PARIS DRAMA POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY
FRANCE FACING RADICALIZATION
AND THE ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION |  The night of December 2, 2023 will remain etched in Parisian memory, marked by an appalling act of violence just a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower. A German citizen lost his life, two others were injured.
The attacker, a Frenchman born in 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, already on file for his links with radical Islamism and his psychiatric disorders, was apprehended by the police.
The drama began around 9 p.m. in the 15th arrondissement, as recounted by Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, present on the scene late in the evening. The suspect allegedly dealt several fatal blows to a man in the street, precipitating his tragic fate. The victim, a German national, was walking with his wife, physically spared but plunged into deep emotional shock.
The intervention of a taxi driver put an end to the first phase of the attack, followed by a call to 17 around 9:15 p.m., mobilizing the police of the 15th arrondissement. What followed was a breathtaking hunt for the suspect on the Bir-Hakeim bridge to the 16th arrondissement on the other side of the Seine.
During this hunt, the suspect attacked two other individuals with a hammer. Although their lives are not in danger, one is of foreign nationality, while the other is a French man in his sixties. The arrest of the suspect was facilitated by the use of an electric stun gun by law enforcement.
The initial investigation, entrusted to the criminal brigade, was quickly transferred to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat) after midnight. Disturbing details emerged that the suspect allegedly chanted "Allah Akbar" repeatedly, expressing intolerance towards the deaths of Muslims around the world.
Gérald Darmanin revealed that the individual had already been sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for having expressed a desire for violent action. Released in 2020, he was under the administrative surveillance of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), while undergoing treatment for his psychological disorders.
Faced with this tragedy, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne expressed her thoughts towards the victim, the injured and their loved ones, emphasizing the government's determination to not give in in the face of terrorism. Emmanuel Macron, later in the night, presented his condolences to the family of the deceased German national, praising the speed of the emergency services in arresting the suspect. He underlined the crucial role of the national anti-terrorism prosecution in the quest for truth on behalf of the French people.
This atrocious act of violence raises crucial questions about radicalization and the challenges linked to immigration in France. There are legitimate concerns about the system's ability to manage radicalized individuals with criminal histories, as well as the effectiveness of post-release monitoring systems.
This tragedy highlights the pressing need for in-depth reflection on immigration policies, in particular the distribution of French nationality without strict criteria and the management of the threat of radical Islamism. The French political authorities are now faced with their responsibilities in combating these challenges, in order to ensure the security and stability of the country.
Radicalization in the Spotlight
The echo of this tragedy resonates in the corridors of French power, raising broader questions about the management of radicalization in society. The cry of “Allah Akbar” uttered by the suspect highlights the religious dimension of this act, raising concerns about the way in which radical Islamism can take root in society.
The attacker's legal journey raises questions about the effectiveness of monitoring radicalized individuals after their release from prison. Convicted in 2016 for his violent aspirations, he was released in 2020, placed under the surveillance of the DGSI. However, despite this monitoring, he was able to carry out a murderous act, highlighting potential gaps in the security system.
The question of radicalization cannot be dissociated from the complexity of immigration in France. French nationality distributed without strict criteria is becoming a major concern.
How were individuals sharing extremist beliefs able to access citizenship without a rigorous assessment of their adherence to republican values being carried out ?
This question resonates with particular force in the current context where the rise of radical Islamism is creeping into the cracks of an immigration system that is sometimes too permissive.
Immigration: Challenges and Reflections
The tragedy of December 2, 2023 highlights the need for serious introspection on immigration policies in France. The distribution of French nationality without rigorous criteria may prove to be an open door to individuals whose extremist beliefs threaten the stability of society. The ease with which radical individuals can access citizenship calls into question the robustness of control and selection mechanisms.
A reassessment of nationality granting procedures
The redefinition of migration policies in France, focused on the establishment of selective immigration, is emerging as a promising solution to strengthen the social and economic harmony of the country.
Questioning land law is seen as an essential necessity to adapt the process of granting French nationality to a changing world.
The central idea of this transition is to move towards carefully selected immigration, based on rigorous criteria. The promotion of French culture, mastery of the language, as well as understanding of morals and customs, constitute essential elements among these criteria.
By opting for a proactive approach, France seeks to attract individuals whose values and skills align harmoniously with those of French society.
The strict quotas, inherent to this new approach, aim to ensure a balance between the economic needs of the country and the preservation of its cultural identity.
By favoring specific selection criteria, such as professional qualifications and commitment to republican values, France aspires to build a diverse but united community.
This transition towards selective immigration is not only seen as a response to current challenges, but also as an opportunity to strengthen the French social fabric.
By encouraging integration and valuing diversity, France seeks to create a society where each individual, whatever their background, can contribute positively to national dynamism.
It is crucial to emphasize that this approach does not aim to close the doors, but rather to open them in a more selective manner, promoting a cultural exchange beneficial to all. By placing French culture at the heart of the selection criteria, the objective is to preserve and celebrate the cultural riches that make the nation unique.
In conclusion, the transition to chosen immigration in France, based on selective criteria including the promotion of French culture, represents a positive step forward towards a more coherent and resilient society. This proactive approach demonstrates France's desire to shape its future by welcoming those who share its fundamental values, thus contributing to the construction of a more inclusive and prosperous society.
All his reforms will also have the consequence of putting an end to such barbaric acts. All our thoughts are of course with the families of the victims. |
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COMMENT PRENDRE EN CHARGE ET GERER LE STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE DES OTAGES DU HAMAS ?
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Alors qu' Israël dénonce "l'impasse des négociations" sur une nouvelle trêve humanitaire et fait rentrer ses émissaires au Qatar, l’armée israélienne a confirmé, vendredi, la mort de cinq otages dans la bande de Gaza, en donnant leurs noms, ajoutant avoir " informé les familles de leurs décès ". Après la libération de 110 otages depuis le début du conflit, dont 105 pendant la trêve, il reste 136 otages à Gaza aux mains du Hamas et d’autres groupes affiliés, ont annoncé les autorités israéliennes.
Au lendemain d’une visite en Israël, le secrétaire d’Etat américain, Antony Blinken, a dit que les Etats-Unis, principaux alliés d’Israël, restaient " concentrés " sur la libération des otages. " Nous continuons de travailler avec Israël, l’Egypte et le Qatar afin de remettre la trêve sur les rails ", a déclaré, de son côté, le secrétaire à la défense américain, Lloyd Austin.
Les soldats, un enjeu particulier
Parmi ces otages, pourraient encore se trouver des soldats, prises précieuses du Hamas, dans un pays où chaque famille ou presque compte un soldat . Au moins 11 soldats, dont quatre femmes, ainsi qu’une quarantaine d’hommes en âge d’être réservistes feraient partie des 240 personnes enlevées le 7 octobre.
Si les corps des otages décédés peuvent constituer un enjeu dans les négociations, ceux des soldats encore plus, Israël souhaitant les inhumer avec les honneurs qui leur sont dus.
Quatre Français encore présumés otages
Avant la trêve, la France comptait encore huit ressortissants portés disparus, dont certains étaient retenus en otages dans la bande de Gaza.
Mia Schem,21 ans, Eitan, 12 ans, et Sahar et Erez, frère et sœur de 12 et 16 ans ont été libérés, Après la trêve, restent quatre Français présumés otages :
Le Hamas n’est pas le seul groupe à retenir des otages dans la bande de Gaza. Le Djihad islamique est aussi dans ce cas, de même que d’autres organisations palestiniennes.
" Dans le désordre qui a accompagné les attentats terroristes, des civils [et des soldats] israéliens ont été pris en otage par le Hamas, par une autre organisation terroriste qui s’appelle le Djihad islamique et aussi par des individus qui étaient entrés [en Israël] ", expliquait la ministre des Affaires étrangères, Catherine Colonna le 28 novembre. " Le Hamas a la responsabilité, si je puis dire, de la majorité des otages, mais il n’est pas le seul ", ajoutait-elle.
Des conditions de détention extrêmement difficiles
Les récentes libérations d’otages ont permis d’en savoir plus sur les conditions de détention dans la bande de Gaza.
Le Dr Ronit Zaidenstein de l’hôpital Shamira examiné 17 otages thaïlandais à leur libération, a expliqué qu’ils n’avaient reçu qu’une " alimentation très faiblement nutritive " durant leur captivité. " Les gens que nous avons admis ont perdu une part importante de leur poids en très peu de temps, – 10 % ou plus ", a-t-il ajouté.
Le site d’information Ynet, qui a interrogé le Dr Margarita Mashavi de l’hôpital Wolfson, par où ont transité de nombreux otages à leur libération. Détenus en sous-sol, ils n’avaient " que deux heures de lumière " par jour, a-t-elle expliqué. Par ailleurs, ils mangeaient « du riz, du houmous et des fèves en boîte et parfois du fromage avec du pain, mais rien d’autre ". La parole commence a se libérer.
Des enfants traumatisés à vie
Le président Joe Biden a annoncé la libération dimanche par le Hamas d'une otage américaine de 4 ans. La petite, nommée Abigail, "est libre et elle est en Israël", a-t-il indiqué lors d'un discours. L'enfant avait été prise en otage le 7 octobre par le Hamas. Selon un haut responsable américain, sa mère a d'abord été assassinée sous ses yeux. Son père a essayé de protéger l'enfant avant d'être tué à son tour. "Elle a subi un traumatisme terrible", a déploré dimanche le président américain.
Les enfants ont livré des récits tout aussi inquiétants. « Eitan a vécu des horreurs, a rapporté Deborah Cohen, la tante de ce Français de 12 ans. Le Hamas l’a obligé à regarder le film d’horreur [de l’attaque du Hamas en Israël le 7 octobre]. Là-bas, chaque fois qu’un enfant pleurait ils le menaçaient avec une arme pour qu’il se taise. Quand il est arrivé à Gaza, tous les civils l’ont tapé. »
Le père d’Emily, une Israélo-Irlandaise de 9 ans, a aussi expliqué à The Sun qu’elle était « terrifiée de faire du bruit » depuis son retour et qu’elle ne faisait plus que " murmurer ".
Les violences sexuelles
Mais un mois et demi après, la parole commence à se libérer concernant les violences sexuelles commises sur des femmes israéliennes, notamment celles présentes au festival de musique Tribe of Nova, qui a été pris pour cible par le mouvement islamiste dans le désert du Néguev. "Nous avons de multiples témoins dans plusieurs affaires", précise David Katz, chef de la section cyber de l'unité de police criminelle Lahav 433, surnommée "le FBI israélien" Dans la presse, les témoignages de survivantes se multiplient. Le quotidien israélien Haaretz s'est fait l'écho de celui d'une jeune festivalière, qui dit avoir assisté au viol collectif d'une femme. Celle-ci aurait ensuite été abattue d'une balle dans la tête par les hommes du Hamas. Ce week-end, c'est Le Parisien qui publie le portrait d'une rescapée du 7 octobre, "Esther", qui raconte avoir été violée et tabassée sous les yeux de son petit ami : "C'était si douloureux que j'ai perdu connaissance, ils ont arrêté lorsqu'ils m'ont crue morte". La jeune femme raconte ensuite avoir été mutilée par un homme du Hamas. Outre les interrogatoires des combattants du Hamas détenus par le Shin Bet, les agents israéliens peuvent s'appuyer sur de nombreuses preuves vidéo (caméras de surveillance, images de caméras GoPro du Hamas), ainsi que sur la reconnaissance faciale pour tenter d'identifier les responsables de ces crimes.
"Certains éléments, comme les pelvis brisés ou des corps de femmes nues, laissent penser qu'il y a eu des viols et d'autres exactions à l'égard des femmes lors de cette attaque, ce qui n'est pas étonnant au vu de sa barbarie, mais pour l'instant nous avons très peu de détails", estime Céline Bardet, juriste en droit international, spécialiste des crimes de guerre. "Le phénomène du viol comme arme de guerre est connu depuis très longtemps. C'est une arme qui détruit les générations suivantes", complète Me Julie Goffin, avocate au barreau de Bruxelles et auprès de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), une instance non reconnue par l'État hébreu. La police israélienne a annoncé le 14 novembre l'ouverture d'une enquête pour des viols et des mutilations commises par des hommes du Hamas ce jour-là. Des exactions qui pourraient également avoir été commises sur les otages.
Un stress post-traumatique et syndrome de Lazare
Selon le psychiatre Patrick Clervoy, les individus libérés après une période de captivité sont susceptibles de développer un stress post-traumatique, phénomène qu'il qualifie de possible "syndrome de Lazare". Ces civils, majoritairement des femmes et des enfants, ont enduré une détention d'environ cinquante jours, marquée également par les violentes attaques du 7 octobre. Le traumatisme subi est donc double, souligne le professeur agrégé du Val-de-Grâce, qui, tout au long de sa carrière, a traité des survivants de prises d'otages et d'attentats. L'éventualité d'un syndrome de Lazare est évoquée dans son intervention sur TF1Info. Pour le psychiatre, la captivité ne représente qu'une phase, souvent la seconde, d'une série d'épisodes traumatiques. La prise d'otages, précédant souvent la captivité, est décrite comme un acte de guerre brutal, plus ou moins prolongé, plongeant le sujet dans un état de stress aigu, le laissant totalement désorienté. Pendant cette période, les capacités psychiques permettant à une personne de comprendre, maîtriser ses réactions et assurer sa survie sont saturées. Les cris, l'obscurité, la brutalité des événements, les blessures physiques et le spectacle de proches décédés sont autant d'éléments contribuant au stress aigu. Les individus vivent des épisodes de déréalisation, se déconnectant de la réalité et évoquant un sentiment d'extrême bien-être, voire d'invincibilité. La captivité constitue ensuite une phase instable, marquée par des moments cruels, odieux, parfois assortis de tortures ou d'abus physiques et sexuels.
Le troisième temps survient avec la libération, qui s'accompagne également d'un stress. Dans ce contexte, la probabilité de développer des troubles psychiques prolongés, sous la forme d'un stress post-traumatique, est élevée. Seule exception possible : le cas de certains enfants qui, restés avec leurs parents, ont pu se sentir sécurisés grâce à un rôle de protecteur bien assumé par le parent. Cependant, les autres enfants connaîtront probablement un parcours de vie chaotique. Parmi les symptômes post-traumatiques figure le syndrome de Lazare.Pour le psychiatre Patrick Clervoy, les personnes qui sortent de captivité, développent un stress post-traumatique .Il évoque un possible syndrome de Lazare.
Parmi les symptômes post-traumatiques : le syndrome de Lazare
C'est un dysfonctionnement social insidieux et prolongé qui transforme profondément celui qui a vécu un événement traumatique, où la mort semblait imminente, altérant sa nature initiale de manière irréversible. Il est hautement probable que les otages développent ce syndrome, d'autant plus qu'ils réintègrent une société elle-même marquée par le traumatisme. L'ex-otage peut envisager un retour dans un monde identique à celui d'avant, espérant sa stabilité pour se reconstruire et retrouver sa place. Cependant, cette attente est vouée à la déception, car la population israélienne est traumatisée de manière indélébile depuis l'opération terroriste du Hamas. Que ce soit pour ceux qui accueillent l'otage ou pour l'otage lui-même, le monde d'avant a irrémédiablement disparu.
Les séquelles psychologiques nombreuses.
L’expérience même d’un otage présente des particularités susceptibles de servir de ressort à des troubles futurs : mise en retrait de la vie sociale, avec toutes sortes d'évitement, humiliations potentielles, sentiment d’impuissance… De plus, les prises d’otages, par la médiatisation dont elles font souvent l’objet, mettent particulièrement en lumière la capacité des victimes à s’en remettre ou pas.
Certaines ont sombré, comme le journaliste Brice Fleutiaux, qui a mis fin à ses jours en 2001, peu de temps après avoir été retenu en otage en Tchétchénie, ou l’héritier John Paul Getty III, qui ne s’est jamais remis de son enlèvement en Italie dans les années 1970 alors qu’il était enfant, et a plongé dans une spirale de dépendances qui l’ont laissé tétraplégique jusqu’à sa mort.
Sans être aussi dramatiques, une vaste série de symptômes post-traumatiques ont été recensés chez les anciens otages : difficultés à se concentrer et pertes de mémoire, accès dépressifs ou anxieux, mise en retrait de la vie sociale.
Mais les victimes tendent tout de même à reprendre le contrôle de leur vie, et certains anciens otages, aussi paradoxal que cela puisse paraître, enregistrent à terme des conséquences positives de leur expérience sur le plan psychologique.
Ces différences sont difficiles à comprendre. Les psychiatres peinent à répondre et admettent qu’il est difficile de savoir à l’avance si un otage risque plus qu’un autre de développer des troubles mentaux. « On n’a pas clairement délimité les facteurs qui conduisent à une évolution défavorable après une prise d’otage », admettaient en 2009 les auteurs d’un résumé sur le sujet, dans la revue de la Société royale britannique de médecine (RSM).
Un élément, enfin, complique le suivi des séquelles psychologiques : les troubles peuvent mettre longtemps à émerger.
« Cela peut ressurgir un an, deux ans, 10 ans après, et c’est absolument imprévisible », explique la psychiatre Christine Roullière, spécialiste des troubles post-traumatiques, qui souligne notamment la nécessité d’une prise en charge dès la libération d’un otage. Il faut « tout de suite permettre à la personne de verbaliser ce qu’elle a pu vivre », insiste-t-elle. « C’est une façon de remettre dans le fil de sa vie des événements hors normes qui l’ont fait passer de l’autre côté du miroir. L’objectif, c’est d’accompagner le retour dans le monde des vivants. »
Et c'est effectivement ce retour dans le monde des vivants que les autorités israélienne tente de mettre en place avec la prise en charge médicale, les retrouvailles avec ses proches et la gestion du traumatisme. Autant d’étapes imposées par Israël que les ex-otages du Hamas vont devoir suivre à lettre .
La prise en charge médicale, les retrouvailles avec ses proches.
Le protocole national israélien mis en place avec les otages est scientifiquement approuvé dans le monde entier . Il consiste à « déchoquer les gens, les faire sortir de cette glaciation, les ramener dans le réel » pour éviter que les patients ne tombent « dans une sidération, une glaciation psychique » sur le long terme. Pour cette raison, les otages libérés suivent un protocole strict et encadré.
Un premier examen médical personnalisé est donc mis en œuvre par le CICR à Rafah lors de leur réception, avant d’être transférés aux représentants de l’armée israélienne.
« D’un point de vue médical, évidemment, le médecin va demander s’ils n’ont pas de douleurs. (...) Il faut savoir s’ils n’ont pas de problème médical spécifique et faire des examens physiques », détaille-t-il. Les soins médicaux adéquats sont ensuite prodigués dans l’un des six hôpitaux israéliens où ont été envoyés les patients.
Des recommandations gouvernementales ont d’ailleurs été fournies au personnel en charge des otages. Et une attention toute particulière doit obligatoirement leur être accordée. The Times of Israël cite l’exemple des contacts physiques qui ne peuvent avoir lieu qu’avec l’accord de l’ex-otage ou la manière de les nourrir lors de cas de sous-alimentation prolongée en captivité.
En cas de détention sous terre, il est également demandé de porter une attention spécifique à leur sensibilité vis-à-vis de la lumière naturelle.
Le ministère de la Santé israélien a aussi demandé au personnel médical « de rechercher et de documenter tout signe de torture, de viol ou d’autres crimes de guerre », comme l’indique le média israélien. Un travail de documentation essentiel.
Se reconstruire au contact de ses proches
Une fois ces premières précautions passées, les otages vont progressivement revenir à la réalité. Ce qui commence par récupérer leurs effets personnels. Un moment important avant de retrouver les familles, alors informés du lieu où leur proche a été transféré.
Mais pour les retrouver, le personnel en charge du suivi des otages doit avant tout s’assurer « qu’ils soient à nouveau en bonne santé ». Ensuite ils pourront retrouver leurs familles. Un moment crucial pour reprendre « le contrôle de leur vie car la guérison est à la fois physique et mentale ».« Ils ont besoin d’être avec leurs familles, car être en famille est très important pour leur rétablissement »
Durant cette période de retrouvailles privées, les médias ne pourront pas avoir accès aux otages, ni à leurs familles. Ce qui s’explique par une volonté de laisser les otages se reconstruire loin de la lumière médiatique dans un premier temps. Toutefois, les familles seront ensuite libres d’échanger ou non avec des médias si elles le souhaitent.
Les enfants israéliens retenus en otage à Gaza ont un long chemin à parcourir pour se rétablir après leur libération . Selon le gouvernement israélien, jusqu'à 40 des otages sont des enfants, dont un bébé de 10 mois et des enfants d'âge préscolaire, dont certains ont vu leurs proches assassinés sous leurs yeux juste avant d'être kidnappés. "Il n'y aura jamais de rétablissement complet", a déclaré M. Dollberg, psychologue clinique et du développement à l'Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. "Ce ne sera jamais que ce qui leur est arrivé ne les affectera pas et ne sera pas oublié. Les enfants connaitront un parcours de vie chaotique.
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VIEW AT EPOQUAUTO 2023
THE EPOPE OF FASTO A2 A RESURRECTED TREASURE |  Let 's dive into the heart of the prestigious Lyon Epoquauto 2023 show, where a real automotive gem captivated collector car enthusiasts: the FASTO A2.
This old car, enigmatic and little known to the general public, stands out as the only example still existing to our knowledge, a rare testimony to a bygone era.
The FASTO A2, produced in the Saint-Éloy-les-Mines and Saint-Ouen workshops between 1926 and 1929, embodies the creative spirit of the interwar period.
This period, marked by the ephemeral emergence of numerous automobile brands, saw the FASTO shine both on the circuits and on the commercial market.
The FASTO adventure began in 1924 in Saint-Éloy-les-Mines, with the production of the first automobiles in 1926.
Going against the trends of the time, the decision was made to build the car in its entirety, including the engine.
The first models were created under the aegis of the Odoire et Cie establishments in Sainte-Éloy, before being assembled in Saint-Ouen from the end of 1926.
The FASTO A2, the prototype succeeding the A1, stands out for its closed design and its 1,600 cc, 4-cylinder engine, developing 25 horsepower.
The C1 model chassis was briefly presented at the Paris Auto Show in 1926, but remained unsuccessful.
The following year, the A3 debuted with a new 1,600 cc overhead cam engine, boosting power to 35 horsepower.
That same year, three A3 S models equipped with 2-liter engines were prepared for the 24 hours of Le Mans, offering FASTO a prestigious showcase despite mechanical setbacks on the track.
In 1927, the A4 joined the catalog, unveiling a less efficient version of the A3. Unfortunately, the FASTO adventure came to a premature end in 1928/1929, at the dawn of the Great Depression, putting an end to a promising but short-lived automobile epic.
Nearly a century later, the Associative Group of Technical Heritage Collectors (GACPT) took the initiative to revive the FASTO A2.
Under the direction of Lionel Duperray of Éditions Vals d'Allier, a committed publishing house, a work has seen the light of day.
The profits from its sale are entirely dedicated to the restoration project of the last known example of the FASTO A2, today in the hands of the GACPT.
The history of FASTO, recounted in this work prefaced by Franck Mesnel, former rugby player for the French team and co-founder of the Eden Park brand, takes on a new dimension. Franck Mesnel, grandson of Pierre Mesnel, the driver of Fasto number 8 during the 1927 24 hours of Le Mans, brings a personal touch to this forgotten saga.
Today, FASTO cars are almost impossible to find, having fallen into obscurity even at vintage vehicle gatherings.
However, destiny decided otherwise, and it is in the suburbs of Lyon that an A2 model resurfaces, testimony to a bygone era.
Used as a family car until the mid-1950s, it then sank into oblivion, spending many years in a damp underground garage, leaving its state of conservation in poor condition.
Faced with a probable destiny towards scrap metal, the GACPT, based in Givors, manages to divert FASTO from its final journey, making the association the guardian of the last known example among the 15 produced.
Thus, the GACPT is embarking on an ambitious project: the complete restoration of the FASTO A2.
This arduous task, equivalent to a real reconstruction, involves in-depth technical investigations with a view to remanufacturing the missing parts.
The estimated cost of the work is 180,000 euros.
Raising the necessary funds becomes imperative, and this is where a committed publisher comes in, proposing the creation of a book dedicated to this exceptional car.
The royalties generated by the sale of this book will be entirely donated to the association.
In addition, for generous donors wishing to contribute to saving this unique automobile heritage, the Heritage Foundation automatically provides tax credits.
The commitment to the FASTO A2 does not go unnoticed, and the Motul Foundation, famous oil manufacturer, is already supporting the project with a generous grant of 10,000 euros.
However, the call for mobilization does not stop there.
Automotive history enthusiasts, heritage defenders and all those who wish to participate in this adventure are invited to join this preservation process.
At the heart of this epic, the GACPT, with its address at 2348 route de Mornant, 69700 Givors, embodies the spirit of preserving technical heritage.
Likewise, Éditions Vals d'Allier, located at 31 rue du Docteur Dumas, 63300 Thiers, stands out for its contribution to the dissemination of historical and heritage knowledge.
The FASTO A2, a poignant testimony to a bygone era, is reborn thanks to the collective effort and commitment of enthusiasts.
The restoration of this unique piece promises to be a captivating odyssey, where the history of the FASTO will regain its splendor and its place in the rich panorama of French collector's automobiles.
By contributing to this noble cause, each participant becomes a link in a chain aimed at preserving automotive heritage for future generations. Let's raise our eyes to the FASTO A2, silent witness to a bygone era, and engage in this quest to bring it back to life. |
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UN NOUVEL ATTENTAT DU HAMAS A JERUSALEM
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Trois personnes ont été tuées et six autres blessées par deux hommes qui ont ouvert le feu sur un arrêt de bus, dans la partie ouest de Jérusalem, jeudi 30 novembre au matin. Le Hamas a revendiqué leur acte. Cette attaque a été perpétrée alors que la pause dans les combats à Gaza a été reconduite in extremis jeudi matin pour un septième jour.
Un arrêt de bus de Jérusalem-Ouest pris pour cible
L'attentat a eu lieu jeudi matin, vers 7h40 (heure locale), aux abords d'un arrêt de bus bondé de Jérusalem-Ouest. "Deux terroristes venus en voiture et armés, l'un d'un [fusil d'assaut] M16, et l'autre d'un pistolet", ont ouvert le feu, a déclaré le directeur de la police de la ville à la presse sur les lieux de l'attaque.
Trois personnes ont été tuées, et plusieurs autres ont été touchées, selon la police israélienne. Plusieurs médias israéliens, dont Haaretz et The Times of Israel, font état de six blessés. Les trois morts sont deux femmes de 24 et 67 ans, et un homme de 73 ans, tous de nationalité israélienne, ont précisé les autorités.
Les tireurs abattus par deux soldats et un civil
Des images diffusées par les télévisions israéliennes montrent deux hommes sortant d'une voiture et ouvrant le feu avant d'être abattus. Selon la police, ils "ont été tués rapidement par deux soldats, qui n'étaient pas en service, et un civil, qui leur ont tiré dessus".
Benyamin Nétanyahou les a félicités dans un communiqué. "Mon gouvernement continuera d'étendre la distribution d'armes aux citoyens", a assuré le Premier ministre israélien. Depuis l'attentat du 7 octobre, le gouvernement israélien a facilité l'attribution du permis de porter une arme à feu, et les boutiques d'armement ont vu les ventes auprès des civils se multiplier.
Le Hamas revendique l'attaque et appelle à une "escalade"
Les assaillants ont rapidement été identifiés comme deux frères, dont la police israélienne affirme qu'ils avaient été incarcérés par le passé et qu'ils étaient affiliés au Hamas. Le mouvement islamiste, classé comme terroriste par l'Union européenne, a revendiqué l'attentat jeudi à la mi-journée. "Les frères Mourad Nemr (38 ans) et Ibrahim Nemr (30 ans) (...), membres des brigades Ezzedine al-Qassam de Sour Baher", un quartier de Jérusalem-Est, "se sont sacrifiés en menant une opération", écrit l'organisation dans un communiqué.
Le Hamas appelle également à une "escalade de la résistance" contre Israël, et présente l'attaque de jeudi comme "une réponse naturelle aux crimes sans précédent de l'occupant [Israël] dans la bande de Gaza et contre des enfants à Jénine", une ville de Cisjordanie où deux garçons de 8 et 15 ans ont été tués par l'armée israélienne mercredi.
Avant même cette revendication, le président israélien Isaac Herzog a jugé que cette attaque était "encore un exemple de la situation dans laquelle nous nous trouvons, la guerre sans fin que nous menons contre les organisations terroristes, en particulier le Hamas". Le chef de la diplomatie américaine, Anthony Blinken, a estimé qu'elle rappelait "la menace terroriste affrontée au quotidien par Israël", où il se trouve en visite.
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LA COP28 A DUBAI SOUS LES FEUX DE LA CRITIQUE
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La 28ème Conférence des Parties sur le Climat de l'ONU (COP 28), prévue du 30 novembre au 12 décembre, s'apprête à ouvrir ses portes à Dubaï, aux Emirats arabes unis.
Les délégués mondiaux se rassembleront aux Émirats arabes unis pour le prochain cycle de négociations internationales sur le climat. Au cours de l'année 2023, de nouveaux records météorologiques extrêmes ont été établis, marqués par des inondations dévastatrices en Libye et des incendies de forêt ravageurs au Canada, en Grèce, et sur l'île hawaïenne de Maui. Alors que ces négociations de la COP28 sont cruciales pour obtenir les accords mondiaux nécessaires afin d'éviter des changements climatiques dangereux, la confiance envers ce sommet est actuellement ébranlée, en grande partie en raison de la personne qui le dirige.
Le choix de Dubaï comme lieu de cet événement international majeur a suscité des vagues de critiques, notamment de la part des défenseurs de l'environnement. De plus, le choix de Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, PDG de la compagnie pétrolière émiratie Adnoc, pour présider cet événement majeur est lui aussi contesté. Cette nomination a soulevé des interrogations quant à la neutralité des décisions prises lors de la COP28, alimentant ainsi le débat sur les liens entre intérêts économiques et réelles avancées environnementales.
Ahmed al Jaber, président de la COP28, le loup dans la bergerie ?
Les Émirats arabes unis ont suscité la controverse en annonçant, en janvier 2023, que le sultan Ahmed al Jaber, PDG de la compagnie publique Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), présiderait le sommet sur le climat, lui conférant ainsi un large contrôle sur l'ordre du jour.
Le président de la COP, le Sultan Al-Jaber, est en proie à des conflits d’intérêts majeurs en ce qui concerne la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Alors qu’il est censé guider la rédaction des décisions de la négociation d’une manière neutre et indépendante, Al-Jaber représente aussi le pays hôte, les Émirats arabes unis, en tant que CEO de la compagnie pétrolière nationale, Adnoc.
Étant donné que les combustibles fossiles représentent près de 90 % des émissions de CO2 à l’origine du changement climatique, certains dénoncent un conflit d’intérêts évident à ce que les producteurs de pétrole et de gaz soient à la tête des négociations sur le climat. Les Émirats arabes unis brûleraient plus de gaz qu’ils ne le déclarent. Plusieurs enquêtes ont d’ailleurs montré que les Émirats envisagent d’augmenter les exploitations de pétrole de 3,7 millions de barils par jour à 5 millions d’ici 2027.et de gaz, et que des tractations commerciales ont même lieu pendant les réunions prévues pour la COP.
Selon des documents confidentiels obtenus par le Centre for Climate Reporting, les Émirats arabes unis ont ainsi préparé des réunions d’affaires privées impliquant Adnoc avec les délégations de plus de 27 gouvernements étrangers avant le sommet. La rente pétrolière un gage de stabilité socio-économique des pays du Golfe. En outre malgré des décennies de politiques visant à diversifier l’économie du pays en dehors du pétrole, le secteur des hydrocarbures des Émirats arabes unis représente un quart du PIB, la moitié des exportations du pays et 80 % des recettes publiques. La rente pétrolière contribue à la stabilité socio-économique.
Cet état de fait est un principe central du contrat social du Golfe arabe, dans lequel les citoyens des six États du Golfe occupent principalement des postes bureaucratiques dans le secteur public, administrant une économie basée sur le pétrole avec une main-d’œuvre expatriée qui domine le secteur privé non pétrolier. Les préoccupations quant à l'obstruction des politiques pro-climat par les industries fossiles sont donc bien justifiées, compte tenu des preuves indiquant que ces industries ont eu connaissance depuis des décennies des conséquences climatiques de leurs produits.
Cependant le programme politique promu par la présidence des Émirats arabes unis à la COP28 pourrait peut-être contribuer à accélérer la transition vers la sortie des énergies fossiles.
Tout d'abord les Émirats arabes unis et Ahmed al Jaber ont été choisi par la région Asie-Pacifique, qui se compose d’un ensemble diversifié de pays en développement
Le choix du pays qui accueille le sommet de la COP est en effet géré par un processus des Nations unies qui fait l’objet d’une alternance démocratique entre six régions. Les pays de chaque région se consultent pour savoir qui représentera leur région, et ce pays fait une proposition, qui est évaluée et finalisée par le secrétariat qui gère la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques.
Les préoccupations énergétiques des pays du Sud
Pour certains pays du Sud, la perspective d’une élimination progressive des énergies fossiles semble non seulement décourageante, mais aussi une menace pour le développement économique.
Sur les dizaines de pays producteurs de pétrole dans le monde, environ la moitié sont des pays en développement à revenu intermédiaire dont les économies sont très vulnérables face à la volatilité des prix du pétrole et du gaz. Des études ont suggéré qu’une élimination rapide des énergies fossiles pourrait entraîner des milliers de milliards de dollars de pertes dues aux investissements dans les infrastructures des pays producteurs de pétrole, s’ils n’y sont pas préparés.
