position:prince

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooon :
►http://www.disneybridal.com

(Si.)

Petite traduction d’un récent billet d’Angry Arab :
►http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/04/new-arab-guru-for-islamist.html

‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin Fahd est le nouveau nom à la mode dans le monde de l’extrémisme/fanatisme arabe islamiste. Il est le fils du roi Fahd qui s’est fait connaître en dépensant des millions dans le but de séduire l’actrice Yasmine Bleeth, dont il était tombé amoureux en regardant son programme télé favori, Baywatch. (Comme on le sait, Sa‘d Hariri fut le conseiller du prince en matière de plaisirs pendant des années, et avait l’habitude de lui porter sa mallette, comme me l’ont dit plusieurs témoins.) Bref, ‘Abdul-‘Aziz (l’enfant gâté du roi Fahd qui a hérité de la plupart de ses milliards) a récemment découvert la religion et le fanatisme. Il est le propriétaire de al-Wisal TV qui promeut les plus sectaires et fanatiques messages en matière de religion. Profitez bien.

Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced
►http://thechangelog.com/post/21314257945/prince-of-persia-source-code-open-sourced

Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner.

Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub!

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3WEwSJoHs&feature=player_embedded

#jeu #videogame #Prince_of_Persia #code_source #opensource

Is the Monarchy a relevant enemy or a symbolic irrelevance? | libcom.org

I have often been criticised for spending too much time attacking the Monarchy. So I ask the question, Is the Monarchy a relevant enemy or a symbolic irrelevance? Feedback would be gratefully received.

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1) The Royal family own all of the sea bed that is underneath British waters. Whilst these millions of acre’s may seem irrelevant. The Royals are charging extortionate ground rent for offshore wind farms, which is in turn leading to the need for massive subsidies for the renewable energy industry.
2) The Royal family are given £38.5 million a year. However, much like an MP and his or her expenses, with all the added extra’s, the real amount is well over £100 million each year.
3) When we had the Royal wedding earlier this year we received an extra bank holiday, which cost the economy £20 billion, which is slightly more than the government’s estimate of £500 million that the recent strikes cost.
4) Prince Charles has legal powers to prevent parliamentary legislation that directly or indirectly affects anything on his land. He has used these powers to overturn legislation on several occasions.
5) The Queen has a personal fortune of £500 million, which includes cash, jewellery, stamps, art etc.
6) They Royal family own over £10 billion worth of property.
7) The Queen owns 120,000 hectares of land. (not including the seabed).
8) Prince Charles owns 133,000 acres of land worth £700 million.
9) The Royal family do not need planning permission to build anything.
10) They have enough rooms in their castles and palaces to house all the homeless people in London.
11) We allegedly have a shortage of land to build affordable homes on, yet these bastards are the biggest land owners on earth.
12) The Queen is the head of the Church of England. Another organisation that controls and brainwashes elements of the working class.
13) The Royal family are part of a wide aristocracy and ruling class that sinks it poison into the house commons, lords, the judiciary, and the church.
14) Whilst supposedly politically neutral, what influence does the monarchy have on crack pot MP’s like Jacob Reece Mogg, or individuals high up in the armed forces? Didn’t the Queen mother have something to do with a plot against Harold Wilson?
15) The Queen has the ‘right’ to be consulted by governments. She has a veto that means she can refuse to dissolve parliament and sanction a general election. She has the Royal Prerogative, which confers governments to pass legislation or declare war without consulting parliament. She last granted this power to Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands war.

►http://libcom.org/blog/monarchy-relevant-enemy-or-symbolic-irrelevance-05122011

Lifestyles of the rich and hypocritical : Climate and Capitalism

Prince Charles thinks people should consume less. Other people, that is …

Is any group of people more hypocritical than the British royal family?

