p class=MsoNormalAu nom de l’UE, a href=http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2008/12/05/01003-20081205ARTFIG00048-le-dalai-lama-invite-l-europe-au-dialogue-et-a-la-fermete-.php Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le Dalaï Lama/a, profitant de l’occasion pour s’affirmer comme un dirigeant suffisamment fort pour résister à la a href=http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2008/12/04/pour-la-chine-la-france-est-le-maillon-faible-de-l-europe_1127070_3216.html pression/a de la puissance chinoise. S’il est parfaitement respectable de faire savoir à l’Etat chinois que l’UE se passe de son avis sur les personnalités qu’elle reçoit, on peut être en revanche dubitatif devant ce choix de faire du cas tibétain une cause symbolique. La Chine a, entre autres, deux problèmes qu’il convient de bien distinguer./p p class=MsoNormalLe premier, c’est son Etat : autoritaire, violent, dirigiste, hostile à tout progrès des libertés individuelles, politiques et religieuses. La grande majorité des chinois a toutes les raisons d’être mécontente de ce régime./p p class=MsoNormalQue faire, vu d’une démocratie libérale, pour aider les ressortissants d’une dictature ? Il y a plusieurs doctrines, des plus interventionnistes qui considèrent que l’on peut imposer de force un changement de régime, car la démocratie, la liberté, l’Etat de droit et les droits de l’homme, quand on y goûte, on devient accroc, aux plus isolationnistes, qui estiment qu’il ne faut pas chercher à imposer nos valeurs à d’autres civilisations. Entre les deux, on admet généralement qu’il est important de tenir un discours intransigeant. D’une part, pour faire ihonte/i aux dirigeants en question sur la scène internationale (mouais...). D’autre part, pour être entendu par la population concernée. On peut penser que, d’une manière ou d’une autre, les chinois entendent les messages critiquant la brutalité de leur régime. Entendre ce genre de messages peut les inciter à s’opposer ou les encourager s’ils le font déjà. Or, l’angle privilégié par lequel on attaque le régime chinois n’est pas celui de sa brutalité vis-à-vis de sa population, mais un sujet sur lequel on prend la population chinoise à rebrousse-poil : le Tibet./p p class=MsoNormalCar le Tibet est un autre problème chinois, qu’il convient de bien distinguer du premier. Certes, lorsque l’armée chinoise intervient contre des moines tibétains, elle fait la preuve de son peu de respect pour la personne humaine. Mais c’est le cas au Tibet comme ailleurs. Fondamentalement, la question tibétaine n’est pas différente de toutes les situations dans lesquelles une région périphérique d’un grand pays réclame son indépendance ou son autonomie. Le Tibet en Chine, c’est l’Ossétie du sud en Géorgie, le Kurdistan en Iraq et en Turquie ou l’Eelam Tamoul au Sri Lanka. Or, dans ce genre de situations, il y a deux constantes : 1- la situation est souvent trop complexe pour désigner le camps des gentils et le camps des méchants, et 2- la population de l’Etat central est généralement irritée dans son patriotisme quand elle voit qu’une partie du corps national se désolidarise du tout./p p class=MsoNormalCes deux points sont remarquablement vrais dans le cas du Tibet. Pour le 1-, les rapports entre le Tibet et l’empire chinois ont toujours été a href=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet#Rapports_entre_la_R.C3.A9publique_populaambigus/a, celui-ci apportant son soutien