Standing ovation from FF members

France has claimed ownership of the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit in Washington's Smithsonian Institution, using new research to suggest it is actually a legendary gem once owned by King Louis XIV that was looted in the French Revolution.

So basically the fnerch are accusing our honourable American friends of being thieves. Surely this is tantamount to a declaration of war. There is only one appropriate response to such an insult. NUKE FNARCE !!

Lilo's girlfriend Samantha Ronson has since lashed out at the protestor on her own MySpace blog saying: "The girl who threw (the flour) acted like an animal herself," Ronson, 30, says on her MySpace blog. "I take that back, it's an insult to animals to group her in with them, my dog is FAR more civilized than that person."

Armstrong, who recently announced his comeback from a three-year retirement, said: "There're some aggressive, angry emotions [in France]."

France has sparked a diplomatic row by pulling out of a plan to deport illegal migrants bound for England from Calais.

"I heard screams and then saw the woman come out on the balcony," said neighbour Rene Rio. "He beat her for at least 10 minutes" and "shot her at point-blank range in the head.

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Air France strike causes chaos- The strike is likely to cause chaos for weekend travellers with more long-haul flight cancellations expected. The airline, which is part of Air France-KLM, said it would update its schedule daily on its website.- Severe disruptions to Air France flights are expected after pilots began a four-day strike against legal changes to the retirement age.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy backed down from comments critical of a planned U.S. missile defense system in Europe. At a summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday, Sarkozy said the missile shield plans were misguided and will not make Europe safer. Those comments had been the strongest to date by an American ally against the missile-defense plans — and undercut the rationale behind President George W. Bush's European security strategy. But after Saturday's global financial summit with other world leaders, Sarkozy said: "Ultimately, it could be a complement against a missile threat coming from elsewhere, for example, Iran."

EADS has been forced to take a further €341m ($434m) charge for the latest delays to the development of its A400M military transport aircraft, bringing the extra costs of Europe’s biggest military contract to €1.7bn.

France in denial or bucking the trend?-France's finance minister said the news of 0.1% growth was "astonishing" In France there is a strong sensitivity to what has been dubbed - after the 1986 nuclear disaster - the Chernobyl Syndrome.

If Europe is under missiel attack - US missile shield should protect every country EXCEPT FRANCE. Sometimes I wish we did not liberate France from Nazism! news.yahoo.com . . .

Mr Sarkozy was elected last year on a promise to get the French back to work, to allow them to earn more, to end the welfare culture and to encourage risk and reward merit. But recently the president has sounded a different note. He has declared that “laissez-faire capitalism is over” and railed against the “dictatorship of the market”. He is setting up a “strategic national investment fund” to take stakes in French companies so as to protect them from foreign predators. His prime minister, François Fillon, has threatened to nationalise banks unless they lend more to companies. And Mr Sarkozy has also pledged to create 100,000 state-subsidised jobs of just the sort favoured by a former Socialist government, which he denounced vigorously during his election campaign. This lurch to the left has not gone unremarked by real socialists. Martin Schulz, German leader of the Socialist group in the European Parliament, has congratulated the French president for “speaking like a real European socialist”. It was a taunt that the president chose, uncharacteristically, not to dismiss. “Have I become socialist?” he wondered. “Perhaps.”

The director of one of the most prestigious theatres in Paris has complained to the British Embassy after its Guy Fawkes firework display sparked panic during a premiere. The British Embassy sparked a bomb scare when it held a display on November 7 in its huge garden for 200 British staff. The noise of the explosions interrupted the performance of Alain Delon and actress Anouk Aimée – star of Sixties hit A Man and a Woman – who had just begun the premiere of Love Letters by American playwright A R Gurney.

Lol poor stinkies must have thought that the Germans were back for a third crack at them. No doubt they were surrendering in droves.

MONTPELLIER, France: French police say seven people were injured when explosives they were handling went off, causing a blast at a student housing unit. Six injured from the blast early Wednesday in the southern city of Montpellier have been taken to the hospital and are being treated for burns and burst eardrums. Authorities are searching for a seventh person, who fled the scene. Police say the seven appeared to have been trying to build a bomb and that they had been drinking.

The government of Rwanda today called on the international community to "bring to justice" 33 French politicians and military leaders it accuses of involvement in the 1994 genocide which claimed the lives of 800,000 people. The late president Francois Mitterrand and former prime minister Dominique de Villepin are named among dozens of others in a sensational report. It accuses them of giving French support of a "political, military, diplomatic and logistic nature" as well as alleging that French soldiers carried out rapes and killings.

Ms Kabuye was detained in Germany on Sunday and is being extradited to France, which had issued an international warrant against her. The arrest has sparked an outcry in Rwanda, where thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against her arrest. France accuses Ms Kabuye of being involved in the killing of the late Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana in 1994. The shooting down of his plane signalled the start of the genocide in Rwanda.

Anti-terrorist police arrested ten members of a violent, French anarchist movement accused of causing chaos on the country's railways by sabotaging overhead power cables today. The arrests brought relief to railway executives after days of pandemonium, but fuelled concern over a revival of the extreme left-wing movements which sowed terror in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. LOL, millions of muzz and these scumbags too. Froggystan is one big terrorist shithole...