Last year, Prince Charles told a public meeting in Oxford:

“wherever you look, the world’s population is increasing fast. It goes up by the equivalent of the entire population of the United Kingdom every year. Which means that this poor planet of ours, which already struggles to sustain 6.8billion people, will somehow have to support over 9 billion people within 50 years.”

“It would certainly help if the acceleration slowed down, but it would also help if the world reduced its desire to consume.”

►http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5746

Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005 | UK news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-charles-offered-veto-legislation?CMP=twt_gu

Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might impact his private interests.

Since 2005, ministers from six departments have sought the Prince of Wales’ consent to draft bills on everything from road safety to gambling and the London Olympics, in an arrangement described by constitutional lawyers as a royal “nuclear deterrent” over public policy. Unlike royal assent to bills, which is exercised by the Queen as a matter of constitutional law, the prince’s power applies when a new bill might affect his own interests, in particular the Duchy of Cornwall, a private £700m property empire that last year provided him with an £18m income.

Neither the government nor Clarence House will reveal what, if any, alterations to legislation Charles has requested, or exactly why he was asked to grant consent to such a wide range of laws.

Statement by the President on the Selection of Prince Nayif bin Abd al-Aziz as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/28/statement-president-selection-prince-nayif-bin-abd-al-aziz-crown-prince-

I congratulate King Abdullah and the Saudi people on the selection of Prince Nayif bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud as Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Oui, félicitations au «peuple séoudien», hein, des fois qu’il ait eu le choix.

Angry Arab: Hamas and Hizbullah at the House of Saud
►http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/hamas-and-hizbullah-at-house-of-saud.html

Hizbullah sent a delegation to the Saudi Embassy in Beirut to offer condolences over the death of Prince Sultan bin Bribes. Khalid Mish‘al of Hamas flew to Saudi Arabia to personally offer condolences. It is not clear whether a joint delegation of Hamas and Hizbullah will fly to Saudi Arabia to offer thanks for the Saudi role in instigating and sponsoring the Sunni-Shi‘ite conflict, and for its alliance with Israel.

La photo du prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud sur Wikipedia vaut vraiment le détour :
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_bin_Sultan

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/DA-ST-92-08034-C.jpg

Attention: ceci est absolument génial. Angry Arab recommande la lecture de ce charmant compliment en hommage au prince récemment décédé Sultan écrit par Ghassan Charbel, rédacteur en chef Dar al Hayat, le quotidien qui appartient justement au fils Khalid du regretté Sultan. Un grand moment de journalisme…

Dar Al Hayat - Residing In His Smile
►http://www.daralhayat.com/portalarticlendah/321949

His smile was his passport to the hearts of his countrymen and his visitors. A smile is a key, a thread of affability. A smile is a window, into the cordiality of a man, and his desire for amicability; into his ability for dialogue, for coming together with others and deeply listening to them. For building bridges of trust, spreading hope, and making the present full of promises for the future. It was as though his smile was his weapon. Neither could crises inhibit it, nor could calamities abolish it. It was as though it was his message, and his affirmation that the horizon is open to better days. The bodies of some great men may tire, but they may have smiles that never do. It is as though it has become the property of their admirers. Some great men leave a message of reassurance, even if they themselves have departed:

Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz

Prince Nayef, likely to become heir to Saudi king | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/22/us-saudi-nayef-idUSTRE79L0M520111022

Nayef’s three decades as interior minister have allowed him to extend his authority across government into foreign policy, religious affairs and the media.

He oversees arrangements for the annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca, when 2 million Muslims gather in the birthplace of Islam, and heads security cooperation with Yemen and other countries trying to stem the flow of infiltrators, drugs smugglers and arms traffickers across Saudi borders.

Conservative even by Saudi Arabia’s austere standards, Nayef is sometimes portrayed as putting the brakes on the king’s cautious political reforms.

Earlier this year he publicly admonished a member of the mainly consultative Shura Council who had called for a review of the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia.

