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category international | racism & migration related issues | other press author Thursday November 08, 2007 15:20author by scorchio Report this post to the editors

One of the most serious issues of European exploitation, corrupt Charity activity & international relations Monday last saw Sarkozy play his "Super Sarko" role in a headline grabbing stunt the reaction to which has already bolstered calls for November 30th to be declared "No Sarko in Media Day". The government of Chad (in Africa) has started taking against so-called "charity" agencies who are accused of trafficking in children by arranging their adoption by European parents without the consent of their natural parents or surviving family or wards. This is a very big story which touches many other very important issues. In the last week both French & Spanish citizens were held in Chad under charges of "child-trafficking". The Spaniards included pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the jet on which the children would have been flown out of the state by the "Zoe's Ark" charity.


Quite obviously this was a moment for diplomacy accompanied by photos of nationals languishing far from home scared shitless they'd never see their families again. Par for the course. & so too it was.

Then superSarko flew out to Chad on Monday aboard the French equivalent of "Air force one", had a chat with the president of that state & brought the Spanish air hostesses to Madrid on the same plane where naturally his impromtu visit dragged Zapatero out of the office to shake his hand whilst looking suitably grateful, institutional & of course inept or incapable. Super Sarko took off again without even stopping for a milky coffee & amidst whatever fighter jets they scramble to protect these kind of unannounced visits prepared himself to address the US Congress.

The child adoption story did not begin nor end with the arrest of 16 Europeans (nine French and seven Spanish) facing charges for trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.http://allafrica.com/stories/200711060185.html Indeed both Spanish & French foreign ministries, ministers and civil servants you never notice & hard-working diplomats are still trying to sort out the mess.

Chad is reported today to be investigating at least 74 cases.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/a...9.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/08/africa/AF-GEN...n.php
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1762452007

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No Sarko day :-
Maybe it began as a joke, or perhaps it started out as a groaning sigh of utter exasperation. But as with all such stifled cries, sentimental of other times & another France - there's something in it.
I reckon most Irish people have little idea of how much Sarko there is in the French & European media these days. Not a day goes by without a Sarko story, spin, adventure or gurgle. Accordingly commercial newspapers on the left have already devoted their "multimedia" sections to reflecting an increasing frustration felt by many at the style of Nicolas Sarkozy. He appears to have absorbed all the worst media management tactics of the Blairs' built on the ignoble foundations of JFK (his first Elysee photo showed him with the now estranged first lady & one of the first brats playing under the table - a panifully obvious visual reference to JFK's "camelot" photo of the early 60's). But nicknames don't go far enough. Berlusconi's media empire and status as communication & entertainment industry mogul offered him often unconstitutional access to the "fourth estate" but somehow the ludicrous depths to which he plunged never got as far up the nose as the SuperSarko show. ( I'd remind readers of the collected Berlusconi insults book his own press published c/f http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71091 )

Not one story, not one scandal, not one retouched photo, not one adventure, not one revelation, not one rumour, not one denial, not one mention of the man on the 30th of November please.

video in French of for Sarko day
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x365p6_journee-sans-sa...itics
Liberation have opted for calling Sarko "Zorro" after his Chad adventure but are stilling using the Superman costume
http://www.libelabo.fr/2007/11/07/sarko-zorro-mix/

author by teenypublication date Thu Nov 08, 2007 16:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sarko is teeny, I mean real small. Napoleon complex small.....

I know because someone I know has dealings with him on a regular basis, and not alone that but
he is deeply unpleasant too. Interestingly he was photoed with a tall blonde 'arker' who did not quite
overtower him , therefore it can be assumed that his images are carefully taken, used and passed on.
The images of him leaving Chad with pretty blonde women are actually quite funny.

author by scorchiopublication date Sat Nov 10, 2007 09:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

........"Chad frees 'kidnap' flight crew - Three Spanish aircrew detained in Chad over an alleged plot to abduct etained in Chad over an alleged plot to abduct African children have been released.
They were driven out of the capital's main prison accompanied by their lawyer and the Spanish consul. A Belgian pilot, who is recovering at a French military base in N'Djamena after suffering heart problems, is also free to leave Chad, officials said. Six French members of the charity Zoe's Ark, alleged to be behind the plot, are awaiting trial on kidnapping charges......."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7086896.stm
(Compare & contrast international relations as usual with the carbon foot print of Super Sarko the French prezzie who rescues Spanish air hostesses but leaves their male crew members & his own citizens behind. )

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Yesterday's "Guardian" ran a special report entitled "The French Berlusconi". http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2208061,00.html

Now without going "I told you so, & did put it all neatly " I don't want you to make the mistake of thinking Sarko is a Berlusconi. Coz he aint. Sarko's the president of France even though we tried really splendindly to stop him & for the next few years he has the magical powers, of which he shall no doubt make use or abuse of according to his own character. Berlusconi wouldn't have been able to be president of France. Sarko couldn't name a trillionaire & knew nothing about clearstream, Mr B hid the mafia. Quite different, and I do hope you're following me. Of the few states which would have assassinated Berlusconi before he became president, France is surely still one!?

or is it?

