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  • Paris Olympics Are Off to a Scary, Rocky Start

    07/26/2024 10:47:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/26/2024 | Rick Moran
    The Olympic Games are getting underway in Paris on Friday, a reminder of what once was a glorious sporting event now corrupted beyond measure by corporate sponsorships, cheating athletes, and cloying network coverage.Fifty years ago, there were no professionals competing for the United States. Today, they're all professionals, paid top dollar so they can train full-time for the glory of the country. They are sponsored by Coke, Pepsi, GM, and dozens of the largest corporations in the world. Even the USA Canoe Slalom Olympic Team has sponsors.The preparations for the games have taken seven years, so naturally, France is on...
  • ‘Malicious Acts’ Wreak Havoc At Olympics

    07/26/2024 7:05:47 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 33 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 26 Jul, 2024 | KAY SMYTHE
    France’s high-speed train system was targeted in a series of attacks Friday, wreaking havoc on the opening day of the 2024 Olympic Games. A series of “coordinated acts of malice” in France led to the cancellation and diversion of a large number of trains, while all travelers were asked to postpone their journeys and not go to train stations on the opening day of the Olympics, according to French rail company SNCF and CNN. Damage was reported at several SNCF facilities as well as the Atlantic, Northern, and Eastern high-speed lines. At least one of the attacks was mitigated by...
  • Paris 'feels like a jail' as security ramps up for the Olympics

    07/24/2024 1:37:06 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Metro News via MSN ^ | 07/24/2024 | Gergana Krasteva
    Squadrons of soldiers drafted from all over France; an AI surveillance system that would make China’s president Xi Jinping jealous; both banks of the River Seine barricaded. This is Paris days before the 2024 Olympic Games, which kick off this Friday, July 26. To anyone who does not live in a large European city like London, Paris – often referred to as the ‘City of Love’ – might resemble a dystopian enclave preparing for the Hunger Games. Yasmina, general manager at Hotel Des Ducs D’Anjou, just a few minutes from the Louvre Museum, said the city ‘feels like a jail’...
  • 2024 Paris Olympics hit by early COVID cases, but organizers don't seem worried by risk of major outbreak

    07/24/2024 8:46:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    cbsnews ^ | 07/24/2024 | Miranda Christ, Christina Rim
    Paris — Thousands of athletes and spectators from around the world have descended on Paris for the looming 2024 Summer Olympics. They've brought with them the potential for a COVID-19 outbreak to spread within the tightly confined Games atmosphere. Officials expect Paris to receive as many as 15 million visitors, including 2 million tourists from abroad, during the Games. Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said Wednesday on "CBS Mornings" that a current spike in cases across the U.S. is likely due to the coronavirus continuing to mutate, and to...
  • We're scared to go out at night alone and short skirts mean unwanted sexual attention: Parisian women reveal safety fears after gang-rape of Australian tourist and say sex attack is 'catastrophic' to France's image days before Olympics

    07/23/2024 9:06:02 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 65 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 07/23/2024 | ELENA SALVONI and NICK FAGGE
    The horrifying attack on an Australian tourist in Paris last weekend is just the latest alleged gang rape on the streets of the French capital. In the wake of the shocking news, Parisian women have revealed their safety fears, while police have voiced concerns in the run up to the Olympics. Following the brutal attack which has sent shockwaves through the city, MailOnline spoke to several women in Pigalle. The recurring response was one of disbelief and horror - and concern about the safety of being out on the city's streets after dark. Aurelia Desnot, a 21-year-old student, said: 'The...
  • Harrowing CCTV shows Australian woman hiding inside shop after alleged gang rape in Paris

    07/23/2024 9:45:51 AM PDT · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 18 replies
    NYPost.com ^ | 7/23/24 | News.com.au
    Harrowing CCTV shows Australian woman hiding inside shop after alleged gang rape in Paris Disturbing CCTV footage has emerged of the moment a young Australian woman sought refuge inside a kebab shop after she was allegedly gang-raped by five men in Paris. The 25-year-old tourist was found disoriented and unable to speak French outside a kebab shop on Boulevard de Clichy in Paris’ 18th arrondissement about 5 a.m. Saturday, just yards from Moulin Rouge. She was reportedly found in a stunned state with her dress “backward” and partially torn off, claiming she’d been raped by five people. CCTV footage has...
  • First Lady Paris-Bound for Olympics to Lead American Delegation

