Thursday
23Jul2009
3arabawy BookMarx 07/23/2009 (a.m.)
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:30PM The Associated Press: Workers lock up execs in new French 'bossnappings'
- About 50 workers at Michelin's plant in Montceau-les-Mines in eastern France locked up four managers, including the director, on Tuesday night. The managers were released early Wednesday after regional officials offered to mediate, Michelin spokeswoman Fabienne de Brebisson said.
The collapse of Moscow: Architectural heritage being destroyed - Europe, World - The Independent
Sounds like Cairo.
iPhone worker's suicide over missing prototype - Asia, World - The Independent
Global Voices Advocacy » Egypt: Three Bloggers Arrested On the Same Day
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Hampshire | Turbine workers in sit-in protest
Shot down - Capa's classic image of war - News, Art - The Independent
BBC - Viewfinder: The whole story
- Does this matter now that the picture is more than 70 years old and no longer a news picture, but a work of art? Yes, of course it does. If it just shows a few men fooling around then it makes the world of difference. But does that ruin Capa's reputation? Most defiantly not.
- The picture was initially published in the French magazine, Vu in September 1936 under the headline, How they fell, and later in the July 1937 issue of Life magazine.
- Remember this photograph wasn't wired from the heat of battle. Capa's films would have been packaged with captions, shipped off, developed and published, probably before he'd seen a frame.
- He was undeniably a brave photographer, and one that enjoyed the thrill of getting the picture. It should also be remembered that his untimely death in 1954 meant he was never able to address any concerns about the validity of the picture as it wasn't questioned until 1975.
The painful cost to Israel of its settler adventure - Haaretz - Israel News
- The settlement movement has cost Israel some $100 billion over the past 40 years.
Deaths of U.S. troops exceed 5,000 in wars - USATODAY.com
- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached two solemn milestones Monday: July has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and the combined death toll surpassed 5,000.
Anger at ANC record boils over in South African townships | World news | The Guardian
- Residents hurled bottles and stones at police, who responded by firing rubber bullets and teargas. Smoke from burning tyres filled the air as thousands marched in a show of anger at poor services in townships in Johannesburg, Western Cape and the north-eastern region of Mpumalanga.
- The unrest comes as frustrations boil over at the government's record, 15 years after apartheid, at providing townships with basic services such as electricity, running water, housing and sanitation.
- Koos Bezuidenhout, chief executive of the workers' interest group the United Association of SA, warned that "dissatisfaction with poor service delivery or the complete lack thereof at municipal level is now spreading like a veld fire through South Africa".
- Fifteen years after the ANC won its first election, more than 1 million South Africans still live in shacks, many without access to electricity or running water. The gap between rich and poor is also growing. Nearly 3m houses have been built, but the allocation has been prone to nepotism and corruption.
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