position:politician

Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism – Africa is a Country
http://africasacountry.com/2013/05/21/the-new-kind-of-senegalese-tv

With the Journal Rappé, a weekly 4-minute long news broadcast delivered in rhymes in both French and Wolof, Xuman and Keyti use one of the most popular mediums, music, to both inform a larger audience and hold the Senegalese establishment accountable, to educate through laughters and laugh at the educated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HHr4GzpxOBE

#sénégal #télévision #rap #justice_sociale #y-en-a-marre

Le père de la doctrine de financement des partisans afghans en guerre contre l’envahisseur l’URSS, Zbigniew Brzezinski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski, propose l’instauration d’une zone de libre-échange transatlantique comme solution au déclin de l’occident

http://euobserver.com/economic/119871

Attention, les trois paragraphes suivants sont exemplaires : politiciens, littoral et argent séoudien…
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/ghazi-aridi-lebanese-mp-falls-jumblatt%E2%80%99s-favor

First, Aridi’s financial “bulge” has become the talk of the town and Baissour’s most urgent concern, according to a regular visitor to Jumblatt’s residence in Mukhtara. The minister’s wealth multiplied in the past five years to staggering heights. Some of this money, according to the PSP source, was obtained in partnership with Jumblatt, such as the briefcases full of money he brought from the Saudis. Some of it remained a secret until it was accidently exposed during a meeting between Jumblatt and the owner of the Kempinski – previously known as the Summerland beach resort – located in southern Beirut.

According to someone who attended the meeting, Walid Saab, the project’s owner, thanked Jumblatt for covering up his project’s violation of maritime property laws by passing a bill that allowed Kempinski to expand its installations from 28,000 m² to 30,000 m².

Saab asked Jumblatt if he was satisfied with the shares he received, consisting of several chalets in the new resort. Jumblatt looked into the issue and discovered that Aridi’s son had received shares in the project listed in Jumblatt’s name. This was too much for Jumblatt.

Paradoxalement, c’est à croire que la loi sur le littoral n’a pas pour unique vocation l’enrichissement des politiciens qui couvrent ses innombrables violations.

Britain’s involvement in assassination of Congo’s Lumumba confirmed - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/18/lumu-a18.html

A senior British politician has revealed Britain’s involvement in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first prime minister.

The leader of the Congolese independence struggle from Belgium was brutally murdered just seven months after taking office on the direct orders of the US and Belgium. Britain, whose involvement had long been suspected, also had a hand in it.

#afrique #lumumba #royaume-uni #royaume-unafrique

A Thatcher state funeral would be bound to lead to protests The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/04/margaret-thatcher-state-funeral-protests

It might seem an odd time to be trying it on, but a drive to rehabilitate Margaret Thatcher is now in full flow. A couple of years back, true believers were beside themselves at the collapse of their heroine’s reputation. The Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, complained that Thatcher’s name had become a “boo-word”, a “shorthand for selfishness and me-firstism”. Her former PR guru Maurice Saatchi fretted that “her principles of capitalism are under question”.

#royaume-uni #thatcher

Je l’ai ordonné à l’avance, du coup, je vais le recevoir bientôt!
Lucky me!!
Enfin le CD à la mémoire de Margaret Thatcher a été envoyé par la band anglaise.
Bye bye Margaret!

http://www.chumba.com

Chumbawamba – Margaret Thatcher EP ‘In Memoriam’ was mailed out on 8th April, 2013, to all who pre-ordered the CD. No further orders will be taken.

http://www.chumba.com/images/thatch.jpg

#Thatcher #Chumbawamba #in_memoriam #CD

The rise of sectarian conflicts will not fragment the Levant - The National
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/the-rise-of-sectarian-conflicts-will-not-fragment-the-levant#full
Par Karl Sharro

Unfortunately, sectarian identities will be on the rise for a while in the Levant, but the assumption that this will lead to political fragmentation doesn’t seem to stand up to scrutiny. The challenge for secularists will be to create alternatives to confessional politics that cut across sects and ethnic groups and create a more open sense of national identity.

