After conservative victories in Italy and England, are the French finally finding their way to a new and healthy alternative to both Jean-Marie Le Pen and Nicolas Sarkozy?



I doubt it.

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AT a recent book party high above Gramercy Park, Brian Gallagher, a young journalist, approached Robert Silvers, the longtime editor of The New York Review of Books. What, Mr. Gallagher asked, was that little red thread sewn onto Mr. Silvers’s suit lapel? “Legion of Honor,” Mr. Silvers answered, with a smile at once proud and slightly bashful. “It was for the paper,” he said, referring to his literary journal. /// [Evidently France can't afford to give out real medals, so they just give pieces of $100 a pop string. And Americans are happy to pay it.]

Israeli High Court hearing to revoke France 2's press credentials over forged coverage of Mohammad al-Dura's death. The lying Frog bastards.

The president is in trouble, and the president says that it is the president's fault. Not his own fault, but the fault of the previous president, Jacques Chirac, and the president before that and the president before that ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who celebrates one year in office next Friday, is now the least popular president in the half century of the French Fifth Republic. In a combative, and some said arrogant, pep talk to his centre-right parliamentarians last week, President Sarkozy blamed everyone but himself.

It was the fault of his former mentor, President Chirac, who had given up trying to reform France after six months. It was the fault of the French people, who detested change. It was the fault of the French press, which had turned itself into a rabid "opposition" because the nominal, Socialist-led opposition was so "useless".

The man you see above is Giuseppe Garibaldi, the only good Italian general since the days of the Roman Empire. He is the national hero of Italy, after kicking enough ass to unify Italy in the 1860s. A few years later, he answered France's desperate call for aid during the Franco-Prussian War, and won several more victories as commander of the all-volunteer "Army of the Vosges". The only thing he really wanted in return was for France to grant 'liberté' (or should we say, 'libertŕ') to his hometown of Nizza, which Napoleon III had stolen in 1859. How did the French show their gratitude? Take a guess!

The French are more miserable than at any time since records began, a new survey has revealed.

Soaring inflation, unemployment and widespread dis-satisfaction with their daily lives have plunged the nation to historic low of gloominess, researchers found.

But Carla is able to smile, that bitch!

He may look like Batman in an oversized latex suit, but David Tomaszewski, 23, hopes that his Gallic superhero, named after the chic Parisian square which houses the Ritz, will take France and the world by storm. "I thought: why can’t we too have a superhero, a French one in our cinemas?" Mr Tomaszewski told the Telegraph. No, this is not the Onion. Let the fun begin.

"Give us back Denmark" says the latest slogan of the Danish People's Party along with a nice pic .... see inside

France mostly ignored Canada's national unity debate as Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean continued Friday to receive rock-star media treatment.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's powerful tribute on Thursday to Canada's war heroes, and his comments that touched lightly on sensitive areas of Canada-France and Ottawa-Quebec City relations, were barely noticed.

But Ms. Jean's role in ceremonies Thursday in the picturesque port city of La Rochelle, where 45 boats set sail for Canada to celebrate Quebec City's 400th anniversary, was splashed prominently on the pages of several regional French newspapers.

Nicolas Sarkozy: At least I'm not Gordon Brown - fuck Gordon has done ten months - it was a struggle 2 drag NuLabour down but he has managed it and in only ten months - give him credit where credit is due you have only been at it a couple of months - President Nicolas Sarkozy has told critics who blame him for his party’s recent electoral losses: things could be much worse, just look at Gordon Brown. - Nicolas Sarkozy the pimp - - he will just publish some pics of his Mrs naked for the fWench 2 wank over and all this nastiness will soon be forgotten

France is reducing its tank force, currently consisting of the AMX-56 LeClerc, apparently they discovered, they won't ever be used in combat... with French forces, and no one else wants to buy them.

ANKARA - A senior French official pledged Tuesday that his country would not seek to block Turkey's European Union accession talks when it takes over the bloc's presidency in July. "France has no intention of breaking up Turkey's negotiation process," French Secretary of State for European Affairs Jean-Pierre Jouyet told reporters after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan. "The French presidency will be impartial, fair and objective," he added. In other words: Fartbagstan surrenders once more

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced new measures to deal with repeat sex offenders in response to a paedophile scandal. Mr Sarkozy said a secure hospital would be built to detain paedophiles. In future, he added, offenders would not be released until doctors had decided they were no longer dangerous. The moves follow an admission by a prison doctor that he prescribed Viagra to a serial child molester accused of attacking a boy after his release. There goes Saxxxonsucksblackcocks (aka : NAMBLA face) there goes flupke (aka: The online predator), there goes pipicaca (aka: Shit boy) there goes Wily Bi (aka: Incest Man I) the goes Leretard 59 (aka: The part-time sicko priest) there goes 80% of the frog-rats on this site. there goes 60% of Paedostanis (aka: Fartbagstanis, aka: Homostanis)

In Europe, same-store sales rose 6.3 percent, led by France, the U.K., Russia and Germany. Only 2 percent in US. McDonalds is practically a French institution now.

