Au tour du Pays de Galles (dont l’hymne à (plus qu’)inspiré l’hymne breton)
Thousands march in Cardiff calling for Welsh independence | UK news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/11/thousands-march-in-cardiff-calling-for-welsh-independence
Thousands have demonstrated in Cardiff to call for an independent Wales in what organisers said was the first such march in Welsh history.
Some protesters said they had been lifelong supporters of independence, while others said they were converted by Brexit and austerity. A recent poll for ITV Wales showed that 12% of people support self-government.
As the march ended with a rendition of the Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Adam Price, leader of nationalist party Plaid Cymru, said that Welsh problems could be more easily solved if decisions were taken within the nation.
]]>#Corbyn ’shocked’ by target practice video as Army launches investigation - ITV News
▻https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-03/british-army-launch-investigation-after-footage-of-soldiers-shooting-corbyn-pho
Jonathan Cook sur Twitter : “The army launching an ’investigation’ into Corbyn being used as target practice by soldiers is the one being led by a general who explained to the Times that he and his colleagues would make sure Corbyn was never allowed to reach No 10. This extends right to the top” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1113408081193574400
One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia | News | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/18/miqdaad-versi-very-polite-fight-against-british-media-islamophobia
News about Muslims in the British press is rarely positive, but it is never scarce. Consider these stories, published across a typical month towards the end of 2016. In the Times on 9 November 2016, an article announced: “Islamist School Can Segregate Boys and Girls.” On the Daily Express website, nine days later: “Anger as less than A THIRD of Muslim nations sign up to coalition against Isis.” In the Sun online, on 1 December: “SECRET IS SAFE: Half of British Muslims would not go to cops if they knew someone with Isis links.” On the Daily Express site the day after: “New £5 notes could be BANNED by religious groups as Bank CAN’T promise they’re Halal.” On ITV News, the same day: “Half of UK Muslims would not report extremism.” Two days later, in the Sunday Times: “Enclaves of Islam see UK as 75% Muslim.” The Mail on Sunday, that same day: “Isolated British Muslims are so cut off from the rest of society that they see the UK as 75% Islamic, shock report reveals.” And another version, in the Sun online: “British Muslims are so cut-off from society they think 75% of the UK is Islamic, report reveals.”
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No other community in Britain receives such regular torrents of bad press. But that is not the most shocking thing about these articles. Every single one of them was misleading. And they were not just lightly dotted with inaccuracies. The chief premise of each piece – the premise articulated in the headline – was dead wrong.
]]>The 1981 TV documentary that warned about global warming
▻https://www.carbonbrief.org/warming-warning-1981-tv-documentary-warned-climate-change
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puCng0p6N_s
On the evening of Tuesday, 8 December, 1981, the UK’s only commercial TV channel, ITV, broadcast an hour-long documentary called "Warming Warning”.
[...] To put it in context, the documentary was broadcast seven years before Dr James Hansen’s famous “it is already happening now” Senate testimony in 1988, nine years before the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report was published, and 25 years before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released.
[...] In its TV listings on the day the programme aired, the Times described it as “a documentary about the serious effects our polluting of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide will have on the #climate”. It added: “Scientists are worried that at the present rate the Earth will be 2C warmer by the middle of the next century with disastrous consequences for the polar regions.”
]]>Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much
–-> cet article date de juin 2015... je le remets sur seenthis car je l’ai lu plus attentivement, et du coup, je mets en évidence certains passages (et mots-clé).
In an interview with British news station ITV on Thursday, David Cameron told viewers that the French port of Calais was safe and secure, despite a “#swarm” of migrants trying to gain access to Britain. Rival politicians soon rushed to criticize the British prime minister’s language: Even Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration UKIP party, jumped in to say he was not “seeking to use language like that” (though he has in the past).
Cameron clearly chose his words poorly. As Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy for the Refugee Council puts it, the use of the word swarm was “dehumanizing” – migrants are not insects. It was also badly timed, coming as France deployed riot police to Calais after a Sudanese man became the ninth person in less than two months to die while trying to enter the Channel Tunnel, an underground train line that runs from France to Britain.
The way we talk about migrants in turn influences the way we deal with them, with sometimes worrying consequences.
When considering the 60 million or so people currently displaced from their home around the world, certain words rankle experts more than others. “It makes no more sense to call someone an ’illegal migrant’ than an ’illegal person,’” Human Rights Watch’s Bill Frelick wrote last year. The repeated use of the word “boat people” to describe people using boats to migrate over the Mediterranean or across South East Asian waters presents similar issues.
