Tomorrow taking place in Strasbourg (France):

Round-table event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

The Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities will hold a high-level round-table event on Monday, 25 November 2013, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Framework Convention.

It is hoped that this intensive session will provide a dynamic forum to discuss how to ensure that minority issues continue to have a high profile on the political agenda and contribute to maintaining peaceful democratic societies in Europe.

Link to the programme 
Link to the list of participants 

France will not be represented and not a word will be said about the situation of the minorities under French administration that could greatly benefit from both the FCNM and the ECRML. Sadly, instead of discussing the prioritisation of the urgencies connected to their situation, they are left dealing with how to express their frustration.

m not sure think her name is Pukkeenegak but m not sure if you write a card for them check.

Hopefully they will come on the 25th and you will see Aguta and his wife have some very funny stories.

I just happened to think it took place in many different places that are may be were remote, no kids easily forget that when officials from the city came to visit the school everyone had to be out of the classroom, standing silently on the playground as the officials were leaving after the visit with the elected locals every kid know walking right behind and doing all kinds of faces and obscene gesture while a small crowd of locals outside school are smiling and clapping hands on the French officials way out, leaving very happy to see they are so much appreciated.... with every kid knowing they are clapping the obscene gestures made in their back...keeping it quiet with a straight face. u know it was good training.
Never talked of that with the others but I guess they have had the same. Today this is gone.

what day you fly?

He's sulking since he will have to withdraw money from his bank account.... :-)))

We did but u can't win + u r late. If the guy had been of Laos descent, alright his passport would say French citizenship - Europe, describing the suspect to warn the public of dangerosity and collect information you would do what?
We even thought of another kind of security issue, let's say a small kid has disappeared and you decide to best describe the kid to collect as fast as possible information to find him, would you yes or no mention his ethnicity if it would help identify him faster?

Alright but you don't define citizenship when responding to a security crisis and describing a suspect, if you bow to pressure and give into political correctness you put lives at risk and that is just another example, it is not the first of its kind but still

u r a cheat but it doesn't work everybody agreed they bowed to political pressure and that is off limits the political playground

no no no more spin... it is a done deal

I know u r tight but :-))) no matter what you will have to give the money come on

well you lost and you will have to pay

No kidding, these are official bets all dues to be paid in Strasburg. Right now we have Bowed to political pressure 6/1, Who is the first ever French Press will grill to find the truth as to why such a terrible mistake exposing the public to a dangerous criminal was made the French President is at 10/1 Valls is at 6/1 Nobody as usual 1.1/1.

Ok I will collect my dues in Strasburg.

Eager to find the truth the question is who is going to be grilled first?

I guess the Press is going to pressure big time everybody involved in the call for witness to find the truth as to how such a mistake endangering every member of the public was made to define a suspect with a criminal record of cop killer accomplice appearing on so many surveillance cams.

Why r u? It looks very much comparable with Merah's rampage and the circumstances around the suspected military personnel and quite frankly it all depends if it is a mistake and just a mistake or if the public was deliberately abused and exposed for political motives... I know what you think but I don't know yet given he was a cop killer accomplice why they would willingly bow to political pressure now it doesn't explain why a cop killer accomplice appearing on several surveillance tape has not been identified sooner?
Your take?  how much ?

Yes I do. Why? It doesn't come to me as a surprise.

Best deal may come with a flight from Oslo to Frankfurt

Through Germany I guess - I'll have a look - Through GOH - RKV KEF - CPH but doesn't come cheap

It gives you a few days to go there given you have a plan to fly to Strasburg for the FCNM 15th anniversary, they can look for the best deal if you don't mind a couple of connections.

I don't know about that I know the Sami Nation still does since in some remote areas there are no broadband and the satellite would be costly so the radio still good.

Well they were very good to me when I first visited and ever after, you will like it.

it was about the new quotas and a change to take into account the new legislation so a stake was sold, u can find it on the website and anyway a legislation very similar applies on mainland.

Undercurrent tracks it

Seen anything new

Well I guess they got a good deal out of it even if it will make their life a little more complicated however it depends a lot of the policies in place not to mention the security ressources increase a new population engaged in mining will make mandatory but... Have no objection though the more you get the better, it is always interesting.

When do u plan to leave, do you plan a halt at GreenLand?

no a ceiling... why

I believe it should have been done, it is much better than allegations that ultimately insinuate that there is a countless number of people that can be incriminated at least suspected to read the headlines involved according to the allegations which is absolutely unacceptable when based on one isolated incident, one facebook page and one suspected headline of a paper with as far as I know a relative confidential distribution.

And the answer to that is yes... so what should have been done is ask the minute guys to come on air, no insult, no allegations, to explain themselves with two essential things people want to know given these folks have a future together, if they don't, they don't have to but if they do have a future in the same society they will have to talk and understand each other.
1)Your front page has caused a controversy, what is it that you wanted to say with these headlines?
2)Let's be honest did you ignore there was a risk of misunderstanding,? You took that risk why?
And the People will judge.

