When I'm 50

My first dream was to be a professional football player. I was 10. Then I wanted to be a designer for cars and also for chairs, tables, lamps, couches, and all this kind of 'home design'. I was 13. From then on I've never dreamt of anything else related to work and to a specific job.

Antoine de Maximy's travels around the world are broadcasted on France 5

My dreams now are more 'life experiences' oriented. At the age of 50 I only hope I'll have found the woman my soul and flesh need. I don't want any money, refrigerator, loan, rent, or any kind of business worries.
I wish I'll have played music on stage, coached a high-level handball team, painted on some canvas, read Ulysse, wrote a book, and most importantly traveled a lot all around our fantastic planet. Travel and love. Nothing else. Please. I insist.

Oh and I also wish Earth will still exist (you know climate change, profits, corruption, wars,...).

A flashforward about the Internet

How do you think the Internet will be in the next decades?
The question is asked but the answer seems uneasy to formulate.

The Internet is evolving right now as I'm writing this post. Our knowledges of this media are limited even if we keep ourselves watchful on its evolutions. Social networks, e-shopping, music, books, the Internet includes now everything we new in the 'real world'.

If we let our imagination fly we could imagine a chair on which we would sit down and have our body connected on the Internet. Our brain's activity would be controled so we would be able to navigate on the web just by thinking of it. What I try to imagine here is a fully-involved body. Not only our fingers tipping on the keyboard or our eyes to see the screen. But the depth of our body and its energy.

We never know!

The World in 2050

Temperatures are increasing day after day. Our carbon footprint is no footprint any longer but looks more like the vessel in Indepedance Day, darkening the planet. Water level is going up and some lands are already overwhelmed. Some people have already had to leave their houses and the land they eventually managed to own. Natality is also rising up and we'll (or they will) be up to 9 billion in 2050.

The survivors of the end of this cycle will have to crowd on small emerged plots. Their body will have evolved so they can live in extrem heat such as 61°C and with a fewer need of water per day. Electricity will no longer exist except in their brains. So no television, no mobile phone, no microwave, no light, nothing. What they'll have left to eat will be roots and generally speaking raw material.

People will fight to feed their children. Fight til they die. It will no longer be food riots but food wars as no government will be no longer viable in such a world.

I am very pessimistic when I have to think about our future. Not because I am myself not an optimistic guy but because all the industrial makers want profit and benefit. No sustainability of the human kind and its conditions of living. Nothing is being done to ensure our future. Nothing at all. Nestlé is draining all the lakes on earth, Suez makes the Bolivians pay to get water. Water is the next war. And not a lot will survive.

I encourage you to watch this brilliant documentary 'Water Makes Money' broadcasted on the channel 'Arte' last March.

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Some issues of the media coverage during the Vietnam War

On 1 November 1955 the U.S. Forces entered into war in Vietnam to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. Years and millions of deaths later the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 ended the conflict.

The role played by the media in this confrontation was quickly pointed out. In fact it was the first time a war had this media coverage. American citizen would have radio broadcasts and photos to see the supposed reality of the war their soldiers are engaged in. In the previous wars governments could say whatever they wanted to their people. Propaganda was then a national sport. But from then on media coverage brought an other voice to tell the story, an other eye to see it happening.

This is very interesting to notice that the images and oral broadcasts in the Vietnam were in contradiction with the reality of the situation. That is to say that eventhough U.S. Forces were taking over the Vietnamese Army the media coverage was showing the opposite. Instead of helping in building a victory the images led to debacle. This is the time protests became even stronger and artists such as Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan publicly took part in these protests.

Vietnam War is a perfect example in order to show what can be the influence and the effects of the media coverage. Making something public always have consequences as the transmitter is never objective. That is to say the message does not exist on its own but is always surrounded by the opinion of its transmitter. The american media coverage didn't show the opposite of the situation on purpose but despite them. This is a lesson that is to be taken. Showing and describing always bring a new sens.

Here is a video you might appreciate.

10 ways to survive on the Internet and make it our own way

1) Ready

Before going on the Internet, be sure you've got your Mountain shoes on. Cause where you're going you need tools, maps, and attention. It's and brand new world that is being offered to your lonely soul. Well, now you're ready let's step to the next commandment.

2) Steady

Take it slowly. Never run too fast or you'll fall down in the blink of an eye. There's no real motorway on the Internet but mostly small and steep ways. As soon as you doubt, take the time to think and avoid a wrong choice. Virus, spam, pornography, many programm can enter your system and destroy it. 

