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(14-03-2025 08:47 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Portugal's dropped plans to buy the American f35 fighter to replace their f15 fighters.

They are going to buy alternative planes from Europe.

Next thing Trump will be placing Taridd s on war plane and miitary equipment (if he hasn't done so already)

Gold has reached a record high today, 3000 USD. It's expected to go higher.

And the price of petrol is set to rise.

Trump's agenda and Israel attack on Gazza are being mentioned as the drivers.

I've heard gold is a safe commodity to invest in...

If petrol goes up so will our gas and oil prices again I bet - let's blame Trump for it!! lol

BBC News: Turkish President Erdogan main rival jailed

Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling European funds to finance her National Rally party and is barred from running for political office for a 5 yr period with immediate affect. She was also given a 4 yr prison sentence but it is reported that 2 yrs are suspended and 2 yrs will be spent with a tag.

2027 Presidential election has been blown wide open

^There's a 29 year old protage of Marine, Jordan Bardella.
If he's not one of the other 12 people convicted will probably lead the party in the next elections.

Is it on a bigger scale than the SNP one? I assume she won't be missed in th French Parliament.

By the looks of it yes, the SNP one was 600k of party funds and Sturgeon was cleared. Le Pen was apparently the ringleader in her case and they embezzled 2.9m euros.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyq40yz70qo

I'd say she was lucky she wasn't jailed but banning her five years from Publc offfice is going to hurt her enough, and probably puts an end to any political ambitions. But she has to wear a tag for 2 years which probably is embarrassment enough I would hope our MP's will think twice about doing any thing like similar in future in case our judges take the same line.

I expect Most french papers will have it as Front page news tomorrrow and i expect our press will give some coverage.

P.S. 2.9m euros is nearly £2.5m (2m 425,415.00 to be exact)

Hmmm Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre says she has just days left to live after getting hit by school bus

https://x.com/nypost/status/1906744820829147319

that is the one Prince Andrew paid off to the tunes of millions of pounds