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The Pope denounces the French assimilation model, as it "causes ghettos, hostility and intolerance"
On Saturday morning, Pope Francis met in Marseille with a group of members of SOS Mediterranée, an NGO that is responsible for helping migrants who shipwreck while trying to cross the Mediterranean.. One of them gave him a child's life jacket: “What we wanted was to invite him to our (rescue) boat, but since he cannot come, we have brought him the boat through this symbolic object: a vest that has saved his life.” of many babies. “It was last used just a few weeks ago.”
The meeting, which took place in the morning, illustrates well the Pope's two-day visit to Marseille and the substance of his message: in favor of immigration and very critical of Europe, which is now debating what to do with the tens of thousands of without papers that have arrived in just a few days to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Francisco already said it on Friday, having just landed, and this Saturday he reiterated it: People who “risk their lives at sea do not invade, they seek shelter, they seek life,” he said in a speech at the Palacio del Faro with which he closed the Mediterranean meetings, which have brought together bishops and faithful these days. “There is a cry that resonates and turns Mare Nostrum into Mare Mortum,” he said in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The visit was short, but the Pontiff's message was forceful and with a lot of political content.. Addressed to Europe, which does not agree on how to distribute the illegal immigrants arriving in Lampedusa; to the far-right parties that wave the flag of fear of foreigners; to those who think that migrants are going to take away their privileges: “The words invasion and emergency feed people's fears,” recalled the Pope, who denounced this “alarmist propaganda.”
“Hello Marseille, hello France”: this is how his mass began in the afternoon, closing his trip, before tens of thousands of people at the Velodrome, the stadium where Olympique de Marseille plays.. It was held under strong security measures, with more than 5,000 agents on the streets. In the homily, the Pope warned that European society “can fall ill” into “cynicism, disenchantment, resignation, uncertainty.”
Evening criticism of France
The Pontiff, who had insisted that he was traveling “to Marseille, but not to France”, hinted at a criticism of the country, although without explicitly citing him, when he denounced the assimilation model it has.. This “does not take differences into account, is rigid in its paradigms, makes the idea prevail over reality” and also “compromises the future, increasing distances, causing ghettos, hostility and intolerance,” Francis had said in the morning.
This is the scheme that France follows, where diverse cultures and religions coexist (there are 10% Muslims), but where the principle of secularism governs: the non-interference of religion in the functioning of society.. For this reason, religious signs are not allowed in schools, for example. To preserve it, the Government has just banned access to classes with an abaya, the typical female tunic in some Muslim countries.. The measure has been controversial, as some believe that it discriminates against students of this religion.
Pope Francis is received by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Pharo Palace, in Marseille EFE
France “has nothing to be ashamed of, because it has always been a country of welcome and integration,” had defended Emmanuel Macron, who met privately with the Pope.. Focused on giving the Pontiff a warm welcome (he gave him two books and they walked arm in arm), the meeting lasted half an hour and both talked above all about the migration issue and also “about the common challenges” that Europe faces, according to sources close to the Pope. president. The Pope thanked Paris for its efforts to fight human trafficking and provide “human solutions.”
Macron's presence at the mass was highly criticized, as part of the opposition believes that it is contrary to the principle of secularism. From the Elysée they insisted that he attended the religious event as head of state, not as a Catholic. Macron, who is baptized but has never shown a religious belief, has already met Pope Francis four times since he became president.. He was already at the funeral of former president Jacques Chirac and has also gone to synagogues and events on the occasion of Ramadan.
After his homily, Francis was baptized “as a Marseille,” said Archbishop Jean-Marc Aveline. In this enclave, one of the most multicultural cities in France (a “crucible of hope”) and where a third of the population is Muslim, he asked to fight “against the epidemic of indifference”: “Our metropolitan lives, and so many European countries where different cultures and religions coexist, they are a great challenge against exacerbations and individualism, against selfishness that produces loneliness and suffering,” he said.. Francis left the Velodrome to a standing ovation from those in attendance and shouts of “Papa Francesco.”