You couldn't make this up. And who says the U.S. doesn't have world-class culture?

PARIS (AP) - Inspired by Barack Obama, the French first lady and other leading figures say it's high time for France to stamp out racism and shake up a white political and social elite that smacks of colonial times. A manifesto published Sunday—subtitled "Oui, nous pouvons!", the French translation of Obama's campaign slogan "Yes, we can!"—urges affirmative action-like policies and other steps to turn French ideals of equality into reality for millions of blacks, Arabs and other alienated minorities. Do like change too fwoggies? Buh bye

FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS A WEEK - FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.

Boy oh boy. Dare I say terrorism? Lucky those muslim youths didn't succeed. Shorted electrical cables, concrete slabs...I wonder what's next for the worlds second fastest train line?

now the majority of the fighting is done ze fLench want in - fuckum - they would not back the coalition properly they can be excluded from any rebuild contracts - France wants the EU to "get more closely involved" with reconstruction in Iraq, according to confidential documents acquired by FT Deutschland. Elsevier

PARIS – Inspired by Barack Obama, the French first lady and other leading figures say it's high time for France to stamp out racism and shake up a white political and social elite...

The pop singer-wife of President Sarkozy courted controversy yesterday by criticising Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, for his remarks on Barack Obama, and denouncing France for systemic racial discrimination.

Thousands of passengers have been left waiting on station platforms after vandals threw concrete blocks onto electricity lines on the high-speed routes. Trains have been diverted to slower lines until the damage is repaired.

LOL - The muzzys getting out of their cages over there? Or is it just that boring over there in fRance?

Foreigners should be forced to study the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, if they want to stay in the country, a close ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared WOW

The recent curfews and emergency measures are the failed tools of France colonial past; what is needed is a change in attitudes. It is the French establishment and the French society that bear the responsibility for this system of conscious racism. Once this system is removed and its roots cut out the French society, France can be proud of its ideal. It is time France revisits and takes seriously its ideal of Liberté, Fraternité and Égalité. France ought to reconsider its fraudulent policies of anti-Arabs and anti-Muslims prejudice. Or maybe France needs another French revolution?

"The presidency of the European Union council expresses its strong concern after the announcement by President Medvedev ... of the deployment of a complex of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad," the presidency said in a statement. "This announcement does not contribute to the establishment of a climate of trust and to the improvement of security in Europe, at a time when we wish for a dialogue with Russia on questions of security in the whole of the continent," it said.

Lagarde’s gloomy predictions came just a few days after the European Commission said the worst financial crisis for generations had driven the EU into recession and that economic growth will be near a standstill in 2009. afp

Publishers in France have been ordered to modernise school textbooks after they were found to be riddled with racial stereotypes and negative images of the elderly and disabled.

Just common sense ideas.

France threatens to seize banks, German bail-outs escalate - The French state has threatened to seize control of the country's banks and fire top staff unless they do their part to stabilise the economy by stepping up lending to companies in need.

France tries to re-brand itself in Iraq: From an image of 'the dictator's closest ally,' Paris seeks to move toward one of 'the people's best friend,'

Six years ago, when Belgian Minister Louis Michel addressed the Belgian Foreign Affairs Committee, on November 12, 2002, he explained that the EU intended to incorporate the whole of North Africa and the Middle East, but also Russia. In other words, the entire northern half of Asia as far as Vladivostok, is to be incorporated into the EU. Those who cry --Empire! Are the imperialist.

Profits slump 84% at Societe Generale - but thankfully they are still in the black if only just - Net profits in the three months to the end of September fell to 183m euros ($235m; £145m) from 1.12bn euros in the same period a year before. but I fear the worst is not yet over - lets see how the next three months go

Armed gunmen in speedboats have kidnapped and threatened to kill 10 crew members from an oil vessel off the West African state of Cameroon. The vessel's owners said those taken hostage were seven French nationals, two Cameroonians and a Tunisian.

The death threats have been lifted apparently. The camercoons are just going to hold onto the fnerchies as long as they can stand the smell.

A plump Asian man in a pinstriped suit was caught on video the other week walking into the Sainte Anne hospital in a leafy street in Paris. He was Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of the ailing dictator of North Korea. Two days later the elegant figure of Professor François-Xavier Roux, 57, chief neurosurgeon at Sainte Anne and a close friend of Bernard Kouchner the French Foreign Minister, was filmed at Charles de Gaulle airport boarding a flight to Beijing and thence, it is suspected, to the bedside of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang. Is there NO despot whose dick FROGGY won't suck???

Once again the French renege on their promises and seek a backdoor deal.

Vichy, on the Allier river, is to host ministers from the 27 EU states on Monday as they seek to harmonise immigration policy. They are to meet in the same Second Empire building where the parliament of defeated France abolished the Republic in July 1940 and handed power to the ageing Pétain. At the same time, Gérard Charasse, 64, a centre-left MP, is to table a Bill in parliament to outlaw the use by officials of the word Vichy as a synonym for the regime that betrayed France and deported thousands of Jews to their deaths. [Frogs trying rewrite to history again. After all "deporting thousands of Jews to their deaths" must be now viewed in the "right context"...]