The gang of rascals

The Gang of Thugs

The Gang of Thugs

November 9, 2007

****Update of November 19, 2007

Update of July 21, 2008

Update of August 27, 2008: French presence in Afghanistan

August 30, 2008: Bombs triggered by mobile phones

In one of his speeches, George W. Bush defined the "axis of evil" and spoke about "rogue states." But there are also heads of state who are rogues. I saw in the media photos of the President of my country, France, associating with thugs and murderers.

November 18: A reader gave me the address of this video:

http://www.alterinfo.net/Les-Barbares-du-21eme-siecle-video-_a13175.html

There is only one word to describe these images: they are disgusting. There are a thousand ways to torture human beings, and among them, a very large number that leave no visible traces. Thanks to the "September 11 attacks" and the myth of international terrorism, the Americans have arrogated all rights, including the right to practice torture. You will hear people like Bush and Cheney say that "these people don't deserve to have the Geneva Conventions respected." You have all heard of Guantánamo, this American base located outside the territory of the United States, on the island of Cuba, which has become a territory of lawlessness, where first the men captured in Afghanistan were transferred, but after that, any individual who had disturbed the plans of the "New American Century" could be kidnapped, transferred, and then held there, turning into an immense

• "clean torture" laboratory *

There, they experiment with the effects of sleep deprivation, electric shocks, and especially the worst possible torture:

• sensory deprivation *

There, for months, men live, having been deprived of sight, hearing, and touch. You will see them transferred, with hoods, with some kind of gloves, to a tropical region! Yes, that's what it's for. By depriving a man of sensory references, you quickly bring him to a state close to madness. At Guantánamo, the modern "Doctor Mengele" have gathered, all the crazies who want to play with human beings without leaving any traces, any evidence.

One day, we will have to question what has brought part of the American people to a state close to madness. Who was behind September 11, the absolute starting point, without any precedent in human history. What group of men, what organization? An investigation reveals that a third of Americans is in favor of the use of torture "in certain cases." You will hear Cheney clearly approve "the waterboarding." But in any case, this deviation is not an American specialty. It lies deep in the soul of all peoples. The Assyrians liked to skin their enemies. They made circular cuts on the upper arms, then peeled off the skin like gloves. They spread the skins of the skinned men on the walls of the conquered cities. But one day the Assyrian Empire collapsed. All empires always end up collapsing one day or another. It is even uncertain whether the New American Empire will manage to dominate the world, despite its technological orgies, its machines to dumb down, as the father Ubu would say, to brainwash, its hypersonic spy planes. The Russian Empire has not yet said its last word. It is slowly recovering, thanks to its natural resources and under the iron grip of an unyielding Putin. The Chinese power is developing in silence. The "neocons" will not be able to dominate all these human masses, no matter how technologically advanced they are. But the infernal machine has been set in motion since September 11.

Are these empires ... historically necessary? Is it essential to periodically experience these "barbaric sequences"? Is there not another way than this idiotic human drawing?

The problem is that intimidation, torture, doesn't work. We have tried this terror strategy during the Algerian War. Remember the Battle of Algiers, the paratroopers practicing torture with the gégène, the electric generator that electrified radio stations. To dismantle bomb-making networks, which would reconstitute a little further away.

*Torture a fanatic: he will die without talking. Torture an innocent: you will make a ... fanatic. *

The only solution is to manage the world's problems globally. The solution is through sharing, resources and responsibilities, through justice. People like Bush, Cheney, and others are simply fools. They even show it on their faces. Like the Nazis were once. Terror doesn't work, it eventually collapses one day or another. Hitler believed he could impose a New World Order by being merciless. He said "the weak deserve no mercy." This Darwinist ended lamentably in his bunker, blaming his generals and the German people for betraying his dream.

Does Sarkozy know all this? I am sure he does and his game is clear now.

**On the left, Tartuffe **

I have heard people talk about him saying "he is dangerously intelligent." He is very strong, in terms of media. He gives himself a simple, populist image. But the mass of workers and students will soon realize that he wants above all to mold French society in the image of American society, with a patronizing air. He calls on demonstrators to show a sense of responsibility. I would bet that this trip to the USA has somewhat eroded the confidence of some. Mine has simply dropped to zero. Readers write to me:

*- Sarkozy may be naive. He may see the America of Kennedy and not the America of Bush. *

I bet he doesn't have this blindness.

Chirac had a slightly lifted smile, a mechanical way of speaking, but wasn't dangerous. He was a master of bureaucratic language. Sarkozy manages to convince a significant part of the French population of his good intentions. There are those who believed that by wanting to "clean up the banlieues with a vacuum cleaner," he had skillfully maneuvered to recover Le Pen's electorate. In fact, that's what happened. But he is not just a good manipulator. He is really like that. He is ... the twin brother of George Bush, who has his ambition, his complete lack of scruples, and his stupidity.

Indeed, one is tempted to ask "why do they act like this?" I had planned to build a long dossier trying to explore this. But this meeting gave me a stomachache. I will try to rest by creating new comics, for example. And also wait for my readers to step forward. I will talk about it later. Every day, I receive emails overflowing with gratitude:

- Thank you for informing us

I live a dialogue with my 3000 readers every day. In 2003, when I was condemned for defamation in the trial that Antoine Giudicelli had brought against me after I denounced the clandestine underground nuclear tests in France, I was shocked. The justice initially avoided the issue and declared a non-charge. There, it was decided in the correctional court, where the interested parties can themselves speak. I think I managed to convince. There was even an astonishing thing. I was the accused. The prosecutor therefore had to bring charges against me, on behalf of the public prosecution. That was his job. To the general surprise, he started like this:

*- Before bringing charges against Mr. Jean-Pierre Petit on behalf of the Public Prosecution, I will simply make a short parenthesis. I must say that I did not appreciate all that happened around the Chernobyl cloud, when it stopped at our borders. My sympathy goes more towards the intellectual who denounces than towards the military who hides. *

And he asked for a trivial sentence, a fine with a suspended sentence.

Giudicelli appealed, this time to the Court of Appeal, where only lawyers can speak. Few spectators, three friends, that's all. The press: absent this time. People thought the judgment would be confirmed, but it wasn't. In the reasoning, the judge forgot to mention the files I had brought: a study by the American Geophysical Society, describing the techniques of underground nuclear tests (in cavities of 20 meters in diameter, dug in mines). A procedural trick allowed the court to dismiss the two testimonies I provided, from people who confirmed they had heard, during a dinner, Giudicelli say "there had been underground nuclear tests in the hexagon." My dossier was thus ... empty, or rather legally emptied of its substance. I was condemned to 5000 euros in damages and interest. The journalist Jean-Yves Casgha (Science-Frontier), who had originally started this whole affair and investigation, preferred to be ... courageously absent at both instances of the trial.

I then launched an appeal to my readers and they responded quickly and massively. I kept the lawyer's fees for myself (2000 euros). This collection was in a way a citizen's response to this judgment. All these people who read my articles thus showed their support by saying "this man, we are with him." My lawyer had never imagined such a heavy sentence. In the worst case, he had always mentioned much smaller sums. There, they had calculated to hit this little researcher at the CNRS who was annoying the world. With 5000 euros, it should be okay. But, unfortunately, all these anonymous people who read me immediately raised the shield. So the condemnation fell flat. The donations from the readers were in a way the popular verdict.

I continued to fight, to write.

When I created http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com with my old friend Gilles d'Agostini, I again called on these people, on all these people. And the response was fantastic in human warmth. In eighteen months they sent 30,000 euros. We have a cash advance of 12,500 euros! We have paid for 135 translations into 24 languages. There are nearly 200 albums available for free download. My translators write to me:

*- We are happy and proud to participate in this adventure. *

My reader-contributors tell me:

• We are happy and proud to support this gesture.

And I am happy that all these people are united by these invisible threads, these electric impulses, these radio waves that travel around the world, pouring out knowledge and poetry, translating a human solidarity, beyond countries and languages, skin colors, and religions.

In parallel, I carry out other battles. There are some for which I work discreetly. This summer, I spent four times an hour in front of mathematicians-geometers at a conference, presenting my work in astrophysics and cosmology. Bombarded with questions, I managed quite well. A kind of entrance exam into a discreet club, where science is taken seriously, with heart and, I would even say, with friendship and passion. Everything is now published. There remain only a few fools who smile at these works, without having the courage to face me in a seminar. It's no longer worth wasting time with this lackeys who are stationed in Wikipedia-science, now their stronghold. " Banned for life " (...) from this site a year ago, for having revealed the identity of my opponents, I no longer had any desire to contribute to the construction of this whole. It is and remains a beautiful idea, but on the science side, the fruit stinks.

I need to meet other people, physicists, mathematicians, especially abroad. I need to ask them to examine my work, especially mathematicians-geometers. The stakes are important and there is thirty years of work behind these papers. The echoes that one perceives and that emanate from the science forums are only ridiculous gestures, where often small characters of science, third-rate, incompetent, mediocre, protected by the lamentable mask of their pseudonym, are displayed.