Ami lecteur, le savais-tu ? L’un des principaux candidats à la tête du MEDEF, le Sieur Saint-Geours, est rentré dans le clan patronal après avoir été directeur de cabinet du célèbre ministre socialiste (condamné pour financement illicite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Emmanuelli#Integrity_and_legal_convictions) Henri Emmanuelli

Sang bleu ne ment pas !

Son père, Jean, Directeur Général de Crédit Lyonnais et son frère Jean-Philippe (promo 1973), tous deux également énarques, lui tracent une voie prestigieuse : lycée Carnot, prépa au lycée Louis-le-Grand, etc.
Il débute sa carrière dans l’administration du Ministère des Finances puis entre en 1981 dans les cabinets de Louis Mermaz au ministère des Transports, puis à la présidence de l’Assemblée nationale. De 1984 à 1986, il devient directeur de cabinet du secrétaire d’État au Budget Henri Emmanuelli.

#DroicheSocialiste

Amusant : Lebanese Politicians Buying Facebook ‘Likes’
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-politicians-buying-facebook-%E2%80%98likes%E2%80%99

Elias Skaff, the former Lebanese MP from Zahlé, spends thousands of US dollars to maintain his Facebook page. With the page supervised by his wife, who asks everyone she meets to like it, the number of fans soared to around 80,000. Then one day, the number dropped to 30,000 following a system cleanup by Facebook to remove fake profiles.

(Amusant, si on n’oublie pas que les faux comptes Facebook et Twitter suivent aussi les politiciens français.)

Iraq: a history that must not be repeated `
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-a-history-that-must-not-be-repeated-8527163.html

Iraqis are cynical about the motives of the US and Britain in condemning an al-Qa’ida fighter as a terrorist when he is shooting and bombing in Iraq. But should the same al-Qa’ida member travel a few miles up the Euphrates, cross the Syrian border and fight the Syrian army, he is transformed into a freedom fighter and may soon benefit from “non-lethal” American and British aid.

#syrie #irak

http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/spring2013/maliki

Maliki’s experiences are especially relevant for today’s Middle East: in Egypt and Tunisia, where Islamist parties, long hidden in the shadows, similar to those that nourished the Dawa, are striving to shed authoritarian instincts and make the transition to mainstream democratic politics; in Libya, where regional militias, mindful of recent history, still do not trust one another enough to disarm; and in Syria, which is currently roiled by bloodshed among its warring ethnic and religious groups that rival the darkest moments in Iraq.

It is a mistake to see Maliki or Mohammed Morsi in Egypt or any of the ascendant new leaders in the Middle East as builders or wreckers of new democracies. Maliki was a defender of Iraq, the country’s Shiite population, and himself, the way his predecessors had been defenders of their own amendable ideologies. His experiences were what allowed him to rise in the turbulence of post-Saddam Iraq, but his decades of humiliation set him on the path of running a faltering autocratic state immersed in perpetual war.

In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, it may prove tempting to color the country’s new leaders as democrats when they are not, or to accept their potentially dictatorial tendencies as the natural order. Maliki, the first elected Arab Islamist leader, shaped in the shadows, exemplifies all the challenges of the new breed. He is not bound to authoritarian rule, but his history leads him in that direction. Since taking office in 2006, amid dismal hopes, he has both disappointed and exceeded expectations. There is a fundamental tension among the new Islamists, whether from Maliki’s Dawa Party or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or their counterparts in Tunis—on how to create a society living in harmony with Islamic values. How much of this can be imposed, and how much should be a free choice made by the society, remains an open, but crucial, question. Iraq under Maliki has seen the slow creeping tide of religious values imposed with raids on alcohol shops and nightclubs. Sudden whispers that the government will shut down arts colleges and separate male and female students at university are swiftly dismissed—perhaps planted by the state to see how far it can go. Intimidation and pressure by the state has also been apparent in Egypt since its revolution, as Islamist lawyers bring lawsuits against artists they consider blasphemous. In Tunis, radical Salafis are given tacit freedom to physically attack bars, actors, and political opponents. It is still a riddle for the Arab world’s now ruling Islamists leaders—how to bring their societies into harmony with their religious values. But Maliki and his counterparts all have similar aspirations for their nations. They want to establish modern, vibrant states in accordance with Islam.

