Today is a day of hope. Obama is elected. Will he be able to change things .... well I, don't really know and I doubt that all the financial people will make it easy but a least I think that he will try. Let's now wait and see but with more confidence than yesterday

One of our old famous writer called Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that when a society is only interested in buying goods and forget that the life standard and life quality is linked to the society life and that a society is not only a group of persons but much more, then a man that can make illusion but just want the power can easily come. This is exactly what happened sunday in France with our new president. I know that Italy had Berlusconi who was the same type of guy and I am sad for France. Democracy doesn't deserve that !!

Within less than two days we will have a new president in France. If N. Sarkozy, from the right, is elected and he probably will, this will be a very sad day for France. This man said that commit suicide or beeing pedophile come only from the genes and had nothing to do with your past, whatever you faced before in your life. He also proposed a law to test children of 3 to know which of them will become thiefs. This man thinks that the relationship between people is always conflictual and that the strongers only can be right. The problem is that he uses very well the media and very few people have red his program or his talks. He plays on fear, on egoism and he probably will win. Poor France !!

I love Franz Kafka and I was really fascinated by "the castle" and especially by the "the trial" where a man is accused and juged without knowning what is accused of. This man was really visionary because years before he described what could now happen in the US with the new law voted this morning by our great democracy supporter George !!

Thank you George for having made real this Kafka vision and I hope that one day it will be your turn !!

There are now many pictures on DA concerning the demonstrations of students in France. Many of them show violent facts but the reality is that the demonstrations are very peaceful and that violence concerns only a very small minority. This lead me to the question of the responsability of the photojournalist who are seeking for strong pictures even if it shows only a very small part of the truth. I think that we should be more conscious of that and feel more responsible about that. There is no "civil war" in France but a strong, huge and mostly peaceful movement against a stupid law.