Friends tell me: "How do you, at your age, keep your fighting spirit?" I believe I have devoted my life to the search for more truth. I will die fighting for this cause. That's how it is. And I have around me people who love and support me.

Finally, there is this absolute monstrosity, this affair of the "September 11, 2001 attacks," that the team in power in the United States, and the Israeli Hawks, would like to see fade into the background after a new terrorist attack allows the project to be finalized, with the establishment of a state of emergency. Everything is ready for the coup d'état, across the Atlantic. Habeas corpus has been abolished. Opponents can be treated as terrorists. We have "crowd-control" weapons to quell all revolts, and many other things of which we are unaware of the extent and monstrosity.

**Anti-demonstration weapon, with microwave emitting antenna, creating an unbearable burning sensation **

I was one of the first to write on this topic in France, following this absolute pioneer: Thierry Meyssan. I remember that I had him on the phone about three years ago. He had told me, a bit disillusioned by the attacks he was subjected to:

*- The chancelleries know the truth. But all of them keep silent. It would cause too much commotion. *

There was the war in Iraq, under the pretext of wanting to depose a dictator, Saddam Hussein, the ... tyrant. Do you remember what Bush said after his capture:

- We've got him! We got him!

Captured, "tried," hanged. So what?

Let's continue by listening to the words of an old hand in American foreign policy. Zbigniew Brzeziński has a solid political career behind him.

• Take a look at his resume on Wikipedia: *

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezi%C5%84ski

It is interesting, in this biography (translated from the English version), to read:

Zbigniew Brzeziński notably wrote The Grand Chessboard (Hachette, 1997). This book is no longer really up to date following the events of September 11, 2001, so he published an updated version under the title The Real Choice in 2004 (The Choice: global domination or global leadership, published by Basic Books). In the 1997 version, he stated that a new Pearl Harbor would be necessary to make the population accept the American military and imperialist projects.

His theory exposed in this book is based on the idea that the improvement and stability of the world depend on the maintenance of American hegemony. Any competing power is therefore considered a threat to world stability. His sole goal is to maintain and develop the hegemony of the United States in the world. His speech is frank and direct, which does not exclude a certain cynicism.

Zbigniew Brzeziński notably wrote The Grand Chessboard (Hachette, 1997). This book is no longer really up to date following the events of September 11, 2001, so he published an updated version under the title The Real Choice in 2004 (The Choice: global domination or global leadership, published by Basic Books). In the 1997 version, he stated that a new Pearl Harbor would be necessary to make the population accept the American military and imperialist projects.

His theory exposed in this book is based on the idea that the improvement and stability of the world depend on the maintenance of American hegemony. Any competing power is therefore considered a threat to world stability. His sole goal is to maintain and develop the hegemony of the United States in the world. His speech is frank and direct, which does not exclude a certain cynicism.

Yet, strangely, he seems to be reversing his positions. You will see this by watching this subtitled video.

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-8656314677941975569

here is the text:

March 19, 2007:

The former national security advisor to President Carter, Brzezinski, testifies, on the occasion of an imminent vote in the American Senate.

• I think it is clear that the supreme interest of the United States calls for a significant change in our policy. If the United States continue to be bogged down in a latent and bloody conflict in Iraq, and I emphasize what I am about to say, the outcome of this dangerous path will probably be a conflict with Iran, and with the majority of the Muslim world.

A possible scenario for a military confrontation with Iran involves the American limits being reached, followed by accusations making Iran responsible for this failure, then some provocations in Iraq or a terrorist attack on American soil, attributed to Iran.

This could culminate with, in quotes, "a defensive military action against Iran," plunging an isolated America into a deep quagmire, encompassing Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran is economically weak because it is an economy that has not prospered and is one-dimensional and relatively isolated. And I think our policy has unintentionally (I hope unintentionally, but maybe it was diabolically intelligent) unintentionally helped Ahmadinejad consolidate his power and exercise a degree of influence that his position does not justify, in fact.

My worst scenario is not the repetition of what happened in Saigon, at the end of the Vietnam War, with the helicopters evacuating people, on the roofs of the embassy and our withdrawal from the country. My worst scenario is that, without a plan, and I understand that my friends discussed yesterday the possibility of a secret plan by the administration, my fear is that the secret plan is that there is no secret plan. My worst scenario is that we do nothing, and then the dynamics of the conflict produce an escalation situation, there would then be clashes, conflicts, and the war would eventually erupt.

Now, insofar as we are committed to rebuilding Iraq and withdrawing our troops, which would represent the reason for an international consultation, I think the heart of the matter depends not so much on our commitment to establishing a new nation but on the genuine motivation of the Iraqis themselves. Personally, I am very skeptical about any discussion on the creation of an Iraqi national army, the establishment of a new nation, etc.

The problem is that we have destroyed the Iraqi state, and we have given a great opportunity to passions and narrow, sectarian interests to express themselves

March 19, 2007:

The former national security advisor to President Carter, Brzezinski, testifies, on the occasion of an imminent vote in the American Senate.

• I think it is clear that the supreme interest of the United States calls for a significant change in our policy. If the United States continue to be bogged down in a latent and bloody conflict in Iraq, and I emphasize what I am about to say, the outcome of this dangerous path will probably be a conflict with Iran, and with the majority of the Muslim world.

A possible scenario for a military confrontation with Iran involves the American limits being reached, followed by accusations making Iran responsible for this failure, then some provocations in Iraq or a terrorist attack on American soil, attributed to Iran.

This could culminate with, in quotes, "a defensive military action against Iran," plunging an isolated America into a deep quagmire, encompassing Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran is economically weak because it is an economy that has not prospered and is one-dimensional and relatively isolated. And I think our policy has unintentionally (I hope unintentionally, but maybe it was diabolically intelligent) unintentionally helped Ahmadinejad consolidate his power and exercise a degree of influence that his position does not justify, in fact.

My worst scenario is not the repetition of what happened in Saigon, at the end of the Vietnam War, with the helicopters evacuating people, on the roofs of the embassy and our withdrawal from the country. My worst scenario is that, without a plan, and I understand that my friends discussed yesterday the possibility of a secret plan by the administration, my fear is that the secret plan is that there is no secret plan. My worst scenario is that we do nothing, and then the dynamics of the conflict produce an escalation situation, there would then be clashes, conflicts, and the war would eventually erupt.

Now, insofar as we are committed to rebuilding Iraq and withdrawing our troops, which would represent the reason for an international consultation, I think the heart of the matter depends not so much on our commitment to establishing a new nation but on the genuine motivation of the Iraqis themselves. Personally, I am very skeptical about any discussion on the creation of an Iraqi national army, the establishment of a new nation, etc.

The problem is that we have destroyed the Iraqi state, and we have given a great opportunity to passions and narrow, sectarian interests to express themselves

This man is neither a beginner in politics nor a choirboy. He is a pragmatist. However, in this text, he weighs his words. He has simply coldly drawn the conclusions of his personal analysis of the international situation and the consequences of the behavior of the American leadership team. He does not offer a solution. No one has. If we were to translate his words, they would mean:

*- A bunch of irresponsible fools are in charge of the American army, the most powerful armed force in the world. These people have done anything and, facing the impasse they find themselves in, they can do even worse. *

And this is the moment that little Nicolas chooses to fall into the arms of the Bush family.

**The photo at the top has been retouched. You will easily understand how.
A president who allows journalists to retouch his photos, or even asks them to do so, worries me. **

An increasing number of people are beginning to realize the extreme seriousness of the situation in the Middle East for the United States. It is ... much worse than Vietnam, obviously. In Vietnam, the Americans lost 70,000 men, of whom 61% were under 21 years old. They lost face in the eyes of the world, defeated on the battlefield by a small but tenacious nation. Apart from the loss of men and prestige on the international stage, the war economy always turned out quite well. But here, things seem to be evolving differently.

I had thought of writing a long text giving my impression on how the heads of state, the people in power, function. In the case of today's America, the people in charge are thugs, doubled with fools. They are leading the country and the whole world to an unprecedented catastrophe.

Our president is associating with thugs. Through him, France is tightening its ties with the American big brother, joining the gang of thugs and irresponsible people. The socialists fear a return to NATO. Political solidarity goes as far as what? Would Sarkozy be so foolish as to support the French position, or even send an expeditionary force, if the USA decided to attack Iran? I think with this apprentice dictator, you can expect anything. For a start of his term, it's starting very badly.

*If he has such a sympathy for the American model, why not cautiously wait for the next president to establish these contacts? Why such urgency? *

What is in Sarkozy's head? What exactly does he know? Is he aware of what he is getting into? I'm not sure. Remember Tony Blair, for Iraq, who had declared himself convinced by the Americans "by a video tape they showed him, which contained *irrefutable evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, whose contents were never known. *Sarkozy doesn't need evidence. He sees himself, in a photo, in front of the White House, received and congratulated by the most powerful man on the planet. It goes to his head, that's all. His wife didn't want to meet Bush, pretending to have a sore throat that turned out to be non-existent. Perhaps she has let a man consumed by ambition, who has lost any ability to think.

