On est tous le fou de quelqu un

La Couturière  Un jour, une couturière cousait, assise, au bord de la rivière. Soudain, son dé tomba dans la rivière. Comme elle hurlait de désespoir, le Seigneur apparut et lui demanda:
"Chère fille, pourquoi pleures-tu?"
La couturière répondit que son dé était tombé dans la rivière, et elle en avait besoin pour aider son mari à nourrir sa famille. 
Le Seigneur plongea la main dans l'eau et en sortit un dé en or avec des saphirs.

"Est-ce ton dé?" demanda le Seigneur.
"Non," répondit la couturière.
Le Seigneur plongea à nouveau la main dans la rivière et en ressortit un dé en or et rubis.

"Est-ce ceci ton dé?" demanda-t-il une nouvelle fois.
À nouveau, la couturière répondit "Non."
Le Seigneur plongea une troisième fois la main dans la rivière et en ressortit un dé en cuir

"Est-ce ton dé?" demanda le Seigneur.
"Oui" répondit la couturière.
Le Seigneur fut content de l'honnêteté de la femme et lui donna les trois dés de couture.  La couturière rentra à la maison heureuse.

Quelques années plus tard, pendant une promenade du couple au bord de la rivière, le mari tomba dans l'eau et disparut dans le courant. La couturière hurla de tous ses poumons.
Le Seigneur lui apparut à nouveau et lui demanda:
"Femme, pourquoi pleures-tu?"
La couturière répondit:"Oh Seigneur, mon mari est tombé dans la rivière!"
Le Seigneur plongea la main dans l'eau et en ressortit George Clooney:
Femme: est-ce ton mari??"

"Ouiiii!!!" hurla la femme.
Le Seigneur, furieux: "Tu as menti, ce n'est pas vrai!!"
La couturière répondit: "Pardonne-moi Seigneur. Il y a eu malentendu: si j'avais dit 'non' à George Clooney, vous auriez sorti Brad Pitt..."

"...et si j'avais dit 'non' à lui aussi, vous auriez sorti mon mari. Et si à ce moment j'avais dit 'oui, vous m'auriez donné les trois. Seigneur, ma santé n'est plus si bonne, je n'aurais pas pu prendre soin de trois maris. C'est POUR CELA que j'ai dit 'oui à George Clooney."
Ainsi, le Seigneur permit à la couturière de garder Clooney avec elle.

La morale de l'histoire?

Quand une femme ment, c'est pour une raison juste et honorable et c'est dans l'intérêt de tout le monde. 
 
  

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La Religion et la Société




il faut savoir que la vie d'un musulman, croyant et pratiquant, est régie par une minutieuse législation "la Chariâ". Se sont des lois basées sur l'interprétation à la fois de la parole du Dieu, inscrite dans le Coran (livre sacré et divin des musulmans) et de la cotume de son Prophète Mohamed (la Sunna), dont la source principale est les "dits" (Hadith) du Prophète et ses gestes.On distingue, toutefois, les "Sunnites" qui sont les partisans de la "Sunna" à l'opposé des "Chïtes" qui vénèrent plutôt son gendre "Ali".
La question sexuelle n'échappe pas à l'interprétation par ces textes. Pour aborder la position que prennent les législateurs islamiques (Oulama= savants=théoligiciens de l'Islam) vis à vis de l'homosexualité, il est nécessaire de clarifier le regard qu'ils portent sur la sexualité "naturelle" (hétérosexuelle).
Avant tout il faut savoir que toute relation sexuelle doit se faire dans le cadre du lien sacré et divin du mariage. Tout autre acte hors ce cadre est condamnable. "La fornication" est un péché capital qui peut aller jusqu'à la lapidation des fautifs et fautives.
Par contre peu des religions valorisent autant la volupté charnelle que l'Islam. Le plaisir sexuel considéré chez les chrétiens comme un péché originel, devient pour l'islam un don qu'il convient d'accepter, d'en jouir et de s'y avouer corps et âme. (Les exemples ne manquent pas, entre autres, la polygamie, avec des restrictions toutefois, et le mariage de jouissance...)
En même temps cet acte est considéré comme un acte religieux, car dans l'islam l'accouplement ne vise pas seulement la procréation mais il manifeste aussi l'harmonie de l'ordre divin, dont la distinction entre masculin et le féminin et leur complémentarité constituent la base élémentaire.
"De toute chose on a fait un couple. Puisez-vous vous en souvenir"
(Extrait du Coran, Sourat 51,Adh-Dhâriyât, verset 49)
Ainsi la chasteté et le célibat sont diabolisés:
"Le célibataire est le frère du diable" (Le Prophète Mohamed)
Car cela équivaut à s'abstenir de témoigner de sa chair de cette harmonie de la création.
A cet égard l'homosexualité, et plus précisément "l'efféminât" de l'homosexuel, comme la virilité de la garçonne, sont considérés comme une transgression des frontières entre homme et femme et donc une violation de cette harmonie.
Le Coran aborde l'homosexualité entre autres en condamnant le peuple de Loth (ou loût,peuple de Sodome et Gomorrhe) dans leurs pratiques sexuelles, mais toutefois plus modérément que dans la version biblique
Ainsi dans la Sourat An-Naml (Les fourmis) versets (54-57)
Loût, quand il dit à son peuple: "Vous livrez- vous à la turpitude alors que vous voyez clair". [54] Vous allez aux hommes au lieu de femmes pour assouvir vos désirs? Vous êtes plutôt un peuple ignorant. [55] Puis son peuple n' eut que cette réponse: "Expulsez de votre cité la famille de Loût! Car ce sont des gens qui affectent la pureté. [56] Nous le sauvâmes ainsi que sa famille, sauf sa femme pour qui Nous avions déterminé qu'elle serait du nombre des exterminés.[57]

Ces versets furent révèles au Prophète Mohamed par fragments séparés. Le terme "Tajhaloun" signifie "ignorer" ce qui atténue, d'après certains auteurs, quelques part, "la flétrissure morale dont sont victimes les homosexuels" et laisse entr'apercevoir que le châtiment qui leurs est infligés est dû principalement au fait qu'il ont démenti "un messager de Dieu". "L'exemple" du peuple de Loth est mentionné à ce titre dans plusieurs versets du Coran. Ainsi dans la Sourat(7)d'Al-Arâf (80-82) il figure entre les "exemples" du peuple du "Prophète Salah" et du peuple Madyan et leur "leur frère Chouayb", deux peuples qui ont transgressé les recommandations de leurs Messagers.
Et Loût, quand il dit à son peuple: "Vous livrez vous à cette turpitude que nul, parmi les mondes, n' a commise avant vous? Certes, vous assouvissez vos désirs charnels avec les hommes au lieu des femmes! Vous êtes bien un peuple outrancier." Et pour toute réponse, son peuple ne fit que dire: "Expulsez- les de votre cité. Ce sont des gens qui veulent se garder purs!"


"Musrif" en arabe signifie "impie et outrancier" alors que la règle en islam, en général, est la modération.
D'autre part, Le Coran promet aux croyants qu'au paradis ils seront servis par des éphèbes (se dit du très beau jeune homme, à l'origine l'adolescent grec qui faisait son service sportif et civil avant d'entrée dans l'âge adulte "éphèbie"). Les poètes et les sultans ne cessaient d'invoquer ces promesses pour justifier les relations illicites qu'ils entretenaient . Mais pour la plus part des "Oulamas" il n'y a pas à chercher une interprétation plus profonde que celle mentionnée, "L'homosexualité est la turpitude des turpitudes", la condamnation est donc claire et nette.
Pour la Sunna, la condamnation de la pédérastie est catégorique:
"Lorsque vous trouvez deux hommes accomplissant le péché de Loth, mettez-les à mort, le passif comme l'actif" (le Prophète Mohamed)

Ce "hadith" ne laisse aucun autre recours aux Sunnites que le rejet des pratiques homosexuelles. Néanmoins, une telle condamnation aussi lourde que la "fornication" entre deux adultes (homme+femme)adultères ne se prend pas à la légère. Une telle accusation de "fornication" requière le témoignage de quatre musulmans, mâles, majeurs dont l'honorabilité testimoniale est reconnue. Et qui devront attester d'avoir vu l'action de pénétration du membre sexuel du "fornicateur". Tout est fait donc pour décourager le témoignage et surtout la calomnie. Ce qui laisse présager que certaines pratiques (Soft) échappent à cette règle extrême.
D'autre part, pour certaines branches de l'islam, c'est l'émission du sperme qui détermine l'acte sexuel plus que la pénétration elle-même car c'est le sperme qui contient les germes de vie et c'est lui qui assure la continuité de cette harmonie de Création. Toute entreprise de cette source de vie, dans un engendrement hors du cadre du lien sacré du mariage, est sévèrement condamnée. Etant donné que l'acte homosexuel n'est pas susceptible d'engendrer la vie, plusieurs personnes se sont accommodés en quelques sorte de l'homosexualité. D'ailleurs les pratiques homosexuelles sont moins mal vue que l'adultère chez certaines de ces sociétés.
Au lecteur de ces lignes, il apparaîtrait que ces textes traitent de l'acte sexuel dans tous ces détails mais laissent des marges d'interprétation et d'accommodation plus ou moins larges. Pour se rendre compte vraiment de la place qu'occupe l'homosexualité il faut s'intéresser plutôt aux sociétés dans lesquelles elle fleurit.
Sans approfondir les arguments Freudiens, en se penchant sur les sociétés musulmanes on constate que les mâles vivent dans un système dont ils sont les piliers. L'homosexualité reste le seul exutoire pour ceux que leur trop-plein de virilité encombre. Il faut dire que la ségrégation entre les sexes et l'interdiction de tout rapport avant le mariage, ne fait que renforcer cette tendance. D'autant plus que , comme partout en Méditerranée, seuls sont considérés péjorativement comme homosexuels les partenaires passifs alors que les actifs développent une réputation de virilité débordante qui leur apporte la considération et l'estime des autres parfois.

