The Sarkozy Effect & Proletarian Unity

by Felix Quigley Mon May 07, 2007 15:39

But no wonder because I know this character's hatred of Israel and support of the Fascist Islamised terrorist Palestinian Arabs such as Hamas who wish no Jews at all in the Middle East.

The now President of France has a good idea of the reality of what Israel means to Jews everywhere including in Ireland.

“Should I remind you the visceral attachment of every Jew to Israel, as a second mother homeland? There is nothing outrageous about it. Every Jew carries within him a fear passed down through generations, and he knows that if one day he will not feel safe in his country, there will always be a place that would welcome him. And this is Israel.” (From the book “La République, les religions, l’espérance”, interviews with Thibaud Collin and Philippe Verdin.)

I think these young fascist Islamists in Paris know this very well and since Islam knows no nation they are venting their fury.

by C Murray Mon May 07, 2007 20:40

What a stupid statement in the comment above.

Money is what supports Sarkozy and nothing else , he has Libyan sympathy and backing.
The Poor do not own money and are therefore irrelevant, but sucessive french
governments have ignored and abused the kids in the sink estates.

Do some reading Felix.
Read the artists manifesto- who are alienated from their government.
Read Indymedia Paris.

Short term self-serving politics are winning because the systems empower the truly
mediocre. Sarkozy was responsible for the brutal eviction of 1000 women and children
fro the ghettoes last winter. the men had gone to work and the riot police broke
down the doors and terrorised kids and mothers. it was an attempt to show
muscle worthy of Le Pen.

Ordinary French people work in solidarity with the immigrant community
as ordinary Israelis risk their lives for Palestinians, it suits some political
theorists to paint everything black and white and reduce to simple
mediocre levels because it creates and sustains the system.

Really thick politicians are happy to maintain the status quo rather than confront
the issues their policies have raised. and people are not buying it.

Sarkozy wants a hundred days to brutalise his own people and to enrich the
ones who voted for him, his manifesto and modus Operandi are deeply
divisive.

by C Murray Mon May 07, 2007 21:13

The article written here:-

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72995

Paris housing and Nicolas Sarkozy - also has a link on the end of the comments
to the Guardian coverage of the evictions. Which were vicious and occured after
the wage -earners went to work, indeed, the 1000 evicted by fully armed
riot police were mothers and small kids (breast-feeders and pre-school)
this was done in an attempt to garner publicity and also to avoid answering
questions regarding the multiple ghetto attacks (by arsonists) which saw
many die (again the poorest)

When people have been abused and ghettoised they tend to hit back, reducing the
argument to an attempt to spin a racist context by Quigley (above) shows
little desire to even to want to know what is being done to members of the community
to further political and fiscal power.

by scorchio Tue May 08, 2007 09:46

15% didn't vote.
Sarkozy thus has only 53% of the remaining enfranchised electorate. As we are always at pains to point out to you, any society in Richer Europe counts on the labour and participation of non-enfranchised residents. They are those who who work at our below minimum wage, their cheap muscles build our houses, pick our vegetables, scour the beaches of Normandy for cockles and mussels.
In the previous presidency Chirac saw the economy of France nose-dive and unemployment reach a post war high. There are very different reasons put forward from all sides of the spectrum for why that occured. That is why no less than 12 candidates sought the presidency. The French rejected the EU constitution and reform of the Educational system. They did not do so on a traditional "left/right" basis, their rejection of such neoliberalism was common to all political ideologies.
Throughout the last year, De Villepin lied constantly about the "social pact" which was supposed to be the corner stone of his "first 100 days" http://ireland.indymedia.org/article/70140 at the end of which he like most of his class and most trade union lawyers just went on holidays instead.

Only under extreme duress and after shocking deaths on the streets of one of the richest cities on this planet were small efforts made to house the highest number of homeless and destitute in Europe.

Blair's whose youtube message so well represents the nefarious self-justification of the system Sarkozy wishes to adopt in five years came to power on a popular mandate after more than decade of Thatcherite reforms set against the backdrop of the Cold war and a Europe as EEC which had almost nothing in common with the EU of today. Her reforms were based on a global capitalist system which itself had not even enjoyed the volume of trade of the pre War period - due to regulation "the pre-Big Bang", the independence of sovreign currencies, mechanisms of exchange & not least the use of the internet.