ekathimerini.com | Turkey’s tentative EU springtime
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_1_05/03/2013_485687

The legal system is crying out for change. Outdated terrorism legislation meant that one third of all the world’s terrorism arrests made between 2001 and 2011 were in Turkey, including several thousand non-violent Kurdish activists placed in preventive detention.

Europe Holds No Promise For the Middle East - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/europe-holds-no-promise-for-the-middle-east.html

Last week, they were uttered publicly by a senior German politician, Hans-Gert Pöttering, one of those closest to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Pöttering, who served for many years as president of the European Parliament, spoke at a packed auditorium in the center of Brussels. “Were it not for the Holocaust, Germany would not have abstained at the UN vote on the recognition of Palestine as a non-member state,” said the man who was appointed last year to chair the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, named after the first post-World War II German chancellor who was responsible for the reparations agreement between Israel and Germany. “It would have voted in favor.” Pöttering did not attempt to conceal his hope that Avigdor Liberman — whose name (meaning “a beloved man” in German) does not suit him, he said — would not be coming back to Brussels as Israel’s foreign minister.
He finished by saying that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it hard for Europe to conduct a dialogue with the Muslim world. “Previously, the Israelis did not want European involvement, now you are also opposed to American involvement,” he lashed out.
On the stage, to the left of the German speaker, sat Adm. (Res.) Ami Ayalon, who has served as a cabinet minister, head of the Shin Bet security service and commander of the navy, and Gilad Sher, a lawyer who was Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s chief of staff and policy coordinator. In the front row were philanthropist and peace activist Orni Petruschka, Ayalon and Sher’s partner in the leadership of Blue White Future, [a pro-peace movement] and the organization’s CEO, Dar Nadler. They came to the capital of the European Union at the instigation of the Hanns Seidel Foundation to persuade the Europeans to exert their influence on the Americans. Ayalon and Sher sought to equip the Europeans with their diplomatic blueprint, the gist of which is Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state and the launch of negotiations on a permanent agreement, based on the Arab Peace Initiative (peace and normalization of relations with members of the Arab League in return for Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders) and a declaration that Israel has no territorial claims on the eastern side of the security/separation fence.
The leaders of Blue White Future warned that European inactivity until the end of negotiations on land exchanges, the division of Jerusalem and a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem would bring about the demise of a Jewish and democratic Israel. They presented senior EU officials with a plan for the immediate evacuation of all settlements east of the fence, including a precise mapping of vacant lands within the Green Line [the de facto 1967 border] on which the Israeli evacuees could be resettled. They recommended that everyone learn the lessons of the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which dropped the Strip like a ripe fruit into the hands of Hamas (Europe supported the disengagement from Gaza) and replace that totally unilateral action with coordinated unilateral steps.
The Seidel Foundation invited me to join the fascinating three-day journey of the “Blue White Future” leadership through the endless corridors of the European Union. I participated in meetings with leading officials of the European Commission, with a senior official in the office of EU foreign secretary Catherine Ashton and with members of the European Parliament. I was exposed to the frustrations of the umbrella organization of 27 states, whose population is greater than that of the United States. Parliament member Ivo Vajgl, Slovenia’s former foreign minister, recounted how Israeli government ministers refused to meet the European Parliament delegation, which he headed, and Israeli members of Knesset [parliament] left them waiting a long time outside their meeting room. “Israel is humiliating us,” said Vajgl. 
