A winter storm brought blankets of snow across Europe today, forcing the closure of an icy Eiffel Tower in Paris and causing flight cancellations.
Up to four inches of snow was recorded in parts of France, the national weather service said. Most areas, including Paris, got around half that amount.
PARIS, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking ahead of a trip to the Middle East, blamed Hamas for "the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza."
In an interview with three Lebanese newspapers to be published Monday, Sarkozy said Hamas, which decided to break a truce and resumed rocket attacks on Israel, bears "a heavy responsibility for the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza."
French capital sees 12,000 demonstrators gather in show of support for Israel, Operation Cast Lead. 'Israel is simply fighting for its freedom, the survival of its people," says France's chief rabbi
French capital sees 12,000 demonstrators gather in show of support for Israel, Operation Cast Lead. 'Israel is simply fighting for its freedom, the survival of its people," says France's chief rabbi
AFP
Published: 01.04.09, 20:06 / Israel News
Several thousand demonstrators waved Israeli flags and sang Hebrew hymns in Paris Sunday to show support for Israel in its military offensive in Gaza, a day after a huge pro-Palestinian rally.
In Paris, police said 21,000 marched through the streets, shouting "We are all Palestinians" and "Israel assassin." Later, a small group of protesters burned Israeli flags, set fire to at least three cars and smashed shop and cafe windows in a central Paris area popular with shoppers. Riot police attempted to contain the violence.
They had the full spectrum of dhimmi Useful Idiots out, even some kapo Jews turning against their own in hopes the muslims and their dhimmi worshippers won't attack them. And yes they were out and about in the USA while our slimy city politicians tucked their tails like frightened stray dogs. Utterly nauseating.
A large pro-Palestinian protest turned violent in the heart of Paris' high-end shopping district.
A pro-Palestinian umbrella group, including France's Communist Party, led over 21,000 protestors, according to initial statistics, in an anti-Israel march Saturday through the city's luxury shopping district, famous for its Gallery Lafayette department store.
"France condemns the Israeli ground offensive against Gaza", Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a statement. After all, it's only Jews that are being killed by Muzzie rockets...
The history of France under German rule during World War II is a depressing tale of collaboration, corruption and subsequent denial that taxes the will of even the most determined Francophile. Perhaps not surprisingly it was not a French scholar but an American one, Robert Paxton, who produced the first serious examination of the period (1940-44), followed by the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin and a group of young French historians working out of the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. Now comes Frederic Spotts, a British writer known for his studies of German history. With "The Shameful Peace" he lifts the lid on one of the least known -- and most shameful episodes -- of the period: namely, the role of artists and intellectuals in occupied France.
...Car burnings have become regular events in France since 2005 when violence shook the suburbs of Paris inhabited largely by people of Muslim and North African origin.
French authorities put the exact number of vehicles destroyed at 1,047, up from 878 last year...
The Higher Authority for the Fight Against Discrimination and for Equality (Halde), France's equivalent of the Commission for Racial Equality, said that double standards were widespread within the French film industry. White actors were deemed to have “universal” voices able to dub black actors such as Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, the investigation found. Black artists, meanwhile, were victims of “prejudice and stereotypes” which meant that they were hardly ever chosen to dub white stars.
This is old news but it is worth reviewing.
It seems like France 2 was part of this stage where a father and his son got caught in a crossfire.
www.liveleak.com . . .
"Chanel, one of the grandest French fashion names, is to lay off 200 Paris staff in an unmistakable sign that even the world's top luxury brands are feeling the pinch in the global recession"
How's the 'de-coupling' thingie working for you Frogs? Well, you wanted it and now you have it. Told you dumbfucks when the American consumer catches cold you die of AIDS
Maybe you can peddle your trinkets in Awfrica
In early 1794 – at the height of the Reign of Terror – French soldiers marched to the Atlantic Vendée, where peasants had risen up against the Revolutionary government in Paris.
Twelve "infernal columns" commanded by General Louis-Marie Turreau were ordered to kill everyone and everything they saw. Thousands of people – including women and children – were massacred in cold blood, and farms and villages torched.
In the city of Nantes, the Revolutionary commander Jean-Baptiste Carrier disposed of Vendéean prisoners-of-war in a horrifically efficient form of mass execution. In the so-called "noyades" –mass drownings – naked men, women, and children were tied together in specially constructed boats, towed out to the middle of the river Loire and then sunk.
Now Vendée, a coastal department in western France, is calling for the incident to be remembered as the first genocide in modern history.
Hey frogs! At least you were first at something!
Dieudonné, 42, gave the award for "social unacceptability and insolence" to Robert Faurisson, an academic with a string of convictions in France for denying the existence of Nazi death camps.
Dieudonné himself has a conviction for making anti-Semitic remarks.
