Archive for France Inter
what the whale?! [“whales eat carbon, not fish”]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags air pollution, carbon capture, carbon tax, climate change, CO2, France Inter, polluters, sea, UN Environment, United Nations, whales on February 21, 2021 by xi'an
comparison n’est pas raison [w/o statistics]
Posted in Statistics with tags France Inter, French police, French politics, ID check, Insoumis, Minority Report, national public radio, statistic on December 2, 2020 by xi'an
On the French public radio this morn’, while having my post-run breakfast, I heard a (lengthy) interview where the Parliament (insoumis) deputy François Ruffin argued about the frequent and biased ID checks by the French police, before stating there was no data about this:
“…la place du contrôle d’identité dans la police française. Quand on compare à l’international, elle procède à beaucoup plus de contrôles d’identité, encore plus sur les minorités que les pays qui nous entourent...” [the role of ID checks in the French police is much more present than in neighbouring countries, especially against minorities]
“…il n’y a aucune statistique du nombre de contrôles d’identité effectués…” [there exist no statistic on the number of ID checks]
feu rouge
Posted in pictures with tags 1962, cross-words, Czechoslovakia, destalinisation, France Inter, French, mots-croisés, Prague, pun, Stalin, statue on February 8, 2020 by xi'an
fake maths
Posted in Statistics with tags best science images of the year, France Inter, getty images, maths, national public radio, pedagogy on December 3, 2019 by xi'an
quote of the year
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Algeria independence war, anti-semitism, apology of war crimes, European Parliament, extreme-right, France Inter, Front National, Jean-Marie le Pen, quotes, racism on October 19, 2019 by xi'an
“J’ai eu une vie assez droite, je ne me suis jamais conduit comme un salaud” [I have lived a rather righteous life, I never behaved like a bastard]
Jean-Marie le Pen [condemned for apology of war crimes (1969), contestation of crimes against humanity (2009), Holocaust denial (1988, 2006), antisemitism (1986), racial hatred (2005, 2008), provocation to discrimination against Muslims (2004, 2006) and Roma (2017), and insults (1993, 1998, 2018), demoted of his European parliamentary immunity (1997), suspended from the European parliament for assault (2000), suspected of misappropriation of public funds (2019) and of torture in Algeria, founder of the extreme-right Front National (1972), &tc., &tc., speaking on France Inter]
