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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/76/0 en http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1223484/British-War-Hero-Captain-Peter-Lake-helped-liberate-France-rudely-told-home-French-leader-reveals-Government-files.html <p>Captain Peter Lake trained dozens of members of the Maquis - rural resistance fighters - in sabotage and guerilla warfare and was decorated by the French and the British.</p> <p>So when Lake finally met General Charles de Gaulle - the leader of the Free French Forces - he might have expected at the very least a warm welcome.</p> <p>What he got was a distinct froideur.</p> <p>De Gaulle - whose country had only just been liberated with help from the likes of Lake - questioned what the British officer was doing in France and in no uncertain terms told him 'go home'.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/british-war-hero-peter-lake-who-helped-liberate-france-was-rudely-told-go-home-french-leader" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/british-war-hero-peter-lake-who-helped-liberate-france-was-rudely-told-go-home-french-leader#comments FRANCE Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:08:18 +0000 Mike Rivero 44337 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/28/sarkozy-shower-spending-eu <p>French financial watchdogs slammed Nicolas Sarkozy for spending £160m during his country's six-month stint in charge of the EU – including £250,000 on a personal presidential shower that he never used.</p> <p>The vast expense is set out in a report blaming poor management and a lack of transparency by the president's staff.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-spends-%C2%A3250000-french-eu-budget-shower-he-did-not-use" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-spends-%C2%A3250000-french-eu-budget-shower-he-did-not-use#comments FRANCE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:11:07 +0000 malterwitty 44311 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.fleshandstone.net/healthandsciencenews/1662.html <p>In what is being seen as the first of many such actions to come, nine individuals have filed formal charges claiming that the H1N1 campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison the French population.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/police-define-political-activism-%E2%80%98domestic-extremism%E2%80%99-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/police-define-political-activism-%E2%80%98domestic-extremism%E2%80%99-0#comments FRANCE SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:32 +0000 malterwitty 44093 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.aspx?id=108800&sectionid=351020603 <p>French authorities have discovered enough undeclared plutonium to make five nuclear bombs at a nuclear facility south of the country.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/undeclared-plutonium-scandal-haunts-france" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/undeclared-plutonium-scandal-haunts-france#comments FRANCE WMD Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0000 Mike Rivero 44081 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=2&id=15066 <p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Moscow expected all parties to approve the deal.</p> <p>“We are counting on not only Iran, but all the other participants fo the negotiations, to confirm their readiness to implement the proposed scheme,” he told reporters in Moscow, according to Reuters.</p> <p>French Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Bernard Valero, told reporter in Paris: “The draft agreement suits France. We have made this known in an official manner.”</p> <p>Iran said it did not want France to be part of any dealDiplomats say that Russia will take all of the uranium Iran will ship, but it will sub-contract any additional processing to France, so that no direct negotiations between Paris and Tehran are required, reports AFP.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/russia-france-approve-iran-uranium-supply-deal" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/russia-france-approve-iran-uranium-supply-deal#comments CURRENT EVENTS FRANCE IRAN ISRAEL RUSSIA Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:57:39 +0000 Old_Logan 43749 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.opednews.com/articles/-They-re-out-to-get-us---by-Don-Smith-091014-560.html <p>People no longer trust Congress, the President, the courts, the media, corporations, political parties, and other institutions of society. People even doubt science and medicine.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/theyre-out-get-us-trust-distrust-and-organizing-change" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/theyre-out-get-us-trust-distrust-and-organizing-change#comments CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE FRANCE GREAT BRITAIN HAWAII HIDDEN HISTORY HUMOR AND SATIRE IMMIGRATION/NORTH AMERICAN UNION IMPEACHMENT IRAN IRAQ ISRAEL KOREA LEBANON MIDDLE EAST PAKISTAN / INDIA PALESTINE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION PROTESTS/REVOLUTION RELIGION/ATHEISM RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE SOUTH AMERICA SUDAN SYRIA TAXES TORTURE/WAR CRIMES TURKEY VIDEO VOTE FRAUD WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:19 +0000 Mike Rivero 42841 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106913&sectionid=351020101 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ahmadinejad-says-french-deserve-better-leaders" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ahmadinejad-says-french-deserve-better-leaders#comments FRANCE Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:17:44 +0000 Mike Rivero 41016 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/socom_psyops_against_uk/ <p>The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare "influence websites" supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as "targeted regions".