Tuesday - October 14, 2008

HA! WHEN LIBS DO THEIR BEST TO HELP THE POOR, THE DOWNTRODDEN, THE DISADVANTAGED.

THE ROCKET SCIENTIST LIKE DOWNTRODDEN JUST CONTINUE SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT.

I had to think a bit before posting this to everyone’s attention.  And I’m not on a kick France rant today. But the story originates there and it is interesting that time and time again the proof looks the left square in the eye, and the eye goes, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

There are some who CAN NOT be helped.  They are usually lazy, stupid, criminal and want hand outs.  No help please.  No matter how much money is thrown away trying to appease this class of scum, it’s always going to be money down the sewer they live in.

So, here we go again.  Riots, burning cars, threats to life and limb.  Heeeeers Fraaaaannnnce.  Again.

Filming of John Travolta movie on Paris housing estate cancelled after rioting youths threaten crew

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 12:01 PM on 14th October 2008

Filming of a new John Travolta movie on a deprived Paris housing estate has been cancelled - after rioting youths torched ten of the production’s cars and threatened crew.

‘From Paris With Love’ was meant to have highlighted social problems in the grim suburbs which surround the French capital.

Jobs as extras and support staff were even offered to largely immigrant residents who are plagued by unemployment and discrimination.

But within days of arrived in Les Bosquets, a high rise estate in Montfermeil, in the notorious Seine-Saint-Denis north of the capital, violence broke out.

‘All ten of the vehicles set to be used in the film were burnt out and there were threats aimed at support crew,’ said a production spokesman.

‘There’s no now possibility of Mr Travolta or any of the other stars of the film operating in such a dangerous area.

‘The scenes we were mean to do here will now be shot elsewhere.’

‘From Paris With Love’, which will also star British actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, will be legendary French director Luc Besson’s last film.

All those involved hoped the £30 million movie would draw attention to urban communities alienated from mainstream France.

Travolta, the star of numerous films including Grease and Pulp Fiction, in particular wanted to get as close as possible to an underclass which suffers some of the worst social problems in Europe.

He and his wife Kelly Preston arrived in Paris earlier this month, and were due to spend the next three months living close to Montfermeil.

Film makers had been allowed into the area on two conditions - that local people were used as extras, and that meals for the film workers were produced by a local company.

Reacting to the cancellation, Montfermeil’s mayor Xavier Lemoine said: ‘I’m very sad for all residents who were due to take part in this production.’

Earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy’s government unveiled an £800 million plan aimed at tackling social problems in run down estates like Les Bosquets, investing in job creation schemes, education and transport.

However, the former Interior Minister is best known for his reactionary approach to trouble - invariably sending riot police into what he described as ‘ghettoes’, and calling lawless locals ‘scum’ who should be ‘washed away with a power hose.’

Responding to such emotive language and behaviour, former Socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius said: ‘We need to act on prevention, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy.’

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WITH APOLOGIES TO BMEWS. CLASS.  A MEA CULPA?  CARLA BRUNI AIDS TERRORIST.

Recently Drew and I agreed on the term class as applied to certain women.  Neither of us thought Paris Hilton exhibited much by her overall public behavior, though I tended to think perhaps she might be improving somewhat after being incarcerated.  Something she was never brought up to believe one of her monied class would experience. 

I then posted an eye candy photo of a woman who up till that time I thought exhibited class beyond all measure.  The First Lady of France, Carla Bruni. 
Fully clothed she had far more appeal and striking looks then many women half her age (40 something). 

I forgot she had been a million dollar model and so knew how to best present herself.  I now confess that blinded by her physical appearance, I was quite willing to conveniently forget just how far left her politics were are.  I came to believe she was one who did exhibit class as I understood the word.
Well, maybe I don’t understand what “class” really is.  I always just assumed I’d know it when I saw it and she seemed to embody the very meaning itself.

If real class in a person goes beyond the physical (and it does), then my idea of Bruni class has shown her to have hooves of clay.  Actually, that might not be fair to her as she never made a secret of her leftist politics and has spoken openly on the subject.  And that fact alone (being left) doesn’t mean she’s classless.
However, it’s what she’s managed to bring about in criminal matters, the total disregard of victims as she worked on the ever horny Sarko, president of France, to deny Italy the extradition of a member of The Red Brigade, that has me riled this morning.

She has NO CLASS whatever.  Simply a very good actress with the appearance of class.  I’m more disappointed in myself (typical male huh?) then in her.
She never denied her stripes and I never gazed beyond her light to see what what was behind.  So, here’s the story that has me all bothered today.

