Monday, March 22, 2004 :::
 

R&ACT

Renseignement & Action Contre le Terrorisme



Réseau confidentiel aspirant à une dimension internationale reconnue, ce groupe fait du recoupement de données, de la traque d'informations et de l'action localisée contre des groupes terroristes. Travaillant en étroite collaboration avec les services de renseignement de dizaines de pays dans le monde entier et particiant même à certaines opérations secrètes en collaboration avec les services des pays concernés, ils sont devenus en quelques années (création 98?) une des agences de renseignement les plus fiables en Europe, très courue aussi aux Etats-Unis, où depuis Godzilla on ne présente plus les services secrets français. Pas de Jean Reno, mais une base de données parmi les plus riches et complètes du monde, sur des affaires diverses, tant internes qu'extérieures, mais toutes liées au terrorisme sous ses différentes formes.

On leur doit semble-t-il l'arrestation de 70 mercenaires au Zimbabwe, qui préparaient un coup d'état en Guinée équatoriale. Ils auraient agis en collaboration avec les autorités du pays.

S'ils demandent un peu plus de reconnaissance, ce n'est pas par orgueil, juste pour disposer de meilleurs sources d'informations et surtout de plus larges capacités d'action.

Inexistants sur le Net comme ils sont invisibles ailleurs, j'ai eu un mal fou à trouver leur sigle (la grenade au coeur de la cible), sur un site qui n'a aucun rapport avec eux.

Si vous voulez postuler, c'est ici

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Old school hacking in today's major league

Une station de télé local "piraté" par des hackers: regardez les messages en bas de l'écran.
Comme quoi y'a encore moyen de rigoler un peu sans se faire choper.

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Sunday, March 21, 2004 :::
 

Google fun, by Kaviar

1- Aller sur http://www.google.fr
2- Dans la zone de recherche,
3- entrer "magouilleur" (sans les "")
4- Puis cliquer sur "j'ai de la chance"

surprise ?!

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Saturday, March 20, 2004 :::
 

#AuteurKult#






En bref: Né à Shhanghaï en 1930 de parents anglais, J.G. Ballard a vécu en Chine jusqu'à l'âge de quinze ans.
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, il fut interné dans un camp par les Japonais.
Rapatrié en1946, il entreprit des études de médecine à Cambridge, mais se tourna rapidement vers la littérature, tout en exerçant divers métiers - après avoir servi dans la R.A.F.
Son premier livre fut publié en 1957. Depuis, J.G. Ballard a écrit une quinzaine d'ouvrages, tout en collaborant à la revue New Worlds, principal organe de la "nouvelle vague" de la science-fiction britannique.
On lui doit entre autre Crash, ou L'empire du soleil
J'ai acquis tout récemment:


Préfacé par Burroughs, ça le fait.

La foire aux atrocités

Le monde n'est qu'une foire aux atrocités. Les cerveaux sont malades. Même celui du héros, qui est pourtant médecin : il s'appelle Travis ou Talbot ou Traven, cela change au fil des pages, il est enfermé dans sa psychose.

Les corps sont malades, disloqués comme des pantins, comme des poupées.

Le monde est malade : les paysages sont vides, soudain érigés de blockhaus, sillonnés de lignes de fuites - autoroutes, rails, souterrains -, parsemés de carcasses de bagnoles, ruines d'une énergie sexuelle qui a connu son orgasme dans le crash.

James Ballard a écrit la « Foire aux atrocités » dans les années 60. Il l'a reprise récemment, a ajouté des commentaires, des annotations. Cette « Foire » est la manifestation déchirante, poétique, lyrique et profondément angoissée de la catastrophe qui nous environne. Un cri. Une crucifixion.

Labels: Kulturbook

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Friday, March 19, 2004 :::
 

Le quai de Bercy a de la gueule, merci le CCC


(Lapsus tu reconnaitras peut être une des couvertures de 2600)

D'autres photos ici.

LE CCC, ou Chaos Computer Club, artistes cyberpunk allemands, hackers, et défenseurs des libertés sur Internet. Ceci n'est pas un montage photo, mais un projet de déco lors de la nuit blanche Paris 2002 si je me trompe pas.
A voire aussi, leurs premier projet du même genre à Berlin (cette fois en 2 couleurs uniquement).

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Thursday, March 18, 2004 :::
 

Prepare yourself...

The phenomena you are about to witness
could well revolutionize your way of thinking
We are presenting startling facts and evidence
that take up where explanations leave off

Some of these revelations will very well go against things you have been taught
And perhaps believed all your life
Prepare yourself for the evidence that will follow...

(Rancid - Life won't wait)

Labels: kulturzik

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Vivement mercredi!

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Article un peu long mais intéressant sur la situation actuelle des médias en France
du Financial Times.

A well-armed custodian of press freedom
By Jo Johnson
Published: March 17 2004 17:08 | Last Updated: March 17 2004 17:08

Imagine the outcry in Britain if The Daily Telegraph were suddenly acquired by BAE Systems. Arms companies dependent on government contracts for their financial well-being are hardly ideal guarantors of press freedom. Britain's colourful newspaper proprietors may have their faults, but deep dependence on government patronage is not one of them.

