letter to the Democrats, as if to explain these internal quarrels between elected officials of the party.

This is because the debate revolves around the very philosophy of the Biden project, which is supposed to make 21st century America a model of prosperity and stability vis-à-vis China.

For these centrist Democrats, and for the entire Republican camp, the state should not interfere too much, even with the best of intentions, in the privacy of Americans.

For the most left-wing elected officials, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, on the contrary, there is an urgent need to correct the gaping inequalities. And in the middle, there is Joe Biden who tries the synthesis, by repeating at will "I am a capitalist", but also that it is necessary to support the working middle class. "Elected as the anti-Trump, Joe Biden aspires to be the second incarnation of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945), the father of the New Deal which transformed America after the crisis of 1929]", accused, in April, the Wall Street Journal business daily.

Joe Biden's reforms are therefore subjected to the grueling test of Democratic cohesion ... However, if the Democrats control Congress, their majority in the Senate is so short that any defection is impossible.

The obstacle Joe Manchin

So Joe Biden is on the infighting of his own party. If it obtains the green light from elected officials in the Chamber after mid-November, its major social component will still have to be approved in the Senate, where it risks being significantly altered. Its fate is more particularly in the hands of an elected official from West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin, who says he fears that the plan will further widen public debt and fuel inflation. However, in view of the very thin Democratic majority in the Senate, he virtually has a right of veto over presidential projects.

Joe Manchin is, in fact, "the man who controls the Senate", as The New Yorker wrote in a long survey devoted to this politician in June 2021. His vote became central in a chamber divided into two, with 50 Democratic or related senators and 50 Republicans.

And Joe Manchin, embodying the centrist wing, seems determined to block everything that, in the program of the American president, could go in the direction of a welfare state ... wanted only by the progressive wing of the party. democrat.

MAY 1ST VIOLENCE

ALEXANDRE BENALLA CONDEMNED

AT THREE YEARS IN PRISON WITH A FARM

The former Elysee mission manager was sentenced to three years in prison, including a farm with an electronic bracelet and a five-year ban on practicing in the public service, in particular for "willful violence in meetings", "port of 'prohibited weapon' and 'use of diplomatic passports' in the case of the violence of May 1, 2018.

The prosecution had required 18 months suspended imprisonment against Alexandre Benalla, now 30 years old.

Throughout the trial, he defended his innocence on almost all of the facts.

"The court judges that only a mixed sentence is likely to mark the gravity of the facts", explained the president of the court, Isabelle Prévost-Desprez, who underlines the "feeling of impunity and omnipotence" of the defendant.

"You have been invested with a certain power, real with regard to your functions, supposed because of your proximity to the President of the Republic", declared the president of the court Isabelle Prévost-Desprez while pronouncing the judgment.

"You have betrayed the trust placed in you by this appointment," she continued.

The court chose this sentence "in view of the seriousness of the multiple facts, the missions you carried out, which required rigor and exemplarity from you, your unbearable behavior in the social body".

Three other proceedings in progress

In addition to this trial, three other legal proceedings concerning him are still ongoing. One concerns suspicions of “corruption” in a contract between Vincent Crase's company, Mars, and a sulphurous Russian oligarch. A second concerns the mysterious safe he had at his home.

Finally, the third concerns suspicion of "false testimony" before the Senate commission of inquiry.

Lighter sentences for other defendants

During the trial in September, the prosecution requested suspended sentences of two to twelve months against his co-convicts, the ex-employee of En Marche! Vincent Crase and two police officers.

Vincent Crase, a 48-year-old reservist gendarme, was sentenced to two years in prison.

The two police officers from the Paris police headquarters, Maxence Creusat and Laurent Simonin, tried for having transmitted CCTV images to Alexandre Benalla, were respectively sentenced to a 500-euro fine and a three-month suspended prison sentence, without registration for the two in the criminal record.

Prolix at the helm, Alexandre Benalla had assured to have been "lawful, loyal, honest" and contested any "voluntary violence"...

ADAPTATION TO CINEMA BY TAIKA WAITITI

FROM THE INCAL WORSHIP

OF MOEBIUS AND JODOROWSKI

This project is launched in the wake of the box office success of Denis Villeneuve's Dune, an adaptation of a science fiction classic by Frank Herbert. Jodorowsky had tried to transpose it to cinema in the 1970s. His failure had inspired him ... The Incal.

A series of comics born from the failure of "Dune"

The Incal was in fact born after Jodorowsky's failure to bring the novel Dune to the screen . He entrusts part of the preparatory illustrations to Moebius. After several years of preproduction of this titanic project, Alexandro Jodorowsky is let go by his Hollywood backers. The ideas of this pre-production work give birth to another artistic project, the Incal comic book series.

These plates, published between 1980 and 1988 in the columns of the magazine Métal hurlant, follow the private detective John Difool who accidentally discovers a powerful artefact, named L'Incal. The item is coveted across the galaxy by multitudes of factions. Despite himself, the detective finds himself forced to save the entire universe.

At the controls, the director of "Jojo Rabbit", Taika Waititi.

Touched by the adventures of the investigator, Taika Waititi himself wrote the screenplay for the film, accompanied by his acolytes Jemaine Clement and Peter Warren. An adventure that transformed those who approached it. “It was initially the adventures of an ordinary guy named John Difool, analyzes Farice Giger, boss of Humanoids, then it became something else that transformed everything he touched: its creators, the cartoonists, its publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés and myself, countless readers, writers and directors from all over the world ”.

Alejandro Jodorowsky - 92 - had a say in the choice of director. “When Fabrice Giger presented Taika Waititi's work to me, it seemed obvious to me that it was the right one. I have full confidence in his creativity to give the Incal an astonishing version, both intimate and cosmic, ”he said enthusiastically from his Parisian home.

This masterpiece has influenced the greatest directors of SF such as George Lucas, Ridley Scott or Denis Villeneuve.

THE UNITED KINGDOM FIRST COUNTRY TO USE

THE MERCK LABORATORY ANTI-COVID PILL

As Europe experiences a massive wave of contaminations, these pills which can be taken with a simple glass of water, being evaluated in the European Union, bring considerable hope to relieve hospital wards during the winter .

“This is a historic day for our country as the UK is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home against Covid-19,” said Health Minister Sajid Javid, in a statement. "It will be a game-changer for the most vulnerable and the immunocompromised, who will soon be able to receive the revolutionary treatment."

Marketed under the name Lagevrio, molnupiravir has been cleared by the UK Medicines Agency, MHRA, for use in people with mild to moderate Covid who have at least one risk factor for developing severe disease ( obesity, over 60, diabetes, heart disease).

Health authorities recommend that it be taken "as soon as possible after a positive test," said the Ministry of Health. Antivirals like molnupiravir work by decreasing the ability of a virus to replicate, thereby slowing down the disease. Their application can be twofold:

both to allow people already affected not to suffer from severe symptoms, but also to those who have been in close contact not to develop the disease. Administered to patients within days of a positive test, the treatment halves the risk of hospitalization, according to a clinical trial conducted by Merck, also called MSD outside the United States.

Pressure on hospitals

The British government, faced with Covid-19 contamination rates among the highest in the world, announced on October 20 that it had ordered 480,000 treatments of molnupiravir. He also signed a contract for 250,000 treatments of Ritonavir, another antiviral from the American laboratory Pfizer already used against HIV, whose effectiveness against the coronavirus is the subject of clinical trials.

These treatments are intended for patients deemed to be the most at risk, in order to reduce the pressure on hospitals which is increasing in the United Kingdom, which deplores more than 140,000 deaths.

The country records a thousand hospitalizations per day and more than 9,000 patients are currently hospitalized with Covid-19. Even if it remains far from the peaks of the last waves, it raises fears of a difficult situation this winter.

Approved, molnupiravir represents a major advance in making it possible to reduce severe forms of the disease quite easily. This type of treatment has been sought since the start of the pandemic. Merck's announcement of clinical trial results in early October was hailed as a major step towards this goal.