Ce regard que porte la société sur la virilité provoque des réactions parfois ironiques: Les partenaires actifs sont obligés d'adopter parfois des comportements dévalorisant vis à vis des passifs qui peuvent aller jusqu'à l'humiliation devant les hétérosexuels. Les qualificatifs d'homosexuels et bisexuels sont ainsi complètement reniés pour éviter tout soupçon de sentimentalisme mettant en cause leur virilité.
Ainsi les relations se résume dans la plupart des cas à des simples rapports d'assouvissement des besoins sexuels. Le tout en cachette, car l'homosexualité est légalement interdite par la loi, mais toutefois tolérée si elle reste discrète. Les sentiments sont ainsi discrédités et révoqués , et donc tout autre cadre de vie en commun, en couple est complètement exclus par la société.
Dans les milieux traditionalistes profondément rattachés à la religion, le passifs sont considérés comme des personnes inférieures, immatures, et simples d'esprit . Tandis que les actifs sont traités de bestiaux et de pervers.

Entre le rejet de la religion et celui de la société l'homosexuel arabe préfère rester dans le placard pour éviter ce jugement péjoratif et honteux, son destin est le mariage forcé ou la solitude et la déprime et dans les cas limites le suicide. Seuls les personnes des sphères bien aisées de la société peuvent "affirmer" cette appartenance, mais ils restent cloîtrés dans leurs cercles privés.
Dans le cas des "Beurs", Français d'origine maghrébine généralement, à ce rejet de la famille et des "semblables" se greffe le rejet de la société en tant qu "étranger !!" et le risque accroissant de la maladie. L'homosexuel "Beur" se trouve ainsi sans "racines" ni "espoirs". Ces derniers temps cette "Communauté" a commencé à s'organiser pour sortir au jour et revendiquer leurs droits à la reconnaissance. Mais si cet appel ne trouve pas d'échos chez les Maghrébins de France, ces homosexuels risquent de se claustrer dans un ghetto comme les autres communautés homosexuelles.
En conclusion, l'homosexualité a connu des périodes moins stressantes que de nos jours. Les sociétés arabo-musulmanes n'ont pas cessé d'accommoder l'application de la "Chariâ" à leur train de vie et leurs aspirations . L'émergence de temps en temps des courants fondamentalistes qui n'admettent pas ce contexte remet en cause cette évolution.
L'homosexualité n'échappe pas à cette règle de balancement entre fermeté et tolérance (néanmoins marginalisée). Elle a existé et elle existera toujours. Mais il faut peut être attendre très longtemps pour voir une reconnaissance franche des homosexuels dans les pays arabo-musulmans.

Sur-AHMAD AL-TÎFÂCHÎ (1184-1253) - les Délices des Coeurs...

ABOU NAWAS
Le poète qui préfère les hommes

Poète de tous les temps, Abou Nawas, "l'homme aux cheveux bouclés ou pendants", né en 757 à Ahwaz d'un père arabe et d'une mère persane, et mort à Bagdad en 815.
Il est considéré jusqu'à nos jours comme les plus talentueux des poètes arabes et ne concurrence dans l'estime qu' El Moutanabi. L'historien Al Massoudi mentionnait que "Son talent est si grand, qu'il aurait pour ainsi dire fermé les portes de la poésie bachique". Ibnou Khaldoun le considérait comme "un des principaux poètes arabes". Le polygraphe Al Jahiz a écrit à son propos "je n'ai jamais vu personne qui connu mieux le lexique arabe et s'exprimât avec plus de pureté et de douceur, en évitant tout propos désagréable".
Abou Nawas dès son jeune âge a été confronté à l'amour au masculin. Sa grâce et sa beauté physique lui font découvrir l'amour des hommes mûrs. Son cousin le poète Abou-Oussama, un bel homme blond au teint clair fût attiré par cette beauté et n'hésitait pas à le prendre sous son aile pour lui faire découvrir ce monde où rimes et caresses se côtoient. Plus tard il deviendra à son tour amateur passionné des Pages et des éphèbes.
Adolescent, il acquière une vaste connaissance approfondie de la littérature et de la poésie arabe. Attiré par les lumières de la ville, il s'installe à Bagdad qui était en plein de son apogée, "la ville la plus grande du monde". Son arrivée coïncide ( !!!…) avec le début du règne du grand calife Hâroun Ar Rachid. Grâce à sa réputation et son audace il est devenu courtisan et poète de la cour. A vrai dire les califes s'entouraient de poètes et de savants.

Amoureux d 'Al Amin, fils de Haroun Ar Rachid et son successeur, un bel homme de pure souche arabe, il partage avec lui le goût des Ghelman ("Garçons"), du vin et de la chasse. Il a connu beaucoup de "relation passagères" avec les éphèbes (esclaves généralement chrétiens d'origine perse, se dit aussi pour un beau jeune homme).
Il disait :
"L'homme est un continent, la femme est la mer. Moi j'aime mieux la terre ferme"
On lui dénombre une relation amoureuse avec une femme, ce qui lui vaut plutôt le qualificatif de bisexuel, mais plusieurs critiques de nos jours considèrent cet amour platonique comme simplement une manifestation eudipienne.
Ses détracteurs et ses rivaux étaient nombreux, on lui reprochait ses tendances homosexuelles et son vocabulaire "parfois" trop cru. Mais il a su se protéger grâce à son talent sous l'aile protectrice des souverains. On ne sait pas comment il a fini vraiment sa vie, les versions sont si nombreuses, en prison ou dans une maison de la "Sagesse" personne ne le saura exactement.

AHMAD AL-TÎFÂCHÎ (1184-1253) - les Délices des Coeurs... (extraits)

AHMAD AL-TÎFÂCHÎ (1184-1253) - les Délices des Coeurs... (extraits)
Au cours d'un voyage au loin,
A travers maints et maints pays, j'ai vu
Un bédouin mince de taille, qui comptait
Parmi les chevreuils les plus gracieux.
Il avait entre les jambes
Quelque chose qui ressemblait
A la lance dans son fourreau.
Lorsqu'il m'eût enfourché
Au hasard d'une étape de la route,
Je m'écriai :
" Ô toi, le plus grand des hommes
sur le chapitre des instruments,
seul le Rétributeur saura
te récompenser à ma place
pour cet exploit ! "

La vie ne m'est vraiment agréable
Que lorsque j'ai passé la nuit
Entre le ventre d'une esclave
Et le dos d'un jeune homme.
Je la conjoins,
Je le conjoins,
Il me conjoint.
Le plaisir se présente à moi indifféremment :
Par derrière et par devant.

Trouve toi un bel objet poilu
De la plus belle taille
Et dur à l'avenant.
Et laisse jaser tout leur soûl
Les maîtres de l'ignorance
Et de la parole futile.
Pour un homme sensé, existe-t-il vraiment
Une telle différence entre ces deux plaisirs ?
Chacun n'est il pas le fruit
De la pénétration d'un membre
En territoire étranger ?
Que ma vie soie ta rançon !
Cessez de me tourner et de me retourner,
Et surtout ne me blâmez pas :
Je n'ai point d'oreille
Pour écouter vos reproches.
Si le plaisir croît par degrés,
Avant de transpercer le cœur,
Son introduction dans le ventre
Abrège toute distance.



AHMAD AL-TÎFÂCHÎ (1184-1253) - les Délices des Coeurs... (extraits)

Allez les filles ... faites vous aussi plaisir !

Allez les filles ... faites vous aussi plaisir !

C'est un neurone qui arrive dans un cerveau masculin, événement très rare mais ça arrive !!
Bref, ce pauvre neurone se retrouve tout seul dans une grande boîte vide et noire.
« Hou hou » crie ce petit neurone. Misère, pauvre petit neurone, personne ne lui répond...
« Hou hou » crie encore le petit neurone et il n'entend que l'écho de sa voix.
Alors, désespéré, notre pauvre et brave petit neurone masculin s'installe dans un coin et se met à pleurer.
Soudain,un autre petit neurone arrive tout essoufflé dans le cerveau masculin et crie à notre petit neurone en pleurs : « Hé bé ! Qu'est-ce que tu fous ? On est tous en bas...





Pourquoi l'homme penche-t-il la tête quand il réfléchit ?
Pour que ses deux neurones entrent en contact.
Pourquoi les hommes ont-ils la conscience tranquille?
Parce qu'ils ne l'ont jamais utilisée.

Pourquoi les hommes aiment-ils autant les voitures et les motos ?
Celles-là au moins, ils peuvent les manipuler.
Pourquoi la majorité des femmes conduisent mal ?
Parce que la majorité des moniteurs sont des hommes....
quelle est la différence entre un homme et une tasse de café
Il n'y en a pas : les deux tapent sur les nerfs.
Quelle est la différence entre un homme et un chat ?
Aucune, tous deux ont très peur de l'aspirateur.
Comment appelle-t-on un homme intelligent, sensible et beau ?
Un homosexuel.