Thus Blair is ill-positioned historically to offer the Frch any real advice or consolation on the pain and suffering Sarkozy's ambitions will cause them in a fraction of the time Thatcherisation (& it's continuation Blairism) needed for a country of similar size
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_tJ2Rnqqkg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Cu9187tCY&mode=user&se...arch=

Yes, there are many in France as there was in the UK who choose the promise of a spinning wheel of golden threads to compete with India or China . yet the transformation of the EEC to EU was supposed to allow the citizens of this continent as "one tier" enter in trade and equal partnership and global development with both India & China.

Yes, there are many in France and there was in the UK before who have honest reason to be horrified at their future prospects. Included amongst their number are those whose capital base, age profile, geographical location or simple dis-interest in competing with India or China means they will lose long before the tide raises their boat.

The tide of Normandy's beaches are very slow to rise. That is why that coast boasts such architectural curiousities themselves relics of a former Feudal age and war for anglo-norman dominion.

You would do little wrong today if you left youtube vid replies to those who have honestly forgotten how much suffering Thatcherisation and Trickle Down Economics caused.

Whichever we want to do - History or Future or Youtube
- we know who is going to win.

V

by Observer Tue May 08, 2007 09:59

What a truly sad and pathetic person you are. Sad little dillentente getting off on street thugs burning cars and terrorising people and attempting to justify it under some infantile political rubric. And then making silly little threats about educating the Irish underclass to do the same. Get a life loser. If the same scum you idealise ever got their hands on you you would be robbed/raped/beaten/stabbed. Wonder how you'd feel about them then?

by scorchio Tue May 08, 2007 10:35

It tells us more about your prejudices than anything else.
If you bothered to read the material I've submitted to this site on France and its problems over the last years you'll quickly see I don't want the marginalisation to continue. We were delighted here in Barcelona when the "sons of Quijote" housing campaign won its small concessions of the Chirac regime to house the homeless in Paris through the winter. Of course that only followed the regular appearance of corpses at the doors of shops and three months of camping by the collective formed by the Le Grand brothers. http://www.lesenfantsdedonquichotte.com/v2/index.php After their victory they visited the city here and it was then that the UN commissioner for housing made his statement condemning both Spain and other EU states for their treatment of the insecurely housed - the campaign of which uses the logo "V" in the illustration up the page. Generally finding a dead body in a hovel or sqalour motivates one politically. And so many of us have been. In the campaigns against neo-liberalism in France every time people have died at the hands of police brutality. But regardless people die in France of poverty. You seem blithe to that.

If you bothered reading the material I left you will see the links to the sites on France where I appealed in French for pacific action and conflict resolution during the campaign against the CPE.
I have consistently publicised in English the work of the "collective neuf" in their attempts to build cross ethnic campaigns for migrants to engage disaffected youth in positive action.
http://9emecollectif.net/

But you don't bother. You just use the word "dillentente" instead. It's only been used in its mispelt form once before on this site. all previous correctly spellt times it was used by me. Maybe at least I can be credited with orthographic assistance to the dimmest amongst us.
It's "d-i-l-l-e-t-a-n-t-e". You could always just send me emails and insult me directly instead of undermining every thread or news report I offer.

Now I'm referring the more intelligent amongst us to my last comment.
http://indymedia.ie/article/82415&comment_limit=0&conde...92999

by Frank O'Phile Tue May 08, 2007 11:27

It's all very sad.

As in Germany and England, cheap manual labour was brought in in the 1950s and 60s. They settled down and had kids. The kids' labour was not wanted in the new service economies and the result is rioting. They cannot go 'home' as France is their home. So they have to be trained to succeed in new skills or it will go on for years.

This would apply whether Royal or Sarko was elected.

In the background, millions of French people get on with their lives, ignored, while riots by a tiny minority get the headlines. Street theatre doesn't solve anything, except fill pages in the media with 'content'.

Bertie would be 'trilled' with 53% of the vote here...

by left unity Tue May 08, 2007 11:53

For some reason there is a persistent misconception in Ireland that those rioting are migrants or children of migrants. This misconception works in tandem with the presumption that those rioting belong overwhelmingly to the muslim faith.
It is a pity that Ireland ranks so low in Europe on linguistic educational standards that those who can readily offer such misinformed opinions and worse - actively propagate them and thus fuel the prejudices, racism and resistence to migration which are their true roots, are incapable of reading the hundreds of articles and comments published in the last four days in France on the Indymedia nodes. As in the riots before - there is a direct connection between conflict de-escalation and the work of those collectives in both their cyber and real world activism. It is thus no surprise that so many well meaning individuals on the European or World "political" stage have learnt that careful use of cyber media doesn't undermine their authority nor particularly re-inforce it : But rather allows them to play a role in pacification. Any reader of French will be struck by the similarities in the French indymedia debates which gushed forth yesterday on the presence of violence in political or politicised action & the distinctions between same and non-political or apoliticised violence.
The usual suspects who sadly troll on every node use the words "thug", "mindless" and so on as if the violence which occurs outside a football stadium between rival fans is the same as that which occurs at picket line as middle aged workers realise their future and lives are ruined.

