« Une arme pour bléssés grave!»






jeudi 17 mars 2011

Ce pour quoi Chirac doit payer.

Pour avoir trahi Giscard alors qu'il était dans son gouvernement, et pour avoir favorisé l'election de Mitterand sur celle de Giscard.

Pour avoir éxécuté politiquement Chaban Delmas, Barre et Balladur.

Pour être à l'origine du "travaillisme à la française" aux debuts du RPR dans les années 70.
Puis le "tatcherisme à la française" dans les années 80.

La fameuse "fracture sociale" de 95.

Pour avoir bradé le Gaullisme, en supprimant la conscription, ciment national; et la dissuasion, via l'arrèt des essais nucléaires nécessaires au maintien de le défense en un état operationel. Soumission à l'Océanie qui ne veut voir que des puissances Anglo-saxonnes dans le pacifique.

Pour avoir demandé pardon et s'être excusé au nom de la France sur les évenements de Vichy. Mittérand et De Gaulle avaient toujours considéré que les actes du régime Pétain n'engageaient pas la France, qu'ils procédaient d'un autre esprit qui n'ont pu et ne pourront jamais être celui de la republique.


Pour le septenat qu'il a suprimé pour pouvoir rempiler,au profit d'un quinquenat trop court.

Pour sa lacheté durant la guerre d'Algérie.
"Dans tous les livres qui lui sont consacrés, on peut le voir dans son magnifique uniforme, digne des films d'entre-deux-guerres qui glorifient les faits militaires. Pourtant j'ai vécu douloureusement son oubli de la défense des intérêts et de l'honneur de notre armée, quand il aurait fallu monter au créneau." Gal Bigeard

Pour ne pas avoir défendu l'armée Française, et l'avoir comparé aux "nazis en Algérie".

Pour avoir joué sur l'insécurité en 2002, face au FN au second tour il est reélu par défaut. Le 05 Mai, place de la République, des drapeaux algériens et marocains sont agités, orchestre de raï et image d'une monarchie de pacotille, une famille royale du pauvre!

Pour avoir mis en difficulté la France devant ses partenaires européens avec le référendum sur la Constitution Européenne de Mai 2005. Projet qu'il aurait pu faire approuver par les deux chambres du Parlement réunies en congrès à Versailles. Il choisit le référendum pour mettre le ps en difficulté, certain que le oui l'emporterait, il obtient 55% de non.


Pour avoir infligé à la France avec le gouvernement Juppé, un matracage fiscal qu'elle n'avait jamais connu alors qu'il avait été élu sur un programme de baisse des impôts.


Enfin pour avoir dissolu l'Assemblée Nationale en 97 sous les conseils de Villepin.

dimanche 26 décembre 2010

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device








Inflammable material is planted in my head
It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
Their solutions are our problems
They put up the wall
On each side time and prime us
And make sure we get fuck all
They play their games of power
They mark and cut the pack
They deal us to the bottom
But what do they put back?

[Chorus:]
Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Don't be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out
Suss suspect device

They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why don't they all just clear off
Why won't they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell

[Chorus]

Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Question everything you're told
Just take a look around you
At the bitterness and spite
Why can't we take over and try to put it right

[Chorus]

We're a suspect device if we do what we're told
But a suspect device can score an own goal
I'm a suspect device the Army can't defuse
You're a suspect device they know they can't refuse
We're gonna blow up in their face

samedi 25 décembre 2010

Why We're All Romans, Carl J. Richard







In our intellectual lives we are Greeks, in our spiritual lives Hebrews. Or so the claim is made when speaking of the Western tradition owed to the Ancients. Carl J. Richard agrees with these assessments, but adds that it was the Roman Empire which filtered and facilitated both the Greek and Hebrew legacies to the nations of the West. Along the way Rome managed to add its own native embellishments to the tapestry of history. Richard provides a decent enough overview of The Eternal City's contributions to posterity.

Carl J. Richard is professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. He has written numerous books on the impact of Greco-Roman civilization on history, particularly on American history. His prior research and conclusions appear frequently in this work; and much is made of how the Greco-Roman literati influenced the American Founding Fathers. This may not interest those outside the States (or even within). However, the classical legacy's impact on figures throughout European history is also showcased and thus provides a broader view. The author is also a confessed Christian. While I don't think any strong bias shows through on his chapters on religion, he treats Christianity and its triumph as a given rather than an historical aberration, which may annoy those with more atheistic tendencies or pagan sympathies.

Chapter one offers an outline of Roman history and culture, which is highly serviceable and competent with one exception: it largely ignores the later empire. This is strange given the Christianization of the later empire, and the part it plays in Richard's last chapter on the Romanization of Christianity.

The study of the Roman legacy begins with chapter 2, which focuses on law and administration. It was in this capacity that the practical, precise and prudent Romans were able to truly bequeath something new to the world. Conquerors like Alexander had captured large holdings of territory without much thought as to how to rule it after the battle was over. The Romans, by contrast, exercised a facility in legal and political matters that ensured their Mediterranean empire would lay intact for centuries. Roman law is still the basis of many Western legal codes. Chapter 3 focuses on engineering and architecture, and there too the Romans, while working off a Greco-Etruscan base, managed to innovate through the use of the arch and concrete.

Chapters 4 through 8 examine Roman accomplishments in letters and writing. In the area of philosophy, Romans managed to distill Greek philosophy from its abstract metaphysical heights into a practical concern for law and ethics. With poetry, history, speeches and plays, the Romans breathed fresh air into old Hellenistic forms, managing to equal or exceed the originals in many cases. In fact, given that many of the Hellenistic originals were ultimately lost, sometimes we know a Greek genre only through its Roman imitations.

Chapter 9 examines Greek and Jewish contributions to Rome during the Roman age. Much of "Roman" art was actually produced by agents of Greek-speaking lands. Furthermore, with the Romans dominating the practical sciences, it was left to Greeks like Galen and Ptolemy to make discoveries in the purely natural sciences. Meanwhile, Josephus the historian is our main source on Jews during this time period.

The last chapter details the interplay between Christianity and Rome: as Rome became more Christian so too did Christianity become more Roman. It was a Jewish Roman citizen, Saul of Tarsus, who rescued Christianity from a marginal and heretical Jewish sect; by severing Christianity from Jewish law and making it a matter of personal salvation, Christianity was easily marketed to Gentiles (especially to women and the urban poor who had the most to gain and the least to lose from a Messianic new religion). As the Church grew in converts it assimilated rather than destroyed many elements of paganism.

Why We're All Romans is a decent enough read on the classical intellectual legacy. Chapters usually begin by highlighting Greek precursors, then moving on to the Roman contributions, and concluding with its impact on European and American civilization. The prose is engaging enough, and a few obligatory maps and photographs are included. Not included, which I find a major detraction and quite an astonishing omission in a scholarly work, are citations. There are no footnotes or endnotes of primary references used, and so one cannot check the author's purported facts. Therefore this book honestly doesn't belong in a university where further research and academic veracity are required; however, it might be effective in a public library for the general audience.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0742567788/ref=nosim/unrvromanempi-20

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