Cafés de la Méditerranée...Mediterranean Coffee Shops...قهاوي البحر الإبيض المتوسط A journal in the style of The Tatler, 1709, by Steele Un journal dans le style de "The Tatler," 1709 par Steele 1709 مجلة في طرازالحكي
4/23/2018
Cafe de Flore
3/29/2018
Bus 76 a Pont Neuf cherchant correspondance au 56 Nation
Envoyé de mon iPhone
3/25/2018
MacNamara Ground Ops Lunch Room, Ahmad Ben Bella
2/23/2018
From my apartment --what I shall say on any other subject (learning, from Cafe Basille, Abha)
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
J'avais oublee que les Quakers spécialisent dans l'aide a sortir des prisons, mais ils est préférable de suivre leurs instructions, que vous voyer dans ce photo

12/28/2017
Café de Flore, Paris
et a 22 heures, j'aurai pu voir Mariana Cinetheque Brady au Metro Château d'eau et acheter un Bretzel a Gare de l'est
La ligne verte, qui est le RER D va au château et Musee de la Renaissance a Sarcelles depuis Chatelet.
Fishawi, Djedda
"Les sessions assis (majaalisa) du suq sont gratuits, * et quelqus sessions sont incalculables
Alors ne compare pas, * sauf le souk des jeunes chevaux, le souk des armements, and the souk des Livres.
Je te monte, Dieu, les gens qui sont intelligent (ahl al-Wa'y)*
Je te montre, Dieu, les gens de la litterature --et politesse-(ahl al-Adab)
10/08/2017
Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza
5/14/2017
Sujet: La Gallantrie, Gallantry الادب
مقاملة ١٠ مايو رقم ١٢٩٤ من شارلي
LA COLERE ME FATIGUE
Il parle un peu d'Emmanuel Todd, sans dire son non, et puis il conclue avec un jolie reference a l'abbatiale de Conques.
ANGER WEARS ME OUT
He speaks a little about Emanuel Todd, without saying his no, and then concludes with a pretty reference to the abbey church of Conques.
ALGHADAB YSIJNI
yatahaddath qalilana an 'iimanuil tud dun yakhbiru ismuhu, thumm khalis mae 'iisharat llitifat 'iilaa dayr Conques.
5/10/2017
Fishawi, Jeddah
Philippe Lanson
L'Alligator est Leger
L’ ALLIGATOR EST LEGER
Translation:
The Alligator is light
Just as I've never come so close to deah, I have never in my life seen an alligator in freedom so closely. From a distance, as in Tintin, it looks like a floating piece of wood. A slight curve at the level of the muzzle and the forehead makes it possible, as it approaches, to guess something else; Then the well-sculptured relief of this thick and dark skin appears, those battlements which seem to give it the appearance of a sculpture or a toy, and then, there is no more doubt, and I have before me the beast who could have roughly my age, a descendent from those who here in South Carolina had to eat a few slaves when the stagnant water of this river irrigated the rice paddies or they were floundering. This beast is a reality that I discover, as always, little by little: such is man, pleased to imagine all sorts of things, as long as he does not see the one he has under his nose.
It's hot, and with Catherine, a cartoonist whom Charlie's readers are familiar with, we contemplate this animal, motionless between the grass two meters away. We contemplate it with a fascination not devoid of ecstasy, for if it is frightening, if one can even say that its calm, its slowness and that its intense, cold and mortally asleep look make it appalling, one can not deny that " It corresponds to the phenomenon which, since the attack, has occupied us: the appearance of beauty.
Duke University, it's been seven years since I taught years there, ie in another life; invited us to talk about The Lightness. Catherine had asked me to preface her graphical introspection. In the center, there is this search for beauty, from landscapes to museums, to the smallest detail, to escape from what, from the 7th of January, could have made her crazy. I understand it all the better because, as for me, from hospitals to physiotherapists and from operating rooms to wake-up rooms, I tried to bring art every day, a little more art in what it was necessary to rebuild life. I have neither planned it that way, nor thought: I lived it and I saw it. We talk about it for two days with the professors, the students, and when we have finished speaking, we are going to drink powerful and refined cocktails, because it is the South and because we are thirsty. We suffered from being survivors; We are happy to be alive.
