Have you ever been threatened by Interactive Brokers ? Yes, we did

Recall, Frenchie-poo, that you stated you were short 30 cars at the price 4338, around the timeframe 1800. 30 contracts times 3,000 Euro intial margin requirement per contract is 90,000 Euro.

Go ahead and apologize to me for your gross negligence in this matter.

 

but mike - i honestly did not mean to prevent you from
trading or subscribing to this forum.
u can do whatever you want, but before spamming at IB,
think about it at least twice.

 

Sachbar,

I was not spamming, I was simply asking for an advice, nor for free critiscism or insults.

 

Hello,

I'va got 2000 $ in my account and I want to go Long 100 NQ: I'm quite sure the market is bottoming. What's the problem??? ha ha
Hey Mike-Claire: as traders, you are dead in remission !
ha ha , never heard such ridiculous things.
Rules are rules. that's it.

And personal attacks or insults against americans, Ib or everything else seems like a lack of professionalism...

I'm french, and I do not see what this has to do with trading...

And to admit your mistake would be a proof of intelligence. Dommage pour toi !

ha ha ha quelle bonne rigolade

 

And what is this? Are we to believe this is not an insult? Why do you post this?

 

Andrew Sullivan: America knows who its friends are

The Sunday Times 5/5



In crises or periods of personal turmoil, you find out who your friends are. And your enemies. That’s why our friendships and relationships can change more profoundly under stress than in any other condition. And that goes for countries too.
I was thinking about this recently, observing the coverage in the American media of two critical allies: Israel and France.

If you want an insight into the future of US foreign policy, you could do worse than notice how attitudes towards these two have hardened in recent months.

And in these relationships, the growing gap between Americans and Europeans is particularly marked.

While Israel’s battle against Islamic and Palestinian terrorism is regarded across Europe with dismay, most Americans cheer the Zionists on.

And while France remains central to the European project, and its flirtation with the far right has alarmed other Europeans, many Americans saw in Jean-Marie Le Pen confirmation of what they already believed: France is an essentially untrustworthy, hypocritical repository of posers and bigots.

I’m not exaggerating. This prejudice is even more striking when you recall that France is America’s oldest ally. The capital was designed by a Frenchman, L’Enfant, and the square across from the White House is named after Lafayette.

In the war of independence, France was America’s key ally against the British. Both republics point to the Enlightenment as their founding influences, and up until President Kennedy, France was regarded as the centre of culture to which Americans paid obeisance.

In the past few decades, however, distance from France has deepened into hostility not merely among elites, but also among ordinary Americans.

The cold war worsened matters. De Gaulle’s suspicion of the Anglo-American nexus led to natural tension. France’s desire to use Europe as an anti-American counterweight in world affairs didn’t help either.

More recently, the war on terror has exposed a deeper rift. The French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine’s belief that American policy was “simplistic” failed to win a respectful audience in Washington. For most Americans, when the French call something simplistic, it’s a sign that it’s the right thing to do.

The suspicion of the French is deepest among conservatives. The right-leaning Washington Times said after Le Pen’s recent triumph in the first round of voting: “You don’t have to be an anti-semite, a racist or even a jerk to enjoy the squirming this morning among our dear friends the French.”

“Everyone take a moment to cackle over how these people were so smug about the Florida recount,” chimed in Jonah Goldberg at National Review.

When The Weekly Standard had a reader contest to name a fourth country to add to George W Bush’s “axis of evil”, Libya, Syria and China made decent showings. France won.

In almost two decades of living in America, I’m still amazed at the contempt most Americans hold for France. That doesn’t mean a basic alliance with France is in question. But popular culture still tilts against Paris. Last weekend, the popular Saturday Night Live sketch comedy show ran a spoof tourism commercial for France. “France, home to the world’s greatest painters, chefs and anti-semites. The French, cowardly yet opinionated, arrogant yet foul-smelling, anti-Israel, anti-American, and of course, as always, Jew-hating,” ran the voice-over.

