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9/01/2008

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8/11/2008

Operation Sarkozy: how the CIA has placed one of its agents as President of the French Republic

Operation Sarkozy: how the CIA has placed one of its agents as President of the French Republic

**August 10, 2008
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Operation Sarkozy: how the CIA has placed one of its agents as President of the French Republic.

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Operation Sarkozy: how the CIA has placed one of its agents as President of the French Republic
Nicolas Sarkozy should be judged by its actions and not on his personality. But when his action surprises up his own constituents, it is legitimate to look in detail on his biography and consider alliances which led to power.
Thierry Meyssan has decided to write the truth about the origins of the President of the French Republic. All information contained in this article are verifiable, with the exception of two charges, reported by the author who takes sole responsabilité.par Thierry Meyssan The French, tired of too many presidencies of François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, elected Nicolas Sarkozy relying on its energy to revitalize their country.

They hoped a break with years of immobility and outdated ideologies. They took a break with the principles underpinning the French nation. They were stunned by this "hyper-president," seizing every day a new folder, aspiring to the right and left, knocking all benchmarks to create a complete confusion. Like children who just made a big mistake, the French are too busy to find excuses to admit the extent of damage and their naivety.

They refuse all the more to see who is really Nicolas Sarkozy, they would have had to report for a long time. It is that man is clever. As an illusionist, he diverted their attention by offering his private life on stage and in magazines asking people to make them forget his political career. Whether one understands the meaning of this article: this is not to blame Mr. Sarkozy family ties, friendly and professional, but blamed him for hiding his ties to the French who believed, wrongly , To elect a free man.
To understand how a man who all agree today to see the officer USA and Israel have become the Gaullist party leader, then president of the French Republic, we must go back . Very backwards.

We must take a long digression during which we will present the protagonists who are now their revenge.
Family Secrets

At the end of World War II, the U.S. secret services uniens based on the sponsor Italo-US Lucky Luciano to monitor the safety of U.S. ports and prepare for the Allied landings in Sicily. Luciano's contacts with the U.S. services spend including by Frank Wisner Sr. then, when the "godfather" is released and moved to Italy, for its "ambassador" Corsican, Stephen Léandri. In 1958, USA, worried about a possible victory of the FLN in Algeria which would pave North Africa to Soviet influence, decided to create a military coup in France.

The operation is jointly organized by the Directorate of Planning of the CIA-theoretically headed by Frank Wisner Sr. - and NATO. But Wisner has already sunk into dementia so that it was his successor, Allan Dulles, who oversees the coup. Since Algiers, generals french create a committee of public salvation, which puts pressure on the civilian authority in Paris and forced to vote full powers to General De Gaulle without needing to use force [1]. But Charles De Gaulle was not the pawn that the Anglo-Saxons believe they can handle.

As a first step, it tries to emerge from the colonial contradiction giving broad autonomy to the Overseas Territories in a French Union. But it is already too late to save the Empire french because colonized peoples no longer believe the promises of the metropolis and demand their independence.

After victoriously led fierce campaigns of repression against the independence, De Gaulle went to the obvious. Demonstrating a rare political wisdom, he decided to give each colony its independence. This volte-face is seen as a betrayal by most of those who brought to power.

The CIA and NATO support then all sorts of conspiracies to eliminate it, including a failed putsch and a quarantine of attempted murder [2]. However, some of his supporters agree with his political evolution.
Around Charles Pasqua, they create the SAC, a militia to protect it. Pasqua is a Beverly Hills Cop Corsican and a former resistance. He married the daughter of a Canadian bootlegger who made fortunes during the prohibition. He runs the company Ricard who, after being marketed to absinthe, a prohibited alcohol, respectabilise selling of anisette.

However, the company continues to serve as cover for all kinds of trafficking in relation to the family-Italian New York of the Genovese, that of Lucky Luciano.

It is therefore not surprising that Pasqua seek Etienne Léandri ( "Ambassador" by Luciano) to recruit big arms and form the militia Gaullist [3]. A third man plays a large role in the formation of SAC, former bodyguard of De Gaulle, Achille Peretti a Corsican-too-. Thus defended, De Gaulle draws with panache a policy of national independence.
While affirming his membership in Atlantic camp, it calls into question the leadership Anglo-Saxon. It opposes the entry of the United Kingdom in the European Common Market (1961 and 1967);
He refuses the deployment of helmets of the United Nations in Congo (1961); encourages Latin American States to escape U.S. imperialism (speech by Mexico, 1964); It expels NATO and France withdrew Integrated Command of the Atlantic Alliance (1966); He denounced the war in Vietnam (speech Phnon Penh, 1966); It condemns Israeli expansionism during the Six-Day War (1967); It supports the independence of Quebec (Montreal speech of 1967), and so on.


At the same time, De Gaulle consolidates the power of France in providing a military-industrial complex, including the nuclear deterrent force, and ensuring its energy supply. It removes valuable bulky Corsicans his entourage confident in their missions abroad. Thus Stephen Léandri it becomes the trader group Elf (now Total) [4], while Charles Pasqua becomes the man of confidence of heads of state of Francophone Africa. Aware that he can not defy the Anglo-Saxons on all fronts at once, De Gaulle allied with the Rothschild family.

He chose as Prime Minister proxyholder of the Bank, Georges Pompidou. The two men form an effective tandem. The boldness of the first policy never loses sight of the economic realism of the second. When De Gaulle resigned in 1969, Georges Pompidou him briefly succeeded to the presidency before being swept away by cancer. The historical Gaullists do not worry about his leadership and his tropism Anglophile. They yell at treason when Pompidou, assisted by the Secretary General of the Élysée

Edouard Balladur, brings "perfidious Albion" in the European Common Market.

The manufacture of Nicolas Sarkozy

The decor is planted, what about the main character, Nicolas Sarkozy. Born in 1955, he was the son of a Hungarian noble Catholic, Pal Sarkösy de Nagy-Bocsa, a refugee in France after fleeing the Red Army, and Andrée Mallah, a Jewish roturière from Salonika. After having three children (Guillaume, Nicolas and François), the couple divorce.

Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa remarries with an aristocrat, Christine de Ganay, which he has two children (Pierre-Olivier and Caroline). Nicolas will not be raised by its own parents, but balloté in this blended family. His mother became the secretary of Achille Peretti. After co-founded the SAC, the bodyguard of De Gaulle had pursued a brilliant political career. He was elected deputy and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the richest residential suburb of the capital, then president of the National Assembly.

Unfortunately, in 1972, Achille Peretti is seriously jeopardized. In the USA, Time magazine revealed the existence of a secret criminal organization "Union Corsican" who control a large part of drug trafficking between Europe and America, the famous "French connection" that Hollywwod should bring to the screen.

Based on parliamentary hearings and investigations on its own, Time cites the name of a mafia leader, Jean Venturi, arrested a few years earlier in Canada, which is none other than the Trade Commissioner Charles Pasqua for society alcohol Ricard. It evokes the names of several families who head the Union Corsican, whose Peretti. Achille denies, but must relinquish the chairmanship of the National Assembly and beyond even a "suicide".


In 1977, Pal Sarkozy separates from his second wife, Christine de Ganay, which then binds with the No. 2 at the headquarters of the Department of State of USA. She marries him and moves with him to America. The world is small, is well known, her husband is none other than Frank Wisner Jr., son of precedent. The functions of the Junior CIA are not known, but it clearly plays an important role.

Nicolas, who remains close to her stepmother, his half-brother and half-sister, begins to turn to the USA where he "enjoys" training programs of the Department of State. At the same time, Nicolas Sarkozy adheres to the Gaullist party.

There are frequent even faster Charles Pasqua that it is not only a national leader, but also the head of the departmental section of the Hauts-de-Seine. In 1982, Nicolas Sarkozy, who completed his law studies and was a member of the Bar, married the niece of Achille Peretti. His marriage witness is Charles Pasqua.

As a lawyer, Mr. Sarkozy defends the interests of its friends Corsican mentors. It acquires a property on the island of beauty, Vico, and imagine corsiser of his name by replacing the "y" with an "i": Sarkozi.

The following year he was elected mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine to replace its bel-uncle, Achille Peretti, terraced by a heart attack. However, Nicolas was soon to betray his wife and, since 1984, he pursued a hidden liaison with Cecilia, the wife of the most famous television host french at the time, Jacques Martin, whom he met in celebrating their marriage as mayor of Neuilly.


This double life lasts five years before the lovers leave their respective spouses to build a new home. Nicolas is the witness of marriage in 1992, the daughter of Jacques Chirac, Claude, with an editorialist of Figaro. He could not help seduce Claude and conduct a brief relationship with her, while he officially lived with Cecilia.

The deceived husband commits suicide by absorbing drugs. The break is brutal and no return between Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.

In 1993, the left loses the elections. The President François Mitterrand refuses to resign and enter into a cohabitation with Prime Minister right. Jacques Chirac, seeking the presidency and then think Edouard Balladur form a tandem comparable to that of De Gaulle and Pompidou, refuses to be a new prime minister, and leaves room for his "friend of thirty years," Edouard Balladur.

