Monday - April 23, 2012
Only In France
We Americans always complain that our two party system seems too limiting. In France they have political parties by the bushel; so many in fact that they have to run a two step election. The winners of the first round face off against each other in the second round to see who wins. As I understand it, there were 10 candidates running for president in this first round of elections. 5 of them didn’t pull down enough votes to even merit mention in the press, but the vote split among the top 5 candidates has lead to a seeming contradiction.
The top players and their vote percentages, politically left to right:
practically a bomb throwing commie: Jean-Luc Melenchon, 11 %
the Socialist, even by French standards: Francois Hollande, 28 %
in the middle of the middle: Francois Bayrou, 9 %
in the middle, slightly right: current President Nicolas Sarkozy, 26.9 %
the “far right extremist”: Marine Le Pen, 19 %
The surprise result was that Ms. Le Pen got as many votes as she did, which really took votes away from Sarkozy. The result is that for the first time in ages - if ever - a sitting president in France has not triumphed in the first round sweeps. The race is now between Hollande, who is campaigning on the (does this sound familiar?) Hope and Change slogan le changement c’est maintenant (now is the time for change ... the change is now), and Sarkozy, who has been in charge while France has suffered a major economic downturn. And people think he’s kind of a snob. Imagine that, the fwench think this guy’s a snob. Mon dieu!
France is the 5th largest economy in the world, so yeah, it matters.
It was the first time a sitting president seeking re-election had been beaten into second place in the first round. But Sarkozy backers at his campaign headquarters chanted “We are going to win”, interpreting Le Pen’s score as more significant than Hollande’s narrow lead over the incumbent.
Before voting, opinion polls had suggested a comfortable win for the Socialist in the second round.
Le Pen, who took over the anti-immigration National Front in 2011, wants jobs reserved for French nationals at a time when jobless claims are at a 12-year high. She also wants France to abandon the euro currency and restore monetary policy to Paris.
“This first round is the start of a vast gathering of right-wing patriots,” she told cheering supporters at her campaign headquarters, without endorsing either of the finalists.
“Nothing will ever be the same again.”
Le Pen’s unexpectedly high score reflected a surge in anti-establishment populist parties in many euro zone countries from the Netherlands to Greece as austerity and the debt crisis bite.
Voter surveys show about half of Le Pen’s supporters would back Sarkozy in a second round and perhaps one fifth would vote for Hollande, making her a potential kingmaker in the runoff.
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Sarkozy, 57, has painted himself as the safest pair of hands to lead France and the euro zone in turbulent times, but Sunday’s vote appeared to be a strong rejection of his flashy style as well as his economic record.If Hollande wins on May 6, joining a small minority of left-wing governments in Europe, he has promised to lead a push for a bigger focus on growth in the euro zone, mainly by adding pro-growth clauses to a European budget discipline treaty.
The prospect of a renegotiation of the pact is causing some concern in financial markets, as is Hollande’s focus on tax rises over austerity at a time when sluggish growth is threatening France’s ability to meet deficit-cutting goals.
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France’s sickly growth, along with its stubbornly high unemployment, are major factors hampering Sarkozy’s battle to win a second term, despite an energetic campaign against the blander but more popular Hollande.Melenchon, whose clench-fisted call for an anti-capitalist revolution made him the most colorful figure on the campaign trail, called on left-wing voters to fight back and make sure Sarkozy is ousted next month.
“I call on you to come out on May 6 and beat Sarkozy without asking for anything in exchange. I urge you: don’t drag your heels, mobilize as though it were me you were sending to victory in the presidential election,” he said.
Firebrand leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon vowed to break up the Franco-German “Merkozy” leadership duo with conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel which he said had imposed austerity on the people of Europe.
He also said France should emulate Latin America’s left-wing revolutions and nationalize oil company Total, as Argentina said this week it would do with its main energy firm.
”The revolutions in Latin America are a source of inspiration for us,” he told foreign media at his headquarters in a disused shoe factory on the eastern edge of Paris.
Melenchon said his party’s priority was to get Sarkozy out of power and then pull an Hollande government to the left.
“I appeal to you, left-wing comrades who are listening and hesitating, come and help us not just overtake the extreme-right but raise the demands of the left,” he told a campaign rally on Thursday. Clenching his fists, he joined hands with Communist leaders to sing the socialist anthem the Internationale.
Oh brother. Despite everything that the US did for France from WWII through the Cold War, despite all the revelations that have come out of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union about just how much it sucked, the Communists have always found a lot of sympathetic ears in France. I guess they took that “fraternité” aspect of their national motto a little too seriously?
So now what? The deep red commies will join up with the pale red socialists and push for the leftist Hollande, and probably get a third to half of the wobbly centrists. Sarkozy is left with no other choice than to try to hang onto the centrists while amping us his Conservative rhetoric. He has to shift his message more to the right, more against pisslam, more against unchecked open immigration, more towards fiscal restraint, more towards pumping up the economy and pushing french products for the world to buy.
President Nicolas Sarkozy hammered home pledges to get tough on immigration and security on Monday as he sought to win over record numbers of far-right voters and whittle down Socialist Francois Hollande’s narrow first-round election lead.
