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This week French President Emmanuel Macron released a letter making official his bid for a second term as President of France. The first round of the election April 10th with the second round between the top two finishers on April 24th. Going into his announcement Macron was speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the role of "mediator". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz played that role in a conversation yesterday. Polling data in France since the Ukraine story took over the news cycle showing new strength for Marine Le Pen she is now in a solid second place for the first...

French President Emmanuel Macron went full bore into the Ukraine situation in the last week holding phone conversations with Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden. Macron also joining the Russian sanctions chorus at the end of the week looking presidential as the 2022 Presidential Election approaches (First Round April 10, Second Round April 24). (Special Report: A cargo ship belonging to an ethnic Russian leader in the Baltic states seized in the English Channel and directed to a French port. The Russian Embassy in Paris asking for an explanation. French President Emmanuel Macron convening a defense council meeting on Saturday afternoon)...

When the Yellow Vests first emerged in the fall of 2018 the movement driven by higher fuel taxes imposed in the name of combating 'climate change' and other grievances including government sale of highways to private companies that imposed tolls on the roads the movement spread quickly... But now a new spark to the protest inspired by the trucker freedom convoys in Canada. Various freedom convoys of more than 3000 vehicles from various directions reported by French authorities to be enroute to Paris this weekend... BFM-TV reportng interception of 450 vehicles by police in the Paris area... Inside Paris the...

"I really want to *iss them off, we will continue to do so"- French President Emmanuel Macron Speaks About The Unvaccinated In Newspaper Interview As the new strict vaccine passport that only allows for vaccination or recovery fronm COVID in order to be valid moved through France's National Assembly this week, President Macron minced no words whe asked about the unvaccinated by "Le Parisien". A snap poll showed 53 percent of the French shocked by Macron's comment. A snap poll showed 53 percent of the French shocked by Macron's comment. Regardless the vaccine passport passed the National Assembly 214-93 with...

Christmas Day 2021 marks the 163rd Saturday since the first Yellow Vests protests occurred in France. The fear of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant running high all week long Thursday 1.55 million COVID tests in France with around six percent of them coming back positive. The Omicron fear factor could last right up to April's election for president that's when new vaccine batches are expected to emerge that will be more effective against Omicron than existing shots. Politics continuing to be discussed new polling showing Emmanuel Macron the leader of the pack for the first round of presidential election voting...

A new flavor in the French presidential race. Valerie Pecresse emerging from a "primary of the Right" in France to be the candidate of Les Republicains one of France's "mainstream" parties. Pecresse is President of the Ile de France region in and around Paris. Her victory last weekend led to instant polling that gave her second place in the first round behind incumbent Emmanuel Macron. And the polling for the second round showing Pecresse a winner over Macron by a narrow margin. Macron himself went before the media on Thursday for a press conference in the aftermath of the polls....

French President Emmanuel Macron visitng the money rich Gulf Arab countries this weekend as he faces the Presidential elections in just over four months. The United Arab Emirates agreeing to buy 80 Rafale fighter jets. 12 French helicopters also part of the 19.2 billion US dollar deal. A bit of a boost following the debacle of the 90 billion submarine deal with Australia falling apart under the weight of the AUKUS security alliance to counter China in the "Indo-Pacific". Today President Macronmeeting Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler Mohammed Bin Salman. France and Saudi Arabia with a 'joint initiative" on Lebanon where...

Anniversary events this weekend commemorating the shock wave that went through France in November of 2018 as hundreds of thousands even a million people at a time took to the streets and highways of France in a nationwide protest movement. The Yellow Vest is an item required of all French motorists by law and it became a symbol of a protest aimed at rising gasoline prices as the government of President Emmanuel Macron imposed new taxes and planned more as a "Green" policy. The Yellow Vests occupied toll booths on French highways that had been sold by the government... Much...

Politics in France this week President Macron's Monday night speech one where he proposed six new nuclear power plants as a means of putting France into compliance with its "climate" goals of reducing carbon emissions. Macron also putting on hold the notion of "pension reform" in France while the COVID situation is still impacting France. The "reform" expected to cut pension benefits for millions of French citizens was a contentious issue that drove the early days of Yellow Vests protests in the country. The political opposition in France including Mr. Macron's leading opponent in next April's presidential election Marine Le...

..the government of President Emmanuel Macron announced an "inflation allowance" that will send at least 100 euros (116 US dollars) to 48 million people in France. The move comes with less than six months until voters go to the polls next year in the presidential election. For those in France who's income is below 2000 euros a month the payout will be even greater perhaps as much as 200 to 300 euros. Also this week legislative action to allow school principals in France to have knowledge of the vaccination status of school students. It was a matter that caused a...

