Other examples include its use for homebuilt aircraft such as the RJ.03 IBIS canard.

But that is a canard real estate speculation, not privatization, has been the real source of undeserved wealth in Japan.

Remarkable propagandist that he was, de Gaulle convinced the French that the Fourth Republic was a disaster a canard that has remained common wisdom ever since.

In the immediate aftermath of Snowden s revelations, the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné ran a headline that said For once, Obama is interested in what we are saying.

In a related incident Giscard was reported by the Canard Enchaîné to have accepted diamonds as personal gifts from Bokassa who fled to France with looted millions from the Central African Republic's treasury but was still given asylum in France.

Whenever we think of indigenous people and landscape, we either invoke Rousseau and the old canard of the noble savage, which is an idea racist in its simplicity, or alternatively, we invoke Thoreau and say these people are closer to the Earth than we are.