Aujourd’hui les blogeurs du monde entier bloguent pour une planete plus propre!
je joins ma voix et mon blog à cette action.
Au lendemain de l’atribution d’un nobel pour Al gore et le GIEC, le groupe intergouvermental de l’evolution du climat. cette action acquiert plus de legitimité.
Je crois qu’ensemble nous pouvons faire stopper cette degradation sans precedente de l’environnement, changeons nos habitudes energetiques et le monde changera!
As Nobel Prize week winds down, the final award is the Peace Prize. This year, the award went to a person and an organization: Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The award cited "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." The winners had been rumored for months, and certainty about the recipients’ identity rose as the date of the award neared. Still, there are a number of surprising aspects about the win that are worth discussing.
The first is simply the fact that, in a world with several ongoing wars and insurgencies, the Peace Prize has gone to work on a topic that’s largely been relegated to the science and business sections of the news. The prize committee’s reasoning was that uncontrolled climate change poses a severe threat to future peace, and thus that the winners were acting to prevent conflicts prophylactically. Climate change "may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth’s resources," reads the citation. "Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."
One of the factors that is likely to heighten any controversies surrounding this award is that both the IPCC and Gore’s film are generally recognized to be somewhat flawed, if well intentioned. The IPCC has been preparing reports based on the current scientific findings and consensus for nearly two decades. But that consensus is the product of the general scientific community, and the views of scientists on most topics cover a broad spectrum. As such, the IPCC’s efforts to put hard probabilities on various aspects of climate change has left them open to accusations of glossing over complexities.
And those are just the issues with the science. Most press accounts and governmental decisions focus less on the scientific bodies of the IPCC reports (which can run hundreds of pages), and more on the summaries for policy makers. These summary documents are meant to reduce the science to easy-to-digest statements about the key facts. Unfortunately, they’re hashed out at contentious meetings that include both scientists and diplomats from the UN membership and sometimes run all night before agreements are reached. In the end, the most commonly discussed pieces of IPCC reports are as much the product of diplomatic compromises as they are the product of the underlying science.
Meanwhile, the award to Al Gore came on the same week that a judge in the UK officially declared parts of his film, An Inconvenient Truth, to be scientifically inaccurate. Most of the issues cited appear to be the product of the typical challenges that come with the simplifications needed to popularize science and the inability for speakers on a strict time limit to discuss the intricacies of a complex topic. Gore could have done better, but the same can be said for many scientists that try to produce similar works for popular audiences.
In the end, the court decision focused on subtle and dry scientific issues—what percentage of the loss of some glaciers is the result of higher temperatures, and what is due to changes in precipitation patterns? The fact that this sort of science has become the subject of court cases that make headlines around the world is really what Gore and the IPCC are being cited for. Getting the public to recognize any complex scientific issue is a challenge. Climate change has implications that are primarily decades in the future, while acting on it requires lifestyle changes in the present, both of which add to the difficulty of motivating the public to action.
It was a bit of a surprise to see a topic with largely scientific and technological underpinnings receive the Peace Prize. But following the reasoning of the Nobel Committee suggests it may not be the last. As humanity’s technological advances increase its ability to alter the world around it, the potential for scientific findings to have implications for the future peace will only increase as well.
Encore un prix nobel de litterature britannique et en plus je ne connais même pas;)la veinarde ces petits fils se frottent deja les mains, les ventes des livres de leur mammie vont etre booster pour les dix ans a venir ceci mis a part le montant du prix qui depasse celui du vainqueur de dlilek mlak!
STOCKHOLM - Le prix Nobel de littérature a été attribué jeudi à la romancière britannique Doris Lessing, "conteuse épique de l’expérience féminine qui, avec scepticisme, ardeur et une force visionnaire, scrute une civilisation divisée", a annoncé l’Académie suédoise.
Doris Lessing, qui aura 88 ans le 22 octobre, et dont l’oeuvre est marquée par son expérience de l’Afrique, est notamment célèbre pour son livre "The Golden Notebook" (1962), publié en France sous le titre "Le Carnet d’or" en 1976. Elle est l’écrivain le plus âgé à recevoir la prestigieuse distinction, a souligné Horace Engdahl, secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie, qui a précisé que l’institution suédoise n’avait pas réussi à la joindre avant l’annonce du prix.
Lessing, qui selon son agent s’était absentée pour faire des emplettes, a appris la nouvelle deux heures plus tard et l’a accueillie avec une certaine ironie. "Je m’en contrefiche!", a-t-elle déclaré à la presse devant son domicile londonien. "Ca fait 30 ans que ça dure: j’aurai eu tous les prix en Europe, vraiment tous. Je suis ravie de faire le grand chelem. C’est la flush royale!"
Née en 1919 de parents britanniques à Kermanchah, en Perse (aujourd’hui Bakhtaran, en Iran), Doris Lessing débute sa carrière de romancière dans les années 1950 avec "Vaincue par la brousse", traitant de la relation entre l’épouse d’un fermier blanc et son domestique noir. L’ouvrage est "à la fois une tragédie basée sur des tensions mêlées d’amour et de haine, et une étude sur des tensions raciales inconciliables", selon le communiqué de l’Académie.
La saga romanesque autobiographique "Les Enfants de la violence", réalisée dans les années 50 et 60 et connue comme la série Martha Quest, d’après le nom du personnage central, se déroule en grande partie en Afrique. Constituée de cinq volets, elle décrit la manière dont Martha Quest "est innovatrice dans sa représentation des pensées et des conditions de vie de la femme émancipée", souligne l’Académie.
