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The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: These are official Saudi regime illustrations about the rules of stoning
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2018/02/these-are-official-saudi-regime.html

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These are official Saudi regime illustrations about the rules of stoning

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Saudi law specifies the rules and regulations for the “proper” stoning of a woman or a man.
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2018/02/saudi-law-specifies-rules-and.html

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It reads: “Stoning stones should be from a medium-size solid brick, almost the size of the palm, not small pebbles which can prolong suffering or he big ones which can kill fast thereby preventing the purposeful torture. If it was a woman, a hole should be dug up to her chest so that she won’t be uncovered, and it it was a man, no hole should be dug, and his pudendum should be covered, and the whole body of the woman during stoning. The stoned should not be tied or chained, and remorse should be offered. He could pray two prostrations, and can be provided with water. If he dies, he can be washed and shrouded and prayed over him”. This regime is really a stickler for the law.

#arabie_saoudite “#modéré” #cauchemar_fait_pays

‘Declaration of war :’ Hajj controversy widens row between Saudi Arabia & Qatar — RT News
▻https://www.rt.com/news/398027-qatar-hajj-saudi-restrictions-war

#nuit_torride. Le développement du moment, c’est « l’internationalilsation des lieux-saints » musulmans, demandée par Qatar, et qui reprend un dossier très chaud déjà évoqué par les Iraniens, ce qui n’est pas innocent bien entendu.

The feud between the Saudi-led block and Qatar escalated over the weekend, with Doha protesting to the UN over restrictions on its citizens flying to Mecca, and Riyadh threatening “war” over what it considers calls to “internationalize the holy sites” in Mecca and Medina.

Sinon, on note également la mise en place de couloirs de secours pour les vols de l’aviation civile. Curieusement, Qatar dément... ▻https://arabic.rt.com/middle_east/891350-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%8

‘The journey inward’: How Westworld critiques the narrative guess work it inspired | National Post
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Among its many metafictional tricks, Westworld the show is built on loops as much as the park, casting us back to earlier moments we are only dimly aware of. (Actually, with the internet hive mind, our memory is somewhat more like the hosts now, able to live in every moment, through screen shoots and reddit essays, but at least in the first few minutes of a callback reveal things are hazy, I would hope.) In fictional terms, it’s an endlessly firing series of Chekov guns, clockwork mechanics being placed on tables, to be picked up and fired inevitably but hopefully surprisingly – and maybe even mysteriously, as its cascading reveals kept prodding bigger questions.

#Westworld #Série #Fiction

#MH370: Two aircraft pieces found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island are ‘almost certainly’ from lost plane | National Post
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Malaysia’s government said Thursday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are “almost certainly” from Flight 370, bringing the total number of pieces believed to have come from the missing Malaysian jet to five.
[…]
Though the discovery of the debris has bolstered authorities’ assertion that the plane went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean, none of the parts thus far has yielded any clues into exactly where and why the aircraft crashed. Those elusive answers lie with the flight data recorders, or black boxes, which may never be found, said Geoff Dell, a specialist in accident investigation at Central Queensland University in Australia.

“It shows they’re looking in the right ocean — that’s about it,” Dell said.

The two newly identified pieces of debris were found in March. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said one is an engine cowling piece with a partial Rolls-Royce logo, and the other is an interior panel piece from an aircraft cabin — the first interior part found from the missing plane.

‘You could feel the heat when the fire glowed’: Watch terrifying videos of an exodus from Fort McMurray | National Post
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At one point in the videos, Chamberland appears to be driving through near-darkness and the only light visible is that of the sparks in the wind. Later, traffic passes closely by the rising fire and through a patch of grey and black smoke so thick that he had trouble seeing through it. 

“I got to a certain point where I couldn’t see how bad it was further on down,” Chamberland said. “I didn’t know if my truck was going to catch fire. Some trucks were charred on the side.”