Despite its past sulphur, Charles Pasqua became Minister of the Interior. If he retains the upper hand on the Moroccan marijuana, it takes advantage of its situation to legalize its other activities taking control of casinos, games and races in Francophone Africa. It also forges ties to Saudi Arabia and Israel and becomes honorary officer of the Mossad. Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, is minister of budget and government spokesman.


In Washington, Frank Wisner Jr. took over from Paul Wolfowitz as head of policy planning at the Department of Defense. Nobody noticed the links that unite the spokesman for the french government. Then resumed within the Gaullist party tension that had been known thirty years earlier between the Gaullists and the right historical financial embodied by Balladur.

The novelty is that Charles Pasqua, and with him the young Nicolas Sarkozy betray Jacques Chirac to bring current Rothschild. While skids. The conflict reached its peak in 1995 when Édouard Balladur arises against his former friend Jacques Chirac in the presidential election and will be beaten.

Above all, following the instructions given by London and Washington, the Balladur government opened negotiations for accession to the European Union and NATO states in Central and Eastern Europe, freed from the Soviet tutelage.

Nothing is more in the Gaullist party where friends of yesterday are almost kill each other. To finance his election campaign, Edouard Balladur is trying to take over the black box Gaullist party, hidden in the double counting of the Elf oil. Barely old Stephen Léandri death, judges perquisitionnent society and its leaders are incarcerated. But Balladur, Pasqua and Sarkozy would never succeed to recover the loot.


The crossing of the desert Throughout his first term, Jacques Chirac wished Nicolas Sarkozy at a distance. The man kept a low profile during this long crossing the desert. Discreetly, he continues to build relationships in financial circles.


In 1996, Nicolas Sarkozy having finally managed to close a divorce proceeding that do not eventually married Cécilia. They witnessed two billionaires Martin Bouygues and Bernard Arnaud (the richest man in the country).


Last act Well before the Iraq crisis, Frank Wisner Jr. and his colleagues at the CIA planned the destruction of the current Gaullist and the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy.

They act in three stages:
first the elimination of the Gaullist party leadership and taking control of that device, then the elimination of main rival right and the inauguration of the Gaullist party in the presidential election, finally the elimination of any serious challenger left to be certain of winning the presidential election.

For years, the media are held spellbound by the posthumous revelations of a property developer. Before dying from a serious illness, he recorded for some reason never elucidated a confession on video. For some reason even more obscure, "cassette" fails in the hands of a hiérarque Socialist Party, Dominique Strauss-Khan, who sent indirectly to the press.

If the confession promoter does not lead to judicial sanction, they open a Pandora's box. The main victim of successive business will be Prime Minister Alain Juppé. To protect Chirac, it took only all criminal offences. The shelving of Juppe leaves the way open for Nicolas Sarkozy to take the party leadership Gaullist.

Sarkozy then uses his position to coerce Jacques Chirac to resume the government, despite their mutual hatred. It will ultimately, Minister of the Interior. Mistake! In this position, it controls the prefects and intelligence inside it uses to noyauter large administrations. It also Corsican affairs.

The prefect Claude Érignac was assassinated. Although it has not been claimed, the murder was immediately interpreted as a challenge launched by the separatist republic. After a long hunt, police managed to arrest a fugitive suspect, Yvan Colonna, son of a Socialist MP. Ignoring the presumption of innocence, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the arrest by accusing the suspect to be the assassin.


This is because the news is too good a two-day referendum that the Minister of the Interior organizes in Corsica to change the status of the island.

Anyway, voters rejected the draft Sarkozy who, according to some, promotes the interests mafia. Although qu'Yvan Colonna has subsequently been found guilty, he has always protested his innocence and no evidence was found against him. Strangely, the man was sealed in silence, preferring to be sentenced to reveal that what he sait.Nous reveal here that the prefect Érignac was not killed by nationalists, but a killer gunned down by a pledge, Igor Pecatte immediately exfiltré to Angola where he was committed to the security of the group Elf.


The motive for the crime was specifically related to the functions previously Érignac, head of the African networks of Charles Pasqua at the Ministry of Cooperation. As for Yvan Colonna, is a personal friend of Nicolas Sarkozy for decades and their children have attended.


A new case broke: false listings circulating that several personalities falsely accused of hiding bank accounts in Luxembourg, at Clearstream. Among those defamed: Nicolas Sarkozy.

He complained and implies that his right-wing rival in the presidential election, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, has organized this machination. He makes no secret of its intention to do so lay in prison.En reality, false listings have been put into circulation by members of the French-American Foundation [5], John Negroponte was president and Frank Wisner Jr. is a director .


What the judges are unaware of and that we reveal here is that the listings were manufactured in London by a pharmacy joint CIA and MI6, Hakluyt & Co, Frank Wisner Jr. is also defends itself by administrateur.Villepin what is the accused, but he is indicted, under house arrest and de facto rejected provisionally political life.


The track is free on the right for Nicolas Sarkozy.
It remains to neutralize the opposition candidates. Membership fees to the Socialist party are reduced to a symbolic level to attract new militants. Suddenly thousands of young people take their card. Among them, at least ten thousand new members are actually militants Party Trotskyist "lambertiste" (named after its founder Pierre Lambert).


This small formation of extreme left has historically placed at the service of the CIA against the Stalinist communists during the Cold War (It is the equivalent of SD / USA Shatchman Max, who trained the neoconservatives in the U.S. [6]) .


This is not the first time that "lambertistes" infiltrate the Socialist Party. They placed including two famous CIA agents: Lionel Jospin (who became Prime Minister) and Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the principal adviser to Dominique Strauss-Kahn [7]. The primary shall be held in the Socialist Party to nominate its presidential candidate. Two persons are in competition: Laurent Fabius and Ségolène Royal.


Only the first is a danger to Sarkozy. Dominique Strauss-Kahn enters the race with the mission to eliminate Fabius at the last moment. What he will do with the votes of the militants' lambertistes "infiltrators, who wear their votes not on his behalf, but on that of Royal.


The operation is possible because Strauss-Kahn has long been on the payroll of the USA. The French do not know that taught at Stanford, where he was hired by the prévot of the university, Condoleezza Rice [8].
Upon taking office, Nicolas Sarkozy and Condoleezza Rice thank Strauss-Kahn in so doing elect the direction of the International Monetary Fund.

First day at the Élysée On the evening of the second round of the presidential election, when polling institutes likely announce his victory, Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a brief speech to the nation since his campaign headquarters.


Then, contrary to all uses, it will not have fun with activists of his party, but he went to Fouquet's. The famous brewery des Champs-Elysees, which was once the rendezvous of the "Corsican Union" is now the property of casinotier Dominique Desseigne. It was made available to the president-elect to receive his friends and major donors to his campaign.

One hundred guests are upset, the richest men in France are to be found alongside the bosses of casinos.


Then the president-elect offered few days of well-deserved rest. Conduit to private Falcon-900 in Malta, he relies on Paloma, 65-metre yacht of his friend Vincent Bolloré, a billionaire formed the Rothschild Bank. Finally, Nicolas Sarkozy is invested president of the French Republic. The first decree signed is not to declare an amnesty, but to allow casinos and his friends Desseigne Partouche to increase slot machines.


He formed his team and his government. Unsurprisingly, there are a property owner of casinos disorder (the Minister of Youth and Sports) and casino lobbyist friend Desseigne (which becomes spokesman for the party "Gaullist").


Nicolas Sarkozy is based primarily on four men:
Claude Guéant, secretary general of the Elysée Palace. The former right-hand man of Charles Pasqua.François Pérol, deputy secretary general of the Elysée. That is an associate manager of Banque Rothschild.

Jean-David Lévitte, diplomatic adviser. Son of former director of the Jewish Agency. Ambassador of France to the United Nations, he was relieved of his duties by Chirac who deemed too close to George Bush.
Alain Bauer, the man in the shadows. His name does not appear in the directories.

He is in charge of intelligence services. Former Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (the main French Masonic obedience) and former No. 2 of the National Security Agency U.S. unienne in Europe [9].
Frank Wisner Jr., who was appointed in the meantime special envoy of President Bush for the independence of Kosovo, insisted that Bernard Kouchner was named foreign minister with a dual mission priority:
the independence of Kosovo and the liquidation of Arab policy of France. Kouchner began his career by participating in the creation of a humanitarian NGO.

Thanks to funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, he participated in the operations of Zbigniew Brzezinski in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden and brothers Karzai against the Soviets. It is found in the 90 years from Alija Izetbegoviç in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


From 1999 to 2001, he was High Representative of the UN in Kosovo. Under the supervision of the younger brother of President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan became the world's largest producer of poppy. The juice is processed into heroin on the spot and transported by the U.S. Air Force at Camp Bondsteed (Kosovo). Here, the drug is taken over by men Haçim Thaçi who sell mainly in Europe and incidentally the USA [10].


