Video : 19th February, Sarkozy's Adress to the Nation, A lesson of Communication

Discours de Nicolas Sarkozy suite au Sommet Social !, from Hugues2 18th February, DailymotionLes Dessous Social (fr)

La leçon de com' de maitre Sarko. Marc Landre, Les Dessous du Social (fr)

" ... l y a eu d'abord l'allocution du président de la République lui-même en ouverture des journaux de 20 heures qui a relégué en deuxième voire troisième sujet les commentaires de Thibault, Chérèque, Mailly et consorts. Puis les ministres ont été dépêchés dans les médias pour prêcher la bonne parole présidentielle : Luc Chatel sur iTélé, Christine Lagarde dans le Soir 3... Rebelote jeudi matin à la radio : François Fillon sur RTL, Raymond Soubie (le conseiller social du président) sur Europe 1, Brice Hortefeux sur France Inter, Christine Lagarde sur RMC-BFM TV ..."

Video : 15th December Medvedev Mimicing Sarkozy During G20 Press Conference

Video found Via Charles Bremner's Blog, The Times 2008.

Video : 11th December Super Brown "We Saved The World"

Video found via Irony Too. Post : 'Brown saves the world, Cameron claims Britain is Bankrupt'

Video : 20th November, Europeana Project

EU plans online library. The Telegraph (en)
" ... Items have been collected from 1,000 museums, national libraries, galleries and archives — including the Louvre in Paris and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam — so users can scour for books, paintings, audio files, maps, videos and other artifacts in one website: http://www.europeana.eu ...
... The site has 3 million items now and officials hope to get 10 million items on it by 2010. Even that is just a start, as only one per cent of the historic works, documents and cultural artifacts across Europe have so far been digitized. "You may download most of what is on there (for free)," Ms Cousins said. The project, which started two years ago, seems to be Europe's answer to Google's efforts to build a private digital library and is to be launched amid much fanfare by the EU's ministers on Thursday ...
... Santiago de la Mora from Google's European office welcomed the launch, saying Google hoped to collaborate with Europeana "taking part in what could become the biggest technological leap in disseminating knowledge since Gutenberg invented the printing press." ..."

Video : 17th November Sarkozy EU President and the Roumanians ... euh The Czechs

Identity : 10th November

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi: The Shape of the World to Come. Guy La Roche, A Fisful of Euros
" ... Laurent is courageous and correct in saying that today’s multi-polar world is not just more equal but also more unstable, contrary to the European hope of equalizing relations with the United States. Nationalism is returning and we are “moving away from the post-modern ideal of global governance,” and we are witnessing a return of “nineteenth-century geopolitics.” ..."

Laurent Cohen's video via the Columbia University Press Weblog.

USA Special : Homer Simpsons 'Voted' for Obama

Homer Simpson Tries to Vote for Obama - Watch a funny movie here

Video : Sarkozy EU Parliament Session 21st October

France 24, 2008

Financial crisis: Sarkozy calls for EU rule change to protect against foreign takeovers. John Bingham , The Telegraph (en)
" ... During an address to MEPs in Strasbourg, Mr Sarkozy, who holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, called for sweeping changes to state aid laws to allow far greater protectionism in the face of the economic crisis. He urged Brussels competition watchdogs to bend regulations to allow governments to take direct stakes in industries to protect them from outside competition ... "

Video : Grand Prix for 'The Job' a movie by Jonathan Browning

Festival International des Tres Courts
"A new edition is actually in preparation and the festival of Très Short is more than ever present in about seventy cities, to propose to you the best and undoubtedly the shortest of the international audio-visual film production."
Hilarious Movie !

The job a movie by Jonathan Browning
(U.S.A)

Video : 8th October Repliee R-1

A life-like robot created to look like a five-year-old girl has been unveiled by scientists in Japan. Matrix, AI, I Robot, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica etc etc ... do not look so far away from the real world.

The future Generations will certainly have a robot like this one in their house. Should we be scare about it or should we welcome this Technological evolution ?