#FortMcMoney

Déclaration de professeurs universitaires sur la liberté d’expression et le débat public à l’Université de York (Toronto, Canada)
Ryan Moore, Excalibur, le 10 février 2016
▻http://www.aurdip.fr/declaration-de-professeurs.html

L’oeuvre en question : « Palestinian Roots »
Ahmad Al Abid
▻http://yusc.ca/mural/palestinian-roots

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#Palestine #Canada #York #Censure #Liberté_d'expression #Liberté_artistique #BDS #Boycott_universitaire #Boycott_culturel #Ahmad_Al_Abid

Syrian rebels defect to Al-Qaeda after receiving weapons from U.S. to fight ISIS, Assad | National Post
▻http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/03/syrian-rebels-defect-to-al-qaeda-after-receiving-weapons-from-u-s

The collapse of the SRF [Syrian Revolutionnary Front] and attacks on Harakat Hazm have dramatically weakened the presence of moderate rebel fighting groups in Syria, which, after almost four years of conflict, is becoming a battle ground between the Syrian regime and jihadist organizations.

It was not immediately clear if American Tow missiles were among the stockpile surrendered to Jabhat Al-Nusra on Saturday. However, several Jabhat Al-Nusra members on Twitter announced that they were. The loss of a group that had been held up as an example of Western efforts to court moderate rebel factions is a humiliating blow for Washington. In Idlib, Harakat Hazm gave up their positions to Jabhat Al-Nusra “without firing a shot,” according to some reports, and some of the men even defected to the jihadists.

#MH370 il y aura de (sérieux) comptes à rendre en Malaisie…

Malaysian military withheld radar data on Flight MH370 as nations searched wrong area, sources say | National Post
▻http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/11/malaysian-military-withheld-radar-data-on-flight-mh370-as-nations

“The initial assumption was that the aircraft could have diverted due to mechanical issues or, in the worst case scenario, crashed,” said a senior Malaysian civilian source. “That is what we were working on.”

Officials at Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, which oversees air traffic controllers, the Defence Ministry and the air force directed requests for comment to the prime minister’s office, which did not respond.

One senior military official said air traffic control had informed the military at around 2:00 a.m. that a plane was missing. The standard operating procedure was to do so within 15 minutes, he said. Another military source said the notification was slow in coming, but did not give a time.
(…)
Another contentious issue has been whether the military was slow in passing on its radar data that showed an unidentified plane had re-crossed the Malay peninsula.

Two civilian aviation officials said military bureaucracy delayed the sharing of this information, although they gave no precise timeframe for when it was handed over.

“The armed forces knew much earlier that the aircraft could have turned back. That is why the search was expanded to include the Strait of Malacca within a day or two,” said a second senior civilian source, who was familiar with the initial search, referring to the narrow stretch of water between Indonesia and Malaysia, on the western side of the peninsula.

“But the military did not confirm this until much later due to resistance from senior officers, and the government needed to step in. We wasted our time in the South China Sea.”

Government sources have said Prime Minister Najib Razak had to force the military to turn over its raw radar data to investigators during the first week after the flight’s disappearance.

(…)
The accounts given to Reuters reveal growing tensions between civilian officials, the military and Malaysia Airlines over whether more could have been done in those initial hours.
(…)
In his interview with Reuters, Malaysia Airlines chief Ahmad Jauhari played down talk of tension, saying there were “ #slight_differences_of_opinion. ”

Canada extends Arctic territorial claim all the way to the North Pole — despite not even mapping area yet | National Post

▻http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/09/canada-makes-territorial-claim-for-north-pole-despite-not-mapping

OTTAWA — Canada says it will try to extend its territorial claims in the Arctic all the way to the North Pole, although it hasn’t yet fully mapped the area and does not have the scientific evidence to back the claim.

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#cartographie #arctique #canada #frontières #territoires

Daniel Pipes : The Case for Backing #Assad
Un néoconservateur américain appelle à soutenir le régime de Assad

▻http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34581.htm

Propaganda And Barf Alert
Daniel Pipes: The Case for Backing Assad

By Daniel Pipes

April 12, 2013 “Information Clearing House” -"National Post" - American foreign-policy analysts agree that the capabilities of Syria’s Assad regime are continuing to erode, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my previously stated policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian and decades-long foe of the Assad dynasty, to pause before writing:

Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.

Here is my logic for this reluctant suggestion: Evil forces pose less danger to us when they make war on each other. This (1) keeps them focused locally, and it (2) prevents either one from emerging victorious (and thereby posing a yet-greater danger). Western powers should guide enemies to stalemate by helping whichever side is losing, so as to prolong their conflict.

