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  • 10 Creepiest Abandoned Water Parks on Earth | Environmental Graffiti
    http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/urban-exploration/news-10-creepiest-abandoned-water-parks-earth

    Une galerie d’aqua park abandonnés à travers le monde.

    The water slide glistens in the sun but there are no laughing children waiting in line to come speeding down from the top. In fact, barely a sound can be heard. The whole water park is bathed in eerie silence. Is it because it’s too cold – because the park closed already for winter? No, the sense of abandonment and desolation runs deeper.

    #aqua #park #abandonnés #galerie #photos


  • Si si, le bon dieu est dans Unicode ! Mais c’est plus compliqué qu’il n’y paraît.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah#Unicode

    Unicode has a codepoint reserved for Allāh, ﷲ‎ = U+FDF2. This character according to the official Unicode specification is a ligature of alif-lām-lām-shadda-(superscript alif)-hā (اللّٰه U+0627 U+0644 U+0644 U+0651 U+0670 U+0647).

    There is, however some confusion arising from the fact that Arabic typography usually features a llāh glyph without the preceding ʾalif, which only occurs phrase-initially (or with hamzatu l-waṣl ٱ in Qur’anic orthography). Consequently, the majority of Arabic Unicode fonts do not conform with the specification and have a glyph without the alif at this position (e.g. those provided by Linotype, the great majority of those licensed to or developed by Microsoft, those of Arabeyes.org, SIL’s Lateef and the fonts of CRULP developed in Pakistan), while others have the prescribed form with alif (e.g. SIL’s Scheherazade, Adobe Arabic distributed with the Middle-Eastern version of the Adobe Reader 7, Arial Unicode MS, and Arabic Typesetting, distributed with VOLT and with Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2003).

    The calligraphic variant of the word used as the Coat of arms of Iran is encoded in Unicode, in the Miscellaneous Symbols range, at codepoint U+262B (☫).


  • Quote on MLK Memorial is Out-of-Context, Makes King Look « Arrogant » Says Maya Angelou | AlterNet
    http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/659578/quote_on_mlk_memorial_is_out-of-context%2C_makes_king_look_%22arrogant%22_

    Quand la citation exacte de Matin Luther King dit :

    “If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice,” King told the congregation. “Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.” ...

    Le « mémorial » à sa « mémoire » résume :

    Carved on the north face of the 30-foot-tall granite statue, the inscription reads: I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.

    Pas exactement la même « attitude », ou « positionnement ».

    Mais c’est aujourd’hui la droite conservatrice qui cherche à s’emparer de la « mémoire » de MLK....

    Pas facile de mourrir. Les héritiers ne sont pas toujours ceux que l’on aimerait.


  • 28 août 2009 - 09BEIRUT971
    IRAN PUSHES INTO LEBANESE DEMINING OPERATIONS
    http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/08/09BEIRUT971.html

    Lebanese Mine Action Center (LMAC) director Brigadier General Mohammad Fehmi separately confirmed that LMAC was offered donations by Iranians for demining and victims assistance, but he claimed to have refused the offer because the grants would come with “Hizballah tied to them.”

    Après le ministre de la défense qui refuse une énorme offre d’armes russes pour l’armée libanaise, voici le responsable libanais du déminage qui refuse des dons iraniens pour subventionner le déminage et aider les victimes, et qui va s’en vanter auprès des américains.

    Mais c’est quoi ces gens ?

    #cablegate #liban


  • New Book: "Work" in the Age of #Capitalism | Death and TaxesDeath and Taxes
    http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/76528/new-book-work-in-the-age-of-capitalism

    After so much technological progress, why do we have to #work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compared to our bosses? When the economy crashes, why do people focus on protecting their jobs when no one likes working in the first place? Can capitalism survive another century of crises?

    Our newest book, entitled Work, addresses these questions and a great many more. To answer them, we had to revisit our previous analysis of employment and develop a more nuanced understanding of the economy. We spent months studying obscure history and comparing notes about how we experience exploitation in our daily lives, slowly hammering out a grand unified theory of contemporary capitalism.

    #travail


  • Joumblatt en 2006 : « Envahissez mon pays »

    J’ai posté ce matin un premier billet concernant ce câble :

    17 juillet 2006 :
    TFLE01 : LARSEN TO PROPOSE HANDOVER OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS TO GOL ; JUMBLATT AND HAMADEH CONCUR
    http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/6742

    Mon billet, concernant la première partie du rapport, au sujet de l’envoyé de l’ONU Terje Roed-Larsen :
    http://seenthis.net/messages/14117

    C’est la seconde partie de ce câble qui en fait un document carrément explosif : il met en cause, très gravement, Walid Joumblatt, alors membre éminent du 14 Mars.

    Il faut souligner la qualité et l’indépendance du quotidien Al-Akhbar : le quotidien est, politiquement, proche du 8 Mars, opposée au 14 Mars, sur une ligne anti-impérialiste assumée. Or, il publie ici un document qui met en cause très gravement le nouvel allié du 8 Mars : c’est le (n-ième) retournement de veste de Walid Joumblatt, il y a quelques semaines, qui a permis à l’ex-opposition (les alliés du Hezbollah) de faire tomber le gouvernement de Saad Hariri.