Quel est le point commun entre les nuages et les hommes ?
Quand ils s'en vont, on peut espérer une belle journée.
Quel est le point commun entre les hommes qui fréquentent les bars pour célibataires ?
Ils sont tous mariés.
Quelle est la différence entre un homme, une cravate et une ceinture ?
La ceinture serre la taille, la cravate serre le cou, l'homme sert à rien.
Quelle est la différence entre le cerveau d'un homme et une olive ?
La couleur.

Les mensurations idéales d'un homme ?
80 - 20 - 42 (80 ans, 20 millions d'euros sur le compte en banque et 42 degrés de fièvre)
Que doit faire une femme quand son mari court en zigzag dans le jardin ? Continuer à tirer.
Les hommes sont la preuve que la réincarnation existe.
On ne peut pas devenir aussi con en une seule vie.
Pourquoi les hommes ont-ils les jambes arquées ?
Les choses sans importance sont toujours mises entre parenthèses.
Les hommes, c'est comme de l'essence :
des pieds à la ceinture, c'est du super,
de la ceinture aux épaules, c'est de l'ordinaire,
et des épaules à la tête, c'est du sans plomb.
pour les femmes intelligentes qui pourront rire et aussi à tous les hommes qui peuvent supporter la vérité... ou du moins l'humour

oui pas nouveau
mais bon pour le week end a venir

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que le silence
alors tais toi.


proverbe arabe




Il y a deux sortes de gens :
ceux qui peuvent etre heureux et ne le sont pas,
et ceux qui cherchent le bonheur sans le trouver...


proverbe arabe



Tant que tu seras heureux .
tu compteras beaucoupd amis.
si le ciel se couvre de nuages ,
tu sera seul

Ovide




Nous gagnerons plus de nous laisser voir tels que nous somme que d 'essayer de paraitre ce que nous ne somme pas

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j ai l es fait comme cela
avant vos reproches --------pour votre bien!!!!!!!!!!!!

j ai refuser de traduire a l air cucu en francais et amusant en anglais

alors faite comme moi ouvrer votre Dico
et passer un bon temps a la place d' etre votrer devant votre TV

On est tous le fou de quelqu un

j adore ces mots
avec
la belle facon de le dire








يولد جميع الناس أحرارًا متساوين في الكرامة والحقوق.
وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء





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FRENCH;
Tous les êtres humains naissent libres et égaux en dignité et en droits.
Ils sont doués de raison et de conscience et ils doivent agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternité.

ENGLISH:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

ARABIC:
يولد جميع الناس أحرارًا متساوين في الكرامة والحقوق.
وقد وهبوا عقلاً وضميرًا وعليهم أن يعامل بعضهم بعضًا بروح الإخاء.

on est tous le fou de quelqu un

j' ai adorer ce text envoyer par une amie
je ne sais d ou il vient ou qui l a ecrit
mais je suis tomber en accord avec l homme ou la femme qui a ecrit cela
j'aurait aimer lui serrer la main
meme si c est ecrit au premier ou au deuxieme degre.




YOU THE HOMOPHOBES- I SAID FUCK YOU
Je suis peut-être séropositif,
mais c'est à moi de choisir de le dire.
Je suis peut-être trisomique, quand je vois certains,
je me dis que mes chromosomes sont différents.
Je suis peut-être cancéreux,
mais c'est à moi de choisir avec qui en parler.
Je suis peut-être schizophrène,
mais c'est à nous de nous supporter.
Je suis peut-être de droite, de gauche,
mais c'est à moi d'assumer.
Je suis peut-être PD,
mais c'est à moi de choisir si et surtout qui peut ou doit me juger.
Je suis peut-être déjà mort,
mais c'est moi seul qui le sais.
Je suis peut-être humain,
mais c'est à mes proches que je le réserve désormais.
Je suis peut-être bleu, vert, jaune, noir ou à petit pois,
mais c'est ma couleur et je vous emmerde.
Je suis peut-être moche, vieux et con,
mais c'est moi que d'aucuns ont quand même choisi d'aimer.
Je suis peut-être tout ça à la fois,
mais c'est moi que ça regarde.

Je suis peut-être gentil,
mais c'est à moi aussi que vous les brisez. ..
Je suis peut-être rarement en forum,
mais ce n'est pas vous qui me donnerez envie d'y aller.

Je suis peut-être patient, tolérant etc. ..
mais là sérieusement cassez-vous !






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les enfants et
les femmes
avec cette maladie
et tout les mecs
homo et
hetero
par le sex ou les drogues ou les transfusion de sang .





Thérapie anti-sida
Les bienfaits de la pilule rose
Quarante gélules en une. Une petite révolution pour le confort des malades. L'Atripla, traitement antivirus du sida, débarque en France

Ce n'est pas encore la pilule miracle mais, dans le contexte actuel de la lutte contre le sida, cela y ressemble un peu. L'Atripla - spécialité associant trois thérapies en une seule gélule, à prendre une seule fois par jour - débarque le 6 mai dans la pharmacopée française. Elle va améliorer comme d'un coup de baguette magique la vie quotidienne de nombreux patients séropositifs. «Pour certains d'entre eux, cette unique pilule, a prendre le soir, remplacera à elle seule jusqu'à une quarantaine d'autres, successivement absorbées à heures précises tout au long de la journée», remarque Francis Gionti, porte-parole du Sidaction. Pharmacien travaillant pour cette même association, Julie Langlois précise : «La pilule d'Atripla associe trois labos et trois molécules brevetées, provenant de deux de ces labos. A elle seule, une pareille alliance entre firmes concurrentes - au bénéfice des patients - constitue une grande première, qui mérite d'être saluée.» Les laboratoires sont Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences et Merck. Quant aux trois molécules - commercialisées séparément depuis quelques années déjà -, elles se nomment efavirenz, emtricitabine et tenofovir. Ce sont toutes les trois des «inhibiteurs de la transcriptase inverse», qui empêchent le virus de se multiplier dans les cellules. Mais elles ont des modes d'action différents, donc complémentaires. L'une est «non nucléosique», l'autre «nucléosique», la troisième «nucléotidique». Les spécialistes apprécieront l'importance de ces nuances qui se combinent pour une efficacité maximale dans une biochimie effroyablement complexe.


Bref, ce cocktail - à prise quotidienne unique, ce qui contribue à l'«acceptabilité» du traitement - est conçu pour attaquer sur tous les fronts, et laisser le moins possible de chances au VIH. Dont, selon un rapport de l'European Medicines Agency (Emea), «la charge virale est maintenue au-dessous de 50 copies/ml» : on ne sait pas faire mieux. C'est pourquoi l'Atripla, recommandée dès août 2006 par l'OMS, a aussitôt été homologuée par la FDA américaine en vertu d'une «procédure accélérée». L'Europe a suivi avec son retard habituel, l'Emea n'ayant octroyé son feu vert que le 13 décembre 2007. En principe, cette autorisation vaut d'un seul coup pour les 27 pays de l'Union européenne, ainsi que la Norvège et l'Islande. Chaque Etat doit toutefois la transcrire dans ses propres règlements, et cela va toujours un peu moins vite qu'avec la «transcriptase inverse» instantanée des virus dans les cellules... C'est pourquoi les séropositifs français auront dû attendre jusqu'au 6 mai 2008 pour bénéficier à leur tour du fameux remède «one pill, once a day», qui révolutionne le traitement de la séropositivité. Mais enfin on y est presque ! La pilule Atripla - «de forme oblongue et de couleur rose», pour la distinguer de ses formes génériques de couleur blanche, qui devraient être vendues à prix coûtant dans le tiers-monde - va prochainement débouler dans nos pharmacies.
L'Emea rappelle toutefois qu'elle «ne guérit pas l'infection par le VIH, mais peut retarder l'atteinte du système immunitaire, ainsi que le développement d'infections et de maladies opportunistes liées au sida». Et prévient qu'elle peut s'accompagner de «vertiges, nausées, vomissements, éruptions cutanées, maux de tête, diarrhées et rêves anormaux». L'Atripla est en outre l'objet de diverses contre-indications, notamment bien sûr pour les patients chez lesquels on a déjà constaté des effets secondaires fâcheux avec l'un ou l'autre de ses constituants. Il n'est pas conseillé non plus pour les séropositifs souffrant de plus d'une hépatite virale B ou C, ni ceux absorbant divers autres médicaments incompatibles. De plus, le dosage, en principe optimal, des trois constituants présents dans la pilule peut ne pas convenir à tout le monde. Certains patients devront donc revenir à une trithérapie séparée, à prises multiples. Tous les porteurs du VIH ne pourront donc pas bénéficier du nouveau traitement. Enfin, comme chaque médicament nouveau - même formé d'un assemblage de médicaments anciens -, l'Atripla est aussi... une affaire de gros sous. Pour s'en convaincre, il suffit de taper le mot «Atripla» dans Google : ce sont surtout des informations boursières qui apparaissent. L'association Aides a déjà fait le calcul : l'Atripla est environ six fois plus chère que ses constituants séparés. Le coût du nouveau remède n'est donc pas le moindre de ses «effets secondaires»...



