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Plans for the 2024 Paris Olympics 100 years after Paris Olympics of 1924 involved an elaborate opening ceremony along the Seine River but now security concerns and fear of terrorism are putting those plans into question... This week National Rally leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen in the National Assembly saying defeat for the government in the European Parliament elections on June 9th should lead to dissolution of the Assembly and new elections in France... This week the leader of France's main Leftist party (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon was banned from speaking in a room at the University of Lille......
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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal descending upon a prestigious political science school in Paris Wednesday announcing a referral to a public prosecutor. It stemmed from a Pro-Palestinian protest Tuesday involving 100 students occupying a lecture hall at the "Sciences Po". The protesters keeping others out. The outrage from government and mainstream media in particular surrounded a comment directed towards a Jewish student. "Don't let her in, she's a Zionist" President Emmanuel Macron saying those remarks were "unspeakable and perfectly intolerable"... "Assisted Death" The social issues push ahead of the European Parliament election on June 9th continues... On Thursday Mr. Macron...
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Monday evening the leaders of 20 European nations gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris (France's White House) for a conference on military support for Ukraine. There was agreement among many of those nations to send long-range weapons to Ukraine a disturbing sign of escalation in the conflict in and of itself. This was announced by President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the conference a 'ninth coalition of nations' to provide those long-range weapons for Ukraine. But what caused a splash inside France and around the world Macron's remarks... ..the French Foreign Minstry tried to 'clarify' the remarks. But...
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In Cook County, Illinois (Chicago) a judge ruling that President Trump should be removed from the upcoming Illinois Primary ballot... In Washington a deal struck among Congressional leaders to fund six departments of government... Israel striking targets in the Damascus, Syria area tonight... Israel striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon tonight... The US Supreme Court will consider President Donald Trump's case that he has immunity from Biden Administration prosecution... The Biden Administration going after Finkelstein Metals a company that provides raw materials for Israel's Iron Dome air defense system... In Paris today the woman leading opinion polling for President in 2027...
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This week Prime Minister Gabirel Attal tried to draw Marine Le Pen into a debate on agricultural issues in the midst of the ongoing farmers protests... The Agriculture Show came to Paris Friday but so did protesting farmers staging an event with a convoy of tractors.... French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin moving quickly Thursday arresting Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi and expelling him back to Tunisia... Today President Emanuel Macron trying to make a splash as the Agricultural Show in Paris saying he offers the way out of the grievances of the farmers caused by Free Market Global Capitalism undercutting the livelihoods...
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A tough stance on immigration and asylum seeking from France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. But not on the "Mainland" of France instead in the Indian Ocean on island of Mayotte... At a Tuesday night dinner with members of the National Assembly in the government faction, Prime Minister Gabirel Attal took aim at Marine Le Pen. Attal may run for President in 2027... On a week when the British and Japanese economies went into recession an admission that France's economy is stagnating further. France already had a pretty poor projection for economic growth in 2024 now Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire...
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Francois Bayrou and his "Democratic Movement" were an important "centrist" party in the parliamentary majority enjoyed by President Emmanuel Macron after Macron won his first term as President in 2017. This week, Mr. Bayrou, a former Education Minister, found his name in the news suggested as a new Defense Minister for France... Getting back to the political weakness of the Centrist government. Just days ago First Round polling for the 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen at 36 percent. Current Prine Minister Gabirel Attal and Le Havre Mayor and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe trailing when matched up against her......
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Four current and one former NHL player are accused of sexual assault in 2018... A US F-16 warplane crashed off the west coast of South Korea... Politics in Israel the "National Unity" party of war cabinet minister Benny Gantz continues to lead the polls... Joe Biden said today he has made a decision about striking back... The "Kataib Hezbollah" group said it's suspending military operations against US troops in the Middle East... The Arizona National Guard saying that some of its members were hurt... An appeals court in Argentina ruling against President Javier Milei's decree changing labor laws... "the worst...
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"a stronger and fairer France" Emmanuel Macron appeared before the French media Tuesday night a wide range of issues covered including the notion of a higher birth rate for the country. Macron did a 30-minute speech followed by questions from the media. Mr. Macron saying a six-month parental leave for both parents should replace the current one-year extendable to three-year leave for mothers of newborn children... Macron blasting the political party currently most popular in France, the National Rally. Macron called the RN a party of "easy anger" and "lies"... There was political polling done earlier this month by IFOP....
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As we went into the weekend talk in France that President Emmanuel Macron was ready to shake up his government. Talk that Macron might ditch his current Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Today in French media the discussion about who might be the new Prime Minister. Former National Assembly President Richard Ferrand taking his name out of consideration. Meanwhile polling data points to the political strength of Marine Le Pen who leads the National Rally in France's National Assembly. Which politician is most 'in touch' with the everyday concerns of the average person in France?... The protest in Paris a small...
