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Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. In the new millennium, she appeared in such films as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House, and Crash, the third of which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of US$85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in two of the more financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. She is listed in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million.
In 2008, Sandra Bullock was announced as "the face" of prestigious cosmetic brand Artistry.
Bullock runs her own production company, Fortis Films. Bullock was an executive producer of the George Lopez sitcom, which garnered a lucrative syndication deal that banked her some $10 million (co-produced with Robert Borden). Bullock tried to produce a film based on F.X. Toole's short story, Million-Dollar Baby, but could not interest the studios in a female boxing drama. The story was eventually adapted and directed by Clint Eastwood as the Oscar-winning film, Million Dollar Baby (2004). Bullock's production company, Fortis Films, also produced All About Steve, which was released in September 2009. Her father, John Bullock, is the company's CEO, and her sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, is the former president.
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General Message Board
A bad day for racing
Today the competitive hard racing was not rewarded. what does Massa get for a brilliant double overtake on the first straight? A breakdown. what do Heiki and Kimi get for driving boringly? podiums
All credit to Heiki but he didn't really win the race, he was merely driving in the right place at the right time. Not a great day for my Fantasy F1 team but i suspect others had worse.
Amazing recovery by Glock.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I don't understand the gnashing of teeth over the results of this race. I realise the race leader lost out and the second place driver also lost out. Both due to technical problems, but this is the nature of top level racing. Man and machine should be performing to their maximum and if one or the other of these is only slightly off form they do not take the prize. This always has been and always will be the challenge to winning a race. As previously mentioned this is a team challenge and any failing within the team brings disaster.
If both Felipe and Lewis had lasted to the end without problems no one can say Felipe would have won as the final stint on soft tyres could have changed the advantage.
We all need to accept that conditions change and different drivers have better results at certain events.
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I don't think there is a gnashing of teeth, I think people are just reacting to the disappointment of the man of the race going out three laps from the end - like when people groan when a footballer misses a penalty. That's the nature of football, but it's still disappointing. I'm sure we're all over it by now.
It's also a little disappointing that Heikki didn't win his first GP by putting in the drive of his life. Even lucking into it from third like he did, it would have been more satisfying if he'd really been going for it. A sort of Panis in Monaco 96 kind of drive.
A Yahoo! User Aug 7, 2008 00:31 Flag
Could be, not a patch on the old days when the mechanic took time out in a stop to re-light the drivers pipe.
(just made that up, but you get the idea)
Oh, that was you? The different screen name threw me off. I thought it was a non-regular - it shouldn't have made a difference but it did. We've just got this place relatively civil again, and the last thing we need is some Johnny Come Lately bounding in erroneously accusing people of being spoilt brats, apropos nothing. I was trying to nip the ill will in the bud, not enflame anything. I suppose the trouble with communicating in writing only is that implied tone of voice often doesn't translate via screens - in so much as you took my post as an attack and I took your post as pretty insulting.
Me, I'm always calm.
im sorry but many of you are so wrong and just feeling sour for hami or massa..how many races are on like that? if everyone would have crashed out of the race and Hamilton win by being the last racer lest the article would probably read.."brilliant Hamilton reigns supreme again in chaos" or some other extraordinary flattery of Hamilton,, in racing engines burn punctures happen and a host of other problems and you dont call the winner lucky,..look at kimi who probably endured the worst luck ever in the past..nobody said of shumis or alonso are lucky,,,,besides hami flat spotted his tire and thus created the probability of a puncture with aggressive driving..
- 1 Reply to Steve
I think the difference is that often drivers win because of failures in front, but they also put in a spirited drive to be where they were (like Timo, whose second was lucky but overall high position was due to a great drive). The two Finns seemed a little mechanical but were rewarded nonetheless by fortune. Not saying that Heikki didn't deserve the win, but it was disappointing that Massa and Hamilton, who both put in great drives, lost out. But that's the way it goes.
A Yahoo! User Aug 5, 2008 15:14 Flag
Two weeks ago Nelson Piquet Jnr was hailed as the man of the hockenheim race for coming in 2nd, he qualified out of the top 10 which allowed him to use whatever fuel load he wanted and chose to do a one stop strategy, this alone got him onto the podium, Heikki on the other hand Qualified on the front row and then drove a solid race,ok due to one or two misfortunes (for Massa and Lewis) he won but the resulting threads say he was undeserving!!!!!!!!!! WHY ?.............Because he was driving a Mclaren ??
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I dont think hes undeserving but i think it was boring, and really in the shade compared to Hamilton's triple overtake or Timo Glock's amazing race in a Toyota.
I think the point being made is that Heikki win was not undeserving but with your reference to Nelson at German GP is that drivers who get on podium who don't drive Mclaren or Ferrari is more of a challenge
As I said in another thread if you drive a Mclaren or Ferrari you should really car willing be in the top four every race until the other teams miraclously get on level playing field
These are the things that make F1 unpredictable
I know you feel sorry for the drivers but they got to expect a couple of mechanical failures over the seson and at the end of the season the law of averages should equal the luck out
The cars now are a lot more reliable than they were i can remember even 20 years ago you were almost garanteed to have at least 2 engine failures in a race just think how frustrating it was then for the drivers
it might have been a bad day for certain individuals but for racing, no. these are the sort of days that put racing above all other sports,days ,weeks, months and years of preperation, years of training and learning and honing skills. millions and squillions of pounds worth of investment and a 20 cent engine part takes your weekend apart.
bloody magic.
kimi for god.
I do not want to comment about KR, but for me HK did a great job on qualifying....he had 2(??not sure) laps more fuel onboard...but still he got 2nd position and only few thents off from LH. If they had same amount of fuel.....I think he would beat LH, I just do not think uncle ron would be happy about that.
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oops forget....just want to add....I think from all front runners....TG carry the most fuel....I think he even pitted after KR(??)....he did one hell of a job....he deserved 2nd place for sure.
A Yahoo! User Aug 4, 2008 06:42 Flag
Well it was a strange race, it looked promising with Massa's banzai move at the start, but then until Hamilton smoked his tire, it was a tad tedious, I guess Kimi felt the same way as he could nor be bothered to get really interested until it was almost too late. The one thing I found curious and was surprised nobody commented on was all the refueling rings fires, twice in Bourdais case. I feel sorry for Massa, but the gods of racing were not smiling on him today (again), but then again when was the last time a Ferrari hand grenaded its engine ( beside Toro Rosso, I seem to recall one of their engine blew up real good earlier this season). I agree with the general point of view that the only deserving podium participant was Timo Glock, hell of a race for him, Heiki and Kimi kind of snuck in by default and I'm sure they must have been doing some serious snickering in Finnish
A Yahoo! User Aug 4, 2008 05:33 Flag
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WHAT WE LIKE: The space inside the Honda Pilot makes it ideal for hauling all manner of people and stuff. The numerous cubbies are proving especially popular. After driving it to Breaks, Virginia, for a 24-hour adventure race—which sounds to the rest of the staff like a great way to spoil an otherwise lovely weekend in Virginia—tech director Eric Tingwall wrote an ode to the Pilot's center console: "It's big enough to stash tens of thousands of calories of snack foods, but not so deep that they disappear into a dark hole never to be recovered. And when it's time to feast, you close that tambour door and use it as a serving tray, never worrying that something will slide off, because the door is slightly recessed below the edges of the console." Beyond the Pilot's usefulness as a mobile snack center, the Honda's 21 mpg in our hands is pretty good for a seven-seater.
