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I'm going to be prepared to go into real estate. Millionaires in France are going to be running from the country in droves if Hollande gets in. Those millionaires could learn to love Canada.
We have Celine Dion and poutine.What's not to love?
75% tax rate for anyone earning over 1 million Euros will guarantee that the well off will be abandoning France.
I'm going to be prepared to go into real estate. Millionaires in France are going to be running from the country in droves if Hollande gets in. Those millionaires could learn to love Canada.
We have Celine Dion and poutine.
75% tax rate for anyone earning over 1 million Euros will guarantee that the well off will be abandoning France.
Canada's got solid banking regulations that kept it from going into this shitter this go around.
The say history has a tendency to repeat itself. If so, we can now look forward to requiring future doctoral students in history to learn the names of additional new battle sites in France where American blood was shed freeing the French once again from tyrrany. We'll have to wait a few years in order for the new Islamic Tyrrany to settle in on the French Countryside before getting around to sending those fresh new young faces once again on their quest to liberate those gallic females. What will the new names be that will stand alongside Flanders, the Marne, Belleau Wood, Normandy, St Lo, Metz, Nancy, ground hallowed by the American blood shed there. The French just can't wait to surrender, can they?
The real news is that the left in France (unless the muslims interfere) is slowly shrinking.
Le Pen shocks France as far right hits historic heights - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of Frances presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
By Sarah LEDUC (text)
Having secured nearly one in five votes cast in the first round of Frances presidential election on Sunday, far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has the potential to swing what is likely to be a close second round on May 6.
The real news is that the left in France (unless the muslims interfere) is slowly shrinking.
Le Pen shocks France as far right hits historic heights - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of Frances presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
By Sarah LEDUC (text)
Having secured nearly one in five votes cast in the first round of Frances presidential election on Sunday, far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has the potential to swing what is likely to be a close second round on May 6.
the real news is that for the first time an incumbent lost the first round.
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So, given the current state of the European economy, I've been wondering what Hollande is proposing as economic policy. Found this:
As part of his emphasis on stimulating growth, Mr. Hollande has said he would try to renegotiate a European Union treaty agreed upon in December, under strong German pressure, to limit budget deficits and national debt. He wants the European Central Bank to tolerate more inflation and favors collective euro bonds for national debt, both ideas sharply opposed by Berlin.
Hard to say if Hollande can successfully renegotiate the EU deal (doesn't seem terribly likely), and I'd be stunned in Merkel agreed to Euro bonds. So he's making promises that will be tough as hell to achieve, unless he has pictures of European leaders with farm animals. At the same time, inflating its way out of this is probably the only way the region can save the Euro, so his way will probably be the way it goes. Given our situation, it could be a sign of things to come for us as well.
Hey, people are pissed. This isn't a big surprise.
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It's election rhetoric for the masses. None of that will happen.
The real news is that the left in France (unless the muslims interfere) is slowly shrinking.
Le Pen shocks France as far right hits historic heights - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of Frances presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
By Sarah LEDUC (text)
Having secured nearly one in five votes cast in the first round of Frances presidential election on Sunday, far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has the potential to swing what is likely to be a close second round on May 6.
the real news is that for the first time an incumbent lost the first round.
This was widely expected. The strong score of Marine Le Pen wasn't.
A French President lost a re-election campaign, apparently unable to hear the voice of France in a fast-paced changing, Socialist world, after all! So the Socialist candidate won instead! Again, as GOP Conservatives might contend--The Vatican regression, of the College of Cardinals, to the Holy Father's own Christian Hitler Youth: Needs work.
BBC News - France election: Francois Hollande 'wins first round'
Anyone knows the kinds of families that the GOP Conservative are. Banker bail-outs, of Bush-Cheney-Paulson, are more their norm. Low-income families, having been Cast Out Into Outer Darkness, (Matt 25::14-30), are even now not on GOP radar as being participants in a market economy.
The economy of bail-outs is the Romney-GOP vision, like under Bush-Cheney-Paulson. Only the rich are entitled, according to GOP. Romney noted that auto-workers are not entitled.
And so there is France, post-elections!
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Actually, GOP was also bad for business, even in the South under "Reconstruction!")
I'm going to be prepared to go into real estate. Millionaires in France are going to be running from the country in droves if Hollande gets in. Those millionaires could learn to love Canada.
Marine Le Pen's father is one scary man, who founded the Front National. Marine is also a member of that far right wing party.The real news is that the left in France (unless the muslims interfere) is slowly shrinking.
Le Pen shocks France as far right hits historic heights - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of Frances presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
By Sarah LEDUC (text)
Having secured nearly one in five votes cast in the first round of Frances presidential election on Sunday, far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has the potential to swing what is likely to be a close second round on May 6.
the real news is that for the first time an incumbent lost the first round.
This was widely expected. The strong score of Marine Le Pen wasn't.
Marine Le Pen's father is one scary man, who founded the Front National. Marine is also a member of that far right wing party.the real news is that for the first time an incumbent lost the first round.
This was widely expected. The strong score of Marine Le Pen wasn't.
