#Zürich (Suisse) : #ouverture de la #Kolibriweg_5
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Dans la nuit du 7 juin 2019, nous avons occupé la maison du Kolibriweg 5 à Zürich. Il y a trop de bâtiments vides dans cette ville et, en même temps, les loyers ne peuvent plus être payés et beaucoup de gens ont et trouvent à peine ou pas de toit au-dessus de leur tête. […]
Davos 2019: Parables from the Promenade
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Davos 2019: Parables from the PromenadeOn the train ride to Davos, the influential Swiss town in the middle of nowhere. I flew into Zurich from Bangkok so I was not ready for the cold at all.The economic mood hasn’t been so bright leading up to 2019’s World Economic Forum at Davos. We are very far along the risk curve and are left with a paucity of “alpha” to uncover, leaving the economy at its most fragile state after the unexpected Trump Rally. I often get asked where to park one’s treasury, and I can provide little input (not equities, not gold). The world today is still injured with the events of a mystical 2008 past, and the recent hit in the market leave us in weak confidence. Our collective memories and melodies are mystic not born in relation to reality, but transforms our (...)
#hackernoon-top-story #bitcoin #davos-2019 #cryptocurrency #government
Manuel Herz Architects
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Manuel Herz Architects is an office for architecture and urban planning, based in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany. Amongst the recently constructed buildings is the Jewish Community Center of Mainz, the mixed-use building ‘Legal / Illegal’ in Cologne, and a museum extension (with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal) in Ashdod, Israel. Current projects include housing projects in Cologne, Zürich and Lyon [...]
The Kaiser goes : the generals remain - Theodor Plivier
►https://libcom.org/history/kaiser-goes-generals-remain-theodor-plivier-1932
Text entier en anglais : ►https://libcom.org/files/TheKaiserGoesTheGeneralsRemain.pdf ▻https://libcom.org/files/TheKaiserGoesTheGeneralsRemain.mobi
Du même auteur : Stalingrad (1945), Moskau (1952), Berlin (1954), une trilogie sur la guerre contre les nazis. Je n’ai pas encore trouvé de version en ligne.
This is an amazing novel about the German Revolution, written by a participant. Republished here in PDF and Kindle formats.
I’m republishing a novel about the German Revolution called The Kaiser Goes: the Generals Remain, written by a participant in the naval mutinies which kicked the whole thing off. But the novel doesn’t just concern rebellion in the armed forces, there’s all kinds of other exciting events covered too!
I first became aware of the novel when I noticed some quotations from it in Working Class Politics in the German Revolution1, Ralf Hoffrogge’s wonderful book about the revolutionary shop stewards’ movement in Germany during and just after World War I.
I set about finding a copy of The Kaiser goes..., read it, and immediately wanted to make it more widely available by scanning it. The results are here.
Below I’ve gathered together all the most readily accessible information about the novel’s author, Theodor Plivier, that I can find. Hopefully, the sources referenced will provide a useful basis for anybody who wants to do further research.
Dan Radnika
October 2015
THEODOR Otto Richard PLIVIER – Some biographical details
Theodor Plivier (called Plievier after 1933) was born on 12 February 1892 in Berlin and died on 12 March 1955 in Tessin, Switzerland.
Since his death Plivier/Plievier has been mostly known in his native Germany as a novelist, particularly for his trilogy of novels about the fighting on the Eastern Front in WWII, made up of the works Moscow, Stalingrad and Berlin.
He was the son of an artisan file-maker (Feilenhauer in German) and spent his childhood in the Gesundbrunnen district in Berlin. There is still a plaque dedicated to him on the house where he was born at 29 Wiesenstraße. He was interested in literature from an early age. He began an apprenticeship at 17 with a plasterer and left his family home shortly after. For his apprenticeship he traveled across the German Empire, in Austria-Hungary and in the Netherlands. After briefly returning to his parents, he joined up as a sailor in the merchant navy. He first visited South America in 1910, and worked in the sodium nitrate (saltpetre) mines in 1913 in Chile. This period of his life seems to have provided much of the material for the novel The World’s Last Corner (see below).
He returned to Germany, Hamburg, in 1914, when he was still only 22. He was arrested by the police for a brawl in a sailors’ pub, and was thus “recruited” into the imperial navy just as the First World War broke out. He spent his time in service on the auxiliary cruiser SMS Wolf, commanded by the famous Commander Karl August Nerger. It was he who led a victorious war of patriotic piracy in the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, seizing enemy ships and their cargo, taking their crews prisoner, and returning in glory to Kiel in February 1918. The activities of SMS Wolf are described in fictional form in the final chapter of Plivier’s The Kaiser’s Coolies (see below). The young Plivier didn’t set foot on land for 451 days, but while at sea he became converted to revolutionary ideas, like thousands of other German sailors. Nevertheless, he never joined a political party. In November 1918, he was in Wilhelmshaven and participated in the strikes, uprisings and revolts accompanying the fall of the German Empire, including the Kiel Mutiny. He also played a small role in the November Revolution in Berlin.