It was also Nayef who ended months of speculation in the run-up to partial elections in February 2005 as to whether women would be allowed to vote or stand for office. Nayef said it was too soon for women to take part — and the debate was over.

Ce qui n’empêche pas Reuters de trouver des « analystes » (qui ? qui ?) pour prétendre que, malgré ce profil ultra-réactionnaire et une réputation de maître tortionnaire, dès qu’il se sera au pouvoir, Nayef sera un « modéré ».

Analysts say Nayef may take a more moderate line if he becomes king, and note that the present monarch was portrayed as a staunch conservative when he became crown prince in 1995, but proved to be a sometimes ambitious reformer as king.

Comme qui dirait, un quasi-démocrate...

Pour rappel, même le relais des séoudiens au Liban, Saad Hariri, avait qualifié le prince Nayef d’« assassin » en le comparant à Bashar Assad. La diffusion de cet enregistrement avait fait grand bruit en janvier dernier.

Tiens, puisqu’on en parle, maintenant que le prince Sultan, ministre de la défense et père du prince Bandar, est mort : ça devient quoi, la faramineuse affaire de corruption al-Yamamah ?
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal

Je suppose que c’est enterré avec le prince.

Le prince héritier séoudien 83 ans, ministre de la défense depuis 48 ans, est mort. Je ne serais qu’à moitié surpris si son frère, le roi Abdallah, avait l’idée saugrenue, lui aussi, de décéder prochainement.

Heir to Saudi throne Crown Prince Sultan dies - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/10/2011102235021833.html

Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the 83-year-old defence minister and first in line of succession to become king of Saudi Arabia, has died.

“With deep sorrow and sadness ... King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz mourns the death of his brother and his Crown Prince Sultan who died at dawn this morning Saturday outside the kingdom following an illness,” the Saudi state press agency said.

Prince Sultan’s funeral will be held on Tuesday, the statement said.

He was an “important and influential senior prince” who played a key role in relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council, particularly Yemen, said Hussein Shobokshi, a columnist for the Asharq Alawsat newspaper.

Après l’éditorial du Hayat repris par Al-Arabyia qui menace explicitement les chrétiens libanais de représailles, c’est l’éditeur en chef du Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat qui dénonce les droits des « minorités extrémistes » : les chrétiens et les chiites :
►http://www.aawsat.com/leader.asp?section=3&article=642972&issueno=11996

وعليه، فإن الهدف الأسمى هو الحفاظ على الأوطان، وحق العيش المشترك فيها، تحت إطار المواطنة، وليس تحت ظل تطرف الأقليات وتداعيها لنصرة الطاغي الذي مصيره إلى زوال، وهذه سنن الله في خلقه، عاجلا أو آجلا، فالطغاة ذاهبون والأوطان هي الباقية، والخطر اليوم أن العقلاء الذين دافعوا عن الأقليات بمنطقتنا باتوا أنفسهم متشككين في دور الأقليات، فما بالك بعامة الناس؟

Commentaire d’Angry Arab :
►http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-on-shiites-and-christians-new-order.html

Now House of Saud propagandists have been launching a war on Shi‘ties for years now (if not centuries). There are now new orders to Saudi propagandists: to launch attacks on Arab Christians. The editor-in-chief of the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, fires the first salvos.

J’avais cité l’éditorial du Hayat ici :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/36071

The Kingdom and the Towers | Politics | Vanity Fair
►http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/08/9-11-2011-201108

Late on the night of the 13th, Prince Bandar’s assistant called the F.B.I.’s assistant director for counterterrorism, Dale Watson. He needed help, the assistant said, in getting bin Laden “family members” out of the country. Watson said Saudi officials should call the White House or the State Department. The request found its way to counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, who has acknowledged that he gave the go-ahead for the flights. He has said he has “no recollection” of having cleared it with anyone more senior in the administration.

