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OK , folks, I want this put on the record here, right now Azari predicts French president will be "Emmanuel Macron" You're not taking a very big risk. 1000% sure That's a bit too much, though. "Zero-risk" doesn't exist. :) Macron is a pro-EU corporatist with a banking background...

Putin too wants Le Pen to win Am sure, Brits want Le Pen to Win too (to stick it to Germans, Merkel). CIA & MI6 just need to look the other way Alexis, you are set up As you surely understand, I'm not overly interested by what Putin, Trump, May nor the Dalai-Lama are thinking about our election...

Alexis , a bit crazy to say this .. but .. remember just week before US election suddenly FBI director comes out with something against Hillary .. and .. Hillary was done Now, could be similar game played .. a week before first go on French election, suddenly a "professional" terrorist at...

Alexis , my Condolence for the terrorist attack in Paris Champs-Élysées Will this help Le Pen ? Thanks, HP. :) I suspect it will. One thing is sure, it increases uncertainty before Sunday's first round, which was already large, 4 candidates being very close to qualification for the runoff. Opinion ...

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Here is a useful reminder and summary of what Pyongyang could do in case it was attacked. How North Korea Could Kill Millions of People If the United States were to attempt to launch a preemptive strike on North Korea, the regime in Pyongyang could do significant damage to both South Korea and Japan...

All seems like a continuation of Trumps magic: don't try to predict what will happen when dada-Donald is steamrolling. Unpredictability is his biggest weapon. Good point indeed. However, war - even if behind the curtain - has this unwelcome specificity compared to hunting that rabbits do fight back...

Nonc Hilaire wrote:Serious error by Trump.

You may be delighted to see that there already is serious opposition in the US to the President's military intervention in Syria.

Check e.g. this principled opponent

Alexis, White people look pretty much all the same to me. Are you sure this is not Ivanka Trump? This could be the smoking gun the US Dems are looking for. Ivanka Trump? No, this is Hillary Clinton . You can understand it when looking up the legend. In "Crooked Hillary", "Hillary&quo...

When Le Pen met Putin in Kremlin a few days ago, she received a gift from Maria Katasonova, one of the leaders of Russia's National Liberation Movement , a conservative and sovereignist movement, who has become probably Le Pen's N°1 supporter in Russia. She has been described as a " pasionaria ...

For French speakers, this study of present balance of forces in the French presidential campaign may be of interest. Présidentielle - Le véritable rapport de force, ou Macron et Fillon au coude-à-coude What is the proper way to put it... " I generally agree with the author " :lol: :mrgreen...

Luckily, the theme song already exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw I would rather think of this theme song for Brexit. :) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say live and let live (You know you did, you know you did you know you did) But if this ever-cha...

Why everything else is fake news but not "Korean News", Doc HP, embracing NK media for fear of Western fake news would be like jumping in the swimming pool because you're afraid of the rain. --- According to specialized site 38North , commercial satellite imagery on March 25th shows what ...

world wide entrenched corruption, gross economic malaise, environmental overload, all those problems would dissolve in an instant with his cunning plan. There was a candidate with a similar pitch for last year US presidential elections. Speaking about dissolution in a digestive track. However, he (...

Has Donald Trump, or one of his aides, betrayed the American people by speaking with - gasp - the leader of a foreign ( :o :shock: :twisted: ) country? The suspense is thrilling. No less than the fate of the current US Presidency is hanging on that so fundamental question. Meanwhile, in Russia... ht...

Good in-depth article from the Gatestone Institute on our April-May election. French Elections: Populist Revolution or Status Quo? " If the Macron bubble doesn't pop, this may portend the realignment, not just of French politics, but Western politics in general, away from the left-right divisio...

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Notion, economy of nations who believe in Islam, is oil, assumes those nations not intelligent enough, pretty much "racist" That is not racist, that is factual. Most important export of Muslim-majority nations is oil and gas. Please check it out. Generally, calling facts "racist"...

look at the WHITE MAN trying to move all the NON WHITE MAN THINGS into a single place to be ignored. IM BEING REPRESSED! TASTE MOI MORALITY! You inferred correctly, Noddy, though I didn't say it out loud, it seems all the " <WriteAColorNameHere> Lives Matter " would find its rightful plac...

(this thread is a proposal to concentrate the debate on relevant topics by devoting a thread to all that is not relevant, albeit thrilling to discuss) Here is a thread to discuss all the Rumors, Controversies, Dirty Tricks, Grumbling & Nagging by Democrats, Republicans and Others in the good US...

With the Islamic economy growing at double the global rate, mainstream designers are jumping on the ‘modest wear’ bandwagon There is no such thing as an "Islamic economy". Fashion France's big money earner .. and .. margins astronomical If Islamic economies growing @ double rate (as weste...

Alexis , when Villeneuve Loubet forbid Burkini on their beaches, I asked my many French friends what this about .. I had never seen a single Burkini on french beaches anywhere They said, they (the French Arabs) Provoking us. In that sense, jugging in a "Nike Hijab" am sure will be seen as...

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Huh? What does that news have to do with France?

Oui ou non? Vrai ou faux? はい、そうです。 Yes, that's the way it is. Reactionaries are fashionable, and declinism is the latest trend. Now actually, this can't just be treated as a mere fad, because it meets a feeling which is widespred and expressed by a very large, possibly even a majority part of the c...

Hollande ' ultimate duty ' is to prevent Le Pen victory Here is the Guardian's detailed account of this interview by Hollande to a group of European newspapers - UK will have to give up all EU perks after Brexit, François Hollande warns Unsurprisingly, they're more interested in Hollande's take on ...