****A tour of information on the 11 September 2001 in various European cities

****With projection of the film PressforTruth911

************

Presence of J.P.PETIT for the presentation of the film

• in Brussels at the cinema Nova, rue d'Arenberg 3, 1000 Brussels 19 November 20 h 30.

Fax: 32 - 02 511 24 77

• at the cinema Action Christine,

4 rue Christine 75006 PARIS,

on December 7 at 20 h 30

Presence of J.P.PETIT for the presentation of the film

• in Brussels at the cinema Nova, rue d'Arenberg 3, 1000 Brussels 19 November 20 h 30.

Fax: 32 - 02 511 24 77

• at the cinema Action Christine,

4 rue Christine 75006 PARIS,

on December 7 at 20 h 30

http://www.cinema-leprado.com/cinema-le-prado

I receive every day dossiers, documents concerning the risks of this US-Iran war. A funding request has been made to the Congress to equip the American B2 bombers, stealth bombers, with six-ton anti-bunker bombs. We have the details of the art and manner of using the nuclear weapon.

- To hell with these prejudices.

**says Richard Pearle, one of the promoters of the "preemptive wars". **

While intimidation has never worked. I received the book of an ex-pilot, Francis Ducrest. Editions l'Harmattan. Title: "The Aviator." It tells how, becoming a fighter pilot by vocation, admiring the (authentic) heroes of the Battle of Britain, he was assigned to the 6th squadron, to "maintain order" in Algeria. Flying a "Mistral," the French version of the British "Vampire" fighters, he destroyed villages daily under a deluge of bombs, fire, and napalm, "obeying orders."

Page 75:

*- What could a few scum armed with hunting rifles do against this force? *

The French command had chosen to intimidate the Fellaghas by pulverizing all the villages that would dare to offer them help, shelter, or a firing position. If a shot was fired from a house toward an observation plane from the ALAT (Light Aviation of the Army), the Mistral would be called, killing two hundred men, women, children, and old people in a few seconds.

It didn't work

Disheartened, uncomfortable in his boots, Ducrest eventually left the army to switch to piloting commercial airplanes, at the cost of two years of retraining.

Intimidation doesn't work in Iraq, where American soldiers now refuse to leave some secure points to go on patrols and jump on mines triggered remotely by simple mobile phones. It won't work in Iran either. Economic sanctions won't work either. Especially since Russia and China will be able to discreetly sabotage this project. The population, the only victim, will only hate America even more. How can Sarkozy be so foolish to join Bush in this failed affair at the worst possible time? Why not wait for the new president to show his unwavering friendship for the United States?

If there is a solution, it is elsewhere. It passes through a single word:

justice.

There is one thing that resembles a joke and may have an effect. The Arab countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt are moving towards nuclear energy. And everyone knows that in the end, civilian nuclear energy can lead to military nuclear energy. To understand this, read:

http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/Francais/energetiquement_votre.htm

Pakistan has its bombs. In the long run, all Arab countries will have their little bombs. Whether they are their own or just dirty, it's a ridiculous situation. Ubu is the United States. Remember what Ubu said:

- And I will kill everyone and leave

We are sinking into absurdity. Arabs are opting for nuclear power, in the long run, even though they live next to the planet's most fantastic energy reserve: the sun. I'm not talking about solar panels, which have low efficiency. The range of solar energy exploitation (and wind energy through solar towers) is vast. We can export this energy via high-voltage underwater lines, as the Germans are considering. But we can also electrolyze seawater and export hydrogen. It's the miracle fuel that produces water as a combustion product.

Nuclear energy is on the rise. The French company Areva is smiling. What will we become when all Arabs have reactors? Will Chernobyl not have been enough?

A small parenthesis on questions raised by my readers, about Al Gore's film and this obsessive idea of global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. I watched BBC broadcasts, which denounce this speech as a magnificent scam. The issue deserves examination. Do scientific studies confirm a strong correlation between climate fluctuations and solar activity, even if the cause-effect relationship has not been clarified? The BBC documents indeed mention this. Truth, manipulation of results? Examination is ongoing, by experienced astronomers. Nevertheless, regardless of the cause: greenhouse gases or solar fluctuations, the Earth is warming rapidly, which will have consequences.

I will return to this later. For now, I need moral support. There is an impressive American website:

****http://www.patriotsquestion911.com

The French are unaware of its existence, as they poorly know the desperate efforts of Americans to prevent their country from falling into fascism. These people have a lot of courage; I have always thought that if a crucial awakening were to happen, it would come from them. We are old countries. Since 2001, the administration in power in the United States has implemented the Patriot Act, a series of long-prepared laws that mark the end of individual freedoms. Men who have never been tried are languishing in Guantanamo. Special planes allow the kidnapping of undesirables and their transfer to discreet places where they will be tortured, spied on, and neutralized. You know that Bush authorized "enhanced interrogation," that is, torture. The use of the Taser is becoming widespread. Hold on: it is the instrument of hazing, initiation for American Marines. A good Marine must allow himself to be tazed without flinching, collapse silently.

****http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSW44UPgwQ

Everyone is laughing. Do you believe that men who have allowed themselves to be tazed without flinching would hesitate even for a second to use this gadget against anyone?

But let's get back to the central issue. On September 11, 2001, a conspiracy caused the death of 3,000 Americans.

**Bush, the day after September 11, in a security council meeting, talking about the acts committed by terrorists in America. "These acts.... **

The mayor of New York, Giuliani, candidate for the Republican nomination, ignored all of this? How come he encouraged New Yorkers to return to their homes and workplaces, while the entire city was seriously polluted by agents that could cause severe pulmonary diseases (especially the microscopic debris related to the destruction of thousands of computers).

I'm tired of recalling all these things, tired of recalling this phrase by Dick Cheney:

**Dick Cheney on September 12, 2001 **

- We will now have to face a terrorist threat where these people will no longer be armed with airplane tickets and cutters, but with atomic bombs

Tired of denouncing the stupidity of French journalists, like Philippe Val, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, or Patrice Lecomte, "senior reporter." Tired of reminding that very worrying things are happening in the USA, concerning the transfer of cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, from north to south of the country, disregarding very strict security rules.

The B-52, armed with six nuclear cruise missiles that crossed the USA from north to south for an unexplained reason
the missiles remained unmonitored on the runway, for several hours after landing

More information on this matter

It is necessary to translate the pages of the site http://www.patriotsquestion911.com so that the French can see the importance of the resistance movement that has emerged in the United States, and which is not the work of a few excited leftists.

November 19, 2007: We launched an appeal to our readers. It took only about thirty volunteers to translate the 111 files where high-ranking American military personnel, political officials, and members of official services issued their call to the American people within a few days. The page is available on my site. Alix, the creator of the site http://www.reopen911.info, and his team are currently putting this page on their own site, which also has 3,000 connections per day. It should appear shortly.

Thank you to the people who did these translations.

I will meet Alix tonight at the Nova cinema in Brussels. We have decided that all the pages of the American site must be translated. There are:

• 250 engineers and architects - 60 military and professional pilots - 160 academics - 190 survivors and family members of victims - 100 representatives from the world of entertainment and media

which represents 760 files to translate, from English to French. New call for translators. But this time, the operation will take on an international scale. People who want to contribute must contact directly

** the webmaster of the American site **

allan.miller@patriotsquestion911.com

When these files are translated, it is immediately obvious that the impact is significant (will there be a single journalist in France to comment on this event? One can doubt it, the explanation being at the top of this page). We therefore suggested to Americans to put these files online in as many languages as possible. I have just received extremely alarming news about the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet, anchored in the Persian Gulf, ready to be lured like bait, within range of hypersonic Sunburn cruise missiles that Iran "could fire at the US fleet." Missiles that would then be neither detectable nor stoppable, as they would approach above a mountainous coastal area, thus protected from radar detection. This would be, at the scale factor (nuclear) aside, a repetition of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which we now know was completely false, invented from scratch, and which allowed President Johnson to launch his country into the Vietnam War. The American neoconservatives, responsible for the murder of 3,000 of their fellow citizens, with their backs against the wall, have set up a "9/11-bis," with at least 10,000 American deaths (there are 4,000 crew members on a single aircraft carrier), where the response would be nuclear this time. If the plan has not been able to be implemented so far, it is because high-ranking military personnel have indicated that they would not respond to this "attack by Iran" with nuclear strikes.

Simple clarification: it would be extremely easy for the conspirators to have their own fleet attacked by cruise missiles fired from submarines, described as Iranian missiles.

I think of a former French military man, a 77-year-old former fighter pilot, fundamentally brave and honest, who still writes to me about September 11:

• I can't believe that a US President.....

Wake up, dear friend! Never have the American destroyers sailing in the Gulf of Tonkin suffered any attack from the North Vietnamese. If the attacks of September 11 were not carried out by terrorists armed with cutters, if it was a cruise missile and not an airplane that hit the Pentagon (read the files composed by high-ranking American military personnel, some of whom arrived on the scene a few minutes after the impact! Read the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Kwiatkowski and that of Mineta, the transport minister at the time, reporting the words of the Vice President just before the impact on the Pentagon), then do you believe that this vast organization, next to which the SPECTRE of James Bond films would look like an amateur club, would hesitate even for a second?