Carla Bruni uses influence to halt extradition of Red Brigades terrorist
Carla Bruni and her sister have persuaded Nicolas Sarkozy not to extradite a woman who faces life imprisonment for murder to her native Italy, sparking anger amongst her victims’ families.

By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 6:01PM BST 13 Oct 2008

In a sign of her influence over her husband’s decision-making, the Italian-born First Lady - along with her sister - convinced the French president to drop a court order to deport exiled Red Brigades terrorist Marina Petrella to Rome.

Her personal intervention and the presidential u-turn sparked anger in Italy, which has been seeking Mrs Petrella’s extradition from France since she fled after being freed on bail in 1986.

A group representing victims of the Red Brigades said it would travel to Paris this weekend and protest against the decision in front of the Elysée palace.

Mrs Petrella was found guilty in absentia by an Italian court in 1992 of murder, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and armed robbery.

A French court approved her extradition in December and an order to send her back to Italy had been signed by the prime minister. But after “pugnacious” lobbying by Mr Sarkozy’s wife on behalf of her older sister, actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, the president changed his mind - citing humanitarian grounds.

“Mrs Petrella was in danger of dying. This hunger and thirst strike had to stop, which it did. There is a humanitarian clause, I used that clause,” Mr Sarkozy said during a financial press conference.

“I told him (Mr Sarkozy) about her, especially just after I saw her in jail.

I gave him some information that was perhaps a little bit important in his decision,” said Miss Bruni-Tedeschi.

“He focused his attention on a case that he hadn’t completely focused on before,” she said. Her sister Carla said she was “happy” about the decision.

The pair personally delivered the message to Mrs Petrella on Sunday at her secure prison hospital bed, where she is refusing to eat and is in “very poor” health.

“I have a message for you from my husband,” the First Lady reportedly told her. “You will not be going back to Italy.”

The Communist Red Brigade was accused of dozens of murders in the 1970s and 80s, including that of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978.

Mr Moro’s widow, Olga, expressed outrage: “All judicial accords and conventions have been violated” by a decision “no doubt taken because the Sarkozy household was scared of unpopularity,” she said.

Mrs Petrella had been living at liberty in France until she was arrested in August 2007 at Italy’s request soon after Mr Sarkozy’s election. He had promised to end France’s policy of granting repentant ex-Red Brigades members asylum– first initiated by Socialist president François Mitterrand in 1985.

Mr Sarkozy denied that his decision would anger his Italian counterparts. “I remained in contact with them. I don’t think there was a lack of understanding. There is never a lack of understanding when one takes a humanitarian decision,” he said.

But Isabella Bertolini, a member of Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party disagreed: “To apply a humanitarian clause to a terrorist convicted of homicide, theft and kidnapping sounds like a bad joke,” she told newspaper La Republicca.

The First Lady’s sister told Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Mrs Petrella’s story had particular significance for the wealthy Bruni family, which had fled to France after receiving death threats from the Red Brigades.

“I arrived in France as a little girl exactly because my family was afraid of what was happening in Italy, also because of terrorism,” Miss Bruni Tedeschi said.

“We all had a sentiment of fear, even I who was so little, and I know what it means to be welcomed by a foreign country, feel protected by it, and I can imagine what it means to suddenly lose that welcoming, lose that protection.”

This is a rare foray into politics for Mr Sarkozy’s third wife, who unlike her husband has always espoused left-wing causes.

However, it is not the first time the President has involved a spouse in politics: last year he sent his second wife Cécilia on a successful mission to free Bulgarian nurses from jail in Libya. The pair divorced last October and a month later he met Carla Bruni, a top model and successful folk pop singer.

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   Saturday - October 11, 2008

US Election: Why top Tories are turning their backs on John McCain .

I think this falls under something like misery loves company. So does anger.  Yeah,yeah the right to opinion and all that.  I still don’t think our internal politics and especially an election this important, is any of their damn business.  So yeah, I’m a bit miffed.  And I’m not in love with McAmnasty either but he’s all we got except for Sarah Palin and countless ppl who could do the job but won’t run.
It is true sadly, that McCain is not an inspirational speaker.

US Election: Why top Tories are turning their backs on John McCain

By Iain Dale
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 10/10/2008

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All my adult life I have supported Republican candidates in American presidential elections. Like most Tory MPs and activists, I have wanted to be impressed by John McCain. I went to see him speak at the Tory conference in 2006, expecting to be wowed. Like most others, I left profoundly disappointed by his speech, which was pedestrian and devoid of inspiration. Maybe he was having an off day, I thought.