WHAT WE DON'T LIKE: The push-button shifter is maddening and silly. Given how much space is allotted to those buttons, why isn't it just a regular shifter? Instead, there are buttons of different sizes and shapes situated in different planes for different functions. Push a button for park, drive, or neutral, but to engage reverse, you tug on a switch. And, since the Pilot so strongly resembles a minivan now, the packaging compromises relative to the Odyssey are that much more frustrating. But maybe, as designers try to pack more space into crossovers built on car and minivan platforms, crossovers will slowly start to morph back into their original shapes, and we'll see a slow migration of buyers toward the uncompromised practicality of the hatchback and the minivan. Or perhaps not.
WHAT WENT WRONG: In the sort of Washington, D.C., parking garage where you might expect to find a Law & Order villain lurking in the shadows, one of our contributors encountered a far more real menace: a pipe obscured by a support column. The pipe scraped along the left-rear fender, with the damage fortunately confined largely to the plastic trim piece around the wheel well, although it did dig into the quarter-panel and the bumper cover. Had more metal been damaged, the bill undoubtedly would have been higher than the $986 the mishap cost us. Our 10,000-mile service, an oil change and inspection, came to just $46; our second service, at 20,000 miles, added a tire rotation and a change of the rear differential's fluid and set us back $242.
WHERE WE WENT: It was a busy May and June for the Pilot. Copy chief Carolyn Pavia-Rauchman and her family used it to cross the Kentucky Derby off their bucket list. It was home for just a few days before heading down to Washington, D.C. From there, it proceeded to the northern reaches of Michigan and then went straight into a return trip to Virginia, shuttling people and gear to C/D's Lightning Lap X (coming in the October issue!). On the return trip, it detoured through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, for reasons we're not quite sure about. By the time it returned from this trip, it had accumulated more than 7000 miles in just one month. We don't expect the remaining 20,000 to pass quite as quickly, but the Pilot is reserved for road trips most weekends between now and the end of August.
Months in Fleet: 6 months Current Mileage: 16,672 miles
Average Fuel Economy: 21 mpg Fuel Tank Size: 19.5 gal Fuel Range: 405 miles
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Honda's Pilot has been among our favorite ways to move lots of people and gear ever since it first appeared shortly after the dawn of the century. And we've also always liked the Odyssey minivan, so when the new Pilot debuted for 2016 looking an awful lot like the Odyssey, we immediately put in our order for a long-termer. (Okay, we probably would have wanted one no matter what it looked like.)
There are Odyssey bones beneath that Odyssey-aping skin, but there's also a new, 280-hp V-6 paired with the first nine-speed automatic ever to pass through our long-term fleet. The nine-speed is standard on the Touring and the top-of-the-line Elite trim levels.
We chose that latter because it comes with a two-place second row that limits occupancy to seven persons—and then only if the three of them in the rearmost seat typically state their ages by holding up fingers. We have concluded that this is the maximum occupancy threshold for maintaining driver sanity.
At a base price of $31,045, an entry-level front-wheel-drive Pilot LX includes a rearview camera, push-button start, a tilting and telescoping steering column, and a stereo that includes Bluetooth and USB connectivity. By the time you've ascended to the penultimate $42,070 Touring, you've added remote starting, second-row seats that fold at the touch of a button, three-zone automatic climate control, LED ambient lighting, a 10-way power-adjustable driver's seat, four additional USB ports (for a total of three in the front and two in the second row), leather upholstery, navigation, and a Blu-ray rear-seat entertainment system. The last step up to Elite adds all-wheel drive, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, an extra-large sunroof, and the most feature-heavy version of the Honda Sensing package. Highlights of the latter package are forward-collision warning with automatic braking, blind-spot monitoring, and lane-keeping assist. The total price came to $47,955 after accessories such as a trailer-hitch receiver and roof-rail crossbars were tacked on.
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We wanted to divert attention from our Pilot's dad-mobile profile and toward its top-tier status with a vanity plate, "L337," (see Urban Dictionary if you're confused) but our loan agreements with auto manufacturers don't allow it. Too bad, since that might have avoided the awkwardness that followed when we got a parking ticket in the Pilot, went to pay it, and learned just how many people have received and not paid Ann Arbor parking tickets on Honda press vehicles wearing California manufacturer plates beginning in 3421. (For the record, we're not the only publication in the neighborhood.)
Aside from that ticket, we've incurred no expenses in the Pilot beyond the cost of fuel, which it currently consumes at a rate of one gallon every 21 or so miles. For a luxury-packed seven-seater weighing 4351 pounds, that's not so bad. On its initial test outing, it hit 60 mph in 6.0 seconds and blitzed the quarter-mile in 14.6 at 95 mph, which will best a V-6 Dodge Challenger. Skidpad grip of 0.81 g is reasonable for the class, and its 172-foot stopping distance from 70 mph places the Honda among the best family haulers.
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Skip to comments.WSJ: The Great American Jobs Machine--U.S. has fewer taxes and regulations onerous for employers
Posted on 08/08/2005 5:22:46 AM PDT by OESY
We would like to take a moment to pause and marvel at the U.S. economy. Friday's Labor Department report of more than 200,000 new jobs in July, and two million over the past year, provides the latest bullish details. But the larger story of American job creation, and its causes, is even more impressive.
First, more Americans have jobs today than at any other time in history. Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs -- twice as many as Europe and Japan combined. And third, the U.S. has one of the lowest jobless rates of all developed nations.
It was only a year ago that John Kerry was blasting the "jobless recovery." Lou Dobbs was flogging "outsourcing" every night on CNN as a sign of peril for the American workforce. That criticism now looks wildly off base. The 5% jobless rate today is almost a percentage point below what it was during the same stage of the business cycle during the vaunted "Clinton expansion."...
But just when it seemed there was reason to celebrate, a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston warns that the low U.S. unemployment rate is a "false signal" of prosperity....
Labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute has thoroughly refuted the Boston Fed study. She finds that "most non-participants are out of the labor force by choice -- in school, parenting their children, or retired early."....
We are undeniably losing some manufacturing jobs over time (although manufacturing output has risen as a result of new technology and productivity gains).
But those positions are being rapidly replaced with information, technology and service jobs -- most of which pay more than factory work and are less physically grueling....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I retired 6 years ago at age 54. I wonder if I have been counted as "unemployed"?
"But just when it seemed there was reason to celebrate, a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston warns that the low U.S. unemployment rate is a "false signal" of prosperity.... "
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Might as well have said the Federal Reserve Bank of Peking.
yep, me 11 years ago at the age of 49, bet i am counted as unemployed too.