administratif et militaire à une autorité religieuse dont elle reconnaissait la légitimité. Dans ces conditions, les défenseurs de la cause tibétaine peuvent expliquer que les troupes de Mao ont envahi un pays indépendant en 1950, tandis que d’autres, à l’instar de Jean-luc Mélenchon, rapprochent cette invasion de la guerre en Vendée pendant la révolution Française, en faisant une affaire sino-chinoise./p p class=MsoNormalAutre élément de complication : selon la définition que l’on retient de ce qu’est le Tibet, celui-ci peut représenter une partie substantielle de la superficie chinoise./p p class=MsoNormalPar ailleurs, on peut être sceptique devant l’idée que l’instauration d’une théocratie au Tibet serait un facteur de progrès des droits de l’homme et de la démocratie./p p class=MsoNormalLe point 2-, pour sa part, est très important dans le cas tibétain. C’est pour cette raison qu’il est important de distinguer le problème posé par la brutalité du régime chinois de la question tibétaine. Car, quoi qu’ils pensent de leur gouvernement, les chinois n’ont pas du tout envie de se voir dépossédés d’une partie de leur territoire. Il y a peut être des centaines de millions de chinois qui rêvent de démocratie, et qui aiment entendre des messages de soutien contre la dictature qui les fait souffrir, mais qui se sentent insultés quand ils entendent l’occident s’époumoner aux cris de «Â free Tibet ». Lorsque, quelques semaines avant les jeux olympiques, des extrémistes tibétains organisent des pogroms en assassinant des commerçants dont le seul tort était d’être chinois, l’armée chinoise, qui n’est pas tendre d’habitude, est intervenue avec la barbarie qu’on imagine. L’occident s’insurge alors contre la «Â répression », fournissant ainsi au régime chinois de quoi soigner sa communication interne et sa cohésion nationale. Car une justice respectueuse de l’Etat de droit aurait été moins expéditive, aurait assuré le droit de la défense, aurait permis un procès équitable, mais elle aurait néanmoins, et c’est heureux, réprimé de tels meurtres. Voilà donc le message que les média officiels chinois ont fait passer à leur opinion : «Â voyez ces extrémistes qui ont massacré des chinois ? Eh bien sachez qu’ils sont défendus par l’occident qui s’insurge de ce que nos militaires soient allés ramener l’ordre ». Et lorsque le citoyen chinois cherche à s’informer ailleurs que dans les média officiels, il voit qu’effectivement, l’occident n’est intéressé que par la liberté du Tibet./p p class=MsoNormalSoyons bien clair : mon argument n’est pas démographique. Il ne s’agit pas de dire que les tibétains ont tort parce qu’ils sont moins nombreux que les chinois. Je m’étonne juste de ce qu’on se mette à dos plus d’un milliard de chinois en défendant une cause dont le bien fondé est peu évident, alors qu’on pourrait s’attirer leur sympathie en défendant leur liberté, au moins en paroles. L’explication est peut-être que la motivation des défenseurs de la cause tibétaine est moins la promotion des droits de l’homme que la fascination ésotérique qu’inspirent à des occidentaux désenchantés des moines qui parviennent à trouver leur équilibre intérieur en s’emmitouflant dans des draps jaunes et en faisant «Â hooooom » toute la journée./p p class=MsoNormalPour les défenseurs de la modernité, en revanche, il me semblerait opportun de remplacer le «Â free Tibet » par un «Â Free a href=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_JiaHu Jia /a»./p