I felt McCain - as a maverick - could distance himself from the ideological zealots in his party who have done so much to turn it from a political party into a narrow sect. Many of us thought Sarah Palin could give his ticket the “wow” factor Barack Obama had given the Democrats. We were wrong on both counts.

Few senior Tories have expressed any enthusiasm for John McCain as US President.

(and I bet fewer still know anything about the supreme court and what left leaning administration would do to the USA. Well screw these ppl. Frankly, I’m bothered that foreigners would stick their unwanted fuckin noses in our politics anyway. I don’t want them showing anything for either party.  And I resent the FACT that many come to the states and work for both. It shouldn’t be allowed. )

Many Conservative MPs have travelled a similar journey over the past few months - a journey most of us thought we could never make, and a journey that has resulted in a decision to break the habit of a lifetime and declare our support for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Tory MP Richard Spring, who doubles as David Cameron’s envoy to the City of London, is one of many who have always supported the Republicans, but are now backing Obama. “It’s important for America’s reputation in the world to be improved and Obama can be instrumental in bringing this about,” he says. ”He sends out a signal of change.”

Oh that’s just peachy.  Our reputation rests on electing a left leaning socialist who belonged to a church where his preacher “God Damned America”

Spring’s colleague Andrew Tyrie agrees: “I have always been a Republican, but Bush has done so much damage to the project of the family of western nations that I feel only an Obama presidency can rectify it. We need something that is demonstrably a huge change.”

(Family of WHAT?  WTF is that all about?  Sure, if we agree with everything they (euros) decree and go sheep like along with their demands, we’re good guys. Otherwise I guess we’re guilty of the fall of western civilization.)

Richard Spring estimates that at least half the Conservative Parliamentary Party would vote for Obama given the chance, something that would have been unthinkable in the pre-George W. Bush era.

Many shadow ministers remain publicly coy about their leanings, but it’s remarkable how few, even privately, express any enthusiasm for the McCain-Palin ticket.

(Well screw them anyway. Who are they to be enthused or not? Whose election is it? What? We have to impress these asswipes?)

Senior whip Simon Burns and the shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, have both outed themselves as Democrat supporters, but few others are willing to go on the record.

One shadow cabinet member is a signed-up member of the Obama fan club, yet believes if he were to admit to it publicly, it would damage his status within the party. He likens it to the reluctance of so many Tory MPs to sign up to David Cameron’s leadership campaign in the early days. “We thought people would think we had taken leave of our senses,” he tells me. “Cameron and Obama are both agents of change, in a way that their opponents never could be.” He adds: “The Conservative Party is always suspicious of change - until it has been proved to work.”

Few Obama-supporting Tories seem remotely bothered by his extremely liberal voting record in the Senate. Simon Burns says: “Obama is like any true compassionate Conservative. He is focusing on helping the vulnerable and the middle classes.” Another former Republican-supporting Tory MP, Ben Wallace, thinks an Obama victory is necessary to give the Republicans a much-needed jolt. “Young people on the centre-Right don’t have a home to go to,” he complains. “The religious Right has taken over the Republicans.” He cites the so-called Blue Dog Democrats, who believe in fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets, as the reason British Conservatives can feel comfortable about supporting Obama.

While Cameron remains a fan of McCain, he has been very careful to demonstrate even-handedness, as he knows only too well that Obama is closer to many of his own ideas and goals. Cameron’s trusted adviser, Steve Hilton, has wisely been give the task of developing closer relations with Obama’s entourage during his six-month stay in California. Could it be that the Tory leader himself is a closet Obama backer?

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   Friday - October 03, 2008

THE NEW FRENCH CAR LAW ….  couldn’t make this up although the story isn’t brand new.

A new piece of motoring law has been introduced in France, which could catch holidaymakers driving in the country off guard.

It is now compulsory for motorists to have a reflective jacket in any vehicle with four wheels or more in France, says the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM).

With nine million tourists expected to reach the nation by car this year the change in legislation is something that could affect a large number of holidaymakers.

Neil Greig, director of the IAM, said: “Its worth investing in [a reflective jacket], before you leave, to ensure you don’t end up with a nasty fine when you’re on holiday.”

He added that when travelling abroad people tend to go into “holiday mode” and think that they are safeguarded from break downs or run ins with the law, which is a fallacy.
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OK, that little blurb appeared back in July in a P & O Ferries newsletter.  But that isn’t exactly what I caught in today’s paper.
Of course, being the Telegraph, I couldn’t find any link to the Telegraph story which is still close enough. But, here’s the way The Telegraph reported it today.

