for those who watched CNN

[Traveller13]

I heard that according to CNN, the political situation in France is close to civil war, and that if the situation deteriorates even further, the US might move in to "assure the perrenity of democracy".

In case any of you saw this, they were lying.
The reason for the massive strike is officially aimed towards withdrawing an employment scam that's been voted without the will of the parliament, and which violates the civil work code.
Non-officially, it's just about people getting tired of being ruled by politicians who think the people can't think for themselves (even if those politicians are leftists), and who use public funding to spend 4000 dollars a day just to feed themselves.

No civil war, no revolution, no threat to the goverment. There have been incidents with the police force because the gov is determined to keep this law, and the people are determined to make the goverment drop it.

It's funny too because on french TV they mention very little about it.

[stilltrucking]

To tell the truth I been pretty much obsessing on the death penalty phase of the Moussaoui trial. I am so dam parochial these days. I only wish that our government was as Fu*ked up as the French. I would trade my government for the French leftist crap in a heartbeat.

How many roads must an FBI agent have walked down?

Apparently more than 70 if he thought the agency, in the first year of Bush's presidency, would listen to him about a potential terror attack:

An FBI agent who interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui before Sept. 11, 2001, warned his supervisors more than 70 times that Moussaoui was a terrorist and spelled out his suspicions that the al-Qaeda operative was plotting to hijack an airplane, according to federal court testimony yesterday. Agent Harry Samit told jurors at Moussaoui's death penalty trial that his efforts to secure a warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings were frustrated at every turn by FBI officials he accused of "criminal negligence." Samit said he had sought help from a colleague, writing that he was "so desperate to get into Moussaoui's computer I'll take anything."

That was on Sept. 10, 2001.

FBI agent defends his ignoring Moussaoui and 9-11 plot
FBI official Michael Rolince admits that he knew a little about Moussaoui, but says he was unaware of a report to his office from an agent who tried to warn his superiors more than 70 times that Moussaoui was involved in a plot to hijack airplanes.
As chief of the FBI's international terrorism section, he should have been aware of the August 2001 report.
Perhaps, it was the Bush administration's emphasis on developing Star Wars rather than defending the nation against terrorist attacks (Guardian), but Rolince, who later would set conditions on how Saudis should be flown out of the country immediately following 9-11, is retired and doesn't need to defend his actions now.

Yet the defence of inaction continues:
Mr. Rolince said he was unaware that the agent, Harry Samit, who was working in Minneapolis, had filed a long report asking for a complete investigation of Mr. Moussaoui, whom he described as a radical Islamic fundamentalist who hated the United States and was learning to fly jetliners[...]

Mr. Rolince said Mr. Samit's "suppositions, hunches and suspicions were one thing, and what we knew" was a different matter.
And in what is an even more bizzare twist, an FBI supervisor also had a conversation with Rolince about Moussaoui, but that conversation was about having French intelligence search him rather than the FBI:

Mr. Rolince also testified that he had a "hallway" conversation, lasting about 20 seconds, with one of the supervisors at headquarters whom Mr. Samit has identified as blocking his efforts. He said the supervisor, David Frasca, briefed him on an alternate plan to have Mr. Moussaoui's belongings searched by extraditing him to France and having French authorities do the search.
That plan, Mr. Samit has testified, was to go into effect on Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... tml?sub=AR

The testimony came as the sentencing hearing resumed for the only person convicted in the United States of charges stemming from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Jurors in Alexandria will determine whether Moussaoui should live or die.


Yeah my heart bleeds for the French, if only we had such a government. Sorry about the tangent. I probably should have made this a seperate post. I got craving for french fries all of a sudden.

[Traveller13]

heh
No worries, I'm into tangents actually.
I saw the CNN report yesterday. It made me laugh but wasn't funny.
If you still want to trade, I'd rather suggest Norwegia.
Norwegians actually consider politicians as their employees, fancy that!
Have you seen a film/documentary called "The Fourth World War"?