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Whatever happens, the election of the President of the United States concerns us all. Consequently, everyone has an opinion on strengths and weaknesses of the two main title contenders. I hear a lot of things, which sometimes m'horripilent to the idealization of this election. First, obviously, this "Obamamania" I still can not break but that is based on several assumptions. First Obama represents change, just as the same revenue com 'which in France have shown Sarkozy as a candidate for rupture. In both cases, it is called professional politician, lawyer before have broader ambitions, and are just enough "immigrants" to not having to remember while not having to prove their openness to the world . I recall Obama even if he has Kenyan roots, is a MAN, which in itself poses no particular change. If we had a welcome innovation in these elections, it would appoint a woman vice-president by the Republicans, but this time, as with Segolene Royal, was preferred to extend its self- saying they would never have blamed weaknesses in a man. Sarah Palin has positions on many social issues that scare me, especially on abortion or religion, but Obama is also worrying about its military program. Palin is accused of being a gourd, they forget that Obama is confident that there is 57 States USA. The world wants Obama to be president because he is young and excellent communication. Moreover, Republican support is suspect: they are bad guys who only think about money. Lincoln, President abolitionist, was a Republican, and if we talk about wealth, Obama's war chest is much bigger than McCain. As proof, the half-hour of propaganda that was offered on American television shows and he can spend freely.

Is that enough to win an election? If the world voted, Obama would be elected, but fortunately, only the Americans choose their leader. One non-WASP has been elected so far, the Irish Catholic Kennedy. We know the importance of its communication, including the famous debate against Nixon was in 1960, an innovation with the arrival of television in the arsenal of candidates. Obama has capitalized on the Internet, which is intelligent, while putting McCain on robocalls, which would be retrograde. They forget that the number of households connected to the Internet are not inhabited by geeks, and that the impact of the Internet is still marginal in 2008. For networks, Kennedy had received support from other famous teamsters, Irish (now 65 million voters potential) and managed to unite the minorities on its behalf. Obama has more problems: even if the polls give widely winner (like Kerry in the same period in 2004), many voters prefer to declare their support for Democratic candidate but can not bring themselves to vote for a black. McCain, by contrast, combines the advantages: a glorious military past, a spotless political experience, a reputation for maverick and foremost, is a white man. He accuses her age, which is understandable, and have added a woman as VP, that remains for me a source of wonder: how France, among other progressive democracies, it may not welcome this progress that Democrats never dared, and even they rejected inducting Obama rather than Clinton?

Let me be clear: I have nothing against Obama, although I'm leaning toward McCain for years. American democracy is such that the party does not mean much, a Republican from NYC is very close in their ideas of a Democrat from Texas. There is not 1 but 50 Republican parties, and ditto for the Democrats. There are no Red States or Blue States, but a purple America, which suggests that intellectuals are on the East Coast and the rednecks in the Midwest is an arrogant ruling shows that clings to the image of the USA that broadcasts Hollywood. In recent weeks I have been fortunate to travel to New York and Brussels. America continues to make me dream, while Europe remains a mystery. Where is Europe? What do its leaders? What destiny we offer? The American dream continues with her during a nightmare and the multiple defects that can blame the 50 states (I recall a case where botcrawlers Democrat Obama would pass through here). But it is clear that when the U.S. go wrong, as the world goes wrong.

Whatever the result, the page will be shot Bush. We know what we lost, it is unclear what will win. I just wish that if Obama becomes president, he did not manage a crisis flares. But I think next week it will be another Republican in the White House. I can totally wrong, and I repeat, Obama and McCain have an advantage. But frankly, who wants Biden as President of the bureaucrat? In Europe, perhaps, but not in the U.S..