NEW FRENCH CAR LAW

Motorists who drive in France without a reflective jacket or a red warning triangle in their car could be fined by police from today. (03 Oct.08)
Under new laws any driver not traveling with either piece of safety equipment could be fined $140 to $200.

I guess it isn’t any big deal in the overall scheme of things, but it just smacks of another nanny like thing the public now has to endure.
Yeah, I guess safety gear is a pretty good idea. Better then pretty good then. But should it not be up to the individual driver? Maybe not.

It’s like here in the UK, and it either started yesterday or today, 40% of the surface on the backside of a cigarette pack now has to show gruesome
photos of cancer victims.  Black diseased lungs and autopsy photos. Mouth cancer etc. GAK. Totally gross. I’m not a smoker anymore but if I were, I’d simply paste something else over the photos.  Hey, bet ya when smokers start doing that on their own packs, a new law will be passed to prohibit that.

Of course, no photos of bad liver and kidney stuff on booze bottles.  That industry is NOT an easy target.  The health commies only go after the soft targets where they will get their way.  Like bullies in a schoolyard.

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   Thursday - October 02, 2008

Nobel literature prize judge: American authors ‘insular and ignorant’ .

What an ass this jerk is.  I really can’t think of anything else to say on the subject.  Well actually I can but I recall being warned, rightly, that it never pays to post in too pissed a mood.  One loses track of the issue.  Typical euro attitude though.

Nobel literature prize judge: American authors ‘insular and ignorant’
American authors are too “insular and ignorant” to compete with their European counterparts, according to a member of the Nobel judging panel.

By Aislinn Simpson
Last Updated: 8:16AM BST 02 Oct 2008

As the Swedish Academy enters final deliberations for this year’s literature award, permanent secretary Horace Engdahl said that writers from the country that produced Philip Roth, John Updike, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald were “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture,” dragging down the quality of their work.

“Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can’t get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world, not the United States,” he said.

“The US is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.”

Although Mr Engdahl insisted later he had been misunderstood by the Associated Press, with whom he conducted the interview, the chances of the two American authors, Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, thought to be on this year’s secret five-person shortlist now look slim.

His comments were met with outrage among figures in the US industry that published more than 50,000 works of fiction last year.

Harold Augenbraum, executive director of US National Book Foundation said: “Put him in touch with me, and I’ll send him a reading list.

“Such a comment makes me think that Mr Engdahl has read little of American literature outside the mainstream and has a very narrow view of what constitutes literature in this age.”

But David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, said they came as little surprise since the 16-member Nobel award jury had historically overlooked some of the world’s best authors.

“You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures,” he said.

“And if he looked harder at the American scene that he dwells on, he would see the vitality in the generation of Roth, Updike, and DeLillo, as well as in many younger writers, some of them sons and daughters of immigrants writing in their adopted English. None of these poor souls, old or young, seem ravaged by the horrors of Coca-Cola.”

However, his criticism was given some backing by a French publishing magnate, who declined to be named.

“It is true that American publishers rarely buy books in translation from foreign languages. That is to America’s shame and also its loss,” he said.

“But that does not mean all American contemporary literature is parochial or ignorant.

“Yes, it sometimes seems that the typical American novel is about a writer who has six friends who also happen to be writers. But there are also excellent modern American authors.”

The last American to win the Nobel prize was Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, in 1993 before Mr Engdahl took charge. As permanent secretary, he is a voting member of and spokesman for the secretive panel that selects the winners of what many consider the most prestigious award in literature.

The academy often picks obscure writers and hardly ever selects best-selling authors. It regularly faces accusations of snobbery, political bias and even poor taste.

Since Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe won the award in 1994, the selections have had a distinctly European flavour. Nine of the subsequent laureates were Europeans, including last year’s winner, Briton Doris Lessing, who wrote The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

Of the other four, one was from Turkey and the others from South Africa, China and Trinidad. All had strong ties to Europe.

Mr Engdahl said Europe draws literary exiles because it “respects the independence of literature” and can serve as a safe haven.

“Very many authors who have their roots in other countries work in Europe, because it is only here where you can be left alone and write, without being beaten to death,” he said. “It is dangerous to be an author in big parts of Asia and Africa.”

But he insisted that his views on national prose had no bearing on the panel’s decision, which is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

“The Nobel prize is not a contest between nations but an award to individual authors,” he said.