OSIRIS-REx mission: A "time capsule" with 250 grams of the asteroid Bennu will land today in the Utah desert
There is a place in the middle of the Utah desert, in the US, with unusual activity this Sunday. The reason? The imminent arrival to Earth of a true scientific treasure, equivalent to a time capsule. It is expected that around 5 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) a capsule will land with a quarter of a kilo of material from Bennu, an asteroid about 500 meters in diameter whose composition will be able to be analyzed in detail with the instruments of terrestrial laboratories to investigate at the origin of our solar system.
The samples have been collected by the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx, which after a seven-year adventure, culminates today the mission with an exciting and complex landing before which NASA researchers hold their breath.
“It is the first time that the US is going to bring samples collected from an asteroid to Earth,” says Lucas Paganini, a NASA planetary scientist and one of the members of the team deployed at the US Army base Dugway, in a videoconference interview. a military testing ground near Salt Lake City.
So far only the Japanese have managed to bring material from one of these celestial bodies to Earth, through the robotic mission Hayabusa 2, which in December 2020 brought 5.4 grams of rocks and dust from the asteroid Ryugu to our planet.. The pioneer was the eventful Hayabusa 1 mission, which in 2010 became the first probe to bring particles from an asteroid to Earth for analysis.. But due to various technical problems, instead of obtaining several grams of dust, it brought less than a milligram of particles that were also contaminated by material from the ship itself.
“The requirement of the OSIRIS-REx mission was that it bring 60 grams of Bennu, we know that it has collected 250 grams and it will be the largest sample brought back from an asteroid,” says Paganini, who joined NASA in 2010 after studying Engineering. Electronics and Telecommunications at the University of Mendoza and a doctorate at the University of Freiburg.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took off on September 8, 2016 towards the asteroid Bennu, which it arrived two years later, in August 2018.. He then spent another two studying it, scanning it and making a map that helped scientists locate the place where the spacecraft was to take the samples, which it captured on October 20, 2020.
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This is the new space race: bringing extraterrestrial rocks to Earth
In the environment of the military base, says this Argentine researcher who joined NASA in 2010, there is a lot of emotion: “We are very excited and it is a joy to be here and share this Sunday with people the arrival of the capsule with the samples from Bennu,” says this scientist, who will participate in the Spanish broadcast of the complicated landing of the capsule.
The interview with Lucas Paganini takes place on Friday. It is cold in the Utah desert, about eight degrees, and although higher temperatures are expected this Sunday, this Argentine scientist explains that regardless of the weather, the capsule will land this Sunday.
It is expected that at 12:42 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time), when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about 102,000 kilometers from Earth, it will release the capsule.. About 20 minutes after landing the container with the samples on the Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft will turn on its engines to divert its trajectory and begin a new mission, called OSIRIS-APEX (OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer) to explore the asteroid Apophis, to the which will arrive in 2029. Meanwhile, the capsule with the samples will continue on its way to Earth.
“It will descend ballistically, and once it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, it will take between 13 and 15 minutes to land.”. Through a parachute system it will reduce its speed, as it will travel at more than 40,000 kilometers per hour,” he details.
Specifically, the capsule will enter the Earth's atmosphere at 44,500 kilometers per hour four hours after being released from the spacecraft.. NASA expects this critical phase to occur at 4:42 p.m. and is expected to land 13 minutes later.. The area of the desert in which the capsule will fall comprises an ellipse of about 60 kilometers by 15 kilometers: “There have been many previous studies and calculations, and the mission has been rehearsed a lot, so although the possibilities of error are never zero, they are very low,” he says.
The decisive moment and therefore the most complicated phase will be the release of the parachutes so that the capsule decelerates: “If they did not release, the safety of the capsule could be compromised because it would be a very strong landing that could damage it,” he warns.. The capsule, adds Paganini, “has a special heat shield that allows the samples to be maintained at a stable temperature” and not be altered during re-entry into the atmosphere.
Recreation of one of the parachutes that will be deployed during the landing of the capsule
“We know that the capsule contains pristine material and now we are going to be able to study it with the high-precision instruments that we have in laboratories on Earth but that we cannot have on spacecraft,” says the NASA researcher.
