"The hierarchy of death remains one of the most fascinating aspects of daily newspaper decision-making.":

Another example today of journalism's hierarchy of death. Which is the most important story? The murder of 93 people in Norway or the lonely death of Amy Winehouse?

Editors' choices illustrate, yet again, the two distinct presses that exist in Britain.

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De la où je suis, je ne suis justement pas l'eurovision. Je ne sais meme pas quand cela a eu lieu. C'est donc tout à fait par hasard que je tombe sur cette vidéo. Je ne savais pas du tout à quoi m'attendre d'autant plus que je ne connaissais pas du tout le nom d'Amaury Vassili, mais quand j'ai entendu la chanson, la beauté de la musique, cette voix, m'a fait un tel choc que j'en ai pleuré. C'est beau. Bravo Amaury, un bien joli nom!

En revanche, la charité m'ordonne de ne pas nommer les vainqueurs de l'eurovision 2011: je n'ai rien de bien à dire de leur chanson ni de leur interprétation.

Le billet suivant explique, comment, en un seul mois, j'ai été bombardé d'informations stupéfiantes qui me rappellent pourquoi le projet les 3 enjeux demeure malheureusement à la fois important et d'actualité.

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Des nouvelles stupéfiantes dans un mois pris au hasard

J'ai eu l'occasion aujourd'hui de me remémorer Coluche et les restos du coeur. Les paroles de la chanson des restos du coeur me font monter les larmes aux yeux:

Bonjour la fratrie: j'ai bien reçu vos derniers mails au sujet du mariage et du reste. J'y ai aussi répondu, mais mes mails n'ont pas l'air de passer: il semblerait que mon adresse IP soit sur une liste noire, et mes mails me sont retournés au bout de deux jours. Je vais essayer de trouver une heure afin d'avoir l'un ou l'autre au téléphone. Envoyez moi un email pour me dire si vous avez bien reçu les miens. Bisous à tous.

I just received from a friend a power point presentation lauding the engineering and ecological virtues of the $4.1 billion Qinghai-Tibet railway, yet does not say a word about the cultural genocide agenda that this very train helps to advance. The article below is derived from an email reply that I sent in reply to receiving that piece of propaganda.

On Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:16:25 you wrote:
> Qinghai-Tibet_Railway_000_(R).pps
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While I applaud the engineering feat, and enjoy the great scenery, this presentation is an obvious piece of propaganda; it's really disgusting.

The presentation goes at length to demonstrate how ecology-conscious the whole design is, thereby assuaging well-meaning western environmental concerns. Yet it does not say a single word about the cultural annihilation the communist Chinese have enforced upon the Tibetan people.

It starts by presenting the train as an old dream of the Republic of China, founded in 1911 by Dr. Sun-Yat Tsen (as properly mentioned in the .pps), but it fails to say that the Republic of China (ROC) still exists.... only on the island of Taiwan and that the mainland of China is now controlled by the communist People's Republic of China (PRC). For the last 60 years, the dictatorial PRC has done all it could to deny the ROC any recognition on the world stage. The Republic of China is today a healthy democracy with truly free, multi-party elections which has seen a peaceful transition of power between one party to another (both in 2000 and 2008).

Today, the ROC's only dream is to be recognized on the world stage and to be admitted in such organizations as the World Health Organization, the United Nations, etc. and to be able to compete in the Olympic Games under its own name and flag, instead of the parody of name and flag imposed upon them by the PRC. (Imagine the American Olympic team being called "Caucasian-Washington" instead of "USA" and competing not under the American flag, but under a slightly modified version of the official Olympic games flag....)

Today, and since after WWII, the ROC has certainly NOT dreamed about building a train through all the Chinese provinces.... since the ROC controls only ONE province!

On the other hand, the dictatorial and brutal regime of the PRC has pursued the Beijing-Tibet train project for its own political well-known agenda of cultural annihilation of the Tibetan culture. They want to assimilate, forcibly if necessary (as they have often done during the past), the Tibetan with the Chinese/Han culture. Tibetan people are denied their own culture and history. They are routinely beaten and jailed for even carrying the picture of the Dalai Lama.

The Being-Tibet train extolled in the presentation is a Weapon of Mass Cultural Genocide. But that does not matter to our western consciences because wild life migratory paths have been preserved!!!

Also, the presentation claims that Tibet is not self-sufficient and that it constantly needs give-outs from what should be known as the "Beijing Communist Imperial government". That's a hard piece of propaganda, the talking point that they wish you'll remember: the communists, in their "generosity", build a multi-billion dollar railway in order to "save the tibetan economy"!!
As far as I know, before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 and the bloody repression and mass murder of Tibetan Lamas, Tibet was doing quite fine on its own, thank you very much.

Please, please, please, before you mass-forward such disgusting propaganda piece of shit (Qinghai-Tibet_Railway_000_(R).pps), please do a minimum of research:

Voici quelques notes sur le nucléaire suite à la crise au Japon à la centrale de Fukushima Daichi. Au lieu de re-hacher ce qui a déjà été dit, mieux, ailleurs, permettez-moi de donner une perspective parfois personnelle sur le sujet.

Taïwan

Radiations venant de Fukushima

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

Friends shared this video with me.

You may ask: what has it got to do with French president François Mitterrand, American president Ronald Reagan and the cold war?

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon:

Obviously, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by nerds, for nerds, has a fairly detailed article on this obscure computer virus that has only affected a handful of computers, far, far away from home:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It's truly fascinating and it so reminded me of an incident of a similar nature that occurred during the Cold War, involving Soviet KGB spies, French president François Mitterrand and American president Ronald Reagan.

J'écris ce billet parce que plusieurs personnes d'europe et d'amérique m'ont demandé si nous avions étés affectés par le séisme. Au début, je ne savais pas du tout de quoi il s'agissait. Ce n'est que plus tard, lorsqu'une étudiante a fait mention du séisme au Japon dans un de ses essais que j'ai vraiment appris la nouvelle.