An F.B.I. memo written two years after the exodus appears to acknowledge that some of the departing Saudis may have had information pertinent to the investigation. Asked on CNN the same year whether he could say unequivocally that no one on the evacuation flights had been involved in 9/11, Saudi Embassy information officer Nail al-Jubeir responded by saying he was sure of only two things, that “there is the existence of God, and then we will die at the end of the world. Everything else, we don’t know.”

L’Arabie séoudite et le 11 septembre : en France, on a tellement appris à aboyer contre les complotistes et conspirationnistes de tous poils, qu’on est très surpris de lire un tel article dans Vanity Fair.

What does Hollywood want with old arcade games?
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/jul/12/space-invaders-movie

Movies based on Space Invaders and Asteroids may soon be assaulting our multiplex screens. For God’s sake why?

Dans les commentaires :

Super Mario Brothers
An Italian plumber travels through a brightly-colored fantasy world collecting coins and mushrooms. He crushes turtles and goombas to death in order to rescue a princess from being raped by a dinosaur who pilots an airship. Flowers make him shoot fireballs from his hands and he also has a raccoon suit, a mechanical boot, and a dinosaur mount. It’s pretty much anything goes.

I’d love to find out what they were smoking when they came up with this.

Donkey Kong
An Italian garbage man must jump over barrels, climb ladders and girders, and collect hats, parasols, and purses in order to keep a princess from being raped by a giant monkey named Donkey.

Again, insane idea that I’d love to hear the background on. And where does he keep getting all these barrels? Is there a barrel factory up there or something?

Mario Party
That same plumber from before wants to party with you, and this time the dinosaur and gorilla, rather than eating you and raping the Princess, have agreed to follow the rules of a board game in order to determine a victor. The gorilla even puts on a tie.

Mental.

Angry Arab sur les médias séoudiens
►http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/saudi-media.html

I of course have my secret sources in the Saudi media in London. They are telling me that for the last few months (since the Arab uprisings) the instructions from Saudi Arabia have been more strict and angry. The instructions to the newspapers here come from the office of Prince Muqrin himself and they are not tolerating any kind of fake “liberal” ambiguities. All are now expecting to toe the line. The instructions lately have stressed the need to play up the Syria story and to cover it to the exclusion of all other stories. You can see that in the mouthpieces of Prince Khalid bin Sultan (Al-Hayat), and Prince Salman (Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat). My sources also noted how only Lebanese Christians are trusted by the House of Saud to run their newspapers.

Tiens, au détour d’une dépêche, Angry Arab livre un détail intéressant :
►http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/serving-all-arab-dictatorships.html

PS ADC [American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee] is now a tool of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who is a close friend of Bashshar Al-Asad.

« Le renard se tut et regarda longuement le petit prince » - Toutattaché
►http://toutattache.over-blog.com/article-le-renard-se-tut-et-regarda-longuement-le-petit-princ

Saudi Prince al-Waleed’s land ’frozen’ | Al-Masry Al-Youm : Today’s News from Egypt
►http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/394606

Egypt’s public prosecutors’ office said on Sunday it had ’frozen’ land in southern Egypt controlled by Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal because the original sale of the land violated the law.

Yeah !

The spokesman said Al-Waleed’s contract violated Egyptian law because the area KADCO bought was twice the legal limit and because it improperly exempted al-Waleed’s company from all taxes and fees.

C’est énorme ! Les rachats de terre par les séoudiens sont un fait marquant dans le monde arabe : impact sur le développement, impact sur l’agriculture, impact sur la politique, etc.

