Leave no dark corner - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278
China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, “social credit” will bring privileges — for others, punishment.
#big_brother #surveillance_de_masse #surveiller_et_punir #panoptique #Chine
U.S. Navy Commences Oil Removal from Capsized German Cruiser ’Prinz Eugen’ in Marshall Islands – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-commences-oil-removal-from-capsized-german-cruiser-prinz-eugen-in
The Prinz Eugen was transferred to the U. S. Navy as a war prize from the British Royal Navy after the war, and in 1946, it was loaded with oil and cargo and used to test the survivability of warships during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
During the test, the cruise withstood the initial blast but sustained heavy damage. Five months later, however, she capsized and sank in Kwajalein Lagoon, approximately 3.6 miles from Kwajalein.
The wreck contained about 2,767 metric tons of oil when it sank, and an assessment of the wreckage has shown that there remains a high risk of a spill of more than 1,000 metric tons.
A U.S. Navy report on the oil spill risk conducted in 1974 recommended that oil be removed from the wreck within 30 years, but Ownership of the wreckage was eventually transferred to the Republic of Marshall Islands in 1986.
German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen
The ship survived two atomic bomb blasts: Test Able, an air burst on 1 July 1946 and Test Baker, a submerged detonation on 25 July. Prinz Eugen was moored about 1,200 yards (1,100 m) from the epicenter of both blasts and was only lightly damaged by them; the Able blast only bent her foremast and broke the top of her main mast. She suffered no significant structural damage from the explosions but was thoroughly contaminated with radioactive fallout. The irradiated ship was towed to the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, where a small leak went unrepaired due to the radiation danger. On 29 August 1946, the US Navy decommissioned Prinz Eugen.
By late December 1946, the ship was in very bad condition; on 21 December, she began to list severely. A salvage team could not be brought to Kwajalein in time, so the US Navy attempted to beach the ship to prevent her from sinking, but on 22 December, Prinz Eugen capsized and sank.
The German warship, the Prinz Eugen, lies in the waters of the Kwajalein lagoon - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08-04/the-german-warship-the-prinz-eugen-lies-in-the/1378140
Merci !
Probablement, le paradis (ou l’enfer, au choix) pour le shipspotting… avec l’immense flotte fantôme abandonnée au mouillage en rade.
@aude_v J’espère que tu as profité ton passage au sud de la Malaisie pour allez voir à quoi ressemble « forest city »
Je viens de remonter le temps avec gg:earth sur l’embouchure du détroit de Johor, la progression des terres à partir de 1995 est assez impressionnante.
Quant aux paquets de bateaux qui sont mouillés en rade, la vingtaine qui sont devant les chantiers navals de ces nouvelles terres a l’air d’être là depuis un bon bout de temps (au minimum 3 ans) et on les voit éviter au fil des vents et des courants… Ceci dit, ils sont dans les eaux malaisiennes, la délimitation remontant à avant les polders passe maintenant presque à toucher la côte singapourienne.
Je me demande, d’ailleurs, pour cette « flotte fantôme » s’il y a une quelconque forme de gardiennage et, donc, dans quel état se trouvent les navires ? En particulier l’équipement de passerelle (radar, radio, compas, …) et les apparaux de manœuvres. Ont-ils été démontés avant abandon, laissés en place en vue d’une réactivation éventuelle du navire (une partie est censée avoir été « mise sous cocon » ou vandalisés par les pirates dont la renommée n’est plus à faire dans ces détroits ?…
On trouve quelques (en fait, pas temps que ça) photos des files de navires, mais jamais vues des ponts ou des machines. Bon, il faut déjà pouvoir grimper à bord et ce doit être une sacrée expédition. La surveillance singapourienne doit (devrait ?) être relativement sérieuse, mais qu’en est-il de celle exercée par les autorités de Malaisie ?
Peut-être terrain glissant…
U.S. Navy Salvage Team Completes Oil Removal from Former German Cruiser Prinz Eugen – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-salvage-team-completes-oil-removal-from-former-german-cruiser-pri
A U.S. Navy-led salvage team has successfully removed 229,000 gallons of oil from the sunken World War II vessel ex-Prinz Eugen located in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
229000 gallons -> 866 mètres cube (à peu près autant de tonnes, entre 1/3 et 1/4 de piscine olympique, pour prendre les éléments de comparaison habituels ;-)
Peacock spider man discovers dazzling new species while searching for the ’Hokey Pokey’ - Science News - ABC News
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-07-21/new-peacock-spiders-discovered/10007422
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=FTxBFrBY7uA
Peacock spider man discovers dazzling new species while searching for the ’Hokey Pokey’
Suivi des accidents Tesla :
15 Juin 2018 : @Tesla This is what happened to my husband and his car today. No accident,out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him.
