L’Europe et le dégoût du “citoyen”
http://www.dedefensa.org/article-l_europe_et_le_d_go_t_du_citoyen__21_05_2013.html
Citation et commentaire du 21 mai 2013 – contribution de dedefensa.org
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Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/17/teresa-forcades-radical-catalan-nun-videoSister Teresa Forcades is one of Catalonia’s foremost political figures, but uniquely for a faith-led figure in #Spain, her ideology is #feminist and left-wing. Against a backdrop of continued economic contraction and austerity, she spoke to the Guardian about the need for an alternative to capitalism and criticised the #misogyny of the Catholic #church
#religion #catholicisme #gender #austerity #austérité #néolibéralisme #réforme #ows #occupy #misogynie #église #Kirche
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Tomgram : David Vine, Baseworld Profiteering | TomDispatch
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175699/tomgram:_david_vine,_baseworld_profiteering...after an extensive examination of government spending data and contracts, I estimate that the Pentagon has dispersed around $385 billion to private companies for work done outside the U.S. since late 2001, mainly in that baseworld. That’s nearly double the entire State Department budget over the same period, and because Pentagon and government accounting practices are so poor, the true total may be significantly higher.
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... an analysis of Pentagon spending reveals a troubling pattern: the majority of benefits have gone to a relatively small group of private contractors. In total, almost a third of the $385 billion has flowed into the coffers of just 10 top contractors, including scandal-prone companies like KBR, the former subsidiary of Halliburton, and oil giant BP.
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The use of contractors accelerated following the Cold War’s end, part of a larger trend toward the privatization of formerly public services.
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Contractors are hardly alone in raking in the dollars from the Pentagon’s baseworld. Pentagon officials, military personnel, members of Congress, and lobbyists, among others, have all benefited — financially, politically, and professionally — from the giant overseas presence. In particular, contractors have spread the love by making millions in campaign contributions to members of Congress. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, military contractors and their employees gave more than $27 million in election donations in 2012 alone, and have donated almost $200 million since 1990.
Most of these have gone to members of the armed services and appropriations committees in the Senate and House of Representatives. These, of course, have primary authority over awarding military dollars. For the 2012 elections, for example, DynCorp International’s political action committee donated $10,000 to both the chair and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, and made additional donations to 33 other members of the House and Senate armed services committees and 16 members of the two appropriations committees.
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Need to transport twenty 3000 tonnes barges or a semi-submersible oil rig across oceans ? There is a ship for that : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158305/Thats-load-ships-The-carrier-boat-hold-22-barges--oil-rig--back.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/12/article-0-13936DB2000005DC-686_964x549.jpg 
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Près des yeux, loin du coeur.
EU : Field testing : CLOSEYE project puts drones over the Mediterranean
Statewatch News Online :
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2013/may/02eu-drones-mediterranean.html
Via la liste Migreurop, Charls Heller et Sebastian Cobarrubias
Field testing: CLOSEYE project puts drones over the Mediterranean
10.05.2013A multi-million euro border control project was launched in Spain at the end of April that will see drones, satellites and aerostats deployed over the southern Mediterranean in an attempt to provide the EU “with an operational and technical framework that increases situational awareness and improves the reaction capability of authorities surveying the external borders of the EU.” [1]
The project - “collaborative evaluation of border surveillance technologies in maritime environment by pre-operational validation of innovative solutions”, shoehorned into the abbreviation CLOSEYE - has received over €9 million in funding from the security strand of the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), an amount that makes up more than three-quarters of its €12.2 million total budget. [2]
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About Closeye
http://www.closeye.euCollaborative evaLuation Of border Surveillance Technologies in maritime Environment bY -pre-operational validation of innovativE solutions
CLOSEYE comes to life with the aim of providing the EU with an operational and technical framework that increases situational awareness and improves the reaction capability of authorities surveying the external borders of the EU.
As the first Pre-Operational Validation project in FP7 security theme, CLOSEYE will pursue the validation of innovative services applicable to the surveillance of the EU Maritime Borders in real operational environment following the Common Application of Surveillance Tools concept, established by EUROSUR.
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Karl Korsch: a Marxist friend of anarchism - A.R. Giles-Peters
http://libcom.org/history/karl-korsch-marxist-friend-anarchism-ar-giles-peters
“Marxists of the 1920s have an interest for anarchists of a quite different order from those of any other period. The reason is that for a brief period after the First World War Marxism was a revolutionary doctrine in a way that it had not been since Marx nor has been again (leaving aside its use as an ideology of basically peasant nationalist revolutions.) In that brief period the Russian Revolution served as a rallying point for left-wing intellectuals of all shades of red and black, and these joined with anarchist workers and socialist workers of a syndicalist stamp to form the basis of the new parties of the Third International. Except in Spain, anarchist and syndicalist organizations everywhere lost ground to these new parties which rapidly evolved into bureaucratic state socialist organizations interested in the control of the working-class movement. During this evolution those anarchists, syndicalists and left socialists who held true to the initial promise of the Russian Revolution were isolated, weeded out and kept by the party’s superior organization from the access to the working class that alone could sustain a revolutionary movement. Karl Korsch was one of the casualties of this process.”#histoire #communisme #marxisme #anarchisme #Karl_Korsch #conseillisme
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ZCommunications | An Ordinary Radical by Verena Stressing | ZNet Article
http://www.zcommunications.org/contents/192728However, the biggest demonstration recently has been against gay marriage or marriage equality (marriage pour tous), an utterly ridiculous spectacle and public display of homophobia. To me, this was a symbol of the myth that the French are traditionally left. I once read somewhere that this myth was invented by the Parisian Bohème and was really only spread by the media until it became a globally accepted cliché. I can easily believe that. In reality, France is very much still an elitist country, where basically the entire political class is recruited from a handful of elite schools, and where the social class you come from is decisive for your career. I can see that every day at my work place. It is also an extremely hierarchical and still very sexist society, despite the fact that for example many more women work than, say, in Germany. To me, “liberté, égalite, fraternité” is really just a slogan at this point, the France of the majority is the #France of the catholic schools, the elite universities, the bourgeoisie and the conservative voting country side.
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ECB indicates south Europeans can endure more austerity – The European Sting | Les #faisans!
http://europeansting.com/2013/04/10/ecb-indicates-south-europeans-can-endure-more-shock-therapyAccording to a European Central Bank report which was published yesterday, the average household in south European countries like Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Italy possess more net wealth than their peers in the north (net wealth is defined as the difference between total assets and total liabilities). The obvious conclusion is that they can endure more austerity and shock therapy measures. For example the study finds that the mean net wealth of a Cypriot household is €670,900, of a Spanish one €291,400, of an Italian € 275,200, in comparison to only €195,200 in Germany, in the Netherlands € 170,200 and in Finland just €161,500. The authors of the report note that, “The data for Cyprus appear not to be comparable with those for other euro area countries in a number of dimensions and should therefore be interpreted with caution. However, once the above mentioned factors are accounted for, the net wealth figures for Cyprus appear less of an outlier”.
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Hallucinant ! pour financer l’austérité, ils n’ont qu’à taper dans leur (riche) patrimoine.
Comme celui-ci a de grandes chances d’être essentiellement immobilier, ça va permettre aux (pauvres) nordiques de pouvoir se procurer des pieds-à-terre au soleil.
Par ailleurs, la comparaison entre moyenne (671 k€) et médiane (267 k€) à Chypre montre que la distribution est très dissymétrique.
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Encore une #meilleure_émission_de_la_bande_FM dont je ne t’ai pas encore parlé : L’étranger, excellente émission de #Radio_Panik. L’étranger étant étrange, il s’exprime dans cette langue bizarre qu’est l’anglais pour expliquer ce qu’il est :
https://ltgpanik.wordpress.comL’étranger can be regarded as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be seen as a story you will get more out of if you don’t skip. It can be seen as a kind of symphony, or in another way as a kind of opera: or even a horse opera. It is hot music, a poem, a song, a comedy, a farce, and so forth. It is superficial, profound, entertaining, and boring, according to taste.
It is a prophecy, a political warning, a cryptogram, a preposterous movie scrambling radio art/art of radio, social imaginary significations, occulture cries & whispers, collective fictional space, fluxional artcore, post-economic music, queer diasporas...
Et la dernière émission, pour que tu comprennes avec tes oreilles :
http://archive.org/download/Show28130thApril20132/Show_281_30th_April_2013.mp3
Scrambled live :
1. Ассоциация Пых (Association Of Pykh) – Один шаг до фашизма (One Step To Fascism)
from ‘Быстрее жизнь прожить’ (Live Faster) cassette (Samizdat, USSR) 1988
2. File Under Toner – Orgy
from ‘This Is The End, Beautiful Friend’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2008
3. Modern Music Mechanics – The Amazing Life Of Middle Class (part 2)
from ‘S/T’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2012
4. Shortwave Odds & Sods Transmissions – Pescadore Party 6933 LSB 2318z-2319z 12-08-12
mp3 from archive.org
5. xmarx – Direct To Video
from ‘Disco Error’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2007
6. M. Woods – Stuck in the 90′s Episode 4 : A Commercial
from Vimeo video, 2013
vimeo.com/64914598
7. File Under Toner – Harmonica
from ‘This Is The End, Beautiful Friend’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2008
8. Paul Conneally/Stewart Home – Bark Kill Fraternity
mp3 from net release, 2009
9. David Evrard – Extract from ‘The Spirit Of Ecstasy’
from Extra Extra Magazine web site, 2013
10. Bear Bones, Lay Low – Persona
from Vimeo video, 2012
vimeo.com/50692848
11. Shortwave Odds & Sods Transmissions – Siren Jammer 9855Am1129z-1130z12-05-12
mp3 from archive.org
12. Olga Nosova – VII
mp3 from ‘RAW’ net release (Top-40, Russia) 2013
13. File Under Toner – Si Los Curas
from ‘This Is The End, Beautiful Friend’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2008
14. Snacks – Doug’s Username on Ebay : spaghetti van halen
mp3 from Free Music Archive, 2006
15. File Under Toner – (Not) Only A Beatle Song
from ‘This Is The End, Beautiful Friend’ net release (Hazard Records, Spain) 2008
16. Pastor Maxwell – Disaster At Thera
mp3 from archive.org, 2013
17. Крабовые менгеле доктора палочки – I Like Tachyons
mp3 from ‘wol000000013′ net release (Waste Of Life, Russia) 2013
18. Голуби и Безумные Кашевары – Коня
mp3 from artist’s web site, orig. release 2009
19. Shortwave Odds & Sods Transmissions – UNID Pirate 6925Usb0510z-0511z08-08-12
mp3 from archive.org
20. Nekrosociedad – Hay Que Hacerlo
mp3 from ‘Demo’ net release (Self Released, Columbia) 2013#audio #collage #radio #musique_indépendante #musique_expérimentale
- #Spain
- #Records
- #artist
- #Ben Watson
- #Resonance FM
- #United States
- #mp3
- #player
- #S/T
- #Russia
- #SoundCloud
- #Radio Panik
- #Encore
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The failure of capitalism - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/03/pers-m03.html
Le titre...
The failure of capitalism 3 May 2013
Figures on the state of the European economy published over the past week are not only the expression of a deepening economic and social crisis. They have a profound historical meaning, pointing to the bankruptcy of the capitalist economic order.
In its latest economic forecast, the International Monetary Fund has predicted that the euro zone area as a whole will contract by 0.3 percent this year, with France joining Italy and Spain as the three major economies in recession. The contraction itself is significant, but the fact that it takes place some five years after the onset of the financial crisis points to the underlying processes that produced it. The European economy is caught in a deepening downward spiral.
