Eating a la Mode – Melon and Goats Cheese Salad
Eating a la Mode With Vivienne Bolton In this section of French News Online, craft and food writer Vivienne Bolton shares favourite seasonal recipes based on what’s out there now in local markets. Today’s Recipe: Melon and Goats Cheese Salad In the autobiographical ‘My Family and other Animals’ there is a wonderful description of the [...]
Euro Survival – Ponzi Growth vs Ponzi Austerity
Summer holidays are over but the crisis continues with Europe’s politicians awaiting more edicts on financial rectitude from Chancellor Angela Merkel, the eurozone’s de facto leader for whom binge money printing is a deeply-inscribed red-line. Five years on and the financial crisis risks becoming the new normal, despite ongoing efforts by market forces in the Anglosphere. Meanwhile the human toll of [...]
Gold-Leafed High-Tech Fit for a King
French luxury goods — led by Louis Vuitton the world’s most valuable brand — (worth 22 billion euros in 2011) are a major Parisian drawcard, just witness the frantic, jostling, Ritz-based, tourist-shopper crowds in the capital year-round. Dazzling luxury shopping therapy driven by big names such as Hermès, Chanel, Dior, Vuitton, Cartier, Lancome, L’Oreal, Cardin, Givenchy, Gucci, [...]
Everything Is Illegal
As goes the US so go the rest of us. This John Stossel report (on the Fox News channel) could be adapted — through simple word substitution — to be just as relevant across the vastly-over regulated European Union. Time for a shakedown? It is not just over-regulation however. The core philosophy of the EU [...]
Banking: Sociopaths Still in Charge
Five long years after north Atlantic financial rogues collapsed the global economy, unpunished sociopaths remain in charge and the crisis, particularly in Europe, shows few signs of abating. Below is the latest ProPublica investigation of the continuing financial scandal undermining global confidence in banking institutions. Republished with acknowledgments and thanks. A Scorecard For This Summer’s Bank Scandals by Cora Currier and Lena Groeger [...]
Learn from History – Hitler and the Apocalypse
As the world moves in a more authoritarian direction driven by five years of global financial crisis engineered by monetary shysters and hooligans, Naked Capitalism draws its readers’ attention to the National Geographic’s 45-minute documentary on the rise of Hitler. Watch it here. History is poorly taught today. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler Related articles [...]
Robots Set to Rob Your Job
The future for manufacturers and industrialists lies with robots according to Mike Shedlock of Global Economic Trend Analysis who warns automatons are even taking over publishing. In a provocative article published at Business Insider: Robots Are Taking Our Jobs, Writing Our Stories, And Replacing Our Women he offers a bleak new dawn. It worries us — it might just worry [...]
Eating a la Mode – Greengage Compote
Eating a la Mode With Vivienne Bolton In this section of French News Online, craft and food writer Vivienne Bolton shares favourite seasonal recipes based on what’s out there now in local markets. Today’s Recipe: Greengage Compote Greengages are very, very French, originating from Moissac in the south west and we are in the midst [...]
Who’s Right, France or les Anglo-Saxoniques?
The Left-Right divide in politics harks back to the French Revolution but the economic focus of Anglo-Saxon policymaking overlooks history and nation-building argues French writer Philippe Labrecque. What French Conservatism can teach the Anglo-Saxon Right This article was originally published on The Commentator on August 17, 2012. Our concept of the political Left and Right comes [...]
A Thorium Review: Superfuel by Richard Martin
John Preedy reviews Richard Martin’s recently published “Superfuel” — a book on thorium as an alternative energy source — and finds the writing somewhat over-technical. John Preedy who lives in France, where thorium enjoys a certain level of ongoing research support, blogs at Living in the Lot. Richard Martin, like many in the Thorium renaissance, is a [...]
Is Germany Picking a Fight with France?
An astonishing attack on France — possibly heralding a new era of Franco-German tension over the EU’s banker-imposed austerity policies — has been published in the leading German magazine Der Speigel. Headed “Nostalgic and Narcissistic- France’s Obsession with the Past Hinders Reform” the article is by Der Speigel’s Paris bureau chief Mathieu von Rohr and [...]
Scuttle the Euro to Save SS Europa
A leading heterodox French economist Jacques Sapir warns that if SS Europa is not to become the 21st century Titanic, the ship’s captains should voluntarily scuttle its burdensome euro cargo, without delay. Sapir has also urged France to abandon the ailing Eurozone vessel and bluntly called into question the ability of Euroland to survive at all. [...]
Euroland crisis: Of Bread and BMWs
As the Euroland crisis deepens food supply could become an issue, and here France scores handsomely being the eurozone member State most able to self-subsist. John Ward, who writes the Slog blog says whatever happens the canny French will have bread on the table at an affordable price, a card which must beat German-made BMWs [...]
Is That a Far Right Wing Organic Cucumber?
Just when you thought you were doing the right thing food-wise by only buying in- season and backing local organic farmers, up pops an alarmist with a warning that in some cases ‘bio’ is a far-right Franco-German plot. Damien Dubuc writing in the French version of Slate magazine has been digging around the organic farming world [...]
Grape Hunting from Beaune to Bordeaux
Many Australians have a love affair with France and here grape hunter Wendy Brown, a longtime Francophile and author of : “A Lot to do about the Lot”, offers a wineologue of a recent tasting trip she and husband Damien made through French terroirs. (Republished with permission and thanks from her blog on the Grape Hunter.) [...]
U.S. Wages its 2012 Diaspora Tax War
Perhaps not too many U.S. expats or would-be expats are aware but Washington is on a warpath, deploying heavy artillery in a tax battle aimed at Americans living in France and elsewhere. According to a Paris-based U.S. writer, the implications of a poorly-drafted “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” are coming home to roost at a considerable [...]
