Miss Kolka

Why not give that to your 3 year old niece for christmas?

This would have been a teddy bear some people I know like Eva Kamilla and Arri would have appreciate in their days...

Macabre but sweet

Are kids too young to know about the realities of grown up life? Or is it time when they realise Santa Clause doesn't really exist? "Yes - animals are killed by cars - sometimes the one your are sitting in driving to grandma"

Maybe grown ups dont want to grow up and some still believe in fictionary things, how else do you explain the success of Harry Potter, and films like Lord of the Rings and the Golden compass? Its not all kids that go to see them - And you still believe Saddam was responsable for 9/11 and that Bush won the election in 2000- so where does that leave you?

Maybe grown-up teddy bears would be a perfect gift for christmas... not for my niece but for my75 year old grandma and myself.

Sarkozy hasn't spoken publicly for almost a week. What is going on? Radio commentators I heard this morning wondered what could cause this - now especially in the time of social crisis in France - the transport strike enters its 6th day and no meeting is planned between the government and the unions until Wednesday. In the meanwhile Civil servents such as postal workers and teachers will join the mouvement on tuesday for 24hours - so lots of people the president could try to reason with and I am sure he has a very strong opinion on the matter. The Prime Minister and employment minister consol him of course for the next steps to take but I cannot but wonder how Mr. President manages to keep silent. Maybe he could teach me a lesson...

It wasn't such a good idea to make a little joke at the workplace on a slow newsday apparently... where I asked whether we did plan anything special for the "day without Sarkozy" in the media - a small organisation is calling for the media not to quote or talk about the president the 30th of November. I think the idea is funny - and I would certainly want to know if an american outlet would try to influence the american media not to talk about Bush for one day. With the French "hyper-president" it seems more appropriate however, him being everywhere all the time - I think one day I had 3 stories in a ten minute bulletin where Sarkozy had come to the rescue, Chad, angry fishermen, wrongly accused nurses.. "le Petit Nicolas" is there. So much so that even his prime minister complained about it off-camera (or what he thought was off-camera) the other day: "he is always ahead of me.. I was going to go but he beat me to it". The real question is (and probably the reason why such a joke seems to be quite a sensitive matter) - how is the president going to decide on the future of French television landscape, will the channel survive a re-arrengement of the french media treating international news?

The decision was due in the last days.. so what can one do appart from joking around?

I've realised why it is that I dont blog more often - its not the lack of ideas (Always seem to have the greatest ones so far away from a computer and then they simply get forgotten), Or my perfectionism which often hinders me from doing so many other things- or the lack of time - which often gets intertwined with perfection since you need time to get everything right. There is never enough time.

No, it is the hugeness of it all - all the possibilities the virtual world has to offer and all this (dis)information everywhere, with myspace or Facebook (which I continue to resist - for one part because I want to experience something IRL (=in real life),the blog, the photos, msn, google or the countless news websites that dont give you anything more that you already read somewhere else. It is frightening to realise that you could actually spend your whole life on the internet. wou.. I get shivers..

So that's why I blog only sometimes, when I have time to correct the mistakes - where I can gather my thoughts - while I surf on Ratp.fr or watch something on alluc.org.. or read the latest gossip on perezhilton.com

and then I realise I should have done something a long time ago.. in IRL.

The french prepare to strike, yet again. This transport strike is expected to last,
however it is very unlikely that the government will give in to the strikers' demand - this being the first real test for the government of Nicolas Sarkozy (normally you say the government of the prime minister - except that here the PM seems to be completely lost next to the hyper-president). They argue these Pensions reforms were electoral promisses and that the majority of the country has approved them with the election of the president and his government. The most debated point of the reform is that everyone has to work for 40 years before being able to retire. Until now many had "special deals" like train drivers that could retire around 50 years old due to the hard aspect of their job - but these deals were negotiated just after the second world war or even in the time of king Louis fourteen. Now the trend is to make everyone work the same time- regardless from the differences the hours worked or the diffuculties linked to the tasks. Unions claim that these can not be reformed because the workers chose the jobs because of the benefits offered. And now students are joining the striking force.

So the only way this strike doesn't last for days or even weeks is for the unions and the government to decide they have something they can negociate over... or that they want to negociate, not always easy.

Meanwhile thousands of people will be stranded all over - and having difficulties getting to and from work. Thankfully my bike is not on a strike...yet

Vacation is over for now so its back to "normality". If normality is working 5 days a week to get paid at the end of the month -

Yes, most of us probably have to work until we get too old to really enjoy all the free time retirement has to offer.
And we all accept it - that and paying taxes, taking loans to be able to buy houses and trying to put money aside, so it can only be used for paying things we didn't predict.

What if I would tell you that the taxes you pay (and work 3-4 months a year for) are used to make the richest men in the world even richer? What If I was to tell you that the wars we are fighting are fought for money (not a surprise to many of you Im sure) and that 9/11 fits exactly the model of a pre-emptive strike that is always needed by governments and the people behind them to justify wars? Not very new revelations, I agree but these things are all linked in a very interresting documentary/artitistic feature I recently saw.

I have seen some startling evidence that shows that there is much more behind 9/11 than we have been told by official sources and therefore all the world's biggest media. It also explains clearly how the world economy seems to be manipulated by only a few persons who don't care about who makes the law in what country - because they are on a mission. Religion does also play an important role in misguiding us from what we really are ment for. The conclusion I am reaching is quite scary - we don't seem to be in control of our own life or destiny and there seems to be so much going on behind the curtains - that will eventually bring us to a horrifying future.

To understand what I am talking about and simply to open your mind a little bit - go and watch this film online (the quality is quite good and the film quick to download - however it takes some time to start and the JEsus story is important for the overall conclusion.. be patient.... and then LETS start to think for ourselves, artivism is for all of us - the Revolution is NOW!

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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• Sendi it back to China | 07-04-2008
• Poisson d'avril | 01-04-2008
• Wish I was | 30-03-2008
• lesser of two evils | 27-03-2008
• in my head | 25-03-2008
• Where are all the drugs going? | 11-03-2008
• Why is she so controversial? | 07-03-2008
• Presidential obsession | 14-02-2008
• All we can do is wait | 14-01-2008
• The stupidity of the French President (read to the bottom for it to make sense) | 08-01-2008
• S.O.S. | 30-12-2007
• In memoriam | 27-12-2007