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They accuse Macron of being “guilty of a denial of democracy or treason against the nation” for signing the Compact without allowing a public debate on the issue, or consulting the French electorate.
“The French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic,” the letter continues, adding that mass immigration has erased France’s “civi...
President Macron’s approval rating fell to the lowest ever, with 18 percent after he announced fuel tax hikes and support for mass immigration. Martinez tweeted that “France is desperately looking for a president”.
“One again, the French have been left out of a decision that will change the face of our country like never before,” tweeted Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally. “What the contemptuous oligarchs have done will be undone by the French people,” Le Pen added.
Eric Ciotti, a Les Républicains MP who wrote a letter to the president’s office, signed by 55 party MPs, asking to not sign the pact, and called the adoption a “democratic scandal”. He urged a parliamentary debate since the Compact would “eventually remove prerogatives of sovereignty”.
According to conservative British MEP Janice Atkinson, the UN Compact will result in Europe being flooded by 59 million new migrants within the next 6 years.
Atkinson meanwhile pointed out that the Compact could lead to hate speech laws that make it illegal to use the term “illegal migrants,” replacing it instead with “irregular migrants”. She said the deal would lead to European countries having their “culture and identity crushed” and urged countries not to sign the “deep...
“It will be illegal not to use their prescribed language,” Atkinson underscored, She said European citizens could “say goodbye to your democracy and your way of life” if the Compact was implemented.
The full letter from the French generals has been translated from the original French.
You are about to sign the “Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” on 10 and 11 December, which establishes a genuine right to migration. It may impose itself on our national legislation through pre-existing treaties or the principle of common responsibility set out in this pact.
It seems to us that the only sovereignty that will remain with France will consist in freely setting the way in which the objectives of the pact will have to be implemented. You can not give up this new part of the national sovereignty without a public debate whereas 80% of the French population considers that it is ne...
In addition, the finances of our country are drained and our debt is growing. You can not take the risk of an expensive call for air migration without first showing that you will not have to resort to more taxes to meet the objectives of the pact. On the other hand, you must be able, in terms of security, to curb the c...
In fact, the French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic.
You can not decide alone to erase our civilizational landmarks and deprive us of our carnal homeland.
We therefore ask you to defer the signing of this pact and call by referendum the French to vote on this document. You are accountable to the French of your actions. Your election is not a blank.
We support the initiative of General MARTINEZ against the signature of this pact which must be adopted by the Member States of the UN at the Intergovernmental Conference of Marrakech.
Police have detained 28 students after suspected members of the Muslim Youth, a fundamentalist organization that has previously expressed support for jihadists in Syria, entered Istanbul University’s Beyazıt Campus on the morning of Oct. 9 before allegedly attacking students.
The alleged attack occurred at around 9 a.m. at the university’s faculty of arts and sciences, according to Doğan News Agency.
Five students were injured both in the altercation and in the ensuing police response, with two reported to be in serious condition, reports said.
Students at the university accused security guards of doing nothing to stop the assailants, who wore hats and masks to hide their identity.
Others also accused police of mistreating detainees in the boiler room of a nearby police station. Pelin Zorbay, a journalist with online news portal Sendika.Org, was allegedly beaten by police before being taken into custody as she was trying to report on the incident.
On Sept. 26, members of the same group attacked Istanbul University students who had erected a stand to denounce atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as it closed in on Kobane in northern Syria.
Mention the word “manufacturing” to most Americans, and the random image that comes immediately to mind is one of smokestacks, sweat-soaked and irreversibly soiled uniforms, lousy pay, and hours unfit for beasts of burden.
That would all be true if referring to the first two-thirds of the 20th century. I trust that the aforementioned time-worn description befitting of 19th century workhouses is still true for some manufacturers throughout the United States, but it does not accurately or justly characterize manufacturing, present and futu...
According to the most recent statistics from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, & Rehabilitation, as of June 2007 Carson City had 138 manufacturers. Northern Nevada (inclusive of Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Storey, and Washoe counties) had 896 manufacturers. But neither Carson City nor Northern N...
You and I know that “Seymore” can turn out to be a lobotomy patient regardless of his turn at Yale, and that the student at the community college can become an inventor for tomorrow. It’s not the school. It’s not the title. It’s the person. But manufacturing as a career is sinfully overlooked by the general public. Why...