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After five years of leading the world’s fifth economy, a nuclear power and activist U.N. Security Council member, Sarkozy could go the way of 10 other euro zone leaders swept from office since the start of the crisis in late 2009.
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“Today, I return to the campaign trail,” Sarkozy said in a statement. “I will continue to uphold our values and commitments: respect for our borders, the fight against factories moving abroad, controlling immigration, the security of our families.”
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Opinion polls on Sunday said 57-year-old Hollande, who has vowed to change the direction of Europe if elected by tempering austerity measures with greater social justice, would likely win the decider with between 53 and 56 percent of the vote.
What will happen? Who knows? It’s France, so anything is possible. Meanwhile, the far-right is making a Tea Party move, trying to gain seats in Parliament.
In setting a record score for the far right in Sunday’s French presidential election, Marine Le Pen has set the stage for her National Front to try and break into parliament at a legislative election in June.
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Doing better than her father’s 2002 score now gives Le Pen a solid base to move forward on her core targets - June’s parliamentary election and, in the longer-term, the 2017 presidential race.Describing herself as the candidate of “popular revolt”, she has said her focus this year is to destroy Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party, the latest political heir of the postwar Gaullist tradition, and create a new, broad movement of the right.
There are already signs of in-fighting in the decade-old UMP, which like predecessors in France’s ever-shifting party system, could fall apart if he loses the presidency. A rightist faction might break the Gaullist taboo on electoral alliances with Le Pen if UMP lawmakers feel their seats are threatened.
“What we can see tonight is the great cacophony between the left and right. At the legislative elections, the French will have a definitive choice of a new right,” said Louis Aliot, National Front vice-president and Le Pen’s partner.
The party believes it can win seats in parliament seats for the first time since 1986, when a brief experiment with proportional representation gave it 35 seats. Since the return of a two-round system of constituency voting, the National Front has so far failed to secure a majority in any district.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 24, 2012
teacher tells French students killer was also a victim. students walk out of class.
I originally saw this story in slightly different form in the Mail, but all efforts to find the on line link failed and instead led to other like stories.
This is from the Jerusalem Post who do not furnish the following information.
The teacher was Lorraine Collin, and she is an English teacher at the Gustave Flaubert High School in Rouen. (France)
Most of the other headlines ID her as a French teacher either implying she was a French language teacher, or else she was French herself.
Odds are she wasn’t French but I’ve no way of knowing that. Just a guess. In either case, this is a seriously disturbed woman. She said the the killer was “a victim of an unhappy childhood.”
Meanwhile ..... the brother of the killer says he is “proud” of his brother’s actions and that he did the right thing.
Sure thing. Killing unarmed and helpless ppl and especially babies is a brave and noble act. Jeesh. Just shows ya what the west is up against. And that dirt bag isn’t alone by any means.
TEACHER REQUESTS STUDENTS TO HONOR TOULOUSE KILLER
France’s education minister called for disciplinary proceedings against a teacher in the north of France on Friday, after she allegedly asked her students to observe a moment’s silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the man who gunned down three children and a rabbi in front of Jewish school in Toulouse earlier this week.
Students in the the French English teacher’s class in Rouen wrote to their principal that she had called the serial killer a “victim,” and said his links to al-Qaida were fabricated by the media and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to AFP.
The teacher’s request prompted most of the students to empty out of the classroom, though some stayed behind to “try to understand what she was talking about,” AFP reported according to their letter.
French Education Minister Luc Chatel has called for the teacher to be suspended for her request, which was made the day after police shot Merah dead in the south of France after he went on a killing spree.
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 21, 2012
seige in paris as al qaeda gunman shoots it out with police
FINAL UPDATE: Defenestration Demonstration
Shot by cops, Mohammed jumps out window. Splat. Dead
TOULOUSE, France - An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said.
His dramatic death ended a more than 32-hour standoff with an elite police squad trying to capture him alive. The suspect, 23-year-old Mohamed Merah, was wanted in the deaths of three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi — all killed since March 11 in what he reportedly told police was an attempt to “bring France to its knees.”
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Prosecutor Francois Molins said Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent who claimed links to al Qaeda, burst out of his bathroom when police entered his apartment Thursday morning, wildly firing his handgun about 30 times and jumping out an apartment window.Merah continued to fire “until he was hit by a retaliatory shot from the RAID (elite police unit), which felled him with a bullet to the head,” Molins said.
Holed up alone in an otherwise evacuated apartment building, Merah clung to his few remaining assets, like a small arsenal and authorities’ hopes of taking him alive. He appeared to toy with police negotiators—first saying he would surrender in the afternoon, then under the cover of darkness, then reneging on those pledges altogether, officials said.
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the suspect had plans to kill another soldier—prompting the police raid at around 3 a.m. Wednesday. After it erupted into a firefight, wounding two police, a standoff ensued, with on-and-off negotiations with the suspect that lasted through the night.
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“The killer came out of the bathroom, firing with extreme violence,” Claude Gueant, the interior minister, said, adding that the RAID squad had “never seen an assault like it.”“Mohamed Merah jumped out the window, gun in hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground,” Gueant said.
Gueant earlier had said police wanted to capture Merah alive.