It is necessary to understand the logic of the other, even and especially when this logic is delusional.

It is quite possible, and many historians think so, that Roosevelt knew about the preparations for the attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, but let it happen, as it served as "bait" to trigger the Japanese attack and to finally have the American citizens accept the idea of the United States entering the "Second World War." If the personnel of the Pearl Harbor base had been warned, the fleet would have been put on war footing, the most important ships would have dispersed, gone to sea, protected by the aircraft carriers, and the Japanese, immediately informed by their numerous agents on the island, would have canceled the operation immediately. Roosevelt ... had no choice, in the logic of the time, in the logic of the moment.

In the logic of the time, it was a legitimate war

In terms of chess, this is called "a sacrificial combination."

American neoconservatives live in a completely sealed ideological bubble, that of their logic. Fifty years ago, "the Axis of Evil" was Moscow. Today it is Iran. Tomorrow what? Maybe China. After "terrorists," we will be served "the yellow peril" again.

It is not "the Americans" who attack the world. No one has forgotten these thousands of American GIs and British Tommies who came to die on the beaches of Normandy to free our country from the Nazi yoke, while our political leaders, Marshal Pétain in the lead, had generously made a pact with the invader and the French police had themselves, obeying the orders of the French government, carried out the raid of the Jews of Paris, gathered in the Vel d'Hiv bicycle stadium, then sent to extermination camps. We have not forgotten that Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Pétain at the time, had added by hand to the arrest order:

... without forgetting the children

Fortunately, we had our Great Figure, General de Gaulle. Remember the remark, properly recorded by the microphones installed by the British in his residence of this foolish, vain man, awakened in the middle of the night by his aide-de-camp, who told him the news of the Allied landing in North Africa. Disappointed at not having been informed, de Gaulle let out:

• Well, I hope the Vichy troops will make them suffer!

Remember the phrase of his High Commissioner in Algeria, Delouvrier, during the war, about the non-plasticization of the Hassi-Messaoud gas pipeline, supplying "the precious French gas" to the coast:

Yes, the history is full of horrors, the consequences of nonsense. It was not necessary to open fire on the Algerian demonstrators, causing dozens of thousands of deaths, when they, after the end of the Second World War, demanded a beginning of independence, which the English had the intelligence to grant to their "colonies."

Among politicians, caught in absurd logics, there are legions of fools.

Therefore, citizens, "world citizens," must rise up to stop nonsense, while it is still possible. This is what these courageous Americans from the site http://www.patriotsquestion911.com are trying to do, risking their lives. I take off my hat to them. Do you have an equivalent in France? No, nothing, except for a retired general, "specialist in airplane crashes," who explains in a video clip, sitting in the cockpit of an Airbus, that Thierry Meyssan, in his book, "selected photos to support the conclusion he wanted to reach."

But who is this fool?

The men in power in the United States have already put in place the laws to crush everything in their path (the "Patriot Act," prepared well before the events of September 11, 2001). Habeas corpus has been abolished, the procedures for establishing "a state of emergency" are already in place, waiting for the opportunity, with the granting of full powers to a fool who believes he is directly inspired by God. You have seen the new technologies of "crowd control," you have seen them with your own eyes. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Rumors say that concentration camps have already been set up, of vast capacity, some in Alaska. The stated reason: to intern "wild immigrants" crossing the Mexican border...

If you choose to sleep, your awakening will be brutal

July 23, 2008: One year later

I reread what I had put on this page since November 2007, under the title "The Bush-Sarkozy axis."

Things are proceeding, and only the blind do not see them unfolding before their eyes. I don't like, finally, this little Sarkozy, this dwarf of politics, whose opportunism becomes more evident every day. He rides the psychology of the average Frenchman, trying to give himself the air of a man of the people. In fact, the French State is being dismantled, just like the American one. Read the book by Naomi Klein, "The Shock Doctrine," published by Actes Sud, which has only one flaw: it is a bit long: 640 pages. But there is so much to say.

What makes me sick is this mix of selling out French institutions and showing off "people."

In passing, I will cite an image that struck me: the parade on the Champs Elysées. At the front was the old song, dating from before the First World War:

At that time, French soldiers had nice mustaches. The "lancers" rode horses. Today, these people march in armored vehicles, with impeccable alignment. Men with broad shoulders, well-ironed shirts, shining with strength and health. On their chests, a deluge of decorations.

We are in 2008. In what wars have these people earned these shiny medals? What heroic acts have earned them these distinctions? Might it not be for some of them in these sordid interventions carried out by France in Africa or elsewhere? I often hear stories of shady actions, stories of deliveries of French helicopters with falsified serial numbers, at night, skimming the waves, by people who then assure the "clients" a "training," for a huge payment in cash by the DGSE, the active substitute of arms dealers.

I received the confidences of a test pilot engineer, a member of the DGA (General Delegation for Armaments), who accompanied the delivery of Mirages to India years ago, then ensured the handling of these "products." The after-sales service, so to speak, provided by "advisors." Even more, he participated in war missions against China, which have not been widely discussed and adds: "we owed this to our clients. And these were orders. One cannot be half a soldier." I suppose that if we had sold these Mirages to the Chinese, he would have done the same, participating in war actions against India, saying:

- The missile armament is the red button, on the left...

It may be like this that one collects a set of decorations and then parades on July 14, puffing out the chest.

I caught some data on France's position regarding arms sales. We are quite well placed.

**Countries selling arms **

The score of the United States is staggering.

Military spending. France is in third place

These arms sales help us balance our payments. One could say that this "economic activity" will become increasingly indispensable, "vital," one might say, given the rise of China and India in the field of exports. For the United States as well as for us, one day.

Ten years ago, my friend Boris gave me a stainless steel desk lamp for my birthday. Made in China. Recently, I bought a 3.60-meter diameter kit pool for 129 euros with the pump. Made in China....

Simple observation. China is an economic horde, an army of fighting ants. India will follow. Of course, the average Chinese person is better off since his country has developed. Of course, these people, long colonized, are raising their heads. They have not forgotten the Opium War, where Western countries tried to push this huge country toward complete degeneration. The Chinese know they are economically powerful. Their holding in dollars is a powerful deterrent against pressures that the US tries to exert. They have no illusions about the possible evolution of geopolitics and are discreetly arming themselves as best they can. The US, after having been the absolute economic predator, with its ability to flood the planet with its greenbacks, the reference currency, has now leaden feet economically and ... monetarily. The colossus has clay feet and is looking for an escape in new wars to avoid an economic and financial deadline that seems to be approaching.

Of course, one can denounce many things in this Middle Kingdom Empire. The way the Chinese skin animals alive for their fur to make their hair stand on end. One can denounce the sale of organs, taken from death row convicts. It is true that when the death penalty is carried out, with a revolver bullet whose price is demanded from the family (who otherwise cannot retrieve the body), in a room wait the surgeons who will extract the organs. It is true that these death row convicts waiting for execution constitute an organ bank and that the date of their death is pragmatically decided according to the needs of the moment.

What barbarity! We, we are civilized. We are for the global abolition of the death penalty, but we simply let millions of people die of hunger in the name of the sacred liberal economy.

In China, a remnant of socialism still maintains a semblance of an egalitarian health system, which no longer exists much in the world. In China, access to knowledge is possible (a reader living there added: in fact, there is a strong incentive to maximize one's chances by following a private track), while it is expensive in the US and is being privatized in many countries, including ours. As Naomi Klein says, the hurricane Katrina allowed the neoconservatives to destroy the public school system in New Orleans, thanks to a "shock and awe" situation.

Everywhere in the world, movements are stirring for the defense of Tibet. Indeed, the Dalai Lama is very presentable. He is sober, tolerant. I regret that I left at a friend's house a large book bought in the house of the late Alexandra David-Neels, in Digne, which shows black and white photos of the Tibetan ruling families of his time, otherwise I would have reproduced them (&&& if someone has scans of these photos, I'm interested). Silk, brocade woven with gold, cars, ostentatious luxury, palace intrigues, assassinations. These people had nothing to envy the Borgias or the Maharajas. You can find on the net comments on the Tibetan way of life before the Chinese invasion. Not everything must be false. Tibet was indeed living in a theocracy, with this ideology, nothing else, that of karma, which allows justifying the most glaring inequalities on the grounds of "something to expiate in a past life."