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Two men of the past resigned in quick succession, to my greatest joy. Thabo Mbeki from the presidency of South Africa, with a rather negative. Smokers spend on his theories about AIDS or his friendship with Mugabe, Mbeki particularly unworthy for not having taken advantage of the tremendous potential of South Africa. Blackouts throughout the country, unable to resolve African conflicts, insecurity hallucinating, widespread corruption, South Africa is in poor condition, while the country could be a paradise on earth and a regional power, even in- beyond. Desmond Tutu, whom I spoke on the occasion of a post on the beautiful philosophy of Ubuntu, Mbeki was accused of surrounding himself with yes-men, to create a small black and dene oligarchy not think enough to townships. Mbeki, who spent decades outside of South Africa, has surely sinned by lack of knowledge of the country. On his estate, it will soon be the end of the Xhosa to the presidency after Madiba and Mbeki and Zulu time as Jacob Zuma will surely come. In the meantime, Kgalema Motlanthe becomes president by the grace of the ANC, former Marxist party that has kept the good habit of confusing state finances and Cais Party.

The Israeli Olmert had the same habit. He quits his job Prime Minister of leaving a legacy that seems impossible to manage for his prospective successor, let the term male because I do not know how they say in the feminine. Tzipi Livni, if she will not have the easy part, and is already opening an alliance between Kadima and Bibi Netanayahou of dark memory. We can only hope the success of this pragmatic woman who is negotiating for a lasting peace with the Palestinians, and who knows, threatened on every side, Israel can not afford to be undermined by corruption scandals that have punctuated the mandate Ehud Olmet. At a time when Syria is preparing to return to Lebanon if not, in any case a confrontation Next, Israel's interest to show a united front, and for that, a wipe scale required. It will begin by admitting some past errors and to stop bad habits.

And yesterday's man gets a makeover, or almost. Redemption is fashionable, but I never thought that Samir Geagea, although Christian leader, is right. Yet he did this weekend in a move that does not lack panache. Only militia leader in Lebanon had served a prison sentence, he is also the only one to publicly atone for the crimes of the Lebanese Forces to turn the page on the past. Of course, this is not sufficient to Aoun, who wanted an apology and the nominal head of president, but never ask forgiveness for his personal abuses. You do not Geagea, Geagea I do not like, but you must recognize a will (apparent?) Exceed the horrors of the past. Does this mean a man with a future in Lebanon? Unlike South Africa or Israel, is not assured.

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Ah well he had to laugh, the tenant of the Elysee to see us gut with each other for the coming of Ben XVI (but I think it means that there are were 15 before him?). I fell in the first even though this kind of diversion is one of the easiest and best known of the political game: to bring a controversial figure and add in the sycophancy to raise a controversy that will come to nothing, but will divert the attention from more serious problems. When Gaddafi came to pitch his tent in Paris, few have defended the few who did not treat the king of Africa is a dangerous criminal lunatic who supports Sarkozy against all odds. But the pope is something else. It's sacred! So when the indignant defenders of secularism that makes a welcome Republican character also retrograde, misogynist homophobic (but not against a bit of pedophilia from time to time), many French are provided with a Catholic education who see it as an affront to their faith. Dialogue of the deaf, therefore, one feels offended that ridicules the French Republic, whereas the others are outraged that we can attack the most illustrious representative of Christianity. Meanwhile, Sarkozy marries his son (by Pope?) And continues its policy. I do not think it is so bad, the political Sarko, but sometimes you have to give bread and games for the French to allow the UMP to work quietly. The pope was the attraction-distraction of the week. Who is next? Answer at end of post.

Ditto for Sarah Palin: the character is equally archaic and hypocritical, but can divert the debate on topics sexier than keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial crisis facing America and the rest of world. Except of course, Lebanon that still manages to develop an independent system of global trends:

The crisis in global markets will have no impact on the Lebanese economy, nor on the local banking and financial sectors, said Yesterday, Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah.