GIVERNEY IN THE TROPICS
Our conversation continues in the streets of Charleston, where we walk for hours, in the darkness. Not a cat, not a noise, and everywhere the heady smell of Mexican Orange trees and those splendid old houses of brick or wood, which date back centuries ago and which, when the inside is lit, seem more like a museum than a dwelling. We speak, in the subtropical night, and in spite of ourselves, of our dead friends, one by one, remembering the memories, slowly, joyfully, precisely, at the trunks of the wisteria. The palms look like extinct street lamps. We revive Charlie on the other side of the world, in the heart of this city born of slavery, this ancient city, restored, where there continues to pose for us, one hundred and fifty-two years after the end of the Civil War, the good old insurmountable paradox: beauty is unrelated to morality. Or, more exactly: the only morality is in the use of the appropriate means to obtain it and to spread it. And we end up falling one morning, twenty kilometers from the town, on this alligator. We contemplate it, it observes us. We could say, "What have we done to deserve this?" If he could speak, he would reply: "Delicate little pair of misfits, I am not your judge and even less your lawyer. I'm just your predator. "
The place where we find ourselves is an old plantation that the American tourists readily visit: the Magnolia plantation. It dates from 1672. It is one of the well-preserved jewels of the civilization of the planters. Pretty soon after the Civil War, since it had been preserved from destruction by the northern armies, the family which possesses it opens it to visits: money must be brought in when all has disappeared, slaves and rice-fields. Today, according to a guide, it is the third most visited destination after the Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon of Colorado. Symbolically, it is something else: a suave shock between what nature is capable of and what man is capable of.
Tourists have replaced the slaves. Most are fat, sometimes obese. We just walk a few hundred meters to escape them. One joins the silence, the birds, that violent heat of the South which falls on April like the melancholy on the first slaves. The masters had soon classified them by tribes. Some tribes, according to them, had a tendency to suicide; others, no. Sometimes an ear, a toe, or the sex of a fugitive was cut off. Looking at alligator, I try to imagine their living conditions. No, not imagine: to see, as precisely as possible, But I see only the reality and beauty of the moment. The rest is undoubtedly hidden, like a secret, at the bottom of a book or in the mouth of the alligator. He did not open it and it took me an excellent book to approach it: Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball.
Around the beast, it is Giverny in the tropics: a lush and flowery splendor. Admirably composed, of a natural and extravagant baroque. There are small wooden bridges spanning ponds, small statues under the foliage, these tall trees in the south, whose shadows paralyze you and transform you into memories of yourself. Nature drifts to reach more or less stagnant water. We no longer know where the reflections are. Invisible and mortal serpents circulate underneath. Soon the mosquitoes will come. Men have lived and suffered here. Paradise and hell, these twins, play our heads or tails destinies.
traduction Arabe (partial Arabic translation)
التمساح خفيف
كما أنني لم أكن قريبا جدا من الموت، لم يسبق لي في حياتي ينظر إلى التمساح في الحرية عن كثب. من مسافة، كما هو الحال في تانتين، يبدو وكأنه قطعة عائمة من الخشب. ومنحنى طفيف على مستوى كمامة والجبهة يجعل من الممكن، كما يقترب، لتخمين شيء آخر؛ ثم يبدو من النحت المنحوت جيدا من هذا الجلد السميك والظلام، تلك السدود التي يبدو أنها تعطيه مظهر من النحت أو لعبة، ومن ثم، ليس هناك شك أكثر، ولدي من قبل الوحش الذي يمكن أن يكون تقريبا عمري، نسل من أولئك الذين هنا في ولاية كارولينا الجنوبية كان يأكل بعض العبيد عندما راكد المياه الراكدة من هذا النهر المروية حقول الأرز أو أنها تعثرت. هذا الوحش هو حقيقة أن أكتشف، كما هو الحال دائما، شيئا فشيئا: هذا هو الرجل، ويسر أن نتصور كل أنواع الأشياء، طالما انه لا يرى واحد لديه تحت أنفه.
