Pour ma ville et ma patrie
Jean-Luc Proulx Aujourd'hui, Le Québec de demain
Au fait, compatriotes de Québec, vous rappelez-vous de cette chanson de Martin Deschamps qui jouait souvent dans les stations de radio de notre ville l’année dernière pour notre 400e anniversaire, hein?
Québec, ma ville, t’es mon amour!
T’es tellement toi que t’en es belle
Québec, pour moi, tu seras toujours
Dans 400 ans
La plus belle ville sous le vent
La plus belle fleuuuuur du St-Laurent
Québec a tous les attributs pour se hisser parmi les plus grandes villes du monde, si seulement elle peut abandonner ses vieux réflexes de gros village atteint du syndrome de Stockholm envers le conquérant anglais. Si un consensus populaire traverse maintenant toute la ville pour que Québec fasse un retour triomphal dans la Ligue nationale de hockey, j’attends avec impatience le jour où un pareil consensus traversera la ville de la même façon pour qu’elle ne se satisfasse pas seulement du statut de capitale d’une province pauvre, moribonde et assujettie à la monarchie d’un pays étranger et qu’elle revendique haut et fort le statut de capitale d’un pays riche, prospère et libre.
Lorsque ce jour viendra, je pourrai dire que je suis vraiment fier de ma ville et de ma patrie. Cette ville mérite mieux que de se faire voler ces anniversaires importants par le conquérant anglais. Cette ville mérite mieux que de se voir déclarer la guerre par le conquérant anglais sur ses belles Plaines d’Abraham. Cette ville mérite mieux que de se faire assiéger sur 40% de son territoire par le conquérant anglais, le tout dans l’indifférence et la résignation les plus totales.
Bonne fête Québec, ville de ma patrie qui a tant d’Histoire derrière elle!
Tant d'histoires
Drôle de critique
Geloso Breguet Aujourd'hui, Geloso Breguet
Jean Charest a hier répondu au Prix Nobel de littérature, Jean-Marie Le Clézio, en défendant le projet La Romaine. Personellement, je connais très peu le dossier. Toutefois, je trouve comique d'accuser Hydro-Québec d'entité capitaliste puisque c'est une société d'État. Je trouve encore plus comique que Hydro-Québec soit ''coupable'' de revendre l'électricité produite en surplus sur les marchés américains.Pourquoi l'exportation d'énergie serait néfaste? Il me semble que le Nord-Est des États-Unis pourrait bénéficier d'exportations additionelles pour augmenter l'offre d'énergie. En plus, il me semble que l'énergie hydroélectrique est moins polluante que l'énergie au charbon.
L'antiaméricanisme, plus que l'environnementalisme, semble animer Le Clézio...
Top 5 USA
David Antagoniste.net, Aujourd'hui
Poids média de l'actualité américaine dans les blogues et les médias traditionels selon le Pew Research Center:
The Deaths of Michael Jackson and Neda Grip the Blogosphere
Michael Jackson and Neda Agha-Soltan had little in common in life. But together last week their deaths in Los Angeles and Tehran consumed the blogosphere and became emblematic of the flow and character of modern communication.
For fans of Jackson, the Web was a place where they could find instant news about his passing and commiserate with others about their feelings and his meaning in their lives. For those following the developments in Iran, the image of "Neda" became a powerful symbol of the protest movement there after an amateur video of her death spread rapidly through Twitter, YouTube and other new media.
They became together the latest demonstration of the power, both emotional and political, of the many-to-many nature of social media.
For the week of June 22-26, discussion of Michael Jackson and Iran in general combined to make up almost half (47%) of the links on blogs and social media as measured in the New Media Index by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Despite the fact that Jackson's death occurred late in the week, stories about the passing of the pop star led all linked-to topics, accounting for 27% of the links embedded in the social media sites tracked by the monitoring services Icerocket and Technorati. On the evening of his death, interest in Jackson was so high that many of sites with the most popular Jackson pages experienced outages and slowdowns. Accompanying comments from bloggers mostly expressed shock at the singer's death and offered moving accounts of his influence.
Amidst tributes to the pop star, political unrest in Iran remained a major topic for the second week running. In PEJ's index of social media, the subject was the No. 2 story last week (accounting 20% of the week's links). While the conversation focused on a range of related issues (from President Obama's response to day-to-day developments in Iran), a remarkable amount of the discussion focused on the woman who died during a protest over the country's disputed elections.
To many, the pictures of Agha-Soltan's last moments personified the cruelty of the Iranian government in response to the protests. A graphic video of Agha-Soltan's death was the most viewed news video of the week on YouTube.
The third-largest story-line on blogs and social media last week, receiving 10% of the links, dealt with the Obama administration. Much of the attention was focused on a June 24 Washington Post column by Dana Milbank where he sarcastically referred to Obama's recent press conference as the "The Obama Show" and chastised the alleged collaboration between the White House and a reporter from the Huffington Post.
The fourth story (also at 10%) was the admission by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford that he had been having an extra-marital affair with a woman from Argentina after he had gone missing for several days.
Fifth (at 9%) was an unusual BBC story about Australian wallabies reportedly eating opium poppies and hoping around in circles "as high as a kite."
On a separate social networking platform, Twitter, Jackson and Iran were also the two most linked-to news topics, although the emphasis was different than in the blogs. According to the tracking site Tweetmeme, which tracks links embedded in tweets across the globe, Iran represented 64% of the "news-related" links while Michael Jackson was second at 18%. In other words, the pop star was a major topic, but it did not overtake the intense involvement of this platform in the post-election Iranian protests.
In the traditional press, Iran and Michael Jackson also led the week's agenda combining for 37% of the week's newshole according to PEJ's News Coverage Index. Governor Sanford's scandal was third followed by coverage of the health care reform debate in Washington and continuing reporting about the U.S. economy.
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The Deaths of Michael Jackson and Neda Grip the Blogosphere
Antagoniste.net
Le Québec de demain
Geloso breguet
Le Québécois Libre
Majorité Silencieuse
Suburbain Lucide
Brouilleur d'ondes
Christian Rioux
Jonathan le goéland
Tym Machine