I was struck by the helplessness of the European Union, which was honored last year with the Nobel Peace Prize, regarding peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians, an end to settlements and to the occupation.
All the senior officials we met in Brussels, without exception, listened attentively to the guests’ plan, made remarks and at the end sent them to Berlin, Paris, London and Prague, too, which had voted at the UN against upgrading status of the Palestinian Authority. One journalist even asked angrily, “Why did you come here, anyway?” When Ayalon, Sher and Petruschka explained why economic sanctions would not jump-start the diplomatic process, the hosts said they were in complete agreement that there’s no chance the 27 countries represented in Brussels could reach agreement regarding punitive steps of any kind against Israel for its construction in the settlements.
Past experience teaches us that the recommendations of the European consuls to take steps against Israel, such as imposing economic sanctions on the settlements — as published this week in the Haaretz newspaper — are gathering dust in the desk drawers of the European Union.
On the other hand, they stressed that as long as Israel continues to expend settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, there’s not even a slim chance that members of the Union will arrive at a consensus regarding the upgrading of Israel’s position. In addition, a senior European official pointed with no small amount of embarrassment to the fact that the EU is incapable of agreeing to include Hezbollah in the list of terror organizations, even after the official Bulgarian government investigation concluded with certainty that the organization was responsible for the attack in which five Israeli tourists were murdered last year in a Bulgarian resort town.
Europe is mostly busy with its own problems, the financial crises and the integration of new members (next in line is Croatia. For the information of reader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — this was made possible after the Croatians met the EU’s demand to erase from their constitution the article stating that Croatia is the national home of the Croatian people). The Quartet, the mechanism established with the aim of advancing the diplomatic process, has turned into a joke. In answer to my question about former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s activity as the special envoy of the Quartet (the US, Russia, the European Union and the UN), the two officials sitting across from us exchanged meaningful looks and burst out laughing. They said the EU has decided to stop funding Blair, who has disappeared somewhere in East Jerusalem.
Thus, the Europeans are directing their eyes westward, to the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, US President Barack Obama. So far, the Union’s special envoy to the Middle East, Andreas Reinicke, is the only bearer of good news. He says EU’s foreign policy chief, Lady Catherine Ashton, and Obama have set themselves a one-year deadline to bring about a permanent settlement, not an interim arrangement, not a Palestinian state within temporary borders, but rather the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state side-by-side with the state of Israel. The impression in Ashton’s office, on the other hand, is that Obama will focus his meeting with  Netanyahu on the Iranian nuclear issue. We heard there that at his last meeting with Ashton, each time the European minister wished to raise the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu said this was a marginal issue which deflects attention from the big Iranian threat. “If this is a marginal issue”, Ashton is said to have answered, “let’s get it out of our way so we can be free to deal with the main issue.” The prime minister, we were told, did not respond.
Brussels hopes the next Israeli government will have a response. They are not holding their breath.

