Ghosn again!

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Ghosn again!

A rumor on the internet: Carlos Ghosn, a former CEO of Renault-Nissan who had once secretly escaped from Japan to Lebanon by plane hidden in a musical instrument chest, has left Beyrouth hidden in a trunk of opera costums, direction Istambul and Tokyo. He was immediately arrested at the airport by the police and then […]

10/06/2025

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Lower your expectations (2)

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Lower your expectations (2)

Dear Elon Musk, you should definitively abandon your quest to send US astronauts on Mars, because three of them, Leroy N. Chiao, Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Richard M. Linnehan have already done it, in 2001. Yours, S.H.

06/06/2025

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Lower your expectations

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Lower your expectations

Dear Elon Musk, if your obsession is to go to Mars, take a plane, a train and a bus, and come to this small village in Ardèche, France. It will cost you much less, it will pollute much less, and there, it is so quite that you won’t need any drugs in order to relax. […]

05/06/2025

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Czar salad

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Czar salad

Vladimir Putin, who considers himself a Czar of Russia (equivalent to a Roman Caesar), demands incredible territorial concessions from Ukraine in exchange for a lasting peace. He should be remembered the world of another Caesar, emperor in his bistrot in Marseille, in Marcel Pagnol’s 1931 film “Marius”. César presents his recipe for a mandarin-lemon-curaçao: CÉSAR: […]

04/06/2025

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No free lunch (or no lunch at all)

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No free lunch (or no lunch at all)

Dear Houatfeu, A word of advice for a foreign leader. If you really need to go to the White House for an official press conference and a lunch, and if you are the elected President of a small country with no nukes, here what you should do. First, go to Macy’s and buy a cheap […]

03/03/2025

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Throwing in the towel

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Throwing in the towel

In response to recent columns by Thomas Friedman : Being French, I am an enemy of the United States of America. I am also an ugly protectionist; I have delusion of past grandeur; and I live in a failed state with an overregulated economy and closed borders. We have a totally outdated system that is […]

05/07/2005

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