A tale of skulduggery and intrigue has emerged in France, where the former intelligence chief is suspected of spying on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wives and lovers as part of an effort to smear him. The revelations have cast an unusual light on the grubby underbelly of French politics and the extent to which the intelligence service has been used as a tool for settling personal vendettas instead of defending state interests. Also disclosed: A former minister had sex with “little boys” in the Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco; Another minister was addicted to cocaine A third minister was investigated by the tax authorities; A French police chief got involved in a big gold purchase in Lebanon; Chirac had a facelift in Canada; 2.5 million - The number of citizens on whom French intelligence keeps files

The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732),[3] also called the Battle of Poitiers and in Arabic: ãÚÑßÉ ÈáÇØ ÇáÔåÏÇÁ ý (ma‘arakat Balâṭ ash-Shuhadâ’) Battle of Court of The Martyrs[4], was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, near the village of Moussais-la-Bataille (modern Vouneuil-sur-Vienne) about 20km north of Poitiers. The location of the battle was close to the border between the Frankish realm and then-independent Aquitaine. The battle pitted Frankish and Burgundian[5][6] forces under Austrasian Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by ‘Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-general of al-Andalus. The Franks were victorious, ‘Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi was killed, and Charles subsequently extended his authority in the south. Ninth-century chroniclers, who interpreted the outcome of the battle as divine judgment in his favour, gave Charles the nickname Martellus ("The Hammer"), possibly recalling Judas Maccabeus ("The Hammerer") of the Maccabean revolt.[7][8] Details of the battle, including its exact location and the exact number of combatants, cannot be determined from accounts that have survived. Notably, the Frankish troops won the battle without cavalry.[9] As later chroniclers praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, pre-20th century historians began to characterize this battle as being the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe. "Most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers (Tours), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe."[10] Leopold von Ranke felt that "Poitiers was the turning point of one of the most important epochs in the history of the world."[11] While modern historians are divided and there is considerable disagreement as to whether or not the victory was responsible — as Gibbon and his generation of historians claimed, and which is echoed by many modern historians — for saving Christianity and halting the conquest of Europe by Islam, there is little dispute that the battle helped lay the foundations of the Carolingian Empire and Frankish domination of Europe for the next century. "The establishment of Frankish power in western Europe shaped that continent's destiny and the Battle of Tours confirmed that power."[12]

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Fuck you stinkies!

The drug-taking habits, sexual appetites and even the face lifts of some of France's most senior politicians have been revealed in eye-watering detail after the secret notes of an intelligence chief were leaked.

Not a surprise for literature's lovers, French Jean-Marie Le Clezio won the Nobel prize for literature. In addition with Medecine Nobel Price awarded to French Luc Montagnier, this gives an idea of the influence of France in Arts and Science today.

The International Cycling Union said the seven-time Tour de France champion can compete in the Jan. 20-25 Tour Down Under, his first race since coming out of retirement after three years. A strict application of testing rules would not have allowed the 37-year-old Texan to compete until Feb. 1, 2009, six months after he filed paperwork with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. In seperate news, France's cycle team has given up hope of winning the next Tour de Lance

A Paris prosecutor recommended Tuesday that former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin stand trial over suspicions he had a hand in a campaign to smear Nicolas Sarkozy before Sarkozy was elected president. The prosecutor, Jean-Claude Marin, recommended to two judges that Villepin be tried on charges of "complicity in slanderous denunciations," according to a statement from the prosecutor's office. Villepin could face up to five years in prison if convicted. Couldn't of happened to a more deserving guy...

An investigation into terrorist activities in the region of Rhône-Alpes has been making headlines. So far, Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie has expressed her righteous indignation, one hapless functionary has been reprimanded and demoted, and the prefect of the Rhône has spewed forth his apologies to the Muslim community lest they be offended. Your turn is around the corner, stinkies Vive le Francrapstan.

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston ), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

French prosecutors have called for former PM Dominique de Villepin to face trial over an alleged plot to smear President Nicolas Sarkozy.

I guess not much of a difference between a dog and an average frog

PARIS, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A court official in Paris said a dog named Scooby has become the first animal called to testify before a court in France. A veterinarian recommended Judge Thomas Cassuto call Scooby to the witness box to see how the animal reacted to a suspect, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

You've gotta be shitting me!

Luc Montagnier discovered he AIDS virus in 1983. Dr Gallo, a US scientist claimed he also did. But Dr Gallo is NOT credited in this Nobel prize. End of the story.

Total yields in fight for Buncefield blast losses - Total, the French oil group, has been accused of putting hundreds of residents living near the site of a vast fuel depot explosion through years of "unnecessary struggle" after abandoning its defence to their compensation claims yesterday. -

Thirteen members of France’s political establishment go on trial today over the sale of millions of dollars in weapons to oil-rich Angola in spite of an international arms embargo. Jacques Attali, an advisor to France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, son of former President François Mitterrand, Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister and the Israeli politician Arkadi Gaydamak are among those accused of helping to facilitate $790m (€576m) of arms sales to Angola during the period Angola was in the midst of a brutal civil war that killed an estimated 500,000 people between 1993-98. Apparently, Rwanda's genocide wasn't enough for the French "elite" - they had to slaughter 1/2 million more people. The frogs are one seriously fucked up people...

