[The Local fr] As France reels from deadly floods in recent days, we look which parts of France are most at risk of suffering a similar disaster and the small number of towns and villages that have never experienced a natural disaster.
Every year in France devastating floods destroy homes and more often that not claim lives.
Only this week, flash floods killed 14 people in towns and villages around Carcassonne in southern France.
Following those floods the French government declared a state of natural disaster for some 126 communes around Carcassonne.
The state of natural disaster (Etat de catastrophe naturelle) is a special procedure set up in France in 1982 so the victims of exceptional natural events, such as flooding, as well as drought, can be adequately compensated for damage to property.
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Ah, autumn! The first cold cool front brings a hint of chill to the air, and the smell of burning leaves. Burning leaves? At midnight? Cue the annual wail of sirens and distraught moms. In New Orleans, anyways.
[FOX] An invasive insect species native to China, India and Vietnam is posing a problem in at least two states.
The spotted lanternfly is harming crops in Winchester, Virginia, WDVM reported. The Pennsylvania-based Churchville Nature Center said the creatures were also spotted for the first time on its property Thursday.
"We are sad to report that we have had our first sighting of the spotted lanternfly on our property today," the center announced on Facebook. "If it is new to you, this invasive plant hopper is threatening the forests of the northeast as well as the lumber and agricultural industries. Please keep an eye out for the insect."
The species poses a threat to agriculture and "has the ability to greatly impact the grape, hops and logging industries," the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture warned.
[Daily Caller] "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said it was "preposterous" of President Donald Trump to suggest Democrats were somehow responsible for the surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S. southern border, on "America’s Newsroom" Friday.
Wallace was discussing the escalation of Trump’s rhetoric leading up to the November midterm elections and said he has no evidence to back up his claims. (RELATED: Border Patrol Deputy Chief Begs Congress To Enter Immigration Fight To Ease Border Crisis)
"Let me say first of all that the idea that the Democrats were somehow behind this caravan coming from Honduras of these women and children is preposterous," Wallace said.
Wallace also said there’s no evidence to support the claim the protesters at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation were paid to be there.
"And there’s been no evidence offered on that any more than there was evidence that the protesters up on Capitol Hill during the Kavanaugh hearings were paid protesters," he said.
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"Let me say first of all that the idea that the Democrats were somehow behind this caravan coming from Honduras of these women and children is preposterous," Wallace said.
Come on, Chris, WAKE UP! The Democratic Party might not be actually organizing and running this caravan, but they're sure as Hell responsible for luring them here with their open-borders policies and promises of free shit from the gummint.
Wallace also said there’s no evidence to support the claim the protesters at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation were paid to be there.
We all know that Democrats' claims to be caring and compassionate are a total sham, but even they aren't heartless enough to expect their Astroturf mob to provide their own food, transportation and lodging during the Kavanaugh hearings.
If Democrats didn't fund that disgusting display, Chris, then who did? Republicans?
This kind of "fair and balanced" bugwittery is why I don't bother watching Fox News anymore.
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What part of "Don't feed the bears" don't you understand?
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Ref #3 and further proof of 'democratic involvement.
Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford would do this? I’ll give you 4 reasons:
1) She owns a major portion of the company that makes the morning after abortion pill and she is afraid Kavanaugh will overturn Roe v Wade, therefore making her million dollar empire go caput.
2) She’s a professor at the same college (Palo Alto U) where Diane Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is on the board of directors, she has worked with Blum on the “resist Trump” movement for two years.
3) Dr. Blasey-Ford’s brother, Tom Blasey, is business partners with Peter Strzok’s cousin Jill Strzok for a company called Exelis Inc. (enough said there).
4) Feinstein + Chuck Schumer's appointed lawyers set up three "GoFundMe" pages for her the week BEFORE she testified, which are currently up to over a million dollars for her to keep as payment for her testimony.
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It is certainly preposterous, Chris, but you dig a little deeper and follow the money. The answer lies there. Dig deeper and you uncover the ideology. Our commenters did. Either you are unable or unwilling to dig deeper.
Maybe you have been reduced to a news reader as the Brits used to say.
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Wallace also said there’s no evidence to support the claim the protesters at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation were paid to be there.
There are photos of:
1) woman disrupting the Kavanaugh hearings.
2) same woman being forcibly removed from the room.
3) same woman walking down the hallway.
4) same woman stopping to speak to black man leaning on wall.
5) black man gives her several bills.
I call that evidence.
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Well, let's see...the border was left open by Democrat administrations...OK, Bush left it open too...and people crossed it. I call that cause and effect.
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"“That doesn’t mean they have a right to come into the U.S., but this isn’t some Democratic plot.”
Because Dems don't "plot." But they do have people within the organization trying to outdo each other in the pursuit of general ideology. But nobody is taking a peek and giving a nod before this kind of thing "happens."
