Where Inaction Has Becomes a Virtue

...”Hold tight, the sociologists are on the way!”...

Does This "Censorship from the Side" Seem Familiar?

What they want is to make Latin America a kind of communist republic. Again. But not old-fashioned communism. They will not fight, they will not use violence to take over Latin America. They use revolution disguised in democracy, a popular democracy. … [How do they achieve this?] They use another kind of revolutionary war, called Gramscian revolution. Antonio Gramsci … tried to think in another form of revolutionary fight. The main action is to pretend that the society is already inside a socialistic régime. Pretending this, the fight moves from war to culture. If you change the culture of a society, you make this society go towards socialism without a fight. This is what is happening right now in Latin America.

So says Luís Afonso Assumpção of the (hidden and not-so-hidden) fight to turn Latin American towards the left, with the advent of characters like Lula, Eva Morales, Hugo Chávez, et al (the creator Swimming Against the Red Tide starts speaking in English, briefly switches to Spanish (with a Brazilian accent), and returns to English).

They use the media to do this. But it is not a kind of censorship, it is a censorship from the side… journalists … act as militants, not as real journalists.

Vivre en France, c'est mourir à petit feu

France's Intifada and the French MSM cover-up.

A Reader Reflecting on Society

I received an interesting note that is worth sharing. His patience has worn thin:

Yesterday I listened to a the Olivier Pichon libre journal on Radio-Courtoisie, and he told of what was said to him after his conferences in the 'hoods... for example, one 50-ish lady whose door was unsuccessfully kicked in by two violent Youths... the police come only after an hour or so, and don't dare to arrest the Youths, but calm them down, and tell the lady they can't do anything... they go away, the Youths threaten the lady with rape and death, and the lady is now hiding at her elderly mother's home, having fled her apartment... and when she asks the Powers-that-be for help, she is told she is not a priority, because she's French and already has a home.

I dunno... A few weeks ago, while buying bread, I had a conversation with an old lady, which moved me so. She was formerly privileged, (mother, married to an university teacher, etc, etc...), but now she is living alone without resources except a slight retirement in a shitty ‘hood in Lyon. She’s been mugged by Youths three time since the beginning of this year, all the businesses are being chased away by the lack of security... she was on vacation here, with her daughter who normally lives in Paris, and was not thrilled at the perspective of going back "home".

All this is to say that I have a feeling of living in the shadow of a terrible future, like being on the Titanic, listening to the idle, pointless chatter of the passengers, while knowing fully we’re going to sink eventually... Mitterrand the scumbag had his own vision of thing... saying once "après moi, le déluge", and in another occasion "nous sommes en train de faire la fête dans un avion qui va s'écraser"...

Further, he notes a sort of propensity for some social systems to be less able to evolve with will. The test will come at some point and as we see from everyday social issues as noted above, it will find itself in every place:

You might also wish to check this out.

That's funny, the idea of a "providential man (or woman, as with Joan of Arc)" is very, very French; as noted by a liberal French economist and historian, Jacques Marseilles, France is the country of civil wars; its society lacks the civil tools of the Anglo-Saxon societies, and reform itself only through convulsive spasm, with "providential men" emerging to lead us away from turmoil.

Since the revolution, it is a society marked by a quasi-permanent rift between the "left" and the "right", and a huge instability (let me see: 5 republics, 2 empires, one triumvirat, 1 occupation gvt, 2 monarchies, I think that's all).

That the centralization of all matters in life from Napoleon’s administration and curriculum to today’s aggressive socialism points very clearly to a kind of obsessive search for a means to either develop those tools, or to never need them. An effort which hopes to find a way out of the gambles taken on the leader (as a providential figure) and risking totalitarianism, or the creation of a model as a cult or fetish at the very least.

- Thank you, gentle reader.

U.S. troops must stay, Talabani says

As debate on the Iraq war continues during the American election, the New York Times seems to play down a crucial report in that debate that its sister paper carries, although, naturally, front page status is out of the question for Katrin Bennhold's International Herald Tribune report and the story is thus relegated to page 4. The day after the report, the Times was downplaying it even more by relegating it to two paragraphs, and that in the second half of Kirk Semple's hand-wringing story on "discord" between the U.S. and Iraqis.

President Jalal Talabani said Thursday that American-led troops should remain in Iraq for at least two more years to give the country time to build up its security forces.

His remarks, delivered at the start of a six-day visit in France, came as pressure in the United States and Britain is building to bring home the 150,000 soldiers currently on the ground in Iraq. Amid continuing violence and a rising death toll, the war has become the No. 1 issue for American voters ahead of next week's midterm elections.

"We need time," Talabani told a conference in Paris before meeting President Jacques Chirac. "I believe two to three years could be enough to build up our forces before we can say bye-bye and thanks to our friends."

Last week, Iraq's deputy prime minister, Barham Salih, urged the United States and Britain not to "cut and run."

Another thing worth pointing out is that, needless to say, "some French diplomats voiced concern that two or three years seemed a long time." With Jacques Chirac reminding everybody of the importance of setting "a perspective for a pull-out", it is refreshing to be reminded how solidaristic and fraternal the French sound in voicing concern (this has nothing to do with getting the pesky Yanks out of the way, you understand; it must be their ever-so-friendly feelings for those they keep reminding us are their American friends…)

Blogger Scoops MSM, MSM Steals Story

Check out the timestamps the little pikers left behind.



Note too the paucity of interest in the subject. A Vicar's self immolation produced only three entries.

PC sidelines Lefty Britain’s Favorite Terrorist

It’s only “alternative” if you don’t ban it:

Guy Fawkes has been banned by council bosses in east London - and replaced with a Bengali folk tale. Tower Hamlets said it wanted to provide an "alternative" theme to celebrate November 5 and the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

The French suburbs are nowone big Shake n' Bake

France keeps making headlines, but the headlines have nothing to do with France's self-aggrandizing and highly delusional pretention to lead some kind of post-industrial non-aligned movement. No, it's quite the opposite.

Sophisticated French song & dance troupe shows timid Americans what entertainment is all about

Typical French family gathering. The intellectual and cultural influences are evident. From Fofana-land to Gaza and back with a near beheading thrown in. It's multicultural, man! From the soundtrack of the film "Sheitan" with Vincent Cassel.

Avant-garde

Libération PropagandaStaffel and Le Monde Al-Jazeera on the Seine both screamed that Philippe de Villiers was a liar and that his book was full of fabrications. Looks like he hit the nail right on the head.

Cartoonists All For That Holocaust That They'd Rather Deny

Here it is the moment you;ve surely been waiting for with bated breath:

Carlos Latuff from Brazil and A Chard from France jointly won the second prize of £4,000 (€6,000) and Iran’s Shahram Rezai received £2,500 for third place.