But experts have warned that this treatment is not a silver bullet and should complement vaccines, not replace them.

ERIC ADAMS EX-BLACK ANTI-RACIST POLICE

WILL HE BECOME THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK ?

If he beats well at the polls on Tuesday, as is almost certain in a city classified on the left, his Republican rival Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, 61, will be the second African-American mayor in New York's history, after David Dinkins (1990-1993).

Both discreet and charismatic, the 61-year-old candidate had been preparing for the post of mayor for a long time.

After retiring, Eric Adams was elected Senator from

New York in 2006 and then re-elected three times before becoming Brooklyn's first black president in 2013.

"The personality that suits New Yorkers"

“Moderate” Democrat, less on the left than the media representative of the party in New York Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the profile of the former police officer seduces to the New York Post, a newspaper classified on the right, according to the New York Times.

It also appeals to working-class neighborhoods, reassures the business community. He's vegan and trumpets that he would be able to carry a handgun in church. He constantly juggles between glorifying himself and self-criticism.

And wields the art of adapting the story of his life to his audience as a person. In short, he is "a pragmatist rather than a leftist ideologue", summarizes the political scientist of Columbia University Robert Shapiro.

During the Democratic primaries in June, he showed himself as a strong leader, defender of the middle and popular classes, at the forefront against racial discrimination. The former police officer also promised to be intractable against crime whose indicators have turned red in 2020.

His program promises to curb the increase in shootings (+ 32% in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period of 2020), a theme on which his career gives him some credibility. Rather attached to the right wing of the Democratic Party, Eric Adams is known to be close to the business circles of "Big Apple" ("Big Apple"), the financial lung of the planet.

The largest police force in the country

The mayor of New York manages the largest municipal budget in the United States, 98.7 billion dollars for the fiscal year 2021-2022, devoted in part to the exit from the health crisis.

He has control over the largest police force in the country (NYPD, 36,000 employees). The next mayor will have to continue the reform of the police accused of having in its ranks violent, racist and corrupt agents. The brutal crackdown on protests after the murder of African American George Floyd by a white policeman left a mark. "I don't hate police services, I hate abusive cops, and that's what people confuse , the former cop told The New York Times.

When you like something, you criticize it for making it what it should be, you don't let it happen ”.

He plans to reform the police, increase the number of officers of color and appoint a woman to the post of commissioner.

But the former police officer does not claim the Black Lives Matter movement either, and rejects the slogan "Defund the police" that the American left chanted in 2020. Many other sites await him. also after a health crisis that killed more than 36,000 New Yorkers .

The candidate, a man of the field, has every chance of being elected mayor of the metropolis of eight million inhabitants on Tuesday. “Being progressive is not what you tweet, but what you do in the streets every day to help people,” he said during his campaign.

CORONAVIRUS CHINESE CALLS TO DO

FOOD RESERVES

Risks of food shortage ?

The Chinese government called on Monday, November 1, the population to build up food reserves.

If the government has not made a statement on this subject, since Monday, a notice posted on the website of the Ministry of Commerce invites "households to store a certain amount of basic necessities in order to meet daily needs and in cases of emergency ”.

The ministry also calls on various local authorities to facilitate agricultural production and supply flows, monitor meat and vegetable reserves and maintain price stability.

It could be that China, which is currently trying to fight an epidemic resurgence, is trying not to find itself in the same situation as in the first wave. Indeed, in early 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic, supply chains had been disrupted by the quarantine of several parts of China and the blocking of many highways.

A hundred days before the Olympic Games

With the approach of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next February, the government fears a new epidemic outbreak and has taken radical measures in recent weeks following the appearance of sporadic outbreaks of Covid-19 in the north of country. At least 6 million people have been confined, especially in the large city of Lanzhou, 1,700 km west of Beijing. However, the number of cases observed remains very low compared to the reports recorded in the rest of the world. Only 71 new cases of contamination were announced Tuesday for the last 24 hours, after 92 cases on Monday, the heaviest national count since mid-September.

World's leading importer of food products

The country was also hit last summer by floods which disrupted agricultural production and pushed up prices. Climate change is likely to increase the frequency of this type of natural disaster.

China is already the world's largest importer of food products, a situation that makes it vulnerable to diplomatic tensions, such as those underway with its major suppliers such as the United States, Canada and Australia.

However, the reasons for this call from the authorities have not been specified.

META OR THE DANGER OF TRANSHUMANISM

Mark Zuckerberg's company now intends to become a metaverse company, even going so far as to rename itself "Meta" to mark its ambitions.

During an online conference, the Facebook boss unveiled his vision for a technology that could transform the Internet as we know it today.

Inspired by science fiction, and in particular the novel "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson or "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline, the metaverse presents itself as a virtual and immersive online world. Everyone can live part of their life there, in the form of an avatar or a hologram.

For Meta, this universe promises more social contact without traveling, whether it's organizing a business meeting, participating in a fitness class or strolling through a pixel store.

The "metavers" are in short the equivalent of the OASIS of Steven Spielberg's film: a kind of lining of the physical world, accessible by Internet and connected interfaces, and in which we should be able to exist in the form of avatars.

This extension of the Internet is made possible by the convergence of different technologies, so that an individual can experience a world in virtual reality, by engaging his body, living emotions and sensations. “Gradually, screens, holograms, VR headsets and augmented reality glasses are supposed to allow fluid movements of virtual universes in physical places, such as teleportations,” Mark Zuckerberg explained on his Facebook profile.

The Oculus Quest headset developed by Meta completely immerses the user's gaze in a 3D setting. To move, you must also equip yourself with hand controllers. To get around, some imagine a treadmill system. Besides Meta, HTC, Sony already have their headsets.

According to information from Bloomberg, Apple's will be released in 2022.

Being able to truly move around in a virtual environment today requires a combination equipped with lots of sensors in order to faithfully reproduce your every gesture.

The technologies necessary for the proper functioning of the metaverse are not yet there ...

Towards transhumanism ?

Meta will invest $ 10 billion in 2021 alone to complete its project, but although it strikes a blow, Meta will have to come to an agreement or force to abandon a number of competitors such as Fortnite or Roblox. The war of the virtual worlds has begun.

And if it is Facebook that wins the market, we have everything to fear from the metaverse. Indeed. " Today Marc Zuckerberg intends to create a parallel universe by using for that the technology allowing to manufacture a virtual reality which must replace reality. It is not in science fiction but in transhumanism.

Transhumanism, which intends to increase mankind thanks to new technologies, considers that man who currently exists must disappear. With regard to reality, he intends to make it disappear in order to replace it with an augmented reality ”, according to the philosopher and theologian Bertrand Vergely, author in particular of La temptation de l'Homme-Dieu (Le Passeur Editeur, 2015)

THE FACEBOOK GROUP WILL CHANGE NAME

TO BE CALLED META

Mr. Zuckerberg also unveiled the new logo:

an icon reminiscent of an infinite symbol and the Oculus virtual reality glasses, which belongs to the group.

The objective is to highlight the metaverse contraction of “meta” (“beyond”, in ancient Greek), to show that there is “always more to build”, and “universe”, his project of Internet of the future, supposed to reach a billion people.

No changes are made to the structure of the group, which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Portal, among others.

According to the founder, the metaverse represents the future of the internet, after computers and mobile phones, to which the public will have access to interact, work or be entertained via technologies (augmented reality glasses, virtual reality headsets, etc. .).

Still according to Zuckerberg, the project should create "millions" of jobs over the next decade, including 10,000 in Europe.

In the midst of the “Facebook Files” affair, this name change appears to be a distraction by critics of the Californian group, entangled in scandals and controversies, from disinformation to data confidentiality, including respect for competition law. .

The firm "thinks that a new brand can help it change the subject", already reacted last week an NGO of anti-Facebook activists, ironically baptized "the real supervisory board of Facebook" (The Real Facebook Oversight Board ), when rumors of a name change were circulating.

