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REVUE DE LA PRESSE IRANIENNE PAR POMED

Iran Weekly Update - May 10, 2013
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a185f96ecfeb10569f5120d0

 
 
Presidential Candidate Registration Begins:
The registration period for the upcoming presidential election began on Tuesday. According to Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, 243 individuals have submitted applications, including: former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rouhani; Mohammad-Reza Aref, Vice President under Mohammad Khatami and Expediency Council member; Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, a conservative former Health Minister; Ali Fallahian, a conservative member of the Assembly of Experts and former Minister of Intelligence; and Mostafa Kavakebian, a former reform-leaning MP. The registration period will end on Saturday evening.
 
Sources: 
Mohammad-Reza Aref Registers as Presidential Candidate BBC Persian [Persian], 5/10/2013
243 Register in 3 Days Fars News Agency [Persian], 5/9/2013 
Candidate Wanted by Interpol Registers for Iran Elections Iran-Pulse [English], 5/9/2013
Iran’s Presidential Race Gets Underway Uskowi on Iran [English], 5/7/2013
Iran’s Presidential Candidates Begin Registration Process Iran-Pulse [English], 5/7/2013

Speculation Surrounding Rafsanjani and Mashaei:
Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani made headlines Sunday after claiming that he intends to speak with Khamenei about his candidacy. Sadeq Zibakalam, a prominent political analyst, claims that Rafsanjani will eventually stand. On Friday, former President Khatami reiterated that, in his opinion, Rafsanjani is the best option. Other political experts believe there is a possibility that, in the absence of Rafsanjani’s candidacy, all three members of the 2+1 Coalition will register and run in the election, rather than choosing one unity candidate. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, a member of the 2+1 Coalition, seemed to confirm this option, saying, “…it is yet not clear when exactly we will announce the result [on the designated unity candidate],” but "the announcement will not take place” before the Guardian Council has completed the candidate vetting process. On Thursday, the conservative Coalition of Five became the first coalition to announce a unity candidate: former First Deputy-Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard. In an interview published on Thursday, Bahman Sharifzadeh, a Mashaei supporter, asserted that Mashaei would register on the last day of the registration period. 
 
Sources:
Coalition of Three to name candidate after vetting process Press TV [English], 5/10/2013
The Best Presidential Option: Rafsanjani BBC Persian [Persian], 5/10/2013
2+1 Unity Candidate May Be Determined after Registration Fars News Agency [Persian], 5/9/2013
Sharifzadeh: “Mashaei to Register on Saturday” Entekhab [Persian], 5/9/2013
Rafsanjani Says He Won’t Run Without Khamenei’s Consent Iran-Pulse [English], 5/6/2013

New Minister of Labor Approved; Head of Medical Association Blocked:
On Sunday, Parliament approved President Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Labor nominee, MP Asadollah Abbasi. On Wednesday, reports emerged that the writ of approval for Iran’s new Medical Association head was sent to the office of President for the third time, with Ahmadinejad again refusing to sign it. Ahmadinejad’s refusal to sign the approval may stem from his dissatisfaction with the vetting process and the denial of his favored candidates during the Medical Association elections in February. 

Sources:
Majlis approves Abbasi as Labor Minister Tehran Times [English], 5/5/2013
Abbasi becomes Minister of Labor Entekhab [Persian], 5/5/2013 

Kahrizak Trial Continues:
On Tuesday, the seventh session of the Kahrizak trial was held behind closed doors. During the session, Director General of Tehran’s Prisons Sohrab Soleimani testified that the now-closed Kahrizak facility was not a legal detention center. One of the defendants, former Deputy Prosecutor Ali Akbar Heidarifar, argued that the Ministry of Justice’s failure to nullify the detainees’ imprisonment orders was tantamount to granting its approval for them. 
 
Sources:
Iran holds 7th court session to hear Kahrizak case Press TV [English], 5/8/2013
Judicial Documents Published on Website Kalameh [Persian], 5/8/2013
Judge Positively Evaluates Kahrizak Case Alef [Persian], 5/7/2013
 
Intelligence Ministry Releases Details of Government Scandal:
Earlier this week, Minister of Intelligence and presidential hopeful Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi released a report concerning a 450 million Euro scandal involving the government’s alleged construction contract in the free trade area of Kish. Reports indicate that construction proceeded without the appropriate auctioning procedures. The government has denied the allegations.
 