En même temps, de nombreux États du Sud sont confrontés aux conséquences démesurées du changement climatique, qu’il s’agisse de phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes ou de l’élévation du niveau de la mer qui peuvent menacer l’existence même de leurs communautés.La présidence des Émirats arabes unis à la COP28 pourrait accélérer la transition énergétique, malgré les critiques suscitées par le choix d'Al Jaber.
Les inquiétudes quant à l'élimination progressive des énergies fossiles sont importantes, notamment pour les pays en développement dont les économies dépendent fortement de ces ressources. Cependant, Al Jaber a qualifié cette transition d'" inévitable " et d' " essentielle ", soulignant la nécessité de renforcer les énergies renouvelables avant de cesser rapidement l'utilisation des combustibles fossiles.
La présidence d'Al Jaber à la COP28 a été interprétée comme une tentative des Émirats arabes unis de verdir leurs projets d'expansion pétrolière et gazière. Al-Jaber a cependant passé l’essentiel de sa carrière dans le secteur des énergies renouvelables. En 2006, il a fondé et dirigé la société d’État des Émirats arabes unis spécialisée dans les énergies renouvelables, Masdar, qu’il a aidée à devenir le plus grand opérateur d’énergies renouvelables en Afrique.
Il a été nommé PDG de l’Adnoc en 2016, dans le cadre du lancement officiel par les Émirats arabes unis d’une stratégie nationale pour l’après-pétrole. L’année précédente, le prince héritier Mohammed bin Zayed avait prononcé un discours déclarant que les Émirats arabes unis célébreraient " le dernier baril de pétrole " d’ici le milieu du siècle.
Le programme de la COP28
L’Adnoc a certes été fortement critiquée pour avoir prévu d’investir 150 milliards de dollars dans l’expansion de ses capacités pétrolières et gazières au cours de cette décennie. Mais au niveau mondial des plans de croissance des énergies fossiles bien plus importants que ceux des Émirats arabes unis sont menés par les États-Unis, le Canada, la Russie, l’Iran, la Chine et le Brésil. La majeure partie du financement des énergies fossiles dans le monde provient de banques des États-Unis, du Canada et du Japon. Et depuis 2015, les banques européennes ont versé un montant colossal de 1,3 billion de dollars dans les combustibles fossiles, dont 130 milliards de dollars pour l' année 2022. Plusieurs évaluations de l’ONU – comme l’édition 2023 de l’Emissions Gap
Report du Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE), ou
même les engagements actuels pris par les États dans le cadre de
l’accord de Paris – ont montré que les engagements actuels nous placent
sur une trajectoire d’augmentation des températures comprise entre 2,5
et 2,9 °C, bien au-delà des objectifs fixés par l’accord de Paris. Face à ces nombreuses contradictions, la COP28 est donc un rendez-vous indispensable qui entend dresser un bilan mondial de la situation, parler de transition énergétique et mettre l’accent sur la solidarité entre pays du nord et pays du sud.
Et les Émirats arabes unis font preuve d’un leadership qui va au-delà des présidences précédentes de la COP. En effet la valeur totale des projets d’énergie renouvelable prévus par les Émirats arabes unis avec divers partenaires au cours de la décennie s’élève à plus de 300 milliards de dollars.
Le programme de la COP28 prévoit de tripler la capacité des énergies renouvelables au cours des sept prochaines années, en réduisant encore les coûts pour concurrencer rapidement les combustibles fossiles, potentiellement au cours des 20 prochaines années.
Il demande également aux pays d’accepter de cesser la production d’énergies fossiles lorsque les émissions de CO2 ne sont pas capturées d’ici au milieu du siècle, ce qui pourrait accélérer le développement de la capture, de l'utilisation et du stockage du CO2 à des fins commerciales.
Enfin, la restructuration du financement de la lutte contre le changement climatique pour le rendre moins coûteux et réduire le fardeau de la dette, comme le propose la présidence des Émirats arabes unis, pourrait débloquer les milliers de milliards de dollars dont le monde en développement a désespérément besoin pour soutenir ses transitions énergétiques tout en s’industrialisant.
L’an dernier, lors du sommet de la COP27 à Charm el-Cheikh, en Égypte, l’accord visant à constituer un fonds pour les " pertes et dommages " avait été salué comme une avancée majeure, sur l’un des sujets les plus difficiles des négociations climatiques. Au cours de cette édition cette décision de novembre 2022 actait le fait que les pays les plus pauvres et les moins émetteurs ont besoin d'aide pour faire face aux conséquences du changement climatique. Mais un an après les négociations, le fonds ne s’est pas encore concrétisé comme l’espéraient les pays en développement.
De grandes questions en suspens
De nombreuses questions ont été soulevées et laissées en suspens à Charm el-Cheikh. Parmi elles : qui alimentera ce nouveau fonds ? Où sera-t-il situé ? Qui aura le pouvoir de le gérer ? Et qui aura accès au financement, et surtout qui n’y aura pas accès ? Les pays en développement ont accepté que le fonds soit hébergé par la Banque mondiale pour une période intérimaire, malgré des réserves. De nombreux délégués s’inquiètent de la réputation de la Banque, et notamment de la prédominance des pays développés parmi les donateurs, de l’accent mis sur l’octroi de prêts plutôt que de subventions, et du manque de sensibilité au climat dans les opérations de la Banque. Il est probable que ces inquiétudes resurgissent à Dubaï. Lors de la COP28, la concrétisation du fonds pour les pertes et dommages sera un test décisif pour la légitimité de l’ensemble du régime de négociation sur le changement climatique.
Certes, le fait qu’un PDG du secteur pétrolier dirige un sommet sur le climat est inquiétant pour tous ceux qui prônent une réduction progressive et rapide des combustibles fossiles mais si le sommet de la COP28 parvient à conclure des accords historiques sur les questions susmentionnées, il s’agira d’une avancée significative dans l’accélération de la transition énergétique . Et le sommet de la COP sera autre chose qu'un simple ballet d'hypocrisie...
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MAGRET DE CANARD FLAMBE AU COGNAC AUX POMMES ET AUX ABRICOTS
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Pour cette recette de Magrets de canards flambés au cognac, pommes et abricots, vous pouvez compter 40 minutes de préparation. Ce plat peut être préparé avant le repas et réchauffé 15 à 20 min avant d'être servi. Ingrédients
Magret de canard 3 tranche(s)
Chorizo doux 1
Pomme(s) Golden 3
Abricots secs 250 g
Cognac
Préparation
1° Coupez les magrets de canards en fines tranches sur la longueur. Détaillez les tranches de lard en petits dés.
2° Émincez le chorizo en fines rondelles. Épluchez les pommes, retirez les pépins et coupez-les en petits dés.
3° Placez dans un saladier les pommes et les abricots, versez dessus un léger filet de cognac pour parfumer les fruits et laissez-les macérer.
4° Dans une grande poêle, faites fondre un peu de gras (un peu de la peau des magrets par exemple), faites revenir les tranches des magrets, les morceaux de lard et les rondelles de chorizo.
5° Quand la viande commence à être saisie, versez le cognac dans la poêle, laissez-le chauffer un petit peu, et faites flamber le tout.
6° Laissez mijoter quelques minutes sans laisser trop cuire les magrets afin d'éviter qu'ils sèchent par la cuisson, versez le tout dans une marmite pouvant accueillir un couvercle, ajoutez-y les pommes et les pruneaux.
7° Pensez à remuer régulièrement le tout et laissez cuire à feu doux, le temps que les fruits fondent.
8° Si le couvercle de votre marmite n'est pas lisse et possède un léger rebord, vous pouvez verser sur le couvercle un peu d'eau, la condensation produite par la chaleur de la cuisson évitera d'assécher le contenu qui est en train de cuire.
Et dégustez !
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LE LUXE SOUS LE CHARME DES STARS COREENNES DE LA K-POP
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Véritables icônes en Corée du Sud et au-delà de ses frontières, les chanteurs de K-pop sont devenus les nouveaux visages du luxe mondial. Ces derniers mois, leur ascension en tant qu'ambassadeurs s'est intensifiée au sein des maisons de couture les plus prestigieuses. Plongée au cœur de l'univers des égéries sud-coréennes des marques de luxe.
La Corée du Sud, au dynamisme économique indéniable, suscite un intérêt croissant de la part des grandes marques. Louis Vuitton et Nicolas Ghesquière ont dévoilé leur défilé femmes pré automne-hiver 2023 à Séoul, sur le pont Jamsugy, le 29 avril. En mai, Gucci a présenté sa collection Cruise 2024 au palais de Gyeongbokgung, situé dans la capitale sud-coréenne, au nord de la rivière Han.
Ces deux géants du luxe ont choisi des lieux emblématiques de la cité, mais l'un des piliers du soft power coréen n'est autre que la K-pop. Ce genre musical, au succès international retentissant, met en avant des chanteurs et danseurs énergiques et inspirants, souvent regroupés en formations. Les appelés "idoles" attirent depuis plusieurs années des marques partenaires au positionnement grand public. Récemment, les maisons de luxe européennes se sont éprises de ces jeunes talents.
À première vue, deux groupes se partagent le devant de la scène : BTS et Black Pink, ce dernier étant le girl band le plus en vue. Les membres de Black Pink, à savoir Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé et Lisa, sont chacune égéries d'au moins deux marques de luxe. Les bijoux Tiffany&Co., les robes Chanel et Saint Laurent, les sacs Jacquemus et les montres Cartier bénéficient d'une visibilité extrême, chaque geste de ces artistes coréennes étant scruté et analysé par une communauté de fans très impliquée.
La machine semble s'emballer du côté des marques, toutes cherchant à avoir leur propre idole K-pop, et de nombreuses nominations ont eu lieu récemment. Taeyong, chanteur du groupe NCT aux onze millions d'abonnés Instagram, est devenu ambassadeur international de la marque Loewe depuis le mois de juin. Dior, qui compte déjà parmi ses rangs Jisoo (Black Pink) et Park Jimin (BTS), a récemment accueilli Haerin, du groupe NewJeans, en avril. Dans la même dynamique, la maison Kenzo, dirigée par le designer japonais Nigo, a annoncé en juin l'arrivée de Vernon, membre du groupe Seventeen. Plus récemment, fin juillet, Versace a intronisé Hyunjin (Stray Kids) comme nouvelle égérie.
Un mariage avantageux, mais pour qui ?
L'engouement des amateurs de K-pop ne se limite à aucun groupe ou artiste en particulier. Si les têtes d'affiche sont déjà très prisées, un vaste réservoir d'artistes talentueux existe. Cependant, les marques devront probablement s'adresser aux mêmes interlocuteurs, car la grande majorité des jeunes de la K-pop évolue au sein de quatre agences géantes, à savoir Hybe, YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment et JYP Entertainment.
Selon le média Glitz Paris, ces agences imposent des contrats très restrictifs aux idoles, allant jusqu'à leur interdire d'être en couple, afin de garantir une image lisse et soignée, au prix d'une certaine perte de liberté. Leur contrôle est tel que certaines idoles n'ont même pas conscience des chiffres générés par leurs contrats d'égéries, selon le même média français.
Cependant, la frénésie ne faiblit pas au Pays du matin calme, et le potentiel international de la K-pop semble inépuisable. Ainsi, des marques moins puissantes que les grands groupes de luxe peuvent tenter leur chance avec les futures stars potentielles. Hybe, qui accompagne depuis ses débuts le célèbre boys band BTS, a créé en janvier 2022 le groupe japonais &Team, dont le dernier clip vidéo "Road not taken" cumule 1,4 million de vues deux semaines après sa publication. Plus récemment, en mai, l'agence a lancé le groupe Boynextdoor, via son sous-label KOZ Entertainment.
En attendant d'autres mariages...
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DRAME DE CREPOL LE CARACTERE RACISTE DU MEURTRE DOIT ETRE PRIS EN COMPTE
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En ce qui concerne le profil des suspects, la maire a souligné la présence d'environ "une centaine de jeunes, avec un noyau dur particulièrement violent".
Lors d'une entrevue ce mardi 28 novembre 2023 sur BFM-RMC, Marie-Hélène Thoraval a également plaidé pour "mettre fin à la culture de l'excuse". Le caractère raciste La maire de Romans-sur-Isère, Marie-Hélène Thoraval, affiliée à la diversité de droite, a déclaré ce mercredi 29 novembre que les «familles» des victimes de l'attaque lors du bal du village à Crépol, dans la Drôme, il y a une dizaine de jours, ont sollicité que la justice considère l'incident comme "raciste".
'Les familles demandent deux choses", a déclaré l'élue lors de son entretien sur BFM-RMC. "La première, c'est une fermeté incontestable de la justice, et la deuxième, c'est que le caractère raciste manifesté par les agresseurs soit pris en compte", a-t-elle souligné. La maire de Romans-sur-Isère a exprimé ses craintes quant à d'éventuels drames à venir après le meurtre de Thomas. Elle a regretté le fait que tous les mis en cause soient "issus de parents déjà délinquants". Selon elle, il s'agit d'une culture qui se transmet, une observation qu'elle fait en tant que maire depuis 2014. Interrogée sur le quartier de la Monnaie, d'où proviennent certains des suspects, Marie-Hélène Thoraval a affirmé qu'au sein des 4500 habitants, «une centaine de jeunes» posent des problèmes, formant «un noyau dur particulièrement violent».
Radicalisation et trafic de drogue Elle a décrit ce noyau dur comme cherchant à établir «une zone de non-droit en occupant le territoire» de la Drôme, au détriment des 34 000 habitants de la ville qui aspirent à la tranquillité. "C'est tout un territoire qui est touché", a insisté l'élue, ajoutant avec force : "Il faut cesser de pratiquer la culture de l'excuse". Concernant la divulgation des prénoms des suspects, la maire de Romans-sur-Isère a critiqué le fait de "ne pas avoir communiqué les prénoms plus tôt", jugeant cela "indécent". Elle s'est interrogée sur le manque de transparence initial, soulignant que la divulgation des prénoms sur les réseaux sociaux avant leur confirmation par les autorités ne fait que renforcer la stigmatisation.
Déjà dimanche, la maire avait appelé à "s'asseoir autour de la table et à travailler autrement" face à un niveau de délinquance qui, selon elle, trouve ses racines dans la radicalisation et le trafic de drogue, à Romans et dans d'autres villes.
Lundi, le gouvernement avait tenté d'apaiser les tensions suscitées par la mort de Thomas.
Ce qui a coûté la vie au lycéen de 16 ans n'est pas "une simple rixe" mais "un drame qui fait courir le risque d'un basculement de notre société", a déclaré.Olivier Véran, appelant à ne pas répondre à la violence par la violence. Certes mais quand le gouvernement aura-t-il le courage de nommer les choses et de prendre les mesures qui s'imposent ?
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FENNEL AVOCADO AND ORANGE SALAD | Due to its aniseed taste, fennel is the ingredient to discover and slip into your salads !
It gives them a little extra taste and with the avocados and oranges, this salad is perfect to surprise your guests.
Ingredients
Lawyer(s) 2
Fennel 1
Orange(s) 2
Red onion(s)
Red onion(s) 1
Balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp. soup
Olive oil 2 tbsp. soup
Salt pepper
Preparation
1°Rinse the fennel and cut it into thin strips.
2°Chop the onion finely and cut the avocado into quarters.
3° Peel the oranges and cut them into quarters.
4°In a small bowl, mix the balsamic vinegar, olive oil, with a pinch of salt and pepper.
5° Add the olive oil and balsamic vinegar in a drizzle, with a pinch of pepper and salt.
6°Mix with a wooden spoon.
You can replace the oranges with grapefruit.
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COME BACK TO THE SHOW
EPOQUAUTO |
EpoquAuto is an exciting and unforgettable odyssey to the heart of ancient automobile passion in Lyon, a large city in France, capital of Gaul, and which is also the world capital of gastronomy.
The 2023 edition of EpoquAuto took place from November 10 to 12 in Lyon, transforming the vast halls of Eurexpo into a true sanctuary dedicated to lovers of vintage cars.
Organized by a club of enthusiasts, the event mobilized no less than 250 passionate volunteers, bringing this unique show to life.
Proudly occupying 5 halls as well as the central square of Eurexpo, EpoquAuto 2023 welcomed 849 exhibitors, including 528 dedicated to spare parts and old documents, as well as specialized craftsmen.
What makes EpoquAuto so special is its status as the only show of this scale organized by a club of vintage car enthusiasts.
Unlike major international shows such as Essen, Maastricht, Brussels or Paris-Rétromobile, EpoquAuto has managed to maintain the authentic character of a stock exchange, contrasting with the global trend where collector vehicle dealers and service providers are taking center stage.
Lyon has managed to preserve this essence by highlighting the passion shared by fans. Where other events gradually shift towards intensive commercialization, EpoquAuto remains faithful to the spirit of exchange, highlighting the diversity of regional clubs and brands.
This approach gives the show a unique atmosphere, truly designed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, a strong point that is felt in every corner of the exhibition halls.
One of the striking characteristics of EpoquAuto is the central place given to regional and brand clubs. This creates a friendly and authentic atmosphere, where enthusiasts can share their experiences and exchange anecdotes with other enthusiasts. This symbiosis between clubs, exhibitors, and visitors makes EpoquAuto much more than just a show; it is a meeting place, a celebration of the shared love for vintage automobiles.
This year, EpoquAuto highlighted three emblematic brands: Peugeot, Talbot, and Cadillac, one of which belonged to the legend Johnny Hallyday. This eclectic selection allowed visitors to discover or rediscover a multitude of emblematic models, illustrating the diversity of automotive history.
Between popular brands still in operation, prestigious brands that have now disappeared, and giants of the American automobile industry, visitors had the opportunity to immerse themselves in a true automobile retrospective.
The show also highlighted several themes, ranging from rallying to hill climbs, including youngtimers (collector cars from the 80s/90s) and utility vehicles, including imposing coaches and the emblematic Berliet manufactured In Lyon.
This thematic diversity helped enrich the visitor experience, offering a variety of exhibitions and demonstrations that captivated the attention of enthusiasts.
The aisles of EpoquAuto were lively with the presence of enthusiast clubs, car dealers, private car sales areas, and areas dedicated to vehicles up for auction.
Visitors were able to admire an impressive range of models, from popular cars to luxury ones, allowing everyone to find what they were looking for, whether for purchase or simple contemplation.
The range of activities offered to visitors was as vast as the diversity of vehicles on display.
Between the acquisition of an old one, the contemplative strolls, the activities such as the record dismantling of a Citroën 2CV, and the conferences organized by the French Federation of Vintage Vehicles, everyone could find what they were looking for.
The clubs, present in large numbers, were available to answer visitors' questions, displaying a smile and patience which underline the passion which drives them.
The 3A association (Classic Automobile Lovers), in charge of organizing EpoquAuto, deserves a special mention. The professionalism and dedication of the 3A were remarkable, ensuring the smooth running of the event despite the crowds from the moment the doors opened. The 250 volunteers formed an exceptional team, effectively managing the busy crowds from 9 a.m. on Friday, coordinating access to the parking lots, and ensuring that each visitor could fully enjoy the EpoquAuto experience.
On Friday, from 10 a.m., the aisles were already crowded, creating an electric atmosphere where business was brisk. The regulars met with enthusiasm, while the newcomers were amazed by the diversity of the exhibitions.
It is in these moments that the involvement of the 3A was most evident, offering visitors a smooth experience, in a warm and caring environment.
Each year, the 3A demonstrate their expertise by choosing themes that highlight specific brands, adding a thematic dimension to the show.
This year, the honor was given to Peugeot, Talbot and Cadillac, offering visitors an immersive dive into the history of these iconic brands. The 3A also ensures that the soul of the show is preserved by giving a significant place to clubs and individuals, and by creating a space where diversity reigns supreme.  The icing on the cake was that we even had the chance to have a model (artist, actress, etc.) in a vintage costume in front of the beautiful Cadillacs, but we'll probably talk to you about her later.
The friendly atmosphere of EpoquAuto is also enhanced by the gastronomic tradition of the region.
Visitors, who come in vintage cars, also benefit from privileged treatment with the provision of free parking, adding a picturesque touch to the overall spectacle.
The 3As, with their keen sense of organization, manage to maintain a relaxed atmosphere despite the crowds, creating a harmonious balance between automotive passion and conviviality.
Beyond economic considerations, EpoquAuto offers a day of shared happiness.
The remarkable involvement of the 3A, the frequent reunions between enthusiasts, the quality and quantity of the exhibitors, as well as this unique atmosphere of popular celebration, make this show an event apart.
The experience goes beyond simply looking at vintage cars; it is part of a true immersion in automotive history, where each model tells a story, and each enthusiast shares their love for these vehicles full of memories.
The show is not only an exhibition space, it is also a large car flea market where visitors can find rare parts, unforgettable souvenirs, and exchange anecdotes with other enthusiasts. The clubs, at the heart of this ecosystem, are essential pillars, offering a space where camaraderie and exchange are in the spotlight.
It's a total immersion in automotive culture, where visitors can not only admire exceptional models, but also learn more about their history from the enthusiasts who proudly present them.
Gender diversity is the hallmark of EpoquAuto, making sure not to give in to elitism often seen elsewhere. The parts and automobile dealers' halls are a real treasure trove for enthusiasts, offering items at all prices.. Authenticity reigns, and each stand is an invitation to discovery, in search of the rare pearl that will complete the collection or that will evoke a precious memory.
However, in the midst of this passionate excitement, economic considerations emerge.
Prices appear to have increased since the previous year, raising questions about the reasons for this increase.
From simple keychains to catalogs and books, merchants, including individuals, have adjusted their prices, sometimes significantly.
Visitors, while understanding the economic realities, were able to see this evolution of prices, while expressing their passion through negotiations often marked by conviviality.
Despite this observation, the price of entry to the show remains affordable, which contrasts with other events of the same type.
With a price of €16 at the checkout, €14 online, €13 for students, and free for children under 12, EpoquAuto remains an event accessible to all vintage car lovers. This pricing policy reflects the organizers' intention to make the EpoquAuto experience accessible to as many people as possible, thus promoting the diversity of visitors.
Beyond the economic aspect, spending a day at EpoquAuto provides shared happiness. The 3A, through their commitment and passion, have succeeded in creating an event that goes well beyond a simple car show. It is an immersive experience, a dive into automotive history and culture, where every detail is carefully orchestrated to provide a memorable day for enthusiasts.
The spirit of EpoquAuto also lies in the generosity of the volunteers, who devote time and energy so that each visitor leaves with memories engraved in their memory. The 3A are the real heroes behind the scenes, orchestrating this event with remarkable precision and an obvious love for vintage automobiles. Their dedication deserves special recognition, because it is thanks to them that thousands of enthusiasts are able to experience this unique immersion in the world of vintage cars every year.
In conclusion, EpoquAuto 2023 was much more than just a car show.
It was an odyssey through time, a celebration of shared automotive passion, masterfully orchestrated by the 3A and their army of dedicated volunteers.
Varied exhibitions, warm encounters, passionate exchanges and a friendly atmosphere marked this edition, making it an unmissable event for all vintage car enthusiasts.
EpoquAuto is not only an annual meeting, it is an experience that leaves an indelible mark in the heart of each visitor, a memorable chapter in the rich history of automobile passion.
By its scale but also by its exceptional quality, EpoquAuto has undoubtedly become the first international show surpassing all others. |
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LA GUERRE MEDIATIQUE MENEE PAR LE HAMAS CONTRE ISRAEL
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La République islamique est engagée dans une guerre par procuration contre Israël ; un pays dont elle va jusqu'à nier le droit même à exister. Si l'Iran se garde de mener des actions militaires directes en territoire israélien, il finance un réseau d'organisations armées à l'extérieur de ses frontières qu'il surnomme " l'axe de résistance" contre Israël. Et juste après l’Iran et son programme nucléaire, deux organisations figurent sur le podium des menaces, considéré depuis Tel-Aviv : le Hamas palestinien et le Hezbollah libanais, qui disposerait de "100.000 fusées" prêtes à être lancer contre l’Etat hébreu.
Le Hamas avec les atrocités commises en Israël du 7 octobre 2023 n'a pas démérité de sa réputation. Et il a su utiliser les médias pour propager l'horreur de leurs actes.
" Nous livrons une bataille, et que plus de la moitié de cette bataille se déroule sur la scène médiatique. Nous sommes donc engagés dans une bataille médiatique pour gagner les cœurs et les esprits des membres de notre communauté. " , clamait déjà en 2004 Ayman al-Zawahiri, autrefois numéro deux d'Al-Qaida et ensuite leader après l'élimination d'Oussama Ben Laden en 2011, sur le rôle crucial de la sphère médiatique en tant que champ de bataille autonome.
Le message d'Al-Zawahiri en 2004, encourageait pour Irak à mobiliser l'ensemble des musulmans dans un djihad global contre ce qu'il percevait comme une nouvelle "croisade" américaine contre l'islam. Al-Zawahiri soulignait la nécessité de déplacer les sanctuaires d'Al-Qaida des zones rurales vers les centres urbains pour exploiter le potentiel médiatique des conflits urbains.
Un usage médiatique des civils
Ce basculement géographique reposait sur un constat stratégique : la ville, dans les conflits contemporains asymétriques, est devenue un véritable catalyseur capable d’alimenter la « guerre médiatique ». Les destructions qui y sont commises par l’ennemi sont plus spectaculaires qu’en zone rurale, la présence de milliers de civils peut faire hésiter l’assaillant au moment de lancer ses attaques, le nombre de victimes collatérales plus élevé, la quantité de photos et de vidéos qui y sont prises est plus importante – autant d’éléments qui permettent de mieux mobiliser les publics lointains contre l’armée qui mène l’offensive.
Il est difficile de ne pas voir dans les modes opératoires du Hamas mis en œuvre actuellement à Gaza une logique similaire à celle utilisée par Al-Qaida en Irak à Falloujah (quelque 300 000 habitants) en 2004. De plus en concentrant les bastions défensifs soit autour d’une mosquée stratégique soit autour de l’hôpital de Falloujah les terroristes bénéficient non seulement de la protection de boucliers humains mais transforme aussi l’opération en une véritable profanation aux yeux des populations musulmanes, la mosquée revêtant un caractère sacré. L'objectif recherché : réveiller chez l’Oumma le « réflexe » du djihad dit « défensif ». Cette approche stratégique persiste dans les tactiques actuelles du Hamas à Gaza, mettant en œuvre des méthodes similaires à celles employées par Al-Qaida en Irak, telles que l'utilisation de boucliers humains et la concentration des opérations dans des zones urbaines densément peuplées.Les objectifs consistent à maximiser les pertes civiles en cas de frappe, provoquant ainsi une réaction émotionnelle et un soutien accru de la population locale. Soulever "la rue arabe" et fragiliser les régimes arabes partenaires d’Israël
A la différence d’Al-Qaida, le Hamas ne cherche pas a priori à susciter des vocations djihadistes, mais plutôt à soulever "la rue arabe", à la radicaliser afin de fragiliser les régimes arabes partenaires d’Israël et d’isoler un État hébreu soucieux de normaliser ses relations avec ses voisins. Les stratèges d’Al-Qaida ont d’ailleurs théorisé la vocation du djihad palestinien à saper la légitimité des régimes arabes en paix avec Israël .
Après les deux ans de la signature des accords d'Abraham qui, ont contribué à détendre les relations avec d'autres pays arabes - l’Egypte, la Jordanie, l’Arabie saoudite et les pays du Golfe- à l' exception près du Qatar qui soutient les Frères musulmans et le Hamas palestinien, qui en est une émanation- la riposte d’Israël contre Gaza aux attaques du Hamas a mis a fortement mis à mal les efforts de part et d'autres... La filiation idéologique et stratégique entre Al-Qaida et le Hamas éclaire le conflit en cours à Gaza, soulignant l'importance du champ de bataille médiatique et la manipulation des médias pour influencer l'opinion publique.
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GEERT WILDERS PREMIER MINISTRE AUX PAYS-BAS PREFIGURERAIT L'AVENIR DE L'EXTREME-DROITE EN EUROPE
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Les élections législatives néerlandaises de mercredi 22 novembre 2023 ont donné une victoire massive du parti d’extrême droite PVV, qui a obtenu 37 sièges sur 150, suivi par la coalition des partis socialiste et vert (Parti travailliste/PvdA, Gauche verte/GL) de l’ancien commissaire européen Frans Timmermans, qui a obtenu 25 sièges.
M. Wilders a déclaré que le PVV ne pouvait « plus être ignoré », affirmant que « nous allons gouverner ».
« Une telle mégavictoire doit être respectée. C’est ce que disent les électeurs, ils veulent que les choses soient différentes. Il serait très antidémocratique de laisser les électeurs de côté », a-t-il déclaré. De l'autre côté de l'échiquier politique, M. Timmermans a exprimé sa déception face aux résultats, soulignant son espoir initial et reconnaissant qu'il n'a pas réussi à convaincre suffisamment de personnes. Appelant à un "front progressiste" pour défendre la démocratie et l'État de droit, il a vivement critiqué le discours anti-migratoire du PVV. "Peu importe d'où vous venez", a affirmé Timmermans, "vous êtes les bienvenus aux Pays-Bas si vous fuyez la guerre et la violence, cela restera inchangé pour nous". Deux scénarios possibles
Face aux résultats, deux scénarios se dessinent : soit le VVD libéral, le NSC de centre-droit et le PVV d'extrême droite forment une coalition de droite, éventuellement avec le soutien de petits partis comme le BBB (Mouvement agriculteur-citoyen), soit le bloc Pvd A/GL de M. Timmermans tente de gouverner avec le NSC et le VVD, aux côtés du parti libéral D66 (Démocrates 66).
Dans une semaine au plus tard, un débat parlementaire avec les nouveaux sièges sera organisé pour discuter des résultats des élections. Tous les partis nommeront un médiateur pour explorer des coalitions viables. Ensuite, le médiateur recommandera une coalition, et le Parlement choisira et nommera l'un des chefs de parti au poste de Premier ministre, chargé de former une coalition. Ce processus peut s'étendre sur plusieurs mois.
Bien que tout soit incertain, les divergences de vue entre les partis sur des questions clés rendront les négociations de coalition difficiles, compliquant la gouvernance future. Le VVD se montre ouvert à une collaboration avec l'extrême droite, alors que la présidente du parti, Dilan Yeşilgöz, a précisé qu'elle ne soutiendrait pas M. Wilders en tant que Premier ministre en raison de ses opinions extrêmes.
"Je ne vois pas M. Wilders devenir Premier ministre car je ne le vois pas capable de former une majorité. C'est maintenant à lui de montrer s'il en est capable", a déclaré Dilan Yeşilgöz lors de la soirée électorale.
Le leader du NSC, Peter Omtzigt, a réitéré à plusieurs reprises que son parti ne collaborerait pas avec le PVV en raison de ses positions anti-islam et anti-migrants, contraires à la constitution néerlandaise. Cependant, rien n'est exclu. M. Omtzigt exprime son désir de faire partie du nouveau cabinet, mais reconnaît que cela ne sera pas facile. "Les Pays-Bas doivent être gouvernés, et nous sommes prêts pour cela", a-t-il déclaré.
Malgré l'ouverture du VVD et du NSC à la négociation, M. Wilders a indiqué qu'il était prêt à faire des concessions sur ses propositions politiques les plus controversées. "Nous n'allons pas parler de mosquées, de Corans et d'écoles islamiques", a-t-il déclaré, reconnaissant que certaines mesures étaient anticonstitutionnelles. Une coalition avec le NSC et le VVD pourrait atténuer leur discours. Par exemple, une coalition de droite continuerait probablement à soutenir une approche unifiée dans la dimension extérieure de l'Union européenne, notamment en matière de commerce mondial, de coopération en défense et d'autonomie stratégique, comme le préconisent le VVD et le NSC dans leurs programmes électoraux.
En ce qui concerne une coalition centriste, le Pvd A/GL de M. Timmermans et le VVD sont historiquement rivaux, le VVD ayant des positions eurosceptiques et fiscalement conservatrices au sein de la famille des partis libéraux européens. De plus, l'alliance verte-socialiste a été formée pour évincer le VVD du gouvernement.
Le réveil de l'extrême droite européenne
La victoire du PVV néerlandais aiguise l'appétit des nationalistes de l'UE pour un retour aux "identités nationales". Les dirigeants des partis d'extrême droite européens exprimant ouvertement leur soutien à l'ancien président américain Donald Trump célèbrent la victoire de Geert Wilders avant les élections européennes de juin.
"Partout en Europe, les citoyens réclament un changement politique !", a commenté le parti d'extrême droite allemand Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) sur X. Le Premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orbán a félicité immédiatement Geert Wilders pour sa victoire, soulignant un "vent de changement". A Paris, la dirigeante d'extrême droite Marine Le Pen du Rassemblement national (ID) a félicité Geert Wilders et le PVV pour leur performance spectaculaire aux élections législatives, confirmant le soutien croissant à la défense des identités nationales.
Le chef du parti espagnol Vox (CRE), Santiago Abascal, a également félicité M. Wilders, notant que de plus en plus d'Européens demandent que leurs nations, frontières et droits soient défendus.
La Première ministre italienne conservatrice, Giorgia Meloni, n'a pas encore réagi à la nouvelle. Cependant, Matteo Salvini, de la Lega (La Ligue, Identité et Démocratie/ID), son partenaire de coalition, a félicité M. Wilders, le qualifiant d'"allié historique de la Lega". "Une nouvelle Europe est possible", a-t-il déclaré sur X.
Après 13 ans à la tête du gouvernement néerlandais, Mark Rutte pourrait céder la place à un nouveau visage de l'extrême droite issu des élections législatives du 22 novembre.
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ACCORD ISRAEL-HAMAS LIBERATION D'OTAGES TREVE HUMANITAIRE...
