🇫🇷 Immigrant communities across France have started rioting following France's defeat at the World Cup.

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Corsican vendetta corsa knife inscribed “ Che la mia ferita sia Mortale “ (May my wound be mortal), early 20th century.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Eternal war in the east? New paper underline current western projections

👉🏻 As the conflict with Russia continues, the Paris branch of the CEPR think-tank released last Wednesday a 460-pages report, on the subject of "rebuilding and reforming Ukraine".

🔎 The report is essentially focused on policies for Ukraine, but one passage in its introduction mention possible outcomes of the war:

🗣 [...] For example, the war can result in the fragmentation of the Russian empire into several dozen states shaped by economic or ethnic factors (Kuzio 2022). It is unclear whether these states will lean towards a democratic model or an authoritarian one.

On the other hand, Russia may turn into ‘another North Korea’ with even more repression and state control over the economy. We do not cover these alternatives but we assume that the state(s) on the eastern border of Ukraine will remain hostile to Ukraine.

In other words, future Ukraine may be similar to current Israel or South Korea security-wise.

🔗 Source (page 27)

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‘Dirty White’: Hugo Lloris — the ONLY ethnic French player — subjected to torrent of antiWhite racist abuse after World Cup defeat

“The only White man on the tram and he didn’t do his job. Fuck you, Lloris,” one user wrote

“He is the only White on the team and it’s because of him that France lost,” claimed another

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French travellers scramble ahead of Christmas weekend train strike

Some 200,000 holidaymakers in France scrambled Wednesday to book alternative travel for their Christmas holidays as the national rail operator announced major service cancellations due to a strike.

ALERT - French authorities plan to use an Artificial Intelligence or AI-assisted crowd control system to monitor people during the 2024 Paris Olympics

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What is left of an adventurer? Nothing, or so little... What remains of the smell of gunpowder or of all his actions?

All that someone can often recover of his daring is a dusty collection of masks or poisoned arrows, a few old coins, a bunch of hastily scribbled letters, three photos and, in the best of cases, a story told around a campfire.

📖 Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974), French adventurer and author

So I lived alone, without anyone to really talk to, until a breakdown in the Sahara desert six years ago.

Something had broken in my engine. And as I had no mechanic or passengers with me, I braced myself to attempt a difficult repair on my own. It was a matter of life and death for me. I barely had eight days of water to drink.

So the first night I fell asleep on the sand a thousand miles from any uninhabited land. I was much more isolated than a castaway on a raft in the middle of the ocean.

So you can imagine my surprise, at daybreak, when a funny little voice woke me up. It said: ...

"Please... Draw me a sheep!"

📖 The Little Prince (1943) — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Beauty is a promise of happiness."

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness.