Les camés de l’été #1: Dennis Hopper sous cocaïne
Derrière le motard sauvage d’«Easy Rider», héros des sixties, se cachait un total drogué, qui faisait venir des hélicos chargés de poudre et se soûlait à l’after-shave. Bibliobs
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Les syndicats sont contre, des politiciens sont réticents; pour comprendre ce qui s’en vient avec les deux traités de libre échange qui se négocient prétentement: le Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership et leTrans-Pacific Partnership
Trade-Agreement Troubles By James Surowiecki, New Yorker. In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that this violated its intellectual-property rights and would damage its investments. The company sued Australia in domestic court and lost….
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Poulidor Premier (1.33.29)
Il a figuré parmi les plus grands cyclistes du monde pendant presque deux décennies, sans jamais remporter le Tour de France. Paradoxalement, ses défaites l’ont fait entrer dans la légende. Depuis la fin de sa carrière en 1977, « Poupou » devance toujours ses adversaires dans le coeur du public. Réalisation : Patrick Jeudy (France, 2015)
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Twenty-first century yoga is female. Look around the classes. There are a few men on planet yoga, but they are massively outnumbered by women. Yoga is a women’s thing – isn’t it?
Feminist Times But the practices all these women are doing were created by men, and for men. Some medieval yoga manuals advise yogis to avoid women, for fear of distraction or pollution. Hatha yoga (yoga that works through physical postures to modify mental activities) was a boys’ game, and women were not invited. Medieval hatha…
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A Loss for Words
Can a dying language be saved? By Judith Thurman New Yorker It is a singular fate to be the last of one’s kind. That is the fate of the men and women, nearly all of them elderly, who are—like Marie Wilcox, of California; Gyani Maiya Sen, of Nepal; Verdena Parker, of Oregon; and Charlie Mungulda,…
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«De culture musulmane», ils signent un manifeste contre l’islamisme
Le Figaro Les journalistes Mohamed Sifaoui et Zineb El Rhazoui, l’écrivain Boualem Sansal, sont parmi les signataires d’une tribune dans Marianne dénonçant l’«islam politique» et le communautarisme, et défendant «la laïcité et l’universalisme». Le documentariste Mohamed Sifaoui, la journaliste de Charlie Hebdo Zineb El Rhazoui, l’écrivain algérien Boualem Sansal, la militante politique Zohra Bitan…. Tous…
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How Political Correctness Aided and Abetted Sex Crimes in England
The troubling lesson of the Rotherham crimes Brendan O’Neill Reason P.C.’s invasion of everyday life; its movement from colleges into the concrete worlds of politics, society, and community relations. Consider Rotherham. Major official inquiries, including one published last week, have discovered that in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, around 1,400 young people, mainly white…
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17 juillet 1959. Démolie par la drogue et l’alcool, la chanteuse Billie Holiday meurt à l’âge de 44 ans. La veille de sa mort, “Lady Day” se fait encore livrer de la drogue sur son lit d’hopital.
Par Frédéric Lewino et Gwendoline Dos Santos Le Point — Documentaire sur Billie Holiday Story (56.39) — Sa chanson émouvante “Strange Fruit” qui évoque les Noirs lynchés dans le Sud Paroles et traduction Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze…
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Love Under Cuban Skies (45.10)
Un documentaire de la CBC An exploration of female sex tourism in Cuba and the story of 3 Canadian women and their Cuban lovers. Who is exploiting whom?
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In addition to giving you a nasty infection (or worse), douching could also mess with your hormones.
Gabrielle Canon Mother Jones Medical evidence suggests that douches are unnecessary because vaginas clean themselves.
