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French Foreign Ministry fined €450k for not having enough women in important posts


RT
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:09 UTC
gender protest sign
© Global Look Press / Alain Pitton
The French Foreign Ministry hired too few women to major positions in 2017, violating the country's gender equality quotas, Le Monde reports just before the International Women's Day of March 8.

Out of touch with the modern spirit of equality at all costs, the ministry missed the French quota for first-time female appointments set by the 2012 Sauvadet law. Men reportedly occupy five seats too many, which cost the ministry €90,000 each, for a total of €450,000 (about $504,500).

The 2012 law stipulated that by 2017, each gender must have at least a 40-percent representation among civil servants appointed for the first time to positions of responsibility and management.

Only 26 percent of French ambassadors are women, Le Monde reports - including those in Russia and Ukraine, which along with a number of countries in the Eastern hemisphere (not France, though) are marking International Women's Day as a state holiday on Friday. Twenty-four percent of French consuls are likewise female.

Most of the women employed by the Foreign Ministry are in the lowest C category of civil service jobs, working as administrative assistants and the like - 67 percent of the jobs in this category are done by women.

Comment: Affirmative action quotas are ridiculous. At least the diplomats quoted in the article seem to have their heads on straight: you cannot fill a quota if there are not enough qualified staff to fill the positions. Well, technically, you can do so. But you will be hiring people who are not prepared for the job.

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Migrant crisis over? What Europeans think about EU declaration


RT
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 17:52 UTC
paris migrants
© Reuters / Benoit TessierMigrants stand in line as French police evacuate hundreds of migrants living in makeshift camp set up under the Porte de la Chapelle ring bridge in Paris, France, January 29, 2019.
The European Commission has declared that the crisis resulting from the massive influx of migrants is all but over, blaming continued concern about immigration on fake news. RT quizzed Europeans on how they view the claim.

Frans Timmermans, the European Commission's first vice-president announced that while "structural problems" still exist, "Europe is no longer experiencing the migration crisis we lived in 2015."

But people on the streets of European cities told RT they were less certain that the storm had passed.

"I don't think it's over, and I don't think it will be over for a while. We took a lot of people in. Only a few have work, only a few are in training or education. I think they should be integrated into society better," said one Berliner approached for comment.

"They're still coming to us, to Europe," another insisted.

Residents of Paris and Naples expressed similar skepticism when asked how they felt about Timmermans' statement.

Watch the full report below.


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If "green deal" socialists actually get what they want it could end in a civil war

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:16 UTC
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© Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesUS Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and US Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts, speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation to promote clean energy programs outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, February 7, 2019.
In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election, I predicted a Trump election win but tried to temper expectations with the reality that there were multiple scenarios exploitable by globalists which could turn the conservative elation into confusion and chaos. Just after the election, I published an article titled 'Order Out Of Chaos: The Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost'. In that article I warned that the political Left, when confronted with failure, has displayed a habit of doubling or tripling down and becoming even more extreme in their rhetoric and policies. I also warned that this might influence the political Right to become more extreme in response.

This is the problem when attempting to explain the False Left/Right Paradigm to people who are new to the concept. Yes, at the top of the political pyramid, all the players support essentially the same policies of centralization and more power to the elites. But, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are numerous and legitimate divides among common citizens. The divides are real, not false, and it is these divides that the elites seek to exploit.

One divide that we are likely to hear much more about in the next two years is the divide between "old school" democrats and the new "green deal" socialists/communists. Another more vitriolic divide is the one between common sense conservatives and the "double down" socialist cult.

The narrative being constructed here is a fascinated but disturbing one. Consider the pattern on display:

Comment: Smith's comment about the similarity between social conditions at the time of Hoover's presidency and now is very perceptive. Psychopaths have little imagination, and having had success with strategy, will implement it over and over again. Unfortunately, given the average person's attention span, it does work more often than not.

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Best of the Web: 3 ways of debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism

Ari Feldman
Forward
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:03 UTC
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© Gill Getz
It's a bewildering and alarming time to be a Jew, both because anti-Semitism is rising and because so many politicians are responding to it not by protecting Jews but by victimizing Palestinians.

On February 16, members of France's Yellow Vest protest movement hurled anti-Semitic insults at the distinguished French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut. On February 19, swastikas were found on 80 gravestones in Alsace. Two days later, French President Emmanuel Macron, after announcing that Europe was "facing a resurgence of anti-Semitism unseen since World War II," unveiled new measures to fight it.

Among them was a new official definition of anti-Semitism. That definition, produced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, includes among its "contemporary examples" of anti-Semitism "denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination." In other words, anti-Zionism is Jew hatred.

