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ADL: Alice Walker conveys ’fervently anti-Jewish ideas’ in new book - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/adl-alice-walker-conveys-fervently-anti-jewish-ideas-in-new-book.premium-1.

The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday lambasted U.S. author Alice Walker over “fervently anti-Jewish ideas” the group said she expressed in her new book.

According to the U.S.-based Jewish organization, Walker’s new book, “The Cushion in the Road,” devotes some 80 pages to essays on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a section “replete with fervently anti-Jewish ideas and peppered with explicit comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany.” In her writing, Walker further suggests that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state and seeks to justify terrorism against Israeli civilians, the ADL said.

“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said in a statement. “She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before.

“Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world,” he added.

Alice Walker, the author of the Pulitzer-winning work “The Color Purple,” has long held a position very critical of Israel. In protest against the country’s policies toward the Palestinians walker last year refused to authorize a new Hebrew translation of her most famous work.

More recently, Walker – a proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel – urged singer Alicia Keys to cancel her scheduled July concert in Tel Aviv. In an open letter to Keys, she said that “It would grieve me to know you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an apartheid country that is being boycotted by many global conscious artists.”

In its statement, the ADL blasted Walker for describing Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians as “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “crimes against humanity,” and “cruelty and diabolical torture.”

Scholar-Activist Project Awards | AntipodeFoundation.org
http://antipodefoundation.org/scholar-activist-project-awards

This year’s round of Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards is now open. Grants of up to £10,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) are available to critical geographers collaborating with non-academics and activists or holding events such as conferences, seminar series, summer schools, etc.

Read all about them...

Ça vaudrait la peine ? non ?

Scholar-Activist Project Awards

The Antipode Foundation exists for the promotion and advancement of social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of radical geography. Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards are intended to support collaborations between academics, non-academics and activists (from NGOs, think tanks, social movements, or community grassroots organisations, among other places) which further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. They are aimed at promoting programmes of action-research, participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, and more publicly-focused forms of geographical investigation. We want to fund work that leads to the exchange of ideas across and beyond the borders of the academy, and builds meaningful relationships and productive partnerships.

International Workshop Awards

The Antipode Foundation exists for the promotion and advancement of social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of radical geography. Antipode Foundation International Workshop Awards are intended to support radical geographers holding events (including conferences, workshops, seminar series, summer schools and action research meetings) which further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. The Antipode Foundation will explicitly privilege applicants and initiatives from historically under-represented groups, regions, countries and institutions.

#géographie_critique #cartographie_radicale

Article11 - « Entre Dieu et le diable, on trouve la puce » – Entretien parasitique avec Camille Le Doze - Julia Zortea
►http://www.article11.info/?Entre-Dieu-et-le-diable-on-trouve

UNE PETITE CHOSE QUI TOUCHE TOUT LE MONDE

« Alors que je devais choisir un sujet de recherche, les étudiants de ma faculté qui travaillaient sur la période de l’Ancien Régime avaient coutume de se pencher sur les inventaires après décès : entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle, quand quelqu’un mourrait, la liste de tout ce qui se trouvait dans sa maison était systématiquement dressée. Mais l’histoire matérielle ne me disait trop rien ; j’avais plutôt envie de traiter d’une petite chose qui touche tout le monde. Un jour, j’ai lu dans Le Monde un entrefilet écrit par un parasitologue breton, collectionneur de sources anciennes sur les parasites, qui venait d’auto-éditer une brochure rassemblant ses références. Il semblait possible d’entamer une recherche historique sur cette catégorie d’insectes, et sur ses liens avec l’homme.

Pour la petite histoire, mon arrière-grand-mère, cartonnière à Paris dans les années 1920, a eu la peste, qui s’attrape et se transmet par la puce. En choisissant cet animal pour ’’entrer dans l’Histoire’’, je pensais très rapidement dériver vers les pestes de l’Ancien Régime et l’histoire médicale. »

#puce #histoire #érotisme #peste

Torture and impunity continue in Egypt

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/72066.aspx

SCAF and Morsi took no steps to eradicate torture, according to a report by Amnesty International

Les Cahiers Du Cedimes, désormais en ligne : Vol 5 - 2011 sous la direction du Pr. AM Laulan
http://cedimes.com/index.php?option=com_content