He left the navy after the armistice (11 November 1918) and, with Karl Raichle and Gregor Gog (both sailor veterans of the Wilmhelmshaven revolt), founded the “Green Way Commune”, near Bad Urach. It was a sort of commune of revolutionaries, artists, poets, proto-hippies, and whoever turned up. Two early participants were the anarchist Erich Mühsam and Johannes Becher (see below), who was a member of the German Communist Party (KPD). At this time several communes were set up around Germany, with Urach being one of three vegetarian communes set up in the Swabia region2.
It was the beginning of the anarchist-oriented “Edition of the 12” publishing house. Plivier was certainly influenced by the ideas of Bakunin, but also Nietzsche. Later he took on some kind of “individualist anarchism”, ensuring that he didn’t join any party or formal political organisation.
In Berlin in 1920 he married the actress Maria Stoz3. He belonged to the circle of friends of Käthe Kollwitz4, the radical painter and sculptor, who painted his portrait. On Christmas Day 1920 he showed a delegation from the American IWW to the grave of Karl Liebknecht5. In the early ‘20s he seems to have associated with the anarcho-syndicalist union, the FAUD (Free Workers’ Union of Germany), and addressed its public meetings6.
Plivier underwent a “personal crisis” and began to follow the example of the “back to nature” poet Gusto Gräser7, another regular resident of “Green Way” and a man seen as the leading figure in the subculture of poets and wandering mystics known (disparagingly at the time) as the “Inflation Saints” (Inflationsheilige)8. In the words of the historian Ulrich Linse, “When the revolutionaries were killed, were in prison or had given up, the hour of the wandering prophets came. As the outer revolution had fizzled out, they found its continuation in the consciousness-being-revolution, in a spiritual change”9. Plivier began wearing sandals and robes…10 According to the Mountain of Truth book (see footnote), in 1922, in Weimar, Plivier was preaching a neo-Tolstoyan gospel of peace and anarchism, much influenced by Gräser. That year he published Anarchy, advocating a “masterless order, built up out of the moral power of free individuals”. Supposedly, “he was a religious anarchist, frequently quoting from the Bible”11. This was not unusual amongst the Inflationsheilige.
His son Peter and his daughter Thora died from malnutrition during the terrible times of crisis and hyper-inflation in 1923. A year later he began to find work as a journalist and translator. He then worked for some time in South America as a cattle trader and as secretary to the German consul in Pisagua, Chile. On his return to Germany he wrote Des Kaisers Kulis (“The Kaiser’s Coolies”) in 1929, which was published the following year. It was a story based on his days in the Imperial Navy, denouncing the imperialist war in no uncertain terms. At the front of the book is a dedication to two sailors who were executed for participation in a strike and demonstration by hundreds of sailors from the Prinzregent Luitpold12. Erwin Piscator put on a play of his novel at the Lessingtheater in Berlin, with the first showing on 30 August 1930. Der Kaiser ging, die Generälen blieben (“The Kaiser Goes: The Generals Remain”) was published in 1932. In both novels Plivier did an enormous amount of research, as well as drawing on his own memories of important historical events. In the original edition of Der Kaiser ging… there is a citations section at the end with fifty book titles and a list of newspapers and magazines consulted. This attention to historical fact was to become a hallmark of Plivier’s method as a novelist. The postscript to Der Kaiser ging… clearly states what he was trying to do:
“I have cast this history in the form of a novel, because it is my belief that events which are brought about not by any exchange of diplomatic notes, but by the sudden collision of opposed forces, do not lend themselves to a purely scientific treatment. By that method one can merely assemble a selection of facts belonging to any particular period – only artistic re-fashioning can yield a living picture of the whole. As in my former book, The Kaiser’s Coolies, so I have tried here to preserve strict historic truth, and in so far as exact material was available I have used it as the basis of my work. All the events described, all the persons introduced, are drawn to the life and their words reproduced verbatim. Occasional statements which the sources preserve only in indirect speech are here given direct form. But in no instance has the sense been altered.”
His second marriage (which didn’t produce any children) was to the Jewish actress Hildegard Piscator in 1931. When Hitler came to power as Chancellor in 1933, his books were banned and publically burnt. He changed his name to Plievier. That year he decided to emigrate, and at the end of a long journey which led him to Prague, Zurich, Paris and Oslo, he ended up in the Soviet Union.