Profits are used to finance illegal operations of the CIA.Karzaï and Thaçi are personal friends of long-Bernard Kouchner, who certainly ignore their criminal activities despite international reports that have been spent.


To complete his government, Nicolas Sarkozy appoints Christine Lagarde, minister of Economy and Finance. It has his entire career in the USA where she headed the prestigious law firm Baker & McKenzie.

Within the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Dick Cheney, she co-chaired with Zbigniew Brzezinski a working group that oversaw privatization in Poland.


She organized an intense lobbying on behalf of Lockheed Martin against the aircraft manufacturer Dassault french [11]. New getaway during the summer. Nicolas, Cécilia, their common mistress and their children are being offered vacation U.S. uniennes to Wolfenboroo, not far from the property of President Bush. The bill this time is paid by Robert F. Agostinelli, a banker Italian-New York, Zionist and neo-conservative pure sugar, which is expressed in Commentary, the journal of the American Jewish Committee.


The success of Nicolas reflects on his half-brother Pierre-Olivier. Under the name américanisé "Oliver", he was appointed by Frank Carlucci (who was the No. 2 CIA after being recruited by Frank Wisner Sr.) [12] director of a new investment fund of the Carlyle Group (the joint venture management portfolio Bush and Ben Laden) [13].


Without special personal capacity, he became the 5th noueur of deals in the world and manages the largest assets of funds sovereign Kuwait and Singapore. The coast popularity of the president is plummeting in the polls. One of his advisers in communication, Jacques Séguéla, calls to divert public attention with new "people stories".

The announcement of a divorce with Cécilia is published by Liberation, the newspaper of his friend Edouard de Rothschild, to cover the slogans of the demonstrators a day of general strike. Stronger still, communicating organizes a meeting with the artist and former model, Carla Bruni.


A few days later, his liaison with the president is formalized and the media hype covers new political criticism. A few more weeks and this is the third marriage of Nicolas.


This time, he chose as witnesses Mathilde Agostinelli (Robert's wife) and Nicolas Bazire, former director of cabinet of Edouard Balladur became associate manager at Rothschild.

When the French will have eyes to see who they have to do?



Thierry Meyssan Policy Analyst, founder of Voltaire Network. Last book published: The Big Lie 2 (remodelling of the Middle East and the Israeli war against Lebanon). The information contained in this article were presented by Thierry Meyssan at the roundtable closing of the Eurasian Media Forum (Kazakhstan, 25 April 2008) devoted to peopolisation and glamour in politics. The interest aroused by this information led the author to write this article that was published by Profile, the main Russian news magazine today. Several versions and unauthorized translations of this article were distributed while the site Voltairenet was out of service. Please consider this article as the only valid. [1] When the stay-behind wearing De Gaulle to power, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, August 27, 2001 [2] When the stay-behind wanted to replace De Gaulle, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, September 10, 2001 [3] The Enigma Pasqua, by Thierry Meyssan, Golias ed, 2000. [4] Sharks. A network the heart of business, Julien Caumer, Flammarion, 1999. [5] A relay of the USA in France: the French American Foundation, by Pierre Hillard, Voltaire Network, April 19, 2007. [6] The New York Intellectuals and the invention of neo-conservatism, by Denis Boneau, Voltaire Network, 26 November 2004. [7] Eminencies grey, Roger Faligot and Remi Kauffer, Fayard, 1992, "The Origin of CIA Financing of AFL Programs" in Covert Action Quarterly, No. 76, 1999. [8] Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the man of "Condi" the IMF, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, October 5, 2007. [9] Alain Bauer, the SAIC to GOdF Note Information Network Voltaire, 1 October 2000. [10] The Kosovo government and organized crime, by Jürgen Roth, Horizons and debates, April 8, 2008. [11] With Christine Lagarde, the U.S. industry between the french government, Voltaire Network, June 22, 2005. [12] The Honourable Frank Carlucci, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 11 February 2004. [13] The hidden financial ties of Bush and Ben Laden and The Carlyle Group, a business insider, Voltaire Network, 16 October 2001 and February 9, 2004.
Plus: Debate on Agoravox on the "censorship" of the network site VoltaireSite network Voltaire Last interview with Thierry Meyssan http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=43016

5/08/2008

French Musicians against French President Sarkozy

The anti-Sarko music is not closed
« No doubt to be allowed keep silent! »
Rap, punk, rock and the same French song: artists let off stream against the president. On the Web, in studios and same front Of Fouquet

http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/hebdo/parution/p2270/articles/a374261-.html


Often, when he(it) walks(works) in the street of his(its) step dancing, Djamal the musician, a shade(shadow) of mustache and the cap back to front, turns around to see if he is not followed. Succeed in meeting him(it) holds some treasure hunt. Parano? Not safe(sure). For some months, he happened of funny things. His(her,its) mail reaches him(her) systematically unsealed. His(her,its) mobile phone mysteriously began posting(showing) four times in succession the numbers of his(her) correspondents. Twice, the page which he(it) had created on Myspace disappeared without explanation. When he(it) opens his(its) jacket, he(it) shows the black T-shirt which he(it) does not leave: Nicolas Sarkozy's photo blocked by a slogan: « he will never be my president, no, Torapamavoa Nicolas. »

Djamal is « Minister of the anti-propaganda » of " Republik torapamavoyenne », « collective to gigoteur anti-Sarkozy ». His(her) accomplices are « minister's wife of countercurrents », « of the anti-depression » or « Secretary of State of the subversive creation ».

Consisted in 2006, "Torapamavoa Nicolas» became a tube on the web.Two titles(securities), "Castoapovcon» (after Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in the Agricultural show) and « Speaks to my dwarf », allegedly rappés by « Carla Fatale and Cécilia Bazooka », follow the same road. In everything, more than 3 million seen videos! For the first anniversary(birthday) of Nicolas Sarkozy's arrival to the Elysee, a parody of « The cash, it is smart » (Le Fric c'est chic) , version karaoke of the global success of the end of 1970s, starts in whirlwind. Freakt out by Chic.

On the site ( 1 ) which he(it) animates(stimulates) with his(her) friends, Djamal created, actually, a hyperreactive, subversive and playful news agency where « France according to » is peeled(analysed), mocked, reviled. « No doubt to be allowed keep silent », says Djamal, in the pretext about which the universal suffrage spoke and that, circulate, there would be nothing more to see...



Le Fric C'est Chic Sarkozy un an ! Torapamavoa Musique Video
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Not easy nevertheless, since his(her,its) election, to hold the rhythm of the contesting " antiSarko ". « When the French people voted, it is difficult for an artist to go against the universal suffrage. As far as, notably in the world of the rap, there was an illness to support Ségolène. They were against Sarkozy, but for nobody, underlines Laurent Bournot, general manager of the programs of Skyrock. And then the bling-bling side, the jabberism of which they can feel close, the ostentatious wealth can please a part(party) of the young people. »
Henceforth, it is the mockery which gets the upper hand. So, « to celebrate the first anniversary(birthday) of the young » in his(her) way, the humorist Christophe Alévêque ( 2 ) again gathered(combined) his(her) " choir of the thousand doves » in front of him(it) Of Fouquet, resuming(taking back) the kitschissime song intoned by Mireille Mathieu place of Concorde in the evening of the election of his favorite president. « I shall not calm down! », this acid clown warns who cannot refrain from scratching there where that already hurts. « On May 6th, 2007, we had looked the electoral evening with friends. It was unreal. When we heard(understood) the speech of the guru, looked at Cécilia who wanted to bite him(it) and heard(understood) Mireille Mathieu, there, we did not any more want to laugh. I put the image of the TV in black and white. Astounding! We would have considered returned in the years Guy Lux. That, the break? It was not any more tomorrow. It was the day before yesterday. » Manu Larrouy, him, is a perfect stranger. A young thirty-year old composer-songwriter in the speeds(looks) of contemporary troubadour, who, meagerly fed for ten years by the RMI, defines himself as " a modern poet ". In some months, he(it) is going to take(bring) out his(its) first disk to Mb Town. Main title: « a guy in the cool ». « In France of right, the one who cracks himself her(it) », he(it) prevents(warns), in a ballad bittersweet, « I will not go to dance this evening in Of Fouquet ». On Web, the parodies of « Somebody said to me » of Carla Bruni are whispered to the vitriol. « Mickey said to me », hummed by one made languid in short skirt with pea and big cuddly ears, is doubtless the version most soft: « to I am told that a RMI, that does not cost much / And that the homeless persons do not feel(smell) the rose / We say that the president is a perfect bastard / that the purchasing power, he(it) fights the coconut... » In the realm of the big to défouloir, punk versions, tecktonik, R*B, rap, heavy metal or French song, there is for all the tastes. Sarkophage, punk-rock group, opened its site ( 3 ). "Sarkocescu», one of his(her) presenters(driving forces), badge(swipe card) of Rachida Dati version Bazooka in the lapel(backhand) of its perfecto and Prof. of socio in civilian life, explains that the group plays everywhere in France when the bosses of theater or bar « do not cancel at the last moment by fear, with the similar name, of a descent of cops ». Amateur videos posted on internet are registered(recorded) in a maid's room, a house in the suburbs or straight from the pavement, according to the stage setting henceforth ground by the singers-worship of « the Song of Sunday » (4), the small absurd but more and more political jewel in the course of time(weather) - of Clément Marchand and Alexandre Castagnetti: 9 million videos seen since February, 2007!