Les Cahiers du Cedimes : Publication Trimestrielle Vol. 5 – No3 – Automne 2011
Le développement durable
en manque de communication
Sous la coordination de Anne-Marie Laulan
Institut CEDIMES
Université Valahia de Târgovişte

Ce numéro est consacré à l’étude des liens existants entre développement économique et communication. Le fruit d’un croisement entre disciplines, distinctes mais complémentaires, au service d’une compréhension meilleure des évolutions qui nous accompagnent... Découvrir ci-dessous le sommaire et télécharger les études en « texte intégral »

Chris Woods
http://www.chriswoodsartist.com/id32.html

Royal Treats is a body of work that was partially conceived in the fall of 1994. It was put on hold, however, while I undertook the commission to paint The Fourteen Stations of the Cross for St. David’s Anglican Church in Vancouver, BC.
Before I took on the Stations of the Cross, my initial ideas for Royal Treats were to encompass images of superstition and ritual set in fast-food restaurants. The paintings Royal Treats and Sandwich Artist reflect these themes. Royal Treats, which takes place in a Dairy Queen, is loosely based on the Catholic ritual of communion while Sandwich Artist takes a more pagan approach by depicting a palm reading at a Subway sandwich shop. Two other works, Fast Food Ritual I & II, also deal with similar notions.

http://www.chriswoodsartist.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/sobeginsthereign.jpg
So Begins The Reign, Oil on Canvas, 102 X 68 inches, 1997
via ufunk.net
#peinture

Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture

An Egyptian court has sentenced a policeman to 15 years imprisonment for manslaughter for torturing an ultraconservative Salafi Muslim to death.

The Alexandria Criminal Court found Osama el-Kounayassi guilty of using torture to extract confessions from the man, suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian church over two years ago. El-Kounayassi had earlier won a retrial after another court found him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/04/16/egypt-policeman-sentenced-to-15-years-for-torture

Rappel : C’est notamment la mort de Khaled Saïd dans des circonstances similaires qui avait été l’élément déclencheur de la révolution https://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=khaled+said&oq=khaled+said&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.23

#violence #Egypt

Un nouveau parti allemand anti-euro fait trembler les formations traditionnelles - ALLEMAGNE - FRANCE 24
http://www.france24.com/fr/20130414-allemagne-adf-nouveau-parti-anti-euro-fait-trembler-partis-tradit

À cinq mois des élections législatives de septembre, un nouveau parti, baptisé Alternative pour l’Allemagne, a fait son apparition sur la scène politique allemande. Résolument anti-euro, il propose, notamment, un retour au deutschemark.

German Elites Drawn to Anti-Euro Party, Spelling Trouble for Merkel-
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/world/europe/elites-flock-to-anti-euro-party-alternative-for-germany.html

The question is whether the party is experiencing the short-lived buzz of a political fad or represents the beginning of a significant movement that could jeopardize the struggling euro.

The new party is driven by a collection of elites, not a groundswell from the streets, starting with Bernd Lucke, 50, a Hamburg economics professor. Mr. Lucke, along with many of the new party’s supporters, previously belonged to Ms. Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union before the Greek bailouts forced him to reconsider.

ARCHAEOLOGY - Historians, geographers to gather for Piri Reis

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historians-geographers-to-gather-for-piri-reis.aspx?pageID=238&nI

signalé par Alain Gresh

Due to the fact that 2013 has been declared by UNESCO as the 500th Anniversary of the Piri Reis Map, Ankara University will host the International Piri Reis Symposium on April 12.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/news/201304/n_44644_4.jpg

According to a written statement released by Professor İhsan Çiçek from the university’s Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, the symposium will be attended by many Turkish and foreign researchers.

Within the scope of the Piri Reis events, UNESCO will display 28 maps drawn by Piri Reis in Turkey and two 2.5 meter Piri Reis busts will be added to the Ankara University campus and the Altındağ Hamamönü.

#cartographie #cartographie-historique #turquie

Victoire juridique du syndicat des Universités de Londres face à un de ses membres opposé au BDS.
http://www.ucu.org.uk/6562

An Employment Tribunal has found in favour of UCU on all ten complaints of harassment brought by a UCU member who opposed the union’s policy on Palestine.

French hostage ’executed’ in Mali - Africa - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/201332002442737121.html

A French hostage has been executed in Mali, a man claiming to be a spokesman for al-Qaeda in North Africa has told Mauritania’s ANI news agency.