▻https://twitter.com/marycmccormack/status/1007831286176571394/video/1
21 Mai 2018 : Man Dies After Tesla Crashes Into East Bay Pond
A man died after the Tesla he was driving plunged into a pond along Crow Canyon Road in the East Bay Sunday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. Bob Redell reports.
(Published Monday, May 21, 2018)
▻https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Man-Dies-After-Tesla-Crashes-Into-East-Bay-Pond_-CHP_Bay-Area-483210491.
12 Mai 2018 : Tesla en feu sur l’A2: la batterie serait en cause
▻https://www.tdg.ch/suisse/Tesla-en-feu-sur-l-A2-la-batterie-serait-en-cause/story/13942273
Tessin : Un automobiliste s’est tué jeudi dernier près du tunnel du Monte Ceneri. Selon les pompiers, la batterie de sa Tesla serait à l’origine de l’incendie.
Les causes de l’incendie d’une Tesla jeudi au Tessin suscitent la controverse. Selon un message des pompiers de Bellinzone sur Facebook, un problème de batterie pourrait être en cause. Le constructeur américain appelle à la prudence. L’enquête en cours n’a pas encore livré ses résultats.
L’automobiliste allemand de 48 ans a, pour une raison inconnue, percuté la glissière centrale de l’autoroute A2, près du tunnel du Monte Ceneri (TI). Son véhicule s’est alors renversé et a pris feu. Le conducteur a péri sur les lieux de l’accident.10 Mai 2018 : Teenagers killed in fire after Tesla crashes, battery bursts into flames
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-10/tesla-crash-battery-fire-kills-two-teenagers/9747648
Safety investigators in the US are investigating a crash in which the battery of a Tesla electric car caught fire, burning two teenagers to death.
A witness to the crash in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said the Tesla Model S was being driven fast and spun out of control. It then crashed into a wall and caught fire.
Police said two 18-year-olds were trapped and died when the car became engulfed in flames.
Another teenager was thrown from the car and was taken to a hospital, where his condition was unknown.
The witness said he tried to help the teenagers but the fire was too intense to get them out of the car.
Lithium-ion batteries like those used by Tesla can catch fire and burn rapidly in a crash, although Tesla has maintained its vehicles catch fire far less often than those powered by petrol.
1 Mai 2018 : Teen Driver Charged in Fatal Ohio Prom Night Car Crash
▻https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2018-05-10/teen-driver-charged-in-fatal-ohio-prom-night-car-crash
MONROE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities have charged the teen driver in an Ohio prom night car crash that caused a 17-year-old girl’s death.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said Thursday that Chynna Brandon is charged with one count of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular assault. Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser (MOH’-sur) tells the Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News he plans to keep the case in the juvenile court system.
No records were available immediately Thursday for a phone or attorney for the 17-year-old Brandon.
Police say four teens were going to the Monroe school prom in southwestern Ohio April 27 when the driver lost control of a 2013 Tesla sedan and crashed into a telephone pole.
Passenger Kaylie Jackson later died from her injuries. Three other passengers were released from the hospital.
#Tesla #voiture_autopilotée #voiture_autonome #transport #voitures_autonomes #voiture #mobilité #automobile #robotisation #innovation #batteries #électricité #accidents
What the global history of street renaming can teach us about America’s monument battle
Like the Charleston Massacre of 2015 before it, the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville earlier this month has served as a catalyst that is reigniting the movement to dismantle the symbols of white supremacy in the United States. From Baltimore to Lexington, cities across the U.S. have either removed Confederate monuments from public spaces already or are currently considering such proposals. Yet many Confederate memorials across the country remain in place despite calls for their removal.
According to a recent study conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are more than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces throughout the U.S., and the actual figure is likely much higher if street names are added to the list. In fact, one recent study found that there were at least 1,417 streets named in honor of Confederate leaders nationwide. (Interestingly, the same study documented 1,426 streets named after Civil Rights leaders as well.)
Lien vers l’étude:
▻https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_splc.pdf
Royaume-Uni. Les Américains font le tri dans leurs statues, et nous ?