Music producer, Loïk Dury who presided(officiated) for ten years on Radio Nova makes the tour(ballot) of France of the premises of recording with the groups of which he takes charge. « It is there, he tells, that of perfect strangers come all the tribes of the music let off stream on every Saturday evening. » When we tighten(stretch out) the ear, behind the pad doors, with for only weapons a guitar, a battery(drum kit) and a microphone, it is always the same song: « Fuck Sarko! » But naturally, that will never pass on the radio.

(1) Http://torapamavoa.blogspot.com
(2) Http: // www.aleveque.com
(3) Http: // www.sarkophage.propagande.org
(4) Http: // www.lachansondudimanche.com












Agathe Logeart
The New Observer
Nouvel Observateur

3/03/2008

Der Spiegel : A provocation of Paris


Sarkozy meets Merkel

France meets Deutchland and..

Sarkozy acts for his legend of Speedy Sarkozy !
French president Sarkozy has again and again infuriated the german governement not just by abrupt cancellations of long-planned summits and by very undiplomatically speaking his mind. Many of his foreign-policy proposals are tough provocations for Angela Merkels governement and franco -german political relations have not been this bad for decades as a result......

But Merkel had hardly sat down before her host jumped up and informed her that their time was up. He said that he had scheduled a press conference and that the journalists were already waiting outside. But, Merkel said, we've only had a chance to talk about three or four issues. No, no, Sarkozy replied, he had planned everything quite thoroughly. It would be great.

With that, Sarkozy transformed the first-ever exchange between the countries' future leaders into a PR event. And now, with Sarkozy having been in office for less than a year, fears that the man in charge at Elysée Palace isn't completely reliable have been confirmed. It has been a long time since a French president has so sorely tested the patience of the German government.

Anything but Friendly from a German Perspective

It's not so much the self-promotion that seems to drive Sarkozy's foreign policy -- officials at the chancellery and at the foreign ministry in Berlin have become used to that. For instance, he claimed that the EU's new Lisbon Treaty came about mainly due to his superior negotiating skills. He also made sure the world was aware that he alone was to thank for the release of five Bulgarian nurses from Libyan prisons last summer. Sarkozy likes to invoke the "great friendship" that he insists unites him with "dear Angela," but what he then says and does is often anything but friendly, at least from a German perspective.


FROM THE MAGAZINE
Find out how you can reprint this DER SPIEGEL article in your publication. But now Sarkozy's impulsiveness has truly infuriated the Germans. Many in Berlin now wonder if he is at all interested in good relations with his German neighbors after he cancelled a long-planned meeting with Merkel in the Bavarian town of Straubing, originally scheduled to take place on Monday. Sarkozy, his aides said, was unable to attend the meeting because of his "overbooked schedule," as if a meeting with the German chancellor were some minor event. Meanwhile, Sarkozy traveled to South Africa, as planned, and he apparently found enough wiggle room on his calendar for an excursion to Chad. Instead of the Straubing summit, the two will meet on Monday night in Hanover for a brief working dinner after opening the IT trade fair CeBIT together.

A tête-à-tête between German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück and his French counterpart Christine Lagarde, which had been scheduled for last Tuesday, also had to be cancelled. Sarkozy, who had scheduled last-minute visits to a number of factories in the French countryside, wanted Lagarde to accompany him instead.

No Clarification

But it's not just appointment books that have recently been at odds. The French president has not proven shy about brainstorming on the foreign policy front. But most of his ideas are received in Berlin as provocations. One example is his proposal to establish a Mediterranean union (more...) that would strengthen ties with North African and Middle Eastern nations. German diplomats see it as an attempt to establish a French-dominated, second-tier EU as a counterweight to the EU's expansion into Eastern Europe, which benefits the Germans geographically. So far the French have avoided explaining what, exactly, they envision, and even a visit by presidential advisor Henri Guaino in mid-February provided no clarification.


REUTERS
Berlin is not a fan of Sarkozy's Mediterranean union.
Sarkozy's latest initiatives are of the foreign policy variety, already a difficult topic for Merkel given the controversy over the German military's Afghanistan operations. When France assumes the rotating EU presidency in July, Sarkozy will launch a veritable eruption of ideas -- promoting more energy security, a cleaner environment and better integration of immigrants. But the most important item on his agency will be the question of how Europe can better protect itself against its enemies.

So far, the exact contours remain vague, but judging by what has been leaked in Brussels so far, the restless Frenchman has big plans. For example, Sarkozy wants to completely reconfigure the EU's defense structures. If the president has his way, the organization's six biggest countries -- Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland -- will join forces to form an elite group. He envisions a European military core -- not unlike the euro zone with its shared currency or the Schengen Agreement which guarantees borderless travel.

The plans for a combined fighting force are already well along. Each of the six member states would provide 10,000 troops, an effort that would eclipse all joint combat forces to date. The idea, though, is hardly new. As far back as 1999, the EU agreed to form a 60,000-man military European Rapid Reaction Force, but the plan petered out due to insufficient participation.

Not Cheap for EU Partners

As an alternative, the EU decided to establish "Battle Groups" consisting of 1,500 troops each, which, at the urging of the French and the British, were intended primarily for missions in Africa. But the program has never been a true success, suffering from chronic staffing shortages because, again, few of the EU partners are interested in participating.

For Sarkozy, there are two main reasons to promote a European military. The plan makes it easier for him to fully re-integrate France into NATO, which he has declared to be an important goal of his presidency. It would also help him get other nations on board for military excursions in France's former African colonies -- support he would need when, as he plans, the size of the French army is reduced.

Clearly this would not come cheaply for his EU partners, but that appears to be a secondary concern for Sarkozy. According to the French plan, each of the "Big Six" would be required to devote 2 percent of its gross domestic product to the military effort. But aside from France and Great Britain, the other four countries envisioned for the six-nation military core currently spend less on defense. Germany, for example, spends only 1.2 percent of GDP on its military. In the current climate, it is hard to imagine that a majority in the German parliament would support expanding the country's current defense budget of €29 billion ($43.5 billion) to the €50 billion ($75 billion) the French plan would require. Berlin has consistently rejected similar demands from Washington.


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The situation at NATO is a case in point for how uninhibited -- some would say inconsiderate -- the French are in pursuing their interests in Europe. It remains unclear how the French military, which left the military structure of the alliance in 1966 at the behest of then President Charles de Gaulle, could be reintegrated today. Nevertheless, French military reconnaissance teams are already scouting the terrain at NATO command centers to determine which of the 16,000 positions they could fill with their own people in the future. In doing so, they have made it clear that their president will not be satisfied with third- or fourth-tier positions.

Since the alliance was established close to 60 years ago, a US general has traditionally held the top position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACEUR. At the Mons, Belgium headquarters of John Craddock, who currently holds the position, a Briton serves as his deputy and a German performs the demanding task of chief of staff. All three officers hold the rank of a four-star general.

A German officer recently asked French Army Chief of Staff Jean-Louis Georgelin whether Paris, in return for agreeing to return to the NATO fold, would demand that a second, French deputy be installed. "What do you mean, 'deputy?'" the Frenchman replied. "I want to be SACEUR!"

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,539003,00.html

Sarkozy Carlyle and 911 ...



Carlyle Hires UBS’s Sarkozy for Financial Deals


March 3, 2008, 8:10 am

The Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, said Monday that it had hired Oliver Sarkozy, one of UBS’s top investment bankers for financial services deals, to work as co-head of a similar practice.
Mr. Sarkozy, the joint global head of UBS’s financial institutions group (and half-brother to French president Nicolas Sarkozy), will join Carlyle in April and will remain based in New York.

His group will search for investment opportunities amid today’s global banking and credit crisis.
“Olivier is a remarkable addition to our financial services team,”

David Rubenstein, a Carlyle co-founder and managing director, said in a statement. “He has an incredible track record and network that will help Carlyle capitalize on the dislocation in the financial services sector and extend our record of success to this important and growing part of the global economy.”
Before UBS, Mr. Sarkozy worked at Credit Suisse. Some of the deals he has worked on over the past year include ABN Amro’s sale of LaSalle Bank to Bank of America and Sallie Mae’s attempt to sell itself to a group of investors.



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NB :
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0522-07.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNPJ9utU9sI

French President Sarkozy : "f**k off, asshole!" somebody even did a nice little rap song on this

http://walisabeth.blogspot.com/2008/03/casse-toi-pauvre-con.html

Casse-toi, Pauvre con!