</p> <p>SOCOM is principally famous for its large contingents of elite, secret operatives from all four US armed services (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force, Team-6/DevGru, "the Activity" etc etc). What's less well-known about the organisation is that it also includes the US forces' active psychological-warfare apparatus. According (pdf) to the 4th Airborne Psychological Operations Group - the only full-time psywar unit in the US Army, and part of SOCOM:</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-spec-ops-operates-psywar-websites-targeted-uk-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-spec-ops-operates-psywar-websites-targeted-uk-0#comments COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA FRANCE GREAT BRITAIN WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:08:11 +0000 poorrichard 39995 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.france24.com/en/20090910-france-telecom-staff-protest-over-wave-staff-suicides-troyes <p>Dozens of France Telecom employees have staged protests in Paris and in the city of Troyes, where a 49-year-old technician employed there stabbed himself after a demotion. There have been a staggering 22 suicides at the company in just 18 months.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-telecom-staff-protest-over-wave-suicides" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-telecom-staff-protest-over-wave-suicides#comments FRANCE Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:03:53 +0000 Mike Rivero 39323 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1202279/BREAKING-NEWS-French-president-Nicolas-Sarkozy-taken-ill-exercising.html <p>It is the second time in two years that the fitness fanatic, who's nicknamed 'Speedy Sarko', has been at the centre of a medical emergency.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-rushed-hospital-after-collapsing-while-jogging" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-rushed-hospital-after-collapsing-while-jogging#comments FRANCE SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:35:07 +0000 Mike Rivero 34696 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33335 <p>France summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris on Thursday to demand an immediate halt to Jewish settlement building in east Jerusalem, and the re-opening of border crossings into the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>The French foreign ministry's head of political affairs Gerard Araud made the demands during a meeting with the Israeli envoy, Daniel Shek, said ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier.</p> <p>Araud stressed that Paris wants "an immediate freeze on settlement activities, including in east Jerusalem," the spokesman said.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-envoy-france-summoned-over-outposts" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-envoy-france-summoned-over-outposts#comments FRANCE ISRAEL Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:58:05 +0000 Mike Rivero 34450 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/inside-frances-secret-war-396062.html <p>Coming Soon to a Country Near You...</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/inside-frances-secret-war" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/inside-frances-secret-war#comments DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY FRANCE Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:52:01 +0000 the_big_wedding 34188 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19191&start=0 <p>French youths burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers overnight during the now traditional bout of street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, police said Tuesday.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/317-cars-burned-ahead-bastille-day" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/317-cars-burned-ahead-bastille-day#comments FRANCE Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:48:02 +0000 Mike Rivero 33613 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/france-workers-car-factory <p>First there was boss-napping, now angry workers at a factory in France have come up with a new tactic in their battle against mass redundancy.</p> <p>Staff at bankrupt car parts maker New Fabris are threatening to blow up the plant if they do not receive compensation from the companies that provided most of the firm's business.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/french-workers-threaten-blow-new-fabris-car-parts-factory" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/french-workers-threaten-blow-new-fabris-car-parts-factory#comments ECONOMY FRANCE Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:40:21 +0000 Mike Rivero 33449 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/029659.html <p>French students <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/student-hoax-wins-magazines-top-prize-1721554.html">fool</a> a rich people’s Marxist mag in Paris.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/funny-student-hoax-media" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/funny-student-hoax-media#comments CORPORATE MEDIA FRANCE Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:35:01 +0000 disinter 33315 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098840.html <p>A unilateral attack by Israel against Iran to thwart the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions would be an "absolute catastrophe," AFP quoted French President Nicolas Sarkozy as warning on Thursday.