He was initially not subject to much censorship in Moscow and published accounts of his adventures and political commentaries. When Operation Barbarossa was launched he was evacuated to Tashkent along with other foreigners. Here, for example, he met up (again?) with Johannes Robert Becher, the future Culture Minister of the DDR! In September 1943 he became a member of the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD), which gathered anti-Nazi German exiles living in the USSR – not just Communist Party members, although there were a fair number of them involved. In 1945 he wrote Stalingrad, based on testimonies which he collected, with official permission, from German prisoners of war in camps around Moscow. This novel was initially published in occupied Berlin and Mexico, but ended up being translated into 14 languages and being adapted for the theatre and TV13. It describes in unflinching and pitiless detail the German military defeat and its roots in the megalomania of Hitler and the incompetence of the High Command. It is the only novel by Plievier that was written specifically as a work of state propaganda. It is certainly “defeatist”, but only on the German side – it is certainly not “revolutionary defeatist” like Plievier’s writings about WWI. The French writer Pierre Vaydat (in the French-language magazine of German culture, Germanica14) even suggests that it was clearly aimed at “the new military class which was the officer corps of the Wehrmacht” in an effort to encourage them to rise up against Hitler and save the honour of the German military. The novel nevertheless only appeared in a censored form in the USSR.
He returned to Weimar at the end of 1945, as an official of the Red Army! For two years he worked as a delegate of the regional assembly, as director of publications and had a leading position in the “Cultural Association [Kulturbund] for German Democratic Renewal” which was a Soviet organisation devoted to changing attitudes in Germany and preparing its inclusion into the USSR’s economic and political empire. As with so much else in Plievier’s life, this episode was partly fictionalised in a novel, in this case his last ever novel, Berlin.
Plievier ended up breaking with the Soviet system in 1948, and made an announcement to this effect to a gathering of German writers in Frankfurt in May of that year15. However, Plievier had taken a long and tortuous political path since his days as a revolutionary sailor in 1918… He clearly ended up supporting the Cold War – seeing the struggle against “Communist” totalitarianism as a continuation of the struggle against fascism (logically enough). What’s more, his views had taken on a somewhat religious tinge, talking of a “spiritual rebirth” whose foundations “begin with the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai and end with the theses of the Atlantic Charter”! Although it can be read as a denunciation of the horrors of war in general, it’s clear that Berlin, his description of the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, is far more of a denunciation of Soviet Russia than anything else. The character Colonel Zecke, obviously a mouthpiece for Plievier’s views, even claims that Churchill and Roosevelt only bombed Dresden because they wanted to please Stalin. If you say so, Theo…! One virtue of Plievier’s single-minded attack on the Russian side is that he draws attention to the mass rape of German women by Russian soldiers. This was a war crime which it was not at all fashionable to mention at the time he was writing, despite the existence of perhaps as many as two million victims16.
Berlin ends with one of the recurring characters in Plievier’s war novels being killed while participating in the East German worker’s revolt in 195317. Despite his conservative turn, Plievier obviously still has some of the spirit of Wilhelmshaven and can’t restrain himself from giving the rebellious workers some advice about how to organise a proletarian insurrection – seize the means of production! Another character says:
“What use was it raising one’s fists against tanks, fighting with the Vopos [Volkspolizei – People’s Police], trampling down propaganda posters – one has to get into the vital works, to get busy at the waterworks, the power stations, the metropolitan railway! But the workers are without organisation, without leadership or a plan –the revolt has broken out like a steppes fire and is flickering away uncoordinated, in all directions at once.”
He went to live in the British Zone of Occupation. He got married for a third time, in 1950, to Margarete Grote, and went to live next to Lake Constance. He published Moscow (Moskau) in 1952 and Berlin in 1954. He moved to Tessin in Switzerland in 1953, and died from a heart attack there in 1955, at the age of 63.
His works – particularly the pro-revolutionary ones – are almost unknown in the English-speaking world (or anywhere else) today. The republication of The Kaiser Goes: The Generals Remain in electronic form is a modest attempt to remedy this!
Finally, please read Plivier’s novels! Even the reactionary ones…
Migration: the riddle of Europe’s shadow population
Lennys — not her real name — is part of a shadow population living in Europe that predates the arrival of several million people on the continent in the past few years, amid war and chaos in regions of the Middle East and Africa. That influx, which has fuelled Eurosceptic nativism, has if anything complicated the fate of Lennys and other irregular migrants.
Now she is using a service set up by the Barcelona local administration to help naturalise irregular migrants and bring them in from the margins of society. She is baffled by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of politicians who suggest people like her prefer living in the legal twilight, without access to many services — or official protection.❞
The fate of Lennys and other irregulars is likely to take an ever more central role in Europe’s deepening disputes on migration. They are a diverse group: many arrived legally, as Lennys did, on holiday, work or family visas that have since expired or become invalid because of changes in personal circumstances. Others came clandestinely and have never had any legal right to stay.
