Saturday, December 23, 2006
Pimp my school bus
“This is a purely non-combat spying mission”
As if there ever was a reconnaissance satellite that did combat. The key here is that they had to make excuses to the public for doing it at all, even though they could have done it 25 years ago.
The existence of a relay satellite or any other secure method of retrieving imagery in a timely and useful manner remain unmentioned.The Fuse is Lit (No Pasaran!)
Crétinisée par l'Europe
Friday, December 22, 2006
No Grubby Coats on their Crime Beat
If a rising average age is attributed with the falling crime rates in the US, why the same crime rates be rising faster in much of Europe where the average age is higher and rising more quickly? Fjordman has pointed out that reported rapes are six times higher the more tightly socially managed city of Oslo than in New York.
Brussels Journal commenter Ernest Baert has more:The International Crime Victim Survey, sponsored by Leiden University, is a survey based on interviews with a random sample of the population. There have been three such surveys in the last 20 years, the latest one in 1995. Respondents are asked which crimes, from a standardised list ranging from bicycle theft to assault and theft, they have personally experienced during the previous year. The most obvious crime missing from the ICVS list is murder, since victims are unable to take later interviews.
As if not knowing was itself a cure, or even a palliative. It isn’t. It never is.
Violent crime, and in particular murders, is reported to police more often. For instance, it can be assumed that apart from underworld murders and missing persons, almost all murders in the developed world are reported to the police. Still, even for reported violent crime, a better source than statistics from individual countries, which are distorted by differing national crime definitions, are international comparative statistics by Interpol, which are said to be based on more standardised definitions of crime categories. However, intriguingly, Interpol's international crime statistics have recently been removed from its website. Clearly, such information needs to be hidden from ordinary citizen (who are paying Interpol with their taxes) to prevent them from reaching any wrong judgments about their governments ability to perform the most important task : protect citizens from violence. Luckily I have a copy of some of the 2002 Interpol data, but I am unable to link to what has apparently become a state secret.
Smoke and mirrors ... and some pork
It was all a crock.
The European super-project was immediately scaled down to a Franco-German thing called Quaero which, as we find out now, is really just a Franco-French project that the Germans made believe they were in on so everyone could obtain barrels of pork without any squawking from the European Commission. If you want to see what kind of state-of-the-art search engine technology is developed using French public money then take a look at the joke called Gallica over at the French National Library.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
This is the way it works
When the US economy “only” grows at 2.2 percent it's called a tragic, buzz-killing, end of the universe indictment of any standing (conservative) government. Yet if any Europutz central bank estimates about 17 minuted of a possible 2 percent rate of growth (even if everyone knows that they're talking it up from 1,6) the press act like their precious Euro-poop contrôlée de terroir don’t stink.
Comme on a fait pour Delanoë, on va essayer de voir ce qu'il a dans le ventre
France isolated
Feel the love
Clueless
The cunt
La racaille dit "Le Pen vite!"
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The unbearable lightness of a French soufflé
Corporate Spies
Jacques Follorou brings us articles about corporate spying and the DGSE's role in economic intelligence. (Read George Melloan's somewhat related article.)En cinq ans, le nombre de sociétés de sécurité spécialisées dans le secteur de l'espionnage économique a été multiplié par six. Elles sont aujourd'hui environ 300. Cambriolages, corruption, intrusion informatique, écoutes téléphoniques, sont des activités évidemment illégales mais qui seraient à l'occasion pratiquées, y compris en France.
Le service opérationnel de la DGSE a la réputation de "visiter" les chambres des grands hôtels parisiens où transitent des hommes d'affaires du monde entier. Les Etats-Unis, l'Angleterre et la Suède ont, depuis longtemps, avant la Chine, le Japon ou la Russie, engagé leurs services spéciaux aux côtés de leurs entreprises nationales. Dans cette version secrète du patriotisme économique, la France est plutôt à la traîne.
Euroman the ethically superior
just can’t seem to help his creepy self:
Though the Kenyans themselves are acting to limit those who enable the illegal trade it needs to be put into the context of the position that they’re in. Their economy depends on tourism, and to a degree it’s being held hostage by rich foreigners acting out the symptoms of a diseased post-modern society. Imagine just how far this is to go and how much they spend to show that they’ve already thrown their humanity away.The UN children's fund Unicef, which looked at resorts along Kenya's coast, found that 15,000 girls aged 12 to 18 were engaged in casual sex for money.
Another 2,000-3,000 girls and boys were involved in full-time prostitution, said the study - carried out jointly with the Kenyan government.
European men represented half of all their clients, the report said.Unicef Kenya representative, Heimo Laakkonen said Kenyans top the list of abusers making up to 38 per cent of the children's clients.
But let’s keep this in perspective. Local clients are outnumbered by Europeans who come from thousands of kilometers for the abuse the most vulnerable of those they both have a desire for and look down on – indulging an imagined personal invincibility as having the power to treat people like chattel.
He said: “As for the tourists themselves, the report shows that visitors from some European countries like Germany, Switzerland and Italy top the list of tourists who abuse Kenyan children.”
Staring at you and scratching their heads
Chew on this, lefty. That class-struggle bunk the globalized-tranzi-left keep repeating to themselves isn’t exactly universal.