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Anonymous ID: cddf2d Oct. 13, 2018, 2:24 p.m. No.3466652   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6667 >>6671 >>6714 >>7054 >>7302

Macron popularity plummets at home as he pushes globalism on world stage

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has presented himself as the international leader defending multilateralism and globalism against the rising forces of nationalism – but at home he is facing a bleaker political outlook and plummeting poll numbers.

 

The dashing Frenchmen ran for the presidency in 2017 on a platform of pragmatic centrism, mixed with a dash of globalism amid a wave of nationalism sweeping through the continent. His comfortable victory over the nationalist Marine Le Pen was greeted with relief and joy by those concerned by the populist wave.

 

He was soon hailed as an unofficial leader of Europe, and even the world. As recently as April, Politico called him the “new leader of the free world.” Macron appeared to embrace that mantle as he came to the U.S. and made a fiery speech to Congress warning against nationalism and calling for an embrace of multilateralism and international cooperation.

“We will not let the rampaging work of extreme nationalism shake a world full of hopes for greater prosperity,” he told Congress.

 

Last month, he was at the United Nations General Assembly, castigating the same nationalist forces – which was widely seen as a swipe at President Trump as he slammed a unilateralist approach that entails "a certain lawlessness where everyone pursues their own interests."

 

“I will never stop upholding the principle of sovereignty even in the face of a certain nationalism, which we’re seeing today, brandishing sovereignty as a way of attacking others," he said just hours after Trump addressed the assembly.

But back home things look extremely shaky. His approval ratings have dived as low as 29 percent. Last month he was dealt a further blow when Gerard Collomb, the interior minister, resigned after having attacked Macron’s government for a “lack of humility."

Some of Macron’s unpopularity can be put down to his larger reputation as a narcissist obsessed with power and image. A number of politically awkward viral moments – including him recently lecturing an out-of-work gardener to look harder for a job – have hardened that image

 

“Less than 30 percent, according to the most recent polls, have a favorable opinion of him and half of the those who disapprove of him are very disapproving,” Ezra Suleiman, professor of politics at Princeton University, told Fox News. ”Those who have soured on him find him arrogant, didactic and not concerned with their problems.”

He has also faced difficulty in walking a fine line on immigration, trying to solve a continuing European migration crisis without alienating left-wing support for his broader agenda. France's parliament approved a bill in August that increases the time migrants can be detained, and also shortened application deadlines for asylum claims. It was opposed by some left-wing lawmakers, who decried it as inhumane while some on the right said it did not go far enough to deal with the migration crisis.

 

France’s left-wing has also been enraged by Macron’s tougher stance on labor unions, who he has sought to rein in as part of his efforts to boost the lagging French economy. He recently announced that the next budget will include a new tax cut, which Politico reported will be worth as much as €26 billion ($30 billion) for workers and employers, as part of an effort to boost those approval numbers and the economy.

 

“The left views him as too close to big business interests in France at the expense of ordinary French workers. On the right, he is a globalist politician who does little to defend France’s borders, French interests and is seen as as somebody who doesn’t understand concerns of the French people at a time of tremendous change and upheaval,” Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News.

 

Gardiner also said that Macron’s projection of himself as the leader of the free world was “ludicrous” when contrasted with his own unpopularity at home.

 

“This is a president who cannot lead his own people let alone lead the globe. Macron is somebody who delivers big soaring speeches on the world stage without any foundation domestically. The reality is that France continues to be a country in decline and Macron is a symbol of that decline,” he said.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/macron-popularity-plummets-at-home-as-he-pushes-globalism-on-world-stage

 

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Anonymous ID: cddf2d Oct. 13, 2018, 2:38 p.m. No.3466755   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6794 >>6880

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'Vampire' child discovered buried in 5th century Italian cemetery

 

The remains of a 10-year-old biting on a stone have been unearthed by archaeologists in a fifth century Italian cemetery, evidence suggesting a “vampire burial” to prevent the child’s return from the dead.

 

In northern Italy, where the discovery was made, they are calling it the “Vampire of Lugnano."

 

"I've never seen anything like it. It's extremely eerie and weird," said University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren, who has overseen archaeological excavations at the site since 1987.

 

Evidence collected from the bones suggest the child was infected with malaria at the time it died, The Independent reported.

 

The ritual burial is thought to be a way to prevent the child from returning to spread the disease.

 

The remains are the latest unusual discovery to emerge from the Cemetery of Children, a site containing dozens of children’s bodies and evidence of witchcraft including toad bones, raven talons and bronze cauldrons, according to the paper. The cemetery was previously believed to only hold babies, toddlers and unborn fetuses.

 

"Given the age of this child and its unique deposition, with the stone placed within his or her mouth, it represents, at the moment, an anomaly within an already abnormal cemetery," said David Pickel, a doctoral student at Stanford who is the excavation director.

 

He added, "This just further highlights how unique the infant — or now, rather, child — cemetery at Lugnano is."

 

Although the 10-year-old's remains have not yet undergone DNA testing, the child had an abscessed tooth — a side effect of malaria — that suggests he or she may also have fallen victim to the disease, University of Arizona bioarchaeologist Jordan Wilson said.

The child was one of five new burials uncovered at the cemetery over the summer.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/science/vampire-child-discovered-buried-in-5th-century-italian-cemetery