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Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution?
It’s been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie – and sold more than 10 million copies. The haunting tale of The Kite Runner has become one of the publishing industry’s greatest success stories. Now the search is on for the next big thing to come from the East

I had wandered awestruck around the Alhambra before, but never in the company of someone who could – literally – read the writing on the wall. Visitors with no knowledge of Arabic vaguely grasp that lines of scripture and poetry, carved in stucco, crawl over almost every surface in the stunning Moorish citadel of Granada: Europe's most elegant graffiti.

I knew that the Nasrid dynasty who beautified the palace, and lost it and their realm to the Christian armies of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, had, with fateful false modesty, plastered this final jewel of Muslim art in Spain with the family motto, "There is no conqueror but God". Then, a few days ago, I stood in the Chamber of the Two Sisters with Mourid Barghouti, a leading Palestinian poet long exiled in Egypt. And he began to read the verse that curled around us: "We would love the stars more if they were fixed to this wall, not floating in the sky..."

To communicate its strength and scope, every culture needs interpreters whom outsiders will trust. And, in the half-millennium of suspicion and conflict that followed the downfall of Moorish civilisation in Spain, the absence of such honest brokers has bedevilled every stage of the perpetually rocky relationship between the Arab and European worlds. Imperial bureaucrats, soldiers and scholars on one side; radical nationalists, pious militants and oil-rich oligarchs on the other – all have had their various axes to grind, and to wield. Now, perhaps, the writers of the Arab world can begin to find a voice in the West again. It's always easier to love distant stars when they can shine, plainly and legibly, on the page in front of us.

Mourid Barghouti had joined a dozen other stars of Arabic fiction and poetry at the first Hay Alhambra festival this month – one flower in a remarkable bouquet of literary events, prizes and programmes with the common aim of quenching the rhetoric of a "clash of civilisations" with the reality of a dialogue between them. Today, the London Book Fair opens with the "Arab World" as guest of honour and Arab writers present in force, from Barghouti himself to Egyptian bestsellers Alaa Al Aswany and Khaled Al Khamissi, and Rajaa Alsanea – one of the new wave of young Saudi bloggers-turned-novelists.

The fair will be the culmination of a long-term plan, steered by the British Council, to forge firmer cultural bonds. And, although he comes from far beyond the Arab world (and writes in English), the Afghan author Khaled Hosseini's double coup in topping the UK charts both with The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns has helped to put a spring in the step of everyone who wants to widen the readership for literature from the Middle East and North Africa.

In the Gulf, lavishly funded new competitions such as the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the "Arab Booker") and the Sheikh Zayed Awards have signalled the intention of the emirate of Abu Dhabi to build up its name as a global centre of culture. Not to be outdone, and fretting perhaps at its current reputation as the world capital of bling, neighbouring Dubai begins a new literary festival next year. Also in Abu Dhabi, the Kalima translation project has launched an ambitious, state-financed programme to bring, at the rate of 100 per year, classic and contemporary books from around the world into Arabic for the first time and to distribute them across the region.

Last week, the British publishers Arcadia and Haus announced the creation of a new list: Arabia Books. Initially, it will draw on the library of modern Arabic writing in English translation developed by Mark Linz, director of the American University in Cairo Press. It promises works from, among others, Egypt's Baha Taher (who won the "Arab Booker"), Libya's Ibrahim Al Kouni (who took the Sheikh Zayed award for literature) and Alaa Al Aswany, the dentist-turned-author whose The Yacoubian Building last year bit deeper into British imaginations than any Arabic novel since the heyday of another chronicler of Cairo's streets, the 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

Look around a world of tension and turmoil, from Ground Zero to Gaza and Baghdad, and it hardly takes a magic mirror out of the Thousand and One Nights to see why so much expensive effort has gone into these bids to build a bridge of words. Writers hope they can succeed, but also fear that all this fancy soft diplomacy does no more than construct an Arabic version of Russia's Potemkin villages: an ornate façade that hides enduring truths of tyranny, repression and cultural deprivation across the Arab world – not to mention the occupations, in the Palestinian territories and Iraq, that prey on every Arab intellectual's mind.

Of course, all sweeping statements about culture in a region of 300 million people stretching from Morocco to Syria will come unstuck. "We can't generalise," says Juan Goytisolo, the veteran dissident who, dismayed by Franco's rigid Spain, cut his own path into Islamic culture and eventually settled in Marrakesh. "The Arab world is like a patchwork. What applies in one country does not apply in another." The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, author of the epic novel of the Palestinian tragedy, Gate of the Sun, told me in Granada that "I don't like this idea of putting writers into categories... If I am to be read, it should not be because there are Arab elements in my work, but because it speaks to you as a human being."

Nonetheless, Arab writers themselves identify some shared burdens as well as the shared glory of a literary language that has helped to unite them since before the time of the Koran. "The problem of the Arabic book is the problem of Arabic society," Khoury insists. "It is dictatorship and censorship. And this censorship isn't only against writers and books – it's against the whole society." As he put it, speaking publicly under the walls of the Alhambra: "The freedom of the writer is meaningless if he is in a society which is not free."

For me, the Alhambra marked the end of an unplanned journey from east to west that seemed to lead backwards in time from the glittering future of Arabic culture imagined in Abu Dhabi, through its strife-ridden present in frantic Cairo, to its resplendent past amid the wonders of "al Andalus" in Granada. Last November, in Abu Dhabi, I talked to the founder of the Kalima project, the Egyptian entrepreneur Karim Nagy, about his dream of "filling the gaps in the Arab library" with well-produced, widely read editions of authors from Dante and Chaucer to Stephen Hawking and Haruki Marukami. In time, he plans to translate out of Arabic as well, making the scheme a "two-way street".

Sitting in the Arabian Nights fantasy of the Emirates Palace hotel, I heard him say something I have never heard from any other cultural masterplanner: "Funding is the least of our concerns." What does worry Kalima and other such ventures is: (of course) erratic and often arbitrary censorship across the 22 Arab states; the habits of book piracy, which have often turned the region into literary quicksand for unwary incomers; and the fragile production and bookshop networks in a part of the world where state-run, Soviet-style dinosaur firms often dominate the publishing scene. Even major authors may have to pay for publication or else simply wait in line, and a local bestseller may just about hit a peak of 5,000 to 6,000 copies sold.

Western liberals like to thrill to tales of cruel censorship in Arab lands – and, of course, they still arrive in bulk. Khoury reports that he knows 17 or 18 writers and intellectuals currently imprisoned in Syria. More trivially, but typically, 230 titles meant for display at the last Kuwait Book Fair were banned by the state censorship committee. Novels by the London-based Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh – including her taboo-busting Women of Sand and Myrrh – were first held up by Egyptian customs during this year's Cairo Book Fair, then allowed to enter the country. These are everyday irritants. Now, Arab writers face not so much the basement interrogation chambers (they are full of Islamists now) as an endless, wearying game of cat-and-mouse.

The Jordanian-born, British-based novelist and critic Fadia Faqir says that "the censor has a red pen, still! He'll sometimes say 'Kill this character!' It's quite intrusive." Yet, the more I talked to Arabic writers, the more sporadic government bullying took its place as just one of a daunting series of practical hurdles – from literacy rates to the cost of books, sluggish bureaucracy to dysfunctional retail systems – that lie in the author's way. "There are so many obstacles for Arab writers," Faqir sighs. "My heart goes out to them."

In 2002 and 2003, the much-discussed Arab Human Development Reports from the UN Development Programme – researched and written entirely by Arab intellectuals – issued a frank wake-up call to the region's societies. The authors demanded that states enlist their new-found wealth into the service of high-quality education, freedom of expression and greater social justice. "Arab culture has no choice but to engage in a new global experiment," the 2003 report argued: "It cannot enclose itself, content with living on history."

In Abu Dhabi, amid the shining air-conditioned towers, it was easy to believe the call had been heard, and heeded. But initiatives such as Kalima (under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan) and the "Arab Booker" (backed by the Emirates Foundation) offer a top-down solution to the plight of the insecure, isolated writer. In traffic-clogged, fume-blanketed Cairo, such well-meaning paternalism feels a world away. Egypt was always the cockpit and crossroads of the Arab cultural world, although cosmopolitan Egyptians seem uncomfortable with a monolithic "Arab" identity. The London-based novelist Ahdaf Soueif – Booker-shortlisted for The Map of Love in 1999 – recalls that, growing up in 1960s Cairo, "we thought of ourselves as Muslim, Coptic, Mediterranean, Arab, African... We took it for granted that you didn't have to be one thing."

Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building struck such a chord beyond Egypt in part because it reminded foreign readers of the rich human mix that always gets lost in political platitudes. Yet Egyptian writers today have to struggle harder than ever to hang on to their pluralist tradition.

On a wet day in January, I went from the sprawling Cairo Book Fair – where Islamists made their presence forcefully felt, both running stands and demonstrating in support of the Palestinians of Gaza – to a British Council dinner beside the Nile. There sat the new pashas of non-religious, open-minded Egyptian literature: Al Aswany, whose six-figure sales have raised the hopes and horizons for Egypt's publishers; and Al Khamissi, whose documentary novel Taxi parks comic, touching and satirical monologues by 58 Cairo cabbies side by side: a Thousand and One Nights of dodgy brakes and battered bodywork.