”Causes” discussed:

Masoud Shojai, head of the country's "Iran Cartoon" association and the fair organiser, said that "we staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in".

It seems that the western reaction is offensive to him because it has been pronounced by tolerance and an inadequate amount of violence and outrage.

While some ignore the limits of truthfulness in criticism, others go all the way, and simply invent their own:

“The bad news,” investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told a Montreal audience last Wednesday, “is that there are 816 days left in the reign of King George II of America.”

“In Washington, you can’t expect any rationality. I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” he said.

Nonetheless, he took the opportunity to trash the US while in Canada to get outraged over things truthful as well:

”...The military is going to do what the President wants,”

I suppose he’d prefer a banana republic where the military does whatever the military wants.

Comment Sought From Code Pink on “Uncovered Meat”

Who are curiously silent about this kind of thing

Political Dada

An anti-Communist group wanted to hold a public display to remind people of the horrors of Communism on the 50th anniversary of the crushing of dissent in Hungary, and, quite naturally for France not only is it suppressed by the CRS riot cops, but a crowd of goofy anarchists are permitted (nay, induced) to “counter” it with more of the usual pro-Palestinian rubbish, as if they need any more support than they’ve already gotten.

If that isn’t a fish trying to ride a bicycle, I don’t know what is. To make some sense of it, remember that anything involving the fevered imagination of the incongruous Marxist-Pro-jihadist alliance is the gaping hole of suck which hosts both of those suicidal world views called Bobigny.

From Le Point, a typical day of court testimony that lets one know just how comfortable the two factions are to each other:

On the docket since Monday are three young people have appeared before the court for the rapes of a young woman and a homosexual man with acts of cruelty and tortures. They risk perpetuity. “What was the name of your previous victim?” asks the chief judge Odile Mondineu-Hederer, who become famous for conducting deliberations in the appeal cases of Outreau. “I don’t remember any more, I got over it”, said Hasid, 24 years, already sentenced to eleven years for the rape of someone who he forgot the first name of. Then he remembered: “It was Céline, she was a minor. ”

Fifteen days later, Hasid said that in a hotel of Saint-Ouen. With its two accomplices, Aymeric, 24 years old, and Mourad, 28 years old, they attacked a young homosexual pedestrian. Seven hours of beating and repeated rapes. The victim also had his genitals and buttocks sprayed with something toxic, and was sodomized with the bottle. To finish, its attackers tagged his back with the names of their ghettos, « Franc-Moisin », « Clos Saint-Lazare », before penetrating his anus one last time. No explanation was given.

The only things these two unlikely tribes (thugs who admire Jihad and Lifestyle-groups admired by the radical left) have in common are a set of causes akin to a death-wish. I guess that’s enough.

Happy Rübengeisterschnitzen!

Please to observe Hermann

Allmost time to eet turkee wit Preznit

Kan Jon Karry send mee sum wyte meet?

Not reported on French State TV

The news blackout on French MSM is just about 100% now. Nevertheless, here is the urban guerilla activity for the evening/night of 31 October:

• Clichy-sous-Bois: 2 faux-journalists from France2 attacked and injured (payback for their phoney al-Durah shit)
  
• Tourcoing: middle school torched
  
• Wittenheim: Bus attacked
  
• Trappes: Bus attacked
  
• Buc: Bus attacked
  
• Poissy: Bus attacked
  
• Guyancourt: Bus attacked (Molotov cocktail)
  
• Mantes-la-Jolie: general rioting
  
• Elancourt: general rioting
  

Hat tip: 5 Years Later.

Isn’t the Next Step to Organize the Workers?

...because the goal of the average French student is to have a guaranteed job for life.

From Le Figaro:

According to the trade union SUD-Student, some 40.000 students prostitute themselves, in particular via the Internet and in “hostess” bars.

So much so, that the “fake student” routine is the hottest sales gimmick going at the moment. It seems nothing, and I mean nothing gets by even Le Figaro without a Neo-Com spin to it though:

A consequence of the impoverishment of students, it’s also of the growing vision of a consumerist society, the phenomenon is largely overlooked by social services and universities. In fact, no study was undertaken on the subject. Only the trade union SUD-Student dared present any statistics.

Others hardly seem like students at all, seeking the image of youth and an explanation for their “bumpsen für Euros” other than being on the “Blutarsky Plan”. Basically, these hos are “students” in the same way 37 year old rioters are “youths.”

Seven years with a “summer job”

In fact, the money is more than enough of a draw. Emma, 36 years old, is now married and a mother in the North. The young woman was a prostitute for seven years, each summer in Brussels. Then a student at the school of veterinary surgeon, she though well of her “summer job”. “In two months, I earned my money for the year. More than I would have made working at McDo[nald’s]. I’m not saying that it is easy money, but I had the pride of earning it without robbing anybody”, she says today.

Is that to say that all students are into some form of crime or another? Just how is it that this entrepreneur finds those awful, American-seeming capitalists at McDo such bad employers? Oh well. At least she took some pride in her work.

- With thanks to Kevin

Unmanned drone heading for a crash landing

Zeropa: muddling its way to a violent bang, to be followed by obscurity.

Court Martialed by Cartoonland

Serguei convicts those skull lovin’ Wehrmacht troops zofort, although I’m not sure just what kind of “false consciousness” he thinks they suffer from. After all, cannibalism has up until recently not been illegal in Germany, and buggery to skulls, living or otherwise remains legal in the many parts of Europe. I suppose you'll rationalize anything if you can't be loved by a living beings with personalities.

As an aside, one will note that the New York Times has given the story a pass. It's just not an even the editors think reportable (if not frightening) because 1) it doesn't reflect badly on the American Right. 2) it makes the life of a soldier understandable to a degree. and 3) they and their readers harbor delusions about Europe being some sort of paradise populated by people who are inherently better.

What a long strange trip it's been

How I hate those tripping hippies and their bogus claims of being exploited and abused.

Jamel Debbouze, your limo is waiting

French youths walk around with Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl snuff videos on their cellphones. Now they walk around with this stuff as well. Filmed in Trappes, home of many indigènes indigestes.

Where the elite meet to bleat

Villepin. Kerry. Same elitist rubbish.

Scenes from the Crowbar Hotel

They're all Trick and no Treat.



Inmate mural from the now-defunct Washington DC prison at Lorton, Virginia, USA.the fuse is lit!

How the West was Won

Happy Halloween. New York Dolls playing "Frankenstein" in San Francisco circa 1974 (yes, the City would bury the Sex Pistols just a few years later). This goes out to the luminaries at 5 Years Later.

