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• • 06 Nov 07
  • 9:08 pm

  Kouchner the "Great Humanitarian" ? After a strong beginning, he has been promoting himself as such for decades now, but that idea should have been exploded by the mid-Nineties. Great success in Kosovo, wot ? The power of the medja again ! He is caricatured here as always carrying a sack of rice over his shoulder, an insider joke that at one time he always arranged for the TV cameras, and some humanitarian goodies to be delivered, wherever he went . This self-promotion worked for many french as well as Mr Zizek. "According to most of the polls, the main reason …

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• • 24 Oct 07
  • 5:52 pm

  Kuya, Your writing is exactly the same as that of General Sir David Ramsbotham. He was one of the recent "Her Majesty's Inspectors of Prisons" in the UK . H e was a soldier of the Queen, for forty years, and now he is pissing in the wind over prison reform. One very angry ex -soldier.

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• • 28 Oct 07
  • 1:01 pm

  nyjets -- victims of crime, and/or their relatives, have a wide variety of responses as to what should be done with the perps. Taking your argument to the extreme, we could do away with the courts' sentencing powers altogether . Then a pure question of luck as to what sort of family sentences you ? I did look it up, but am not 100l;ear on how bad an offence has to be to count as a "felony" in the US . Maybe it varies from one state to another, too ? One thing I do know is that white-collar criminals who …

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• • 01 Aug 07
  • 9:56 am

  The City of Cherbourg and other municipalities in France had a long fight too. It was worth it ! Meanwhile, the same companies are hard at work in Africa, etcetc ...

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• • 20 May 07
  • 8:11 pm

  Cabby and Heck disagree here and here, but seem both aghast at the disappearance of 'Real Jobs and Careers ' in the US ? I recently saw a french film, "Ma Mondialisation" , based on interviews, and travels to China, with a french CEO . His company was based ina valley full of such hi-tech enterprises, but now most have already been bought up by international Pension Funds, and the machines sold to India and China. He now has , within 5 years , to transfer ALL the production processes to China. Hitherto, he kept some back in france, the most …

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