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

CENSURE DU LIVRE DE PHOTOGRAPHIES DE CHRISTIAN LUTZ / SOUTIEN

Voici le courrier que je viens de recevoir d’une amie...

Madame, Monsieur,
Chers amis,

Le photographe suisse affilié à l’agence Vu’ Christian Lutz (http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=223) a publié récemment le troisième volet de sa trilogie sur le pouvoir : IN JESUS’ NAME. A peine sorti, l’ouvrage et le travail dans sa globalité ont été interdits. Des plaintes ont été déposées contre le photographe et l’éditeur.

En bref :

Après PROTOKOLL sur le pouvoir politique (chronique visuelle du protocole politique suisse) et TROPICAL GIFT sur le pouvoir économique (enquête photographique sur le commerce du pétrole au Nigeria), IN JESUS’ NAME s’intéresse au pouvoir religieux.
Christian Lutz photographie, durant 1 an, une communauté évanglique basée à Zurich : ICF (International Christian Fellowship).
Pour cela, il reçoit l’autorisation des managers de l’église.
Il photographie donc ouvertement, au vu et su de tous.

Les 3 ouvrages sont parus chez l’éditeur suisse Lars Müller Publishers. Une exposition de la Trilogie dans sa totalité est programmée au Musée de la photographie de l’Elysée , à Lausanne, de juin à septembre 2013.

Christian Lutz et son éditeur Lars Müller ont comparu devant le tribunal civil de Zurich fin janvier. Le jugement de l’audition est en cours.

Un comité de soutien se met en place pour l’existence globale de ce travail photographique d’intérêt public et sociologique.
Un comité de soutien à la liberté d’expression.

Pour plus d’informations, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter via cette adresse
mail : christianlutz.soutien@gmail.com

Avec nos cordiales salutations,

Le comité de soutien à IN JESUS’ NAME

#Christian_Lutz #soutien #photographie #censure #International_Christian_Fellowship #suisse

http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/Lutz_TropicalGift.jpg

À propos du #cheval_roumain.

Petite revue de sources d’aujourd’hui à l’usage de journalistes du futur, lorsque l’#open_data, le #big_data et leur corollaire le #fact_checking auront redonné du sens à la presse traditionnelle et lui auront permis d’écraser les vils propagateurs de #rumeur de la blogosphère.

1. À tout seigneur, tout honneur, le cheval roumain.

http://i.imgur.com/JyyhUvP.jpg

_Sur le site de statistiques de la FAO (nouvelle version)_

Où l’on constate bien une chute de 30% entre 2008 et 2011.

2. Son probable bourreau, la voiture.

http://i.imgur.com/9FxujYv.jpg

Données issues du rapport du CCFA, L’industrie automobile française, Analyses et statistiques 2012.

Dans des documents de Renault, on apprend
– que le parc automobile roumain est « mature », 5 millions de véhicules pour 22 millions d’habitants (et sans doute 500.000 chevaux en 2012)

…la demande est alimentée non par l’acquisition d’un premier véhicule, mais par son renouvellement.

On peut même se risquer à dater cette bascule de l’équipement au renouvellement vers la fin 2008 (sans doute aidée par la crise).
– que Renault-Dacia est le premier constructeur automobile roumain où il détient 32,3% de parts de marché (2009). Au passage, si c’est comme en France, la Logan Break doit avoir pas mal contribué à la disparition des voitures hippomobiles (du moins si j’en juge mes copains bricoleurs qui « voyagent léger, juste ce qui tient dans le coffre de la voiture… »

3. le commerce international, base de données ComTrade sur le site UN Data (données annuelles)

Valeurs en USD (leur déclaration est obligatoire) les quantités cela dépend des produits, ici en kilos, mais elles ne sont pas toujours renseignées et, surtout sont simplement agrégées sans considération de valeur unitaire. J’ai calculé, à titre purement indicatif, un « prix » en divisant les valeurs par les quantités et donc en supposant l’ensemble homogène, ce qui n’est évidemment pas le cas (j’espère que la viande de cheval d’Argentine n’est pas que du vulgaire minerai de viande…)

http://i.imgur.com/XlHm7na.jpg

Où l’on voit qu’effectivement, les exportations de viande de cheval progressent fortement depuis 10 ans, sans que l’éventuelle pression due aux stocks de chevaux à éliminer ne se voit sur mon indicateur de prix.

Pour la France, les échanges internationaux de viande de cheval représentent moins de 2% de ceux de viande bovine.

4. le commerce international en données mensuelles (depuis janvier 2010) sur le site ComTrade de l’OMD/WCO (Organisation Mondiale des Douanes, wcoomd.org)

(ce sont eux qui gèrent la nomenclature des produits, le code SH 0205 est celui de la viande de cheval (ânes et mules) non congelée, avec des sous-codes dont celui relevé, mais non identifié, dans l’article de Libé. Je précise qu’il a deux jours, je ne connaissais pas un seul code, je savais juste que la nomenclature s’appelait SH, comme Système Harmonisé)

Avec une analyse par pays sur les valeurs en dollars en 2011

http://i.imgur.com/8Ai26fI.jpg

Où l’on voit que les exportations roumaines vers la France sont insignifiantes et qu’en revanche la Belgique (38% des exportations roumaines) semble jouer un rôle de plaque tournante. Les exportations belges sont du même ordre que les importations, le principal client est la France (38%) qui représentent 40% des importations françaises (le pays suivant étant à 10%).