Alors qu’aux États-Unis on déboulonne les statues des confédérés, The Guardian, appelle, dans un article très commenté, à faire de même au Royaume-Uni : l’#amiral_Nelson, qui a milité contre l’abolition de l’esclavage, a-t-il vraiment sa place, en majesté, sur Trafalgar Square ?
#Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
As the debate about whether to change the #Captain_Cook statue in Sydney continues, a small town in far north Queensland has spent the past eight years working towards better representing its history.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-01/cooktown-eight-year-fight-for-statues-mark-1770-reconciliation/8862118
#Australie
Avec cette photo qui accompagne l’article :
#Cook
Disparition du vol #MH370 : des objets repérés près de la zone du crash
▻http://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/aeronautique/disparition-du-vol-mh370-des-objets-reperes-pres-de-la-zone-du-crash-51
Des clichés pris par un satellite français et remis à l’Australie en mars dernier montrent la présence dans la mer d’objets "probablement artificiels" quelques jours après la disparition du vol MH370. Il pourrait s’agir de débris de l’appareil disparu en mars 2014.
La disparition du vol MH370 de la Malaysia Airlines est l’une des plus grandes énigmes de l’aviation civile. Le Boeing s’était volatilisé le 8 mars 2014 avec 239 personnes à bord, peu après son décollage de Kuala Lumpur à destination de Pékin. Les recherches qui ont duré près de trois ans ont été stoppées en mars dernier.
Un rapport publié ce mercredi 16 août 2017 par l’Australie pourrait marquer un tournant dans l’enquête. Plusieurs objets « probablement fabriqués par l’homme » flottaient près du site du crash du MH370 quelques semaines seulement après sa disparition, ont annoncé mercredi des scientifiques australiens, plus de six mois après la fin des recherches.
Selon deux nouveaux rapports scientifiques, des photos, prises par des satellites militaires français deux semaines après la disparition de l’avion mais non divulguées au public, montraient au moins 70 objets identifiables flottant près d’un secteur de l’océan Indien appelé la « zone nord » par les chercheurs.
http://amsa.gov.au/media/incidents/images/DIGO_00718_01_14.jpg 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5335062-4x3-940x705.jpg ou sur The Sun
▻https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4253375/mh370-search-missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-indian-ocean-objects-spotted
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/nintchdbpict000346082061.jpg 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/nintchdbpict000346082060.jpg
Myanmar swine flu outbreak kills 10 as Government rushed to stop spread - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-31/myanmar-swine-flu-death-toll-rises-to-10/8761192
Ten people have died in an outbreak of #H1N1 influenza in Myanmar, a health official has said, as the Government stepped up public awareness campaigns about the swine flu virus.
The latest outbreak began more than a week ago, deputy director of the infectious diseases department at the Ministry of Health and Sport, Thinzar Aung, said.
Yangon — Myanmar’s biggest city — is the worst affected area.
Health awareness campaigns have been carried out and authorities sought to calm public fears over the outbreak, although stores have sold out of surgical masks in Yangon.
Authorities have told the public not to panic and described the latest outbreak as a regular seasonal occurrence.
13 deaths due to swine flu in UP - OTHER STATES - The Hindu
▻http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/13-deaths-due-to-swine-flu-in-up/article19448254.ece
Govt medical colleges have been directed to reserve five-bed isolation ward
With over 300 confirmed cases of swine flu and 13 deaths, the H1N1 virus is fast become a cause for concern for the health department officials in Uttar Pradesh. In the last week, five deaths were reported from the State due to the virus.
According to numbers released by the health department, the total number of 298 swine flu cases have been reported from 38 districts of the State till August 6. Of these, the highest number of patients at 129 are from Lucknow, followed by Gautam Buddh Nagar with 39 cases.
Gujarat: Swine flu kills 3 including 2 year old girl in Ahmedabad; toll in Gujarat rises to 170 | Ahmedabad News - Times of India
▻http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/swine-flu-kills-3-including-2-year-old-girl-in-ahmedabad-toll-in-gujarat-rises-to-170/articleshow/60038003.cms
Swine flu continued its death march unabated as total 170 people were reported dead due to H1N1 virus till August 12 this year. In Ahmedabad, H1N1 wreaked havoc as three more people including a two year old girl from Jivraj succumbed to swine flu while 60 fresh positive cases were detected.
Two other who succumbed to H1N1 complications include a 39-year old resident of Bapunagar and a 65-year old Khokhra resident.
AMC data revealed that 151-odd patients are under treatment for H1N1 out of which 21 are on ventilator support.
