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  • Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (video)
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video from Bellaciao - Paris - 09-01-29
    By Ian Traynor,
    Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters
    France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the (…)

  • The Grand Hotel Intercontinental cancels the Israeli Tourism Fair
    14 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Grand Hotel Intercontinental cancels the Israeli Tourism Fair
    Confronted with the indignation expressed by so many people in France and abroad who had heard about the scheduled Israeli Tourism Fair in this great Parisian hotel, the management of this establishment has made the decision to cancel this event, which was supposed to open on January 15.
    The hotel’s management, as the Paris police prefecture has confirmed to us, has indicated that it has disinvited the 50 Israeli (…)

  • Gaza pummelled as Sarkozy prepares for peace mission (+ video SKYNEWS)
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philippe Naughton
    "Seven Palestinian children and six adults died today in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip from air, land and sea, as President Sarkozy of France prepared for a unilateral diplomatic mission to the region.
    Houses, mosques and tunnels were hit as the Israelis continued to fire into the densely populated Palestinian territory in the hopes of damaging the militant group Hamas.
    Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, said that "Operation Cast Lead" would continue (…)

  • Support to Gaza : 25 000 in Paris (video)
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
  • US Committee to support the Tarnac 9
    2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. Support Commitee for the Tarnac 9 Formed Sunday, November 30 2008 @ 04:53 PM CST Contributed by: Anonymous
    On November 11th 2008, French Anti-Terrorism Police arrested around twenty people in connection with five incidents in the preceding weeks in which electric train lines were shut down, causing delays.
    Nine of these were subsequently accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”, four of them were released on bail and five remain in custody. Because (…)

  • Agamben’s tribute to Free the Tarnac 5
    24 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Giorgio Agamben
    TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?
    On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and “accused of criminal conspiracy with (…)

  • Sarkozy’s new financial world order - Oct 22 (videos)
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24049837.html

  • FRENCH ELITE ON TRIAL: The Sordid Tale of ’Angolagate’
    19 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stefan Simons in Paris
    Corruption, arms sales and a civil war in Africa: France’s biggest ever bribery scandal sees 42 leading figures of the French business and political world on trial. They are accused of being involved in a murky network said to have facilitated the illegal transport of arms to Angola in the 1990s.
    The story, the actors and the exclusive scenery are the stuff of movies. The cast includes former cabinet ministers, billionaires, financial experts and glamorous (…)

  • Head of Taser distributor in France arrested
    16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andrew Johnson
    French police arrested the head of a company that distributes stun guns in France for Scottsdale-based Taser International Inc. on Tuesday, according to foreign news reports.
    Authorities detained Antoine Di Zazzo and nine other people, including police officers and private detectives, on suspicion that they spied on Olivier Besancenot, a former presidential candidate in France who publicly questioned the safety of Taser’s devices, reports stated.
    Di Zazzo runs SMP (…)

  • About Tenzin Gyatso and his faith
    11 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The monk Tenzin Gyatso is visiting France; It`s an opportunity for french peoples to know something more about the religion and personality of dalai-lama...
    The indepth story and truth about tibetan philosophy
    http://www.trimondi.de:80/EN/interv03.html
    An Interview with Victor and Victoria Trimondi (Germany)
    By James C. Stephens
    September 11, 2003
    Stephens: This September 11 on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, the keynote speaker at the National (…)