3) Go!

When you know where you're going by clicking on this link or that one then GO for it!

Christophe Lemaitre, a very successfull french runner

4) Thou shalt remain lucid

The Internet is like a crime scene. You have to watch your steps not to destroy evidence. It is the issue of faith and reliability of the person you'd talk to or websites you'd visit.

5) Thou shalt not trust anybody

Everybody is anonymous on the Internet. I could be a 16 years-old girl or a grandpa. I can be anyone I want. So if you do not know who you are talking to, remain lucid (previous commandment) and do not trust anybody.

'Mamika' from Sacha Goldberger

6) Thou shalt be you

But the Internet is not only hell on earth. You can make it your own way. And if you do you'll see how clever your use of the Internet can be. You have a personality so show it!

7) Thou shalt clic and clic and clic

When you're confident, feel free to go from websites to websites, use links as bridges to travel all aroung the Web. This is the best way to discover new people, new films, new albums or find new places to go to in holidays.

Valérie Damidot runs a DIY programm on the french TV

8) Thou shalt customize

DIY! Chose the background of your Gmail account, change the police of the titles in your blog, set up a different homepage when you go on Firefox, and so on.

9) Thou shalt e-shop

Take advantage of what the Internet gives you. Avoid the crowd in shops for the Christmas shopping and rather shop online!

10) Thou shalt turn off your computer

Go back to your mind. This is the only irremediable wealth you'll ever have. Good night.

'Poulet Aux Prunes' ('Chicken with plums') : a breathtaking experience

This morning my alarm clock rang insanely early.
9:45 definitely is insanely early. But sometime you have to fight against the withered mummy your body turned into during the night and be brave enough to get up. Eyes open, shower taken, it's now time for the hit.
A long queue is meandering in the hall of the UGC Rouen (yes, there are cinemas outside Paris. And even in Normandy) as I come in. Loads of people are not working today as tomorrow is a day off. But fortunately the 20th century is the Machines' Century so I don't have to queue with that lazy crowd. In the blink of an eye I've got my ticket in my pocket and begin to move toward my destiny : 'Poulets Aux Prunes'.

The film was released on October 26 and was directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, starring Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer and Maria de Medeiros. The story is quite simple to tell : a very famous Iranian violonist, Nasser Ali Khan (played by Mathieu Amalric) sees his violin being broken. He then tries to reach the satisfaction with new violins. But soon he'll have to face the situation : he can't play on any other instruments. This is the time he decides he'll let himself die.

The film is not the long waiting of his death as we see him dying very early. It is rather the story of hopes, love, passion, sadness and laughter. So Nasser Ali being dead we can focus on every single particles composing life. The man sometime shows an evident selfishness or even brutality with his wife (Maria de Medeiros) but this feeling always is contrasted with our understanding for his passion for music and his sensitivity to love.

The images are absolutely brillant and mix comedy with reality with cleverness and skill. If you add it to the terrific performance of all the actors you end up with a magical universe where philosophy, love, beauty and regrets live altogether in a natural peace.
Let's not forget Edouard Baer playing Azrael, the Angel of Death visiting Nasser Ali a few days before he takes him. He also is the voice over telling the story.

'Poulet Aux Prunes' is a simple story in a simple world but affecting complicated souls in their quest for the ultimate achievement. It is also the story of a man dying of love. What could be stronger and deeper in our world of surface?

Financial crisis : the Internet as a paired equilibrium

The question we're asking ourselves here is : How does the Interent contribute to the crisis and how could it be a source of a solution? Let's first see why we could say the Internet is responsible and secondly how it's not.

The Internet does carry responsibilities in the fiancial crisis because it contributes to maintain and nourish the debate and the fear. A massive amount information travels on the Web everyday and the reliability is not always  checked (read more about reliability in an other article I posted here).

But does the Internet have to be responsible for the mistakes of the Banks? Does the Internet lend the money to indebted people? Does the Internet grant golden parachutes?

Madonna's dead! I saw it on the Internet!

Truth is the supreme reality and has the ultimate meaning and value of existence, Free Dictionary says. From this definition we easily see how full of power truth is. And one of the Internet's job is to reveal what before was hidden. The Internet turns on the light of truth on our world. What is best way to get information on an organisation we are about to join or about someone we are about to employ? What is best way to know what really happened last week with Gaddafi and the rebels?