I have often frequented, in Aix, these European-style Buddhists, these Euro-Buddhists. There are sincere, generous people. But what charlatans! I still remember the shocking phrases of an idiotic academic who was talking to one of her friends, who had just undergone a second operation for breast cancer (both of them Buddhists):

*- Now you will have to try to take advantage of this experience, of what "you are sent as a trial." There is something you must understand. *

A woman who faints at the slightest scratch, who is afraid to drive at night, plays the weak woman whenever necessary, is afraid to engage in any fight, afraid of everything, but an expert in university intrigues where no one gives anything for free. I heard her rejoice at a serious illness befalling one of her university adversaries, considering "he had to suffer a return of karma." Where is the compassion preached by Buddha? I didn't see it in the words of a woman whose morality is certainly variable. I remember another one, quick to evoke in others, seeing some misfortune that befalls them, a possible fault to expiate in a previous life. One day she fell in her kitchen and broke her wrist. A surgeon operated on her and placed pins. Re-injury in the same kitchen. This time, the metal pin had almost completely damaged a nerve, making her hand useless. Fortunately, she managed to recover it over several years, through rehabilitation. The human body has sometimes surprising recovery abilities.

What face would she have made if I had said to her:

*- Perhaps you committed some fault in a kitchen, with this hand? *

She would not have hesitated for a second to say that.

Her husband, also a Buddhist, gets up every morning at 5 o'clock to sit in his "meditation box" (Tibetan tradition) and read mantras for hours. But I have never seen a man so stingy, materialistic, and attached to modern gadgets.

This Buddhism disgusts me. I imagine it must flourish on the west coast of the United States. Think of the silly phrase of Sharon Stone, questioned by a Chinese about the recent earthquake (100,000 dead) and saying "it must be a punishment for the Chinese atrocities in Tibet."

It is possible that this earthquake was caused by the load related to the filling of dams, denounced in passing by Chinese engineers before the event. It is known that these fillings create mini-earthquakes every time. He said it was "a high-risk area." In this area, real estate developers built schools with poor materials to make more money. The well-built schools resisted. The schools built by these people collapsed. The Chinese talk about "examinations" followed by possible ... death sentences.

What do you think of these people who killed hundreds of children out of greed?

The Chinese army, seen by the West as a vast instrument of coercion, is also there the "civil protection." Many of these soldiers died trying to reach the victims in an accident-prone area where many roads and bridges were mined by the tremors and buildings were ready to collapse with numerous aftershocks. These are simple facts.

I found an article by Thierry Meyssan on the net. I indicate the address where you can find it.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article157210.html

The language is high, the title is so provocative. On page 7 you can see that Lionel Jospin would be "a famous CIA agent." Unfortunately, this assertion is not followed by any evidence. Journalistic error. However, there are many other points that are verifiable. Meyssan talks a lot about politicians, champions of the non-cause, true emissaries of the Corsican underworld. Who would be surprised that authentic bandits are found in the French political scene? Many years later, facts resurface, like bubbles from the mud.

Political assassinations? There are also in our country. The seven-year term of Mitterand ("Mitterand and the forty thieves") was marked by them. The press, in this matter, has always amazed me. Do you remember this official who committed suicide with two bullets fired into his head. You could read:

- It can happen. A bullet gets stuck in the barrel, and the second one pushes it.....

I was a shooting officer during my military service (and responsible for a glider flying center in Fribourg, Germany, in 1961, which I preferred by far). A bullet that gets stuck and is pushed by the next one? But which journalist can endorse this nonsense?

I remember a journalist I met in Brighton, in January 2001, from whom I built the character of Wludarchik, who told me:

*- Our milieu, like yours, has its rules. When Mitterand had this illegitimate child, Mazarine, he had passed the message in the editorial offices "whoever talks about this will be a dead man." *

Wasn't it Jean Edern Hallier, essayist and journalist, who ate the piece and later committed suicide by falling off a bicycle, after having long cried that he felt in danger?

The world of politics is in a large part a world of rascals. Sarkozy, himself, surrounds himself with trinkets, like the minister of justice, who spends a large part of her budget to buy dresses.

*- You buy and you annoy them, "said the little Nicolas, when she mentioned her desire to rob high-end stores. *

A phrase that would please judges overwhelmed with cases and poorly paid, prison guards filled to 134% (65,000 prisoners in July 2008). In the Marseille prison of the Baumettes, there is one guard for 135 prisoners.

Back to Meyssan's text. He no longer lives in France, saying he is threatened. Thus, he avoids a solid defamation trial, and I would not have dared to reproduce his statements, which were found in blogs at the time when the Voltaire network sites had some difficulties, apparently.

Read these lines. Form your own opinion. Get out of the serious problems of doping in the Tour de France, or the success of the latest album by Carla Sarkozy. The world we live in is disturbing, very. You have to read a lot of things, see a lot of videos and try as best you can to form your own opinion, by yourself. Unless you prefer the mind-numbing machine of Father Ubu: television. Personally, I have not had a TV for a long time, and I think I'm not losing much.

They drool over Meyssan, they dig into his past, they track down his mistakes. But admit that to publish his books on 9/11, you needed guts, right? Regarding this, an American architect has created another movement: "Architects and Engineers for the Truth about 9/11."

http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-21243697.html

This "old story" continues, yes. Some Americans say they don't want to raise their children in such a world and one can understand them.

To finish the new comic strip I started. I continue it with aeronautics and weather, thanks to the help of my meteorologist friend Michel, the "builder of clouds." The next part will be fascinating and laugh-out-loud.

A reader sent me this text, excerpted from an article published in the Diplomatic Magazine:

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/08/DUCLOS/12433

Hello JPP, your post today reminded me of an excellent article from the Monde Diplomatique of August 2005 titled "The Thriving Industries of Permanent Fear" - an excerpt:

Thus, under the pretext of a shape-shifting danger, a global armada of security is being built, whose rapid and functional convergences suggest it is the core of a new capitalism in the making: a capitalism of fear.

Four intertwined movements structure this transformation:

• an acceleration of connections between innovations in different segments of the fear market: identification, surveillance, protection, arrest, detention; - a merging between the reorientation of war industries and military organizations in the training and equipment of repressive forces, and the concurrent militarization of civilian security forces; - an increasing articulation between public and private powers, both in terms of identity control and the ability to constrain and prohibit; - an ideological push, jointly conducted in the legal, political, administrative, economic and media fields, aiming to perpetuate the "manageable" anxiety and to make the generalized preventive control accepted as the new normality of human existence.

Most major industrial and technological groups now offer, in a quasi-militant way, "security" services or products based on their traditional orientations. Each professional acronym denotes a growing market: whether it is AFIS (Automatic Finger Imaging System - comparing a fingerprint with those in computerized databases) or the classic CCTV (Closed Circuit Television - video surveillance), EM (Electronic Monitoring - remote monitoring of individuals) or EMHA (Electronic Monitored House Arrest - electronic ankle monitors), the universal GPS (Global Positioning System, adapted for tracking people), the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification - electronic tag storing information and transferring it via radio frequency to a reader), or various kinds of "X-Ray Systems" adapted for passenger radiography, not to mention the numerous software for intelligence processing. Everywhere, technological offers are proliferating.

The article is available online here:

Hello JPP, your post today reminded me of an excellent article from the Monde Diplomatique of August 2005 titled "The Thriving Industries of Permanent Fear" - an excerpt:

Thus, under the pretext of a shape-shifting danger, a global armada of security is being built, whose rapid and functional convergences suggest it is the core of a new capitalism in the making: a capitalism of fear.

Four intertwined movements structure this transformation:

• an acceleration of connections between innovations in different segments of the fear market: identification, surveillance, protection, arrest, detention; - a merging between the reorientation of war industries and military organizations in the training and equipment of repressive forces, and the concurrent militarization of civilian security forces; - an increasing articulation between public and private powers, both in terms of identity control and the ability to constrain and prohibit; - an ideological push, jointly conducted in the legal, political, administrative, economic and media fields, aiming to perpetuate the "manageable" anxiety and to make the generalized preventive control accepted as the new normality of human existence.

Most major industrial and technological groups now offer, in a quasi-militant way, "security" services or products based on their traditional orientations. Each professional acronym denotes a growing market: whether it is AFIS (Automatic Finger Imaging System - comparing a fingerprint with those in computerized databases) or the classic CCTV (Closed Circuit Television - video surveillance), EM (Electronic Monitoring - remote monitoring of individuals) or EMHA (Electronic Monitored House Arrest - electronic ankle monitors), the universal GPS (Global Positioning System, adapted for tracking people), the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification - electronic tag storing information and transferring it via radio frequency to a reader), or various kinds of "X-Ray Systems" adapted for passenger radiography, not to mention the numerous software for intelligence processing. Everywhere, technological offers are proliferating.

The article is available online here:

I am now going to write my cosmology communication for the international conference at Imperial College, London, where I will give a 30-minute lecture at the beginning of September. Then I will proceed with the writing of the three communications for the international MHD conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. There too, a 30-minute lecture and publication of the articles.

Reaction of the Ministry of Research to our funding requests for this mission: nothing. The minister must be buying dresses. I will pay for the trip and stay and the UFO-science registration and publication fees. A video report upon my return, on dailymotion, with the UFO-science logo.

Another idea of research

I don't know if our low density MHD experiments will be ready in time and if I will be able to attach experimental results. We only lack the valve in insulating material. Charles has taken care of the rest. We had found an old valve in Rilsan, with a good passage section and good sealing, but the plastic having aged, it broke off. This cost us ten days and we are going back to the initial idea: machining the one I had designed. Not easy at this time of the year. But everything else is ready, including the 5 kV, 200 mA power supply, designed and assembled by my friend Jacques Legalland.