Yet exactly this is now happening in France, where the maker of Rafale and Mirage fighters is to acquire the country's second biggest-selling national newspaper.

Serge Dassault, 78, one of France's wealthiest and most powerful industrialists, has just announced the impending takeover of Socpresse, the press empire assembled by the late "papivore" Robert Hersant. Its flagship is Le Figaro, whose paid-for circulation of 353,000 puts it just behind Le Monde. He is estimated to have paid the dozen Hersant heirs €500m ($610m) to lift his 30 per cent stake in the group, which also includes L'Express news magazine, to more than 80 per cent.

The deal comes at a time of crisis for the French newspaper industry. The high cost of printing, the low and declining newspaper readership, the advertising recession and the proliferation of free media all make for an unappetising economic cocktail. The gloom deepened with a survey published this week that showed that only 4 per cent of 15-25-year-olds believe newspapers will be their first source of information in five years' time.

Many believe it will take an external shock - perhaps with the arrival of a Murdoch-type figure - to revitalise the business in France.

Mr Dassault will join the club of tycoons that controls the French media. Its most powerful members are Martin Bouygues of the eponymous construction group, François-Henri Pinault of the Pinault Printemps Redoute retail conglomerate, and Arnaud Lagardère of the magazines-to-missiles business of the same name.

All are second-generation heirs of industrial families close to President Jacques Chirac that have flourished in an era in French business when personal relations, politics and commerce have intertwined to mutual advantage.

Mr Dassault's loyalty to the French president spans many decades. With Mr Chirac's support, the outspoken industrialist overcame scepticism in the Defence Ministry to succeed his father at the top of Dassault Aviation. Still 50 per cent owned by the family, it is the last independent aerospace group in Europe and the pride of the industry in France. Although it has diversified into civil aerospace with Falcon business jets, the French government provided it with more than 85 per cent of its defence orders in 2002.

France can boast a strong regional press and a vibrant magazine sector, which to some extent compensates for the relative weakness of its national titles. But media commentators remain apprehensive. Robert Ménard, head of Reporters without Borders, the press freedom group that normally concerns itself with developing countries, says: "The French press is depressingly servile with respect to authority. One in two people don't trust it and this deal will do nothing to improve its credibility. The terrible spiral - in which readers fall out of love with newspapers - is spinning faster and faster."

Foreign ownership of newspapers is rarer than in the UK, where the Hollinger Group and News Corporation between them control half a dozen national titles. In France, of the big national dailies only Les Echos, the business newspaper owned by Pearson, parent company of the Financial Times, has a non-French shareholder.

In an editorial on Monday, Le Monde lamented the passing of yet another newspaper group into the hands of one of France's arms companies and called on the government to tackle "this deplorable French exception".

It warned that suspicions of political interference would inevitably be aroused by the friendship between Mr Chirac and Mr Dassault, whose father was an important financial backer of the president's RPR political party - now subsumed within the ruling UMP - and who is himself the UMP mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes.

Such warnings are likely to go unheeded. An unsuccessful parliamentary candidate and the author of what are seen in France as "ultra-liberal" tracts advocating the overhaul of the welfare state, Mr Dassault has never disguised his plan to be an interventionist proprietor. After socialist politicians thwarted his ambitions to buy L'Express in 1997, Mr Dassault explained that he needed to own a paper to "express his views and respond to journalists who write disagreeable things".

Le Figaro's staff, sensitive to suggestions that the paper is the unofficial gazette of the centre-right government, have demanded a meeting with Mr Dassault. Neither Jean de Belot, its editor, nor Yves de Chaisemartin, Socpresse's chairman, returned calls for this article.

The CFDT-CGT union representing staff at L'Express, now undergoing its fourth change of ownership since 1995, said it feared Mr Dassault would realise his "repeatedly expressed desire to own a press group that would peddle his extreme political convictions".

But it is far from the first time that French defence companies have shown an interest in newspaper ownership. Lagardère, which has traded its Matra missiles company for a 15 per cent stake in the EADS defence and aerospace group, has 43 titles in France within its Hachette Filipacchi subsidiary. These include Paris Match, the gossipy weekly that has long been seen as the most attractive platform for populist politicians, Le Journal du Dimanche, the only "quality" national Sunday newspaper, and some regional papers.

Arms companies are not the only industrial conglomerates to hold commanding positions in the media. Bouygues, a construction company also involved in financing Mr Chirac's party, is a case in point. It stunned France in 1986 when it saw off competition from Lagardère to acquire a controlling stake in TF1, the leading public television network.

Many say the political clout it gained helped it pick up one of just three GSM mobile telecommunications licences sold in France in 1994, months before a presidential election, and then to persuade the government to lower the cost of third-generation licences in 2001.

France's feuding luxury goods barons have also rushed to secure their media outlets. François Pinault, a close friend of Mr Chirac, bought Le Point, the centre-right weekly, in 1997, and owns L'Agefi, a financial newspaper, as well as 8.1 per cent of Bouygues and 2.5 per cent of Le Monde.