So much better, Sir, here at least one storm in which Lebanon escape. Because elections within Kadima will give the new guide Israeli policy, and this will surely be a radical change with the robber Olmert: ex-IDF (Mofaz) or ex-Mossad (Livni)? The great tradition of Israeli prime ministers from one or other of these institutions are perpetuated, while in France it has only the choice between lawyer and technocrat. Once the Israelis have chosen, then the Americans will be decided, there will be the new winning pair will decide the fate of Lebanon will have been recalled, the only countries in the world to escape the financial crisis subprime. Then doubled the former army Mofaz McCain or Obama-Livni young guard? I lean toward a compromise Livni / McCain, but I'm suspicious: most non-Americans like a candidate (in this case Obama), less Americans elect. We must therefore encourage and participate in Obamamania chorus of French politicians who, in their entirety, want the Democratic candidate is elected. Strange no, that both the UMP and PS fall agree on the future U.S. president? Do you think they play us, claiming the comedy being agreed on anything in France?

Finally, how important? I will loop the interview with Celine Dion by Denise Bombardier, the very one who sees with her handsome Quebec accent that "the French do their job françaiiiiiise promote the language." I take bits of wisdom and humility, this woman has concentrated in Western and Eastern philosophy it in a perfect synthesis and transcendent. Celine does not sing with her vocal chords, she sings with her coeuuuuur, as she says with conviction but modesty. And that's important. Next time Celine comes to France, I hope she will be welcomed by the President, she will speak before the National Assembly and that we will buy nuclear power plants. And I will defend tooth and nail against the mockers and unbelievers who do not understand that Celine is the amouuuur. Like the pope, but also in Quebec.

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Each week, the French news magazines give us the opportunity to instruct us entertaining, often with the aim of providing the information most relevant and useful, and if possible to provide the reader with a scoop to remain a leader in news gathering. Thus, the Express , guarantor of the line "who votes left to right", had the excellent idea to investigate the "Big Chill", a song title from Georges Brassens which bars one from the mag, with pictures of the dramatic actor Christian Clavier in full conclave with not 'president. Le Nouvel Observateur ', who favored a left hand at Club Med, has preferred to address a subject as radically different and provides file "friends of the president." The idea here is to evoke the friends of the president, while The Express survey friends of the president, nuance. As for the weekly Le Point , it offers a rarely discussed issue in this kind of journalism: a "special wines "that's not Paris Match that title on the divorce of Bebel, who would dare enter a subject as controversial and indulge in this kind of investigative journalism. Challenges in turn, addresses "Catholic networks," which is a good idea since their leader comes to France, while Current title "cathos raise their heads" (as they too are victims) and The Pilgrim notes before even the arrival of hyper holy father that "France welcomes Benedict XVI, which is the code name of the pope. The Pilgrim thus provides, in the great tradition of democracies Soviet, an account of what will be the last visit of hairy Hitler Youth, and already considers thanks to Benoît, France reconciles with finance.

So was it, to the undeniable quality of our weekly propose one more readers already very focused on wine, friends of the president and the pope, and barely recovered from the heavy cases of summer as "sex vacation" or "networks of Freemasons? Sine said so, especially since he managed to get fired from Charlie Hebdo , and is therefore part of the cohort victims. Because everybody can not be a victim, but humanity should be divided between those who suffer from one side and those who are responsible for each other. Sine does not think otherwise when he strongly supports Palestinian terrorists, but deal with bird names that have their cousins Corsican plastics his home in Corsica. This is not the same, choking Sine! Corsican terrorists are bastards! Palestinian terrorists are victims. At the same time, who would want to build a villa in the Gaza Strip? Apparently none of the contributors Sine Hebdo, whether Isabelle Alonso, Christopher Alévêque or Delfiel (no no, I did made no mistake, this is an attempt to pun) Ton.