Reuters reported that explosions and gunfire were heard for about four minutes as police special forces moved in on the apartment. Authorities used gas to try and paralyze the suspect, the report said.
Mohammed Merah, 23, who claimed to have al-Qaeda training, opened fire on police commandos after they stormed into his flat at 09:30 GMT.
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Prosecutor Francois Molins confirmed in a news conference that a police marksman had killed Merah as he tried to jump out of the bathroom window.“The examination of the body shows that he was shot in the head and that he was wearing a bullet-proof vest,” Mr Molins said, “and had a gun covered by a pair of jeans.”
“Material to make Molotov cocktails were found on his balcony.”
Mr Molins said a Colt 45 handgun was found next to his body, and he estimated that Merah had fired 30 bullets as the commandos broke in.
Get out the shovels and the squeegees, and throw his remains into the dustbin of history.
UPDATE: GOT HIM HIS BROTHER
crap, he’s still alive. double crap, the main suspect still has not been brought to justice.
The older brother of the self-confessed Al Qaeda terrorist thought to have murdered seven people across south west France over the past two weeks has been arrested.
Abdelkader Mera, 27, was detained this afternoon some 10 hours after a 3am raid when 300 armed police dramatically swooped on his 24-year-old brother Mohammed’s Toulouse home.
Three officers were injured this morning in an ensuing firefight - and Mohammed is now cornered and under siege.
And the story just keeps on getting worse: suspect is a sword wielding kidnapper
Suspected serial killer Mohammed Mera, who broke out of an Afghanistan jail in 2008 as part of a mass Taliban escape, once kidnapped another man, it has been reported. A close family friend of the 24-year-old suspect told Le Parisien she knew him well while in the city’s Izards housing estate.
The woman, Laela, said: ‘He was well known to the police. Around two years ago he kidnapped a young person on the estate.
‘I remember that the mother of the boy in question was wandering around the estate trying to find him. ‘Finally, her son was freed. And I’m convinced then a complaint was lodged, and Mohammed was heard by investigating officers.’
Following the kidnapping, for which he was never charged, he is said to have ‘crossed the estate in combat gear, with a sword in his hand shouting ‘Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda!’.
The police siege has been going on for hours now, with 3 cops wounded so far. The suspect is believed to still be in the apartment building. Further updates when they occur.
No comment from me. Only minutes to spare if that, heard this on radio minutes ago and went to Mail on line
Dramatic siege in Toulouse suburb as armed police surround house of ‘Islamic warrior’ suspected of being serial killer
Self-confessed terrorist thought to have killed seven people in two weeks
Mohammed Mera, 24, is ‘armed and dangerous’ and likely to kill again
Has Uzi machine gun, Kalashnikov assault rifle and other weapons
Three tactical police officers wounded as they tried to arrest suspect
Second man believed to be his brother arrested nearby
Gunman’s mother at the siege trying to persuade him to hive himself up
By PETER ALLEN
PUBLISHED: 08:27, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:23, 21 March 2012
ALL THE REST PLUS PIX HERE AT THE SOURCE. DAILY MAIL
Drew adds a bit from the madly PC AP [ the Associated (with terrorists) Press ], a news article “sanitized for your protection” like the toilet in a hotel room:
The suspect told police he belonged to Al Qaeda and wanted to take revenge for Palestinian children killed in the Middle East, Gueant said. The suspect also said he was angry about French military intervention abroad, and had spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Gueant said.
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An Interior Ministry official identified the suspect as Mohammad Merah, who has been under surveillance for years for having “fundamentalist” views. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
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The suspect “said he wants to avenge the deaths of Palestinians,” Gueant told reporters, adding that he is “less explicit” about why he killed French paratroopers. The paratroopers were of Muslim and French Caribbean origin, but the interior minister said the suspect told them the ethnic origin has nothing to do with his actions. “He’s after the army,” Gueant said.
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A judicial official said the suspect’s mother, his brother and a companion of the brother were detained for questioning. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.The interior minister had said the suspect’s brother “is also engaged in the Salafi ideology,” a reference to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.
This article completely ignores the bit of news that the guy is Taliban, and an escapee from a prison in Afghanistan. And he’s made several trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan since coming to France 4 years ago. And he’s over here with mommy, and at least one brother? Oh, they were just fleeing a war zone looking for a better life and a chance to start all over again? Bullshit. Sleeper agents, the whole damn family.
Oh, and the “powerful motorcycle” used in these killings ... is a scooter. Granted, it’s a euro-scooter, a strange thing they call a maxi-scooter, which is a giant 500lb thing with full coverage swoopy fairings, saddle bag boxes, a glove box, etc., “suitable for touring”. Powered by a 530cc 2 cylinder twin that makes 43hp and a 2 speed automatic transmission. Fuel injected and computer controlled. O-60 in 11 seconds, 45mpg. $14,000 with built-in GPS tracking device, which is what French cops used to find the guy. TMAX scooter review, and another one in really fractured English.
A small update from CNN as more details emerge ...
He had been under surveillance by French intelligence for years, the interior minister said.
He had “already committed certain infractions, some with violence,” Gueant said.
He was in a Toulouse court February 24 for causing an accident with injuries and driving without a license and served some time in jail, CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.
Gueant said the suspect had a car containing more weapons near his apartment.