“Paris, the city of whores, dog faeces on every corner and effete men yelling anti-semitic remarks at children. The real crème de la crème of world culture. With all that’s going on in the world, isn’t it time we got back to hating . . . the French?” The contrast with Israel couldn’t be more stark. While most Europeans have experienced the horror of the past few weeks as grist for their hostility to the Jewish state, Americans have bonded deeply to their Israeli allies. A recent Gallup poll found that 47% of Americans sided with Israel in the conflict against a mere 13% with the Palestinians (40% registered no preference).

The more Americans tilt to the right, the more pronounced their pro-Israeli sympathies. But even among professed liberals, 45% favour the Israelis compared with 24% who back the Palestinians. And among the strongest supporters of Israel have been Democrats, such as Senators Dianne Feinstein and Joe Lieberman.

Perhaps the most aggressively Zionist political magazine in Washington, The New Republic, tilts left and endorsed Al Gore in 2000.

And last week, despite requests for silence from the administration, the House and Senate both passed by overwhelming margins statements of support for Israel.

Sceptics will say this all points to the strong pro-Israel lobby in Washington and Jewish control of the media. There’s no question that American Jews do have a strong presence in the media and in political funding.

But explaining Americans’ support for Israel in this paranoid (and near-bigoted) way misses the point.

Support for Israel is not just among elites, and the strongest backing comes from Republicans who get few Jewish votes and far less Jewish campaign money than the Democrats. President Nixon — an anti-semite in private — was a fierce defender of Israel. So was Ronald Reagan. The root of Americans’ sympathy for Israel is cultural. Americans admire tenacity, democracy and a free society.

They look at Israel and see a polity not unlike their own. There’s a free press, a democratic system, a cantankerous civil society and a strong military. They admire the hard work that has built an amazing society from virtually nothing.

When Americans look at the dictatorships, thugocracies and failed societies and economies of Arab states, they feel distant and repulsed — especially as Islamist anti-semitism is so naked.

The newest factor in this bond is the religious right. The Republicans were once the natural repository for country club anti-semites. But that cultural influence has waned — replaced by fervent support for Israel among many fundamentalist Christians who back Israel’s claim to the Holy Land for biblical reasons.

This evangelical influence has largely eclipsed that of the old elites, just as President Bush’s strongly pro-Israel administration has supplanted his father’s more neutral posture.

Above all, Americans, like all people, tend to like and support those who like and support them. Israel (and Britain, to a similar degree) can only gain from their proximity to the greatest super-power. This is not ultimately decided by elites, but by the people who vote for and endorse them.

American support is not inevitable; and it can be withdrawn. If I were Jacques Chirac, or indeed any other European leader, I’d think about that lesson more deeply now than ever.

 

Let's put it more simply. The Jewish fund the USA parties, they have the total control over the US dollar and the USA play a double role in front of the International Community. They publicly condemn Israel and they support it economically and militarly against Palestinians because the Jewish ask them to do so. That is the same attitude the CIA had wirth Talebans some years ago and it was an attitude largely used by Communist countries. If I were you, I would be ashamed of being American, not a European. The French have choosen Chirac with 82% of voters, not Le Pen. They did it democratically, without referring the issue to courts. I believe the competition between Mr Bush and Al Gore is simply a far memory..... but guess what, you do not even have a democratic electoral system

 

mike-clair wrote=apologies to who? To a people who used the nuclear weapon to kill thousands of Japanese, of Irakis, of Afghans?

If there was no Pearl Harbor there would not have been a Hiroshima. If Iraq didn't invade Kuwait and threaten the world's oil supply there wouldn't have been a Gulf War. If there was no WTC attack we wouldn't be in Afghanistan.

thetraderprofit wrote=And please, you can only use the WWII reference for so long. I had to stop with the Korean Conflict references at least 10 years
ago.

I take it by your comment that after a certain time has passed it's OK to forget? Mike is a punk. I'm not sure what you are.

 

Cover story: La malaise Francais
France has a sickness that pervades its politics and corrupts the bourgeoisie, writes Matthew Campbell. Decadence now rules in a morally rudderless society


http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,179-286964,00.html

worth reading, registration required, too long to post here.

 

You are right, the word Decadence has never been mentioned in the US society, since the USA have been Decadent for too many years. It is a habit now, is it?