UNITED STATES ISSUE THEIR FIRST

GENDER "X" PASSPORT

It's done . The United States indeed announced, Wednesday, October 27, to have delivered the first passport with the gender "X" to a person who does not recognize himself in the traditional choices "male" or "female".

The name of the holder of this document has not been revealed by US officials.

The US State Department has "added an X box for non-binary, intersex people" and more broadly those who do not identify with the gender criteria proposed so far, announced its spokesperson, Ned Price.

This option will be offered to all passport applicants from early 2022, he said, reaffirming the commitment of US diplomacy to

“Promote the freedom, dignity and equality of all people”.

The United States thus completes the list of countries, including Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, India and Pakistan which offer the choice "X" or "other" in their passports, according to the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion, headquartered in London.

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken already relaxed the rules in June by allowing American citizens to choose their gender on their passports themselves. Previously, people who wanted to register a different kind than their birth certificate had to provide a medical certificate. Biden has made defending the rights of sexual minorities around the world a priority, more than any other president of the United States before him and at odds with his predecessor, Donald Trump.

This recognition of a "third kind" marks another step forward towards the transhumanism wanted by Silicon Valley which is threatening our society....

POST-BREXIT FISHING THE BURNED TOWEL

BETWEEN FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN

The post-Brexit agreement provides that European fishermen can continue to work in certain British waters, provided they can prove that they were fishing there before. However, ten months after the United Kingdom left the European Union, part of the seafaring professionals are still waiting to obtain their pass for the British 6-12 mile strip, these waters full of fish in which fishermen from Boulogne-sur-Mer make about 60% of their catch.

Disagreement on the number of licenses granted

The French and the British are in fact arguing over the nature and extent of the supporting documents to be provided, and over the number of licenses already granted.

Regarding first of all the supporting documents to prove prior fishing in the famous 6-12 mile band, the sticking point is the question of proof. While the French fishermen have sent the British a set of data, the latter consider that the elements are not sufficient for some boats.

As regards then the number of licenses already granted: while Great Britain assures that fishing licenses had been granted to 98% of European boats which had requested them, the French Minister of the Sea of ​​Annick Girardin retorts that the figure is false 2021. "The figure is false," replied Annick Girardin Thursday, October 29, 2021. "All those who do not have a license, they are French, apart from one or two Belgians. Clearly the missing 10% is the French, ”she was even surprised. Nearly 450 French fishermen have applied for permits, but London has only granted 210. According to the French government,these “missing licenses” concern in particular fishermen from the Hauts-de-France region or who regularly go fishing off the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

For the Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, it is neither more nor less “bad will” on the part of our neighbors across the Channel.

Retaliatory measures against the British

This is why, after having threatened the United Kingdom for a long time, France has advanced its calendar with "a tightening of controls in the Channel" targeting London and the Channel Islands. Thus, on the night of Wednesday 27 to Thursday 28 October, the threats became concrete: the Ministry of the Sea announced the verbalization of two “English ships” which were fishing in the bay of the Seine. One of the vessels fined was not on the license lists granted to the United Kingdom by the European Commission and France. He was diverted to Le Havre by the gendarmerie. The other was fined for obstructing control after refusing to comply with the request to board the maritime gendarmes.

Moreover, if no progress is made by the beginning of November, Paris will implement at the beginning of November "targeted measures" targeting in particular fishing vessels and British imports. As of Tuesday, November 2, British fishing vessels will in fact be prohibited from disembarking in ports on the Channel-North Sea coast. A strengthening of sanitary and customs controls on lorries to and from the United Kingdom was also announced. Likewise, systematic safety checks will be carried out on British ships sailing in French waters. A first step insists the ministry. “A second series of measures is being prepared. In this context, France does not rule out reviewing the energy supply provided to the United Kingdom. ".

" Eye for eye, tooth for tooth " ?

It must be said that the Johnson government holds the Macron government in part responsible for the divorce treaty, deemed inadequate by the British, and the post-Brexit trade agreement, which they find frustrating. France has been the toughest in the interminable negotiations leading to the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

“She mistakenly thought that the UK was going to become a sort of deregulated Singapore-on-Thames. It also wanted to capture market share in the City or in the automotive sector, ”judges Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in the World.

COVID-19 EPIDEMIC REBOUND IN FRANCE

Nationwide, "5,276 cases were diagnosed per day" on average last week (that of October 18) compared to 4,713 the week before.

“At the national level, the incidence rate (proportion of new cases within the population) was again on the increase (+ 14%)” for the week concerned, during which it amounted to 55 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. more than the alert threshold of 50.

This threshold is also exceeded “in 44 metropolitan departments” and is “increasing or stable in all regions”. In the week of October 18, it “reached 73 per 100,000 inhabitants in Pays de la Loire (+ 52%) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (+ 1%), and 71 in Île-de-France (- 0.2%) ”.

Increase in hospitalizations

In addition, “the number of new hospitalizations increased slightly (1,281, + 2%), with a higher increase in new admissions to critical care (346, + 12%)”.

Currently, some 6,500 Covid patients are hospitalized, including just over 1,000 in critical care, reserved for the most serious cases.

"In metropolitan France, the rates of new hospitalizations and admissions in critical care (are) increasing or stable in all regions", according to Public Health France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Île-de-France and Pays de la Loire have the highest rates.

"Encourage vaccination"

In this context of increase, "it is essential to encourage the vaccination of people not vaccinated against Covid as well as the administration of the booster to those 65 years and over eligible, and to maintain adherence to barrier gestures at a high level », Insists the health agency.

Despite these increases, the government hopes that the vaccination, which protects against serious forms, will prevent overcrowding of hospitals while nearly three quarters of the French population are fully vaccinated.

COVID-19 CHINA CONFINED LANZHOU

A CITY OF FOUR MILLION INHABITANTS

All residential areas in this capital of Gansu province will be subject to "closed management" with strict movement control, the municipality announced.

Any exit outside the home will now be possible only for "essential purchases", an imperative linked to the epidemic, or "emergency medical treatment," said a statement from the authorities. The day before, several restrictions had been imposed on Beijing or Wuhan.

China nationally reported 29 new cases of Covid-19 of local origin on Tuesday.

The majority are linked to the movements of a group of contaminated tourists.

While the figures may seem paltry compared to those recorded daily in other parts of the world, they are pushing the authorities to redouble their vigilance as China prepares to host the Winter Olympics from February 4, 2022.

A recent outbreak in Inner Mongolia , in the north of the country, has been responsible for more than 100 cases since last week.

The Chinese authorities, which practice a policy of "zero tolerance" towards the virus, reacted swiftly, imposing restrictions and organizing mass screening campaigns in the affected regions.

BY SENDING TEN AMBASSADORS

ERDOGAN WANTS TO FEDERATE AROUND

OF ISLAMO-NATIONALISM AGAINST THE WEST

"I ordered our Minister of Foreign Affairs to settle as quickly as possible the declaration of these 10 ambassadors as personae non gratae", said the head of state during a trip to central Turkey, without specifying the date on which diplomats must leave. These ambassadors "must know and understand Turkey," said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing them of "indecency"

A rare measure in international relations, declaring diplomats "personae non gratae" opens the way for their expulsion or recall by their own country.

"From morning to night they (the diplomats) repeat: Kavala, Kavala ... But the one you are talking about, Kavala, is Soros' agent in Turkey," said the president during a public meeting, making a news times reference to the American billionaire of Hungarian origin George Soros to whom he regularly compares the opponent.

This new affront comes after the ten ambassadors targeted, all stationed in Ankara, launched a joint call for the release of Osman Kavala, the Turkish patron who has been imprisoned for four years without ever having been sentenced. In a statement released Monday, October 18, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States called for a "just settlement and fast of the case ”. This appeal followed a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In 2019, the ECHR had in fact considered that the detention of the businessman was not based on any evidence and was of a political nature. She had demanded his immediate release, a decision ignored by Turkey.

