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Liberation covers the raspberry tart thrower's travails. He could have got 3 years from the beak, but got fined €150. Quoth Joly: "I expected worse. I'm happy, now I'm going home". Poetic, eh?
The Stop the War coalition has published a list of those signing its petition and what a selection of grotesques they are - plenty of Trotskyites, Greens, sundry self-publicists etc etc.
Meanwhile, a bit of encouragement for all we bloggers out there, as Herald Tribune writes on blogging a la francais: "With so many blogs, I'm hoping for fewer protests and strikes inParis
What about that for a higher purpose? I'd always assumed that most of us were doing this because it is entertaining, rather than it being a sort of chastity belt to prevent one from putting up barricades whenever the mood takes.
Liberation covers the raspberry tart thrower's travails. He could have got 3 years from the beak, but got fined €150. Quoth Joly: "I expected worse. I'm happy, now I'm going home". Poetic, eh?
The Stop the War coalition has published a list of those signing its petition and what a selection of grotesques they are - plenty of Trotskyites, Greens, sundry self-publicists etc etc.
Meanwhile, a bit of encouragement for all we bloggers out there, as Herald Tribune writes on blogging a la francais: "With so many blogs, I'm hoping for fewer protests and strikes in
What about that for a higher purpose? I'd always assumed that most of us were doing this because it is entertaining, rather than it being a sort of chastity belt to prevent one from putting up barricades whenever the mood takes.
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i love it when the french go out.It defines them as a nation
They are the most imaginative protesters in the world, in my reckoning.
A while back a coalition of farmers etc had the hump about a Mickey Dees opening somewhere in the Rhone valley, but rather than trash it, march around chanting slogans etc they set up a stall outside offering local salami sandwiches and a glass of wine for the same price as a meal inside.
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