Have to hand it to them, the franchouilles have that certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to solving thorny problems

Want to crack down on riots? Just pass a law! And after all, why not? In a country where no one has the right to self defense, it's just about the only solution left.

A brave, nuanced, symbolic drop in the bucket

Their prescience demands a serious financial commitment:

The European Commission this week decided to allocate 9 Million € for the pursuit of actions against terrorist attacks, initiated under the "Pilot Project Fight against Terrorism". This includes actions in relation to critical infrastructure protection, terrorist financing, explosives and violent radicalisation.

Vice-President Franco Frattini, Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security, stated that "the actions financed under this project will enhance the European Union’s capacity to effectively prevent and respond to terrorist attacks. It will assist in better protecting critical infrastructures, preventing terrorist financing, the use of explosives and violent radicalization and increase Bio-preparedness, by training intervention personnel and by identifying key objectives and proper measures to protect our citizens"

From the aptly named Europaworld. Thanks to a correspondent, I’ve come across this quote:

Hope is not a strategy

- General Tommy Franks

A Museum To A Forgotten Concept On The Ile De La Cité

A gilded exterior and a hollow heart; that's my impression of French justice after this trial (more about that, of course, later). And I discovered, while doing a little research, that this building has another history, one that reflects especially ironically on the failed promise of the slogan carved outside its portals.

The Palais was long the residence of French monarchs and aristocrats (and it's appropriate, as you will see, because present-day French justice is loaded with respect and recognition of the newer aristocrats, those movers and shakers of influence and power).

Neo-neocon, a groovy American poses the following about the France2 case and wonders just why it is that the court is selectively defending the right to lie when libel remains illegal.

What sort of liberty is it that produces a legal system that allows a well-known reporter a cause of action against a private citizen for calling his news report a lie? And what sort of liberty is it that produces a legal system that does away with the presumption of innocence for that defendant? (See pages 13-14 of this document for clarification; it appears to be up to the defendants here to prove Enderlin lied rather than for Enderlin to prove he told the truth and that they acted maliciously, as in the US.)

The Court acts in favor of a state operated establishment, even if the evidence is in tape. Richard Landes quite rightly calls this aristocratic justice:

... I happen to believe the evidence is strong that both France2 and Enderlin may have done exactly what Lurçat and the other two defendents have accused them of doing (at the very least the plaintiffs almost certainly lied in their original allegations that the Israelis deliberately killed the boy, and about the amount of footage they had and what it showed; I've written at some length on al Durah/France2 before, here and here.)

[ ... ]

I'll be writing more about the many issues involved in these cases (Landes has written a piece on the "justice" involved in the verdict from the first trial, that of Karsenty; he rightly calls it "aristocratic justice"--which, of course, is an oxymoron--and likens it to that initially extended to Dreyfus). But for the moment, I merely stand in awe of the colossal arrogance of France2 and Enderlin, and the contempt they show for freedom of speech and for the right to demonstrate peacably, by the mere act of bringing these lawsuits.

Ah, but the essence of a better truth is there, the “Social” Justice crowd would say!the fuse is lit!

What is and what should never be

The EU Constitution would have entered into effect tomorrow.

Giscard's Swan Song ...

French Riviera

As of 2 hours ago (6AM CET), Police have converged on several Marseille housing projects, all in the same neighborhood, in an attempt to arrest the French youths who torched a bus Saturday evening. Sources say that 4 individuals aged from 14-17 years old are being sought.

UPDATE: 5 arrests were made, including several minors. Expect France's bleeding heart preSS to go into full swing with background articles on the underprivileged childhoods of these chères têtes blondes. One father screamed "That's my son. He's 14 years old and has an alibi" as his petit bout de chou was led away.

It’s because they’re smarter than you are.

In fact they can figure out election results a week in advance, in spite of being neo-Lisbonian Über-brains. They’ve never been wrong before, right?

Like, Duh.

A Surplus of that Vision Thing

Once a Commie, always a Commie. In Short:

In a speech, Ségolène Royal unveiled her vision of a pragmatic EU based on environmental policies, social protection and research to win the Socialist's support in view of the French Presidential elections next year.

Ironically, 3 things that market can provide more efficiently without having to shove it down peoples’ throats.

It’s pretty obvious what they get off on.

Si Voynet les aime tant, elle n'a qu'à accepter l'invitation à leur prochaine tournante

Green Party heavyweight and Ex-Environmental Minister Dominique Voynet declared today that the youths who torched the bus in Marseille which left a young woman fighting for her life are "disconnected from reality". She called for a "long term solution" to France's continuing Intifada. Such a solution should be articulated around huge increases in spending on education.

With Neither Irony or Self-Awareness

No plaque, no discussion of times past. No getting over things. No nothing.

Not only that, it’s a registered landmark. You would think that someone would have trashed the thing in the middle of the night some time over the past 40 years, but it hasn’t happened yet. Even the angry, militant students who live in the neighborhood are just too lazy to make a little catch-all laïcité if it requires some initiative of their own.

Orwellian State Party Line©® made up of fantasy, lies, and denial

French private and State is openly admitting that their coverage of the riots is covering up the true extent of the urban guerilla activity that is now happening across France on a daily basis.

As last year, primetime news is no longer providing figures on the number of cars being torched each evening. News producers are directed to keep the number of items on urban guerilla violence to a minimum and to always balance them with reports about positive social programs aimed at surburban youth.

As for video footage, only certain images may be shown. For example, a smoldering bus after an extinguished fire is OK, a flaming bus is not.

French Intifada in Grenoble

The conductor of a Grenoble tramway was injured when his windshield was shattered by a rock thrown from an overpass at around 8PM. He was hospitalized to have numerous glass shards removed from his face.

Tramway traffic in Grenoble was suspended for the rest of the day on Sunday but is expected to resume Monday morning.

They Might Even Cancel “Bomb Belt Night“ Over the Incident

The nihilistic bastards are now going for more target rich environments:

The Ligue 1 match between Nice and Olympique Marseille was suspended for five minutes after a fireman was hurt by a firebomb, security sources said on Sunday.

The match was interrupted while stewards in the Stade du Ray were trying to find the fireman's fingers.

But it seems this is nothing new:

"In the past four years there have been strong measures to prevent people from bringing these bombs into the stadium.
"But they are only five centimetres in diametre and therefore are very hard to detect," he added.

The head of Marseille’s time is reported to be upset. Well – at least it’s a start.the fuse is lit!

Sophisticated French youths show American kids what true class is all about

TF1 video about yesterday's torching of a bus in Marseille. At least one of the French youths screamed insults at the flaming vehicle as it made an attempt to get away.