An opponent detained without trial since the end of 2017

Businessman, founder of several publishing houses, philanthropist, Osman Kavala is 64 years old a major figure in Turkish civil society. In 2013, he was one of the actors in the protest movement in Gezi Park, which targeted Erdogan's government, then prime minister. Defender of the Armenian and Kurdish cause, he also campaigned for the “no” in the constitutional referendum of April 2017 on the reinforcement of the powers of the president.

Accused of having sought to "overthrow the government" at the time of the attempted coup in 2016, he has been imprisoned without trial since October 2017. He will remain so at least until November 26, decided at the beginning of October a Istanbul court, despite European threats of sanctions against Ankara.

For the Turkish power, Osman Kavala is the symbol of the rich man who has close relations with international organizations, with the EU, who supports oppressed minorities and who can set civil society in motion. In the Islamo-nationalist discourse of power, which divides the world and society between “us” and “the enemies”, Osman Kavala has become in a way the prototype of the “internal enemy”.

A calculation of domestic policy in the face of economic disaster

By playing the card of foreign interference with the request for release by the Kavala ambassadors, President Erdogan is trying to unite his electorate around the "nationalist fiber". “Erdogan wants to hit hard. Today, he is in a rather complicated domestic political situation, explained Didier Billion, specialist in Turkey at Iris, on franceinfo. The polls all indicate voting intentions of around 30%. (...) This defection of its traditional electorate is explained by a very degraded economic situation. "

Indeed, the presidential announcement comes as investors worry about the fall of the Turkish lira after the unexpected decision taken Thursday by the central bank of Turkey, under pressure from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to lower by 200 basis points its main policy rate. The Turkish lira has lost half of its value against the dollar since 2018.

And Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), the main opposition formation, was not mistaken, accusing the head of state of "rapidly leading the country to the precipice" . " The reason for these initiatives is not to defend national interests but to create artificial causes for the ruin of the economy, ”he wrote on Twitter.

To Yavuz Agiralioglu, one of the leaders of the Good Party (IYI), another opposition formation, added for his part: “We have already seen this film. Get back without delay to our real agenda and to the fundamental problem in this country, the economic crisis. "

Erdogan's popularity plummeted

For Emre Peker of London-based Eurasia Group, the threat of expulsion of ambassadors at a time when the Turkish economy faces "enormous challenges is ill-advised at best and a foolish bet to turn around popularity at worst. Erdogan's free fall ”. "Erdogan needs to give an impression of power for reasons of internal politics", he added, stressing that an expulsion of an ambassador generally entailed equivalent reprisals on the part of the target country. And too bad if all the targeted countries are part of the OECD, like Turkey, or if seven of them are part of NATO, of which Turkey is a key player. “This promises increasingly difficult relations with Washington and the EU. "

But the date of this sidelining of the ambassadors has not yet been recorded even if the Turkish head of state has indicated that he wanted it to intervene "as soon as possible". And for some observers, the Turkish president would be used to threats that were not followed up. In 2018, had he not announced that Turkey would boycott American electronic products during a quarrel with Washington and last year, called on his fellow citizens to boycott French products to denounce the “anti-Islam” policy, according to him, Emmanuel Macron?

In both cases, trade was not disrupted.

ISIS GERMAN SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN CRIMINAL RECLUSION FOR THE MURDER OF

HER FIVE-YEAR SLAVE YAZIDIE

This trial is historic since it is one of the first to judge the crimes committed against the Yazidis. The young woman, 24 years old at the time of the facts, faced life imprisonment. She was charged with murder and a war crime for possessing Yazidi slaves and contributing to the death of one of them.

The community of Yazidis, a non-Muslim Kurdish-speaking minority present in Iraq, was, in 2014, reduced to slavery by the jihadist forces of Daesh. The men were either killed or forced to join the ranks of their persecutors. Women were enslaved and / or forcibly married to combatants.

The young slave tied to a window

The accused, Jennifer Wenisch, originally from Lower Saxony, had left Germany for Iraq. She served there in the morality police in Fallujah and Mosul. It was during the summer of 2015 that the accused and her husband, Taha Al-Jumailly, tried in Frankfurt, acquired the 5-year-old child and his mother. Both were to serve as slaves to the couple of combatants. After numerous mistreatments, the little girl was "punished" by the husband of the accused for having urinated on a mattress, then tied up, by temperatures around 50 ° C. , to a window outside the house. The girl died of thirst while her mother, Nora T., was forced to remain in the service of the couple until the latter's arrest in January 2016, in Ankara.

The child's mother, a refugee in Germany, has become a key witness in the trial of her former tormentors and her daughter's murderers. Jennifer Wenisch was therefore judged for her passivity in the face of the agony of the young slave. A passivity that she justified by the “fear” that her husband “pushes her or locks her up”.

Confessions to an FBI Informant

Jennifer Wenisch was arrested by Turkish security services in January 2016 in Ankara and then extradited to Germany. But she was not taken into custody until June 2018, after being arrested while trying to reach with her two-year-old daughter the territories that Daesh still controlled in Syria. It was during this attempt that she told her driver about her life in Iraq. The latter was actually an FBI informant who drove her in a car equipped with microphones. The prosecution used these tapes to indict him.

I rakiens non-Arab and non-Muslim, many Yazidis took refuge in Germany, particularly in the southwest of the country, where women and children, victims of repeated rape, were supported and cared for..

TOWARDS A WAR BETWEEN CHINA

AND THE UNITED STATES AROUND TAIWAN ?

The number of fighter incursions into Taiwan-controlled airspace continues to grow as threats against it by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China continue to grow. more scathingly:

“The one-China principle is the political foundation of Sino-US relations. China will take all necessary measures to resolutely crush any attempt at Taiwan's independence. China has the firm resolve and the will to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, ”a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry recalled.

This is why, questioned Thursday October 21, 2021 on the possibility of an American military intervention to defend Taiwan Joe Biden answered “Yes, we have a commitment in this direction. ". A statement that contradicts the United States' long-held policy of "strategic ambiguity", with Washington helping Taiwan build and strengthen its defenses without explicitly promising to come to its aid should an attack take place.

China in turn called on Friday, October 22, Joe Biden to be “cautious” refusing any “compromise” on his sovereignty. "On issues related to its fundamental interests, such as its sovereignty and territorial integrity, China will not leave any room for compromise," Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told reporters.

Taiwan's status in question

The island of 23 million inhabitants, located 180 km offshore in the east of China was first Chinese then deeply marked by a Japanese occupation of half a century from 1895 to 1945. Since 1949, the island is a unitary republic with a semi-presidential regime with its own government. But China shows great determination in its desire to be powerful and its desire to reclaim Taiwan by force or peacefully.

No later than October 9, 2021, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, Chinese President Xi Jinping also delivers a speech in which he promises “reunification” with Taiwan by “peaceful” means. the reunification of the homeland by peaceful means is in the general interest of the Chinese nation, including the compatriots of Taiwan (...) The reunification of our country can be achieved and will be ”, details Xi Jinping. To which the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen - Beijing's pet peeve - immediately replies on the same day that she will not give in to China: "No one can force Taiwan to follow the path that China has mapped out for." we (...) It should absolutely not be imagined that the Taiwanese peoplewill give in to pressure ”. Tsai Ing-wen indeed defends the maintenance of Taiwan's status but has never officially requested the island's independence from China.

Its bellicose acts on the part of the Middle Empire have repercussions not only in Asia but also between China and the United States, which provide military support to Taiwan in accordance with the Taiwan Relations Act which came into force on April 10, 1979.

The Indo-Pacific a key region of the 21st century

Indeed, it is a struggle for influence between the two great powers that is being played out around Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific region, a key region of the 21st century.