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Soduz / Gürkan Mıhçı, “There was a picture once” (2013), un mix onirique et médiatique
http://www.gurkanmihci.com/?/Sound/soduz-therewasapictureonceSamples:
Stalker (1979), directed by Andrey #Tarkovskiy
R. Interview (2011)
Ereaserhead, directed by #David_Lynch
#Dziga_Vertov Sound Recordings (1930)
Hittites Documentary (1982), (recorded by Gökhan Mıhçı)
#Hawaiian Quintette Aiaihea (1913)
Found and Lost, by #Eser_Selen
I had a dream last night, by Eser Selen
Sony Media Software Soundscapes ©
*006 is composed for a Performance by Eser Selen, called “Your Dream, My Work” (Madrid, Spain, 2013).http://archive.org/download/Soduz001/Soduz_001.mp3
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Brendan Simms: Can Angela Merkel forge a United States of #europe? - Comment - Comment - London Evening Standard
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/brendan-simms-can-angela-merkel-forge-a-united-states-of-europe-8594908.Tags : #allemagne europe
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Spain’s Extremadura starts switch of 40,000 government PCs to open source
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-switch-40000-government-pcs-open-sourceThe government of Spain’s autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region’s CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year.
- #Spain
- #Linux
- #Theodomir Cayetano
- #CIO
- #Linux
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Life in Spain’s ’slum of shame’ - Europe - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2013/04/201342982749100692.htmlIllegal immigrants, Roma and those down on their luck live in dire conditions outside Madrid.
The illegal settlement of La Canada Real, outside the Spanish capital, has become known as “the slum of shame”.
Thousands of people live there without running water or drains. Electricity is hijacked, and simple houses are built amid rubble
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the shantytown.
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Un article sur le grillisme en #Italie par un collectif d’écrivains, anciennement #Luther-Blissett.
Grillismo : Yet another right-wing cult coming from Italy | #Wu-Ming Foundation
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/wumingblog/?p=1950Several Left-wing and progressive commentators tend to look with a certain sympathy to the Five Star Movement. They heard that even Dario Fo, a famously leftist Nobel Prize Winner, endorsed Grillo during the campaign. They think that Grillo’s fiery, pied-piperesque speeches are just a bit of theatre – he used to be a comedian after all.
Indeed, news from Italy are baffling as usual, but in the end, many have the impression that the #5SM is a populist movement oscillating between the progressive and radical quarters of the political spectrum. A movement having features in common with other anti-austerity movements and mobilisations across southern Europe (Portugal, Greece, Spain, Slovenia).
People who make that assumption should – literally – know better.
Trouble is, many Italians should know better too.Simone Di Stefano: «Are you an antifascist?»
#Beppe-Grillo: «This question doesn’t concern me. 5SM is an ecumenical movement.»
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« #populisme »
Nos cerveaux, embarqués dans le grand trafic médiatique des notions, ne prennent guère le temps de fouiller ainsi dans les problèmes de dénotation et de connotation que je tente d’explorer : percevant qu’un usage lexical est dominant, établi et indiscutable, ils se conforment à cet usage, s’en contentent, voire s’en emparent à leur tour - car dans la langue, l’usage fait loi et se répand comme une maladie contagieuse. Et nous voici tous croyant à la redoutable toxicité de ce « populisme » qui nous rappelle qu’il est très dangereux « pour la démocratie » de juger coupable une « minorité » - fût-ce la minorité numérique des tenants du pouvoir, et quel que soit l’usage qu’ils font en effet du pouvoir.
Si bien que sentant monter en soi et partout autour cette colère contre des puissants si peu capables de servir le bien commun, si manifestement incompétents ou financièrement intéressés, on se retient au dernier moment de dénoncer leur inaptitude grotesque ou leur crapulisme sans vergogne. On se retient de vomir, on s’installe dans la nausée, on n’ose plus se soulager, on se dit « non, non, pas vomir, pas crier, pas dénoncer : ce serait du populisme » - on n’est pas tout à fait sûrs, pourtant
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Sur le populisme, en pas trop long, on lira plutôt cet article (10 ans déjà...) de Serge Halimi :
http://revueagone.revues.org/265Et en plus long, Christopher Lasch. :)
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yes ! merci :) et dans le @mdiplo du mois :
« Subversivisme ». C’est ainsi qu’Antonio Gramsci qualifierait peut-être l’humeur politique qui monte en Europe à la faveur de la crise. Pour le penseur marxiste italien, ce terme désigne les formes de rébellion privées et inorganisées (1). Celles qui reposent sur un fort ressentiment à l’égard de l’Etat, déplorent ou moquent le spectacle donné par les puissants, mais intériorisent en même temps la position de subalternité. Le peuple italien, dit Gramsci, incline au subversivisme — le fascisme s’en nourrira largement. L’Etat unifié lors du Risorgimento (« renaissance »), à la fin du XIXe siècle, reste inachevé, si bien que les canaux d’expression collective existant dans d’autres pays — partis, syndicats, associations, institutions démocratiques — n’y sont pas suffisamment robustes. Une corruption endémique engendre un faible respect des lois et nourrit le cynisme vis-à-vis du pouvoir. Le subversivisme affecte les classes populaires, mais aussi les élites. C’est pourquoi, dans l’Italie contemporaine, ce terme a été employé aussi bien à propos de M. Silvio Berlusconi et de sa guérilla incessante contre l’appareil judiciaire que de M. Giuseppe (« Beppe ») Grillo et de son Mouvement 5 étoiles au programme politique ambigu.