Sources:
Details of Government Scandal Published Kalameh [Persian], 5/8/2013
Intelligence Ministry Publishes Details of Scandal Alef [Persian], 5/7/2013
Attorney General Condemns Revealing Scandal BBC Persian [Persian], 5/6/2013 ❞

Le débat sur l’orientation de la politique d’importation de lmain d’oeuvre à Koweit : un parlementair, Saas al Bous, dénonce la loi de 2008 qui permet la déportation des étrangers pour infraction au code de la route ; la responsabilité que la loi fait porter aux étrangers lorsque ces derniers sont trompés et importés à Koweit par des « vendeurs de visas » (sans emplois correspondant). Enfin il critique le plan de réduction du nombre d’étrangers annoncés par le Minsitre du Travail et des Affaires sociales en demandant des précisions sur sa mise en oeuvre.

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A lawmaker called on the government yesterday not to adopt excessive punishments against expatriates and to rationalize the use of deportation as a penalty against expatriates who break the traffic law, amid reports the latest anti-expats measures have increased the cost of recruitment of laborers as well as domestic helpers.

MP Saad Al-Bous said penalties applied against expatriates should be proportionate to the violations they commit without the need for rash and unfair decisions that may adversely impact Kuwaiti democratic system. The lawmaker said that before deporting expatriates for grave traffic offenses, they should be given at least three opportunities before deporting them.

He also said that with regards to laborers recruited by visa traders, these people should not be deported and instead be given enough time to legalize their stay by obtaining residence permits from other companies, because these laborers have committed no mistake as they entered the country through a proper work permit.

In this case, visa traders should be punished and not the laborers who normally pay their savings to come to Kuwait and then when they arrive we force them to leave. “This is illogical to punish the victim and spare the perpetrators” he said in a statement. Bous urged Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Al-Rasheedi not to take rash decisions that may contribute to distorting Kuwait’s image abroad, especially with regards to deporting laborers who are found to work for employers other than their sponsors, adding that these people should be allowed to transfer their residence permits.

He said that according to statements by officials from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, there are around 1,000 paper companies and if we suppose each company employs around 10 expats on average, then that means we have to deport about 10,000 workers. Instead of deporting them and recruiting new workers from abroad, it is better to allow them to legalize their stay and benefit from their experience, Bous said.

The lawmaker’s statements come amid reports that the cost of recruiting workers or domestic helpers from outside has jumped sharply due to the minister’s statements and measures adopted by authorities. Rasheedi said two months ago, that Kuwait plans to deport around 100,000 expatriates every year over the next 10 years to reduce the number of foreigners by one million people. Foreigners currently number 2.6 million against 1.2 million Kuwaitis.

Mussallam al Barak, ancien député du Bloc Populaire, bloc parlementaire hybride considéré à la fois comme populiste, tribal et libéral, est condamné à 5 ans de prison au Koweit pour le discours suivant prononcé en octobre 2012 :

“We will not allow you, your highness, to take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy,” he said. “We no longer fear your prisons and your riot batons.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/201341591338679713.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/middleeast/kuwait-gives-5-year-term-to-dissenter.html?_r=0

Les sunnites pro-régime continuent leur campagne contre l’ambassade américaine, persuadés que les Américains sont derrière les aspirations démocratiques de l’opposition chiite.

On April 9, the daily Akhbar Al-Khalij reported: "The foreign minister has answered questions by MP Abdallah al-Dusari about the truth of an invitation extended by the US Embassy to Bahrainis to participate in its newly announced programme on political change, which is part of the Democratic Leaders Programme; about whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is aware of this, and whether it was informed by the embassy; about whether this act complies with diplomatic rules and norms; about the ministry’s action to prevent any suspicious attempts; and about whether any ambassador was ever previously warned or prevented from doing any activities other than his diplomatic duty.

