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617 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

Jean Pierre L. Collignon

Journaliste localier en Télévisions communautaires pendant une vingtaine d'années et par ailleurs ex- "Indispensable Chroniqueur Mondain" dans l’émission "radio images cinéma" sur la première chaîne radio de la rtbf, il profite de sa retraite autant que faire se peut et met un point d'honneur à ne pas lâcher la bride au naufrage qui le guette en collaborant à Kairos et, à l'occasion, à d'autres entreprises qui valent le déplacement...

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Wandering moods

No more laughing; the serious things begin, have, in fact, begun for a very long time, long before the awareness of the extent of the disaster that is looming comes to us. And when I say we, I think of those who were...

Everything is normal

Time is running out and getting shorter and shorter. The extent and the nature of the crisis we are facing seems to be more and more obvious, taking on the appearance of a catastrophe of which very few, too few,...

Breeze or storm

At the time of writing this column, things have happened and are happening. The attacks of March 22, to begin with, whose impact on public opinion will have been commensurate with the crime. It remains to persevere...

The falsification of reality

I have this chance to be born before you. From the time when the telephone was still a luxury, when the radio, more or less imposing according to the social environment, was put on a piece of furniture in front of...

Cause to my chaos, my head is sick.

You will not have failed, in the course of time and events, to appreciate this word, which is always on the front page of our dear subsidized newspapers and in search of readers: the irreplaceable, threatening, terrible...

So what about this vacation?

DON'T TELL ME ABOUT IT, I WAS IN A COMA FOR A MONTH... - AH WELL, AND DID YOU GET SOME SUN? This little story, therefore, as a preamble, a little light, in order to set the tone of this chronicle, which will deliberately...

Boson yourself!

The scientific community and physicists in particular are very happy. Thanks to this enormous circular machine buried in the Swiss underground and equipped with state-of-the-art technology, we have finally been able...

Down with the spectacular merchant society

(Situationist International, May 1968) The undeniable and only real sensational good news of this beginning of the year is, without any doubt, the declarations of this chief economist employed by the International...

Doubt, my dick (that’s Charlie, baby!)

existence is complex, not everything can be explained like that, we know that well. So, if everything Jean-Pierre Collignon says here in his column is not shared by some, is shared by others, we want it to be said,...

To finish

"How fragile we are," I thought, "we all have big words in our mouths and we boast daily and continually about our endurance and sanity, and from one moment to the next we topple over and have to choke back the tears...

Happy Birthday!

We won't beat around the bush. Let's count the candles instead: 50. And I, 73. So. I was 23 years old. Young married just after the military service (it's crazy how many great people I met in those far away times!)....

A film

At the time of its release, in 1983, I remember seeing it three or four nights in a row in the same downtown cinema in Liege. Each time with the same enthusiasm tinged with terror and dejection when leaving the screening...

LET’S PUSH OPTIMISM TO THE LIMIT

The fact is there; most of those who make the observation, including some of those who belong to the orthodox current of the so-called economic thing, the contemptuous of the same so-called thing, the great majority...

Shall I put it on again?

One will have appreciated the torrents of insanities that were poured out on the occasion of the passing of the torch from one king to the other. The press, the whole press has given, once again, the measure of its...

There is a smell…

Those of my generation, who have known beautiful conflagrations and great figures, political and otherwise, are obliged to note that never, in their lifetime, will they have had before their eyes the absolutely disgusting...

A CIRCUS

Never has this society been so deserving of being called spectacular as in the present times. The proofs are given every day that passes and more particularly in our small country from now on in prey to the electoralist...

ALEA JACTA IS

" A perfect society, listen to me, liberal friends, a perfect society is one where dogs do what they are told! Where there are no strikes! Where political parties don't come on TV to butter our skates! Where immigrant...

DES GOUFFRES

The earth (our good old planet) being reputed to be round and not flat, the result is that - in addition to the fact that certain portions of the vast territories that make it up are relatively apt to shelter the...

LONG LIVE THE FIGHT!

A few weeks ago, the mood was a bit gloomy, and the trainers and associates were going on and on about the now infamous " Swedish " coalition. But finally, here we are and, as our Julius Caesar rightly said: aléa...