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/05/KEUCHEYAN/49087
Le carnaval de l’investigation
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Unemployment hits record highs in Spain, France - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/26/euro-a26.html
Unemployment hits record highs in Spain, France
By Alex Lantier
26 April 2013According to figures published yesterday, the number of unemployed workers in Spain and France has reached all-time highs, as Europe’s economic collapse accelerates under the impact of the global economic crisis and austerity measures imposed throughout the continent.
In Spain, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported that the country had 6,202,700 unemployed workers, the first time in history that over 6 million Spanish workers were jobless. Spain’s unemployment rate rose 1.14 percentage points, to 27.16 percent, as 237,400 jobs were lost. Spanish youth unemployment has reached 57.22 percent.
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Chômage en Europe : puisque le chiffre du jour c’est le chômage en Espagne, voici le chômage des jeunes de moins de 25 ans en Europe.
Et c’était au début de 2012, je pense que pour certains pays maintenant c’est pire.
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Excellent ! Peut-on partager ? On vous source ici ou ailleurs ?
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Partagez, diffusez, envoyez partout, montrez le résultat des diktat de la troïka, de leur politique d’austérité criminelle, de la privatisation :)
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@reka ce sont bien les chiffres 2012 que tu as.
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@ simplicissimus Merci merci, donc moyenne pour 2012, du coup il faudrait voir si on peut trouver les chiffres moyens pour le premier trimestre 2013 et voir s’il y a de grosses différences
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Alas, poor Yorick !
Les chiffres 2012 sont tout frais (11/04/13).
Pour 2013Q1, il faut attendre 11/07/13
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Arf... Il faut arrêter avec le chômage des jeunes ou des moins de 25 ans ! Surtout en comparaison internationale !
D’une part le minimum c’est de parler des « jeunes actifs », vu que c’est une tranche d’âge où il y a souvent plus de 50% de la population qui est inactive, et pour de très bonnes raisons (scolarisation, subvention familiales ou étatiques, etc.). Par exemple ça m’étonnerait fortement qu’en France il y ai un taux d’emploi de 75% chez les moins de 25 ans vu que pour l’ensemble des tranche d’âge il est de 65%.
D’autre part le taux d’activité varie beaucoup d’un pays à l’autre, et pour de mauvaises raisons (pas de scolarisation, faibles subventions familiales ou étatiques, etc.). Ce qui rend les comparaisons internationales très peu pertinentes.
à la limite il est pertinent de comparer le nombre de chômeurs rapporté à la population totale de la tranche d’âge. Et encore... car il ne faut pas oublier les stratégies de dissimulation du chômage qui sont variable d’un pays à l’autre.
Vu la structure du graphique ça serait marrant de comparer nombre-de-chomeurs/population-des-16-25ans à taux d’emploi des 16-25 ans (et encore l’âge minimum légal pour travailler varie selon les pays et l’âge moyen de fin de scolarisation aussi).
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Tu as raison, c’est incomplet, je pensais en fait mettre « au boulot ou à l’école » ou un truc du genre. Mais pour les stats européennes, je vérifie qu’Eurostats ne prend bien en compte que les jeunes inscrits au chômdu à l’exclusion de ceux qui qui sont à la fac ou à l’école. Et s’ils sont subventionnés par leurs parents mais pas à l’école, c’est quand même qu’il y a un problème.