At the end of the month, meeting of the veterans of French MHD in the south. Age: from 71 to 75 years old, but all "experts". Projects:

• A hot pulse wind tunnel (MHD shock tube)
• A cold pulse wind tunnel
• Continuing the low density experiments
• Installation of a circular carina basin for hydraulic tests (acidulated water)
• Installation of a complete workshop, with lathe, milling machine, welding stations etc.

Funding by the JPP book we are currently printing in 1000 copies at the expense of the association. Sale exclusively for UFO-science, to finance these MHD researches, by correspondence and by the members (volunteers) of the association. Launch with a 13-minute video clip, ready to be installed on dailymotion. Just as we don't count on the Ministry of Research, we won't count on the media, which have ignored us superbly for two years.

At Vilnius it will mainly be about Z-machines and Z-pinches in general, including the experiments Focus (Lerner, Filipovitch). If the construction of a private Z-machine is beyond our means, it is not certain that a Focus experiment cannot be mounted by experienced retired people in the field of plasmas.

Article JPP to be published in the next issue of the magazine of the Palais de la Découverte. The brother of the Nobel Prize winner Cohen-Tannoudji added his comment to my article, comparing the Z-machines and the ITER-style tokamaks to helicopters compared to airplanes. The first appeared earlier, the technology being "more mature".

It is true that the technology of steam machines was more mature at the beginning of the century than that of internal combustion engines, the first airplane that took off, the Eole, by Clément Ader, rising only a few centimeters over a few meters, was powered by a steam engine (go see it at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers). Cohen Tannoudji writes that the tokamaks like Jet and the future ITER "have reached the stage of maturity".

Devil...

Would ITER be the Eole of nuclear, the steam engine of the third millennium?

When I have time I will make a video on ITER, to enlighten people on this "tamed sun". Know that the English Jet at Culham obtained fusion for 1.4 seconds. ITER aims for six minutes, in 30 years. Afterwards, DEMO (in 50 years...) should preview future fusion reactors. But no one has done previous tests on the endurance of a superconducting magnet against a neutron bombardment, a danger denounced by the Nobel Prize winner Gilles De Gennes before his death and by Raoul Dautray, "father of the French H-bomb" (if the superconducting magnet holds for more than six minutes, the CEA will estimate that the goal is achieved. But after? ...).

No one has a solution for decontaminating the plasma from heavy ions, which, torn from the wall by hydrogen ions fast enough to cross the magnetic barrier, will cause a rapid cooling by "braking radiation" (Bremmstrahlung).

After each ITER shot, it will release its tritium into the atmosphere. If it is by a strong wind that creates a wave system (ITER is downwind of a hill), the "rolls" will bring this deadly poison, with a half-life of 21 years, towards the water reservoir of Esparon on Verdon, a few kilometers downwind. This isotope of hydrogen will integrate into the food chain.

Solution: move the lake...

I ask before going to fly over ITER once again in a glider:

• What is the characteristic time of the Bore - Helium reaction (secondary reaction of an aneutronic Bore-hydrogen fusion)?

In a pulsed operation, if this time is long enough, could the plasma expansion prevent this secondary, weakly neutronic reaction from occurring? Would 100% aneutronic fusion then be possible? Fantastic deal, which could be approached with a "Focus" experiment.

Tempting... ---

August 27, 2008:

I sent to London the scientific communication that I will present in September at the international PIRT conference, dedicated to interpretations of the theory of General Relativity. I had planned to do it these days at the CITV (International Colloquium on Variational Techniques) conference, which took place two hours from my home, on the Belgian coast. But given my health condition and the two conferences I will have to attend: London and Vilnius, Lithuania, in September, I preferred to continue resting here. I bought a second cane to deal with the possible confiscation of one of them. I will put one of them in my suitcase, in the hold. Given the permanent risk of terrorism we have been living in since 2001, it would be excluded to take the plane with a nail clipper in your bag. Last year I had a pair of small pliers confiscated. A telescopic cane can hide drugs, an explosive, and turn into a bazooka. Everything must be considered.

• "Mr. Petit, we cannot let you board the plane with such a potentially dangerous instrument, which our services will not have time to examine. Leave it here, you will retrieve it upon your return. We will ensure your boarding with a wheelchair and another one will be waiting for you at your arrival."

London, it's not going to be easy. I sent an email to Joao Magueijo, forty years old, who is a professor at this university, to ask if they would be there. He is "the man of the variable constants", who moves from one scientific stronghold to another and publishes extensively, since the publication of his 1999 article in Physical Review. One day we will have to explain this subject, him and me.

My last comic strip, Mécavol, is online on the site of Savoir sans Frontières. This morning I installed its translation into Spanish. In Russian, it is in progress. We have exceeded the threshold of 200 translated comics.

A section of French paratroopers was caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. Ten dead and about twenty injured. An entire section decimated, wiped out. It is said that replacements are ready to go there. This reminded us that we have been there "to fight terrorism", since 2001. For Iraq, Chirac did not go. Sarkozy, on the other hand, would have sent troops. Facing these images, these news, we remain a bit speechless. The one the French elected as president and who is partying with the Bushes and the wealthy, our "Bling-Bling president", who moves in the jet set, sends people to be killed. And a certain press pities "the solitude of the head of state, facing the weight of certain decisions".

Can we call this decisions? It is a policy, the support of an imperialist ideology, nothing more. What is at stake there is access to oil resources, control of the means of transport. The link I had put on my site months ago is still valid and explains among other things the recent troubles in Georgia, another "ethnic conflict".

French soldiers in Afghanistan are not fighting terrorism, they are participating in the war led by the United States to control oil resources. It is certainly not the project of establishing a democracy. Hamid Karzai, you know very well, is a consultant for the American oil company UNOCAL. His brother is, it is well known, one of the main drug traffickers in the country. He is nicknamed "the mayor of Kabul", which means he has no real control over the country. Afghanistan is in a very bad situation. The population has stopped believing that the intervention of the West will get the country out of the hole it is sinking into. The contingents of the various countries involved are entrenched in bases. In a report accessible via the site of Le Monde, we witnessed the daily life of a section of French soldiers in Afghanistan (&&& I would like to find the link again). At night: mortar attacks by the Taliban. During the day, air patrols by two Cobra helicopters at 300 km/h, with two machine guns on the right and two on the left, watching for any sign of aggression, knowing that these aircraft can be brought down by infrared-guided missiles, as were the Russian helicopters by missiles provided by the Americans. Close-ups of machine gunners with their fingers on the trigger, ready to fire at anything that moves.

During the day, patrols in armored vehicles, vulnerable to mines placed on the communication routes by the Taliban, remotely controlled by radio. During the report, the explosion of a mine, poorly framed, at a distance from the armored vehicle, frightened the Afghan soldiers who preferred to get off and continue on foot, "very slowly". All of this gives no real impression of control, of securing, of pacifying a country. The Western forces are besieged in their bases. The planes carry out strikes, killing only the Taliban!

All of this makes me think of a book published by l'Harmattan, by Francis Ducrest, titled "The Aviator". A book full of literary prizes. An autobiographical book, well written, certainly. Page 75, chapter IX, Ducrest recounts his arrival in Oran, at the beginning of the Algerian war. He says:

• "The garrisons, in the cities, the Legion in Sidi-bel-Abbès, the air force in Oran, the navy in Mers el Kébir. What could they do against this force, against some poor guys armed with hunting rifles?"

At 24, he joins the "Normandie Niemen" squadron, equipped with Mistral, planes derived from the British Vampires.

Alignment of Mistral single-engine aircraft

I quote, page 76:

• "In the central fuselage, four 20 mm cannons, fed by six hundred shells, gave it considerable firepower. Under the short wings, one could attach rockets, bombs, napalm cans."

Next page:

• "It was the first order maintenance mission of the 6th squadron. The squadron commander indicated by radio that they were arriving at the target: a large village nestled in a valley and gave the order to disconnect the bomb safety. Then the planes dived one after another. I was last, centered the roofs of the village in my sight and, at the right altitude, pressed the button on the stick. The two bombs detached and flew towards their target. ... The houses of the Ouarsenis were the target, which we had reached under good conditions. The 6th squadron, for its first mission, had done good artisan work (...). The squadron commander could be proud of us, and we could be proud of the good work (...)."

Ducrest recounts a remark made by an old Arab beggar, sitting in front of his hotel:

• "My lieutenant, the bougnouls will throw you into the sea! You will hit harder and harder and they will hate you more and more. You will never win."

And Ducrest continues (page 78):

• "Annoyed by the ramblings of this poor drunkard with a foggy head I replied shortly: "I don't believe it, you know. Here we are fighting for the free world, we are defending the West, we are defending the right and morality (...)"

