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  • How the Year 2440 was Imagined in 1771

    02/09/2025 1:13:42 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 14 replies
    In 1771, French author Louis-Sébastien Mercier published the novel "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One" Written from the perspective of an 18th century man who falls asleep and wakes up in Paris nearly 700 years later, the book is a fascinating example of utopian retro-futurism. Mercier imagines a world transformed by philosophy and reason, with an agrarian society that has invented hologram-like technology. The video delves into Mercier's depictions of the future city of Paris, advancements in science and culture, changes in religion and education, and his ideas for an ideal government led by an egalitarian...
  • Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

    02/09/2025 2:11:29 AM PST · by Cronos · 16 replies
    At a gathering in Madrid, members of Europe’s far-right parties set aside any trepidation they might have about President Trump’s threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the European Union. ...There was Marine Le Pen of France’s far-right National Rally; the Netherland’s populist, Geert Wilders; the leader of Italy’s League party, Matteo Salvini. All made clear that they shared Mr. Trump’s charge against what they see as “wokeism,” “gender theory,” and overweening environmentalism. For them, the American president had blown through the last barriers that had confined their parties to the political margins. The taboos had been toppled....
  • France Yellow Vests Week 325*Candace Owens Trolls The Macrons*French Warplanes In Ukraine*French Aircraft Carrier Leads Challenge To China*Former President Gets Electronic Bracelet*

    02/08/2025 8:00:31 PM PST · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 2/8/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    In spite of using Article 49.3 to force through budget legislation Premier Francois Bayrou survived censure motions thanks to the Socialists and National Rally declining to support them. A large faction of... The online trolling of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife-former teacher Brigitte kept up this week by influencer Candace Owens who separated from the Conservative Media subculture as an alleged Antisemite... the first Mirage 2000 warplanes were delivered to Ukraine... And France's aircraft carrier "Charles De Gaulle" joining US and Japanese carriers in a show of force opposite China... On Friday former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shaking...
  • FBI Turned Blind Eye While Its Informant Stole $190K From Jan. 6 Protestor: Court Filing

    02/06/2025 8:38:58 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Headline USA ^ | 02/06/2025 | Ken Silva
    A bombshell court filing alleges that an FBI informant stole some $190,000 from a Jan. 6 protestor, and that the bureau turned a blind eye to the crime to protect its source.Former FBI agent Jared Wise was arrested for illegally entering the Capitol on J6. Photo: DOJThe court filing comes from former FBI agent and Project Veritas contractor Jared Wise, who was arrested in 2023 for his own involvement with Jan. 6. Wise had his charges dropped last month, and provided an exclusive interview to Headline USA to respond to accusations from Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe that he tried...
  • French gynaecologist suspended for refusing to treat trans woman

    02/06/2025 7:02:09 AM PST · by grundle · 50 replies
    The Times ^ | January 31, 2025 | David Chazan
    Dr Victor Acharian, who sparked a media storm after telling a patient he only treated ‘real women’, has been barred from practising for a month A French gynaecologist has been barred from practising for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women”. Dr Victor Acharian was accused of transphobia after he turned the patient away in August 2023, and LGBT groups lodged complaints. In December he appeared before a disciplinary board of the French Medical Council and he has now been suspended for a month from...
  • France Hands Over First Mirage Fighter Jets to Ukraine

    02/06/2025 5:15:54 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/06/2025 | Oliver JJ. Lane
    The first Mirage 2000 fighters promised to Ukraine by France’s President Macron arrived on Thursday along with their French-trained crews. Ukraine has received more last-generation Western-made fighter jets today, although exactly how many was not revealed. France’s armed forces minister Sébastien Lecornu wrote on Thursday morning the first of the 1970s-heritage Mirage 2000s, a French domestically-produced analogue of the U.S.-made F-16, “arrived in Ukraine today” with “Ukrainian pilots on board who have been trained for several months in France”. Now the French jets are in-country, they will “participate in defending the skies of Ukraine”, the minister added.
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Wednesday 2/5/2025*Rwanda Backed Rebels Resume Congo Offensive*US Reverses China Package Ban*Iran Denies Nuclear Weapons Allegations*Unemployment 5.1 Percent In New Zealand*

    02/05/2025 8:08:35 PM PST · by Nextrush · 1 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 2/5/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    Russia's ambassador in the UK saying his country is ready for a serious conversation about a peaceful solution... At the White House President Trump surrounded by girls and young women in athletics signing an executive order... Political wrangling in France today as President Emmanuel Macron's government used Article 49.3... The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels back on the attack in Congo violating their own self-imposed unilateral ceasefire... The United States Postal Service reversing yesterday's announcement on not accepting packages from China and Hong Kong... Police in Sweden identifying the suspect in the school attack that killed 11 people... Inflation in Russia measured...
  • The Aga Khan has died, aged 88

