Europe in the News

[msmob]

No you stupid little man this refutes your totally inept argument above that Macron is somehow not a left of center politician.

Sighs - here we go .. 

Care to deal with the specific points you ducked and I'll indulge your daftness re Macron?

If you insist on continually barking to get my attention, quoting my posts and making gauche statements (still looking for your bi annual cyber slap down no doubt) try to keep track of your own bumbling, intoxicated trolling.

Brass, part of my continuing to be a member of this board was a promise not to rise to your ability to suggest stuff about my life that was either 'untrue' when it was fact or 'true' when it was a figment of your imagination...  I suspect you realise this .. Perhaps some sort of 'diversion' as to my taking you up on the accuracy of your post to Beel ?

I am picking you up on your clear misunderstanding of French Politics   

Macron was indeed a member of the Socialist govt cabinet  -  he is forming a govt made up of a coalition -
 Politicians from the REPUBLICAN Party ...  and Socialists  -  hence Centralist

During his time, serving under Hollande he vowed to end the Le Touquet Treaty - if UK the voted to leave the EU.  Hollande made noises to the effect that he was 'speaking out of turn' ....    UK media called it a 'slapping down'

Macron won, because he appealed to voters from both spectrums.  ( The Treaty allowed The British Border Control to be on French soil and the UK pays the French to handle the illegals that try to enter the UK)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/28/emmanuel-macron-ill-renegotiate-le-touquet-border-treaty

"The politician previously raised the issue when he was economy minister, suggesting that his country could tear up the treaty if the UK left the EU."

He was already right of his colleagues. He beat his former Boss, with whom he had some major differences and who didn't stand because he knew he would lose...   So much for the 'slap-down from Hollande...



 

If/when I decide or have the time to locate his Obama fluff tweet, I'll do so. In the meantime the membership can laugh at your wine swilled 'Macron is not a Socialist'  blunder.

Brass

Where did I say he wasn't a Socialist ?   I haven't drunk wine for 3 weeks, btw..  Another classic example of a Brass "I know more about Moby's life, than Moby!" 

[Brasscasing]

Keep barking, little dog.

Brass

[msmob]

Found a really apt photo to describe the lunacy of the UK Brexit vote and behaviour of my unelected leader and cabinet since :

[tfcrew]

Police in England Report Fatalities at Ariana Grande Concert

LONDON — The sound of explosions thundered through a concert arena in Manchester, England, on Monday night just as a performance by the pop star Ariana Grande was ending. The police reported multiple deaths and injuries as the panicky crowd of spectators, which included children, fled.
There was no immediate word from the police on the cause, but it immediately evoked the terrorist attacks in Paris in November of 2015, which included a deadly assault inside a concert arena where the Eagles of Death Metal had been playing.
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/world/europe/ariana-grande-manchester-police.html?_r=0
 

[msmob]

Police in England Report Fatalities at Ariana Grande Concert

My flight from was late and I flew over Manchester - just before the sh1t hit the fan .... as we left the airport .. too many blue flashing lights were heading into the city centre...

Gtrt Manchester Police say 19 dead and 15 injured..

Treating it as a terrorist attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-manchester-40007967

Some reports from the USA (?) say it was a suicide bomber - HOW would they know ?

[BillyB]

Some reports from the USA (?) say it was a suicide bomber - HOW would they know ?

Probably because your PM says she's treating the incident like a terrorist attack. Same ole song and dance. I don't think they're going to conclude anything different.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/british-police-say-19-dead-50-injured-in-manchester-terrorist-incident/ar-BBBpkeK?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

[tfcrew]

'Van hits pedestrians' on London Bridge in 'major incident'

Witnesses have said that armed officers are understood to be at the scene after a white transit van mounted the pavement before driving into people.
The Met Police say they are dealing with an incident on the bridge and "multiple resources" are in attendance.
Transport for London said the bridge has been closed in both directions due to a "major police incident".

• Latest updates on London Bridge incident

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40146916http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40146916

[tfcrew]

PANIC AT LONDON BRIDGE London Bridge attack: Terror incident leaves up to seven feared dead after van ploughs into pedestrians ‘before three men with hunting knives jump out and start stabbing people’  Police 'gun down two attackers' with incidents in Borough Market and Vauxhall

http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3717339/london-bridge-attack-car-police-response-latest/

[tfcrew]

• At least 17 people have died in Wednesday’s fire at Grenfell Tower. Police have said the death toll is likely to rise.
• Sniffer dogs are being sent into the burnt-out tower to search for bodies, while structural engineers work to make the building safe for firefighters to search. The search operation could take weeks, according to the Met commander Stuart Cundy.
• A ruptured gas main hampered efforts to quell the fire overnight. It was finally brought under control at 1.14am on Thursday.
• Theresa May visited the scene where she met members of the emergency services. She was criticised for failing to meet residents during the visit. Jeremy Corbyn also visited the scene.
• Nine firefighters were hurt in the rescue and there are concerns for their mental health. The fire commander Dany Cotton said: “I’m more concerned longer term about the mental impact on a lot of people who were here. People saw and heard things on a scale they have never seen before.”
• Labour is demanding a special Commons session to question a senior minister about what the government plans to do in the wake of the fire and ask why it failed to act on coroners’ concerns about two previous tower block fires. The Labour MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, said that what happened amounted to “corporate manslaughter”.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/jun/14/grenfell-tower-major-fire-london-apartment-block-white-city-latimer-road