MacUpdate has unveiled its latest software bundle, a special holiday promotion that includes ten software titles, normally priced at $450 separately, into a holiday-promotion bundle that will be sold for $50 through December 18th. Customers who purchase or gift three bundles will receive a fourth package for free. The first 5000 purchases will include an 11th title, iDive....

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/28602?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Morrisons+triumphs+over+Tesco+with+sales+leapch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Morrisons+%28Business%29%2CTesco+%28Business%29%2CSupermarkets+%28business%29%2CBusinessc5=Business+Marketsc6=Richard+Wrayc7=2008_12_05c8=1129226c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Morrisonsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FMorrisons" width="1" height="1" //divpMorrisons, Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, yesterday announced a better than expected 8.1% leap in third-quarter sales, in stark contrast to the poor performance of bitter rival Tesco./ppThe company, also one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has successfully attracted cost-conscious shoppers with "Price Crunch" deals such as its pound;4 Sunday roast lunch offer. Its advertising campaign starring Top Gear presenter Richard "the Hamster" Hammond has also helped to bring customers in. /ppRival Asda yesterday said it is also performing well as shoppers worried about their jobs conserve cash by trading down to value brands and own-label goods. Asda's American parent Wal-Mart said November was a strong sales month, though it refused to give precise figures. /ppAsda boss Andy Bond said: "Offering shoppers everyday low prices across both food and non-food continues to deliver strong sales and market share gains. The extra 900,000 customers coming through our doors is clear proof that our strategic focus is the right one for these difficult times."/ppAsda claims it is growing at almost twice the rate of Tesco and Sainsbury's and still outpacing Morrisons, which said yesterday it is pulling in an extra 700,000 shoppers a week, compared with last year. Tesco reported its worst sales figures for a decade and a half this week./ppRecent data from TNS showed that Tesco grew the least among the big four supermarkets during October. Its market share is estimated to have dropped 0.4 percentage points to 31.3% as a result of the success of Morrisons and discount retailers./ppBradford-based Morrisons, meanwhile, said Christmas will be "hard-fought" as it announced that sales in stores that have been open for at least a year increased 8.1% in the 13 weeks to November 2. The City had been expecting a rise of about 7.1%./ppMorrisons has been particularly successful in attracting "value" shoppers, including a quarter of a million taking up its cut-price Sunday lunch offer./ppMorrisons' results were in contrast to those of Tesco, which said this week that like-for-like sales, excluding petrol, rose 2% in the past three months - half the growth achieved in the previous quarter. Tesco's chief executive Sir Terry Leahy was uncharacteristically downbeat, saying that while he was pleased with progress "we are also realistic - the current economic climate and the strain this is putting on consumers everywhere is something that all businesses are feeling, including ours."/ppRetailers across Britain are hoping that the Bank of England's one-point reduction in interest rates announced yesterday will help support consumer confidence and see off the threat of one of the worst Christmas trading periods in a generation./pp"We all know how tough it is for the consumer," Morrisons finance director Richard Pennycook said yesterday of the rate reduction. "Any incremental steps that can help ease that situation must be positive."/ppHowever, shares in Morrisons dropped as much as 5% after it announced plans to spend pound;223m on buying 38 Co-op stores, which the chain is selling as part of its move to gain regulatory approval for its pound;1.6bn acquisition of Somerfield's 800 stores announced in the summer./ppAnalysts said the price looked steep. The retail team at investment bank JP Morgan pointed out that Morrisons sold 117 former Safeway stores to Somerfield four years ago for pound;260m. It is now paying 86% of that for just 43% of the retail space./ppThe deal also means that Morrisons will be suspending its share-buyback programme, having spent pound;145.4m of a planned pound;1bn over two years. Provided it does not make any more acquisitions, the company may return pound;500m next year./ppPhilip Dorgan, analyst at Seymour Pierce, said the third-quarter results were good "but they are history. At first sight, we don't like the acquisition and next year Morrisons could face the heady brew of falling like-for-like sales, falling margins and a struggle to integrate a costly acquisition."/ppHe said the 38 stores have an average size of 13,000sq ft (1200sq metres) and the full cost of the deal is equivalent to pound;642 a square foot - which, when compared with Morrisons' own enterprise value per square foot of pound;729, "doesn't look that good a price, especially when you consider that the acquired stores are around one third of Morrisons' average store size"./ph2The promotions/h2pstrongSeptember/strong Five energy-efficient light bulbs for 50p; fish supper meal deal for pound;4./ppstrongOctober/strong Family roast chicken meal deal for pound;4. /ppstrongNovember/strong Bonfire party meal deal for pound;4; Sunday brunch meal deal for pound;4. /ppstrongDecember/strong Christmas price crunch offers will include 42-inch LCD TV for pound;449, buy one get one free on Cadbury's selection boxes and two for pound;4 on Cadbury's Roses and Heroes./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/morrisons"Morrisons/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/tesco"Tesco/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/supermarkets"Supermarkets/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g_IedA3uQGrJu1prqOc_C60Ls6I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g_IedA3uQGrJu1prqOc_C60Ls6I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Allo ? Tipiak ? pLoin de moi l'idée de vouloir faire la promotion du piratage mais ça reste de l'info coco ! Déjà piratées à fond les ballons, les 2 premières versions de Nintendo DS avaient permis à Nintendo de ne pas faire les mêmes boulettes pour la toute récente DSi. Les cartouches de type R4 ou autres modèles ... /p