The problems of France do not belong to the destitute, homeless or migrant groups alone. In fact destitution and deaths from malnutrition and exposure on the streets of French cities ought not be considered as "problems" in the first instance which require some terribly difficult adjustment beyond either right or left wing. Corpses on the street mean only a host of other problems have been ignored because they (in the words of our American global culture) are only things that happen to losers.

The French trade union block has today returned to its demands made when Raffarin was replaced by De Villepin [ http://ireland.indymedia.org/article/70140 ] & in addition to backing the calls for an inter-national demonstration against the Thatcherisation of France on the 16th of May launched on Indymedia yesterday have announced their plans to move to General Strike stoppages in November. To some this will seem like provocation on the part of leftists. To others with a few brain cells on their petrie dish - it will appear like proper political engagement & prevention of social unrest (at it's worse now since 1968) turning to civil war. Thus do we lead by giving voice o the voiceless by using weapons of more power than sticks and stones Every death on the street we have reported and highlighted as every stone or petrol bomb thrown has helped our civilised values survive as much as ensuring our struggle for a world or rights is achieved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2074474,00.html
http://www.force-ouvriere-hebdo.fr/page_principal/edito...o.asp
http://www.marianne2007.info/Jean-Claude-Mailly-FO-Forc....html
http://indymedia.ie/article/82415&comment_limit=0&conde...92999
http://indymedia.ie/article/75208&comment_limit=0&conde...92956

by Frank O'Phile Tue May 08, 2007 12:21

Fair enough, i am only a thick Paddy who has been there a few times.

But the trade unions still don't have the whole answer. They are now the conservatives. You're right, the rioters are not just the immigrants' children; count in a lot of under-30s with high testosterone levels too. But street theatre doesn't address the underlying problem for those that need help. I grant it is a great way to pick up mots after the event.

Even if they had a socialist paradise in the morning, and not Sarko, the same solution is needed.

by pj Tue May 08, 2007 12:28

Maybe I'm missing something here but shouldn't the remarks of
Segolene Royal predicting violence if the election didn't go her way
be interpreted as incitement to violence. After all some N. Irish leaders
became experts in this type of speak.
If so, what does this say about the type of person Royal is.

by :-) Tue May 08, 2007 13:26

Which really only leaves a healthy democratic inclusive debate. Which can only be had if the "all party" and "all interest" groups come to the table. Last Presidential election the French lurch to the far Right saw lePen capitalise on the problems. Thus it was essential for the left (as much as centre and right) to re-organise party political voting in France before any hope of the 5th republic being saved.
I think 85% participation and a 2nd round "left" / "right" contest showed that at least that hurdle has now been crossed.
Another very important step which needed to be taken before we can stop anti-system violence is quite simply moving its epicentre from the periphery to the centre. This time as I pointed out the ruck for the most part occured in the centre, in the vicinity of Bastille. Both symbolic and important in that rage was contained and its results (in the capital at least) saw insured property destroyed. That is much better in the long run than what happened last time - the destruction of the buses from the sink estates to the centre - which did nothing more than reinforce prejudice (the racaille or scum tag) and naturally impede any parents of rioting kids who were lucky enough to have a job getting to work.
so I hope you see 2 things are now crossed off our "laying the table list". As most Irish people will know - laying the table is a very ardous and long process, and sometimes just as think you're about ready to tuck your napkin under your chin - you realise you got the placement of cutlery wrong - or you dont like the table cloth. But eventually everyone is hungry enough to eventually stop standing on ceremony

As for the suggestion that Royal was inciting riot - that holds as much water as suggesting I am inciting presidential assassination by referring obliquely to Fredrick Forsyth's works and cravats & using certain other "code words" consistently over the last 4 days. If I had been I assure you I would have been taken aside by now for one the special gruesome spooky chats - rather to the contrary I've found myself (& my team mates in creativity land) being quite encouraged in our longterm strategy. We want a world of equals where both India and China are not seen as "competitve enemies" but as "partners" in global human development & the extension to all persons of the core values and liberties the 5th republic is supposed to stand for. We will not countenance nor permit a return to the civil war conditions which saw that republic created - in either France or any other EU member state. We want a world where every kid has a milk bottle top that earns a blue peter badge. & we're going to get - for it is the only logical outcome available.