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Faire « au boulot ou à l’école » semble compliquer vu que parfois ils sont au deux. à la limite il faudrait faire une comparaison entre taux de scolarisation et taux d’activité.
Quand à ceux qui ont ni école ni boulot, de nos jours le problème est probablement plus qu’ils ne sont pas en formation (pour de multiples raisons).
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Vite fait, les tendances trimestrielles (données corrigées des variations saisonnières) pour les pays que tu as sélectionnés.
(pour 2013Q1, seule la Suède a fourni son chiffre).
http://i.imgur.com/DI4gDi7.jpg
source : Eurostat, enquête sur la force de travail (LFS survey), en France, EEC, Enquête Emploi en continu -
Oui, le taux de chômage des 15-25 ça veut pas dire grand chose, dans une population largement scolarisée, avec forte sensibilité à une gestion passive du chômage (stages, apprentissage etc.). En contradiction avec l’habituel ( chômeurs / actifs ) vaudrait mieux un bête taux d’emploi ou un (chômeurs / total de cet âge) pour cette catégorie en tout cas.
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Je peux essayer, mais encore une fois "gestion passive du chômage, stages et apprentissage qui se prolonge... c’est aussi symptomatique d’une société où l’accès au travail est profondément « déréglé » (to put it mildly), non ?
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Et en comparant la Grèce à la Norvège, je ne peux pas m’empêcher de penser que le problème n’est pas qu’une question de culture (différente) de la mise en situation de travail
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Ce qui est gênant c’est que cette description erronée du taux de chômage des jeunes est celle qui sert à justifier la précarisation des jeunes (cpe etc.) et la soumission des université/structures-scolaires aux désirs des entreprises.
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Oui, difficile de suivre ces chiffres, il y a aussi le pourcentage réel de jeunes dans la population avec le décompte de ceux qui s’exilent…
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« Made in Israël » ou dans les colonies de peuplement ?
Considérant que les colonies que construit Israël dans les Territoires palestiniens qu’il occupe sont illégales, 13 Etats membres de l’Union européenne viennent d’indiquer qu’ils étaient favorables à l’étiquetage des biens qui y sont produits. L’objectif est de priver ces biens des tarifs préférentiels accordés aux biens produits en Israël. Selon les termes d’un accord commercial passé en 2009 avec l’Union européenne, les produits agricoles d’Israël bénéficient de réductions tarifaires. La déclaration des 13 - qui n’est pour le moment qu’une déclaration d’intention - vise à soustraire les produits des colonies de ces réductions tarifaires. Israël a exporté vers l’Europe pour 12,6 milliards de biens en 2011. Selon la Banque mondiale les colonies contribuent à hauteur de 300 millions à ces exportations.
13 EU ministers favor labeling settlement-made goods
United Kingdom, France, Spain among countries signed on petitionApril 21, 2013, 4:18 pm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/13-eu-ministers-favor-labeling-settlement-made-goodsJTA — Foreign ministers from 13 European Union member states have expressed their support for labeling products made in what they regard as illegal Israeli settlements.
According to a report Friday in El Pais, the Spanish daily, the request was made to Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, in a letter co-signed by ministers from Spain, Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Malta.
“This is an important step to ensure correct and coherent application of EU consumer protection and labeling legislation, which is in fulfillment of our previous commitments and is fully consistent with long-standing EU policy in relation to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” they wrote on April 12 to Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union.
The ministers also wrote: “We stand ready to assist you in taking forward this important work,” in reference to guidelines published in 2012 after a meeting by the EU’s 27 foreign ministers that said that “the European Union and its members are obligated to fully and effectively implement existing EU legislation and agreements with Israel regarding products from the settlements.”
The European Union considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights illegal, and some of its members have said that labeling products from such settlements as “made in Israel” is misleading. “The correct labeling of products is necessary to assure that our consumers are not misled by false information,” the ministers wrote.
Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, both areas captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, and does not consider those areas settlements. The final status of the West Bank, also captured during the ’67 war, has yet to be determined.
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Living standards were constant for thousands of years before the industrial revolution. Malthus explained it this way: population grows faster when living standards rise; therefore, changes in technology alter the density of population but not the average welfare. This paper challenges Malthus’s explanation of the constancy and replaces it with the theory of group selection.