Extension of the vaccine passport in France was approved 158-106 in the French Senate late Thursday. The date for the pass to end is February 28th of next year just six weeks before the Presidential Election's first round in April. The polling continues in that race with incumbent Emmanuel Macron in first place according to polling data published by BFM-TV. He would win the first round at 23 percent of the vote with Marine Le Pen at 19 percent. They would move onto a second round. But the third place candidate turns out to be Eric Zemmour the controversial Jewish...

Calls from Yellow Vests activists like Jerome Rodrigues for an increased mobilization and effort this Saturday as the reality of higher fuel prices has come to France. The price of diesel fuel earlier this month reached just over 1.53 euros a liter, which would be more than six dollars a gallon. In November 2018 "green taxes" on gasoline were a major catalyst in the sudden emergence of the Yellow Vests protest movement. The fluid economic situation with a "green energy" backdrop not going unnoticed by the leading challenger to incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in next April's Presidential Election. Marine Le...

Premier Jean Castex this week said that natural gas prices will be kept down through all of 2022 if needed. Several months of natural gas price rises in France as well as across all of Europe threaten the winter supply of heat for many as well as creating a potential for social unrest. For the French government the need to keep prices down linked to the April 2022 Presidential Election. Starting next Friday in France self-testing will no longer be valid for a vaccine passport. People will have to start paying for regular tests in France to get their pass...

This week a dramatic rise in natural gas prices in France. For those who heat their homes with natural gas its 14.3 percent effective Friday. There have been a series of gas hikes through the summer months and into September. Fears in government of reignition of the Yellow Vests movement linked to gasoline at the pump prices that sharply rose almost three years ago along with other energy prices. The hikes rolled back by the government in the face of early Yellow Vests protests... In politics the continuing hype of Eric Zemmour which takes Marine Le Pen down in polls...

Another Saturday of Yellow Vests-Health Freedom protests across France. Four planned in Paris alone. A continuing display of opposition to forced vaccination and vaccine passports. Unlike Australia there are no anti-terrorism police to shut down peaceful protests against vaccine coercion in France. But actions against the protests are more subtle like media stories about Nazism, Anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories. Now the Mayor of Nice from the Mainstream "Right", Christian Estrosi, has asked the regional Prefect of Police to stop protesters from marching in the streets. Estrosi's bid to keep protests at one location described as a bid to prevent harm...

French Health Workers Suspended For Not Getting Vaccinated On Wednesday French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that three thousand health care workers were suspended without pay for being unvaccinated. His move came on the day designated by the government for workers either to be vaxxed or face the disciplinary action. Veran claimed that many of those suspended had agreed to be vaccinated and would soon return to work. Official figures published Tuesday from "Public Health France" said 89.3 percent of nurses and 89.8 percent of paramedics had been vaccinated in the country. Some 95 percent of workers in nursing home...

"Very disappointing decision of the Constitutional Council. It does not protect any of the freedoms threatened by the Health Pass" Left-Wing French Political Leader Jean-Luc Melenchon Reacts To Constitutional Council Ruling On Coronavirus Restrictions In France 8/5/2021 "Very quick to censor any firm measure against legal and illegal immigration, the Constitutional Council finds no fault with a law which hinders the freedom of movement of the French, in their own country, on the basis of vaccination. Hypocrisy total!" National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen Reacts To Constitutional Council Ruling On Coronavirus Restrictions In France 8/5/2021 Both the "Left" and "Right"...

Welcome to Your Weekend Your Host Here Again Going Through Transition... I am digging through all the archives including books I have accumulated over the years with a 1937 Almanac published by the "Philadelphia Bulletin". Lots of details about Philadephia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. In the details of Delaware something got my attention. What Delaware's Legislature Was Like Before The Earl Warren Supreme Court Changed Things In The 1960's... The Next Round Of Vaxx Jabs The vaccines don't last forever so the next round needs to be planned for. That's what the British National Health Service was saying earlier...

Newsdump Alert: You Tube Account Showing Videos Of Yellow Vests Protests In Paris Today Taken Down... Well here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have as El Rushbo would have put it. Welcome to Your Weekend. A relentless pursuit for absolute truth and how about a: "Globalism Update" The "Globalism Theme" a multinational corporation commercial from 50 years ago... And the message of the Global Corporations has racial implications and yes I think that brings us to Juneteenth. Legally speaking in six years the full story of Dr. Martin Luther King is to...

Welcome to Your Weekend the sentiments of my week expressed in the music set that reflects my opening up the boxes of my past to sort things out and throw away some things and keep others. The cards and letters from people in my past like the guy that lived in an "Animal House" fraternity setting and ended up joining the Salvation Army. The man who was the Best Man at my wedding who told me the truth about myself just years after I got married and was working in the mainstream media serving as the officer of the church...