[Christian Post] Christian author Karen Swallow Prior has compared the newly-released film "Gosnell" to Oscar-winner "Spotlight" that was about the Catholic Church's cover-up of child sexual abuse.
Prior, an English professor at Liberty University and research fellow with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Washington Post on Tuesday that production-wise, "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer," is "not a high-quality film."
"It's on par with a made-for-television true crime drama (the genre it adheres to closely in structuring the plot around the trial)," she argued.
"Yet the film is impressive solely for making it this far. It was funded through crowdsourcing, reportedly having to overcome resistance by actors, distributors and advertisers along the way."
Prior compared it to 2015's "Spotlight" for the way it sheds light on a deeply disturbing problem that not many in society were aware of.
"Like the film 'Spotlight,' which looked at institutional cover-up in the Catholic Church, 'Gosnell' is about abuses of institutions and policies, abuses that too many turned a blind eye to for too long," she said, referring to the years of ignored concern before the investigation and trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.
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According to Townhall’s Brianna Heldt, the film had good audiences opening weekend, and was well reviewed by audiences and the few critics who wrote about it.
[Intellectualtakeout.org] The US stock market continues to set new records. Unemployment continues to go down. The United States is now at or near "full employment". According to a Bloomberg headline last year, "The Jobless Numbers Aren’t Just Good, They’re Great".
But a closer look at economic data by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt reveals something else entirely. While "unemployment" has gone down, the work participation rate, and especially the male work rate, has been relentlessly declining for most of the post-War era and is now reaching a crisis with Depression-era levels.
In his new book, Men Without Work, Eberstadt describes this as a deep moral and social crisis which is passing almost unnoticed by politicians, pundits, business leaders and economists.
One-sixth of all men of prime working age in America ‐ men aged between 25 and 54 ‐ are not just unemployed, but have stopped looking for jobs altogether. This is a time bomb with far reaching economic, social, and political consequences. "Unlike the dead soldiers in Roman antiquity," he writes, "our decimated men still live and walk among us, though in an existence without productive economic purpose. We might say those many millions of men without work constitute a sort of invisible army, ghost soldiers lost in an overlooked, modern-day depression."
In many ways, this is a disturbing book. Never before in American history have so many men done absolutely nothing. Millions are becoming dependent, infantilized and sick. According to a recent paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger nearly half of the men who are not looking for work are on painkillers and many are disabled. They "experience notably low levels of emotional well-being throughout their days and ... they derive relatively little meaning from their daily activities," Krueger found. And there are 7 million of them.
Consider these staggering statistics. Prime-age American men in employment spend 2,200 hours a year in work and work-related activity; employed women spend 1,850 hours; unemployed men spend 400 hours, mostly looking for jobs. But 7 million American men between 25 and 54 spent 43 hours a year working. That averages out to about 7 minutes a day.
And what did they do with their time? Learn French? Paint watercolours? Help at a local nursing home? Vacuuming? None of the above. They spent less time in volunteer and religious activities than the other three groups. They don’t read newspapers much. They don’t vote much. A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year.
Basically they did nothing much. Time-use studies show that:
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In his new book, Men Without Work, Eberstadt describes this as a deep moral and social crisis which is passing almost unnoticed by politicians, pundits, business leaders and economists.
The problem is how long it takes to get a book published. This was obviously written in the "Good Old Days™" of the Obama era
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Why contribute to a society that despises them?
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Why contribute to a society that despises them?
Yeah, they need to be real men and work really hard so that the privileged can continue to pay for their EBT cards and "disabilty" (wink!).
Then, if they're really lucky, they will be deemed worthy of hooking up with Trigglypuff or her Vibrant! equivalent, while making themselves available for future #MeToo campaigns and/or divorce rape as needed.
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"A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year." there's your answer. The numbers are only increasing. Men and women. Sad to say and sad to see. Every town and every city USA.EMS Ambulance and emergency room services going broke now. Small towns can't handle the costs now. I believe it was the mayor of Baltimore city took a tour of a poor area and complained of the smell of death caught on a open mike.
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A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year.
This means little without a comparison to the cohort of their compatriots who are employed: what %-age of those men have used illegal drugs in the past year?
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Just curious - how many are minorities? Given that there a no headlines, I imagine that a majority of these men are white. Because if they were black or Hispanic or anything else, you'd have the press screaming about it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said it was "preposterous" of President Donald Trump to suggest Democrats were somehow responsible for the surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S. southern border, on "America’s Newsroom" Friday.
[Christian Post] Christian author Karen Swallow Prior has compared the newly-released film "Gosnell" to Oscar-winner "Spotlight" that was about the Catholic Church's cover-up of child sexual abuse.
[Intellectualtakeout.org] The US stock market continues to set new records. Unemployment continues to go down. The United States is now at or near "full employment". According to a Bloomberg headline last year, "The Jobless Numbers Aren’t Just Good, They’re Great".