[tfcrew]

A total of 58 people are dead or missing, presumed dead, following the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in west London, police have said.
Commander Stuart Cundy said that number "may increase". The BBC understands it could be about 70 people in total.
The recovery operation at the burnt-out block of flats has resumed and could take weeks, he said.
Meanwhile, PM Theresa May admitted support for families in the "initial hours" was "not good enough".
The statement came after Mrs May met volunteers and some of the people made homeless by the fire.
As they left Number 10, one representative spoke to reporters briefly, saying they would not make a full statement yet.
"We will be making this in the community, with the community," he said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40315194

[msmob]

This is the news I feared ..

A whack-job takes their 'revenge' on 'Muslims' ..

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40324590

Now at least one more 'Muslim' will take revenge on 'Christians'

[Boethius]

Well, TBH moby, an attack on the "infidels" is going to occur whether or not this had happened. 


There was an attack on police on the Champs Elysees today as well, thwarted by the police.   

[fathertime]

This is the news I feared ..

A whack-job takes their 'revenge' on 'Muslims' ..

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40324590

Now at least one more 'Muslim' will take revenge on 'Christians'

Yup.   I overheard some older 'patriot' types today being a bit proud regarding the attack.  I've heard those same 'patriots' piss and moan when a 'muzzie' commits the same acts!  The hypocrisy on a daily basis never ends. 


Fathertime! 

[tfcrew]

Yeah...let's replace those hypocritical patriots with more migrants

Interior ministers from France, Germany and Italy met in Paris over the weekend to talk about Italy’s migrant crisis. Further discussions are expected to take place later this week during EU talks in Tallinn this week.Italy had threatened to block NGO ships that have been transporting what is says is the “unsustainable” flow of people to its shores.


Some 1.7 refugees and migrants have reached EU shores since 2014, reported Reuters. Italy has admitted 500,000 during that period. The numbers are growing.

http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/03/france-germany-italy-agree-to-work-together-on-migrant-crisis-talin

I guess that would be 1.7 million

[tfcrew]

Charlie Gard parents end legal fight for 'beautiful' baby

The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal challenge to take him to the US for experimental treatment.
A lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court "time had run out" for the baby.
Mr Gard said it meant his "sweet, gorgeous, innocent little boy" will not reach his first birthday on 4 August.
"To let our beautiful little Charlie go" is "the hardest thing we'll ever have to do", his mother said.
Charlie's parents said they made the decision because a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40708343

Why did the British medical system even care what the Gard family did with baby Charlie?

[msmob]

Why did the British medical system even care what the Gard family did with baby Charlie?

Because the hospital authorities believed the child was in pain and wanted to 'end it' ... the parents wanted to continue the child's life  - even though they knew it couldn't live - for the benefit of others ...

[tfcrew]

Because the hospital authorities believed the child was in pain and wanted to 'end it' ... the parents wanted to continue the child's life  - even though they knew it couldn't live - for the benefit of others ...

The hospital authorities wanted to euthanize the kid?
They have the say so?

[msmob]

The hospital authorities wanted to euthanize the kid?
They have the say so?

They sought the Court's permission to do so - on the basis of the child's pain and suffering - YES !

[msmob]

Can't believe what went on yesterday in Catalonia ...Spanish Police were WAY OTT.. How the *beep* can we advise other nations to behave when an EU govt. behaves like a dictatorship ? The EASY solution was to let the 'referendum' happen and to ignore it .... BET popularity / sympathy / public awareness went through the roof for a leave ... Spanish PM goes on TV and behaves like nothing happened??!!

[tfcrew]

Paris attacker 'was on anti-terror watchlist' for radicalism

The ISIS "soldier" who stabbed people on a Paris street was on an anti-terror watchlist of suspected extremists, Sky News reported Sunday.
Three friends of the Chechnyan-born attacker have been taken in for questioning since Saturday night’s attack near the Paris Opera which killed one man and wounded four others.
Police killed the 20-year-old man, identified by the president of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, as Khasan Azimov, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/13/paris-attacker-was-on-anti-terror-watchlist-for-radicalism.html
video

[Boethius]

Am I reading this correctly?  Were there only 5173 arrests in Italy last year?

http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2019/04/10/e-straniero-un-arrestato-su-cinque-i-primi-sono-albanesi-e-nigeriani/1677315/

This post was composed without the aid of google.

[krimster2]

where's Sandro?
seek out the Italian and seek his wise counsel

t'was once a Saskatchewanian from Saskatoon
who commuted to work in a purple balloon
unless it rained...

[msmob]

Or, BC ..

The Italians must make that many arrests for driving offences, alone ?

[SANDRO43]

Am I reading this correctly?  Were there only 5173 arrests in Italy last year?

That figure refers to arrests only in the province of Lecco, a city (bottom right) on a branch of Lake Como.

[ML]

Lecco, a city (bottom right) on a branch of Lake Como.

What was the name of this lake before it was named for Perry ?