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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
French politicians have been quite upset about Google's book scanning project for years. Way back in 2005, government officials announced that Google's book scanning project was a threat to French culture . Why? Because the fear was that Google would just scan English books, and ignore the French. So, the French government mobilized. Or, rather, spoke as if it was...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
French politicians have been quite upset about Google's book scanning project for years. Way back in 2005, government officials announced that Google's book scanning project was a threat to French culture . Why? Because the fear was that Google would just scan English books, and ignore the French. So, the French government mobilized. Or, rather, spoke as if it was...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Nicolas Sarkozy was reportedly threatened by the head of the International Monetary Fund who alleged that the French President's men were out to discredit him as a potential rival in
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Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
From Bakchich, here’s the latest outburst of somewhat amusing bigotry by a French politician. His name is André Valentin, he is the mayor of a small town called Gussainville and a member of Sarkozy’s center-right party. He said: It’s time for us to react… because otherwise we’re going to be eaten alive. There’s 10 million of [...]
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tomgpalmer.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The French in this is very fast, but my colleague Dr. Emmanuel Martin (editor of UnMondeLibre.org) takes on a smooth French politician, Bernard Deflesselles, member of parliament (Député), right-hand man of the Minister of the Environment, and French reporting counsellor to the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, COP15. So, here it is, [...]...
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The Arabist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
From Bakchich, here’s the latest outburst of somewhat amusing bigotry by a French politician. His name is André Valentin, he is the mayor of a small town called Gussainville and a member of Sarkozy’s center-right party. He said: It’s time for us to react… because otherwise we’re going to be eaten alive. There’s 10 million of [...]
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Boris Watch (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
What to make of this uncharacteristically unguarded Tweet from the Mayor (and friends): Yipee! The best way to boost the City of London is for top French politicians to attack us Quite how this is supposed to work I don’t know – we should invite people to attack us more often, perhaps? Let’s call the Chinese a [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Valérie Boyer, a French politician who is creating a small furor in Paris and abroad with her latest proposal: a draft law that would require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Valérie Boyer, a French politician who is creating a small furor in Paris and abroad with her latest proposal: a draft law that would require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.