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Interior Minister Gueant said the suspect is a French national of Algerian origin who spent considerable time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.The suspect’s lawyer, Christian Etelin, said Merah went to Afghanistan two years ago.
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The suspect belongs to a group called Forsane Alizza, or Knights of Glory, Gueant said. The French government banned the group in January for trying to recruit people to fight in Afghanistan.
And an interesting bit of CYA coming from Sandland By The Sea:
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad strongly rejected using his people as a justification for the French killings, calling them a “cowardly terrorist attack.”
“It is time for those criminals to stop exploiting the name of Palestine through their terrorist actions,” Fayyad said in a statement.
Probably a smart act on Fayyad’s part; the murdered Jewish children and their father were laid to rest in Israel, and the Izzies are REALLY PISSED.
I had no time early today to do more then posted, and no time to download photo I thought you should see. It isn’t that the murder of others is less. The killing of those other children is heartbreaking. But truth to tell, and I don’t know why, but the brutal and cold blooded murder at point blank range of an 8 year old girl who btw was chased down and cornered, somehow the poignancy seems almost more striking. I hope I’m not putting it too badly and hope you understand.
Anyway ..... Her name was Miriam. The biblical Miriam was elder sister to Moses, and helped hide the baby in the bulrushes.
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On the off chance that you haven’t been following this story, it started with a soldier being murdered when he went to meet somebody to sell his motor scooter. Surveillance cameras caught just how sick a bastard the twisted jihadi really is:
Toulouse Killer Likely Filmed Attack, Executed Little Girl
A tragic update to a tragic story.
Police now say the killer of four Jews in Toulouse likely filmed the attack with a a camera attached to his chest and methodically stalked his victims, murdering a little girl in cold blood.
According to eyewitness accounts, after the killer entered the Jewish Ozar HaTorah school, he chased after 7-year-old Miriam Monsonego and shot her repeatedly.
He grabbed Miriam as she tried to escape, grasped her hair and shot her. Then, as she bled to death on the floor, he lifted up her head and fired two additional bullets.
The brutality of the crime—which also took the lives of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two sons, Gabriel, 6, and Arieh, 3,—has led French police to suspect a violent, racist intent behind the attacks.
In a bizarre and macbre development, French police also say the killer seems to have filmed the attacks.
Given that they are raised on Political Correctness from birth, and given the wide range of Jew hating groups they have to choose from, French police originally thought that these horrible crimes were perpetrated by neo-Nazis. But filming the murders? No dark humor intended, but that’s a dead giveaway that they’re dealing with jihadis. I’m sure some “suicide bomber farewell videos” will turn up at the creep’s apartment. They always do.
The world needs a purge.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 05, 2012
Muslim immigrants will find it more difficult to obtain French citizenship
Seems to me to be a bit late in the game. But maybe better late then never. It will really be interesting to see how this pans out. For the sake of France, I hope it works well and to their benefit. But I tend towards pessimism in today’s world. I don’t think much of politicians anywhere, I tend to not even trust the ones I think I like.
According to the media here, French president Sarkozy has dropped a lot in popularity and some are saying he might not survive the next election.
I don’t follow much in French politics and I’ll be honest. All I do know which isn’t a lot, I have learned only from Brit newspapers and radio news. Which is hardly serious research. So it’s really more superficial info.
However, every now and then I do run across other sources, like this one from Stonegate. I haven’t posted the entire article but it’s worth a read.
I still have a raging cough and cold bug, back on antibiotics so this is my only post today.
I wish the French much good luck but …… once they opened those pc gates to hell, I think it could be all over except the jihad, which happened by stealth.
France’s Tottery Effort to Reverse Creeping Islamization
by Soeren Kern
Muslim immigrants will find it more difficult to obtain French citizenship from now on.
New citizenship rules that entered into effect on January 1, 2012 will require all applicants to pass exams on French culture and history and also to prove that their French language skills are equivalent to those of a 15-year-old native speaker. Moreover, candidates seeking French citizenship will be required to pledge allegiance to “French values.”The new measures—drawn up by Interior Minister Claude Guéant—are part of a concerted effort by the French government to push back against the Islamization of France.
Muslim applicants make up the majority of the 100,000 people who are naturalized as French citizens each year; there is also rising frustration that the country’s estimated 6.5 million Muslims are not integrating into French society.
Guéant has said that immigrants who refuse to assimilate should be denied French citizenship.
According to Guéant, a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party, the citizenship process should be “a solemn occasion between the host nation and the applicant” and that immigrants should be integrated through language and “an adherence to the principals, values and symbols of our democracy.”
From now on, applicants for French citizenship will also be required to sign a new charter establishing their rights and responsibilities. Drafted by France’s High Council for Integration (HCI), the charter reads: “Becoming French is not a mere administrative step. It is a decision that requires a lot of thought … applicants will no longer be able to claim allegiance to another country while on French soil.” The new rules, however, will not affect dual nationality, which will still be allowed.
Separately, Guéant also announced a proposal to require non-French children born in France who would normally be automatically naturalized at the age of 18 to formally apply for citizenship.
In addition, Guéant announced plans to reduce the number of legal immigrants coming to France annually from 200,000 to 180,000 and has called for those convicted of a felony to be expelled from the country.