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Les deux parties ont finalement conclu un premier accord dans la nuit du mardi 21 novembre 2023 au mercredi 22 novembre. Après des semaines de conflit et de pourparlers simultanés, un consensus a été atteint. Le Hamas et Israël se sont entendus sur la libération de 50 otages, enlevés par le groupe terroriste le 7 octobre 2023 dernier, en échange de la libération de prisonniers palestiniens et de l'instauration d'une trêve dans la bande de Gaza.
Le Premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahou a qualifié l'accord de "bonne décision" mardi soir, avant le début de la réunion de son cabinet, qui a ensuite donné son feu vert tôt mercredi. Le Hamas, via son chef Ismaïl Haniyeh, a salué la décision de "trêve humanitaire", soulignant que les modalités de l'accord étaient conformes à la vision de la résistance. Les autorités qataries, au cœur des pourparlers, ont confirmé l'accord dans la nuit, exprimant leur gratitude envers l'Égypte et les États-Unis pour leur contribution aux médiations. Libération de 50 otages contre 150 prisonniers palestiniens ? 240 otages, capturés lors de l'attaque du Hamas sur Israël le 7 octobre 2023, étaient concernés. Le gouvernement israélien a annoncé avoir approuvé les grandes lignes de la première étape de l'accord, libérant au moins 50 otages, principalement des femmes et des enfants. Aucun militaire ne devrait être relâché.
En échange, un nombre indéterminé de femmes et d'enfants palestiniens détenus en Israël seront également libérés, selon le ministère des Affaires étrangères qatarien. Deux sources parlent de 150 prisonniers.
La nationalité des personnes libérées reste floue, bien que trois ressortissantes américaines figurent parmi les 50 otages, selon un haut responsable de la Maison Blanche. Huit Français sont toujours aux mains du Hamas.
Bien que cet accord porte initialement sur 50 personnes, les États-Unis s'attendent à la libération de davantage d'otages dans les prochains jours. Si ce premier accord ne porte que sur 50 personnes, les États-Unis s’attendent à ce que davantage soient libérées. "Il y aura maintenant une pause de plusieurs jours, ils (le Hamas) auront la capacité d’identifier des femmes et des enfants supplémentaires. Nous nous attendons donc à ce qu’il y en ait plus de 50", a déclaré un haut responsable américain à la presse.
Dans une série de messages sur X ce mercredi matin, le gouvernement israélien écrit d’ailleurs que "la libération de dix otages supplémentaires entraînera une journée supplémentaire de pause".
Une trêve d'au moins quatre jours. L'échange de prisonniers et d'otages se déroulera au cours d'une trêve humanitaire, d'une durée initiale de quatre jours, avec la possibilité de prolongation. Cette pause est réclamée depuis longtemps par des organisations internationales et des ONG, pour permettre l'entrée de convois humanitaires et d'aide d'urgence, y compris du carburant, dans la bande de Gaza, soumise à un siège total d'Israël.. Jusque-là, seule une pause quotidienne de quatre heures avait été accordée par le gouvernement hébreu.
La Croix Rouge pourra rendre visite aux otages non encore libérés à Gaza, avec des médicaments.
Difficile de savoir si cet accord va être tenu de bout en bout. Les deux parties ont déjà évoqué un retour à la guerre. Le ministre israélien de la Défense, Yoav Gallant, a exprimé le souhait d'une reprise "à pleine force" des opérations après la trêve pour "défaire" le Hamas et créer les conditions nécessaires au retour d'autres otages. "Le gouvernement israélien, l’armée israélienne et les forces de sécurité poursuivront la guerre pour ramener toutes les personnes enlevées, éliminer le Hamas et garantir qu’il n’y ait plus aucune menace pour l’État d’Israël depuis Gaza", a d’ailleurs confirmé le gouvernement après son vote. "Nous confirmons que nos mains resteront sur la gâchette et que nos bataillons triomphants resteront aux aguets", a également averti le Hamas de son côté. La pause pour les "otages"ne signifie pas la fin de la guerre.
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ARGENTINA ELECTS A LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENT
TO SHOCK PROPOSALS |  Jair Bolsonaro wanted to "change the destiny of Brazil", Javier Milei promises to tackle Argentina's problems "with a chainsaw". The libertarian economist, admirer of Donald Trump, won the presidential election on Sunday.
If he obtains the necessary support in Parliament, he could notably implement a radical economic policy.
He hailed “a historic night for Argentina”.
The ultraliberal Argentine economist Javier Milei, anti-system polemicist and admirer of Donald Trump, was elected president of Argentina on Sunday November 19, 2023.
He won the Argentine presidential election this Monday, with 55.6% of the votes against 44.3% for his opponent, the centrist Sergio Massa.
Repeated political and financial scandals have gradually eroded the confidence of the Argentine people in their elected officials.
In December 2022, former president Cristina Kirchner was sentenced to six years in prison for “fraudulent administration” to the detriment of the State. By distancing himself from politicians, Javier Milei managed to win the hearts of Argentines, sickened by years of corruption and strangled by inflation which amounts to 143% over one year.
The new Argentine leader, who readily defines himself as an "anarcho-capitalist", notably proposes a dollarization of the country's economy and a budgetary "shock treatment". He also rejects human responsibility for global warming and opposes the right to abortion.
Adoption of the dollar to replace the peso
The politician presenting himself as "anti-system" promised shock therapy to Latin America's third largest economy involving significant budget cuts, going so far as to suggest the total elimination of several ministries, including that of Health and Transportation.
An economist by training and elected deputy in 2021, he defined as a key measure of his mandate the dollarization of the Argentine economy, in the face of galloping inflation exceeding 142% over one year, according to the country's Central Bank. He plans to replace the peso, "described as excrement", with the dollar by 2025.
More than 200 economists consider this a “mirage”, anticipating increased fragility in the face of “external shocks” and periods of recession with a high unemployment rate. At the same time, the new president wants to “energize” the Argentine Central Bank.
A “chainsaw” for public spending
During his presidential campaign, Javier Milei repeatedly brandished a chainsaw, a symbol of the drastic budget cuts to come in the event of victory. The new president intends to reduce public spending by 15% of GDP and put an end to "this aberration called social justice, synonymous with budget deficit".
It plans to reduce public spending by 15% of GDP, privatize the 34 public companies, remove subsidies on gas and electricity, and establish a private tender system for public works.
He also plans to reduce the number of ministries, end the retirements of former presidents, judges, and diplomats, while reducing funds paid to the provinces.
Although Javier Milei tried to allay concerns at the end of the campaign, ensuring that he would not privatize health and education, his anti-feminist positions raise concerns. He proposes to abolish the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity declaring in May 2022:
“I will not apologize for having a penis” and denying wage inequalities despite a gap of 27.7% in Argentina.
He opposes the right to abortion, legalized until the 14th week of pregnancy in December 2020, considering abortion to be murder. Javier Milei wants to organize a referendum on the subject: “Obviously, the woman has the rights to her body, but the child is not her body,” he believes.
The new president supports the primacy of individual freedoms on subjects such as the legalization of drugs, the deregulation of the sale of arms, and proposes a "market solution" for organ donation.
However, he defends the primacy of individual freedoms over other subjects, such as the legalization of drugs "as long as it does not involve state aid". The new Argentine president also says he is in favor of deregulating the sale of arms, but also of a "market solution" for organ donation.
A climate skeptic program
On the environmental front, Javier Milei adopts a climate skeptic position, denying global warming due to human activities. He refuses adherence to the UN 2030 agenda and goes so far as to defend the idea of privatizing rivers in Argentina. “There is, in the history of the Earth, a temperature cycle,” he also declared at the beginning of October during the presidential campaign. The new Argentine president went so far as to defend the idea of privatizing rivers in Argentina
“If water becomes scarce, it stops being worthless and then a trade begins, and you will see how the pollution [from businesses] ends,” he declared in particular during the campaign.
A new president with “tied hands”
But between the initial exercise of charm and the materialization of campaign commitments, the road ahead proves to be particularly demanding. Populist leaders tend to present political proposals often focused on breaking with reality. This approach proves very effective when gaining power, but it takes on a whole new dimension once it is acquired, warns and author of Geopolitics of Latin America.
Although Javier Milei forged his image on the fringes of the corridors of Argentine power, it was nevertheless the support of the right that propelled him to the presidency.
According to the Latin America specialist, Christophe Ventura, research director at Iris, "the real architect of his victory is the right-wing bloc which supported him in the second round to prevent the Peronists, embodied by the candidacy of Sergio Massa, to stay in power."
However, alliances will be essential for him to carry out his program. In Parliament, his party is only the third force, behind the center-left and center-right blocs. For the moment, Javier Milei only has 38 deputies out of the 257 in the Argentine Parliament.
However, to legislate in Argentina, a quorum is required, that is to say half of the deputies plus one. He is very far from it.
The new president will "have his hands tied", because it is "unlikely that he will succeed in forming a majority" in Parliament. Half of the parliamentarians were renewed in the first round of the presidential election and the second half will be renewed during elections in two years.
Javier Milei therefore finds himself obliged to form alliances and, therefore, probably to put water in the wine of his shock campaign declarations.
If Javier Milei manages to obtain the necessary support, he wants to implement shock measures to put an end, as he says, "to Argentine decadence".
The crucial question therefore remains to know to what extent this alliance of circumstance could last.
The Argentines who "barely manage to survive", have chosen the "chainsaw" to the Peronist continuity which has continued to push them into poverty....
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SPAGHETTI SQUASH WITH ITALIAN SAUSAGE
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Squash is a versatile fruit (yes, a fruit) that you can use in a myriad of recipes.
You can easily prepare these succulent fall recipes using squash.
Ingredients
Small spaghetti squash-2
Vegetable oil-10 ml (2 tsp)
Pepper-To taste
Onion-1
White mushrooms - 1 punnet of 227 g
Italian sausages-350 g (¾ lb)
Grated mozzarella cheese-125 g (1 cup)
Tomato coulis-1 bottle of approximately 675 ml
Baby spinach - 1 punnet of 142 g
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F). Place the rack in the center of the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (or a reusable baking sheet).
Cut the squash in half lengthwise. Using a spoon, remove the seeds and strings from inside the squash.
Using a kitchen brush, brush the inside of the squash with oil. Season generously with pepper and place the squash on the baking sheet, cut side down.
Bake them for 25 to 35 minutes or until the tip of a knife easily inserts into the flesh.
Meanwhile, chop the onion, slice the mushrooms and remove the sausage casings.
In a large, high-sided non-stick skillet preheated over medium-high heat, without adding any fat, crumble the sausage meat using a wooden spoon. Cook it for 2 or 3 minutes, until it starts to brown.
Add the onion and mushrooms to the pan. Continue cooking for 7 or 8 minutes, avoiding handling them too much to allow them to brown well.
Meanwhile, grate the cheese.
Reduce heat to medium-low. Add the tomato coulis and spinach, then mix. Continue cooking for 3 or 4 minutes, until the sauce is hot.
Divide the sauce among the cooked squash halves and top them with cheese. Brown them under the grill for 2 minutes or until the cheese is browned. Serve everything.
You can use whatever vegetables you have on hand for this recipe. Zucchini, peppers, celery, carrots, kale or Swiss chard... All will give a good result ! |
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FRANCE MECHANICAL ORANGE
16-YEAR-OLD THOMAS KILLED WITH KNIVES
BY A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE CITY |  Strong indignation is sweeping through a section of the political class following the death of a 16-year-old teenager in Crépol, a village in Drôme. The young man lost his life following a knife attack during the intrusion of around ten people during an evening organized by the town.
This tragic event arouses emotion within right-wing and far-right circles. Thomas, a 16-year-old boy, was fatally stabbed on the night of Saturday to Sunday during the "winter ball" in Crépol, a village with barely more than 500 inhabitants in Drôme. “His family will remain dignified and will not incite a riot. As usual, some will keep silent about his murder perpetrated by individuals who came to Crépol to attack young French people,” declares the leader of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour, on X ( formerly Twitter).
Thomas, a “victim of wildness”
A group of at least ten people infiltrated the village hall in the middle of the evening. A security agent, denying them access, was injured by a stab. In difficulty, participants left the evening, triggering a general fight, specifies the Valencia prosecutor, Laurent de Caigny.
Thomas died of a stab wound while on his way to Lyon hospital.
The leader of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, interprets the death of the teenager as a “victim of the savagery of France”. “No, Thomas was not simply in the wrong place at the wrong time!”, affirms the MP for Alpes-Maritimes.
The emotion and grief are palpable in Crépol. Denouncing "the barbarity and tragedy" of the night, the RC Romans-Péage rugby club, to which the young man belonged, posted on social networks a photo of him, smiling, wearing his jersey. A minute of silence in tribute was observed this Sunday before a match organized by the club. The young boy's friends describe him as "a happy go lucky guy", always ready to bring others together and ease conflicts. "What happened at the ball in Crépol, a village in the Drôme, is not a simple 'brawl', as the media claim: it is the effect of a savagery which disrupts lives and shatters them others,” writes the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.
Darmanin reacts “faster for a crushed cat”
The observation is shared by Bruno Retailleau. The head of the LR senators evokes on social networks "the state of ultra-violence into which part of our youth is sinking", attributed largely to the feeling of impunity. For the moment, the government, like the left, maintains a discreet silence. Gérald Darmanin, usually quick to react, has not yet spoken, causing annoyance within Reconquête.
The Minister of the Interior "reacted more quickly for a cat crushed by a TGV than for Thomas, massacred by the barbarians of Romans-sur-Isère 15 kilometers from Crépol", deplores Marion Maréchal, candidate for the European elections. She refers to the cat crushed by a train in Paris last January, which deeply shocked the tenant of Place Beauvau. According to the first elements collected, the group's aggression seemed to be premeditated and "perhaps linked to a dispute with someone" present at the evening, explains Laurent de Caigny. The vagueness remains regarding the motivations of the attackers, "but an element collected allows us to consider that this expedition is not simply justified by the simple intention of 'going to the ball' in Crépol", specifies a judicial source.
An investigation into “homicide and attempted homicide” by an “organized gang” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes. No suspects have yet been apprehended. |
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JOE BIDEN AND XI YINPING SUMMIT
REUNION DESPITE STRONG RIVALRIES
IN INTERDEPENDENCE |
 American President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will meet face-to-face on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, near San Francisco on the sidelines of the Apec summit.
The time has come for appeasement between China and the United States. This is the message that Xi Jinping and Joe Biden will try to convey during their meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning in San Francisco, on the sidelines of the APEC summit. Beijing, Monday.
The American president is due to meet with his counterpart for several hours, near San Francisco, California, on the sidelines of an Apec summit, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
According to Voice of America, the meeting, scheduled for 6:45 p.m. GMT, will take place in an upscale and bucolic estate, about forty kilometers from the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
The two men want to show that the rivalry between their two countries remains under control. In an international context complicated by conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, this meeting, which takes place a year before the American presidential election, will allow them to discuss "peace and development in the world", assured Joe Biden .
No “decoupling”
Despite geopolitical rivalries and security tensions, despite the trade war started by Donald Trump and continued by Joe Biden, the decoupling of the two economies is no longer at all relevant, Americans and Chinese assure in unison. Jack Sullivan, the White House Security Advisor, puts it in full: “the United States and China have interdependent economies”. Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, warns that “a complete breakdown would have significant negative repercussions on the economy.” In Beijing, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs goes further: “We are opposed to a definition of Sino-American relations in terms of competition.” The very nationalist Chinese daily Global Times explains that the big subject of San Francisco is the stabilization of economic relations between the two countries to revive global growth.
Just before this tête-à-tête, the tone was intended to be very conciliatory. “We are not trying to decouple ourselves from China,” Joe Biden assured Tuesday, for whom the objective is to “be able to pick up the phone and talk to each other if there is a crisis.”
“We are opposed to a definition of Sino-American relations in terms of competition,” even said a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The two leaders, who have known each other for several years, spoke for three hours on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia a year ago. The relationship has since turned sour, particularly with the flight over American territory by a Chinese balloon at the start of the year. Joe Biden irritated Beijing by highlighting in February the “enormous problems” that, according to him, China encounters economically.
Previous provocative statements
We are a long way from the provocative statements of March when Xi Jinping criticized, with rare virulence, an American strategy of “encirclement” while Washington is strengthening its alliances in the Asia-Pacific. China denounces the sanctions imposed on it by the United States in the technological field, while Washington protests against Beijing's "provocative" actions in the South China Sea.
Even the famous “panda diplomacy” had suffered from the cold snap: on November 8, the three giant pandas from the Washington Zoo left for China, marking the end of an animal-diplomatic practice begun in 1972.
The tone between Washington and Beijing, however, softened enough in the summer to allow the organization of the Californian face-to-face meeting.
Taiwan, Israel, Ukraine
Joe Biden “wants to ensure that we manage this very important bilateral relationship in the most responsible manner possible,” White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Tuesday.
On the American side, China is expected to guarantee its non-interference in Taiwan's next presidential election in January 2024, to begin military de-escalation in the South China Sea and to put an end to its intimidation operations around the island
The status of the island, of which Beijing claims sovereignty, and to which Washington provides substantial military assistance, remains a central subject of friction. The increase in demonstrations of force by the Chinese army off the coast of Taiwan worries the United States, as the presidential election on the island looms in January. On the Chinese side, the visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the American House of Representatives, in August 2022, was very poorly received by Beijing, which had suspended most regular military communications with the United States.
“Xi Jinping will once again defend the One China policy before President Biden. Because the impassable red line, as the Chinese government has repeatedly said, is the question of Taiwan!”, advances RFI Gao Zhikai, vice-president of the Center on China and Globalization in Beijing. Joe Biden must reaffirm to China that Washington does not support independence for Taiwan, and that American policy on the matter has not changed.
The two leaders must also address the two major conflicts of the moment: in Ukraine and the Middle East. Before the meeting, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her administration was "concerned that equipment critical to Russia's military effort is evading [US] sanctions and being delivered to Russia. " The United States certainly does not expect China to cut ties with Russia, but hopes that it does not further deepen its friendship with Vladimir Putin by directly supplying him with weapons.As part of the outfit annual meeting of the Xiangshan Security Forum Zhang Youxi, first vice-president of the Central Military Commission, expressed China's wish to deepen cooperation with Russia in the military field. “China stands ready to actively work with Russia to respond to various security threats and challenges in order to jointly safeguard global strategic balance and security,” he said, quoted by the official agency. New China.
The United States also asks China not to aggravate major international crises, and in particular the war between Israel and Hamas, which Joe Biden does not want to see spread. “They have lines of communication in the region that we don't have,” John Kirby said, referring to the relationship between Beijing and Iran. Building on its recent mediation in the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the United States hopes that China will put pressure on Tehran so that the Shiite power does not seek to become more involved in the Gaza war.
However, during international crises, "China loves to be seen as a major player, but it is very little involved in resolving problems. It is first and foremost focused on its own issues, particularly economic and strategic, because it likes also increase the circle of those who can support it", underlines Valérie Niquet, head of the Asia pole at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS)
Renewing a joint dialogue
The crisis in Taiwan has damaged the military relationship between China and the United States. Washington wants a resumption of dialogue. “President [Biden] is committed to seeing the restoration of military-to-military ties because he believes it is in the national security interests of the United States,” said Jake Sullivan, the American adviser to national security, on the American channel CBS. “He believes that communication between armies is necessary to ensure that this competition does not escalate into conflict.”
If the United States wants to control any escalation in the military domain, while maintaining vigorous competition in the technological and economic domains, China does not distinguish between these domains, because they are interconnected.
A working group on joint climate action
Tuesday, on the eve of the meeting between the two men, China and the United States announced the upcoming creation of a working group on climate cooperation, a few weeks before the international climate conference (COP28 ).
This working group will focus on "energy transition, methane, circular economy and resource efficiency, low-carbon and sustainable provinces/states and cities, and deforestation", it said in a statement shared by Chinese state media and the US State Department. The members of the group will lead “dialogue and cooperation in order to accelerate concrete actions in favor of the climate”, according to the text.
The meeting between the two largest CO2 emitters countries "offers tempting hope in terms of climate action", estimates, in an article, Kate Logan, of the Asia Society Policy Institute, a few days before the opening of the COP28 in Dubai, November 30. “A high-level agreement between the United States and China could provide the change of course necessary to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C” increase compared to the pre-industrial era, she assures. .
Why this change of tone ?
Both leaders currently find themselves in a delicate phase on the domestic front, where the need for positive economic outcomes is more crucial than ever. In the United States, with the election just a year away, polls reveal growing skepticism toward Bidenomics among the population. In order to preserve the growth that the United States is experiencing, it is imperative to ease tensions that could potentially hamper the national economy. In Beijing, Xi Jinping is resigned to reality: China will not become the leading world power as quickly as initially expected. Faced with slowing growth and rising unemployment, particularly among young people, Xi recognizes that now is not the ideal time to clash with such a crucial trading partner. Indeed, the American market represents a vital outlet necessary to maintain the operation of factories and revive an activity devastated by the real estate crisis.
Recent figures for "Singles' Day", the Chinese equivalent of "Black Friday", which occurred on November 11, are hardly encouraging, according to Reuters. Exports recorded a fall of 6.4% year-on-year in October, and the youth unemployment situation in urban areas has reached such a worrying level since June (21.3%) that the government has reportedly decided to no longer report publicize these figures.
On the Chinese side, demands revolve around the review of customs duties, the lifting of controls on American exports to China and the easing of sanctions against Chinese companies. These aspirations reflect Beijing's desire to strengthen its commercial ties with the United States in an increasingly complex and uncertain economic context. An easing of tensions could bring American companies back to the Chinese market.
A group of big bosses very involved in the largest market in the world such as Elon Musk with Tesla will participate in the dinner organized in honor of Xi Jinping. Their investments and their purchases are more welcome than ever to support Chinese growth.
What to expect from this summit ?
Obviously, the grievances harbored on both sides are too numerous and too deep to hope for anything other than the affirmation in Beijing and Washington of the shared desire to renew a dialogue conducive to rebuilding the path of mutual trust. . For Masahiro Okoshi, head of the Washington Bureau of the Japanese media Nikkei Asia, - quoted by Pierre-Antoine Donnet in Asialyst - it would be illusory for the United States to expect from this summit a change in strategy from the Chinese regime to towards America. According to him, nourishing the hope of a change in Chinese strategy towards America would be illusory.
The crucial aspect of the meeting between Biden and Xi lies in the possibility for each to truly understand the other's position. He believes that this mutual understanding would potentially be more meaningful than resounding declarations.
Thus, beyond the spectacular announcements, the real challenge would be to promote a deep understanding of the respective positions. These reflections shed light on the complexity of Sino-American relations, in a delicate geopolitical context.
“The San Francisco meeting will at least have allowed the American and Chinese presidents to speak directly to each other. And therefore to avoid misunderstandings which can lead to the worst,” according to a specialist.
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WHY TARGETED IDF OPERATIONS
ON THE AL-CHIFA HOSPITAL IN GAZA ? |
 The Israeli army launched a "targeted" operation on Wednesday in the al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, which it accuses of housing an underground Hamas base, something the Islamist movement and the management of the establishment deny.
What is the status of the Israeli army's operation in al-Chifa hospital ?
And what does international law say ?
The Israeli army raid continues on the grounds of al-Chifa hospital this Thursday, November 16. . Officially, for Israel, this is an operation "targeted [...] against Hamas in a specific sector of the hospital". For years, Israelis have accused Hamas of using Gaza hospitals as bases. And for them, there is no doubt, Hamas "operates inside and under" the Al-Chifa hospital, the most important in the Palestinian enclave.
On October 27, 2023, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari claimed to have “concrete evidence that the hospital was used to hide Hamas members.” He presented, during a press conference, photographs and audio recordings proving, according to him, that the Islamist movement had several underground complexes hidden under the hospital, accessible through the network of tunnels located under the strip of Gaza, and an entry into one of the services.
Accusations supported on November 14 by the White House, which claimed to have American intelligence according to which Hamas would use the al-Chifa hospital to direct its military operations and probably store weapons.
This is not the first time that a link has been established between Hamas and this hospital. In a report published in 2015, the NGO Amnesty International accused the Islamist movement of having tortured and summarily executed Palestinians during the Israeli military offensive against Gaza in July and August 2014.
“Some [people] were subjected to interrogation and torture, or otherwise mistreated in an abandoned outpatient clinic located on the grounds of al-Chifa hospital,” the NGO noted.
The political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinouar confirmed, in 2021, that his movement operates a vast network of tunnels “exceeding 500 kilometers”.
Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old woman taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, said after her release that she walked for miles through tunnels in Gaza that resembled "a spider's web."
Weapons, ammunition and military equipment found
Twenty-four hours after entering what the IDF presents as a strategic Hamas military platform, the Israeli army confirmed that its "soldiers" were still deployed in the largest hospital complex in Gaza where they are still located, according to the UN, some 2,300 people. Among which are patients, caregivers, and even displaced people.
An adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the army had found weapons and "other things."
“We entered the hospital on the basis of actionable intelligence,” assured Mark Regev to the American television channel MSNBC. And while the terrorist organization denies Israel's accusations, the IDF claims to have found "munitions, weapons and military equipment" from Hamas.
In particular, photographs of weapons, grenades and other military equipment were published. “Images relating to hostages” captured during the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 were also found on computers seized during the intervention. According to Israeli authorities, no clashes or skirmishes occurred inside the hospital center, whether with civilians, patients or nursing staff
The unease of Israel's closest supporters.
Faced with this IDF military operation, the international community fears an irreversible deterioration of humanitarian conditions and access to care. The UN, which has repeatedly denounced the counter-offensive led by Israel, said it was "horrified" by the intervention of Israeli soldiers in a hospital compound.
Unease seems to be spreading even to Israel's closest supporters. American President Joe Biden called on the Israeli army during the night from Wednesday to Thursday to be “extremely cautious” in conducting its operation at the hospital. Washington also declared this Wednesday that it had not "given the green light to operations around the al-Chifa hospital", any more than it does for Israel's other military decisions.
For its part, France, which has claimed since the bloody attack of October 7 "Israel's right to defend itself", expressed "its very deep concern", believing that the Palestinian population had "no to pay for Hamas' crimes. On the sidelines of a trip to Switzerland, President Emmanuel Macron condemned “with the greatest firmness” the bombing of civilian infrastructure.
"Because Israel is a democracy, signatory to the same texts and the same charters as us, we have always said that this right to defend oneself must be part of international humanitarian law and respecting the rules of war, and therefore in particular the civilian populations,” he said.
Unsurprisingly, however, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday described Israel as a "terrorist state", denouncing the cost in human life of Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip. A key mediator in the negotiations on the release of hostages still in the hands of Hamas, Qatar has for its part called for "an international investigation" into the Israeli raids on hospitals in Gaza, describing the operation in the al-Chifa establishment as "war crime".
A worsening humanitarian situation
Since October 7, the humanitarian situation in Gaza has continued to deteriorate. Despite a first delivery of just over 23,000 liters of fuel on Wednesday via the Rafah crossing in the south of the territory, the UN warned that its aid operations in Gaza were "on the verge of collapse" and the head of United Nations humanitarian affairs called on Wednesday for an end to “the carnage in Gaza”.
Due to lack of fuel, the Palestinian telecoms operator Paltel announced on Wednesday "a suspension of all telecommunications services within a few hours" and could "further threaten the lives of the population of Gaza", the Human Rights organization warned on Thursday. Watch.
On Wednesday, nearly 650 people, foreigners, dual nationals and wounded Palestinians, were evacuated to Egypt through Rafah, reported the Palestinian authority in charge of operations at the border terminal.
The Israeli army, for its part, assured to provide the hospital with “incubators, baby food and medical supplies”.
The focus on the humanitarian crisis in hospitals has reinforced international calls for a ceasefire, which for Hamas would likely mean an opportunity to regroup, recover and strike again.
And what exactly does international law say ?
An exception to the rule in cases of “harmful acts”
Under international law, hospitals are entitled to protection during conflicts. But they can become legitimate targets under certain conditions, particularly if they are used for military purposes.
This is also what Article 18 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War says: “Civilian hospitals organized to provide care to the wounded, the sick, the infirm and women in childbirth may not, under any circumstances, be the object of attacks; they will, at all times, be respected and protected by the parties to the conflict".
But, in the following article, an exception to this rule is specified. “The protection due to civilian hospitals may only cease if they are used to commit, outside of humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy,” details the Convention, without defining the latter.
It was on this basis that Israeli troops struck targets near Gaza hospitals, and even targets located inside them, and entered medical buildings.
As they retreated from the hospital on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers left behind medicine, baby food and bottles of water.
The presence of weapons, if proven, could be included in the list of "harmful acts" and call into question the protection of the hospital, according to an article from the International Committee of the Red Cross, published on November 6.
“When they (hospitals) are used to directly or indirectly interfere in military operations and thereby harm the enemy, the rationale for this protection disappears.
This is particularly the case when a hospital is used as a launch base for an attack, an observation post used to transmit information of military interest, an arms depot, a liaison center with armed troops, or even to shelter able-bodied combatants", underlines the humanitarian aid institution.
Unlike Hamas, which does not claim to respect international conventions, it is up to Israel to prove that it is not violating international humanitarian law.
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PRESIDENTIAL IN ARGENTINA
TWO DIAMETRALLY OPPOSED CANDIDATES ARRIVE IN THE FIRST ROUND |  Sunday October 22, 2023, Argentinians went to the polls for the first round of the presidential election. The candidate of the government bloc and current Minister of the Economy, Sergio Massa, came first with 36.6% of the votes, ahead of the libertarian Javier Milei, at 30%. They will both contest the second round on November 19, with a view to an inauguration on December 10.
Javier Milei as an outsider.
In the current presidential campaign, Javier Milei stands out as an outsider. This trained economist became known thanks to his columns on Argentine television. Two years ago, he achieved an electoral breakthrough during the partial legislative elections in Buenos Aires, obtaining 17% of the vote. Nicknamed “El Loco” (“the madman”), Javier Milei is an atypical public figure. He named his dogs after liberal economists and reportedly used a psychic to make policy decisions.
Deeply reform the State.
While Argentines are exhausted by over-indebtedness and rising prices, Javier Milei, 53, highlights his training in economics and proposes shock measures. He advocates significant tax cuts, the flexibilisation of labor laws, privatizations and the abolition of social assistance. Javier Milei has the “paternalistic state” in his sights.
This “chainsaw plan”, as he calls it, must put an end to social justice, which he considers “synonymous with budget deficit”. A radical speech, even as Argentina struggles to get its head above water, with inflation hovering around 140% in 2023. If elected, Javier Milei has promised to “dollarize” the economy Argentina, ensuring that this would break the rise in prices.
Self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist", he describes himself as libertarian, with a libertarian touch. He thus says he is opposed to abortion, but envisages a market for the sale of organs.
He quickly gained popularity thanks to his bold ideas and incisive, sometimes insulting language. During his rallies, he urges his voters "Let them all go, so that there is not one left!", he chants during his meetings, where he promises to clear "with blows kick in the ass" the "political caste which parasitizes" Argentina. Self-designating as "anarcho-capitalist", he defines himself as libertarian.
Javier Milei is also a showman. During his rallies, he describes himself as "the lion" who will save Argentina, referring to his tousled hairstyle, and chanting his provocative slogan:
“Long live freedom, damn it!” He promises to restore Argentina to its status as a "world power" and to make the country a "promised land" of emigration, like the beginning of the 20th century. This quest for a “rediscovered greatness” recalls the admiration he has expressed on several occasions for Donald Trump. In the past, Javier Milei was also a footballer and a rock singer, elements that he highlights on social networks to boost his popularity.
In the midst of an inflationary crisis with a price increase of 138% in one year, the "anti-system" candidate who wishes to put an end to "social justice" maintains a solid chance of winning the election.
Economy Minister Sergio Massa, heir to Peronism
On the other hand, his opponent Sergio Massa places the economy at the center of his program, seeking to strengthen public companies. Having previously granted numerous budgetary expenditures to mitigate the impact of inflation, the centrist candidate must now defend his record. He undertakes to increase the trade balance surplus, to repay the debt contracted with the International Monetary Fund, and to restore fiscal order.
Positioning himself above political divisions, Sergio Massa aspires to be the candidate of unity. After the announcement of the results, he promised to form a "government of national unity", thus opening the door to alliances on the left and the right. He appeals to all those who share democratic values.
As for Javier Milei, he reaches out to the center-right coalition which obtained 23.6% of the vote, declaring: "Let's work together to change our country."
The outcome of the election remains uncertain, and the second round is scheduled for November 19.
It remains to be seen how voters who did not vote for the two main candidates will influence the outcome, with Sergio Massa having a reserve of votes on the left, but potentially needing to gain votes from the traditional right side that his appeal appeals to rival.
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LOOTTING OF THE SACRE-COEUR BASILICA
FROM ROUEN |
 The Sacré-Cœur basilica in Rouen, in Seine-Maritime, was “ransacked” on the night of November 14 to 15, said Father Geoffroy de La Tousche. In a video published on social networks, the parish priest of Rouen explained that he discovered the basilica in an “absolutely terrible” state this Wednesday.
“A statue was broken. Sacred vessels have been stolen. The altar and the choir are in a terrible state, broken. By chance, grace or providence, the holy sacrament was not stolen,” reacted, still in shock, Father Geoffroy de La Tousche.
The parish priest of Rouen thus invited the faithful and Catholics to “pray […] for the parish”. He will meet them this Thursday, November 16 at 6:15 p.m. “for a time of prayer and reparation, at the request of the archbishop.” “At 6:30 p.m. we will celebrate mass, with new vases lent to us,” he continued.
The priest estimated the damage at “tens of thousands of euros”. A complaint was filed and an investigation was opened .
The investigation is to determine whether this act is linked to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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UNITED KINGDOM
AFTER THE DISMISSAL OF SUELLA BRAVERMANN
THE SURPRISE RETURN OF DAVID CAMERON |
 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffles his government. Rishi Sunak has distanced himself from his Interior Minister, Suella Braverman, after increasing his number of controversial outings in recent weeks.