A French foreign office spokesman said on Tuesday that Paris was trying to verify the report of the killing of Philippe Verdon, who was kidnapped in November 2011, adding that “we don’t know at the moment” whether it was reliable.

The private Mauritanian news agency reported that someone calling himself Al-Qairawani and claiming to be a spokesman for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group told them that the “spy” Verdon had been executed “on March 10 in response to France’s intervention in Northern Mali”.

“The French President (Francois) Hollande is responsible for the lives of the other French hostages,” he warned.

In all 15 French nationals, including Verdon, are being held captive in Africa, with AQIM claiming responsibility for six of the kidnappings.

Refusal to pay ransom

Verdon was seized on the night of November 24, 2011 along with Serge Lazarevic. According to their families the two men had been on a business trip and were kidnapped from their hotel in Hombori, northeast Mali.

The families denied that the two men were mercenaries or secret service agents.

AQIM swiftly claimed responsibility for the kidnappings and in August last year a video showing Verdon describing the “difficult living conditions” was released on a Mauritanian website.

The hostages’ families have in recent weeks expressed growing fears for their loved ones in the light of France’s military actions in Mali.

Earlier Tuesday, Verdon’s father Jean-Pierre Verdon complained that the families were hearing nothing from the French authorities.

“We are in a total fog and it is impossible to live this way,” he told RTL radio. “We have no information.”

Asked about France’s refusal to pay ransoms to kidnappers, Verdon senior replied that the families had no say in such “decisions of state”.

Paris deployed forces in Mali on January 11 to help stop al-Qaeda linked fighters who had controlled the north of the country since April 2012 from moving southward and threatening the capital Bamako.

Les capitalistes perdent leur sang froid, ils cèdent à leur tour à la tentation complotiste. C’est amusant.
Allez, hop, un exemple de ces lamentations de #chouineurs, poujadistes, qui rappelle la chouannerie de l’époque : la manipulation des gueux par les barons de l’époque, pour sauver leurs petits privilèges mis en péril par l’effondrement de l’Ancien Régime.
En substance : l’Etat est une organisation fourbe et malveillante qui vous spolie, détruisons l’Etat (providence) !
Même à Chypre, c’est l’Etat-Providence qui a dépouillé les petites gens :-)
C’est énorme, mais ça a toujours un écho énorme dans tous les cafés du commerce, faut pas laisser passer ces discours...

Et le plus délirant là dedans c’est la fin de l’article. Où l’on est invité, pour sauver son pognon, à s’inscrire à la newsletter des publications Agora, une boite de conseil financier dirigée par l’auteur :-)
Allez hop, le troupeau effrayé, venez-vous faire dépouiller par les marchands de peur plutôt que laisser votre pognon à l’Etat !
Je mets l’intégralité, y a rien à jeter...
C’est énorme, c’est trop gros, c’est Atlantico !!!!

C’est du vol. Vous vous réveillez un lundi matin avec 6,75% d’argent en moins. Des malfrats sont passés durant la nuit.

Enfin, ce n’est pas tout à fait du vol car l’État a le monopole de la violence légale. L’Etat a toujours la loi pour lui puisqu’il la forge au gré de ses besoins.

Mais bien sûr, l’Etat est une pieuvre immonde, à côté de laquelle la Cosa Nostra est un groupuscule de bisounours.

Et ça continue de plus belle avec un vocabulaire toujours aussi subtil et mesuré et cette belle métaphore de l’Etat monstrueux prêt à dévorer ses enfants pour survivre...
Et le plus beau plus bas : la taxation exceptionnelle des capitaux, outre bien entendu le traditionnel cri à #spoliation et au bafouement du droit de propriété, c’est le retour à l’esclavage... Si si, c’est écrit...

#godwin, sors de ce corps

Aujourd’hui, les États ont beaucoup de besoins et ils prennent l’argent là où il se trouve. Le cas de Chypre nous montre que les autorités sont prêtes à n’importe quoi pour ne pas perdre la face. Acculées, elles font des choses stupides et effectivement, elles vont peut-être déclencher une panique bancaire, une fuite des dépôts. Car laisser son argent dans une banque c’est accepter qu’il soit pris en otage par un État impécunieux. Et comme tous les États sont de plus en plus impécunieux...

Les observateurs superficiels se félicitent qu’avec l’aménagement de la franchise à 100 000 euros ce serait en fait une « garantie bancaire européenne » qui se met en place.

