New Page 1 An interesting article by one big player of globalcapitalism. He probably hasn't write it alone, nevertheless the content worthreading. Published Monday January 26, 2004 in The Guardian by George Soros Originalarticle The US is now in the hands of a group ofextremists Fundamentalism has spawned an ideology of American supremacy The invasion of Iraq was the first practical application of the pernicious Bushdoctrine of pre-emptive mi...

New Page 1 A big fish story A couple of day ago, I have watched the latest TimBurton's movie, 'Big Fish', I really liked it and after  thinking of itseveral times, I realised that there's probably a lot of 'Big Fish' stories. Howcan you defined a 'Big fish' story? Well, It would probably be a story thatlooks very unlikely or impossible but thinking about it, it's better to keep agood story and forget the crude reality. I got one coming from my Grandparents. They met duri...

New Page 1 Wednesday February 4, 2004 The Guardian   An interesting article from former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack. He explained here why he changed hismind being prowar before it and being anti war now. Sound opportunistic? May be,read first, after all only idiot never change their mind... How did we get it so wrong? With inquiries under way on both sides of the Atlantic, thefailure of western intelligence over Iraq is coming under intense scrutiny. Yes,t...

God created the cat God created the cat... to allow human to caress thelion. My friends Y. told me this story about R. ,a Spanish guy that they are currently accommodating  at the house offelicity (since Y. and E. have been living in it, guests have beenmoving in and moving out almost constantly). R. had been doing a PhDand  is due to pass its final viva in two weeks. R. came inthe  department and tell to E. : "I was at the house on the coach a...

New Page 1 Big Fish Yesterday, I have see the latest Tim Burton's 'Bigfish'. Although I always liked him as a director and had really enjoy some ofhis movie (Batman 2 & 1, Mars Attack,..) I have been disappointed by itsmore recent 'Sleepy hollow' and 'Planet of the ape'. But 'Big fish' is now byfar my favourite, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone.  As I don't want to ruin it for anyone who plan to seeit, I will just say that it remind me something one of my ...

Published in The Guardian Published in TheGuardian (03/02/2004) Tony has been constant in his claim about Iraq, untiltoday... an inquiry is going to be launched about the absence of WMD. May bethat the more convinced is a politician means how big is its need to convinceyou... '[Saddam's] weapons of mass destruction programme isactive detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working.'  September 24 2002 'I have got no doubt that the purpose...

Week end in London I have returned from my weekend inLondon that turned to be  successful, and really enjoyable. Y. and I were supposed to meet friends coming from our homeuniversity on Friday eve and spent the rest of the weekend together. Our trainfor London was almost in time, we rapidly arrive to S. 's flat. Thus, welearned that their plane was 3 hours late and that we had enough time to buysome food and have a pint at the local pub. They arrived at 10 o'clock, meaningthat ...

New Page 1 A nice and funny flash movie. I think it's in Russianbut can't be sure as uni's computers don't have sound card... http://www.antimult.ru/antimults/antitoons/001smokekills/view.htm

New Page 1 Published in The Observer (1/02/2004) Always good to confront yesterday speech to today'sreality. Specially after the resignation of the former chief (David Kay) of theIraqi Survey group saying that no WMD will be found...    Pre war allegation:  Iraq possesses 100-500 tonnes of chemical weaponsagents UN security Council presentation by Colin Powell(5/02/2003) Status: Not found Pre war allegation:  Iraq has hidden warhea...

New Page 1 FromAmerica's favourite actress to Britain's top dog name in 21 steps   Numberof years in a row that Julia Roberts has picked up the People's Choice Awards asAmerica's favourite motion picture actress  5 Numberof  film she appeared in during 1992, the year in which she won the award 0 Numberof  People's Choice Awards she has won in total 9 Numberof Americans polled between September and December each year to find thecou...

New Page 1 London and headache   Yesterday night, we have been to the "Swan andrushes", a pub specialised in Belgian beers. It was good laugh and qualitydrink. A lot of Christmas special beer were really good. We were quiet drunk andmy friend E. and I start to quarrel on the way back.  Apparently Y. toldme, he was quiet furious about that. Sweet alcohol... Tonight I'm going to London with Y. for the week end,sleeping at S.. We are going to be 9 in a sm...

New Page 1 Snow and Hutton enquiries The two last days have been really cold, the weather programdescribe it as artic blast. It's the first time I see that amount of snow inLeicester, everything has been covered  by a little more than 1 cm of snow. Although a lot of roads have been salted, there has been a lot of accidentaround. All the pavements are frozen, and some of my workmates have fallen dueto the frost. It's really an unusual event, but the sun has been shining a...

New Page 1 I received this by e-mail from a friend of mine. Notonly Bush can do Bushisms... "WheneverI watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help butcry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies anddeath and stuff." --MariahCarey ````````````````````````````````````````` "Smokingkills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --BrookeShields, during an interview to b...

New Page 1 I received this by e-mail from a friend of mine. Notonly Bush can do Bushisms... "WheneverI watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help butcry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies anddeath and stuff." --MariahCarey ````````````````````````````````````````` "Smokingkills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --BrookeShields, during an interview to b...

New Page 1 Few tips for avoiding heartburns   Two years ago, I have been diagnosed with oesophagitis,(it means an inflammation of  the oesophagus) due to excess acid reflux. Ihave been treated with medicine but had found that a couple of trick can reallyhelp. The main principle is to understand how your stomachwork. It is a bag and muscle able to ground its content. The heartburn came fromthe food being digested to go up through oesophagus. (I don't know if there is asi...