🇫🇷🏊‍♂️ France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them

🤖 Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax office has identified 20,356 residential swimming pools that had previously gone undeclared. According to The Guardian, this has opened up 10 million euros in additional tax revenue, leading the way to the government taxing other undeclared architectural features such as annexes or verandas.

💸 The French government taxes real estate based on its rental value, which increases when owners build additions or improvements such as swimming pools. For example, a 30 square meter swimming pool will result in around 200 euros of extra taxes per year.

🔎 French newspaper Le Parisien reports that the project to discover undocumented swimming pools is somewhat controversial, but not for the reasons you might expect. Capgemini, a multinational IT firm with headquarters in Paris, has come under fire for using American tech giant Google as a subcontractor for cloud processing on the project. Google has a long-running history of tax disputes with the French government. Controversies aside, DGFiP plans to roll out the program nationwide soon, resulting in an estimated 40 million euros in additional tax revenue.

🔗 Source (Ars Technica)

🇫🇷✊🏾👵🏻 89-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER SAVAGELY ATTACKED BY A GROUP OF THREE ARAB IMMIGRANTS IN CANNES (FRANCE)

🔎 In Cannes, in the South of France, a group of three Arab immigrants violently attacked an 89 year old grandmother in order to steal her wallet which contained 10€.

🔗 Source : Ouest France (MSM)

When the Bank of England was established in 1694, one of its principal aims was to provide sufficient finance so that England could prosecute its war against France. At that time, France was the premier world power both in terms of maritime forces and territorial possessions.

Since 7 June 1654 France had been ruled by its most glorious monarch, King Louis XIV, the Sun King. Louis was well versed in the wiles of the bankers. When he discovered that his Superintendent of Finances, Nicolas Fouquet, was a representative of what we term today the money power, he had him arrested. Fouquet was put on trial and sentenced to complete isolation for the rest of his life in the inaccessible fortress of Pignerol.

The War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714) was the largest military conflict since the Crusades. It was fought after Louis declared his intention to place his grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou, on the Spanish throne. This attempt, if successful, would have created a vast Franco-Spanish empire and posed a direct threat to the Bank of England and its proxy, the government of Great Britain.

With the ability to create money out of nothing, the English were able to build a large fleet and buy the loyalty of France’s enemies by bankrolling them. Louis held out for nine years, until his heirs suddenly started to die in unnatural circumstances.

📖 A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Manking (2014) — Stephen Mitford Goodson

🇫🇷🎒 Just the french minister of education being happy of the french back to school.

The ability of the English to command vast sums of money had not gone unnoticed by the French, who realized that the war had not been won because of a deficiency in financial credit. On 1 May 1716 a Scotsman, John Law, received a patent to open a private bank, the Banque Générale, which was patterned on the Bank of England and which was entitled to issue bank notes and exchange them for gold.

The regent of Louis XV, Phillipe II, Duke of Orléans, realized that this bank could provide government with a means of financing its expenditures and in 1718, France’s first central bank came into existence and was renamed the Banque Royale.

The adoption of the Bank of England paradigm of creating money ex nihilo soon enabled the French economy to recover and flourish. However, this period of prosperity was of short duration.

In January 1720 the French government received a record-breaking loan of 100 million livres. The following month news spread suddenly that the bank was experiencing difficulty in exchanging its bank notes for gold coins and an “atrocious panic” ensued. The source of these rumours is not clear, but the most likely suspect would have been the Bank of England which wished to destroy its dangerous rival.

In November 1720 the Banque Royale declared itself bankrupt and its founder and Controller General of Finances, John Law, fled the country the following month. For the Bank of England and its Jewish stockholders, the demise of the Banque Royale was an unmitigated triumph.

📖 A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Manking (2014) — Stephen Mitford Goodson

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France to restart all nuclear reactors by winter amid energy crunch

France’s minister for energy transition said Friday that French electricity giant EDF has committed to restart all its nuclear reactors by this winter to help the country through the broad energy crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine.

🇫🇷🇺🇦 ROMAN SALUTE DURING A FRENCH TV REPORT ON UKRAINE?