Just think how rich we would be if we returned to a pre-New Deal ratio of government to GDP.
This article does omit one big factor: Lots of people are bringing home big bucks as war contractors. We'll need a bit more economic cushion before letting the air out of that.
Excuse me, but there are more Americans now than at any other time in history.
Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs -- twice as many as Europe and Japan combined.
There's the operative word - created. Were the jobs actually needed or worth while?
And third, the U.S. has one of the lowest jobless rates of all developed nations.
Apples and oranges. We aren't responsible for other nations' job rates.
Forget the consequences of our decisions. If it feels good; do it. When the construction workers are through constructing, the building materials makers are through making, and the furnishers are through furnishing, who will pay the taxes that fund our gargantuine government and all of its social welfare programs including Social Security and Medicare? Oh, I remember, Ben Bernacke and his famous printing press will simply steal the wealth of the people who didn't participate in the giant borrowing and spending spree that the WSJ is gloating about. Government will ensure that nobody escapes being punished for the sins of a few. Welcome to the Democrats', and now maybe the Republicans', view that we are all created equal and all in this together whether we want to be or not.
Same paper had small article saying that renowned Prince from Saudi Arabia, world class investor, Citibank former "owner", is selling his interest in Canary Wharf? Londons secondary financial center? Has he made enuf, or (conspiracy here!) doe she know it's gonna get hit? Paranoia reigns!!
For some time I've suggested that government jobs should be substracted from the employment rolls when computing various employment-related statistics like these. I for one am a bit surprised to see the Wall Street Journal accept these figures at face value.
thx for posting the Journal's editorials, even in part. I don't to read the paper in the morning any more.
Absolutely correct. Moreover, other nations calculate jobless rates differently. Canada, for example, has a more liberal definition. If you read the newspaper employment classifieds once a week, you are counted as an active job seeker. Once corrected for differences in how the labor rate is calulated, Canadian unemployment rates are 0.1 or .02 percentage points higher than in the U.S. and not the 2-3 percantage points as they appear.
The very fact that free traders use low "jobless rate" as the argument is a proof that they speak in bad faith.
First unemplyment does not count people who are not on job market and counts menial jobs or derivatve jobs same way as the jobs which are highly skilled and advance the economy.
Free traders/free marketeers are not so stupid no to know it. But they think that general public is stupid.
No, you just "left" the job market. But if you start a new McJob you will be gainfully employed.
That's true, but how do we accuratley measure the state of the economy? Personally, I don't know anyone who is jobless who doesn't "want" to be. Some of them think they don't choose to be jobless, but given their level of irresponsibility, drug abuse, etc. they are in essence choosing to be jobless.
As for the quality of the jobs, I just don't know if there is anyone one good way to measure it. Surely, the free-traders over-exaggerate on one end, but the protectionists do as well. For 20 years we have been told by the protectionists that the only jobs being created are "hamburger flipping" jobs. Meanwhile Dell, Intel, Cisco, Mircosoft, etc. have been created.
I have suggested that each government job should be counted as two or more jobs LOST rather than gained. My reasoning is that almost all government employees are in fact COUNTERPRODUCTIVE and waste the productive efforts of others.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. December 31, 1930. The Hoover Administration reported today that unemployment rolls are down because many have started own business and are no longer looking for work.
I think that sums things up pretty well.
Yes! Get back to work. You are ruining the figures. :-)
I agree, but the ironic thing is that all this debt is seen as a good thing by people who call themselves "conservative."
It's so tiresome to see the pro government-subsidized "cheap" labor, pro "free tradin' transfer of technology, wealth, and jobs" crowd crow about how great things are; but on the other hand economists point to falling wages for some, lagging wages for others, underemployment for many, lost consumer demand as jobs go offshore, and economic facts such as imported productivity.
Then there's the household v. establishment debate over the number of jobs created. If you are not getting paid are you really employed? Household says yes. If you are not a W-2 employee are you counted by the payroll survey?
There are studies like some from Northeastern University, Pew Hispanic Center, and CIS that show jobs losses for citizens and established immigrants and huge gains in employment by recent immigrants (legal, ILLEGAL it matters not).
Somewhere between there is truth?
Or is "truth" determined by dollars that one side gains over the other?
Here's where workers can earn the most.
August 8, 2005: 9:41 AM EDT By Les Christie, CNN/Money staff writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The nation's biggest county, Los Angeles, has more businesses than any other, according to a new report from the Census Bureau. But among the 50 U.S. counties with the most businesses, New York County, better known as the New York City borough of Manhattan, has the best-paid workers.
The release, which covered data through March 12, 2003, reported that the average annual payroll per employee in Manhattan during 2003 was $73,032. That was 14.6 percent higher than the next highest paid county, Silicon Valley's Santa Clara County, where the average worker earned $63,704 a year.
Look what NAFTA-CAFTA had done - obviously NYC must be where all those 'good jobs' were created.
Your post was excellent but you are wasting your time with these guys. Their goal is to sell gloom and doom. They would look for a pimple on Miss Universe.
What they need to do is count the numbers of people who are working temp jobs, not just working.
Sad to say, but it makes a difference in job security and outlook, as I have known for about 13 years now!
You cannot imagine the relief at finally having a full time job again!
...in the service sector, too! Technical, but FIELD SERVICE.
Nope. If you're filing tax returns you're counted as employed. The 5% is that part of the population that are unemployable.
We may not be responsible for other nations' jobs but our consumption is responsible for creating hundreds of thousands of jobs (or more) around the world. The American consumer has lifted countries out of poverty and offered hope to those who had none.
As those economies develop and per capita GDP increases, they become markets for our high value goods and services. It's apples to apples and it's all good news. Sorry.
There's the operative word - created. Were the jobs actually needed or worth while?
Where do you think you live? That's just a ridiculous thing to ask.
You mean that I am still supposed to be paying taxes on my income?
Just kidding.
I live in the socialist state of Illinois and retirement income is exempt from state taxes. Our socialist governor was making noises about taxing that income but dropped it. I think he heard about the angry mob of senior citizens getting the tar and feathers ready for him. I gotta give him credit though, he is trying to be a good little socialist.
Where do you think you live? That's just a ridiculous thing to ask.
That is why I decided against replying to his nonsense. Obviously he has more grasp of leftwing political points than economics.
You weren't a mechanic were you
First of all, what are the Chinese and Japanese going to do with all the dollars they receive? They can spend them or invest them. If they had a better place to invest them, they would.
Second, who says we can't afford our homes? The average American household has more than 57% equity in their home. American household net worth is at an all time high of $49 trillion with only 20% of that coming from home equity.
When the inflation from all that credit dries up, will the value of the McMansions fall? Will the stock market fall?
And just where is all this inflation you say exists? The bond market doesn't see it. Do you see something they don't?
that we are all created equal and all in this together whether we want to be or not.
This is really all about your personal circumstances, isn't it?
No, but why do you ask?