But "the power of the Internet, Vince G. Cerf says, is like a two-edged sword. It can also deliver misinformation and uncorroborated opinion with equal ease. The thoughtful and the thoughtless co-exist side by side in the Internet's electronic universe."

So we have to get educated to tell the difference between truth and wrong information. We have to stay aware of the risk taken on the Internet in our quest of truth. Let's have a cross-media habit to get informed. This is the best way to detect the wrong that hides everywhere.

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If you don't understand what's going on, start here!

Mobility : my brain's the fastest plane

Well, mobility. What's that mobility? Walking down the street, going to school with the metro, flying to Barcelona? Surfing on the Internet with my iPhone anywhere at anytime?No. Let's forget digital, electronic devices and all this crap.

Mobility is the quality or state of being mobile. Physically mobile? Not necessarily. Mobility is also the quality or state of traveling in your mind.

What's the best way to visit Wonderland with no money? Dreams. Luc Besson, the famous french film director said he started thinking of 'Arthur and the Invisibles' and he was a child. Fantasy and tales were his only way to escape his boring everyday life. No computer, no video games. But still thoughts.

Tunisia, Egypt and Libya : the learning of democracy

The Arab Spring and all its events that occured since December 2010 led to a totaly new situation in Tunisia, Egypt and more recently Libya. From now on these three countries and their citizens have the possibility to vote for their President. Tunisia voted last Sunday and seem to have elected moderate Islamists party Ennahdha.

Gaddafi's fall last week also opened the way to democracy. We hear and listen in every single media that these countries will have to do the learning of democracy. And this is what it's all about : democracy is not innate. This is the result of centuries of (r)evolution and fights.

So tyrants being defeated doesn't mean the emergence of democracy. This is the new governments duty to work altogether toward freedom, liberty, equality and justice. In Tunisia, Ben Ali's fall didn't erase terror, exactions and relative liberty to think different. Some former Ben Ali's Ministers are still engaged in the Tunisian political field and won't give up.

It really is interesting to observe how democracy is seen by the citizens of these new free countries. This is the silent after the storm, the sun showing up again. But democracy is not the answer in itself. Democracy is an everyday fight. And if Tunisia, Egypt and Libya want to have justice and liberty they have not to be to impatient but to slowly and surely build a new Nation.

About the Internet Addiction

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Why The Mentalist is the best series of the galaxy.

The main character, Patrick Jane (played by Simon Baker) is smart, clever and funny. He always look relaxed and confident. He never seems to doubt and never get wrong. He understands where we didn't even have time to start thinking. He takes time to think and remain funny though. Funny on a crime scene, funny talking to a widow, funny playing chess between two worlds-to-save. He transcends us. Here is the reason why we love him and why he definitely carries the serie on his always suited shoulders. But is this it?

Of course Simon Baker's talent isn't the only reason why The Mentalist is a successful series. The construction of the stories plays an important part in it. The general atmosphere takes us in a very not-too-serious world in which the gravity of a situation is always enlighted by an efficient sense of humour. Nevertheless the background of this story remains very dark. Patrick Jane feels guilty as he provoked the psychopath who killed his family. He lives a depressive life and doesn't really manage to run it well. Beside he carries a lot of defects and a latent violence.

Generally speaking the strength of the serie is Jane's will of revenge covered by a smooth plot.

Working in a network environment : what tools for what risks?

It is very common nowadays to work in network. That is to say being in a meeting wearing a pyjama in his living room. How's that even possible? Because of the magic of the Internet and webcams! But why do we rather chose network tools? What are the positive and negative aspects of it? Let's take a closer look with a few examples!

First, where some people might be less stressed than in a face to face situation, we could oppose the technical problems that regularly occured. Bad connections, PowerPoint impossible to be read (by the machine or even by the supposed readers!), Windows 7 crashes, and so on.

So eventhough somes will feel better in front of their laptop and not physically standing in front of hundreds of eyes we have not to forget the thechnical risks taken.

Secondly, even if working in a pyjama is a cosy idea let's keep in mind that network communications are not so instinctive and natural for us. In fact we are used to communicate not only with our words but withe our body. The non-verbal communication plays the main in the delivery of our message. Gestures, look, smile, distances, tone of the voice, and so on. They all are actors of our successfull communication. But they remain in our unconciousness. That is to say we might be missing something when it'll be time to talk with our webcam and mic only.