Jeez...

Model builder takes third place in regional contest with jab at the "cheese eating surrender monkeys"

French prosecutors suspect engineering giant Alstom, builder of power stations and high-speed trains, of bribing foreign officials to win contracts, a judicial source said Tuesday. Prosecutors started an investigation on November 7 into suspected "corruption of foreign public agents" and "abusive use of assets," the source said. The source spoke after The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported evidence that the company had "paid hundreds of million dollars in bribes to win contracts in Asia and South America between 1995 and 2003." The auditors allegedly found evidence that Alstom had circulated about 20 million euros (31 million dollars) to "shell companies" in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which was transferred to marketing people working for Alstom in Singapore, Indonesia, Venezuela and Brazil, "in stacks of 100-dollar bills." One former Alstom consultant, named as Michel Mignot, said: "I never took a cent for myself." He said: "I didn't think the transactions were illegal, because they were done to get civil engineering contracts around the world." LMAO! Bribery of public officials is perfectly acceptable to the frogs-CONFIRMED!

People blessed themselves and prayed aloud, while children cried as an Air France flight lurched through the sky. Passengers said that people blessed themselves and prayed aloud, while children cried as an Air France flight from Manchester to Paris lurched through the sky. It had to climb about 10,000ft to avoid the other plane after the pilot realised that he was too close, passengers claimed.

EU Discord Stalls Action on Illegal Immigration / Fight Over Who Hosts Refugees Halts Patrol Plan "There are laws of the sea that says people must be rescued," said Jemini Pandya, a spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration. At the same time, states have a right to control access to their countries. "There is no obligation for them to accept these people," she said. . . .[Evidently, Europe hasn't figured out that they don't *have* to take these people in, but that they *could* return them to where they came from (like we do with some of our Mexicans). How odd. Maybe Yurp just doesn't have enough boats or airplanes to spare to send them back home.]

ABC News Speaks to the Half Brother and Sister Determined to Be Together Despite Social Opposition Danielle Heaney and Nick Cameron are in love. But their love is taboo. They're half brother and sister. In Scotland, as in the United States, it's Illegal. And Heaney and Cameron have been charged with incest. One day, they hope to move to France, where their love is legal www.youtube.com . . . abcnews.go.com . . .

Airbarf can't give le Bosche plants away, and the unions won't cooperate, insisting work and paychecks must continue, regardless of management decisions. .... The divestment process is a key plank of Airbus's "Power 8" restructuring plan aimed at cutting costs in the wake of damaging delays to its aircraft production timetable, and in the face of a strong euro. .... But the plans are opposed by unions and caused political fireworks in France and Germany last year, while the relentless rise of the euro against the dollar has led Latecoere, which makes doors for Airbus and Boeing, to move its own production out of the euro zone. .... PFFffft !

Here we see the modern fwance:

He must have been trying to get a date.

French prosecutors suspect engineering giant Alstom, builder of power stations and high-speed trains, of bribing foreign officials to win contracts, a judicial source said Tuesday. Prosecutors started an investigation on November 7 into suspected "corruption of foreign public agents" and "abusive use of assets," the source said. The source spoke after The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported evidence that the company had "paid hundreds of million dollars in bribes to win contracts in Asia and South America between 1995 and 2003." HERE WE GO AGAIN

McCain recognized that the primarily French run company EADS was a superior company to Boeing. And so when EADS recently won a 35 billion dollar contract to make refueling tankers for the USAF he decided to throw his weight behind the project. Well done McCain; good to see you recognize what great products French companies have to offer

Shares in European aerospace firm EADS have fallen on reports that unit Airbus could be forced to further delay deliveries of its A380 superjumbo. = German media said that Airbus might not be able to deliver the 25 superjumbos promised in 2009.

France reveals British WWI cave camp - France has reopened a labyrinth of medieval quarries under the northern town of Arras which the British army converted into an underground hideout for 24,000 soldiers during World War I. The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby went to investigate.

An oglers' guide to the sexual charms of France's "magnificent women" has been produced - by a senior aide to President Nicolas Sarkozy. The controversial book lists numerous districts of Paris and what men can expect to find there. Menilmontant, for example, is full of "perfectly shameless cleavages, radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra."

So, why Cinco de Mayo? And why should Americans savor this day as well? Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. www.vivacincodemayo.org . . .