Told you, you could have had let's say another lady you heard of, Mrs Precresse instead of Mrs Taubira with the exact same headlines and what you have to ask is can you have the same common understanding of the headlines incriminated for the two ladies regardless of the photo you are looking at?

I know I heard it but it doesn't work that way

No kidding...

What do u mean by wh? Well, he was able to say a few words in Hebrew without losing any of his frenchness it should pave the way to prove that a few words in Corsu, Euskaraz and Brezhoneg  won't no more lead to any Frenchness loss...

I did I did it proves there is hope...!!!

No I haven't and m even a bit late but will try to catch up this we.

well let's see the documents all together and how we manage

May be do u have more tomorrow?

I don't know since it hasn't been part of the program as its main focus was to explain all the positive outcome to expect from the ECRML and FCNM implementation not only on the Nat Minorities but on society at large and given the situation on the economy.

U will never get through Uncle Sam's checkpoints, it won't work

:-))) don't think it will fly if you print a Provisory Scandinavian Passport....!!!

Still a lot but it depends on how much help we can get, for the Norsemen it is more difficult since the French have said in the passed and I doubt they would change that, they don't match the UN definition of a Native Nation even though their land is called Normandy it doesn't mean anything and can't therefore be on the UN list of Native Nations to be decolonised. They come from Scandinavia may be a long time ago but it is not a Nation if they don't like it they can go home. If some want to how they do that?

How did it go?

alright same time

You have it right now tell me how much though if we go for both lawsuits

I know but I bet they did it unpurpeous, only racists will connect Black with the fruit banana and the monkey thing all the others will connect for the monkey part with a very common place in French about someone very good at cutting corners to get things done and having the banana with someone upbeat to not mention literally the male state of excitement.

That's because it's in French... If u like it is rather gross and unusual in politics but close to What's up ...?  My D... u know what I mean and in that case the banana is the D... do u get it?

They will all look stupid, all of them and I think this is what it was designed for and sadly it worked.

What's for you tomorrow

I have made pretty good progress and the data returned from DC looks ok

Doubt that, I suspect they set the elements for the French politicians to fall in a trap of their own making, they will publish in a couple of days or don't know if it is a daily or weekly thing the same front page with the exact same headline but another politician photo, it won't spark anything and they gonna embarrass everybody saying the first front page was only racist for the racists since the headline was she's smart and upbeat in popular terms. Terrible people.
But terrible politicians as well, my goodness, what a bunch of dummies!
Anyway how many left you have?

No kidding, u mean of that paper the minute guys

Have they? There was something in the FT yesterday, can't believe it for a paper hardly read I'd think

I m not sure that's what it meant but....

Just wondering.

Good. When u r done do u plan to make a pit stop at Faroe?

Alright how did it go?

That's ok saw the question mark and wondered. How is the weather ?

Unless you want to change anything but that is the essence of it and what for we'd like an opinion understanding, if the law did damaged ie the collective and or the individual rights to speak.....all of the above.... it does open the door for the Court to compensate individuals and with an inquiry when it comes to evaluate the consequences of state economic policies that have damaged the local economic sectors that play key roles in sustaining the considered Native Nation or Nat Minority.

All the other countries have made the choice to make equality before the law a positive right. You don't want that belong to a Native Nation ( ie FCNM as National Minority) plays a role before the law and you don't want the law to negatively impact the collective and individual rights of a Nation or Nat Minority to speak its language, celebrate its culture and mind the underlying economy that sustain it. This is what he will expose in Oslo since everybody agreed on that at the latest Caledonia meeting.

They may... but the end game will be the Human Rights understanding of the EU Court and that is equality cannot be turned into a weapon against any Native Nation whether this Native Nation is under French administration or not. But guess what we'll have a confirmation soon when he is done with the meetings.

No point... That I don't know since from a legal point they are in the western world rather isolated to understand equality as being eventually a negative right.

I doubt he will, he's in Oslo for the next few days for meetings with law firms to check the costs. I don't know about that.

hum... no told u. There isn't any, what they have is the classic competition of interests between the Native Nations and Immigrant's interests and that confrontation, depending on economic conditions is more or less intense... u know they have a bit of a messy situation because for political gains they involve a racism dimension to it that doesn't exist instead of having an orderly debate over the Native Nations Rights, the ECRML, the FCNM and an appropriate Immigration policy on the other hand minding the knowledge Immigrants need to have of the Native Nations history and rights.

well... may be but why should you?

Due to what?

Not that I know or heard of, they don't have any.... it is all about political gains rather than any true problem with a well organised clandestine racist organisation

Alright. The chatter says it was and it looks to be another major security failure.

It's all a matter of where you are....:-)) It was Independance Day march in Warsaw and despite a call from President Komorovsky urging Poles to celebrate this day together not one against the other the outcome score wise is slightly higher than in Paris, 210 arrested, 14 or so police cars burnt down and violent clashes erupted all along between marchers some supporting Independance, others opposing the march calling them fascist... and both fighting with the police. Half of the people taken into custody are said to be foreigners mainly German leftists.
So altogether...