Also, to contain the Chinese colossus, the Americans deploy in the Indo-Pacific a network of local partners and allies in the region. The latter are those who share democratic principles (like Taiwan), but above all who use weapons that are interoperable with those of the United States, allowing them to share optimized combat logistics.

American weapons therefore, the only ones that can be produced in large numbers. Thus Japan, South Korea, Great Britain, Australia have or will soon receive the same technologically advanced weapon systems as the Aegis, the Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and the fifth generation F-35 fighter. . The recent creation of the AUKUS also makes it possible to define a central nucleus made up of countries of the Anglosphere around which others will be able to aggregate, such as India, Japan and possibly South Korea.

DONALD TRUMP WILL LAUNCH HIS “TRUTH SOCIAL” SOCIAL NETWORK

Truth Social has just entered its beta version, intended to be tested by a reduced number of users in order to identify flaws and potential improvements. This phase should last until early 2022, before the launch to the general public. The first invitations will be sent out in November.

"I created Truth Social and the Trump Media and Technology (TMTG) group to resist the tyranny of the tech giants," said the former president in a statement, specifying that his platform should be launched in the first quarter of 2022 .

"We live in a world where the Taliban are very present on Twitter, but where your favorite American president has been silenced," he said.

The big companies of Silicon Valley have "used their unilateral power to silence dissenting voices in America," added Donald Trump. The former president added that Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind TRUTH Social, was "founded with the mission of giving a voice to all. ".

Terms of use

Before being banned, Donald Trump had nearly 89 million followers on Twitter - where he had announced a number of major presidential decisions and thunderous sackings as well as 35 million on Facebook and 24 million on Instagram.

According to the terms of use, Internet users wishing to use Donald Trump's platform will however be prohibited from "denigrating" or "tarnishing" the camp of the former president as well as the social network itself.

Other prohibited behaviors include impersonating another user, copying software from the site, or using the site in a manner that is against the law.

2024 in sight

Truth Social is visually and technically similar to Twitter. The platform also has a news feed, a search system and also a profile creation for users.

The billionaire's new media group, TMTG, will also include a video-on-demand service with entertainment programs and “non-woke” podcasts.

While he maintains the suspense over a possible candidacy in 2024, Donald Trump will need an online presence.

FANTASMES DES HOMMES

A VOUS MONSIEUR !

QU'EST-CE QU'ELLE A MA PETITE POITRINE ?

NABILLA CREE

L'EMEUTE AU SALON DU LIVRE !

Refoulés ou non vous en avez.Des jeux coquins que l'on adore. Après enquête auprès de vous et de la pratique perso.....

Tu affiches un plantureux 75A !

.Avoir une petite poitrine est-il complexant ? Non: fais-en une force et assume ! Les points positifs et négatifs :Pour les premiers, tu ne souffres pas de .......

Un rendez-vous incontournable de la littérature que le Salon du livre de Paris :

Trois mille auteurs pendant quatre jours avec d'immenses auteurs, de grands poètes ........

VICTORIA'S SECRET OU LE DEFILE LE PLUS HOT DE LA

LE CALENDRIER PIRELLI OU L'HOMMAGE AUX FEMMES

PARADIS  FISCAUX contre

ÉTATS GLOUTONS

C'est Lady Gaga qui animera avec Bruno Mars et The Weeknd le grand show de Victoria's Secret et ses anges dans la Ville lumière.

L'événement se tient demain, au Grand Palais, pour être retransmis à la télévision américaine ..........

Jamais les paradis fiscaux ne se sont aussi bien portés malgré la croisade lancée en 2009 par les dirigeants des pays développés.

Si l'on regarde l'origine géographique des investissements directs .....

CORONAVIRUS SPREAD OF A NEW

UK SUB-VARIANT

The sub-variant named "AY4.2"

This “AY4.2” variant is a sub-variant of Delta, which has turned out to be very contagious. This initially appeared in India a few months ago and caused a resumption of the epidemic in late spring 2021. AY4.2 is an offshoot of AY.4, which itself is an offshoot of the "mother" Delta variant. When the virus makes copies of itself, small errors occur and result in slight variations, which result in sublinelines. As the British health agency specifies in its report, AY4.2 contains two major mutations, A222V and Y145H, in the spike protein, which allows the virus to enter cells.

Beyond the United Kingdom where AY4.2 is "on an increasing trajectory", as the British Health Security Agency recognizes, the Delta sub-variant has spread little. It was spotted in Denmark previously, where it represented at its peak, 2% of contaminations. The Newsweek media noted that this variant only appeared in the United States in three different states, with one case each time: in North Carolina, California and in the District of Columbia.

Finally, Israel announced its first case, Wednesday, October 20: an eleven-year-old child from Europe. He was identified at Tel Aviv airport and placed in quarantine.

More contagious, more resistant ?

It is not known if it is more contagious and more dangerous than the other variants. The emergence of this new variant despite the very strong contagiousness of the Delta, which tends to rule out new strains, raises fears of an even greater transmissibility. But "nothing suggests that it spreads more easily," tried to reassure a spokesman for Downing Street.

The progression of AY4.2 in the UK, however, highlights a phenomenon that scientists have warned against throughout the pandemic: the rampant transmission of the virus can create new, more resistant variants. As an American scientist, David States, points out on Twitter *, the rapid increase in the prevalence of this Delta subvariant suggests that it would be able to resist some immunity, with a large part of the British population now completely vaccinated (nearly 80%) or having already had Covid-19.

Currently, AY4.2 is not categorized among the most transmissible variants. But the emergence of this new variant, which tends to rule out new strains, raises fears of greater transmissibility, particularly in the United Kingdom, where more than 40,000 new cases are detected daily.

"We need urgent research to determine if this delta is more transmissible," said Scott Gottlieb, deputy commissioner of the US Medical and Scientific Affairs Committee.

HAITI THE DELIGHTS OF MISSIONARIES

DEMAND 17 MILLION DOLLARS

Liszt Quitel, Haitian Minister of Justice confirmed the involvement of this armed gang and told the Washington Post that the kidnappers usually demanded large sums, revised downwards during negotiations, specifying that his team was not taking part to these.

Perpetrated when foreign nationals had just visited an orphanage located between the Haitian capital and the border with the Dominican Republic, this group abduction bears the signature of the gang called "400 mawozo". The armed gang has been controlling this part of Haitian territory for months without the security forces managing to remedy it.

The gangs, which have controlled the poorest neighborhoods of the Haitian capital for years, have extended their power over Port-au-Prince and its surroundings in recent years, where they are increasing the number of villainous kidnappings.

The inhabitants of the Haitian capital also expressed on Monday their anger at the gang crime they have suffered for months by massively observing the call for a general strike that had been launched to denounce the growing insecurity of the country. .

Political crisis

For years, a deep political crisis has paralyzed the economic development of Haiti. The assassination on July 7 of President Jovenel Moïse by an armed commando in his private residence plunged this poor country even further into uncertainty.

"Nature abhors a vacuum so gangs take advantage of it to strengthen themselves", says Gédéon Jean, director of the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights, based in Port-au-Prince, explaining the proliferation of gangs by "l 'absence of the state'.

Haiti classified "red zone" by the United States

Haiti is classified as a country in the red zone by the United States which advises its nationals not to go there, in particular because of the numerous kidnappings of which "the victims regularly include American citizens".

More than 600 cases of kidnappings were recorded in the first three quarters of 2021 against 231 in the same period in 2020, according to the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights.

AFFECTED WITH A HEALTH PROBLEM CELINE DION CANCELS ITS NEXT CONCERTS

“My heart is broken by this situation. My team and I have been working on our new show for 8 months and not being able to take the stage in November saddens me beyond words.

My partners at Resorts World Las Vegas and AEG have worked tirelessly to prepare this brand new state-of-the-art theater, and it is absolutely gorgeous.

I feel terribly bad for letting them down, and I'm particularly sorry to disappoint all the fans who had planned to come to Las Vegas.