I know, I know, it took me a while to react to this one - I

really did not have time until today to go and look for stuff on this "incident" involving our favorite Chief of State.To make a long story short, while visiting the Salon de l'Agriculture last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was, as expected, shaking everyone's hand. At one point, an individual for whose hand he was reaching told him this:


- Ah non, touche-moi pas... (Oh no, don't touch me...)
To which Sarko replied: - Casse-toi, alors... (beat it, then...)
The guy went on, saying (note the use of the "tu"):- Tu me salis... (you're making me dirty...)
Sarko then went a bit ballistic and sent him off with:
- Casse-toi, alors, pauvre con.

(a mild translation would be "beat it, jerk!", but personally, I am going with "f**k off, asshole!")
Yeah, what a classy guy he is!


For your viewing pleasure, here is the video of this incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrWhcgeQWo

In the meantime, there's already pins and t-shirts circulating with those now famous words. Here's a good example:
The center of the first pin on the left reads:
"Ensemble, tout est possible" ("Together everything is possible,") which is the UMP (Sarko's party) slogan.
The center of the pin in the center reads:
"Pour une nouvelle politique de civilisation" ("For a new policy of civilized behavior.")
The center of the pin on the right reads:
"Pour le retour de la morale à l'école" ("For the return of good morality in schools.")

The small note at the bottom right of the image says "Déjà testé sur personne âgée" ("Already tested on Senior Citizens.")


And somebody even did a nice little rap song on this (the video quality is pretty poor, but the lyrics are rather cool):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4i9pt_rap-du-casse-toi-pauvre-con-chanson_music



Rap du "Casse toi pauvre con" Chanson Sarkozy "Castoapovcon"
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2/24/2008

Sarkozy insult a french old men : "get out, get out, poor jerk"

An old men refuse to shake hands with Sarkozy and..

the Old men :
"Not me, don't touch me
you're making me dirty"

French President Sarkozy :
"Cet out ..get out Poor jerk !"
French President Sarkozy keep smiling ...

2/20/2008

" we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.


Sects " are a non-problem " in France

NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 20.02.2008 ¦ 12:56
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Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet(office), considers that " the list established in 1995 is scandalous " and that " we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.

Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet(office) ( Sipa)


Sects " are a non-problem " in France. It is what claims Emmanuelle Mignon, the manager of cabinet(office) of the president Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday, February 20th, in an interview(maintenance) to the weekly VSD. She adds that " we can wonder " on the threat represented by the Scientology.
" The fight(wrestling) against sects allowed for a long time to hide the true subjects. But, in France, sects are a non-problem ", judges this close to the Head of State.
" The list established in 1995 is scandalous ", she adds, evoking the list of the " sectarian movements " finalized(worked out) then by the Parliamentary committee of inquiry on sects.

" We can wonder "

" As for the Scientology ", which appeared in this list, " I do not know them, but we can wonder. Either it is a dangerous organization and we forbid him(it), or then they do not represent particular threat for the law and order and they have the right(law) to exist in peace ", underlines Emmanuelle Mignon.
The French parliamentary reports(connections) consider that the Church of Scientology is a sect. The Scientology benefits however from the status of religion in the other countries, notably in the United States.

Miviludes soon connected inside

Emmanuelle Mignon indicates that the government plans "to transform" Miviludes (interministerial Mission of attentiveness and fight(wrestling) against the sectarian drift), established with the Prime Minister, " into something more effective and to finish it with the bla-bla ". " To part to publish annual reports, Miviludes makes nothing ", she accuses.
According to the manager of cabinet(office) of the president, " the idea would be to connect this new body to the Home Office, to collaborate more strictly with the services of police. The rest has to recover from the justice ".

" Assure(insure) the freedom of faith of all "

Michele Alliot-Marie, home secretary in charge of Worship(Cults), boosted(relaunched) the debate on sects at the beginning of February. She(it) notably questioned the functioning of Miviludes, as this one is exactly the object of criticisms(critics) of movements as the Scientology.
In an interview(maintenance) to the Parisian, the Minister confided(entrusted) will " to do wonders for the self-confidence of the fight(wrestling) against sectarian drift " and " to assure(insure) the freedom of faith of all ".
Several associations, among which Unadfi (national Union of the associations of defence of families and individual), had declared themselves " touched and annoyed " by these statements(declarations).
The church of Scientology said to itself the week last victim of " violations of the law of 1905 " on the separation of Churches and the State and asked that her members benefit from the freedom of conscience recognized in the Constitution.

" The faith spreads(diffuses) values "

Miviludes has to present its report(relationship) 2007 to François Fillon at the beginning of April, indicated the body on Saturday, clarifying that it is the leader of the government that means deciding to make public this report(relationship) or not.
A working document, stemming from a common meeting of the advice(council) of orientation and from the executive committee of Miviludes held on February 7th, was passed on on Friday to the various concerned ministries (Inside, Justice, Health).
Emmanuelle Mignon underlines besides that Nicolas Sarkozy is the first French president to have said that " the spiritual question has to play a role in the company(society) ".
" The collection of sense(direction) was so important certainly never as today. The faith spreads(diffuses) values, and all which spreads(diffuses) values is positive ", she assures(insures)

2/19/2008

Sarkozy would enter anti-Muslim in the government after the elections

A new step in fear is crossed.

Sarkozy would enter anti-Muslim in the government after the elections

"In France today" announces the possibility of the entry of Philippe de Villiers to the government after the municipal elections, launching a right turn to the Right.
The extreme right is not anti-Semitic speech but only anti anti Arabs and Muslims, which is why this demarche is shameful!
It says in this article:
"Nothing is done, we're just talking about it "

Sarkozy accused of raids 'stunt'

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris The Guardian, Tuesday February 19 2008


Advertising guide License/buy our content About this articleClose This article appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday February 19 2008 on p22 of the International section. It was last updated at 10:16 on February 19 2008. More than 1,000 French riot police and special forces raided housing estates in a troubled Paris suburb at dawn yesterday, kicking open doors and arresting 33 people in a search for the suspected ringleaders of violent riots last year.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's political opponents called the operation an excessive "security spectacle" after pictures of armoured police trucks and "RoboCop" riot police were broadcast by television reporters tipped off in advance. Leftwingers accused Sarkozy, who is suffering in the polls, of trying to bolster his UMP party ahead of local elections next month.

The operation focused on 10 apartment blocks in Villiers-le-Bel and the surrounding area north of Paris, which saw three nights of serious rioting last November after two teenagers died in a motorbike crash with a police car. Although the unrest was contained within a few days, it was more serious than weeks of rioting in 2005 because the Villiers-le-Bel rioters fired guns at the police. During the unrest, 130 officers were injured, including at least 10 hit by buckshot or pellets.

Sarkozy vowed to track down the riot ringleaders "one by one". In December police leafleted the estates offering cash rewards for information. This month, launching an aid package for France's troubled high-rise blocks, where youth unemployment can reach 40%, Sarkozy vowed a "war without mercy" on crime.

The labour minister, Xavier Bertrand, said the arrests of people aged 17 to 31 showed "there is no zone of lawlessness in our republic". But the socialist Ségolène Royal said launching the raids with cameras in tow during an election period served "to influence opinion, to scare".

Sarkozy has sunk to his lowest ever poll ratings. This weekend politicians, including the former conservative prime minister Dominique de Villepin and Royal, signed an appeal against the emergence of an "elective monarchy" in France. They did not name Sarkozy, but delivered a thinly veiled attack against a monarchic form of "purely personal power".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/france?gusrc=rss&feed=media

2/14/2008

These twenty Africans thinkers and artists have decided to fight vigorously (and rigor!) Arguments Nicolas Sarkozy




A group of African intellectuals have decided to give a replica drawing attention to the real issues, on the key issues facing the old continent ... What is the actual responsibility of Africans in the intolerable suffering people suffered (violence genocide, fratricidal wars, dictatorships, waste and looting of resources, persistent colonial pact, etc.).




What role for Africa in globalization? How to combat the collusion of the State french with dictators of the continent?




How to put an end to the ugly manipulation of Independence by the French political class? How to combat revisionism devious who rewrote the history of the slave trade and colonization? Why racist arguments can be developed on African soil by the Head of State power of a modern, a colonizer countries also?




What effects such things can have on African youth in danger of being locked into outdated stereotypes?