It is not incitement to riot to suggest that each Mayday riot will occur in Berlin or certain other cities, or to forecast if one football team loses a traditional tribal clash match there will be trouble. I once pointed out as much ("good day to be welsh") to one of Blair's team the day Scotland played England in London and the IRA bombed Manchester. There was more financial damage done to Manchester but more blood and broken bones on London's streets.

Royal's CV can be read here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segolene_Royal

http://indymedia.ie/article/82415&comment_limit=0&conde...92999
http://indymedia.ie/article/75208&comment_limit=0&conde...92956

by Frank O'Phile Wed May 09, 2007 15:21

Sorry, but you're the sort of guy the Sarkos and Royals won't involve in a debate. The enarques won't allow it.

by pj Wed May 09, 2007 15:28

It could be construed as incitement to violence if a prediction of violence is not accompanied by an
appeal for non-violence or a condemnation of any violence that may occur.

by chortle Wed May 09, 2007 16:18

But as long as at least 2 people say what you want at the table - it is ok not to be there. People like us don't go on billionaires yachts or wake up for power brekkies Frank, we just get dodgey emails and wonder what our computers do with all that memory we can't account for. No, PJ a prediction of violence without condemnation can not legally be held to be incitement. It just seems that way.

...............Sarko's Mates - first part of a useful Guide............

Criticism of Sarko's "time out to prepare for office" holiday has now reached the USA where CNN have reported his political enemies disgust at all complete with a photo
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/france.sarko...ories the kid in the photo is the 10 year old child of Dominque Desseigne not a Sarko brat as the US report seems to imply - they obviously haven't got used to their appearances yet. (info on the yacht trip was put up here hours before CNN rss feed - http://indymedia.ie/article/82351?comment_limit=0&conde...32211
)
Of course we are surprised that he could choose a vacation with Vincent Bolleré and Dominique Desseigne over an important public and national function.

It's a bad start for the people's president in many ways - it shows us who his mates are - and where his priorities lie. So - we're going to keep track of the company he's in for his own safety. In time this will become an equivalent of the "cherie blair" file. (a bit of which is here - "home spun spin and the house arrests of Azkaban http://indymedia.ie/article/68850 )
Vincent Bolloré is currently worth about 1.2 billion euros, Forbes magazine ranks him at 451st with estimated fortune of US$1.7 billion. He's now a traditional corporate raider. They buy troubled companies cheap, strip them, fire workers and sell the good bits on. typical Thatcherite It's an unpopular job for many but it makes you very rich. He got a standard degree followed by some training in merchant banking at the Rothschild's (my mates who told you where he was) they didn't like him much and his trainee ship doesn't appear on all CV's some like to suggest he started off at the EU bank- but he still moved on - out and up - in addition to an industrial portfolio he also runs a maritime industry which has a large enough fleet has shown interest in the same routes which figured in the Clearstream 2 scandal (1.3 trillion accounting errors I'm always going on about) and has extensive interests in Africa. Oh yep - he does Telly too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bollor%C3%A9
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bollor%C3%A9
Dominque Desseigne is both an individual and a group. The group do hotels and casinos and the sort of entertainment people like Paris Hilton explain to us a hard work and charitable self-sacrifice on their "my space" blogs. She's a bit younger than average for the cabal who back Sarko - and for the moment only interesting thing I'd point to are his Lebanese & Quebecois connections. He enjoyed a tangle and romantic relationship with media boss daughter Mouna Ayoub for a while the "other Lebanese billionaire clan" the main one being the Hariri ones who you remember I named a game after when his car got blown up on Valentines day 2005
it came in 9 installments - from his death till the start of the war.
http://indymedia.ie/article/77195
And at present is shacked up with the Sophie Desmarais, Quebecker daughter of the 6th richest man in Canada Paul Desmarais. you can put Quebec through the search engine at the top of the screen. I do like to bring it all together. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Desmarais

that will do for the moment.

I condemn all violence - sure everyone knows that.
Ná díol caora dhubh, ná ceannaigh caora dhubh, agus ná bí gan caora dhubh.
Never buy ; Never sell & Never ever be without a black sheep

iosaf mac diarmada.

by students barking Wed May 09, 2007 21:07

The students of the Sorbonne the University of Paris have this evening voted for immediate strike action & the occupation of the Mitterrand campus at Tolbiac Metro station (named after the former president the sphynx and the battle which gave clovis the first king of Franks his job - respectively) Though till further notice the students don't give a shite about either egyptology or pre-merovingian history.

