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Here's my latest video recorded by the good folks at FreedomTalkNetcast.com down in Pueblo, Colorado. This presentation covers the almost unknown war and genocide against the people of the Vendee region of France during the proto-Marxist French Revolution. This genocide by the atheist, godless, totalitarian French Revolutionaries against the Church killed 450,000 people, and has served as a the tactical template for Marxist governments who have fomented statist schisms and then entered into open war against the Church over the last century, including the Soviets and Mexicans in the early 20th century, and the Red Chinese and Vietnamese, and Marxist...

FRENCH President Jacques Chirac has said it would not be very dangerous for Iran to have a nuclear bomb, but later retracted the remark, according to an interview with two newspapers and a French magazine published overnight. Mr Chirac spoke to reporters from the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune (IHT) and Le Nouvel Observateur earlier this week, and in initial comments said Tehran would be razed to the ground if Iran launched a nuclear attack against Israel. His comments ran counter to the official French position, and a day later Mr Chirac called the trio of reporters back...

FRANCE is to withdraw the 200 members of its special forces deployed in Afghanistan, it was reported overnight. Both the office of President Jacques Chirac and the French defence ministry declined to confirm or deny the report which said a decision had already been taken by Mr Chirac as commander of French armed forces. "Nothing has been decided," said a defence ministry spokesman. "We are in a process of re-examining the situation in Afghanistan." He said the current evaluation process in Paris covered all French contributions to the 37-nation NATO-led security force and the division of labour between securing territory...

UNITED NATIONS — The French-American alliance at the United Nations over a Mideast cease-fire agreement is crumbling, sources tell FOX News. The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete and immediate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a condition of any cease-fire, the sources said. In addition, the French have reportedly agreed with Arab demands that the Lebanese force be accompanied only by UNIFIL, with no international force to be deployed.

A FRENCH newspaper was cleared today of inciting religious hatred after it published a cartoon of Christ wearing only a condom. The appeal court in Paris confirmed a lower court ruling that the image in Liberation newspaper did not "go beyond the accepted limits of freedom of expression". The cartoon was used to illustrate an article on the use of condoms to fight AIDS in Africa. The case was brought by a traditionalist Catholic group with links to the far-right National Front (FN).

POLICE arrested about 700 people during disturbances on the fringes of a huge demonstration in Paris and in other French cities against a new youth jobs law today. About 50 people were injured, including five police in the Paris violence, which continued into the evening at the Place de la Republique after the protest march ended there. One of 4000 police deployed in anticipation of the violence was taken to hospital in a serious condition after being hit in the face by a "missile", police said. As thousands of demonstrators ended their peaceful protest at the Place de la Republique,...

PARIS: A bestselling new biography accuses French leader Jacques Chirac of presiding over a national drift into inertia, division and debt. The Tragedy of the President, by political journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert, has sold almost 200,000 copies in two weeks - a new print run is under way - and is the talk of Paris for its damning yet affectionate portrait of the 73-year-old French President. According to Giesbert, who edits the Centre-Right news weekly Le Point, Chirac has "been transformed with age into the incarnation of French decline". Through a political career that began in 1962 in the cabinet of...

VISITING French President Jacques Chirac has praised Saudi reforms overnight, and urged respect between Islam and the West in a charm offensive that may win contracts from the world's biggest oil exporter. Addressing Saudi's consultative Shura council, which reformers hope will one day act as a parliament that balances the powers of the absolute monarchy, Mr Chirac said France could contribute to "spectacular development" in Saudi Arabia. "Saudi Arabia and France can unite efforts to foil those who, flaming the fire of fanaticism, incite an unfortunate 'clash of ignorance', described as a 'clash of civilisations'," said Mr Chirac, the first...

LILLE, France, January 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A court in Lille handed down its sentence on a French Parliamentarian Tuesday, fining him 3000 Euros and forcing him to pay an additional 6000 Euros to be split between three homosexual activist groups who brought the charges against the MP. Christian Vanneste, a member of the UMP representing the Lille region was found guilty in December on charges of violating a French law barring "hate speech" against homosexuals. However, Vanneste in the remarks upon which the charges were based and in his defence, was clear that he was not speaking against homosexual...

NEW Caledonian authorities have fined and expelled an Australian tourist convicted of assaulting border police when he arrived at Noumea's airport. John Connel, a 53-year-old farmer who had flown to the South Pacific island from Brisbane, blamed alcohol and a relationship break-up for the incident, the Nouvelle Caledoniennes newspaper reported. A court in the French territory heard this week that after arriving at Noumea's Tontouta airport, Connel threw his passport at the head of an immigration officer and yelled insults such as "F... you, Froggies!". He threw punches at two border police officers before being subdued and locked in a...

PICTURE this: French hunters stealing out at night in pairs, one with a torch to light up the eyes of their prey, the other armed with a .22 calibre rifle equipped with a telescopic sight and a silencer. Their quarry? Invaders from the United States - bullfrogs, to be precise, that bellow like cows and typically weigh in at a hefty 600 grams. This is France, to be sure, but the end game of this hunt is not sauteed frog legs. These marksmen are ecologists, out to exterminate the bullfrogs - a.k.a. Rana Catesbeina - which are threatening the local...

US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice has called for a "new chapter" in relations with Europe after a rift over the Iraq war and began repairing ties with France, one of the biggest critics of the conflict. Ms Rice pointedly made the appeal in Paris during an eight-nation tour, underlining the message that President George W. Bush wants Europe to be a partner and not a rival. Calling each other "Michel" and "Condi" at a joint news conference, Ms Rice and French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier pledged to give US-French relations a new start and emphasised areas of cooperation rather...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan congratulated President George W Bush on his re-election today. But United Nations staffers were less sanguine after four years in which the relationship between the world body and its most influential member sank to a new low over Iraq. Dozens of UN workers from around the world crowded around a television in the foyer of UN headquarters to listen to Senator John Kerry's concession speech, and then Mr Bush's acceptance. A few shook their heads or grimaced as they walked away. Some refused to speak on the record, citing the world body's neutrality, but Hilary Wilson,...