Recently she published a controversial column in which she describes the pro-Palestinian demonstrations as "a march of hatred" and questions the neutrality of the London police without having obtained the green light from Downing Street. Suella Braverman is replaced by James Cleverly, previously holder of the foreign affairs post.
And, to everyone's surprise, Rishi Sunak calls David Cameron, foreign affairs.
David Cameron's surprise "comeback"
Away from the British political scene since the 2016 referendum, David Cameron makes a surprise return to government as Foreign Minister.
This game of musical chairs sounds like an attempt by Rishi Sunak to breathe new life into the Conservatives, well ahead of Labor in the polls, as the legislative elections approach.
Commenting on this surprise return to business, David Cameron, who went to 10 Downing Street on Monday morning, said he was ready to put his "experience" at the service of the government while the United Kingdom must face " formidable international challenges, notably the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East", as he declared on X (ex-Twitter).
“While I may have disagreed with some particular decisions, it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and competent Prime Minister, who is showing exemplary leadership at a difficult time,” he said. he rocks.
No one imagined such a turnaround for the former Prime Minister, aged 57, who has remained away from the British political scene since the Brexit vote in 2016.
David Cameron had conceded this referendum to the clan of Eurosceptic conservatives, betting on a “yes” victory to put an end to internal debates on Europe within his party. By underestimating the Brexit vote, he made a mistake considered historic which cost him his place in Downing Street.
Since resigning, he has held several administrative positions within international charitable organizations and carried out consulting missions for various commissions. However, in 2020, his career was marred by a controversy linked to his links with Greensill Capital, just before the debacle of this investment fund, closely linked to the activities of steel magnate, Sanjeev Gupta. As a lobbyist for Greensill, David Cameron would have contacted numerous government authorities to obtain public aid before the bankruptcy...
Sunak's joker for the elections
To appoint him Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rishi Sunak had to circumvent the practice according to which only those elected to Parliament can enter the government. No longer elected to the House of Commons since 2016, David Cameron was urgently co-opted into the House of Lords.
With this reshuffle, the ruling conservative party hopes to relaunch itself a few months before the legislative elections scheduled for 2025.
But Tim Bale, a political scientist at Queen Mary University in London, says he is "very skeptical" about the success of the maneuver: "It seems desperate."
The Tories remain weighed down by a stagnating economy, the highest inflation in the rich G7 countries and the deep crisis of the public health system. A poll published this weekend by the Survation Institute suggests that the opposition will win an even stronger majority than that of Tony Blair in 1997.
The news was well received in European capitals
For the former ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, Peter Ricketts, David Cameron "had good relations with many world leaders, went into detail on foreign policy and managed crises calmly. A great experience which will be very useful in the current period". |
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ELECTRIC CARS AND REVOLUTIONS
ACT I |
 The upheaval in the automobile sector will be unprecedentedly radical, as fierce as the transition from the steam engine to the internal combustion engine, it is predicted. And not everyone will gain from the change !!!
When we think that only a few years ago we thought of oil-powered cars. But Dieselgate passed like a hurricane, razing our old certainties and the whole environment opened up other perspectives, including the most anticipated: the electric car.
The whole environment ?
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and clean the air locally ?
A name of “ecological car” which has already been controversial since its (re)birth....
A truism: the only truly ecological car is the one that doesn't exist !
But which capital has not announced with great fanfare its desire to ban thermal engines from cities:
Paris, Madrid, Oslo, Athens to achieve by 2030 more than 30% for the market share of hybrid or electric vehicles.
Economic revolution
Predictions to be taken seriously as the automotive industry is about to face a big bang!
In any case, it is a radical upheaval that is expected for both manufacturers and users.
When we know that from the first link, manufacturers will have to change their production chains and put billions of euros on the table even though there is uncertainty over the choice of investment:
100% electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid ?
No one knows yet.
Prudence requires at PSA we have chosen "a multi-energy platform strategy which allows industrial investments to be amortized" reveals Christian Chapelle, responsible for the development of traction chains for the PSA group.
The other manufacturers are following suit, except Renault and Tesla, but at what cost ?
The Renault-Nissan Alliance did not hesitate to invest 4 billion euros. But so many changes underway:
1° For engines, this activity employed 112,000 employees in 2015 spread across 126 factories in Europe.
“ If the market moves towards hybrid, it will be good news for automotive employment, because manufacturing this type of model requires 50% more time than for a thermal vehicle,” comments Laurent Petizon, director at AlixPartners. But if it's the other way around...
2° The employee’s profile. The zero-emission vehicle requires more qualifications in electronics and "soft" than in mechanics...
3°The margins will decrease the cost structure of the electric vehicle being higher than for thermal vehicles..
Hence savings plans to be planned for groups like Daimler: 4 billion.
Equipment manufacturers in the automotive world of tomorrow will have to quickly get up to speed:
so experts from the financial services company UBS dismantled piece by piece a Chevrolet Bolt from General Motors, sold in Europe under the name Opel Ampera-e.
Result: the Korean LG contributed more than 50% to the content of the vehicle with its battery and a myriad of key modules. Traditional equipment manufacturers, such as Delphi or Bosch, only account for 28%. So a turn to take eminently for some…
Oil and tankers will also have to change their strategy if the projections of the International Energy Agency (IEA) come true:
nearly 450 million electric cars would be on the roads by 2035 (battery and plug-in hybrids combined).
A drop of 4 million barrels per day in global oil consumption which does not seem dramatic compared to the 55 million barrels per day for the automobile industry.
In addition, the fleet of "classic" cars in emerging countries should continue to increase, without counting that of buses and trucks for air and maritime transport needs...
And it is up to oil companies to stay on track with the development of greener alternative fuels (bio and gas) and to prepare for technological change.
What they are already doing since the battery manufacturer Saft was bought by Total which
will install charging stations. To Shell for having taken over the Dutch electric charging specialist NewMotion at the head of 30,000 private points and 50,000 public points in Europe.
Mining companies specializing in cobalt, lithium, nickel or graphite present in batteries are big winners. Just like copper producers
Battery manufacturers have everything to gain.
Moreover, in battery chemistry, the Asians Panasonic, LG Chem, Samsung, CATL and others have acquired a decisive lead.
However, accumulators (10,000 euros on average) today represent half the cost of manufacturing an electric vehicle and more than a third of its final price !!!
Aside from Mercedes, the others source their supplies from Asia before assembling the packs in their factories.
A dependence on Asia is worrying for Brussels, which would consider setting up an “Airbus of automobile batteries” in Europe.
Tesla did not wait to install its "Boeing" in Nevada...
As for mechanics, they will have to pass authorizations issued by a training organization.
In the case of the hybrid, two approvals will be required to master the new technology.
Midas, Speedy, Norauto and others will also see around 20% of traditional interventions disappear but these networks with the largest resources are already very focused on electronics.
To be continued....
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THE ERUPTION OF THE FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO
IMMINENT PUTS ICELAND ON ALERT STATE |
 An imminent threat looms over Iceland with the possible eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano.
An intense series of earthquakes shook the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland, starting on Friday, November 10, 2023. Hundreds of earthquakes were detected by regional seismometer networks and several were strong enough to be felt in Reykjavik, 50 kilometers away. A civil protection alert was triggered warning of the risk of a volcanic eruption – it would be the fourth since 2021.
Iceland straddling a collapsing ditch
Iceland sits majestically on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a place where the North American and Eurasian plates are gradually moving away from each other, at a rate of about 2 centimeters per year. In the depths of the Earth's mantle, where the rocks adopt the consistency of extremely rigid caramels, the plates agree to deform in an uninterrupted manner.
However, as they approach the surface, the rocks of the earth's crust reveal their cold and brittle nature: their extension only occurs at the cost of their rupture. The Reykjanes Peninsula forms the southwest tip of Iceland, where the Mid-Atlantic Rift emerges from the ocean. There, the Earth's crust responds to relentless tectonic forces by cracking every few centuries, giving rise to a collapse gap, commonly called a rift.
The last sequence of crustal rupture and eruptions dates back more than 800 years. Since then, the plates should have moved apart by about sixteen meters. Currently, Iceland is experiencing a new phase of rupture, marked by hundreds, if not thousands, of earthquakes, many strong enough to be felt in the southwest of the island. All these phenomena are caused by the intrusion of magma close to the surface.
Each earthquake and eruption releases some of the energy stored in these tectonic plates, and eventually, when all of this tension is completely released, the eruptions will end. Crustal ruptures are facilitated by the presence of magma, acting as a lubricant, a feature shared with other ocean ridges. Magma forms continuously at depth, and its density means it will rise.
Within the rigid and brittle crust, magma can only make its way by following existing fractures, if any. However, once it begins its ascent, it traces its path towards increasingly shallow areas, thus intensifying the risk of eruption.
In early November 2023, the Icelandic government declared a state of emergency in the area surrounding the Fagradalsfjall volcano, following a series of earthquakes, often warning indicators of a volcanic eruption.
On November 11, 2023, preventive measures were announced to mitigate the possible devastating effects of an impending eruption. The response plan by the authorities and the tourism industry was activated in response to recent developments, including the numerous earthquakes recorded in Reykjanes, as reported on the government website in English.
As part of these measures, the town of Grindavík, home to 4,000 inhabitants, was evacuated to ensure the safety of residents. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) expresses serious concerns about the possibility of large quantities of magma spreading underground, which could erupt in the region. Scientists are carefully monitoring the region's seismic activity.
“Since midnight on November 11, approximately 800 earthquakes have been recorded in the area where the magma intrusion is occurring. Although seismic activity has decreased slightly in recent hours, it remains high.
Most of the recent earthquakes occurred near Grindavík, where the southwest end of the magmatic dike intrusion is estimated to be present," the IMO said. At midday on November 11, the Office meteorologist published on Twitter a map of ground deformations in the region, described as "much higher than normal".
With around 30 active volcanoes over 100,000 square kilometers, Iceland strives to best manage the anticipation of volcano-related risks. In the case of Fagradalsfjall, the threat comes from underground magma that could soon emerge.
An imminent eruption with the release of magma
The possibility of an imminent eruption with the emergence of magma now concerns observers. Signs of this threat are manifested by a progressive deformation of the Earth's surface, signaling the intrusion of fresh magma into the crust. Over the past weekend, the situation has evolved dynamically. Parameters such as the size, number and location of earthquakes clearly indicate the filling of a crustal fracture with magma, at a depth of about 5 kilometers.
The magma persists in its intrusion, widening the ends of the fracture and creating a passage through the crust, thus forming a "dike" - a vein of rock infiltrated into a fissure - about 15 kilometers long. Although the magma has not yet reached the surface, ground movements and computer models suggest that a magma reservoir has built up within a kilometer of the surface.
Anticipation of an imminent eruption remains high, but monitoring teams will only be able to determine the precise time and location when they detect specific signals indicating magma movement. These signs could include a repetitive "buzzing" of volcanic tremors, announcing a possible eruption in the coming hours, or an increase in earthquakes at very shallow depths.
The results
Currently, the dike appears to extend directly beneath the town of Grindavik, a fishing community in southwest Iceland. If a surface eruption occurs, it could resemble those of 2021-2023 at Fagradalsfjall, with a fissure opening onto the earth, fountains of hot red molten rock, and lava flowing down the hillside from the site of the rash.
The potential threat will depend on the exact location of the start of the eruption and how far the lava has traveled. Fumes emanating from erupting magma, combined with the burning of peat and vegetation, could also create toxic air, depending on the speed of the eruptions and the direction of the winds.
In the event of an eruption in Grindavik, the consequences could be comparable to those of the Eldfell eruption in 1973, which buried part of the town of Heimaey.
This is why a preventive evacuation of the town, the nearby Svartsengi geothermal power plant, and the Blue Lagoon, one of Iceland's most popular tourist attractions, is currently underway.
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ILLUMINATIONS OF THE CHAMPS ELYSEES
IN HONOR OF HOLIDAYS AND OLYMPIC GAMES |
 The prestigious Avenue des Champs-Élysées, stretching over 2.6 kilometers in the heart of Paris, is preparing to shine brightly in anticipation of the Holidays and the Olympic Games next summer. Indeed, it will be the exceptional setting for various sporting events, including the installation of a beach volleyball stadium on the Champ de Mars and the parade of the Paralympic Games ceremony scheduled for August 28, 2024.
Marc-Antoine Jamet, the president of the Champs-Elysées Committee, unveiled this Monday, October 30 in the morning, at the Barrière Le Fouquet's hotel, the new developments concerning the illuminations for the New Year celebrations and the innovations undertaken on the famous avenue Parisian. The illuminations ceremony for the end-of-year holidays, scheduled for November 19, will be honored by the presence of renowned actor Gilles Lellouche, an emblematic figure of French cinema with recognized talent, with successes such as "Les Petits mouchoirs " and "Bac Nord".
The sponsor of this special edition of the illuminations will be surrounded by institutions and, new in 2023, a family of three sick children, accompanied by the “Petits Princes” association. Together, they will have the honor of lighting the 400 trees that majestically line the Champs-Élysées.
It is the Provençal company Blachere Illuminations which is once again responsible for installing the light creations this year, which this year will follow “a more sustained three-step rhythm”. “Each hour will be marked by a strong and long sparkle, which will be repeated every quarter of an hour, and every five minutes the rhythm of sparkles will change, explains Marc-Antoine Jamet. The Committee of the Champs-Élysées also presents its new logo
integrating evolving pictograms according to the theme and a blue-white-red color palette.
These illuminations, placed under the sign of energy sobriety since the unprecedented extinction last year, reflect a total consumption estimated at around 13 300 kWh for 2023. This slight increase compared to the previous year is due to the extension of lighting by one week this year.
To further mark the identity of the Champs-Élysées, a new slogan is appearing this winter : "Let's light up the avenue, make Paris shine." Four new posters, inspired by the famous kisses of Times Square and City Hall, highlight the artery while capturing the romantic essence of the city.
As part of the ambitious “La Clef des Champs” project, the Champs-Élysées are also reinventing themselves visually. The Chairman of the Committee underlines the efforts made to make this avenue even more attractive for Parisians, based on the "3 P" strategy: becoming Parisian, popular and shared again. Among the many new features, the reorganization of the avenue's 17 terraces, supervised by Belgian designer Ramy Fischer, promises a modernized aesthetic and improved accessibility.
Welcoming 150,000 visitors daily and more than 250,000 on Sunday, the Champs-Élysées remains a dynamic place, combining cultural spaces, restaurants, food stores, and international brands such as JD Sports and Sephora. This vitality illustrates the success of the strategy adopted over the years, testifying to an avenue still at the height of its charm and attractiveness.
See you on November 19 from 6 p.m. to experience this magical moment.
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A RAISED CONSCIOUSNESS
NEAR DEATH |
 Tales of near-death experiences, white light, visits from deceased loved ones, voices, etc., capture our imaginations and are deeply embedded in our cultural landscape.
"Conscious" experiences of imminent death therefore, quite incompatible with the biological reality of a dying brain. Is it possible that the human brain is activated by the process of death?
Recently, researchers have reported increased electrical activity in the brains of dying people. It could be associated with last-minute conscious experiences, a new vision of the role played by the brain in this final stage of life.
To find out for sure, researchers at the University of Michigan in the United States have decided to study, in "more detail than ever before", the biological mechanism at work in the brain in all last moments.
The study, led by Jimo Borjigin, associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and the Department of Neurology, and his team, follows animal studies conducted nearly 10 years ago in collaboration with George Mashour, founding director from the Michigan Center for Consciousness Science.
A cerebral burst before a complete stop
The brain "on fire"
To do this, it was necessary to find dead patients, for the blow, of a cardiac arrest, but maintained under ventilatory assistance. And observe the signals of electrocardiogram and electroencephalography (EEG) before and after the withdrawal of the assistance, synonymous with brain death.
They studied the files of four people. When they were taken off their life support devices, two of them (a 24-year-old woman and a 77-year-old woman) saw their heart rates increase, and their brain activity also showed a spike in gamma waves. , at a frequency level usually associated… with consciousness.
In addition to confirming this stimulation, already observed in animals, these researchers have mainly identified the most stimulated part of the brain, the temporo-parieto-occipital junction, an area previously associated, among other things, with the memorization of dreams.
“A similar pattern was observed in healthy brains during wakefulness and dreaming, in patients experiencing visual hallucinations or out-of-body experiences,” the study describes.
Jimo Borjigin indicates, in support of these results obtained after observing a posterior area of the brain associated with consciousness: If this part of the brain is stimulated, it means that the patient sees something, can hear something and can potentially feel sensations outside his body.
She specifies that this specific area was “on fire!”.
In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which published their work on Monday, the scientists however draw limits to their study: they first concede that they do not really know why these signs have not been observed. in the other two patients, a history of seizures may have had an impact, they said.
George Mashour explains in a press release:
"How living experience can emerge from a dysfunctional brain during the dying process is a neuroscientific paradox. Dr. Borjigin has conducted an important study that helps shed light on the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms."
The beginnings of a "secret" consciousness still misunderstood
Due to the small sample size, the authors caution against making overarching statements about the implications of the results. They also note that it is impossible to know in this study what the patients experienced (because they did not survive to testify).
Larger studies, including EEG-monitored intensive care patients who survive cardiac arrest, could provide much-needed data to determine whether these bursts of gamma activity are evidence of hidden consciousness, even when approaching the death.
Although the mechanisms and physiological significance of these findings remain to be explored, these data demonstrate that the dying brain may still be active. They also suggest the need to reassess the role of the brain during cardiac arrest.
This study then lays the groundwork for further research into covert consciousness during cardiac arrest, which could serve as a model system to explore the mechanisms of human consciousness. |
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FRANCE THE EPOQUAUTO SHOW IN LYON
AN UNMISSABLE MEETING
FOR OLD CAR ENTHUSIASTS |
 The EpoquAuto Salon, the prestigious international event dedicated to classic automobiles, is celebrating its 44th edition in style. Every year, this show attracts thousands of vintage car lovers, collectors, and automotive history enthusiasts from all over the world. This year is no exception, and the event promises to be more grandiose than ever.
The EpoquAuto Salon is held in the heart of Lyon, the cradle of the French automobile industry, and offers a journey through time through an extraordinary collection of classic cars. Visitors will have the opportunity to admire rare and iconic vehicles, ranging from elegant Bugattis from the 1920s to legendary Italian sports cars from the 1970s.
The atmosphere of the show is steeped in nostalgia, and every corner of the showroom reveals a bygone era of automobiles. Restorers and collectors proudly display their restored treasures, demonstrating the artistry and passion required to keep these mechanical gems in working order.
In addition to cars, the show highlights a multitude of stands and exhibitions linked to the world of classic automobiles. From rare spare parts to vintage accessories, exhibitors offer a variety of treasures for restoration and customization enthusiasts.
It's a real flea market for automobile aficionados, where each discovery is a unique find.
The EpoquAuto Show is not only limited to static exhibition.
Enthusiasts will also have the chance to see these classic cars in action through on-track demonstrations. The roars of vintage engines echo through the aisles of the show, providing a unique immersive experience.
Classic race car parades bring to life the golden age of motor racing, transporting spectators to a world of speed and technology of the era.
In addition, the show is a meeting place for collectors, restorers, and classic automobile experts. This is the perfect opportunity to exchange stories, knowledge and experiences, thereby strengthening the community of enthusiasts.
Lively discussions on the particularities of each model and historical anecdotes abound, creating a warm and friendly atmosphere. The common passion for these unique automobiles brings people from all over the world together, breaking down borders and language barriers.
The EpoquAuto Show is much more than just an event for classic car enthusiasts.
It is a tribute to the heritage of the automotive industry, a journey into the past through mechanical wonders.
The 44th edition of this iconic event promises to once again amaze visitors from around the world.
If you have a passion for classic cars, don't miss this unparalleled celebration of vintage automobiles. It’s a must-see for anyone who appreciates the history, beauty and mechanics of these legendary vehicles. So, get ready to take a trip back in time at the EpoquAuto Show and let yourself be transported by the golden age of the automobile.
It's an event that celebrates not only cars, but also the art of preservation and sharing a timeless passion for these mechanical masterpieces. Each edition of the EpoquAuto Show is a living tribute to the history of the automobile and the determination of the enthusiasts who perpetuate it. |
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CAULIFLOWER AND BROCCOLI FLAN |  Before the bitter cold, after the Indian summer, the time has come for seasonal vegetables that are good, those that evoke grandmother's soup and winter gratins. Which is pretty good, since it’s more or less the ideal seasonal menu !
Ingredients
For 4 people
Cauliflower 0.5
Broccoli(s) 0.5
Egg(s) 4
Liquid cream 20 cl
Grated Gruyère 50 g
Curry 1 tbsp. coffee
Salt pepper Preparation
1° Cut the broccoli and cauliflower into florets. Place them in a pot of boiling salted water. Cook for 20 min. Check the cabbages for cooking and drain.
2° In a salad bowl, whisk the eggs with the liquid cream. Add curry ale, salt and pepper generously.
3° Distribute the cabbages in a gratin dish or in individual molds. Pour the egg mixture on top and sprinkle with grated cheese.
4° Bake the flan for 30 to 35 minutes (oven preheated to 160°C).
When the flan is cooked, remove the dish from the oven and enjoy hot ? |
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ALL GATHERED AT THE MARCH
AGAINST ANTISEMITISM IN PARIS |
 A march against anti-Semitism will take place in Paris on Sunday November 12, 2023, at the call of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher. The procession will leave at 3 p.m. from the Esplanade des Invalides, near the National Assembly, in the 7th arrondissement of the capital.
And will end at Edmond Rostand place, opposite the Senate, in the 6th. The route should connect the Assembly to the Senate, two Republican symbols. A great fraternal march bringing together “all those who recognize themselves in the values of the Republic and are determined to defend them” !
Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet called for a general mobilization, while anti-Semitic acts have multiplied in France, more than a thousand since the massacre of October 7, 2023 perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in Israel.
“A cry of conscience,” say Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet, “to declare to the world that the French Republic does not allow, and will never allow, abjection to flourish.” .
Because abjection is already spreading throughout the world, in Europe and in France in reaction to the resurgence of tensions between Israel and its neighbors.
These are men steeped in hatred who in Dagestan went to the Makhachkala airport screaming “Allah Akbah” in search of a plane coming from Tel Aviv to chase away the Jew.
It is also with the cry of “Allah Akbar” that the demonstrators call for peace in the streets of Paris and spreading the propaganda of the terrorist organization, that young people in the Paris metro have fun shouting “we are Nazis and we are proud.” Fanatical hatred sows horror.
We are witnessing the resurgence of uninhibited anti-Semitism, in Germany, Great Britain and France, but also on American campuses,
Already in Le Monde in 2012, the former President of CRIF, Richard Pasquier wrote :
“When for the first time since the end of the Second World War children are killed because they are Jewish with the crimes perpetrated in Toulouse by Mohamed Merah, when a grenade is thrown in broad daylight in a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles (. ..), this violence is not indiscriminate (...).
It is in the name of this anti-Semitism that Ilan Halimi was tortured to death by the Barbarian Gang in 2006.
Awareness must be national: this matter concerns us all.”
The tragic events of October 7 remind us sadly, revealing the fragilities of our democracies, the horror of hatred and despair, but they have also brought back the darkest hydra in History, warns Brice Socco.
“Anti-Semitism is a serious offense against man in general,” proclaimed Vladimir Jankélévitch.
The need to combat all discrimination.
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IS THE VOICE OF FRANCE BECOME INAUDIBLE
ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE ? |
 The French capital, where world summits take place, is currently becoming the scene of intensified diplomatic efforts. The French president indeed participates in various international events in Paris, created under his leadership since his election in 2017, in a context of strong international tensions.
However, the foreign press is wondering: does Emmanuel Macron's "voluntarism" translate into concrete results ?
And wouldn't its primary objective be above all to restore the lost greatness of France ?
A diplomatic ballet in Paris
The list of objectives was as long as the hopes of success were slim. This was the sentiment expressed by the foreign press on November 9, while the International Humanitarian Conference for the civilian population of Gaza took place in Paris, followed by the Annual Peace Forum from November 11, 2023.
The Head of State is inaugurating this Friday, November 11, 2023, the 6th edition of the Paris Peace Forum at the Palais Brongniart, dedicated this year to “building together in a world of rivalries”.
It will also close the One Planet summit on the poles and glaciers at the National Museum of Natural History, after similar meetings on the oceans in Brest and forests in Gabon.
Two linked, "connected" meetings, which are part of the "same logic of preparing international cooperation to avoid the crises of tomorrow and create more common goods", according to the term of the Élysée upstream of the sequence .
To conclude this diplomatic week, Macron will chair the 5th summit of the Christchurch Call, an initiative launched with New Zealand after the 2019 attack, aimed at combating terrorist content online. A new opportunity for the president to show initiative and affirm the strength of unity.
And to affirm that we are always stronger together. This is the vision of the President of the Republic, champion of multilateralism on the international scene.
Multilateralism in the spotlight
According to the Élysée, the Paris Forum manages to maintain multilateralism despite tensions and conflicts, by cooperating on subjects where collaboration is essential."
What we manage to do at the Paris Forum is that despite the tensions and despite the wars, we continue to bring multilateralism to life on subjects where we have no choice but to cooperate", explains today today the presidency to journalists
However, diplomatic hyperactivity in Paris raises concerns among correspondents, who fear that messages will be diluted in the multitude of summits.
Politico highlights Emmanuel Macron's impressive to-do list this week, from resolving the crisis in Gaza to tackling melting ice caps and the challenges of artificial intelligence.
A “humanitarian conference” at the initiative of Emmanuel Macron
France hosted on Thursday November 10, 2023 a “humanitarian conference” at the initiative of President Emmanuel Macron to facilitate aid to Gaza, hampered by Israeli bombings since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
After more than a month of strikes, hundreds of thousands of civilians, according to the UN, remain trapped in the north of the Gaza Strip, an area of intense Israeli offensive.
Around 1.5 million people of Gaza's 2.4 million inhabitants have been displaced by the conflict.
Emmanuel Macron stressed the need to work to protect civilians, calling for a rapid humanitarian pause and a ceasefire. He insisted on Israel's right to defend itself while emphasizing its responsibility to protect civilians.
“It is the protection of civilians that we must work on. For this we need a very rapid humanitarian pause and we must work for a ceasefire,” declared Emmanuel Macron in front of representatives of around fifty of countries and humanitarian organizations, which had until then only mentioned the need for a "truce".
If Israel has "the right to defend itself and the duty to protect its own", its government also has "an eminent responsibility (...) to respect the law and protect civilians", insisted the French president.
Paris also considers a truce necessary to obtain the release of some 240 hostages held by Hamas, including some French people.
At the end of the conference, the organizers announced that the commitments made yesterday by the participating countries exceeded one billion euros.
The disappointment of the NGOs
According to the White House, Israel has agreed to daily four-hour breaks. At the end of the conference, commitments from participating countries exceeded one billion euros.
However, the conference, organized as an emergency, mainly brought together only second-rate representatives in the absence of the Israeli government, and it took place without the participation of the belligerents and the United States.
Furthermore, despite financial commitments, much of the aid intended for the Palestinian territories, estimated at $1.2 billion by the end of 2023, risks being ineffective without regular access of aid trucks to Gaza. .
Humanitarian organizations have expressed their disappointment, stressing the impossibility of intervening as long as the bombings continue."
We are quite disappointed because there was no consensus on an immediate ceasefire (…).
Beyond the mobilized aid, the challenge is to get it back to Gaza,” said Jean-François Corty, vice-president of Médecins du Monde. Setting up relief on the battlefield is impossible.”
End of inadmissibility from Biden and Netanyahu
As if in response to these calls, the White House affirmed that Israel agreed to "daily" four-hour breaks in certain areas of the north "of the Gaza Strip, but US President Joe Biden ruled that there was “no possibility” of a real ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consistently rules out such a ceasefire without the release of the hostages.
An Israeli military official said Thursday that "there is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip," while acknowledging the "many difficulties" facing civilians in the Palestinian territory gripped by Israel's war. and Hamas. Israel "facilitates the delivery of humanitarian aid," said Colonel Moshe Tetro, head for Gaza of the Israeli Defense Ministry body overseeing civilian activities in the Palestinian Territories.
However, US President Joe Biden ruled that a real cessation of hostilities was impossible.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rules out a ceasefire without the release of the hostages. An Israeli military official has denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The voice of France become inaudible ?
Israel and the United States may have differences on the strategic priorities of this war, but they are at least united in quickly dismissing their French counterpart. Emmanuel Macreon's desire to exist internationally through some show of brilliance falls like a bellows.
This is evidenced by the reception of several initiatives recently launched by the President of the Republic, and the small fallout from his trip to the Middle East.
His idea, put forward from Jerusalem, of an international coalition against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, behind the bloody attacks against Israel, has not aroused the enthusiasm of other Western capitals, far from it. It was rather mocked by experts considering it extremely complex to implement.
Just like the deployment of the ship “Tonnerre” off the coast of the Gaza Strip, announced this time in Cairo in Egypt to “support the hospitals there”.
The ship has arrived in the area, but it is still not receiving any wounded and its operations there are complicated by the blockade imposed by Israel.
These actions were met with skepticism, raising questions about France's ability to embody a respected and listened to diplomatic voice.
And to speak of a big diplomatic gap : "how can he be followed when in Israel, on October 24, he proposed - without warning anyone - to mobilize the international coalition against the Islamic State this time to "fight against Hamas" , then asks to “work towards a ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip this Thursday, November 9, 2023?
In other words, how can he go in 17 days from the idea of intervening mainly by air in Gaza with the added bonus of support from Arab countries (which is what "the coalition against Daesh" was doing) to the completely opposite objective of a ceasefire in the same place? ", we read from the pen of Maurice Bontinck in La Charente libre.
"But this great diplomatic gap carried out on a thread demonstrates that Emmanuel Macron thinks first of his country and of preserving its already well-divided unity. By blowing hot and cold with sometimes contrary ideas, he also embodies the tensions politicians who are found even in its own majority.
But above all he embodies French divisions. We can still see it in his hesitation to demonstrate on Sunday against anti-Semitism. ", concludes the editorialist.
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CHANGE IMMIGRATION POLICY
IN FRANCE
BUT WITH MORE POLITICAL COURAGE |

After the pension reform, the bill on asylum and immigration is currently giving rise to lively debates, the most controversial text of the start of the five-year term. Postponed twice, it resurfaced three weeks after the Arras attack, in a context of conflict in the Middle East. An Odoxa poll for Public Senate reveals that more than two thirds of French people support this bill, considering that it will allow better control of immigration, while 74% of French people believe that there is an overpopulation of immigrants , according to an Odoxa survey published in May 2023. Indeed, the proportion of immigrants in the population has continued to increase, with a major transformation in the origin of immigrants, mainly of non-European origin and of Muslim faith. These cultural and religious differences often make assimilation difficult.
This bill, which will be examined by senators from November 6 and by deputies in December, has been the subject of intensive negotiations for more than a year. The executive, having a relative majority in Parliament, must seek allies for its adoption.
Surprising figures among LFI voters
An Opinion Way poll for Le Parisien provided remarkable figures that reflect general sentiment. 77% of French people believe that society has difficulty integrating foreigners. 80% think that France does not manage expulsions effectively. 81% criticize the shortcomings in the fight against illegal immigration. 78% favor a referendum on immigration, although this is currently impossible due to constitutional rules, which President Emmanuel Macron may be considering changing. 91% want a strengthening of expulsion measures for foreigners representing a serious threat to public order. It should be noted that 85% (!) of La France Insoumise voters share this repressive desire. 78% demand a reduction in the number of possible appeals against expulsion decisions. 65% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's supporters support this position.
The article that crystallizes passions
Article 3 of the bill crystallizes passions. It concerns the regularization of undocumented workers in sectors in tension. In recent weeks, pressure has increased around this article, which particularly divides Republicans and centrists. He proposes the creation of a temporary residence permit for foreign workers in sectors with a labor shortage.
The Republicans are firmly opposed to the idea of issuing a “full right” residence permit to undocumented immigrants employed in sectors in tension, fearing that this would constitute a migratory “call for air”. The centrists, for their part, are in favor. They proposed a rewriting of the article, which provides for "exceptional regularization within the framework of the discretionary power of prefects", while removing the requirement for written authorization from the employer to request regularization, in order to avoid the “low-wage traps”.
Despite these disagreements, the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, called for caution during a group meeting, stressing that we must not "break all the dishes". A Senate which returned a blank copy would have the worst effect for Gérard Larcher, who defends the role of stabilizer of the Senate.
“In these times when the institutional balance has been profoundly modified due to the absence of a majority in the National Assembly where the majority fact is no longer, the Senate has an essential role in the functioning of our Institutions. It has managed to be the point of balance for a struggling democracy,” he claimed on October 2.
Marine Le Pen, who had not yet taken a position on the bill, indicated that she could ultimately vote in favor of this "small law with small measures which improve the situation a little bit" if the article 3 was deleted, thus seeking to thwart the Republican strategy. However, the left continues to present a disunited front on the issue of immigration, with La France Insoumise refusing to support the regularization of undocumented workers.
The possibility of a 49.3
It remains to be seen whether the government, in desperation, will resort to article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the text adopted by force. Gérald Darmanin defends his bill on immigration as "a text of general interest for the French", and he has a major advantage: a large majority of French people are calling for an indisputable toughening of immigration policies and of immigrants.
The bill presented by the Minister of the Interior is part of a long tradition of immigration policy which oscillates between firmness and permissiveness. But this initiative seems insufficient to many experts to fundamentally change the situation.
One more law that is very ineffective in terms of control
In 1985, France gave up control of its land borders by signing the Schengen agreements, favoring the free movement of flows , including humans. However, after the migration crisis of 2015 and the massive arrival of illegal migrants in Europe, the European Commission showed itself powerless. To counter this, it created the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, commonly known as Frontex, whose role is to protect borders. However, the initial budget allocated to Frontex was paltry, well below the annual budget of a small French town, reflecting the contradictions between respect for borders and the European Union's principles of openness and individual rights. As a result, the Schengen Area's borders remain porous, allowing migrants to freely enter Europe through various routes.
