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Re: Hillary's email scandal is about privilege

charles reesink — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:17:44 -0000

Funny that Anglophone populations would call on Marie-Antoinette for abuse of privilege!
Is the shoe on the other foot? Is it time for the US to re-think its perverse relation with France? reactivate Colin Powell's quip some 10 years ago: France and the US: married for 250 years and in therapy ever since.

HRC was in Winnipeg where I live two months ago in her fundraising capacity. Once upon a time, the term 'demagoguery' would be invoked: this time however directed by democrats lookalikes, with no intelligence but political.

Re: 24/10/2013 - La tarte bourdaloue sans bords de pâte de Christophe Michalak

charles reesink — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 03:38:45 -0000

que je sache, le bon abbé n'a pas vraiment condamné la gourmandise!

Re: Behind the Scenes: Mary Walsh’s Newfoundland

charles reesink — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:05:37 -0000

just landed on your interview with Mary Walsh...is she contactable?

Re: Whiteness Project

charles reesink — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:14:27 -0000

as a white French canadian male, 59 years-old I do feel that allkinds of discrimination jhavecrept in inocuouslky ob=ver the last 15 years or so, and I thank you Breyonne for being so candid. I miss my years in NYC, between 1985 and 1990: NYC taught me so much from the bronx where I taught to the Rockaways, where I lived - end of the A line, by JFK and an all too often abused beach-side: erosion and stuff
Well, life has to change, when you think of it: the great thing about age and living is identifying souls across the stupid divides we keep coz maybe we r afraid, ashamed...

Re: A New Vision to Fix the Tragedy No One Ever Thinks About

charles reesink — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:20:34 -0000

on a track close enough to integral safety from cars, how about noise as a major cause of stress, of pain, rage and anxiety - noise as nuisance, noise as the loud killer that has everyone suspend their disbelief and oblige as necessary evil of city-living, etc.

Re: The Story of How—and Why—U.S.-Iran Diplomacy Keeps Failing - Trita Parsi - International - The Atlantic

charles reesink — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:08:52 -0000

France as a middle ground - -geographically, historically in this
institutionalized enmity between the two republics - is glaring in
its absence.
In the context of economic turmoil, the specter of the French Revolution once
again has been raising its infamous head: the inability by the 1% to anticipate
the resentment the 99% feel for the rest. - Economic frustration, a collateral
bonus so to speak to the entrenched, so-called institutionalized, ideological
estrangement (alien-nation).
Ironic too that France under Mr. Juppé' lead as French Minister of Foreign
Affairs has of late taken the lead in proposing an embargo on Iran's
non-renewable natural resources in utter disregard and contempt to the renewable
cultural historical resources so unfortunately untapped in the rush to
condemn.

None other than Tocqueville, the father of
Democracy in America as we pretend we know it as stronghold of The
Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution, by Gregory
Fossedal, dti-Palo Alto, CA, 1980 in 1865 had from Tehran received a note a
note from Arthur de G., where it was said: «democracy
is here at its best».

Of course, two world wars across the Rhine have not made relations between
religions and philosophies, whether in
Germany : Heinrich Heine, Paris 1843) or in Central Asia: Gobineau, 1865), any
easier to patch the broken record of humanistic dialogue, far from it and now one
Atlantic Ocean plus one Mediterranean later, one century further.

Charles Reesink
Winnipeg, Canada

Re: The Story of How—and Why—U.S.-Iran Diplomacy Keeps Failing - Trita Parsi - International - The Atlantic

charles reesink — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:06:23 -0000

Institutionnalized: geographically, historically
entrenched...
Re: Trita Parsis Obamas Political Diplomacy with Iran. January MMXII.

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Charles Reesink

Winnipeg, Canada

Re: Roses: New research raises questions about their history - CSMonitor.com

charles reesink — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:09:29 -0000

FYI: the city of provins (France) makes rose jelly.

also, the rose is the French Parti Socialiste's emblematic flower: too bad

Re: Regret the Tour: A visit to the Newseum

charles reesink — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:13:02 -0000

ever heard about the 3215 candidates applying for one single pubic service job?
oops!

Re: Regret the Tour: A visit to the Newseum

charles reesink — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:12:13 -0000

heard about the thirty two hundred candidates to a single pubic service entry job?
oops!