👉🏻 The French TV outlet "France 2" released yesterday a report focusing on the lives of Ukrainian children. In it, two girls can be seen in the background doing what could be described as a roman/nazi salute (0:04).

🗣 France 2 has called off these claims: «We have rushes proving that they salute several times in a friendly manner by raising their hands or by simulating a military salute. We attest that this is in no way a Nazi salute. At no time did they make such a gesture»

🔎 But further into the report, one can see that the children were also standing next to the red and black flag of the Right Sector, a Ukrainian far-right organisation (1:21).

❓ So who should you believe? We decided to subtitle and share the entire report, feel free to make up your own mind.

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Tomorrow, at dawn, at the moment when the land whitens,
I will leave. You see, I know that you are waiting for me.
I will go through the forest, I will go across mountains.
I cannot stay away from you any longer.

I will walk eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Without seeing anything outside, without hearing a noise,
Alone, unknown, back hunched, hands crossed,
Sorrowed, and the day for me will be as the night.

I will watch neither the evening gold fall,
Nor the faraway sailboats descending upon Harfleur.
And when I arrive, I will put on your grave
A bouquet of green holly and heather in bloom.

📖 Demain dès l'aube — Victor Hugo (1856)

🖼 The Thinker — Auguste Rodin (1904)

Paris syndrome (パリ症候群, Pari shōkōgun) is a transient psychological disorder encountered by some people, while visiting or vacationing in Paris.

Analogous to the Stendhal and Jerusalem syndromes, this condition would particularly affect Japanese tourists who, distraught by the gap between reality and their idealized vision of the city, like the Montparnasse of the Roaring Twenties or the Paris of Amélie Poulain, find themselves disillusioned and destabilized by the cultural gap between the real France and the image one has of it abroad, especially in Japan.

The syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution (perceptions of being a victim of prejudice, aggression, and hostility from others), derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, and also psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating, and others, such as vomiting.

📖 Wikipedia

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Macron urges French to save energy, says ready to send gas to Germany

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that his country was ready to deliver gas to Germany this coming winter should Europe's gas squeeze make such a move necessary, urging French citizens to reduce their energy consumption in order to stave off rationing and cuts.

Macron was insulted at the Touquet Music Beach festival, and he “courageously” endured. France “tolerated” him for the sixth year.

On August 27, Emmanuel Macron spontaneously decided to attend the «Touquet Music Beach» electronic music festival. It is probably well known by now that the President of France knows how to make a good public appearance if such an event is prepared by his administration or press service. Any deviation from the known agreed scenario and unforeseen and often comical situations immediately occur. For example, almost a year ago, Macron was slapped in the face by a man during a trip to the Drome. Something similar happened this time as well. The president did not consider that many singers and actors are not too well disposed to his political successes. French-American entertainer Marc Rebillet didn’t hold back his emotions. Beginning with disapproving shouts, he later switched on a composition entitled “Macron enc…” hostile to the head of state. In the end, the organizers of the festival had to intervene to calm him down.

Of course, after the outburst, Macron showed with his broad smile that he was not offended by the provocation. One can take Rebillet’s expressiveness in many ways, but Macron also often does not watch his own words and actions. For example, at the beginning of January this year, in an interview with the “Parisien”, the President of the Republic insulted the French who had avoided the COVID-19 vaccination, saying that because of their “irresponsibility” they were no longer “citizens“. He said that the Bretons had “swamped everything,” had become “the French ethnic mafia” and were almost all “very uneducated.” In the Vosges, he called the protesters against social injustice “people who have decided to oppose the whole France”. He characterized participants in similar protests on May 1 in Paris as “lazy people who want to ruin everyone’s holiday”.

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"Art" (graffiti/vandalism) depicting France as a cockroach and Algeria as spray killer, found in Paris. The joys of multiculturalism and diversity. 🇫🇷

Abandoned library in France.

Couple eating at a table in front of a 4CV car, Camargue, France, 1954.

🇬🇼🇫🇷 France, La Guillotière (Lyon) - An illegal migrant from the former Portuguese 🇵🇹 colony of Guinea-Bissau, living illegally in France for years beats up a 16-year-old girl in her head after she looks him side-ways. He was condemned to 15 months in jail.

🔗 Source: Fdesouche

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