Also read : Robot that looks like young girl unveiled. Matthew Moore, The Telegraph (en)

Video : Axel Miller Laughing about 'his Golden Parachute'

Dexia's Miller will not ask for 'golden parachute'. Reuters (en)

Miller could have walked away with a 3.9 million euro ($5.4 million) payoff, but French state bank Caisse des Depots which invested 2 billion euros in Dexia said that it would block any plans for a "golden parachute" payout.
Miller gave up on getting such a deal after talks with France's economy minister, Christine Lagarde, a spokesman for the French finance ministry said on Friday.

You will find below an extract of an Interview where he laughs about his 'Golden Parachute' that he will eventually never get.

Video : 3rd October 'Do Not Vote!' Campaign, USA 2008

Celebrities made an ironical call for Voting for the next Presidential Elections.

As Julien Frisch mentioned in his post, Shouldn't we be doing the same for the next European Elections ??? ... as in the current situation, the turn over is predicted to be very low.

Video found via, Watching Europe

Video : 2nd October Lieutenant Vitaly Efremov Sent to SIBERIA because of this Video

I found the Video through the Times (UK). It seems that criticising the life conditions in the barracks is still a crime of Lese-Majeste in New Russia, even if it is done with humour.
Ironically for the Lieutenant Vitaly Efremov, he will have the opportunity to compare the Military Life condition between Saint Petersburg and the Deep Siberia.
I can't stop thinking that the Kremlin's authorities still have some humour too. A different kind of humour than the young Lieutenant, but still one.

Soldier posted to Siberia for online whinge . Roger Boyes, The Times (en)

" ... The lieutenant modelled his video on Stan by Eminem, in which the rapper sends a letter to a frustrated fan. The Russian letter is to Anatoly Serdyakov, the Defence Minister, and is set against a backdrop of military decay: a crowded barrack room with peeling wallpaper, a scabrous bathroom, erratic shower water and broken equipment ..."

Video : 1st October, Le Monde, Politico, James Kotecki.

Bailouts Plan, USA, Politico, 2008

Video : 30th September Livedraw, Bank Bailout Crisis

The Telegraph, Sept 2008

Video : 16th September Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

Special US 2008 Presidential election :
Here is the Video Hit of last weekend, when Tina Fey made an amazing Parody of Sarah Palin, as the VP Candidate for the Saturday Night Live Season Premiere.
She looked like her, Moved like her, Talked like her ... It is making love both even more. The Comedian and the Character that is Sarah Palin.
Enjoy.

Interview : Didier Billion, On France and the Middle East after Sarkozy's trip to Damas (fr)

Vers un nouveau rôle de la France au Proche-Orient ?
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Sarkozy à Damas : vers un nouveau rôle de la France au Proche-Orient ? Didier Billion, Think Tank, IRIS (fr) Video (fr)

Video : Electra Project CNN Review

Electra: CNN World Report* highlights relevance of European electrical engineering and electronics industries. Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, Blogactiv (en)

Video : 8th September, Czech EU Presidency Clip

This Clip will only be aired in Czech Republic as it seems the clip is quite controversial, dixit an article from le Figaro, a French Newspaper.

Le drôle de clip de la présidence tchèque. MP, Le Figaro (fr)

"...Présenté dans un clip publicitaire de 35 secondes dans lequel des personnalités tchèques de tous bords jouent avec des morceaux de sucre trempés dans le café, le mot d'ordre «Evrope to Osladime» peut signifier tout aussi bien «Nous allons adoucir l'Europe» que «Nous allons en faire baver à l'Europe». Ce double sens, en forme de clin d'œil aux franges eurosceptiques de la population, ne sera diffusé qu'à l'intérieur du pays..."

"... Introduced in a video clip of 35 seconds, in which some Czech celebrities play with sugar pieces dipped in some coffee, the moto «Evrope to Osladime» may mean either "We will sweeten it up to Europe" or either "We re going to make them suffer". This double meaning, as en eye clic for national euroseptics will only be aired inside the country..." (Translation by Gwenael Mourey)

Also in : Czechs Stick It to the EU with Sugary Video . Deutsche Welle (en)

Video : 4th September Russia - Ukraine (fr)

This is a French TV show, based on Maps, which has for objective to explain History and current issue based on visual support. It is a brilliant show often used by teachers.

For who can understand some French, it gives a pertinent view of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.

Via La Mouette.

Le dessous des cartes - Russie - Ukraine
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