La vérité est tout autre. La vérité est que les États obèses ne veulent pas notre bien, ils veulent survivre à tout prix. La démocratie et les règles de droit les plus élémentaires sont bafouées.

L’Europe foule aux pieds le droit de propriété. Si vous n’êtes plus propriétaire des fruits de votre épargne et de ce que vous avez légitimement acquis, si on peut vous en priver arbitrairement, c’est le début de l’esclavage. L’esclave ne possède rien en propre, c’est ce qui définit cette condition.

Nous allons avoir droit à tout l’arsenal de la répression financière, depuis la taxe sur les dépôts jusqu’à l’emprunt obligatoire.

Vous vous demandez peut-être ce que cela pourrait donner en France ?

Réponse : 19%.

C’est – calculé par le Boston Consulting Group – la taxe sur l’épargne qu’il faudrait mettre en place pour faire face à une restructuration de notre dette et pouvoir la limiter à 180% du PIB (limite empiriquement prouvée comme acceptable). Il s’agit de la dette nationale totale : Etat, ménages, entreprises.

Ce que cela signifie pour un épargnant français

Tous les gros dépôts doivent être fractionnés. N’oubliez pas que le système bancaire européen ne fonctionne toujours pas normalement et dépend de la Banque centrale européenne. Le système de financement des Etats-providence est à bout de souffle et avant l’effondrement final les Etats vont devenir féroces.

Mais ce n’est pas tout. Le fractionnement des dépôts ne suffit pas.

La monnaie fiduciaire, telle que nous l’entendons aujourd’hui, est en réalité une dette : un « droit à l’échange pour une contrepartie de X unités monétaires ». Ce droit à l’échange reçoit, en principe, la caution de l’État.

Il y a trop de dettes mais personne ne veut encore avouer qu’elles ne pourront pas être remboursées. La seule vraie monnaie capable de conserver sa valeur, c’est l’or conservé en dehors du circuit bancaire.

[Pour en savoir plus sur les moyens de protéger votre argent au jour le jour, quoi qu’il arrive en Europe et dans le reste de l’économie, continuez votre lecture...] http://protection-rendements.fr/inscriptions/prn/prnletter.php?code=X990PA10

En savoir plus sur http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/france-est-elle-menacee-destin-chypriote-simone-wapler-674284.html

Google prépare une section jaune pour la Presse sur PlayStore
http://neosting.net/actualite/google-play-news-playstore-presse-flux-rss.html

Voilà une petite information intéressante à analyser. Android Police a trouvé un petit bout de code Javascript détaillant un peu l’arrivée d’une nouvelle section qui aura la couleur jaune dans le Play Store et intitulée Google Play News. La section concernant Play News dans ... #flux-rss #google-currents #google-play-news #google-reader #presse

‘South Africa can learn from you’ | The Jewish Chronicle
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/102900/south-africa-can-learn-you’

There was much that South Africa could learn from its Jewish community, particularly its notion of community, said Cyril Ramaphosa, newly-elected vice president of the ANC, the country’s ruling party.
Mr Ramaphosa was speaking at an event organised by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein to discuss challenges facing the nation.
Stating that a community was defined by “an essential and over-riding concern with the interest, progress and well-being of all its members”, Mr Ramaphosa said: “This I’ve found to be very prevalent in the Jewish community.”
Addressing Mr Ramaphosa frankly on the Israel-Palestine question, Rabbi Goldstein spoke of the community’s “deep connection” to the Jewish state and the perception that the government was biased against it. “What we expect from our government is balance and a sense of proportionality.

Egypt’s ’eye-sniper’ sentenced amid ongoing clashes

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypts-eye-sniper-sentenced-amid-ongoing-clashes

An Egyptian police officer nicknamed the “eye sniper” was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in deadly clashes in Cairo in 2011.
Judge Makram Awad of the Cairo criminal court sentenced Mahmud al-Shinnawi to three years for having targeted the eyes of demonstrators during protests on Mohammed Mahmoud street, near Cairo’s Tahrir Square in November 2011.

Ça c’est excellent : l’émission humoristique américaine Saturday Night Live avait un sketch de six minutes parodiant l’invraisemblable focalisation de l’audition de Chuck Hagel devant le Sénat américain sur la seule « sécurité » d’Israël.

Du coup… l’Anti-Defamation League accuse le sketch de « possible » promotion de l’antisémitisme, au motif que le sketch pourrait suggérer, auprès de spectateurs influençables, qu’il y aurait un lobby israélien très puissant aux États-Unis (admire comment je te me conditionnelle tout ça).