Every Wednesday, when I can, I read Duck and chained Charlie Hebdo, which is not always as obvious as the Duck is distributed free and in aircraft can be read by a network of expats who take it, as the RTC still refused to Beirut or Bratislava, subscribe to the sulfur Charlie . Duck is often filled with miscellaneous beasts and villains to Marianne sometimes with a good survey, but Charlie turned and aged well: newspaper protest and unhelpful though very funny, it became a weekly always funny, but also reflection and "adult", opening to the world rather than criticizing it from a room of pimply teenager, and willingly admit that being "for the Palestinians" is not a patent of morality and does not include Israel or even Lebanon. It was too much for Sine, redneck and proud of it, which Conchie music that is not jazz (only black, former victims of "Yanks" can do the Zique when Mozart foreshadowed the Anschluss ) sees women primarily in a Fuck sake (these "bitches" are not victims but willing) and invites friends to him to justify his little ideological line is to ask who it was right to defend Vergès, even when it was paid by the banker of Nazism (Francois Genoud) and that Val, editor, chief Charlie is Sarkozyist. Sine Hebdo , in addition to Alévêque nobodies (which is as much comedy as I am left beekeeper Romanian), proposes a text by Norman Bailey, a friend of Noam Chomsky specialist attacks against the real totalitarian systems, which explains that anarchism "advocates a possible reconciliation and desirably between socialism and the principle of equality, and liberalism and its principle of freedom. "Fantastic is not it? Bayrou anarchist! The rest is the same water, with text by Michel Onfray Express, which was been more inspired, describing the useful idiots who vote on the right course, but also left for Segolene Royal, however, he argued, but "before". However, it is wise to perform a self-criticism, and the ticket Onfray the useful idiots remember the sores once chewed by Bretecher in Le Nouvel Observateur ...

worry, Sine Hebdo also addresses the major issues like the Pope's visit and the pregnancy of Rachida Dati (including a very classy design, where she says she does not know the father of her child because she was the victim of a rotary. hahahaha. Yeah, but it is the government so inevitably it's a bitch), but to say that nobody cares. I think I will continue to buy Sine Hebdo , I still need to learn about this part of humanity that emphasizes his generosity and his freedom, but who think that there is good and bad terrorism. Until one day be a victim?

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Hassan Nasrallah yesterday showed very good disposition towards everyone, even if held to justify the aggression that he ordered against Beirut May 7, ensuring that it was intended "to prevent civil war" .

I think this joke speaks for itself. Just as the cold-blooded murder of a Lebanese army officer by Hezbollah since returned to the authorities (who, we are sure, will condemn him to death). Hizbullah is a fascist party, that everyone makes his opinion by reading the facts in the press every day brings evidence, but there will be a rabid honest collection of very hairy boy scouts whose patriotism and love of country lead them to destroy Lebanon for his own good. Nicolas Sarkozy did go see the godfather of beaver Junior Syria, convinced that unlike those who preceded him, he would not be fooled by the offspring Assad. Income before hand, one hand behind our president has probably realized that if Syria manages to orchestrate the Middle East for forty years, there may finally be a good reason. The capacity for action in Syria might even go nuclear if Israel had been there a discreet but firm decision, but we prefer to regard the Jewish state is a ferment of war, then it will be recognized one day that he is instead managed to prevent conflict much bloodier than what we have suffered to date.

a book to be published next week in the U.S. revealed yesterday that in August 2007, Israel had sent two helicopters carrying 12 members of the commando unit Sayeret Matkal to Syria to collect samples of the earth located in the vicinity of the alleged nuclear site in Deir ez-Zor. Entitled The Secret War with Iran, the book, writes journalist Ronen Bergman, said "The results of sample analysis have clearly demonstrated that the nuclear project really exists." The following month, the Israeli army bombed the site, reports the Jerusalem Post, which reported information.

I would not like Israel Hizbullah operates cancer, but to the ability of some Iranian strategists téléguident Nasrallah, perhaps he will solve it. Barak, on the campaign trail (or military) admits that the Israeli army is ready to hit ALL enemies and we can only note that many "progress" made since July 2006: the only weak element of the new chain of command, Olmert may be indicted by the Attorney General on the advice of police and will be replaced by a new leader. The Israeli army chief, Gaby Ashkenazi, ordered the Golani and seems to have the support of the Minister of Defence. In case of conflict, Hizbullah will be crushed in its fall and throughout Lebanon, as promised Barak. Unless ...