[…]
Health commissioner Jayanti Ravi said that H1N1 is likely to spike for the next 15 days wherein there affecting more patients. It is likely to get a little less aggressive after a fortnight if trends as we follow trends in other states.
Gujrat: 11 more swine flu deaths; toll reaches 201 since January - Read Health Related Blogs, Articles & News on Health News at TheHealthSite.com
▻http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/gujrat-11-more-swine-flu-deaths-toll-reaches-201-since-january-ag0817
With 11 more swine flu deaths in Gujarat on Monday, the death toll due to the disease since January has risen to 201, even as 145 new cases have been reported from across the state, officials said. According to official figures, as many as 1,754 H1N1 cases have been reported so far, with 913 people still under treatment and 640 of them cured. Ahmedabad was the worst-affected city with 51 deaths, followed by Vadodara (32). Surat and state capital Gandhinagar reported nine deaths each. The Saurashtra region with 11 districts reported 61 deaths.
New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia’s colonial frontier has launched.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-05/new-map-plots-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-in-frontier-wars/8678466
#peuples_autochtones #cartographie #visualisation #aborigènes #Australie #massacre
cc @reka
Google Earth’s new feature shows lost civilisations from space - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-21/google-earths-new-feature-shows-lost-civilisations-from-space/8460680
Ever thought about a great lost civilisation — the Maya of Central America, say, or the Indus of South-East Asia — and thought: what does that ancient site look like now?
Google’s got you covered.
A new feature from the tech giant, called Lost Civilisations, lets you explore, using Google Earth technology, those parts of the world in the present day.
Some, like the Nabaya Playa — home to a small community 10,000 years ago in what is now the Egyptian Sahara — are little more than empty expanses of desert.
Other places are still occupied. Collinsville, in suburban Illinois, was a thriving Indigenous community known as Cahokia between 600 and 1400AD. Google’s tool lets you explore what remains (spoiler: not much).
Here are a few of the other lost civilisations, and how those locations look today.
#cartographie #google #google_map #visualisation #civilisation #histoire
Facial recognition, fingerprints to replace passports at Australian airports under new self-processing system
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-22/passport-facial-recognition-fingerprints-border-protection/8201708
New technology will mean many travellers will soon not need to present their passports when entering or leaving Australia. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is seeking tenders for a self-processing system to be introduced later this year. The system will use fingerprints, iris or facial structure recognition at major air and sea ports. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the aim was for more than 90 per cent of passengers to avoid paperwork or manual processing by (...)
Higher dementia risk linked to living near heavy traffic, research shows - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/scientists-link-dementia-risk-to-living-near-heavy-traffic/8164054
People who live near busy roads laden with heavy traffic face a higher risk of developing dementia than those living further away, according to researchers in Canada.
A study published in The Lancet medical journal found that people who lived within 50 metres of high-traffic roads had a 7 per cent higher chance of developing dementia compared to those who lived more than 300 metres away from busy roadways.
“Air pollutants can get into the blood stream and lead to inflammation, which is linked with cardiovascular disease and possibly other conditions such as diabetes,” said Ray Copes, an environmental and occupational health expert at Public Health Ontario.
Researchers at Public Health Ontario conducted the study with colleagues from Canada’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
“This study suggests air pollutants that can get into the brain via the blood stream can lead to neurological problems,” Mr Copes said.
Résumé sur The Lancet
Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study - The Lancet
▻http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)32399-6/fulltext
Summary
Background
Emerging evidence suggests that living near major roads might adversely affect cognition. However, little is known about its relationship with the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. We aimed to investigate the association between residential proximity to major roadways and the incidence of these three neurological diseases in Ontario, Canada.
Methods
In this population-based cohort study, we assembled two population-based cohorts including all adults aged 20–50 years (about 4·4 million; multiple sclerosis cohort) and all adults aged 55–85 years (about 2·2 million; dementia or Parkinson’s disease cohort) who resided in Ontario, Canada on April 1, 2001. Eligible patients were free of these neurological diseases, Ontario residents for 5 years or longer, and Canadian-born. We ascertained the individual’s proximity to major roadways based on their residential postal-code address in 1996, 5 years before cohort inception. Incident diagnoses of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis were ascertained from provincial health administrative databases with validated algorithms. We assessed the associations between traffic proximity and incident dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis using Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for individual and contextual factors such as diabetes, brain injury, and neighbourhood income. We did various sensitivity analyses, such as adjusting for access to neurologists and exposure to selected air pollutants, and restricting to never movers and urban dwellers.