Ayant davantage apprécié " Land Of The Free II" la dernière galette speedée de Gamma Ray que le précédent " Majestic", je ne peux que regretter d'emblée la sortie de ce DVD enregistré lors de la tournée de promotion du dit "Majestic" . Cette sortie est d'ailleurs quelque peu paradoxale ...

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers up to 10 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $447.96 value if all purchased separately) including:

- Drive Genius 2 ($99): Currently the highest-rated disk utility on the market and used by Mac Geniuses at Apple Stores, Drive Genius diagnoses and repairs problems with your hard drive, optimizes your system, and much more.
- RapidWeaver 4 ($79): Create powerful, professional-looking Web sites quickly and easily.
- DefaultFolder X 4 ($34.95): Fly through Open & Save dialog boxes at lightning speed.
- VirusBarrier X 10.5 ($69.95): Fast, simple, and non-intrusive anti-virus software for your Mac.
- MacGourmet Deluxe ($44.95): Like iTunes for food, track recipes, plan meals, manage wines, and more.
- LittleSnitch 2 ($29.95): Monitors your network connection to make sure your Mac only sends out what you want it to.
- KeyCue 4 ($27): Displays full keyboard shortcuts for all your applications; learn them and work faster.
- MacPilot 3 ($19.95): Access hundreds of hidden features to customize and improve your Mac OS X experience.
- WhatSize 4 ($12.99): Effortlessly identify files that are hogging disk space and that you don't need anymore.
- iVolume 3 ($29.95): Ensures all your iTunes tracks play back at the same level, so you never have to adjust the volume individually.

The first 5000 sales also get iDive (organize video files) for free as well. Unlike in past promotions, there appears to be no unlocking requirement and all apps are available from day one. The sale lasts for two weeks.