The new citizenship requirements form part of a larger government effort to reverse decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged the establishment of a parallel Muslim society in France.
In February 2011, Sarkozy denounced multiculturalism as a failure and said Muslims must assimilate into the French culture if they want to be welcomed in France. In a live-broadcast interview with French Channel One television, Sarkozy said: “I do not want a society where communities coexist side by side …
France will not welcome people who do not agree to melt into a single community.
We have been too busy with the identity of those who arrived and not enough with the identity of the country that accepted them.”
Question. So will France be allowed to deport those who don’t want to be citizens? Unlikely.
But the biggest threat to France that I see is many who will become citizens. And then vote. And that’s the point at which you can start the count down to the demise of what was once a great country. Whatever their faults they were once a great country. Whatever their supposed faults, they weren’t stone age.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 22, 2011
not exactly just another rop story … this really exposes how stupid and backward they are
They are so damn pig ignorant. Barely even humans. Hey, are pigs really ignorant? Can’t be as ignorant as the sheep who follow the RoP. Right?
The French have been trying, as I understand the reports, to make these stone age life forms assimilate more and become part of the French culture. Waste of time and effort. The only thing they (the French) will achieve will be the eventual watering down and demise of their own culture. With traditions forgotten and apologies made to former colonies and with cross culture/ religion marriages etc., they will kiss goodbye to a 1,000 years of art, science, culture, language and learning, and a thousand years of annoying the Brits. Of course, they’ll continue with that but by then all men will be bearded and women covered head to toe and French might become a dead language.
How’s that for a Christmas horror story?
Yeah I know, we do get our jollies cracking wise about them from time to time. Especially the Brits. And especially now with the veto handed down recently by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the eurozone issue. Pissed off Sarkozy of France so much, he had a few words to say about Call Me Dave and another minister in the French govt. mouthed off about the Brit economy and then backed down.
Well the long and the short of it was that instead of becoming the honcho calling the shots from Paris, poor Mr. Sarkozy suddenly found himself isolated as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, showed her diplomatic skills by not threatening England but instead has offered a compromise to placate the Brits and be friends. Sarko not a happy camper tonight.
Anyway .... the man in question below can’t be French as reported. Not if he’s a muzzie. No way.
But I got sidetracked again. Here’s what this post is all about.
French Muslim jailed for punching nurse who tried to remove wife’s burqa during childbirth
By IAN SPARKSA Muslim man who punched a nurse for trying to remove his wife’s burqa during childbirth has been jailed in France.
Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding the midwife a ‘rapist’ as she carried out an intimate examination of his wife.
Then through a window he spotted the nurse taking off his wife’s burqa as she prepared to give birth.
He smashed open the locked door and hit the woman in the face, demanding she replace the full Islamic face veil.
As his wife delivered a baby boy, Mimoune was ejected from the building by security men from the hospital in Marseille and arrested for assault.
A judge in the southern French port jailed Mimoune for six months on Wednesday, telling him: ‘Your religious values are not superior to the laws of the republic.’
SOURCE FOR MYTHICAL FRENCH MUZZIE STORY
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 06, 2011
caught on video on tram in France …. this is the world today folks
An idiot on a tram in France .... idiot he may be but .... he’s serious I do believe.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 04, 2011
oh those french
PARIS – French schools were rationing ketchup in their cafeterias to help children keep their cultural identity, under a new government decree.
The rule came into force in most primary and secondary schools Monday and restricts how often the condiment can be served.
School lunchrooms can serve dressings such as ketchup and mayonnaise only with certain dishes, such as fries, which are now allowed only once a week.
The decree also bans schools from serving ketchup with traditional French meals, such as beef bourguignon and roast veal with blue cheese sauce.
The edict aims to ensure that the pupils stay connected to their cultural heritage—and to prevent them from being lured by fattening junk food.
“Canteens [cafeterias] have a public health mission but also an educative mission,” according to Christophe Hebert, chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants. “We have to ensure that children become familiar with French recipes so that they can hand them down to the following generation.”
I’m not really sure how to respond to this, but I’m thinking that forcing children to eat food from only one culture is anti-diversity, and therefore raaaaaaaaaacist!
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 20, 2011
Rouge Mardi
Part-time redhead, full-time actress, singer, model, and famous French newlywed Josephine de la Baume - Ronson.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 07, 2011
THE FRENCH TAKE SEX VERY SERIOUSLY IT APPEARS.
Well here’s one for the books. This could only be possible in these more enlightened and modern times.
Take a look at this.
French Judge orders man to pay ex wife for no sex life.
A MAN was ordered to pay his ex-wife thousands of pounds in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their 21-year marriage.The man, 51, was fined £8,500 under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”.
A judge has now ruled that this law implies “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”.The rare legal decision came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, blaming the break-up on her ex’s lack of activity in the bedroom.
A judge in Nice then granted the divorce and ruled the husband, named only as Jean-Louis B, was solely responsible for the split. But his 47-year-old former wife then took him back to court demanding the cash in compensation for “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage”.
The ex-husband blamed “tiredness and health problems”.
But a judge in the south of France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence ruled: “A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent. By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other.”