Chères têtes blondes to Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys

Had enough?

Feue la banlieue

This is going to be funny to watch. The Police commissioner for the region including Marseille has declared a "zero tolerance" policy after yesterday's attack which left a young woman severely burned. Rest assured that "zero tolerance" will take on quite a different meaning in today's France which is now totally impregnated by an Orwellian State Party Line© made up of fantasy, lies, and denial.

S.N.A.F.U.

Orwellian rhetoric with huge side helpings of denial are now standard fare in France. Despite the fact that a young woman is still fighting for her life in a Marseille hospital, police are terming yesterday a "relatively calm" day with regards to urban violence.

A bus torching in Marseille with intent to kill, 46 arrests nationwide along with 2 policemen hurt and 200 automobiles torched, street battles with police in Gigny, and a bus torched in Trappes. The evening's activity is being classified as "relatively calm" (which is why the Prime Minister is springing into action with a previously unscheduled Monday morning meeting).

Other events from yesterday include a bus being pelted with rocks in Seine-Saint-Denis. The City Hall in Stains was also pelted as were policemen in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil.

In Vitry-sur-Seine, 3 youths were arrested for carrying Molotov cocktails. Police were attacked in Goussainville. Other "incidents", without further precision, took place in Fleury-Mérogis and Toulouse. In Vaux-en-Velin a "runaway" car ran into 2 policemen. A Molotov cocktail was used to set alight a library nextdoor to a police station in Vannes.

Police sources claim that the situation is "under control".

Where is the State? Does it exist outside of broadcasts on France2, France3, France4, France5, and FranceO TV?

Police confirm that the M.O. used by French youths now includes the intention to kill using violence which is not only directed against police but against the general population. In last night's attack of a bus in Marseille where a young woman was seriously burned (she is still between life and death in a Marseille hospital), no warning was given to passengers. They were not forced to get out of the bus as during previous attacks.

Sunday bus service in Marseille has been interrupted.

The Paris area was also hit by violence Saturday night. A few dozen hooded French youths squared off against police in Gigny and a bus was torched in Trappes.

Imagine a Place So Primitive That the Left Still Thinks “Property Is Theft”

Their world is black and white.

« ... Everyone a homeowner!
The big lie of the right. ... »

the fuse is lit!

French government springs into action

All things being relative, "springing into action" for French authorities means furrowing your eyebrows, generating a blizzard of paperwork, and calling for a meeting.

French Prime Minister Dominique Villepin will preside over a special Monday morning meeting to deal with public transportation security. Following the bus torching in Marseille which left a young women severely burned, a press release from Villepin's office warbles on about the indignation expressed following this act of violence.

Qu'est-ce qu'elle veut ... ? Mes couilles sur un plateau ?

True, she has more balls than all the politicos and énarques in this whole shitty country put together. Yet -- despite the Economist's guarded optimism and given French apathy, pig-headedness, cowardess, and stupidity -- I don't see it happening.

The French will manage to intellectualize their own demise

Three French specialists on urban violence have stated to Agence France Presse that the French youths torching buses are thrill seekers who have no specific political demands. One of them goes so far as to compare recent urban guerilla manoeuvres against public transportation targets, that have left a 26 year old woman between life and death this evening, to the film "The Bicycle Thief" where a character who has just found a job can no longer go to work because his bicycle is stolen.

The kids are depraved because they're deprived

A young woman was seriously burned and 3 other people hurt on Saturday evening in northern Marseille when a bus was attacked by French youths.

Just after 9PM, 3 or 4 youths forced open the doors of a bus at a stop in Marseille's 13th district. They threw a Molotov cocktail and fled.

4 passengers were injured including a woman who has 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her arms, legs, and face. She has been hospitalized and doctors have not yet made any announcement as to her condition.

3 other passengers suffered from smoke inhalation and were hospitalized. The bus was completely destroyed.

Police are investigating.

French contributions to contemporary culture

Besides Johnny Hallyday? How about Intifada emulation, Al Qaida support, and suburban TAZ implementation.

EUtopia: Will Fight Wars for Oil

With imaginary robot soldiers, little shame, even less pride, and some psychotropic compounds that can shorten their memories:

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU defence ministries are going to have to contend with a shrinking recruitment pool for soldiers, a public that is more cautious about interventionist operations and 24/7 media scrutiny,

The 28-page study looks to a future where Europe will be externally dependent for 90 percent of its oil and 80 percent of gas by 2025 and where "strong migratory pressures" due to the fast-growing populations in Africa and the Middle East offset by stable and ageing European population are set to cause "direct or indirect challenges" to Europe's security interests.

Methinks someone is smoking some good kaka. Big markets like the U.S. and the E.U. are more dangerous than the sellers in the energy market since all you need to bankrupt the seller is to change sources and release strategic reserves.

Remember that most of the “No War for Oil!!!” mob failed Econ 101, and have no idea what a monpsony is anyway, even if they do see thing through the “Us ‘n Them” prism.

One major buyer (the west) and one seller (an imaginary OPEC where they actually act in unison) makes for a kind of balancing of power that would make the greenie notion of energy independence an act of war in itself that would impoverish the populations that export petrolium. After all, because we all implicity trust every leftist theory, we all know how unemployment causes terrorism, right? Imagine all the terrorist pouring out of Alberta for every PV panel you install on the roof of your house.

Have you no soul, man!?!

However, Europe's possible need to act in any of these regions or situations will be tempered by a more clued-up, risk-averse society.

Risk averse? More like narcoleptic.

Here’s one of the gems, though:

"Military action, not explicitly authorised by the UN, may become increasingly controversial," states the report, adding "military operations will be subject to ever-increasing scrutiny by elected officials, media and populations."

The sketchiness the public has about being a nation (or nations), or being worthy of pursuing a public interest is patently obvious. Circumspect to the point of indecision and such incredible fearfulness that they need the barbaric kmajority of the U.N. to tell them it’s okay to fight at all, even if it weren’t for oil, but about the stability of global society and even their own security. The question, like many in the Holy Land is entirely academic anyway since the potential manpower figures are dwindling, and assume pacifists and people with no particular affection for their “continent” will not find any personal irony in being conscripted.

As well as the social perceptions, defence ministries will also have to deal with the fact that less and less people are likely to become soldiers, with the armed forces recruitment pool (16-30 years) to fall by over 15 percent by 2025.

"As armed forces professionalise and the falling birth-rate increases competition in the labour market for young men and women, personnel costs will, in practice, pre-empt more and more of defence spending unless manpower is reduced," says the report.