انها ساخنة، ومع كاترين، رسام الكاريكاتير الذي كان القراء تشارلي على دراية، ونحن نفكر هذا الحيوان، بلا حراك بين العشب مترين بعيدا. ونحن نفكر في ذلك مع سحر لا يخلو من النشوة، لأنه إذا كان مخيفا، إذا كان يمكن للمرء أن يقول حتى أن هدوئه، وبطءه وأن نظرة مكثفة وباردة ونائما نائما جعلها مروعة، لا يمكن للمرء أن ينكر أن "يتوافق إلى الظاهرة التي احتلتنا منذ الهجوم، وهي ظهور الجمال.
alttimsah khafif
kama 'annani lm 'akun qaribaan jiddaan min almaut, lm yasbiq li fi hayati yanzur 'iilaa alttamsah fi alhurriat ean kathb. min masafati, kama hu alhal fi tanitayn, ybdw waka'annah qiteat eayimat min alkhshb. wamanhunaa tafif ealaa mustawaa kamamat waljabhat yajeal min almimikin, kama yaqtaribu, litakhmin shay' akhar; thumm ybdw min alnnaht almunahhuat jayidaan mn hdha aljulad alssamiik walzzalami, tilk alssudud alty ybdw 'annaha taetih mazhar min alnnaht 'aw laebat, wamin tham, lays hunak shakk 'akthar, walday min qibal alwahsh aldhy ymkn 'an yakun taqribaan eamri, nasil min 'uwlayik aldhyn huna fi wilayat karwlyna aljanubiat kan yakul bed aleubayd eindama rakad almiah alrrakidat mn hdha alnnahr almarawiat huqul al'arz 'aw 'annaha taetharut. hdha alwahsh hu hqyqt 'ann 'aktashifa, kama hu alhal dayima, shayyanaan fashyya: hadha hu alrrajulu, wayassir 'ann natasawwar kl 'anwae al'ashya'i, talama 'annah la yaraa wahid ladayh taht 'anfih. 'innaha sakhanat, wamae katirina, risam alkariakatir aldhy kan alqurra' tasharili ealaa dirayati, wanahn nufakkir hdha alhuywani, bila harak bayn aleashb mitrayn bieida. wanahn nufakkir fi dhalik mae sihr la yakhlu min alnnashuwwati, li'annah 'iidha kan mukhayifa, 'iidha kan yumkin lilmar' 'an yaqul hatta 'ann hudawayahi, wabit'uh wa'ann nazratan mukaththafatan wabaridatan wanayima nnayima jaealaha mirwaeatan, la yumkin lilmar' 'ann yunkir 'ann "yttawafiq 'iilaa alzzahirat alty ahtallatna mundh alhujumi, wahi zuhur aljamali.
5/02/2017
McNamara Ground Ops Coffee Machine
'innah min alssaeb alhusul ealaa tasrih al'iiqamat fi 'uwrubba fi hadhih alfatrat 'aw "wsul almuhajirin" hu "azimat siasi" kabirat fi 'uwrubba!
C'est dure de se faire un Titre de séjour en Europe dans ce période ou "l'arrivée des migrants" est la grande "crise politique" de l'Europe!
4/06/2017
3/30/2017
A link to the Tatler and the Spectator
Reading this --news from London, with quotations from the classics, praise of Milton's epic poem, and the other discussions at the London coffee houses--is consolation for me as I think about the recent islamicist who drove across Westminister Bridge and stabbed a guard at Parliament to death.