Findings
Between 2001, and 2012, we identified 243 611 incident cases of dementia, 31 577 cases of Parkinson’s disease, and 9247 cases of multiple sclerosis. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of incident dementia was 1·07 for people living less than 50 m from a major traffic road (95% CI 1·06–1·08), 1·04 (1·02–1·05) for 50–100 m, 1·02 (1·01–1·03) for 101–200 m, and 1·00 (0·99–1·01) for 201–300 m versus further than 300 m (p for trend=0·0349). The associations were robust to sensitivity analyses and seemed stronger among urban residents, especially those who lived in major cities (HR 1·12, 95% CI 1·10–1·14 for people living <50 m from a major traffic road), and who never moved (1·12, 1·10–1·14 for people living <50 m from a major traffic road). No association was found with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.
Interpretation
In this large population-based cohort, living close to heavy traffic was associated with a higher incidence of dementia, but not with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.
Funding
Health Canada (MOA-4500314182).
’They raped us one by one,’ says Rohingya woman who fled #Myanmar
TEKNAF, Bangladesh: The brutal gang rape that Habiba and her sister endured is a story that is becoming depressingly familiar among the thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing to #Bangladesh to escape the violence of Myanmar’s soldiers.
▻http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/They-raped-us-one-by-one-says-Rohingya-woman-who-fled-Myanmar/articleshow/55619653.cms
Who will help Myanmar’s Rohingya?
Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.
Outcast: Adrift with Burma’s Rohingya
Persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar face a dangerous journey on their way to freedom in Thailand and Malaysia.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rewind/2016/11/outcast-adrift-burma-rohingya-161128063953657.html
Dozens of Rohingya missing as boat sinks off Bangladesh
Boat packed with at least 31 people reportedly chased by a Myanmar army speedboat as it tried to reach Bangladesh.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/dozens-rohingya-missing-boat-sinks-bangladesh-161205132909880.html
Rohingya Face Health Care Bias in Parts of Asia, Study Finds
HONG KONG — Members of the Rohingya ethnic group face chronic discrimination in access to medical care in Myanmar and other Asian countries, with severe consequences for health and mortality rates, a study has found.
Burmese military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee
Woman’s account is one of a wave of reports of murder and rape by soldiers in Myanmar, amid claims of genocide
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/10/burmese-military-killed-seven-of-my-children-says-rohingya-refugee?CMP=
#génocide
A family torn apart at sea
The trawler’s captain had abandoned the ship and naval authorities in the region had pushed it back out to sea, bereft of fuel and potable water with over 800 refugees and migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh onboard. With passengers crammed above and below deck in sweltering heat, a deadly brawl over water erupted.
▻http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2016/12/58453b454/a-family-torn-apart-at-sea.html
Myanmar stops migrant workers going to Malaysia after Rohingya row
YANGON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar has stopped workers going to Malaysia after Malaysia’s leader criticised its treatment of Muslims, while Indonesia joined a growing chorus of concern about the fate of Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya Muslims.
▻http://news.trust.org/item/20161207111227-90q04/?source=dpagetopic
UN getting daily reports of rapes, killings and other abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Burma
UN human rights chief accuses Burmese government of taking ‘short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous’ approach to crisis
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burma-rohingya-muslims-rape-murder-accusations-un-aung-san-suu-kyi-a7
Burma: Security Forces Raped Rohingya Women, Girls
(New York) – Burmese government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against ethnic Rohingya women and girls as young as 13 during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses in northern Rakhine State, including into possible systematic rape against Rohingya women and girls.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/06/burma-security-forces-raped-rohingya-women-girls
Rohingya Villagers Bear Witness to a Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar
On the morning of Oct. 10, Hussein Muhammad, an old Rohingya man who doesn’t know his age, was awoken at 6 a.m. by a noise outside his home. When he stepped outside, he saw that dozens of soldiers and members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police had his hut surrounded.
Rohingya Muslims tell of gang rapes and secret killings in Myanmar’s hidden region
As the last of the foreign reporters walked over a bamboo bridge a young Rohingya woman dressed in black, with a black umbrella, raised her hand hesitantly.
Asylum seekers who came on boats to Australia jailed in #Vietnam, advocacy group says
Asylum seekers who were returned to Vietnam under Australia’s boat turn-back policy have been punished with jail terms, a Melbourne-based Vietnamese advocacy group says.
Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/14/refu-n14.html
Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US
By Max Newman
14 November 2016
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday announced a one-off “resettlement” deal with the United States that will forcibly remove to the US some of the 2,200 refugees who have rotted since 2013 in Australia’s prison camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
At a media conference in the government’s Maritime Border Command headquarters, Turnbull declared that Australia’s naval “Operation Sovereign Borders,” which organises the interception and turn back of refugee boats, would be boosted to its highest-ever level.
In return for taking a limited number of heavily-vetted asylum seekers, the Obama administration will deport to #Australia some Central American refugees currently languishing in #camps in #Costa_Rica, having been denied entry to the US. On both sides of the Pacific, some of the world’s most vulnerable people will be denied the basic right to seek protection, while many will face permanent separation from their families.
Far from alleviating the horrors produced by Australia’s “offshore” detention regime, the new deal will see hundreds of families split up forever, with many detainees, especially single men, unable to reunite with their spouses and children in Australia.
Refugees on #Nauru and #Manus_Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?CMP=sha
Australie : des réfugiés pourront s’installer aux Etats-Unis
Des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie dans des camps controversés sur des îles du Pacifique seront réinstallés aux Etats-Unis aux termes d’un « accord exceptionnel » avec ce pays, a annoncé dimanche Canberra, en soulignant que sa politique d’intransigeance envers les migrants restait inchangée.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/australie-des-refugies-pourront-sinstaller-aux-etats-unis.afp
Les Etats-Unis vont accueillir les réfugiés des centres de rétention australiens
Cela fait quatre ans qu’ils croupissent dans des centres de rétention. Les migrants enfermés par l’Australie sur des îles du Pacifique sortent de l’impasse. Canberra n’en veut toujours pas, mais les Etats-Unis vont en accueillir pour offrir à ces personnes une deuxième chance. Combien ? Pas encore de chiffre officiel. Mais les deux pays ont annoncé un accord historique ce dimanche 13 novembre 2016. A ce jour, 1 616 personnes retenues sur Nauru et Manus, sur environ 2 000 au total, ont obtenu le statut de réfugié.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20161113-etats-unis-refugies-migrants-australie-retention-papouasie-accord?ns_mc
Australia’s refugee deal may be scuppered by Trump, US expert warns
Immigration expert Niels Frenzen says Trump will want something in return if he is to honour the deal to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/15/trump-tear-up-australia-refugee-deal-us-expert-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_O
UNHCR to endorse Australia-United States relocations as “offshore processing” arrangements fail refugees
The approach taken by Australia in transferring refugees and asylum-seekers to open-ended detention in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has caused immense harm to vulnerable people who have sought asylum since 2013. In this context, UNHCR welcomes the announcement today that refugees currently held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea will be relocated under a bilateral arrangement between Australia and the United States.
Refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in US under auspices of the UNHCR
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?platfor
Sudanese refugee dies in Brisbane hospital after medivac from Manus
A 27-year-old Sudanese refugee held on Manus Island has died following “a fall and seizure” inside the Australian-run detention centre.
It is understood the man, who had reportedly been unwell for several months, collapsed and suffered head injuries inside the detention centre on Friday. He was then evacuated to Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital, where he died on Saturday.
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/sudanese-refugee-dies-in-brisbane-hospital-after-medivac-from-manus?CMP
Refugee pleaded with doctors on Manus Island for help before his death
Detainees’ letter claims medical staff ignored months of escalating complaints before #Faysal_Ishak_Ahmed collapsed
Manus : les migrants se révoltent
Samedi soir, des migrants se sont révoltés au centre de rétention de Manus, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée pour protester contre la mort d’un jeune réfugié.
▻http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/manus-migrants-se-revoltent-428351.html
’Bashed’ asylum seekers on Manus Island ’deserved what they got’: PNG minister
Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year’s Eve “deserved what they got”.
Manus Island refugees riot over food
60 refugees and guards fought a running battle yesterday at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
▻http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/328494/manus-island-refugees-riot-over-food
#alimentation
Photos show bullets fired into Manus Island detention accommodation, not just air: Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International has found the Australian Government downplayed the danger asylum seekers on Manus Island faced when the detention centre was attacked by soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/federal-government-downplayed-asylum-seeker-danger-amnesty-says/8525350
Dozens of ancient shipwrecks found accidentally during Black Sea mapping - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-25/ancient-shipwrecks-found-accidentally-during-black-sea-mapping/7962270
The international team of scientists came across more than 40 wrecks while surveying the seabed near Bulgaria to understand how quickly land in the area was inundated following the last ice age 20,000 years ago.
