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  • Save the Sacred Ibis !
    31 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Following the decision taken by the prefect of Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan to authorize by an order the destruction of sacred ibises (Threskionis aethiopicus) by members of the ONCFS (National Office for Hunting and Wildlife), the Association for the Defense of the Sacred Ibis in Brittany invites you to join its action.
    The planed destruction of the sacred ibises will be done by "rifle shootings, through approaching and lying in wait of adult birds". However, this species figures on the (…)

  • French Government’s Deception on Deadly Tricastin Spill
    30 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bob Nichols
    (San Francisco) July 28, 2008 - The French Government today admitted a series of dangerous radioactive spills near French nuclear giant AREVA plants at Tricastin, in a wine growing region of southeastern France.
    Paolo Scampa, a physicist and President of the International Association for Protection Against Ionizing Radiation, condemned the deceptive French response in the strongest possible terms. AIPRI was established in 1964. Workers at the Tricastin plant were (…)

  • Marina Petrella: not the only former Red Brigade militant facing extradition
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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    A former member of the Red Brigades, Marina Petrella was convicted in absentia in 1992, and sentenced to life in prison. An Italian court found her guilty of the murder of a police chief in Rome in 1981, and the kidnapping of a magistrate.
    She was arrested in December 1982 and gave birth to her first daughter in prison a year later. In 1986, however, after being granted bail, she fled to France.
    Like other fugitive far-left activists, she benefited from a policy of (…)

  • Will the World Survive the GMO Cultures and the Damage to the Earth’s Eco-Systems?
    27 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Axis of Logic Jun 13, 2008, 04:4
    Source: altercampagne.free.fr
    Monsanto and the other major biotech companies – Syngenta, Bunge, Cargill, etc. – are all set on owning the world’s food supply. Monsanto is by far the leader in this nightmare of destroying organic agriculture and millennia-old biodiversity.
    They have no respect whatsoever for the lives and the livelihood of farmers or, for that matter, any concern for the people who are exposed to severe health hazards from eating (…)

  • Was the incident that marred Sarkozy’s exit a suicide or assassination try?
    27 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Something went terribly wrong on Tuesday afternoon, at the departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel.
    The band had just started up its loud farewell repertoire. Sarkozy, President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Olmert clasped hands in unity for the cameras.
    Suddenly a shot was heard, or not heard, depending on where you were standing. Radios came alive and there was a flurry of activity. Bodyguards did (…)

  • French Firm Signs Deal To Combat Somali Pirates
    16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    French Firm Secopex Signs Deal To Combat Somali Pirates -CEO
    Saturday June 14th, 2008 / 19h43
    CARCASSONNE - A private French military firm has signed a contract with Somali authorities to boost security off the country’s coast, plagued by high-profile piracy in recent years, the chief executive said Saturday. Pierre Marziali, CEO of the firm Secopex, said the deal would "strengthen maritime business" off Somalia. The deal, estimated to be worth between 50 million to 100 million (…)

  • CANNES: Rude welcome for ’Bastardos’ star Ruben Sosa detained by border police
    24 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rude welcome for ’Bastardos’ star Ruben Sosa detained by border police
    By Charles Masters
    May 20, 2008
    CANNES — Mexican actor Ruben Sosa, who appears in the illegal immigrant drama "Los Bastardos" directed by Amat Escalante, had a hard time crossing France’s border to attend yesterday’s Certain Regard screening.
    Sosa was stopped by customs at Nice airport Monday and subjected to multiple searches before being tailed to Cannes by police who did not believe he was in a movie here, (…)

  • Custodians of memory : The lost figures of May ’68
    15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julie Stephens
    Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives, University of Chicago Press, 2002 (238pp). ISBN 0-2267-297-1 (hard cover) RRP $69.00.
    The ‘blaming the sixties industry’ that emerged in the United States from the late eighties has its own distinctive counterpart in France. The events of May-June 1968, where nine million people stopped working and brought France to a complete standstill for five to six weeks, has inspired a voluminous literature. By the end of 1968, in France (…)

  • The Politics of Bling-Bling Hits France Sarkozy’s Cultivated Anti-Intellectualis
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PHILLIPE MARLIERE
    Nicolas Sarkozy, allegedly the most Anglophile (or rather Americanophile) president of the 5th Republic failed his Science Po degree in the late 70s because his English was so poor that he was barred from sitting the politics exams. In the run up to the war in Iraq, the allegedly "Anti-American" Chirac was able to explain the French position in English before the US media, a small feat totally out of reach for the monolingual Sarkozy.
    Sarkozy did not have to make (…)

  • France heads for war games in the Gulf
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall in Paris and Simeon Kerr in Dubai
    French armed forces will take part in large-scale war games in the Gulf next week, underlining France’s growing military presence in the region as heightened tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
    France will deploy 1,500 personnel, two frigates and eight Mirage fighter jets to the defence exercises, held in conjunction with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
    Paris has long-standing defence co-operation agreements with the two (…)