SEX STARVED WIFE?
Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head. As she dies at 98, the extraordinary story of the real Charlotte Gray
She stares into the camera with a coquettish half-smile and an unflinching come-hither look. The eyebrows are plucked, the lips full, the long auburn hair a classic 1940s style, falling onto the shoulders of her khaki uniform. She could easily have been one of the sassy songbirds who brightened up World War II. But this was the face of Nancy Wake, one of that conflict’s bravest underground fighters against the Germans in France — and certainly the most stylish. A male comrade-in-arms in the French Resistance summed her up as: ‘The most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. And then she is like five men.’ She lived up to both parts of that compliment.
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Tuesday - August 09, 2011 ‘Allo ‘Allo and Goodbye
Listen very carefully, I weel zay thees only wance!
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... after being parachuted into France as a Special Operations Executive agent, she disposed of a German guard with her bare hands and liked nothing better than bowling along in the front seat of a fast car through the countryside, a Sten gun on her lap and a cigar between her teeth, in search of Germans to kill.
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Passionate and impulsive, with a tendency to draw attention to herself, she was not the ideal undercover agent. Her superiors didn’t think she would last long behind enemy lines. But Wake proved them wrong and died this week, aged 98, in a nursing home for retired veterans in London. Her death brought to an end a life of such daring, courage and glamour that she was the inspiration for the Sebastian Faulks novel Charlotte Gray, which was made into a film starring Cate Blanchett.
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(in 1939, ) Nancy was visiting London, for, of all things, a slimming course, when war was declared in September 1939. When she tried to join up to fight she was pointed, to her disgust, in the direction of a Naafi (Navy, Army and Air Force) canteen. So she went back to France and, when that country fell to the invading Germans, she proved herself as brave and as aggressive as any man — and more than most.
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in London she volunteered for SOE’s French section and, despite reservations that she was too much of a party-girl, she was taken on and trained in survival skills, armed combat, Morse code and surveillance. Six weeks before D-Day, she was parachuted into the heavily-forested and mountainous Auvergne region of central France to prepare local Resistance groups, the Maquis, for the job of harrying the Germans and delaying their reinforcements once the invasion began.
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Nancy proved her mettle, arranging air drops and hiding supplies of weapons, travelling between the groups, paying out money, urging them to co-operate, knocking them, as best she could, into shape. She was as tough as the old army boots she eschewed for heels. With an escort of Maquisards, she shot her way through enemy patrols and roadblocks.
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She led attacks on German convoys and even took on armoured cars. When asked why she insisted on travelling in the lead vehicle, she said it was because she couldn’t bear dust being thrown up in her face by cars in front. In one mini-battle, her car was strafed by German fighter planes but she crawled out of the wreck, hanging onto her prized possessions — a jar of face cream, a packet of tea and a satin cushion. When the roads were too dangerous to travel by car, she cycled more than 300 miles in three days to find a working radio set to contact London.
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She was festooned with honours — a British George Medal, the French Legion d’Honneur and three Croix de Guerre. She remarried, returned to Australia to live, took up politics for a while, then came back to Britain to retire in 2001. Her body is to be cremated, but at her request the ashes will be scattered in the Auvergne.
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Those Damn French Drivers!
Airbus flew a double-decker Airbus A380 to the 2011 Paris Airshow to put on display and to hopefully attract additional customers. However, while taxiing, the world’s largest airliner’s wing clipped a building ripping off the right winglet and putting the aircraft out of service and unable to fly.
Luckily an A380 owned by Korean Air came to the rescue and flew one of their A380s t0 the Paris Air Show. Being the largest airliner has its benefits and challenges — this is not the first time the A380s size has been an issue. Recently, an Air France A380 struck the tail of a CRJ 700, causing it to spin out.
A spokesperson for Airbus told AirlineReporter.com that the A380, “took the taxiway it was instructed by ground control to take.”
A similar crunch happened a few years ago in Thailand.
The A380’s wingspan is much wider than the B747-400, at 79.8 meters (261.6 feet) compared to 64.5 meters. Even the Boeing 747-8 wingspan is “only” 68.5 meters (224 feet).
Only two larger aircraft have ever been built. Howard Hughe’s Spruce Goose, which sort of flew but once, has a wingspan of 319 feet (97.5 meters). The Soviet Antonov-225, of which only one was ever fully built, has a wingspan of 290 feet (88.4 meters).
Maybe the French pilots should learn to look to the side as well as out the front.
While Airbus draped the exhibition with billboards touting the world’s largest passenger plane as “Love at First Flight,” the A380’s initial rendezvous was with an airport building which kissed a wingtip and forced a return to the factory for repairs.
The wing strike was a rare misstep at a show dominated by orders for Airbus’s A320neo single-aisle model. With the damaged A380 gone for the first two days of the show, Boeing’s 747-8 Intercontinental in red “sunrise” livery made its debut in the expo’s static display and to add insult to injury won 19 orders or commitments as Airbus’s superjumbo came away empty-handed.
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The run-in with the structure wasn’t Airbus’s only mishap. The A400M, Airbus’s military transport, couldn’t perform a daily flight routine because of a glitch in the gearbox.