Postcards

Gone are the carefree days of summer, gone are the beach chairs, duck buoys, diving masks and tanning lotions. We go home; most of us work, the others stand in line in front of the Onem and the social aid centers....

MISCELLANEOUS GARBAGE

This year will be remembered. It leaves behind a beautiful package of small, medium and large disasters of all kinds. And the omens, as far as the current one is concerned, are not very encouraging. And, all things...

BASTE!

War does not bring together partners, but enemies. The social war, the class struggle, does not see the opposition of individuals mandated for a so-called social dialogue but of groups with diametrically antagonistic...

TURN LEFT, LEFT!

There is one who will have really finished to annoy everyone and the others with, it is the very ineffable and unplayable François Hollande, former and - except cardio-vascular accident or scooter - for one more...

CATASTROPHES, APOCALYPSES AND OTHER CHAOS. WITHOUT FORGETTING THE SURREALISM…

We can't escape it. It's impossible to escape it; they do it on purpose. And if they don't do it on purpose, "it's even worse than worse, that's saying" (to be read in one go and without moving your ears). In short,...

EVERYTHING BUT MELENCHON…

By the time you see this page, the mass, as they say, will almost be said; we will soon know who will be in charge of the Republic. It goes without saying - but it's better to say it - that the author of these lines...

PANTA RHEI!

Everything passes, says Heraclitus. And this is a universal truth that cannot be disputed. There is nothing stable in the infinite universes, in the world that is ours; and in ourselves as well, since from birth...

RESISTANCE!

It was a close call. A few tens of thousands of votes and everything would change. We will not return to the last events of this campaign, to the relentlessness, coming from everywhere and even to the normal president,...

« IT’S A SCANDAL! »

So, we went to the polling stations, here, there and elsewhere; we put our ballots in the ballot box: one to elect our local councillors, the other, our representatives to the Province, thus using our right and the...

LYING DOWN, THE POOR!

"Whatever the discredit of which this movement is the object on behalf of those whom it offends and disturbs and who are already working to make it expiate its insolent defiance - even if it leads for a time to the...

BLACK ANGER

As always, when History suddenly starts to create something new and strikes the imagination, we are surprised, taken by surprise, lacking in reference points. And, at the same time, with regard to the tremors that...

WELL, WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

"The parliament of animals gathered to discuss the sensitive issue of the extinction of the human species, which now seemed inevitable. "- Unless we promptly mobilize all our energies to ensure its survival," managed...

BUT WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO YOU*?

* Sentence pronounced by the television host Yvan Le Bolloc'h, French actor and musician, during a debate on pensions on the BFM TV channel: https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/yvan-le-bolloch-excede-sur-la-reforme-des-retraites-je-veux-pas-crever-au-boulot_fr_5dfa35c5e4b0969b618e4f21 A...

END CLAP

It is impossible to know, at the time of writing this column, if the general confinement will have been lifted, if the ugly virus will have left for other skies - as far away as possible, we can only hope - and if...

LIVE !

He wrote, in his essays, "Who would teach men to die would teach them to live". This seems to be a problem today. This beginning of the century, where, until recently, frivolity and carelessness reigned supreme,...

Mess and other joys

So, in the early evening of the second day of August 2020, and we may still have, as you start reading this column - take heart, it's going to be a blast! - a virus called Covid-19, a federal government, a Flemish...

Virus and other modern joys

I will say very little about the virus; we know enough about it in the cottages and in the ministerial cabinets of our amazing little kingdom. I won't say too much about the extraordinary decision-makers of the right,...

THIS SPRING, FINALLY!

"In the spring, what were you dreaming about,Old world closed like an orange,Make something change,And we met strangersLaughing at the angels".Jean Ferrat Last year, many of us were eagerly anticipating the spring...

Barnum

It was with great difficulty that I managed to suppress a broad smile and even a violent fit of laughter, as I read, minute after minute, the reactions coming from everywhere about the "invasion of the Capitol" at...

Chaos

I am going to deliberately and joyfully nail the beak to all this jumble of degôches, progressives and frileux well-thinkers who spread anathemas and insults of a racist nature against these few dozens of angry...

A turning point

I will return, once again, to the old Heraclitus who, as you know, indicated part of the philosophical path by telling us that nothing in the universe was assured of stability, that everything passed as the water...