With some 2 million people currently in uniform in Europe, "there is plenty of scope to do this," it highlighted.

One way of overcoming this problem would be to "outsource" and to resort to "increased automation, from warships to robots," the report suggested.

2 million largely worthless meatbags in uniform, whereas the estimates of combat ready forces hasn’t exceeded 100 000 in the past two decades.

No-one fears the marching band, so bring out the Roombas with rifles. Don’t forget that at the time of the Kosovo conflict, the European participants agreed to provide 50 000 deployable troops and came almost 10 percent short. That with no other major goings on for them to be distracted by. Forget win-hold-win, this is a case of hold-maybe-hold.

Göteborgballs ?

More of the same in Sweden.

Declarations of Calm, Another Successful Five Year Plan, Etal

“Calm” declared in spite of 2 busses and more than 20 cars being torched, and some good old-fashioned rock throwing incidents.
TF1:

The night of Friday to Saturday turned out to be an ordinary weekend, according to the police: in the entire départment of Seine-Saint-Denis, by the early hours of Saturday, one counted little more than twenty cases of arson on cars. Specific incidents however took place in spite of the 4000 police officers and gendarmes deployed to head off possible turmoil. The course of the night saw 25 rock throwing incedents including 21 in Isle-de-France [the Paris Metropolitan area], according to the leadership of the national police.

[Emphasis mine] Now that’s what I call calm.

Out of stupidity and mental compartmentation, we also get to meet the new, unelected leaders:

Friday morning, Larbi Chouaieb, in charge for the Muslim community in Clichy-Montfermeil had invited the young people of Montfermeil “to follow the steps of their brothers and sisters” of Clichy-sous-Bois, where a thousand of people had just taken part in a silent march in memory of the two teenagers whose death one year ago sparked the riots of Fall 2005. “By your example, show that it’s calm here too”, said the religious figure.

Ironically, the white socialist mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois was saying the exact same thing in the weird memorial ceremony which is sure to construct little in the way of calm. A wreath was laid at a memorial for the two “riot sparkers” electrocuted when they hid from les pigeons in a transformer bed after the two were up to no good.

The wreath was laid for them, and no-one else. Not the disabled woman immolated on a bus, nor any of the innocents injured in last year’s Trotskyite-pleasing class warfare: they killed themselves, and the crowd blames authority, society... anyone else, quite frankly, for their death.

The driver has left the building

Media silence follows attack of Amsterdam bus on Friday, 20 October. A homemade chemical bomb was used. Amsterdam police put it down to "mischievous behaviour" rather than "terrorism".

The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?

Not so sleeper cells

French law enforcement is surprised and worried by latest developments involving bus hijackings and torchings. The new M.O. is being carried out in commando fashion in areas that were not particularly targeted by last year's riots. Coupled with the recent wave of ambushes against police, French authorities have taken note of the highly structured and organized nature of the attacks.

Helpful advice

How to avoid brutal assault or robbery during your stay in Paris.



Front, Back, and upside the head.

Anyone interested in an A4 size .pdf should feel free to drop me a line at n.jo.nopasa -AT- gmail.com

- Brought to you as a public service by
alert reader Sebastien. Thanks, man.

Say It Ain't So, Gnarf

Ce n'est qu'un au…

Guantanámo: the unquestioning repetition of unverified atrocity stories, outright misrepresentation, and the hyper-inflationary conception of genocide

According to [Manfred Nowak's] latest proposal, the vast majority of current detainees (all but "5-10%") should either be repatriated to their countries of origin or—presumably in case they might face "persecution" in the latter—taken in as "refugees" by "European countries or others such as Chile and Argentina."4 Were this proposal implemented, it would transform captured combatants in what are by all accounts ongoing hostilities into political asylum-seekers—an act of benevolence toward the enemy that is surely unprecedented in the annals of warfare!

writes John Rosenthal in a chilling article that looks deeper into the Europeans' antecedents than has been done before (emphasis in bold is mine).

…the revisionism of Ermacora and his colleagues has not involved denying the crimes of Nazi Germany, but rather diminishing their significance by affirming the commission of commensurate crimes by the Allied powers. In this sense, they pioneered the practice of moral equivalence that is the hallmark of so much of the criticism leveled against the U.S. in its current war with Islamist terror groups. Thus, in 1991, in a commissioned "expert opinion" for the Bavarian government, Ermacora concluded that the expulsion of the Sudeten-Germans constituted a "genocide and crime against humanity." Thereby, the unquestionable suffering that Allied policies inflicted on Germans was upgraded to a "crime" on par with those committed by Germans against the populations that had been previously subjected to Nazi rule and, in particular, to the "signature" crime of Nazi Germany: the systematic extermination of European Jewry. Thereby too, the concept of genocide gets banalized, making the enormity of Nazi Germany's crimes more difficult to grasp and impossible to name.

Such revisionism has often been accompanied by unmistakable tones of resentment—and sometimes, indeed, outright revanchism—toward the United States and its WWII allies. The authority whom Ermacora cites for his "scientific" account of the Potsdam Agreement and its consequences, the American-born Alfred de Zayas, has, for instance, in a recent interview with the Germany weekly Junge Freiheit, denounced Roosevelt and Churchill as "war criminals." In a similar vein, yet another influential German NGO, the Society for Endangered Peoples (GfbV), published a memorandum in 1998 titled "For an Independent International Criminal Court! Remember [the] Crimes of the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council!"

The GfbV has made a hyper-inflationary conception of genocide into its calling card. GfbV founder Tilman Zülch has declared the 20th century the "Century of Genocides" and in his seemingly endless enumeration of modern genocides the crimes of Nazi Germany—in his words, "the most terrible in German history" (my italics)—fade into relative insignificance. In keeping with Felix Ermacora's "expert opinion," Zülch includes the forced transfer of the Sudeten-Germans in his enumeration. Indeed, it turns out on closer inspection that the Allied powers that defeated Nazi Germany are made either directly or indirectly responsible for the bulk of the alleged crimes included in Zülch's account, with the United States, at least as measured in Zülch's expenditure of verbiage, seemingly topping the list.

…Manfred Nowak's charges of "torture" against the U.S. can be understood as just the latest instance of the debased usage of key categories in international humanitarian law that Ermacora and his revisionist colleagues pioneered. It was perhaps only to be expected that the challenges faced by America in its current war should provide renewed impetus for the old anti-American resentments that have animated this usage. To close Guantanamo in deference to such resentments would not serve the cause of justice. In light of the potential risk to American security, however, it could well end up serving the cause of a furtive and long-awaited revenge.

Update: The hyper-inflationary conception of genocide, holocaust, and other Nazi crimes never seems to cease (merci à RV).