Babies learn about bullying as early as nine months : UBC study | Health | Life | National Post
▻http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/03/14/are-babies-born-bullies-ubc-study-shows-infants-learn-social-stra

The study, in a terrifying preview of the social minefield that is the high school cafeteria, offered the infants a choice between a snack of graham crackers or green beans. The children were then shown a video of two puppets. In the video, one puppet favoured the same snack as the child while the other puppet made a food faux pas by choosing the snack the child had passed on.

The children, when asked which of the puppets was their favourite, selected the puppet with similar tastes.

The experiment takes a slightly sinister turn when the children are shown videos of the puppets bullying each other. Not only did the children not mind when their favourite puppet picked on the puppet who chose differently from them, they also showed favouritism to new puppets who bullied the puppet that liked different snacks from the infant.

Dès 9 mois, l’enfant montre une préférence pour celui qui lui ressemble et soutient ceux qui rebutent ceux qui ne lui ressemblent pas…

“What it does seem to show,” Hamlin said, “is the tendency to note who is similar to me and who isn’t [that] might be very basic to human socialization.”

Hamlin went on to say that while infants display empathy, they appear to reserve it for certain individuals much in the same way adults do.

Graphic: Out of Africa – Did the Colonial Powers ever Really Leave? | Graphics | News | National Post
▻http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/18/graphic-out-of-africa-did-the-colonial-powers-ever-really-leave

The old colonial powers in Africa may no longer be the rulers, but they still exert influence and have strong economic and political links.

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#visualisation #afrique

The Walking Dead: A statistical look back at the series so far | Graphics | News | National Post
►http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/05/graphic-stopping-the-dead-a-statistical-look-back-at-the-walking-

…the gradual increase in the body count, the increasingly creative means of Zombie dispatch, and the fact that every character seems to have developed a clear enjoyment for putting the ambulatory cadavers down for good.

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via @opironet

world of religion

With the “world’s largest” gathering of atheists this weekend in Washington, D.C., the National Post’s graphics department takes a look at how the world’s religions break down. | Holy Post | National Post
►http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/23/graphic-a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-world-of-religion

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#religion

Sex toys aimed at religious couples a growing segment of the industry | Holy Post | National Post
►http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/01/18/sex-toys-for-religious-couples

Book22 — whose name references the Bible’s sauciest book, Song of Solomon — is dedicated to serving a growing market of married, heterosexual Christian couples who have become more open to bringing toys into the bedroom in recent years, says Oregon-based owner Joy Wilson, a 41-year-old mother of two.

#religion

Une spécialité libanaise : promener le journaleux pour amuser la presse internationale.

Syrian uprising means good business for gun-smugglers | News | National Post
►http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/25/gun-smuggling-business-is-booming-thanks-to-syrian-uprising

BAALBEK, Lebanon — Weapons dealer Abu Wael has traded guns in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley since the last days of his country’s civil war, nearly a quarter of a century ago.

This has been his busiest year ever.

[…]

Prices for Kalashnikovs have risen 75% to as much as $2,000 each, while M16s doubled to $2,500, reflecting the surge in demand for arms. The biggest jump was in the price of rocket-propelled grenades, which together with a launcher now cost $2,500 compared with $400 before, when demand was minimal.

Et pour finir, une présentation de ce Abu Wael :

He spoke to Reuters with his face covered by an Arab keffiyeh headdress, clutching one of his rifles. He said he deliberately dressed in the scruffy clothes of a Bekaa farmer to avoid attracting attention, never spoke by telephone, and declined to be identified by his full name.

Donc, ce que tu comprends là, c’est que le journaliste n’a aucun moyen de savoir s’il a interviewé un vendeur d’armes de renommée internationale mais super-incognito qui se fait passer pour un fermier de la Bekaa, ou s’il a interviewé un fermier de la Bekaa qui se fait passer pour un vendeur d’arme.

Tu veux mon avis ? C’est un fermier de la Bekaa.

“Inside Scientology” tells stunning tale of a modern-day #religion | Holy Post | National Post
►http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/08/27/unique-phraseology-shapes-the-mindset-of-scientology-followers-au

Fifty odd pages into Janet Reitman’s stunning new exploration of the Church of Scientology, she offers the first solid clue as to why this controversial modern-day religion can hold people so tightly and make it so difficult to leave.

As she explains in Inside Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer turned guru and the faith’s founder, created a language for what he envisioned would be a new and greater society free from the neurotic behaviour he believed governed most people’s lives.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“This is where it became Orwellian,” said Ms. Reitman during an interview from her home in New York.