5. je n’ai pas vraiment été chercher les prix (je ne suis vraiment pas branché marchés…) je me suis contenté de récupérer l’indice des prix à la production (IPPAP) sur le site de l’Insee.
Apparemment, les volumes de viande de cheval sont trop faibles pour donner lieu à un calcul d’indice de prix de ce poste dans l’indice des prix de gros alimentaire (IPGA)

http://i.imgur.com/MZSjHwa.jpg

no comment…

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NB : à la notable exception du CCFA, où les données sont à récupérer dans des pdf tout pourris — heureusement, je n’ai extrait qu’une (courte) série — tout le reste s’obtient par des requêteurs à l’interface bien conçue et sans trop avoir à naviguer dans des nomenclatures lourdes (et pourtant, celle des douanes l’est…) puis, au choix, par copier/coller ou export csv (avec des dates où les mois sont en clair en anglais :-(

Rachel Shabi : Le très présentable Yair Lapid est juste ce qu’il fallait à la « communauté internationale » (et à un Akiva Eldar probablement désespéré) pour revendiquer une reprise du « processus de paix ». http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/israel-picks-celebrity-over-substance-in-a-status-quo-election

Now, as the horse-trading over a coalition commences, the danger is that Mr Lapid - especially if he becomes foreign minister - will be the charismatic, friendly face of a hard-right, settler-friendly government. Mr Netanyahu could continue to keep the Palestinian issue in deep freeze, with Mr Lapid making all the right noises to the international community.

...

The Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar, writing in Al Monitor, sees in the centrist votes, however splintered, a “positive message to our neighbours”, he says. “Bibi [Netanyahu] is not Israel … the game is not over.” Eldar holds that election results show that Israelis aren’t buying Mr Netanyahu’s message - and that the region should communicate directly with the Israeli public, bypassing leaders. “Israelis are open to other things, to trying something new,” he says. “This is the time for Arab countries to say ’We are willing to talk to you’.”

Pour rappel : http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/yair-lapid-jerusalem-belongs-only-to-the-people-of-israel-1.410642

Yair Lapid: Jerusalem belongs only to the people of Israel

Rappel : quelques articles à lire absolument concernant Gaza…

– L’enchaînement des violations des trêves et cessez-le-feu par Israël :
►http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-shattered-gaza-truce-leading-escalating-death-and-tra

– Le responsable palestinien assassiné par Israël préparait une trève de longue durée entre le Hamas et Israël :
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-peace-activist-hamas-leader-jabari-killed-amid-talks-on-long-term-t
confirmé par :
►http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/assassinating-the-chance-for-calm.html

– Ce qu’Israël a balancé sur Gaza depuis deux ans, et ses victimes :
►http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/bodies-for-ballots.html

– De l’intérêt de ces « escalades » pour Israël :
►http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentPrint/4/132/653.aspx

– Israël est le pays le plus militarisé du monde. L’Iran est l’un des pays les moins militarisés de la région :
►http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NK15Ak02.html

– Et le résumé d’Angry Arab :
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/11/in-few-weeks-in-israeli-life.html

En seulement quelques semaines, Israël a bombardé le Soudan, bombardé la Syrie, bombardé la Palestine et kidnappé un berger libanais. Une sorte de record en une durée aussi courte.

Durant la seule journée d’hier, Israël a tué plus de Palestiniens que les roquettes palestiniennes n’ont tué d’Israéliens pendant les trois dernières années :
►http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/bodies-for-ballots.html

While Israeli officials are quick to rattle off the numbers of projectiles fired from Gaza, rarely do they tell you what they fire into Gaza, what the effects of this fire is and what the fallout from it is.