And there was the dauntless and impish Mohamed Hashem: founder of the Merit imprint, a beacon of fearless literary publishing; veteran of run-ins with both the state and the clergy of Al Azhar University; and an activist in the Kefaya ("Enough") movement that subjects the US-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak to democratic scrutiny.

Yet the guest who seemed to embody the future of free expression was the confident, headscarfed young woman who runs the English-language website of the Muslim Brotherhood. Technically banned, but hugely influential and visible, the Brotherhood has, over decades, locked horns with Egypt's secular government. This ritual standoff mixes outright repression and a strange kind of mutual dependence. It's still risky to work for the "Ikhwan" in Egypt – the editor's boss, Khaled Hamza, is currently in prison. The beatings and tortures undergone by the Islamists are real and painful enough. Yet the Brotherhood's prominence and prestige has made it a kind of shadow Establishment, stealing the thunder of the secularists who also clamour for true democracy in Egypt.

Perhaps, when it comes to literature and its limited impact, the authorities don't care that much any more. Online dissenters now run much graver risks. A blogger known as "Kareem Amer" is now serving a four-year sentence in Alexandria: three for attacking religious institutions (he called Al Azhar a "university of terrorism"), one for insulting the President. Ibrahim Issa, editor of the opposition paper Al-Dustour, last month received a six-month jail term for raising questions about the health of 79-year-old President Mubarak.

In contrast, Al Aswany's new novel Chicago – another runaway success on his home ground – ends with a fiercely satirical scene in which the unnamed but unmistakable president and his "famous cheerless smile" visit the US: "His complexion was exhausted by all the scraping, sanding and daily ointments to give it a youthful appearance..." And so, quite mercilessly, on.

To a large degree, as Egypt's long-serving culture minister, the painter Farouk Hosny, explained to me and other guests at the Cairo fair, creative writers do now enjoy liberty from pre-publication control: "It's an age of freedom – be sure of it." But afterwards they can be sued by aggrieved parties, or harassed by the religious authorities. In 2000 and 2001, a string of causes célèbres led to the banning of fiction originally issued by state publishers after campaigns led by religious militants.

At the time, Hosny called for critics of the government's sometimes erratic cultural stances to quit the country. "No, minister," replied the author and editor Gamal al-Ghitani, who in historical novels such as Zayni Barakat has explored Egypt's present through the mirror of its past: "We shall remain, and you shall leave." But Hosny is still there – although he does seriously want to be the next secretary general of Unesco. That decision should prompt some brisk debates.

With Egypt's economy in the doldrums, and food riots – deeply feared by the regime – breaking out once more in Nile delta towns, the novelist's plight might seem a sideshow. After the censorship rows of 2001, the critic Samia Mehrez, who teaches at the American University in Cairo, brutally pointed out that "the irony is that no one reads these books". But, with the sensational sales of Al Aswany and Al Khamissi, publishers are hoping readers have picked up a new taste for robust and realistic portraits of their lives and times.

Progressive firms such as Dar al-Shorouk certainly believe that up-to-date marketing and distribution can make the voice of Egyptian –and other Arab – writers carry further than before. With the spread of efficient and transparent rights deals –something sorely lacking now, according to mutinous British publishers at the Cairo fair – many more could reach the West. As Mohammed Latif of the Arab Publishers Union incontrovertibly said: "In literature, history and heritage, we have treasures that the world should know about."

Under the April sunshine of Granada, the tourist crowds who snake through the Alhambra clearly have no problem with Arab heritage from a safely distant past. Today's writers point out that barriers to understanding contemporary Arab life linger in Western minds, as well as in the censors' offices and state book depositories of the Middle East. Arabic fiction sold abroad often has to fit a familiar stereotype – such as tales of draped and downtrodden females. Fadia Faqir reports: "Every English edition of my work has had either a Bedouin woman with her head covered, or else a woman with a veil, on the cover." However, with the continental translations of her latest novel, My Name is Salma, things began to change. "No veils for my Salma in Italy, in France, in Spain. Fantastic! Breakthrough!"

In any case, innovative writers want to be appreciated as individual talents rather than as standard-bearers for a language, gender or culture: "I was afraid I was here to represent Saudi women," said novelist Raja Alem from Mecca, a specialist in a kind of Saudi magic realism, in Granada. "I don't represent Saudi women. I only represent myself."

Western publishers may also hint that Arab writers should bow to market conditions and tailor what they do to prevailing global trends. Radwa Ashour, the Egyptian novelist and critic (who is married to Mourid Barghouti), was once told: "'Why don't you write detective stories? That would find a wide readership.' I felt it was humiliating. We don't want to be read at all costs."

However, Arabia Books does plan to release a Casablanca-set murder mystery by the Moroccan crime novelist and screenwriter Abdelilah Hamdouchi, called The Final Bet.

Meanwhile, first-rate translators from Arabic into English remain rare and precious. The Yacoubian Building could hardly have won so many British hearts if Humphrey Davies had not caught its moods and timbres so well. One of the finest translators, Denys Johnson-Davies, actually won last year's Sheikh Zayed award for Arab "cultural personality of the year". Yet Radwa Ashour laments: "There are many important Arabic novels where the translation into English has been a catastrophe."

Ashour was unhappy with the English translation of one part of her Granada trilogy, a historical sequence set during the glory days of multicultural Andalus. The handsome Spanish edition – hot off the press – pleases her far more. Still, she admits: "I'm a bit troubled and confused" to be in Granada, "because my characters are still living with me. I know they're somewhere here."

So the circle closes, and a very modern Arabic writer from the brash metropolis of Cairo communes with the lyrical legacy of Moorish Spain. "I feel that there are spectres hovering over the place," she says, "but they're very real ghosts." Once again, I wish I had the chance to read much more of the writing on the wall.

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TALES OF ARABIA: SIX TO READ

Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy

(Black Swan; three volumes) £9.99

Egypt's Nobel Prize winner, who died in 2006 at the age of 94, had a sometimes risky ringside side for his country's 20th-century history. He used it to create a body of work that almost single-handedly revived the fortunes of Arabic prose fiction in the West. Often compared to Dickens or Balzac, this great family and political saga of his city in the throes of change is an addictive, and distinctively Arab, chronicle of private and public life.

Hanan Al Shaykh

Only in London

(Bloomsbury) £6.99

Since the 1970s, the influx of Arab visitors and residents has intrigued and often baffled native Brits. Comic, tender and mischievous, this novel by the fearless and pioneering Lebanese writer tells the stories of a quartet of these incomers. Erotic imbroglios join touching family dramas and episodes of farce in humanising the least-understood tribe of new Londoners.

Elias Khoury

Gate of the Sun

(Vintage) £7.99

The unending Israel-Palestine conflict still looms like a black cloud over much of Arab culture. No Arabic novel has tackled it with more courage and vision than this epic by a Lebanese author who spent years researching the stories of Palestinian refugees in the camps. Free of slogans and clichés, it captures all the labyrinthine complexity of the crisis and the human tragedy of its victims.

Alaa Al Aswany

The Yacoubian Building

(HarperPerennial) £7.99

The Cairo dentist-turned-bestseller has launched a thousand painful puns, but then his fiction does get right to the root of modern Egypt's dilemmas. Set during the first Gulf War, this tapestry of tales threads the inhabitants of one crumbling Cairo apartment block into a panoramic picture of the city. His people dream of happiness beyond all the intractable divisions of gender, class and culture.

Rajaa Alsanea

Girls of Riyadh

(Fig Tree) £7.99

Women may not drive in Saudi Arabia, but they certainly write. New technology, especially the blog, has given a sudden visibility to younger Saudi voices. This email-based novel made Alsanea the first of this generation to break through into mainstream international fiction. She transforms chick-lit conventions into an eye-opening group portrait of the children of privilege whose dreams of rebellion crash into their own, and their society's, boundaries.

Khaled Al Khamissi

Taxi

(Aflame Books) £7.99

The Egyptian documentary film-maker and columnist Al Khamissi makes good use of his skills of reportage in this runaway success that combines the fictional monologues of Cairo's cabbies. Not so much a conventional novel as a string of satirical stand-up routines brought to the page, Taxi builds into a frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking blast of jokes, anecdotes and revelations. Listen to the "Arab street" in all its smoggy, gasping glory.




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Biofuel: the burning question
The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world's environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?

By Cahal Milmo
Tuesday, 15 April 2008

From today, all petrol and diesel sold on forecourts must contain at least 2.5 per cent biofuel. The Government insists its flagship environmental policy will make Britain's 33 million vehicles greener. But a formidable coalition of campaigners is warning that, far from helping to reverse climate change, the UK's biofuel revolution will speed up global warming and the loss of vital habitat worldwide.

Amid growing evidence that massive investment in biofuels by developed countries is helping to cause a food crisis for the world's poor, the ecological cost of the push to produce billions of litres of petrol and diesel from plant sources will be highlighted today with protests across the country and growing political pressure to impose guarantees that the new technology reduces carbon emissions.

On the day when the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) comes into force, requiring oil companies to ensure all petrol and diesel they sell in the UK contains a minimum level of biofuel, campaigners condemned as "disastrous" the absence of any standards requiring producers to prove their biofuel is not the product of highly damaging agricultural practices responsible for destroying rainforests, peatlands and wildlife-rich savannahs or grasslands from Indonesia to sub-Saharan Africa to Europe.

A study by the RSPB published today criticises the introduction of the RTFO as "over-hasty" and "utter folly". The conservation body said there is already widespread evidence that biofuel production is destroying vast areas of unspoilt habitat and has made at least one species extinct.

