Florence Cassez – Clap de fin. France Culture rediffuse, ce mardi 29 janvier, mon documentaire réalisé avec Jean-Philippe Navarre Florence Cassez, otage de la corruption mexicaine : En France, la diffusion est à 17h00.
Ailleurs, le site internet de France Culture permet d'écouter ou de télécharger le documentaire. C'est l'occasion de faire un historique de mon travail sur cette affaire. La première diffusion de ce travail remonte à 2008. A l'époque Florence Cassez était coupable aux yeux du pouvoir mexicain, de l'opinion publique mexicaine, du gouvernement français et d'une grande partie des rédactions de France. Plus loin encore dans le temps ; juillet 2006. On comptait alors sur les doigts d'une main les journalistes qui accordaient un intérêt aux propos de la française. Ce livre est disponible en version numérique : Que s'est-il passé entre 2006 et 2008 ? Idle No More : les Autochtones maintiennent la pression. Les manifestants autochtones à Surrey en Colombie-Britannique Photo : PC/DARRYL DYCK Des manifestants autochtones du mouvement « Idle No More » bloquent la voie ferrée près de Marysville, non loin de Kingston, en Ontario, entraînant une interruption de la circulation des trains de Via Rail entre Montréal et Toronto ainsi qu'entre Ottawa et Toronto.
Via Rail précise que quatre trains, transportant 1000 passagers, sont immobilisés. Une vingtaine d'autobus ont été mobilisés pour transporter les passagers touchés par le barrage. Des responsables de Via Rail sont allés discuter avec la poignée de manifestants. L'entreprise ignore jusqu'à quand la voie sera bloquée. Le CN, qui est propriétaire de la voie ferrée, soutient que ses employés ont aperçu des manifestants manipulant un dispositif faisant fonctionner un passage à niveau. M. Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak—Read Them Here. This story has been updated.
Click here for the latest. FreedomWorks, the national conservative group that helped launch the tea party movement, sells itself as a genuine grassroots operation, and for years it has battled accusations of "astroturfing"—posing as a populist organization while doing the bidding of big-money donors. Yet internal documents obtained by Mother Jones show that FreedomWorks has indeed become dependent on wealthy individual donors to finance its growing operation.
Last month, the Washington Post reported that Richard Stephenson, a reclusive millionaire banker and FreedomWorks board member, and members of his family funneled $12 million in October through two newly created Tennessee corporations to FreedomWorks' super-PAC, which used these funds to support tea party candidates in November's elections. Big donations like Stephenson's are business as usual for FreedomWorks. The board book is chock full of strategy talk by the FreedomWorks' brass. How Dangerous Is the Lead in Bullets? The most ubiquitous danger at firing ranges has a lot to do with bullets but nothing to do with getting shot.
It's all in the lead. A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences found that OSHA lead exposure standards are too lax to protect military firing range employees. Repeated exposure to the toxic metal causes a raft of health problems including brain damage, high blood pressure, and anemia. Lead is found in bullets as well as the explosive that ignites gunpowder. When a bullet is fired, it gets so hot that that lead actually vaporizes. The new report also finds OSHA's blood lead level recommendation of 40 µg/dL or lower to be too high. How can firing range workers reduce their exposure? If OSHA adopts more stringent standards, it would be just another step in the long incremental march toward recognizing lead's dangers. Get the Lead Out. Read a recent statement from 30 scientists, doctors and public-health experts from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers and other universities about the "overwhelming evidence for the toxic effects of lead in humans and wildlife" and their support for getting the lead out of ammo.
Lead is an extremely toxic element that we’ve sensibly removed from water pipes, gasoline, paint and other sources dangerous to people. Yet toxic lead is still entering the food chain through widespread use of lead hunting ammunition and fishing tackle, poisoning wildlife and even threatening human health. At least 75 wild bird species in the United States are poisoned by spent lead ammunition, including bald eagles, golden eagles, ravens and endangered California condors. Thousands of cranes, ducks, swans, loons, geese and other waterfowl ingest spent lead shot or lead fishing sinkers lost in lakes and rivers each year, often with deadly consequences.
Lead ammunition also poses health risks to people.