And he carries out these missions without hesitation. Page 80:

• "I had no doubt about the restoration of order and French peace. I carried out these low-risk missions without hesitation. I obeyed the orders as best I could (...). I had the dubious privilege of flying high over blood and mud, shooting and breaking without seeing the dead, nor hearing the cries and tears. I was defending the West."

All this war, he lived it, from his assignment to his departure from Algeria, from his cockpit, looking down at the world like looking at ants.

After three years he writes, page 85:

• "I was going to participate in the pacification of the small Kabylie. It was to reduce the F.L.N. presence in this mountainous and wooded region, prone to ambushes, to deprive it of the support of the population, and for that, to use a method reputed to be infallible (...), by some well-aimed blows.... The next day I headed for the small Kabylie. An observation plane was circling above the forest. I contacted him and he told me that from the village they were flying over, they had just been shot at. "Then, go ahead," he simply said to me."

After the attack, Ducrest comments:

• "In the operations room, the commander circled the village with a red circle on the wall map."

A new village erased from the map. An operation "of intimidation by well-targeted strikes," he mentions. It should be known that indeed a raid by planes equipped with napalm bombs can eliminate all traces of life, human or animal, in an entire village.

Some remarks, on the next page: "I didn't like these missions." But a little further on a sentence that stands out. Page 86 Ducrest flies in formation, in the following days with a comrade, a certain Fobert. Suddenly the bomb that he carries under one of his wings explodes. The plane disintegrates before his eyes. He then receives the order a few minutes later to interrupt the mission and return to base. And to write, page 86:

• "We had to get rid of the bombs before landing. I took my two comrades to the small Kabylie, to a village (...) and we returned to land."

I read, word by word. Ducrest and his two comrades had six bombs under their wings and they couldn't land with them. Too dangerous. So they go somewhere in the small Kabylie and get rid of them on the first village they find on their way. Is that right, Mr. Ducrest? Did I read it correctly, or did I misunderstand the text?

After losing his wingman, Fobert, Ducrest suddenly discovers that death is part of war, and in addition to three years, he may have killed thousands of men, women, old people and children, but without seeing them. He writes:

• "Fobert was our companion. His death was an irreparable tragedy."

He is then sent to Oran, to inform the wife of the deceased pilot. Facing the cries and tears of his comrade's wife, he only says:

• "Be proud of your husband, he died for France."

When he leaves this woman and finds himself in the back seat of his official car, he takes off his cap and feels ... tears flowing down his cheeks. But, a few lines further on, page 93:

• "In the early afternoon I took off, accompanied by a comrade, towards Télergma, the missions, towards the patrols that had to be conducted, because they had to be. It was war, it was orders (...)"

After these years of war in Algeria, when it ends, he is assigned to Germany, in Bremgarten. The anxiety grips him, suddenly. He decides to leave the air force. He writes, page 97:

• "Ten years ago I had devoted my life to the air force. I remember that magical evening at the Salon de Provence air school when, on my knees, I received the officer's dagger from an old man. It was sacred, the symbol of my belonging to the phalanx of the sky knights. I had vowed to become a fearless and blameless fighter pilot. And when later they pinned the mythical wings on my chest, my commitment became irreversible. I know, in my suffering, I am betraying my own (...)"

He describes a last meeting with a general, who tries to make him change his decision.

• "I had dived on targets, I had done damage (...). Fobert was dead. The general reminded me of all my merits: I was going to be a squadron commander, I had had a brilliant campaign in Algeria (...) I had been a good squadron commander. ... "We obey, he told me, that is our greatness and our servitude, we are at the service of the nation"*

He resigns, therefore, and concludes "I was thirty years old. A fine age to erase everything."

It is worth trying to put oneself in the place of a thirty-year-old, assigned at 24 to "maintaining order". He decides, "a defrocked fighter pilot" (...) to become a civilian pilot and writes, page 103:

• "I imagined that thousands of passengers were waiting for me and that taking them to their destination would be my redemption for sins that I hadn't really committed, which were no less crimes that I had really committed."

It is not the purpose here to judge Francis Ducrest, whom I have personally met. He ends his days very comfortably in a rich vineyard property in the region of Pertuis, doing tourism.

What needs to be discovered in his book is the psychology of the professional warrior "in service of the nation". Professional warriors obey orders transmitted by their superiors. In the absence of hierarchy, a small politician, Nicolas Sarkozy, our "war leader".

See what Thierry Meyssan thinks of him: . http://www.voltairenet.org/article157210.html

You can see, in different places, posters showing a fighter pilot, with helmet and flying suit. More the title:

With the baccalaureate, become a naval aviator

Or the poster of the ALAT, the Army's Light Aviation:

It makes many young people dream, including those who are learning to fly. It is true that flying is a pleasant thing. Some consider becoming military pilots. It seems to them also to be a solution to find a job. To combine the useful with the pleasant, in a way. But do they exactly know what this move will make of them? I don't think so. I believe that many French volunteers probably didn't imagine what they would end up in.

If you type any sentence like "become a fighter pilot" on Google, you will find masses of forums where young people aged 15 or 17 ask:

• "I want to become a fighter pilot. What should I do?"

And the answer often is:

• "Start by being good at mathematics and sports...."

Some answers are provided by people whose job is to guide and advise young people, like the editor-in-chief of a magazine for very young children. He ends up answering as if the military profession was as ordinary as becoming a doctor or a plumber.

On Futura science, for example

There is only one forum where a young person gives a fairly long answer where he recounts what his path was after asking this question "naively". He confesses that he realized that behind the question other questions emerged:

• "I want to become a fighter pilot, which means becoming a career soldier. - If I consider taking on the (profession?) of a career soldier, I will have to, immersed in a hierarchical structure, receive orders from my superiors, then pass them on to my subordinates. These orders I will have to execute without questioning them. - Among these orders there will be the one to carry out war actions, to kill. Because a military plane has weapons intended to kill, particularly powerful and effective. - Will I accept to carry out these missions causing the death of human beings, or creating many serious injuries, lifelong disabilities, without questioning the legality or illegality of these war actions, simply because, as the American military say, "someone has to do the job"?"

The boy continues to talk about the questions that came to his mind when he considered this orientation. He said to himself, "at the limit, if I am asked to bomb a target, I can always tell myself that the intelligence was well done and that by acting this way I will only kill soldiers (...)." Then he said to himself, "this enemy I will have to fight, he is also a soldier and defends a cause different from mine." And he realizes along the way that whatever war action is assigned to him, he will have to carry it out without questioning, he will have to accept to kill human beings on order, without discussing these orders. And he answers the teenager who asked this question "have you thought about all that it implies? If you decide to join, weigh the pros and cons carefully."

** ---

When I was a student at Supaéro, between 1958 and 1961, we had mandatory military training. Unlike students from other grandes écoles, who were incorporated after three years of study as EOR (Elève Officiers de Réserve), we directly wore the rank of sous-lieutenant. We were given the opportunity to follow a "PN training." Those who chose this branch of military training could fly on biplanes Stampe while other students flew (also for free) on Piper Cubs. The ambition of this group of a dozen students was to be able to, in Algeria, pilot T6 aircraft (training planes bought from the Americans and converted into ground attack aircraft and napalm dropping planes).

Being attracted to flying, I joined this section, without really knowing where it would lead me.

We flew from the small airfield of Guyancourt, near Paris. One day I saw a thin, sad boy arrive, whose thick khaki flight jacket made him look twice as big. He was two years older than me and was in Algeria, on a T6.

• What are you doing there?

• We're doing strafing.

• What's strafing?

• On the T6 we have 12.7 mm machine guns with which we attack the fellaghas in the mechtas (farms). - How do you know they are fellaghas?

• There, it's all fellaghas....

• And apart from that?

• We drop special cans (napalm) on the mechtas. Since we don't have bomb sights, we use the landing light as a reference. It's primitive but still works quite well.

After this meeting, I had a discussion with those from the "PN group," including my friend Nicolas Gorodiche.

• Tell me, do you know that after our training at the school, we will be assigned to Sipa, then to T6, in Algeria?

• Yes, we know that. And so?

• There, we won't be picking daisies. We will be sent on machine gun missions. We will kill people. Do you understand anything about this war?

_......

None of us had the slightest idea of the stakes, the causes of this war, or even how it was unfolding. We didn't read the newspapers or listen to the radio. Politically, we were all at a zero level. We barely knew that Algeria was somewhere on the other side of the Mediterranean, that was all. Following this conversation:

• And doesn't it pose you any problem to be called to do all this?

• You don't care. We are going to fly! ....

• And for the privilege of flying on an airplane, are you ready to pull the trigger of machine guns and drop napalm in a war that none of us understand? I prefer, after school, to have a job and pay for flight hours without having to kill people.

I was finally the only one to resign from this PN group. My comrades were finally not engaged in operations because the war was about to end (Our incorporation: October 1961. Evian agreements, March 1962). While we were in school, in Caen, I remember a conversation I had with a fellow student from my class, Jacques R.

• I talked to one of our lieutenants who was in the Georges commandos.

• What are these commandos?

• It's a group founded and led by a paratrooper, Colonel Georges Grillot(*), who was hunting fellaghas in the northwest of Algeria.