"The Golden Notebook", en 1962, marque le succès définitif de Doris Lessing. "Ce roman est considéré comme une oeuvre pionnière par le mouvement féministe naissant et appartient à la poignée de livres qui ont marqué la manière de voir des relations homme-femme du XXe siècle", relève l’Académie. Le personnage principal, Anna Wulf, écrit dans des carnets ses réflexions sur l’Afrique, la politique ou encore sur les rapports aux hommes et l’érotisme, l’analyse jungienne et les images des rêves.
Parmi ses autres romans importants figurent "The Summer Before the Dark" (1973, "L’Eté avant la nuit", 1981), étude impitoyable de l’effondrement des valeurs pour une femme d’âge mur, et "The Fifth Child" (1988, "Le Cinquième Enfant", 1990), un thriller psychologique.
Les droits d’adaptation cinématographique de "The Fifth Child" sont par ailleurs détenus par la maison de production montréalaise Amérique Film, a indiqué jeudi un parte-parole, Martin Paul-Hus.
L’Académie note que le thème d’une catastrophe mondiale obligeant l’homme à revenir à un mode de vie plus primitif revient dans deux livres publiés par Lessing ces dernières années: "Mara and Dann" (1999, "Mara et Dann", 2001) et sa suite "The Story of General Dann and Marass Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog" (2005).
Lessing est le deuxième auteur britannique sacré par le Nobel de littérature en trois ans, Harold Pinter ayant été couronné en 2005. Le prix avait été attribué l’an dernier au Turc Orhan Pamuk.
Doris Lessing, aujourd’hui domiciliée à Londres, a beaucoup voyagé au cours de son existence. Après la Perse, sa famille part s’installer en Rhodésie du Sud, l’actuel Zimbabwe, en 1925, une expérience racontée dans l’autobiographique "Dans ma peau" (1995).
Ses critiques contre le régime sud-africain et sa politique d’apartheid lui valent d’être interdite de séjour en Afrique du Sud de 1956 à 1995. Membre du Parti communiste anglais dans les années 50, elle milita également contre les armes nucléaires.
Le Nobel de littérarure est le quatrième prix Nobel attribué cette semaine après ceux de médecine, physique et chimie. Le plus prestigieux, celui de la paix, sera annoncé ce vendredi, et celui d’économie lundi. Tous sont assortis d’une récompense de dix millions de couronnes suédoises
source: la presse canadienne
C’est bien vrai. Les rumeurs sont vérifiés. Il est tout à fait possible d’acquérir le dernier Radiohead : In Rainbows est en téléchargement légal et direct sur le net. Et le mieux, c’est que c’est vous qui fixez le prix de l’album.
Radiohead, libéré de tout majore depuis plus de deux ans, a son public. Le groupe peut donc se permettre ce genre d’avancée technologique considérée comme risquée par toutes les grosses majores.
Quoiqu’il en soit, le projet est ambitieux est intelligent, il serait bon que le principe se démocratise. C’est ça l’avenir de l’industrie de la musique… le web !
Radiohead In rainbows, 15 steps live
Radiohead,In rainbows, Nude live
The following article was taken from NAFASg. With this post I am pledging my full support to put a stop to child abuse.
In our times of darkness, children are the ones who will brighten us up. No matter what ordeals we have to endure in our daily lives, we know that we can overcome them the moment we set eyes on children. Their innocence and purity in them will always give us a sense of peacefulness and calm that is beyond words. And it goes without saying that life would be meaningless without seeing them smile, hearing them laugh and cry, and feeling their small and flawlessly gentle hands that want to reach out to us.
Yet, there are some who show no empathy and sensitivity towards these beautiful souls. Worse still, they would dunk themselves into physical violence and cruelty towards the children without even thinking twice. Such acts can deem someone to be worse than an animal, because even an animal has compassion and love for its young.What is going on with this world? Why must such horrid acts be carried out? Why do these people ever exist in this world? 
Please take this time to read this special message from us, and show your utmost support and sympathy towards the family of the late Nurin Jazlin, who passed away tragically and brutally at the age of only eight. Little Nurin Jazlin’s body was discovered in a gym bag on 17th September, one month after she was abducted. Upon the discovery, she was seen to be in the most horrifying state ever. Her hair was short and curled up, when it was originally straight and long. Her body was pale and badly bruised from head to toe, and there were traces of foreign objects like brinjal and cucumber found in the virginal area of her body.
Parents of the deceased took a long time to acknowledge her death, but eventually did after all the thorough DNA tests had been carried out by the forensics department. Her body was finally buried on 21st September. Her father, Jazimin Abdul Jalil, had expressed his sorrow towards this tragedy, stating that whoever who caused her death was not a human being, but rather, an animal.
This was the result of an outrage of modesty (See Picture On The Right) caused by a man of age between 35 and 40, who was thought to be someone who enjoyed torturing people, particularly children. Along with him was a 23-year-old lady, who was apparently his partner in crime. The lady had been found and called for questioning by the Malaysian authorities, whereas the man has yet to be found. Hence, we are urging all of you here to play your part in finding this serial killer cum sexual offender and ensuring that justice is served to the deceased and her family.
If you know of the culprits’ whereabouts, keep us informed immediately, or directly inform her uncle, Jasni Abdul Jalil, via his blog, which he had specially created as a form of dedication to her.
Over the years, we have heard of children’s lives being taken away due to the evil doings of heartless adults. Nurin’s death was one of the most gruesome and tragic deaths that made many of us shocked, despaired and furious. Do you want more children to die in the hands of these sadistic people? Do you still wish to hear such saddening news of child abuse?
Then let us do our part right away! Together we can make this world a better place for the little ones. Let us all join hand in hand and put a stop to such cruelty towards them once and for all! Fight against child abuse today.We have created a logo to show our support towards the fight against child abuse. If you would like to join in this movement, please copy and paste this article in your site and place the logo. After displaying this article, leave us a comment and we will add your link in our list of bloggers who have voluntarily helped us in this movement.
