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WordPress — Editorial and Economic Harm Resulting from the Advertising Policy Applied to bernardgrua.net

January 28, 2026

This letter was addressed to WordPress to report the editorial and economic harm resulting from the advertising saturation imposed on my site bernardgrua.net. It is published so that readers have access to the factual elements of this action. Courrier en français From: Bernard Grua bernardgrua.net To: WordPress Customer Service support@wordpress.com help@wordpress.com hello@wordpress.com Subject: WordPress — Editorial and Economic Harm Resulting from the Advertising Policy Applied to bernardgrua.net January 28, 2026, Dear Sir or Madam, I am formally bringing to your attention the advertising policy currently applied by WordPress to my site bernardgrua.net, which has been hosted on your platform for more than twelve years. The progressive but now massive increase in advertising insertions — particularly intrusive and repetitive visual formats — directly obscures editorial content, disrupts reading continuity, and severely impairs the user experience. This situati...

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Pourquoi le voilier historique russe Shtandart affronte-t-il des vents contraires ?

August 03, 2025

Le Shtandart , majestueuse réplique d'une frégate du XVIIIe siècle sillonne les ports européens sous une façade patrimoniale et éducative. Cependant, derrière cette façade culturelle, d'aucuns dénoncent des pratiques qu'ils jugent troublantes. Ils n'hésitent pas à faire référence à certaines méthodes de la « flotte fantôme russe » — ces navires opaques qui contournent les sanctions internationales en dissimulant leur traçabilité et leur propriété réelle. ⚓ Une façade historique au service d'un agenda de plus en plus contesté. Construit entre 1994 et 1999 à Saint-Pétersbourg , le Shtandart MMSI 518999255 , est présenté comme un voilier-école indépendant destiné à transmettre le patrimoine maritime. Cependant, depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie, son image est ternie. Plusieurs pays européens, dont l' Espagne , l' Irlande , la Belgique*, le Danemark, la Norvège et le Royaume-Uni , ont interdit ou bloqué ses escales, invoquant des préoccup...

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Imran made the mistake of revolting against his creator

April 14, 2022

By Francesca Marino, April 3, 2022, Times of India Make no mistake, what Imran Khan is really trying to do today is convince his puppeteers to give him another chance. As he frantically tries to cling on to power, the contrast is glaring to what he had said during his Azadi March in August 2014: “If people like you had said "Go Imran Go" with such passion I would have resigned and gone to re-election immediately if I am man of honor” said Imran Khan during his Azadi March in August 2014. But of course, we know from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar what 'men of honor' do and also how they usually end up. Elected in 2018 with what people considered being “the most rigged” elections in Pakistani history Khan, who's political carrier has been boosted by the late General Hamid Gul and other ISI and Army prominent ranks, had been carefully selected and trained for the job, a job he seemed quite happy to do the way he had been told. Imran, unlike other prime ministers,...

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Medias, comment Zine El Abidine Belhareth a-t-il approuvé et encouragé les attentats de l’automne 2020 ?

November 16, 2021

Illustrations de l'article: Comment Zine El Abidine Belhareth زين العابدين بلحارث, président de l’ association جمعية تراثنا Tourathna, a-t-il approuvé et encouragé les attentats de l’automne 2020?

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Russian Extreme Travels in Pakistan - Экстремальные Путешествия

February 03, 2021

Russian Extreme Travels , aka Trekking in Altai , aka Extreme Travels in Russia , is a tourist company doing business in Pakistan. In June 2019, ten years after her first entry into this country, Ms Olga Leonidovna Ozerova , aka Olga Sim (Ольга Сим) , one of its employee/partners, took a key part, as a shadow advisor, in the start-up of a slanderous campaign against the Wakhi community of Northern Pakistan and against its western visitors. Eventually, in January 2021, she openly revealed a plan of filing a claim for terrorism, in Pakistan, against a French citizen, with the help of false witnesses. Such an interference in a third country may cause irrecoverable damages to Russian Extreme Travels business.

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Comment les religions passées et présentes ont-elles construit un palimpseste de traditions dans une haute vallée du nord Pakistan ?

December 10, 2020

English Version Le Pakistan s'est récemment fâcheusement illustré par les diatribes de son premier ministre et de sa ministre des droits de l'homme contre la France. Il existe pourtant des communautés qui y pratiquent un islam non sunnite et non fondamentaliste. Ainsi, la vallée de Chapursan, entre les chaînes de l'Hindou Kouch, du Pamir et du Karakoram, est principalement habitée par les Wakhis, une minorité ethnique et religieuse vivant aussi en Chine et dans les Wakhan afghans ou tadjiks. Dans un article précédent: Les Wakhis, un petit peuple écartelé et cloisonné aux confins de la haute Asie Centrale nous avons présenté comment les frontières récentes (d'un point de vue historique) fragmentent cette population. Mais, nous observerons que l'ensemble des Wakhis partage la même foi et les mêmes traditions religieuses enracinées dans un héritage commun centenaire si ce n'est millénaire.

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