Chirac in trouble....again
JIGSAW1695
France's struggling economy, labour unrest, street protests and trouble from
Corsican separatists on Monday dampened...
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POOR ECONOMY, LOUD CRITICS DAMPEN BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATIONS FOR FRENCH
PRESIDENT
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PARIS, July 14 (AFP) - France's struggling economy, labour unrest, street
protests and trouble from Corsican separatists on Monday dampened Bastille Day
celebrations for President Jacques Chirac, bogging him down in domestic
problems despite efforts to burnish his profile as international statesman.
The traditional parade down the Champs-Elysees -- with low-flying jets
trailing red, white and blue smoke above the heads of nearly 4,000 troops
marching or driving along the famous Paris avenue -- provided a moment for the
television cameras to capture Chirac as he wants to be seen: the head of state
of one of the world's leading military powers.
A garden party in the grounds of his official palace in the centre of the
city later gave him the opportunity to be seen next to Nelson Mandela, the
widely respected former president of South Africa who will turn 85 on Friday.
But during his customary televised interview, and all along a day
punctuated by disturbances designed as protest to his policies, Chirac was
reminded of the widespread dissatisfaction around the country that has seen his
popularity fall three months straight.
"We are in a difficult, uncertain world, and not only in France," Chirac
said in the broadcast carried by state and private channels.
Rising unemployment, fresh signs that economic growth is weak, and
demonstrations from state workers and arts industry employees opposed to
planned changes to their pensions and benefits have dogged his centre-right
government in recent weeks and months.
At the same time, a failed attempt to ease separatist tensions on the
Mediterranean island of Corsica, and union outrage at the imprisonment of rebel
farmer and anti-globalisation militant Jose Bove have added to Chirac's
headaches.
The problems facing him were evident in the fact that 5,000 police deployed
to ensure security at the parade on the Champs-Elysees easily outnumbered the
polished soldiers marching in formation past the president's podium.
That was in part because of an assassination attempt against Chirac at last
year's parade, when an extreme-right militant fired off a shot from a rifle. A
bystander knocked the weapon at the last moment, sending the bullet wide, and
the militant, Maxime Brunerie, was quickly overpowered.
But the extra police were also there to keep protesters from upstaging the
president. The Greens party said officers had roughly arrested eight of its
members who had tried to hold placards aloft calling for the release of Bove.
Shortly before Chirac's interview, a bomb went off in front of a post
office in a Corsican village, causing significant damage but no casualties.
Such attacks are frequent, but usually occur in the middle of the night,
suggesting that the blast was timed to coincide with the Paris celebrations.
Fears of separatist attacks in Corsica or in mainland France have risen in
the past week.
On July 6, the island's voters rejected a government-drafted referendum
offering limited autonomy two days after the spectacular arrest of Corsica's
most notorious separatist, Yvan Colonna, who had been on the run for four
years.
Last Friday eight Corsicans were convicted and given lengthy prison
sentences for allegedly helping Colonna murder the island's governor in 1998.
In his interview, Chirac insisted he would push through with his plans
despite the opposition.
"The only attitude possible is movement, keeping an open mind and adapting
to the world," he said, urging his compatriots to reject "fear, isolation,
becoming entrenched."
Tax cuts he promised ahead of his re-election last year would go through,
he said, but the government would have to crack down on abuses of benefits
programmes such as that applied to arts industry workers that is in the process
of being changed.
"Dialogue" and better communication was needed to convince the country of
the need of certain measures, particularly when it came to the creaking
pensions system, he said.
Fighting rising unemployment, Chirac added, remains "the number one
priority of the concerns of the government."
To tackle the economic woes, he called on EU finance ministers to study
temporary ways of easing the rules of the Stability Pact underpinning the euro
zone.
He said he wanted to see changes "coherent with the imperative of
stability, and ensuring growth is not diminished".
That was taken to mean that Paris wants to spend its way to higher growth
without fear of fines for breaching a three-percent-of-GDP limit on deficits --
something France theoretically now faces.
The leader of the opposition Socialist party, Francois Hollande, said
Chirac's statements were essentially empty.
"Confronted with the serious problems facing our country... Jacques Chirac
has come up with nothing new," he said. "As usual, he has promised everything
at once. Probably he won't keep his word for any of it."
Euro
"JIGSAW1695" <jigsa...@aol.com>
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> The last sentence says it all. What a sorry leadership France has.
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What do you, as a US citizen, intend to do about it?
Euro
JIGSAW1695
From: "Euro" vs...@hotmail.com
Date: 7/15/2003 10:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <85a3049a4de51e54...@news.meganetnews.com>
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Sell all of my stocks related to French industry and commerce. They have been
doing poorly as of late and it is time to cut my losses.