The eventual winner of the prize will receive a one million euro purse, a gold medal and a diploma. The awards are handed out December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896.

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   Tuesday - September 23, 2008

Euro MPs are preparing to vote on proposals for European Union regulation of blogs .

Translation.
Anyone critical of the left and the EU and those working and speaking out against membership in the EU.

Euro MPs to vote on anonymous blog ban
Euro MPs are preparing to vote on proposals for European Union regulation of blogs with the aim of countering a “dangerous” and unregulated blogosphere.

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 6:41PM BST 22 Sep 2008

Marianne Mikko, an Estonian centre-left MEP, is concerned that growing numbers of blogs are being used by individuals with “malicious intentions or hidden agendas”.

“The blogosphere has so far been a haven of good intentions and relatively honest dealing. However, with blogs becoming commonplace, less principled people will want to use them,” she said.

Mrs Mikko has proposed that bloggers should be required to identify themselves and that some popular blogs should come with a declaration of interests.

“We do not need to know the exact identity of bloggers. We need some credentials, a quality mark, a certain disclosure of who is writing and why. We need this to be able to trust and rely on the source,” she said.

Chris Heaton Harris, a British Conservative Euro MP, has rejected any moves to “regulate and restrict independent media sources”.

“Mrs Mikko obviously does not understand that blogs have become the life blood of a vibrant democracy,” he said.

(of course she doesn’t. look where the heck she’s from. she is used to having those above tell her how and what to think. comrade.)

“I hope these proposals are kicked out.”

Thursday’s vote in the European Parliament is not legally binding but is an indicator of growing EU concern over the influence of blogs on the internet.

A recent internal European Commission report, leaked three weeks ago, found that the EU was losing the battle for hearts and minds online.

“Blog activity remains overwhelmingly negative,” it said.

(and the commission will damn well NOT tolerate that by gum and by gosh)

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   Friday - September 12, 2008

EU flag and anthem revived.  Oh and by the way, the Irish might be given a 2nd chance to vote.

Right.  The masters in Brussels and President Sarko (France) say the Irish will be given another chance to vote.  (correctly this time?)

That’s one of the scary things about these ppl.  A vote was taken, the people spoke not in a whisper but very much out loud for the world to hear, but the masters in Brussels aren’t listening.  If a vote isn’t to their favor they will press for another until they get the outcome they want.

Another interesting thing I have noticed.  Brit license plates on cars here ALL have the eu flag on the plates. The are now made that way.

Where the hell is Wellington and Churchill when they’re so badly needed? 

I realize most Americans will yawn and not pay much attention to this sort of thing.  I’m not sure that’s a wise thing.  Sure, nothing you can do about it now. But be aware once the lefty commissars have the power they seek.  I really don’t trust these folks.

EU flag and anthem revived by MEPs
MEPs have decided to revive symbols of the European Union like the flag and the anthem in an attempt to foster greater pride in the institution.

By Stephen Adams
Last Updated: 11:51AM BST 12 Sep 2008

MEPs try to revive EU symbols (MEP = Member European Parliament)

The flag, a politically correct motto and Beethoven’s Ode to Joy will all be used more by the European Parliament as it tries to help citizens identify more easily with the EU.

But Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party and an MEP himself, has accused his parliamentary colleagues of “trying to ram them down our throats”.

MEPs said: “Symbols are vital elements of any communication process.”

The politicians stated they “convey an emotional image of the underlying values of the organisations they represent.”

With this in mind, they have decided to make more use of the flag and the motto “United in Diversity.” It is to be printed on all material emanating from the European Parliament.

More controversially, the finale from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy, is also to be played more at official occasions.

It has unfortunate associations, having been used previously to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday and as the anthem of a socially divided Rhodesia under Ian Smith.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany had said that eliminating the use of symbols was a key difference between the EU constitution, which was rejected in French and Dutch referenda in 2005, and the Lisbon Treaty which followed.

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has also welcomed their reduced importance, telling the House of Commons last July: “It is good that the symbols, flags and anthems, which distracted attention from the discussion of the European constitutional treaty, are done away with so that we can focus on what will make the EU useful to this country - jobs, climate and energy, the issues that matter to ordinary people.”

Mr Farage told The Times: “We were told that the symbols would disappear .. now they are trying to ram them down our throats.”

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   Wednesday - September 10, 2008

Barack Obama preferred over John McCain in world poll.

Must mean America will be on the right track when we elect Palin/McCain ticket to the White House.

Barack Obama preferred over John McCain in world poll
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is the world’s choice for the next American president, according to an international poll.