What ever happened to "From each according to his abilities"? I thought that you people valued the work of the common laborer/peasant.
Fine. Forget the unemployment rate. Let's look at other economic indicators. Where is the bad news in these?:
GDP growth
Rising wages
Low interest rates
Tame inflation
Manufacturing expansion (26 months in a row)
Service sector expansion
Corporate earnings
Export growth
Household net worth
Home ownership
Home equity
Number of Americans invested in the stock market
Consumer confidence
I am amazed by your ability to ignore all things positive in favor of doom and gloom based on anything but fact. It is truly unfortunate that you will not be happy until our economy is truly hurting. The public is not stupid, they just don't share your irrational moroseness.
Im not doubting you, I am just curious as to what type of high value goods and services.
Considering how many people now comprise our workforce (almost 134 million on the non-farm payroll), and given the welfare-state mentality that pervades much of the industrial world, a 5% unemployment rate is miraculous. It also does not include many thousands of undocumented jobs held by day laborers, illegal immigrants and those paid "under-the-table". If we could eliminate the illegals, we'd have an even lower rate.
My sentiments exactly, for literally all of my adult life I've been hearing the same doom and gloom rhetoric about the economy, the deficit, outsourcing etc, etc.Yet for all of that time I've been employed.In fact for most of that time I've had two and sometimes even three jobs.I suppose one shouldn't have to work two jobs to get by but then again how many millionaires do you suppose got to where they are by working 40 hours a week?
Too bad it takes at least 150K/year to live there. ;)
Wow! There's a winner!! Rooooooight.
.... started restaurants
Did you know that 60% of all restaurants fail in their first 3 years? Still more in the first five?
... gone into the motel business
Wow. Another winner!
... or do what I do, consultant work in my chosen field.
With the exception of consultants, which is good work "IF YOU CAN GET IT" all the other options you ticked off are complete losers. Subemployment PER SE. These are not the careers these people trained for or wanted. Good bye vacation benefits, retirement, health plans, etc. And oh, yeah, let's not think to hard about the failure rate of start-ups in general... All so that importers can get a fractionally cheaper toaster...at the expense of their fellow citizens who they vilify.
Remember this little document?
U.S. Constitution:
We the People, of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union....
Here is a link to US exports, by products, for 2000-2004.
Computer software, aircraft, armaments, entertainment, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals (90% of all new pharmaceuticals are created here in the US) agricultural products etc, etc, etc.
As for services, the US is the world leader in banking, other financial services and insurance. Construction is a service and, again, we are the world leader. Other services include transportation, education and professional business services.
Here is a link to an older article that offers a good explanation about service exports:
What can I say, you are a loser as are anyone who claims to be educated but can't earn a living.
Read the other posts that agree with me. They agree that you (your kind) are among the losers in life. Get over it and get a job.
Actually the latter news item...manufacturing... , even with the cooked numbers, has been declining the last two months. You are a perfect example of the cooked frog. Happily swimming in his pot of water on the stove as the temperature is brought to a boil. Your sides failure to recognize what is going on is of monumental proportions. Which, when the exrement hits the fan, our nation will "truly be hurting" and the side espousing phony Fed numbers will be the reason for the calamity, not the ones who counseled caution.
Your irrational failure to question obviously dubious numbers, or comprehend the pivotal foundational nature to America her manufactures represent... Every single bloody word you say shows you don't understant what has been happening to manufactures. Even the Gold Bugs are apparently appreciating the phoniness in the official economic numbers...with increasingly apoplectic declarations. Terms which make the standard Free Republic conservative look awfully mild and tame by contrast. So why don't you get out of your cocoon of fantasy, your comfort zone of Greenspanisms, and check out what the rest of the planet is saying:
By: Bill Bonner, Eric Fry & The Mogambo Guru,
The Daily Reckoning
Monday, 23 February 2004
Dolalr Rallies on Terror?!
We often opine that the world is full of fraud. Today we begin with proof.
Or rather, a few egregious examples - the first brought to you by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, explicated by the New York Post's John Crudele, courtesy of the great Mogambo Guru:
"By now my readers should have a PHD (pretty high disdain) for Capitol Hill math," writes Crudele. "This one, though, is a cake taker. I'll translate: Included in the 112,000 new jobs in January were 76,000 jobs that supposedly exist because people who weren't hired in December couldn't be fired in January. Got that? They didn't get hired in December, or fired in January, so they showed up as new employees in January as a statistical fluke. So, really there were only an abysmally small 36,000 new jobs in January."
In other words, the 76,000 jobs are a fraud. "Weak holiday hiring," wrote the Labor Department in its release, "...meant that there were fewer workers to lay off in January, resulting in seasonally adjusted employment gains for the month." The key words here are 'seasonally adjusted' - meaning that although holiday hiring was weak, government quants went ahead and added imaginary seasonal jobs to the total figures anyway.
Yet...on Friday, the governors of the Federal Reserve, like so many comic book heroes, professed en masse their belief that real "job creation" is on the way. "It's just a matter of time," Fred 'let's-all-join-hands-and-buy-an-SUV' McTeer assuaged the huddled crowd of attendees at an economic education conference in Texas.
"In all likelihood," Alan Greenspan (ranking former member of Time Magazine's Committee to Save the World) soothed a Chamber of Commerce group in Nebraska, "employment will begin to increase more quickly before long as output continues to expand." Ben 'Printing Press' Bernanke messaged reporters in Washington by "expressing" the view that "hiring will strengthen significantly this year..."
Speaking in St. Louis, William Poole suggested that if the U.S. economy expands by 4 to 5 percent in 2004, as the preponderance of the world's talking heads seem to agree it will, then there will be "significant increases" in employment.
Their post-huddle story in a nutshell: If U.S. GDP grows at the expected rate...jobs will appear. Will they, we wonder? Probably. In the U.S.? Not likely. India and China? That would be our guess. But leaving aside the politically juicy issue of "off-shoring" of jobs, let's consider the pedestal on which the faith of the Fed's super-heroes is resting: the growth in GDP figures themselves.
Rather than relying on annualized GDP growth rates, "a more precise measure [of the strength of the recovery]," writes Richard Freeman in the Executive Intelligence Review (also by way of our friend the Guru), "would be to compare debt to the productive portion of GDP."
The "productive portion" of the economy - manufacturing, agriculture, construction, mining, public utilities, and transportation sectors - produces the "actual wealth" from which debt, both personal and national - both being racked up at staggering rates - gets paid off. Yet according to U.S. Commerce Department data, the productive portion of GDP is now less than 30% of total GDP.
Perhaps the real reason new-hires are failing to show 'in the numbers' as quickly as our friends at the Fed would like is masked by using a flawed (or at least easily manipulated) measure of 'U.S. growth.' Recent GDP reports, after all, measure countless paper transactions following an historic burst of government stimulus - rather than real economic activity.
Hmmmn. Just a thought.
To make the case a little more poignant, Freeman sheds light on another little 'adjustment' the government likes to make use of: "The Commerce Department reports the 'manufacturing sector of GDP' in dollar terms, not output terms; and it adjusts it by the notorious 'Quality Adjustment Factor,' which artificially overstates production." Thus, even the officially stated 30% of GDP that is supposed to be the 'productive portion' is just a statistical fluke.
"There it is in one compact sentence," excoriates the Mogambo, "proof that the government is a pack of lying weasels!" Mogambo unpacks his outburst...below.
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS : Mogambo on Monday! This week our hero is rudely interrupted while trying desperately to mind his own business...
by the Mogambo Guru
Last week, we were graced with the sight of Sir Alan Greenspan himself on TV testifying before Congress, which mainly consisted of Congresspersons demonstrating that they are either clueless, or that they couldn't care less, since they are there at the testimony apparently only as a welcome respite from their regular duties of spending us into the poorhouse, and passing more and laws that make living in America more and more unpalatable and uneconomic.
Now, to tell you truth, I did not hear much of the testimony, as I usually get so angry at the vapidity of the questions or the glib evasiveness of Greenspan's answers, or the outright lying, or his saying that he does not want to discuss this in public and how the questioner ought to drop by his office so they can close the door and that Greenspan can tell him how things really work, or maybe he would prefer to have some of Ashcroft's Patriot Act armed- and-armored agents drop by the Congressperson's house, late one night, so that THEY could explain it to him, if you catch his drift, and so I usually just stop watching the damn show, and missed most of the testimony. Almost all. I hate it.
But Mr. Eavis says he watched the testimony, and Mr. Eavis is the Senior Columnist for theStreet.com, and he wrote a nice piece about Greenspan's testimony, which he entitled "Probing Greenspan's Easy-Money Madness." With a title like that you know he is probably as dyspeptic as I am about the whole thing. He writes, "But one line in Greenspan's testimony Wednesday shows that he is unfazed by the soaring debt levels of the U.S. He said: 'All told, our accommodative monetary policy stance to date does not seem to have generated excessive volumes of liquidity or credit.'"
If Mr. Eavis says that this is what Greenspan said, then I have no reason to doubt him. So I'm going to believe him, especially since Greenspan has already proved that he is unreliable, and will lie to me just for the sake of lying, as far as I can tell, like when I finally get through to him on the phone, and as soon as he hears my voice he says "This is a no Mr. Greeniespan. Him gone. Me clean office plenty fine, chop chop" and then he hangs up, but I know it was him. He isn't fooling anybody.
But I can see how he figures that he IS fooling me, since he does it every six months in front of Congress, who are supposed to be so bright and trustworthy and educated and upholding the Constitution.
Anyway, I'll tell you what was spooky. One day last week, I am just minding my own business, going through the motions of the normal routine, when suddenly the meaning of when Greenspan said becomes clear to me in all its glaring treachery...and the next thing I know, I'm running down the street screaming in fear, and banging on the doors of neighbors, and when they make the mistake of opening the door in response to my repeated knocking, and ringing of the doorbell, and kicking the side of their house, and peering in the windows and yelling "Hello? Hello? I can see you in there! Why won't you answer the door?" then when they do finally open the door, then I'm grabbing them by their necks and screaming in their faces, yelling that "Alan Greenspan has just testified that he sees no evidence of excess liquidity! Do you know what this means? Do you?"
By this time my voice has risen an octave and gradually working to higher and higher decibels, and in my unfathomable rage I'm spraying their faces with flying specks of spittle. "Do you understand me?" I'm screeching. "Do you have any idea of the profound and horrific consequences of a chairman of the central bank to say that he sees no evidence of excess liquidity?"
Never mind that Greenspan's denial gives Mr. Ben Bernanke, he of the printing press, a green light to print up even more money out of thin air that will find its way into all sorts of nasty speculative bubbles. Never mind that it means that even more bad credit will be given over to debtors who will never pay it back, like the government. Never mind that the future value of the Greenback - which wasn't looking all that rosy to start with, especially sharing the first syllable of its nickname with the most profligate U.S. Fed Chairman in history, as it does - now appears to be vanishing into nothingness.
No...this sort of deceit is all too close to another of Greenspan's favorite lies, and let me give you the scoop on that idiocy, namely that inflation is low. But it is too easy to attack Mr. Greenspan on these counts, as they can be successfully dismissed by anybody in the whole freaking country who has spent money, as the prices of everything are up, and many of them spectacularly so. So we have proved that he is a clueless weasel about liquidity and inflation.
But there is another one of Greenspan's follies that just won't go away, and it has as much credence as Greenspan's ridiculous insistence that inflation is low, and that is the whole productivity thing.
So let's attack him about this productivity thing. But we are again stopped at the front door of the Fed by some tough-looking security guards, so we turn around and decide that we will confine ourselves to attacking him verbally, and by that I mean in writing, so you can see how confused I am in my anger. But even in my current bewildered state, I obviously have a lot more on the ball than this Greenspan fella.
Anyway, suppose you, as a successful capitalist swine, hire a hundred guys to make a hundred widgets, and sell the widgets for a dollar apiece, and thus GDP is $100. So far, so good. Then a few days pass, and we wake up with a blinding headache in a strange, seedy little hotel on the outskirts of town with a one-eyed woman who says her name is Darla, and when we frantically call in to the office, we find that you raised the price to two dollars, and you also figured out a way to make widgets with only fifty employees! The hike in price, unfortunately, reduces widget sales by 25%. But GDP jumps to $150! And because you fired half the employees, labor costs plummeted, and the next thing you know Alan Greenspan jumps on an airplane and flies down to visit your factory and give you an award as Proud Poobah of Productivity, which you deserve because productivity has soared. In the old days, it took a hundred guys to make a hundred widgets. Now it takes only fifty guys to make seventy-five widgets, and you doubled the price to more than make up for it. You're a genius!
But unemployment is up by 50%, total sales volume is down, and inflation has soared to 100%. Only a Fed chairman as clueless as Alan Greenspan could possibly only see the upside in this.
And so we have successfully debunked Greenspan's insistence that productivity is a miraculous tonic for the economy, that inflation is "low," and that the volumes of liquidity and credit in the U.S. system are "not excessive."
Is there any lie Sir Alan has left untold?
The Mogambo Guru for The Daily Reckoning
P.S. I went to the Treasury website for the public debt, publicdebt.treas.gov, and saw that the debt is $7.025 trillion, a new all-time record. Just for laughs I scroll down to the bottom, and the list ends 9/30/87, when the debt was $2.350 trillion. That is, oddly enough, approximately the date that Greenspan took over the Federal Reserve.
So, under this guy Greenspan, we have gone into debt to the tune of another $4.675 trillion. One lousy Fed chairman has tripled our debt in seventeen lousy years. I am appalled and disgusted. Ugh.
Editor's note: Richard Daughty is general partner and C.O.O. for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the editor of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise the better to heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning, and other fine publications.
Get over yourself. I am more gainfully employed than you will apparently ever be, Wally.
