15000 tons of bombs thrown on Kosovo and Serbia in an attempt of a so called "humanitarian intervention" this year, 2015, over 50.000 Albanians left the former Serbian province of Kosovo. Now our spin doctors and 'responsible-to-protect' experts must admit they had advised government totally wrong, based on faked data from OSCE, UNHCR and UNMIK which led western politicians to recognise Kosovo prematurely. There is no work, no production, no schools so a whole generation now was growing up with improper education, there is simply nothing that you may think makes a state. This is why young people are leaving this "state". These photos are from my book 'Broken Bones', a summery of 10 years reporting from the Balkans.

The guys are pretty creative so they will have their fun. Have a look on coming Sunday. 

A start-up that wants your blood! Created for the "Generation Hypochondriac" as the next level of escalation in madness to alleged food intolerances. This machine is not just about food intolerances, its a device with the potential to be used as a test platform for DNA / identity against risks for insurances and risks for employers as well as a drug and pregnancy testing device, etc., etc., etc ..

Its name is Kiweno that wants your blood and will come on the market end of this month. Described as a combination of online platform and self-test for possible food intolerances. What is generally eventually a good idea, can in wrong hands become the final stage of surveillance...

On its rather vacuous website general phrases are served like:"Healthy food does not necessarily mean proper nutrition. On the contrary, it may even make you sick if you do not tolerate", - but nothing is explained. After all there is a photo of a carton. The box with content costs 99 Euro.

Allegedly 3 drops of blood are sufficient to determine which proteins someone can not tolerate. On a total of 70 foods tested in the cooperation with Kiweno laboratory I wonder what kind of use one of our beloved fast-food chains may make of such invention... Really SFI'ic!

The so-called Nutriscreen test kit includes everything you need to do a test in comfort of your home. The included "blood collection tube" is prepared with silicon heparin, so that the sample survives its transport without prejudice and above all genuine. Via e-mail or SMS you get then within five working days a notification that the results be available on the online platform.

Instead of a usual non-medical part vacuous laboratory finding the user is displayed clearly, what foods you can tolerate and what not. There are then also an individually tailored treatment plan and regularly updated nutrition and health recommendations.

Tailor-made diets shall help individually to increase well-being and performance so people have the opportunity to understand how to manage and optimize their diets"

On June 23, the startup will be online and fully accessible. Already now you can pre-register for the self-test kit. Order your kit now. And don,t forget to leave your finger print as well...

I hear so many times how much bureaucracy is being involved to go down the path when trying to obtain the French Citizenship. Well if a year is long, I wonder what those crates would say that the very same process takes 2 year in Germany. 

Prefect Martin is a typical gentleman of the old school. In a department were unemployment is high and the Front National, FN, has many followers it is not an easy task to make it right for everybody, but the Prefect Didier Martin jovially moved around any controversy: on June 5, 2015 he officially handed over the family book and ID's to recognise French citizenship for 18 foreigners. The "New French" originally come from different nations: from Laos, Cameroon, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Great Britain-, Tunisia and Algeria. Over 400 New citizens were inaugurated in 2014 in the Department of Gard. 

The website of the Department GARD provides very comprehensive information for everyone who wants to apply for French citizenship.
The company INTERNATIONAL MEETING in Nîmes offers courses for French language training which enables anybody interested into naturalization process (application for citizenship ) to pass the tests of "TCF" and possibly get a certified Diploma, the DILF (Initial Diploma in French Language) that which is part of the naturalisation process ….