Therefore, the treatment given to the container once it lands is essential to keep the samples in perfect condition.. Around a hundred people and two helicopters are part of the deployment to recover the capsule and broadcast its arrival.. The sample rescue operation will begin with rapid action to recover them as soon as possible and reduce the chances of the container being contaminated upon contact with the earth's surface.. Military and NASA personnel will place the capsule in a metal box and wrap it in several sheets of a non-reactive plastic material first, and then in a tarp.
A harness will then be placed over the box to secure it to a cable attached to a helicopter, which will fly it to a mobile clean room at the Utah base to check that it is in good condition.. In this clean room they will open the capsule, remove the container with the sample and prepare it so that on Monday it will be transferred to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, which will be where most of the samples will be kept.
NASA's plan, says Paganini, is that 25% of the material will be distributed among the 233 scientists on the mission.. On the other hand, the Canadian Space Agency will keep 4% and the Japanese agency, JAXA, will be given 0.5%.. A small portion of the sample will also be stored in White Sands, New Mexico, for safekeeping.. The rest, approximately 70%, “will be preserved for posterity, for when better instruments become available and for future scientists to study,” says Paganini.
Why is it so important to study asteroids? “They are fossils or time capsules, the remains of the formation of planets and moons that took place 4.6 billion years ago.. These challenges allow us to understand how they were formed and in addition, we have theories that maintain that asteroids or comets could have brought to Earth the essential elements for the beginning of life, such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen or even water,” says this scientist. from NASA.
The other important aspect, he adds, is planetary defense: “The study of these components allows us to better understand their composition in the face of possible asteroids that may have a dangerous course for Earth,” he points out.
Yolanda Díaz ignores Iglesias' criticism for "destroying Unidas Podemos" and asks her people for "serenity"
Yolanda Díaz resumes the construction of her “country project” through Sumar despite interference and criticism from various parties in the space. The second vice president of the acting Government this Saturday demanded “serenity” from her people with the aim of, once the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo passed, to work on the formation of a new left-wing Executive.
Díaz's claim was not coincidental, since the pressure from Podemos and Izquierda Unida, which demand greater weight in organic decision-making, has increased in recent days. Early this Saturday, Pablo Iglesias accused the second vice president of “destroying Unidas Podemos” and cornering the parties that make it up.
“He has ignored the primaries and the mechanisms of internal democracy, he has despised the parties to finally form a party and he has obtained a mediocre electoral result,” the former Podemos leader accused Díaz.
Some words that Díaz ignores and, in a veiled way, discredits by boasting that thanks to the results obtained on June 23, the left can once again articulate a new mandate in La Moncloa. “Sumar has more future than ever,” stressed the leader of the space to harangue her people and put aside the accusations coming from the two main parties that make up the conglomerate.
The internal tension reached a new level this Friday, when IU, which to date had kept a low profile in its requests to Díaz, demanded to “democratize” decision-making in Sumar.. In this sense, Alberto Garzón himself, federal coordinator of IU, admitted that the campaign spokespersons “were appointed without dialogue” and that those of Congress were distributed “unilaterally”, without taking into account all the voices in the space.
However, it seems that Díaz does not enter this battle. At an event held in Madrid this Saturday in order to resume internal work at Sumar after the electoral and summer break, the second vice president asked her people for “proposals, serenity and common sense” to face the coming weeks, keys to training of a new left-wing government.
Likewise, he called for lowering the decibels and, without citing any specific politician or party, he demanded to focus efforts on improving people's lives: “Politics cannot be a problem,” he considered.
Fernando Alonso, with a brilliant response to the complaints against his team: "You have thrown me to the lions"
The day before he had predicted that it was not the ideal layout for Aston Martin, but the engine, turbo, MGU-K and MGU-H updates offered good results for Fernando Alonso in Suzuka. The eighth place at the finish line left the Asturian satisfied, the protagonist of an excellent start and eighth at the finish line after a Sunday where his AMR23 performed “better than expected”. However, the two-time world champion was quite critical of the strategy of his engineers, who were more attentive to Yuki Tsunoda than to the podium candidates..
“I think they called me too soon, to cover Yuki. Maybe today our race was not with him, but with Ferrari and Mercedes,” analyzed the fourth place finisher in the World Championship.. In fact, during one of the moments in which he was able to squeeze out the undercut, Alonso went one second faster per lap than Lando Norris, second at the finish line.. And in the final stretch, even though after Lance Stroll's retirement he had been warned to avoid the slopes, he lapped around 1:37, a pace only within the reach of Max Verstappen..
Aston Martin's strategy followed the first of the projections advanced by Pirelli before the traffic light went out: soft – hard – hard. “I think that after our first stop, unlike McLaren and Ferrari, having another two stints with the hard ones, we surely could have finished sixth or seventh,” warned Fernando, who also had George Russell's Mercedes under his radar..
“A difficult spiral”
Without wanting to get into controversy, Mike Krack praised the consistent driving of his leader, who had “taken home” four “very useful” points.. “Realistically, taking into account our overall performance throughout the weekend, we have achieved the best result with Fernando,” argued the main team of the Silverstone team.
The truth is that Alonso's discomfort with his engineers had already been evident in the middle of his career.. “You have thrown me to the lions by stopping so soon. Incredible,” lamented the man from Oviedo on the radio.. A few minutes later, his complaints focused on the top speed of his car: “They leave me behind on the straights.”. Think something!” According to official F1 measurements, Alonso was fifteenth in the first sector (277 km/h), sixteenth in the second sector (302 km/h) and thirteenth at the finish line (260 km/h). h).
That deficit still stung Alonso when he spoke to the press in the Sukuza mixed zone. “We got into a difficult spiral, with a lot of traffic, to which we must add our lack of top speed. Even when we open our DRS the car in front escapes us. So when we encounter traffic the race becomes quite complicated,” he analyzed..
Even with a 24-point margin over Carlos Sainz in the World Championship, Alonso will have to maintain his form in the remaining six races, where perhaps Alpine will also join the fight. Relegated to the fight for the middle zone, one of the factors that can make the difference will be the skill in the exits. Like this Sunday in Sukuza, when before the first corner he took advantage of a touch between Sergio Pérez and Lewis Hamilton to gain four places with the soft tires. “It wasn't bad,” he joked on the radio.
“The start, from tenth to sixth, was obviously very good,” the Asturian later acknowledged. Just a month ago, during the Belgian GP, Alonso went from fifth to third on the grid with astonishing ease. And on July 9, he also gained two places at the start of the British GP.
The last of Prigozhin, before his grave: "I fought in Bakhmut and I will return to the front to fight for Wagner"
The Kremlin has tried to make us forget Evgeny Prigozhin, who died a month ago today. But at the Porokhovskoye cemetery the founder of the Wagner mercenary group is the most popular tenant.. Already at the entrance they have placed arrows so that the got
The Pope denounces the French assimilation model, as it "causes ghettos, hostility and intolerance"
On Saturday morning, Pope Francis met in Marseille with a group of members of SOS Mediterranée, an NGO that is responsible for helping migrants who shipwreck while trying to cross the Mediterranean.. One of them gave him a child's life jacket: “What we wanted was to invite him to our (rescue) boat, but since he cannot come, we have brought him the boat through this symbolic object: a vest that has saved his life.” of many babies. “It was last used just a few weeks ago.”
The meeting, which took place in the morning, illustrates well the Pope's two-day visit to Marseille and the substance of his message: in favor of immigration and very critical of Europe, which is now debating what to do with the tens of thousands of without papers that have arrived in just a few days to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Francisco already said it on Friday, having just landed, and this Saturday he reiterated it: People who “risk their lives at sea do not invade, they seek shelter, they seek life,” he said in a speech at the Palacio del Faro with which he closed the Mediterranean meetings, which have brought together bishops and faithful these days. “There is a cry that resonates and turns Mare Nostrum into Mare Mortum,” he said in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The visit was short, but the Pontiff's message was forceful and with a lot of political content.. Addressed to Europe, which does not agree on how to distribute the illegal immigrants arriving in Lampedusa; to the far-right parties that wave the flag of fear of foreigners; to those who think that migrants are going to take away their privileges: “The words invasion and emergency feed people's fears,” recalled the Pope, who denounced this “alarmist propaganda.”