Thus you will notice proletarian unity has now moved from burning cars in poshville to striking students in posh school.

The decision was taken in response to the first proposals by president elect Nik Sarkozy for his forthcoming term - liberalisation of education. It's not looking good for the president of all the French.
He misses armistace memorials, he sees the most cars burned in 24 hours since the 68 student revolution, he gets tracked on a yacht with billionaires, the university is occupied & he's not even in the Elysee yet.

oh yeah - the Pantheon Metro station is occupied too.
olé
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL09112141200...70509

but you can learn - really you can learn. I want you to learn French. Listen to Hugo Masson talk to Le Monde about why he and 500 other students are doing what they're doing.

by ISNer Wed May 09, 2007 21:33

Heres a link to an article on Sarko's victory on the Irish Socialist Network website:

http://www.irishsocialist.net/publications_sarko_french....html

by smiling. - I've sharp teeth. watch out. Wed May 09, 2007 21:44

The billionaire Vincent Bolloré who lent the yacht has made a statement to the effect that he was "honoured" by the presence of the puppet and has invoked the holocaust. I believe my mate Rothschild will have something to say about that tomorrow and the defaced muslim graves today.

The puppet flew back in the same jet. so it wasn't hired. It too was an "honour".

Hugo Masson (the audio lesson for you "we're sending Sarko and an advert")
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/panorama/0,11-0@2-823448,32-908161,0.html

by Gráinne Mhaol Wed May 09, 2007 23:20

the 1st of July 2006 the minimum wage in France stood at 1,254.28eu per month before tax for a 35 hour week.
Sarkozy was elected on a program which will see the minimum wage reduced and the average hours worked increased. A lot of people on minimum wage ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smic ) voted for him so he could give them prosperity and work hard for them night and day in his modest sensible little way - nothing like that snooty spooky Segolene Royal or all those raving leftie racaille scum or that mad racist but oddly graftless lePen. hmmmmm the french voters are thick and always get it wrong

If you want to see the boat Sarkozy has now said in his first "President in waiting Scandal containment statement" that he had been invited on for 20 years by Vincent Bolloré and had refused for 20 years" go here for "Allo! pics" :-
http://www.yachtchartersdeluxe.com/paloma.htm

by .:. Thu May 10, 2007 09:24

OK - up the page you have links - remember if it has a green line under it, 'tis a link - or the urine based evidence you're preggers. You have the first revelations of the people who put Sarko in power. So that you stop thinking of just him - and return to our standard "puppet paradigm".
You've also seen that the burning car things has stopped thanks to the "return of the Jackal" idea which I'd like to think was the reason for Sarko missing the armistice gig - but I doubt he was scared of Fred Forsyth references on the internet which is so full of weirdos no-one but nobody takes it seriously. He just accepted after 20 years resistance the "gift" of a friend and went on a big yacht without telling anyone and not expecting anyone to notice.

So - the largest corporate raider in France and Sarko "go way back". Interesting no?

As they gurgle away, and the Sorbonne continues to be occupied - I'd like to go back to "the plan" for a moment. As you know in early June the French will be called upon to vote again - this time their two round system will elect the Assembly. Should Sarkozy's slender majority hold - he will become the first President of France to rule with both houses in a long time. But that's just his fantasy. Instead what is going to happen is he will be forced to "blow a fuse" as we traditionally call the habit of replacing French prime ministers every few weeks as scandal and unrest hit unrelentingly home.
(c/f http://indymedia.ie/article/75208 )

So now to delegation and team work.

Lyon is a wonderful city, home to a an ancient beautiful cloth industry, its guilds and craftsmen proved the natural non-feudal environment for masonry to formalise in its French tradition. It's Socialist mayor unsurprisingly true to that city's tradition is a francomason and member of many key internationalist socialist organisations and has today offered both a local and national pact to Bayrou (The surprise centre candidate for president) and his party faithful as reported in the right wing Le Figaro newspaper whose core base are quite similar to the English Telegraph and curling their lips a bit at the idea of the little oik Sarko calling people scum and then spending 17 years minimum income in 3 days. it lacks élan that word reminds me of mary harney's biotech portfolio....élan not oik
http://www.lefigaro.fr/election-presidentielle-2007/200....html
Collomb's CV http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Collomb (note that the Socialist party must now change direction after Segolene's failure)
We thus see our .:. card for the assembly elections declared - and it is a very different little card to Schiavardi the mayor of Maillhac who came last in the Presidentials by being just too easy to underestimate.