“We don’t call middle-class Europeans who take regular holidays abroad ’#EasyJet_people,’ or the super-rich of Monaco ’#yacht_people,’” Daniel Trilling, editor of the New Humanist, told me.
How people are labelled has important implications. Whether people should be called economic migrants or asylum seekers matters a great deal in the country they arrive in, where it could affect their legal status as they try to stay in the country. It also matters in the countries where these people originated from. Eritrea, for example, has repeatedly denied that the thousands of people leaving the country are leaving because of political pressure, instead insisting that they have headed abroad in search of higher wages. Other countries make similar arguments: In May, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the migrants leaving her country were “fortune-seekers” and “mentally sick.” The message behind such a message was clear: It’s their fault, not ours.
There are worries that even “migrant,” perhaps the broadest and most neutral term we have, could become politicized.
Those living in the migrant camps near #Calais, nicknamed “the #jungle,” seem to understand this well themselves. “It’s easier to leave us living like this if you say we are bad people, not human," Adil, a 24-year-old from Sudan, told the Guardian.
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/why-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matters-so-much
#langage #vocabulaire #terminologie #mots #réfugiés #asile #migrations #essaim #invasion #afflux #déshumanisation #insectes #expatriés #expats #illégal #migrant_illégal #boat_people #migrants_économiques
cc @sinehebdo
Yemen: US Bombs Used in Deadliest Market Strike | Human Rights Watch
►https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/07/yemen-us-bombs-used-deadliest-market-strike
Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes using United States-supplied bombs killed at least 97 civilians, including 25 children, in northwestern Yemen on March 15, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The two strikes, on a crowded market in the village of Mastaba that may have also killed about 10 Houthi fighters, caused indiscriminate or foreseeably disproportionate loss of civilian life, in violation of the laws of war. Such unlawful attacks when carried out deliberately or recklessly are war crimes.
Human Rights Watch conducted on-site investigations on March 28, and found remnants at the market of a GBU-31 satellite-guided bomb, which consists of a US-supplied MK-84 2,000-pound bomb mated with a JDAM satellite guidance kit, also US-supplied. A team of journalists from ITV, a British news channel, visited the site on March 26, and found remnants of an MK-84 bomb paired with a Paveway laser guidance kit. Human Rights Watch reviewed the journalists’ photographs and footage of these fragments.
]]>Saudi Arabia Continues Hiring Spree of Lobbyists, Retains Former Washington Post Reporter
►https://theintercept.com/2016/03/21/saudi-arabia-continues-hiring-spree-of-lobbyists-retains-former-washin
Game on !
▻http://pbg.xyz/game-on
P.B.G. plonge dans le monde vidéoludique, en musique et en chroniques 8-Bits.
Playliste
special spoiler de blind-test
Hiroshi Miyauchi - Space Harrier Theme
Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros
Hiroshi Miyauchi - Outrun
Tadashi Kimijima - Bubble Bobble
Tohru Nakabayashi - Golden Axe
Hirokazu Tanaka - Tetris
Bomb The Bass - Xenon 2 Megablast
Yoko Shimomura - Street Fighter II
Yuzo Koshiro - Streets of Rage 2
Michiru Yamane - Castlevania : Symphony of the Night
Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill
Bill Elm & Woody Jackson - Red Dead Redemption
Tohru Nakabayashi - Altered Beast
//Itv : Xavier Oldstar games. part 1 - qu’est-ce que le retrogaming ?
// Commentaires avisés par les Pseudos Bons Gameurs
//Itv : Xavier Oldstar games. part 2 - Consumérisme et jeux vidéo
// Commentaires bien sentis par les Pires Béotiens du Gaming
Mark Cooksey - Dragon’s Lair
//Itv : Xavier Oldstar games. part 3 - Autour du jeu : dessins, goûters et apéros
// Commentaires indispensables par les Parfaits Bétas de la Gagne
Tokuhiko Uwabo - Alex Kidd in Miracle World
//Itv : Xavier Oldstar games. part 4 - Quelques jeux hors des sentiers battus/ Musée du jeu vidéo
Yasuaki Fujita - Megaman 3
// Rise of the videogame zinnesters : ode aux amateurs games
Koji Kondo - Zelda Ocarina of Time
▻http://pbg.xyz/emissions/2016_02_26_PBG_GAME_ON.mp3
Encore un échouage de super porte-conteneurs APL Vanda, dans le Solent. Mais ça n’a pas duré.
