france issues

French President Emmanuel Macron will propose new rules cracking down on fake news during elections this year, he said in an annual speech to the press today. https://www.politico.eu/pro/macron-proposes-new-law-against-fake-news/ Yummy, truth tribunals

There's not much about this in mainstream media yet, so I post one of the few English articles I found on that. There are warnings not to disseminate the leaked data (which came out midnight in the night from Friday to Saturday, just as the French news blackout regarding the election came into...

"A bit" underreported, in France a third of gas stations are in immediate danger of running out of fuel, electricity blackouts have already happened in medium size infrastructure, all over a neoliberal law about "reform" of working rights that wants to impose on the French people what most...

So much for European austerity. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9314666/French-president-Francois-Hollande-cuts-retirement-age.html I hope they don't raise the retirement age for Social Security in the US, but I have a feeling that could be the case if Romney became president.

Newspaper "Le Monde" is reporting that the French branch of the COS has been condemned to a fine of Euro 600'000 for "organised fraud". Its main leader has received a 2 years suspended sentence and a € 30'000 fine. Lesser employees have received suspended sentences and fines.

France has made it illegal to deny the Armenian genocide. Turkey is deeply offended about the French calling the genocide a genocide despite the genocide actually being a genocide. Now the Turks "retaliate" by calling the French colonial war in Algeria a genocide. I did read up on the dirty...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8466446/French-riot-police-threaten-to-strike-over-alcohol-ban.html The above sounds totally alien to me in the UK and I guess it would raise eyebrows in the US too. Are there any posters from other countries where policeman drinking on...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24005 Nouri Mesmari is the centralplayer in this drama. It has a compelling logic to it. He defected last October, met in France with several Feb 17 opposition figures, had Gaddafi try unsuccessfully to have him arrested or compell him to...

I'm reading that there are protests in France over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. To an American this sounds crazy. I'm assuming it's not crazy though. I mean, if I knew more about the situation maybe I'd still think that they should raised the retirementa age but at least I've...

I just heard on the BBC news that the French parliament has voted to ban the Bourka in public places.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8443989.stm Interesting. I personally think of them as oppression of women, but I don't think it makes any sense to outlaw it. People can wear what they want. Some women report liking it, so whatever.

An AP story via FoxNews reports management at a French Caterpillar plant was "detained" by angry employees because of reports the machinery giant would be laying off 20,000 employees worldwide due to the economic slowdown. The article states a similar event had previously occurred at a Sony...

BY THE MAYBE THE FILTHY FRANCE LOVERS may want to read these posts to see what goes in in France. http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/020225a.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1921892.stm http://www.dawn.com/2002/04/02/int7.htm http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020422-41009042.htm...