"works every time".

Ireland is very busy at the moment and like it or not France is not the centre of the world - yes this next phase of saving the V republic deserves a new thread (there are now a few) but the Irish team are doing a regime change in the Eire state & no doubt will want to reflect on the end of Blair and how peace in our time came with war in Iraq. (war just moved back one country on the alphabetical list)
We've lots of other things to talk about and do on the international stage to honour our transnational commitments; the Basque peace process is about to be reintroduced to ye now as 123 candidates of the various new party formations suggested by the left abertzales have been barred by the courts. But of course not all of them. This is of course not democratic at all. But it is a tiny bit "more democratic" than the "not democratic" before..... some candidates intending to punt these forthcoming hustings in the Basque and Navarra did get through and are now officially not ETA and pro-batasuna's tradition of independence. Yep - it's convulated.
Accordingly we'll be going back to pay attention to Joseba Permach as he does his thing. And the G8 in Germany 2007 and German activists have been silenced by an unwarrented use of counter-terrorism legislation ("forming a terrorist group") at the same time we learn that the G8 2006 which promised to end poverty has still not honoured its commitments on debt relief, banana production or anything to be precise.

But that's what you get when you're governed by mediocrities who put so many years into studying business and not partying instead.
They are more often than not emotional cripples, so no wonder they're so easy to flatter and buy or spend so much time covering their shitty little asses with a flimsy tissue of conceit.

I'm off to do the Basque now. The Irish Team are doing the Irish 30th Dail Election.
Aren't they good @ it too?

If you have found nothing to do yet - write to Arnie Schwarzenegger and insist Paris Hilton serves her 45 days in jail as a positive example to young people worldwide & end drink driving.

how much money can you see?

by scorchio Wed Aug 01, 2007 21:47

He has introduced his long expected and very controversial reforms to the laws allowing workers to strike. Yep. That's the right our forebears died for. He basically argues that under his law no service will be denied the citizens - things like bus-routes. With him you notify your strike well ahead and give them time to subcontract other workers instead of the nasty heavy handed asking army squadrons to do your fire brigade shite. Oh yes. Squeeky.

He has also introduced his long expected and very controversial reforms to education. Basically - I feel a hypocrite - education is shite - an overly valued yet undermarketed service industry - so oiks will pay more for it. I'm agin that. Education for the masses is one of the few "feel good factors" of the so-called liberal democracies.

He has also (this is much jucier) it seems bribed Ghadaffi up to the hilt with goodies and two-shoes and would you believe it an arms deal - all at first spin level "to help Libya let the Bulgarian nurses go". Oh yep. Sarko has a real heart and loves the Bulgars. It is very odd that the foreign or "southern mediterranean" policy much vaunted by Berlusconi in his time now appears to be the tactic of the new Elysee as we clink our champagne glasses to the UN resolution to finally sort out Darfur.

Mad isn't it? sending Ghadaffi arms so he'll let Hiv positive Bulgarians go. That would be the 21st century. Of course I've tried consistently to explain to the more innocent amongst you that the government rules every state and government wins every election & if the government backs a horse it runs like it's on PCP which the old 1960's equivalent of the more up-to-date crystal meth. Great drug it was too. Gave you the same dopameine fueled superhuman (or superhorse) energy complete with horrible come-down hallucination potentialilty but at least it didn't do your teeth in. Still- with crystal meth you don't get the really troublesome urge to fly. Don't do that. No matter how much it seems sense, just remember everyone falls the first time they try the building to building jump.

links - as in sharp contrast to De Villepin and Chirac (both men who loved their holidays) Sarko gets busy. The trade unions and student unions in France will do their domestic thing. The thread above demonstrates clearly that they have achieved a near unrivalled mobilisation and co-ordination power. Meanwhile we in far far away land need to concentrate not on Sarko's squeeky clean pursuit of the "who wants to be a trillionaire" Clearstream affair - but for the moment to ask why is the man so desperate to sort out Darfur?

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-941157@51-917472,0.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3212,36-940890@51-915550,0.html
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/monde/270170.FR.php
nice photos of him with Ghadaffi - and yer man the libyan in shades. very mafia.

by Don Thu Aug 02, 2007 21:51

Getting drunk on tv to relieving the oppression that some trade unions have on the public. This is my kind of guy.