«Iqbal Sacranie [TR.: drunkard] of the MCB was reportedly furious when he first heard about the project. However, when he was offered the role of head consultant on Islamic matters, he had a change of heart:

“I am proud to be part of this important project which will increase understanding of Islam and build bridges between faith communities.” »

The observer of Hermann notes that the smell is ubiquitous.

So much so, that you don’t notice it. It’s why Hermann thinks his shit don’t stink.

Genau. Natürlich.

From QI franchouille aux chiottes we linked the following on TF1’s website:

“Les Allemands les plus intelligents d'Europe”

Duh.

Socialism makes scarcity. Become socialistic enough, and even the most basic life events go into the resource roller derby ring to be fought over. Groups with a common lifestyle become factions scraping at each other in desparation. Precisly the opposite of the socialist's intent, and under the pressure of paying for it all, hunter-gathering has become their new humanism.

Like anything else which is not left to the public to mediate on its' own, it turns into a familiar situation which they’ve spread far and wide. Brussels Journal reports on a particularly Dutch political parasite who wants educated women who raise children to give the state their tuition back.

Because it costs something, motherhood is growing into little more a managed and funded program that doesn’t fit the fetishes of the social modification mindset. Therefore as a competing concept, it has to be made economically unviable. Imagined to be "breeders", they need to fit a certain mold to survive the resource fight. You may thank the grand social thinker for this high regard they have of humanity.

The only thing of interest here is that someone finally realizes that the student, not society is the only beneficiary of that subsidized education. It only informs one thing: subsidizing ANYONE'S education - not just studious women who want to be mothers. After all Doctors and engineers can always be lured into the realm with much less money then it takes to appease a member of the cult of Gramsci who are used to making something free for one group on the backs of another.

It speaks to the delusions and simplistic level of Euro-lefty thought to imagine that life once set on a path cannot change. Dignifying the tax-plutocrat's image of people with some awareness of their ingenuity has yet to reveal itself. These cranks don’t want people to think for themselves, in this case with women as their customized victims, a politcal cause can seem to be afoot. The same is true of any other group which can self-identify in the favor of the never-ending parade of guilt-trip stunts. Yet the whole notion always seems to stumble into the basic fact that success needs to be permitted to occur unfettered and without micromanagement. Lakshmi Mittal will always look like someone they wish would live differently to play into the left's sick little "Punch and Judy Show."

Although with enough repetition, anyone can be fooled. The bill then comes in.

There it extends from hurt feelings to hubris where other resources must then be fought over because they’ve been made hard to produce under the management of the betters. Under the weighty good intentions of however-many-laws-and-regs, little of note can really happen. EUtopia has a bone to pick with Microsoft for simply being a success, so too with Apple of course, and Adobe as well. Right on the heels of having missed that particular boat, they mounted said assault on Adobe well after a licensed free PDF writer made the effort transparently silly.

Regardless of outstanding complaints of non-european consumer preference monopoly, a free reader may be downloaded from their site. To read their regulations.

TCS Daily profiled the pattern:

When you can't invent, you legalize theft
When you can't control, you break it up
When you can't create, you replicate
When you can't prevent, you protect

From Brainwashed Nation we linked the following by Ivan Rioufol:

“Effets d'une politique du mensonge / What mendacious policies get you”

There is a virtue to the current social political crisis: it reveals the anachronism of a society deceived by decades of lies. They made believe that liberal markets were a calamity, the access to the university degrees for everyone was progress, that immigration from the Third World could succeed. These lies surround the CPE which is held up like a straw man by a left made up of the young people as a target of their revolts, and in their marches as racism at work.

It was an anticapitalist and bureaucratic France which showed this on Tuesday with the support of a large part of the population. In a March 25-26 survey by Le Figaro Only 36% of the French back free enterprise, unlike 74% of the Chinese, 71% of Americans, and 67% of Britons. The survey to be brought closer to home the point that a quarter of all employees work in the public sector, and that becoming a civil servant remains the dream job of 15-30 year olds.

This fear of competition is at the heart of the tension. Business owners are seen as an enemy, and the Fair labor standards act as a scripture. The antis behave as if they feared that this contract, would challenge their belief system by creating jobs. But this immobilized France can no longer be satisfied with promoting the anachronistic socialist model. Even the old Eastern European countries save for Belarus, changed to accept the risks of the market.

Not since the referendum on the Constitution was there this perestroïka that released the public’s critical ire. If we all still have to listen to this unrebutted argument, the brutal reality is given over to conservatives. Also the intransigence of the left that only proposes going backward, can it contribute to the rupture necessary to wake up a system, which is critically ill. Further the indecent graduates in this conflict reveal the fraud of a faculty that has given up. As for the aggressive suburban hooligans in the demonstrations, I’m reminded of something Andreï Makine said in its last book (This France which one forgets to like, Flammarion): "France is hated because the French let its’ substance waste away, to transform itself into nothing other than a territory of settlements, a remote outpost in a globalized Eurasia."

The barbarian age

To tell the truth, France lets itself see in a worrying state. On Sunday archbishop of Paris Monseigner Andre made a apt observation: "the blocking of democratic institutions, intimidation, a forced vote, decisions withdrawn under pressure, the destruction of equipment, books and instruments, are reminiscent of 20th century Germany and Russia. Our democracy should be ashamed of the revival of these phantoms of totalitarianism."

There are reasons to be frightened of the vandalism by extremists who trashed the Sorbonne, the School of Charters, the Institute for Advanced Social Sciences, and that set fire to the Saint-Germain library, not to mention the raids by housing project dwellers and the violence that came with it, including that against women. The school, apparently, can’t seem to inspire respect for people, culture, and books anymore.

Bewildering bankruptcy.

Here’s National Education’s game: In the Alpes-Maritimes culture, education, and leisure area of Aspres, a thousand teens are invited to work on the topic of redistribution (with the curriculum provided by S.O.S-Education). They were asked to imagine slogans and to make banners for a fictitious demonstration planned for April 4. Thus a generation of beggars is formed. There were 12-14 year olds in the march.

Does raising "citizens" at least wake up their consciences? After the death of 17 year old Sohane Benziane in October 2002, the indignant quickly forgot the execution of Ghofrane Haddaoui in Marseilles, Karen Moutet-Toutain, a teacher who was stabbed Chahrazad Belayni who was set alight, Jean-Clausde Irvoas lynched in front of his family, the handicapped woman who was drizzled with gasoline on a bus, the insults against Raphaël Clin a gendarme who ran into trouble, the martyrdom of Ilan Halimi, etc. Indeed, it’s the age of barbarians.

Counterdemonstrations?

It is this society of abandonment that should change. However, this concern seems foreign to the thousands of demonstrators, who are making the UMP tremble. The opponents of the CPE, civil servant to a large extent, have of another ambition: only to preserve the system they benefit from. Youthful anger is also inspired in the worst way to join this same cause with the culprits defending a broken down system. This is why Domenique de Villepin is resisting it strongly, and is trying to free himself from the tyranny of having to get a consensus. The coming days will reveal if Jacques Chirac will permit completing his own "Thatcherization". If the street succeeds, others could join them. Some already have each Sunday afternoon in front of Paris city hall to demand the basic reforms.

"Here at home"

Read in Libération yesterday: in a suburban café saw a display of a religion hijacked by "young people". The "big brothers" warned the bar manager: "You are here on our premises, you must do what we tell you or we’ll bring our Muslim brothers from Belleville." Thus the wolves have entered Paris.

...without a CDI?
From that great pillar of literature, NY Daily News:

The city's jobless rate fell to 5.3% last month from 5.5% in January, continuing the gradual decline it has made since last November, the New York State Department of Labor said yesterday.

Looking to rake in the big bucks? Learn how to fly a plane. Pilots were among the biggest wage-earners in the New York area, bringing home about $150.27 an hour this time last year, the government said in a separate report.

On average, workers in and around Manhattan earned $26.20 an hour in March 2005, a survey by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed.

«'This is a tidal wave of protest,' said Bernard Thibault, head of the traditionally Communist CGT union, citing the private sector employees, civil servants and old-age pensioners who had joined the students and union members marching through Paris.»

Do you ever wake up and wonder how events in Europe are seen in the United States? If so, you will be interested to know that movers and shakers in the US Capital woke up to this visage today, courtesy of the Washington Post:

The structural weakness of the argument that the US is making a mess of relations between other nations in the world is revealed and dispelled by one Tony Charles Lynton Blair. The source of the “poodle” nonsense which seems to have originated in the 2nd week of September in 2001 is meant to prop that argument up. Speaking in Canberra (another focus of the angry derision of those who tacitly promote the death of westerners,) he implied that a straw man can’t dance for the amusement of the moonbats of this world.

«Solving the world's problems needed an 'active foreign policy of engagement, not isolation' between countries, the British Labour Party leader told lawmakers, and Washington needed to be on board as much as possible.

But he pointed out: 'This alliance does not end with, but it does begin with America. For us in Europe and for you, this alliance is central. And I want to speak plainly here. I do not always agree with the US.»

Wood shampoo

Behold, a “student!”

REUTERS has the pendejo roundup:

«A French student is attacked by a gang of hooded youths from poor suburbs during a nationwide protest demanding the government to scrap a youth jobs law during a demonstration in Place de la Republique»

Remember It’s always part of someone’s “big plan”... From Le Salon Beige via Alex Corvus we find more bad social theory leading to self-destruction:

«Having common "revolutionary" aspirations, Leftists invited the rabble to join them at the demonstrations. Today some of the same leftists are crying out to resist them!

An excerpt: The gangs of thugs made an objective success of what the cops didn’t have to do themselves, and did it even more effectively. They managed to empty out Les Invalides in less than half an hour.»

From NovLangue de pute we linked the following found on The Stalker blog:

“La sociologie n’a pas de chance / Sociology is hopeless”

Jean-Gerard Lapacherie observes our sick modernity. I know him to tell the truth rather indirectly, not only through his many articles which he’s published in «Liberté» political reviews or in his analyses on the cleaned up «Liberty Vox» blog, did a superb job of dissecting the manipulated languange of the NLF. I thank him again for pointing out the broadly spun slogans heard dozens of times a day from journalists and howled by the uneducated imbeciles.

It is a word which often appears in the "equal opportunity law", known also as the "CPE". The law "fights", as of others fight. Dead on arrival, the hostile old virtues of France reappear in law. Admittedly, fighting never occurs in a vaccum. It is followed pronouncements of good and evil. Sometimes it is supports, sometimes it opposes. To «oppose» corresponds with countering incivility, promoting social cohesion, be against discrimination, and being for equality. «Cohesion» units what incivility separates, and equality restores what discrimination destroys. From a rhetorical point of view, the machine runs smoothly. With a call to arms the fight makes the law martial, and takes on the urgency of a war. The peace pipe will never be smoked again.
It is not entirely a "class struggle" or "the final showdown", but that could not feel too far off: a forthcoming law will team up the "proletarians" with the "transnationals" to become "mankind". It is even in the name of the "High Commission to Fight Discriminations and promote Equality" («Haute Autorité de Lutte contre les Discriminations et pour l’Égalité») or HALDE (sounds like DUMP), whose domain is to inforce the detail of the law and everything in it. The funny thing is that it’s been instituted to carry out the fight, invent or identify the enemy, decide where the fight will take place, and to pick the winner. The battlefield is a boring sort of paddock. "the HALDE identifies and disemminates the good practices and the experiments in fighting discriminations in all branches of industry" and "makes recommendations to the government, Parliament, and public authorities to fight discriminations in order to improve the language of the law, and advance the principle of equality and the state of related law".

In Iran, in 1979, one of the first decisions made by Khomeini was to create a «Commission for the Prohibition of Vice and Promotion of Virtue». The Monster has crossed many borders to reach France. The HALDE is the Empire of the Good. The only statement they make is to reverse Fascism and stop racism. It is to stop the Evil and provide all the virute you can want. The "equal opportunity law" is worded with the same bad faith, full of statements that have the consistency of batter. In South Africa or the United States discrimination was real, tangible, visible, were in the law, becoming horrifying realities. This it’s taken to Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, or elsewhere, trying to take the same fight and countering discrimination where they are a) legal and b) real, in spite of what one sees in France - or more precisely anything descriminatory in France which is ignored. A discriminatory law, if there were only one of them, would be an unlawful - ipso facto. Discrimination is banned by the Declaration of 1789 and prohibited in the Constitution of the République.

They are fictitious, and yet the well off world protests these fictions, not against these fictitious and untrue representations, but against ghosts which are imagined to be real. Social sciences concocted this goodwill. In the racial fighting which that they seek to cause any low blow is allowed. Discrimination would remain limited to the social novel, the fairy tale, or better yet in "A Thousand and One Nights," if our fabulists only intended to divert the reader. But they work towards another goal which is to pervert and and change policies. It is necessary that France is demeaned, and that is why it’s important for them to call it racist or say that it’s founded on discrimination.