Qu’ils se rassurent dans le cas du Demcoratic Leaders Programme, le gouverneent semble avoir transmis les dossiers d’inscription aux ministères les plus acquis à la cause du régime actuel.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent out the US Embassy’s memorandum to the Civil Service Bureau, which, in turn, referred it to the parties concerned. The Civil Service Bureau stated that the invitation was extended to the Ministry of State for Human Rights Affairs, Ministry of Social Development, and Bahrain Institute for Political Development.

Pro-government Akhbar al khaleej

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette

The dictate that one ’not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures

Fuites et insultes pendant le dialogue national à huis clos :

MANAMA: The US has been accused of feeding instructions to Bahraini opposition groups taking part in the National Dialogue, as it emerged opposition representatives had also been leaking live updates from closed dialogue sessions over the Internet.

MP Latifa Al Gaoud said key documents submitted by the opposition appeared to have been drafted in English before being translated into Arabic.

Last night’s session had to be stopped halfway through after it emerged opposition delegates were broadcasting comments of participants using wireless Internet, even though the talks are supposed to take place behind closed doors.

Gulf Daily News -pro-government, 8 April
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=351020

Although the participants have so far held ten rounds, tension has prevailed and on Wednesday, the situation was compounded when during a heated argument, Jameel Kadhem, the spokesperson for the coalition of the opposition, reportedly criticised Lateefa Al Gaood, the first woman in the Gulf to be elected to parliament, for claiming that communists wore turbans at the height of the protests and told her that she started wearing the veil only two or three months ago.

Gulf News, 6 April
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/hijab-becomes-crunch-issue-in-bahrain-talks-1.1167353

Hezbollah’s Black Shirts to Reappear on Beirut Streets?
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hezbollah%E2%80%99s-black-shirts-reappear-beirut-streets

A few days ago, MP Jumblatt proclaimed that today’s circumstances were different from those of the past. The MP meant that Hezbollah could no longer stage a repeat of the “black shirts” incident – an unarmed show of force by Hezbollah that was credited with blocking the return of Hariri to power.

This happened on the morning of 18 January 2011. Back then, Jumblatt was not late to understand that he could not nominate Hariri. As usual, the Druze MP deferred to the will of the strongest faction.

Lebanon: Tammam Salam’s Path to Prime Minister
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-tammam-salam%E2%80%99s-path-prime-minister

How did Lebanon and Saudi Arabia’s power brokers decide on Tammam Salam as the country’s next prime minister? Al-Akhbar explains how former prime minister Mikati’s calculations failed him and paved the way for Salam’s rise.

When former prime minister Fouad Siniora delivered his speech to the massive crowds at the funeral of Wissam al-Hassan, the assassinated intelligence chief, standing next to him was none other than Tammam Salam.

Last night, Siniora and Salam were side-by-side once again, this time at Saad Hariri’s downtown mansion. The Arab and international signal had been given to begin negotiations on a new prime minister. With that, MP Salam is now the next prime minister in waiting.

Partitioning Syria at the Doha Summit
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/partitioning-syria-doha-summit

The conspiracy against Syria being hatched at the Doha summit is a massive gamble, as well as a historic crime. The Gulf sheikhs, in conjunction with Western and Arab capital, are launching a step-by-step process of partitioning Syria.

Dahlan Case Shows Split In Palestinian Fatah Movement - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/dispute-fatah-official-immunity.html

The issue of Fatah-affiliated MP Mohammed Dahlan has once again topped Palestinian news, as proceedings at the Constitutional Court are to be held on March 28, to consider the appeal presented by Dahlan against President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to strip him of immunity

Clerks (ou comment rendre héroïque l’existence du looser contemporain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlfn5n-E2WE

#les_films_qui_ont_changé_ma_vie

Even if Iran gets the Bomb, it won’t be worth going to war -

Telegraph

Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn and was foreign secretary, 2001-2006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9892742/Even-if-Iran-gets-the-Bomb-it-wont-be-worth-going-to-war.html

’All options remain on the table”, goes the mantra. This is code for saying that the West retains the choice of using military force to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. We’ll hear it repeated this week, as negotiations between Iran and the “P5 +1” (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany) resume in Kazakhstan. On occasions, I’ve used the phrase myself. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve become convinced that it is a hindrance to negotiations, rather than a help.
If Iran were to attack Israel, or, say, one of its Arab neighbours, international law is clear: the victim has the right to retaliate. But such an attack is highly improbable. Under Article 42 of the UN Charter, the Security Council can authorise military action where there’s a “threat to international peace and security”. Such resolutions were the legal basis for the actions against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, and Libya in 2011. But there are no such Article 42 resolutions against Iran; and there won’t be – China and Russia would veto them.

