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After a devastating heatwave summer for crops, Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, calls on the government to take concrete measures to support farmers and ensure their recovery. (translated)

"On veut que l'Etat prenne en charge le rebond" : après un été caniculaire, la FNSEA met la pression sur le gouvernement
L'Obs 6h

Vincent Bolloré, an influential billionaire, seeks to impose his reactionary agenda by supporting the far-right for the presidential elections, while controlling the media and orchestrating a political and cultural campaign to restore a conservative France. (translated)

Vincent Bolloré, le Super Tartuffe de la présidentielle
Doragon 7h

@LeVraiMoha Alors que la vrai réponde de puriste c’est que ni l’un ni l’autre n’a découvert l’Amérique vu que y’avait déjà des gens la bas #Histoire #Culture #Débat

NOS 7h

After more than forty years, Germany is closing the Russian House in Berlin due to indications of espionage activities, despite the institution's defense that it is functioning solely as a cultural center. (translated)

Russisch 'spionagehuis' in hart van Berlijn moet dicht: 'We waren te mild'

Sur l'intransigeance des dévots et pourquoi il ne faut jamais rien leur céder, ni les prendre pour des démocrates. Vous aurez toujours des frères ou des soeurs musulmanes pour défendre le voile, y compris des enfants (ici en Autriche les moins de 14 ans). Avec les islamistes il n'y a jamais aucun compromis car ils s'arrogent des "droits", les transforment en des impératifs pour les autres, au nom de (nos) droits humains, de la liberté de conscience, de la différence culturelle, de la lutte contre les discriminations ou que sais-je. Les dévots ne sont pas raisonnables. #Liberté #DroitsHumains #Islamisme

Germany has decided to close the Russian House in Berlin, a cultural center accused of being used as a cover for espionage, in response to suspicions regarding Russia following a drone attack on Leipzig airport. (translated)

"Une magnifique couverture pour l'espionnage": pourquoi l'Allemagne veut fermer la Maison russe de Berlin

🚨 ALERTE ! Le monde va bientôt s’arrêter de tourner : le 19 novembre 2026 pourrait devenir le jeudi le moins productif de l’histoire avec la sortie de GTA 6 😭 Selon les estimations, 3,5 millions de personnes pourraient poser un congé pour y jouer, avec jusqu’à 1 milliard de dollars de manque à gagner pour les entreprises américaines en seulement 24 heures… #GTA6 #JeuxVidéo #CultureGaming

Closing the 2026 EU Arctic Forum our message is crystal clear: The #Arctic is not “out there”, it is our home – a place of communities, cultures, knowledge, innovation, opportunity and responsibility. The discussions over the past two days and the voices of those who live in https://t.co/c72QNYWZ4e #Arctic #EUArcticForum #ClimateAction #EU

Les salariés et journalistes de Radio France défendent l'honneur du service public. Il est à craindre que, comme à France Culture, les chefferies acquises à l'idée de la victoire de Le Pen donnent la priorité à la protection de leurs carrières. #RadioFrance #ServicePublic #LibertéDeLaPresse

The employees and journalists of France Inter defend the honor of public service. It is to be feared that, as at France Culture, the leaderships committed to the idea of Le Pen's victory will prioritize the protection of their careers. (translated)

The Minister of Culture, Catherine Pégard, expressed her delight at the exhibition of the Bayeux tapestry at the British Museum, highlighting its symbolic importance at a time when the shadow of Brexit weighs on relations between France and England. (translated)

Tapisserie de Bayeux à Londres : "C'est un nouvel épisode de notre histoire", se réjouit la ministre de la Culture
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French agricultural fairs are transforming into cultural festivals by incorporating music into their programming in order to attract a younger audience and adapt to changing consumption patterns. (translated)