    En termes strictement politiciens, on peut considérer qu’Al-Akhbar tire contre son camp (les voix du groupe politique de Joumblatt sont indispensable au Hezbollah pour obtenir la majorité parlementaire). En termes d’indépendance journalistique et d’intégrité politique, c’est assez admirable (il n’y a pas grand chose de commun, idéologiquement, entre les idées d’Al-Akhbar et celles de Joumblatt).

    Commençons par l’aspect ridicule (mais tout de même abjecte) du rapport. Israël bombarde massivement le Liban depuis une semaine, les morts civils sont innombrables, des centaines de milliers de réfugiés à travers le pays, les infrastructures civiles du pays pilonnées, une catastrophe écologique importante... ; pourtant Walid Joumblatt et ses sbires, Marwan Hamadeh et Ghazi Aridi, ne s’oublient pas (il doit bien y avoir quelque chose d’outrancier dans leur comportement pour que Jeffrey Feltman mette ce genre de considérations dans son rapport diplomatique) :

    Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Minister of Telecommunications Marwan Hamadeh, and Minister of Information Ghazi Aridi entered the room in good humor and indulged in generous orders to room service with the others present.

    [...]

    Over a glass of red wine, a large bottle of vodka (the quality of which sparked a long exchange between Jumblatt and the startled room service waiter), and three bottles of Corona beer, Jumblatt gave a briefing on the thinking of the March 14 coalition which had met that evening.

    Mais c’est, évidemment, le contenu de la conversation qui est historique. Jeffrey Feltman, qui signe ce compte-rendu, utilise un intertitre particulièrement explicite : « Envahissez mon pays ».

    INVADE MY COUNTRY
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    [...] Jumblatt noted the heavy destruction of Lebanese infrastructure but bemoaned the irony that Hizballah’s military infrastructure had not been seriously touched. Jumblatt explained that although March 14 must call for a cease-fire in public, it is hoping that Israel continues its military operations until it destroys Hizballah’s military capabilities. “If there is a cease-fire now, Hizballah wins,” said Jumblatt. “We don’t want it to stop,” Hamadeh chimed in. Hizballah has been stockpiling arms for years and its arsenal is well-hidden and protected somewhere in the Biqa Valley. Jumblatt marveled at the cleverness of the Iranians in supplying Hizballah with the anti-ship missile that hit an Israeli gunboat.

    8. (C/NF) Responding to Jumblatt’s complain that Israel is hitting targets that hurt the GOL while leaving Hizballah strategically strong, the Ambassador asked Jumblatt what Israel should do to cause serious damage to Hizballah. Jumblatt replied that Israel is still in the mindset of fighting classic battles with Arab armies. “You can’t win this kind of war with zero dead,” he said. Jumblatt finally said what he meant; Israel will have to invade southern Lebanon. Israel must be careful to avoid massacres, but it should clear Hizballah out of southern Lebanon. Then the LAF can replace the IDF once a cease-fire is reached. A defeat of Hizballah by Israel would be a defeat of Syrian and Iranian influence in Lebanon, Hamadeh added. For emphasis, Jumblatt said that the only two outcomes are total defeat or total success for Hizballah.

    9. (C/NF) Hamadeh said that an Israeli invasion would give Siniora more ammunition to deal with Hizballah’s arms. Jumblatt thought the crisis could end in an armistice agreement like after the 1973 war. A buffer zone in the south could then be created. However, Jumblatt added, Israel should not bomb Syria because it would simply bring Syria back into the Arab fold without damaging the regime in Damascus. Weaken Syria by weakening Hizballah, he counseled; don’t make Syria a hero of the Arab world. Jumblatt made it clear he approved with Israel’s scrupulous avoidance of direct military action against Syria.

    INVASION ON THE TABLE
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    10. (C/NF) After finishing their room service, Jumblatt and company departed. [...]

    COMMENT
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    11. (C/NF) Jumblatt’s comments echoed those of other March 14 contacts. Like the Israelis, they see the status quo ante as not an appealing destination. Thus, they also privately share their belief that a cease-fire now would leave Hizballah’s capabilities largely intact, with Nasrallah stronger and March 14 even weaker. But they fret that Israel’s stated aims of weakening Hizballah, while theoretically attractive, is not in fact happening. Marwan Hamadeh commented bitterly that al-Manar television is still broadcasting, while infrastructure under “March 14” control, like the fixed telephone network, has been seriously damaged.

    Voilà, ça se résume finalement à cela : « Israel will have to invade southern Lebanon » (« Israël va devoir envahir le sud du Liban »).

    Walid Joumblatt et Marwan Hamadé, deux éminents fondateurs de la coalition du 14 Mars (portant une responsabilité certaine dans la rédaction de la résolution 1559), fervents militants de l’« intifada de l’indépendance », réclament ouvertement un Liban « indépendant » dont une région entière serait occupée par Israël. Ils demandent une résolution internationale exigeant que les puissances régionales n’interviennent plus dans les affaires intérieures du Liban, tout en demandant ouvertement à Israël de faire disparaître le Hezbollah.

    #cablegate #liban