Tax evasion, bribery and price-fixing: How #Samsung became the giant that ate Korea
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tax-evasion-bribery-and-pricefixing-how-samsung-became-the-giant-that

A new president has been sworn in – but as she takes office, the humiliation of an MP who took on the might of Samsung appears to show where the real power lies in South Korea

#corée_du_sud

Waiting for the Electoral Law- Future Movement’s Proposal Or The 37 Districts Law- Part II « Moulahazat | A Lebanese Political Blog
http://moulahazat.com/2013/02/07/waiting-for-the-electoral-law-future-movements-proposal-or-the-37-distri

Waste of Time = 1960 Law

Une analyse détaillée de la proposition de loi du Mouvement du Futur pour torpiller le projet de loi du Rassemblement orthodoxe et son approche fédéraliste. L’objectif étant en fait le statu quo...
#Liban
#élections
#législative

QIZ: Egyptian jeans under the patronage of The Muslim Brotherhood - Opinion - Ahram Online
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/62748/Opinion/QIZ-Egyptian-jeans-under-the-patronage-of-The-Musl.aspx

In 2004, the Muslim Brotherhood parliament bloc described the QIZ agreement as a ’serious threat to national security’, today, the government appointed by a Brotherhood president, wants to expand the economic deal with Israel

SKeyes : International Justice, STL and Al-Akhbar
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/skeyes-international-justice-stl-and-al-akhbar

MP Marwan Hamadeh, a victim of an assassination attempt that was included in the STL’s jurisdiction, gave remarks at the event as well, and said, “The freedom of the press may sometimes amount to murder,” in reference to the potential harm caused by publishing witness’ identities.

Hamadeh failed to mention the other media outlets that had published information about witnesses and other individuals involved in the case, and singled out Al-Akhbar for criticism. Also recall that a Western media outlet had published an official and classified document issued by international investigators, which named a Lebanese officer who was subsequently assassinated.

Évidemment, Marwan Hamadeh dénonçant des fuites dans la presse, de la part du Akhbar, c’est une sorte de private joke.

School groping surge blamed on internet porn: Third of sixth-form girls have been abused by classmates

By Daniel Martin

PUBLISHED: 23:55 GMT, 13 November 2012 | UPDATED: 08:56 GMT, 14 November 2012

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Ann Coffey said a third of sixth-form girls had been touched inappropriately by boys in their school

Ann Coffey said a third of sixth-form girls had been touched inappropriately by boys in their school

Easy access to internet porn is behind a worryingly high number of girls being groped or sexually manhandled at school, an MP claimed yesterday.

Ann Coffey revealed a third of sixth-form girls had been touched inappropriately by boys in their school.

The chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on runaway and missing children, put the blame firmly on the increasing impact of internet pornography, which she said was ’distorting’ teenage boys’ views of sex.

She warned that many boys were developing ’harmful attitudes and behaviours’ such as seeing girls simply as sex objects because they believe they have a ’sense of entitlement’ to do what they want to them.

The MP called for sex and relationship education to be made compulsory in schools, saying the situation was so bad that boys had to be supported to form ’respectful attitudes to girls’.

Unless the situation is changed, more girls would suffer ’physical and emotional harm’, which could damage their education and future career prospects.

The Daily Mail is campaigning for an automatic block on online porn to protect children from stumbling across it.

Over-18s would only be able to access adult images by ’opting in’ with their internet provider following a strict age verification check. Speaking during a debate on child sexual exploitation in the Commons, Miss Coffey cited a YouGov poll by the End Violence Against Women campaign, which surveyed 800 teenagers.