Finaly, an other example of the risks taken working in a network environment is the misunderstanding. This risk is encrusted in the digital communications. Sometimes the smiley faces rescue us in killing the ambiguity our sentence was carrying. But would you use them in a business meeting? Misunderstanding and misinterpretation are not invincible ennemies. We only have to learn how not to let them the smallest gap in our communication. Being clear, using as precise words as possible in short sentences and impacting and imaged expressions.

You now have the weapons to join the battlefield of the network environment!

Internet as a tool for leadership

The Internet is an inexhaustible source of manipulation. Yes it is.
If someone asked me how would I use the Internet as a tool for leadership, I would give him 3 main ways to do it.

1) Illusion
Let's first give the impression of liberty and democracy to my people. They still can visit whatever websites they want. They still register and log in. They still fill forms with their names, adresses, telephone numbers, e-mail adresses, and so on. They give me all the informations I need to know about them in case I want to find them or threat them or black mail them.

2) Protection
Secondly, I'll reduce the access to the Internet for my people. I'll only keep one national Internet company on which I'll have a total access. I'll do it as the only way to protect them from the great dangers threating us from the outer world. "We are strong but somes think we're not and for this reason they try to make you think whatever lies they want. So this is my duty, as your leader, to protect you and to ensure our stability and our sovereignty."

3) Repression
I'll shut down Twitter and Facebook to make sure my people has no contact with the outer world. I'll justify it as a moral duty. I'll keep one social network to maintain the illusion of democracy. Every single foreign search engine, social network, e-mail programm. will be censured and replaced by a national copy of it.

When you don't have the possibilty to step back and have a clear view on what's going on in your country, you trust the charismatic only leader you have. Cuba, China, North Korea, Iran, and so on.

Brics? What do you mean 'Brics'?

I recently talked about the Brics helping the EU in its financial crisis. Now let's take a closer look on what exactly is Brics, where it comes from and on what lies its legitimacy.

South Africa is now part of the former 'Bric'.

The term was created by journalist Jim O'Neill as an opposition to the G7 developped countries.
These five nations are considered to be the most powerfull developping countries. They are respectively the ninth, sixth, fourth, second and twenty-fifth economical dominant countries on the planet. They represent 40% of the world population and IMF assumed they will bring 61% of the global growth in 2015. Beside, Goldman Sachs even says that the economic potential of the Brics is such that they could become among the most dominant economies by 2050.

Lula (Brazil), Medvedev (Russia), Hu Jintao (China) and Pratibha Patil (India)
in Yekaterinburg for their first summit in 2009.

Even if the Brics are not seen to organize themselves into an economic bloc or a political organisation such as the European Union, they still remain economical and political partner, all members of an alliance. The first summit of what was then 'Bric' held on 16th June 2009 in Yekaterinburg (see picture above). Since they met every year, in Brasilia in 2010 and Sanya in 2011.

The Brics to rescue the European Union

The Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) might help us in finding solutions to the dept issues EU is facing. Their Finance Ministers met in Washington a few weeks ago. This meeting showed their worries to see developed countries going down to an other recession.

It really is interesting to see how power and role played can be twisted in an financial crisis. It is now these developing countries that will decide if they maintain us alive or not. Things have changed. The civilized white occident man is now trying to face this reality with dignity. But no one is blind enough not to see the vessel sinking.

Are you cyber addicted?

First of all let's see what we mean by 'cyber addiction'. The term covers a variety of impulse-control problems including the following addictions : cybersex, cyber-relationship, net compulsion, information overload and computer addiction.

Let's talk about cybersex addiction! According to Helpguide website the term refers to the compulsive use of Internet pronography, adult chat rooms, or adult fantasy role-play sites impacting negatively on real-life intimate relationships. Well... I'm starting to feel a bit concerned now... Akward. More seriously, cybersex seems to be the inescapable cyber illness of the 21st century. The main issue tends to be the constant flows of datas, communications, shares, etc. The Internet never sleeps. Something somewhere is always waiting for you. I mean that the Internet gives a potentially freeway for addiction.

We now can do pretty much everything on the Internet. Except procreating or giving birth. But shopping, listening to music, sending wedding wishes, finding lost friends, watching films, booking our holidays, selling my rubbish christmas present,... We can even have friends and nobody enjoys our company in the real world. Because the Internet offers the anonimity in one hand, and a 360° escort in the other hand, addiction is never so far away...

We Feed The World

Check out this recording about the documentary 'We feed the world'.
I deeply encourage you to watch it. It's free and it's now... on YouTube!

