Tag: france
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France Starts Ban on Full-Face Veil
France’s ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, making anyone wearing the Muslim niqab or burqa in public liable to a fine of 150 euros or lessons in French citizenship.
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Desperate Western Military Action Against Libya Has Begun
A coalition of the United States and four other nations launched military action against Libya on Saturday, officials said, as the West tries to force Muammar Gaddafi from power.
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2/24 Binge & Purge: Suburban Survivalists, Biofuels & Baby Gaga
Suburban survivalists hoarding food, water & weapons
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senior US marine says ‘multiple platoons’ headed to egypt
from business insider: A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people “multiple platoons” are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us. There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed to an emergency situation where they will not…
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Mayhem Spreads In Tunisia As Curfew Decreed
from nytimes: The government of Tunisia scrambled alternately to appease and to crush growing unrest on Wednesday as a three-week-old wave of violent demonstrations spread for the first time to the capital, where swarms of protesters called for the ouster of the authoritarian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The protesters came together after circulating calls…
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Scheme to Create a Run On Global Banking System Fails
Ex-soccer star Eric Cantona’s plan for people to withdraw all their money from banks has failed. By the time French banks closed on Tuesday, very few appeared to have followed his call.
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11/11 Binge & Purge: Spam the Torpedos!
33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese // Carnival Splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship // Food wrappers leach harmful chemicals into food // War over Monsanto gets ugly
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large hadron collider ‘set to create a mini-big bang’
from bbc: Since 2009, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks. The LHC is housed in…
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Federal Reserve Printing More Money & Returning to Jekyll Island
The Federal Reserve launched a controversial new policy on Wednesday, committing to buy $600 billion more in government bonds by the middle of next year in an attempt to breathe new life into a struggling U.S. economy.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: French Fight Back, Google Slapped Down, Pilot Stands Up
Story #1: Will Americans Follow French Example of Mass Civil Unrest? // Story #2: Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy with Legal Ease Related: Pentagon Braces for Release of 400,000 Iraq Files on WikiLeaks // Story #3: Pilot Refuses Naked Body Scanner & ‘Pat Down’
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Will Americans Follow French Example of Mass Civil Unrest?
How will Americans react when the government begins to impose the same austerity measures that are causing riots, street battles, fuel blockades and other assorted chaos in France?
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Terronoia Grows Over Latest International Threataganda
More nations issue warnings over Europe terror plot from national terror alert: Strong concerns that terrorist teams in Europe have selected their targets, completed their surveillance, eluded capture and are now ready to strike at airports and tourist attractions have prompted the State Department to ready a highly unusual travel advisory for Europe, multiple law…
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‘cyber storm iii’ tests US on cyber attack
stuxnet & cyberstorm3 are unrelated, nothing to see here… from defencetalk: US keyboard warriors were doing battle Tuesday with a simulated cyberattack on government and private computer networks that undermines basic trust in the Internet. The “Cyber Storm III” exercise involves participants from seven US government departments, including the Pentagon, 11 US states, 60 private…
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gmo crop sabotage on the rise: french citizens destroy trial vineyard
from food freedom: Early Sunday morning [aug22], French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational…
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roman polanski set free after swiss reject US extradition request
flashback: interview w/ peter levenda on polanski from ap: The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony…