Quick notes: Mosque funding, EV pollution...

• France plans ban on foreign funding of mosques: The French, who had been lecturing to Israel all along, are finally waking up to RoP



• What Price to Keep France Safe? Perhaps a nation’s core values



• Removing Urban Freeways Gains Fresh Traction: Building more roadways to accommodate more and more cars is akin to 'loosening a belt buckle to solve obesity'. "The highways didn’t spread prosperity; they exported it entirely. And while they eroded tax bases from the city, they siphoned away something else: city dwellers lost their dignity."



• How much do electric cars really pollute? Find out why EVs can be a disaster for India today.
  



• Kripa Krishnan: Google's queen of chaos



• Girl demonstrates Third Eye:

Quick notes: Terror-traking software, F-16 fighter jets...

• Terror attacks could have been foiled: Israeli offer of terror-tracking software was refused by France, a staunch supporter of Palestine.



• One day before Nice terror attack: French foreign minister’s meeting with Hizbullah leaders 



• India to get ‘most advanced’ F-16 fighter jets: With Rafale deal still up in the air, Lockheed, Boeing and SAAB have come forward to set up assembly lines in India along with offers for significant technology transfer. India had long been demanding that the F-16s it buys will have to be more advanced than what is sold to Pakistan.



• Pink boom: India’s buffalo meat exports at current rates could impact domestic milk availability, says a recent report by the US Department of Agriculture



• Was Prakash Javadekar a terrible environment minister? Anil Madhav Dave, on the other hand, has a known history of environmental activism.



• Oil companies get nod to increase kerosene price: Big step, Kerosene accounted for 42% of the total petroleum subsidy in 2015-16.



• Ashraf Sherjan: A pro-Israeli Baloch leader.

Quick notes: Jews in Europe, Talks with terrorists...

• French Jews fleeing country in record numbers due to anti-Semitism




• France should be asked to practice what it preaches:

I think France should go into talks with the terrorists & offer them East Paris for the sake of peace! WHAT?! You think that's insensitive?
— israel_shield (@israel_shield) January 7, 2015





• Stark reality:

Without the IDF, scenes from Paris today would be a daily occurrence in Israel.
— Anthony Shaw (@AnthonyShaw_) January 7, 2015

France Bans Muslim Street Prayers

The government of France has banned Muslim street prayers, as a threat to the secular values of the French republic.

France Reacts to Increasing Quota-ism(NYT)

France is feeling the pain of rising quota-ism, reports the New York Times.

I have a solution - ship Arjun Singh to France! (That would be bad for France, but at least he'd be out of our hair.)

Paris liberation made 'whites only'

By Mike Thomson
Presenter, Document, BBC Radio 4

Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory.

Conditions Attached by US Congress Sink 123 Deal

It may now be no longer possible for India to sign the 123 Deal, because of the extra conditions attached by the US Congress. These conditions are explicit language that requires the US not just to cut off supplies, but also to disrupt the nuclear waiver, which was not previously the case before. India can still go forward with its plans to negotiate reactor deals with France and Russia, which aren't bound by any similar conditions.

India to Deal With France, Russia First

India will not wait around for the US Congress to debate passage of the 123 Deal, and will instead sign reactor deals with France and Russia first. India is also leery of new doubts on the question of US fuel supply assurances. Meanwhile, France has said it will provide fuel supply assurances to India, and is offering its latest state-of-the-art EPR reactor to India, which it is also building in China and Finland. This reactor design has power output that is scaleable into the multi-gigawatt range, as well as strong safety characteristics. Finally, India will have access to the same latest and greatest technology that China gets from the world.