Bistrot Brocante Underground

"La boutique d'Eva Pritsky a une double personnalité : sage comme une image la journée, elle se transforme la nuit en troquet clandestin. Pour une soirée qui déraille, c'est à Ménilmontant qu'il va falloir grimper. "

où ca?

Eva Pritsky, bar-brocante. 

5, rue d'Eupatoria, 75020 Paris, Métro Ménilmontant 

Tel : 01 44 62 20 69 

Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 17h à 2h

from My Little Paris

see Bistrot brocante

Gaza: A Real Underground Economy

Image via WikipediaFascinating.

Real business rules!

"Some smugglers have installed tracks and electric carts to ferry supplies. And they are refreshingly free of red tape and expensive taxes. The tunnels bring fuel to Gaza at a fifth the cost of Israel's prices, along with a plentiful if somewhat dubious supply of medicines, drugs and Viagra."

from The Economist's Baobab blog

see The burrowing business

'Your Economy Sucks!' - Doghouse on the Downgrade

This is great!

from THEDOGHOUSEDIARES

Shopping for Free or Looting in London

"As I got closer to the Debenhams store, I passed hooded figures nonchalantly going the other way with arms full of booty. More and more people passed me with their grabbed sportswear and electrical goods. One young guy, who looked about 15, stopped to throw a couple of tracksuits to a girl he fancied from the pile he was struggling to carry. I looked at the faces of the looters and didn't see anger, hatred or even a desire for justice. These were just opportunist young people, looking as if they having the time of their lives."

from Coffee House The Spectator Blog

see When the underbelly roars

Original article image

Youth Unemployment, the UK Riots and The Jasmine Revolution

"The underlying causes of the rioting are difficult to say with certainty but one key fact must be considered: youth unemployment."

So writes Michael Goldfarb in GloblaPost via Salon.com

The Jasmine revolution, rapidly fading from the collective memory, started in Tunisia due to very similar circumstances.

Difficult to really compare these two sets of civil disturbance, yet it is an undeniable fact that you cannot keep not employing your young men, and then expect them to sit around and enjoy doing nothing.

see Why London exploded last night

Original Salon.com article image

London Burning

"Cops battle new riots across London"

from The Sun

other images from the Sun see 

London Burning

Uday Hussein: "The Devil’s Double"

"Playboy, murderer, and sadist extraordinaire, Saddam’s elder son left no shortage of people with horror stories to tell in his wake. Yet for Latif, the trauma of his encounter with him was uniquely personal, one that still haunts him every time he looks in the mirror. For back in 1987, after noticing his striking likeness to Saddam’s son, Iraq’s secret service picked him to be Uday’s “fiday”, or body double, a job that involved becoming the living, breathing copy of the nation’s greatest hate figure."

by Colin Freeman's review in The Telegraph

see Saddam's demon seed

Dadaab Kenya: They Starve We Watch

Pictures from the biggest refugee camp in the world

from The Economist blog Baobab

see Hunger in the Horn of Africa for the full picture set.

Obama Gets a Bad US Debt Deal

"In the end, President Obama had to admit surrender. He tried to put a bold face on it, but there's no other way to interpret his remarks to the nation announcing that Congressional leaders had cut a deal to raise the debt ceiling."

by Andrew Leonard writing in Salon.com

"As described, the deal is a major victory for Republicans that will further embolden them over the next 18 months, and may mortally wound Obama's chances of reelection."

Tea for two?