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It found 29 per cent of 16 to 18-year-old girls had suffered ’unwanted sexual touching’ at school.

Almost as many, 28 per cent, said they had seen sexual images on mobile phones at school ’a few times a month or more’. And 71 per cent said they had heard sexual name-calling at school ’daily or a few times a week’.

Some 40 per cent said they had never had lessons teaching them about the need for sexual consent.

Miss Coffey said children should be taught what sexual coercion and exploitation is, as well as being alerted to signs of when they are being sexually groomed. She said lessons should also cover how to shape healthy relationships

’The focus needs to be on both boys and girls,’ she said. ’Boys need to be supported to form positive and respectful attitudes to girls.’
The Daily Mail is campaigning for an automatic block on online porn to protect children from stumbling across it. Over-18s would only be able to access adult images by ’opting in’

The Daily Mail is campaigning for an automatic block on online porn to protect children from stumbling across it. Over-18s would only be able to access adult images by ’opting in’ (stock pic)

The Labour MP for Stockport said one of the main problems was boys accessing adult websites. ’We know harmful attitudes and behaviours are developed at a young age, and there is growing evidence about the impact of pornography on boys’ attitudes to girls,’ she said.

’It is a problem that boys are accessing adult websites which give them a distorted attitude about what is appropriate in terms of their relationships with girls.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232582/School-groping-surge-blamed-net-porn-Third-sixth-form-girls-abused-clas
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Anti-gay MP suspended over I’m A Celebrity | Gay Star News
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/anti-gay-mp-suspended-over-im-celebrity071112

Anti-gay MP suspended over I’m A Celebrity
Conservative politician Nadine Dorries to face questioning on her return to the UK after flying to Australia to star in reality TV show
07 November 2012 | By Andrew Whitty
Conservative politician Nadine Dorries to face questioning on her return to the UK after flying to Australia to star in reality TV show

Nadine Dorries, the British Member of Parliament to appear on reality show I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, has been suspended by the Conservative Party.

The anti-gay politician caused controversy when it was revealed she had left for the Australian jungle without consulting her peers yesterday (6 November).

The party believe that the mid-Bedfordshire MP would be unable to fulfil her role and support her constituency whilst away as she could be out of the UK for up to a month.

There was outrage on Twitter when it was revealed that Dorries was a contestant.

Former MP, Louise Mensch tweeted: ’Nadine pretending that a serious issue like abortion rights is why she did this is the lowest of the low. Indefensible stuff.’

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, refused to give an official comment, simply stating: ’Nadine Dorries can speak for herself on this issue.’

Some saw humor in the story. The spoof Twitter account @Queen_UK tweeted: ’MP Nadine Dorries is going into the jungle. What she doesn’t know is she’ll be staying there until approximately the end of recorded time.’

Kuwait’s Balancing Act - By Kristin Smith Diwan | The Middle East Channel
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/23/kuwait_s_balancing_act

Le Koweït à son tour « frappé » par la contestation. Le printemps arabe touche même les monarchies du Golfe

On Sunday, Kuwaitis staged what is thought to be the largest protest in the country’s history. Tens of thousands responded to the call for a “March of Dignity” in rejection of an emergency decree issued by Emir Sabah al-Ahmed revising electoral laws. Chanting, “we will not let you” they were met by security forces equally determined to enforce the interior ministry ban on marches in Kuwait City. As the tear gas clears and the crowds disperse, Kuwaitis can agree that this was an unprecedented event. But oddly, after this dramatic show of brinksmanship there is no more clarity about where Kuwait is headed and how it will resolve its long political standoff.

Former archbishop of Canterbury attacks gay marriage at Tory conference | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/08/archbishop-canterbury-gay-marriage-tory

Former archbishop of Canterbury attacks gay marriage at Tory conference

Lord Carey says plans would cause deep divisions and likens opponents of gay marriage to Jews in Nazi Germany

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As Ann Widdecombe and Lord Carey address a conference fringe rally against same-sex marriage, Michael White hears the views of Tory delegates Link to this video

The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has accused David Cameron of “plundering” the institution of heterosexual marriage to promote same-sex marriage rights. Allowing gay marriage would cause deep divisions in society “without giving gays a single right they do not have in civil partnership”, he said.