3/23/2017
Mcnamara Detroit Terminal Ground Ops Coffee Machine
15 mars2017CHARLIE HEBDO N° 1286 i 3 |
L'ÉDITO de RISS PARIS-ALGER, ALLER-RETOUR |
En Algérie, un jeune écrivain vient d'être accusé de blasphème parce qu'un de ses romans a eu le grave défaut de parler de Dieu en termes ironiques. Il risque jusqu'à cinq ans de prison pour avoir offensé le Pro-
phète et dénigré «le dogme ou les préceptes de l'islam». On peut se demander en quoi cette poursuite judiciaire concerne la France. Les citoyens français ne sont pas soumis à de telles lois et, ici, tout le monde peut écrire ce qu'il veut, comme il veut et sans crainte. En principe. Pourtant, il s'est installé dans la société française une curieuse ambiance autour des questions de tolérance et de religion. Ce qui semble exotique en Algérie est peut-être annonciateur de ce qui arrivera demain en France. Dans les années 1990, quand l'Algérie était ensanglantée par les islamistes, on n'imaginait pas que la France serait frappée à son tour par cette violence. On a vu ce qu'il advint par la suite... . La mésaventure de ce jeune écrivain n'est pas une péripétie qu'on doit minimiser sous prétexte qu'elle a lieu en Algérie. Que se passerait-il en France si un livre décrivant Dieu sous forme d'un SDF suscitait des vagues d'indignation comparables? Aujourd'hui, les moindres protestations ou menaces proférées sur les réseaux sociaux suffiraient pour faire taire l'insolent qui publierait de telles ironies. Depuis 2015,l'intolérance à l'égard du blasphème n'a fait que grandir. En France, malgré la loi qui en protège l'exercice, les esprits qui rejettent le blasphème sont plus nombreux qu'on le croit et ne se limitent plus à la sphère marginale de quelques religieux illuminés. Le blasphème est bien installé dans les têtes, et la loi qui l'autorise semble de plus en plus en décalage avec cette triste réalité. Il y a trois semaines, Charlie Hebdointerpellait les candidats à la présidentielle pour obtenir d'eux rengagement que la loi de1905 ne serait pas amendée s'ils étaient élus à l'Élysée. Pour certains commenta teurs, cette initiative n'avait pas d'objet car, selon eux, . personne ne revendique sérieusement de la remettre -en cause. Certes, mais sur le terrain, la réalité défie souvent les règles édictées par cette loi. Et on aimerait constater que rengagement des hommes politiques pour la défendre est .bien réel, et pas seulement une promesse de plus. Car on ne défend pas une loi en disant qu'on n'y touchera pas. On la défend en défendant ce qu'elle est censée défendre. Le destin des Algériens s'était invité dans la campagne électorale quand Emmanuel Macron avait condamné la colonisation que .la France leur avait fait subir pendant plus d'un siècle. Mais pour défendre un jeune écrivain algérien menacé d'être condamné comme blasphémateur, il n'y a plus grand monde qui se bouscule. Il est des malheurs qu'il est glorieux de dénoncer, et d'autres, beaucoup plus encombrants, qu'on préfère mettre sous le tapis. Car en politique, la religion est devenue un sujet hautement explosif Lors d'une réunion pour préparer une campagne de six mois contre le sexisme organisée par le ministère des Droits des femmes, une personnalité issue de la société civile proposa que parmi les thèmes soit abordé celui de «la religion et les femmes », On a répondu que la religion serait traitée plus tard, mais pas dans le cadre de ce plan «contre le sexisme». Incroyable réponse pour une action ministérielle visant à dénoncer les oppressions subies par les femmes. [anecdote n'est pas anodine et témoigne de l'hypersensibilité qui règne dans la société française et, plus encore, dans le monde politique dès qu'on prononce le mot «religion». C'est pour cela que Charlie Hebdo a sollicité les candidats à la présidence sur la loi de 1905. À ce jour, plusieurs d'entre eux ont répondu. Mais curieusement, certains, et pas des moindres, n'ont pas daigné le faire. Laissons-leur le temps de rédiger leur réponse avant de les juger. Même si une élection présidentielle doit débattre de tous les problèmes de la société française, comme l'écologie, l'économie, l'éducation ou la culture, la réflexion sur la place de la religion dans notre société ne peut plus être évitée. Il est vrai que cette question est un peu surréaliste. Qui aurait imaginé, il y a trente ans, qu'elle mériterait un jour d'être posée dans une élection présidentielle? En 2017, elle n'est malheureusement plus superflue. La poser n'a pas pour but de rassurer uniquement les citoyens français, mais aussi tous ceux qui dans le monde pensent que la France incarne des valeurs fondamentales comme la liberté de conscience et le refus de la soumission au sacré. C'est donc aussi pour ce jeune écrivain algérien et ses semblables à travers le monde que les candidats de cette élection présidentielle se doivent de donner à l'interpellation de Charlie Hebdosur la loi de 1905 une réponse claire et ferme. !Il |
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3/15/2017
Shati' Tea and Falafel shop -
Charlie Hebdo 2 Marz 2017 No. 1284 Deutsche Ausgabe
Was halten sie von der Meinungsfreiheit Herr Erdogan?
Ich spreche nicht mit vollem Mund!