Now, I have to focus on my health to get better quickly… I want to get out of it as quickly as possible, ”Celine Dion wrote via an Instagram post.

"Severe" and "persistent" spasms are mentioned in a statement posted on his Twitter account. The Canadian singer was expected by her fans for a series of concerts planned in Las Vegas next November.

In a press release, the team of the star evokes "unpredictable physical symptoms" which "force the singer to delay the premiere and to cancel the performances planned from November 5 to 20, 2021 and from January 19 to February 5, 2022." According to Variety magazine, the latter would be the victim of "persistent muscle spasms that prevent her from performing".

Let's wish Celine Dion a good recovery !

COVID-19 AN UNEMBERED WEEK IN RUSSIA

TO STOP THE OUTBREAK OF THE EPIDEMIC

The Russian president has several times decreed periods of paid vacation to curb the epidemic. Announced for a short period, these nonworking periods have sometimes been extended to long weeks. Vladimir Putin has always preferred this measure rather than confining the population, an unpopular restriction which also risks slowing down the fragile economic recovery.

"Please be responsible"

Russia, which is already the most bereaved country in Europe, on Wednesday recorded a new record of daily deaths from Covid-19, with 1,028 deaths in twenty-four hours, as well as 34,073 new infections, according to official figures . More than 230,000 people have died from Covid-19, according to the government's record.

The president also implored the Russians, very recalcitrant, to be vaccinated. “Please be responsible,” he said. There are only two ways to get out of this period: either by falling ill or by getting vaccinated. "He thus considered that the low vaccination rate in Russia was" dangerous ". Less than a third of some 144 million Russians are fully vaccinated, according to the specialist site Gogov.

Vladimir Poutine also called for speeding up screening and strengthening measures to isolate contact cases.

CLIMATE WARMING THREATENED

100 MILLION VERY POOR IN AFRICA

More than 100 million extremely poor people are threatened by accelerating global warming in Africa, where scarce glaciers are expected to be gone by the 2040s, the UN said on Tuesday.

"Imminent change"

In a report on the state of the climate in Africa published less than two weeks before the opening of COP 26 in Glasgow, the UN highlights Africa's disproportionate vulnerability and stresses that climate change has contributed to worsen food insecurity, poverty and population displacement on the continent last year.

“By 2030, it is estimated that up to 118 million extremely poor people (that is, living on less than $ 1.90 a day) will be exposed to drought, flooding and extreme heat in Africa if adequate measures are not taken, ”said African Union (AU) Commission Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, in the report's foreword. .

"In sub-Saharan Africa, climate change could lead to an additional 3% drop in gross domestic product by 2050," she added.

This report, coordinated by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), is the result of collaboration with the AU Commission, the Economic Commission for Africa and various international and regional scientific organizations and Nations. united.

Threatened glaciers

“During the year 2020, climate indicators in Africa have been characterized by a continuous increase in temperatures, an acceleration in sea level rise, extreme weather and climate phenomena, such as floods, landslides and droughts, and the associated devastating impacts, ”said WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas in the foreword.

"The rapid melting of the last glaciers in East Africa, which is expected to be complete in the near future, alerts us to an imminent and irreversible change in the Earth system," he said. it belongs.

African glaciers are too small to serve as important reservoirs of water, but they are of major tourist and scientific importance. Only three mountains in Africa are covered with glaciers: the Mount Kenya Massif (Kenya), the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda) and Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania).

Develop alert systems

To prepare for the intensification of high-impact hazardous climate phenomena, WMO calls on Africa to invest in hydrometeorological infrastructure and early warning systems.

The organization believes that the rapid implementation of adaptation strategies in Africa will boost economic development and generate more jobs to support economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic,

COLIN POWELL EX-SECRETARY OF STATE

 DEAD OF COVID-19

“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great American,” they said in a statement.

Born April 5, 1937 in Harlem, Mr. Powell grew up in New York City, where he studied geology. He began his military career in 1958.

First posted to Germany, he was then sent to Vietnam as a military adviser to John F. Kennedy.

He was the first African-American to hold the post of chief of staff for the armed forces, before becoming the chief American diplomat under the presidency of Republican George W. Bush.

"A great servant of the State", according to George W. Bush

George W. Bush hailed the memory of his former foreign minister, saying he was "a great servant of the state".

"Many presidents have relied on the judgment and experience of General Powell," the former president said in a statement. He was highly respected at home and abroad. "

Defender of the Iraq War

He has had his career tarnished by embodying unwavering support for the Iraq war. Defender of the war in Iraq, Mr. Powell had indeed made, on February 5, 2003, before the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), a long speech on the weapons of mass destruction allegedly held by the Iraq; arguments which served to justify the invasion of the country. He later admitted that this performance was a "stain" on his reputation: "It is a stain, because I am the one who made this presentation on behalf of the United States to the world and it will always be part of it. my record. In other interviews, he will affirm that his role was above all to moderate the positions of George W. Bush and the "hawks" who advised the White House.

The former chief of staff of the armed forces has lavished his military expertise on numerous American officials, including four presidents, reinforcing a reputation as a man of honor distant from the political fray.

KEANU REEVES FILMING IN PARIS

FOR JOHN WICK 4

This new chapter, directed by Chad Stahelski, is due out on our screens on May 25, 2022, but the script of the film is still unknown.

The actor was notably spotted in the heat of the action in Montmartre climbing the endless steps that lead to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in the 19th arrondissement:

the iconic actor, loaded with equipment, came to the aid of a technician who was having trouble carrying everything.

A gesture full of kindness that characterizes the actor considered to be one of the nicest men on Earth.

In addition to Keanu Reeves, we will find in this opus Donnie Yen (Ip Man 4), and Shamier Anderson (The Tomorrow People)

to the cast announced in roles for the moment kept secret. Bill Skarsgard (It), Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4), Laurence

Fishburne and Hiroyuki Sanada will also be there.

To be continued..........

INCIDENTS NOT TO BE MINIMIZED DURING THE TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL PATY DECAPITE BY AN ISLAMIST

A year ago, on October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty was assassinated at the exit of the college of Bois d ́Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), where he was teaching history and geography.

His assassin, Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin, resented the professor for showing caricatures of Muhammad in two moral and civic education (EMC) courses.

In the process of radicalization, in July 2020 he was the subject of several reports on the Pharos platform of the Ministry of the Interior.

Commemorations therefore took place in all schools in France this Friday, October 15.

"The best tribute we can pay to Samuel Paty is unity, dignity and that's what we had yesterday (Friday editor's note) in the French school system," said the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, guest of RTL this Saturday, October 16, 2021.

"This commemoration took place in great calm", he continued, conceding however that "there were a few incidents, we recorded 98 of them.

It is much less than what there was when there were attacks previously ”, explains the Minister. And to minimize the facts:

These incidents, “sometimes they are very small things. Sometimes it can go as far as the threat.

There are 7 of the 98 ”. These are “individual or collective” threats. We must not generalize.

Sometimes these are cookie-cutter comments, we take them seriously, ”said the Minister.

Still, if more than three quarters (77%) of 18 to 30 year olds totally condemn the author of the assassination of the history and geography professor in October 2020, 9% on the other hand condemn him but share some of his motivations, 5% do not condemn it and 9% remain indifferent.

If for 62% the decision to show a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad is an initiative that is strictly an illustration of the concept of freedom of expression, for 14% of them this initiative, behind this objective, is in fact an Islamophobic approach.

No wonder nearly two-thirds of young people (63%) believe that secularism is in danger today in France, according to a survey published Thursday on the view of 18-30 year olds on the assassination of Samuel a year ago. Paty.

MURDER OF BRITISH DEPUTY DAVIS AMESS

BY AN ISLAMIST

THE FAMILY CALLS TO "LET THE HATE DOWN"

Hours after Tory MP David Amess was stabbed to death in Leigh-on-Sea (Essex), UK police finally called the murder a terrorist act.