L’accusation de l’ADL est d’autant plus savoureuse que le sketch n’a finalement pas été diffusé à la télévision. Hum… #wag_the_dog

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/snl-lands-in-hot-water-with-anti-defamation-league-over-hagel-sketch.

“[T]here inevitably will be those who say, ‘Yeah, it’s funny, but there’s some truth to all of this,’” Foxman wrote in a letter Monday to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. “And for a smaller minority among those individuals, elements of the skit could play into the worst kind of ideas, even reinforcing pernicious notions of Jewish control of government in the vein of those routinely espoused by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites by suggesting that U.S. officials would even engage in public sex acts if asked to do so by Israel.”

Impossible de voir le sketch sur le site de la NBC si on n’est pas aux États-Unis. Mais il est reproduit dans cet article du Daily Beast.

Overview of Cultural Heritage - Timbuktu, #Mali | UNITAR-#UNOSAT
http://www.unitar.org/unosat/node/44/1725

This map shows the location of cultural heritage sites in the city of Timbuktu. Some of these sites are reported to be recently damaged by members of the Ansar Dine militia (see photo below, courtesy Getty and BBC). UNOSAT is collaborating with the University of Cape Town (Zamani Project-www.zamani-project.org) and the Saharan Archeological Research Association (www.saharanresearch.org) to assess potential damage to heritage sites.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/9dt6tzdydhzi8n3/tombouctou.png
#manuscrits #satellites #cartographie

If Right-Wing Violence Is Up 400%, Why Is the FBI Targeting Environmentalists?
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/right-wing-violence-increase-west-point-study/6704

The FBI has directed public attention elsewhere: in its chronological listing of terrorist incidents in the United States, the FBI says that in the three years after 9/11, every act of domestic terrorism, except for one, was the work of animal rights and environmental activists, including groups like the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.

In that period, right wing violence resulted in 283 injuries and 71 deaths.

In contrast, the crimes by animal rights and environmental activists physically harmed no one.

L’affaire de Steubenville
Extrait de Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?pagewanted=2

via @reka

Or take the Steubenville case. In Steubenville, Ohio, authorities charged two members of the high school football team with the repeated rape of a passed-out-drunk 16-year-old, but did not charge the many others who allegedly cheered them on and made videos. So the online activists of Anonymous took it upon themselves to hack into private accounts, recover deleted and incriminating videos, and make them public. Amanda Marcotte wrestled with the moral dilemma on Slate: “By stepping in and holding people accountable, Anonymous stands a very good chance of taking action that actually does something to stop rape. But: This type of online vigilante justice is potentially invading the privacy of or defaming innocent Steubenville residents, and even if everything published is true, there are very serious legal limits to the Anonymous strategy.”

Le paragraphe ci-dessus synthétise deux articles, la description des faits (viol collectif dans une fête en août 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio parue dans le NYT du 17/12/12 et les suites de cette publication (hack par des Anonymous et divulgation de noms de personnes impliquées) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/sports/hackers-of-steubenville-football-teams-web-site-demand-apology-in-rape-case (NYT 25/12/12)

Fleur Pellerin : “Oui, nous voulons des #fablab partout en France” | Sabine Blanc
http://owni.fr/2012/12/10/fleur-pellerin-oui-nous-voulons-des-fablab-partout-en-france

La ministre déléguée aux PME, à l’Innovation et à l’Économie numérique a confirmé hier d’un tweet que le gouvernement avait l’intention de développer en France le réseau des fab labs. La discussion en 140 caractères qui a suivi a permis de voir les différents acteurs qui se positionnent sur le très trendy créneau des fab labs.

#Analyse #Politique #Pouvoirs #Fab_Lab #fleur_pellerin #pffff #twitter

Court grants Israel gay couple divorce for first time
An Israeli court has granted a divorce of a gay couple for the first time in the country’s history
03 December 2012 | By Dan Littauer
Professor Uzi Even and Amit Kama made legal history in Israel forcing the country’s ministry of interior to register them as divorced

A court has ordered the ministry of interior of Israel to register a gay couple as divorced after it continually rejected their requests.

Yesterday (2 November) a Ramat Gan family court approved the request of Uzi Even, a former Israeli member of parliament and professor at Tel Aviv University, and Amit Kama, who teaches communications at Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, to order Israel’s ministry of interior to register them as divorced.