Malthusian theory is inadequate because it misses the fact that a dollar’s worth of diamonds contributes less to survival and reproduction than a dollar’s worth of grain. Grain is a subsistence commodity and a diamond is a surplus commodity. The Malthusian force anchors the average level of subsistence, but not that of surplus. If the surplus sector had grown faster than the subsistence sector, then living standards could have grown steadily before the industrial revolution, but they did not. The constancy of living standards thus implies that growth was balanced between subsistence and surplus, something Malthus did not explain.
To explain the balanced growth, I propose the theory of group selection. Selection of group characteristics, including culture and technology, goes on by migration and conquests. Since living standards rise with the ratio of surplus to subsistence, migrants and invaders usually move from places relatively rich in subsistence to those relatively rich in surplus. They spread the culture and technology of their subsistence-rich origin to the surplus-rich destination – the bias of migration favors the spread of subsistence over that of surplus. Even if surplus cultures and technologies would develop faster than subsistence ones in a local environment, the o-setting biased migration balances the two sectors on a global scale. This explains the constancy of living standards.
My new theory reinterprets why living standards declined after the Agricultural Revolution and stagnated afterwards, how the Industrial Revolution happened and where the prosperity of Roman Empire and Song Dynasty came from.
http://lindert.econ.ucdavis.edu/seminars/papers/WuLeminJMPMalthusianConstancy.pdf
( via l’incontournable http://marginalrevolution.com )
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Mass evictions continue in Spain - World Socialist Web Site
►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/23/spai-a23.html
Mass evictions continue in Spain
By Franci Vier and Paul Mitchell
23 April 2013Last Thursday, the Popular Party (PP) used its majority in Spain’s Congress to pass a Law on Measures to Protect Debtors, Debt Restructuring and Social Renting.
The law was prompted by an anti-evictions petition launched by the Mortgage Victims Platform (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, PAH), which received 1.5 million signatures. The three main demands of the petition, known as the Legislative Initiative for Decent Housing (Inciativa Legislativa Popular, ILP) were a backdated halt to evictions, the creation of a pool of social housing for those who are made homeless, and a new law to allow those who have had their homes foreclosed to write off their debts by handing the property over to the bank. Under Spanish law, a mortgage holder can be made to pay off a remaining loan if the value of the property does not cover the debt.
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Mass evictions continue in Spain - World Socialist Web Site
►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/23/spai-a23.html
Mass evictions continue in Spain
By Franci Vier and Paul Mitchell
23 April 2013Last Thursday, the Popular Party (PP) used its majority in Spain’s Congress to pass a Law on Measures to Protect Debtors, Debt Restructuring and Social Renting.
The law was prompted by an anti-evictions petition launched by the Mortgage Victims Platform (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, PAH), which received 1.5 million signatures. The three main demands of the petition, known as the Legislative Initiative for Decent Housing (Inciativa Legislativa Popular, ILP) were a backdated halt to evictions, the creation of a pool of social housing for those who are made homeless, and a new law to allow those who have had their homes foreclosed to write off their debts by handing the property over to the bank. Under Spanish law, a mortgage holder can be made to pay off a remaining loan if the value of the property does not cover the debt.
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L’instrument à languette est top aussi, on dirait une sorte de guimbarde sur planche, est ce que ça a un nom ?
Sinon excellent ce morceau, merci pour le partage @speciale -
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Il y a deux ans, le spectacle annuel de la maternelle de l’une de mes filles était accompagné par un joueur de hang - toute l’assistance était hypnotisée par le son de cet instrument étrange. Malgré l’insistance des curieux il n’a pas été possible de l’essayer, mais c’était affreusement tentant.
La production est tellement faible et la demande tellement élevée que PANArt peut se permettre de sélectionner les producteurs sur dossier (courrier postal uniquement - pas d’email !) et reçoit chaque acquéreur sur place : http://www.hangblog.org/information-about-purchasing-a-hang - les modèles d’occasion se vendent plus cher que les neufs. Il n’y a même pas de production standard - c’est de l’artisanat évolutif de petites séries où chaque pièce est considérée individuellement avec sa propre identité.
