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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. […]
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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: […]
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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 […]
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Deng Xiaoping, pong
The situation in Hong Kong reminds me of the joke by Hong Kong students about the slogan « one country, two systems » imagined by the chinese communist party in order to better swallow their territory:
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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 We have a totally outdated system that is […]