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pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/rnwk_laptop.gif" alt="image" align="right" width="139" height="143" /RealNetworks (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=RNWK" class="ticker" title="RNWK"NSDQ: RNWK/a) is laying off roughly 7.5 percent of its staff, about 130 people across the company, and cutting 30 contract positions and consultants, the Seattle-based company announced in a href="http://investor.realnetworks.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1299933-08-5640" title="an SEC filing"an SEC filing/a this afternoon. From the brief filing (the legal mumbo jumbo is longer than the text):nbsp; "The Company eliminated the foregoing positions to reduce operating costs in light of slowing consumer and business spending due to the current economic downturn. Notwithstanding the reduction in force, the Company expects to achieve record revenue for full year 2008." The filing confirmed a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10113553-36.html" title="an earlier report"an earlier report/a by CNET News. /p p From a href="http://realnetworksblog.com/?p=175" title="the company blog"the company blog/a, a positive spin on layoffs: "To put this in context, we still expect to report record revenue for the year, and as our strong balance sheet would suggest, we are well positioned to take advantage of strategic growth and investment opportunities as they arise." Also, some compassion from the company: "Departing employees can conduct job searches for other positions at Real or elsewhere from their offices here, or, if they prefer, from home.nbsp; Everyone will remain on the payroll through the end of the year, plus each will be offered a cash severance package based on their length of service.nbsp; Because of the unusual and difficult economic times, these severance packages include outplacement services and six months of COBRA healthcare coverage." /p p Also, in related news, the RNWK-Viacom (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=VIA" class="ticker" title="VIA"NYSE: VIA/a) online music JV Rhapsody America will not be shut down its NYC offices, contrary to a href="http://gawker.com/5101778/mtv-closing-rhapsody-office" title="earlier reports"earlier reports/a this morning. The company has denied it, but there have been layoffs at the music JV, and according a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10113553-36.html" title="to News.com"to News.com/a, they were cut from the JV's office space at Viacom headquarters. It did a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-in-other-news-realnetworks-to-lay-off-24-employees-in-music-division-re" title="do some layoffs"do some layoffs/a from this division earlier in January. 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Dr. Lu will lead Microsoft's efforts in search and online advertising and all the company's online information and communications services. Dr. Lu will report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.br /br /Lu most recently served as executive vice president of Engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for development efforts around Yahoo!'s Web search and monetization platforms. Dr. Lu left Yahoo! in August 2008 after 10 years of service.br /br /'I am tremendously excited to welcome Qi to Microsoft,' Ballmer said. 'Dr. Lu's deep technical expertise, leadership capabilities and hard-working mentality are well-known in the technology industry, and Microsoft will benefit from his addition to our executive management team.'br /br /'I am genuinely excited about the opportunities ahead for Microsoft to make an enormous impact on the online industry,' Dr. Lu said. 'Microsoft has built a great foundation for its search and advertising technologies and put an amazing team of researchers and engineers in place to drive the next wave of innovation in online services. I'm looking forward to working with them to help transform the way people and businesses use the Internet to find and share information.'br /Before his most recent role at Yahoo!, Lu was vice president of engineering responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s Search and Marketplace business unit, which includes the company's search, e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products.br /Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before IBM, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. Dr. Lu holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his bachelor of science and master of science in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.br /br /Lu's first day at Microsoft will be Jan. 5, 2009. In his role running the Online Services Group, he will oversee several groups including the Advertiser Publisher Solutions business, managed by Scott Howe who was promoted to corporate vice president; the Online Audience business, managed by Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi; OSG Research Development, managed by Senior Vice President Satya Nadella; and OSG Finance, managed by Rik van der Kooi who was promoted to corporate vice president.br /br /With the successful integration of aQuantive now complete, Brian McAndrews, former CEO of aQuantive and senior vice president of Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group, has decided to transition out of Microsoft, and will do so over the next several months, serving in a consultative capacity to Steve Ballmer and Qi Lu during that time.br /br /'Brian McAndrews built a world-class business for advertisers and publishers and led the successful integration of aQuantive into Microsoft, setting the foundation for our next phase of growth,' Ballmer said. 'While I am sorry to see Brian leave the company, I respect and understand his decision and wish him nothing but the best in the future.'br /br /'I also want to congratulate Scott and Rik on their well-deserved promotions and look forward to their leadership in the Online Services Group alongside Qi, Yusuf and Satya,' Ballmer said.br /br /As part of today's announcement, several teams will move to further align resources. The field sales organizations in the Online Services Group will move to Microsoft's centralized Sales, Marketing and Services Group led by chief operating officer Kevin Turner. 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Le maintien du diplomate algérien Mohamed Ziane Hasseni sous contrôle judiciaire en France est une "atteinte grave" aux droits de l'homme, a affirmé jeudi à Alger le président de la Commission nationale algérienne consultative de promotion et de

Le Centre de promotion des exportations (CEPEX) a entamé, depuis le 1er décembre 2008, la mise en oeuvre d'un programme de formation sur l'exportation destiné auxjeunes promoteurs et producteurs.

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Le centre de promotion des exportations (CEPEX) a organisé, lundi, à Tunis, un séminaire d'information sur le thème « les règles d'origine Pan-Euromed: enjeux et défis pour l'entreprise exportatrice ».

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La campagne est un vrai succès. Depuis plusieurs semaines, des milliers de Togolais se ruent dans les dispensaires pour aller à la rencontre des membres de l'Association internationale des médecins pour la promotion de l'éducation et la santé en Afrique

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