My goodness ! France at war against talent, now ?

Is France killing art and passion ? Fighting against its own artists and talented people ? Read more about it here : 
http://renaudfavier.com/2013/01/16/si-armstrong-balance-a-la-tv-faudra-til-delocaliser-le-tour-de-france-comme-depardieu-renault-ou-le-dakar/

Renaud Favier – January 26th, 2013 - 
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Bonus : but it looks like it, doesn’t it ?

 

My goodness ! What’s happening in France, now ?

My goodness ! Have the French started a war against Africans again ? Read more about it here : 
http://renaudfavier.com/2013/01/15/la-france-est-elle-en-guerres-en-france-en-francafrique-en-francophonie-sur-twitter-inrealworld/

Renaud Favier – January 26th, 2013 - 
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Bonus : It looks like it, doesn’t it ?

 

 

 

Is #France already at war again ? In #African Sahara again ?

Some French planes seem to be bombing some rebels in Sahara on behalf of the government of Mali, with the strong moral support of the United Nations, with African, Maghreb and other international partners. Is France art war in Western Africa ?

A French boat seem to be cruising somewhere close to Somalia and France is said to have lost some soldiers and a hostage there is a rescue operation that failed. Would France be fighting something or someone in non French speaking Eastern Africa ?

On the other hand, some say, that due to high housings costs in Paris and low availability of free land in the countryside (plus snow at night on French airports), in view of diplomatic issues in Syria and losses in translation in Somalia, the French may have decided to resettle their refugees from Afghanistan in friendly Northern Mali, in the middle of nowhere in the deserts of Africa, where the climate is better in winter, and where there is a lot of hot sand and available housing, now that the terrorists have killed and expelled most regular inhabitants over the last 9 months of “open bar” or so in what could have been Azawad, if not simply Mali, but has tuned into something else. Could a recent French political initiative make technical sense, for a change ?

But there it cannot be as simple as that … with France, there must be something more (or less) glamorous.

Something more … French

But what else ?

Some Franco-French post-Françafrican Francofolies ? A new “certaine idée de la France en Afrique” ?

Or just some Franco-French Gauloiseries ? (Some say, the second biggest Malian town, after Bamako, is in Paris suburbs)

Anyway, the entrepreneurs who have not left the country over the last decades seem afraid. Is France struggling against French creators and businesspeople with a view to attract foreign investors ? Is France at war against French success in France ?

The few artists and other French sportspeople not yet living in America because of the climate, Switzerland for the better snow, London due to the great weather, china for the better football or Belgium fort the better beer, and not stuck to France for subventions or health care are escaping to Russia or looking for Qatari free zones in Paris, now. Is France at war against French culture and sport ?

Civilians wear uniforms in the streets of Paris …

Civilian women wear uniforms in the streets of Paris …

Women wear weapons in the streets of Paris …

Even civilian children wear uniforms in front of the cameras of Paris TV’s !

And old women and grey haired politicians seem so sad in the streets of Paris …

And some political activists are brutally murdered in Paris downtown.

Maybe the government’s spokeperson could tell why there were no fireworks in, Paris for New Year if France is at war, what war, where war, why war, and against what or whom ?

Renaud Favier – January 15th, 2013 - 
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Bonus : the answer and weather forecast my friend, are blowing in the wind …

Great #Draghi saves #Euro(pe) : Visible and Invisible Hands do the Job, but Who Writes the Story ?

Everybody agrees, that Mario Draghi has done a very good job over the last few months and a great performance last Thursday, which might as well have been quite black for Euro, Europe, the markets and real people. The invisible hand is happy.

Byzeway, Great Draghi sounds like Great Gatsby, but it’s just phonetics. Or is it ?

Renaud Favier, September 7, 2012.

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If You Can’t Avoid It, Enjoy It

France and England have been neighbours for quite a while, and one may have have thought, that they could have made friends to enjoy the world’s show. But they just seem to be unable to stop competing against each other, whatever the cost.

That’s the way it is (c’est comme ça) …

RF, August 5th, 2012

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#Amour et #Haneke, toujours l’Amour et Haneke à #Cannes … : That’s All, Folks !

Some like the sun more hot than the stars in Cannes, the people more glamorous than oldschool politicians in France and the film more fun than real life in the world. But nobody desserved the 2012 Palme d’Or more than Haneke, that’s all, folks.

Normal Business as Usual in Paris, Cannes, Afghanistan and the rest of the world ?

Here comes the sun in Paris, Cannes and most places deserving to be mentionned in the rest of the world (at ecowar) : everything is getting back to normal, summer will soon be here to stay a while and it will be business as usual in France.

Bad News from the Stars (Star Wars ?) in #Chicago and Bad Weather in #Cannes

Crisis against G8 in Camp David, missiles against NATO in Chicago and cold rain against the Festival in Cannes : windy Monday, and another Bee Gees died, on top of it all. As if it were not enough with Marilyn having gone West to Palm Springs, California …

No, May 8 is not only a “Normal” Day. And not Everbody in #France goes to the Countryside for Holidays (“Campagne” in French)

The French don’t always win the wars or change … the real world. And they don’t even always precede everybody as far as revolutions or … mutual respect are concerned. but sometimes, they don’t get mistaken. Vive la France. Vive la République.

#Paris #France #Europe May 2012 : Sun May 1 Day, howabout the (wheather) forecasts for Sunday ?

Everybody in Paris was happy, May the 1st, with nice smelling lily of the valley in spite of the cold wheather, an unexpectedly sunny day for the “Défilé” (in fact, there were 3 of them, but it doesn’t really matter) and nice fireworks in the East End.