These twenty thinkers and artists have decided to fight vigorously (and rigor!) Arguments Nicolas Sarkozy and, more importantly, to broaden the debate to the real challenges facing Africa today and tomorrow.
http://kouamouo.ivoire-blog.com/archive/2008/02/13/discours-de-dakar-l-afrique-repond-a-sarkozy.html
Liste provisioire des auteurs• lire la suite ...
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Zohra Bouchentouf-Siagh : professeur de linguistique et de littérature française et francophone (Alger, Vienne)
• Demba Moussa Dembélé : économiste (Dakar)
• Mamoussé Diagne : essayiste, professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne : essayiste, professeur (Dakar, Chicago)
• Boubacar Boris Diop : écrivain (Dakar)
• Babacar Diop Buuba : professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Dialo Diop : médecin biologiste (Dakar)
• Makhily Gassama : essayiste (Dakar)
• Koulsy Lamko : écrivain, professeur (N’Djaména)
• Gourmo Abdoul Lô : avocat, professeur (Nouakchott, Le Havre)
• Louise-Marie Maes Diop : géographe (Dakar)
• Kettly Mars : romancière (Haïti)
• Mwatha Musanji Ngalasso : essayiste, professeur (Université Montaigne, Bordeaux)
• Patrice Nganang : écrivain, essayiste, professeur (Cameroun, USA)
• Djibril Tamsir Niane : écrivain, historien (Conakry)
• Théophile Obenga : égyptologue, linguiste, historien, professeur (France, Université d’État de San Francisco USA)
• Raharimanana : écrivain (Madagascar)
• Bamba Sakho : docteur en sciences, chercheur (France)
• E. H. Ibrahima Sall : économiste
• Mahamadou Siribié : doctorant en Science politique (Nice, France)
• Adama Sow Diéye : professeur (Université Ch. Anta Diop, Dakar)
• Odile Tobner : professeur (Cameroun, France)
• Lye M. Yoka : professeur (Kinshasa)

USA will be able to send more troops to Iraq ...



Who thanks Nicolas ?




USA will be able to send more troops to Iraq ...
Genial ...
Http://www.20minutes.fr/article/212224/France-Afghanistan-le-contingent-militaire-francais-sera-accru.php

France plans to send reinforcements of soldiers in southern Afghanistan to support the efforts of NATO troops based in the region.



Paris had so far refused any deployment of combat units.
But the French authorities had decided last week in Vilnius, to meet the expectations pressing the United States and Canada, countries involved militarily in the region.
The president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is expected to officially announce the deployment of soldiers french at the summit of heads of state and government of NATO countries, scheduled from 2 to 4 April in Bucharest.

Olivier Roy, an expert in the Muslim world (CNRS) and author of The Cross and chaos (Hachette), told 20minutes.fr the issues involved in this decision.

What is the role of the International Force Security Assistance (Sailing), the NATO force in Afghanistan?
This force is responsible for fighting the Taliban. It is based in the south around Kandahar, with close to 15,000 men. The United States and Europe are committed after long months in the region, without conducting the same operations. The American contingent was fighting against the Taliban, while the Europeans were responsible for maintaining peace.
These two forces were merged two years ago to combat all Afghan Islamists.
The operation by Sailing is unique because it is the only case in which the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance are deployed outside the European area of operations for fighting.

Why did the United States and Canada have warned the Europeans last week?

The Americans have asked the European countries of NATO to intervene more in Afghanistan to be able to disengage their troops and redeploy in Iraq. Washington is based on the broad consensus as to the European intervention in Afghanistan.
They want to push the burden on the region to focus on Iraq.
Canadians for their part, should cope with a public increasingly reluctant. Afghanistan is an expensive undertaking. Nearly 80 soldiers have already died.


What are the implications of the French decision?
The real issue is political. The United States want to continue fighting. And the British want to enter into negotiations with the Taliban. The Europeans, including France, have not yet spoken on the issue, but look for the path of discussions.

France is going to be a prime target for terrorist acts because of this commitment in Afghanistan?
I do not think because France is already present in the region. There is no direct connection between the activities of European countries abroad and attacks on national territory. In speeches terrorists, perhaps, but not in deed.



For the New york Fashion website SarkozA is the bruni's husband

For the website http://nymag.com/

French president Sarkozy is "SarkozA" !



http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/tags/nicolas%20sarkoza

Bruni 'sorry' for comparing critics to anti-Semitic collaborators


Carla Bruni Should Not Have Indirectly Mentioned the Holocaust


http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/02/carla_bruni_should_not_have_me.html

In her first interview since marrying French president Nicolas Sarkozy, former model Carla Bruni vented to L'Express about rival French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.

Here's what the mag did to upset the Sarkozys:
Last week, the magazine's website published a copy of what it claimed was a text message from M. Sarkozy to his divorced wife, Cécilia, eight days before M.Sarkozy was to marry Mme Bruni.

Le Nouvel Observateur said M. Sarkozy had offered to "drop everything" if his former wife returned to him. M. Sarkozy has since denounced the story as false and started a legal action against the magazine for "forgery" and, puzzlingly, "receiving stolen goods".


Le Nouvel Observateur is an "intelligent" news magazine, but Bruni accused it of stooping to the level of something like Us Weekly. And then she made the mistake of adding, "If these types of website had existed during the war, how many denunciations of Jews would there have been?" Ouch, Carla. The editor of the Observateur said the comparison was unfair and called Bruni "perfectly stupid." But Bruni kept it classy with an immediate apologetic statement on L'Express' Website. "If I upset anyone, I am extremely sorry … I just wanted to say how badly I view these personal attacks, which degrade reporting," she said.

So what did we learn, Carla? Don't bandy about with the references to Jewish persecution. Your text-messaging kerfuffle probably isn't in the same ballpark.

Episode 2 :

Bruni 'sorry' for comparing critics to anti-Semitic collaborators


By John Lichfield in Paris
Thursday, 14 February 2008


The new French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, apologised yesterday for comparing a magazine website to French collaborators who "denounced Jews" during the 1939-45 war.


In her first interview since her marriage 11 days ago, the Franco-Italian pop singer stumbled unnecessarily into one of the most sensitive issues in recent French history. However, she recovered, and gained considerable credit, by making an almost instant apology.

In an interview with the magazine L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy, 40, complained about the behaviour of a rival news magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. Last week, the magazine's website published a copy of what it claimed was a text message from M. Sarkozy to his divorced wife, Cécilia, eight days M.Sarkozy was to marry Mme Bruni.

Le Nouvel Observateur said M. Sarkozy had offered to "drop everything" if his former wife returned to him. M. Sarkozy has since denounced the story as false and started a legal action against the magazine for "forgery" and, puzzlingly, "receiving stolen goods".

In her interview with L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy accused Le Nouvel Observateur – an intelligent centre-left magazine – of stooping to the level of the "Presse people" or celebrity press. Then she went on: "If these types of website had existed during the war, how many denunciations of Jews would there have been?"

The editor of Nouvel Observateur, Michel Labro, protested that no one should "play with" accusations based on such a dark period in history. He accused Mme Bruni-Sarkozy of being "perfectly stupid".

The first lady immediately placed a statement on the L'Express website admitting that the comment was a "mistake". "If I upset anyone, I am extremely sorry," she said. "I just wanted to say how badly I view these personal attacks, which degrade reporting."

In the remainder of her interview with L'Express, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy addressed the anxiety of many older, conservative voters about her marriage to the President. She rejected the suggestion that the wedding – three months after they met and four months after the President's divorce – was hasty. "What happened between Nicolas and me was not quick, it was immediate. So for us, [getting married after three months] seemed rather slow."

The new first lady also returned to her comment – made a year ago before she met M. Sarkozy – that she found "monogamy deadly boring". That was when she was single, she implied. Marriage was different. "I am Italian in spirit and I don't like divorce. I will therefore be the first lady until my husband leaves office and his wife until death... That is my wish."

The Sarkozy-Bruni love affair and marriage has coincided with – and, pollsters say, helped to cause – a decline in the President's popularity. Mme Bruni-Sarkozy attempted in her interview to explain one of the incidents in the French press.

When the couple went on holiday to Egypt and Jordan in December, M. Sarkozy was pictured with her six-year-old son, Aurélien, on his shoulders. The boy was hiding his face in apparent embarrassment. Mme Bruni-Sarkozy said that it had been a "big error" to bring her son and a "mistake" to ask him to hide his face so he would not be recognised in the photographs.


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To save Deby Sarkozy invites Khadafi and delivers ammunition! Chad : Paris re-can have supported Chad against the rebels


14 févr. 2008

To save Deby Sarkozy invites Khadafi and delivers ammunition!
Theo Cheer.
Chad a point of view
Sms of Sarkozy with Idriss Deby...
Chad: Sarkozy does not want images
Chad: Paris lunatic any participation in the engagements again***


After many days of lies Paris officially help Idriss Deby against "Rebels"...

Paris re-can have supported Chad against the rebels
NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 14.02.2008 ¦ 13:36
According to the spokesman of the ministry of the Defence, the French army " forwarded ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths ".

In a street of the Chadian capital N'Djamena (Reuters)

The spokesman of the ministry of the Defence Laurent Teisseire declared on Thursday, February 14th that the French army " forwarded ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths " during the offensive of the rebels against the regime of the president Idriss Déby."

The French means participated in the routing of ammunitions intended for the Chadian strengths ", indicated Laurent Teisseire, during the press briefing of the ministry.