In so doing, Macron joined Germany, Britain, The United States and roughly thirty other governments. And like them, he made a tragic mistake.
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Colorado man arrested at gunpoint for picking up trash outside his home


Sputnik
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:37 UTC
Colorado Boulder Police Department
© YouTube/VanardoMerchant
On Monday, Colorado's Boulder Police Department launched an internal investigation after footage surfaced of police drawing their weapons and detaining a man who was simply picking up trash outside his own home.

According to reports, an unidentified Boulder Police officer began questioning a man who was sitting in a partially enclosed patio area behind a "private property" sign around 8:30 a.m. Friday, asking if he was allowed to be there.

​The man, whose identity has also not been revealed, told the officer he lived and worked in the building, even showing the officer his school identification card. However, the officer detained him for further investigation, calling for backup because the man was allegedly being uncooperative and was unwilling to put down a blunt object. The man was using a clamp to collect trash from the front yard of his home.
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NPC

Delusional narcissist Obama says there's 'still hope' as long as we train 'a million Baracks & Michelles'

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:37 UTC
Obama
© APFormer US President Barack Obama
Former President Barack Obama said Monday these are "challenging times" but he remains hopeful because of the next generation of leaders that he aims to guide.

Touching on his "third act," the 44th president spoke of programs that have become a central pillar of his Obama Foundation and its $500 million presidential center project in Chicago.

He told a packed arena at Bell MTS Place how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will serve as a hub for young people in the U.S. and around the world who are skeptical of the "old institutions."
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CCTV footage shows fatal Amazon delivery Boeing 767 crash in Texas

Peter Martinez
CBS
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:40 UTC
amazon boeing crash texas
As crews continue to search a bay off southeast Texas for clues as to how a Boeing 767 cargo plane nose-dived into shallow water, a cadaver dog found the remains of the third and final victim of the doomed flight. Sheriff Brian Hawthorne of Chambers County, Texas, said an identity has not been released.

Tuesday's development came days after the Houston-bound Atlas Air plane crashed Saturday, leaving a large "extremely hazardous" debris field along Trinity Bay, some 35 miles east of the city. Flight 3591 had three people on board. Authorities identified two victims so far: Conrad Aska, the 44-year-old first officer and co-pilot, and Sean Archuleta, a 36-year-old jump-seat passenger, according to Hawthorne.

The plane essentially disintegrated upon impact after losing radio contact approximately 30 miles southeast of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Crews have been using airboats and helicopters to comb through the wreckage, where chunks of the plane can be seen across the muddy landscape.

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Digital drivers licenses and smartphones will be searched by police


MassPrivateI
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:56 UTC
cellphone check
© IEEE Spectrum
For years the push to replace physical drivers licenses with digital drivers licenses has relied on one thing; privacy.

But all of the "fake news" the public has been fed about their privacy is about to come "crashing" down, literally.

A Nevada bill if passed would allow police to search everyone's smartphones.

Nevada bill AB200 allows police to search the phones of everyone involved in a car crash.

"An act relating to motor vehicles; authorizing a peace officer at the scene of a traffic crash to use technology to determine if a driver was using a handheld wireless communications device at the time of the crash; requiring the suspension of the driver's license of a driver who refuses a request by a peace officer to use such technology; providing penalties;and providing other matters properly."

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Horrifying: Georgia girl, 14, kept in dog cage, starved, tortured before being buried in yard alongside brother

Stephen Sorace
Fox News
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:13 UTC
Mary Crocker Elwyn Jr.
© Effingham County Sheriff’s OfficeMary Crocker, 14, left, and her brother Elwyn Jr., who was 14 when he vanished in November 2016.
Mary Crocker, the 14-year-old Georgia girl found buried next to her brother in the family's backyard last year, was forced to live in a dog cage almost 24 hours a day while starving and being beaten before she died, authorities said Tuesday.

Investigators released the disturbing new details about the alleged abuses and deaths of Mary and her brother, Elwyn "JR" Crocker Jr., who was two years older, during a preliminary court hearing. Five relatives had allegedly abused Mary as punishment for misbehaving, authorities said.

Abby Brown, an investigator on the case, testified that Mary's confinement to a tiny dog cage nearly 24 hours a day had left her joints swollen from contorting her body to fit inside, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Relatives once duct-taped her to a ladder to see if her body would straighten out, Brown said.
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Tommy Robinson to face new contempt of court charges

Georgia Diebelius
Metro
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:47 UTC
Tommy Robinson
© Danny Lawson/PATommy Robinson addresses a protest outside the BBC’s offices in Salford on Saturday.
Contempt of court proceedings are set to be brought against Tommy Robinson after it was deemed in 'the public interest' to do so. The Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC MP, concluded today that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon will face proceedings later this month. Contempt of court is punishable by up to two years in prison, and/or a fine.

The contempt of court case was referred to the Attorney late last year, by Nicholas Hilliard QC, the Recorder of London.

On May 25, Yaxley-Lennon, was found to be in contempt of court.
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