Thoughts on the EU’s Jackboot Egalitarians
Senior EU leaders declared multiculturalism dead and buried last February, but defeating the rights industry is being thwarted by what a London newspaper columnist labels ”jackboot egalitarians”. Jeff Randall in London’s Daily Telegraph makes a case for a return to the tried and tested values so long out of fashion and a cry for common sense — [...]
There’s Gold in Bugarach Rocks at €1,500/Kg
Some say thar’s gold in them thar Bugarach rocks and are offering ‘authentic hand-selected stones’ at €1,500/Kg giving the village Mayor a further headache to add to Mayan “apocalypse” mania running rife in Cathar country. (Read more online here) Worried about the imminent end of the world? Buy a kilo of best vintage Bugarach rock and magically [...]
Signs of The (Twitter) Times
Fire Departments are clearly concerned if they are encouraging public buildings to put up these kind of signs – refrain from sneering now all you anti- tweeters. But what on earth happened to common sense? and yes it appears to be somewhere in Paris: Related articles Twitter May Censor Tweets (crooksandliars.com) Success with Naked Pizza (hannumsa1992journalist.wordpress.com) [...]
Does this BNP Chart mean Sarkozy’s Doomed?
Business Insider thinks the incumbent in the forthcoming presidential elections is doomed and gives us a BNP chart it suggests shows why. “This chart from BNP Paribas looking at household confidence vs. elections says it all. When household confidence is low, the party in power switches. When it’s up near the 0-line the party in [...]
George Soros on Catastrophe Ahead
As a host of world leaders, and financial and political power, including George Soros descend on Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum, the Hungarian born billionaire worries that total global economic collapse looms. Interviewed for Newsweek magazine and reported in the Daily Beast he says: “if you have a disorderly collapse of the euro, you have [...]
Intouchables Touches the ‘Handi-Ignorants’
The feel-good index is climbing, the wheelchair community is applauding, and nearly 19 million cinema-goers suggest that Intouchables has touched a veritable symphony of chords across the nation. (Read more online here) Based on the true story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, a champagne millionaire paralysed in a paragliding accident, Intouchables has become a low budget cinematic [...]
Its between Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Writer, activist and former French communist, Alain Soral, tells RT that Marine Le Pen is the only real alternative to the socialists and UMP in the upcoming French presidential elections. Alain Soral says neither Nicolas Sarkozy nor his Socialist rival, François Hollande can do what they say they want to do namely save French companies and [...]
Toulouse to Star As Hollywood-sur-Garonne
If the plans of a 36-year-old Toulouse architect and film buff work out the French aerospace city will soon be ranked up there with Hollywood and Mumbai as a world capital of cinema. (Read more online here) Bruno Granja who hails from Cugnaux, and his US partners Raleigh Studios which manages 230 000 m2 of studios [...]
Stark EU Choice – Democracy or the Euro
A series of increasingly dire warnings suggests Europeans better prepare for a stark choice: either they save democracy or they save the euro but in the current mess they can’t have both. Three writers on three different platforms flag up an impending disaster with comments such as these: “the illusion of political unity in Europe [...]
Heads Up – Here’s the Latest Front Page
The Front Page: Breton Saints and Portuguese Custard Tarts vie for top place; while a guillotine threatens Marine le Pen and Ritual Slaughter is adjudged hazardous. Meanwhile lots more to be found on the Culture, Cooking, Gardening, Lifestyle, Arts, Books, and Cinema sections. Click here for all the details. Related articles Breton Easter Island Rises on a Hilltop [...]
The ex-Councillor Who Made off with Millions
Ten days after France’s Madoff, a former 54-year old local councillor Sylviane Hamon, was detained in custody on charges of embezzling millions in a Ponzi scheme reminiscent of jailed US chizzler Bernie Madoff, police have raided her burgled and burnt home. The former bank employee living in the tiny village of Benais in the Indre-et-Loire [...]
Jeanne d’Arc, A Gender Issue At Age 600
Days before the 600th anniversary of the French heroine’s birth, the Paris-based magazine VSD opted to stir an historical (and political) pot with this provocative question: “What if Joan of Arc, were a man?” (Read more online here) As VSD surely expected, heated and disapproving reaction especially from the Right, was not slow in coming, particularly [...]
French Woodstock Invoked in Shale Gas Fight
Public anger is growing as French and other oil majors make strenuous efforts to overturn a recent government repeal of shale gas prospecting licenses covering Villeneuve de Berg, Nant and Montelimar regions – 3 of 64 areas covered by permits. (Read more online here) Le Monde reported December 13 that Total, the French oil company, had [...]
Auto-Entrepreneurs Alert – New Heavy Fines
Recent changes to the way the highly popular three-year-old sole trading or auto-entrepreneur scheme works, sees tougher penalty fees introduced if a trader fails to make timely declarations. Valerie Lemiere, an English-speaking adviser to sole traders has highlighted the important changes to the rules for auto entrepreneurs. The article below is reprinted from her Start [...]
La France – A ‘Cartes’ian View?
The film Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (Welcome to the Sticks) (*) is famous, among other things, for debunking the southerners’ stereotypes of far-northern France, a theme now taken up by an amused map(cartes)maker. We tip our hat for these maps to reader Sam Mooney: (*) Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis is a 2008 comedy starring Kad Merad, Dany [...]
A French Cow Shed and The Silent Movies
Behind Martin Scorsese’s Hugo fantasy set in Paris, lies a little known but true tale with links to a fabulous cache found in a dairy shed in Normandy. The trail has now been uncovered by Toronto writer Philippa Campsie of the Parisian Fields blog who unearthed the fascinating story of Georges Méliès, creator of hundreds of [...]
A Happy (Mayan) New Year One and All
As the New Year dawns, the forces of the Mayan “apocalypse” gather in Cathar country, New-Agers set-up shop in Toulouse — ironically France’s aerospace capital — and end-of-the-worlders prepare … but a Guatemalan may have spiked their guns. (Read more online here) For more than two Christmases stories have poured out of the global media and [...]
