http://dounia.com/blog1 nourish the world Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:50:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Parce que je change moi-même.  La situation actuelle: je m'en fous de la politique, mais alors, complètement.  Je ne sais pas où elle est passée, mais la news junky d'antan n'est plus, en tout cas, sûrement pas autant.  Il faudra que ça soit sérieux pour que j'y fasse attention, et ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2007/03/26/ce-blog-va-changer/ C'est donc parti. Le voici ce grand gars, sorti de nulle part - qui fait rêver. Au maximum, on pourrait s'offrir quelqu'un qui sort de l'ordinaire - et comment - et qui a de bonnes idées et la méthode aussi. Les uns et les autres souhaitent se ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2007/02/22/barack-a-t-il-la-baraka/ La dissémination de l'info s'est tellement accélérée que nous sommes désormais en mesure de suivre l'actualité mondiale en temps réel. Je ne vous parle pas des 3/4 minutes d'actualités mondiales" de votre journal télévisé quotidien ou même bi-quotidien. OUbliez vite tout ce hâché-mâché pas même subtil; chacun sait ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2007/02/03/ajustement-de-perspective/ This is depressing - Driss Ksikes is one of my favorite journalists in Morocco (a tiny crowd, the other one Abubakr Jamai also persecuted) and his magazine Tel-quel one of my favorites too (the second of 2: Le journal hebdomadaire).  These two guys and their colleagues have radically transformed the ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2007/01/10/for-shame-morocco/ This guy rests his case and quotes the LA Times: Pot is called biggest cash crop "For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America's biggest cash crop. Now they're citing government statistics to prove it. A report released today by a marijuana public policy analyst ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/12/19/legalize-it/ WaPo headline today: Contractors lost in Pentagon bureaucracy I kid you not.  Says Wapo: WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is still struggling to get a handle on the unprecedented number of contractors now helping run the nation's wars, losing millions of dollars because it is unable to monitor industry workers stationed in far-flung locations, ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/12/19/cant-make-this-stuff-up/ I know, I know, been gone a while - a combination of being bored with the news and a lot of work. But, I have to comment of the arrival of Al Jazeera English on desktops everywhere. My own cable provider - Comcast - isn't offering it but ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/11/19/al-jazzera-english-rocks/ Via Salon: Quote of the Day National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on why U.S. interrogation teams need Congress to "clarify" the Geneva Conventions' prohibition against "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment": "I'm saying that nobody knows what humiliating treatment is. What does it mean?" What an extraordinary statement. http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/09/18/the-clarity-thingie/ Looks like the AP has had enough: one of their photographers has been held for 5 months for no apparent reason. They are very pissed off and taking aim. The language in this report is as accurate as it gets and puts the situation in its proper context. ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/09/17/ap-details-the-atrocities/ That folks are even having to discuss torture as if it were a reasonable topic for the US of all places has been nauseating enough.  That Republican Senators are having to spell it out for everyone shows the kind of morals to which some policymakers - and the media that ... http://dounia.com/blog1/2006/09/15/what-is-unclear-about-cruel-inhumane-and-degrading-treatment/