War is not what we see on tv, its nor a show neither an action movie.
War is death, destruction, shatterd families and lives.
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pictures taken from fliker on war on lebanon
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To spit in its hotel room?It is unworthy of a great civilization.
Sensitive to the complaints of hotel and the airline companies of Singapore, tired of the behavior of the Chinese tourists, Beijing a “Campaign launches to promote civilized Chinese tourists”. The initiative, promoted by the Steering committee of spiritual age of the central Committee of the Communist Party, will last until 2008, date of the Olympic Games. Objective: “to correct some embarrassing habits” - like to spit on the floor. “In Europe and the United States, we find disgusting to eat our mouth open or by claping tlips. Your European hosts […] could think that the Chinese are badly raised”, writes China Daily. A handbook of good manners should be distributed by the end of the year. Last year, the agency Xinhua indicated , 31 million Chinese went abroad. They should be 100 million per annum from here at 2020. However “the behavior of the Chinese tourists is incompatible with the fast development of tourist industry, and with the international stature of China”, deplores Mr. Zhai Weihua, director of the committee.
I was surfing the net and I saw this video ( please watch it)
this video ( taken from the blog of Tristan Mendès France site) is a parody of what happened in space recently, but the voice was added to say that an UFO was seen next toatlantis, the astronaut asked Houston ( the base on earth ) to identify that object. Houston replies saying that it was a UMP flip flop.
I didn’t get the joke until while surfing another blog I found pictures of UMP FLip flops.
The UMP (Union pour un mouvement populaire ) launched this summer a teasing campain on French beaches in order to attract new voters. Beside the conventional marketing ( leaflets, hats etc..) the members distributed condoms and flip flops.
I didn’t get the idea behind the condom, knowing that the UMP’s president is a catholic. But the Flip flops were “cleverly designed to leave the UMP initials imprinted in the sand” or in la merde héhéh it depends where you step.
In France, the candidatures for the presidential election were not officialized yet. But, in the slides, a wild fight already began by interposed media. On the right, it is the cold war between energetic Nicolas Sarkozy and all those which president Jacques Chirac can mobilize against him. On the left, Ségolène Royal seems, through the press and Internet, the favorite one of the surveys. Just like Sarkozy, it owes her popularity with her distinct opinions and her hétérodoxes points of view of. Its ideas on safety go, for example, further that those from Vlaams Belang, the Flemish party of extreme right-hand side. With the consternation of many members of its party, it considers moreover the 35 hours - an icon of French socialism - as antisocial and against-productive, for the good reason that those which benefit from it the least are especially the people in precarious situation.
At the beginning of June, a “Projet socialiste pour la France” was proposed with great noise. The title “Réussir ensemble le changement” shelters tens of measurements which must make it possible to achieve the goals of the full employment, equality and of France which succeeds. Whoever is interested in the socio-economic part of this program notes with amazement that the “change” clearly has especially a reactionary character - or rather utopian. Remain seated, here a few selected pieces.
For the French Socialists, the 35 hours week must be generalized. However, the figures showed that this fetish generates only one marginal growth of employment. One especially could note that the employers must compensate for the reduction in the working hours by a wage moderation and an increased flexibility. And it proves that the employees devote the time which was thus released at overtime or the second work. The 35 hours thus testify the lack of a social and economic logic. According to French PS’S, the minimal wages must be increased to 1.500 euros per month. Marvelous, but why not say immediately that nobody will find work declared if its productivity does not justify such wages? The mass unemployment, which constitutes a problem among the young people and immigrants, of it is the alive proof. Why not recognize that a minimal wage increase calls in question, especially for those which enter on the labour market and the “precarious ones”, chances to find an employment?
One should not either forget to specify that the increase in the cost of work also ends up weighing on the cost price of the products, and thus made wrong to the consumers and the position of the companies on the world market. Or perhaps is this a measurement for the French consumers and foreigners who, it is well known, dream to pay expensive the products made in France? A remedy is also proposed for the ageing of the population. The retirement age must be engraved in the marble at 60 years. A popular measurement for the candidates with the retirement, but the ageing of the population cannot be removed by decree. The concreting of the retirement age in this context means, in the long run, either fall of the retirements poured, or a considerable digging of the national debt, or an increase in the taxes on economic bases already groaning or forced savings in private pension funds. What is popular is thus not necessarily social.
How does France have to take up the challenge of globalization? The creation of a national Agency of re- industrialisation must be opposed, always according to Socialists’, with the delocalization and penalize the “bad owners”. But which can be these malicious employers well? The text of the program of the PS does not specify it. As for the liberalization of the European sector of energy, the Socialists decided that it stopped at the French border. Not question for the French State of opening the capital of EDF, nor to engage any other privatization in the energy sector. One would believe oneself in Russia or in Caracas. Perhaps the French companies conquer the world, but take guard if, from abroad, you want to come to implement in France. Globalization, it “ à la carte”, with the French State as chef cook.
In this astonishing list appears number of noble aspirations, but no analysis exposing the consequences of the measures are suggested. The socio-economic program of the French PS is obviously the product of enthusiastic hearts and flat encephalograms. Not more than Belgium, France is not a country of hobbits where time stopped and where the citizens can live in full safety, protected by the benevolent rules from a paternalist State. We can succeed from the economic point of view by accommodating the change with open arms, by developing our assets and while exploiting the fantastic chances which globalization brings.
( this is not the complete texte, i have taken the liberty changing and translating it.) nabih.
Sources: The author Marc De Vos teaches the law the labour to the university of Ghent. He is a director of the independent ‘ think tank ‘ Itinera Institute(www.itinerainstitute.org).De Tijd Netherlands