France loves America, when we are commies like them. I hate fucking europe and europeans. Death to the Euros.

This article appears at the website of l'Union, a local newspaper serving the northern departments of Champagne, Ardennes and Picardie. It describes the changing face of the city of Orgeval, north of Reims, in the rural Ardennes region: In Orgeval, the French of North African origin and their businesses are now largely in the majority. The "classic" French increasingly feel ill at ease.

This is proof, repent, the end times are here. The sound on the wife's PC isnt working so tell me what they are saying.

Mounted police are to start patrolling schools in Paris's toughest suburb as gang violence among pupils increases.

A terrible tragedy which could have easily been avoided if the fnerchies stuck to what they're good at, like making cheese and such.

A skydiving stunt before a football match ended in horror when the parachutist landed in the crowd, killing himself and causing the death of a teenage spectator. Sylvain Chabrol, 42, was meant to deliver the match ball to the players before the friendly between France and Ukraine under-18s. But his chute failed to open properly and, instead of landing on the pitch near Orleans, he hit a stadium floodlight, then plunged into the crowd.

By Francois Murphy and Ralph Boulton PARIS/LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Friday the world stood on the "edge of the abyss", gripped by a global financial crisis now threatening industry, trade and jobs worldwide. Fillon's words echoed a growing sense of alarm sweeping EU capitals ahead of an expected U.S. Congressional vote on Friday on a $700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry. Approval is far from certain.

The French patriotic Right has always had trouble unifying into one strong voice that speaks for French interests. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, destroyed his own chances through his deliberate and well-timed provocations and his refusal to give up his one-clan rule of the FN. Determined to stay on as party leader, though he is now 80 years old, Le Pen denies to anyone outside the Le Pen family the opportunity of taking control. He even forces his daughter Marine to kill precious time as she waits for her father to give up his personal stranglehold over the party (although Marine's bad ideas were largely responsible for the FN's poor showing in the presidential election). Over time many disgruntled and disillusioned party members broke with Le Pen and eventually formed a new party: the Nouvelle Droite Populaire (NDP), headed by Jean-François Touzé, which has as its goal a nationalist agenda founded on stopping the Islamization of France and restoring national identity, minus the provocative remarks that discredited the FN. Among these remarks were the well-publicized anti-Semitic cracks, as well as statements condoning the possession of nuclear reactors by Iran, and several attacks on the US, including one where he called 9/11 an "incident." It now turns out that the NDP has split in two, with the ouster of Touzé, accused of being "pro-American" – what the French term "Atlantiste". This came about as a result of his comments condemning the "visceral" anti-American reaction on the part of the NDP to the events in Georgia, where Russia asserted her nationalist interests in the face of America's pro-European, pro-Georgian, pro-NATO and pro-oil-based interests. The French blogger Yves Daoudal has this brief: Jean-François Touzé was "general secretary" of the Nouvelle Droite Populaire. On September 13, he was "placed in a minority" due to his "liberal and pro-American positions that run contrary to the great majority of members of the party." And he did not change his "behavior". "The Statutory Bureau of the NDP therefore decided, by virtue of article 8 of the statutes, to proceed in the exclusion of Jean-François Touzé from the party for grave errors." This measure became effective "September 17, 2008 at 2:00 p.m." Jean-François Touzé immediately announced the creation of a new party... Dickhead frogs

French "youths" are at it again. This time they shot a cop. I bet they are all typical French kids with names like Pierre and Jacque.

Remember how stinkies were bitching that US did not sign the idiotic Kyoto agreement?

Associated Press - September 30, 2008 3:34 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - France is asking European Union governments to give carmakers far more time to adapt to new limits on greenhouse gas emissions. France is making the suggestions in a document seen today by The Associated Press. France says carmakers should not have to adhere to rules limiting average carbon dioxide emissions from all new cars until 2015. That's three years later than EU regulators had first proposed.

Did French establishment figures sell illegal arms to Angola for oil

Meet Olivier Besancenot, the 34-year-old mailman and spokesman for the small Trotskyite Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) who has just emerged as the founder and leader of the New Anticapitalist party (le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, NPA). According to a recent OpinionWay/Le Figaro/LCI poll, 17 percent of the French are considering supporting him. Bertrand Delanoë gets only 13 percent, Ségolène Royal 9 percent. Among Socialist and other left-wing voters, Besancenot's rise is even more dramatic: Twenty-six percent already see him as the "best opposition leader," whereas Delanoë gets 19 percent, Socialist chairman François Hollande 10 percent, and Royal 9 percent. Moreover, 65 percent of all respondents say they have a "very positive" opinion of him. Besancenot's aim is to reunite the former Communists and restore their political weight. He is getting support from all sides. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the French-German icon of the 1968 student revolution in France and a leader of the German Green party, backs him. So does, apparently, Nicolas Hulot, the French Al Gore (a TV anchorman who launched a big "nonpolitical ecology awareness" movement two years ago). José Bové, the self-styled "organic farmer" who made his name attacking McDonald's, jumped on board too. Even more important, Clémentine Autain, once the great hope of the moribund Communist party and a feminist activist, has signed up with the NPA. And as for the recently paroled Jean-Marc Rouillan, the former head of Action Directe, a terrorist group responsible for several murders in the 1970s, Besancenot let it be known that the two had lunch together recently.