The spokesman refused to clarify the nature of ammunitions and the quantities delivered to the Chadian national Army. He did not either clarify where from had left the French planes.

He(It) has by also indicated that Libyan planes would also have been able to deliver ammunitions to the Chadian regular strengths, underlining that several Libyan devices had settled(arisen) on the airport of N'Djamena during this crisis, to proceed to the evacuation of his(her) nationals.

"I Won't Shake Hands With People who Refuse to Recognize Israel"....


What kind of relation Sarkozy want with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ?


Few words :


"I Won't Shake Hands With People who Refuse to Recognize Israel"....


But what kind of acts ?


He said the same thing about VLADIMIR PUTIN ...

"To those who accused him of having met with Bush he respond that it was "shameful less than shake hands with Putin," and it was reminiscent of the tens of thousands of deaths from the war in Chechnya. "The new president has promised a new French vision of the world" "


but he was the first to congragulate Putin for his election.



Source :

PARIS
(Reuters)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he would
refuse to greet any world leader who refused to recognise Israel -- a remark
apparently ruling out any face-to-face meetings with Iran's Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.

Sarkozy made the off-the-cuff remark in a speech to the
French-Jewish community in which he reaffirmed his strong support for
international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme.


"I won't shake hands with people who refuse to recognise Israel," Sarkozy declared.

Ahmadinejad, Iran's hardline president, has in the past called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map".


France has led the way in pressing for sanctions at the U.N. Security Council and in the European Union to get Iran to halt atomic work which Western powers fear is aimed at making
bombs.

2/12/2008

If you have missed the most recent episodes in the Sarko soap opera, here is a brief update:


Nicolas Sarkozy: The problem with the president
He swaggered into the Elysée Palace on a promise to reinvent France for the 21st century. But after just eight months, Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity is plummeting – and his personal life is becoming a soap opera. Is he up to the job? John Lichfield reports



Tuesday, 12 February 2008


Imagine, for a moment, President Charles de Gaulle in dark glasses and dark roll-top jumper sitting at a café terrace in Versailles with his newly married pop-singer wife.Imagine also le Général in open-neck shirt and jeans on an Egyptian holiday. The tall, austere saviour of France is walking, hand in hand, with Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend. Her small son sits on his shoulders, looking embarrassed.


Imagine, for a moment, President Jacques Chirac in the Vatican, fiddling compulsively with the buttons of his mobile phone as his companions are being presented to the Pope. The presidential entourage includes, incidentally, France's most vulgar and foul-mouthed comedian, Jean-Marie Bigard, a kind of Gallic Bernard Manning.

Imagine, for a moment, President François Mitterrand receiving ministerial visits to his office in the Elysée Palace with his feet up on his desk. Worse, imagine the suave, icy President Mitterrand addressing almost everyone he meets with the familiar "tu", instead of the dignified and respectful "vous".

In his eight months as French head of state, Nicolas Sarkozy has done all these things and more. Genres have been confused, values muddled, conventions trampled, traditions overturned.

President Sarkozy promised last year to reinvent France for the 21st century, while preserving, or rekindling, "traditional values". He has started by reinventing – or, some say, desecrating – the French presidency.

The aloof, discreet, solemn, haughty, republican monarchy invented by Charles de Gaulle has become a non-stop blur of microphones, photo-opportunities, millionaire's yachts, Rolex watches, dark glasses, mobile phones, jeans, jogging shorts, a divorce, and now a trophy wife.

M. Sarkozy has become a kind of President "moi", governing with a mirror in one hand, seeking permanent, public attention and approval. In the last two weeks, however, events have started to spin out of the control of a man who is desperate to appear always in control.

If you have missed the most recent episodes in the Sarko soap opera, here is a brief update:

Less than four months after the spectacular break-up of his second marriage, the President who wants to restore "Catholic values" has married a beautiful, left-wing, libertarian pop-singer. His new bride, Carla Bruni, once said that she was "bored to death by monogamy".

According to a respected, centre-left magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, President Sarkozy sent a text message to his ex-wife Cécilia eight days before the marriage offering to "drop everything" if she came back to him. M. Sarkozy has brought a criminal action against the magazine for "forgery", but also for "receiving stolen goods". So, was the message a fake or was it "stolen"?

President Sarkozy's control over his own centre-right political party – almost complete two months ago – is under threat. Once again, his tangling of politics and family is to blame. The President tried to parachute his chief press officer, David Martinon, into the town hall of his own former fiefdom of Neuilly-sur-Seine, a millionaires' ghetto just west of Paris. M. Martinon, a close friend of M. Sarkozy's second, now ex-wife Cécilia proved to be a hopeless and unpopular candidate for mayor. He was forced to withdraw yesterday after a revolt by other local centre-right candidates, including Jean Sarkozy, 22, the President's son from his first marriage.

The soap-opera analogy is hardly far-fetched. With almost daily conflicts involving former wives, and confidants of former wives, and sons of previous marriages, the Elysée Palace has started to resemble the Ewing family ranch in Dallas. At first, even some of M. Sarkozy's political enemies found aspects of the informal, self-regarding Sarko style to be refreshing. There were some who argued that the new approach was part of a calculated attempt to change the way that France thinks of itself: to create a cult of success; to break down the old stuffy barriers between the French people and their ruling élite.

Now, many of President Sarkozy's supporters, and nominal allies, fear that the Sarko style may not be a style at all but an absence of style; a nouveau-riche vulgarité; a contempt for the importance of tradition; an arrogant belief that the office-holder is more important than the office.

Jean-Louis Debré, the president of France's constitutional council, part of a political dynasty with impeccable Gaullist and conservative credentials, caused a stir by saying publicly what many centre-right politicians are saying privately: President Sarkozy, as head of state, not a mere head of government, lacks "decorum" and "dignity".

"From the moment that you have been given a certain mission by the people, there are certain manners that you have to observe," said M. Debré, a member of the diehard Chiraquian wing of M. Sarkozy's centre-right party. "The authority of the state, and the legitimacy conferred upon you by the people, implies a certain decorum, a certain dignity of office ... You have to be careful not to desanctify your official function."

Many unpleasant remarks were attributed to the President's former wife Cécilia, by her biographer Anna Bitton earlier this month. She described her former husband as a serial "sauteur" (shagger) and a man who "loves no one, not even his children". She complained that M. Sarkozy had reacted to their divorce last October by holding "karaoke parties" with "bimbos" until four in the morning.

Attacks on an ex-husband by an ex-wife should, perhaps, be treated with caution. However, one relatively restrained comment by the second Mme Sarkozy was, maybe, the most telling of all: "Nicolas does not come over like a President of the Republic," she said. "He has a real behaviour problem. Someone needs to tell him."

For "someone" read a series of disastrous opinion polls. In a new Ipsos survey yesterday, to be published in full on Thursday, the President's approval rating will plunge to 39 per cent – 10 percentage points down in one month. Only President Chirac has ever fallen further and faster. One pollster said that many voters are beginning to wonder whether the Sarkozy of last year's election campaign – energetic, can-do, plain-speaking – had been, quite simply, an "imposter".

The President is losing ground especially among the socially conservative over-60s, precisely the constituency that gave him his handsome victory over the Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, last May. If the election had been held among voters aged 18 to 60 alone, Royal would have won.

A youngish député (MP) in M. Sarkozy's party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP), told The Independent: "The view of my older constituents can be summarised as follows: 'We could swallow his divorce, even if it was his second one, and even if it happened so soon after he became President. But to marry again, less than four months after a divorce, is the kind of thing that you would be devastated to see your youngest son doing, let alone the President of the Republic.'"

M. Sarkozy's abrupt collapse in the polls is attributed by pollsters to a dangerous chemical reaction between two negatives. First, there is disappointment that President Sarkozy has failed to deliver his promised "shock of confidence" that would boost the economy and disposable income. Second, there is a growing distaste for the President's glitzy, showbiz lifestyle and his casual treatment of the presidential office. French people gave M. Sarkozy a 60 per cent-plus approval ratings only five months ago. They are now beginning to ask, in the words of one pollster, whether he is "all blah-blah and bling-bling". Is Speedy Sarkozy in danger of spinning off the track?


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There was nothing wrong, in principle, with a change of presidential style. The old Mitterrand-Chirac act – I'm-all-powerful-but-not-always-responsible – was wearing thin. Both Mitterrand and Chirac upheld the pompous, avuncular traditions of the French presidency, but – as M. Sarkozy is quick to point out – both tainted the office in other ways. President Mitterrand secretly ran a second family. President Chirac manipulated the legal protections of his office to avoid criminal investigation for misuse of public funds.

There is something rather vulgar about M. Sarkozy, but his vulgarity and his energy are inseparable. Although he has been a politician since his twenties, he spent his formative years as mayor of the aforementioned millionaires' suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is not part of the traditional French ruling class: effortlessly superior and understated, sustained by "old money" or the administrative certainties of the system of the grandes ecoles, or élite colleges.