Demonstrators will gather outside Downing Street and other locations including Aberdeen, Bristol, Manchester and Norwich to protest at the "perverse obstinacy" of the Government in going ahead with the RTFO and will call for its abandonment until the impact of biofuel production can be properly assessed.

Graham Wynne, chief executive of the RSPB, said: "The volume of biofuel that can be genuinely described as sustainable is at present very small indeed and is nowhere near enough to warrant the 2.5 per cent obligation. The impacts of biofuel production on forests and wetlands are already being seen worldwide. It is a tragedy that customers' money is going to be spent on driving this destruction."

The World Bank and the UN have, in recent days, expressed concern about the impact of biofuels on world food prices, sparking riots from Haiti to the Philippines. Gordon Brown, who has put the issue on the agenda at the forthcoming G8 summit, has also voiced concerns at EU level about deforestation and loss of habitats caused by biofuel production. And Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, raised the issue at the weekend's G7 meeting in Washington.

But ministers insisted that the RTFO, which will require Britain to produce or import up to 2.5 billion litres of biofuel each year, puts the UK at the forefront of efforts to make the industry sustainable by demanding that suppliers provide reports on where their green petrol and diesel comes from as well as the expected carbon savings.

The Department for Transport estimates 2.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be saved by 2010. The proportion of biofuel will rise to 5 per cent by 2010 in the UK and there is a proposed EU-wide target of 10 per cent by 2020.

Jim Fitzpatrick, the Transport minister, said: "Making it easier for motorists to use greener fuel is an important step towards reducing carbon emissions from transport. It should help save millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide in the coming years."

For motorists, there will be no discernible difference at the petrol pump. Bio-diesel, largely sourced from processed palm oil, soya beans and rape seed, and bio-ethanol for petrol, produced from cereals and sugars, are simply mixed with fossil fuels.

But environmentalists insist the projected carbon dioxide savings are based on a false premise because the clearance of huge areas of Indonesian rainforest and peatland or South American savannahs, the use of fertiliser to grow crops, conversion into biofuel and transportation to petrol stations mean emissions caused by the manufacturing of the fuels can vastly outweigh any CO2 saved once put in a car's tank.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota published a study in February this year which found that growing biofuel crops on converted rainforests, grasslands or peat bogs created up to 420 times more CO2 than it saved.

Campaigners have pointed to palm oil, one of the key biofuel crops, as a particular menace because many plantations across south-east Asia are based on reclaimed forest and peatland, creating carbon emissions that can never be reclaimed by biofuel production. In South America, the Alagoas curassow, a large bird once found in north-eastern Brazil, has become extinct because sugar cane production wiped out its habitat.

The RSPB study, entitled A Cool Approach to Biofuels, points out that legally enforceable standards designed to eliminate such crops from the RTFO will not be imposed until 2011, leaving a three-year gap for non-sustainable biofuel to flood into Britain.

Mr Wynne said: "Proof that biofuels were truly green should have been in place long before the RTFO came into force. The method of production of some biofuel will cause habitat loss, displace food production and emit more greenhouse gases than are being saved."

Campaigners are calling for a legally binding target to ensure all biofuels save at least 60 per cent more carbon than they produce.

In the meantime, they point to a loophole in the RTFO which means that suppliers can answer "don't know" to a question about the previous use of the land that produced the biofuel.

Tesco, which has claimed all its biodiesel comes from rapeseed and soya, was forced to admit palm oil can make up a significant part of its product after a sample analysed was found to contain 30 per cent palm oil.

Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat transport spokesman, said: "Thanks to flaws in the Government's system, companies selling these fuels will even be allowed to get away with saying that they don't know whether they've been sourced sustainably or not. This makes a mockery of the entire idea of sustainability standards."

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Picture Post: Who's Rupert got on speed-dial?


The prospect of a telephone call from Rupert Murdoch is enough to turn even the most battle-hardened politician, journalist, or globe-trotting businessman into a useless, quivering wreck.

Imagine, then, the lifetime of potential misery that must result from being expected to exchange small-talk with the plutocratic newspaper baron – still, after all these years, many-a-pundit's "most powerful man on Earth" – on an almost daily basis.

That is the fate that has befallen the 26 individuals listed below, whose numbers turn out to have been installed on the speed-dial buttons of Murdoch's personal office telephone.

Their names have come to light thanks to Murdoch's generous donation of his recently-used "blower" (above) to the Newseum, a massive new museum of the modern media which opened last week in Washington DC.

The phone offers us the ultimate media "power list": there are few greater claims to a seat at Mr Murdoch's high table (aside, perhaps, from being one of his 'top friends' on MySpace, the mogul's global social networking site) than being considered of sufficient importance to be contactable with just one poke of his index finger, in a scene reminiscent of our main picture.

So, what of the lucky 26? On speed dial, of course, is James Murdoch, Rupert's cool-headed heir-apparent and head of News Corporation's European and Asian operations, together with his more volatile elder son Lachlan, and London-based daughter Elisabeth, now an international broadcasting player herself. Rupert's third and current wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, is the only other female to feature.

More interesting, to Kremlinologists of the 77-year-old's global empire, are the non-familial entries. There are the giants of Planet Murdoch, such as Peter Chernin, the president and chief operating officer of News Corp, Jim Giannopoulos, the president of 20th Century Fox Films, and Tom Rothman, the chairman and CEO, of Fox Filmed Entertainment.

There, too, is Les Hinton, the Liverpool-born former chairman of News International (owners of The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and the News of the World), who was recently asked by Murdoch to become CEO of Dow Jones, which owns The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Politicians, however, are invisible. A "David Hill" is listed but it is an American broadcasting executive, rather than the former Downing Street communications chief. Murdoch has a hotline to Australian-born Robert Thomson, editor of The Times when this speed dial list is believed to have been compiled in 2005, now publisher of the WSJ. But though Col Allan, editor of the mass tabloid New York Post, is there, his British equivalent, Rebekah Wade, the editor of The Sun, is notable only by her absence.

*Roger Ailes: President, Fox News Channel

*Col Allan: Editor, New York Post

*David Hill: President of Direct TV

*Tarak Ben Anmar: Tunisian financier/movie producer

*Mark Booth: CEO, BSkyB

*Chase Carey (both in Los Angeles and New York): President-CEO, DirecTV

*Peter Chernin: President-Chief Operating Officer, News Corp

*Preston Beckman: Executive Vice-President for strategic planning, Fox

*David Devoe, Chief Financial Officer, News Corp.

*Jim Giannopoulos: President, 20th Century Fox Films

*Gary Ginsberg: Executive Vice-President, News Corp.

*Les Hinton: Chairman, News International; now CEO, Dow Jones

*James Murdoch (twice)

*Lachlan Murdoch

*Elisabeth Murdoch

*Lawrence "Lon" Jacobs: Senior Executive Vice President/Group General Counsel, News Corp

*Mark Jung: former CEO of IGN

*Peter Levinsohn, former Fox President of Digital Media, current head of Fox Interactive Media

*Jon Nesvig: President of Sales, Fox Broadcasting

*Tom Rothman: Co-Chairman, Fox Filmed Entertainment

*Ross Levinsohn: former President, Fox Interactive Media

*Peter Liguori: President, Fox Broadcasting Company

*Robert Thomson: Publisher, Wall Street Journal; former editor, The Times

*Wendi Deng Murdoch

*Tony Vinciquerra: President-CEO, Fox Networks Group

*Jeremy Phillips: SVP, Office of the Chairman, News Corp

Benedict XVI-Ce Fanatic du Vatican chez les Fanatics du Middle America

The Big Question: Will the Pope's trip to the United States resolve the crisis in Catholicism there?

By Paul Vallely
Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Why are we asking this now?

Because today Benedict XVI makes his first visit to Washington. Unlike his much-travelled predecessor, John Paul II, who visited the US seven times, the new Pope in three years in office has made just seven trips outside Italy, only two of them outside Europe. And instead of a barnstorming continent-wide tour, Benedict will visit just two cities, Washington and New York.

How grave is the crisis?

The sex abuse scandal which erupted in 2002 has taken a significant toll on the reputation and finances of the Catholic Church. It revealed more than 5,000 victims, and has made five dioceses bankrupt. Just last year, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay 0m to 500 victims of abuse dating back as far as the 1940s – the largest of several compensation settlements which have cost the church bn to date. And it's is not over. Just last week the family of two young boys filed a lawsuit accusing a Massachusetts priest of molestation as recently as 2005.

The accusations have been made against a small minority of the nation's 45,000 priests, but Pope Benedict is taking a much tougher line than his predecessor. Before his election as pontiff, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger described such priests as "filth", and one of his first acts in office was to discipline the founder of one of the Vatican's favoured conservative orders, the Legionaries of Christ, who had been accused of sexually abusing boys decades ago.

Will he tackle the issue of paedophile priests?

Yes. He will raise it when he meets with the 350 US bishops in Washington tomorrow and at two separate occasions in New York – at a gathering of nuns and priests and a separate meeting of seminary students. Breaking with tradition, he is allowing the media access to his meetings with the bishops.

What about the decline in church attendance?

