Europe, Boring Until it's Not

[Speaker to Animals]

I like his style.

Shaved Head. Full militia beard. Ribbon of St. George.

[TheReal_ND]

Latest polls (assuming if people think anything of them) for the French election:

Francois Fillon 29%
Marine Le Pen 25%
Emmanuel Macron 18%
Jean-Luc Mélenchon 14%
(See Bloomberg article here)

Marine Le Pen having difficulty with raising money as French banks.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen does not have the funds she needs for her presidential election campaign next year, as banks continue to decline to lend to her National Front for political reasons, a senior party official said on Monday.

National Front Secretary General Nicolas Bay told Europe 1 radio he had sought a loan of about 27 million euros ($28 million) for the presidential and legislative campaigns next year "from among banking establishments in France, Europe and around the world." He said French banks were refusing to lend the party money. "That poses a problem of discrimination based on political opinions," he said.

See Reuters

Vlad gave a bit of money. Will that be enough?


And here's a French meme for Nuke:

LOL!

[Okeefenokee]

Ummmm,

Merkel: Islamist terror is 'greatest threat' to Germany

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38473936

Do a search on that story and see if you can find a quote where she said those words, because I didn't find it.

[TheReal_ND]

Wow look. More fake news.

[Okeefenokee]

But in her New Year message the chancellor said images of the devastation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where Syrian government forces have forced out rebels after months of fighting, showed how "important and right" it was for Germany to take in those fleeing the conflict.

Notice how they only post a word or two in quotes, rather than the actual text, and fill in the blanks themselves.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hmm. Never really occurred to me that politician campaigns could borrow money as an entity. Who's responsible if it defaults?

[BjornP]

Ummmm,

Merkel: Islamist terror is 'greatest threat' to Germany

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38473936

Do a search on that story and see if you can find a quote where she said those words, because I didn't find it.

The entire speech:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland ... tlaut.html

The part the headline must be referring to:

Die schwerste Prüfung ist ohne Zweifel der islamistische Terrorismus, der auch uns Deutsche seit vielen Jahren im Visier hat. 2016 griff er uns mitten in unserem Land an: in Würzburg, in Ansbach und vor wenigen Tagen erst am Weihnachtsmarkt hier an der Gedächtniskirche in Berlin.

"The greatest challenge/trial is without a doubt the Islamist terrorism, that for many years has had us Germans in its sights/scope. (In) 2016 it caught up to us in the center of our nation: In Wurtenburg, in Ansbach and in the early days of the Christmas Fair here at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin."

Considering they translated "challlenge" correctly just below the headline, I dunno why they opted for translating "Prüfung" as "threat" rather than challenge in the headline.

[Okeefenokee]

We may never know.

[ssu]

Ummmm,

Merkel: Islamist terror is 'greatest threat' to Germany

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38473936

Do a search on that story and see if you can find a quote where she said those words, because I didn't find it.

The entire speech:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland ... tlaut.html

The part the headline must be referring to:

Die schwerste Prüfung ist ohne Zweifel der islamistische Terrorismus, der auch uns Deutsche seit vielen Jahren im Visier hat. 2016 griff er uns mitten in unserem Land an: in Würzburg, in Ansbach und vor wenigen Tagen erst am Weihnachtsmarkt hier an der Gedächtniskirche in Berlin.

"The greatest challenge/trial is without a doubt the Islamist terrorism, that for many years has had us Germans in its sights/scope. (In) 2016 it caught up to us in the center of our nation: In Wurtenburg, in Ansbach and in the early days of the Christmas Fair here at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin."

Considering they translated "challlenge" correctly just below the headline, I dunno why they opted for translating "Prüfung" as "threat" rather than challenge in the headline.

Seem people seem to have got upset with the "Facebook-fakenews" thing and are now seeing it everywhere. Yep, of course the German Chancellor's new year speech is so hard to verify.

Well, that is Merkel, and as I've said earlier, she has long since flip-flopped and acknowledged earlier that along with the migrant wave likely came IS terrorist.

For those thinking that it's fake news...

Here's from them the story from the Independent: Islamist terror most severe threat facing Germany, says Angela Merkel in New Year's message

Even RT is telling the story: Attacks by refugees ‘bitter & repulsive,’ Islamic terrorism ‘most serious test’ for Germany – Merkel

Btw, RT got Prüfing correct...

[TheReal_ND]

When was the last time Germany started sending people to the right and left?

A group of dark-skinned men walks toward the left door. All are rejected. The policeman points to the right door. Everyone looks surprised. Do not both doors lead to the forecourt? And did not they see quite a lot of people walking through the door before? What is the matter? The group turns off and tries it at the right door. There she comes through. With them, a group of three couples try to use the right door. But the policeman shook his head, stretched out his arm and pointed to the left door. There the couples mingle in the Pulk and pass without problems.

You can get in the station hall and guess: Whom will the policemen send to the left, who to the right? A single Black African? To the right. A single Arab, or someone who looks like this? To the right. A blonde without a cap? To the left. An Arab accompanied by a woman? To the left. Gradually, the scheme becomes clear: those who are not in the strict sense of the word, and not accompanied by a woman, must almost always take the right door, the others the left door. Two young men with black hair and elaborate beard haircut are rejected first left, then right.

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