The all-powerful Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Despite France's attempts to reestablish lasting controls with Spain and Italy after the 2015 attacks, the Court of Justice of the European Union reiterated that such pushbacks are contrary to the Schengen agreements in a ruling last September. The overall trend is towards more openness and less firmness, as evidenced by previous decisions of the CJEU.
The solution lies in the Member States of the European Union. The Minister of the Interior campaigns alongside Italy for the creation of international zones near illegal entry points, in order to prevent migrants from entering European soil until their administrative situation is resolved , instead of letting them disperse throughout Europe, from where they generally do not leave. Some believe that revising the Schengen agreements is necessary to address these problems, without necessarily withdrawing from them.
France's attractiveness for migrants is largely explained by the generosity of its reception system. Certain measures, such as State Medical Aid (AME) or the unconditional right to housing, are not imposed by European obligations. They could have been included in the bill currently under discussion, but they were not. As a result, many associations working to welcome migrants influence public policy by acting against expulsions and increasing legal recourse.
Another major problem lies in expulsions, which come up against budgetary and diplomatic constraints. Administrative detention centers (CRA) lack places, the costs linked to expulsions are high, and diplomatic relations with countries of origin complicate forced returns.
Although measures have been taken to create more places in CRA, it is necessary to double or even triple their number. France could also exert diplomatic pressure to facilitate expulsions, in particular by reducing the issuance of visas or diplomatic passports....
Take courage again, ladies and gentlemen, leaders... for real efficiency in immigration matters !
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A TIME MACHINE
THE SAPORAILLE |
 Who hasn't dreamed of using a time machine ? !
By pure chance, we came across an association which allows you to relive for a moment in a distant past, that of the Napoleonic period.
This association is called “la Saporaille”, a very friendly team, which transports you and makes you want to join straight away.
We tell you about them and their history, their objectives, to help you discover them.
A little history :
After the abdication of Napoleon I, the fall of the Empire and the restoration of royalty with Louis XVIII, all the soldiers of the Napoleonic armies were demobilized and had to surrender their weapons (sabers, rifles), uniforms and all equipment. military.
Covered with glory throughout Europe, many soldiers loyal to Napoleon did not want to give up their weapons and equipment and hid them.
In June 1817, after the failure of the Bonapartist insurrection in the Lyon region, in which Savignois took an active part, and the repressions which followed, these uniforms and materials became even more precious and more carefully hidden within the families.
On August 12, 1857, Napoleon III decided to grant a medal known as Saint Helena, accompanied by a pension, to all soldiers of the land and sea armies who fought under the flags of France from 1792 to 1815.
In 1858, in Savigny, the troop came to pay honors to these last survivors on the occasion of the patronal festival of Pentecost.
These veterans, seeing themselves recognized, were able to bring out hidden weapons, equipment and clothing to parade and celebrate this event.
 Creation of the Saporaille:
Since that day, each year, on the occasion of the patronal feast of Pentecost, people from Savignois, assisted by medalists from Sain Bel, will perpetuate this tradition until the 1960s with a traditional parade, singing. La Saporaille was born.
 The activities of Saporaille :
For several years, a small group has reconnected with the past and revived this ancient tradition. This team is made up of 15 sappers, 1 mounted hussar, and 3 waiters who parade to the sound of the drum, punctuated with revolutionary songs and Empire. The parade ends with rifle and cannon fire, accompanied by the “little glass” of friendship.
  La Saporaille in recent years:
More than ever, La Saporaille is increasing its interventions, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the calendar to perpetuate the tradition, in a pleasant and festive, and very friendly atmosphere that makes you want to join.
Do not hesitate to contact them, La Saporaille, here are the contact details : Association La Saporaille
Mairie de Sain-Bel
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TOWARDS A PROGRAMMED FAILURE OF THE UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE ?
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In this fall of 2023, Ukrainian reconquest efforts are struggling to produce strategic effects. The territories recaptured since the beginning of June by the armies of kyiv are substantial, but remain incommensurate with the 20% of the national territory occupied and illegally annexed by Russia.
The chief of staff of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zaluzhny, admits that the current conflict is in a difficult situation, and that the counter-offensive carried out by his troops has not given the expected results. "He does not "there will probably be no magnificent and profound breakthrough", he added while his men have been engaged since June in a laborious counter-offensive intended to retake the territories conquered in the South and East from the Russians. On the ground, kyiv's troops continue to come up against a gigantic defense line erected along some 1,000 kilometers of the front line by Russia. Despite the mobilization of twelve brigades trained on NATO standards and supported by Western tanks, Ukraine only managed to capture a few hundred km2 in five months.
According to the Ukrainian general, the technological level of the weapons used on both sides is such that on the ground, the forces neutralize each other. Surveillance systems detect any concentration of forces almost instantly, and the precision of the weapons used makes any attempt to cross the front line virtually impossible. Valeri Zalouzhny acknowledges that it is unlikely that a significant breakthrough can be achieved, saying that "to make a difference, we need major technological innovations." He is referring here to limits on Western arms deliveries.
American F16 planes will not be operational until 2024, and the Ukrainians are demanding state-of-the-art electronic jamming systems. In addition, pressure from Western countries is intensifying. Allies demand immediate results, but achieving this mission on the battlefield is proving difficult.
Towards a war of attrition
The hope of a quick victory gave way to the resignation of a second winter under Russian bombs, synonymous with deprivation and power cuts for the Ukrainian population.
Does this mean that doubt would creep into Ukrainian minds? A few days before General Zalouzhny's release, an article from the Time correspondent caused a stir in kyiv. Journalist Simon Shuster describes an isolated President Volodymyr Zelensky, obsessed with victory in the face of advisers increasingly perplexed by the Ukrainian chances of reconquering Donbass and Crimea.
In his column published in The Economist, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces worries about a war of attrition which would ultimately turn to Russia's advantage. “This will benefit Russia, allowing it to rebuild its military power, to the point of perhaps threatening the Ukrainian forces or even the existence of the State itself,” assures the soldier.
According to Estonian intelligence, Moscow still has more than four million artillery shells. Furthermore, North Korea recently supplied an additional million shells to its neighbor and ally, a South Korean MP revealed, citing information from his country's intelligence services.
With a population of 143 million inhabitants and a defense industry which should be operating at full capacity in 2024, the Russian army seems better prepared for a long-term war, despite Western sanctions.
Conversely, Ukraine and its 43 million inhabitants could soon experience difficulty in renewing its
The distrust of Westerners
“If Western countries are patient so that we can erode Russian forces and open a breach, it could work,” adds General Valeri Zalouzhny in his column. “As we know, attack is more difficult than defense, and this depends not only on Ukrainians, but also on Western countries.”
These statements come in a difficult context for Ukraine as the war between Hamas and Israel has diverted international attention and pushed some allies to rethink their military aid.
I n the world chancelleries there are some declines in support for Ukraine, in Poland due to the conflict linked to the importation of Ukrainian cereals into Europe, in the United States in a context of institutional crisis in Congress or even in Europe central as in Slovakia, where Robert Fico's victory weakens the unity of the EU in its standoff with Russia.
Europe is indeed starting to exercise caution in terms of financing while in the United States, one year before the next presidential elections, the Republicans are also putting pressure on Joe Biden and demanding accountability.
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SHOCK REPORT
THE VULNERABILITY OF FRANCE
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE AND ESPIONAGE |
 An alarming report. Is France sufficiently armed in the face of foreign influences ?
We can doubt it. The observation is clear. "The new dimension taken by foreign interference reveals persistent vulnerabilities, starting with our naivety, which is as much that of the political and administrative elites as [those] of economic and academic circles", indicates a report of the parliamentary intelligence delegation, published this Thursday, November 2, 2023.
Made up of eight parliamentarians, all authorized for defense secrecy, the parliamentary intelligence delegation is responsible for monitoring the action of specialized services, such as the DGSE, the DGSI or the DRM.
“High threat level”
Foreign interference has mutated to become a “protean, omnipresent and lasting” threat from espionage to the use of cyber space or information manipulation operations. His conclusion is clear: France is not armed enough to confront foreign influences.
The delegation underlines that this danger has taken “a new dimension in recent years, primarily due to a “radical change in the geopolitical context”…
“We have suddenly moved from a world of competition to a world of confrontation with authoritarian regimes on one side and Western democracies on the other (…). This divide between the West and the rest of the world emerges (…) as the dominant marker of the current period,” according to the document. Sacha Houlié, the president of the delegation, speaks of a “new cold era”.
“The informational and reputational war waged by authoritarian regimes.”
This danger arises, in fact, at the heart of a digital and technological revolution which has made cyberspace “the privileged field of confrontation and strategic competition between States”, a war led, above all, according to the DPR, by Russia. , China and Turkey.
The delegation's report dwells at length on "the informational and reputational war waged by authoritarian regimes." Because if classic espionage still exists, “fake news is the weapon of a war waged against the West without, for a long time, having identified the means to defend ourselves.”
And in this game Russia is the strongest. Moscow even has “its signature”, its techniques and they are formidable. Infiltration is part of this, for example the appointment of former European officials to the boards of directors of large Russian companies, such as the former French Prime Minister François Fillon or the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
There is also the manipulation of information, even if in France the banning of the media Russia Today and Sputnik has “helped reduce the scope of the information war” of Russia.
We must not neglect Xi Jinping's China, very effective with its “united front”, a “political strategy and a network of public and private institutions and key individuals, placed under the control of the Chinese Communist Party”. Chinese nationals (600,000 in France) are a key link in this system
Finally there is Turkey which since the arrival of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the top of power – in 2014 – no longer even hides its ambition “to control the Turkish diaspora as a relay of the ideas of Ankara’s power, it is i.e. hostile to Kurds and Armenians.” The report points to “religious practice”, “a powerful lever for promoting a political ideology”.
The document highlights the financing of places of worship in France and the assignment of Turkish imams to French mosques which “allowed Turkey to influence Islam in France”.
This system has since been banned... but its effects continue. Ankara also infiltrates through “entry into politics through participation in local and national elections”, through activism on social networks to propagate messages hostile to legislation, such as that on religious separatism.
“Our allies are not always our friends”
But not only that: unlike the fight against terrorism, where France can count on its traditional allies, the area of foreign interference is unique. “Our allies are not always our friends when it comes to espionage and economic interference,” summarized the chairman of the law committee, who cited the cases of the United States, Australia and even Israel. . “We are alone in this.”
Various operating methods, such as the extraterritoriality of law, are used in particular by the United States of America to capture data and undermine our economic security.”
Finally, the document insists on the need to pay attention to more discreet forms of espionage which may be the work of France's historical “allies”, as was the case with the Pegasus affair, named after the famous software Israeli spy that Morocco allegedly used to hack President Macron's telephone data. Since June 2022 the two countries have been at loggerheads and Israel has dried up Rabat's sources.
All these phenomena thrive on the “naivety” of elected officials, senior civil servants but also businesses and academic circles, writes the report. The report calls for a national awakening and intends to reduce the “naivety” and “denial” which are rampant within French society against an evil which undermines national sovereignty in all its forms: political, legal, military, economic and technological.
At the start of 2023, Emmanuel Macron explained that “war is no longer declared, it is waged quietly, insidiously, it is hybrid”. The delegation suggests the creation of an anti-interference bill aimed at detecting the action of foreign intelligence services, through data processing on the Internet.
To compensate for these deficiencies, the deputies propose the establishment of an “ad hoc legislative system for the prevention of foreign interference on the model of American law”, the adoption of a system of freezing assets for “any person or structure engaging in actions detrimental to the maintenance of national cohesion or intended to promote the interests of a foreign power.”
Furthermore, the authors of the report suggest “a European response” and are of the opinion that the different response strategies could be grouped “in a bill dedicated to the fight against foreign interference”.… At the level of national
emergency
The State elevates the fight against foreign interference to the rank of national emergency and devotes most of its annual report to it. Welcoming to see the budget and staff allocated to intelligence constantly increasing – 3.03 billion euros and 19,572 people in 2022 – the DPR also welcomes the injection of 5 billion additional euros planned in the 2024-2030 military programming law.
This will be necessary, say its members, to support “the paradigm shift in French intelligence” that constitutes the new priority given to counter-intervention.
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ISRAEL’S LAND OPERATION
DESTROY HAMAS TUNNELS |
 The Israeli army's military operation in the Gaza Strip has officially begun.
The Israeli army announced, Tuesday, October 31 in a press release, the death of two of its soldiers in fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip. As it advances in the Palestinian enclave, it had reported earlier in the day "fierce fighting" with Hamas. For its part, the Palestinian Islamist movement claimed that its fighters had “annihilated” an Israeli force by ambushing it in a building in the north of the territory.
Convoys of armored vehicles of the Israeli army (IDF) were spotted on Monday on one of the main roads in the Gaza Strip, converging towards the center of Gaza City. The main objective of this ground operation is to target Hamas' complex network of underground tunnels, which represent a veritable city beneath the city, a labyrinth of virtually impenetrable galleries.
The infiltration of these underground tunnels remains the major challenge for the Israeli armed forces. Israel seeks to prevent this vast underground network, used by Hamas fighters, from becoming a trap for its soldiers. To analyze this underground maze, which could also shelter the hostages kidnapped during the terrorist attack of October 7, Israel is relying on the numerous surveillance technologies developed over the years.
Cyber espionage against Hamas targets
Cyber espionage against Hamas targets is one of the approaches employed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a 3D rendering of the tunnels beneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza on his X account (formerly Twitter) on October 27, although their existence cannot be confirmed.
Israeli forces have the capacity to deploy cyberespionage technologies against Hamas targets and their proxies. One of the most powerful spyware programs, Pegasus, was developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, and it allows you to infect a phone simply by sending an SMS. Smartphone traceability provides valuable information on the movements and possible hiding places of fighters. Attackers can also intercept communications, including targeting loved ones, to obtain sensitive information. Although there are no concrete tools to accurately model tunnels from the air, it is possible to monitor activity and pinpoint entry and exit points.
The IDF also has a fleet of spy planes, including recent models such as the Oron, tested last August and touted as an "intelligence jewel." Three Gulfstream G550 aircraft roam the skies to collect and analyze electromagnetic signals. All of these devices are used to intercept communications, collect real-time images and track movements.
On the satellite side, Israel has several surveillance devices. A small constellation of TecSAR, radar reconnaissance satellites, helps analyze changes and activities on the ground, reporting to the military any signs of new construction, for example. It is also possible to compare images and data to detect changes in infrastructure.
Iran's influence
The construction of this network of sophisticated underground tunnels by Hamas was a long-term project, spanning two decades. In the star-shaped tunnel, all sense of direction is abolished. Are we heading towards Gaza? Is it towards Egypt? We lose all points of reference. These tunnels are not built in a linear fashion, they are zigzag. They are on several levels. With arteries, rooms, halls, doors, electricity. It's a real military base. It is a military base under a civilian population.
They allow Hamas to operate far from the technological eyes of the State of Israel and the Israeli army, which is nevertheless one of the most efficient armies in the world.
The possibility of external influence, notably from Iran, is considered. Although this cannot be confirmed at the moment, there are similarities with other countries like North Korea or Iran, where wider tunnels could allow the passage of motorcycles or even trucks. It is also possible that certain locations are used for the manufacture and storage of weapons.
From a strategic perspective, a tunnel can serve a variety of purposes, including attacks, ambushes, kidnapping of civilians or soldiers, or even trafficking. Not all tunnels are the same, which means their detection and elimination may vary.
Current operation a considerable challenge
The current operation represents a considerable operational challenge. Israeli forces must navigate a dense urban environment with civilians present despite requested evacuations. Underground warfare itself is complex, and combating underground tunnels has always been a major challenge for armies. Finally, a delicate human dimension is added to the situation, with the protection of hostages, innocent civilians in Gaza, and the safety of the soldiers engaged in these operations as priorities.
"For Israel, this is an existential war. At this point, there is no question of losing the war, there is no question of a ceasefire either because it is a question of right to self-defense." |
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WAR IN UKRAINE THE LARGEST RUSSIAN ATTACK SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR
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 A deluge of fire fell on Ukraine. Russia “bombed 118 localities in ten regions” in the last 24 hours, accused Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko on Wednesday, November 1. “This is the largest number of towns and villages to suffer an attack since the start of the year,” he said.
Since launching their offensive in February 2022, Russian forces have fired millions of artillery shells at Ukrainian towns and villages near the front lines, reducing many to rubble across the country. 'East of the country.
Furthermore, a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk (center), which did not cause any casualties, required the dispatch of more than a hundred firefighters to fight the fire which followed for several hours. , according to Igor Klimenko
Ukraine and its Western allies fear that Russia will intensify its attacks on the country's energy infrastructure before the dreaded winter, as it did last year.
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THE SHOCKING MEMORIES OF BRITNEY SPEARS
EXIT FROM HELL
"THE WOMAN IN ME" |

We are far from a fairy tale with the release of Britney Spears' bestseller. The one who was the adored icon of young people of the 2000s, overcame a multitude of challenges. Her meteoric rise was followed by three divorces, obsessive media intrusion, periods of depression, a custody battle, and a 13-year conservatorship, finally lifted in 2021.
“Silenced” for thirteen years by her family who had placed her under guardianship, Britney Spears speaks again at the age of 41 in uncompromising memoirs with feminist overtones. La Femme en moi, published by JC Lattès (The Woman in Me by Simon & Schuster in the United States), is released this Tuesday, October 24 in bookstores in around twenty countries. For 300 pages, the singer recounts how this guardianship dictated by her father, with the support of her mother and sister, broke “the woman in her”.
The objective of his book is clear: to regain control of one's own narrative. Written in a frank and without taboo manner, it explores each facet of her life, from her brilliant beginnings to her descent into hell in 2007, including the oppressive guardianship which deprived her of her freedom.
The opportunity for her to finally reveal her truth. From her childhood in the South of the United States to the permanent infantilization she experienced, including her breakup with Justin Timberlake
The very oral style story leaves the reader stunned. “It’s the text of a standing woman,” declares the CEO of JC Lattès editions, Véronique Cardi.
The men in her life are not spared. All, without exception. From her domineering father to her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, via her ex-husband Kevin Federline or even this journalist who asked her about her breasts when she was only 17 years old. Her latest husband, Sam Asghari, probably wouldn't have cut it either, but the story ends just before filing for divorce last August.
Violent family life.
“At home, I was afraid,” writes the singer in the first pages of her book. Britney Spears' odyssey takes root in the South of the United States, in Kentwood, Louisiana, a land where her father revealed his darkest side when he was in the grip of drunkenness. There, she says she felt a divine presence and where family traditions were marked by the wearing of coordinated clothes and mastery of firearms.
At the early age of 10, she found herself on the set of Star Search, a children's TV show. When asked by the host about the presence of a boyfriend in her life, she replies without hesitation: “No, boys are cruel.” The following year, she joined the Mickey Mouse Club, an adventure which brought her into contact with names such as Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake. She also had an affair with the latter.
Her father, Jamie Spears, who controlled all aspects of her personal and professional life for thirteen years, described as an alcoholic and violent, constantly “belittled” her over the years.
It is in this context that she says she started drinking at the age of 13, with her mother. The singer traces the family thread to try to explain the origin of this violence. Like when she returns to her paternal grandmother, Jean. Interned by her grandfather, she committed suicide at the age of 31 on her infant's grave.
Justin Timberlake: the star couple of the 2000s.
But it is truly Justin Timberlake who is at the center of the biggest revelations in the book, and suffice to say that his image comes out a little damaged. She reveals that she had an abortion at 19 while they were in a relationship. His own words reveal the pressure he faced: "If it were up to me, I never would have done this, but for Justin, fatherhood was out of the question." They chose not to see a doctor, fearing being perceived as sexual beings rather than artists.
Britney also admits to keeping this decision a secret from her family, who did not tolerate abortion, and from her fans. The weight of this event continues to haunt her 23 years after the fact.
The singer's story is painful: "I swallowed pills and had horrible cramps. I went to take refuge in the bathroom. Lying on the floor, I screamed and cried for hours , wondering if I was going to die. But they didn't take me to the hospital. Justin took his guitar and sat down next to me."
He was her great love. However, the pop star has never released the details of their separation to the public. This is now done in the book where she explains that she was “devastated” when Justin Timberlake broke up “via text” with her. The release of the video for Justin Timberlake's Cry Me a River, in which we see a woman strangely resembling him cheat on the handsome singer, makes her look like "the slut who broke the heart of the golden boy of American pop" . Britney Spears is silent, taking it in silence while she is thrown out to the media.
The cause ?
She allegedly cheated on her partner. If she admits to having cheated on the singer only once, this was, according to her, commonplace with him. Described by the media as a "slut", she was forced by her father to give an interview to American journalist Diane Sawyer who asked her what she did to Timberlake to cause him "so much pain". “I felt like I had been taken advantage of,” she wrote. “Trapped in front of the whole world.”
And it wasn't the Rolling Stone cover in 2003 that eased the tension. Christina Aguilera poses there, her pelvis pressed to that of Justin Timberlake to announce their joint tour, “the sexiest on earth” according to the magazine. And this, barely a year after Justin and Britney's breakup. "Even though they weren't trying to be cruel, I felt like they were just rubbing salt in the wound. Why was it so easy for everyone to forget that I was a human being - vulnerable enough for these headlines to leave their mark?" writes Britney Spears in her autobiography.
She was really scared of the snake at the MTV Music Awards.
Another notable moment in her life was her performance at the 2001 MTV Music Awards, where she chose to perform on stage with a snake, and not just any snake: a python. She reveals behind the scenes of this performance, pointing out that the snake hissed nearby while she sang. She had to keep her cool because she felt like he “was going to kill [her] if [she] looked at him in the eyes.”
She finally says why she shaved her head.
What about her “party girl” period? She reveals the dark behind the scenes of her overwhelming notoriety.
His memorable kiss with Madonna at the 2003 MTV Awards? It was, she said, her idea. She briefly discusses a brief but intense affair with Colin Farrell, describing it as "two weeks of fire, two weeks of struggle." Their proximity was such that they seemed to be arguing constantly.
The wild evenings with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, once widely publicized, marked them with the stamp of debauchery and drug addiction. However, in her book “The Woman in Me”, Britney makes it clear that she has never had a problem with drugs or alcohol.
“I enjoy drinking,” she writes, “but I have always known how to moderate myself.” Adderall, an amphetamine prescribed for attention deficit disorder, was the only substance she admitted to using.
She explains that it made her feel high, but more importantly, it relieved her of her depression. She emphasizes the differences in treatment between male artists and herself. Men “can get high and cheat on their wives at will,” while she was immediately labeled a “bad mother” and “out of control.”
The sexualization and criticism of the bodies of young celebrities.
These difficult days correspond to her custody battle over her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, amid her divorce from dancer Kevin Federline. The loss of custody plunged her into deep disarray, pushing her to a moment of crisis in 2007 when she shaved her head and brandished an umbrella to protect herself from the paparazzi.
“With a shaved head, everyone was afraid of me, even my mother,” she confides. This radical gesture was also her way of breaking away from the oppressive beauty standards that weighed her down.
Britney talks about the scrutiny she was exposed to from a young age. She says: "I had so much eye contact growing up. Ever since I was a teenager, people looked me up and down, told me what people thought about my body."
She adds that "shaving my head and acting was my way of defending myself." At just 15 years old, hadn't Britney signed a contract with Jive Records, marking the beginning of her irresistible rise?
Above all, she remembers that on stage, she had to play a sexy star, arousing desire at all costs, while privately remaining a nice girl who didn't make waves.
“I know a lot of people don’t understand why I like to take pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” the “Toxic” singer wrote. “But I think if they had been photographed by others thousands of times, being featured and posing with the approval of others, they would understand that I get a lot of joy from posing in the way that I personally feel sexy and take my own photos,” continues Britney Spears. It is a strong need to regain control of her life and reclaim her body, which pushes the star to pose naked and to multiply the photographs of herself according to her
Pop culture's obsession with sexualizing and criticizing the bodies of young celebrities appears to us today as toxic and misogynistic. But in the 2000s, this was considered the norm.
Her father's 13 years of guardianship "From now on, Britney Spears is me,"
The episode of her shaved head, far from being trivial, marked a turning point in 2008, placing her under the strict supervision of her father, Jamie Spears. In "The Woman in Me," she writes, "I became a robot. No, even worse, a robot child. I had been infantilized to such an extent that I no longer recognized myself." Jamie Spears was now in charge, making every decision about her, from her medications to her diet to her music career.
Jamie seized control by declaring, "From now on, I'm Britney Spears," as the book relates in a heartbreaking passage. Britney made her return to the stage with the "Circus Tour," generating $130 million in one year. However, she only had access to $2,000 per week. During these thirteen years of total guardianship, Britney was hospitalized several times.
She couldn't choose her food, travel as she pleased, or even remove her IUD.
Why didn't she react sooner ?
“I traded my freedom for the ability to spend time with my children,” she defends. Britney is convinced her own family was plotting against her. “I have been rebellious at times, but I have done nothing to warrant being treated like a criminal.” She sums up this time by saying: "Everything escalated into thirteen years, during which I was a shadow of myself. Today, I think back to the fact that my father and his associates controlled my body and my money for so long, and it makes me sick."
Britney questions: "If I wasn't able to make decisions, why was I considered capable of performing in public ?"
She refers to the 200 shows she gave, under supervision, during her residency in Las Vegas. During her trial in 2021, she pronounced a striking sentence in front of the judge: "Madam [the president], my father and all those involved in this placement under guardianship, who played an important role in punishing me when I I said 'no' [to the tour] - Madam, they should be in prison."
On June 22, 2021, she contacted the police to file a complaint against her father. In November, the court gave him back his freedom: “The man who had terrorized me as a child and dominated me as an adult no longer had control over my life.” Since then, Britney has regained her freedom, whether to dance on Instagram or to finally tell her story.
The woman in her
The current Britney no longer thinks about music. She is looking for herself as a woman. For a long time, she was a little girl prodigy, without ever really reaching adulthood. In one of her most famous songs, "Piece of Me," she sings: "I've been Miss American Dream since I was seventeen / Whether I'm wiggling on stage or moving in the Philippines / They'll still posting pictures of my hips. Do you want a piece of me ?"
The videos she shares, sometimes quirky, arouse our curiosity. One of them shows her dancing with knives. We can say that the interpreter of “Toxic” is no longer afraid of the gaze of others.
Since the end of her guardianship in November 2021, she has shared moments of her life, even the most incongruous ones, playing the card of transparency in the captions of her posts (in mid-August, she said she was “a little shocked” by her divorce, before clarifying to her fans: are not your business"), and does not hesitate to highlight this body that she has reappropriated.
With her book “The Woman in Me,” Britney attempts to put the pieces of her existence back together.
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END OF LONG AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR STRIKE IN THE UNITED STATES
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 In the United States, a preliminary agreement ended a six-week strike involving auto giant General Motors and the UAW auto union. This historic agreement, announced on Monday October 30, comes a few days after its competitors Ford and Stellantis were also affected by a similar strike since mid-September.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, immediately welcomed these social agreements described as “historic” between the UAW union and the three main players in the American automobile industry: General Motors, Stellantis and Ford.
These agreements are the result of several weeks of negotiations and sacrifices made by workers in the sector, who played a crucial role in keeping the automobile industry afloat, particularly during the great economic crisis of 2009, according to the American president.
The strike began on September 15 due to the lack of agreement during the revision of collective agreements. It mobilized more than 45,000 of the 146,000 UAW members employed by these three American automobile giants. It is the first time since the creation of the union in 1935 that the "Big Three" have been simultaneously affected by a strike of this magnitude, which intensified over the six weeks of conflict.
After initiating walkouts at secondary plants and parts distribution centers, the UAW struck hard by targeting the largest and most profitable plants of each auto company based in Detroit, Michigan. Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant, generating annual sales of $25 billion, was hit by the strike on October 11. The manufacturer finally reached a preliminary agreement on October 25, after 41 days of strike, followed by Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep, etc.) three days later.
Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, was pleased with the results of the negotiations, saying: “Ford put on the table 50% more than when we walked out. Once again, we have achieved what we were told was impossible just a few weeks ago. » Salary increases over four years, cost-of-living adjustments, social benefits, improvements for retirees, and measures specific to each group are part of the preliminary agreements.
Stellantis has committed to creating 5,000 jobs, a major move given previous planned job cuts, including controversy over the closure of a factory in Belvidere, Illinois, which was ultimately averted . The agreement with Stellantis also calls for a 25% increase in base salaries by 2028.
Ford also agreed to a 25% increase in base salaries, a compromise below the 40% initially requested by Shawn Fain at the start. of the strike, but significantly higher than the 9% proposed by the group in August.
These preliminary agreements will still have to be validated by a national committee of the union before being put to a vote by members, a step which could take up to two weeks, according to a source close to the negotiations last week.
However, the union has already announced that Ford and Stellantis employees will return to work immediately, without waiting for these votes.
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UNITED STATES 22 DEAD AND MORE THAN 50 INJURED
IN MASS SHOOTING IN MAINE
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 As the United States is once again plunged into mourning following recent tragic shootings in Maine on Wednesday October 25, 2023, the National Rifle Association (NRA), an influential American lobby in favor of firearms, finds himself in the spotlight of criticism.
The scene is real carnage. A shooter opened fire Wednesday evening, October 25, at a bowling alley and bar-restaurant in a city in the northeastern United States. Initial reports show at least 22 people killed and more than fifty injured, according to the authorities, who published the photo of a man actively wanted.
An “armed and dangerous” man, still on the run.
These horrific shootings occurred in Lewiston, the second largest city in the state of Maine. Residents were forced to confine themselves in the face of the threat posed by this “armed and dangerous” man, still on the run, according to the police. “We have 22 confirmed dead and many, many injured,” said Robert McCarthy, elected official from Lewiston, a city of more than 36,000 residents.
The region's hospital infrastructure proved incapable of handling this type of shooting. According to local authorities, there were between 50 and 60 injured.
Lewiston police are currently attempting to locate the suspected shooter, identified as 40-year-old Robert Card. The motivations behind these actions remain unknown. Photos circulating show a man dressed in a brown top and dark blue pants, armed with a semi-automatic rifle that he had taken in his hand. The shots rang out in at least two different locations, a bowling alley and a bar-restaurant, as reported by local law enforcement.
The Boston FBI, the federal police, is also involved in the investigation. "Hundreds of police officers are investigating across the state to determine the whereabouts of Mr. Card, a potential suspect," the commissioner said. Maine Public Safety Officer Mike Sauschuck during a press conference.
According to several media outlets, Maine law enforcement indicated in a news bulletin that Robert R. Card was a trained weapons instructor and U.S. Army reservist who had recently reported that he had suffered from mental disorders.
This tragedy unfortunately joins the long list of shootings which regularly mourn the United States, a country where firearms are abundant and easily accessible. Another shooting took place during the same evening in a logistics center of a Walmart supermarket, according to several American media. These tragedies once again reignite the debate over the role of the NRA in each mass shooting.
The NRA, considered the most powerful lobby in the world, enjoys considerable influence in defending the right to bear arms in the United States. While a third of Americans say they own a gun, American authorities are struggling to tackle the roots of the problem. At issue: fundamental American law.
Indeed, if the Constitution allows the population to arm themselves, the carrying of a rifle has serious defenders. On one side, the Second Amendment, on the other, the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The NRA, a staunch defender of the Second Amendment
Created in 1871 with the aim of uniting hunters and shooting enthusiasts, the organization evolved from 1975 to become involved in the political arena, with the primary mission of preserving the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights, a text written in 1791, the day after the American War of Independence, including the first ten amendments to the American Constitution, deemed untouchable.
The Second Amendment states that "in view of the necessity of a well organized militia for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." Faced with multiple threats to this right, the NRA created the Legislative Affairs Division in 1934, although it did not lobby directly at that time. In 1975, recognizing the need for urgent political defense of the Second Amendment, the NRA established the Institute for Legislative Action.
Currently, the association has more than five million members and has an annual budget of 300 million dollars (around 281 million euros). During election campaigns, the NRA intervenes by airing ads opposing candidates who might challenge the Second Amendment.
In 2012, the NRA spent $32 million on political lobbying, including $700,000 on direct financing of candidates, 88% of whom were affiliated with the Republican Party. . The NRA also funds many politicians, with a recent list published by the New York Times revealing which members of Congress had received money from the association, sparking heated debate on social media.
The United States is paying a heavy price for the proliferation of firearms on its territory, as well as the ease with which Americans can obtain them.
Excluding suicides, more than 15,000 people have lost their lives to gun violence so far this year in the country, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).
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UKRAINE ISRAEL THESE TWO MAJOR CONFLICTS
WHO ARE RESHALLING THE GEOPOLITICAL CARDS
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 On October 17, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing where he met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, nicknamed his “best friend.” The following day, October 18, US President Joe Biden made a brief stopover in Israel to ease extreme tensions resulting from the Hamas terrorist attack. This particular temporal sequence has sparked speculation about the possible opening of a third military front for the United States, a situation from which China and Russia could take advantage.
Upon his arrival in Beijing on the evening of October 17, Vladimir Putin was officially present to participate in the annual forum on the New Silk Roads (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI). However, there is little doubt that, beyond his public declarations on this major project, the discussions between the Russian president and his Chinese "friend" mainly focused on the exceptional international situation generated by the recent escalation of violence. in the Middle-East.
Opening of a third front after Ukraine and East Asia
The sudden conflagration of this region, following the terrorist acts of Hamas against Israel on October 7 and the retaliation of the Jewish State, has created an unprecedented zone of instability. This new instability has opened up an unexpected opportunity for China and Russia. It requires the involvement of American armed forces on a third front, in addition to the existing fronts in Ukraine and East Asia.