#égypte #arabie_séoudite

Prince of Persia, le making of (pas du film hein) // GDC Vault - Classic Game Postmortem : PRINCE OF PERSIA
►http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014634/Classic-Game-Postmortem-PRINCE-OF

#jeux_vidéo #rétro

The Arab Revolution Saudi Update | Saudiwoman’s Weblog
►http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-arab-revolution-saudi-update

Last night Prince Talal Bin Abdul Alaziz, the king’s half-brother, did a TV interview on BBC Arabia that was widely watched and discussed. In it he warned of an upcoming storm if reforms aren’t dealt with right now. He used the word “evils” to describe what would happen if King Abdullah passed away before ordering the required changes. Prince Talal also strongly advocated a constitutional monarchy and democracy as long as it’s similar to what they have in Kuwait and Jordon. However he hinted that there were people in the ruling family who do not believe in change.

This whole past week was eventful. The first political party to form during King’s Abdullah’s reign, the Islamic Umma Party, has been arrested. According to the party’s released statement, they were informed that they would not be released until they sign a document promising that they will abandon all political aspirations.

In Qatif, a Shia majority area in Eastern Saudi, there is talk that there was a protest demanding the release of political prisoners yesterday. Ahmed Al Omran from SaudiJeans tweeted a pamphlet that was being distributed in Qatif, calling for protests today, Feb 18th, at 8pm.

#Arabie_séoudite

De mieux en mieux : une semaine après les événements de mai 2008, les séoudiens suggèrent aux Américains l’envoi d’une « force arabe » sous mandat des Nations unies et sous couverture navale et aérienne des États-Unis et de l’OTAN pour chasser le Hezbollah du Liban.

US embassy cables : Saudi prince urges need for ’security response’ to Hezbollah threat in Lebanon | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/153797

Opening a discussion with S/I Satterfield focused largely on Iraq, Saud first turned to Lebanon and stated that the effort by “Hizballah and Iran” to take over Beirut was the first step in a process that would lead to the overthrow of the Siniora government and an “Iranian takeover of all Lebanon.” Such a victory, combined with Iranian actions in Iraq and on the Palestinian front, would be a disaster for the US and the entire region. Saud argued that the present situation in Beirut was “entirely military” and that the solution must be military as well. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) were too fragile to bear more pressure; they needed urgent backing to secure Beirut from Hizballah’s assault. What was needed was an “Arab force” drawn from Arab “periphery” states to deploy to Beirut under the “cover of the UN” and with a significant presence drawn from UNIFIL in south Lebanon “which is sitting doing nothing.” The US and NATO would be asked to provide equipment for such a force as well as logistics, movement support, and “naval and air cover.”

3. (S) Satterfield asked what support this concept had from Siniora and from other Arab states. Saud responded that “Siniora strongly supports,” but that only Jordan and Egypt “as well as Arab League SYG Moussa” were aware of the proposal, lest premature surfacing result in its demise. No contacts had been made with Syria on any Beirut developments, Saud said, adding, “what would be the use?”

An “Easier Battle to Win”
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4. (S) Saud said that of all the regional fronts on which Iran was now advancing, the battle in Lebanon to secure peace would be an “easier battle to win” (than Iraq or on the Palestinian front). Satterfield said that the “political and military” feasibility of the undertaking Saud had outlined would appear very much open to question. In particular, attempting to establish a new mandate for UNIFIL would be very problematic. Satterfield said the US would carefully study any Arab decision on a way forward. Saud concluded by underscoring that a UN/Arab peace-keeping force coupled with US air and naval support would “keep out Hezbollah forever” in Lebanon.

Après le « coup du 5 mai » :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/6224
le soutien principal du 14 Mars se verrait bien en train d’envahir et bombarder le Liban. Charmant.

Saud prétend que ce « concept » est « fortement soutenu » par Sanioura. Ça ne prouve rien (ouï-dire), mais ça va encore tanguer pour les 14 Mars...

Saud, représentant d’un des principaux acteurs arabes de la région, utilise l’expression « easy to win » pour désigner, avec les américains :
– une guerre contre le Hezbollah (on s’en doutait),
– mais aussi l’Iraq et « le front palestinien » !
Ce passage est proprement scandaleux.

#cablegate #Liban #Arabie_séoudite #Sanioura