• Ah, and then?

• One day the members of the commando captured a group of armed men. The detachment leader reviewed the prisoners and interrogated them. When he addressed one of them, the other spat in his face. Then the latter pulled out his pistol and killed him. That's a man! ....

I remember this conversation as if it were yesterday. My jaw literally dropped. Jacques was not a politically engaged boy. He was the son of good French bourgeois. Very into photography, he had received a Hasselblad as a gift, the Rolls-Royce of cameras. Perhaps he has forgotten this conversation. I haven't. During the time of my studies at this engineering school (1958-1961), I can attest that none of the students from the three classes had any political engagement and if they did, it was extremely discreet. There were never any meetings on any subject at the school during these three years (but 68, do the math: seven years later). Student union activities: also non-existent. The UNEF was in the universities.

Jacques had no profile of a killer. One year he wanted to come down with us to the Calanques of Marseille to take photos with his superb camera. We were a group of friends who loved to go climbing in the routes of En Vau, Sormiou or other places. We had taken Jacques to do the small needle of En Vau, which is one of the beginner routes in these Calanques of Marseille. When we arrived at the top, it was impossible to get him down. He was prone to vertigo. It took hours to get him down, terrified.

• Listen, be reasonable. Night is about to fall. You have to decide....

With hindsight... I still don't understand.

War transforms the vision and psychology of men. Another time I had a conversation with an ex-paratrooper, on vacation in Saint Tropez. He had a 22 long rifle with a silencer and was amusing himself, hidden in bushes, shooting bottles of Ambre Solaire that the swimmers kept within reach. Let him speak:

• I was in the hunting commandos. One day we were hunting a group of fellas. They slipped into a rocky gorge, leaving one of their own to cover their retreat. The guy held us at bay for an hour with an FM (machine gun). He was saving his bullets, but as soon as one of them made a move, tac-tac, he fired a short burst. After an hour, having exhausted the magazines his comrades had given him, he got up and came towards us, hands up. He must have been seventeen or eighteen. Our captain said to him, "You're a man. But you know the rule." And he killed him with his revolver.

He told me this as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Such is the situation in Afghanistan, there is a high chance that the conflict will take on the same form as the Algerian conflict. The country's mountainous borders are completely uncontrollable. To the west, Iran, to the east, Pakistan and its "tribal areas." To the north, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

To isolate Algeria, the French established electrified barriers to prevent infiltrations, mainly from Tunisia where the FLN had its training camps. A solution impossible to implement in Afghanistan. The video report shows that infiltrations from Pakistan and Chechnya are already a reality. It's no longer about "pacification" or "maintaining order" (see excerpts from Ducrest's book). It's clearly a state of war that has taken hold and is spreading. In this situation, intelligence is essential. It is clear that the "Afghan troops" participate in this war only reluctantly. The situation is already much worse than what the French experienced in Algeria and previously in Indochina where locals were part of the French expeditionary force (in Algeria the Harkis). Afghan civilians are caught between two fires, between the threats from the Taliban and soon from the Western troops. When will the importation of "gégènes," electric generators operated with a crank to power radio stations, used by the French to torture suspects and obtain "intelligence" be introduced?

Foreseeing, the Americans have already conducted campaigns to legitimize the use of torture. The problem is that in the end... it doesn't work. The occupiers, perceived as such, end up completely turning the population against them, when torture complements the blind bombing operations.

In Afghanistan as in Iraq, the expeditionary forces seem to be badly engaged. And this is only the beginning.

(*) Colonel Georges Grillot, one of the actors of the "Battle of Algiers," was repatriated in 1962, without his unit. His Algerian auxiliaries were massacred by the FLN. Promoted to general, he became, between 1980 and 1982, head of the action service of the SDECE (now DGSE, or French secret service).

Today, more than ever, the question of the military profession and war actions emerges. Everywhere this profession, a bit apart, is described as actively participating in the defense of one's country, to serve it. Wars are never managed by a "Ministry of Attack," but by a "Ministry of Defense." The distance of history leads us to reflect on terribly murderous conflicts, like that of 14-18, on its causes and consequences. And in the end, we always come back to the same levers: money, banks, the war industry, power, the resources of the countries. The only ones who have benefited from this slaughter are the owners or shareholders of the war industry and the banks that have granted enormous loans to states, organizations that have been involved in these actions and, after the end of hostilities, pass quietly to the cash register.

Today, going beyond the stage of simple tribal disputes or territorial conquests led by heroes, like Alexander the Great, always at the head of his troops, or Julius Caesar, the same thing, we end up with much more subtle forms of war, which someone summarized by saying:

• "Today's wars are decreed by people who know each other and who don't kill each other, who send people who get killed and who don't know each other."

A film by Michael Moore is particularly instructive, when he interviews members of Congress asking if they plan to send their sons to fight in Iraq. And all of them immediately take the back road with a embarrassed smile. If we look at the war of 14-18, we will see that many of the avenues of our cities bear the name of "illustrious military men" who entirely managed the wars in which "they participated" from ... their office, using a map and a telephone, safely in a headquarters, like Foch or Pétain. If the latter hadn't gone astray during the next war, our cities and villages would be full of "Place du Maréchal Pétain," "Avenue du général Pétain." But neither Pétain nor Foch ever fired a shot or endured a bullet. After entering the military career, they earned their ranks on the benches of the War School and both "saviors of the fatherland" sent millions of men to be killed.

Does Sarkozy consider that his son might one day join to go to Afghanistan to actively participate in the fight against terrorism? The question deserves to be asked.

I urge you to reflect on our previous wars: Indochina, Algeria. I believe they mainly benefited the arms dealers. It is finally only since a relatively recent date that the average person begins to realize that behind the war there is money and that there is ... only that.

• "One believes to die for the fatherland, and one dies for the industrialists" (Anatole France)

Historians open archives, question, analyze many past wars. Patriotic visions flake off, one after another. One discovers sordid facts, like the one recalled on this page. But if you go to Wikipedia you will not find any trace of this story, nor on the site http://www.delouvrier.org

Yet the article published in the 2004 issue of Science et Vie (Algeria, 1954-62: the last war of the French) reproduces a transcription of a 3-minute excerpt, of a 90-minute interview. In passing, given that this interview of Delouvrier is a verified fact, based on a primary document whose existence is undeniable, who would believe that this payment measure of the FLN would have been taken without the knowledge of General de Gaulle, without his approval, and even that this measure would have been taken on the sole initiative of Delouvrier? Those who have studied the figure of de Gaulle as a politician know that he had nothing to envy from other heads of state, regarding finding inspiration in the thought of Machiavelli.

But the press has memory lapses. Historians too. As for politicians or their descendants, it's hard to say if they have any.

By the way, the last war, devil. What are the French soldiers doing in Afghanistan? And if we questioned the present wars ... we might save time, lives.

But why ask questions to which no one, not even Koutchner, wants to have an answer?

Below is a report by FRANCE 24 on the presence of French soldiers in Afghanistan, which dates from before the deadly ambush.

http://www.france24.com/fr/20080826-patrouille-taliban-parachutiste-rpima-afghanistan-reportage-embarque

Bruno, Saint Cyr, then infantry school, 27 years old, in charge of a paratrooper section of 30 men (average age 22 years)

http://www.france24.com/fr/20080826-patrouille-taliban-parachutiste-rpima-afghanistan-reportage-embarque

Bombs triggered by mobile phones

August 30, 2008: In countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, one out of two military deaths is caused by mines triggered remotely by radio. How? Using simple mobile phones modified.

Configured as a detonator

Coupled to an explosive charge

Demonstration of the effectiveness of remote triggering on the passage of a vehicle

These systems, which can be coupled to any explosive, including the charge of a shell, have become "weapons of the poor" extremely deadly. As announced in the news broadcasts, these remote triggering systems are also used to trigger explosions in urban areas. This situation is totally nightmare. In a departing plane, a low-power charge, the size of a toothpaste tube, collected from its mobile phone receiver-trigger can be placed in a suitcase where it will be practically impossible to detect (any object near a mobile phone, even just a ... shoe heel modified! ), then triggered by a suicide bomber activating his phone in the cabin. Will we go towards a ban on carrying mobile phones in aircraft cabins? But then, the triggering can be done by a person on the ground, when the aircraft is still close enough for the reception to be possible. And boom!

For a phone functioning as a detonator, an unlimited number of non-modified phones can be used as triggers. It's enough to dial the appropriate number. In this perspective, every mobile phone owner is a ... potential terrorist!

For military vehicles, a countermeasure has therefore been sought using a jamming system emitting in the entire frequency range (78,000 dollars each). The problem, highlighted by nextup, who is conducting a campaign to highlight the harmfulness of mobile phones, is that this important flow of electromagnetic waves emitted by the vehicle affects the soldiers who move inside it, the vehicle finally resembling a ... microwave oven at low power. It's quite logical.

Can the vehicle be armored against these emissions? But then could it communicate by radio with the outside?

What is extraordinary is to see objects that completely invade the planet become the most effective killing machines that man has ever invented.

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