    02/04/2025 10:12:57 PM PST · by RandFan · 37 replies
    BBC ^ | Feb 5 | BBC
    Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced. Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili Muslims, who trace his lineage directly to the Prophet Muhammad. He "passed away peacefully" in Lisbon, Portugal, surrounded by his family, his charity said in a statement on social media. Born in Switzerland, he had British citizenship and lived in a chateau in France. ..... The Aga Khan's charities ran hundreds of hospitals, educational and cultural projects, largely in the developing world. He enjoyed a...
  • France Yellow Vests Week 324*French Troops To Greenland?*Marine Le Pen Sees National Assembly Dissolving By Fall*Jean-Marie Le Pen Grave Vandalized*The Paris Protest*

    02/01/2025 8:31:35 PM PST · by Nextrush
    Nextrush Free ^ | 2/1/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    This week French President Emmanuel Macron announcing major renovations to the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris... Plenty of excitement about the notion of French troops going to Greenland. France's Foreign Minister Jean Noel-Barrot broaching the idea... Interviewed by the "LCI' news channel this week Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN) in the National Assembly and leading presidential candidate for 2027, urging dissolution of the assembly. Le Pen pushing for the notion that President Macron should dissolve the assembly so new elections can be held with proportional representation in the mix...' In Brittany on Friday morning police discovered...
  • French luxury billionaire sparks tax debate with threat to leave

    02/01/2025 11:08:29 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    Yahoo! Finance ^ | Thu, January 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM CST | Katell PRIGENT
    Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world's biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French government by suggesting that companies could flee France for the United States to escape a planned tax hike. As the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is struggling to fine-tune a budget designed to tackle the country's deficits and debt mountain, Arnault took issue with an expected key ingredient, a special tax on large companies. "I have just returned from the US, and I have witnessed the wind of optimism in that country. Coming back to France is a bit like...
  • Vehicular Terror: Blueprint for Mayhem

    01/02/2025 4:40:40 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2 Jan, 2025 | Joe Alton
    In the early hours of the New Year, an American-born citizen with a black ISIS flag drove a truck down Bourbon St. in New Orleans, killing fifteen revelers and injuring about three dozen others. His name was Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The New Orleans attack followed hard upon another vehicular incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, which led to the deaths of at least five people while injuring 200 more. Vehicular terror events are becoming more common throughout the world. In 2021, a driver rammed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring 48...
  • France considers troop deployment to Greenland amid US interest

    01/28/2025 2:55:34 PM PST · by hardspunned · 66 replies
    AA ^ | 1/28/25 | Necva Tastan Sevinc
    France is considering deploying troops to Greenland in response to US President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about acquiring the Arctic island, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Tuesday. Barrot confirmed that France discussed the issue with Denmark but stressed there are no immediate plans for action. “At this point, it is not Denmark’s wish,” Barrot said in an interview with Sud Radio, adding that Europe would act if security interests were threatened. The comments come as Denmark seeks European support to counter Trump’s growing interest in Greenland. Trump has cited the island’s natural resources and strategic value, stating, “I think...
  • Emilia Perez (starring Selena Gomez) lauded in Hollywood but criticized in Mexico

    01/27/2025 5:03:59 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 14 replies
    Buenos Aires Times ^ | Jan 24, 2025
    Despite its huge international success, including a leading 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez faces criticism in Mexico, where the transgender narco-musical has been accused of trivialising raging drug-related violence. The film stars Karla Sofía Gascón as a bloodthirsty narco who, after transitioning to life as a woman, helps relatives of the missing. The movie also features "Avatar" star Zoe Saldaña, singer-actress Selena Gomez and Mexican actress Adriana Paz. Gascón became the first openly trans acting Oscar nominee, in the best actress category, while Saldaña was nominated for best supporting actress. "The film trivialises the problem of the missing in Mexico,"...
  • Disabled French Man Raped by Illegal Algerian Awaiting Deportation—Heroic Whistleblower Fined €500 for Exposing Rapist

    01/27/2025 6:20:34 AM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 23 replies
    Rair Foundation ^ | 01/25/2025 | Amy Mek
    A French court sentenced a heroic security guard to a six-month suspended prison term and forced him to pay damages for exposing the brutal rape of a disabled man by an illegal immigrant under a deportation order, outrageously compensating the alleged rapist for a supposed invasion of privacy.In an appalling miscarriage of justice, a case unfolding in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, has left the public outraged and questioning the priorities of the judicial system. A young disabled man, a vulnerable individual suffering from a mental disorder, was brutally raped in the public toilets of the Atlantis shopping center in November 2024....
  • France Yellow Vests Week 323*Tax The Wealthy Elderly Idea Falls Flat*French "Peacekeepers" In Ukraine?A Protest Today*

