Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Death of the Grown-Up in France

Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party has a branch for younger members – "Jeunes Populaires". These young persons are "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed", trendy as today's news, oh-so-optimistic, and terminally adolescent (like Sarkozy himself?). A video has been posted at their website that gives an excellent idea of what they are about, but it also shows the ministers of Sarkozy's government as well as UMP party leaders engaging in a ludicrous political pep rally that can be qualified as an embarrassment at best, and voluntary prostitution at worst, without any fear of exaggeration. To watch key figures in the government behave like this should make us laugh, but in fact, it is nauseating, and if you really look at the underpinnings, terrifying. Especially on examining the words to the lip-synched ditty they jubilantly "sing" in our faces:

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What Do MEPs Do During a Financial Crisis?

What do Members of the European Parliament do during a
financial crisis? Give themselves more money of course, what else?

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Iran: Twitter Versus the Bomb

“In the last year, two things have happened,” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last Monday. “Iran has advanced its military nuclear program, and Iran has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the international community.”

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