politique
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«Casse-toi pôv’ con», une opération de com
d’après le témoignage d’Yves, son vif échange avec Nicolas Sarkozy n’avait rien de spontané : tout était organisé par l’Elysée. Ce qui devait être une opération de communication destinée à faire passer le Président « bling bling » pour un chef d’Etat plus proche du peuple — et doté d’un solide sens de la répartie
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Hunger Games Tweets : White until proven black
On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games, logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games
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Bully et la véritable obscénité
With its unerring instinct for being on the wrong side of every major social and aesthetic issue, the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board has refused to budge off its R rating for Bully, an earnest and moving documentary made for and about tormented preteens and teenagers. There’s almost a perverse, Santorum-style integrity about the MPAA’s
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Une corde de velours pour impliquer les lecteurs
So instead of just hitting a wall after a certain number of stories, readers who contributed comments or moderated the comments of others — or provided other forms of useful data or labor — might get a benefit that others wouldn’t, whether it’s access to certain content or an invitation to a real-world event they might
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Gay the Pray Away
An attempt by failed NSW Christian Democrat candidate Peter Madden to hold a Queensland Election Prayer Rally featuring the now infamous ‘hate truck’ has backfired in Brisbane overnight. Approximately 500 pro-marriage equality protesters flooded King George Square in the Brisbane CBD from late afternoon, forcing the 12 attendees of the prayer rally to retreat to
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Not just for vegetarians
« For the people who are like, ‘I want to eat, but I want to eat something healthy,’ I think their only choice used to be a vegetarian restaurant, » Ms. Cohen said. « We wanted to be more mainstream, and not just for vegetarians. We really wanted to serve good food. » » When a Tofu Dog Can’t
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La lucidité, le refus, l’ironie et l’obstination
Et justement ce qu’il nous plairait de définir ici, ce sont les conditions et les moyens par lesquels, au sein même de la guerre et de ses servitudes, la liberté peut être, non seulement préservée, mais encore manifestée. Ces moyens sont au nombre de quatre : la lucidité, le refus, l’ironie et l’obstination. » Le
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La révolution informatique de la Maison Blanche
In eight weeks, 40 applications were built, including a parking application that had previously been done in Excel, and a printer dashboard to tell them when a printer was running out of toner. The program also led to the development of survey tools, memo generators, and an online tool that replaced paper-based goods and services
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«This American Life» retire un de ses épisodes pour bidonnage
I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s acclaimed one-man show « The Agony and
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Les acides gras trans sont mauvais pour vous (air connu)
Non seulement ils font grossir, augmentent les risques cardio-vasculaires et sont liés à une augmentation des risques de cancer (du sein, par exemple), mais ils dégradent aussi notre humeur et la qualité de notre sperme (bon, ce dernier point, j’avoue que je m’en carre, mais quand même). This study provides the first evidence linking dTFA
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La culture toxique de Goldman Sachs
Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its
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Les leçons à tirer des films catastrophes
Their special effects can be realistic enough to make us feel like we are right there in the heart of the storm. But frequently, the heroes and heroines of these movies respond to disasters in ways that bear no resemblance to what people in the real world should do. We can nevertheless use disaster films
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Un cas d’école d’inculture économique
Le Wall Street Journal commente aussi l’affirmation, dimanche, par Nicolas Sarkozy à Villepinte, selon laquelle la France ne pourra plus financer son système social «si les frontières ne sont pas mieux contrôlées» : «C’est une pensée immonde, pas seulement en raison des sentiments bas auxquels elle fait appel, mais aussi parce qu’il s’agit d’un cas
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La Turquie et les journalistes emprisonnés
Quick: What country jails the most journalists? If you guessed China, you were close, but no cigar. Twenty-seven reporters are in prison there, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. If you guessed Iran, you’re getting warmer—forty-two in prison there—but you’re still off. How many of you guessed Turkey? » Turkey’s Jailed
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The dying demographic of right-wing talk radio
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. (…) But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old,
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Pour Access Copyright, un lien internet est une copie
Access Copyright collects royalties for course packs, anthologies of readings from books and journals compiled by professors. Under the agreement, the fee has been changed from $3.83 plus 10 cents a page to a flat fee of $27.50 for all course packs, which students pay. The agency also states that hyperlinks to copyright material —
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La guerre à la drogue comme politique raciste
The book marshals pages of statistics and legal citations to argue that the get-tough approach to crime that began in the Nixon administration and intensified with Ronald Reagan’s declaration of the war on drugs has devastated black America. Today, Professor Alexander writes, nearly one-third of black men are likely to spend time in prison at
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Pinkwashing
But Saturday’s protesters felt differently. Palestinian queers have reached out to us, said Emmaia Gelman of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and you can’t fight for queer rights in a state with no civil society. Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel’s alleged touting of its progressive stance on
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A no-brainer
Her views expand to feminism and her opinion that men should be welcomed into the movement. « I don’t think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion … we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys, » she says, before adding that she is particularly surprised that more
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Armes de dissuasion
Dangereux aussi : pour Denis Robert, l’acharnement judiciaire de Clearstream contre lui a duré dix ans, pour une soixantaine de procès. Aujourd’hui, Bouygues réclame 9 millions d’euros (!) au Canard enchaîné pour avoir révélé en décembre l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire, notamment pour « corruption » et « trafic d’influence » dans le chantier du Pentagone