Haaretz daily reported that the former couple were married in Canada over eight years ago, while marriage proceedings are open to any national, divorce is only reserved for Canadian nationals.

Marriage and divorce in Israel are under the jurisdiction of the religious courts: Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian.

The former couple had no choice but to appeal to the Jewish court (rabbinical) which is vehemently opposed to gay issues, and simply ignored their repeated requests to open divorce proceedings.

They then appealed to the family court in the city of Ramat Gan against Israel’s ministry of interior, which claimed the rabbinical court was not given ‘enough time’.

The judge rejected the state’s arguments that only the rabbinical courts have the authority to dissolve marriage, and instructed Israel’s interior ministry to register the former lovers as divorced.

Judge Yehezkel Eliyue said he based his decision on a previous ruling of Israel’s high court of justice’s instruction to the state to register the marriages of five same-sex couples who were married Canada.

The court ruled: ‘Once the High Court of Justice ordered the registration of the marriage, the possibility cannot be considered that petitioners who have agreed to end their marriage should remain tied to each other.

‘This runs contrary to the rights and liberties of the individual; it goes against Basic Laws and the basic values of justice and equality’.

The judge further stated: ‘Under these circumstances the rabbinic court lacks the authority to hear the petition, and in any case is not the proper forum to discuss it’.

This is a legal breakthrough in Israel as it sets a legal precedent for both gay and straight couples who want to divorce after they got married in a civil court abroad.

Kama told Haaretz daily: ‘From my point of view, even if the state appeals and we have to keep going down this road, the verdict shows the beginning of the undermining of the rabbinate.

‘I am very happy that we may have made a breakthrough’, he said, adding that the decision could affect not only other same-sex couples but also straight couples.

Les 150 millions égarés de la République | Sylvain Lapoix
►http://owni.fr/2012/11/14/les-150-millions-egares-de-la-republique

Owni a extrait une liste partielle des bénéficiaires des 150 millions d’euros de la réserve parlementaire, où se cachent formations politiques et conflits d’intérêt. Avec l’association Anticor, elle en appelle aux citoyens pour écluser ce document et exiger la publication intégrale de ces dépenses discrétionnaires.

#Cultures_numériques #Data #Enquête #anticor #crowdsourcing #data #financement_politique #réserve_parlementaire

UK: New Archbishop signals openness on LGBT issues
By Scott Robertsfor PinkNews.co.UK
9 November 2012, 3:02pm

Dr Welby is replacing Dr Rowan Williams (KJB Photography)

Dr Welby is replacing Dr Rowan Williams (KJB Photography)

The Bishop of Durham Justin Welby, who has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, says the Church of England must have “no truck with any form of homophobia”.

Although Dr Welby has previously stated his opposition to equal marriage and the ordination of gay bishops, in a speech made on Friday at Lambeth Palace, Dr Welby signalled that he was willing to engage on LGBT issues by saying:

“It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

“We must have no truck with any form of homophobia in any part of the church”.

He said that he supported the House of Bishops’ statement in the summer in response to the government’s consultation on same-sex marriage – which opposed the measure.

“But I also know I need to listen very attentively to the LGBT communities and examine my own thinking carefully and prayerfully,” he added.

Dr Welby was named on Thursday as the replacement for Dr Rowan Williams, who steps down in December after ten years in the post as Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Gay orchestra set to perform in Anglican church
Christmas concert will feature Tchaikovsky and ’camp classics’
07 November 2012
Christmas concert will feature Tchaikovsky and ’camp classics’

The London Gay Symphony Orchestra is to perform a Christmas concert at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, the largest parish church in the City.

The LGSO is the largest in the UK and it’s members have performed at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank, as well as other international venues.

Christopher Braime, the conductor of the Christmas Concert, said: ’Christmas is a sensory time of year – the sights, the smells and, most importantly for me, the sounds: as soon as I hear the opening bars of The Nutcracker, Christmas leaps to life from the score.

’After all those hot ballet boys, Finlandia is an icy shower; The Snow Maiden lures with ice and fire and Dvorak invites us to don our party frocks and dance like a Slavonic.’

The LGSO perform only four times a year and are active in raising funds for charities such as Amnesty International and the Albert Kennedy Trust.

You can purchase tickets for the concert on 9 December here. The performance begins at 7pm.

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