No idea why they do their job like that ... I guess it has to do with politics

No, I don't but will tomorrow but generally speaking if it can be connected to any far right or so called extremist organisation or individuals (keep in mind the tattoos involved to arrest some folks during Merah's rampage) Press is quick to relay it when Al Qaida or related individuals is involved, suspects IDs are withheld and no reference are made to a potential connection with extremists... We'll see

Don't think so, they have an economy in a terrible state which is pushing a wide range of people over the edge and quite frankly some may turn extremist but the overwhelming majority can't stand anymore the amount of money spent on and by politicians regardless of the economic situation and level of taxation and what is making it worse is they are regularly insulted for these views considered extremists and fascist specially when it comes to politicians wages, ordinary folks are just disgusted and given the refusal of debate about these subjects, it turns sour.

They also haven't been able to solve some very old outstanding matters regarding the native Nations and their status the result is what you saw... There are websites speaking of the Breizh regiments and how they were poorly treated during that war mainly it looks they didn't speak at all or very little french. Do u need the DNS?

I don't buy it... No idea under which theme u may find it, it is a long time ago and when I came across it I wasn't at the time looking for it, can't even remember why it ended up in my hands but m pretty sure of it was a foundry

It deserves to be checked out but given the good knowledge of the potential troublemakers and active far right extremist militants the French police has, I would be surprised they could freely set up the French President the day of an official ceremony.... that would be a major failure and looking at the recent handling of demonstrations that were not allowed, it doesn't look credible that the hostile crowd on the Champs Elysees belonged to any extreme organised clandestine fascist organisation.
Have u found it?

Not sure yet but according to what's available this morning a demonstration took place on President's Hollande way to the november 11th ceremony at the Champs Elysees, it was organised (by Red Hoods the Breizh Nation movement) to protest the lack of truth related to a French foundry (located in the east part of France) that kept selling metals to German factories to make the shrapnel ammunitions used by German artillery (Congress library has a file over that company which I recall was part of the De Wendel empire but u should check if u can access it today) for at least two years after the conflict began and the strong priority with which the Breizh regiments were sacrificed.
According to others, far right militants were responsible for the incidents that took place this morning but not quite plausible until proved otherwise.
A small city south of France may have seen a terrorist attack during the november 11th ceremony, officials were attacked during the ceremony, two had to be hospitalised suffering several knife wounds although not life threatening according to witnesses. One man arrested but his iD has not been released and no mention of far right involvement accusation, very usual under these circumstances which points to a terrorist event by default.
If u get the name of that foundry, let me know despite my efforts can't recall the exact name and location.

It is a many to many relationship. And if u had an hidden condition field?

Why is that? It shouldn't be. Not as far as I know since from Corsica to Breizh the idea that it is ok to sacrifice the Native Nations long term interests whether these interests are linguistic or cultural directly supported or not by the underlying economy has died. Once we have cleared the filings with the legal firm I don't mind having a look at that but right now the priority remains with the legal people to make sure they have all they need. But in short, there look to be an overwhelming majority of these native populations convinced the French state has never acted in their best interests, has compromised their future with policies denying them cultural and linguistic rights whose goals were to undermine the underlying economy making sure their dependency would grow. It took time but they now fully understand what has happened to them and they will sustain a long and steady fight to get the ECRML and the FCNM fully signed, ratified and implemented as the future of their kid's rights are at stake.
But guess what that's my most recent findings but I will check once the filings are over.

Don't mind... well to be honest, as long as the Breizh Nation rights will not be respected and will continue to be deprived of the FCNM protection, sporadic violence is to be expected at every challenging difficulty, the contrary would be surprising. Of course, it is sad since those engaged in these events are under extreme circumstances the state is responsible for and not only they will be punished but will receive another row of threats and the all thing will be used to justify the refusal of any protective status for the Native Nation Breizh. I mean business as usual, u know.

Why anyway?

Haven't been able to get much but it looks that the the tax proceeds recovered for the use of the local road network will be paid back to the territorial authorities managing taxable roads minus extraordinary management costs (close to 25%)  cheating them and refusing them the tax management. The Native Nation Breizh is leading the fight towards fiscal autonomy and wants to be able to manage the proceeds but wants to be able as well to decide who pays the tax and who doesn't explaining that a significant part of local taxes paid by local companies are already funding the local roads maintenance and transport infrastructures  which create a competitive distortion to the disadvantage of local companies and farmers. It looks that the transport infrastructures and roads maintenance costs included in the local taxes are not identified as such making complicated  a discount. The Breizh Nation wants to be able to manage the tax to be able to deliver free cards to the companies and farmers that have been so far the only net contributors to fund the creation of infrastructures, roads and their maintenance.

He wasn't very precise but among the shareholders of the company that should benefit from extraordinary management costs, there is the SNCF which should benefit to help fund the aging railway network.... 

That's all I got.

So what... It doesn't matter, it isn't an argument if they want say that, they do... of course we r out for the money what else... + legal team will be dealing with that kind of nasty comments if it does show up and will be added to the bill.