At a Coalition for Marriage rally on the fringe of the Conservative conference in Birmingham on Monday, Carey joined David Burrowes, the backbench MP for Enfield Southgate, and former MP Ann Widdecombe in protesting that neither the Lib Dem nor Tory 2010 manifesto included a pledge to legalise gay marriage.

Carey claimed that in some countries where same-sex marriage had been made legal – including Mexico, Brazil and the Netherlands – it had led to unforeseen consequences such as three-person marriages.

Asked about opponents of gay marriage being described as “bigots” – on one occasion by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister – Carey said: "Let us remember the Jews in Nazi Germany. What started against them was when they started to be called names.

“And that was the first stage towards that totalitarian state. We have to resist them. We treasure democracy. We treasure our Christian inheritance and we want to debate this in a fair way.”

Widdecombe said: “This is not an anti-gay rally. It is defending marriage.”

Outside the town hall rally, attended by about 400 people, gay rights protesters accused the platform of promoting “marriage apartheid” by denying the right to marry on equal terms.

Cameron has joined the US president, Barack Obama, in endorsing same-sex marriage and is poised to report on the results of a 12-week consultation before proceeding to legislate. All main parties, including the SNP government in Edinburgh, now endorse the change.

Burrowes urged ministers to stage a referendum on the issue, as has been done in 32 US states with mixed results. He said there had been no pressure for a change to civil partnership before the election – “no letters, emails or tweets” from voters – but MPs’ postbags were now full of the controversy. “If the government can think again about pasties and caravans it can certainly do so about the important issue of marriage,” he said.

Widdecombe, a former Home Office minister, said such consequences would include the replacement of cherished liturgy and names such as “mother” and “father” with “progenitor A and progenitor B” or “partners to the marriage”. François Hollande, the French president, was proposing to use the word “carers”, she said.

Carey argued that teachers, doctors and other professionals might be forced out of their jobs if they refused to embrace the proposed change to the law, an intolerant restriction on free speech that Widdecombe said could make the Church of England force disestablishment.

“I know, David Cameron, that is not the sort of Britain you want,” she said.Carey hinted that the prime minister might have conceded the policy on “pragmatic” grounds to sustain his coalition with the Lib Dems – “the very worst of reasons”.

Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of gay rights group Stonewall, said: "We’re deeply saddened that Lord Carey seems to be resorting to student union abuse. The reality is that gay people are very well aware of the consequences of the Holocaust, for obvious reasons, and when someone descends to this level of rhetoric it suggests they don’t think they have very powerful arguments to rely on.

"Lord Carey is perfectly entitled to his view and we respect that. It’s the view of many people of his generation and we accept that, but to compare Cameron to Hitler is just sad as well as being entirely inappropriate.

"It’s extraordinary that he should resort to this sort of invective and profoundly unchristian. There will be gay people of faith who are very disturbed by what he has said.

“The argument is lost already but that doesn’t mean the battle won’t be a rough one when the time comes. But it is surprising they couldn’t come up with a more persuasive argument for this, the apex of their campaign for which they have had had plenty of time to marshall their arguments.”

annalist » German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat
http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2012/10/03/german-police-monitors-skype-googlemail-and-facebook-chat

#allemagne #surveillance #Internet

Occupy revient, un peu de résistance.

Et l’excellent Ian Cook, prof de géographie à Exeter nous envoie ce merveilleux message sur la liste de géo radicale. C’est très très très long, si on veut tout lire et tout regarder, mais de ce que j’en ai vu, ça vaut le détour (trois étoiles au Michelin pas moins).

Follow the Things | Security | Have I Got News For You (tent)
http://www.followthethings.com/haveigotnewsforyoutent.shtml

To coincide more or less with the 1 year anniversary of the beginning of Occupy LSX, we have just published on our site a debate about ’anti-capitalist’, consumption and protest that began with UK Conservative MP Louise Mensch arguing on a satirical TV panel show that people couldn’t be ’anti-capitalists’ because they were drinking Starbucks coffee, tweeting on their iPhones, and living in ’fancy tents’ outside St Paul’s cathedral in London.