For example, in 2011, the projectiles fired by the Israeli military into Gaza have been responsible for the death of 108 Palestinians, of which 15 where women or children, and the injury of 468 Palestinians, of which 143 where women or children. The methods by which these causalities were inflicted by Israeli projectiles breaks down as follows: 57 percent, or 310, were caused by Israeli aircraft missile fire; 28 percent, or 150, where from Israeli live ammunition; 11 percent, or 59, were from Israeli tank shells; while another 3 percent, or 18, were from Israeli mortar fire.

Through September 2012, Israeli weaponry caused 55 Palestinian deaths and 257 injuries. Among these 312 casualties, 61, or roughly 20 percent, were children and 28 were female. 209 of these casualties came as a result of Israeli Air Force missiles, 69 from live ammunition fire, and 18 from tank shells. It is important to note that these figures do not represent a totality of Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza but rather only Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza which cause casualties. The total number of Israeli projectiles fired into Gaza is bound to be significantly larger.

For context, consider this: more Palestinians were killed in Gaza yesterday than Israelis have been killed by projectile fire from Gaza in the past three years.

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.’

Twitter / Imran Khan
https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/261913959890837504

I was taken off from plane and interrogated by US Immigration in Canada on my views on #drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop

Ah, ce coup-ci Mikati ne démissionne plus. (En plus, là il va en Arabie séoudite, comme quoi tout baigne.)
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/future-blunders-are-boost-mikati-say-tripoli-supporters

After the failed breach of the Grand Serail by March 14 protesters Sunday, Mikati’s backers breathed a sigh of relief. Those who called him shortly thereafter to declare their support said the prime minister assured them he does not intend to resign.

“I will stay to pursue my responsibilities toward my constituents and my country,” the prime minister is reported to have told those who contacted him.

“It was [Future Party leader] Fouad Siniora’s speech that provoked me, after which I decided to forego the idea of resigning,” Mikati reportedly said. “If he had not said what he said, I was open to talking about the matter. But if they want a showdown, then let it be.”

Will Pot Barons Cash In on Legalization? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/21/will-pot-barons-cash-in-on-legalization.html

Colorado is not the world’s only experiment in free-market pot, but it’s the most sophisticated, pushing beyond the Netherlands’ confusing ban on wholesale and California’s hazy nonprofit status. Denver’s former city attorney has called it California “on steroids.”

#chanvre #drogue via @opironet

Unionizing in Lebanon : The Struggle is Elsewhere
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/7799/unionizing-in-lebanon_the-struggle-is-elsewhere

Last month saw the successful founding of an independent workers’ union emerge out of the Lebanese private sector. Yet there has been little social media fanfare outside Lebanon over this success … perhaps not surprisingly. Class struggle in contemporary Lebanon has rarely captured the imagination of either scholars or social activists. Long described as a bastion of laissez-faire politics, a site of never-ending civil strife, and a platform for settling regional scores, Lebanon is hardly seen as a crucible for subversive class activity in the Arab world.

Remarquable article qui replace de conflit social dans le contexte politico-économique de la reconstruction et de la main mise des élites sur l’Etat et les leviers de la richesse. Il analyse ensuite en détail l’action politique de Charbel Nahas, notamment dans sa fonction de ministre du Travail, qui a notamment permis de déchirer le voile de la collusion entre la Confération des travailleurs et une partie de la classe politique. Dans la dernière partie de l’article, le conflit social dans les supermarchés Spinneys est analysé. La collusion entre ce groupe commercial et les patrons de la classe politique est bien mise en évidence. En fin de compte, la reconnaissance du syndicat et la protection légale des employés qui l’ont fondé apparemment comme un petit miracle. Une hirondelle pour faire un printemps ?
#Liban
#syndicat
#luttes_sociales

Imran Khan’s #Pakistan #drone march stops at tribal belt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19861020

A thousands-strong motorcade rally against US drone strikes in Pakistan led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has been stopped from entering restive tribal regions.