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A mosquito woke me up last friday, there were no moskitos in here the days before nor where there some later. Is ist possible for a moskito to survive a week in a cardboard box of our removal from Brest to Poitiers?

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Two recent news are illustrating very well the Stockholm syndrome, this austrian girl that finally could get away from his kidnapper after 10 years of captivity. At the same time we learned from on of tht columbian FARC leaders, that one of her hosts had had a baby with one of the guerilleros.
At first sight it may be strange that one passes from the state of a suffering victim to the state of a consenting victim, but if you take a look at childen's books you will find a lot of kidnapped princesses to fall in love with their abductors.
In 1945 nearly a whole country was suffering from the Stockholm syndrome: Western Germans saved from Hitler and nazism by the american army identified themselves wholly with the occupant. Unfortunately this case never repeated twice in history and we can actually understand the great deception of american conquerors in the middle and the far east.

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Nobelprizewinner and great german writer Günter Grass was a member of the Waffen-SS during some month at the end of second world war. Scoop or not, moral wake up or publicity for his autobiography to be published soon?

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Such as Archie Shepp performed with Max Roach a long concert 1979 in Willisau to do homage to the long march, Charlie Haden did something shorter to celebrate the same person.
Today I was sorting my old audio cassettes forgotten in a lost corner of our house and reappeared for removal. As I have no more packing cases I'm obliged to throw away myold sentimental rubbish. But some cassettes I couldn't like this record from Cherry, Redman, Haden and Blackwell which just contains Chairman Mao. The title has no more importance but the tune is engraved in my memory since a trip to Willisau where I heard it for the first time in my car, when I drove early in the morning and my passengers slept peacefully next to me. We just had left Troyes to take the road to Switzerland, sun was rising and all fitted to this marvellous tune.
But I'm getting sentimental ...

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... some month before Nikita Khrushchev denounced in his "Secret Speech" the "cult of personality" that surrounded Stalin, (btw this famous speech wasn't published in the german democatic republic, Brecht's land of choice after 1945, before 1989. Exactly five years after his death eastern Germany mounted their "antifascist protection wall" arround the western part of the city of Berlin. Like friends of mine told me after its destruction in 1989: This wall protected us very well against all this prevailing stupidity in western and eastern Germany. In the same year of 1956, the Egyptian leader, Nasser, nationalised the Suez canal, angered British and French by the way and provoked one of this ridiculous military interventions in the middle east, where the french and british finally understood that thjey were no more great and powerful nations.
So we came back to actual stuff, the Sinai in 1956, the Lebanon in 2006 ...

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King's bridge, deserted as the whole South of Lebanon. Tsahal isn't destroying the Hezbollah but the last democracy in the arabian world.

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It's raining in Brest, unconfortable but really nothing compared to the last israeli military campaign named precisely Summer rain. Rain of bombs and missiles, poetry of the masters of war, collectively they are going to punish 1,4 million people for crimes of some illuminated fundamentalists and other kamikazes.
so to read in the New York Times this morning.
After having destroyed the only power plant to supply Gaza with energy, ironically insured by an US agency - they show their human face "by allowing a limited supply of fuel and food into Gaza".
And far away from any solution in the middle east. Gaza isn't living its first destruction, neither its last.

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