That is certainly an issue. According to a recent poll a third of US citizens were raised as Catholics, but today only a quarter describe themselves as Catholic. The number of priests ordained in 2007 fell to 456 – half the number in 1965. Hundreds of parishes are being closed and consolidated, because of the shortage of priests, falling funds to maintain the buildings or demographic changes.

Having said that, this is far from a decline on the scale experienced in Europe. The US Catholic Church is still four times the size of the next largest group, the Southern Baptist Convention, even though the latter make more noise in political and media circles. The US still has the third largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil and Mexico. And one in three of its members go to Mass at least once a week.

So what is keeping the church alive?

The old strongholds of the church were the ethnic inner-city parishes of Italian, Irish, Polish Catholics. Many of these are closing, but new ones are opening in the suburbs to which these groups have migrated with their increased affluence.

Some of thee old churches are closing, but others are being taken over by a new wave of immigrants from Latin America, the Philippines and Africa. In some parishes the new mix has been joyous, in others uneasy. But a new multiculturalism is characterising US Catholicism. And with Hispanic groups now constituting 29 per cent of all US Catholics, the church is increasingly becoming bilingual.

What will the Pope say about all this?

Well, he won't be able to go on about secularisation as much as he does in Europe, though his attacks on relativism and materialism will probably get an airing. He may have something to say about what the Vatican condemns as the "pick'n'mix" nature of American Catholicism.

Accustomed to the business of democracy, US Catholics have a determinedly independent streak which puts them at odds with Rome on a number of issues: 60 per cent support the death penalty; 55 per cent back stem-cell research; 51 per cent think abortion should be legal in all or most cases; and 42 per cent favour gay marriage – a higher percentage, indeed, than the rest of the country (though the new Catholic immigrants, especially Hispanics, tend to be more in tune with this conservative Pope).

There is something else. The sex abuse scandal has made many Catholics more confrontational. Lay Catholics across the country are demanding more control and more financial accountability from their bishops. They are occupying churches to fight closure plans. Last month a group of 45 priests contacted Rome to demand their bishop step down, accusing him of misappropriating more than ,000 and using it to buy liturgical garments and furniture.

It is, though, important not to overstate this new independence. A Georgetown University survey this week showed that 70 per cent are satisfied with the leadership of their bishops compared with just 58 per cent four years ago, when the priestly sex scandal was at its height.

Is the visit an attempt to influence the election?

Probably not. The Catholic hierarchy got embroiled in the 2004 election, when a handful of conservative bishops threatened to withhold Communion from Senator John Kerry because of his pro-abortion stance. But this time candidates Clinton, Obama and McCain all support embryonic stem-cell research and have voted in favour of same-sex partnerships.

It is possible that if the Pope focuses on abortion that will be seen as favouring the Republican side, and if he speaks for world peace and against capital punishment and punitive immigration policies, that may be seen as pro-Democrat. But neither will be his intention.

Which way is the Pope likely to lean?

On Friday he will make a major speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His themes will be globalisation, persistent poverty in the developing world, the environment and global warming, and he will applaud the UN decision to ban the death penalty worldwide.

And while he will have plenty in common with President Bush on abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research, he intends to make his feelings clear on the disastrous war in Iraq. Though he will attend a reception in the White House, he has made it clear that he will skip the state dinner in his honour as a protest over the Iraq war. It is not the kind of snub presidents of the United States are much used to.






Can President Bush count on the support of the Pope?

Yes...

*The Pope will endorse the President's anti-abortion stance and his decision to withdraw public funds from stem-cell research

*Mr Bush will applaud the Pope's decision to pray for the conversion of Islamist terrorists at Ground Zero

*The Pope's presence could consolidate the swing at the last election of Catholic voters from the Democrat to Republican party

No...

*The Pope will back the United Nations against the Bush administration on a number of issues

*Benedict XVI will dismiss Mr Bush's defence of capital punishment in the United States

*The Pope will be unsparing in his criticism of the US-led invasion of Iraq

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Hizbollah turns to Iran for new weapons to wage war on Israel


By Robert Fisk in Teir Dibba, south Lebanon
Tuesday, 8 April 2008

The Shia "martyrs" of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids or invasions or attacks from the sea. The Hizbollah duly honours them. But the body of the latest Shia fighter to be buried here – from the local Hashem family – was flown back to Lebanon last month from Iran.

He was hailed as a martyr in the village Husseiniya mosque but the Hizbollah would say no more. For when a Lebanese is killed in live firing exercises in the Islamic Republic, his death brings almost as many questions as mourners. Yet it is an open secret south of the Litani river that thousands of young men have been leaving their villages for military training in Iran. Up to 300 men are taken to Beirut en route to Tehran each month and the operation has been running since November of 2006; in all, as many as 4,500 Hizbollah members have been sent for three-month sessions of live-fire ammunition and rocket exercises to create a nucleus of Iranian-trained guerrillas for the "next" Israeli-Hizbollah war.

Whether this frightening conflict takes place will depend on President Bush's behaviour. If America – or its proxy, Israel – bombs Iran, the response is likely to be swift and will come from the deep underground bunkers that the Hizbollah has been building in the fields and beside the roadways east and south of Jezzine.

For months, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbollah leader, has been warning Israel that his organisation has a "surprise" new weapon in its armoury and there are few in Lebanon who do not suspect that this is a new Iranian-developed ground-to-air missile – rockets which may at last challenge Israel's air supremacy over Lebanon. For more than 30 years, Israel's fighter-bombers have had the skies to themselves, losing only two aircraft – one to a primitive Palestinian SAM-7 shoulder-fired missile, the other to Syrian anti-aircraft guns – during and after its 1982 invasion.

After its 1980-88 war with Iraq, Iran introduced a new generation of weapons, one of which – a development of a Chinese sea-to-sea missile – almost sank an Israeli corvette in the last Hizbollah-Israeli war in 2006.

Can the Hizbollah shoot Israeli jets out of the sky in the event of another conflict? It is a question much discussed within the 13,000-strong United Nations force in southern Lebanon – essentially a Nato-led army, which contains French, Spanish and Italian troops as well as Chinese, Indian and sundry other contingents – which would find itself sandwiched between the two antagonists.

There are no armed Hizbollah fighters in their area of operations – Nasrallah respects the UN resolution which placed the peacekeepers between the Israeli border and the Litani in 2006 – but the UN mission, along with its soldiers, will be gravely endangered in the event of another war.

If its aircraft could no longer bomb at will over Lebanon without fear of being destroyed, would Israel stage another costly land invasion – highly unlikely after the bloodying its troops took in 2006 – or use its own ground-to-ground missiles on Lebanon? For if the latter option were chosen, it would bring a whole new dimension to Lebanon's repeated wars. Long-range missiles have proved hopelessly inaccurate in Middle East conflicts and the Iran-Iraq war. But whatever political sins they still commit, the Lebanese – despite their current crisis – appear to have rejected any return to civil war. In such a war, no one could repeat the old lies about "pinpoint accuracy".

The government of Fouad Siniora may be trapped in its own "Green Zone" in central Beirut – it even refused to attend the Arab League summit in Damascus – and parliament is suspended after 17 vain sessions to elect a president. A series of prominent Lebanese MPs and journalists have been murdered or attacked since 2005 but Syrian troops have left and the Lebanese army still manages to keep a form of order on the streets. However, the Syrian intelligence presence has been maintained in Lebanon – and Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. This does not mean that war is inevitable.

So the future of Lebanon remains – as it did in 2006 – in the hands of the United States and Iran. Just as the Israelis constantly warn of war, so the Hizbollah still promises revenge for the car-bomb murder of its former intelligence officer Imad Mougnieh in Damascus in February. Regularly, the Israelis warn that they will respond to attacks but that they will "choose the moment and the place and the means".

And sure enough – following the Hizbollah's pattern of using Israel's own words – Nasrallah said on 24 March that the Hizbollah would "choose the moment and the place and the means" to retaliate for Mougnieh's death.

And each month, the Hizballoh improves its new bunkers north of the Litani. Some now sprout aerials but they may be "dummies" for Israel's pilots to attack. Deep underground telephone land-lines have been laid to those which are visible and to those others which are beneath the surface. The Hizbollah learned a lot from the 2006 war. Then its secret bunkers were air-conditioned with beds and kitchens attached. But when Israeli troops discovered a handful of them, they also found copies of their own Israeli air force reconnaissance photographs, complete with Hebrew markings.

The Hizbollah had obviously bribed or blackmailed Israeli border guards for the pictures – from which they could tell at once which bunkers the Israelis had identified and which remained unknown to them.

Which is how, in 2006, its guerrillas sat safely through days of air bombardment in the latter, while allowing the Israelis to blitz the "known" fortresses to their hearts' content. Who knows if the Hizbollah has not since collected a new batch of photographs for the coming months?




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BERNARD-HENRI LEVY: A French Imposter----------BHL is a man whose ego destroys intelligence.

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BERNARD-HENRI LEVY: A French Imposter



Bernard-Henri Levy is so well-known in France he is universally referred to as BHL. But in Parisian intellectual and journalistic circles he is also snidely referred to in private as "BHV" -- which happens to be the name of a famous French department store that sells anything and everything.