By Tom Peterkin
Last Updated: 10:57AM BST 10 Sep 2008

A Barack Obama presidency would improve America’s relations with the world, according to more than half of people surveyed in a BBC poll Photo: AFP

The 47-year-old Illinois senator was preferred by an average margin of four-to-one across the 22,000 people who took part in the survey of 22 countries conducted by the BBC World Service.

More than half of those surveyed in the United Kingdom (54 per cent) thought an Obama presidency would improve America’s relations with the world.

Doug Miller, chairman of GlobeScan which carried out the survey for the BBC World Service, said: “Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents.

“Given how negative America’s international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush Administration’s relations with the world.”

On average, 49 per cent of those surveyed preferred Mr Obama, compared with 12 per cent for Mr McCain, in the race to the White House.

The survey also found that an average of 46 per cent thought US relations with the world would get better under Mr Obama. Twenty-two per cent thought that relations would stay the same, and seven per cent thought that they would get worse.

Only 20 per cent thought relations would get better under Mr McCain. A total of 37 per cent of those surveyed thought a victory for the 72-year-old Arizona senator would keep US relations with the rest of the world the same as they are now and 16 per cent thought they would get worse.

Those most optimistic about an Obama presidency included America’s Nato allies - Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and Italy as well as Australia and the African countries Kenya and Nigeria.

(yeah and Americans really need to give a damn about what Kenya and Nigeria think.  Or any of the others come to that.)

• The results were drawn from a survey of 22,531 adult citizens across 22 countries conducted for the BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan, together with the Programme on International Policy Attitudes (Pipa) at the University of Maryland.

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   Tuesday - September 09, 2008

POOR SARKO OF FRANCE,IN THE FUNNIES AGAIN.  IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T READ ABOUT IT,,,,

So, president (France) tries to make nice and make peace over the Georgia/Russia thing which isn’t so funny because ppl are being killed.
Well it turns out that the French translation was faulty, don’t know who did what or what if any the side effects were.
But this toon does tickle.

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   Monday - September 08, 2008

NEWS FROM FRANCE, NEWS FROM FRANCE, NEWS FROM FRANCE.  THEY LOVE OBAMA, COLD ON SARAH.

oh boy ... wait till Drew sees this one.  Should be funny. Or maybe not. We’ll see.  Drew?

By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Paris Notebook
The Telegraph

Mrs Palin is getting no credit in France for being a successful, savvy woman and an exciting new face in politics. If the US elections were held in France, Barack Obama would poll a Mugabe-esque 83 per cent of the vote. Palin is painted here as an ignorant religious fanatic, a gun nut, and proof positive that the American heartland is a more dangerous place than Anbar province.

She is also seen as irrelevant, and one more reason why John McCain’s bid is doomed. Even the usually sharp-antennaed Sarkozy tilts towards Obama, whom, unlike McCain, he greeted on the Élysée steps and favoured with a high-profile joint press conference during the American’s whirlwind French visit. It will be interesting to watch reassessments should the Republican ticket win.

Long defined as a country of farmers, France is slowly seeing wimpy townie manners take over. The inhabitants of the Alpine village of Villaz (pop 3,000) are suing a local farmer, Michel Déronzier, because they don’t like being kept awake by his herd of Pie Rouges’ cowbells at night.

“It’s only seven cows out of 70 who have a bell!” Déronzier protests. “It’s necessary, because it helps the dogs locate them faster. And at any rate, there have always been cowbells in the country. If people don’t like it, they should move to the city; they won’t like the noise of cars there.” So far, it’s a standoff.

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Says somethin’ not nice about French politics. But then I’m biased I admit it.

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   Monday - September 01, 2008

Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of ‘impending US attack’ .  Say What?  USA is gonna do what?

uh huh. Right. America is gonna bomb Iran. Sure we are.  I wish we would and leave nothin alive.  But we know that won’t happen so what the heck are the Dutch talking about?
These are the same folks that gave the world PC so I tend not to pay much attention to them. 

Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of ‘impending US attack’ . 

Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of ‘impending US attack’
The Dutch intelligence service has pulled an agent out of an “ultra-secret operation” spying on Iran’s military industry because spymasters in Netherlands believe a United States air attack was imminent.
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 9:24AM BST 01 Sep 2008

According to reports in the newspaper De Telegraaf, the country’s intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.

“The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iran,” said the report.

“Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch espionage action.”

“Well placed” sources told the paper that a top agent had been recalled recently “because the US was thought to be making a decision within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft”.