“Hello Marseille, hello France”: this is how his mass began in the afternoon, closing his trip, before tens of thousands of people at the Velodrome, the stadium where Olympique de Marseille plays.. It was held under strong security measures, with more than 5,000 agents on the streets. In the homily, the Pope warned that European society “can fall ill” into “cynicism, disenchantment, resignation, uncertainty.”
Evening criticism of France
The Pontiff, who had insisted that he was traveling “to Marseille, but not to France”, hinted at a criticism of the country, although without explicitly citing him, when he denounced the assimilation model it has.. This “does not take differences into account, is rigid in its paradigms, makes the idea prevail over reality” and also “compromises the future, increasing distances, causing ghettos, hostility and intolerance,” Francis had said in the morning.
This is the scheme that France follows, where diverse cultures and religions coexist (there are 10% Muslims), but where the principle of secularism governs: the non-interference of religion in the functioning of society.. For this reason, religious signs are not allowed in schools, for example. To preserve it, the Government has just banned access to classes with an abaya, the typical female tunic in some Muslim countries.. The measure has been controversial, as some believe that it discriminates against students of this religion.
Pope Francis is received by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Pharo Palace, in Marseille EFE
France “has nothing to be ashamed of, because it has always been a country of welcome and integration,” had defended Emmanuel Macron, who met privately with the Pope.. Focused on giving the Pontiff a warm welcome (he gave him two books and they walked arm in arm), the meeting lasted half an hour and both talked above all about the migration issue and also “about the common challenges” that Europe faces, according to sources close to the Pope. president. The Pope thanked Paris for its efforts to fight human trafficking and provide “human solutions.”
Macron's presence at the mass was highly criticized, as part of the opposition believes that it is contrary to the principle of secularism. From the Elysée they insisted that he attended the religious event as head of state, not as a Catholic. Macron, who is baptized but has never shown a religious belief, has already met Pope Francis four times since he became president.. He was already at the funeral of former president Jacques Chirac and has also gone to synagogues and events on the occasion of Ramadan.
After his homily, Francis was baptized “as a Marseille,” said Archbishop Jean-Marc Aveline. In this enclave, one of the most multicultural cities in France (a “crucible of hope”) and where a third of the population is Muslim, he asked to fight “against the epidemic of indifference”: “Our metropolitan lives, and so many European countries where different cultures and religions coexist, they are a great challenge against exacerbations and individualism, against selfishness that produces loneliness and suffering,” he said.. Francis left the Velodrome to a standing ovation from those in attendance and shouts of “Papa Francesco.”
Russia fuels the popular revolt against the Armenian government
Since the beginning of Azerbaijan's offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh, Andranik Tevanyan became one of the main animators of the night protests that began that same day.
The well-known opposition leader has always been
Why mobile phone sales in Europe are experiencing their worst moment
Mobile phone sales plummet. The smartphone market in Europe has fallen 12% in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the same period last year, reports the consulting firm Counterpoint Research.. A figure that grows up to 14% in Spain compared to a drop of 8% in Eastern Europe. This is the lowest sales figure in the Old Continent since the first quarter of 2012. But what is the reason for this decline?
The first cause is the economy. With the price of food increasingly high and salaries frozen, buyers tend to increasingly extend the life of their terminals.
In August, the annual consumer price index (CPI) in Spain stood at 2.6%, three tenths more than in July. Olive oil is registering its biggest increase in two decades and fuel prices do not stop rising either.
Companies are aware of this. Last week, Apple surprised by lowering the price of the iPhone 15 compared to the previous model to leave it at 959 euros in Spain. Despite the decrease in its cost, it still represents almost 4% of the average salary in our country, of 25,353.22 euros gross per year..