A Frenchman inspired by the film ET has set off on an attempt to become the first person to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered airship.

"The world is undergoing a crisis that was born in the United States, which we should not underestimate," Sarkozy said. America sneeezes, France catches pneumonia.

hi mauviettes ca gaze le declin ?

The outing of public relations man Ethan Winner as the poster of a professionally-produced anti-Sarah Palin smear video to YouTube has brought the company Publicis to the American public’s attention. The Los Angeles-based Winner & Associates public relations firm — including company CEO Chuck Winner — appear to have been involved in a concerted effort to make the anti-Palin video “go viral” on the Internet. Winner & Associates is a 100% owned subsidiary of French giant Publicis. The principal shareholder in Publicis is Élisabeth Badinter. Ms. Badinter is well-known in France as a “feminist” philosopher and the author of numerous books. Her husband is none other than Robert Badinter, a renowned French jurist and Socialist Party politician, whose career is closely intertwined with that of the late French president François Mitterrand. Frogs meddling in the US Presidential election...These left wing collabo frogs must be arrested immediately and sent to Gitmo.

Chinese Astrowoks embark on historic mission

I love this quote "They don't even know where Israel is, let alone understand their own religion," he said. "It's not an extreme Islam here." AltesEurope and Lily42 say stuff like this all the time. Hilarious.

Plans showing a pyramid-like tower rising 180 metres above Paris - the first skyscraper to be built inside the French capital in 30 years - have been leaked to the press ahead of Thursday's official unveiling.

In a country where eating out is an important part of everyday life, there is growing evidence that the French are skipping starters and coffee or simply staying at home to cope with food and fuel price hikes. France's love affair with food is also being challenged by the country's top food brands, which have angered consumers by quietly reducing the weight of their packaged products to cut costs and swapped traditional ingredients for cheaper alternatives.

EADS Threatens to Halt Production of Military Cargo Plane

The French lower house voted Monday to continue with and beef up its mission in in Afghanistan despite crumbling public support for the deployment. The lower house of Parliament voted 343 to 210 to keep France's 3,300 troops in Afghanistan and nearby areas. The upper house, the Senate, will also vote on the issue. The votes Monday are the first under a constitutional amendment approved in July that requires lawmakers to vote on any foreign military operation lasting more than four months, news agency AP reported. The French government is also to send more helicopters, equipment and an extra 100 troops to Afghanistan following the recent death of 10 of its soldiers in an ambush near Kabul, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Monday.

Key Lehman Employees to Get $2.5 Billion in Bonuses

A secret NATO review obtained by The Globe and Mail shows that the French who were killed in August did not have enough bullets, radios and other equipment. By contrast, the insurgents were dangerously well prepared. /// MICHAEL YON SAYS: I was able to carefully read the secret NATO/ISAF report cited in this news story, which does a good job of reporting the facts in the report. Photographs published in the report showed very accurate fire on the French vehicles, which supports the claim that the Taliban are becoming more proficient with their small arms fire. The document also indicated that the Taliban had used armor piercing bullets in the ambush. The French soldiers were completely unprepared for this level of combat. Apparently, the survivors were rescued by American forces, including "Green Berets" who were nearby. ///FROM THE COMMENTS: "Unfortunately the mental Maginot Line behind which most Europeans live is constructed of the following blocks, among others: - Americans are in general stupid, and their troops aren't that good. - The American armed forces are walking all over the Islamists on the field of battle. - Consequently Islamists are ludicrously inept fighters, and not a threat. Their errors are on display here, for those who have eyes to see."

First it was the choppers. Now - space rockets. Russia is the sopurce of advanced technologies for Yurp. LOL

MOSCOW: The commercial arm of the European Space Agency, Arianespace, is to buy 10 Soyuz booster rockets for launch from a facility in French Guiana under a contract signed Saturday, Russian news agencies reported. The deal was signed by Arianespace chairman Jean-Yves Le Gall and the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos, Anatoly Perminov, after a French-Russian governmental cooperation commission meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, RIA-Novosti, Interfax and ITAR-Tass reported.

Time for France to become the 1st pirate-busting nation in the world! You've had some practice, and are getting quite good at it. Fuck Somalia with a broken bottle.

France may be home to some of the world's finest wines but it could be about to join the tiny club of Muslim states that forbid their promotion on the internet. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA