The Only Tax Cut You Will Ever See the EU Support

EU giving people gas. Heresy! How dare they dispense hydrocarbons!

The Gaza Strip has power again. The European Union has resumed funding the territory's only electricity generating station. Brussels suspended the payments last weekend following reports that the new Hamas administration planned to siphon off some of the money. The EU decision looks to have been too hasty.

The shutting down of the power station led to a terrible situation. Residents were left to deal with the blazing heat, and even hospitals were without electricity. Many people found the European decision "unforgivable"

What goes unsaid is that this is Gaza’s only power station serving 25% of the population’s needs. The remainder comes from Israel.

A happy ending? There remain serious questions about the EU's performance. For example, Ms Torres declines to detail the grounds Europe had for suspecting Hamas.

It is thought that Hamas had plans for a tax on energy use, while the EU insists that all electricity profits are pumped back directly into the economy. The EU sees Hamas as a terrorist organisation which should not be allowed to profit from aid under any circumstances.

[ ... ]

If there are reports - following rumours begun by Israel or Fatah - that EU aid is being misused, Brussels has to follow these up. However, it appears that this time nobody stopped to think that the people of Gaza might be the victims of the EU move.

Money? Misused by Hamas? Impossible!

Can you feel the hatred?

Americans, you are hated here. Don't ever forget it.

This week kicked off the annual literary "rentrée" when France's most read authors have their new books released. Currently displayed (prominently displayed at that) among the bestsellers is a novel called "Répugnances - Parfums d’Amérique".

The story is about a French gigolo called Jean-Luc who is kept by a well off Chicago woman. Jean-Luc is quickly bored by life in America (which the book jacket describes as socially and economically one-dimensional). Happily, he is brought back from loneliness and boredom by the 9-11 attacks (emphasis mine, the terms are taken directly from the book jacket) and falls in with a group of French whose main activity is insulting, humiliating, and torturing American women (must be one of those French sleeper cells). Jean-Luc takes part in the activities of the group and massacres two American women (the book jacket insists that American women have horrible duck-like voices). He then marries the rich American and kills her, inheriting her estate. He happily returns to France a rich man, returning to Chicago from time to time where he owns a French sex academy.

From the back cover:

Jean-Luc, gigolo à la dérive, s'envole pour Chicago où il va retrouver Pamela, une riche Américaine qu'il a récemment séduite dans une boîte de nuit parisienne. L'espoir cède très vite à l'ennui, à la haine et au dégoût du monde qui l'entoure. A l'instar de la conformiste Pamela qui en vient très vite à l'entretenir, les gens qu'il rencontre sont lisses, dépourvus de substance, aussi fades que les étalages de nourriture dans ces supermarchés qui le dépriment, et le soi-disant écrivain en reste à la page blanche. Heureusement, la violence finit par l'arracher à la solitude et au néant. Les attaques terroristes du 11 septembre, d'abord, qu'il regarde avec une fascination malsaine, puis la rencontre avec un groupe de français dont la principale occupation est de médire de l'Amérique, d'humilier les Américaines et de les torturer. Il prend vite une part active aux activités de ses nouveaux amis et en vient à massacrer deux de ces Américaines aux horribles voix de canard. Puis, en application d'un plan soigneusement ourdi, il trouve moyen d'épouser Pamela avant de la faire assassiner et d'hériter de tous ses biens. C'est l'Amérique ! Alors il peut rentrer en France, riche, désormais libre de mener une vie de plaisirs et de débauche, retournant de temps en temps à Chicago pour fleurir la tombe de Pamela et s'occuper de son nouveau commerce : une école de sexe à la française.

He who smelt it, dealt it

It's not ethnic cleansing. It's more like social class cleansing. This is yet one more great advance for the glorious French Social Model, which, as any politically correct thinking commentator knows, is the envy of the Western World. In Argenteuil (yes, yet an other Northern suburb of Paris), homeless people have been dispersed through the use of a City Hall purchased stink repellant used to cleanse the areas where they congregate. Philippe Métezeau, the right-hand man for Argenteuil's mayor says that this is the best way to convince the city's bag people that they would be better off in a city-run shelter.

Thanks to 'Fane.

Typically Hypocritical Perfectly Reasoned Leftism

While accusing people of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and anything else handy, lefties themselves exhibit as little tolerance as their venerable intellectual ancestors.

Only in America are the Homeless so Bad Off

La vie cachee du peripherique / The secret life of the Paris beltway - part 4

The city's outreach call center gets 40.000 new cases per year

- With thanks to Social Traitre

"It is becoming very important to get rid of the Quai d'Orsay … I have contempt for all these guys, they are cowards"

Quick to anger, [Nicolas Sarkozy] calls both his aides and political enemies unprintable vulgarities

writes Elaine Sciolino in her New York Times report on Yasmina Reza's upcoming book (Dawn Evening or Night) on Nicolas Sarkozy.

At a breakfast with French experts on Russia and Chechnya, he declares that the Foreign Ministry is useless. "It is becoming very important to get rid of the Quai d'Orsay," he says. Branding the previous French ambassador in Russia "a moron," and the ambassador in Lebanon "an infamous cretin," he adds, "I have contempt for all these guys, they are cowards."

In another scene he asks himself whether Ségolène Royal, his Socialist opponent, is helping his own chances, and replies, "It's not certain. It's not certain that being a zero is necessarily a disadvantage in France."

Feeling Oppressed by Paper

American lefty editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger takes a refuge for the detestation of his countrymen regularly in Pouriel International. Like many of his ilk, going over the top with his arguments is never quite enough. This month, he feels his liberties are dwindling away because of... the watermarks in his passport:

On the third page, opposite my picture and personal information appears an enormous head of a bald eagle, a ear of corn, a flag, and the preamble to the Constitution. The eagle has a curiously empty expression. For some unknown reason the federal government, which uses it everywhere and even affixes it post office trucks and medical warnings, is not able to decide to give to the bird a furious expression, slightly irritated, or a paternal look. This eagle, which glances at my photograph where I have little expression has a more tolerant air than usual.

I don’t think the paper mean it personally, Jeff.

But this part takes the cake:

The final result is that any feeling of affection which one could have for the country or its’ history is transformed into a joke. These oft used symbols, these common scenes, these paste board versions of our heroes and these there whirring quotations are presented as the real America. We have, of course, a lesson to be learnt owing to the fact that this setting in scene was conceived under a government which is without question the worst in recent history. But I do not dare to imagine which.

He probably wants to be the one – the single one – or maybe among the very few with whom he shares a common view, a minority to be sure, to tell us all what that “true America” is, but he can’t.

Nor should he if he is so much more misanthropic than the population itself, and yet has so little meaningful to say about his country that the rest of us are supposed to identify with when considering images of its’ identity. I doubt he would put his choice of symbols to a popular vote. He thinks Bison, Totem Poles, and the Rockies are kitsch. Of course it would seem that way if you can’t identify with anyone who doesn’t live in the intellectual gulag of east-coast urban leftism which has failed miserably in the agora of ideas for 4 decades. He has probably failed to notice that a pluralistic society is more than that.

Americans Don’t Care About the Poor. They Throw them Out onto the Street.

La vie cachee du peripherique / The secret life of the Paris beltway - part 3

- Hat-tip to some Blogger

Unapproved Thoughts Made Illegal

Europa, Europa:Brussels Mayor Warns: 9/11 Demonstrators Are Criminals

I decided to forbid the September 11 demonstration “against the islamicisation of Europe.” […] Since 2001 I have allowed over 3,500 demonstrations. This is only the sixth one which I forbid. […] The right to demonstrate exists only inasmuch as it does not cause a disturbance of the public peace and order. […] First and foremost the organizers have chosen the symbolic date of 9/11. The intention is obviously to confound the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists on the one hand and Islam as a religion and all Muslims on the other hand. […] Such incitement to discrimination and hatred, which we usually call racism and xenophobia, is forbidden by a considerable number of international treaties...

Also sprach Freddy.

Never mind anyone else provoking a disturbance of the peace, or what’s left of it, this guy thinks that international treaties, even if they really DO ban opinions, would even supersede the laws critical to a open pluralistic democracy which were put in place by a population on itself.

"Since Iraq was liberated from dictatorship"

In an interview with Le Monde, Jalal Talabani tells Cécile Hennion that the caricatured view that French élites, leaders, and citizens have of the situation in his country is, er, hardly the correct one…

Unlike the patented holier-than-thou hyumanists dissing France's foreign minister from the comfortable seats of their cozy living rooms, Talibani points out that the man on the terrain that Bernard Kouchner is

est un ami depuis plus de deux décennies. Nous nous étions rencontrés dans les montagnes du Kurdistan alors qu'il était en mission pour Médecins sans frontières pour aider les civils victimes de bombardements et de déportation.

DFTV

The Dissident Frogman provides free instruction for Agence France Presse.

Texas to EU: Get bent!

Texans will decide, democratically, what happens in the State of Texas. Texas State Law will not be influenced by unelected Ivory Tower Euro-elitists.

"230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas."

"Il y a deux cent trente ans, nos ancêtres ont combattu pour se libérer du joug d'un monarque européen et gagner la liberté de l'autodétermination. Les Texans ont décidé il y a longtemps que la peine de mort était un châtiment juste et approprié pour les crimes les plus horribles commis contre nos citoyens. Bien que nous respections nos amis en Europe, saluons leurs investissements dans notre Etat et apprécions leur intérêt pour nos lois, les Texans arrivent très bien à gouverner leur Etat."

America is Inequitable. There is no Social Solidarity.

La vie cachee du peripherique / The secret life of the Paris beltway - part 2

- With thanks to a special Blograde

Hooray!

French Social Model is back in action.

Merry Eco-Barbarian Luddites in Portugal

Last Friday (17 August) in Algarve in the south of Portugal, a Portuguese farmer who had planted a GMO crop legal even by tight EU standards, saw his lands invaded and the corn crop destroyed by activists of a fringe ecologist organization with complete impunity. Portuguese police did not act to prevent or stop the wanton destruction.

The vandals' actions were praised by the extreme-left party Bloco de Esquerda, which has supported the activist organization in the past. Miguel Portas, an MEP for the Bloco de Esqueda supported this action as a "precautionary measure", an act of "civil disobedience" and "non-violent conflict". Even tough he acknowledged the destruction of property, Miguel Portas wrote that there was a "wider social benefit" by raising the public awareness of GMO's.

Meanwhile, the Minister responsible for internal security said the police did everything they could to stop the crop destruction (although it was indeed destroyed...) and that those involved were to be prosecuted. In response, the spokesman for the eco-barbarians deemed this a "waste of public money" that would be better employed in a public campaign against GMO's. Their goal is to "re-establish ecological, moral and democratic order" even at the expense of others, so it seems.

- Via O Insurgente

La politique Chiraqo-Villepiniste de la France envers l'Irak a été karcherisée

Cleaning up Chiraq's mess.

Y'all Ain't in Kansas Anymore

But in zat case, where are iou, zen?
Over the past two decades, country and western festivals have sprung up in many parts of France, sparked by an abiding fascination with the trappings of the American frontier as well as by a craze for line dancing.

It's structural

A bug, not a feature.



"Accept loss forever." -- Jack Kerouac, In other words: learn to live with it, learn to love it. Jerkoffs!

Les fauves sont lâchés

The unemployed hacks at Rue89.com do their best to bite Kouchner's ankles.

Kouchner in 2003.

"Soiling One's Hands" Like "a Little Poodle"

When Moscow rattles its sabers at its neighbors (and the principle-minded leaders in the French government state that they will manage the sensibilities of the Russians), the French (including the opposition) have little to no reaction. When China threatens Taiwan (and the peacemakers in the French government light the Eiffel Tower in red for the visit of a Chinese leader while trying to resume weapons sales to Beijing), the French (including the opposition) have little to no reaction.

When Bernard Kouchner pays a visit to Baghdad, i.e., does something involving the Americans, all hell breaks loose. "France is like a little poodle" sputters Noël Mamère as the opposition (official and less official) erupts in indignation and even the government's friends and allies have their doubts and second thoughts. "It's a manner of soiling one's hands to go to Baghdad after Sarkozy's visit to Bush."

In France they call it a diplomatic surge

France's stance on Iraq shifting.

This Social Model is the Envy of the World

La vie cachee du peripherique / The secret life of the Paris beltway - part 1

- With thanks to the man with a camera

Could They Hack it?

Hurricane Dean (2007-08-21-1545 UTC) superimposed to scale on the heart of Europe. It would envelope all of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Benelux, and most of the Czech Republic. Greater London would fit in its eye.

So where are the Katrina-esque tirades? Bring ‘em on! Here’s the coverage from the commie anachronisms who so sure that they’re concerned with “all of Humanity” as the name might imply, this lot only seems to have seen fit to cover the fate of one small island in the Caribbean without so much as even a link to a wire story about the Yucatan peninsula getting whacked. This, regardless of who their “real heroes” are.



More no-event non-news and poodle-like
idol worship from their weekly magazine.

Paris made Mumia an Honorary Resident

What will they make this guy? France has a real soft spot for American murderers. Now Obama is involved.

There are too many of them and they are filthy and wasteful

French vacationers are destroying the environment.


The French say: take that Kyoto thing and shove it!

Americans Are Hardly Known to Speak of Jack Chirac or Francis Mitterrand

Seven (or 20?!) years later, French journalists like Raphaëlle Bacqué and Ariane Chemin (or Philippe Bolopion) are so entwined in their nation's language that they have still not learned how to spell the names of two foreign presidents, Georges W. Bush and Georges H. W. Bush (or if they know the name of George Bush, they will mess up that of Gérald Ford).

Pas de quoi fouetter un chat, probably, but this is from the nation that is always speaking of understanding and respecting foreign cultures, honoring foreigners and diversity and multiculturalism, learning from foreign travels (the French make a fuss out of their accents being mishandled abroad but still refuse to use Spanish accents on Hispanic names and still call Beijing "Pékin"), and (especially)… pointing out that clueless, egotistical, and self-centered zombie-like Americans (!) are the people who routinely, regularly, and randomly can be expected to mess those things up.

Ratatouille

France is not the place to be this summer as tourism has been hit hard by bad weather (expect les experts fwançais to put that on Dubya's tab along with the rest of the world's ills). Never mind the lies and rubbish spewed out on the usual French hate sites.

Maybe They Forcibly Sodomized him Because They Felt Oppressed

I’m still waiting for “Talk is Cheap” to touch this one:

Lawyers in Pakistan are investigating a report that up to 30 men tortured and gang-raped a young Christian man for refusing to convert to Islam.

The victim is seriously injured and unable to move, Release International’s partner in Pakistan has reported. However, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) the police are keeping him locked up and have denied him medical treatment.

The police are also refusing to register the rape following a counter-claim made by his principal attacker – “a man of influence”, Release International has told Christian Today.

According to CLAAS, the Christian was invited to a game of cricket. A quarrel broke out and he was beaten up. Later that evening, the father of one of the Muslims asked the Christian over to his house.

Joseph Francis, the National Director of CLAAS, explained: “When he entered the drawing room, he found it filled with unknown people. They began to beat him severely. They threatened him with dire consequences if he did not accept Islam. After his refusal, they committed sodomy with him one by one for the whole night.”

And to think that there are people in the bien pensent cities of the west living in their own little universe who would pay big money for that.

Sauve qui peut.

Lucid, Nuanced, and Visionary French Élites

In his editorial for the last issue of Courrier International before the summer recess, Philippe Thureau-Dangin shows that all the nuance and the rationality of the French élites are all about Bush, and nothing else.

• La fin du mandat de George Bush risque d’être dur.

• Et, si jamais l’Iran passe du statut d’observateur occasionnel [au sein de l’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai] au statut de membre associé, cela aussi serait pénible pour George Bush…

• Tout cela ne serait vraiment pas de bonnes nouvelles pour George.

The British ally in Iraq, the Iranian foe in the Shanghai group, the WTO's negotiations in the Doha cycle, you name it, all international news revert to how it affects the Texan troublemaker, served with a spoonful of scornful schadenfreude that the news are hardly positive.

Forget about, ignore, the dangers posed by Tehran, Beijing, or international trade, real or otherwise. It's all about Bush being subject to bad news, Bush having a difficult time in the final months of his presidency, Bush not having a good summer this year…

Bon été à lui tout de même et à tous nos lecteurs.

All-Loving, All-Caring EUtopia

Which is superior in every way to America was deeply concerned about this man’s dignity:

A paedophile repeat offender, Francis Evrard, was sentanced Friday for the kidnap and rape of Enis in Roubaix (North). He had Viagra when he was arrested and says that it was prescribed to him before he was last released from prison, one confirmed source said on Saturday.

The 61 year old paedophile was arrested Wednesday evening in Roubaix with Viagra in his possession, according to one source close to the case.

Police officers indicated after his arrest that an investigation is underway to determine if this drug to treat male impotence was prescribed to him by a doctor in the Caen prison system where he was held.

Aren't you glad the Doctor went out of his way to enable him to get some of his physical manhood back in advance of his moral manhood?

Gratuitous Loony USA Reference № 2794

So Just Who is the Mad Cow?

Floaties: “ BCE “

Wifebeater shirt “ Love of risk “

Over at Libération PropagandaStaffel

Following French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner's Baghdad visit, the reader comments over at Libération PropagandaStaffel are getting more hateful by the minute:

"J'ai mal au coeur quand je pense à M. Kouchner ..."
"C'est triste qu'un homme comme Bernard Kouchner s'abaisse à jouer les "Mickey" pour l'illusionniste de l'Elysée....Grave..!"
"... Koucner débarque pour se faire remarquer et bien 'nous' faire remarquer. A quand des attentats contre la France ?"
"A quand nos soldats à Bagdad ?"
"Trois hamburgers et un hotdog --
Je parie que Nick a promis à George d’envoyer les troupes avant la fin de l’année."
"Moi, je croyais que les visites médiatiques surprise à Baghdad, c'était le job de Blair. Ah oui, c'est vrai, Bush a changé de caniche... "
"le larbin --
le lobby francais a la solde de bush croit pouvoir sauver l'amerique.helas."

Bernard Kouchner in Baghdad

French Minister of Foreign Affaires Bernard Kouchner declares, "Now we have to face the reality, including the American view ... but this is an Iraqi problem and it must be solved by the Iraqis". Kouchner spoke to the press in English.

LCI French cable news video here.

French MSM will be in ape shit mode by this evening

French Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner has arrived in Baghdad for a 3 day visit.




De la lecture pour Bernard pendant son séjour.