For his part, US President Joe Biden visited Israel on October 18 to reaffirm US support. He also obtained permission from the Israeli government to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza before any major military intervention in this enclave, where around two million Palestinians live. This intervention aims to destroy Hamas infrastructure.
The American president reminded Benjamin Netanyahu that the world was paying attention to the situation. He urged Israel to take all necessary measures to protect civilians in Gaza from any consequences of the Israeli army's imminent assault. “The world is watching,” Joe Biden reminded Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has the same values as the United States and other democracies and they are watching what we are going to do. " In response, the Israeli prime minister promised: "Israel will do everything it can to ensure that civilians are not harmed." »
On Wednesday, Israel announced that it would allow humanitarian aid (water, food and medicine) to enter the Gaza Strip from the Egyptian border, a decision it had previously refused. However, this gesture by Israel may not be enough to ease regional tensions, especially since the country has massed a large contingent of soldiers and reservists, as well as an impressive military arsenal on the outskirts of Gaza, in preparation to a possible invasion.
The announcement by Hamas of the bombing of a hospital attributed to the IDF, which would have led to the death of hundreds of Palestinians, immediately triggered a wave of anger in the Arab-Muslim world. The Israeli government quickly denied any involvement in this bombing. It was subsequently established, thanks to Israeli and American intelligence services, that this catastrophe was probably due to a failed rocket launch by Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas. It will take time for the region to return to stability.
An unexpected window for Moscow and Beijing ?
This situation has raised concerns in Washington about the medium and long-term consequences of these tragic events, in a region which is already a real powder keg. The military commitment of the United States is already heavily strained by its support for Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion since February 2022 and its presence in the East Asian region, where tensions with China n have never been so lively, especially around Taiwan. Opening a third front in the Middle East would pose a serious challenge for the United States, and this situation could represent an opportunity for China and Russia, who could be tempted to extend their military influence in these two territories. .
For America this risks becoming a major headache if the conflict between Israel and Hamas were to extend to neighboring countries, in particular over-armed Iran but also Lebanon and Syria. This conflict will also bury for a long time the prospect of recognition of Israel that Saudi Arabia was preparing to ratify under the aegis of the United States.
It is moreover this perspective which probably led Iran to play a determining role in the preparation of Hamas attacks in Israel, believe many analysts. This cross-recognition between Jerusalem and Riyadh would also have constituted a major success for the United States in the Middle East where China has scored undeniable diplomatic points since the beginning of this year.
Anti-Western position of China and Russia...
The evolution of the Chinese position since the Hamas attack on October 7 is obvious. Initially reluctant to label the attack "terrorist" and opting for diplomatic caution, China has recently swung in favor of the Palestinians. This change in position was accompanied by a public communication to Iran, which in turn warned Israel of a possible “preventive attack” in the event of military intervention by the IDF in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the United States has mobilized two aircraft carriers and deployed about 15,000 Marines off the coasts of Israel and Iran, while warning both countries not to get directly involved in the ongoing conflict. It is common knowledge that China has maintained close ties for many years, some of which remain confidential, with Tehran, as well as with Hamas.
Last weekend, China raised its voice over the Israeli response to Hamas attacks. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the bombing of Gaza "goes beyond self-defense" and stressed the need for Israel to end what he called "collective punishment inflicted on people of Gaza." On October 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin went even further, making a shocking analogy. According to Putin, if the siege of Gaza, imposed by Israel, were to intensify, it could evoke memories of the siege of Stalingrad by Nazi Germany during World War II. This historical comparison deeply offended Israelis.
What about the Sino-American relationship ?
Alongside this crisis in Israel, the already tense Sino-American relationship continues to deteriorate, as two crucial deadlines approach: the presidential election in Taiwan in January 2023 and the American presidential elections in November 2024.
Xi Jinping has renewed dialogue with Washington in recent months, but obstacles persist, particularly linked to crucial issues for China, such as Taiwan, democracy, human rights and economic development. The big question is whether or not Xi Jinping will participate in the next edition of APEC: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum will take place from November 11 to 17 in San Francisco. If the Chinese president agreed to come, it could be the scene of a bilateral summit with Joe Biden.
The crisis in Israel has underscored a broader trend: the distancing of China and Russia from the West in favor of alliances with authoritarian regimes like Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. China is also working to strengthen ties with countries in the Global South, seeking to capitalize on a common hostility toward the West, hoping to take the leadership of that group in confronting America and its allies.
To use a phrase from researcher Alexandra Novosseloff, “It is these powers which regulate the metronome of the evolution of these conflicts through their agreement or, most often, their division, or even their confrontation. One of the major characteristics of conflicts frozen is that they are both internal conflicts and interstate conflicts."
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PEOPLE WEEK
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 From Ségolène Royal to Madonna, via Laeticia Hallyday, here is an overview of the most significant events of recent days. Ségolène Royal has found Love.Former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal recently made headlines for finding love again. After a period of celibacy, this well-known political figure found a new man in her life, hinting at a new chapter in her personal story.
Georgia Meloni ended the Humiliation. Conversely, Italian politician Georgia Meloni made a courageous decision by putting an end to a humiliating situation. Her determined action was praised by many supporters, highlighting the strength of character she demonstrated.
Laeticia Hallyday escapes in a Romantic Night. Laeticia Hallyday, widow of famous singer Johnny Hallyday, made headlines by spending a memorable night with a young French entrepreneur. Their intimate dinner turned into an unforgettable experience that hints at a new romance, despite geographical obstacles.
The Queen of Spain surprises by launching into Rap. In a surprising artistic turn, the Queen of Spain recently explored the world of rap. Her audacity and creativity have been praised by music fans, highlighting a little-known artistic side of Spanish royalty
And Madonna puts on a show in London The legendary Madonna recently made a sensational entrance onto the London scene with a two-piece show hours. Her performance was praised by many fans for its iconic music, sensual dances and tributes to her exceptional career. However, some were shocked by a moment of stripping involving her own children: X-rated scenes mimed next to the eldest, ambivalent gestures towards the youngest playing the piano... .
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HAMAS-ISRAEL WAR
THE ROLE OF QATAR IN THE LIBERATION
OF HAMAS HOSTAGES |  Two very first releases of hostages which represent a “ray of hope”. This is how the International Committee of the Red Cross welcomed, Friday, October 20, the arrival of Judith Raanan, 59, and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan, until then detained by Hamas.
The two American citizens from the Chicago area were visiting relatives in Kibbutz Nahal Oz when, on October 7, during the Hamas attack on Israel, they were kidnapped. This incident marks the very first release of hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist movement since the start of the conflict. The two women handed over to the Red Cross
The release of the two women, Judith and Natalie Raanan, was carried out at the border between Gaza and Israel, where they were handed over to staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as evidenced by a video released by Hamas when they were released on Friday evening. In a statement, the ICRC expressed its relief, declaring that these two weeks of anguish had come to an end. Israeli special forces and Israel's hostage and missing persons coordinator also welcomed them.
Subsequently, the two women were transferred to central Israel, where family members awaited them at an Israeli military base. Judith's brother confirmed that both women are in good health and could return to the United States in the coming days. US President Joe Biden said he was extremely happy that they would soon be reunited with their families, after having had the opportunity to speak with them.
Three days after the release of an American woman and her daughter, Judith and Natalie Raanan, both hostages of Hamas, two Israeli women, from Kibbutz Nir Oz, close to the Gaza Strip, were released, Monday October 23. Hours after their release, the Israeli Prime Minister's office released their identities. They are Yocheved Lifschitz, 85 years old, and Nourit Kuper, aged 79 years old.
The two women were taken hostage along with their husbands, but both are still being held in the Gaza Strip. According to the spokesperson for Hamas' military wing, Abou Obeida, these women were released "for pressing humanitarian reasons", thanks to mediation from Qatar and Egypt. After being transported in a military helicopter, the two ex-hostages arrived at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, one on a stretcher and the other in a wheelchair.
Around 220 hostages are still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, ten of whom are American nationals. According to the Israeli army, the majority of them are still alive.
Qatar's mediation
Qatar's mediation played a decisive role in this release, after several days of intense negotiations. Hamas' military spokesperson said in a statement that the hostages had been released "for humanitarian reasons" thanks to Qatar's mediation. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also praised Qatar's important contribution to the release, while French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted Qatar's crucial role in the matter.
In Doha, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majid Al-Ansari praised the work of his government and expressed hope that these efforts will lead to the release of all civilian hostages of all nationalities.
Additionally, Hamas' military spokesperson said the release of the two hostages was intended to demonstrate to the American people and the entire world that the accusations made by the Joe Biden administration against Hamas were unfounded, a statement that was not well received by Israel.
"Hamas claims to the world to have released these women whom it had taken hostage for humanitarian reasons, whereas it is a murderous terrorist organization which is currently holding infants, children, women and the elderly,” replied Daniel Hagari, the spokesperson for the Israeli army.
Qatar's involvement in this liberation highlights this country's complex and influential role in the Middle East, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Qatar's diplomacy
Qatar, despite its small size, plays a central role in recent diplomatic maneuvers in the Middle East. Although its surface area is barely comparable to that of the Ile de France, its influence goes far beyond its borders.
The diplomatic web woven by Qatar over the last thirty years is impressive. This is based on pillars such as hydrocarbon reserves and a bold vision of diplomacy. In France, the brand of this canvas is notably embodied by the presence of the president of PSG, an example of sports diplomacy which culminated with the organization of the last World Cup, a costly but prestigious event.
Qatar also benefits from a considerable gas windfall, strengthening its influence, particularly in the context of an energy supply crisis following sanctions against Russia. With an ambitious football club, a thriving gas industry and the Al Jazeera news channel, dominant in the Arabic-speaking market, Qatar has become a key player.
Behind the facade of these elements, reprehensible networks are maintained. Qatar cultivates strong relations with regional players such as Iran and Hamas. Doha, the Qatari capital, hosts officials from the Islamist party that governs the Gaza Strip. These elements do not go unnoticed by countries seeking solutions to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Distrust of Qatar ?
The emirate has demonstrated its skill by acting as a mediator in sensitive issues. During the major conflict between Israel and Gazan factions in 2014, he played this mediating role.
Israel is well aware of the close ties between Qatar and Hamas, whose financial survival the emirate has ensured for years, notably through millions of dollars in aid. Public statements leave little doubt as to which side Qatar appears to have chosen.
For example, hours after the Hamas attacks, Doha publicly held Israel solely responsible for the escalation. However, despite these statements, Qatar is home to the largest US military base in the Middle East. And “Qatar is the historic sponsor of Hamas at the request of the government of Israel and the United States,” declared criminology professor Alain Bauer on Cnews
This duality makes him an actor with an ambiguous position, capable of juggling his interests.
While a ceasefire is currently out of reach, the first area in which Qatar could exert its influence is that of the approximately 220 hostages still in the hands of Hamas terrorists. And so far with success...
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RESIGNATION OF THE BELGIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE
AFTER FAILURES IN THE FIGHT
AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM |  On Friday October 20, 2023, four days after the tragic events, the truth came out, and it cast a sinister light on Belgium. The two deaths that occurred on a sidewalk in Brussels, perpetrated by Abdesalem Lassoued, end up pointing the finger at Belgium's responsibilities.
On Monday October 16, two Swedish citizens who came to attend a football match in Brussels lost their lives, shot in cold blood, while a third was seriously injured by an individual of Tunisian origin, in an irregular situation, and having received an order of expulsion from Belgian territory.
On Monday October 16, 35,000 Belgian and Swedish football fans, including adults and children, found themselves confined for three long hours in a stadium to escape the terrorist threat, thus avoiding becoming potential targets themselves.
Known to the Belgian authorities
Despite the fact that Abdesalem Lassoued was already known to the Belgian authorities for various crimes, including death threats made against an asylum seeker, the courts revealed that he was not included in the database of OCAM, the federal agency responsible for analyzing the terrorist threat.
Following this attack which caused the death of two Swedes, Vincent Van Quickenborne simply informed that Belgium had been alerted in 2016 by a foreign police service concerning the radicalization of Abdesalem Lassoued, without any terrorist antecedents being mentioned.
However, before requesting asylum in Belgium, where he claims to have arrived at the end of 2015, the Tunisian had submitted similar requests in Norway, Sweden, then Italy, all of which were rejected. Note also that he was to be extradited from Belgium.
“I’m not looking for any excuses.”
The Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, announced his resignation on Friday October 20 in response to these revelations, taking full responsibility for the error committed. He told a press conference:
“I’m not looking for any excuses.”
He added that he had learned that Tunisia had requested the extradition of Abdesalem Lassoued in August 2022, a request which had remained without response from the Brussels prosecutor's office. This negligence had dramatic consequences, and Vincent Van Quickenborne decided to resign to fully assume his responsibility in this affair.
“The competent magistrate did not respond to this request and the file was not processed, he lamented. It is an individual, monumental fault, an unacceptable fault, with dramatic consequences,” he said. he regretted, before declaring that he assumed “responsibility by resigning”.
“I sincerely want to apologize in the name of justice to the victims and their loved ones. I also want to apologize in the name of justice to the Swedish people and to our fellow Belgian citizens.”
A relative of the terrorist arrested in France
Monday evening's attack, which occurred near downtown Brussels shortly before a football match between Belgium and Sweden, targeted Swedish fans. The 45-year-old Tunisian was located Tuesday morning in a café in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek, where he was fatally injured by police gunfire.
The investigation into this attack even extended to France. Last Thursday, Raid agents arrested, in the east of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), a man suspected of having received a video of demands from the Brussels terrorist, a few minutes before he went to the act.
The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) then declared this Friday evening that it had initiated its own investigation into criminal terrorist association, in response to information transmitted by the Belgian judicial authorities concerning this attack.
Europe's weak link against Islamist terrorism
In terms of the fight against terrorism, Belgium presents vulnerabilities which make it the weak link in Europe.
The situation in Brussels is particularly worrying, in a country where Islamism has wreaked havoc and where the fragmentation of society is well advanced. Belgium is ideal prey for the ideologues of political Islam, with weakened sovereign power, a strongly communitarian society, and a central position on the continent.
Certain neighborhoods of Brussels have become rear bases for terrorism, as the French have tragically observed since the attacks of November 13, 2015.
The country is deeply divided between the North, in Flanders, where the political parties NVA and Vlaams Belang attract a public opinion oriented to the right, favorable to the limitation of immigration, and inclined to the independence of the region.
In the South, in Wallonia, the PS embodies a different approach with a welfare state, mass unemployment, and active promotion of immigration.
This division between the two communities is exacerbated, and Belgium is disintegrating.
In the midst of all this, Brussels is divided between Walloons, Flemings, and Muslim communities, and Belgians of Belgian origin now constitute only 26% of the capital's population, according to StatBel, the equivalent of INSEE in Belgium.
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HUMANITARIAN AID CONVOYS
WILL ENTER GAZA |  The humanitarian aid long awaited by the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip can finally pass through the Rafah crossing from Egypt. Egyptian media reported Thursday that the first humanitarian aid convoys blocked at the Egyptian border will be able to enter the Gaza Strip from Friday. This agreement is the result of an understanding between the Egyptian and Israeli authorities.
Humanitarian aid, including essential supplies such as fuel for hospitals, should be delivered "daily" to Gaza to meet the pressing needs of its population. The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly pleaded in favor of this humanitarian contribution, stressing that the 20 trucks initially planned are far from enough.
Dozens of trucks full of international aid have been waiting in Egypt for several days, waiting for the opportunity to reach Gaza. However, it is imperative that this aid be substantial, of the order of 100 trucks per day, and that it be secure, according to statements by Martin Griffiths, the head of United Nations humanitarian emergencies. Water and food are lacking for the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza, also deprived of electricity, after the siege imposed by Israel since October 9 on the enclave, already subject to a land, sea and air blockade. since 2007.
Russia announced Thursday, October 20, 2023 that it will soon deliver 27 tons of humanitarian aid, given to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent, for civilians in the Gaza Strip.
"A special plane (...) flew from the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow to El-Arich airport in Egypt. Russian humanitarian aid will be handed over to representatives of the Red Crescent Egyptian to be sent to the Gaza Strip,” Deputy Minister Ilia Denissov was quoted as saying in a statement, without however specifying when this plane took off. “The population will receive flour, sugar, rice (and) pasta,” he added.
Russia has not specified when its aid should be delivered to civilians in the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, the American and Egyptian presidents announced that the passage of humanitarian aid from Egypt to Gaza would be possible. Many aid shipments have been waiting for days on the other side of the border.
Joe Biden in Israel on Wednesday
This announcement comes after Joe Biden's visit to Israel, where he reaffirmed his support for his ally. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to the region on Thursday, in Israel and several other capitals, to call for avoiding an escalation of the war. Meanwhile, in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his desire to cooperate with Egypt to bring more stability to the region and the world.
Road impassable due to bombing
Joe Biden, who also came to the region to guarantee access for international aid to Gaza, claimed to have obtained the agreement of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi to allow up to 20 trucks to pass through the Gaza crossing. Rafah, the only one not controlled by Israel. However, it is likely that this aid will not arrive before Friday due to work to be carried out on the road, damaged by Israeli bombing.
Subsequently, the spokesperson for the Egyptian presidency confirmed that Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Joe Biden, after their telephone conversation on Wednesday evening, had agreed to sustainably transport humanitarian aid to the strip. from Gaza via the Rafah crossing.
Israel agreed to the passage of the aid, but set one condition. This assistance will not pass through its territory until the hostages held by Hamas are released. The Palestinian movement claims the holding of between 200 and 250 hostages, while Israel says at least 199 of them are being held.
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DISCOVERY OF A ROOM NAMED THE 2000 YEAR OLD TOMB OF CERBERUS IN ITALY
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 During an archaeological study prior to the modernization of the water supply system in the municipality of Giugliano in Campania, a remarkably preserved burial was discovered in a cultivated field near Naples. Initial analyzes indicate that this tomb dates back around 2,000 years.
The tomb was sealed by a slab of tuff and, upon its opening, the burial chamber revealed dazzling frescoes adorning its walls. Among these, an exceptional depiction of the three-headed dog Cerberus is particularly noteworthy, hence the apt nickname of the "Tomb of Cerberus".
Cerberus, also known as the "Hound of Hades", was the guardian of the gates of the Underworld, responsible for preventing the souls of the deceased from escaping. The fresco illustrates the capture of Cerberus, depicting the accomplishment of the twelve labors of Heracles.
The tomb also contains depictions of mythological scenes featuring the ichthyocentaurs, half-human, half-horse creatures with a fish's tail, embodying a human upper part, equine front legs and a fish-like tail.
Full excavation of this chamber tomb is underway before exploration of the extensive necropolis that surrounds it.
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FAREWELL TO PROFESSOR DOMINIQUE BERNARD KILLED BY AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST
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 The funeral of Dominique Bernard, the teacher murdered on Friday October 13 by an Islamist terrorist, takes place this Thursday from 10 a.m. in Arras Cathedral.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron attended the ceremony, as well as the Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal. During this funeral, his relatives spoke to talk about what a man Dominique Bernard was. The French teacher was named a knight of the Legion of Honor on Thursday, the day of his funeral.
In Arras Cathedral.
“I would like to reiterate my gratitude to all the teachers in our country,” declares Olivier Leborgne
We must renounce the fact that others do not always correspond to what we expect of them or would like them to be. Hope demands that we leave all spirit of domination,” declared the Bishop of Arras. “But in this count, there is no resignation,” he urged.
“There is no invitation to resignation,” urges Monseigneur Leborgne
"When we say “thy will be done”, we must not be misunderstood. There is no invitation to resignation. God does not want death. Jesus is the one who recovers. He wants to make us into alive", declared Monseigneur Leborgne before beginning the Our Father with the assembly.
“When will the violence and madness of the world stop ?” asks the Bishop of Arras in his homily
“What are we allowed to hope ?, asks Monsignor Leborgne in his homily. Faced with the drama that brings us together this morning, this question crosses us all. And it crossed Dominique. He had very great sensitivity. Worrying about the "evolution of education and teaching."
“A teacher was brutally murdered in a school compound,” he continues, thinking of the three other victims of the attack who were injured. We are all stunned. When will the violence and madness of the world stop ?
Are we irremediably condemned to it ?
“We are stripped bare in the face of the odious and the unacceptable,” declares Olivier Leborgne. In his homily, the bishop, who notably celebrated Lola's funeral ceremony in October 2022, said he also feared "revenge and withdrawal".
No invitation to resignation. Jesus is the one who raises
“There is no invitation to resignation,” urges Monseigneur Leborgne
“When we say “thy will be done”, there should be no mistake. There is no invitation to resignation. God does not want death. Jesus is the one who lifts up. He wants to make us alive,” declared Monseigneur Leborgne before beginning the Our Father with the assembly.
A professor brutally murdered
“I would like to reiterate my gratitude to all the teachers in our country,” declares Olivier Leborgne
“A teacher was brutally murdered in a school compound,” he continues, with a thought for the three other victims of the attack who were injured. We are all stunned. When will the violence and madness stop world ?. Are we irremediably condemned to it ?"
“We are stripped bare in the face of the odious and the unacceptable,” declares Olivier Leborgne. In his homily, the bishop, who notably celebrated Lola's funeral ceremony in October 2022, said he also feared "revenge and withdrawal".
A teacher who will be remembered forever by his students "You were there for the students who were nourished by your passion for literature and the hope that you put in them. (...) Here you are elevated to the rank of martyrs." , remembers a colleague. But the State must protect its people against this blind violence of Islamism and fight against Islamo-leftism.
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"KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON" AN ASSUME WESTERN ON THE GENOCIDE OF THE OSAGE INDIANS
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 Between western, mafia film and love story, a captivating work, Martin Scorsese looks at the history of Native Americans in Killers of the Flower Moon, his latest film, in theaters this Wednesday, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro , Lily Gladstone and Jesse Plemons.
The New York filmmaker brings together his favorite actors for a major fresco set in Oklahoma in the 1920s Robert De Niro and LeonardoDiCaprio
A film that Martin Scorsese has carried with him for many years.
“The film has been in preparation for 7 or 8 years,” said Leonardo DiCaprio last May in Cannes, adding “I know that Marty (Scorsese) spent months, a year there (with the Osage) collecting their stories, to try to get as close as possible to the truth. (...) One hundred years after the massacre (of the Osage), we had the opportunity to speak to direct descendants of the tragedy, to listen to their stories." underlines the actor.
In 2016, Martin Scorsese discovered the captivating work of David Grann, master of literary investigation. Intrigued by the title, Killers of the Flower Moon, he was struck by the gentleness and brutality it suggested. The writer revisits the atrocities committed against the Osage Native Americans in the 1920s and decides to make them the basis of his film
“One of the most heinous crimes”
He sets out to relate "one of the most heinous crimes and racial injustices perpetrated by white settlers against Native Americans, motivated by the lure of oil profits", explains the author. The state of Oklahoma, 1920s. Oil brought wealth to the Osage Indians...much to their chagrin.
The tragedy of the Osage Indians had an enchanted interlude, worthy of a fable. Driven from Kansas at the end of the 19th century for the benefit of white settlers, these Native American people were relegated to an arid corner of Oklahoma. A barren land from which one day geysers of black gold gushed. Thanks to this oil field, the largest in the United States, the Osage Indians became incredibly wealthy.
Like nabobs, they owned vast estates and hired workers, arousing everyone's desire. White criminals then used the worst methods to seize their fortune from the oil boom: scams, poisonings, marriages of interest, bullets in the head. Fascinated by this forgotten page of history, the filmmaker decides to bring it to the screen. She embodies the matrix of his obsessions with greed, organized crime and the essence of evil.
Killers of the Flower Moon narrates this era of terror through the prism of the couple: the opportunist Ernest Burkhart, a war veteran, seeks to seduce the wealthy Mollie Kyle Cobb. Leonardo DiCaprio is an obvious choice for the male role, but who to play him? Martin Scorsese thinks of Lily Gladstone, spotted in the film Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt (2016). Convinced that a single look on his part can convey all the dismay of his character, a privileged witness to the disappearance of his family, he declares: “Marty liked that I had total confidence in my presence on screen.” Because Mollie was a reserved, dignified woman, adept at monosyllabic responses: “On the set, we had to bring the interstices between her words to life.”
How can we do justice to a people marked by drama and ignored by cinema? Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio meet descendants of the Osage tribe, including Margie Burkhart, the heroine's granddaughter. “I saw a lot of Mollie in her. Her laugh, her strength, her skepticism sometimes. I understood how this drama had impacted subsequent generations.”
Thus was born the most memorable scene in Killers of the Flower Moon. We see Mollie and Ernest sitting side by side at a table: him, staring at the ceiling with a focused look; she, a blanket on her shoulders, giving him a tender look. For two years, this image represented the only glimpse of Martin Scorsese's feature film. The actress relies on an anecdote collected during her research.
A man tells him about his grandmother Rose's ritual in times of storm: “When she heard lightning, she would sit down, cover her shoulders and welcome all this force in calm. In the original script, the scene just ended with Mollie pouring herself a glass of whiskey. » On screen, the entire dynamic of the couple is also revealed in this key moment: one rejoices in the benefits of the rain on the crops, while the other urges him to silently embrace the unleashings of the rain. nature.
An assumed western
The film takes on classic Scorsese themes: a story of violence, criminals and love, but it is also perhaps one of his most political films. It depicts how white men dispossessed members of a Native American people, the Osage, on whose lands oil was discovered in the 1920s. The way Native Americans were treated in the centuries after the colonization of the America by Europeans "remains a wound to be healed", he declared during the Cannes festival, where the film was presented out of competition.
In an assumed western atmosphere, with the arrival of the hero in the small town of Fairfax aboard a train, the pipe ceremony and the oil wells, the small community will suddenly be the victim of a series of murders and of disappearances. With this film, Martin Scorsese also realized his dream of a western, a genre which reached its peak "in the 20th century and which has disappeared today". “I loved westerns, they reflected who we were then and who we still are, in some ways.”
“Maybe by knowing our history and understanding where we are, we can make a difference and live up to what our country is supposed to be,” said the American filmmaker. “Let’s just show the story and see what happens."
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ISLAMIST ATTACKS IN BRUSSELS
TWO SWEDENS KILLED |  At 7 p.m. on Monday, a man opened fire with an automatic weapon in a northern district of Brussels, killing two Swedish fans. A third person is hospitalized “in serious condition,” according to authorities.
A 45-year-old Tunisian in an irregular situation
The suspect, Abdesalem L, is a 45-year-old Tunisian in an irregular situation in Belgium. He was fatally injured when he was arrested by police on Tuesday morning. He is said to have published two protest videos, indicating that he wanted to attack Swedes.
The prosecution detailed the arrest of the assailant
The alleged assailant of the Brussels attack was spotted this Tuesday morning by a witness in "a drinking establishment in Schaerbeek", a suburb of Brussels, the federal prosecutor's office said in a press release. “The police went to the scene. During the intervention, shots were fired by the police and the suspect was shot dead.”
Emergency services tried to resuscitate him before transferring him to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:38 a.m. “A weapon of war and a bag of clothes were found in the café,” specifies the prosecution.
Known to the authorities
The man would not be unknown to the authorities. Tuesday morning, the Belgian Prime Minister confirmed that he was in an irregular situation in Belgium. His asylum application filed in 2019 was refused and he was ordered, in 2021, to leave the territory.
The Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, added: “He was known to the police for suspicious acts of human trafficking, illegal residence and endangering state security.” According to Vincent Van Quickenborne, he was suspected, as early as 2016, of presenting a radicalized profile, ready to go and wage jihad. “But this was one of dozens of such daily reports,” he explained.
Nicole De Moor, Secretary of State for Migration, explained that after receiving a negative response to his asylum application, he had been officially removed from the national register, making his location and therefore his return to the border impossible. However, he was spotted in a mosque in June 2022 in Brussels, “this fact was reported to the local task force in Brussels, but did not give rise to other measures”.
It was this year 2016, in Belgium, that one of the worst terrorist attacks in the country's history was committed. On March 22, 32 people were killed and 300 others injured in the Brussels metro and airport.
The alert level for terrorist threats has been raised to level 4, the highest, in Brussels.
Sweden targeted by Islamist terrorist
In protest videos cited by Attorney General Frédéric Van Leeuw, the attacker, then on the run, explained that he was specifically targeting Swedes, many of whom were present in the capital for a football match between Belgium and Sweden.
In another video taken before the attack this time, the same individual, who claims to be from the Islamic State, “appears hooded and declares that ‘the book of Allah is a red line for which he sacrifices himself’” , said the prosecutor. The attacker was probably referring to the Korans burned in Sweden in recent months.
“All European states are vulnerable” in the face of the return of “Islamist terrorism”, declared the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron during a press conference in Tirana, the day after the Islamist terrorist attack which left two dead in Brussels.
“All European states are vulnerable. And there is indeed a return of this Islamist terrorism, and we all have a vulnerability. It’s the one that goes with democracies, states governed by law where you have individuals who at a moment can decide to do the worst.”
Certainly, but citizens have the right to expect firmness from the State in the execution of expulsion measures... fewer failures and laxity.
Yes, citizens want to “live in strong states of law at a time when terrorism returns”, as Emmanuel Macron suggested, but this is not the case today !
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FACED BY HORROR ISRAEL EXPOSES THE REMAINS OF HAMAS VICTIMS
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 "We decided to expose this horror because there are people who accuse us of lying and showing dog bones,” said Dr. Hen Kugel, director of the Forensic Institute of Tel Aviv.
The toll of Hamas's barbaric attack on the south of the country last week is unbearable: more than 1,300 dead in atrocious conditions, 3,526 injured, some very seriously, 400 people missing.
According to IDF estimates, between 150 and 200 people are being held hostage in Gaza.
“…never seen this degree of barbarity”
At the Tel Aviv Forensic Institute, the horror is indescribable. The remains of Israeli victims, murdered by Hamas on October 7, are gathered there with a view to their identification. Among them, bodies burned, mutilated and in an advanced state of decomposition, a macabre scene to which forensic doctors, dressed in green overalls, tackle like a morbid puzzle, trying to reconstruct these human remains as much as possible. The corpses lie before examination on wheeled stretchers, carefully wrapped in thick black plastic bags.
Some of these bags are small, corresponding to that of a child. Each body is carefully numbered and comes from various localities, transported by volunteers, mainly Orthodox Jews. In accordance with Jewish tradition, a body may only be buried if it is complete, as far as possible.
“We chose to show this horror because some accuse us of lying, claiming that we are showing dog bones,” confessed the director of the Institute, Doctor Hen Kugel, overcome by emotion, according to reports from the French media like Le Point. “This is my 31st year in this profession. I have never been confronted with such a degree of barbarity, such cruelty, such relentlessness. It is simply abominable,” he added in tears.
Thousands of victims
Israeli authorities have recorded more than 1,400 deaths since the attack on October 7, 2023, perpetrated by hundreds of Hamas members from the Gaza Strip who attempted to infiltrate localities and kibbutzim adjacent to the territory. Palestinian. Simultaneously, Israel carried out strikes on Gaza, where local authorities reported around 2,750 deaths.
For the identification of the bodies, in addition to the seven forensic doctors from the Tel Aviv Institute, an anthropologist, a radiologist and eight geneticists are involved, with the support of around thirty volunteers.
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PSYCHE MISSION ON THE METAL ASTEROID
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE AND COMMERCIAL INTEREST
IN A LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO BE DEFINED |  Initially scheduled for October 5, 2023, the launch of the probe was postponed by a week in order to check the proper functioning of the small thrusters equipping the device. Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stressed the importance of these devices, although they are not the main propulsion system, they are crucial, especially right after launch, to ensure their reliability when they are launched. required. These thrusters will help the device to orient itself correctly in relation to Earth.
Powered by two large solar panels, the probe will be propelled by four ion engines expelling xenon at high speed, ensuring a six-year journey. In May 2026, Psyche will receive a gravitational boost from the planet Mars before heading towards the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Why return to observe an asteroid when the Japanese Hayabusa-2 and American Osiris-REx missions have already collected numerous data on two of these celestial bodies, Ryugu and Bénou, and brought back samples? Because the term "asteroid" actually encompasses a whole diversity of stars, and Psyche, the target of NASA's mission, differs considerably from its counterparts.
First by its size:
This 280 km diameter asteroid is worth so much because it is one of the “M-type” asteroids, meaning it is mainly composed of metals.
Then, by its composition: Psyche is made up of nickel, iron and gold. This type of asteroid is quite rare in our solar system and could allow us to answer many questions about the origin of planets like Earth, which is why NASA is sending a space probe to Psyche this Friday October 13, 2023.
Studying the heart of our planet
The main interest of this mission is to collect as much information as possible on this stellar object, similar to the earth's core. All rocky planets, including Earth, have a metallic core, but we still know little about ours due to access limitations imposed by extreme heat and pressure. Jules Verne's novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth” unfortunately remains pure fiction.
This makes it easier for scientists to observe Psyche and her exposed heart. “One of the existing theories is that it was in the bowels of a forming planet,” explains David Oh, engineer and project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Psyche may have been the metallic core that was forming inside a baby planet, which then collided with another planet, which tore away that rocky mantle, leaving only a piece of that core in the 'space ".
So by studying Psyche, scientists could study the Earth's core of planets like ours in detail for the first time. Even more, since scientists assume that these are the remains of a planet from the beginning of our solar system, the information collected could shed light on how planets formed.
In particular, since scientists assume that Psyche is a remnant of a planet from the early days of our solar system, the data collected could shed light on the process of planetary formation. This will be the first exploration not only of an asteroid of this type, but also of a whole new world made of metal.
A value of 10,000 billion dollars
While the contribution to science promises to be enormous, the commercial attractiveness and legal framework of these new missions for the exploration and exploitation of space resources still raise questions.
