In his first address to the nation since the troubles began on October 27, Jacques Chirac annouced the creation of a paid training and employment scheme for 50,000 youths from affected areas and a series of measures to improve access to the workplace and to combat discrimination.
That’s terrific but what will happen to these “trained” […]
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…Ahmed Meguinia, a political activist who saw some of the Paris region’s hardest-hit areas during the past week, said…that there was a lack of media coverage explaining why ethnically segregated inhabitants of some of France’s poorest cities have been driven to riot. Instead, the world repeatedly sees CNN images of burning cars and shops, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)From Reuters:
With every night of violent rioting that scars France’s rundown suburbs, more and more French say their distinctive model of integration, based on the revolutionary ideal of equality for all, has failed.
But President Jacques Chirac and his conservative (! - ed.) allies are unlikely to join the critics, as that would mean accepting the […]
The riots began Oct. 27 after the accidental deaths of two teenagers hiding from police. But that incident now seems little more than a trigger for an explosion of anger and alienation that has accumulated for years in France’s poor, predominantly Muslim neighborhoods.
Of course many have and will continue to blame the French economic model […]
The WSJ is reporting that this week while muslims in France have been rioting another group disenfranchised individuals is protesting…stagiaires (aka “interns”). They marched for steady wages and benefits in their internships. This was a preview of a nationwide intern strike set for November 14th.
Unlike the uneducated generally poor off minorities who are rioting […]
According to an article in the “respected” weekly Le Point magazine (as reported in the UK’s Sun):
…a study yesterday revealed nine out of ten French people do NOT wash regularly.
That means that out of a population of 60.5million, more than 54million risk being whiffy.
Shockingly, 2.5million NEVER shower or bath while 1.8million NEVER brush their teeth.
The […]
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From the Guardian Unlimited:
Psychological warfare has broken out over a book that calls on the French people to stop blaming their parents.
The Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis) claims French mind-healers have become ‘fossilised’ in the ‘marginal, discredited’ teachings of Sigmund Freud. The practitioners have been saved from total disgrace, claims […]
LAT reports that the French media have taken the misery associated with Katrina to attack their long-time enemy–the United States.
Marianne, a French newsmagazine declared: that the Katrina response discredited the entire free-market-driven, militaristic Anglo-Saxon model of governance.
Yes, this is the same France that witnessed 15,000 of its own citizens succumb to a heat wave while […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Independent Sources reports that the U.S. government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina was a direct result of a well-documented dislike of French people by the Bush Administration.
As stated by Larry King live on CNN, “New Orleans is a French City.” Since neither President Bush nor most of the U.S. government like France, they purposely held back relief efforts to […]
According to the Associated Press (via Yahoo), Lance Armstrong is so upset with French allegations about drug use that he is considering returning to the sport because he knows how much it would rankle the French.
To steal a regular thread from news/humor website Fark.com, the French responded by immediately surrendering.
“I’m thinking it’s the best way,” […]
Since Independent Sources has found itself posting a few articles deriding the French for everything from their screwed up economy to how bad of a friend they’ve historically been to the US, we thought that it was appropriate to point out something they are doing right–even if we could only find one.
France appears to be starting to […]
Le vacation is over — time to strike!
Union organisers are planning this year’s “rentrée chaude”, traditionally France’s main strike season as the nation returns to work after the summer holidays, as a gradual build-up of protest rather than a sudden call to arms.
“We are all aware of the need for a collective response across all […]