Thus the French and men have to remain ill though of and thrown into the dustbin of History (with a captial H). Because insinuated in these "Thousand and One Nights" of Paris, the apartheid of France is no different than that of white South Africa. Thus the shame is kept alive in the hexagon. The French are stigmatized to restore something they were convinced that they caused. The way this joke goes, it’s the incivility which the law fights, that justifies fictitious discrimination. Before the name civilization was not manufactured at the XVIIIe century by Mirabeau, «the Friend of Man» was the word «civility» was the operative term. Preceded by «without», it applied to natives of the West Indies, denying that they had a soul. Even in the title of the law, the words «equal opportunity» reveal the direction of this text. Luck is what defines who is to be brought down.
It concerns fate and luck alone. To put equality in it, (i.e. of the law or right) is as useless as to try to make the sun shine at midnight or to reach the moon by climbing a rope. The Lotto has as a slogan "Every winner tried their luck". Similarly on the equal opportunity law "everyone who will profit from it will profit from the fight that it declared". Bad luck, risk, and misfortune, are all made unlawful. Bear in mind that it used to be said that a law either liberated or repressed.
By 2006 the number of contracts has multiplied: new hires, junior trainee, parental conditions, pre-professionnalisation... Since it is a social measure in law, the contract is everywhere: everything is contractual, even the family. Like a perpetual insurance policy it’s signed with your eyes closed. One is unaware of the hidden clauses. The spirit of the law was something that one once could have believed in. In equal opportunity, it comes straight of the sociology textbook.

The new Holy Spirit does not speak an earthly language anymore, but the language of sociology. Fight, contract, discrimination, social cohesion, incivility, citizen… All brought to you by the code of law. The law was supposed to prevent by dictat the repetition of the riots last autumn, but caused new riots in the our city centers. It causes what it was supposed to prevent. Instead of extinguishing the fires, it stoked them. It explains the significance of the law: it’s just a preoccupation of the School of the High Studies in Social Sciences. This institution is in the heart of sociocentric discrimination, incivility, contractual, egalitarian, fighter, etc. The director opened the doors to let the anti-CPE militants have places to plan.
Immediately, the debates were shouted down - doors were broken down, goods were stolen or destroyed, and lecture halls were taken over by squatters. For more than thirty years, social sciences have thrown sociological oil on the social fire. It wasn’t capitalism that they set ablaze, it was their own institutions.

You have to expect this. If parents forbid their children to play with matches, it is not on a whim, but by experiment. On television sociologists were seen moving computers to preserve their beloved research tools. It also leaked out that they had asked the riot police to get their research materials out of the buildings that they invited the rioters into. The irony is that the School of the High Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) is the very source of the effort to impose sociology on the arts, language, literature, business, history, science, the law, and everything else. It threw the boomerang which came back to hit it square in the face. Already, an image of March 22, 1968 is evoked. The revolution in 2006 is not about a different tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow. They admit to violating people’s sovereignty, but it’s been the rule for so long, that people don’t even notice it.

The agitators seem to hope to «bring on a change» , but right off the bat they return to Mom and Dad. The revolution, if there really is one, isn’t humilating business, but sociology. Sociology brough us this distorted reality. It is the old world of Count, Bourdieu, Durkheim, Touraine, etal, that the cat dragged in: the idols are broken, the statues are reversed, and their lies are exposed.
Fear not, comrades, the old guard of sociology is behind you ! The riots of the autumn were about welfare, 100% about welfare. Even the social panacea laws to attenuate them were destroyed by the same beast, and in the torrent of madness, the «beautiful people» rioted again. In 1956 and 1958 in exactly the same way, and to the anguish of many, the IVth Republic piled on the social measures in favor of Algerians to convince them that it was in their interest for Algeria to remain French. Without commissioning a single study, they drew the opposite conclusion : that welfare measures and sociological thought does not influence identity or is worth "being French for." Nor was its’ absence enough of a reason "not to be Algerian." The duct tape repair of sociology didn’t stick to the nation, the individual, or his identity.
In 2006, it hardly took two months to forget the lessons of last autumn’s riots.

...and showing it on the blogsphere. Students who are actually students seem to be growing a spine, organizing, counter-protesting, and want the knuckle draggers to grow up:

«Or, dans les commentaires postés par les internautes, le reproche principal à l'égard du mouvement anti-blocage porte justement sur le fait qu'il serait organisé et manipulé par l'UMP et par l'UNI, le syndicat étudiant de droite. Mise au point des blogueurs, le 16 mars : "Nous tenons à rappeler que l'initiative du rassemblement de dimanche n'est pas du fait de l'UNI. Les manœuvres de ce syndicat pour tenter de s'approprier le sit-in de dimanche comme le mouvement général anti-blocage sont inacceptables".»

«However, in comments posted in the internet, the principal retort to the anti-blockade movement precisely relates to the fact that they’re accused of being organized by the UMP and the conservative student union.
March 16: "Don’t forget that the initiative of the gathering on Sunday was not because of conservative student union. The operations of this trade union to try to take over the Sunday sit-in make the anti-boycott movement is unacceptable,"»