Proof that you are as I described: "All so that importers can get a fractionally cheaper toaster...at the expense of their fellow citizens who they vilify."
Thats impressive.
Trying to pin down just when this 'calamity' might happen is the haystack needle with you doom 'n gloomer, protectionist, isolationist, alarmists. At least you didn't link us to the tipping point unclear article.
My guess is that you've been preaching the end is nigh for as long as you've been on FR. Just when will this all add up to disaster? Can you narrow it down some? Is it six-months? A year? Two years? Sometime between now and 2025?
According to you, GDP calculations are a fraud, wage growth is a myth, inflation is at 5.7% even though the 10-year bond is yielding 4.25%. You think we don't make anything here anymore yet we continue to set records for manufacturing output.
You live in a very grim world which is the polar opposite of most American's. Just because economics is the dismal science doesn't mean you have to be gloomy, Eeyore.
My guess is that when the Asians quit buying treasuries, the bond market will see a lot more than they are seeing now. When the price of bonds drop, stock market investors will start seeing things differently as well.
And when the dollar starts sliding again, maybe you will be able to see it, too.
"Do you see something they don't?"
As a matter of fact, I do. Do you remember that one day Enron was the world's most admired company and that a month later, its off-balance sheet liabilities began to be revealed and two days later, Enron was virtually worthless? Gokhale and Smetters calculated the off balance sheet unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. Depending on the growth rates that were assumed, the net present value of those unfunded liabilities was estimated at somewhere between $34 and $77 trillion dollars with their best estimate being around $55 trillion. And for each year that we fail to deal with the problem, the estimate is that the unfunded liabilities will increase at an annual rate of $1.5 trillion. If the off balance sheet liabilities are included, that $49 trillion net worth you were describing vanishes or is even negative. Countries and economies that are doing things right do not have negative cash flows and zero or negative net worths.
The Comptroller of the Currency has already concluded that no nation in history has ever had sufficient economic growth to cover the unfunded liabilities as estimated by Gokhale-Smetters. The United States is faced with three choices: bankruptcy, hyperinflation or selling the public lands of the West to liquidate the liabilities that cannot be funded from income. At present rates, without the unfunded liabilities, the people of the United States are spending $2 billion dollars a day more than they earn. If you factor in the $1.5 trillion, we are actually consuming $6 billion a day more than we produce. And by 2012, it will rise to more than $10 billion a day. Why, in no time at all, we'll all be rich.
Borrowing to increase productivity can raise income. What do you see? Does this graph look like borrowing to increase consumption or borrowing to increase income?
Too bad it takes at least 150K/year to live there. ;)"
Hey doubt many of these 'average' people live in Manhattan. They hit the trains out at 5 or earlier. Now the people who clean up or clerk the offices they live in Manhattan and they pull those averages down quite a bit.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Dev Diary Looks at the Destiny System
Written Monday, November 14, 2011 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
Get used to hearing about destiny and fate a lot in relation to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It appears to be one of the key innovations in the game, enabling you to adapt your class to your play style, rather than choosing who your character is going to be from the very beginning.
There's a variety of different destinies that you can unlock for your hero, including the warrior, mage or jack-of-all-trades, each of which bring unique advantages. For instance, the mage is able to use an ability called 'blink' that enables you to teleport short distances in battle to get the jump on enemies. You can even add poison to your blink for an extra kick.
This new developer diary takes a closer look at the destinies system, as well as showcasing a few of the abilities that come with each class you can develop for your adventurer. It looks like a refreshingly flexible system. Check out the video to find out more. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is out on February 7th, 2012 in North America and February 10th, 2012 in Europe.


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Skip to comments.Why French brie isn't kosher
Posted on 04/24/2002 5:29:39 AM PDT by SJackson
The French once defined high fashion, fine wines and old cheese, and a language crisp with clarity. We were willing to forget the way they roughed up that Dreyfus fellow, assisted in the deporting of thousands of Jews to the concentration camps ("the Nazis made us do it") and then, after the Nazis had been defeated, built a memorial in 1946 to 44 Jewish children who had been snatched from an orphanage and sent to Auschwitz, and wouldn't identify them as Jewish.
The French sometimes correct themselves when their hypocrisies and self-interests are exposed, but only with a lot of pressure from outsiders. So we can hope that someday the French - along with other Europeans - who are trying to hide their anti-Semitism behind sympathy for the Palestinians will think again. But I wouldn't bet a wedge of brie, even accompanied by a bottle of good California Merlot, on it.
France joined Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Sweden to condone, not condemn, Palestinian terrorism. They all voted as members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission - this is the same commission that kicked the United States from its membership two years ago. Canada, Germany and Britain opposed the resolution and brave Italy abstained.
"A vote in favor of this resolution is a vote for Palestinian terrorism," Alfred Moses, a former U.S. ambassador to the commission and now chairman of UN Watch, a monitoring group, told the Toronto-based National Post. "Any country that condones - or is indifferent to - the murder of Israeli civilians in markets, on buses and in cafes has lost any moral standing to criticize Israel's human rights record."
The Austrians, as usual, tried to have it both ways. They signed the resolution but said they didn't like it, particularly the use of the word "Judaization" to describe Israeli policies in Jerusalem, and the accusation against Israel of "acts of mass killing." The resolution affirms "the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation," and the words by "all available means," logically interpreted as an endorsement of suicide bombings, were deleted only at the last minute.
The French, who have closed their eyes to Islamist terrorism in Israel, have made the Jews in their own country all the more vulnerable as anti-Semitic violence mounts there. The Jewish community in France, the largest in Europe, numbers about 700,000, but this is small compared to the 5 million Muslims who terrify the rest of the population.
The Paris government reports up to 12 violent incidents against Jews every day. Over the past 18 months more than 400 anti-Semitic attacks have been documented in France. Cemeteries are desecrated with swastikas, a synagogue was burned down in Marseilles, and organized thugs in hooded scarves attacked a teen-age Jewish soccer team in a working class neighborhood near Paris. The gang of North African boys fell upon the Maccabee soccer team with sticks and bars, shouting "death to the Jews."
Mercifully, nobody was killed, and the anti-Semitic violence today is nothing like the violence in France under the Nazis, but when the French ambassador to England feels free to compare Jews to feces at an A-list dinner party in London, it's clear where all this could easily go.
France has always indulged moral ambiguity when it comes to the Jews. Unlike the Germans, they felt no need to atone for anything when they were confronted with their participation in the Holocaust. By their lights, they were occupied, by the Nazis. When, in 1972, Marcel Ophuls, the film director, produced "The Sorrow and the Pity," a documentary about French anti-Semitism and cowardice during the Vichy period, French audiences were so outraged that the movie was banned from French television until 1981.
This has been a simmering source of bitterness in the French Jewish community since. The Resistance, which so bravely fought back when a majority of their countrymen embraced the Nazi occupation, did little to save Jews, never attempting even to stop a deportation train to the death camps.