The phrase ‘climate change denier’ is meant to be evocative of the phrase ‘holocaust denier

Update 2: Medienkritik quotes the Washington Post's Charles Lane as reporting on yet another instance of forward-looking Europeans' principled "stand" against reactionary American "crimes" hiding an uglier picture.

…the actual history of the German death penalty ban casts this claim [that of the lessons learned from Nazi state-sponsored killing] in a different light. Article 102 was in fact the brainchild of a right-wing politician who sympathized with convicted Nazi war criminals — and sought to prevent their execution by British and American occupation authorities. Far from intending to repudiate the barbarism of Hitler, the author of Article 102 wanted to make a statement about the supposed excesses of Allied victors' justice.

In other words, when Europeans say their lofty principles stem from their experience during the Second World War, it is far from false, albeit not always in ways that the proud current masses think…

Keep on truckin'

Two buses were torched Friday evening in the infamous Nine-Three (Seine Saint Denis) in the town of Blanc-Mesnil. Most bus service in the Seine Saint Denis has been discontinued and will not resume before Saturday morning at the earliest. This will certainly impact the many Seine Saint Denis residents who return home from work in Paris on Friday night.

2 hooded individuals (one was carrying a pistol) boarded a bus in Blanc-Mesnil which was transporting around 15 passengers. The passengers and the driver were ordered out of the bus which was then driven by the assailants through a guardrail. The bus was then torched. A second bus was torched at the scene.

Stupéfiants Socialiste

Life, engineered:

In March 2005, the EU relaunched its Lisbon Strategy to become the world's most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010. More on growth and jobs and transfering more ownership of the strategy to national member states via national action plans were the two essential elements of the "Lisbon renewal".

Which is impossible under these circumstances:

PARIS (AFP) - Martine Aubry, national secretary of the PS [Socialist Party] for employment, commented on Thursday with the proposal of Thierry Breton to liberalize [the 35 hour per week] working hours regulations, saying that the government is engaging in “social regression”.

[ ... ]

“Bear in mind that the law is there to guarantee minimal protection for workers. Convention imposes it as well since we ratified [rules] of the International Labour Organization”, the author of the 35 hour workweek laws.

The mayor of Lille [Aubry] brings to bear the social dialogue that [Finance Minister] Thierry Breton is using in an “authoritative way” that the majority agrees with, which has just been reintroduced by legal amendment. The decree by the Home Office exempting hotel and restaurant workers’ from the 35 hour workweek law was to be phased out otherwise.

Leave it up to a Socialist: There goes your sovereignty, folks! ILO making immutable, unquestionable rules which one ideology among many can bully through as if it absolved them of their tyrannical desire to zombify the population by making every job, every life, every lifestyle identical. It’s so constricting that even union types found stupid this economy-killing bit of attempted populism.

The real question is: why is a law needed anyway? If people want to work more or less hours than is conventional for whatever reasons they have, why can’t they find a career or employer compatible with that? – either to have more personal time or higher earnings to retire early, support a hobby like collecting art or mountain climbing – or whatnot – why sort of society feels compelled to limit it and make everyone less free?

Lucid, All knowing, All feeling...

...and all bullshit and rotten from the heart up. The Bundeswehr’s very own Abu Greib type lightening rod is sure to be explained away rather than bleated on and on about for years on end. Europeans, you see can do no wrong, and even if they do, there’s no reason to dwell on it or gin-up theories that talking heads could call ”decryptage”.

The press: fat, happy and stupid, and more bothered by having a “stance” on events than reporting events.

Rock on, Medienkritik

The Great Euro Thought Crime

Also known as speaking your mind:

Galician blogger Alejandro de Llano has told in his blog that he has been charged with the great crime of supporting Israel and being against the Palestinian people.

The primitive European view of free speech is staggering in its’ stupidity. They don’t even know what freedom is anymore.

On October 13th, 2006, he has received a summons from a Criminal Judge announcing him that he is held responsible of the crime of supporting Israel and also of acting against Palestinian people. They did not give him a copy of the summons and they did not let him make any copies.

Barcepundit has more about this form of a knock on the door late at night.the fuse is lit!

Crushing of dissent in Brussels

From PajamasMedia:

More surrender

Authorities are losing the ongoing Intifada-Turf War with French youths.

After the announcement by the Greater Paris Transit Authority (RATP) that it was studying alternative bus routes in the hopes of avoiding ambushes and torchings, Socialist Party Presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn has called for the removal of all riot police transport vehicles from the suburbs as a sort of peace offering in the hopes of calming things down during this One Year Anniversary of the 2005 riots. He referred to certain suburbs as "militarily occupied areas" and said that French youths who mill about aimlessly in these neighborhoods should not be treated as if they were on "Indian reservations". Once again, no mention was made of France's second largest religion (which is France's most practiced one). The cries of Allah Akbar are not being heard in the 16th arrondissement or on the rue Solférino.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that a special police force will now travel aboard buses circulating in the problem areas.

After all, lefty’s heroes in the West Bank would do it...

A Repeat Performance, Confusion, and Plantu



Dig the contrapasso-esque "crucifiction" stance, and the conciliatory candle cum bomb-belt strapped to his protagonist.

Ring of Fire Tour 2006

Get ready for a whole lot of violence future

Ex-Prime Minister and Presidential candidate Laurent Fabius blames Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for the renewed violence spreading among French youths. Ex-Social Affairs Minister François Fillon declared that France's very own social cohesion is at risk. Other than capitulating by re-routing bus lines, ignoring the role played by France's second most popular religion (which is undoubtedly the most practiced), and doing everything possible to not hurt a single rioter (because that would get them really angry), the media is being asked to hush-up the whole One Year Anniversary thing because if the media doesn't talk about violence past, the hope is that violence present will somehow go away by itself.

“Youths” Demand a Two-State Solution. Again.

Paging Dr. Krugman... Explain this one, pally.

Desperately seeking Sarkozy

With the re-establishment of law and order nowhere in sight, the Greater Paris Transit Authority (RATP) is studying how to rejig their bus lines to avoid certain problem neighborhoods and unions are demanding that their drivers make use of their "opt-out" clauses (recognized within France's labor laws) which allow them to stop working in the face of "imminent danger".

The Journalist and The Jihadi

Turn off the TV, read a book.

Contains the poem "Elegy for Daniel Pearl"

Europe's Fight for Principles, Democracy, and Human Rights? A Matter of Convenience…

When Uncle Sam backs up an unsavory régime, however reluctantly, America must be denounced in the strongest words possible. No excuses!

