THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.-- Albert Camus

 

FRANCE

Nov 13 07:32

Recession reports - French industrial output declines

Bloomberg reported that French industrial production fell in September 2008 for a second month, led by declining automobile output, as French economy slid into recession.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

This is the dark side of globalism. When one nation collapses, it drags all the others down with it.

Nov 05 07:48

Sarkozy adviser says La Poste sell-off plan halted

Plans for a partial privatisation of France's state-owned post office operator La Poste will not go ahead for the moment given the current market turmoil, a senior adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Probably took a look at the Charlie Foxtrot that happened when the US privatized their postal service.

Oct 30 08:57

Sarkozy and the voodoo doll

There is never any respite with Nicolas Sarkozy. When France's president is not touring the world to save it, he's threatening to sue journalists or publishers for lèse majesté. Unlike any French president before him, he hasn't understood that universal suffrage has elevated him above all parties and trite bickering. In fact, Nicolas Sarkozy remains what he always was: a business lawyer. Little did he expect though, when he sued a publisher for commercialising a voodoo doll representing him, that a judge would rebuke his demand.

Oct 26 10:51

Air France-KLM warning as sector sounds alarm bells

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest airline, issued a profit warning yesterday against a background of sharply deteriorating international air traffic and forecast losses for the global industry.

Oct 26 07:57

Just 1 percent of French want McCain to win vote: poll

Oct 22 07:44

2-French banks may need more cash despite aid

France's banks won some respite from the ravages of the financial crisis through a 10.5 billion-euro ($13.91 billion) state cash injection, although analysts said the banks may yet need more help.

Oct 21 11:00

Sarkozy calls for halt to foreign ownership

Nicolas Sarkozy risked blowing apart the European consensus over how to deal with the financial crisis by proposing today that each country launch sovereign wealth funds to take stakes in key industries to stop them falling into foreign hands.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Stepping back from globalism?

Oct 21 08:44

BOMBSHELL! French Police investigate Sarkozy's background as Mossad agent

Frankly, I don't know how it is that a MAJOR French newspaper reports such news and it is not headlines all over the world... We have been saying in this blog that Sarkozy has Zionist 'preferences'... We were saying that Sarkozy was a Zionist agent...

Oct 12 11:01

Barclays faces Paris money laundering trial

Societe Generale, the French unit of Barclays and two other banks are to face trial in Paris on charges that they abetted a money laundering operation between France and Israel, judicial officials said yesterday.

Oct 11 07:34

Diaries of former spy chief Yves Betrand reveal secrets of French leaders

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.

Oct 07 09:20

France's former elite go on trial over arms trade - link to McCain!

The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners yesterday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Ties to Arizona's Jet Set???

According to this article, John McCain recerived campaign donations from Pierre Falcone's wife!

Maybe Sarah should rethink trying to link Obama to the Weather Underground when her own campaign is funded by illegal arms trade!

Oct 05 10:02

French troops: We won't go to Afghanistan

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Viva le France!

Oct 03 07:24

France seeks €300bn rescue fund for Europe

France heaped pressure on Gordon Brown last night by floating an ambitious plan for a €300 billion (£237 billion) bailout fund to rescue crippled banks across Europe.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Hey, those stupid Americans fell for it; we should do the same thing!!"

Sep 20 08:46

France worries about getting splattered with U.S. economic 'toxic waste'

"France wasn't in the eye of the storm and the center from which the toxic waste came," said Daniel Cohen, a professor of economics at the École Normale Supérieure. "But we're going to get a fair amount in the face. And Europe may at the end of the day be hit worse than the United States."

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"I don't see where there is a problem." -- Official White Horse Souse

Sep 07 10:00

France elbows U.S. aside in Syria negotiations

A senior diplomatic source close to the Turkish-mediated talks between Israel and Syria said the United States has been persuaded that it should take part in the talks, but that France has "pushed itself" into Syria; and French President Nicolas Sarkozy's participation in talks in Damascus have led the U.S. to cancel its decision for now.

Aug 23 16:42

Pressure grows on Nicolas Sarkozy for Afghanistan pullout

The findings of Le Parisien poll came amid growing debate over France's role in the Nato force in Afghanistan, with Mr Sarkozy being accused of entrenching his country in an unwinnable conflict.

Aug 16 08:22

Russia signs French-brokered peace deal

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Sarkozy came out of this looking like a statesman, while the world watched a drunk US President grope the girl's Olympic volleyball team.

Aug 05 10:08

France accused in Rwanda genocide

Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed.

An independent Rwandan commission said France was aware of preparations for the genocide and helped train the ethnic Hutu militia perpetrators.

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Merde!