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France's anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader. Jean-Marie Le Pen has confirmed that the party base has been purchased by a Shanghai university. Mr Le Pen, 79, has campaigned to become president several times under the slogan "Keep France for the French". But his party faces growing financial difficulties. It has already sold its bullet-proof car on eBay. The party has a total debt of some 9m euros ($13.4m; £7m), according to French newspaper Le Monde, partly due to a poor showing in the 2007 legislative elections which meant it had to cover its own campaign costs.
France's anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader.
Jean-Marie Le Pen has confirmed that the party base has been purchased by a Shanghai university.
Mr Le Pen, 79, has campaigned to become president several times under the slogan "Keep France for the French".
But his party faces growing financial difficulties. It has already sold its bullet-proof car on eBay.
The party has a total debt of some 9m euros ($13.4m; £7m), according to French newspaper Le Monde, partly due to a poor showing in the 2007 legislative elections which meant it had to cover its own campaign costs.
But I think the beauty referred to was not so much the sale as the sale to Chinese people, ie foreigners who look distinctly non-European. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Going on the wrong track, I saw the reason: at our next scheduled stop, there was the fast train I didtched, and under its last car, a black bag covering both sides of the rail.
English talks of suicide victims, but I am thinking of those jumping ahead of trains as suicide culprits. I grumbled to myself. But this may have been an accident.
At home, I read that the driver of that fast train only noticed the corpse, s/he must have been ran over by the preceding freight train. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I am not retiring. Yet. You can't be me, I'm taken
We'll celebrate it with a bottle of Caol Ila in September... "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
I am just planning how I get from Helsinki to London, the Eurostar to Paris, and down to Aix ( I will see you in Paris, but we could travel south together- if you return after ET). You can't be me, I'm taken
But is the journey long enough to solve the world's problems? You can't be me, I'm taken
Retiring? Pish-posh. That's for old folks. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
and thanks for your many irreverent contributions to ET through the years... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Happy Birthday.
(somehow I just don't see you as the retiring type) ;-) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Joyeux Anniversaire! Hope to see you in Amsterdam at IBC. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
having watched my father, retirement looks like far too much hard work. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time - prompting a wave of excitement over who, or what, might have sent it. The signal is the most significant of its kind since radio telescopes started operating in the 1960s.
On the evening of 28th July 2008, at 21h14 local time the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system. A strong source was detected from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30 thousand light years away. It should be noted that this is not an intelligent source, i.e. it is not a source that could be considered as having been transmitted by alien intelligence. Furthermore, it is certainly not a new discovery. The electromagnetic radiation emanating from Sagittarius A is well documented and an entirely natural phenomenon. A similar signal, although of a much larger magnitude, would be received by simply pointing the telescope at the Sun.
It should be noted that this is not an intelligent source, i.e. it is not a source that could be considered as having been transmitted by alien intelligence. Furthermore, it is certainly not a new discovery. The electromagnetic radiation emanating from Sagittarius A is well documented and an entirely natural phenomenon. A similar signal, although of a much larger magnitude, would be received by simply pointing the telescope at the Sun.
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