Although this mission is primarily scientific in scope, the value of the asteroid could arouse envy and trigger a gold rush.
With a diameter of around 220 km, the asteroid Psyche could indeed represent a value of 10,000 billion dollars (or approximately 9,534 billion euros), according to estimates relayed by the American magazine Forbes.
This exceeds the accumulation of global economies, sparking keen interest and raising questions about the exploitation of space mining resources to compensate for the scarcity of certain metals on Earth. In addition, many H-type asteroids, which have a much higher metal composition than that of Earth, are found in abundant quantities.
A sector already very invested
The senators of the foresight delegation underline in a report published in June that the exploitation of space resources is no longer a science fiction scenario, but a reality.
Players, particularly from the private sector, are already mobilizing to position themselves on this future market. The sector is not at the embryonic stage since players, particularly in the private sector, are already working to ensure a place on this (future) market. Especially since the hope of exploiting minerals from space is fueled by the latest scientific advances. For example, the Osiris-Rex mission returned to Earth in September with 250 grams of samples from the asteroid Bennou, the largest quantity of such a celestial body ever reported on our planet.
At the beginning of the 2010s, American companies set the ambition to achieve this. Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, as well as Avatar director James Cameron, invested in one of these companies in 2012. The Duchy of Luxembourg also acquired, in 2016, 10% of one of these start-ups. The blow was over in 2018.
Some companies in the sector have gone bankrupt or been bought out to reorient themselves towards other space domains. Recent scientific advances fuel hopes of exploiting minerals from space. Companies like AstroForge in the United States, Asteroid Mining Corporation in the United Kingdom and ispace in Japan are positioning themselves as pioneers of this movement.
The American company AstroForge is increasing its tests with autonomous prospecting space robots in order to exploit extraterrestrial resources. It hopes to be able to launch its first real mission at the end of 2025 and bring it back to Earth by 2030, Matt Gialich, co-founder of the start-up, told the American channel CNN in April. AstroForge claims to have 31 platinum-rich asteroids in its sights
The essential stage of the moon
With the signing of the Artemis Accords in 2020, providing for a human return to the Moon, the installation of a base and the exploitation of its resources, the prospect of exploiting extraterrestrial minerals has become more concrete."The Moon, c is clearly the essential step" before going further in the exploration of Mars and exploiting celestial bodies, summarizes Florian Vidal, recalling that the return to our natural satellite gives rise to a new global race involving China , Russia, India and the United Arab Emirates.
However, technological, financial and legal challenges remain, particularly regarding the repatriation of minerals to Earth. Some experts suggest exploiting asteroid resources there for scientific purposes. This could be used to power probes to extend their lifespan . For example, the Juice mission, which left in mid-April to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The resources could also be brought back to our planet.
The urgency of the legal framework
Alongside technical and scientific considerations, there is the thorny question of ownership of resources from space. But is it even possible to take over an asteroid ?
On this, Armel Kerrest, professor of space law and vice-president of the ESA European Center for Space Law, is categorical: “On a legal level there are rules which were set in the 1967 treaty , which provides that celestial bodies cannot be the subject of appropriation.”
Several countries, such as the United States, Luxembourg, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, have adopted texts to regulate these activities. China, Russia and even Saudi Arabia are also in the starting blocks.
Indeed, the treaty stipulates that “outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, cannot be the subject of national appropriation by proclamation of sovereignty, nor by way of use or occupation , nor by any other means".
On a global scale, these legal questions "must be addressed urgently in order to avoid space wars for natural resources, estimates Ifri in a note from May 2023. These questions should ideally be resolved before embarking on mining and energy exploitation of space." |
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POLAND PRO-EUROPEAN OPPOSITION WOULD WIN LEGISLATION
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 It's a surprise: in Poland, according to polls, the pro-European opposition won the legislative elections on October 15. The president of the “civic coalition”, Donald Tusk, claims victory.
The end of 8 years of power for the conservatives.
Certainly, in terms of number of votes, the ruling party, the PiS, finished the race in the lead (36.8%), during the legislative elections which took place in Poland, Sunday October 15, with a historic participation rate: almost 73%, by far the highest since the fall of the communist regime in 1989. But with 200 deputies, out of an assembly of 460, this is not enough to govern. Even with the help of the far-right Konfederajca, who hoped to "turn the tables" and only obtained 6% of the votes. The absence of a party capable of forming a coalition government with them puts the ruling party in an impasse.
The opposition, on the contrary, managed to obtain an absolute majority, thanks to the 31.6% of the Civic Coalition Party (KO) of former European Council President Donald Tusk. However, the opposition only surpasses the conservatives because the liberals of KO can count on the centrists of Third Way (13%) and the Left (8.6%). It is therefore well placed to form a government
The three main opposition parties, which are alliances of small parties, have different positions on several issues, notably on morals. Despite their differences, they can find a common language, because they all share the same goal: to end PiS and its flirtation with the East, to restore the rule of law in Poland, and to reestablish good relations. with with the EU institutions.
The next prime minister, should the current opposition form a government, would be Civic Coalition leader and former European Council president Donald Tusk, who served as prime minister between 2007 and 2014.
“Democracy has won”
As of Sunday evening, the leader of this "civic platform", the former President of the European Council Donald Tusk, did not hide his joy: "I have never been so happy in my life... It's the end of this bad period, it is the end of the reign of PiS. Poland has won, democracy has won."
It was his bet: after his time in Brussels, Donald Tusk had plunged back into Polish politics to defeat the nationalists.
For the Poles, this will change a lot of things. Donald Tusk promised to protect LGBT rights and to liberalize the right to abortion, which is one of the most restrictive in the world. On the economic front, he is committed to curbing inflation, 11% expected this year.
President Duda, member of PiS and ally of the nationalists
But everything is not going to change at once. President Andrzej Duda, a member of the PiS, is the ally of the nationalists. The PiS having come first, the Polish president Mr. Duda (whose mandate expires in 2025) expressed his intention to grant the mandate to form the government "to the winner", meaning that Mr Morawiecki will most likely have the opportunity to form a parliamentary majority. This should fail, but it's a must.
Then, the three opposition parties must be able to form a government quickly. But the new coalition will not obtain the three-fifths majority necessary to overturn presidential vetoes... It risks being confronted with frequent conflicts with the head of state.
Furthermore, under the Constitution, it is the President of the Republic who will initially designate the party responsible for founding a government team. Unless there is a surprise, the head of state should entrust the task to his own party, except that this mission is doomed to failure.
A setback for the Eurosceptics.
The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is expressing hope that Mateusz Morawiecki, the current Polish prime minister, will be reappointed for a third term despite differences over immigration at recent EU summits. This situation would be a setback for Eurosceptics. For PiS's European friends, such as the Hungarian Fidesz and the Fratelli d'Italia, PiS's loss of power in Poland would be bad news. Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, and Giorgia Meloni, his Italian counterpart, would lose a key ally within the European Council.
In contrast, the European People's Party (EPP), which includes both the Civic Coalition and the Polish People's Party (PSL), as well as the center-green Poland 2050 party, formed the Third Way alliance, would fare better. During the election campaign, PiS Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the party's influential leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, accused the EPP and its leader, Manfred Weber, of attempting to interfere in Poland's electoral process to support the KO and PSL.
On the other hand, Renew Europe, to which Poland 2050 belongs, and the Socialists and Democrats, which include the Polish left, have reason to rejoice. If the official results, expected in the coming days, confirm the exit polls, this will constitute "a light at the end of the tunnel", declared Ms Kopacz, referring to the potential influence of the victory of the opposition on the party landscape in Europe. She is convinced that countries dominated by populism “will take an example from Poland and see that it is possible to return to the path of democracy and partnership with the EU”.
Towards appeasement with the EU
Poland's relations with the European Union will calm down considerably. During its eight years of rule, PiS was known to clash with the European Commission, particularly over its controversial judicial reforms which seriously undermined the rule of law and fundamental rights in Poland.
PiS has also soured its relations with Berlin and kyiv in recent months. Much of his election campaign has targeted Germany, while his previously warm relations with Ukraine have cooled due to the row over Ukrainian grain imports. The 35 billion euros of the European recovery plan are frozen.
The change of government should allow Poland to regain its full place within the 27. |
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TERRORIST ATTACK AT ARRAS HIGH SCHOOL
THE WORRYING PROFILE OF THE FAMILY
OF THE MURDERER MOHAMMED MOGOUCHKOV | Jihadism has once again struck France in an international context of extreme tension.
Three years after the assassination of Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), the school, the symbol par excellence of the Republic, was targeted again, Friday October 13 in the morning, by an Islamist of around twenty 'years.
A literature teacher was killed and three others were seriously injured during a late morning knife attack at the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras by an Islamist terrorist. Three other people were injured by the attacker.
The latter was taken into custody like four members of his family and three other people. The assailant would have refused, for the moment, to speak in police custody.
The perpetrator of the attack also shouted “Allah Akbar”, a police source said. File S, the suspect was under surveillance by the DGSI and was checked on Thursday. If the attacker was followed by the intelligence services and on S file since October 2, his big brother was convicted of criminal terrorist association.
He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy, plus 18 months for advocating terrorism.
An emergency system was quickly put in place around the Gambetta-Carnot school complex. The Raid was put on high alert.
Political reactions followed one another all day long.
Emmanuel Macron denounced a “cowardly and savage” assassination. The head of state also chaired a security meeting with several ministers.
Gabriel Attal declared from his ministry that, on Monday, "everywhere in France, we will have a moment of union and contemplation", in tribute to the teacher killed during a knife attack in a high school in Arras. The Minister of National Education also announced "to deploy nearly 1,000 prevention and security personnel in schools and educational establishments". "These are mobile security teams" in the rectorates.
First testimonies
Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region, recounted how the tragedy unfolded: “According to my information, two teachers who were outside the establishment were attacked by a man. one was fatally hit, the other injured.
Then the assailant entered the high school and attacked a third victim. The police intervened very quickly, perhaps due to the very close police station or the patrols carried out. He was incapacitated with a Taser, then law enforcement worked to find the other members of his family. His brother was arrested in front of another school. "
A third grade student testified to the newspaper, explaining that the teacher “tried to calm him down and protect us.” According to the teenager, the suspect had “two knives”.
“More than 11 years after the killings perpetrated by Mohammed Merah, opening an endless list of tragedies from Charlie Hebdo to the Bataclan to Arras, it is in the name of the same Islamist ideology that wild obscurantists are shedding blood. ", we can read in a forum.
The disturbing journey of terrorist Mohammed Mogouchkov and his family
A collective expulsion aborted at the last minute, a father sent back to Russia, a mother rejected from asylum, a son imprisoned as part of a planned attack, a second who committed an Islamist attack on Friday: chronicle of fifteen years in France for the Mogushkovs. The family of Mohammed Mogouchkov, who stabbed a teacher in a middle school in Arras on Friday, arrived in France in 2008, according to a police source.
The attacker's route begins to take shape. But the young man, who was arrested by the police, was not the only one in his family to be known to the intelligence services.
The suspect, a young man of 20, presented as Chechen and born in Russia, shouted "Allah Akbar" before committing the murder of the teacher.
Originally from Ingushetia, he had been a student in the establishment where the attack took place. Since last summer, he had been under the surveillance of the DGSI and had been registered in the File for processing reports for the prevention of radicalization of a terrorist nature (FSPRT). He was later classified as a radicalized individual on October 2.
Monitored by intelligence services
Arriving in France in 2008 at the age of 6, he never obtained French nationality. In March 2021, his request for asylum was rejected by Ofpra, followed by a rejection of his appeal in August 2022. However, due to his presence in France before the age of 13, he benefited from protection against removal from French territory.
Intelligence services had been monitoring him for around ten days, using wiretapping and physical surveillance. On Thursday, he was checked without any offense being charged against him, before being released. Initial investigations suggest that this is a radicalized individual who suddenly decided to take action. His younger brother was also arrested near another high school in Arras.
The big brother already condemned
The big brother is also known to the intelligence services and was sentenced this year to five years in prison for “conspiracy of terrorist criminals” and to 18 months for “apology of terrorism”. He is currently detained at the Santé prison in Paris.
In 2019, the DGSI spotted a man suspected of preparing an attack. The investigation revealed that this project involved a trio aiming to attack the surroundings of the Élysée Palace and the police as well as civilians on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. One of the suspects had links via Telegram with the big brother of the Arras attacker, described as a “particularly violent young radicalized person on social networks”.
This led to the arrest of the trio as they prepared to obtain weapons. In addition, the investigation revealed that the big brother had been involved in propaganda activities and had intentions of leaving for Syria for jihad.
And that's not all. During the investigation, the police discovered the existence of an incident at the Gambetta high school in Arras, at the beginning of December 2016. During a course devoted to freedom of expression and specifically to the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, he declared “that the attack took place because they had insulted Muslims.
They insulted Islam by representing the prophet and Shiites are not Muslims." On social networks, he offered an interlocutor "courses in throat-cutting in theory and practice."
An expulsion notice in 2014 In 2016, he made alarming comments at the Gambetta high school in Arras. In 2013, the family submitted a first request for asylum in France, which was rejected. In 2014, an eviction attempt was initiated, but later canceled due to the mobilization of associations.
Organizations for the defense of foreigners are stepping up actions to prevent it. In a press release dated February 19, 2014, the Rennes branch of the French Communist Party (PCF) welcomed the “mobilization of associations which was able to push back the prefecture […] and free the Mogouchkov family” from the detention center where they had was placed for this operation “on the sly”.
This Friday, an investigation was opened by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) for charges of assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise, attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise and terrorist criminal association with a view to prepare crimes against people. The investigations are carried out by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the national directorate of the judicial police (SDAT), the national directorate of the judicial police (DNPJ) and the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
Emotion and anger
“This company constantly produces amnesia…
We forget everything very quickly: between two attacks, between two murdered teachers, we act as if everything was fine!
What are we going to do now?
Shall we go drop off some teddy bears and candles?
Is this what will prevent the next attack?
Many still do not understand who we are dealing with, in particular because this society is incapable of decentering itself but also because of intellectual laziness and flight from reality.
Yes, this one is scary and we will have to confront it.", asserts history professor Iannis Roder, teacher in Seine-Saint-Denis and director of the Education Observatory of the Jean Jaurès Foundation in The Point .
This attack reminds us once again that our democracy, despite successive laws and the increasing efficiency of the police services, has shown itself incapable to date of eradicating evil. |
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HOW COULD ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SERVICES MISS
HAMAS’ PREPARATIONS ? |  Israel has very sophisticated intelligence resources, whether collecting information on threats inside the country or outside it, with high-end secret services.
Yet when the sun set over the city of Israel, its streets were bathed in an eerie silence. A dark shadow hung over the country, leaving a nagging question in the heart of every Israeli: how could such a nightmare happen?
Israel was known for its intelligence superiority, whether monitoring internal or external threats.
However, on October 7, 2023, this reputation was dramatically shaken by an unprecedented Hamas attack. Twenty Israeli towns and several military bases found themselves under heavy fire from this surprise offensive.
The scale of the disaster left even the most seasoned experts stunned.
The general incomprehension resonated in unison with the anger and fear that invaded the country.
How could Israel have been caught off guard ?
Why couldn't we have anticipated this imminent threat ?
On October 10, 2023, the New York Times published an article reporting that Israeli intelligence had actually detected worrying signals within Hamas networks before the attack.
However, this information, although spotted, was not correctly interpreted or taken seriously. An error which was a painful reminder of the shortcomings of American intelligence before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The intelligence and counterterrorism specialist, Javed Ali, who had worked for many years in the American intelligence services, found himself at the heart of the intellectual storm that was raging at the time.
“Analyzing intelligence is like putting together a thousand-piece puzzle every day from isolated data in order to make judgments that enable policy makers to make informed decisions,” said Javed Ali. This herculean task, although difficult, formed the backbone of national security.
We spoke with Javed Ali to try to understand the workings of the Israeli intelligence services and the possible flaws that allowed this devastating Hamas incursion.
1. The mysteries of the attack
The repercussions of the attacks of October 7, 2023 were devastating, but the overarching question was how an operation of such scale could have remained off the radar of Israeli intelligence services. According to Ali, the scale of the attack suggested careful planning, requiring considerable effort to conceal the plot.
"These are not operations that you organize overnight. Such an attack requires complex logistics, precise coordination and deliberate planning," Ali explained. In addition, the geographic scope of the attack raised questions about possible Iranian involvement, although some US officials denied having any hard evidence of this.
Hamas was literally on Israel's doorstep, raising questions about the country's ability to understand events taking place in Iran, located nearly 2,000 kilometers away. This geographical proximity left a mysterious imprint on the course of events.
Israeli officials had tried to explain their failure to anticipate the attack by citing the effectiveness of their recent counterterrorism operations. They believed these actions had discouraged Hamas, minimizing its ability to carry out such a large-scale offensive. However, this explanation did not entirely clear the fog surrounding the circumstances of the attack.
2. The Shadow Artisans
Israel, like the United States, could boast of having one of the most efficient and sophisticated intelligence services in the world. The structure and operation of these services were similar in many respects to those of Uncle Sam.
The Shin Bet, the Israeli equivalent of the FBI, had the mission of monitoring internal threats. On the other hand, the Mossad, often compared to the American CIA, was responsible for external security. The Jewish state also had a military intelligence agency in the style of the American DIA, as well as other military intelligence agencies specializing in various aspects of security.
Like most Western nations, Israel benefited from a multitude of intelligence sources. Among these, human intelligence, more commonly called espionage, constituted an essential pillar. These were agents working behind the scenes to obtain sensitive information.
Signals intelligence, which encompassed various forms of electronic communications such as telephone calls, emails and text messages, also provided a crucial source of information. Imagery intelligence, such as satellite photos of training camps and equipment, supplemented this array of sources.
A fourth type of intelligence was open source information, that is, data available to anyone, such as Internet discussion forums. With the explosion of the Internet and social media, this information became more and more abundant, making the work of analysts even more complex.
3. The Dissimilarity between the two Intelligence Giants
However, one crucial difference separated Israeli intelligence services from their American counterparts. Unlike the United States, Israel did not have a national intelligence coordinator, a central authority responsible for overseeing all intelligence agencies.
In the United States, the director of national intelligence headed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), created in 2004. This system was established following the recommendations of the September 11 Commission, which noted the flaws in the American intelligence system, fragmented between different agencies and offices.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was designed to resolve complex problems that were beyond the scope of each individual agency, or where discrepancies in analysis existed. "I worked for several years in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. At one point, I was stationed directly under the Director of National Intelligence," Ali revealed.
In Israel, such a central entity was lacking. This gap in the country's intelligence architecture raised questions about its ability to anticipate and counter complex threats.
4. America and Israel: An Intelligence Partnership
The United States and Israel had close intelligence ties. Their partnership was bilateral, that is to say it only concerned these two nations, without involving other countries.
The United States also had a broader intelligence alliance known as the "Group of Five", or Five Eyes, which included Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However, in these strong bilateral relationships, when one party had information about threats concerning the other, it was required to pass it on automatically.
Nonetheless, it appeared that the United States was shifting its intelligence priorities to other regions of the world, such as Ukraine, Russia, and China. This reorientation could explain why they may not have obtained relevant information about the Hamas plot, and thus could not transmit it to Israel to warn it.
As the sun rose over a grieving Israel, the questions persisted, leaving a country searching for answers, justice and security. The Hamas attack in 2023 exposed the flaws in a seemingly infallible intelligence system, highlighting the crucial importance of careful analysis, international cooperation and constant adaptation to confront such threats. elusive than those which had just occurred. |
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ISRAEL - HAMAS WAR "DESTROY HAMAS"
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 Five days after the deadliest attack in Israeli history, the escalation of tension between Tel Aviv and Hamas persists. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his desire to “destroy” the Palestinian movement, stepping up strikes on Gaza, which remains under siege and from where several salvos of rockets have been launched towards southern Israel.
“Destroy” Hamas”
Concerning human losses, the current toll is 1,200 deaths on both sides, with prospects of increasing as the recovery and identification operations of the bodies continue. Many people are still missing, according to information provided by the army.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently at the head of an emergency government formed with his rival Benny Gantz, said his country was now “in offensive mode”. He warned that "any member of Hamas is a dead man" and compared Hamas to ISIS, promising to crush and destroy them, just as ISIS was destroyed by the world. These statements mark the first clear expression of Israel's intention to "destroy" Hamas.
Stories of atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian fighters in Israel deeply moved Benjamin Netanyahu.
He described acts of unbearable cruelty, highlighting the barbarity of their actions.
“We saw little children tied up and shot in the head, people burned alive, young girls raped and massacred, soldiers beheaded (...). In one place, they put people together, brought tires and gasoline and burned them alive,” he said. Israel mobilized 300,000 reservists and deployed tens of thousands of troops to the outskirts. from the Gaza Strip, raising fears of an imminent ground offensive.
More than 1,200 dead in each of the two camps
In Israel, human losses exceed 1,200, mainly civilians, according to the spokesperson for the Israeli army. NGOs report that more than 100 people were killed in the Beeri kibbutz alone, and at least 270 at a rave party near Gaza. The results remain uncertain for the kibbutz of Kfar Aza where atrocities on babies have been reported. On the Palestinian side, the death toll also stands at 1,200, with around 5,600 injured, according to the latest report from the Gaza authorities. Several countries have started to repatriate their nationals stranded in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Israel has admitted to kidnappings of civilians and military personnel, while many foreign nationals remain missing.
In the Gaza Strip, where 2.3 million Palestinians live in difficult conditions, more than 338,000 people have been displaced due to the bombings. Water, electricity and food supplies have been cut off by Israel, worsening the already precarious humanitarian situation. Dozens of buildings, factories, mosques and stores were destroyed during the strikes.
Lebanon and the West Bank hit by Israel
On Wednesday, the Israeli army once again struck southern Lebanon, in response to rocket fire from Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. In the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday, four in an attack by Israeli settlers and two by soldiers, according to the Palestinian Authority. Since Saturday, twenty-nine Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in violence linked to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Blinken solidarity visit and help from Germany
On the political front, Netanyahu and Gantz announced the formation of an emergency government and war cabinet for the duration of the conflict.
This announcement came on the eve of the arrival in Israel on Thursday of American Secretary of State Antony Blinken for a solidarity visit, and while the United States said it was ready “if necessary” to deploy a second aircraft carrier for deterrence purposes. The first weapons from the United States arrived at their destination on Wednesday.
According to an official Turkish source, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a process of negotiations with Hamas with a view to obtaining the release of the hostages after the Palestinian movement threatened to execute them.
Westerners supported Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and the Arab League condemned the siege imposed by Israel on Gaza. Germany also gave the green light to Israel to use two HeronTP combat drones.
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DEADLY HAMAS ATTACK
ISRAEL WILL AVENGE THIS BLACK DAY
BY A MERCYLESS WAR |  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu donned the costume of a warlord in his speech on Monday, October 9, 2023, and showed his muscles, declaring that he was going to destroy Hamas. Striking his fist with words full of fury, Netanyahu swore that Israel would "win this war", but warned of a high cost, hinting at a likely ground incursion.
Prime Minister Benjamin pledged to deploy the full force of the Israeli army against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, warning Israelis of the difficult days ahead.
“The IDF will act immediately to destroy the capabilities of Hamas,” Netanyahu said in a televised address, as terrorists remained holed up with hostages in at least three locations in Israel.
“We will paralyze them mercilessly and avenge this black day they inflicted on Israel and its citizens.”
"The people of Gaza must leave now. We will be everywhere and with all our strength," he added, as thousands of reservists headed towards military bases in preparation for a widely expected counter-offensive.
In his speech on Monday, he detailed the five points of his program:
regain control of the territory and "eliminate the terrorists" still present in Israel, carry out a "massive" attack against Hamas with "unprecedented force", "reinforce the other fronts, in the north against Hezbollah" and in the West Bank, continue the campaign to guarantee the support of the international community and finally "the unity of the people" with the formation of a government of national unity.
The faultlines on the Israeli side
During this war, similar to that of 1973, the brutal outbreak deeply shocked the Israelis. Israeli military intelligence had warned the government that enemies perceived Israel as vulnerable, but they did not expect a Hamas attack at that time.
They believed that Hamas mainly wanted to govern Gaza and not start a war against Israel.
However, Hamas carefully planned this attack for many months, representing Israel's worst intelligence failure since 1973.
The flaws on the Israeli side manifested themselves on two levels, notably in the field of intelligence. Until now well informed about the situation in the Gaza Strip, Shabak recently lost its sources within Hamas.
This blindness is surprising, because journalists had reported that Hamas militants were regularly training on motorcycles and learning to fly microlights in recent months.
Despite this, the Israeli services did not anticipate anything, thus highlighting a major flaw that they will have to justify. This intelligence failure is often the result of gaps in the political-military conception of the country. A parallel can be made with the Yom Kippur War fifty years ago.
Despite ample intelligence about a possible Egyptian attack, politicians refused to believe it due to a strategic misconception that Egypt was too weak to launch an attack.
Similarly, the current political-strategic conception, defended for years by Netanyahu, minimizes the threat of Hamas and aims to preserve its presence in the Gaza Strip to justify the absence of a partner for peace, due to divisions in within Palestinian society between Hamas and Fatah.
For Netanyahu and the Israeli right, Hamas has become a kind of insurance against international pressure. Netanyahu had even privately expressed that Hamas' persistence was in Israel's interests. So money from Qatar was flowing to Hamas, and around 20,000 Gazans were allowed to work in Israel to make life under Hamas livable.
The intelligence services were influenced by this vision minimizing the threat from Hamas. Recently, Tzachi Hanegbi, head of the National Security Council and close to Netanyahu, declared that Hamas had no intention of resuming hostilities.
Intelligence services and many analysts also believed that Hamas preferred to export Palestinian violence to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to help undermine the little power of an already weak and unpopular Palestinian Authority, led by rival Fatah. Hamas policy.
These assumptions turned out to be woefully wrong, as were intelligence assessments before the outbreak of the 1973 war. Then, as now, Israel's adversaries were not deterred by its superiority military.
The intelligence services have therefore fallen asleep, largely due to the government's posture. In recent months, the prime minister has been focused on his fight to take control of the Supreme Court, his top priority until October 7.
This time, the failure is even more glaring, given Israel's intelligence-gathering capabilities. Hamas must have carefully planned this attack for many months. This is undoubtedly Israel's worst intelligence failure since the 1973 war.
Intelligence failure, but also military failure, with the Israeli Defense Forces massively deployed in the West Bank and clearly unprepared for an attack of this magnitude from the Gaza side. The sudden Hamas attack revealed major gaps in Israeli intelligence . The failure to anticipate this attack is due in part to a view that downplays the threat posed by Hamas.
Implications of the Hamas Assault
A complex internal debate raged inside Hamas. Since the execution or disappearance of the main founders of the organization which claims to be the Muslim Brotherhood, contradictory options have existed on how to exercise power (in Gaza), to conquer it (within what remains of the Palestinian Authority) and resolve the conflict with Israel. The military wing led by Mohammed Deif and the head of Hamas in Saza, Yahia Sinwar, seem to have gained the upper hand over the "politicians" who are most often in Damascus, Tehran and, it is sometimes said, Istanbul.
The kidnapping of Israeli citizens in order to exchange them for Hamas members detained in Israel has long been a major objective of the Islamist movement's military operations.
An emblematic case dates back to 2011 when Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier detained in Gaza since 2006, was exchanged for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar, current leader of Hamas in Gaza, who had spent 22 years in prison in Israel. Reports of dozens of Israelis, including many civilians, captured by Hamas during this weekend's assault suggest the kidnapping may be a central motive for the attack. An unknown number of hostages, held for hours by Hamas militants in two towns in southern Israel, were finally freed by Israeli special forces.
Another, broader Hamas goal could be to undermine ongoing negotiations between the United States and Saudi Arabia for a deal to normalize relations between the kingdom and Israel. The failure of these talks would be a boon for Iran, one of Hamas' main supporters, and for its allies.
Tehran has said it supports Hamas attacks against Israel, although it is not yet clear whether Iran or Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite group in growing partnership with Hamas, will open other fronts in the coming days, although the latter had already fired shells against Israeli territory on October 8.
Any escalation of the conflict from Iran or Lebanon would pose serious problems for Israel. The same would happen if the war against Hamas exacerbated the already very sensitive tensions and violent clashes between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the West Bank.
Israeli strategy and military reality
The rhetoric of military victory does not reflect the complexity of this conflict. Hamas cannot be treated like a traditional army, which makes any military solution difficult. Hamas is not a regular army that can be defeated on the battlefield and whose surrender can be obtained. It is a very decentralized paramilitary organization, whose fighters, who hide in tunnels, are very difficult to flush out. The Israeli air force will not be enough.
To achieve this, we would have to enter Gaza with tanks and thousands of men, and there would be
Discourse focused on a military victory does not capture the complexity of this conflict. Hamas cannot be understood as a conventional armed force, which complicates any military resolution.
This is not a conventional army that can be defeated on the battlefield and forced to surrender. It is a highly decentralized paramilitary organization, with fighters hidden in tunnels, making them extremely difficult to spot. The Israeli Air Force alone cannot solve this problem.
To achieve a solution, it would be necessary to commit tanks and thousands of men to Gaza, which would result in high casualties on both sides, both among Gazan civilians and among Israeli soldiers. There is also the hostage factor to consider. What are Hamas' intentions towards all the hostages it took to Gaza?
Currently, Hamas has no interest in negotiating the release of the hostages. Assuming, for example, that the movement secures the release of all its prisoners currently held in Israel and frees the Israeli hostages it is holding, it would then lose a powerful human shield. Israel could launch a massive attack on the Gaza Strip without fear of causing the death of its citizens.
There may be negotiations, but they won't happen for a while. In the meantime, these hostages will likely be scattered throughout the Gaza Strip, forcing the military to be extremely careful in every bombing decision.
The current violence has only just begun, but it could become the bloodiest in decades, perhaps even since the war between Israel and the Palestinians in Lebanon in the 1980s. |
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THE CHALLENGE OF AGING
OF THE POPULATION IN EUROPE |  The WHO predicted yesterday that people over 65 would outnumber people under 15 in Europe within a year.
A trend which should spread to the rest of the world by 2064, and which alerts health authorities to caring for healthy old age.
In order to limit the health and economic impact of aging, the WHO calls on governments to take measures to "enable older people to preserve and improve their physical and mental health, their independence, their social well-being and their quality of life".
China is also facing a major demographic crisis, following the one-child policy introduced in 1979 under Deng Xiaoping.
It was lifted in 2016 by Xi Jinping, but as old habits die hard and lifestyles have changed, the birth rate has not taken off. |
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ISRAEL ATTACKED BY HAMAS
CARNAGE AT A HOSTAGE FESTIVAL IN GAZA
EMBARKED IN A LONG AND DIFFICULT WAR |  Two days after the start of the massive offensive launched by Palestinian Hamas from the Gaza Strip and then Israel's reprisals, the fighting continued on October 9. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis that they were "embarked on a long and difficult war."
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called for "unity in the people, in Parliament and in an emergency government."
The Israeli army has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to regain full control of the desert regions near the Gaza Strip, rescue the Israeli hostages who are still there and evacuate all the inhabitants of the region here until Monday morning. Hamas has taken “more than 100 prisoners,” the Government Press Office (GPO) said on Sunday.
During the night, army airstrikes continued on the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory under Hamas control. Fighting also continued on the ground between Israeli forces and armed elements of this Islamist movement who had infiltrated Israel since the day before.
The siege of the police station in the Israeli town of Sderot, bordering Gaza, where Hamas gunmen were holed up ended this Sunday morning, police announced in a statement: police and army special forces Israeli "neutralized ten armed terrorists who were in the police station."
“The enemy is still on the ground” in Israel, “we are reinforcing our forces especially near Gaza and are clearing the area”, declared Sunday evening the spokesperson for the Israeli army, promising to hunt down “terrorists wherever they will be".
Hundreds of deaths
The fighting left at least 700 dead and 2150 injured on the Israeli side. Dual nationals are among the victims.
In the Gaza Strip, Hamas has at this stage counted 700 dead and 2,125 injured.
“We killed 400 terrorists,” an IDF spokesperson said this Sunday.
“Civilians and soldiers are in the hands of the enemy, it is time for war,” said the head of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevi.
"Several" Americans were killed in the Hamas offensive, according to an American official, as well as ten Nepalis as well as nationals of other countries, including a French woman. The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported "the death of a Canadian and the disappearance of two others."
Taking advantage of the surprise effect of its attack, completely unanticipated by Israel, Hamas fighters aboard vehicles, boats and even motorized paragliders made use of the imposing barrier erected by Israel around the Gaza Strip , attacking military positions or civilians in the middle of the street.
“Hundreds of terrorists entered Israel from Gaza” and “attacked dozens of Israeli communities,” said Lieutenant Jonathan Conricus, former international spokesperson for the Israeli army.
"They came door to door, house to house, looking for Israeli civilians. Some were executed in cold blood" in their homes, he added. These incursions were in addition to the launching of thousands of rockets into Israel.
Soldiers and civilians captured
Hamas also captured a significant number of civilians and soldiers during this operation which it called
“Al-Aqsa flood”.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed in a video to have “captured several enemy soldiers” and the al-Quds Brigades, the military branch of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also declared that they were holding “numerous soldiers” Israeli.
On Saturday morning, dozens of terrorists entered Kibbutz Beeri, created in 1946 as part of a strategic plan to help the future state resist an Egyptian invasion.
Hamas troops yesterday gradually took control of the entire kibbutz, whose 1,200 inhabitants make it the largest of the 25 villages that make up the Eshkol regional council.
Several members of the kibbutz were reportedly kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip. The terrorist operation was part of an unprecedented raid carried out by hundreds of Hamas gunmen, who managed to easily cross the border area under tension, penetrating into at least three towns – Ofakim, Sderot and Netivot – and several villages
The Nova Festival held in the Negev desert, near the Gaza Strip, was attacked by Palestinian movement fighters at the start of Saturday's offensive. According to Israeli media, at least 260 festival-goers have died. Others are missing, probably kidnapped.