Jean-Marie Le Pen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Controversial statements
Le Pen has been accused and convicted several times[11] at home and abroad of xenophobia and anti-Semitism. A Paris court found in February 2005 that his verbal criticisms, such as remarks disparaging Muslims in a 2003 Le Monde interview, were "inciting racial hatred",[11] and he was fined 10,000 euros and ordered to pay an additional 5,000 euros in damages to the Ligue des droits de l'homme (League for Human Rights). The conviction and fines were upheld by the Court of Cassation in 2006.[12]
In May 1987, he advocated the forced isolation from society of all people infected with HIV, by placing them in a special "sidatorium". "Sidaïque"[13] is Le Pen's pejorative solecism for "person infected with AIDS" (the more usual French term is "séropositif" (seropositive))[14]
On 21 June 1995, he attacked singer Patrick Bruel on his policy of no longer singing in the city of Toulon because the city had just elected a mayor from the National Front. Le Pen said, "the city of Toulon will then have to get along without the vocalisations of singer Benguigui". Benguigui, an Algerian name, is Bruel's birth name.
In February 1997, Le Pen accused Chirac of being "on the payroll of Jewish organizations, and particularly of the B'nai B'rith"[15][16]
Le Pen once made the infamous pun "Durafour-crématoire" ("four crématoire" meaning "crematory oven") about then-minister Michel Durafour, who had said in public a few days before, "One must exterminate the National Front".[17] This was made in reference to the crematories in which both living and dead victims of the Nazi holocaust were placed[18]
In June 1996, he claimed that the French World Cup squad contained too many non-white players, and was not an accurate reflection of French society. He went on to scold players for not singing La Marseillaise, saying they were not "French".[19][20]
In the 2007 election campaign, he referred to fellow-candidate Nicolas Sarkozy as "foreign" or "the foreigner" due to Sarkozy's Hungarian, Greek, and Sephardic Jewish ancestry.[21]
Arguing that his party includes people of various ethnic or religious origins like Jean-Pierre Cohen, Farid Smahi or Huguette Fatna, he has attributed some anti-Semitism in France to the effects of Muslim immigration to Europe and suggested that some part of the Jewish community in France might eventually come to appreciate National Front ideology.
[edit]Prosecution concerning historical revisionism and Holocaust denial
Le Pen has made several provocative statements concerning the Holocaust which amount to historical revisionism and has been convicted of racism or inciting racial hatred at least six times.[11] Thus, on 13 September 1987 he said, "I ask myself several questions. I'm not saying the gas chambers didn't exist. I haven't seen them myself. I haven't particularly studied the question. But I believe it's just a detail in the history of World War II." He was condemned under the Gayssot Act to pay 1.2 million francs (183,200 euros).[22] In 1997, the European Parliament, of which Le Pen was then a member, removed his parliamentary immunity so that Le Pen could be tried by a German court for comments he made at a December 1996 press conference before the German Republikaner party. Echoing his 1987 remarks in France, Le Pen stated: "If you take a 1,000-page book on World War II, the concentration camps take up only two pages and the gas chambers 10 to 15 lines. This is what one calls a detail." In June 1999, a Munich court found this statement to be "minimizing the Holocaust, which caused the deaths of six million Jews," and convicted and fined Le Pen for his remarks.[23]
[edit]Prosecution, allegations of torture and association with militarists
In April 2000, Le Pen was suspended from the European Parliament following prosecution for the physical assault of Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal during the 1997 general election. This ultimately led to him losing his seat in the European parliament in 2003. The Versailles appeals court banned him from seeking office for one year.[24]
In 2005 and 2008, Le Pen was fined, in both case 10,000 euros for incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence towards a group of people, on account of statements made about Muslims in France. In 2010. the European Court of Human Rights declared Le Pen's application inadmissible.[25]
Le Pen allegedly practiced torture during the Algerian War (19541962), when he was a lieutenant in the French Army. Although he denied it, he lost a trial when he attacked Le Monde newspaper on charges of defamation, following accusations by the newspaper that he had used torture. Le Monde has produced in May 2003 the dagger he allegedly used to commit war crimes as court evidence.[26]
Although war crimes committed during the Algerian War are amnestied in France, this was publicised by the newspapers Le Canard Enchaîné, Libération, and Le Monde, and by Michel Rocard (ex-Prime Minister) on TV (TF1 1993). Le Pen sued the papers and Michel Rocard. This affair ended in 2000 when the Cour de cassation (French supreme jurisdiction) concluded that it was legitimate to publish these assertions. However, because of the amnesty and the statute of limitations, there can be no criminal proceedings against Le Pen for the crimes he is alleged to have committed in Algeria. In 1995, Le Pen unsuccessfully sued Jean Dufour, regional counselor of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (French Communist Party) for the same reason.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
Le Pen has also been criticized for ties to "suspect" individuals, such as:
Roger Holeindre, a member of the political bureau of the Front National and a former member of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a movement against Algerian independence. However, Holeindre was also a Nazi resister during the Second World War[35][unreliable source?]
Roland Gaucher, a cofounder of the National Front in 1972, who was also a former RNP member.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/w...right-challenges-both-europe-and-sarkozy.html
French Far Right a Challenge for Europe and Sarkozy