Unless Syria and Israel concluded a separate peace, which Iran is subject to the attentions Israeli, the Lebanese are united, not against a common enemy but a "project of civilization "that the religious are losing their influence in the Middle East and merely bawling in empty places of worship. It's called wishful thinking, but I am inspired by the coming of the Really Very Holy Father in France this week. The presence of this man on French soil is an insult to the spirit of the Republic that we cash as always with patience which characterizes the true secular (!), but it does not come recite his usual couplet hatred, with the chorus on the role of women in the kitchen as in the good old days of the Hitler Jugend. Nasrallah black and white Ratzinger, two facets of the same medieval obscurantism which continues to delight fans of fighting against the Other. I reject them violently for the same reasons, and I absolutely do not expect to be followed. After all, think that a woman has given birth to a god or a defeat or a divine victory show that is not particularly a fan of reality. Given its current ugliness, it is perhaps not a bad idea.

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Jan Palach In Memoriam (1948-1969)

Today August 29th is a holiday in Slovakia as we celebrate the anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising of 1944. And then Monday, September 1 is the day the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. We therefore leave for four days, but above all it allows me to remember an anniversary unjustly forgotten and I could not speak before the events of Lebanon (who else but continue to give me your attention, we hear about ♠): the Prague Spring, which does has not spared Bratislava. And so, forty years ago, Czechoslovakia intends to practice "socialism with a human face" with Alexander Dubcek, who came to power, wants to provide some flexibility in monolithic communism practiced previously by Brezhnev. The idea is to preserve the ideology imposed by Moscow but to guarantee citizens' rights including decentralization of the economy and easing restrictions on the media or the movement of people.

Started January 5, 1968, the Prague Spring was crushed Aug. 21 when the forces of the Warsaw Pact (Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary) invaded the country. 200 000 troops and 2000 tanks in Czechoslovakia enter and occupy the airport first, then the major cities including Bratislava. Of course, the Soviet press published an immediate appeal of Czechoslovak imploring the assistance of the armed forces of the Warsaw Pact in order to justify the invasion. The victim of barbarism itself has asked his executioner's ax. 76 dead Czechoslovak addition, we retain the history of student Jan Palach, born August 11, 1948, and himself on fire January 19, 1969 in Wenceslas Square in Prague in protest against the brutality of the Soviet Union and brotherly countries. Two other students, signed a suicide pact, follow him in his desperate act: Jan Zajic February 25, 1969, and Evzen Plocek in April.

If I was a student, I raise a T-shirt from Jan Palach rather than Che Guevara. Or this one, I have gained in Bratislava, which commemorates the storming of the city by the Red Army. I'm surprised there was no discussion over this horrible anniversary, and at the same time, there were other fish to fry, including the size reconstruction of the "Spring" in Georgia. The Red Army showed that it had retained reflexes invasive, including claiming to rescue people in danger Ossetian and Abkhaz, and looting and destroying everything in its path without any qualms. It's nice that term "mood". Do states have a soul? If Russia is the mother of the Russians, I think the father has long been barred from buying cigarettes.

History repeats itself? Not really, she never really interrupted. The end of the first Cold War or World War III did not terminate the old reflexes of binary opposition, and the United States continues to be criticized by the same useful idiots, or against all odds applauded by members of CIA. Choose your side, comrade! The world is still divided in two, and nobody seems able to escape. Lebanon not only is no exception to the rule, but he seems to embody. Two irreconcilable camps are always face-to-face. Yesterday, Hizbullah fired at an army helicopter and killed an officer. Yesterday, Chronicles of Beirut has closed before the rise despite Hate rampant on blogs. Yesterday, nearly forty years, Jan Palach committed suicide to protest against barbarism. Unlike the geniuses packed belief, I have no solution. I just know that mankind still has much work ahead of her, and she'd better get started rather than replay the past.

But do not forget. Neither Jan Palach, or Lebanon.