“The wrecks are a complete bonus, but a fascinating discovery, found during the course of our extensive geophysical surveys,” Professor Jon Adams, lead investigator on the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project, said.
Un de mes héros s’est éteint hier soir. Bill Mollison, co-inventeur de la permaculture.
IN MEMORY OF BILL MOLLISON, 1928-2016.
Visionary, educator, researcher, author, iconoclast, inspiration, motivator… Bill Mollison was all of these and more. It is no exaggeration to say that Bill was many things to many people.
Now he has left us, but in doing so he has left us with his life-work and, perhaps most important of all, he has left us with the #Permaculture Design System that ignited an outpouring of good works among those whose minds were primed by the idea of change of the good.
So, farewell Bill, and thanks.
“...He wanted everyone to plant a tree when he passed...” was the message we received from his family this morning.
Plantons des arbres !
Une bonne interview de Bill Mollison
▻http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.fr/2013/03/interview-de-bill-mollison-lun-des.html
SL : Est-ce à ce moment-là qu’est née l’idée de la permaculture ?
BM : Cela remonte en réalité à 1959. J’étais dans une #forêt tropicale de Tasmanie à étudier l’interaction entre la manière de s’alimenter des marsupiaux et la régénération de la forêt. Nous n’avions pas eu beaucoup de succès avec une grande population de marsupiaux. J’ai donc créé un système simple avec 23 espèces de plantes ligneuses, dont quatre seulement étaient dominantes, et seulement deux que broutaient les marsupiaux. C’était un système très flexible basé sur les interactions des composants, et non sur les types d’espèces. Il me vint à l’esprit un soir que nous pouvions construire des systèmes qui fonctionneraient mieux que celui-là.
Ce fut une révélation remarquable. Il n’arrive pas si souvent dans notre vie – une fois tous les dix ans peut-être – d’avoir une révélation. Si vous êtes un aborigène, cela définit votre âge. On n’a qu’une révélation à chaque âge, peu importe votre âge chronologique. Avec de la chance, on a trois bonnes révélations par vie.
Comme j’étais éducateur, j’ai réalisé que si je ne l’enseignais pas, cela n’aboutirait à rien. J’ai donc démarré à concevoir des instructions basées sur la connaissance passive et j’ai écrit un livre à ce sujet appelé Permaculture One. À ma grande horreur, tout le monde s’y est intéressé. [rires] J’ai reçu des milliers de lettres disant, « Vous avez mis en mots quelque chose que j’avais en tête depuis des années, » et « Vous avez mis quelque chose entre mes mains que je peux utiliser ».
▻http://permaculturenews.org/2016/09/25/bill-mollison
After founding Permaculture Institute in 1978, he formalized the training of practitioners, which directly impacted hundreds of thousands of lives, and indirectly many millions more. For his service to humanity, he was honored with numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. But of all the accolades he received, the one he was most proud of was the Vavilov Medal, in large part due to the tenacity, courage, and contributions of the award’s namesake, who Bill considered a personal hero. Bill was also the first foreigner invited and admitted to the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Tributes flow in for permaculture ’father’ Bill Mollison
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-26/tributes-flow-in-for-permaculture-father-bill-mollison/7878118
Bill Mollison, co-founder of global permaculture movement, dies in Hobart
▻http://www.news.com.au/national/tasmania/bill-mollison-cofounder-of-global-permaculture-movement-dies-in-hobart/news-story/503c4e606dc80d79936e1834618b19bd
Y a de chouettes trucs qui sortent sur une recherche « mollison »
►https://seenthis.net/messages/241172
Par exemple, si nous déboisons des régions on a typiquement une grosse perte de nutriments et cela s’accumule en bas des coteaux et fini dans l’océan, mais si nous faisons une chose tout simple pour les vaches comme mettre un résineux sur les crêtes, les vaches vont toutes aller se poser dessous et vous obtenez un mélange d’aiguilles de pin et de bouse qui est un système de distribution goutte à goutte de nutriments pour tout le versant. Vous n’avez pas dû trimbaler le fumier jusqu’en haut mais vous avez dû mettre des résineux ou n’importe quels autres arbres à aiguilles. Cela apportera toujours les vaches sur la crête, et pourquoi donc ? Elles préfèrent une litière d’aiguilles à n’importe quel autre système. Elles s’allongent toujours sous les tamaris, sous les résineux, c’est leur endroit favori pour se poser.
