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Macron’s campaign gets knocked off course by the Corsican riots – politicalbetting.com
Macron’s campaign gets knocked off course by the Corsican riots – politicalbetting.com
24 days to go before the first round of voting in the French election and the Macron campaign is in danger of being blown off course by rioting in Corsica and his pledge in response to look at autonomy for the island after he is reelected.
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We don't talk about them enough.
(runs for cover)
If protests and riots do continue on Corsica then there must be a massive risk for Macron in the run-off.
Meawnhile here in Tallinn we now have 22,000 Ukrainian refugees of which 40% are children.
The head of Estonian military intelligence just briefed ast night that they think that Russia has a maximum of 50,000 troops against Kyiv and given there are still 2 million people in the city and the Ukrainian armed forces have a minimum of 50,000 in the sector, means that the Russians can neither take nor encircle the city.
Estonia is pressing for NATO to renounce the NATO/Russia founding act so that the troops currently here on "temporary assignment" can be made permanent.
In more worrying news I can not get hold of friends in Minsk. There are rumours that there have been clashes between different military units in several places in Belarus.
(Okay, it’s very complex but still well documented)
Seventeen planes out of Ascencion, refuelling each other in a carefully co-ordinated manner, to get one Vulcan to do one bombing run in Falkland, before returning to Ascencion without landing.
Britain was on the cusp of signing a near identical deal for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe & Anoosheh Ashoori last Summer
But it was blocked by the US because it wanted the deal to include Morad Tahbaz
Iran refused
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-on-way-to-tehran-airport-tc90f2lkn
Which explain why Russia's "1 million man" army, isn't.
Macron is however insufferable, but I can accept that.
That one fuel train blown up, also taking out the track, probably led to several hundred abandoned vehicles on the way from Belarus to Kiev.
Both countries are a larger version of their original cores through war/conquest or absorption.
In the UK the “absorbed/conquered” parts have kept very strong visible identities and different levels of their own independent decision making away from London which have evolved over time but still have strong cultural identities and differences.
The degrees are wide from Scotland, Wales and NI to Cornish or Yorkshire identity.
France however had been very good/very brutal at suppressing the identities of their equivalents with a long focus on being totally “French”.
So whilst areas such as Brittany, Savoie and Basque pockets have independence movements they aren’t very strong and probably mirror Cornish independence movements.
Areas that weren’t historically “France” that aren’t Brittany and Savoie such as Aquitaine and Gascony are very much brought into the whole French demos.
It’s understandable why Corsica is more of an outlier as was always treated slightly badly by France in a cultural sneer kind of way - Napoleon was mocked non stop at military school for being a Corsican, treated like an educated monkey.
I would be surprised if this was a larger issue for France but interesting to see how it pans out.
Would she be free had Ukraine not blown up and a shift be happening? No. So as always, even in the darkest of situations there is some light to be found.
Essentially, ISS uses gyroscopes for attitude control - by spinning a particular gyroscope faster/slow it rotates the station without using thrusters. After a while the gyros are spinning at max speed. So you "de-saturate" by firing thrusters to cancel out the torque as the gyro is spun down.
There's quite a few questions about whether you could use Dragon for that or not.
The big problem is that there is very little time, if the Russians pull the de-saturate function, before the station starts to spin out of control.
Ariane 5 was built as a crew launcher - see Hermes.
ESA developing a human launch system now would run into the mud of European Space politics. Sadly, even more than the US, the actual space flight bit is seen as a minor effect of the program, by the politicians who fund it....
Do the French still have that mocking attitude to Corsica?
No doubt my bubble will be burst by examples of idiots from that era, but currently I'm very relaxed in my view.
Now they are getting evacuated from underneath the ruins.
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1504378026800386051
https://www.ft.com/content/77ab8dcf-cb02-4e57-aff0-85c8a84f5a1f
He was released as part of this deal.
As pointed out by others your last post last night must have been the most ironic statement ever made in history. It was mindbogglingly you have so little self awareness.
Well, that's them telt.
https://twitter.com/ITVBorderRB/status/1504094294080208896
@moonrabbit @stodge @ping
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You have no self awareness. Do you not see everyone laughing at you this morning with their posts or do you not understand them? I can only assume you don't which is sad.