    07/23/2024 9:25:59 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 60 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/23/2024 | SIMON KENT
    President Joe Biden might have stood down from the 2024 race for the White House but that doesn’t mean first lady Jill Biden is giving up on any of her gilded diplomatic ambitions carried out in his name. Far from it. She will still lead the American delegation at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, France, later this week as scheduled. It will repeat her efforts at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo which she also attended solo. Rumors had been swirling that Jill, 73, could pull out or be replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris, now...
  • Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony to Celebrate Immigration by Mocking Cliched France

    07/22/2024 3:16:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    The National ^ | 21 July, 2024 | Sunniva Rose
    Organisers want to push positive image of multiculturalism at Friday's extravaganza on SeineThe Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games opening ceremony on July 26 is expected to celebrate the country's diversity while poking fun at Parisian stereotypes in a country mired in political disputes. Set to take place over 6km on the Seine river instead of a closed stadium, the high-profile event is expected to bring a breath of fresh air to an otherwise polarised France. "I expect positive aspects of immigration to be highlighted alongside the values of multiculturalism," sports historian Yvan Gastaut told The National. "We should expect a...
  • {Radical Left} France Unbowed MP sparks outrage by saying Israeli Olympians not welcome {for 2024 Olympics}

    07/22/2024 3:20:04 AM PDT · by Cronos · 16 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 22nd July 2024 | Kim Willsher
    An MP for the radical-left France Unbowed party has sparked outrage after saying Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and calling for protests against their presence. Citing Israel’s war in Gaza, Thomas Portes told a pro-Palestinian gathering in Paris on Saturday: “We are just a few days away from an international event to be held in Paris, the Olympic Games. And I’m here to say that no, the Israeli delegation is not welcome in Paris. Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Olympic Games in Paris. We have to use this deadline and all the levers we...
  • Paris Olympics opening ceremony is thrown into chaos as performers threaten to go on strike over pay and conditions with just a week to go before £3,000-a-ticket show on the Seine

    07/18/2024 3:25:47 AM PDT · by C19fan · 25 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | July 18, 2024 | Peter Allen
    French trade unionists are threatening to bring chaos to the Paris Olympics as dancers signed up to perform filed a strike notice just one week before the opening ceremony, citing low pay and 'glaring inequalities in treatment'. With just a week to go until the lavish boat procession down the River Seine, available tickets cost between £700 and £2,200, with hospitality packages more than £3000. Such figures for a ceremony lasting less than four hours have incensed the unions, who say that profits are not being shared with ordinary workers.
  • Paris Mayor Takes Dip in the Seine to Showcase Its Cleanliness as Olympic Events Loom

    07/17/2024 8:25:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    Euronews ^ | 17/07/2024
    The French capital's main waterway will be at the centre of the 2024 games' opening ceremony, and authorities have been working hard to purge it of pollution. After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally dipped in the Seine River on Wednesday, nine days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Clad in a wetsuit, Hidalgo plunged into the river near the imposing-looking City Hall, her office, and the Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet joined her. They followed in the footsteps of French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who swam in the Seine on Saturday...
  • 7/14/1789 Thomas Jefferson & The Storming of the Bastille

    07/14/2024 8:13:54 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 12 replies
    Thomas Jefferson, as the American Minister to the Court of Versailles, witnessed the opening chapters of the French Revolution in the late 1780s. In September 1789, he returned to the United States, but, assuming the position of Secretary of State, he continued his involvement in American foreign policy. The French Revolution, continuing into the 1790s, would have an ongoing effect on Jefferson's career. When French revolutionaries violently stormed the "Bastille" in mid-July, Jefferson was taken aback by the "astonishing train of events."[7] By August, however, he was ready to defend the actions of the mob...He was certain too that the...
  • Potemkin Paris: France moves its homeless illegals out of the capital to clean up for the Olympics

    07/13/2024 8:17:17 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 07/13/2024 | Monica Showalter
    Paris? Its streets covered with homeless illegal-migrant encampments?Not for the Olympics, it isn't.According to the New York Times, President Macron has gone the full Potemkin Village ahead of the international television cameras filming Paris for the Olympics, which begin on July 24, sweeping the illegals out.The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation....Around the city over the past year, the police and courts have...
  • Jill Biden to lead presidential delegation to Paris Olympics

