Ancienne Pub du Métro de Mtl

16 07 2007



Black Gold

16 07 2007

Synopsis:Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.

Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.

Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world’s coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.



Votre imprimante vous espionne-t-elle?

16 07 2007

Votre imprimante couleur (à la requête des services secrets étasuniens) identifie, avec des points jaunes invisible à l’oeil tous les documents que vous imprimez avec le numéro de série de l’imprimante ainsi que l’heure et la date à laquelle vous l’avez imprimé.

Voici un reportage de CNBC:

 



Is your printer spying on you?

16 07 2007

Your printer secretly identifies all the documents you print with your printer’s serial number and the time and date of the printing.




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