Les foires agricoles vont-elles devenir les nouveaux festivals ?
Impact 21h

🚨🇫🇷 FLASH LE NOUVEAU MAIRE RN DE CARPENTRAS SUPPRIME ET RÉDUIT LES SUBVENTIONS DE PLUSIEURS ASSOCIATIONS, NOTAMMENT DANS LE SPORT, LA CULTURE, LE LOGEMENT SOCIAL ET LES DROITS DES FEMMES ❌ Élu il y a à peine quelques mois, Hervé de Lépinau a fortement réduit et supprimé plusieurs aides municipales accordées à des associations de Carpentras, au nom des économies et d’un recentrage de la commune sur ses compétences. 👉 Le Planning familial voit sa subvention passer de 3 000 € à 0 €, une première en Vaucluse. L’association agit notamment dans l’accès à la contraception et à l’IVG, l’éducation à la sexualité, l’information, la prévention et l’accompagnement des femmes. Le maire assume aussi une dimension politique à cette suppression, reprochant notamment à l’association ses prises de position contre le RN. Fervent catholique, Hervé de Lépinau avait comparé en 2020 l’avortement à un "génocide", aux "crimes de Daesh" et à la Shoah. 👉 Ironie de l’histoire : après que la mairie a coupé les vivres au Planning familial en supprimant ses 3 000 €, l’association a lancé un appel aux dons et récupéré l’équivalent de cette somme en seulement 24 heures. 👉 Le BMX Carpentras perd 35 000 € de subvention. Fondé en 1985, ce club sportif consacré au BMX accueille des pratiquants dès le plus jeune âge, des enfants aux adultes, et organise également des compétitions officielles. 👉 "Carpentras fait son cinéma" perd 59 000 €. Après six éditions, ce festival faisait participer les habitants aux tournages et avait accueilli plus de 5 000 personnes lors de ses spectacles et cérémonies. La suppression de la subvention a conduit à la non-reconduction du festival. L’association affirme avoir appris la décision par la presse. 👉 Les Guinguettes de l’Auzon, qui attiraient environ 5 000 spectateurs chaque année, perdent également le soutien de la mairie. La municipalité évoque désormais une réflexion autour d’une nouvelle programmation estivale sur les berges. 👉 La compagnie résidente Archibald Caramantran voit elle aussi son aide tomber à 0 €. Elle pourrait désormais être cantonnée au carnaval et sa participation aux Noëls insolites n’est plus garantie. 👉 Soligone AIVS, une agence immobilière à vocation sociale qui facilite notamment l’accès au logement des ménages modestes, perd 3 500 €. 👉 La radio associative Territoire Ventoux FM perd également 1 700 €. ➡️ AU TOTAL, LES AIDES CONSACRÉES À LA CULTURE BAISSENT DE 31 %. Dans le même temps, la nouvelle majorité RN a acté le recrutement de 11 policiers municipaux et 11 ASVP. Pour financer ces recrutements, Hervé de Lépinau assume des "vases communicants" : les 700 000 € jusque-là consacrés au 'Big Bang', un budget participatif permettant aux habitants de proposer et de financer des projets pour leur ville, seront supprimés puis réorientés vers la sécurité municipale. (Le Dauphiné Libéré / Le Parisien / AFP / RTL / La Dépêche / ministère de l’Intérieur / Carpentras fait son cinéma) #Carpentras #DroitsDesFemmes #Culture