Dallmayer, Dienerstraße 14, 80331 München, Allemagne Bon cafe a Munich, قهوة جيدة في مونشن المانية
a Dallmayr, Dienerstr. 14-15 | D-80331 München
Thousands march in Gaza vs. Hamas cuts in electricity
BY LEA SHERMANWorking people in the Gaza Strip won a victory when they forced the Hamas government to restore electricity to previous levels, following a series of protests. In the middle of winter, residents were provided with just four hours of electricity at a time followed by 12 hours without power. This was a steep cut from the already low levels of eight hours prior to the crisis.The largest action was Jan. 12 when some 10,000 Palestinians in Jabaliya, the largest of eight refugee camps in Gaza, took to the streets.
In a rare sign of public protest in Gaza, which is tightly controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, they marched to the offices of the electricity company. Protesters chanted, “Raise your voice, electricity cuts mean death,” “Oh, Haniya and Abbas, we are being trampled!” and “The people want the fall of the regime.”
The chants were aimed at Ismail Haniya, leader of Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas, head of the rival Fatah party and the president of the Palestinian Authority ruling in the West Bank.
Hamas security forces fired live ammunition in the air to disperse the crowd, hit participants with batons and arrested some of the protesters.
Nearly 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world. To keep electric power running round the clock would require 450 to 500 megawatts a day, but the territory receives less than half of that.
Israel supplies 120 megawatts, Egypt supplies 30 megawatts and Gaza’s only power plant, which runs on diesel fuel and was bombed by the Israeli army in 2006 and 2014 and never rebuilt to full capacity, generates 60 megawatts.
The cause of the latest shortages is not entirely clear, but Hamas and the Palestinian Authority blamed each other. Hamas buys diesel from the Palestinian Authority, which taxes the fuel.
Capitalist and middle class families living in wealthy neighborhoods have solar panels, Al-Monitor newspaper reported last year. But the panels, rechargeable batteries and transformers that can cost $1,000 to be able to light a house for eight hours, are beyond the reach of the vast majority.
By Jan. 16 the government of Qatar had come to the rescue of Hamas, sending $12 million to pay for diesel fuel. The Turkish government also promised aid.
The Israeli government pulled its citizens and military out of Gaza in 2005, turning control over to the Palestinian Authority. The next year Hamas defeated Fatah in elections and then pushed its rivals out in bloody street clashes in 2007.
The people of Gaza have paid a high price for Hamas’ reactionary, anti-working-class program, its calls for the destruction of Israel and its promotion of Jew-hatred, which has brought three wars with Israel in the past 10 years. In the 2014 war Tel Aviv retaliated for missiles Hamas fired into Israel. The Israeli attacks killed more than 2,100, injured some 11,000 and destroyed factories. The casualties were so high because Hamas’ strategy was to place its weapons in working-class neighborhoods, as well as schools and hospitals.
The Israeli government tightly controls the entry of everything from concrete to medical supplies into the territory, exacerbating shortages. Some 95 percent of water in Gaza isn’t fit to drink, the unemployment rate is over 40 percent, and hospitals face dire shortages of medicines, equipment and supplies.
Every few weeks Salah Haj Yahya and a few other Israeli Arab doctors from Physicians for Human Rights take a mobile clinic to Gaza.
“They [Hamas] can bring out hundreds of thousands of people. But there are many angry people who are very frustrated with Hamas,” Haj Yahya told the Israeli daily Haaretz Jan 7. “Many people tell me they dream of returning to Israel to work, as they once did. They feel that no one cares about them, not the Israelis, not the Egyptians, and not the Palestinian Authority.”
3/09/2017
Sonn Alpin 2000m Café zur Zugspitze
2/19/2017
Cafe de Flore, Paris
2/18/2017
MacNamera Ground Ops Coffee Machine, detroit metro
2/17/2017
Cafe Central, Wein
Talk here about the history of anarchists. the news of the anti-free speech "black " disquised sucker punchers at Trump supporters on the campus of Berkeley reminds me of things I should read..."The workers movement has a long history of experience with anarchist currents, going back to the political battles of communist leaders Karl Marx and Frederick Engels against Joseph-Pierre Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin in the 1800s. (See Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy and an 1873 article “The Bakuninists at Work” by Engels.) The anarchists delstroyed the International Workingmen’s Association led by Marx. They bore much of the responsibility for the disastrous defeat of the working class in the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s. Those and many other examples are the political continuity of today’s black blocs." The Militant Feb 19