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When the immigration law deal was cut last Tuesday Marine Le Pen proclaimed an: "ideological victory" After the vote President Emmanuel Macron claimed the new law was a way to stop the National Rally from gaining strength politically. Many of the left-leaning members of his grand Centrist alliance dismayed... Macron will not run in the 2027 Presidential Election. For now, as his movement considers possible candidates in a race where Marine Le Pen personally looks strong and ideas of the Right gain popularity Mr. Macron continues to irk the left... Now Macron has weighed in on the rape and sexual...
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The delicate balance of President Emmanuel Macron's "Centrist" government maintaining power without a majority in the National Assembly was upset Monday. The vote 270-265 against the government with 13 abstentions. The modified legislation on immigration from the Senate shot down on a motion brought by France's Left upset over the strictness of the proposed law... Cultural conflict involving a French school led to a teacher walkout. The story not clearly state by Mainstream Media but it began with Muslim students aged 11 and 12 averting their eyes from a classic painting of naked women... Today's protest event seen here is...
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"With each attack, it's always the same questions, always a known perpetrator, spotted, monitored but nothing is done" "Terrorism is not looked in the face but ignored" Marine Le Pen commenting on last Saturday night's terrorist attack in Paris... French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne interviewed by "Le Figaro" saying: "I don't believe in the normalization of the National Rally" Borne contending that the RN leader in the National Assembly Marine Le Pen has not repudiated the beliefs of her father Jean Marie Le Pen... And the reason for Borne to link the daughter Le Pen with the father Le Pen...
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In Gaza tonight a failed attempt to rescue hostages with two Israeli soldiers wounded... Politico reports that the Biden Administration has given Israel until the end of the year to wrap up... At the UN Security Council the US vetoing a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza... The European Union reaching a provisional agreement for rules to regulate artificial intelligence... Militias affiliated with Iran striking US military bases in Syria and Iraq... In France a court deciding to put the leading 2027 Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on trial... In Texas Attorney General Kern Paxton reacting to...
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The death of Thomas, a 16-year-old stabbed after a dance party in southeastern France on November 19th triggered protests with the "Far-Right" blamed by the government. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin saying the government is seeking to ban small "Far-Right" organizations following those protests... The government of President Emmanuel Macron casting a wider net amid the controversy with a direct attack on the National Rally in France's National Assembly. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti accusing the RN of seeking to divide France between its Catholic rural parts and urban Muslim parts. He claimed the RN needs to expel Racists and Nazis in...
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The president of the National Rally deputies in the Assembly deplored this Tuesday, November 28, a "filthy response" from the Minister of Justice who "insults the deputies" of her party and therefore "millions of French people". "That's enough now!" Marine Le Pen announced this Tuesday November 28, 2023 that she wanted to file a complaint against Eric Dupond-Moretti after his comments made in the National Assembly against the deputies of the National Rally. While ultra-right rallies have multiplied in recent days, the Minister of Justice, like Elisabeth Borne, Gerald Darmanin and Olivier Veran, attacked the National Rally denouncing 'inflammatory remarks'....
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The Pentagon not ready to comment on Iranian video of a drone overflying the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier... Starting on Friday warships from ten nations will patrol the Baltic Sea and North Sea... Outside the White House the national Christmas tree toppling... "We will not be part of a government that allows Hamas to exist" Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warning... Peru's Attorney General Patricia Benavides formally accusing President Dina Boluarte of responsibility for the deaths of protesters late last year... "When the Minister of Justice insults the deputies of the National Rally, he insults millions...
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How unfair it is on Chipping Norton, that handsome, decent town, to be burdened by a link with David Cameron, the second worst Prime Minister of the modern age... Mr. Sunak cannot want Mr. Cameron's expertise on foreign policy. His major achievement in that field was to destroy Libya, replacing the despot Gaddafi with wild, burning chaos. This one action triggered the giant explosion in human trafficking across the Mediterranean which has utterly transformed Europe and European politics for the worse. He also supported the failed attempt to overthrow the nasty Syrian dictator, Bashar Assad, supposedly in the name of...
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On Friday night in Paris the fifth anniversary of the Yellow Vests was commemorated and there would be many more commemorations today Saturday... For ten hours on Friday President Emmanuel Macron holding a consultation with leaders of opposition parties willing to participate. This was the last in a series of meetings that some opposition parties like Environmentalist and the National Rally attended with its President Jordan Bardella in the room. But other opposition forces including the LFI (Left) and Les Republicans (Mainstream Right)... Following last Sunday's Civic March against Anti-Semitism Marine Le Pen the National Rally leader in the National...
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The Anti-Semitic incidents in France following the start of the war in Israel on October 7th under investigation by French authorities with arrests in the hundreds. But one particularly nasty looking incident was the painting of Stars of David on the sides of homes and buildings in Paris and its suburbs. Now the French government pointing an accusing finger at Russia... A civic march against Anti-Semitism set for Paris tomorrow led by the leading officials of France's National Assembly and Senate. But the Left in France and even some Centrist and Pro-Government politicians balking at participation by the "Far-Right". The...
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