World hunger : those who never give up

I very recently talked about hunger in the world, depicting this tragical phenomena with terrible figures. I ended up by saying the amount of people suffering from malnutrion or hunger is not getting any lower. But we just can't give up trying to help them. This is why Action Against Hunger work every hour of every day to get these people better living conditions. The NGO estimates its action to 500,000 people who received their lifesaving support in the Horn of Africa in 2011. Beside 215 tons of food was delivered to 12,500 Somalians in August 2011 and 10,000 malnourished children in Kenya were treated by ACF International.

On the other hand, websites such as Schools Fight Hunger sums up ways to foundraise to fight hunger. Fighting hunger is not just some people's work, but all world citizens' concern. And this kind of website show it well by making foundraise as easy as shopping in the supermarket. It maybe even wants to make it like a habbit you might take.

How to get fat and download for free

We all remember about the old prehistoric Peer 2 Peer such as Napster, then e-Mule or Kazaa. It was free, quick and secure. You could download a song in a few minutes or even a few seconds for the most available ones. You could even dowload films. The only thing is you sometimes had not to be to demanding as the quality wasn't always there. This system of "The sky is the limit, go on, download whatever you want" found a decline with new legal rules on the Internet. So now you can be easily found and punished for illegal downloading.

This is the time some brands choose to break into the downloading market. There was indeed a gap to fill. Buy my product and get a song to download for free. How simple and quick is that? Here is a good example with Pepsi.

This ad lies on two main themes : the 'prosecution' of the downloading kids (who look like angels in the ad!) and the new freedom Pepsi gives them. Get a Pepsi and recover your freedom. What else?

Do we actually know something about hunger in the world?

The thing is we don't know where does hunger live. 'In Africa' you'd hear if you ask the question to the first persons you see around you.
We don't know either how many people are suffering from hunger. 'Millions... because they are millions in these third-world countries'...
And finally we have no clue at all what is hunger. 'When it's already 3pm and you haven't eaten yet'. Thanks.

'Pulizer Prize' winning photo taken by Kevin Carter in 1994 during the Sudan famine. 

What is hunger?
First of all, hunger is designated as the want or scarcity of food in a country, according to the Oxford English Dictionnary. We also talk about malnutrition as the technical term for hunger. That is to say a lack of some or all nutritional elements necessary for human health.
With these definitions we clearly see that hunger doesn't necessarily mean dying from it but also suffering months and years from not eating enough or good enough.

How many suffers from it in the world and where do they live? 

As the graphic shows 925 million of people suffer from hunger worldwide and most of them live in Asia and the Pacific (578 million). This is the most recent estimate released in October 2010.

Out of 7 billion human being of eart, this 1 in 7 people that are hungry in the world. And the amount is not going down.

An Inconvenient Truth

Directed by David Guggenheim, the film deals with former United States President Al Gore's campaign to educate American about global warming. With two Academy Awards won for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song and by premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the film was a critical and box-office success.

But was it efficient enough to convince the American and to make them understand the stakes of global warming? What we know is that the film was well-received politically. Beside a survey conducted in July 2007 showed that the film made 89% of the viewers more aware of global warming issues. But you could think this is only theory then. Nonetheless 75% of the viewers said they changed some of their habits after watching the film.


So can a film be efficient enough to change mind and lifestyle?
Even if it would never convince everybody, it does exist. It does show something. It does give a message. It does deliver pieces of advices. It does highlight threats and stakes we don't ordinarily see. As soon as you try something to open people's eyes on how big the danger for our planet is,  you've already achieved something.

Global warming : an increasing awakeness

"Disappearance of some species, melting of the polar ice cap, epidemics and economic recession, global warming could have serious consequences." Planete-energies says. But this is not only about polar bears dying alone on a slowly drifting detached ice block. This is also about deep changes in lifestyle for directly concerned populations. People such as the Inuits in Northern Canada see temperatures reaching up to 31°C. As soon as a community depends on the nature to be fed, the slightest change affect them way more we can imagine.

Bees are disappearing in the world's silence. "Why should I care about bees' disappearance? They're only on earth to bother us". GreenLife website explains : "It is estimated that if the bee population was somehow reduced by at least 30 percent, more than half of the world’s food supply will be adversely affected.  With droughts, earthquakes and other natural and manmade disasters befalling us nowadays, losing the bees is yet another challenge to our survival as the dominant species on Earth."
So now you feel concerned, uh?


