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

As usual the frunch being good collabos and good nazis, decided that attacking Jews in their smelly capital called Paris-tine was okay. The Israeli martial arts 'Krav Maga' class will take place at central Bnei Akiva branch in the 19th quarter in Paris," concluded the statement. We are warning you the french, it is not the 30s anymore unfortunately for you, we have a State now! French Jews leave that country called France to live in Israel, there you will not depend on the good will of the antisemitic french.

NAZI Germany, Rwanda, Iraq, and now Sudan

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France suggested on Wednesday it could support suspending an international indictment of Sudan's president for war crimes if Khartoum met several conditions including ending the killings in Darfur. In July the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, asked the court's judges to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region.

The movement against racism and for friendship between people (MRAP), has announced on wednesday evening to have complained to the high authority of struggle against all discriminations (HALDE, equivalent of ACLU) after a young muslim woman has been rejected from a driving-school for wearing the islamic scarf.

Zimbabwe scolds France over human rights criticism

Paris prosecutors have decided that an attack on three Jewish youths earlier in September did not have anti-Semitic motives. three Muslim/African immigrants who began to throw chestnuts in their direction. When one of the counselors asked them why they were being attacked, the assailants began shouting anti-Semitic remarks.

France urging NATO to take the gloves off and get more aggressive when it comes to the rules of engangement for troops in Afghanistan. Yes, FRANCE.

Self-Explicit Post

‘France needs convinced Catholics who aren’t afraid to affirm who they are and what they believe in . . . Catholics who are fully Christian, and Christians who are fully active.” These seem like perfectly fitting sentiments for Pope Benedict to express during his pastoral visit to France this weekend. But these are actually the words of his host, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, spoken last December at the Vatican during an unusual — and unusually thoughtful — official reflection on French secularism.

The statue will be about 6 1/2 feet tall. Dirty, bottom sucking fish.

The Lebanese Àl-Akhbar newspaper, which is close to Hezbollah, informed readers that Nikolas Sarkozy, the French President stated on his short term tour to Damascus that Paris does not view Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Fwance love for muzzie terrorists is eternal...

Teachers and parents in France have accused the education minister of promoting American "bling-bling" schooling, after he proposed to award Olympic-style medals to students who pass their exams.

French shows outrage at Rwanda genocide accusations, but France is yet to rebut accusations of complicity in genocide. The names of those implicated, including Dominique de Villepin, read like a Who’s Who of the French political establishment

... For some reason Emirates just can't get delivery on the 2nd of 58 firm orders. ... EATS has assured them that all 58 will be delivered within the next 45 years, ... complete with working showers and operational electrical circuitry and avionics. Furthermore, the next ones will be built entirely by Arab nomads.