Tag: france
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Paris Has A Drone Problem
from theverge.com: Police in Paris yesterday detained three Al Jazeera journalists on charges of flying a drone without a license, marking the latest development in what’s been a bizarre week for a city still reeling from last month’s terrorist attacks. The arrests come amid growing anxiety surrounding unauthorized drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which…
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Paris Hypocrisy
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for the first time in 2015 to talk about the Paris attack + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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France Investigates Mystery Drones Over Nuclear Plants
from dw.de: Unidentified drones seen over several of France’s nuclear reactors in recent weeks prompted the French government to launch an investigation on Thursday. “Measures are being taken to know what these drones are and neutralize them,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told France Info Radio. According to the state electricity company EDF, the unmanned…
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France Finance Minister in Soup Over ‘Disgusting’ China Food Remark
from reuters.com: France’s trade minister had to eat humble pie on Friday after she was caught on film saying that food served at a state dinner for China’s President Xi Jinping was “disgusting”. President Francois Hollande and Xi were all smiles at the dinner Wednesday at the Elysee presidential palace. But Foreign Trade Minister Nicole…
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NASA, France Sign Mars Lander Deal for 2016
from smh.com.au: The United States and France plan to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet. The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, dusty planet, and will be…
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Sex, politics and François Hollande: How France plays by its own rules
from theguardian.com: Sex will succeed where wars in Syria and the Central African Republic, questions of racial tension and the future of the European Union have all failed. It will persuade the world to do what it has so rarely done before – and tune into a press conference by the president of France. The…
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France: Hamburger sales increase 40% in last two years
from rawstory.com: Once considered the worst kind of food sin in France, the hamburger is conquering the land of haute cuisine. From humble fast food to Michelin-starred gourmet burgers, sales of the most quintessentially American sandwich have soared in France and the dish has become a fixture on restaurant menus. “The French discovered the burger…
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Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women
(Note: This is our first #MediaMatriarchy post.) from nbcnews.com: Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those…
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US Seeking to Soothe France Over NSA Snooping
from abcnews.go.com: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says America is working to find the right balance between protecting peoples’ security and privacy rights. Kerry arrived in Paris Monday to anger over a reported NSA program that collected more than 70 million French telephone records over a month. Kerry said protecting people’s security in today’s…
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Four on trial in #France for religion-inspired kidnap and torture
French torture trial over crucifixion-style exorcism* from rt.com: A group of former members of a US-based protestant church, the Seventh Day Adventist, are on trial in France for torturing a 19-year-old woman while attempting to exorcise “the devil” out of her in shockingly-violent style. The trial of three men and a woman, all of French…
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‘Occult Forces’ (1943)
An amazing find, “Occult Forces,” proves itself an expose of Freemasonry that cost director Jean Mamy his life! Mamy had been as Wikipedia reports, “…from 1931 to 1939 … Venerable of the Renan lodge of the Grand Orient de France, but had since parted company with Freemasonry.” It was Mamy’s last film before his execution. …