The Israeli online news site Ynet puts forward "an estimate of around a hundred people [...] kidnapped" while the authorities have not yet given any figures.
“We have a significant number of Israelis being held by Hamas in Gaza,” assured an Israeli army spokesperson in a video published on X.
For Hamas, hostages are a formidable means of pressure
Despite their imprecision, these figures are staggering, as is the toll of 600 Israeli deaths, which exceeds all Israeli deaths at the hands of Palestinians since the end of the second intifada and the disengagement from Gaza in 2005. In a a small country of 9 million inhabitants, this means that a huge part of the population knows one of the victims directly or indirectly.
The objective of Hamas is to destroy the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian Islamic state throughout the territory of the former Palestine within its borders of June 4, 1967, (territory comprising today Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and to have Jerusalem as its capital
For the Islamist movement, these captives are a formidable means of pressure. As of Saturday, a senior executive, Saleh Al-Arouri, affirmed that the organization now had the means to free all Palestinian activists detained in Israel, by exchanging them.
In 2011, a previous government of Benjamin Netanyahu had 1,027 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for a single hostage, soldier Gilat Shalit, captured by Hamas in a raid of unprecedented scale, and detained for more than five years. Yahya Sinouar, the current leader of Hamas in Gaza, owes him his freedom.
Aware of the value of these captures, the Palestinian movement set up a specialized group responsible for monitoring the prisoners. This is the "shadow unit", created in 2006, and whose existence was revealed in 2016.
She became known in particular by broadcasting a video of soldier Shalit which showed, among other things, the hostage having a barbecue on a beach in Gaza, or watching TV.
" Unprecedented "
“What happened today is unprecedented in Israel,” admitted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a televised address.
“All these places where Hamas hides (...) we are going to turn them into ruins.”
“We are on the verge of winning a great victory,” said Ismaïl Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas.
This escalation comes fifty years and one day after the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war which took Israel completely by surprise, leading to the death of 2,600 Israelis and leaving at least 9,500 dead and missing on the Arab side in three weeks of combat. .
It is the deadliest escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in decades.
The incursion into Gaza came a day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise invasion of Israel by the Egyptian and Syrian armies in the Yom Kippur War, a traumatic event that shook many Israelis' confidence in the vigilance of the military and political leaders of the country.
“But the Yom Kippur War was fought at the front. The feeling of helplessness and vulnerability when your own home is attacked – it is more reminiscent of the 1948 War of Independence,” said Barzilai, who lives in Jerusalem.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which cites senior Hamas and Hezbollah officials, Iran approved Hamas' offensive on Israeli soil during a meeting held last Monday in Beirut, Lebanon. An assertion denied by Tehran to the United Nations.
“The attack, sophisticated, powerful and coordinated, powerfully aided by Iran, has just put an end to the illusion of peace and the plan resulting from the Oslo Accords,” according to Alain Bauer.
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NOBEL PRIZE OF PEACE
THE IRANNIAN ACTIVIST
NARGES MOHAMMADI AWARDED |  Arrested several times since 1998, Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to multiple prison terms and will soon have to appear on new charges. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces incessant “judicial harassment” against him.
Her awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize takes on deep symbolism, especially at this time when the “Woman Life Freedom” movement has been shaking Iran for more than a year.
This protest movement, triggered by the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who died in detention following her arrest for a poorly worn veil by the morality police, was violently repressed.
In a recent written interview, Narges Mohammadi claimed that this movement had accelerated the process towards democracy, freedom and equality by weakening the foundations of despotic religious government.
Presentment or chance? Two months before the start of the protests on September 16, 2022, Narges Mohammadi published a text on her Instagram account managed by her family, denouncing the obligation to wear the hijab.
“In this authoritarian regime, women's voices are muffled, women's hair is hidden (…) I, Narges Mohammadi (…) declare that I will not accept the compulsory hijab,” she proclaimed. Two months later, videos showing women burning their hijabs in Iran went viral.
Originally from Zanjan, in the northwest of Iran and born in 1972, Narges Mohammadi studied physics before becoming an engineer.
At the same time, she became involved in journalism with reformist newspapers. In the early 2000s, she joined the Center for Human Rights Defenders (of which she is now vice-president), founded by Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003. She is an activist actively for the abolition of the death penalty.
“Narges had the possibility of leaving the country, but she always refused (…), she became the voice of the voiceless.
Even in prison, she does not forget her responsibilities and informs about the situation of prisoners,” confides Reza Moini, an Iranian human rights activist based in Paris who knows her well.
The UN responded to this distinction by calling for the release of Narges Mohammadi and all human rights defenders imprisoned in Iran. "
The case of Narges Mohammadi illustrates the enormous risks women take to defend the rights of all Iranians. We demand the release of Narges Mohammadi and all human rights defenders imprisoned in Iran,” the UN Human Rights Office said.
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LARGE-SCALE TERRORIST OPERATION
OF HAMAS AGAINST ISRAEL |  The armed wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas announced this Saturday, October 7, that it had launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation against Israel.
Warning sirens sounded at dawn. Hundreds of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Saturday October 7, 2023. The armed wing of Hamas immediately announced that it had launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation against Israel.
“We have decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation,” declared Mohammad Deif, commander of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in an audio recording broadcast by Al-Aqsa TV, the television channel of Hamas, an Islamist movement. in power in Gaza.
“More than 5,000 rockets” have been fired since this morning, he said. Hezbollah, support of Hamas, hails a “heroic large-scale” and “victorious” operation, and says it is “in direct contact with the command” of what it describes as “the Palestinian resistance”.
Hamas announces having captured several Israeli soldiers. Several videos on social media show Hamas activists posing with people presented as Israeli hostages. Footage believed to have been filmed in Gaza shows a pickup truck carrying armed Hamas militants, with Israeli prisoners on board.
These strikes left at least 22 dead and around 545 injured according to the Israeli government.
For its part, the Israeli army reports the infiltration of an undetermined number of “terrorists” from Gaza.
At the same time, the Israeli army, cited by the Israeli daily Haaretz, affirms that terrorists have infiltrated from Gaza by "sea, air and land". According to the same source, fighting on Israeli soil is underway and a local elected official was killed during exchanges of fire with attackers. Hamas “will pay an unprecedented price” for its “war”, declared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Follow the evolution of the situation live.
Israeli airstrikes in retaliation: Operation “Iron Swords”
The Palestinian Islamist movement has launched "a war against the State of Israel", responded Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In retaliation, the Israeli army announced that several "dozens (of its) combat aircraft (were) currently striking a number of targets" of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In response to Hamas's strikes, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords and began bombing Gaza. The Israeli army confirmed that several “dozens of [its] combat aircraft were currently striking a number of Hamas targets” in this territory. “We are at war and we will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also declared in a video message on Saturday.
The Israeli army also reported, on Saturday morning, the infiltration of “an undetermined number of terrorists” into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. “Residents in areas neighboring the Gaza Strip have been asked to stay at home,” the army added. The Israeli military said Hamas was behind a "combined attack, including rocket fire and terrorist infiltration into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip."
Images circulating on social networks show Hamas fighters having taken over an Israeli army position, clashes in the streets of the town of Sderot, armed men shooting at civilians' cars.
The end of the truce observed since May.
This operation claimed by Hamas puts an end to a truce generally respected since the end of a five-day war in May. Israel then launched an offensive against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, which cost the lives of 34 Palestinians and one Israeli woman. More than a thousand rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, most of them intercepted by the Israeli air defense system. Israel, for its part, had increased airstrikes on the small territory. A truce, brokered by Egypt, was then concluded between Israel and Gaza.
Hamas, which took power in Gaza in 2007, had stayed away from this conflict.
Since the start of the year, violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has increased and cost the lives of at least 247 Palestinians, 33 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian. This toll includes, on the Palestinian side, combatants and civilians, and on the Israeli side, mostly civilians and three members of the Arab minority.
The head of the Israeli Defense Ministry body in charge of civil operations in the Palestinian Territories (COGAT) releases a video in which he warns the enemy in Arabic. “Hamas has opened the gates of hell on Gaza, Hamas has made this decision and will pay the price,” warns Ghassan Aliyan.
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THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AWARDED TO NORWEGIAN JON FOSSE
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 Since 1901, the prize has celebrated an author whose work “demonstrates a powerful ideal”, in the words of Alfred Nobel.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse for “his innovative plays”, the jury announced this Thursday, October 5 during the ceremony in Stockholm (Sweden). The announcement took place during a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, where the jury praised her innovative pieces. Jon Fosse, reacting to this news, expressed himself by declaring that he was “surprised but not too much” by this distinction which had been awaited for almost two decades.
The Swedish Academy recognized the 64-year-old writer "for his innovative plays and prose that gave voice to the unspeakable", citing Septologen, a novel in seven chapters and three volumes, not yet translated. The winner "writes very refined novels in a style now known as Fosse minimalism", writes the Swedish Academy, which evokes "innovative plays and prose which gave voice to the unspeakable".
Dramaturgy its major art
Jon Fosse, novelist, essayist, poet and author of children's books, has made playwriting his major art, although his work is not always easily accessible to the general public. However, his plays are among the most performed in Europe, raising his status to that of the most represented contemporary author on European theater stages.
The child of the fjords, with a round face and Scandinavian blue eyes, Jon Fosse was born 64 years ago on the west coast of Norway. His reaction to this prestigious award was one of gratitude and humility, viewing this recognition as a celebration of authentic literature. “I have been preparing for this eventuality over the past decade, but I did not expect to receive the award today, even if there was a chance,” he humbly shared during a telephone interview.
A pessimistic vision like Samuel Beckett
Through his love of theater, his minimalist style and his characters with metaphysical resonances, Jon Fosse says he finds himself in the work of the great Samuel Beckett, "a painter for the theater rather than a real author", according to him. But it is another kinship that we find more often, more Nordic, with the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Jon Fosse is a versatile writer, although his access may seem difficult to the general public. After literary studies, he made his debut in 1983 with "Rouge, Noir", a novel marked by numerous temporal projections and changes of perspective. This distinctive style would become his artistic signature. Subsequently, he continued with works such as “The Boathouse” (1989) and “Melancholia” I and II (1995-96), which strengthened his critical reputation. Jon Fosse has also ventured into writing for young readers.
Fosse's dive into the world of theater began almost out of necessity, agreeing in the 1990s to write the first pages of a play due to lack of stable income. Encouraged by the success of his debut, he wrote his first play, "And Never We Will Be Separated", at the request of the young director Kai Johnsen in 1994, followed in 1995 by "The Name". These works mark the beginning of a series of successes, including “Someone Will Come” published in 1996, awarded the 2010 International Ibsen Prize, and the novel “Melancholia I”. Claude Régy will direct them, thus propelling Jon Fosse onto the French literary scene.
Jon Fosse is today recognized worldwide as a major playwright. Alongside Ibsen, he represents one of the most performed Norwegian playwrights of our time. His theatrical repertoire includes around ten plays, most of them translated by Terje Sinding, known for his translations of the works of Ibsen. Fosse's writings, whether novels, short stories, poetry, essays or plays, have been translated into more than forty languages. The most renowned directors, particularly in France, have staged his plays, including Patrice Chéreau, Jacques Lassalle, Thomas Ostermeier and Claude Régy. His novel “The Boathouse” (1989) particularly won over critics.
“A voice to the unspeakable”
Child of the fjords, Jon Fosse pays homage to this region beaten by natural elements by conserving and enhancing its language, Nynorsk, “new Norwegian”. Freeing himself from classical rules, he ignores the plot and uses a spare language, but musical in its rhythm and the astonishing silences of his characters which he knows how to make heard. “They are voices. I don’t write characters in the traditional sense of the term,” he confided to Le Monde in 2003. “I write about humans.”
Jon Fosse's theatrical work is characterized by sober and refined writing, often repetitive with slight variations. Its language, simple and ordinary, serves to create intense tension between the characters, plunging into an often dark universe. He has the unique ability to give his language multiple meanings, thus giving depth and complexity to his work. "His immense work, written in Nynorsk (one of the written forms of the Norwegian language, editor's note) and covering a wide variety of genres, consists of a multitude of plays, novels, collections of poetry, "essays, children's books and translations", estimated the jury.
“It is through his ability to evoke (...) the loss of orientation, and the way in which this can paradoxically give access to a deeper experience, close to divinity, that Fosse is considered an innovator” , detailed Anders Olsson, president of the Nobel committee for literature. |
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THE AMERICAN CONGRESS PARALYZED
CHAOS TAKES AWAY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES KEVIN MCCARTHY |  Wracked in recent years by a succession of upheavals, the political scene in the United States experienced a new historic turning point on Tuesday, highlighting its increasingly chaotic and dysfunctional character.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was removed from office on Tuesday, following a vote led by the conservative fringe of the Republican Party. During the vote, 210 Republicans supported the Californian elected official, but eight dissident elected officials brought down the "speaker".
A first in the history of Congress. Kevin McCarthy thus became the first “speaker” to be removed from this eminent position, which placed him at the top of the hierarchy of the American Congress and second in the order of presidential succession after Vice-President Kamala Harris.
After a meeting with his Republican colleagues, the California representative announced that he would not prolong his humiliation by running for his own succession.
"I will never abandon the American people, but that doesn't mean I have to be speaker of the House," he said at an evening news conference. Speaking of the extremist Republicans who contributed to his downfall, he added: "They have no right to call themselves conservatives because they are angry and chaotic. That's not the party I belong to. "
It was the elected official from North Carolina, Patrick McHenry, main negotiator with the White House during the debt crisis, who was chosen by Kevin McCarthy to become temporary Speaker, while waiting for a vote to take place. Given the internecine war among Republicans in the House, this could take time: in January, it took 15 rounds of voting for McCarthy to be elected in the face of opposition from the same group. And the countdown has already begun: the extension to avoid the “shutdown” only runs for 45 days, with finance laws still in an impasse.
Old internal fractures This motion of censure is the latest act in a series of crises within the right in the House of Representatives. The vote was initiated by a motion from Matt Gaetz, elected Republican from Florida, in reaction to the bipartisan agreement reached on Saturday to avoid a shutdown of federal public services.
Kevin McCarthy's continued position was still precarious. This was due to a red wave that did not occur in the midterm elections in November 2022, with a tiny Republican majority of five votes. This was mainly due to a dozen ultra-conservative elected officials from the Freedom Caucus who had demanded, to break the deadlock in January, that a vote of confidence could be triggered at the request of a single representative. Since 2010, the Republican Party has been in crisis in the House, first with members of the Tea Party, then with those of the Freedom Caucus, who pushed John Boehner to resign in 2015. The impeachment of Kevin McCarthy was widely
criticized by Republican senators, more centrist than in the House. “We saw the same thing with (John) Boehner, (Paul) Ryan and now McCarthy. I'm sure the next Speaker will face the same terrorist attacks,” blasted Texan John Cornyn.
Other Republican representatives expressed fear that the chaos caused by Matt Gaetz could end up helping Democrats regain the majority in the House in 2024. " I prefer common sense to chaos," said New York Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito on Fox News. “I think we should focus on governance rather than political maneuvering, and the fact that we have someone who is holding us back and holding America back is a real problem.”
Donald Trump above the fray
Donald Trump, who counts Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz among his allies, was surprised by this fratricidal conflict which has shaken the Republican group in the House since its conquest of the majority in 2022.
"Why are Republicans always fighting among themselves, why aren't they fighting the radical left Democrats who are destroying our country?" the former president wrote in a post on Truth Social during a break in his trial civil case for fraud in New York and before the vote on the motion to impeach Kevin McCarthy
The way out of the crisis was not clear Tuesday evening, while negotiations began. Republicans and Democrats held separate meetings to address the question of the next House speaker. Democrats already have their candidate: New York Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, minority leader
The Republican choice will not be so simple. The names of five potential candidates were circulated Tuesday evening: Patrick McHenry (North Carolina), Steve Scalise (Louisiana), Tom Emmer (Minnesota), Tom Cole (Oklahoma) and Jim Jordan (Ohio).
Of these, Scalise and Emmer are part of the Republican staff in the House, the first as majority leader, the second as whip.
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SLOVAKIA VICTORY FOR THE POPULIST PARTY
TO THE LEGISLATIVE |  The Slovak populist party Smer-SD won the parliamentary elections in Slovakia on Saturday September 30, according to the almost complete counting of votes. These elections were crucial in determining whether Slovakia would continue its pro-Western orientation or move more towards Russia, as a member of the EU and NATO with a population of 5.4 million.
The Smer-SD had affirmed, during the electoral campaign, that it would end its support for neighboring Ukraine. The populist SMER party of Robert Fico came very clearly in the lead, with around 23% of the votes. Progressive Slovakia, the centrist party led by MEP Michal Simecka, is far behind with barely 18% of voters, after counting 99.43% of the ballots. The final results are expected Sunday morning. Smer-SD said it would not comment on the vote until later on Sunday.
A party opposed to the EU and the LGBT+ community Slovak President Zuzana Caputova announced this week that she would entrust the formation of the next government to the leader of the winning party, without taking into account her "personal preference" as a party. Former member of Progressive Slovakia.
During a tumultuous electoral campaign, which gave rise to several clashes between candidates, Robert Fico criticized the EU and NATO as well as the LGBT+ minority.
The winner of the election will need to secure the support of smaller parties to form a majority coalition in the 150-seat parliament. This new government will replace that of the center-right coalition in power since 2020, which has undergone three changes in three years and which has provided significant military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Over the weeks and months, the idea of a homogeneous Western bloc is crumbling.. |
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HOLLYWOOD TREMBERS BEFORE SUPERSTAR TAYLOR SWIFT |  Hollywood is shaking under the power of Taylor Swift. While the release date of her concert film, “Taylor Swift: Eras Tour”, is set for October 13, 2023, several other productions have decided to backtrack and postpone their own debuts.
The reason ?
From the first day of ticket pre-sales in AMC cinemas, the phenomenon that is this American star's film has confirmed its astonishing popularity. More than $26 million was generated, surpassing the $16 million previously held by "Spider-Man: No Way Home" in 2021.
For the first weekend of its release, forecasts soar towards more than $70 million in revenue, immediately placing the singer's film among the most anticipated blockbusters of the year.
Faced with this tidal wave, director Jon Gunn deemed it wise to postpone the release of his film, “Ordinary Angels”, with Hilary Swank, also scheduled for October 13, to February 23, 2024.
Jason Blum, the producer of the next film "The Exorcist: Devotion", also initially scheduled for October 13, preferred to move up its date, fearing that Taylor Swift's artistic superpower would obscure his own masterpiece.
He even joked about it on X, formerly Twitter, by making an allusion to one of Taylor Swift's songs, concluding with the hashtag "#TaylorWins."
Taylor Swift's Phenomenal Effect
Taylor Swift is on all fronts. Last July, the 33-year-old American superstar released her 12th album titled "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)", which immediately took first place on the Billboard charts.
With this new achievement, she became the singer with the greatest number of albums ranked at the top of the sales of this famous American ranking since its creation in 1963. Thus, she dethroned Barbra Streisand, another icon of American popular music , who held this title until then.
In October 2022, the release of his tenth album even caused outages on Spotify and Deezer. "The Taylor Swift effect" has even made its way to the president of the New York Fed, who says the 33-year-old artist's tour has boosted the U.S. economy in recent months.
With 147 stadiums filled and nearly a billion in revenue generated, Taylor Swift looks like a true giant who seems to intimidate everything that crosses her path. |
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SPACEX DISAPPEARANCE OF 212 SATELLITES
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 SpaceX, Elon Musk's visionary company, is currently at the heart of a growing concern. Over the past few months, troubles have been piling up, with the inexplicable disappearance of 212 satellites from the Starlink constellation, a high-profile project intended to provide high-speed Internet access through thousands of satellites in low orbit around the Earth.
Starlink, which has long been SpaceX's flagship, seeks to eliminate digital deserts by bringing good web connectivity to underserved areas. While the company launched its Starlink V2 satellites to great fanfare in March, others simply seem to evaporate into the skies.
A mysterious escape
For three years, SpaceX has regularly reported satellite losses, but this time the disappearance peaked between July 18 and September 18, 2023.
Some experts question the reliability of this data, particularly that accessible in real time on sites such as Satellite Map
However, figures from public sources like space-track.org support these statistics. For the moment, SpaceX has remained silent about these losses, leaving doubt as to their nature: are these losses planned as part of the Starlink project, or are they the result of technical failures?
Technology or natural phenomenon, who is the culprit ?
It is important to note that the satellites in the Starlink constellation are not intended to last indefinitely. SpaceX predicted a lifespan of approximately five years for these satellites, before their natural disintegration in the Earth's atmosphere. Since the inaugural launch in 2019, more than 5,000 satellites have been put into orbit, of which 4,500 are still operational.
Another factor, in addition to technical failures, must be taken into account: solar activity and its potential electromagnetic disturbances. Satellites are particularly vulnerable to these phenomena, and this summer the Sun has been particularly turbulent, generating intense solar storms.
This could provide part of the explanation for the mysterious disappearances.
Already last year, Starlink admitted the loss of 40 satellites due to violent solar winds. It is therefore possible that this new series of disappearances is attributable to the same causes. SpaceX will certainly have to provide clarification in the coming weeks, but for now, the mystery remains intact.
The situation that currently concerns SpaceX cannot be underestimated.
The eyes of the world are now on SpaceX, eagerly awaiting answers to these cosmic riddles. |
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IN THE UNITED KINGDOM GRANTING INFLATION KILLS
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 Inflation in the UK remains the highest among the G7 countries and is reaching "levels not seen since the 1970s", according to researchers. It stood at 6.7% year-on-year in August, down slightly compared to the previous month and the lowest since February 2022.
This galloping inflation endangers the living conditions of the British, particularly the most vulnerable.
According to a study published on Monday September 25, 2023 in the British medical journal BMJ: “the economy directly influences the health of the population.
“According to this study, the number of early deaths, that is to say before the age of 75, could increase by almost 6.5% due to an increasingly high cost of living.
“14% of the UK population will suffer from food poverty in 2023”.
This crisis “risks shortening lives and significantly widening wealth and health gaps” between the rich and the poor in the United Kingdom, according to projections from this study.
“The poorest households have paid the price, as they spend a larger share of their income on energy, the cost of which has skyrocketed,” the study reads.
Even more alarming, the University of Sussex study indicates that “14% of the UK population will suffer from food poverty in 2023. Access to food in the UK is very unequal”. Being hungry has become the 'new normal' for millions of British households.
Stagnating life expectancy in the United Kingdom
Researchers assessed the impact of inflation on death rates in Scotland in 2022-23 by assessing different scenarios, with and without government measures to alleviate this cost of living crisis, including helping households facing energy costs.
Without any mitigation measures, inflation could increase early deaths by 5% in the least deprived areas and by 23% in the most deprived, according to researchers' projections. With the government's measures, inflation leads to an increase in early deaths of 2% and 8% respectively.
The researchers worked on Scotland, but assure that "similar effects are likely" across the United Kingdom, because they "modeled the impact of measures taken by the British government".
“Our analysis helps demonstrate that the economy has an impact on population health,” the researchers conclude. “Since 2012, economic conditions in the UK have led to a decline in life expectancy and widened health inequalities.”
Far from being optimistic about the evolution of the situation, the Resolution Foundation study concludes by indicating that if the British do not manage to stem inflation, the living conditions of their population could fall to comparable levels to those of the 50s.
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EUROPE AND UNITED STATES
IN THE PRE-ELECTION PERIOD
OR THE BRAKE ON AID TO UKRAINE ? | Cold snap between Ukraine and Poland ?
It all started with a decision by the conservative Polish government, which, a few weeks ago, refused to import Ukrainian cereals to favor Polish national production. On Monday, September 18, Ukrainian Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko then announced in a press release that Ukraine was launching a complaint procedure before the WTO against Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
Recall of facts
Last spring, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania obtained authorization from the European Commission to block the marketing of a certain number of Ukrainian agricultural products on their soil. This protectionist measure was justified by the countries in question to protect their agricultural sectors against the influx of low-priced Ukrainian grain.
On Friday September 15, the Commission, which has jurisdiction in this matter, put an end to this exception. Warsaw, Budapest and Bratislava, however, decided to override this decision by imposing a unilateral embargo.
Hubris Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN podium ?
During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky violently criticized without naming the three countries against which Kiev announced it was launching proceedings before the WTO: “we are working hard to preserve land routes for grain exports. It is alarming to see how […] some of our friends in Europe, play solidarity in the political theater […] they are actually helping to prepare the ground for a Moscow actor. »
An attack that Poland took very badly, especially since the country has been helping Ukraine enormously since the start of the conflict. Taken together, the Warsaw government's bilateral support and the cost of hosting refugees represents 3.2% of Polish GDP, the highest level among all Ukraine's supports.
Result: summons of the Ukrainian ambassador to Warsaw, and announcement at the same time of the suspension of arms deliveries to kyiv.
The Polish Prime Minister spoke about stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Furthermore, the same evening, the President of the Polish Republic Andrej Duda compared Ukraine to “a man who is drowning”.
Potentially serious consequences
In the long term, this diplomatic quarrel could have significant consequences for Ukraine, since Poland is one of the countries that have supplied the most weapons to Ukraine, along with the United States and the United Kingdom. One of the first to send tanks, more than 350, and combat planes.
Then, Poland, neighboring Ukraine, is the hub for all arms and ammunition deliveries from Western countries. Its operational center in Rzesów, in liaison with the United States, is an absolutely nodal point for the delivery of materials to Ukraine. Everything goes through there. The Polish government has nevertheless reassured the international community on this subject, ensuring that these logistics will continue to operate. In addition, Poland has massively supported Ukraine since 2022 while welcoming its refugees.
Polish domestic politics
On the evening of Thursday, September 21, Polish President Andrzej Duda returned to his Prime Minister's statements, affirming that they were "misinterpreted": "The words (of Mateusz Morawiecki) were interpreted in the worst way which either. (...) In my opinion, the Prime Minister meant that we will not transfer to Ukraine the new weapons that we are in the process of acquiring to modernize the Polish army", corrected the head of State on television, on the Polish channel TVN24.
Warsaw actually wants to build one of the most powerful armies in Europe with 30 billion euros in spending in 2024, or 4% of GDP, for its defense budget and a huge order book with the United States, including planes. F-35, nearly a thousand tanks and hundreds of guns. And Poland, in the midst of renewing its military capabilities, is probably at the end of what it could provide in “old generation” weapons to Ukraine.
Moreover, in the pre-election period in Poland, farmers being among the main voters of the PIS, the party currently in power in Poland, it was fashionable to sanction Ukraine which filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the Polish government does not allow its cereals to transit. The central strategy of the PiS is to regain this lost electorate, through on the one hand the deployment of generous social spending, but also by emphasizing questions linked to security and national sovereignty — hence the organization of a referendum on privatizations, the European pact on migration and asylum and the security of the border with Belarus.
Aid to Ukraine under threat of budgetary paralysis
The divisions within Europe on the aid to be given to Ukraine, which could "spread oil" with countries like Orban's Hungary, are also crystallizing in the United States.
The sense of urgency has indeed faded and the Republican opposition has taken control of one of the chambers of Parliament and this time. Volodymyr Zelensky was not received with great fanfare at the Capitol, the seat of Congress. . Visiting Washington, Volodymyr Zelensky certainly obtained guarantees on Thursday for “important” anti-aircraft defense assets against Russia, but he leaves without the long-range missiles that he insists on, and has to face Republicans – and a public opinion – skeptical about the need to provide more aid to his country.
While the White House has demanded that the finance law passed by elected officials include $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Kiev, a majority of House Republicans, elected in Trumpist districts, are radically opposed. “I will not vote to give a single cent for the war in Ukraine,” declared elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene, close to former President Donald Trump, on X (ex-Twitter) on Tuesday.
At the very moment when President Zelensky comes to the United States to justify the need to stand firm against Putin, the Republican leaders in the House are essentially telling him ''deal with it,'' denounced the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer. The United States has already granted $113 billion to Ukraine in 18 months, or about two-thirds of total international aid, and the Ukrainian counter-offensive is bogging down, much to the chagrin of allies who are beginning to doubt Ukrainian military strategy. |
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AN UNPRECEDENTED CYBER ATTACK IN CRIMEA
FROM UKRAINE |
While Kiev is engaged in a difficult counter-offensive and the war is bogged down, the Ukrainian president continued his diplomatic offensive in Washington on Thursday, before arriving in Canada in the evening.
Ukraine claims 'successful strike' on Russian fleet HQ in Crimea
The Ukrainian army claimed Friday a "successful strike" on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol in annexed Crimea, an attack which was already reported by Moscow a few hours earlier.
“The Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out a successful strike against the headquarters of the command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol,” the army's strategic communications directorate said on Telegram Ukrainian.
An “unprecedented” cyberattack in Crimea
Crimea is hit by an “unprecedented” cyberattack, announces a Russian official, a few hours after a Ukrainian strike which damaged the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in this Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow. “Unprecedented cyberattack against internet service providers in Crimea. We are in the process of repairing the Internet outages on the peninsula,” said Oleg Krioutchko, an advisor to the leader installed by Russia on the peninsula, on Telegram.
At least one dead in the strike on Sevastopol
At least one Russian serviceman was killed in a Ukrainian missile strike that hit the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet, located in Sevastopol, in Ukrainian Crimea. “Five missiles were shot down by the anti-aircraft defense. The historic Black Sea Fleet headquarters building was damaged in the attack. According to available information, a serviceman was killed,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
The EU has just paid 1.5 billion euros to Ukraine
“Today we have disbursed an additional 1.5 billion euros to Ukraine.
This year alone we have paid 13.5 billion euros to help Ukraine operate hospitals, schools and other services. It also helps Ukraine on the path to the EU by supporting transformative reforms,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
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FOR TRENDY BEAUTIFUL NAILS !
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First get a manicure for this either you go to a nail bar or at home.
Remember grandmother's recipes:
they are effective and remarkable.
For yellow nails, there's nothing better than soaking the varnish-free nails in a bowl of warm, lemony water for a good 10 minutes.
Guaranteed effect.
Are your nails breaking ?
THEN dip them in olive oil otherwise buy hardener found in the supermarket or pharmacy (the best is the hardener from Mavala). Oh you bite your nails ?!
So go to the pharmacy where you can find the best tangy products but above all the best thing is to spot the moments when you compulsively chew them and analyze the cause of this nasty habit.
And think of the photos in our article with all the pretty nails that you would love to have. Otherwise in the nail bars that you find everywhere you even have a manicure for a bluff effect for thirty euros.
Already with sufficient length apply permanent varnish, you will have impeccable nails for three weeks. Adding a drawing sometimes. The only problem: you have to go back to their place to remove it. If you are short on length we can give you false nails which are capsules or gel which looks more natural.
And there for the spring-summer season we can have designs on French manicure nails in the nail bar.
Big news that we are starting to notice on American stars.
It's the Flip Manicure: one color on the back of your nails and another color on top.
Like for example glittery blue on top and red below it can be nice even for Valentine's Day in February !
Phenomenon copied from a famous Louboutin shoe. |
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WAR IN UKRAINE
THE MURDERER BOMBING OF A MARKET ATTRIBUTABLE TO A UKRAINIAN ERROR ? |  The deadly bombing which killed 17 people on September 6, 2023 in Kostiantynivka is undoubtedly attributable to an error by the Ukrainian army, writes the New York Times which relies on elements collected on site and on satellite images. The New York daily speaks of a “tragic error”.
This bombing hit a crowded market in this city located in eastern Ukraine, arousing the anger of President Volodimir Zelensky, who condemned a Russian attack on a “peaceful” city.
Among the victims was a child, and around thirty other people were hospitalized. The New York Times calls the incident a “tragic mistake.”
According to the daily, the elements analyzed, such as missile fragments, satellite images, testimonies and messages on social networks, support the thesis according to which the bombing was the result of a faulty shot from a Ukrainian aerial missile, launched by a Bouk defense system.
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HOW TO MANAGE THE MIGRATION SURGE
IN LAMPEDUSA ? |  Faced with a massive influx of migrants, the mayor of Lampedusa, Filippo Mannino, declared a state of emergency on the island.
Almost double compared to 2022
The influx is considerable, with around 6,000 to 7,000 people arriving on the island in the space of twenty-four hours, spread across 120 different boats, according to various sources. The capacity of the island's reception center, established at 400 places, is largely exceeded. In fact, tensions have broken out. As hundreds of migrants wanted to leave the island's docks, police had to charge them in a law enforcement operation.
The situation has already caused one death: on the night of Tuesday September 12 to Wednesday September 13, a 5-month-old child died after falling into the water. The Italian authorities aim above all to reduce overpopulation on the island by gradually transferring migrants to other Italian cities. Since the start of the year, nearly 118,500 migrants have arrived by boat in Italy, almost double compared to the same period in 2022.
Tension at European level
Once again, the situation on migration routes is creating tension at the European level, while the reform of the pact on immigration and asylum is still on the negotiating table in Brussels. On Wednesday September 13, Germany decided to suspend, until further notice, the voluntary reception of asylum seekers (the “voluntary European solidarity mechanism”) who come from Italy.
This decision, justified by the current strong migratory pressure and the persistent suspensions of "Dublin" transfers by certain Member States, also takes a political turn, as the far right gains ground in Germany in view of the next European elections in 2024 .
In France the subject is also on the agenda this fall. While the immigration bill should be presented to the French Parliament in the coming weeks, according to an Odoxa Backbone consulting study for Le Figaro, 74% of French people have a “poor opinion” of the Government's action on the subject. Concerning the actions to be applied on immigration, the French mainly favor more repressive measures.
Thus, 82% of respondents say they are in favor of "the registration of foreigners threatened with expulsion i | |