On the other hand, buyer behavior is changing. Whether by spending less or trying to generate as little technological waste as possible, citizens are increasingly opting for options such as purchasing refurbished cell phones or renting smartphones.
In 2022, for example, the global market for second-hand terminals grew by 5% compared to the previous year, data from Counterpoint Research shows.
While in Spain new models have been established, such as the rental of smartphones carried out by companies such as Rentik. “Since we were born we have been growing month by month at double digits. We have even done it in August, which is usually a more seasonal period for consumption,” the company points out.
Finally, this plummet in the sale of new mobile phones also has a lot to do with the fact that there are fewer and fewer cheap phones.
Before the supply problems that began with Covid, it was quite easy to find mobile phones under 200 euros that were competent. However, today there are few terminals in that price range.. They are phones that leave less profit margin and companies are betting less and less on this market strategy.
The Government will bring to Strasbourg criticism of the condemnations of the 'procés'
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has agreed to study the appeals of the nine sentenced to prison in the procés trial and has referred to the Government several questions about possible violations of rights in the Supreme Court ruling.
The answers will be presented in Strasbourg by the State Attorney's Office, the legal arm of the Executive.. According to the latest information that the partners of the acting Government and its usual parliamentary supporters have left in black and white, the Legal Profession will have to support several theses of the plaintiffs, thus promoting the estimation of the resources and the condemnation of Spain.
The Explanatory Memorandum of the law that last December eliminated the crime of sedition justified the reform of the Penal Code in arguments such as those presented before the ECHR by Oriol Junqueras and the other eight convicted.
In particular, that the crime of sedition that was applied to them had such imprecise profiles that those affected could not foresee how it would be applied.. And that the penalties that it included until its elimination were “disproportionate”. This, in turn, had a “deterrent effect” on the exercise of fundamental rights.. With elements like these, the Strasbourg Court has already handed down sentences in other cases.
Regarding the first point, the legal reform promoted by the Government regrets “the lack of clarity about the content and scope of the criminal type of sedition, a circumstance that operates against the mandate of certainty inherent to the principle of criminal legality.”
He then adds that the commission of the crime “may be linked in its development to the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms such as the right of assembly or freedom of expression.”. “It is advisable, in this sense,” he adds, going to the heart of one of Strasbourg's obsessions, “to avoid a possible deterrent effect on the exercise of such constitutional rights and freedoms.”
Regarding the harshness of the penalties put forward by the appellants, the Government's position was expressed as follows: “The importance of the principle of proportionality must be strengthened when establishing the penalty hitherto associated with this crime.”. “The high severity of the penalties provided to date stands out.”
When the reform was approved in these terms, Supreme Court sources considered its sentence “dead” in view of the appeals to the ECtHR that were already announced.
The functioning of the Strasbourg Court also allows the two parties – who in this case would be investiture partners – to reach an agreement that settles the conflict.. Deactivating resources in Strasbourg could be one of the elements that accompany an eventual amnesty law.
For now, what has happened at the European Court is that the judge who has reviewed the nine appeals has agreed to inform Spain of its presentation and ask six questions about some of the allegations.
Admission for processing is a very difficult procedure to overcome in Strasbourg, although the relevance of the case made a favorable decision predictable.. The step taken by the ECtHR represents a de facto admission to the procedure, although formally this will occur later.. Whatever the final result of the procedure – estimation, dismissal or even inadmissibility – the decision of the seven judges who will decide will come in a detailed resolution and after studying the merits of the matter.
Questions to governments are part of the standard procedure of the ECHR. The Executive has until next January 12 to respond. The plaintiffs will then have the opportunity to reply to the Government and with all this the court will decide whether there has been a violation of rights by Spain. Until now, the ECtHR has rejected all claims presented against Spain linked to the process.
The European Court does not ask the government about all the alleged violations included in the nine appeals. He estimates that some do not hold up, he only asks about some. Among them, those highlighted by the reform that eliminated sedition: imprecision of the norm, disproportionate punishment and deterrence of the exercise of fundamental rights.