World in 2050 will no more be. No kidding.

To be honest, I think our projections for the future will be as credible as 1900’s for 2000.

A few ones that made me laugh:

Prediction 4: “Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises”. NOT SOOO MUUUUCH _ CAN YOU STILL HEAR ME?

Prediction 7: “There will be air-ships, but they will not successfully compete with surface cars and water vessels for passenger or freight traffic.” That is true for this poor man from the FedEx movie.

Prediction 11: ” No Mosquitoes nor Flies”. We’re still fighting for our lives against those threats (we had a World War to deal with first, sorry).

Prediction 16: “There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet.” THANKS FOR MY NAME !

Colombian army forces have killed Alfonso Cano, the supreme leader of the FARC, by leading a bombing raid in the south west of the country. He was the leader of the FARC in May 2008 since the death of founder Manuel Marulanda. You can read how here.

For his 3-years-reign, he impulsed a new strategy for his Army, dividing it in several little groups that managed to harm the State forces more efficiently. This strategy is often used by weakened armies, as they are not able any more to build some fortresses. So, hopefully, the fact that this strategy leaded them to kill more soldiers may be the beginning of the end.

The FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, were founded in 1964, and killed many people (although I was unable to fine out how many). They claim to be marxist-leninist but they receive their funds from drug-dealing and use children as soldiers.

We can hope of an ETA-like end, with a political party taking the lead of their fight, without killing any innocent man.

Those lyrics are related to the financial crisis we’re living nowadays.

All the men and women in charge of our poor lives are actually meeting in Cannes, France, for a G20 summit. As the purpose of these meetings was to determine some ways to survive to the oil crisis of the 70’s, we can see the growing importance of such summits as a great thing -countries trying to work together towards a solution- or quite a bad thing -G5, 6, 7,8 then 20 :the old model of few countries dominating the rest of the world being less and less acceptable-. I actually already wrote about the growing power of the BRICS countries in the concert of nations.

The items to discuss at the G20 taking place today are:

• Boost economic growth
• Reform the international monetary system
• Fighting against the volatility of agricultural commodities
• Regulate Financial Markets
• Financing for Development Assistance
• Reforming global governance

But as I read this article from The Guardian ,which would easly be replaced by one and only subject:

• $$$ vs. €€€ vs. 人民币

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Since the end of 2010, an incredible hope has risen from Middle East. The first people to fight was the Egyptians, then the revolution spread to all its neighbours: Tunisia, Libya, Syria or Bahreïn.

Many demonstrations have met violent responses from authorities,as well as from pro-government militias and counter-demonstrators.

How has it ended today? Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have overthrown their leaders: Hosni Moubarak is currently under the threat of a law suit although he’s being very ill, Zine Dine ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia (which is today the least democratic state in Middle East according to the Democracy Index published by the Economist, and we all know what happened to Muammar Gaddafi a few days ago (Warning: this article contains graphic images).

Now the question is: what comes after tyranny ?

Democracy is another matter, and needs a long labour in building a sense of citizenship, developing tolerance and respect for law that will be hard to understand for a people who lived so long under a dictatorship. It is quite ironic that dictatorship gives bad habits to its victims that can survive the death of the tyrant and complicate the arrival of a democratic state. The circumstances of Gaddafi’s death remind us of the terrible scenes of epuration in 1944, with France’s liberation.

The adoption of Charia (the islamic law) by the temporary government in Libya is a fact that seems to scare the Occidental chancelleries. No doubt that the first decisions of the new government in Libya will be observed closely by the international community: these decisions may define a new standard of the occidental response to the next revolution in the Middle East.

I just made an audio podcast about the French NGO “Les Restaurants du coeur”. 25 years after the death of its founder, there’s more and more meals to serve!

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