If you do, be sure you're not the only one. Nestlé started selling ice cream in cardboard packaging, instead of plastic ones. Is it because of their environmental footprint? Or because of the money they spare doing it? Both solutions have to be considered. But anyway, the most important are the results, whatever the reasons.

Global Warming does not exist

"Global warming is the pussy's way of whining." brainless Paul Frank says on 'Points in case' website. Global Warming doesn't exist. It's been created by the liberals. As an example to make his point stronger, Paul Frank approximately says "Look what happened with the Titanic in 1914! This is the irrefutable evidence that the melting of the polar ice caps was already started!". According to him, our way of living nowadays, our factories, our cars, our televisions, our buildings enlighted all night long, our washing machine, deforestation, drying the rivers, are not as many reasons to explain climate change as we think it is. 


Paul Frank and even one of his 'writingmate' on website 'Points in case', James White don't take it seriously at all. They joke, they laugh, they talk from their empty minds. According to James White, the reason why Al Gore's brillant documentary 'An Inconveniant Truth' is a "mistake" is because of its lack of action and explicit sex. What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Even if this kind of graphics is not to be considered on its own as temperatures follow an up and down curve since billon of years (which means we could only be in the up now, so no panic?), this is one of piece of the undoubted global warming puzzle.

Internet privacy, Little Red Riding Hood added me on Facebook!

When it comes to the Internet and our very close and personal information we find ourselves quite worried. How can I protect my personal datas in such an open world as the Internet?
Dominique Wolton remind us that the history of Democracy is the construction of a public space ("espace public"). That is to say the possibility to freely talk about all the problems related to our society. In opposition to this public space is a private space where we'd historically find sexuality, moral or family relations.

But in the last decade gaps appeared on the border between public and private spaces. We wondered more recently how far the exhibition of our private life on social networks, which are public websites composed of personal profiles, could go. What's worth be said and shown, what's not? What should be hidden from who? And most importantly where do all my 'Summer 2011 in Marseille' pictures go as I published them on my Facebook profile? And what about my name, surname, home address, telephone number and hobbies I entered on that website the other day? Where do they all go? Because questions are asked risks might be taken. We now know that some organisations buy our personal information from Google, Facebook and the others. So far to show us targeted ads. So far...

Little Red Riding Hood, Gustave Doré

But the danger doesn't always come from one side. On an lighter side are The Spying Parents! A lot of parents spy their kids. Because they don't know the risks that are taken. Because they actually do know these risks. Or because they want to have an overview of the online activities of their cherub. But then is it spying or parenting? Why should a kid not be allowed to have and develop his own private garden on the Internet?
Because at a young age, they are nothing but Little Red Riding Hood. Naive and curious. Brave but fragile.

Sexual predator Lindsell sentenced to jail

"Whatever unlocked that hitherto hidden side of your character was not the Internet."
The words Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson said to Internet pervert Douglas Lindsell don't show any ambiguity. The human being carries the evil fought by the law. The Internet didn't create pedophilia or rape but has somehow made it easier for perverts to meet their targets. The 64 years-old man from Twickenham, south west London, "was found with a hand-written sexual profile of 54 youngsters from the UK and 19 from abroad." DailyMail says in its Tuesday 27th September edition.

Lindsell was sentenced to "three years for attempted abduction of a girl aged under 14, two years for two counts of stalking under the Harassment Act, and three months for possession of indecent photos of children, all sentences to run concurrently." The Harassment Act, published in 1997 first of all says : "A person must not pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another, and which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other". 

Eventhough Lindsell was not accused of rape, all sentences added go up to 7 years and 3 months.

Which makes me think that sexual predators might be a threat in danger!

The Internet offers a huge experimental field for sexual predators who enjoy the inherent anonimity. How can children detect they are talking to a pervert? How can they even think about it? Never before pedophiles have had the opportunity to directly and freely communicate with the children. That is why this is the Government and Association of Kids Protection duty to educate both parents and children to the Internet threats.

"One step forward and two steps back"

Welcome to you, new blog!

Well, this is it. I created my blog. Not because I desperatly needed to but because I had to! In the next few months I will post articles, videos and audio contents. According to my english teacher this is a perfect way to network and to be connected with all the students of our english class. In addition to that as we will talk about new technologies we obviously have to use it.

Let's take one step back to have a better view on what we do everyday in our communications, thoughts, worries, hopes...

To be continued...