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@mad_meg : Le hang, on le voit vers 20:00, tu ne parlerais pas de ce qu’on voit vers 8:50 / 9:00 ? Je ne sais pas ce que c’est mais ça a l’air furieusement DIY :)
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@0gust1 oui en effet c’est pas le , comme tu dit ca à l’air DIY, faute de mieux je vais l’appeler « Muliti-guimbarde sur planche » alors ^^
comme on parle des instruments rares j’en profite pour poster cette video sympas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6l3YjR6NYPetit apperçu de 700 instruments de musiques de la collection de Randy Raine-Reusch.
Instruments in order are : 0:01 Thai khaen, 0:09 Appalachian dulcimer, 0:24 Chinese hulusi, 0:36 Chinese bawu, 0:46 Chinese dizi, 0:56 Chinese xun, 1:07 Thai (Lisu) naw (hulusheng in China), 1:15 Malaysian (Kayan) selingut, 1:19 Hawaiian one hano ihu, 1:23 Indian pungi, 1:29 Egyptian midjweh, 1:32 Vanuatu shark mouth flute, 1:37 Indonesian (Sunda) suling, 1:41 Slovakian Koncovka, 1:48 Chinese (Uighur, Xinjiang Province) satar, 1:50 Chinese (Uighur, Xinjiang Province) dutar, 1:54 Czech platerspiel, 1:57 Vietnamese dan nguyen, 2:00 Thai (Lanna) seung, 2:03 Ugandan ekidongo, ennenga or adunga, 2:06 Thai (Lanna) pin pia, 2:10 Kenyan nyatiti, 2:13 Vietnamese koni, 2:15 Vietnamese bro, 2:17 South African chipendani, 2:19 Bengali ektara, 2:20 Persian ney, 2:22 Philippine kubing, 2:24 Lao (Hmung) gaeng, 2:25 Chinese (Miao) kouqin, 2:27 Australian didjeridu, 2:28 Nigerian (Birom) yomkwo, 2:30 Malaysian (Bidayuh) kiromboi (snail shells), 2:31 Canadian North West cedar whistle, 2:32 American (Plains people) courting flute, 2:34 USA triple ocarina, Malaysian (Iban) engkulurai, Jewish shofar, 2:35 Indian conch, Bengali khomok, 2:36 Mexican ocarina, 2:37 Vietnamese (Ede) ding tac ta, Ghana aslatua, 2:38 Ivory Coast ahoco, Ghanian alghaita.
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Je ne connaissais pas le #hang. Je me suis dit en le voyant (et en écoutant) que c’était un mini steel-drum, et j’avais raison. http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om16250.html
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@speciale c’est aussi ce que je me suis dit : un steel drum à l’envers et sans baguettes…
@mad_meg le bidulophone a l’air d’être un travel bug Mark Stewart ayant (outre quelques solides références… http://www.polygraphlounge.com/Mark ) un faible prononcé pour les instruments DIY http://www.polygraphlounge.com/instruments.html
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Héhé, @simplicissimus : Je crois avoir vu un bout de daxophophone... :)
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Europe’s Stark Choice: Resignation or Revolution « naked capitalism
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L’Euro aura accru les disparités de capital et de salaires entre européens, au profit des plus riches des pays les plus endettés.
Par ailleurs, le transfert de la production industrielle des pays les plus endettés vers les pays les moins endettés est inévitable, tant la prévarication des élites locales pèse sur le productivité des travailleurs des pays endettés
9. We badly need new theories of how Mediterranean Europe can have positive inflation (for the most part), nominally overinflated wealth levels, and yet be crushed by some kind of destructive economic process that we don’t yet have a good enough label for.
10. Wolfgang Münchau, despite his considerable plaudits, remains a remarkably underrated columnist. There is no one better to read.
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WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/15/vati-a15.html
WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators
By Marc Wells
15 April 2013Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks released a new archive of 1.3 million diplomatic cables and intelligence records last Monday encompassing the years 1973 through 1976, dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.”
The database includes documents revealing the ruthless operations led by the US worldwide, at a time when the international working class was on the offensive and the bourgeoisie was waging a ruthless counterattack.
