Highway Autobahn to Hell

When he's not emptying Castro's bedpan, he's trying to be legislatively creative. But his latest move is soooo 1933. Been there, done that. Ermächtigungsgesetz. Thanks to George A. and Joe.

Is Zeropean geopositioning hubris going the way of that Zeropean smoke-and-mirrors search engine thing?

Will Galileo wind up like Quaero?

The anguish of capitalist conspiracy ... as seen through James Bond movies

"The propensity people have to speak of so many things with so much seriousness — it's incredible ..." Yup, that's the French. All talk and no action.

Stranger than Paradise Socialist Glory

Separated at Birth:

Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting the president the power to bypass congress and rule by decree for 18 months.
President Hugo Chavez says he wants "revolutionary laws" to enact sweeping political, economic and social changes.

He has said he wants to nationalise key sectors of the economy and scrap limits on the terms a president can serve.

And the present meets the past.

An Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz in German) was passed by Germany's parliament (the Reichstag) on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazis obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means. The Act enabled Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his cabinet to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag.

Good luck with all that. I was told that I have to wash away the smell of sulphur in some room somewhere.

Grow a Pair

One independent report puts Iraq’s per capita GDP growth rate at %13, and another at 17%, based on data which included small businesses. The EU says its’ own is somewhere between 1.7 and 2.4%.

At that rate they will reach parity in 26,1 years, a span of time much shorter than it took to get from an EEC to an EU.

Have a nice day.The Fuse is Lit (No Pasaran!)

Amnesia: "France did all it could to suppress native languages in its colonies"

As a French-speaking African I am always mildly amused when I hear France clamoring for "cultural diversity," which to all intents and purposes amounts to mobilizing the world in a fight against Anglo-Saxon cultural and economic "imperialism"

writes A M Sall from Saint-Louis, Senegal (regarding American culture: A French appreciation).

The French seem to suffer from amnesia. France did all it could to suppress native languages in its colonies. I have personally suffered from this. And to this day, France tries to perpetuate the French language in its former colonies while attempting to enlist foot soldiers in the French war on Anglo-Saxon pre-eminence.

Still, and strangely enough, France seems to find it natural that its former colonies should join in the fight to "defend" its language against English.

We connect with each other based on our similarities, and we enrich each other based on our differences.

Now, the question is: Why can't the French stop living in the past, come to terms with the reality of globalization and start learning English — and Chinese — like everybody else?

Au Revoir, l'Ami

Here. Have Some of that Repulsive Bourgeois Commerce

Ché “tchotchkes ‘R us” Guevara. Still at it after all these years.

The only kind of Globalization they can Fathom

There are fine hos, and then there are monumental hos:

The statue represents a self-assured woman, her hands on her hips, looking sideways towards the sky, and standing on a doorstep, ANP said.

But until pride can be redefined to include these now well-worn Dutch values, they’ll still have to use the two-phone-call system.

The precise place where the statue will be laid and its title have not yet been announced, it said.

Jacqued

About a year ago, Stanford Engineering Researcher Dr. Robert Gray made advance arrangements for a month-long rental of a Paris apartment, including a €2300 payment in advance. Dr. Gray and his wife are elderly, and his wife requires an operational elevator to get to a 4th floor (5 floors up) apartment.

However, when they arrived in April the elevator was not operational, so they made alternate arrangements. It seems reasonably clear that the elevator not being in working order was a breach of contract and thus Dr. Gray's advance payment should have been reimbursed.

Instead, a representative for the rental agency and the building's owner appear to have engaged in a collusive "good cop, bad cop" arrangement whereby Dr. Gray will never see a reimbursement. Dr. Gray, being a competent researcher, has found other connections between the two clowns in question and other Paris rental agencies -- see the text near the bottom of the page for blow by blow details of what it’s like to deal with these operators.

Bottom Line: If you're going to rent temporarily in Paris, avoid Paristay, Apartment Rentals Paris, LOGDIS, and especially Paul Bernie and Andre Brue.

Chasing Votes

Yes, they have a lobby.

The irony is that the only way to get a leftist to care about individual rights is threaten to take some idiots’ stash of Turkish Blond away.The Fuse is Lit (No Pasaran!)

All Hat and No Cattle

In an effort to be “diplomatic”, the Embassy turned Cambodian refugees over to the Khmer Rouge, knowing full well that they would be killed.

On television, a journalist tells that dramatic events that took place in the [French] embassy. The Kampucheans who took refuge there were handed over to the Khmer Rouges! Among them, the husband of Ung Balk. “I did not any more smell my legs, explain it twenty and one years later. My daughter, who was 12 years old, ran with joy to embrace the screen while saying: “Don’t worry mom, dad will join us”. Me, I understood that all was finished, that I was going to be alone and have to assume sll the family responsibilities.”

Never mind the fact that the writer is using the term “Kampuchean” which was favored by the Khmer Rouge, and now firmly rejected by Cambodians today. As for that superior humanism?

“Remember that Mr. Dyrac had to face a true ultimatum, whose consequences for the community from abroad taken refuge in the [Embassy] compound could, in the event of refusal, become catastrophic.”

Why ask why? For the simple reason that nothing has changed – the inability to back the offer of a carrot with a stick:

Defense budgets in Europe are dropping. The US defense budget is larger than the next 20 largest defense budgets in the world combined. The European solution is to solve problems multilaterally, and not by military means. Why? If a military solution is required, then Europe must follow the American lead and be in America's shadow. This is a dignity issue. If international problems are addressed multilaterally, then Europe has 27 EU nations, and in international forums like the UN, Europe has more than 30 votes, and the US just one.

And with that their dimished ability to be heard, because the consequences of ignoring their wisdom are few, even though the irony of the situation is that the formation of the EU is in part an attempt to re-establish some significance to themselves in a larger world.

- Thanks go to reader btesh for the story link to RealClearPolitics.

More Zeropean Art

To be shown at Berkeley. SOS ... Same old shit. Botero est déjà très prisé dans les cloaques pédaloïdes de la blogosphère franchouille.

Say ‘plastic turkey’ and watch ‘em drool like Pavlov’s dog

What the leftist world view has boiled down to at this point is that causes need to be invented to channel rage, almost to the point of ridiculousness:

Most of UPC’s activities, though, are fairly regarded as theatre of the absurd. Its 2001 campaign to abolish the production and sale of “rubber chicken” toys is a good example. UPC’s Davis says that these comic props are “cruel and obscene.” She also claimed that these harmless gag items have “pornographic implications.”

And yet the media will employ only conservative causes and organizations as the goat in any mocking exposé. How cute.

Up close

Forget the MSM.

Hearts and Minds

This seems to clash with the "America out of everywhere" mantra which is incessantly bleated by the French mainstream preSS.

Only In Pancho’s Moist Underoos

"Latest Try?" by Pancho

... “ Trust Me! Don’t miss out on this opportunity! ” ...

(“Dead” US Army “for sale”)

Financial domination

The Clearstream scandal transformed into pretentious, globophobic, French art.

Ce vidéo était le 8ème clip le plus regardé hier dans la catégorie "Art and Animation - French" sur Youtube.com. Bravo les gars ! Ainsi, c'est les 'New Media' qui bousillent de l'intérieur la baudruche de la Ripoublika Franska des Zarzélettres !

How Do You Say "F*ck You, Motherf*cker" in French?

Va te faire voir, espèce de voyou!

Mumia

Frédéric Valandré, auteur de France Intox, parle du cas Mumia sur Underbahn.TV.