    01/25/2025 9:22:29 PM PST · by Nextrush · 2 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 1/25/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    This week France's Minister of Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet drew fire from all sides of the political spectrum with a proposal to tax 'wealthy' pensioners in France. The idea being that the taxation would fund services for the elderly... The game in Ukraine is perhaps less clear even though new US President Donald Trump expressed his desire to see the fighting there ending. For Russia the ultimate solution is a long-term agreement that keeps Ukraine neutral. That doesn't seem to be close. Stories were published last year suggesting some French military commitment to Ukraine... France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau issuing new...
  • Archaeologists discover France's oldest Neolithic settlement on the French Riviera

    01/24/2025 5:07:53 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | January 18, 2025 | Dario Radley
    The Neolithic period along the Mediterranean coastline represents a transformative chapter in human history: transitioning from a nomadic lifestyle to a sedentary one, characterized by agriculture and livestock farming. Just as its name suggests, in the Early Cardial period -- around 5800 BCE -- the period is characterized by pottery decorated with impressions made using the serrated edges of Cardial shells. This 'cultural current,' believed to have originated in Anatolia, spread rapidly across the coasts of Greece, southern Italy, and eventually into southern France.The importance of the settlement at Cavalaire-sur-Mer is that it is the second known site of this...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report 1/17/2025*Newsdump Friday*TikTok Says It Will Go Dark Unless...*Police Raid In Hungary Follows US Sanctions On Gov't Official*Davos 2025 Next Week*Biden Pardons 2,500*Russia-Iran Treaty*

    01/17/2025 9:08:54 PM PST · by Nextrush · 4 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 1/17/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    The Philippine Coast Guard saying a Chinese Coast Guard "monstership" is operating... air raid alert in Kiev...Saturday morning...water supplies disputed following explosions in Kiev... Tonight, TikTok saying it will go dark Sunday...adding the shutdown won't happen if... Immigration enforcement by the Trump Administration planned... A Ukranian drone attack in Russia's Tula Region... The founder of the Telegram messaging app remains detained in France... Police in Hungary raiding offices of a corruption watchdog...follows imposition of US sanctions against a key official in the nationalist government... Former CIA analyst Asif Rahman...guilty plea over leaking classified information about Israel's... CNN found liable for...
  • UK skier dies in 'violent collision' in French Alps

    01/16/2025 8:02:17 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 45 replies
    bbc ^ | 01/16/2025 | Alex Smith
    The 62-year-old reportedly crashed into a stationary skier, a British man, on the Aiguille Rouge mountain in Les Arcs on Tuesday. She died shortly afterwards, after experiencing traumatic shock, according to French news outlet Le Dauphine. The man broke his leg in the collision. The director of slope safety at the resort, Phillipe Janin, told the AFP news agency it had happened around 10:30 (09:30 GMT), when the woman was descending a "well-groomed" black run on the Aiguille Rouge mountain. Black runs are extremely difficult slopes that are considered to be only suitable for expert skiers. Mr Janin said the...
  • Ukraine, France discussing allied troop deployment to country, Zelenskyy says

    01/14/2025 3:26:00 AM PST · by McGruff · 69 replies
    ABC News ^ | Jan 14, 2025 | David Brennan
    Talks are ongoing between Paris and Kyiv for the possible deployment of French troops inside Ukraine despite the ongoing war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media. Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron "had a detailed discussion about the situation on the battlefield and the progress of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk operation," the Ukrainian leader said in a Monday night post to X. "As one such guarantee, we discussed the French initiative to deploy military contingents in Ukraine," he continued. "We addressed practical steps for its implementation, potential expansion and the involvement of...
  • Paris: the Gaîté Lyrique, still occupied by "300" migrants, suspends its programming until January 24

    01/14/2025 7:15:39 AM PST · by Sharkfish · 19 replies
    Le Figaro ^ | 1/13/25 | E.P.
    "[CANCELLED]". This warning has appeared, for more than a month, on almost all pages of the Gaîté Lyrique events. The famous Parisian concert hall, located in the 3rd arrondissement, has had to suspend its programming since December 10, the day a group of migrants, gathered around the collective of the Jeunes du Parc de Belleville, decided to squat it. From 250 at the beginning, these "minors", as they claim, have increased to 300, says the management of the establishment in a press release published on Sunday on its networks, specifying that "the building remains closed until further notice". "All events...