The French have often excluded Jews from their national identity. In 1980, when neo-Nazi groups in Paris attacked a synagogue and killed four Jews, Raymond Barre, the prime minister, condemned the attack but added, in a notorious aside, that "innocent Frenchmen" might also have been killed. The sentiment caused a brief diplomatic uproar, but was nevertheless commonplace.
But the French are less squeamish today, with a large, restless, angry Muslim population in their midst. They condemn the Israelis for defending themselves and ignore the suicide murderers of Jews with no fear of exposing anti-Semitic sentiment. The thugs on the soccer field had no trouble interpreting the national sentiment. Neither should the rest of us.
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2- I've said it before and I will repeat it again, antisemitism among non arabo-muslim French has practically disappeared. I refuse to see my compatriots being considered as antisemitic because of silly acts from brainwashed muslim teenagers. The people who are promoting this vision of France are nothing but incorrigible francophobic who have found another occasion for easy french-bashing.
3- The apparently pro-palestinian stance of France has NOTHING TO DO with antisemitism. It is too easy to answer to anyone who is critical of Sharon's policies that he is consequently and antisemitic. The feeling of guilt from France towards the arabic world is extremely strong today, and the French tend to see too many similarities between the Algerian independance war and the military actions by Israel in the colonized territories. To the French (arabo-muslims non included), Israel is just another western nation, technically and militarly superior to the Arabic nations, and apparently taking advantage of this superiority to conquer lands which are not supposed to be part of Israel. Just like France did before and is ashamed of having done so. This may be a very wrong way of seeing the situation, but at least this is not antisemitism.
Ashkenazic Jews were invited into France by Charlemagne in 800 and lived in France till World War II; almost none of them survived the deportations to the Nazi death camps. France's Jewish community today (the largest in Western Europe, but only a small fraction of the Jewish population of France in 1939) is composed primarilly of Sephardic Jews, who lived in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, etc.) until their countries gained independence from France. When the new Moslem governments began to make things tough on the Jews, these Jews (who were French-speaking) moved to France.
You're going to have a tough time of it some days on FR adopting a stance like that. But hey, more power to 'ya.
The one thing you could say for them, however, is that they have raised arrogance to an art form.
Tell ya what, though, I've got some brie in the fridge. I think I'll go pirate a nice big wedge, melt it in a croissant, and see if I can come up with something.(burp)
Because, even if you have to go out of your way to do it, it's the right and proper thing to do.
In case you hadn't noticed, this is a discussion forum. People here on FR are free to discuss, or even just to comment on, anything that's posted, whether you (or I) agree with it or not. It doesn't even have to be based on hard concrete fact, it can just be an opinion, an expression, or even just an emotional feeling. Get used to it, or get ready to be upset all the time. Either way, welcome aboard.
And when Daniel Bernard said that Israel is "that shitty little country" which threatens world peace, had he suddenly been transformed into a brainwashed arabo-muslim French teenager for a few moments? Is the government of France, the one that keeps Bernard employed as its Ambassador to Great Britian, composed of brainwashed arabo-muslim French teenagers?
Just curious.
Nobody knows who has started these allegations. I don't know how true they are, I have no idea of the context, and he denied using the word "shitty". Even if they are true, they are scandalous indeed and they clearly do not help, but this is an accident, not a symptom. If France's "deeply-rooted antisemitism" was real, I'm pretty sure there would be more solid evidences than one alleged remark by one individual.
"What the French woman will be wearing this year" fashion show.
Scene: Fashion runway, and all the models swathed in the various Islamist blanketing.
First model in sheets and blankets of Evil-Eye Blue (that's why they wear so much blue, to ward off the evil eye. Women being so very evil, they wear the blue)....she waddles down, rags waving like the Ringwraiths in Lord of the Rings. Stops at end, pivots smartly.
BURQUA! the announcer shouts.
Next model in black robes like Death Takes a Walk, does likewise.
ABAYA! from the announcer
Follows with CHADOR, of course.
How long will it be before French women have all these options to choose from?
Muslim tradition requires women to remove body hair, so there will be some improvement in the French hygene.
As a matter of fact, we do know who "started these allegations." This charming example of the Gaullic bon mot was made at a private gathering at the London home of Lord Black of Crossharbour. They were referred to - without revealing the identity of Bernard - in a column published in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, December 17, 2001, by Black's wife, Barbara Amiel. Amiel noted the ambassador of a major European Union country "politely told a gathering at my home that the current troubles in the world were all because of 'that shitty little country Israel.'" The identity of the speaker soon bacame known. That he denied using undiplomatic language is hardly surprising. What he did not deny was the opinion he expressed, nor did he show any recognition of how offensive his remarks were. Of course, being French, he might have thought being offensive was his job.
"Why," Bernard was quoted as asking, "should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?"
Of course, Americans might question why we got involved in convincing the German army to get out of France (again!), in World War II. By the 1980s, the French, gratitude cleverly disguised as craven grovelling before a certain Middle Eastern tinpot dictator, helped their main NATO ally by refusing to allow American pilots to overfly sacred French airspace when we were bombing Ghadaffy, thereby adding several hours to the trip. They then displayed a Tati-like sense of humor when they complained that errant missiles -- fired by our very tired pilots -- missed their intended targets and hit French property.
Bernard's vile little remark isn't the only example of anti-semitism in France, it's just the ripest. There are now more documented examples of anti-Jewish violence in France in 2002 than there were in Germany in the year of Kristalnacht. The French police routinely look the other way, or refuse to characterize attacks on synagogues as "anti-semetic." This is in line with France's history of anti-semitism, about which the most telling fact is how remarkably little coercion from the Gestapo was needed to get the French to pack their Jewish citizens off to extermination camps.
Now, don't talk to me about gratitude when it comes to the Franco-American relations, will you? I could remind you a thing or two about America's behaviour towards France duting the end of the 18th and the whole 19th century. As far as Khadafi is concerned, the explanation is simple: Mitterand was a lunatic who always refused something when it was not asked politely. The US informed Mitterand that their planes would take a route flying over France, without explicitely making the request. Mitterand got pissed and said "screw you, next time you'll learn to be polite". That's quite typical of his peculiar personality. The thing that of course you will never want to notice is the fact that France has proven trustworthy when it really mattered, and has appeared highly undisciplined and irritating when the rhetorics had no actual consequences. Remember, the French like posturing. Action is secondary.
As for the claim that the police pretended to look elsewere, it is plain ridiculous; as a matter of fact, these days, the police in France seems unable to protect anyone (which is not without connection with the results of some election you may have heard about...). But you will see, if you come to France, that the synagogues are probably the places which are the most surrounded by policemen these days.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center dismissed President Chirac's denial of an upsurge of antisemitism in France as "a politically-induced myopia which only increases the fears of French Jewry", said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Rabbi Cooper said that he and Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Center's European Director, experienced the same response from French Interior Minister Valliant during a meeting two weeks ago in France. "French officials are more than happy to condemn Le Pen and anti-Jewish hate crimes from the far-right, but have steadfastly refused to publicly condemn and deal with over 300 hate crimes against French Jewry inspired by radical Muslim clerics," Cooper added.