"The first elements of the investigation revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism," said a statement overnight from Friday to Saturday. The perpetrator, arrested immediately after the incident, is 25 years old and of Somali origin.

His family settled in Amess constituency in the 1990s.

A premeditated murder

The assassination would have been prepared since the young man had made an appointment with David Amess, who was on duty in a Methodist church on Friday. He would have patiently waited his turn before inflicting 17 stab wounds.

On Saturday, the men from the counterterrorism leadership carried out searches in two houses in the London area.

The police and security services believe that this British national of Somali origin, named Ali Harbi Ali, and arrested at the scene of the crime - acted alone and was "self-radicalized".

This one could have been inspired by Al-Shabab (the Islamists linked to Al-Qaeda in Somalia), although it had been directed a few years earlier towards the Prevent program aimed at people at risk of radicalization and based on the volunteering. According to British media, however, the alleged murderer was allegedly lacking in attendance and was never considered a "subject of interest" for the national security agency. The attacker's father, Harbi Ali Kullane, a former adviser to the Somali Prime Minister, confirmed that his son was in detention and said he was "traumatized". Investigators have until Friday, October 22 to interview the suspect, while they have taken him into custody under the terrorism law.

David Amess "one of the nicest people in politics"

Born in the eastern suburbs of London in 1952 to a humble background, David Amess studied economics and politics. He then worked as a teacher and then a recruitment consultant before entering politics. Big smile and fine graying hair, he was first elected to Parliament in 1983.

A member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party, David Amess was a strong supporter of Brexit. But his favorite topic in Parliament was animal welfare. He was one of the few Conservative MPs in favor of banning fox hunting. Very religious and of Catholic faith, David Amess was also strongly opposed to abortion. He was also in favor of reinstating the death penalty.

Married and father of five children, he was “devoted to his family”, according to his colleagues, and in particular to his wife Julia who worked alongside him as an assistant. He was "one of the nicest and kindest people in politics," said Boris Johnson who praised the MP's "exceptional" record "in helping the most vulnerable"

The safety of elected officials in question

David Amess is the second MP killed in five years. In June 2016, a week before the referendum, Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labor MP, was assassinated in Birstall (Yorkshire) by a far-right activist who accused her of being pro-European Union. These two dramas question the security arrangements surrounding deputies, in particular when they are in contact with the public in their constituencies. Already in 2010, a Labor MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a radicalized student.

And ten years earlier, Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones had been wounded and his aide killed by a disturbed man wielding a sword. Many elected officials have said they have been the subject of death threats in the context of Brexit which has deeply divided the country. Threats and insults that also weigh on parliamentary assistants. Jade Botterill, who worked for Labor MP Yvette Cooper between 2013 and 2019, said the insults and threats gave her nightmares and caused her to quit her post.

After the murder of Jo Cox, the budget allocated to the security of elected officials jumped from € 200,000 to € 5 million. MPs were able to install "alert buttons", "secure doors and emergency call devices, in their offices and at their homes. But this did not prevent the murder of David Amess.

"We cannot allow ourselves to be intimidated by an individual," Interior Minister Priti Patel told Leigh-on-Sea on Saturday, stressing the importance for deputies to "continue to exercise their elected functions". But some parliamentarians prefer to adapt their interactions with the public for security reasons.

The concern is fueled by police figures which show an increase in acts of delinquency against parliamentarians.

In 2019, Scotland Yard had cited a surge of 126% between 2017 and 2018 and a rise of 90% in the first four months of 2019.

FOR A WORK OF MEMORY BUT NOT

A SINGLE SENSE ON THE WAR IN ALGERIA

Emmanuel Macron added an additional stone to his memorial recognition project started since the start of his mandate to try to close the scars of the Algerian war.

Saturday, on the occasion of an official ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the massacre of Algerians on October 17, 1961 in Paris, Emmanuel Macron denounced "inexcusable crimes for the Republic". “France looks at its entire history with lucidity and recognizes the clearly established responsibilities. It owes it first and foremost to itself, to all those whom the Algerian war and its procession of crimes committed on all sides have bruised in their flesh and in their soul ”, explains a press release. of the Élysée. While in 2012, François Hollande admitted "a bloody repression", the Head of State therefore went even further by participating in the national tribute paid on the banks of the Seine, at the level of the Bezons bridge,borrowed 60 years ago by Algerian demonstrators who arrived from the neighboring slum of Nanterre at the appeal of the branch of the FLN installed in France.

The current tenant of the Elysée has also planned “three commemorative and emblematic days”. And this, after the release, last January, of the report by historian Benjamin Stora on colonization and the war in Algeria. Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the Harkis on September 25. The commemoration of this Saturday is therefore the second for the Head of State, who will participate in a third in March, for the sixty years of the Evian agreements.

But this umpteenth repentance calls for some remarks that those responsible for the right have not failed to make.

Marine Le Pen has indeed castigated "repentance repentance" while the president of Debout France and presidential candidate of 2022, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan remarked that "Algeria spits on France and Emmanuel Macron does penance . The head of state must inspire pride and not the shame of being French. », He reacted.

Shouldn't memory work be done in both directions? France has the right to expect Algeria to also do its memorial aggiornamento instead of living on "its memorial rent", a remark made by the French president during an exchange with descendants of the protagonists of the Algerian war. - Words that had provoked the anger of Algiers who had, in response, recalled the same day its ambassador based in Paris and closed its airspace to French military planes the next day ...-

"Criminalizing our history is a mistake"

Also the deputy LR Michèle Tabarot considers that "our country does not have to submit to the memorial injunctions of the Algerian regime which multiplies the anti-France provocations". “Criminalizing our history is a mistake. One-sided repentance too, ”she scolds.

Some also insisted on the fact that certain other events were neither commemorated nor even mentioned by the President of the Republic. Thus the deputy of the Alpes Maritimes Éric Ciotti to remind: "We are still awaiting the commemoration by the president of the massacre of Oran of July 5, 1962 where the FLN massacred several hundred Pied-Noirs and Harkis loyal to France", a- he added. Same reproach of Senator LR of Bouches-du-Rhône Valérie Boyer who invites Emmanuel Macron to "go further on the missing, the recognition of the massacres of the rue d'Isly and d'Oran, the maintenance of French cemeteries in Algeria ... ”. And let's not forget to contextualize the events ...

“The duty to remember must prevail, but contempt for our History and this permanent one-sided repentance are unworthy. (...) To look at objective facts is to look at the whole of history. Including, therefore, the crimes committed by the FLN against the French in Algeria, ”she concludes, in a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron and posted on Twitter.

One can rightly wonder if this “victim propaganda” denounced by the right is not also part of a strategy to differentiate itself from Marine Le Pen, political calculation in view of the presidential election ...

FIVE DEAD IN TERRORIST ARC ATTACK IN NORWAY

Five dead and two people injured

"These events are shaking us," said Prime Minister Erna Solberg, whose last day in office was. She will give up her post on Thursday to Labor Jonas Gahr Støre, winner of the September 13 legislative elections.

The two injured were hospitalized in critical care units but, according to Øyvind Aas, there is no indication that their lives are in danger. One of them was an off-duty policeman who was in a supermarket, one of the multiple locations where the attack occurred. “I can unfortunately confirm that there are five people dead,” said local police official Øyvind Aas during a press briefing. The victims are four women and a man between the ages of 50 and 70.

A man arrested

Norwegian police have arrested a 37-year-old Dane on suspicion of the perpetrator of a bow and arrow attack. The suspect, arrested shortly after the incident, is a 37-year-old Danish citizen residing in Kongsberg, Norwegian police said in a statement released on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, October 14. "This is about a convert to Islam," Norwegian police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud said at a press briefing in Tønsberg on Thursday. “There have been fears related to radicalization previously,” he added, adding that these fears dated back to 2020 and before, and that they had given rise to police monitoring.