Earl Evleth
"JIGSAW1695" <jigsa...@aol.com> wrote:
> Sell all of my stocks related to French industry and commerce. They have been
> doing poorly as of late and it is time to cut my losses.
The Wall Street Journal has a nice article on Cognac sales in the US, 1
billion a year and rising.
Apparently Cognac has become popular with American Blacks, including the
rap crowd.
By the way, what stocks to you have related to French industry??
I somehow doubt it. Are you doing a "Bush"??
Earl
Euro
"JIGSAW1695" <jigsa...@aol.com>
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You should then have entitled this thread "Jigsaw in trouble.... again".
Euro
JIGSAW1695
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Yea, sometimes the stock market can be like a crap game.
A Planet Visitor
The same thing we do when Europeans complain about the sorry
leadership of the U.S. We yawn... and remark subconsciously to
ourselves -- "tell somebody who gives a flying fuck." It's our sorry
leadership, and I'll thank you to leave us to it.
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PV
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Euro
"JIGSAW1695" <jigsa...@aol.com>
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Dezi should have warned you about the Credit Lyonnais and Vivendi shares.
Euro
Dolly B.Coughlan Jr
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>Subject: Re: Chirac in trouble....again
>From: Desmond <pasdespa...@zeouane.org>
>Date: 16 Jul 2003 17:28:35 GMT
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>Le 16 Jul 2003 01:53:24 GMT, JIGSAW1695 <jigsa...@aol.com> a écrit :
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>> Yea, sometimes the stock market can be like a crap game.
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>Anything like the 'crap' that's inbetween your ears ?
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Dolly B. Coughlan Jr, the legend continues!
Welcome to the Desmond Coughlan archive.
As Desi lies, the archive grows!
A Planet Visitor
>Le 16 Jul 2003 01:53:24 GMT, JIGSAW1695 <jigsa...@aol.com> a écrit :
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>> You should then have entitled this thread "Jigsaw in trouble....
>> again".
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>> Yea, sometimes the stock market can be like a crap game.
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>Anything like the 'crap' that's inbetween your ears ?
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The Nameless One is back... the odious odor is obvious. The return of the
one line meaningless drivel, in his inability to actually form a coherent thought.
Apparently 'lawyer school' (guffaw...guffaw...guffaw) didn't teach him a
damn thing.
PV
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A Planet Visitor
>Le Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:24:54 GMT, A Planet Visitor <abc...@zbqytr.ykq> a écrit :
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>>>> You should then have entitled this thread "Jigsaw in trouble....
>>>> again".
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>>>> Yea, sometimes the stock market can be like a crap game.
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>>>Anything like the 'crap' that's inbetween your ears ?
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>{ snip FuckWit Patented Gimmicks (TM) n° 173, 166, and 68 ...
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> url:http://www.fruffrant.com/gimmicks/166.html
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Actually, what the Nameless One clipped were these words --
The Nameless One is back... the odious odor is obvious. The return of the
one line meaningless drivel, in his inability to actually form a coherent thought.
Apparently 'lawyer school' (guffaw...guffaw...guffaw) didn't teach him a
damn thing.
The only thing that was left off was the prior notification that my detection
of that foul odor would que his typical listing of meaningless drivel, while
clipping the comment itself. So to correct that --
Cue a repeat of the Nameless One providing more meaningless drivel.
Of course, let us not forget that the Nameless One has also admitted to being
more depraved than Theodore Frank --
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1r_D9.204037%24fa.4431379%40twister.tampabay.rr.com
His words -- "Indeed, the chances of _me_ murdering someone, are
greater than the chances that Theodore Frank would have done so."
And has admitted that he enjoys ripping wings off of sparrows as he pictures
them as abolitionists, in his rather depraved indifference to life. --
url:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20021024212910.18726.00000056%40mb-fe.aol.com
His words --
"I engage in 'abuse' of deathies as a matter of course.
That's what they're there for. `echo $DEITY` gave them to us,
much as She gave sparrows to the domestic cat. They're
our playthings."
And he has admitted that he finds those who 'complain' about
murderers murdering other murderers to be "retarded, fuckwitted
hypocrite(s)"
url:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030115212941.27673.00000041%40mb-mv.aol.com
His words --
"but surely even he cannot bring himself to 'complain' about murderers
being murdered. Is he _that_ much of a retarded, fuckwitted hypocrite ?"
Ah, yes... good ol' 'moral' Desmond. Little wonder that he remains the only
poster in Usenet history to have been killfiled for PERSONAL reasons
(rather than the subject of this group), by another poster, after that poster had
offered him the hospitality of his home.