(13900 EVP, seulement…)
Huge container ship ’freed’ after running aground | Meridian - ITV News
▻http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2016-02-14/update-huge-container-ship-freed-after-running-aground
An enormous cargo ship which ran aground on the notorious Bramble Bank overnight, is now back in port after being pulled into deeper water.
The 150,000 tonne APL Vanda was en-route from Le Havre to Southampton when she was grounded off the Isle of Wight at around 10pm on Saturday.
It’s believed the grounding was intentional following a loss of power.
]]>Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much
In an interview with British news station ITV on Thursday, David Cameron told viewers that the French port of Calais was safe and secure, despite a “swarm” of migrants trying to gain access to Britain. Rival politicians soon rushed to criticize the British prime minister’s language: Even Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration UKIP party, jumped in to say he was not “seeking to use language like that” (though he has in the past).
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/why-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matters-so-much/?postshare=191438758481381
#langage #terminologie #asile #migrations #réfugiés #vocabulaire #afflux
cc @marty @daphne
Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much
In an interview with British news station ITV on Thursday, David Cameron told viewers that the French port of Calais was safe and secure, despite a “swarm” of migrants trying to gain access to Britain. Rival politicians soon rushed to criticize the British prime minister’s language: Even Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration UKIP party, jumped in to say he was not “seeking to use language like that” (though he has in the past).
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/why-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matters-so-much
#langage #terminologie #vocabulaire #asile #migrations #réfugiés #afflux
Migrants Invisible in UK Media
A new report published June 13th, 2014 by Migrant Voice reveals huge under-representation of migrants in mainstream British media.
Migrant Voice analysed 577 online news stories relating to migration over an 11 week period from January to April 2014, from sources including the BBC, ITV, SKY news, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sun, The Evening Standard, and The Guardian.
There are some fantastic examples of migrants’ contributions to British life that feature in all of these media outlets, but when we step back and look at the overall data it is clear that migrants’ views are systematically invisible or ignored when it comes to most stories affecting migrants.
The debate on migration takes place largely within the media, yet migrants themselves are all too often subject to a ’code of silence.’ Migrant Voice works to bring more migrant voices into the debate - voices all too often ignored by politicians or those with ’an axe to grind.’
Following the launch of the report, Migrant Voice wrote to editors and reporters to ask them to sign up their new ’Meet a Migrant’ Campaign.
▻http://www.migrantvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=549:migrants-invisible-in
#migration #médias #journalisme #visibilité #UK #Angleterre #silence
]]>En pleine préparation de la réunion inter-ministérielle sur le numérique, après diverses annonces ▻http://seenthis.net/sites/205041 revoilà dans le NYT l’idée #fisc (#idéfix) ►http://seenthis.net/messages/108504
French Tax Proposal Tackles Data Harvest by Google and Facebook - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/technology/french-tax-proposal-zeroes-in-on-web-giants-data-harvest.html?nl=todayshead
“The privacy market is heating up,” said Mark Little, an analyst at Ovum. “There is a move away from what I would call data fracking to consumers’ creating their own contracts governing data use, and corporations’ having to abide by those.”
Mr. Colin said the main goal of his tax plan would be to reward companies for providing their customers with useful information, while penalizing those that did not do so.
Contexte général, divers fronts du #gvt_fr : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/113313
]]>The Fog of Civil War - By Stephen Starr | Foreign Policy
►http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/23/the_fog_of_civil_war
Contrary to reports, the Syrian government is allowing foreign journalists to enter the country. Teams from Fox News and Britain’s ITV television were recently granted 10-day visas to cover Syria from the capital. Many of these journalists are reporting from the bedsides of wounded regime soldiers and have remarked that Syria is, in fact, a divided country and that significant support does exist for the regime. But the limitations on official reporting are manifold. Government minders place restrictions on travel and contact with locals, making it difficult to report anything that does not fit the regime’s narrative.
Embedding with the rebels, who are equally eager to present themselves as victims rather than aggressors, invites similar hurdles in accessing the truth. But the rebels are a complicated bunch. Elizabeth Palmer, a journalist with CBS, recently managed to escape her government minders and go in search of fighters in the Free Syrian Army. When she found them, however, she was promptly told that she would be executed for having Syrian government stamps in her passport. Others covering events in the countryside have reported insurgents to have been a menace.
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Explosions ’one a minute’ in the #Syria n capital | ITV News ►http://itv.co/LuOXtc
How the #BBC lost 60,000 #Twitter #followers to ITV | The Wall Blog
►http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/07/25/how-the-bbc-lost-60000-twitter-followers
the issue of Twitter profiles that combine both employee and employer names
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