In April 2007, Bob McCann of Leadership Transition Coaching and David Steiger of Management Assistance Partnership came up with the idea to assemble a small group of local manufacturers to take part in an informal series of monthly meetings intended to bring their ideas and common interests together in network solidari...
Carson City should pay attention. So should Northern Nevada. Those manufacturing professionals are serious about their business, and are seriously dedicated to manufacturing as a veritable future for livelihood in Nevada. We should all be dedicated to them and what they represent. We need to. Years from now, and not to...
Next week’s column will feature a continuation of the importance of manufacturing to our local area and state, and why it is so crucial that our youth (and their parents) understand why a career in manufacturing is far more engaging and lucrative than one may ever imagine.
• John DiMambro is publisher of the Appeal. You can reach him at jdimambro@nevadaaappeal.com.
MORE than bones or hand-wrought stone tools, paintings on cave walls awaken the recognition of kinship between modern humans and their prehistoric ancestors, and new discoveries in France seem to resurrect these artists at work, sketching their visions in charcoal, mixing the paints and creating distinctive palettes.
French scientists, applying advanced chemical analytical techniques to the paints, have determined the first precise dates for the art, mostly between 12,000 and 14,000 years old. They found that, contrary to widely held assumptions, scenes of bison and horses painted in the same style and often on the same cave wall i...
In one of the most intriguing findings, variations of ingredients were detected in the pigments that could be the signatures of this or that Cro-magnon artist who told stories on cave walls.
Perhaps these were only chance differences, betraying nothing more than the changing availability of certain materials or the impurities that can creep into one batch or another. Or it may be, the scientists said, that each prehistoric artist or group of artists had its own hallmark paint recipes just as did the studio...
If this can be established, experts on these creative Stone Age hunters said, further study might determine the range of influence over time and geography of particular schools of prehistoric art.
Research indicating the differences in paint recipes among the artists was conducted last year by a team of scientists at the research laboratory at the Louvre in Paris and was reported in The Bulletin of the French Society of Prehistory. More recent findings were described recently by Dr. Jean Clottes, the French Gove...
Dr. Clottes emphasized that results of the pigment analysis were only preliminary, based on about 60 tiny samples. Scientists are expanding the investigation to more caves and to much earlier paintings, some believed to be as much as 25,000 years old.
Much of the research so far has been conducted at the Niaux cave, where the paintings in the mile-long chamber known as the Salon Noir are among the most spectacular and best preserved of the genre. A parade of bison, horses (some with beards), deer and ibexes decorates the walls in panels that seem to be interrelated,...
But charcoal found in the paint and also used in the black outlines of the depicted animals has been analyzed to establish dates for the paintings. The paintings in the same chamber were not done in a few weeks or years, Dr. Clottes said, but over a few centuries.
To analyze the paint content without damaging the paintings, the scientists used electron microscopes with X-ray attachments and also mass spectrometers designed to separate and identify individual chemical elements in samples no larger than the tip of a needle. Such refined analysis of minuscule samples was not possib...
The red pigments, and occasional yellows, were derived mainly from ocher, an iron oxide found in clays. The mineral was ground to a powder and mixed with water and other materials. The only other paint on the Stone Age palette was black, a color produced with either charcoal or manganese oxides as the chief ingredient.
What the artists used for binder in the paint, the ingredient to make it adhere to surfaces and not crack, is unknown because it probably was organic material that degraded over time; binding substances in some primitive paints have been egg white and blood.
The main variation in the prehistoric recipes was the substance used as the extender, the powders that take on the dominant color or blend with it when added to make a little of the basic pigment go a long way. Of the distinct recipes for paints found at Niaux and on carved bone artifacts from La Vache, a nearby cave w...
These different paint mixes, as well as some marked variations in trace elements, set archeologists to musing. Were these expressions of cultural values? They speculated that women might have used one recipe and men another, or that different paints might be concocted for artistic expressions associated with spring or ...
But dating of the paintings revealed that chronology was at least part of the explanation. Dr. Clottes said the Niaux paintings from the period between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago were made from a recipe including feldspar. Those from the more recent period, between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, had large amounts of bio...
Working with Dr. Clottes in analyzing the paint are Dominique Buisson, Michel Mennu and Philippe Walter, physicists at the Research Laboratory of the Museums of France at the Louvre.