</p> <p>Sarkozy was reportedly speaking after a summit of the Group of Eight and other leaders in Italy at which they agreed on the need to pursue a negotiated deal with Tehran to halt its nuclear program.</p> <p>Earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama rebuffed suggestions that Washington had given Israel a green light to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel believes that a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-israel-strike-iran-would-be-catastrophe" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-israel-strike-iran-would-be-catastrophe#comments FRANCE IRAN ISRAEL Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:57:10 +0000 Mike Rivero 33005 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=100173&sectionid=351020603 <p>Masked vandals burst into the shop, armed with sticks and bottles of oil early on Friday afternoon, smashing the computers and cash till, pulling books off the shelves and emptying bottles of oil on the floor.</p> <p>Following the incident, the MRAP anti-racism group repeated a call for a French ban on the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which was set up by a radical US rabbi in 1968.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/members-jewish-militant-group-arrested-paris" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/members-jewish-militant-group-arrested-paris#comments FRANCE ISRAEL Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:07:58 +0000 Mike Rivero 32984 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-says-islamic-veils-are-not-welcome-france" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-says-islamic-veils-are-not-welcome-france#comments FRANCE HUMOR AND SATIRE Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:59:19 +0000 Mike Rivero 31498 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/what-to-expect-if-you-elect-a-zionist-as-president/ <p>If you elect a zionist to the office of President of your country…. the following is just one example of what you can expect:</p> <p>French president: Burkas not welcome here</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/what-expect-if-you-elect-zionist-president" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/what-expect-if-you-elect-zionist-president#comments FRANCE ISRAEL Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:55:03 +0000 Mike Rivero 31421 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55L2YV20090622 <p>President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that burqas, garments that cover women from head to toe and hide their faces, had no place in France as they were a sign of the subjugation of women.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-says-burqas-have-no-place-france" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sarkozy-says-burqas-have-no-place-france#comments FRANCE Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:22:07 +0000 Mike Rivero 31275 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2009/06/breaking-tradition-sarkozy-speaks-to.html <p>France's President Nicolas Sarkozy will lay out his vision for the nation on Monday in a speech marking the first time a French president has addressed the Parliament in 136 years.</p> <p>The setting is fitting for a man leftist critics dub a new emperor: the Chateau of Versailles, home to the Sun King Louis XIV and other French royals.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/breaking-tradition-sarkozy-speaks-parliament" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/breaking-tradition-sarkozy-speaks-parliament#comments FRANCE Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:01:42 +0000 suman 31253 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091186.html <p>The light rail projects for Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are both facing difficulties. In a body-blow to the future Jerusalem light rail, the French company Veolia, which was supposed to run the train system after its construction, is abandoning the project.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/jerusalem-rail-operator-jumps-ship-tel-aviv-group-isnt-even-responding" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/jerusalem-rail-operator-jumps-ship-tel-aviv-group-isnt-even-responding#comments FRANCE ISRAEL Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:16:28 +0000 Mike Rivero 30412 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aTy87a3xcU4s&refer=amsports <p>About 200 inmates were temporarily released to take part in the “Penal Tour de France” that started yesterday and will last two weeks, taking them across the country much like the famous bicycle race, the most punishing of professional sports. Flanked by an equal number of prison guards, they will cycle through 10 regions including the island of Corsica.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/tour-de-france-meets-%E2%80%98prison-break%E2%80%99-french-penal-experiment" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/tour-de-france-meets-%E2%80%98prison-break%E2%80%99-french-penal-experiment#comments FRANCE Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:05:25 +0000 Mike Rivero 29771 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47025 <p>French arms sales to Israel are "in total contradiction" of European Union rules on the defence industry, the author of a new study has said.</p> <p>Between 2003 and 2007 France issued licences worth more than 446 million euros (623 million dollars) for arms exports to Israel. This made France by far the largest supplier of weapons to Israel in the EU.