When it is anybody else, whether the EU or France (as John Rosenthal notes), we must all be made to understand that it is only because of the circumstances and because dialogue must be retained at all levels and because they are thinking of humanitarianism and solidarity and becaause blablabla and blablabla…

Taking it to another level

4 buses torched in one night (one was first hijacked and driven around by an armed gang). French youths have decided to up the violence a notch. Cars are for small time hoods and anyway, torching cars is like soooooooo 2005. So, French youths are movin' on up.

Prime Minister Villepin has promised swift and exemplary justice against those committing these felonies and refuses that any part of France should not be controlled by the State. Mouarf !!!

The most spectacular incident took place at 1AM between Bagnolet and Montreuil. A gang of 10 pistol wielding hooded youths boarded the bus. One of the assailants placed his gun on the side of the bus driver's head and ordered him to get out of his seat. The gang commandeered the bus, drove it a short distance and torched it in a neighboring suburb. Appropriately enough, the bus was torched at Montreuil's Lenin Square.


Never mind the burning cars, here's the torched buses

UPDATE: Reports now claim a tally of 3 torched buses. Patience, patience. They're just getting started.

The height of Elegance and Sophistication

Now if they could only spell.

- chapeau to Georges in Baghdad.

A little more like Gaza every day

Libération PropagandaStaffel explains that rampaging French youths in Grigny commandeered a bus and torched it to "avenge their fathers" who had been carded (ie. their identity cards were checked) while smoking in a local hooka bar. On Tuesday night French State TV, Clementine Hautaine (stuck up French bitch with a dyke-do who is associated with the French Communists) explained to anyone who would listen that these rampaging French kids are fully justified because they are getting short changed by the US-led globalisation push towards free markets. She then verbally attacked French comic Jean-Marie Bigard for supporting Nicolas Sarkozy because Sarkozy shook hands with George W. Bush.

Just in case you're into prissy, stuck up 50-somethings

Claire Chatte-Sale, TF1 news anchor, has managed to get a pseudo-biography about her banned from publication. Now if she could only stop the spead of HDTV, she would ban her own crows' feet and other wrinkles from our TV screens.

French FM changes his opinion on Israeli separation barrier

That's because they'd like to build one around Paris to keep out the French youth chères têtes blondes. Except they won't call it an Apartheid Wall then. They'd probably call it the Solidarity Wall, or the Citizen's Wall of the Ripoublika or some such Orwellian sounding rubbish.

It's a turf war

What's happening with France's chères têtes blondes? 50,000 riot police will be on standby to deal with the deprived depraved youth during their school break. The kids have been successfully probing here and there for the last 2 weeks and the usual parade of Leftist French politicos is gracing the nation's TV screens explaining to anyone who will listen that this is all the fault of out-of-kilter wealth distribution.

Étendards

over Afghanistan…

What’s that about the impropriety of exporting democracy?

The hypocrites are at it again:

”[Parliament] calls on the European Commission and the EU member states to take a principled and consequent stand in the negotiations on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA)...with a view to placing democracy, human rights and freedom of expression at the core of any future agreement and instituting a clear mechanism to monitor implementation," the formal resolution said.

But as usual, the higher principals, the dreams, the hopes, the better angels of their spirit snuff the tender budding flower of decency before it can poison the European view of itself which is otherwise so eager to mention just how much more humanistic is is than the rest of humanity:

The Finnish EU presidency also took great pains not to offend the Russian leader at its Lahti dinner, while the European Commission continues to focus on getting access to Russian gas and oil for EU firms and building new pipelines to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

So much for all that. Must be about another pipeline then, eh fat boy?the fuse is lit!

How Unwise of Bush to Wage a War for Oil…

Why couldn't the president and his fellow neocons open their minds and listen to the wise voices of France, its fellow peace camp countries, and the UN (merci à Hervé) when they collectively explained that their sound and sensible opposition to Bush's unwise war against Saddam Hussein was due to their experience, their sagacity, and their knowledge of the horrors of war?

Penetrating Journalism

A recent random look at a Egyptian newspaper leaves one with little hope. The headlines:

3 stories about Mubarak which contained no news, at least not from this decade –

- “Mubarak: the liberation of the Sinai, a turning point in history”
(if memory serves, they lost.)

- “Mubarak: Egypt advances on the irreversible course of global reform”

- “Interview with Mubarak: Egypt refuses the classification of nations into moderade and radical.”

All that and some further speaking in Runes meant to look like actual news. There are also a page of sports, some fashion, TV, weather, a few ads. The only other items of news other than a short article about Condoleeza Rice failng to leave Jerusalem with anything, don’t even com in the form of articles. Five 150 word-long blurbs fall under the headings: UNIFIL. Iraq, Darfour, Gaza (a hit-piece about Israel), and Israel (another hit-piece about Israel).

It also included this incredibly lame but revealing cartoon:

Like a kind of Jerusalem for bad ideas.

Nowhere else can one discover that everyone else on earth is so completely unoriginal. Both for good and bad, we discover the auspicious history of the town of town of Montargis:

The men and women met in the Durzy gardens behind the Town Hall, where a wall was used for their propaganda posters. It was here in July 1920 that Cai Hesen -- the leading theoretician -- set out a programme for the "salvation of China" which the next month he urged in a letter to Mao.

"It is known as the letter of August 13th, and it proposed the creation of a Chinese Communist Party. Mao signalled his approval and the following year the party was set up," says Wang.

Then I guess it should come as no surprise that the CCP killed 77 million of their own people.

- Thanks to Val

the fuse is lit!

It’s really best not to ask why. I don’t.

From the womens’ section of your local Pharmacie: 3 day deodorant.


Maybe it’s for those weekends when they're getting
used up by a gang of filthy little felchers.

En France, la plupart des journalistes ont intériorisé des règles qui se fixent et qui font que les choses dérangeantes, on n'en parle pas

On peut dire que plus un organe de presse ou un média est aux ordres de l'oligarchie dirigeante, plus il emploie d'euphémismes

writes Eric Hazan in Le Monde.

Je pense qu'il y a une intériorisation de la censure. Il n'y a pas de censure au sens habituel du terme. Mais la plupart des journalistes ont intériorisé des règles qui se fixent et qui font que les choses dérangeantes, on n'en parle pas ou en utilisant le langage que j'ai essayé de décrire dans mon livre, la LQR, qui aplatit, anesthésie, qui crée le consensus.

Some tourists develop paranoia, others lose their marbles altogether.

A sophisticated culture runs headlong into those charming traditions of another one:

PARIS (Reuters) - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.


The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004.

Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese families settle in France, said: "In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."

- Thanks to Ace of Spades and to ¡No Pasarán! reader Stavn

the fuse is lit!