The scientists also discovered that the artists in Niaux's Salon Noir worked deliberately. In many cases, they must have drawn the animals in charcoal and then, if pleased with the outlines and organization, they applied the reds and blacks for the finished product.
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Must pass the organization's Personnel Reliability Program which includes credit check, drug screening, polygraph and psychological evaluation.
The position may requirement temporary duty travel up to 25% of the time.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes work that involves experience managing the full complement of budgetary functions and duties associated with all phases of the budget process (e.g., formulation, justification, presentation, and execution); providing technical and regulatory guid...
This article contains spoilers for the Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode – Together Or Not At All.
Coming off the news that the president of ABC, Channing Dungey, was cautiously optimistic about the future of Agents of SHIELD and show she saw the second half of the current season as one of the most creative, last night’s episode seemed to be kicking into high gear towards whatever is going to happen next. With Fitz ...
Flint, who learned of Tess’ fate, went after the guards, pretending to turn himself in but then using pebbles to create a dagger. He killed Viccar but Sinara took him out. Daisy offers herself up in a trade for Flint, but Sinara wants both of them… that’s when the rest of SHIELD jumped in and freed both Daisy and Flint...
Back with Coulson, Flint refuses to leave the Lighthouse, wanting to fight for the people. Mac and Elena decide to stay with him. The rest take off int the trawller with Coulson at the helm. I mean, he does drive a flying car, right? Meanwhile May, who is on the surface already, had been saved by Enoch against the roac...
It feels like we’re getting close to a conclusion of the first act here. as with the first season, it won’t be a clean break, but there should be a switch soon and I’m guessing it will be in either episode eight or the start of episode nine.
Here's a hint: They're all Brazilian.
Brazilian stocks went into free fall yesterday, with shares of oil major Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE:PBR) closing down 3.7%, and preferred shares of Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE:PBR-A) losing 6.1%.
Confirming that this was not an "oil story" but a "Brazil story," shares of Brazilian airline Azul SA (NYSE:AZUL) and Brazilian steel company Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) likewise declined steeply -- closing down 7.2% and 4.8%, respectively. Overall, the Brazilian Ibovespa benchmark stock index closed down...
Stick a pin in it? Is Brazil done? Image source: Getty Images.
That's the bad news. Now here's the good: All three of these stocks, and the Ibovespa as a whole, are getting back up off the mat and back in positive territory this morning. But why did they sell off yesterday in the first place? Simply put, the country's currency is in crisis. Yes, again.
As The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday, the Brazilian real "has sunk to levels not seen since the country's impeachment crisis two years ago." Relative to the U.S. dollar, the real has seen 15% of its value evaporate over the past three months, including a 4% drop over just the past two days.
FT blamed the declines on investors losing confidence in the federal government after a truckers strike motivated the government to impose price controls. Additionally, moves by the central bank to salvage the real have fallen flat.
Unless something happens soon to change this dynamic, FT warns that "policymakers may be forced to raise interest rates above their current record low levels to contain the fall in the currency's value." And even that type of action isn't guaranteed to succeed, in which case Brazil could find itself caught in a classic...
As if all this weren't already bad enough, presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections are all on the horizon in October. The candidates most likely to win hail from the country's extreme right and left wings, too -- neither of which is expected to be interested in reforming Brazil's system of social secur...
Now here's the upshot for investors: After yesterday's sell-off, Azul stock is back up 3.9% in Friday trading, Companhia Siderurgica Nacional has regained 0.5%, and Petrobras is back up 0.2% (for the common stock) and 2.5% (for the preferred) as of 11:50 a.m. EDT. That's good news for today -- but the challenges that s...
Washington still doesn’t get it.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are satisfied with their health care and don’t want the government to step in and call the shots.
Yet, lawmakers are proceeding with plans that will force taxpayers to cough up more than a trillion dollars over the next decade and could very well destroy reputable private industries.
Of the five bills approved by the House or Senate so far, four include the so-called “public option,” which is nothing more than stealing money from those who already are paying for health care and giving it to those who refuse to or can’t spend a dime when they get sick.
Forget that such plans would likely close many hospitals, fine businesses if they didn’t cover their workers, cripple insurance companies and have cataclysmic consequences for the economy.
The government can’t even stop the estimated $60 billion of fraud in Medicare. Can anyone seriously argue that bureaucrats will be able to run a multi-trillion dollar business after all of that?
Legislators who represent West-Central Illinois long ago showed that they’ll put party before principle and another term before a tax break.
Thankfully, Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill and Representatives Blaine Luetkemeyer and Todd Akin have been more accommodating to the voices of taxpayers.
We urge them to continue listening to constituents back home and ignore the Beltway rhetoric.
This isn’t a tirade against the poor and it has absolutely nothing to do with race.
Rather, it has everything to do with allowing democracy and the free market to reign instead of a socialistic, anti-capitalist view that penalizes hard work and rewards sloth.
Legislators have a chance to stop this madness before any of these plans cause any real damage.
Just remember, lawmakers, we’re watching more closely than ever.
And if you don’t follow the majority opinion, we’ll make sure you don’t have a government-paid health plan the next time you’re up for election.
Bella Thorne is opening up to fans about her sexuality in one simple tweet.
On Tuesday afternoon, a Twitter follower posed a personal question to the actress: "Are you bisexual? @BellaThorne." Using just one word, Bella responded with the word "Yes."
The message immediately got support from hundreds of fans including Ariel Winter who Retweeted the conversation.
And when one fan revealed he hopes to "have a chance" to date the 18-year-old, Bella replied, "Why wouldn't you have a chance?"
"Aww thank you for all the accepting tweets from everyone," she wrote on social media. "I love you guys ❤❤❤ #pride."
Bella's latest tweets come more than a week after the Shake It Up! alumna mutually broke up with Gregg Sulkin after one year of dating.
"After much thought and soul-searching, we have made the difficult decision to end our relationship," the actors told E! News in a joint statement. "We will always love each other and have a deep respect for one another, as we have each grown to be better people because of our time together."
And when one fan expressed sadness that the relationship didn't last, Bella responded, "Things just didn't end up working the way we had hoped. But I'll always love the bub."
As to why Bella decided to tweet about her sexuality, some fans are speculating that it's because she recently shared a photo of herself kissing a girl. Bella Pendergast also referred to the actress as her "girlfriend" in photos posted on Twitter.
Regardless of who she is and isn't dating, fans are applauding the Hollywood star for her openness on social media. And it may just be continuing in the future. When one fan advised her to "Keep breakin' them social conventions," she replied, "Will do baby."
If you're planning to tow another vehicle or trailer behind your travel trailer, you'll need to keep safety in the forefront of your mind. A three-vehicle chain that includes your towing vehicle, travel trailer and added towed item makes for a long vehicle, which is actually illegal in some states. To ensure you're tra...
Read your owner's manual to determine the gross vehicle weight (GVW) of the item you are towing behind the travel trailer. If you don't have the owner's manual, weigh the item on a set of commercial scales, which can be found at highway weigh stations and many truck stops.
Determine the towing capacity of the tow hitch on your travel trailer. Look for a weight rating on the top or underside of the hitch. This information may be located on the logos or engraved portions of the hitch. The information may also be represented Class I, II, III or IV. Class I trailers can tow up to 2,000 lbs.;...
Your tow hitch may include a removable hitch ball and tongue; in this case, inspect the ball and tongue to determine their class as well.
Compare the ratings of your tow hitch, ball and tongue with the weight of the item you'd like to tow. If the item weighs more than the maximum towing amount of any of these individual components, you should not tow that item behind the travel trailer. For example, if you're trying to tow a 3,000-lb. vehicle with a Clas...
While these instructions will help you determine how much weight your travel trailer can pull, before you head out it's also important to know how much weight your towing vehicle can handle. To determine this, add the weights of your travel trailer and third vehicle, taking into account the weight of gear, food and oth...
Vulcan, Nicole. "How to Determine the Towing Capacity of a Travel Trailer." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/determine-towing-capacity-travel-trailer-35418.html. 15 March 2018.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that, without voter identification laws, fraud will be so rampant in November’s general election that voters will head to the polls “15 times" for Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump was making reference to the state’s voter identification law that was struck down last month by a federal appeals court, which ruled the legislation was “passed with racially discriminatory intent.” The opinion of the three-judge court said the law represented a ...
Trump said the removal of the voter ID law would lead to widespread voter fraud that will favor Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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