Climate change increases the risk of war, scientists prove | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-war-risk-increase-syria-isis-heatwave-drought-a7155401
The idea of linking conflict to natural disasters has been controversial. Some previous studies which compared wars to temperature, for example, did not find a link.
However for this study, described in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, the researchers used data from international #reinsurance firm Munich Re.
This was then combined with information about conflicts and an index used to quantify how “ethnically fractionalised” countries are.
Globally, there was a nine per cent coincidence rate between the outbreak of armed conflicts and natural disasters like droughts and heatwaves. But, in countries that were deeply divided along ethnic lines, this rose to about 23 per cent.
et un reportage sur le « troisième pôle »
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/climate-change-the-third-pole-under-threat/7657672
While the findings suggest that climate-related disasters and conflicts often happen around the same time, there could be a third factor affecting their occurrence, says Buhaug.
The authors point out that there might be a “hidden common cause” behind both, but they don’t go as far as suggesting what that cause could be. Buhaug suggests that a history of conflicts in a country or region would be a likely candidate. He tells Carbon Brief: “We know that conflict begets conflict, and conflict also is development in reverse – destroying economic activity and material products – thereby increasing the likelihood that a given meteorological event (drought, heat wave, flood) reaches the required level of severity [to cause conflict].”
In other words, a more unstable country is less likely to be able to help its citizens in the aftermath of a disaster – for example, by providing food and clean water – raising the risk of further violence breaking out.
▻https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-related-disasters-raise-conflict-risk-study-says
Wilson Security paid guard to keep quiet about alleged sexual assault on Manus Island
#Wilson_Security paid at least one Australian security guard to keep quiet about an alleged sexual assault of a local Manus Island worker, in a number of separate payments of up to $15,000 made by the company.
#Manus_island #asile #migrations #réfugiés #viols #violences_sexuelles #corruption #privatisation
Money, manipulation and misunderstanding on Manus Island
Australia has outsourced its responsibility for asylum seekers to PNG, but at what cost to its security?
▻http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/money-manipulation-and-misunderstanding-on-manus-island-20160701-g
Hazelwood : quel avenir pour la centrale au #charbon inavouable d’Engie en #Australie ?
▻http://multinationales.org/Hazelwood-quel-avenir-pour-la-centrale-au-charbon-inavouable-d-Engi
En Australie, Engie possède une centrale électrique au charbon, Hazelwood, qui figure parmi les plus polluantes au monde. La mine qui l’alimente a subi il y a deux ans un immense incendie, qui a ouvert les yeux des habitants sur l’impact environnemental et sanitaire de ces activités industrielles. La peur d’une fermeture abrupte de la mine et de la centrale, dans une région économiquement sinistrée, reste néanmoins la plus forte. Ayant eu à subir pendant des années les conséquences du charbon et du (...)
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#Engie_ex_GDF_Suez_ #responsabilité_sociale_des_entreprises #changement_climatique #gaz_à_effet_de_serre
« ▻http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Hazelwood-le-secret-d-Engie.html »
« ▻http://environmentvictoria.org.au/sites/default/files/Hazelwood%20Report_Social%20cost%20of%20carbon.pdf »
« ▻http://www.amisdelaterre.org/IMG/pdf/dossier_charbon_02032016.pdf »
« ▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-02/hazelwood-fire-inquiry-hears-from-rosemary-lester-on-report/6743362 »
« ▻http://www.gdfsuezau.com/media/UploadedDocuments/News/ENGIE%20Hazelwood%20Consultation%20Response%20Ad.pdf »
« ▻http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cfa-to-launch-court-action-over-hazelwood-mine-fire-costs-20150929-gjxaxi »
« ▻http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hazelwood-coal-mine-operator-to-face-workplace-safety-charges-for-2014-fi »
« ▻http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hammer-comes-down-on-hazelwood-environmental-charges-to-be-laid-over-mine »
« ▻http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/latrobe-valley-brown-coal-mine-bonds-rise-dramatically-in-hazelwood-fire- »
« ▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynegy »
« ▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-19/gdf-australia-unit-stake-said-to-draw-interest-from-ptt-keppel »
’Gangsters’ showing unwanted migrant workers the door in Singapore
Ten days ago the building worker found himself in Singapore’s Changi Airport with a repatriation agent determined to put him on a plane to #Bangladesh.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-13/singapore-repatriation-agents-gangsters-migrant-workers-door/7409844
#Singapour #migrations #expulsion #renvoi #xénophobie