Fortune des dictateurs: au tour de Ben Ali et Kadhafi Avec les révolutions arabes, la liste des biens mal acquis des dictateurs s'allonge. Le départ de Ben Ali et la chute programmée de Kadhafi pourraient rouvrir le dossier et accélérer les enquêtes. OWNI fait le point avec une carte interactive. Près de 200. C’est le nombre de biens mal acquis de cinq despotes africains que nous avons identifiés et listés sur notre carte consacrée au trésor des dictateurs. Voitures de luxe et biens de consommationHôtels particuliers et biens immobiliersComptes en banque disséminés à travers le monde A la faveur des révolutions arabes, de nouveaux noms font leur apparition dans ce club fermé des fortunes mal acquises. Les révolutions pourraient relancer des procédures enterrées Aux plaintes déposées devant la justice par les ONG Sherpa et Transparence International en 2008, les gouvernements incriminés avaient riposté par la voie de recours judiciaire, avec un certain succès. Le défi Kadhafi Cliquer sur la carte pour naviguer dans l’application
The Official Netflix Blog : US & Canada 10 Lesser Known Economic Issues Politics While not an economist in the traditional sense, I am very interested in the study of economics. While not everyone shares this level of interest, I believe people should have an understanding of economics as the field is so important to understanding the world that we live in. Though this list contains ideas that are controversial, it is not intended to promote anger or controversy. Also known as the Diamond-Water Paradox, the paradox of value is the contradiction that while water is more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds get a higher market price. This paradox can possibly be explained by the Subjective Theory of Value, which says that worth is based on the wants and needs of a society, as opposed to value being inherent to an object. Khazzoom–Brookes Postulate This proposal was named after economists Daniel Khazzoom and Leonard Brookes, who argued that increased energy efficiency, paradoxically, tends to lead to increased energy consumption.
about | Gathering '11 Le peuple est-il un enfant ? Dans la polémique sur les révélations de Wikileaks [1], un ancien ministre des affaires étrangères français s’indignait sur les plateaux : la politique était selon lui comme les familles, il y a des histoires qu’on ne raconte pas aux enfants. Il faut une certaine fatuité pour oser cette comparaison. Hubert Védrine ne se rendait pas compte qu’il reprenait la vieille justification des élites aristocratiques quand elles refusaient le droit des peuples. Ils n’étaient que des enfants. Le triomphe de la démocratie n’a donc pas balayé le préjugé. Il reste toujours des hommes assez persuadés de leur supériorité pour penser que la politique est réservée aux gens comme eux. Mais ajouteront les esprits bien pensants : il s’agit de politique internationale où le secret a toujours été légitime puisqu’il en va de la sécurité des Etats et de la vie des hommes, que notre époque dangereuse justifie encore plus qu’on le cultive. Les relations internationales sont-elles un domaine aussi exceptionnel ?
Analytics Blog Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs 60 Minutes America's real job-creators...who can't afford to create any jobs. In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides blame each other for our economic mess, one argument has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact: Rich people create the jobs. Specifically, entrepreneurs and investors, when incented by low taxes, build companies and create millions of jobs. And these entrepreneurs and investors, therefore, the argument goes, can solve our nation's huge unemployment problem — if only we cut taxes and regulations so they can be incented to build more companies and create more jobs. In other words, by even considering raising taxes on "the 1%," we are considering destroying the very mechanism that makes our economy the strongest and biggest in the world: The incentive for entrepreneurs nd investors to build companies in the hope of getting rich and, in the process, creating millions of jobs. She'd like to create jobs. And Hanauer explains why.
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. We Recommend The youth and those who are not so young participating in Occupy Wall Street deserve support, not scorn. Does the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has now spread from lower Manhattan to places as far flung as Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, signal a new beginning for the left? Since they can no loner ignore the occupation, the mainstream media has decided to mock and dismiss it instead. About the Author Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the... Also by the Author I love you. That slogan began in Italy in 2008.
Que dire à un bébé sans papiers ? La Cour de cassation a tranché. Les deux petites filles d'un couple français ne sont pas les leurs. Ou plutôt, elles le sont aux Etats-Unis, mais pas en France. C'est le résultat ubuesque du retard français en matière de filiation. Que cela plaise ou non, de plus en plus de parents conçoivent leurs enfants grâce à la gestation pour autrui (GPA). Dans le cas du couple dont nous parlons, deux jumelles sont nées d'une fécondation in vitro - le sperme du papa et l'ovule d'une amie - portée pendant neuf mois par une Américaine. Jusqu'ici, pourtant, cette régularisation se faisait. "La mère, c'est celle qui accouche", précise la Cour. Les magistrats ne souhaitent pas trancher un débat qui appartient aux politiques (ils ont bien raison). Est-il souhaitable, oui ou non, qu'un enfant vive avec un statut légal, c'est-à-dire un lien parental reconnu par la loi ? "Papa, maman, pourquoi on n'est pas sur le livret de famille ? - Si ma chérie, mais l'Etat ne veut pas. - Pourquoi ? - Pourquoi ?
State of the Blogosphere 2011: Introduction and Methodology Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2011 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. This year's topics include: blogging and social media, bloggers and traditional media, traffic and analysis, brands and marketing in the blogosphere, bloggers' motivations and consequences, monetization, and changes within the blogosphere over 2011. The Blogosphere is constantly changing and evolving. In 2011 we are seeing bloggers updating their blogs more frequently and spending more time blogging. The type of information influencing blogging has shifted from conversations with friends, which was the primary influence in 2010, to other blogs, which for 68% of bloggers are having more of an influence in 2011. This year we have chosen to display our results according to five different types of bloggers: 2-3) Professional Part- and Full-Timers: These bloggers represent 18% of our total group. Continued on the next page
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!" Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. It was this cast of characters and the pernicious ideas they represent that impelled me to end a nearly 30-year career as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill. The debt ceiling extension is not the only example of this sort of political terrorism. The only thing that can keep the Senate functioning is collegiality and good faith. John P. The media are also complicit in this phenomenon. This constant drizzle of "there the two parties go again!" 1.
The End of Strategy « how to save the world I spent much of my professional career developing and implementing Strategic Plans. The hardest part of this was that most people didn’t (and still don’t) know what ‘strategy’ is: the choice among alternative courses of action, not the determination of goals and objectives. It’s about how, not about what. Most of the ‘strategic’ plans I was given (by bosses, and by clients I was advising) were not plans at all, but rather targets. This failure of understanding and setting strategy seems endemic in all kinds of organizations today. The middle column of the chart above shows how strategic planning should work, but in most organizations it does not work at all. Instead of being driven by a Mission and Vision (which are inherently and perpetually dissatisfied with the current state, such that any happiness in those organizations that goes beyond transitory success is highly suspect), these organizations are driven by a Purpose — a shared “Why are we here?” But old habits die hard.