"Just last week President Chirac gave an election speech in Garges-Les-Gonesse, a suburb of Paris on 'insecurity and safety', just 200 meters from the site of a recent attack on a school bus of Jewish kids by local Arab thugs. Incredibly, no Jewish leaders were invited to the speech and no mention of antisemitism was uttered by the French President, he added.
Is it any wonder French Jews are frightened for their safety and future?" Cooper concluded.
And from World Jewish Congress :
Across the English Channel in France, the situation is scarcely better and in many respects far worse. Historian Pierre Andre Taguieff, a noted French authority on racism and antisemitism, claims that [n]ot since the Second World War have we witnessed such a rash of anti-Jewish acts, which have met with such limited intellectual and political resistance. One thing is certain At the start of the 21st century we are discovering that Jews are once again select targets of violence. It is dangerous to identify as a Jew today. Hatred of Jews has returned to France.
One symptom of that hostility is to be found in the fact that state and government officials have been even more outspoken in their hostility toward Israel and in some instances have even attempted to contextualize the antisemitic violence that erupted in the wake of the latest Intifada.
In a discussion on the recent violence against Jewish institutions and individuals in France, French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine claimed one is not shocked when young French Jews instinctively sympathize with Israel regardless of its policies So one should not be shocked when young French citizens [of North African background] feel compassion for the Palestinians. In so doing, he gave a green light to those who wished to demonstrate their support for the Palestinian Arabs through violence. There has been little reaction in the French public to the phenomenon of Muslim demonstrators chanting Death to Jews in the center of Paris. Given the country's wartime history of collaboration in the destruction of the French Jewish community, this silence is especially disturbing. There may, in fact, be a link between the demonization of Israel and that guilt. By painting Israel as an apartheid or even Nazi state, the French can see the annihilation of European Jewry as being somehow less evil. And they can view the Israelis as having lost the moral high ground in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
There is, of course, little love between French elites and the Muslim community in France, but it seems that there is, at least on the Jewish question, a degree of common And one suspects, that there is even a degree of satisfaction in certain circles that Muslims are on the offensive against the Jews. But then, where Jews, or rather the hatred of Jews, are concerned the strangest and least likely alliances have emerged and may yet be emerging again.
Meantime, French President Jacques Chirac has declared that there is no antisemitism in France. He, the first French leader to openly acknowledge French complicity in the deportation of French Jews in the Holocaust, has intimated that the Jews would be wise not to even suggest that there is any antipathy toward Jews in France or face serious consequences.
France, of course, has a long history of attempting to appease Arab despots in order to further its own interests in the Middle East. Not surprisingly, the French media has also displayed a marked preference for the Arab cause reporting on the recent violence in the Middle East. In France too, the Muslim population, which outnumbers the Jewish population by a factor of more than 5:1 may be expected to wield increasing political clout.
Yeah right, Chirac threatened the jews to stop complainig or face consequences... I guess this sentence pretty much illustrates how "unbiased" the authors of this article are.
Including 290 graffitis... Why did the authors of this paper fail to mention that? Could if be that they gave some kind of interest in dramatizing the situation?
Confusing signs
Apr 4th 2002 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
Despite a rising number of attacks, general anti-Semitism may be declining
A SYNAGOGUE burned to the ground in Marseilles; two other synagogues attacked in Lyons and Strasbourg; a shotgun assault on a kosher butcher's shop in Toulouse; a cemetery vandalised near Strasbourg: the horrors of a single Easter holiday are suddenly posing questions the French would rather not ask, let alone answer. Is a general but latent anti-Jewish sentiment coming into the open? Or does the year-long wave of anti-Jewish acts, from graffiti to physical assaults, reflect rather the events in the Middle East, and so perhaps also France's failure to integrate its Muslim, pro-Palestinian minority?
Whatever the answers, the fact is that France, home to around 5m Muslims, mostly of North African extraction, and about 600,000 Jews, has more Muslims and Jews than any other country in Western Europe. The Muslims, concentrated in working-class suburbs that have become ghettos of poverty, poor education, unemployment and crime, all too often feel excluded from the mainstream. For their part, the Jews remember all too well France's dubious record under Nazi occupation. Many Sephardic Jews remember, too, their painful flight from North Africa when France's colonies gained their independence four decades ago.
In other words, the present situation is politically and socially volatilehence the denunciation of the recent attacks by every right-thinking politician. France's conservative president, Jacques Chirac, on a special visit to a synagogue in Le Havre, described the attacks as unimaginable, unpardonable and unworthy of France and the French, and called on Lionel Jospin, the Socialist prime minister who is challenging Mr Chirac for the presidency next month, to take sterner measures to protect Jewish buildings. Mr Jospin, stressing that nothing in the absolutely dramatic situation of the Middle East can justify acts of aggression against our Jewish compatriots or any others, was already ordering such measures: another 1,100 police and gendarmes to guard Jewish sites in Marseilles, Lyons and ten other big towns.
The incidents do seem to be connected with the politics of the Middle East. A book recently put out by the Union of Jewish Students in France and an anti-racist organisation claims that over 400 anti-Jewish incidents took place between September 2000, at the start of the Palestinians' latest intifada, and February this year. They ranged from verbal intimidation to Molotov cocktails. The government of Israel has responded by offering subsidies to encourage French Jews to emigrate, claiming that France is the worst western country concerning anti-Semitism.
Such a charge infuriates France's political eliteand mystifies even Israel's ambassador to Paris, Eli Barnavi, who notes that all the polls show that the Jewish community is increasingly integrated and that only some 10% of the French population manifests any anti-Semitic feeling.
But it will surely be easier to inflame emotions than to soothe them. The Consistory of Paris, a body set up by Napoleon to organise Jewish religious practices, has already described the Easter attacks as the beginnings of a new Kristallnacht, with the government totally passive.
Nooo, because there are a large number of Freepers that don't like France or the inhabitants thereof. Simple as that.
That no one was hurt when the molotov cocktails started flying is fortunate, but I wouldn't confuse incompetence with a gesture of friendship.
I don't suppose ... the period of the French Revolution euphemistically called "The Terror" ... might have dampened our ardor for things French just a teeny bit?
Regarding our poor choice of words when we wanted to fly over France -- I guess it's a good thing we phrased the requests more obsequiously in 1917 and 1944, huh?
Don't bother telling me how safe French synagogues are. I have personal sources telling me otherwise.
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The first determines the border width. It can either be a unit, such as px or em; or a keyword, such as thin or medium.
The second tells us which type. It can be solid, double, dotted, dashed, inset, outset, ridge, etc.
The third, finally, is the color. While you can use keywords here (such as red, blue, gree, etc) it is generally advised to use an RGB hex code, such as the one above.
If you need to, you can play with various settings here [w3schools.com].
Now, I have another question. Why do the fonts Impact and Georgia look so much better on a Mac and in Safari for Windows?
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It also depends what resolution, what DPI, and what kind of monitor you have. Macs have special Monitors, and they have a different DPI setting.
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