"A philosopher who's never taught the subject in any university,
a journalist who creates a cocktail mingling the true,
the possible, and the totally false, a patch-work filmmaker, a writer

without a real literary oeuvre, he is the icon of a media-mad society in which simple appearance weighs more than the substance of things, BHL is thus first and foremost a great communicator, the p.r. man of the only product he really knows how to sell: himself."
That's the lapidary judgement of two French investigative journalists -- Nicolas Beau of Le Canard Enchaine and Olivier Toscer of Le Nouvel Observateur --
in their superb, -published inquest into how BHL has built his success, "Une Imposture Francaise."
They're right. During the near-decade I spent living in France, my numerous wordsmith friends -- intellectuals, writers, journalists -- all considered
BHL an intellectual fraud, a poseur, and a frimeur, or show-off.
the great Perry Anderson called him "a grotesque" and "this crass booby in France's public sphere, despite innumerable demonstrations of his inability to get a fact or an idea straight."
A good example can be found in an article Katrina Vanden Heuvel inexplicably commissioned from BHL for the February 27 issue of The Nation, "Letter to the American Left." In his Nation article,
BHL wrote -- a propos of the CIA's "special prisons" in Eastern Europe -- "since when does the press excuse citizens from their political duties? Why haven't we heard from more intellectuals like Susan Sontag" on the issue? Sontag, of course, died in 2004, almost a year before the existence of the "special prisons" was made public in the press, and is no longer here to defend herself.
Another BHL idiocy in The Nation came when he wrote that "a number of progressives needed, by their own admission, to wait for Hurricane Katrina before they got indignant about, or even learned about, the sheer scale of he outrageous poverty blighting American cities." This statement of BHL's is so self-evidently false that it needs no comment.
The flaws in BHL's work were evident from the beginning. His third book, for example, the 1979 Le Testament de Dieu -- which prescribed monotheism as the only possible defender of liberty and democracy -- was shot down in flames by one of Frances most respected intellectuals, the historian and world-class Hellenist Pierre Vidal-Naquet (a moral leader of the French left, ), in a famous Nouvel Observateur article that detailed the many errors of fact in it.
BHL cited texts he claimed were from the decline of the Roman Empire (Fourth century A.D.) which were in reality from the First Century B.C., and cited Heinrich Himmle's "deposition" at the Nuremburg trials (which opened six months after the SS leader's suicide), to take just two examples. Interviewed 20 years later by Jade Lindgaard and Xavier de la Porte, the authors of Le B.A. BA du BHL (The ABCs of BHL, Editions la Decouverte, Paris, 2004) -- an excellent and meticulous book which documents in detail the flaws in BHL's oh-so-checkered written output

- Vidal-Naquet said sadly, "We have passed from the Republic of Letters into the non-Republic of Media.

I thought I had 'killed' BHL. I hadn't. I consider that a defeat.

It was from the giant publishing house of Grasset -- where BHL has been an editor since 1973 -- that he launched his first media operation: the creation of the "nouveaux philosophes," that little band of scribblers whose leitmotif was anti-Marxism, anti-Communism, anti-anti-Americanism, and the embrace of the free market as guarantor of human well-being. In 1977, BHL published three books of the grouplet -- by Andre Glucksmann, Guy Lardreau, and Christian Jambet, before then publishing his own, La Barbarie a Visage Humain (Barbarism With a Human Face). Depoliticization and anti-ideology were the catchwords of the day -- in reaction to the moral collapse of Communism , underscored by the publication of Solshenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, the evaporation of the spirit of May 1968, and the triumph of the consumer culture. anBHL launched his book from the platform of the high-rated, prime-time literary talk show, "Apostrophes." A handsome dandy, with carefully coiffed long hair, and a white shirt carefully unbuttoned to reveal his tanned chest, BHL caused the TV host's daughter to tell him afterward, 'I have seen Rimbaud on television!' BHL's books always sell, because he is omnipresent on the little screen. But little of the so-called "nouvelle philosphie" made any lasting impact on the world of ideas -- for, as the late philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote, "I find their ideas null."

BHL THE BUSINESSMAN: By the way, those unbuttoned shirts, an important element of BHL's TV and public image, tell a lot about the man. If you tried it with your own shirt, the collar would sag. But BHL's shirts are specially designed, with collars that withstand the unbuttoning and never disappear under his jacket, by the famous shirt-maker Charvet -- and cost 0 apiece. BHL, you see, is a rich man. Very rich. The French business magazine Capital recently named him one of the 100 richest people in France.

Born with a silver cuillere in his mouth, BHL inherited the family's huge lumber business, Becob, from his father -- indeed, he played a major role in running the company while he was building his reputation as a media star, both before and after his father's death, until BHL finally sold it to the billionaire godfather of French business tycoons, Francois Pinault , in the early 90s. The company specialized in rare woods from black Africa -- and, as "Une Imposture Francaise" reveals for the first time, while BHL was running the company it was the subject of numerous reports by international bodies (and one by the Canadian government) denouncing it for keeping its exploited African workers in penurious semi-slavery, deprived of the basics of human existence, like running water, health care, and education. This crass exploitation of impoverished black Third World residents doesn't exactly square with BHL's carefully self-constructed image as a "humanitarian activist." The Beau and Toscer book also describes in detail BHL's avid stock market speculations, how he's been questioned in investigations of insider trading, and of the secret shell companies he owns in France, Switzerland, England, and even America, and his troubles with the taxman over undeclared revenue. An indictment of BHL recommended by civil service tax investigators was quashed before it could be executed by the then-Minister of Finances, the rising star of the conservatives, Nicolas Sarkozy -- one of the many politicians BHL has cultivated over the years (by commissioning him -- just co-incidentally with the tax fraud invesigation, of course -- to write a book for Grasset, a favorite BHL ploy for seducing everyone from TV hosts to literary critics.

Sarkozy never delivered the book, but kept the advance.)

BHL changes his allegiances to politicians like he changes his shirts. As a courtier of Francois Mitterrand ), BHL helped create two major supports for the cancer-ridden French president -- SOS Racism, supposedly created as a civil rights organizations for Franco-Arabs and blacks from France's former colonies - but which was, from its inception, created, financed, and designed by the Elysee Palace as a Mitterrandist vote-getting mechanism. So was the monthly magazine Globe, designed and financed by Mitterrand's entourage, which featured BHL's column on the cover of every issue. BHL eventually got his reward for his services to Mitterrand, when he was named to chair the government commission that provides subsidies to French film as an advance against future ticket sales. BHL used this powerful post, which had life-or-death power over French films, to finance his own failed cinema creations and movies starring his glitzy trophy wife, the actress-singer Arielle Dombasle . When he sensed that Mitterrand's star was fading, BHL began cozying up to the right-wing's then Prime Minister Edouard Balladur , to whom he'd sought to be introduced by the Baron Edmond de Rothschild and his wife -- and was soon rewarded for his newfound coziness with the conservatives by being given the presidency of the state-owned TV network Arte, where he continued using the taxpayers' monies to subsidize his own productions, those of his friends and liege-men, and, of course, projects featuring La Dombasle.

BHL and "A." (as he always refers to Dombasle in his books) spend a lot of time at the lavish 18th century palace they own in Marrakech, the most sumptuous in the Moroccan city, just a stone's throw from one of King Mohammed VI's residences (the BHL palace was formerly owned by one of the Gettys, the multi-billionaire oil family.) Here they entertain politicians, journalists, press barons, anyone useful to the advancement of the couple, whose jet-set lifestyle is portrayed endlessly in the celebrity press -- for which they frequently pose for layouts in magazines like Paris Match.

"Une Imposture Francaise" also details the dark side of BHL as the prince of networking: how he has used his relations with the likes of the press magnate (and arms merchant), the late Jean-Luc Lagardere , to assure not only hugely favorable reviews for his intellectually shabby books, but to blackmail editors and journalists into censoring any negative criticism of him. The bold application of carrot and stick, and the mutual log-rolling the French call copinage have made BHL a man many fear to cross. He uses his weekly column in the large weekly Le Point to favor or punish those whose support he needs or whose reputations he wants to destroy. He'll use his considerable influence with the rich and powerful to assure someone a job or a political appointment, or to threaten those suspected of being less than enthusiastic about him with economic defenestration.

With "American Vertigo," in which he travels the U.S. "in the footsteps of Toqueville," BHL had hoped to sell himself to America. Well, nobody's buying. The book has received universally critical reviews, and its bric-a-brac of dime-store observations has been widely laughed at. Like Garrison Keillor's front-page critique in the New York Times Book Review, which skewered BHL
for "the grandiosity of a college sophomore,"

"a student padding out a term paper," adding, "There's no reason for [the book] to exist in English, except as evidence that travel need not be broadening."

In an interview with New York magazine, BHL claimed his trip was under three shadows: "The shadow of the war in Iraq, the shadow of an election, and the shadow of Katrina." When the interviewer pointed out that Katrina hadn't struck at the time he wrote the book, BHL simply pirouetted: "The anticipated

This incredible statement proves the accuracy of the judgement rendered on BHL by Mariane Pearl , the wife of the subject of BHL's hallucinated last book in English, "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" who became disillusioned by her exposure to BHL. As the perspicacious Mrs. Pearl told the authors of "Une Imposture Francaise,"

"BHL is a man whose ego destroys intelligence.

And those are "les mots justes." P.S. For a brilliant dissection of the flaws in BHL's "Who Killed Daniel Pearl" by William Dalrymple in the New York Review of Books,





in an interview with New York magazine, BHL claimed his trip was under three shadows: "The shadow of the war in Iraq, the shadow of an election, and the shadow of Katrina." When the interviewer pointed out that Katrin