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-defying-rules-arms-sales-israel" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-defying-rules-arms-sales-israel#comments FRANCE ISRAEL Sat, 30 May 2009 14:57:06 +0000 Mike Rivero 29128 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-lobby-commits-maje-blunder-in.html <p>Dieudonne who, in the past, had always enjoyed ridiculing pretty much every segment of French society clearly had never expected the hysterical uproar that his humor would trigger that day: the huge constellation of French Zionists organizations lead by the notorious CRIF ("Representative Committee of Jewish organization in France" - the French version of AIPAC) immediately attacked Dieudonne, suing him for racists comments and suing him for "anti-Semitism" (a criminal offense in France). This was hardly the first time that the French Zionist mob had decided to crush an outspoken critic of its role in French politics or its unconditional support for the last racist state on the planet: Israel. But this time, the Ziomob miscalculated, badly.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-lobby-commits-major-blunder-france-tries-silence-comedian" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/israel-lobby-commits-major-blunder-france-tries-silence-comedian#comments ENTERTAINMENT FRANCE Wed, 20 May 2009 15:03:17 +0000 Mike Rivero 28184 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2009/05/fight-fire-with-humor-french-comedian.html <p>This was hardly the first time that the French Zionist mob had decided to crush an outspoken critic of its role in French politics or its unconditional support for the last racist state on the planet: Israel. But this time, the Ziomob miscalculated, badly.Dieudonne began making the accusations of anti-Semitism made against him a central piece of his shows.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fight-fire-humor-french-comedian-faces-against-zionists" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fight-fire-humor-french-comedian-faces-against-zionists#comments FRANCE Tue, 19 May 2009 16:58:53 +0000 Mike Rivero 28115 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090516_as_smash-and-grab_capitalism_collapses_the_french_economy_shines/ <p>The classic English and Scottish economists (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, etc.) believed that a business enterprise was an agent of social benefit, in that it created goods and wealth, but also had obligations to its workforce and society as a whole. The same values are responsible for the “French model,” and are now demonstrating that they can succeed in bad times as well as good.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/smash-and-grab-capitalism-collapses-french-economy-shines" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/smash-and-grab-capitalism-collapses-french-economy-shines#comments ECONOMY FRANCE Sun, 17 May 2009 14:15:29 +0000 poorrichard 27885 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/05/12/france-copyright-three-strikes-internet-piracy.html <p>France on Tuesday passed legislation that would allow internet service providers to cut the internet connections of customers who download copyright-protected music and video files illegally after "three strikes."</p> <p>The legislation, which failed to pass in an earlier vote in the country's lower house in April, was approved on Tuesday in the government's second attempt, with 296 votes for and 233 against.</p> <p>Canada is also negotiating an international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement with a group of countries that include New Zealand, the European Union, the U.S. and other nations around the world.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-lawmakers-pass-worlds-strictest-internet-piracy-laws" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/france-lawmakers-pass-worlds-strictest-internet-piracy-laws#comments FRANCE Wed, 13 May 2009 17:20:31 +0000 wrh1003 27480 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/nicolas-sarkozy-approval-ratings-france <p>Nicolas Sarkozy took o?ce in May 2007 promising to transform France and restore its status as a great nation. Brash, con?dent and now married to one of the most glamorous woman in Europe, his presidency has not lacked drama. But approval ratings have plummeted, unemployment is rising and public sector workers are in revolt. Has Sarko really delivered?</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/two-years-%E2%80%93-bruni-bling-and-barricades" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/two-years-%E2%80%93-bruni-bling-and-barricades#comments FRANCE Sun, 10 May 2009 17:18:08 +0000 Mike Rivero 27173 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6135778.ece <p>The ignominy is evidently too much to bear. When he flies to international summits President Sarkozy is confronted by a number of private jets that dwarf his French Airbus A319.</p> <p>Even the Spanish and German leaders arrive in bigger aircraft, let alone Barack Obama’s mighty Air Force One.</p> <p>Next month work will begin on a project to give Mr Sarkozy wings in keeping with his ambitions when French engineers take possession of an aircraft that will be turned into an ultra-modern presidential airliner.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-spends-%C2%A3157m-keeping-presidential-jet-set" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/nicolas-sarkozy-spends-%C2%A3157m-keeping-presidential-jet-set#comments FRANCE Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:37:12 +0000 Mike Rivero 25299 at http://whatreallyhappened.com