The terrorist act is taking shape

The archery attack at this stage looks like a "terrorist act", said the Norwegian security services (PST) on Thursday, thus helping to consolidate the trail of Islamist terrorism. "The events in Kongsberg have the appearance of a terrorist act at this stage, but the investigation (...) will shed more light on what motivated them," then said the PST in a statement at midday . The PST has left unchanged its level of threat of attack in the country, considered "moderate".

Police now armed

Residents were called to stay at home as large police forces and multiple ambulances were deployed. Police and medical helicopters as well as a team of deminers were also dispatched. The Norwegian Police Directorate has decided that officers, who are usually unarmed, will carry weapons on a temporary basis across the country.

In the past, Norway, a traditionally peaceful nation, has been the target of far-right attacks. On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by detonating a bomb near the seat of government in Oslo, killing eight, before opening fire on a Labor Youth rally on the island of Utøya, causing 69 other victims. In August 2019, Philip Manshaus also shot in a mosque near Oslo, before being overpowered by worshipers, without causing serious injuries. He had previously racially shot his adoptive Asian half-sister.

Several plans for Islamist attacks have also been foiled.

A PORTRAIT OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN VITRIOL IN THE TRAITOR AND THE NIL

“After several years of investigation, this title, Le traître et le nant , was established. These are the two essential aspects of what Macron and Macronism are.

His conquest of power was made by betrayals, which then continued at the Élysée.

But also because there is nothingness of the Republic on the Move and the political situation with the candidacy of a far-right polemicist and traditional political parties totally erased, ”said Fabrice Lhomme questioned on RMC. The observation is made and without appeal.

Fabrice Lhomme is a journalist for the daily Le Monde and with his friend Gérard Davet, this is not his first master stroke. After their book Sarko Kill Me in 2011, A president shouldn't say that in 2016- which had contributed to the non-candidacy of François Hollande to his own succession in 2017- the journalists publish this Wednesday, October 13, 2021 a portrait of the current President Macron with the evocative title The traitor and nothingness .

This is a new survey that they are devoting, this time, to the accession to power of Emmanuel Macron and his five-year term and it is not sad.

Moreover, this book sparked a wave of panic at the Elysee Palace: Emmanuel Macron's close guard was looking for the manuscript, giving cold sweats to the President's advisers who wanted to prevent its publication. But in vain.

If Emmanuel Macron and his relatives did not answer the questions of journalists from Le Monde, the book leaves a lot of room for the disappointed with macronism.

The two investigators have indeed met more than 110 leading people for this investigation where we discover confidences, anecdotes, confessions. Witnesses who also entrust documents to investigators.

The betrayals of Emmanuel Macron

The first confidences are those of François Hollande who, in mid-2016, admits to being politically too weak to fire Emmanuel Macron. For the former socialist president Macron will also be betrayed, as he betrayed himself, certainly thinking of Edouard Philippe who had just created his own Horizons party ... Didn't Edouard Philippe say that he There may be dual membership of Horizons and another party. This is exactly what Macron told Hollande in 2016. For Alain Minc, one of Macron's very close advisers, “Edouard Philippe is much less intelligent than the president, but also much more moral, which explains why 'he did not betray him,' says Gérard Davet.

Manuel Valls, Stéphane Le Foll, Gaspard Gantzer (former press adviser to François Hollande), Olivier Faure (at the time deputy and spokesperson for the PS), come back in detail on the months preceding what the authors call the " treason ”of November 16, 2016: the official declaration of candidacy of Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election. The transformation of the Minister of the Economy into a candidate for the presidency of the Republic was achieved through the unsaid and deceit, write the two journalists unreservedly.

The former members of the government and socialist allies recount the conversations, numerous, with Emmanuel Macron, on his distancing from the line of François Hollande (his criticisms of the policies of the government), on the movement which he launched on his side, In Marche, and that he presents as a kind of laboratory of ideas which will support, whatever happens, a candidacy of François Hollande, on the persistent rumors that he is about to emancipate himself, even to run for president Trahi by his minister, but also by all those who admit to having been seduced by Emmanuel Macron, among the Socialists in particular. Christophe Castaner, one of the first macronists, put it bluntly, in 2016 “we have only one objective, it is the prevention of Hollande. "..

Emmanuel Macron is not close to betrayal, according to the investigation. That of the Modem in particular. The two journalists return to the relations between Richard Ferrand and François Bayrou. If the latter are now calling for the creation of a common house, their relations have started under bad auspices.

“A verbal agreement had been concluded between the République en Marche and the MoDem to reserve 144 constituencies for them. At the last moment, there was an arbitration between Ferrand and Macron and the Modem finally obtained 16. When Bayrou learned that, he almost came to blows with Ferrand, the day of Macron's inauguration. (...). To compensate him, the macronists then offered him 4 million euros. A deputy brings 40,000 euros per year to his party so they have multiplied this amount by 100 ”, explains Fabrice Lhomme.

"Corruption pact"

A book in which the authors also return to the financing of the 2017 campaign. Asked the deputy The Republicans Olivier Marleix accuses the former Minister of the Economy of having set up "a corruption pact". We also discover the host Stéphane Bern mad about the king who renames certain ministers to amuse the President, such as “Amélie de Mon thing” for Amélie de Montchalin. Philippe de Villiers, former president of the General Council of Vendée and one of the representatives of the identity right, also details to Davet and Lhomme his vision of his relationship with the one who is still only a seductive minister.

During a dinner at the Rotonde restaurant the viscount then explains attending a charming number: Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron would dream of visiting the Puy du Fou. De Villiers ensures not to be fooled and thus analyzes the intentions of the minister: It is all profit for Macron, because after having paid homage to Joan of Arc a few weeks before, with the Puy du Fou, he sends a message to the right conservative, sovereignist, inexpensively. The creator of Puy du Fou, Philippe de Villiers also reveals that Emmanuel Macron tried to buy the silence of his brother, the head of the Armies, Pierre de Villiers. Among the 110 people investigated, also appears, Bernard Tapie who had advised the President of the Republic in the middle of the crisis of the “yellow vests”, reported RMC.

The politics of nothingness

Jacques Attali, who had discovered the young Macron, takes a severe look at the five-year term. “He told us that someone who calls himself neither right nor left is actually right. (...) He has just said that Macron is the politics of emptiness. And that is the whole problem. From this policy made of sculls and zigzags, we find ourselves in nothingness. It was built with a doodle policy. (...) It allows him not to be a target: a blow to the left, a blow to the right, a blow to the center. It is the permanent gaudille ”, regrets Gérard Davet.

The hard record of the faithful Pierre Person

Pierre Person is however one of the faithful from the start. He founded with others (including Sacha Houlié, who became a member of Parliament) in 2015 the Jeunes avec Macron, even before the creation of En Marche. He then took part in the presidential and legislative campaigns as a political advisor, then a member of the party's executive committee. In short, he is a centerpiece of the macronie, until September 2020: the number 2 of LREM and deputy for Paris leaves the party leadership. He deplores that the movement no longer produces new ideas, and that the party abandons the marchers. Faced with Davet and Lhomme, he wants to be even harder; "We arrive at the Assembly, says Person, we were absolutely arrogant, we considered that the Assembly was a recording chamber", he admits in particular,thus giving reason to the criticisms of the various oppositions throughout the mandate.

* And add:

“Because I think there is a reflex of over-loyalty towards the president (...) To think, in certain respects, can be considered as being disloyal. ". Impossible to create an ideology with a formation made up of people coming from different currents of left and right. Even less when the instruction is to blindly support the president's line. A party, according to Pierre Person must "erect sensitivities which in fact make it possible to confront each other and to draw a common line", "but that was never a will" on the part of the majority party. A real problem within a year of a presidential election.

"We will arrive in 2022 and ideologically, I think we are naked," he concedes.

“There is a dull discontent that is there; but since there is no political outlet ... we are in nothingness. ", Slap, free speech, François Hollande." Betrayal gave birth to nothingness.