What meaneth this Sarko backed (amongst others) by a Quebec billionaire clan flying around in his presidential jet leaving mega-carbon I'm in charge & flexing the long forgotten French soft power ? Is he supporting Bush & Fox news or Clinton & the New York Times? Where does he stand on the fact that one quarter of the shocking death toll bandied about when gurgling about Pakistan has in fact been in reaction to presently out doing other top ranking global elder lady Daw Aung San of Burma Mrs Bhutto's return? Aye - indeedie. Where does he stand on Gordon Brown, Rosyln chapel, the Rev. Ian? Is he going to start popping up with arms deals, promises of investment, rendition jets, & so & so forth in Ireland?

will yer children sing the marseilles?

I now address the important people, movers & shakers in the main :- It is not in our interest to allow Sarko cultivate further his "special relation".

c/f http://indymedia.ie/article/70578

author by teenypublication date Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well someone had to criticise the poverty exclamations of Mr Ahern, who being paid more that Bush
and three times more that 'Super Sarko' was getting away with the statements. Makes the Charvet shirts
of the Haughey regime look small really.

Why has no Irish Media commentator referred to Joe Higgins?

He drew only a working wage from the Dail Inflated salary, but no, the Irish Media headline a frog's
criticism of our wonderful Taoiseach, and while we are at it, are SF still drawing both Dail and
Westminister salaries despite not taking seats in the minister?

Berite and Sarko were last photographed together at the Rugby international which took place
straight after the Mahon module which pissed off so many , cos Celia had dumped Bertie in it
and of course the international Rugby distracted the short memory span of the people who
mandated Bertie to be the leader, whilst all the time suppressing political dissent and feeding
his cronies.

author by scorchiopublication date Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors


* Paris indymedia is down & everyone is blaming Sarko http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/19033.php

* France is on strike & everyone is blaming Sarko. I assure you it's not my fault I've been having difficult remembering what day it is for at least a fortnight now.

* On any one day Ireland has literally dozens of commercial travellers, students, elderly excursionists & generally adventurous budget tourist types in France. It is a big country between the Basque, Catalonia & Luxembourg. They eat croissants. Croissants are more expensive than they used to be because alternative fuel research has pushed up the cost of producing wheat from which the croissant is derived whilst the egg or oeuf with which the posher croissant is adorned is also more expensive due to rising traditional fuel costs which have meant transporting grit to chickens is no mean matter anymore.

Put in layman's terms, inflation of basic stock items such as onions, onion eggs oeufs & flour have stunned economists & lawyers across the continent this autumn with price rises averaging 20% from Spain (big country between the Basque & Catalonia & Gibraltar) to France (on strike).

What this means :-

Luxembourg is good for holidays if you pack your sandwiches or sambos before hand in a low inflation strike free economy modelled on the fuck you jack I'm grand US model such as Ireland. (massive country between Scotland & Canada).

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Please remember November 30th is No Sarko Day
c/f http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/19034.php

author by Teenypublication date Tue Nov 20, 2007 18:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sarko , who is small of stature and disapproving of Bertie's pay package has decided that the best
way to adapt to the threatened civil service strikes is to 'hide', he has not been seen. Bunker reports
suggest he is claiming mandate to job cut and salary freeze, because of his overwhelming
majority in the recent elections. Thus he is playing Margaret Thatcher without the handbag and
saying that cuts are necessary to get the country 'on the move'. The large public service is disagreeing
because they wonder why his cuts/freezes and such-do not target the wealth class- (we all
wonder why they dump their crap on the poor)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386174.html

Similar looming threats in all right wing coalitions, its called paternalism and responsibility,
but in factual act tis refusal to engage without pissing off the degenerate multi millionaires
and cronies. at least the unions in France have political parties, ours are centrist and could
not organise an all out in brewery.

author by scorchiopublication date Wed Nov 21, 2007 15:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's nice to bring it all together.