All Bretons were immediately rounded up.

England looks set to suffer more stinking gas attacks from Fnarse as a fnerch Doctor is advising his smelly compatriots to let rip at every available opportunity.

A French doctor is urging his countrymen to give free rein to flatulence, sweating and other bodily taboos to reduce the risk of cancer. In his book, Le Grand Ménage (Spring cleaning), Frédéric Saldmann invites them to embrace the stereotypical British view of the French and to have a relaxed attitude to bodily functions.

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Paris -- Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie, who died in a French prison, received a commission from the French government for an arms deal he helped negotiate with a former Bolivian dictator, according to extracts from a book published Thursday in the weekly L'Express.

If you are hunting for a thug, Nazi or otherwise, you can save a lot of effort by checking out France's business partners.

The European dream is under assault, as the wave of inflation sweeping the globe mixes with this continent’s long-stagnant wages. Families that once enjoyed Europe’s vaunted quality of life are pinching pennies to buy necessities, and cutting back on extras like movies and vacations abroad. Potentially more disturbing — especially to the political and social order — are the millions across the continent grappling with the realization that they may have lives worse, not better, than their parents.

French aid worker killed in Chad - fuck only one?? not worth the bother posting really - but I suppose it is better than nothing - A French aid worker has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in eastern Chad, an aid group has said.

Those dastardly Americans have turned on another peace-loving European bastion of peace and liberty. On Thursday morning, the minions of that former British colony across the Atlantic ordered the diplomatic legation of the Republic of Belarus out of their country. Belarus thus joins other European states, such as France, who have drawn the wrath of the United States in recent years. This must be stopped! Europe must band together against the unjust American ostracism of nations it disagrees with! Men and women of Europe, unite! Come to the aid of beleaguered Belarus! Fly the Belarusian flag! Bring Belarus into the bosom of the EU and the Euro, and deny America the ability to bully Belarus with dollar diplomacy!

France's top diplomat sought help from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday to press for the liberation of rebel-held hostages in Colombia. "We spoke about the liberation of the hostages, all of the hostages, of course Ingrid, but also all of the others," Kouchner said after emerging from the presidential palace. He revealed few details of the conversation. Or the amount of ransom paid

America does not have easy access to the exterior world. Both east and west, the next country is thousands of kilometers on the other side of an ocean. To the north and south, separated by abstract borders, are two countries that Americans have always decided to take less than seriously: they see the Canadians as quasi-Americans, who either still speak French or have British accents; and they see the Mexicans as omnipresent supplementary workers, invisible in the US economy, who take work that Americans don't want to do. Thus, the USA finds itself in a milieu of only itself. The rest of the world appears not as a real world, but as "the show," mostly admiring, sometimes menacing, but in any case a bit unreal and foreign, from what one can see from afar in the American point of view. The media does not consider the world except as it relates to the USA in this market, this interest, this conflict, this terrorist attack, especially where it involves American troops. Where America has no presence, there is no other world and no other country: to be is to be perceived by the USA (one must never forget that Berkeley taught immaterialism at Providence, Rhode Island in the beginning of the 18th century). America "immaterializes" the rest of the world. It is therefore closed unto itself, like many small countries. In fact, it is a very small country. But that is not immediately apparent, since it is actually very big. The discussion of the current presidential campaign confirms this malaise ... revolves around this question: "What do they think of us abroad? " This actually means: "Why does the world hate us?" * * * [I have never, ever, not one single time, heard any American ask this question. Not even my most loony liberal acquaintances have ever asked "why do they hate us". I wonder what it says psychologically that the rest of the world insistently keeps thinking that we *do* worry about whether or not they "like" us.]

The French are more miserable than at any time since records began, a new survey has revealed. Soaring inflation, unemployment and widespread dis-satisfaction with their daily lives have plunged the nation to historic low of gloominess, researchers found. The study into happiness levels in French households showed that on a scale of plus 100 points for "total contentment" to minus 100 for "utter misery", the average French man and woman scored "minus 37".

HAHAHAHAHA Most miserable; CHECK Highest suicide rates: CHECK Highest anti-depression drug usage: CHECK Most self-deluded: CHECK AND CHECK

PARIS (AP) — A judge said Tuesday it was not within his jurisdiction to ban an Internet video of motor racing chief Max Mosley with prostitutes, but he ordered the French recall of newspapers containing photos of the scene. So, someone who is a public figure in Fwance is protected from having photos or stories about his wild ways published in the Fwench papers. Did not stop the press from publishing photos of Sarko's current wife. That guy must have paid off a bunch of people in the government to get special treatment. OK, Fwench members, tell me again about your freedoms in Fwance. You know, the Freedom of the Press, the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of Religion. We have those freedoms in the States.