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  • Children die in Paris hostel fire
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fourteen children and three adults have died in a fire that swept through a building in Paris housing African immigrants, French police say.
    The fire broke out in the capital’s 13th district shortly after midnight. Thirty people were injured.
    Some 200 firefighters took two hours to control the blaze and help many of the building’s 130 residents to safety.
    In April, 24 people died in a fire at a Paris hotel also housing immigrants, prompting calls for better housing.
    Friday’s fire (…)

  • A Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne (France)
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello,
    We inform you that the Mouvement de la Paix, Greenpeace, Sortir du nucléaire, and differents others organisations organize a Rally and a demontration in front of the nuclear submarine base of l’Ile longue in Bretagne, where are 90 % of the french nuclear weapons, on the 7th august.
    We denounce the violation of the NPT by the french governement
    We ask french governement to respect the NPT and to take initiatives for the nuclear disarmament.
    We ask the local councils to (…)

  • What business is it of Chirac?
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amira Hass
    A European journalist was asked to write about the wall being built around Anata, which will transform it into an enclosed ghetto within Jerusalem. Sorry, she said, the paper’s editors are only interested in the disengagement. It has it all: upbeat news, lots of action, Jews cursing Jews, Jews beating up Jews. We’re fed up with the repetitious details of the wall’s damages.
    The other side of that coin is the affection with which Ariel Sharon was welcomed in France last (…)

  • HAARP used to down Air France Flight 358
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UPDATE: 3:47 PM August 3rd - HAARP used to down Air France Flight 358 Confirmed to Lenny Bloom by HAARP Technicians. Pass It On To The World. More to Come Soon.
    This is another one I’d like to figure out! From: http://www.cloakanddagger.de/

  • Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
    By Samah Jabr - October 2004 JUST 10 DAYS after he called on France’s 600,000 Jewish citizens to move to Israel “immediately” to escape what he called “the spread of the wildest anti-Semitism,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon welcomed the first 200 French Jewish immigrants to arrive in Israel. The official controlled fury with which Paris greeted his call soon was smoothed over with conciliatory gestures on both (…)

  • Paris’s poor struggle to find decent homes
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kerstin Gehmlich
    PARIS. For the last year, Fatima Louarn and her family have shared a tiny Paris hotel room because they could find nowhere else to live. Now she is pregnant and the owner wants to kick her out.
    About 8,000 people live in shabby hotels in Paris, often sharing a bathroom with dozens of other people, and living off sandwiches because they are not allowed to cook in their rooms.
    "It’s not a life. You feel like you’re in prison," says Louarn, a 37-year-old unemployed (…)

  • Fox whore on London attacks: "blow up Paris, and who cares?"
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fox’s Gibson on "golden opportunity" missed: If France had been selected for 2012 Olympics, terrorists would "blow up Paris, and who cares?"
    The day before the July 7 terrorist attacks on London buses and subways, Fox News host John Gibson stated that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "missed a golden opportunity" because, if France had been selected to host the 2012 Olympics, terrorists would "blow up Paris, and who cares?" Following the London attacks, Gibson reiterated that the (…)

  • Meeting of the Rainbow Warriors
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.greenpeace.org.au/ Music video featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead’s "Bomb the World" with images of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Real Player Rainbow Warrior Anniversary Video News Piece This is a four minute news feature on the nuclear threat and the significance of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in 1985. It features interviews with former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, Guardian journalist Paul Brown, and Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd (…)

  • French hostage released in Iraq
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A French journalist and her Iraqi driver were released after being held hostage for five months in Iraq, France’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.
    "Florence Aubenas is on her way to France," a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry told Reuters, adding the reporter would arrive at Villacoublay airport outside Paris later in the day.
    Her Iraqi driver Hussein Hanun al-Saadi was also released, she said. He would stay in Iraq with his family.
    Aubenas, who works for French newspaper (…)

  • The constitution is dead. Long live proper politics
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Like Amish teenagers, Europe’s voters were not offered a truly free choice
    Amish communities practise the institution of rumspringa. At 17 their children, until then subject to strict family discipline, are set free. They are allowed, solicited even, to go out and experience the ways of the modern world - they drive cars, listen to pop music, watch TV and get involved in drinking, drugs and wild sex. After a couple of years they are expected to decide: will they return to be full members (…)