The French high speed rail network has been seriously damaged by "concerted sabotage" according to SNCF (The French rail company) & you may read all about it at this BBC link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7105045.stm

The Zoe's Ark story which of course opened this thread has come back to the news when it emerges the head of that charity is scathing in his criticism of the French government's meddling, meddling which we remember included Super Sarko attempting to upstage the other state involved (Spain)....."The head of a French charity arrested in Chad on child abduction charges has said that the French government has let him and his colleagues down. The French authorities knew of his charity's plan to take children to France, Zoe's Ark head Eric Breteau told the French news agency AFP. He said his charity was trying to rescue orphans from Darfur. Aid agencies have said most of the 103 children are from Chad and have at least one parent or other guardian. "The French government let us down. They even made it worse for us," Mr Breteau told AFP............."
read more http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7104958.stm

& in the last days Hugo "the man" turned up in Paris to hang out with Supersarko for brekkie as just out of curiousity you might like to know Bill Clinton was having Brekkie with King Juan Carlos. (Bill is now having brekkie in Dublin). 2 of those characters recently deserving our attention for the "why don't you shut up!" royal put down which significantly had Hugo speaking in the "royal we" for about a week & did great things for both his popularity & that of mr King ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7101386.stm).

Anyway, the unsilencable Hugo got as far as he can get up the Colombian nose (very far) by telling the French press Ingrid Betancourt is grand (if not still their number one kidnap victim). This works on many levels. It shows you his chitchats with FARC have yielded something http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7103851.stm & it copperfastens his good relationship with Paris (even under Sarko) which then later effects French foreign policy on Iran. (the lasttime Betancourt was mentioned at a Venezuelan French gig the French minister thanked Hugo & then gurggled about nuking Tehran........just so everyone would agree it's a bad idea).

you've got to understand the psychology of leadership.

& so without too much analysis or reasoning, I counsel all that a winter of discontent is the way to go. The world audience is more than up for a Sarko Thatcher conflict.

Older readers who remember the "winter of discontent" reference might like to mobilise the French garbage collection trade unions & of course the undertakers.

One out - All out.

author by scorchiopublication date Tue Nov 27, 2007 14:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's only the second day of the season which kicked off traditionally with two teenagers losing thier lives in a cop chase in northern Paris - so analysis would be a bit half-baked. Just look at photos :-

at this one you get to see the charred remains of a school library
http://www.liberation.fr/multimedia/galeries/societe/

in this one you see flames & Kyoto protocol stuff.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7114645.stm

here you see a few burnt cars & some busy cops arresting teenagers.
http://www.elpais.com/fotogaleria/Ola/violencia/Paris/4...pgal/

Don't worry. Although on any one day Ireland has literally dozens of our finest commercial travellers, students, elderly itinerants & overlooked creative geniuses in France, none of them go to suburbs so htey are perfectly safe. The current torched car count is averaging 60, arrests less than 10, serious injuries around 6. Which is really nothing like the last season which clocked up 250 cars a night.

wot u want 2b when u grow up? train driver? civil servant? teacher? cop?
wot u want 2b when u grow up? train driver? civil servant? teacher? cop?

well they'll be building new cop shops - so jobs for the migrants.
well they'll be building new cop shops - so jobs for the migrants.

author by scorchiopublication date Wed Nov 28, 2007 15:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I swear you can't make this stuff up. But rather like invitating nazis to elite student gigs or removing the queen of neoliberal economic aliens from Irish government, these stories have a hideous habit of coming back & back & back..,
at this link which due to a bug in the indymedia ireland software will appear uncomplete & thus demand you to cut & paste it in its entirety you may see an amateur video (there are still amateurs making vids) which completely contradicts the official police version of two joyriders deliberately ramming a cop car & attempting to kill its occupants, seeing its teenage occupants killed in legal self-defence last wednesday in Villiers-le-Bel a delightful sink estate of the northern Parisien periphery.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-983236@51-982356,0.html

Meanwhile - the usual Sarko solution has been applied. Last night the areas of Villers le Bel, & its neighbours were flooded by riot cops and parents had the good sense to impose a curfew reminding their offspring perhaps of how Chirac had gone on television in his day to play the wee willy winkie.

author by souripublication date Wed Nov 28, 2007 19:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well scorchio,

You start by stating, apparantly as fact, "two teenagers losing their lives in a cop chase....." . What you have stated is a lie, plain and simple. There was no "cop chase". The two unfortunate teenagers crashed their uninsured, unregistered, off-road moto into a police-car. They were travelling at aproximately 75kph and neither was wearing a crash-helmet.

