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Hier les locaux de la television Future News ont ete evacues par des miliciens. L’autre batiment de la Future TV a ete incendie par ces memes miliciens. Ils ont ensuite “decore” les lieux avec des photos de Bachar al Assad, l’actuel president syrien et les drapeaux du Hezbollah. Le meme sort a ete […]

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C’est avec un un documentaire anti-Américain au titre ‘Massacres’ et une illustration contre le Pape Benedetto XVI qu’al-Qaeda a décidé de répondre à travers les médias au court-métrage anti-Islam du député hollandais Geert Wilders, au titre ‘Fitna.’ Le film attaque les Américains et les Israéliens pour ce qui a été fait dans les derniers 40 […]

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Things I have done today to avoid doing work:
1. Introduced myself for the first time to the downstairs-flat neighbour, in an attempt to find out why the hell the water was turned off and our shower refused to shower anything but a useless dribble of cold water;

2. Made myself not one but three cups of […]

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In Bejaia, Algeria, and visiting the market…
Et ce que je cherche au marché, c’est quelque chose ‘de la culture’, peut être un objet traditionnel Kabyle, peut être du bijou bien sûr, et je voudrais mon bijou Algérien, fait à la main, par une ancienne femme, dans un village des montagnes… Comme ça, cela serait […]

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I’ve seen lots of things in Algeria this week – this goldfinch isn’t the most remarkable thing, as it’s a bird I see lots of at home in the garden. Something nice but disquieting about seeing it up close; something not-quite-right about seeing it caged.

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A film of walking in the North Yorkshire dales, right up in the North of England, in the snow. The films are silent, and I’ve put them alongside a poem by Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998), a prolific English poet who was born in Yorkshire - much of his work says something about the rawness […]

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The most popular video these past few days in Portugal was this one:

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Following threats of a very serious nature, the controversial movie “Fitna” was removed from the site LiveLeak today.
The website announced the ban of the film and added that “this is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above […]

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The Controversial movie, of the Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilder, Fitna, appeared yesterday on the internet. The movie’s length is around 15 minutes.
Wilder said that the movie will show “the intolerant and fascist character of the Koran,” whose anti-Islam campaign helped his Freedom Party win nine seats in parliament in last year’s election.
In the […]

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