You do realise I am doing it on purpose don't you?
Unusually, there’s only one plane I care about today - flight EK008, just leaving Heathrow with my parents on board, I’ll see them tonight for the first time in more than three years.
The school currently has an old oil fired boiler which will need removing. Normally we replace this with a modern gas boiler and new control panel. The average cost for such a project is around £65k
The ASHP system for this small school requires 4 outdoor units and 11 indoor units, the pipework throughout the school has to be doubled in size as do the radiators. Significant building works are required to house all the new equipment. The electrical supply to the school has to be upgraded to 185mm cable to cope with the hugh increase in electricity required to power all the new equipment. And the funniest part is that the job includes for the installing of a small gas boiler as back up as they know the new system will not work.
Our quote for the job is £410k.
Its no wonder other Councils are abandoning the idea of ASHPs to heat their buildings.
booze and socialisingracing not the money (although I did back Facile Vega as in an RP article prior to the meeting Willie Mullins, discussing his chances, had said of it "of all the runners I have I would want to be on Facile Vega..." which sounded pretty emphatic to me!)Yesterday was a cracking day, that said. Quite surreal with essentially a morass of horses moving around the track everyone looking grey and brown behind the front runners. Shishkin didn't travel a yard and I'm not going to get into the should they/shouldn't they have watered debate - suffice to say that rain was showing on all weather apps on the Weds for days and yet unwatered/rained upon the ground would have probably been good/good to firm... Who'd be clerk of the course.
Equally it was a good advert for honest racing to see Delta Work win when we were all imagining what would have happened in F1 with Jack Kennedy receiving instructions through his comms system to let Tiger Roll pass. The biggest mystery continues to be what the cross country race is for, that said.
Have a great day today.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Arthur had more respect for horse flesh than the average Irish peasant.
This was undoubtedly more enlightened than the alternative approach of genocide or ethnic cleansing.
He might not be brilliant, but he's clearly the best candidate in a poor field.
Its not a shame that Biden beat Trump, but it is a shame that Biden was the best the US had to offer.
Many here think the same with regards to Boris and Corbyn.
I saw them kneeling by the holy well –
It was for life, life, life they prayed:
Life that for a farmer is land enough to keep two horses,
Life that is healthy husband to a maid.
I saw them climbing the holy mountain –
It was the knowledge, knowledge, knowledge of life they pursued:
Knowledge that is in knowing what fair to sell the cattle in,
Knowledge that is in being able to cart an acre from a field.
I saw them lying on the burning stones –
It was vision, vision, vision they desired:
Vision that is forecasting a mare’s hour of foaling,
Vision that is catching the idler, newly hired.
I saw them kneeling, climbing and prostrate –
It was love, love, love they found:
Love that is Christ green walking from the summer headlands
To His scarecrow cross in the turnip-ground.
Pilgrims by Patrick Kavanagh
Like the name. There was a Europop band called Alcazar. Not great but liked the name
Good luck Malc
"Why I should have listened to Garry Kasparov about Putin"
https://www.ft.com/content/4079c3f7-75f0-4d5e-9c9d-bc673d26cfd9
I dare say France has its share of gormless fanbois who think Macron is exceptionel.
A reminder to us that for all Boris Johnson's stone cold heartlessness, the Conservative Party had and have even more objectionable operatives waiting in the wings.
When the rest of the table rowdily dismissed his catastrophizing, Kasparov became heated and, as the wine flowed, the conversation grew so animated that I started to worry that guests would walk out."
And then
"When we caught up by phone last week, he recalled that night, lamenting, “I was stunned by the unwillingness of people [in the west] to hear these warnings, because I grew up in the Soviet Union and knew all about the historical events of the 20th century. I knew you could have stopped Hitler in 1935 and 1936 and 1937 and did not. But I had so much outright rejection of what I have been saying." ”
Drunk in drunken rant shock. I mean, who believed anything else about Putin in 2017 or whenever, who could have "stopped" Hitler and how, and same question about Putin?
He was proper working class, mind. For that and other reasons I'd take him over the flsoj any day of the week.
Firstly he beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election when Clinton, who was also far better than her opposition, didn't the previous time.
Secondly he has done an excellent job herding the many cats on the response to the Russian invasion.