Allegations have been made that the police, after briefly trying to rescuscitate the two, left before the ambulance arrived. The police say that they didn't leave until after the ambulance arrived and took over the CPR. The ambulance personnel say that they were assaulted by elements in the crowd that had gathered at the scene.

Sarkozy met the parents of the deceased teenagers today and set up an inquiry under an investigating magistrate. The parents have a lawyer nominated by them participating in the inquiry. The parents condemned the elements who used their personal tragedy as an excuse for disorder, wanton damage to private and community property, and general thuggery.

Your obvious glee at the burning of a school-library speaks volumes of your values. People with longer memories than yours will associate book-burning, not with anything good or progressive, but with rather darker forces.

Yeah, you sure are hillarious!

author by scorchiopublication date Wed Nov 28, 2007 20:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

quoting a french cliché as a username to misinterpret another contributor's mentioning of a burnt school library & then leaving that contributor an opportunity to invite others to put "book burning" through the serach engine & see if anyone has ever felt strongly enough about the subject to :-
a) write an article whose title included the words "book burning"
b) write another with the words "book burning" repeated within.

Heck I'll make it simple - Thanks for the unsourced clarification of what occured last wednesday night in Villiers de Bel. You should probably send yourself off to the official inquiry since you're so fucking certain you know what happened whereas France is arguing about it, which is why I wrote the last comment. & now you can read what I wrote about the last incident of political book burning in Europe. or you can go on hassling me for clarifications about things you seem to ignore and not mention but somehow are a God blessed fucking authority upon - "how teenagers get killed by nazi's" - "how teenagers get killed by cops"
I suppose you'll grant that the burnt library I referred to was not a political act. (hey you're so fucking well informed you tell me where the library was.) But do not have the gall to insult my values using yet another crappy anonymous name. What's wrong? running out of steam on why the teenager was killed by the nazi soldier?



An official judicial inquiry has been opened into last week's incident which saw two teenagers die at police hands.


http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/294357.FR.php

author by scorchiopublication date Thu Nov 29, 2007 14:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I have to apologise to "Souri" for the last comment which ran completely against a personal policy I have of admitting when I get it wrong & thus standing corrected. = Sorry. I think I lost my temper at being accused of gloating or gleefully reporting a burnt library. I hope all of us are equally worried by the constant explosions of violence and alienation in Parisien suburbs which every time merely confirms the status of the young people who live there as - unemployable & beyond even political activity. "A little neglect may cause great harm". Libraries, schools, buses are very easy to burn but not so easy to replace. & I hope readers see that such alienation is commonplace in the outskirts of many large European cities. This afternoon against the backdrop of a small municipality temporarily turned into a "police state", a silent march was held by around 200 residents (pictured). You can quite easily see the multicultural mix of the community "leaders" who organised that in the photo. They are the sort of people who want their youth to grow up with opportunities, amenities & advantages.

The two youths were riding without insurance or helmet at approximately 70km/hr (maximum 75km/hr) and hit the police car which was travelling at approx. 40km/hr (maximum 50km/hr)- their weight or momentum at impact was approx. 200kg on the Mégane Scenic Renault which they hit in a head-on collision.

There are multiple versions. Not one justifies either the wanton destruction of social amenities or the temporary creation of a police state without guarantee of improved social structures.

version (1) - :-
The first call was made to the fire brigade at 17h01 three minutes after the accident at 16h58. The police men never informed their own bunch that their car was a write-off. At 17h10 the firemen arrived. The teenagers were lying dead or dying on the ground unattended. The police car was not moved from the wrong side of the road : the teenagers were on the wrong side of the road.
version (2) - :-
the accident occured at 17h03, the police men informed the police their car was a write-off after moving it from the wrong side (or the middle) of the road - they did not do their best to resucitate the boys who were left unattended & preferred to be got out of the area post-haste. Between 17h13 and 17h20 with tensions rising at the scene of the accident an anonymous video making member of the public taped such misleading things.

