[MattinNJ]

But a talented ambitious Chinese or Indian or Chilean has zero reason to emigrate to France, unless he is consumed by a perverse fantasy of living in a segregated society that artificially constrains his economic opportunities yet imposes confiscatory taxation on him in order to support an ancien regime of indolent geriatrics.

That's got to leave a mark. I wish I had 1% of this man's wit.

[proud American in Canada]

I wish I had 1% of this man's wit.

You and me both. I wouldn't mind 1% of his brains, either. :)

And thank you for the ping, Pokey.

[AFPhys]

"France faces tough choices and, unlike Baghdad, in Paris you can't even talk about them honestly. As Jean-Claude Dassier, director-general of the French news station LCI, told a broadcasters' conference in Amsterdam, he has been playing down the riots on the following grounds: "Politics in France is heading to the Right and I don't want Right-wing politicians back in second or even first place because we showed burning cars on television.""
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BINGO.

This is EXACTLY what is going on in the now heavily-self-censored OldMedia "journalism" world right now.

The FRAUDcasters are going to kill the whole world, and with it their own freedom of expression, if the New Media doesn't save the world from their suicidal liberal "peaceful world" fantasies.