President Sarkozy represents a Nouvelle France of media and advertising, luxury goods and "new" money. The society in which he moves is brash, self-promoting and full of energy and ideas, although not always good ones. It was not an accident – although it might be read as a provocation – that the witnesses at his wedding came from the world of luxury goods, high fashion and pop music.

Some political analysts, such as Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, a lecturer in political philosophy at the Sorbonne, argue that Sarkozy's "bling-bling" presidency is partly uncontrolled (that's simply the way he is), and partly calculated. M. Sarkozy is obsessed, he says, with the need to break out of the straitjacket of "democratic mediocrity". He wants to seem ordinary but at the same time, extraordinary. He wants to be a pragmatic, can-do politician with a pop-star lifestyle. He believes that this is the way to remain popular in a world in which politicians are doomed to seem mediocre, or powerless, or both. M. Sarkozy detests the suggestion that, in global terms, national politicians are often helpless to control events. He has an almost psychotic need to have an answer, and a policy, and an ideology, for everything.

Fellow centre-right politicians believe that they have the key to this part of M. Sarkozy's personality. He is determined to be seen to be the "anti-Chirac". Where his old mentor was semi-detached, Sarkozy wants to be involved. Where the father-figure that he abandoned had no clear political philosophy, Sarkozy wants to be a political thinker (even if he never seems to think the same thing for very long). Where the president that he outwitted was old, and old-fashioned, Sarkozy wants to be a pop icon of the 21st century.

But where is President Sarkozy going? The much-trumpeted, mould-breaking economic reforms have been rather modest so far. Unabashed by a lack of concrete results, President Sarkozy has made a series of sweeping "vision" statements: on Africa; on religion and social values; and on the need for a new "politics of civilisation", which will dethrone growth and material success as the engines of Western life and politics. There has been much that is intelligent in these statements, and much that is disturbing and confusing.

After eight months in office, we are no closer to answering the questions raised by his presidential campaign. President Sarkozy, the man hailed simplistically by the British and American right-wing press as a Gallic Margaret Thatcher, remains an interventionist and a protectionist at heart.

Two days after his wedding, he was standing outside a threatened steelworks in Lorraine promising the workers that the cash-strapped French state would never let their mill – or any other steel mill – close. Later the same day, he flew to Bucharest, spent only four hours in Romania, irritating his hosts, and flew back again. The day afterwards, it emerged that there was no legal basis on which President Sarkozy could bale out a failing steelworks belonging to a profitable company.

President Sarkozy's friends and political allies hope that his marriage will calm him and take his private life out of the news. (Some hope, you might say, with a beautiful pop-singer for a wife). They believe that the French presidency of the EU in the second half of this year will feed his bulimic need for work and attention. After discovering that he cannot achieve instant results, President Sarkozy is now prepared, they say, to enter a more reflective and calm passage of his presidency. The break-up with Cécilia badly unsettled a man who is agitated at the best of times, they say. The idyll with Carla – genuine, they insist, whatever Le Nouvel Observateur might claim – will help him to adopt a more restrained and thoughtful approach.

One of the first outward signs, officials say, is the President's new ideology, the "politics of civilisation" – an appeal for a more ecological, less market-driven approach to the future of the planet and humanity. (Is this also the first sign of the influence of his new left-wing wife?) The policy is far from wrong-headed. It addresses, quite cleverly, the zeitgeist of the "late Noughties". Across Europe, even across the Atlantic, the public mood is slowly turning against the tyranny of growth and markets in favour of softer, greener values.

"We cannot hope to change our ways of doing things and our way of thinking if our definitions of wealth remain the same," President Sarkozy said last month. "We need to take into account quality, not only quantity, to promote a new kind of growth."

The problem is that President Sarkozy had previously promised to be the "president of purchasing power". He had previously promised to make France "work more to earn more". He had previously promised to make France the "fastest growing country in the EU". A politician defined by billionaires' yachts, Rolex watches, Dior engagement rings and trophy wives is perhaps not best placed to preach that happiness cannot be achieved through material possessions.

Contradictions have always been part of the Sarko package. What had once seemed refreshingly original, an ability to straddle the normal boundaries of party and ideology, is now beginning to look merely shallow: an adman's talent for hijacking and exploiting hot-button issues.

When he visited the Pope in December, President Sarkozy made a complex, very thoughtful speech that is still reverberating through French politics and society five weeks later. In a deliberate break with the ideology of a "lay" or secular Republic, which has dominated French politics for the last century, M. Sarkozy said that France needed "moral thinking, inspired by religious convictions".


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Another "imposture"? President Sarkozy is said by friends and family to be a fundamentally non-religious man. He rarely attends Mass. A couple of hours before his appeal for Catholic values, he fiddled with his mobile phone in front of the Pope. He brought a foul-mouthed stand-up comic – and devout Catholic – to Rome as part of his official delegation.

Politicians within M. Sarkozy's party – even his long-suffering, honorable Prime Minister, François Fillon – are struggling to keep up with the zigs and zags of "Sarkozisme". The president's inconsistencies, and rhetorical flourishes, are often blamed on his two most influential, unelected advisers, Henri Guaino, his speechwriter and "special councillor" and Claude Guéant, the secretary-general of the Elysée Palace. They are known as Sarkozy's "head and legs". They have become a kind of separate government, interfering – sometimes with unfortunate results – in domestic and foreign policy.

Both are Eurosceptic, market-sceptic, French nationalists. Both come from the old Gaullist tradition of a kind of paternalist, interventionist conservatism. Their influence infuriates the elected politicians in M. Sarkozy's party. So has his policy of "opening" his government to politicians of the centre-left, and inexperienced politicians of North African or African origin. The policy of racial "ouverture" was long overdue. It represents President Sarkozy's most important achievement to date.

All the same, UMP politicians – and not only those who feel cheated of ministerial posts – complain that M. Sarkozy's "openness" has led to an extraordinary concentration of power in the hands of one man. By promoting ministers from nowhere, or literally from left-field, President Sarkozy has excluded, or diminished, other centre-right politicians who had built power bases of their own.

Here is another paradox. By marginalising the Prime Minister, M. Fillon, President Sarkozy has made the presidency more powerful than ever. At the same time, he stands accused of weakening the sacred and symbolic power of the office, with his casual, and sometime thoughtless, behaviour.

"By leaping from one dossier to another, from Disneyland to the Vatican, from the world of politics to the high life, he seems to have no concern for the reputation of his office," said Jean-Pierre Le Goff, a sociologist who has just published a book on the rootlessness of modern France (La France morcelée, published by Gallimard). Sarkozy was elected on a promise to restore the moral bearings of France, allegedly progressively undermined since the student revolution of May 1968. Instead, M. Le Goff says, the President's odd behaviour has deepened the nation's already "profound sense of disorientation".

While M. Sarkozy was popular, his morass of contradictions was forgiven by his own supporters and, up to a point, by the French press. Since his collapse in the opinion polls, all bets are off.

Since the creation of an executive presidency in 1958, it has been the job of the French prime minister to be unpopular and shield the reputation of the president. The hyperactive M. Sarkozy has reversed the roles. He is plunging in the polls; his calm, thoughtful Prime Minister, François Fillon, is rising. This is unprecedented in modern French politics.

A section of the UMP – the party that M. Sarkozy brilliantly stole from under President Chirac's not-inconsiderable nose – is in open revolt. With municipal elections approaching in March, many centre-right candidates are scrambling to take the UMP colours and symbol off their literature and websites. This was happening even before the farcical calamity of M. Martinon's Sarko-inspired candidacy in Neuilly, the President's own power-base.

We have been here before, admittedly by a very different route. A French president sets out to be everything to everyone without doing much. He ends up by being unpopular with almost everybody. President Sarkozy, the anti-Chirac, may be more like Jacques Chirac than he thinks. But all is not lost. The President has more than four years in which to calm the excesses of his glitzy style. There is a difference, the French are telling him, between being youthful, informal, energetic and refreshing, and being inappropriate and annoying.

As France's most readable political commentator, Alain Duhamel, points out, the Sarko approach leaves no room for the undecided: "You worship him or you loathe him." If his reform policies begin to succeed, if the French economy turns upward (a big "if"), M. Sarkozy could become rapidly popular again.

All eyes will be on him and the new Mme Sarkozy when they make their first big state visit, on 26 March, to Britain. Of the two, it is perhaps France's First Lady who is less likely to do, or say, something disconcerting or embarrassing. A failed Sarkozy presidency would be a calamity, and not just for France. He sold himself to the French people as the energetic, pragmatic, democratic antidote to the extremes of both right and left. Except possibly the Prime Minister, M. Fillon, there is no obvious alternative to M. Sarkozy in the rest of the moderate French democratic landscape – on the right or the left.

Louis XV, the penultimate king before the French Revolution, is supposed to have said, "Après moi, le déluge". (After me, the flood or the downpour.) If M. Sarkozy fails, in a blaze of bling, France faces a similarly grim prospect. Après Président Moi, le déluge