Archive for March, 2008
See, some scholars took that seriously and started some action here (it’s a petition defending the abrogation of article 56 of the Lisbon Treaty which forbids any restrictions on capital flows).
Another great piece of thought by cartoonist El Roto from yesterday’s edition of El País, available here (“The path of nationalism is very short: the origin is the end”).
Two in a row, because the one from Monday’s edition, available here, is very educational too (“If capitalism fails, we can try cannibalism”).
Is financial innovation the ultimate unintended path towards socialism?
“Some banks are just going to explode if we do not nationalize them. Or if the Government does not buy their bad credit. This of course would translate into massive costs for the State. But we do have a problem anyway. There is nothing to do [...]
The last soldier from the French trenches of World War I died. Nicolas Sarkozy said:
“Through him, I bow to the millions of ‘poilus’ who responded with exemplary everyday courage to the call of the invaded homeland.” (from “Lazare Ponticelli, 110, last ‘poilu’ of World War I trenches”, International Herald Tribune, March 12 2008, full press [...]
Warning: when you take a flight from Paris to Casablanca, you may have the chance to sample some exquisite French administrative prose. Immigration cops gave this official leaflet to a passenger at the boarding gate:
“Sir, Madam,
You may have been asked to express opposition to the boarding in your same flight of a person who is [...]
El Roto provides here (in today’s edition of El País) an extremely interesting lesson on political deictics (“them”, “us”, “them or us”). His cartoon clarifies Mariano Rajoy’s xenophobic campaign for this week’s elections in Spain — “aquí ya no cabemos más ellos” best translated as “there is not enough room for all of us them”.
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