“Information from the AIVD operation has in recent years been shared with the American CIA secret service.”

Brig Gen Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of the Iranian armed forces, warned at the weekend that military attacks against Iran would trigger a Third World War.

“The exorbitant demands of the US leaders and the global Zionism which have created the current situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Caucasus are gradually directing the world to the edge of the cliff,” he said.

The US has refused to rule out a military attack against Iran if its government continues to enrich uranium as part of its civilian nuclear programme, which the West suspects has the clandestine objective of developing atomic weapons.

Iran has warned it would close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf and a major oil shipping route, if it is attacked.

On Friday, the Israel newspaper Ma’ariv reported that Israel has stepped up preparations for a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts, via the United Nations, fail to derail Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme.

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Apologises to Libya for colonial rule. Italy says we’re sorry please forgive us and take a billion.

Ok, this is fine. If the Italian conscience is soothed that’s ok.
Now, I want immediate reparations from France for the Germans in payment for the hundreds of years that France kept Germany isolated and refused the making of a united country.  All the wars fought in Europe by France on German soil causing the loss of life and property.  I concede the point that it was also hundreds of years ago but hey, with Italy setting the stage.....

Then the black lobby that wants reperations can sue the tribal chiefs in Afrika , pay out probably in what?  What do those folks use for money in the deepest heart of the black continent?  Lets see, who else might be entitled?

Hey, why not set up something like a world body, not as bureaucratic as the UN but leaders from around the world can meet once a year in some huge stadium
and all can apologize to one another for all sorts of slights both real and imagined.  Even bring in muslims to show diversity and inclusiveness.
And if they want to, they can even slap the hell out of each other as long as they leave the rest of us out of it.  Oh yeah, no taxpayer money involved.
They pay their own way.  Well it’s the thought that counts.

Silvio Berlusconi apologises to Libya for colonial rule
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has apologised to Libya for 30 years of colonial rule and agreed to pay £2.5 billion in reparations.

By Nick Pisa in Rome
Last Updated: 8:24AM BST 01 Sep 2008

As part of the deal Italy will also help build a 1,500 mile pan Libyan motorway across the north of the country linking it with neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.

In return Libyan leader colonel Muammar Gaddafi has promised to crack down on thousands of illegal immigrants who leave his country every year and cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

The compensation deal, which was signed by both leaders in the Libyan city of Benghazi, is to be spread over 25 years and also involves train, technology and other infrastructure projects.

Berlusconi said: ‘“This payment goes towards the tragic and dramatic moments of Italian occupation and for the deep wounds that have affected many Libyan families.

“It is a complete and moral compensation for the damage inflicted on Libya by Italian during the colonial occupation and we can now look forward to working together.’’

Italy conquered Libya in 1911 following a war with Turkey and during the 30 year occupation 20,000 Libyans were killed in battle and in camps while thousands were deported.

In 1969 when Gaddafi took over following a military coup thousands of Italians who had made Libya their home were expelled and there have been sporadic incidents of tension during the last few years.

During the height of Libyan-US tension a Scud missile was fired at the Italian island of Lampedusa in 1986.

While two years ago Italian cabinet minister Roberto Calderoli wore a T-shirt of a cartoon poking fun at the prophet Mohammed and eleven people were killed in rioting in Benghazi.

The deal was signed in a tent and gifts were also exchanged with Berlusconi giving Gaddafi a silver lion and two pens while in return he received a white linen suit and a green shirt, symbolising the colours of the Libyan flag.

During the signing media tycoon Berlusconi also whipped out a copy of one of his glossy magazines and showed Gaddafi a photo shoot which featured him and his family taken at his Sardinian villa.

Berlusconi added: “We have signed a historic agreement and now we will have fewer illegal immigrants from the Libyan coast and more gas and oil from them which is the best.’’

As part of the deal Berlusconi also returned via the hold of his private jet - a Roman marble statute of the Venus of Cyrene taken during the Italian invasion 95 years ago.

(Wait a minute. A Roman statute?  Did the proof reader get it wrong or did I?  Statue Anyway, what’s with that return?  What. Like most Libyans will know and appreciate the art? Doubt it, really I do.)

http://tinyurl.com/62jhzx

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   Tuesday - August 05, 2008

ENGLAND IS OVER RULED BY EURO COURT ON EXTRIDITION TO USA OF TERRORIST.

Headline actually reads,

HAMZA EXTRIDITION HALTED BY EURO COURT

But the bottom line is that unless it goes through, it very much looks as tho a court in weeneyland (or is it weeny?) has the authority to overrule an English court.

