09.03.2009

Antoine Fouchet : "En Guadeloupe, il n'y a pas de tension raciale"

03/03/2009 15:39 Antoine Fouchet : "En Guadeloupe, il n'y a pas de tension raciale"Malgré les accords portant sur une hausse de 200 euros des bas salaires signés le 29 février en Guadeloupe et le 3 mars en Martinique, les syndicats des deux îles maintiennent la grève.

Journaliste à "La Croix", Antoine Fouchet, de retour de Pointe-à-Pitre, analyse la situationWilly Angel, le président du Medef-Guadeloupe, craint de voir le chômage grimper jusqu’à 30% des actifs dans l’îles.

Est-ce là le seul bilan que nous pourrions provisoirement dresser de la grève générale qui a commencé le 20 janvier dernier '

Peut-on revenir sur le cheminement de cette revendication tout au long des négociations '



Source: http://www.la-croix.com/article/index.jsp?docId=2366756&rubId=4076

26.02.2009

Rumors: Phillies waiting for White House invite - Baseball- nbcsports ...

25, 2009 The Phillies have yet to receive their invitation to the White House from the Obama administration, an honor customarily bestowed upon the World Series champions.

The shortstop would likely have to play out of position for the Dominican team, and he might prefer to spend the team working at shortstop in spring training, which would please the Astros given they'll already be missing Roy Oswalt (USA) and Carlos Lee (Panama).

(Boston Globe) Texas is apparently preparing to negotiate a long-term deal with Josh Hamilton and it is believed that the deal Dustin Pedroia recently signed with the Red Sox (six years, $40.5 million) will be the blueprint for the Hamilton effort.

(MLB.com) First baseman Adam LaRoche is apparently looking to stay with the Pirates for the rest of his career, particularly since his brother Andy is part of the organization.



Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/24099672/

France Plans Government Agency To Boot File Sharers Offline

points us to the news that France is close to , which has one major difference from other "three strikes" laws: rather than the ISPs acting as the copyright police, it will be a new French government agency that will do the dirty work.

If a copyright holder believes that someone is infringing on copyrights, it would send the info to the agency, who would investigate, get info from the ISP, and (if the agency believed infringement occurred) send out a threat letter to the individuals responsible.

But seeing that Western democracies (france, NZ, Australia, U.S., Britain) are the first to volunteer to rape their people n the name of the recording industry, than probably I am wrong or maybe I just misunderstand the meaning of the word "Democracy".

There is no such thing as an EU Court of Civil Rights â€' only the European Court of Justice, indeed an EU institution, and the European Court of Human Rights, established by the Council of Europe (i.e.



Source: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090223/1219443868.shtml