    07/12/2024 8:07:05 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/12/2024 | JUDY KURTZ
    Jill Biden is headed to the Olympics, leading the presidential delegation to the Summer Games in Paris later this month. The first lady will touch down in France for the opening ceremony on July 26, the White House announced Friday. It’s not the first time that Biden has attended an Olympics event: She led the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, which were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will head up the delegation at the closing ceremony in August, while Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.)...
  • Left Wing Riots In France Following Le Pen Victory

    06/30/2024 5:07:09 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 51 replies
    Leftards rioting in streets of Paris, because they lost an election. Gendarms, however, are not messing around. Same things happening in Tel Aviv, btw. And MSM and politicals stay mum.
  • Paris Hotel Refuses to Serve Israeli Family as Antisemitism Continues to Spiral in France

    06/26/2024 10:44:45 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 9 replies
    the Algemeiner ^ | 6/25/24 | Jacob Frankel
    An Israeli family visiting Paris was denied service at a hotel after an attendant noticed their Israeli passports, continuing a record spike in antisemitism across France that has increasingly led to violence against the Jewish community. According to the French magazine Le Point, the Israeli family of three intended to spend three nights in Paris. Although they had booked their Novotel Paris Porte de Versailles hotel room online, an attendant informed the family, after seeing their Israeli passports, that the price of the room had increased. “He completely changed face,” the father said in a complaint to French authorities, according...
  • Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Rehearsal Postponed Due To Seine River Pollution

    06/23/2024 3:08:18 AM PDT · by george76 · 20 replies
    Oann ^ | June 22, 2024 | Abril Elfi
    A monitoring report from the city of Paris has revealed that the Seine river remains too dirty to accommodate the Paris Olympics triathlon and open-water swimming events. ... routine samples taken from June 10th to June 16th at various locations along the Seine revealed elevated levels of E. coli bacteria. ... the water quality was considerably reduced due to the unusually high rainfall in May and the recent wet days. It also mentioned the absence of sunny days or times with reduced streamflow, which can aid in the reduction of bacteria.
  • Paris Olympics: From 1924 to 2024

    06/20/2024 5:38:06 AM PDT · by DFG · 2 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 06/20/2024 | Lloyd Billingsley
    On July 26, the 2024 summer Olympic Games will kick off in Paris, as they did 100 years ago in 1924. Back stories from those games were dramatized in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, about Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell, an outgoing Christian, and Jewish athlete Harold Abrahams, younger brother of Sidney Abrahams, who represented Britain at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Sidney was duly knighted, and Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams served as chief justice of Ceylon during the 1930s. “Solly” was also the first Jew elected president of the London Athletic Club, founded in 1863. Younger brother Harold, born...
  • Blowing Hot Air: WashPost Throws Climate Temper Tantrum Over Air Conditioning at Olympics

    06/08/2024 8:24:08 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 36 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 6/8/2024 | Joseph Vazquez
    The list of everyday necessities the climate fanatics at The Washington Post choose to complain about as enemies of Gaia continues to grow at an exponential rate. The Post threw a fit over the upcoming Olympic Games “taking a farcical turn” against Paris organizers’ supposed commitment to maintaining the “greenest Olympics” ever. The Athletes Village was supposed to not have air conditioning (AC) in the rooms because other eco-friendly cooling measures will be used, whined the leftist rag. However, The Post cried, “portable air-conditioning units will be everywhere. Wheeled in. Shipped in. Ordered by visiting countries that want their athletes...
  • First planned terror attack at 2024 Olympic foiled by authorities: Surprise! He’s a Muslim migrant

    06/04/2024 1:28:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/04/21024 | Olivia Murray
    We’re roughly two months out from the 2024 Olympics, and authorities have already foiled the first planned terrorist attack. Here’s the story, from Amy Mek at RAIR Foundation:A planned Islamic terrorist attack targeting the Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium in Saint-Étienne during the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics has been successfully foiled. Rokhman B., an 18-year-old Chechen asylum seeker, was arrested for his involvement in plotting the Islamic attack. In contact with ISIS fighters, he aimed to kill ‘disbelievers.’Surprise! He’s a Muslim. But, there’s more: “Previously unknown to authorities, Rokhman B. and his family arrived in France as asylum seekers in 2023.”Oh, so not...