So, assuming a euro court can actually overule Brits, about the last Brit home I’d wanna be in this morning would be Bulldog’s and Lyndon’s. I know there’s a lot of Brits want to see the last of this Hamza monster and won’t be too happy.

UK really needs to get out of the EU ASAP!  Not just for this travesty. For their very own survival as an independent and soverign nation.

extradition to US postponed

The British Government has been told to postpone extradition of Abu Hamza until a ruling on whether sending him to a maximum security US jail would breach his human rights.By Jessica Salter
Last Updated: 12:08AM BST 05 Aug 2008

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg gave the order as the 48-year-old’s lawyers claimed he would be kept in inhuman conditions.
US authorities want to jail Hamza in America’s most secure jail, the Supermax ADX Florence in Colorado, which houses 38 convicted international terrorists.
His lawyers claim that prisoners live in boxes, there is only two hours exercise per week, there are no family visits and every correspondence is intercepted.

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has already approved Hamza’s extradition and last month Hamza was refused leave to appeal to the Law Lords, the highest court in England and Wales.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The decision is a matter for the European Court. We shall seek to have his case expedited so it is heard as soon as possible.”

Hamza is currently serving seven years in Britain for soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred.
The former imam at London’s Finsbury Park Mosque is accused in the United States of trying to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon.
He faces 11 charges in total, including sending cash and recruits to al-Qaeda and the Taliban and one relating to the kidnap of 16 tourists in the Yemen in 1998. Four hostages, including three Britons, died in a rescue attempt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2501037/Radical-Islamic-cleric-Abu-Hamza-has-extradition-to-US-postponed.html

Sorry about the looooongish link but there were some problems using tiny this morning. Anyway, I only put a link here to show it’s from another source, as I don’t want anyone thinking it was made up. 

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   Friday - August 01, 2008

The Mayor of London, has backed Barack Obama to become President of the United States.

This bothers me and I’ll just have to leave it to ppl like Grumps and Drew and Wardmom to articulate for me.  What the hell is it with oh this will be good for black around the world?  Why the hell should I care about that?  Are they paying American taxes in darkest Afrika? Are they voting in my country?
Oh wait,,, for all I know ....
But why the heck a very public man like Boris who really is somewhat a conservative (using the term loosely of course) why he should insert himself into our elections is beyond my understanding.  Far as I can tell, and okay I might be wrong here, I can’t think think of any American pol. who publicly backs any foreign office seeker for fear of being accused I suppose of interfering.

Boris Johnson backs Barack Obama as US President
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has backed Barack Obama to become President of the United States.

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:34PM BST 01 Aug 2008

His endorsement of the Democratic candidate, against John McCain, his Republican rival, would usually be considered unusual for a Conservative.

But during his recent European tour, Mr Obama proved successful at winning over politicians of all persuasions, charming David Cameron, the Conservative leader, who he met for talks in his House of Commons office.

A survey carried out last month found that a third of Tory MPs want the Democrat to emerge triumphant.

But the Mayor of London is the most high profile Conservative publicly to throw his weight behind Mr Obama.

He told this month’s Square Mile magazine: “I was looking at him on the news and just thinking what an amazing moment this is, watching his speech in Berlin and thinking what a critical moment this is for America and for attitudes towards what they can achieve amongst the black community.

“If Barack Obama can do it, it will be the most fantastic boost, I think, for black people everywhere around the world.”

Asked for his views on the Republican candidate, Mr Johnson said: “Well, OK, I think John McCain has many, many wonderful qualities, but I think a Barack Obama victory would do fantastic things for the confidence and the feelings of black people around the world - that they can win.”

Asked if his words amounted to an endorsement of the Democrat, he said: “Yes.”

Mr Cameron has also spoken of his admiration for Mr Obama, backing his controversial call for black fathers to take greater responsibility for their children, but has stopped short of endorsing him over Mr McCain.

In the interview, Mr Johnson, who was elected Mayor in May after toppling Labour’s Ken Livingstone, also told how much he was enjoying the new job, despite the long hours involved.

He said: “Exhausted? I am full of fire. I am like a greased bounding panther. My legs are steel springs and every day I get out of bed and I beat my chest.

“Every morning I am full of wonderment that the people of London have done the honour of making me their Mayor, I really am. It’s an absolutely wonderful feeling. I think many other people are full of wonderment too. “It’s a joy and easily the best job I’ve ever had - a very, very difficult job and a very, very big job - but the best job.

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