Dans la région de Naples, des missionnaires délivrent, “au nom de Dieu”, des titres de séjour aux étrangers menacés d’expulsion. Une manière de protester contre le durcissement de la législation…[courrierinternational.com]
Very apologetically, I am belatedly posting this guest contribution from David Rothenberg, a philosopher, musician and author of fascinating books on whales, birdsong and a host of other facets of the natural world. The piece is essentially a “Postcard from the Arctic” similar to dispatches I filed in 2004 from Greenland and a recent contribution here from a Siberian river. Click on the sound sample while you read…[nytimes.com]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 13 million Time Warner Cable Inc subscribers were to lose most Fox programing at midnight on Thursday unless the cable service provider reached a last-minute deal to pay fees to News Corp to broadcast the shows…[reuters.com]
The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution…[e-flux.com]
On September 4, 1972, the novelist and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary published an editorial on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict. Titled “A Plague on Both Your Tribes,” it announced that the situation had become a “monumental bore”: that the leadership had failed, and the antagonists, “acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl,” even as other nations of the world were “rapidly patching up their differences.” Esfandiary decried the violent stalemate over territory, especially since the world was, in any case, “irreversibly evolving beyond the concept of national homeland.” Citing a recent United Nations study on global youth, he extolled a “new kind of population, more resilient and adaptable than their elders,” with a “feeling of world solidarity and a sense of common responsibility to achieve peace.” In a future that was just around the corner, today’s youth would take care of the Arab-Israeli problem—in part by realizing that it was already obsolete. He concluded the piece with an exasperated injunction: “Let us get on with it.”
“Le loup est arrivé et il est bien parti pour rester.”
Jean-Claude Roch, garde-faune vaudois,
in La Gruyère, 28 juillet 2009
/ then, when this guy will be judged as it should be ? /
Following the decision by a Swiss federal court to release Roman Polanski on bail, INTERPOL has issued a reminder to all 188 member countries that he also remains the subject of a valid Red Notice, or international wanted persons notice, issued at the request of US authorities.The message, sent by INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France also requests each of its National Central Bureaus (NCBs) to ensure that border control agencies are also advised of Polanski’s Red Notice status, which is a request for any country to identify or locate an individual with a view to their arrest and extradition.
In March 1977, the Los Angeles County Grand Jury returned an indictment against Polanski, accusing him of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under fourteen, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by use of drugs, perversion and sodomy on a person.
Polanski fled from the US in 1978 after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.
“Given Mr Polanski’s history of international travel while defying a judicial order, a 4.5 million dollar bail and an electronic bracelet does not mean that law enforcement lets its global guard down,” said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.
“Mr Polanski has given us more than 30 years of proof that he does not feel bound to respect any court decision with which he does not agree.
“The world law enforcement community should do all in its power to make sure that the Swiss judicial process is allowed to run its course, and if Mr Polanski defies the conditions of his release, no country should welcome, offer safe haven to, or defend his conduct,” concluded Mr Noble.
The Vatican has announced that this year’s Christmas mass is to be replaced with a PowerPoint presentation about Jesus’ birth…[newsbiscuit.com]
ISRAELI bigwigs may not be visiting Britain much in the months ahead following the near arrest on December 13th of Tzipi Livni, the leader of the opposition, for alleged war crimes. A London judge issued an arrest warrant for Ms Livni for her role as foreign minister in Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead”, the assault on the Gaza Strip earlier this year. The order was withdrawn when the judge learned that Ms Livni would not be in Britain as planned…[economist.com]
Aston Martin today releases (16th December 2009) the first official images of the ‘Cygnet’ – a new luxury commuter concept car.
The Cygnet concept represents a creative, environmentally conscious solution, being small, yet with presence – and highly fuel efficient, now combined with the prestige of Aston Martin’s luxury brand ownership.
Work on the concept is ongoing and will continue into 2010 when it is hoped that it will become a production reality initially available to Aston Martin customers in the UK and Europe.
Nul ne le contestera: Nicolas Sarkozy n’hésite pas à “mouiller sa chemise” pour défendre lui-même quelques grands contrats stratégiques à l’export. Sauf qu’aucun des dossiers emblématiques (Areva, Dassault, Total, etc.) dans lesquels il s’est impliqué avec ses plus proches collaborateurs n’a encore abouti. Décryptage. Espoirs déçus. Le week-end dernier, Christophe de Margerie a essuyé un échec cuisant en Irak. [lalettrea.fr]
wtf, Axwell Top 5 best Dj ever !
