publishedmedium:time magazine

Recent high growth rates and increased foreign investment in Africa have given rise to the popular idea that the continent may well be on track to become the next global economic powerhouse. This “Africa Rising” narrative has been most prominently presented in recent cover stories by Time Magazine and The Economist. Yet both publications are wrong in their analysis of Africa’s developmental prospects

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What’s striking about the two articles cited above is that they don’t mention manufacturing, or its disturbing absence, in Africa. And that, in turn, confirms once again the extent to which the idea of development as industrialization has been completely abandoned in the last few decades. Free market economics has come to advise poor countries to stick with their current primary agriculture and extractives industries and “integrate” into the global economy as they are. Today, for many champions of free markets, the mere presence of GDP growth and an increase in trade volumes are euphemisms for successful economic development. But increased growth and trade are not development.

#économie #afrique #développement #cdp

c’est très suivi par la communauté #logiciel_libre car le concept est de le faire en #open_source

Oui, en soi c’est un projet intéressant, mais je l’aurais baptisé autrement :-)

Mouais, ya pas vraiment de « barrière » technologique pour « farming », quand on veut pas faire de l’agriculture productiviste, à l’occidentale. Ce dont ont besoin les agriculteurs bios, c’est surtout des terres , et encore en bon état ! Et plus de formation dans ce secteur, plus de monde sur plus de terres. Pas telle ou telle machine.

– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

— You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

— You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

— You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

– You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

–You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

–You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

– You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

#terrorisme #santé

You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

J’ai 8 fois plus de chance de mourir tué par un policier que par un terroriste... sans doute si je pars faire un petit voyage aux U.S.A, n’est-ce pas ?

Plus intéressant serait d’avoir des statistiques en fonction du pays où l’on vit, de sa nationalité, que sais-je...

les stats américano-centrées, ça m’agace. :p

Et voici donc l’article que vous attendiez tous - la liste des choses plus dangereuses que le terrorisme basée sur la « European Detailed Mortality Database » de l’OMS : ►http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/15/we-should-be-spending-billions-fighting-bathtubs-not-terrorism basée sur http://data.euro.who.int/dmdb

Si tu veux mon avis, ça manque de hashtags classieux.

ouiais surement !

#santé #reproduction #fiv #sperme #organes #biologie #gattacca

et #étalon aussi ça le fait

http://seenthis.net/messages/32665 : )

On attend avec la plus grande impatince

Signalé par Stephen Walt:

Fear, Incorporated: Who’s paying for all that Islamophobic paranoia? - By Stephen Walt | Stephen M. Walt
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/26/fear_incorporated

The irony in all this that the extremists examined in this report have gone to great lengths to convince Americans that there is a vast Islamic conspiracy to subvert American democracy, impose sharia law, and destroy the American way of life. Instead, what we are really facing is a well-funded right-wing collaboration to scare the American people with a bogeyman of their own creation, largely to justify more ill-advised policies in the Middle East.

(c’est moi qui souligne).

Très intéressante, la réaction des néoconservateurs de American Thinker :

Blog : The Soros-supported Center for American Progress blames rich Jews for stoking Islamophobia
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/the_soros-supported_center_for_american_progress_blames_rich_jews_f

Who are the figures mentioned as the promoters of prejudice? Most of them are prominent Jews and supporters of Israel, such as David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson (the founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism). The eight foundations mentioned as funding this effort include are almost exclusively ones founded and funded by Jewish donors, and lest readers not be aware of this fact, the Center for American Progress lists not only the other beneficiaries of the charities and foundations (most of them having Jewish or Israel in the title) but also goes to the trouble of naming the individuals behind these charities — not just the donors but also those who serve on the boards.

Why include this additional information except to highlight that Jewish people are behind this effort to “defame” Muslims?  By “outing” the people involved, the report puts endangers them.  Furthermore, this “report” relies on the conspiracy and age-old anti-Semitic trope that Jews fan prejudice  towards others and promotes divisions for their own nefarious purposes (to support Israel in this case). This mindset is straight out of Mein Kampf.

De ce que je vois dans le rapport, ça ne se focalise justement pas sur des donateurs/acteurs juifs américains, mais plus largement sur des illuminés chrétiens américains (surtout !), un ancien milicien chrétien maronite libanais... En accusant American Progress d’antisémitisme, ce sur quoi American Thinker attire l’attention, c’est que le point commun de ce réseau de la haine est l’ultra-sionisme de droite (largement likoudnik), que ses membres soient juifs ou non.

REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America | ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/304306/islamophobia-network

To explain how the Islamophobia network operates, we’ve produced this video to show just one example of how they have mainstreamed the baseless and unfounded fear that Sharia may soon replace American laws:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4M0xFjRKA

Ce qui est sympa dans le commentaire d’American Thinker, au delà du point Godwin c’est :

This will work its magic in the Muslim world, a substantial fraction of which believes that “defaming” Islam is legitimately punishable by death at the hands of any righteous Muslim. By thoughtfully providing a hit list, the CAP does its part to spread fear and — yes — terror among the opponents of radical Islam.

Moralité : ce rapport n’excuse pas simplement les terroristes : il est, lui même, de nature terroriste.

@baroug : oui. Mais c’est un classique du sionisme de droite américain. Il s’agit des États-Unis, avec deux caractéristiques : (a) la liberté d’expression interdit de « condamner » une simple opinion (et le racisme est une opinion aux États-Unis - il ne suffit pas, comme en France, de dire des choses comme « ça n’est pas une opinion, c’est un délit »), (b) l’extrême-droite sioniste américaine, et notamment sa composante d’extrémistes religieux chrétiens, est elle-même raciste et facilement antisémite.

Du coup, cette droite ne peut répondre simplement en taxant une opinion de « raciste » ou « antisémite » (ce qui suffit à disqualifier un interlocuteur en France) : il faut affirmer que cette opinion a une conséquence pratique directe, en ce qu’elle constitue un appel au meurtre. Et ça, même aux États-Unis, c’est interdit et moralement indéfendable.

Du coup, aux É-U, c’est un classique : il faut toujours aller plus loin que l’imputation d’antisémitisme et pousser le bouchon jusqu’à l’appel au meurtre qui, lui, ne ressort pas de la liberté d’expression.

Le Doha Institute vient de publier son propre commentaire sur ce rapport :

The Islamophobia Network in the United States
http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/0bfba905-573f-4ae2-8a83-2863aef9a4eb

In conclusion, I focus on the four following points:

First: Islamophobia is on the rise in the United States, and it has become more widespread in this past decade than at any other time previously; it has also increased dramatically since 2008.

Second: Islamophobia has its own structure and organization, and enjoys a network of collaborating and coexisting groups that share a hefty budget, experts, and supporters.

Third: The study that I have summarized is extremely useful and contains many facts and examples and a careful study of the backgrounds of the major players in the Islamophobia network.

Fourth: The study’s importance mandates its translation into Arabic; Arab and Muslim organizations will benefit from its practical strategy to combat the dangers of increasing Islamophobia.