But this year's global economic turmoil has stalled these markets, leaving wine exports for the first nine months down by almost 10 percent in volume, according to France's export development board Ubifrance.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Paris Sunday to denounce Israel's "terrorist" and "inhuman" bombardment of the Gaza Strip and call for a rapid end to the conflict. "What's happening is inhuman. We don't want any more deaths on either side, but the Israeli reaction is disproportionate," said one protester, who gave his name as Jamel and said he was an Algerian national living in France. He was demonstrating at the foot of the landmark Arc de Triomphe at the top of the chic Champs Elysees avenue. Across the city in Barbes, an area with a high concentration of north Africans, police said 1,300 others joined an anti-Israel protest at which a US flag was burned.
"The President of the Republic expresses his profound concern at the escalation of violence in the south of Israel and the Gaza Strip," the Elysee Palace said in a statement.
The polling company said that combining the people who were positive about Turkish EU membership and those who would view it positively if the necessary reforms were made, the total number of French people who supported Turkey’s membership was 61 percent. Those surveyed said they know Turkey with its rich history.
Investigators looking into the late November crash of an Air New Zealand Airbus A-320 jetliner on a maintenance flight off the southwestern coast of France are being blocked by the French government. Safety experts and airlines are closely monitoring the investigation to find out whether the crash involved some problem with the plane's flight-control computer. In the past three months, two other larger Airbus models suffered incidents in which flight-control systems malfunctioned. European regulators issued a safety directive last week about procedures pilots should use in such circumstances. Here's the best safety directive of all: Airbust builds dangerous junk-don't get on ANY of their planes.
Former spokesperson of the French Socialist Party Julien Dray is accused of receiving more than $150,000 of illegal bribes from the Independent and Democratic High School Federation (FIDL), and from S.O.S. Racism. Dray, A former member of the French Communist League, is also now under scrutiny over his purchase of a luxury $40,000 wristwatch. Ah, a true champion of the proletariat!
Even with one testicle, he can still produce a future Tour de France winner. Wonder how many Fwenchmen can do the same? That is, produce a baby or be a Tour de France winner. If Lance wins this one, it will be 8 wins. Poor kid will have to win the Tour de France 9 times to beat Dad's record.
Haignere was France's minister for research and new technologies from June 2002 to March 2004, and European Affairs minister until May 2005. Her husband, Jean-Pierre Haignere, is an astronaut who completed two missions to the MIR in 1993 and 1999. She has one daughter.
Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s wealthiest woman and heiress to the L'Oreal empire, entrusted part of her $22.9 billion (£15.5 billion) fortune to Bernard Madoff through the fund manager found dead in New York yesterday.
Details of the counterfeit chocolate mountain were announced yesterday but the seizure was made at the end of November, when shops were preparing for the annual Christmas rush on Ferrero Rocher. The fakes arrived in France in a refrigerated truck from Turkey. The load contained various lines of fake Ferrero chocolates. Each was wrapped to look like an authentic Ferrero but the individual wrappers did not bear the sticker with the company's logo.
After laboratory checks the fakes were not found to be dangerous , but they were poor quality.
PARIS: The co-founder of a firm that raised money in Europe to be invested with alleged Wall Street fraudster Bernard Madoff committed suicide
Tuesday in New York, French newspaper La Tribune reported.
Of course a fRog would surrender instead of fighting ...
According to EmiŽ, the presidency term has also had a positive impact on Turkish-French bilateral ties. "The atmosphere is not perfect but it is much better," he said, adding that the French parliament made a decision not to vote on a law that would punish those who denied the Armenian genocide. "Turkish public opinion should listen to this," he said.
Asked about his expectations from Turkey’s non-permanent membership to the U.N. Security Council, EmiŽ said they were happy about Turkey’s election to the prestigious seat. "Turkey will be in the European group ..
But I can't help wondering about the timing of this Die-Hard-style operation. It comes a week after real explosives were found in the toilets of Printemps Haussman, one of the capital's biggest stores. Right now, we are no closer to knowing whether the culprits were Afghan Islamists, a bunch of anti-capitalist anarchists or the far-right.
The agreement would include the transfer of technology that would allow Brazil to assemble 50 EC-725 Cougar helicopters, four conventional submarines and one submarine with nuclear capability as part of Brazil's military modernization process, officials told Agencia Brasil.
BRUSSELS, Dec 20, 2008 (AFP) - The Czech Republic assumes the European Union's presidency for the first time next month, amid fears that eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus will put the brakes on the EU's new-found drive.
After a frenetic six months under France and President Nicolas Sarkozy, doubts remain whether the relative EU newcomer with the anti-European president can match the authority, energy and success of its predecessor.
The frunch will finally face opposition.
A new editor-in-chief of the French edition of the feared Michelin restaurant guide has just been appointed - and to general surprise the job has gone to a German.
My good God - a German judging garlic-flavored erasers ....
Maybe you can peddle your trinkets in Awfrica 