We have located the YouTube clip and collated the online discussions that this provoked and, we think, have produced something that could work as a powerful teaching resource.

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Conservative MP Louise Mensch discovered that OccupyLSX protestors drink coffee and use mobile phones and brought this insightful view to BBC’s Have I Got News For You. Ian Hislop, Danny Baker, and Paul Merton were not in agreement with her (Source: Atwater 2011 link).

Four men with sharpest minds – or rather tongues – in England ganged up and tore to pieces a woman Conservative [a.k.a Tory] MP, Louise Mensch, who suggested in a popular satirical programme ’Have I Got News for You’ that ’occupy’ protesters at the City of London were not steadfast enough in their anti-capitalist action because they a: formed the longest queue in the world for Starbucks coffee; b: had fancy tents; c: used iPhones to tweet about the protest. ‘’You don’t need to return to a barter and a Stone Age to complain about the cuts and the financial crisis?’, said Ian Hislop, the feared editor of satirical magazine ’Private Eye’. ’If you buy coffee, have a tent and use iPhone your opinion is worthless?’ said comedian Paul Merton (Source: Anon 2011 np link).

#occupy #resistance #consommation

Si on te disait que c’est Paul Bremer qui a personnellement choisit la musique de l’hymne national irakien en 2004, tu le croirais ? Bon ben voilà :
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Sep-24/189006-iraq-aims-to-unite-with-new-national-anthem-flag.ashx

Iraq’s current national anthem, “Mawtini” (“My Homeland”), was adopted in 2004 on the order of Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer, who admired the song when he heard it at a concert.

Ex-Lebanon security chief says Jumblatt must be killed
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Sep-13/187739-ex-lebanon-security-chief-says-jumblatt-must-be-killed-source.a

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Jumblatt “must be killed,” former General Security head Jamil al-Sayyed was recorded as saying on an audio device, a source close to the probe into the case of former MP Michel Samaha told The Daily Star Thursday.

“This [guy] Jumblatt should be the first one to be killed,” Sayyed, a retired major general, was captured on a recording as telling Samaha during a recent trip from Damascus to Beirut, the source said.

Mais en même temps:

But no official request has yet been made by Military Investigative Judge Riad Abu Ghayda to question Sayyed as a witness or a suspect.

ce qui rend l’information assez douteuse.

L’intégralité des mouvements politiques libanais ligués contre un mouvement de travailleurs : Spinneys : Rooted in Lebanese Corruption. Ce système apparaît de plus en plus au bout du rouleau confessionnel-néolibéral ; rien de fonctionne plus, sauf lorsqu’il s’agit de préserver la mafiocratie.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/spinneys-rooted-lebanese-corruption

Unions belonging to Amal, Hezbollah, LF, Syrian National Social Party (SSNP), Baath, Future Movement, LCP, and the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), who dominate the labor movement, did not find it necessary to defend union freedoms, unionization rights, or collective bargaining. They all acted as if the Spinneys issue did not concern them.

Future Movement media organizations launched a campaign to defend the company’s management against the workers, even though some of them are party members.

Although it has always boasted about being a defender of freedoms and workers rights, al-Jadeed TV channel decided to avoid the whole issue.

The FPM’s outlet, OTV, did something far worse. It changed its programming to prevent a regular rerun of an interview with former labor minister Charbel Nahhas. The minister had earlier refused to abide by the station’s conditions not to mention the Spinneys workers struggle in a live interview.

Because of its coverage of the issue, Al-Akhbar is no longer sold in Spinneys branches countrywide.

Advertising companies exerted serious pressure on newspapers, magazines, and other media. They tried to stop them from carrying out their professional duty of investigating the truth about workers conditions in the company.

Some of this pressure took the form of threats to deny media outlets large advertising budgets, not limited to Spinneys ads.

Current labor minister Salim Jreissati was mobilized to protect the Spinneys from any legal action and to block inspection agencies in the ministry from investigating violations.