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open season on open borders … coming soon to your country
Some of the regulars at this site may recall a few days ago, I was on a rant of sorts with regard to the overcrowding of an Italian island with refugees.
Those folks have played havoc of course with the natives of the island who they may well outnumber.
Well BMEWS, here’s an update. Seems the French (Bravo) want to take another look at that agreement they signed about open borders some years ago.
They and the Italians are having an argument. Italy wants France to help more. France says NEIN! Oh wait. Wrong language but you get the idea.
You folks get upset in the USA over the way our borders there are seemingly unattended and libs banging away to allow more in etc. Hey, take a good look at Europe and view America’s future. It might not be in this situation with regard to war refugees on the border and overwhelming an island, but this is how things are here and the same sort of folks that believe in open arms and borders exist in plenty in the USA. Just saying, keep your eyes and ears open.
This is becoming a mess. I’m not sure if I’m right to blame the Conservative (Lite) PM, David (call me Dave) Cameron. But he it was got on his high moral horse after years and years of fun with Gadiffi, and decided he needed to support the “civilians” who are at odds with the govt. there. In a neat bit of some kind of 1984 the enemy is our friend now and our friend is our enemy, it’s decided and all apparently agree, that everyone with a gun who opposes Gadiffi is an innocent civilian, and everyone taking sides with Tripoli are not. It hasn’t occurred to some that there may actually be ppl there who do support him, who are not being held to some kind of ransom or being forced to fight for him. It’s a damn tribal thing as well, it’s a civil war that some thought would be “Over by Christmas, over there.”
Oh by the by people. The UN is now making noise about Syria and complaining about ... come on ... one word. “CIVILIANS” in harm’s way and DEMANDING the govt there stop what they are doing.
So then, there’s this rush of refugees mostly of the wrong sort that Italy can not handle and the French do not want. Oh Dear, oh dear what to do?
Why I know .... there’ll always be an England.
Take a look at what’s in store.
The Eurostar migrants: North African refugees mass at the Paris gateway to Britain as Sarkozy and Berlusconi row about open bordersBy PETER ALLEN
· Immigrants who have fled Tunisia say Britain is their ‘only hope’
· Franco-Italian immigration problems comes amid international business tensions and discord over Libya
· Agreement reached to revise Treaty to account for ‘exceptional’ circumstancesDesperate immigrants fleeing the chaos in North Africa are massing around the Eurostar terminal in Paris – prompting fears that they will head for Britain.
Most are refugees from the recent revolution in Tunisia and the continuing conflict in Libya who have arrived in Europe via Italy.
Up to 1,000 North Africans have set up temporary home in squares surrounding the Gare du Nord, from which fast trains reach the UK in less than two hours.Almost all are complaining about harassment from the French authorities. They say their hopes of finding accommodation and jobs in France are next to nil.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to do all he can to get rid of the migrants. Some 25,000 North Africans have arrived in Italy by sea since the start of ‘the Arab Spring’ and many then moved on to France.
We were treated as heroes during our Jasmine Revolution but now we are unwanted. People are already offering us passages to England.’ Mr Trikki was speaking from a makeshift camp on the Jemmapes quay in Paris, where charity workers were dishing out soup to some 400 migrants.
Another camp, at Porte de Villette, has Tunisian flags at the entrance. The 300 residents complain daily about the lack of food and threats from the police.
Khalid, a 27-year-old Tunisian, said: ‘We know that the English supported the Jasmine Revolution, and that they are also fighting for freedom in Libya by bombing Gaddafi.If a country is prepared to fight for us, then they will be prepared to welcome us as brothers.
We must be allowed to travel to countries like England.’
ANALYSIS: Quelle surprise! France discovers the need for stricter border controlsFor a quarter of a century, France – one of the architects of the 1985 Schengen agreement – has been the main cheerleader for Europe throwing its borders wide open, writes James Slack.
So there is a distinct irony that – now it is causing him a headache – President Sarkozy is leading demands for Schengen to be reformed.
In other words, the open movement permitted by Schengen is only a good thing for Europe when it is a good thing for France. Quelle surprise!
Schengen creates a single external border for Europe. People inside the boundary, which excludes Britain and Ireland, can move around freely, with security checks kept to a minimum.
France’s change of position over the wisdom of this policy is a response to the crisis in North Africa.
Since the beginning of February, the Italian island of Lampedusa has been overwhelmed by the arrival of more than 25,000 migrants. The majority of them are Tunisian.
Italy’s response was to grant a six-month visa for the Tunisian refugees who arrived before April 4. However, the temporary passport entitles its holders to free movement in the entire territory of Schengen.
Many of the Tunisians speak French, and would naturally wish to travel to France – prompting Mr Sarkozy and his colleagues to cry foul.
First, France decided to stop Italian trains carrying Tunisian migrants from entering its soil. Then, in a statement which must have brought a wicked smile to every British home secretary of recent years, the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, an ally of Mr Sarkozy, uttered the following: ‘It’s easy for Italy to be generous with other people’s territory.’
Which, of course, was precisely the view taken by France over the Sangatte refugee camp. For years, France was happy for illegal immigrants to mass by the Calais ferry ports and Eurostar terminals which lead to England – safe in the knowledge they would soon be somebody else’s problem.
