Look provided by the Boston Globe:
"Amid terror threats, France bulking up spy agency’s budget" by Jamey Keaten, Associated Press / January 2, 2011
PARIS — France’s secretive international spy agency, the DGSE, is recruiting hundreds of people and getting a budget boost, despite frugal times, to better fend off threats like terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
Related: The French Pentagon
No wonder the French people are in the street (when they are not freezing).
France’s answer to the CIA is buffing its image as well, with its first-ever spokesman and a new website.
You French gonna be fooleyed?
The move follows hostage-takings abroad, bomb scares at the Eiffel Tower, and fallout from WikiLeaks’ publication of secret US diplomatic cables. France is also set to ban face-covering Islamic veils, which has roiled Muslim extremists around the world and drawn threats from Al Qaeda.
Oh, yeah?
Which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Or the "Al-CIA-Duh" CREATION for the COURTROOM!?
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
And you wonder why I'm not believing one word of the agenda pushing these days?
Also see: Europe Under an Iron Veil
Yeah, the veiled women are the cause of all your problems.
Anybody but the looting bankers or war profiteers.
The DGSE changes have been long in coming, part of France’s efforts to beef up its network of intelligence operatives....
They want to get into the false-flag game, too!
Also see: Somalis Sieze French Spies
Maybe they just are not very good at it.
France’s draft 2011 budget would give the DGSE a 13-percent funding hike — just a year after France hit a record-high 7.7 percent budget deficit. The agency is adding 500 staff jobs over the next five years, and the prime minister recently inaugurated a new national Intelligence Academy.
This as the FRENCH SOCIAL SAFETY NET is being SHREDDED!!!
It’s a big boost for an agency that’s little known, despite having agents in hot spots around the world.
“These days, remaining in the shadows means not existing. But we do exist, we do have a purpose,’’ Nicolas Wuest-Famose, the new spokesman at the DGSE, told the Associated Press.
The DGSE fits snugly in the Western intelligence universe, often as an ally of the CIA or Britain’s MI6.
Translation: They ASSIST when needed.
The French agency warned of Al Qaeda plane hijackings months before the Sept. 11 attack and helped free hostages in Iraq and other countries....
Then HOW in the world DID the U.S. GOVERNMENT allow them to happen?
The agency’s new website says it’s looking for software and telecoms experts; computer security and network engineers; “crypto-mathematicians’’; as well as linguists, accountants, surveillance agents, and warehouse workers....
You just blew their cover.
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Related:
"BU cancels semester in Niger; Move prompted by recent deaths' by Matt Rocheleau, Globe Correspondent / January 17, 2011
Boston University has canceled its study abroad program in Niger because of the recent abduction and slaying of two Frenchmen....
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the abduction of the two 25-year-old Frenchmen, who were seized at gunpoint Jan. 7 while eating dinner at Le Toulousain restaurant....
The two men were killed as French soldiers closed in on the kidnappers, according to wire service reports....
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What other wars do the French have going?
"In Marseille, drug war becomes public threat; Sarkozy scrambles to halt lawlessness" by Edward Cody, Washington Post / December 5, 2010
MARSEILLE — The hit squad drove up about 10 p.m. in a pair of sporty cars, one Italian, the other German, and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles smuggled in from Eastern Europe.
And that to me means the Jewish Mob.
When the dry crack of gunfire went silent, a 16-year-old drug-runner lay mortally wounded and an 11-year-old boy who had gone out with his sister for pizza was bleeding profusely from rounds that slammed into his foot and, after piercing his arm, ripped a hole in his throat.
With that attack, on the evening of Nov. 19 in the dark alleys between low-rent public housing blocks at Clos La Rose on the northeastern edge of the city, Marseille’s long-discreet drug wars suddenly went public.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux flew in from Paris and announced that 250 extra police officers, including paramilitary troops, were on their way to help this boisterous Mediterranean port track down the traffickers and bring law and order to its poor suburbs.
Hmmmmmmmm!
The dramatic and widely reported killing constituted a stain on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s reputation as a law-and-order leader, particularly at a time when he is seeking to consolidate right-wing supporters behind an all-but-certain candidacy for a second term in 2012 elections. Hortefeux, a longtime political ally, has been assigned to make sure the voting public is aware of Sarkozy’s fight against crime; gang wars on page one were not what he had in mind.
The killing of the 16-year-old, identified only as Jean-Michel, was the 18th this year attributed to disputes over territory among Marseille’s hashish gangs, according to a police tally. David-Olivier Reverdy, regional delegate of the Alliance Police union, said that represented a doubling of the city’s traditional rate of drug-gang assassinations.
Marseille, France’s second-biggest city with 860,000 inhabitants, has long endured a reputation of lawlessness and corruption; it was home to the infamous French Connection drug smuggling ring in the 1970s. In fact, however, in recent times it has experienced nowhere near the drug violence of northern Mexico’s border cities, where traffickers openly challenge government authority, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where Brazilian soldiers in battle gear arrive aboard armored personnel carriers to attack entrenched and well-armed gangs.
But the drama of Jean-Michel’s killing, and thoughts of the 11-year-old still unconscious in a hospital bed, have convinced many that the situation could also get out of hand. Authorities are particularly worried, Reverdy said, because in recent years smuggling from Eastern Europe has placed military-strength automatic weapons routinely in the hands of young hashish wholesalers.
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Also see: Messy Marseille
It sure is.
Not much better for Nico:
"French leader’s pro-US stance won praise at embassy; But documents cite ‘mercurial’ side to Sarkozy" by Katrin Bennhold, New York Times / December 1, 2010
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy is an unusually solid French friend of America. He is also a “mercurial’’ man operating in “a zone of monarch-like impunity’’ surrounded by advisers often too fearful to give honest counsel, according to leaked cables from the US Embassy in Paris....
Sarkozy was described as a “force multiplier’’ for US foreign policy interests.
And thus France is also a Zionist servant.
But the cables also convey a nuanced assessment of the French leader as a somewhat erratic figure with authoritarian tendencies and a penchant for deciding policy on the fly....
If Sarkozy’s Atlanticist outlook was never doubted — even in the most recent leaked cable from Jan. 25 this year, French-American relations are called “one of the best’’ — concerns about a “thin-skinned, authoritarian’’ streak surfaced by October 2007, as he divorced his second wife, Cecilia.
Two months later, diplomats spoke of Sarkozy’s “unprecedented’’ concentration of power over foreign affairs and “increasing willingness to downgrade human rights considerations in his dealings with foreign leaders.’’
Just Israel's little way of letting you know they are listening.
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Related: French Sick of Sarkozy
You can sort of see why in this piece, huh?
And what is the French word for distraction?
"Masked French gendarmes detained a 17-year-old armed with two knives who took a class full of preschoolers hostage yesterday, releasing all the children safely after hours of tense negotiations that drew nationwide attention....
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Also see: French farmer jailed in fatal truffles shooting
Paris to test restrictions on gas-guzzlers
I'm putting restrictions on what I read in the Globe.