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Sandfeen 21h

“Socialism Was Good in Theory” That sentence assumes the theory was never seriously challenged. It was. Long before the Soviet Union existed, before Lenin seized power, and before socialism had been tested on a national scale, major thinkers were already attacking its foundations—from very different directions. Five of them stand out. Tocqueville: Equality Can Become Servitude In 1848, Alexis de Tocqueville drew a sharp distinction between democracy and socialism. Both spoke about equality. But Tocqueville believed they pursued it in fundamentally different ways. Democracy, in his view, sought equality while preserving individual freedom. Socialism risked achieving equality by expanding the power of the state over the individual. His warning was essentially this: equality is not automatically liberty. A society can pursue equality so aggressively that it begins sacrificing the independence that makes political freedom meaningful. Bastiat: Follow Where Redistribution Leads Two years later, Frédéric Bastiat attacked socialism from a different direction. His question was deceptively simple: What happens when the state acquires the authority to take from some people and give to others in the name of justice? Bastiat called this “legal plunder.” His concern was not merely that redistribution might be expensive. It was that once government becomes the instrument through which competing groups obtain benefits from one another, politics can turn into a permanent struggle over who controls the machinery of redistribution. The problem, therefore, wasn’t simply how much the state redistributed. It was the principle that made redistribution legitimate in the first place. (bastiat.org⁠) Nietzsche: Equality Can Become Resentment Nietzsche approached socialism neither as an economist nor as a constitutional theorist. He attacked its psychology. He saw modern egalitarian movements as part of a much older moral impulse: resentment toward exceptional individuals and suspicion of strength, ambition and hierarchy. For Nietzsche, the danger was not simply that everyone might become economically equal. It was that a culture could begin treating excellence itself as something morally suspect. The goal would cease to be lifting people upward. It would become bringing the exceptional downward. Böhm-Bawerk: Challenge the Economics Then came Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. In 1896, he turned his attention specifically toward Marx’s economic system. His criticism was not primarily moral or political. It was technical. Böhm-Bawerk argued that Marx’s theory of value did not adequately explain how the labor values developed in Capital could be reconciled with the actual prices Marx subsequently needed to explain. In other words, he attacked socialism where it claimed to possess a scientific economic foundation. The argument became one of the central criticisms of Marxian economics and helped launch a debate that would continue for generations. Mises: The Calculation Problem Then, in 1920, Ludwig von Mises attacked an even more fundamental question: Even if socialism is morally desirable, how would a socialist economy actually know what to produce? A functioning economy has millions of competing uses for scarce resources. Build a bridge or a hospital? Use steel here or there? Produce more machinery or more consumer goods? Under private ownership and markets, prices for capital goods provide information about relative scarcity and opportunity costs. Mises argued that abolishing private ownership of the means of production also removes the genuine market prices necessary for rational economic calculation. The problem wasn’t simply that socialist planners might make bad decisions. It was that the system deprived them of the very economic signals required to systematically compare those decisions. (Mises Institute⁠) And that was the sequence. Tocqueville challenged the political premise. Bastiat challenged the moral and legal mechanism of redistribution. Nietzsche challenged the psychology behind egalitarianism. Böhm-Bawerk challenged Marx’s economic theory. Mises challenged the possibility of rational central economic calculation. Five different thinkers. Five different objections. And all of them came before the Soviet Union had demonstrated what large-scale socialist government would actually look like. So “socialism was good in theory, but bad in practice” is not an argument. It is a historical claim that requires you to explain why these theoretical objections were wrong. The interesting question isn’t whether socialism had critics. It did. The interesting question is whether socialism ever adequately answered them” - ChatGPT

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On the eve of the 2026 school year, Russian strikes have destroyed more than 1.2 million Ukrainian textbooks, while in the occupied territories, Moscow is imposing educational russification and erasing Ukrainian cultural identity. (translated)

Rentrée scolaire 2026 : Des manuels en cendres au « lavage de cerveau », la Russie cible les écoliers ukrainiens

It is such sadness. France Inter after France Culture: the colonization by the fascists has begun. It shows that the war waged by them against public service has paid off. The leaders hope to remain in office after Le Pen's victory, which they believe in... like in (translated)

Influencers are not the new intellectuals, but new reality TV contenders. When politicians manipulate them to influence the youth on sensitive topics, this culture of emptiness can turn very badly... (translated)

If our school is going through a deep crisis, it is primarily because its mission has ultimately been forgotten: only the work of transmission allows a child to receive the knowledge, the culture through which they can become free and fulfill their own life. This is what... (translated)

I prefer a young person with a vocational diploma or a professional baccalaureate and a job at the end, rather than a master's degree ending with unemployment. I propose apprenticeship from the age of 14. I want a cultural revolution for schools: to enhance the professional path and restore its freedom. (translated)

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Japan is relaxing its rules on working hours, allowing up to 100 overtime hours per month, raising concerns about a return to the culture of overwork. (translated)

Jusqu'à 100 heures supplémentaires par mois: le Japon assouplit les règles sur le temps de travail, au risque de revenir à une culture du surmenage et des journées marathon