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There are now "one thousand" riot cops in the comparatively small banlieu of Villers-le-Bel which registered 26,145 residents in 1999. They have claimed 3 arrests since their deployment on Tuesday night & are to remain deployed "as long as is neccesary" for not too far away in the gilded halls of the republic's government the new regime snarls that hooligans will never dictate the agenda of the state. a stitch in time saves nine Perhaps the police will be gone for the "partial legislative" elections held to the local council on December 9th.., Maybe the silent mobilisation of imams, teachers, librarians without books, good mothers & fathers who always ensure their children use helmets & carry insurance will salve the poison.

silent rally in memory of the dead teenagers held this afternoon in Villiers le Bel.
silent rally in memory of the dead teenagers held this afternoon in Villiers le Bel.

author by file pic.publication date Fri Dec 28, 2007 16:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

today saw the release of the French Nationals from 'Zoe's ark' under a bi-lateral Franco-
Chadian agreement which allows them to serve their 8 years hard labour in france...
like fun they will.

other hostages have been too released today.

sarko is ensuring his african dominance-though he largely did not feature in the
december 8th Lisbon talks-cos Mugabe dominated. (Brown kept away- he does not
like dictators)

Chadian moments
Chadian moments

author by hmmmmmmpublication date Fri Dec 28, 2007 17:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

& so as the last commentator reminds us, the Zoe's Ark story has ended in a very different way to how it appeared to be going the day SuperSarko flew to Chad, Madrid & the USA (all in the one day). But right now he's on the Egyptian riviera, the tourist mecca of Charm el-Cheikh. The media circus which accompanies the head of state of a nuclear arsenal country, UN security member, & number one investment holder in France has now as we should have noted been augmented by the media circus which follows & fauns on hip new romance. An Egyptian member of parliament has spoken of the "libertine" being unwelcome. Segolene Royal the pretty woman whose presidential hopes accompanied her own discreet enough divorce has finally spoken about the glamour presidentielles . We take her comment seriously because 2007 was supposed to be the year which saw pretty women either in top positions globally or at least assured to take office in 2008. Segolene was to be France, Aung Sak to be Burma, Bhutto in Pakistan & of course our own Edna Kenny in the Dail. (well we didn't put much effort into it). After Super Sarko won the election he accepted an invitation by one of his billionaire mates (in the exact same circle who are now hosting him in Egypt) for his wife & children to relax on a yacht in Malta rather than attend official duties... & all tried in secrecy too. What a different Sarko that was. In the last six months he has not only teamed up with a pop star model, he's signed the most significant deals with most of the African states of the former French commonwealth, he's done similar with all his neighbours, he's seen both Chirac & De Villepin put to interrogation & possible criminal proceedings for keeping an eye on himself "Sarko the slimey serpent" years before with his SuperSarko cape he not only broke strikes but clocked up more carbon footprint airmiles than any other French president in history. He didn't bring his kids to Eurodisney where the relationship with Carlo Bruni was announced, He didn't take his kids with her & him to see Rome & the Pope the week after, & he's not patting their little heads in Egypt now.

http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/300588.FR.php

anyway - Segolene Royal thinks he's trivialising the office of president, with his ostentation. I just think he's using the power of that office in a way which no-one ever thought it could be before. & he's got his most powerful opponents by the balls. Those opponents aren't us on the left, my friends those are his predeccesors who alas didn't keep a close enough eye on him at all. Obviously not.
He is the French president now. & will be for years yet. You are all going to be touched by SuperSarko's recipe for post imperialist global economics as much as his recipe for letting everyone know - he won. he's the big man now. this is what success looks like. Ostentation is good.

Related Link: http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/300588.FR.php
author by scorchiopublication date Wed Feb 06, 2008 22:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Idriss Déby has in a press conference looking tough in military fatigues said that he will pardon the Zoe Ark convicts. They were of course a French based charity who were accused of snatching babies in Chad to sell them "adoption style" to mostly French couples who didn't have kids. This means France's supply of black babies is probably secured & tweeters on black baby stocks are expected by analysts to rally in the next quarter. Sources close to the newly wed first wee man & not pretty enough for 500,000 first lady of France have spoken of a long term strategy to guarantee uranium mining operations & speculative exploration of the Aouzou strip pending a renegotiation of the 1976 Chad & France accords on education, judicial co-operation & military assistance. Industry insiders warn however that such a gambit would rely on a favourable response from the Libyans who dispute with hte Aouzou strip in the early 1980's resulted in a French elite forces emergency deployment clause. Optimists point to the recent thaw in relations between the French state & Libya's maverick leader Ghadaffi who pitched a bedouin tent in the Elysee garden last year before Sarkozy learnt the words to bang bang my baby shot me down.

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/02/06/le-pre...47123

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Zoe's Ark got a pardon today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7322891.stm

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