Friday, December 21, 2012

While Depardieu Undergoes Criticism, Le Monde Contrasts the Star's Current and Future Homes

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On the sign of the Belgian town where Gérard Depardieu is moving, a joker has scratched the word Nounours (Teddy Bear), which has been De...

"It's the Middle Ages" Inside a Prison Filled with Rats, Refuse, and Rainwater, Denounces an Inmate; An American Jail? No, a French One

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The team of the Controller General of Prisons left the premises unnerved. By the dreadful smell of garbage and urine, by the crumbling wa...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

After Dissing Depardieu's Self-Proclaimed Tax Figures, French Government Forced to Admit That 85% Tax Is Entirely Plausible

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After stating that it was impossible for any one taxpayer to have to pay 85% of his income or fortune in taxes, as ( the departing ) Gérard...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Super Tax Exile Depardieu: "Putin Has Sent Me a Passport"

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If France wants to deprive Gérard Depardieu of his nationality for moving to Belgium because he no longer wants to pay 75% to 85% of his i...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Fruits of Spring

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Serguei on the revolution in Egypt: • Is that the fruit our Spring has wrought?!
Monday, December 17, 2012

I Was Greeted in Guantánamo Bay by Fidel Castro

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Following his short stay on the eastern tip of Cuba, the International Herald Tribune cartoonist Patrick Chappatte brings back a two-page...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Asking a socialist to embrace austerity is like asking a prostitute to embrace chastity: it’s simply not part of the business model

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Three reactions to The Time-Bomb at the Heart of Europe (A Special Report on France) in The Economist : The French malaise SIR – I re...

"I'm a Free Man, Sir!" Offended by Taxes and Government Insults, Depardieu Goes a Step Further and Returns His French Passport

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Following Gérard Depardieu's decision to leave France to escape punitive taxes , the (now ex-) French star was criticized publicly by Pr...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

What Is to Blame for the Connecticut Shooting? Does the Blame Lie with the Right to Bear Arms Or Can It Be Found Elsewhere?

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In the 18th century — the century at the end of which the Second Amendment was being passed in the newly-born United States — the biggest ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Obelix to Flee Gaul and Caesar's 75% Super Tax for the Fiscal Paradise of the Belgians

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Plantu comments on Gérard Depardieu's Decision to Flee France and Its 75% Supertax for a (Relative) Fiscal Paradise 1 KM From the Frenc...

Depardieu Flees France and Its 75% Supertax for a (Relative) Fiscal Paradise 1 KM From the French Border

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 Where, on the American continent, have we been seeing something similar for some years? Hm. I wonder… After passing a 75% super-tax o...