Not Over Yet: Francois Hollande Faces National Assembly Elections
François Hollande, the socialist candidate, won the French presidential election on May 6. He got 51.63% of the vote against 48.37% for the incumbent conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Quite a good score, even if Sarkozy did much better than expected. However, the presidency is only a first step. A lot will depend on the National [...]
Choosing a fate. There is one thing every French citizen agrees upon: the second and final round of the presidential election will have far-reaching consequences. It will not just decide between two candidates, or two parties, or even two political or economic philosophies. Rather, it will settle the fate of France as a nation. For [...]
France is country where the reports of the inevitable failure of the pension systems were presented to successive governments for over 25 years without a decision being proposed or taken. In the main mosques, Imams have been making explicit appeals to vote for François Hollande. An observer from North America trying to analyze the French [...]
A secular Berber, pro-Western, nation is born in the middle of Sahara. On the map of Western Africa, Azawad looks like a big irregular triangle set in between Algeria, Niger, Burkina Fasso, Mauritania – and Mali, the country it belonged to for fifty-two years. It is approximatively 650 000 square kilometers – the [...]
As it is now widely known, on March 19 at eight a.m., a man entered the Jewish school Hatora Ozar, in Toulouse, France. He killed a rabbi and his two children, then an eight years old little girl, by shooting her three times in the head after dragging her by the hair to place [...]
Bequeathers of Absolute Truth Crush Free Speech in Europe – by Guy Millière
9 mars 2012 9 Commentaires
Many of the elites seem to think of themselves as The Bequeathers of Absolute Truth — proud, self-righteous, totalitarian antagonists to any contrarian thought or speech — and they have seized power in universities, in the media and in nearly all political parties. A ban takes hold, then another and another and another. And nobody [...]
Bat Ye’or - A bad wind blows from Norway onto the world. It is not only the monstrous massacre by the deranged Breivick perpetrated for several hours without the police intervention. Now is added the political violence of a desperate government before the past elections— that it would probably have lost— if the horror caused bythe killing spree of a psychopath, had not given it victory. Exploiting politically this crime, the government launched its bloodhounds, its anathemas, its fatwas and edicts against all writers [...]
I have just received, on February 14th, the information which confirmed, by a judgment about a separate case in the Al Dura trial case, that French State television lied, and condemned the father of Muhammed Al Dura. I have not yet gone through the judgment which I am sure contains important revelations. [...]
By Jean-Patrick Grumberg for Dreuz.info Disclosure: my mother tongue is: NOT english Last week, I published a media scandal. I reported that CNN fired most of the Jewish journalists from its Jerusalem bureau, here: http://www.dreuz.info/2012/02/breaking-news-dreuz-info-cnn-israel-fired-jewish-journalists/ I discovered that CNN bureau in Jerusalem, under the pretext of downsizing, had dismissed four journalists [...]
Update at 8:30 PST: we just received the names of the four journalists that were fired: Moshe Cohen, editor, fired on january 30, 10 years with CNN. Izi Landberg, Producer, about 25 years with CNN, fired on January 30. Avi Kaner cameraman fired on january 30, 10 years with CNN. Michal Zippori desk producer, situation still [...]
by Emmanuel Navon teaches at Tel-Aviv University's Abba Eban Graduate Program for Diplomacy Studies The claim that Israeli “settlements” constitute “an obstacle to peace” has become a self-evident European dogma. The truth, of course, is that there was no peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors when none of those “settlements” existed (between 1949 [...]
BRADLEY KLAPPER – The Obama administration has closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria. Officials say Ambassador Robert Ford and other diplomats left Syria on Monday. It's the most dramatic U.S. move so far after 11 months of a violent crackdown on dissent by President Bashar Assad's [...]
The immediate reason for France’s downgrading by Standard & Poor’s (from AAA to AA+) may have been hubris, as Tim Worstall suggested in Forbes Magazine (1). Last automn, President Nicolas Sarkozy embarked on an overall emergency plan to salvage both the collapsing economies of Southern Europe and the euro as a currency. It entailed, among other [...]
How could so many clever people get it so wrong? The question was recently asked by the British politician Daniel Hannan in an article on the collapse of the euro; in the coming months, the same question will be asked more and more often about Europe itself. Europe as it has been built may [...]
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel's best-selling brochure helped launch the movement. By Michel Gurfinkiel A little more than 13 months ago, a left-wing French publishing house specializing in Third World advocacy published a very short (32 pages) and very cheap (three euros) political brochure titled Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage!). The author was nonagenarian Stephane Frederic Hessel: a Nazi camp [...]