Obviously Not Lost in a Taxi

Lost: a small terrier who disappeared on October 20th near my apartment in the 14th arrondissement. This gentle sweetheart is called Mohammed and isn’t the least bit dangerous.

- With thanks to Sebastian, who will
probably receive death threats shortly.

So Young, So Sensitive

After a bus was set on fire by about thirty young people in the town of Grigny on Sunday afternoon, bus drivers on Monday have refused to drive routes through large, sensitive district, saying that they need more safety. “It had a psychological impact on the [transit] workers”, said a union representative.

- from Le Figaro

Pancho's Permanent Lapse of Reason

” ...We have to contact our allies in the region...”
“ ...Who, Saddam Hussein?... “

That’s the “ally” the U.S. fough two wars against, but no matter. Once with France.

Letters to the Editor

Pierre Derouche (citoyen français):

I am opposed to Turkey’s entering the European Union and I have much sympathy for the numerous Armenians [in France] who have become more French than the Duponts and the Durands. But what does the PS [Socialist Party] think it is doing in seeking to punish as criminals those who refuse to admit the existence of a genocide against the Armenians? Why not also punish those who deny the mass crimes of Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot (and they are numerous)? Why not also fine or send to prison those who have dared to claim that no plane crashed into the Pentagon in September 2001? When will our representatives begin treating us as adults? We are old enough to research subjects of this nature ourselves and to form our own opinions. It is in guaranteeing that the necessary documentary evidence is available – both for and against a given proposition – that we will make democracy work, not by threatening heretics.

Jean-Louis Caccomo (maître de conférences
en économie à l'université de Perpignan):

Il a belle allure, le déclin américain, périodiquement annoncé (souhaité ?) par nos intellectuels en lutte... La France devrait se mobiliser à l'ONU pour demander que soient appliqués des quotas dans l'attribution des prix Nobel reflétant plus justement la diversité culturelle dans le monde. Mais les astrophysiciens, chimistes, biologistes ou économistes du monde entier qui veulent travailler sérieusement (avec des moyens réels) et librement (en toute indépendance, car une science manipulée n'est plus une science), où trouvent-ils meilleur asile si ce n'est aux Etats-Unis ?

(Unfortunately, the letters amount to tokens.)

The revolution will not be televised ...

... it will be driven through your filthy French hearts. Gratuitous violence is up 12% and knife attacks are up in the greater Paris area (but authorities won't give out hard numbers on knife attacks so as not to panic the poor paternalized populace). Happy Ramadan, scumbags.

See, Leftism Actually CAN be Cured.

- Shukran to Frank.

I love anniversaries

Looks like this year's riots will be in broad daylight. On Sunday at 2PM, French youths boarded a city bus in Grigny (shithole Paris suburb), forced the passengers to get out, and torched it. At 6:30PM, police were still at the scene in an attempt to "secure the area". French cop and evident super-sleuth Jean-François Papineau (you can't make up a name like that) declared that the attack "was deliberate". Firemen arriving at the scene were pelted with rocks and other objects.

It's a bug, not a feature

Just like appeasement, surrender, and structural unemployment, the French Intidafa is permanent.

Beirut, 23 October 1983

"Our former warriors have now joined a long line of Soldiers of the Sea who have given their lives in the service of a grateful nation,"

- Former President Ronald Reagan.

It was actually the second deployment of United States Marines to Lebanon, each time to guarantee a peace. In 1958 the effort was to cut off an attempted putsch by the Syrians disposing of their own Marxist rabble-rousers, and staging a series of violent attacks on civilians to cause factional violence. The effort eerily similar to what the former Iraqi elements, and in all likelihood the Syrians Mukharabat, as well as the Iranians are trying to do to Iraqi civilians today.

In 1983, the effort was to give a new opportunity to the possibility of peace by making safe the exit of both the Israeli Army and the forces of the PLO from Lebanon. The newly created Hizballah would have none of it. The prospect of stability gave them no way to exert their power over the beaten and struggling Lebanese civilians. That method of operation remains one that they use to this day.

"The whole idea of knowing that this person gave his life for something he truly believed in," said Perry, reiterating words spoken by 1st Sgt. James Richard, "how the flood of memories of that person burned into your mind, is lost in people who have never experienced it."

- Former Defense Secretary William Perry

241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers were lost. UK Royal Marines ran to their aid along with the French and American survivors, Lebanese civilians, and Lebanese Army and Police.

Seduced by unproved methods that amounted to little more than leftist mumbo-jumbo about “an image of provocation”, Americans and French forces took a grave risk by taking a non-threatening posture by being lightly armed and protected. The price they paid for trusting those who gave that indulgent nonsensical advice was dear, and it also caused a sea change in American diplomatic and military tactics. Those inclined to ordain America a hegemon and provocateur have none other than Hizballah’s uncompromising, cruel, murderous methods that lead nowhere to thank.

These men, the dead and the survivors should never be forgotten. Hizballah should never be forgiven. Their victims need not merely be added to Hizballah’s larger trophy death-toll. Even then, the US was taunted not to retaliate, and accused of wanting revenge for the sake of their emotions. They needed to retaliate to remove their incentive to do it again. And they did it again, and again – from Argentina to northern Israel to the rampage they wought on most of Lebanon.

Popular wisdom ...

... or not. Money talks, bullshit walks.

Buying up that strategic goat-cheese production.

Another great buy to go with those casinos.

On their planet, they call this comedy

The goofy, clueless left in the UK, for all their crackpot logic about diversity (celebrating something that simply exists whether they “celebrate” it or not), has no clue when it comes to respecting religion or other cultures for that matter.

I'm sure the actress in the veil will get death threats. The whole sketch makes fun of the whole 'my veil is my identity' thing.
The veiled woman counts off all the cosmetics she no longer needs to apply to her face - she just does up her eyes. She says she also enjoys the veil because she knows that every man who sees her is dieing to see what she looks like naked.

Fellow diner agrees and says he himself is indeed wondering. And says that if the government ever banned him from driving his Bentley (which he feels defines who he is), he would become a suicide bomber. The woman in the veil says 'Yes, there are limits.'

She gives in - got to have a drink. They are British, after all. Later, she has taken off the veil and her husband (not in either pic) asks her to put it back on. She yells at him, calling him an infidel. The four people at the table applaud after she does it and the husband is clearly working up a woody.

Barely funny, but all done in the name of entertainment, if that's what you can call it.

Expect Channel 4's studios at Broadcast House to be burned down by certain members of a religion C4 keeps apologizing for otherwise.

- with thanks to alert reader Valerie.

the fuse is lit!