Within LVMH, the fashion and drinks empire assembled by Bernard Arnault, a media division called D.I. Group includes La Tribune, a lossmaking national business newspaper, and a radio network. Mr Arnault also owns 4.8 per cent of Bouygues.

The suspicion that media proprietors are prepared to compromise the credibility of their titles by using them for score-settling is ever present. Last year, five journalists resigned their posts on La Tribune's editorial board in protest at what they felt was unacceptable interference by their proprietor. They objected to publication of a double-page spread devoted to a book analysing the financial weaknesses of Mr Pinault. However, Mr Arnault, through a spokesman, maintains La Tribune is managed at "editorial arm's length". Mr Pinault says that owning Le Point leaves him "neither hot nor cold."

With Mr Dassault's financial resources behind it, Le Figaro could challenge Le Monde and Libération, its two principal competitors in the national newspaper market, and revitalise an ailing industry.

The timing is critical. Already, Le Monde with 397,000 paid sales, Le Figaro with 353,000 and Libération with 158,000 together sell less than The Daily Telegraph alone. If Mr Dassault is tempted to treat the 138-year-old newspaper as his plaything, the French quality press faces an even more uncertain future.

THE ELITE INDUSTRIALISTS BEHIND THE FRENCH MEDIA

• MARTIN BOUYGUES, 51, chairman of Bouygues, a diversified industrial group, since 1989. Bouygues, with sales of €22.8bn ($28bn) last year, has a market value of €9.3bn. Its most valuable asset is its 41.6 per cent stake in TF1, France's leading television network whose 8pm news hosted by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is one of the most influential programmes in France. Bouygues also owns 83 per cent of Bouygues Telecom, the smallest of France's three mobile telecommunications operators. A keen hunter.

• ARNAUD LAGARDERE, 43 on Thursday, succeeded his legendary father Jean-Luc as chairman of Lagardère and co-chairman of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space company a year ago. Lagardère has a market value of €6.3bn, based on its market-leading magazine business and its 15 per cent stake in EADS.

• FRANÇOIS-HENRI PINAULT, 42, last year succeeded his father François, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of his generation, at the head of Artemis, their private holding company. He intends to stamp his own mark on an empire whose main asset is a 42 per cent stake in retailer Pinault Printemps Redoute. Artemis boasts other billionaire's baubles such as Christie's auction house, the Chateau Latour vineyard, Le Point magazine and Stade Rennes, the French first- division football team. It also owns 8.1 per cent of Bouygues and a 2.5 per cent stake in Le Monde.

• SERGE DASSAULT, 78. Long overshadowed by his politician-cum-industrialist father Marcel, who stayed on at the top of Dassault Aviation until his death in 1986, at 94. Only the support of Jacques Chirac, then prime minister, helped Mr Dassault overcome the opposition of the defence minister to his taking charge of the defence group. Mr Dassault's presence on European rich lists is based on his family's 49.7 per cent stake in Dassault Aviation, which has a market value of €4bn. The family also owns 45 per cent of Dassault Systèmes, world leader for product lifecycle management software, which has a market value of €3.4bn. Author of A Project for France (2001), Mr Dassault likes to play golf, hunt and fish. His eldest son Olivier is a UMP member of parliament.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 :::
 

Un lieutenant de ben Laden avoue avoir travaillé pour la CIA…
L'un des proches d'Oussama ben Laden, chef du réseau terroriste d'al Qaïda, a reconnu avoir fait de l'espionnage pour le compte de la CIA, selon le site internet Baztab. Abdul Rahman Khader, un ressortissant canadien habitant dans la ville de Toronto, a affirmé dans une interview avec la chaîne d'information canadienne, CBS, qu'il avait accepté de coopérer avec la CIA, afin d'être libéré d'une prison américaine. Ce dernier a reconnu avoir fait de l'espionnage pour le compte de la CIA, à l'époque où il vivait avec ben Laden et fréquentait les talibans, à Kaboul. Ironie de l'histoire, les services de renseignements occidentaux avaient présenté Said Khader, père d'Abdul Rahman, tué le mois dernier au Pakistan, comme l'un des dirigeants d'al Qaïda, l'accusant d'être un bras exécuteur de ce réseau. Rappelons qu'Abdul Rahman Khader, espion de la CIA, a déclaré également, qu'après son arrestation en 2001 en Afghanistan, et son transfert à la prison de Guantanamo, il avait espionné à la fois pour la CIA et al Qaïda. Dans son interview avec la CBS, cet espion de la CIA a donné quelques explications sur la vie d'Oussama ben Laden et son intérêt pour le sport. A noter que des sources bien informées du Pakistan, ont affirmé récemment dans des interviews avec la radio en langue Pashtoune du service extérieur de l'IRIB, qu'Oussama ben Laden avait été arrêté et qu'il est, pour l'instant, entre les mains des forces américaines.

( La voix de la république islamique d’Iran le 08-03-2004 )

Labels: Guerre

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ASCII

http://www.romanm.ch

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 :::
 

haha

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600613 f0r s3r10u5 |-|4c|<3r5

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

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