What makes the French so, well...French? That nasty mix of attitudes and notions that beat down your bright smile, pronounce you a nuisance before you speak, and an imbecile after you've spoken? Everyone seems to have a theory, not least the French, but we piece together our picture of the French one report at a time.

At the Telegraph, Miles Clery-Fox offers his insights following his being mauled by the French bureaucracy while applying for French citizenship.

IT'S BAD FORM TO TAKE FRENCH CITIZENSHIP

October 13, 2005 (Telegraph) - French bureaucracy is famously turgid and opaque. Practically unreformed since the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, General de Gaulle did his bit for its transparency by stirring in another hundredweight of mollasses and a few gallons of glue.

The French have to deal with this comatose dinosaur every time they need anything from the state and they've all got their tale to tell.

Maybe I was lucky in Britain; there was never an administrative problem that couldn't be ironed out through mutual courtesy, respect and co-operation, but the story here is very different, with clerks' attitudes ranging from, at best, indifference to, at worst, rude and obstructive.

Everyday France is relaxed and convivial; administrative France is a nightmare.

An instructive read.

Mr. Clery-Fox abandoned his application for French citizenship.

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Damian ! Still there ?

Come on, stop this bullshit.

France and US are friend again now. Look what happen: We work hand in hand against Syria.

Smile !

M. Levis,

And here you are, safe and sound -- we hope -- waving a baguette magique making everything nice. But things are not nice between France and America.

Just as Syria is not some stupendous mend, neither was Iraq some extraordinary rift. French support of Saddam woke up Americans not to a contentious France, but an adversarial France, a France that openly rejected, scorned, and worked against America's interests. Such a France did not appear overnight, she has been long in the making. The once fabled sharing of values and interests between America and France just no longer is.

So Pave will remain. It reminds all that occasional concinnity -- on Syria, belatedly on Iran -- does not constitute rapprochement or the arrival of some new friendly France. That saying so don't make it so.

You are welcome, as you know, to drop by Pave to argue the facts anytime.

Regards,

French support of Saddam

There was no "French support of Saddam" after the first Irak war, Damian, just as those US firms convicted of dealing with Irak in the Oil for Food scandal don't necessarly represent the US government.

Program on the emergence of civilization.

"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. "
Favor.
And disfavor.

They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.

The roots of racism are not of this earth.

Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.

The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.

AIDS in Africa.

Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:

1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere

Terrestrial management:

4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.

Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.

Many Muslims are being used like the Germans and Japanese of WWII::being used to hurt others and envoke condemnation upon their people.

They can affect the weather and Hurricane Katrina was accomplished for many reasons and involves many interests, as anything this historical is::
1. Take heat off Sheenhan/Iraq, protecting profitable war machine/private war contracts
2. Gentrification. New Orleans median home price of $84k is among the lowest in major American cities, certainly among desirable cities.

Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying "He has more money than god." There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says "I'm too old and rich for this."

This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
god is evil because of money.

I don't want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe.

But they have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won't help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.

The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, market domination being one clue, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.

I offer an example of historical proportions:::

People point to Walmart and cry "anti-union".
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family's problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.

Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people's belief that Walmart is evil.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with a lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.

The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.

I believe the coining of the term "Uncle Sam" was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton and WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.

Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals. Malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they "decided" who they didn't want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren't their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.

Royalty is the right way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient's hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.

Jesus Christ is a religious figure of evil. These seperatist churches formed so they could still capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.

Since Buddism doesn't recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Chinese representation is instead selected by the thrones.
It was set up this way. Perhaps dyanstic thrones had a say, but maybe not.
Budda was the Asian's Jesus Christ::: bad for the people. "They came up at the same time for a reason."

Simpson's foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. "Last one you ever suspect."
"You'll see lots of nuns where you're going:::hell!!!" St. Wigham, Helloween VI, missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.

Jews maim the body formed in the image of "god", and inflicted circumsision upon all other white people, as well as the evil that is Jesus Christ.
I think about how Jews (were used to) created homosexuality among Slavics, retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their bondage in Egypt proves their disfavor. Were they preying on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite?

I believe Islam is the one true religion, and those misled christians who attack "god's" most favored people will pay for it dearly one day.