During his time as French interior minister, Mr Sarkozy agreed to close the 2002 version of Sangatte only if the UK agreed to take in 1,200 refugees living there.
While it is tempting to laugh at the hypocrisy of Mr Sarkozy suddenly discovering the need for stricter border controls, that would be unwise.For there are already signs Mr Sarkozy’s tactic for dealing with the Tunisian problem will be a tried and tested one: allow the migrants to mass near Calais, and try to sneak into Britain. The Home Office – as is usual when dealing with France – must be on its guard.
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more news from la belle france
Might really be a good idea to speak the language if you’re in a position of authority in this sort of case.
I don’t think this could happen in any other country but France. Do you?
Take a look.
Entire workforce at French factory go on strike… because the boss only speaks EnglishBy PETER ALLEN
French workers have staged an uprising with cries of ‘Anglo-Saxon imperialism’ - because their British boss can’t speak the native tongue.
The 184 staff at Thermal Ceramics, an English company based in France, are holding walk-outs every day because discussions over their wages were getting lost in translation.Thierry Juvin, who represents the workers in Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez, in the Loire Valley, said: ‘We say “hello” in French but then communication stops. Every meeting is an ordeal.’
He said workers at the factory, which makes ceramic fibre insulation, wanted to discuss increasing their salaries and improving working conditions, but it was proving impossible.
Mr Juvin said: ‘We have to have someone who translates everything into English, and then anything our English boss says has to be translated into French.
‘This makes dialogue extremely slow, if not impossible.’
Mr Juvin said protests have been held most days since bosses who could only speak English began managing them earlier this year.
‘Our former director left in January and his replacement is an acting director abroad,’ said Mr Juvin. ‘He is English and does not speak any French. So we cannot communicate with him.’
The representative said staff, most of whom belong to one of France’s largest trade union’s CGT, had previously not gone on strike for more than two decades.
Mr Juvin said: ‘’We haven’t withdrawn our labour for twenty three years. Maybe this is because we could speak to our bosses.’
Pierrick Dumont, the trade union representative for the factory, said: ‘I don’t think it’s up to us to make the effort to speak English. We’re French workers based in France.’
Diane Gaillot, chief executive of Thermal Ceramics in France, said: ‘The problem is that the former director had a unique opportunity to go abroad and we have not had time to recruit a new director.
‘But the situation is temporary and we are currently recruiting phase. And certainly the next director will speak French.’
Miss Gaillot said the company had four sites across France, but the one in Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez, which is not far from Lyon, was the only one suffering industrial action.
She added that a meeting about the problems was due to be held in Paris this week.
France has a notoriously nationalistic workforce, with staff frequently complaining about the growing Anglicisation of working practices within the global economy.
This encompasses everything from English being used as the exclusive language of business to reduced lunch breaks.
Thermal Ceramics is a division of the British Morgan Crucible Company, which was founded in London in 1856 and has since expanded all over the world.
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Why are they called vandals? What the fruit faced non talent produced isn’t art. It isn’t even original in concept. And even if it were, it would not be art. Or perhaps at the very best it might be described as a degenerate display of a deranged mind. But never art.
OK, Rise up Christians everywhere. Riot! Get your axes out and behead those who .... who .... ooops. Wrong religion. Never Mind.
U.S. artist’s controversial ‘Piss Christ’ attacked by vandals in France
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A controversial piece of art which shows a crucifix bathed in urine has been vandalised in a gallery in southern France.
Police are today searching for the vandals who targeted the piece in Avignon just hours after 800 protesters held a demonstration against it.
The work by U.S. artist Andres Serrano - called ‘Piss Christ’ - is supposed to make a statement about the misuse of religion.
But when the part taxpayer-funded 1987 piece - which has also been described as ‘blasphemous’ - first went on display in the U.S. it was so controversial that it sparked a fierce debate about whether art should be publicly funded at all.
A second piece which shows a nun with her hands in her lap was also damaged during the break-in to the Collection Lambert modern art museum.
Mr Serrano’s work has previously been targeted by vandals while on display in Sweden and Australia.
Police said two people tried to enter the museum late on Sunday morning carrying a can of paint spray and a chisel in their jackets.
A guard removed the objects - just as a third person took a hammer to the piece.
The attacker struggled with a guard, but helped by an accomplice, managed to escape, police said.
The museum’s doors were shut yesterday for its weekly closing but it was expected to re-open today with the damaged work on display so that the public can see what the vandals have done.
French culture minister Frederic Mitterand described the incident as an ‘attack on the freedom of creation’.
Staff had closed early on Saturday because of the protest.
A worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said that they had also received death threats.
‘Several people have called saying, “If you open, you’re dead”,’ one museum worker said.
‘We’re nervous and we have asked for protection from the police.’
It was unclear whether the attack was linked to the earlier demonstration.
Serrano made the controversial work by placing a crucifix in urine and blood, and it has drawn criticism in the past from some Christian groups.
Young far-Right Christian activists from the General Alliance Against Racism and the Respect of the French and Christian Identity are taking the Collection Lambert to court tomorrow to try to have the crucifix photograph removed from the exhibit.
The group denounced the photograph on its website, saying it ‘insults and injures Christians at the heart of their faith’.
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