The most scrutinised, and frequently demonised, cohort consists of asylum seekers whose claims have failed. Their numbers are growing as the cases from the surge in migrant arrivals in the EU in 2015 and 2016 — when more than 2.5m people applied for asylum in the bloc — work their way through the process of decisions and appeals. Almost half of first instance claims failed between 2015 and 2017, but many of those who are rejected cannot be returned to their home countries easily — or even at all.
The question of what to do about rejected asylum applicants and the rest of Europe’s shadow population is one that many governments avoid. Bouts of hostile rhetoric and unrealistic targets — such as the Italian government’s pledge this year to expel half a million irregular migrants — mask a structural failure to deal with the practicalities.
Many governments have sought to deny irregular migrants services and expel them — policies that can create their own steep human costs. But authorities in a growing number of cities from Barcelona to Brussels have concluded that the combination of hostile attitudes and bureaucratic neglect is destructive.
These cities are at the frontline of dealing with irregular status residents from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. Local authorities have, to varying degrees, brought these populations into the system by offering them services such as healthcare, language courses and even legal help.
The argument is part humanitarian but also pragmatic. It could help prevent public health threats, crime, exploitative employment practices — and the kind of ghettoisation that can tear communities apart.
“If we provide ways for people to find their path in our city . . . afterwards probably they will get regularisation and will get their papers correct,” says Ramon Sanahuja, director of immigration at the city council in Barcelona. “It’s better for everybody.”
The size of Europe’s shadow population is unknown — but generally reckoned by experts to be significant and growing. The most comprehensive effort to measure it was through an EU funded project called Clandestino, which estimated the number of irregular migrants at between 1.9m and 3.8m in 2008 — a figure notable for both its wide margin of error and the lack of updates to it since, despite the influx after 2015.
A more contemporaneous, though also imprecise, metric comes from comparing the numbers of people ordered to leave the EU each year with the numbers who actually went. Between 2008 and 2017, more than 5m non-EU citizens were instructed to leave the bloc. About 2m returned to countries outside it, according to official data.
While the two sets of numbers do not map exactly — people don’t necessarily leave in the same year they are ordered to do so — the figures do suggest several million people may have joined Europe’s shadow population in the past decade or so. The cohort is likely to swell further as a glut of final appeals from asylum cases lodged since 2015 comes through.
“The volume of people who are in limbo in the EU will only grow, so it’s really problematic,” says Hanne Beirens, associate director at Migration Policy Institute Europe, a think-tank. “While the rhetoric at a national level will be ‘These people cannot stay’, at a local community level these people need to survive.”
Barcelona: cities seek practical solutions to ease migrant lives
Barcelona’s pragmatic approach to irregular migration echoes its history as a hub for trade and movement of people across the Mediterranean Sea.
It is one of 11 cities from 10 European countries involved in a two-year project on the best ways to provide services to irregular status migrants. Other participants in the initiative — set up last year by Oxford university’s Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society — include Athens, Frankfurt, Ghent, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Oslo, Stockholm and Utrecht.
A report for the group, published last year, highlights the restrictions faced by undocumented migrants in accessing services across the EU. They were able to receive only emergency healthcare in six countries, while in a further 12 they were generally excluded from primary and secondary care services.
Some cities have made special efforts to offer help in ways that they argue also benefit the community, the report said. Rotterdam asked midwives, doctors, and schools to refer children for vaccinations, in case their parents were afraid to reveal their immigration status.
The impact of some of these policies has still to be demonstrated. Ramon Sanahuja, director of immigration at the city council in Barcelona, says authorities there had an “intuition” their approach brought benefits, but he admits they need to do a cost-benefit analysis. As to the potential for the scheme to be exploited by anti-immigrant groups, he says Europe needs “brave politicians who explain how the world works and that the system is complicated”.
“A lot of people in Barcelona are part of the system — they have [for example] a cleaning lady from Honduras who they pay €10 per hour under the counter,” he says. “Someone has to explain this, that everything is related.” Michael Peel
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#naturalisation #villes-refuge #ville-refuge #citoyenneté #sans-papiers #migrerrance #régularisation #statistiques #chiffres #Europe #Etat-nation #limbe #pragmatisme #Barcelone
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Au niveau de la #terminologie (#mots, #vocabulaire), pour @sinehebdo:
Belgian policy towards irregular migrants and undocumented workers has stiffened under the current government, which includes the hardline Flemish nationalist NVA party. It has prioritised the expulsion of “transmigrants”— the term used for people that have travelled to Europe, often via north Africa and the Mediterranean and that are seeking to move on from Belgium to other countries, notably the UK. Several hundred live rough in and around Brussels’ Gare du Nord.
–-> #transmigrants
City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (#C-MISE)
A knowledge-exchange project, facilitated by the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, C-MISE supports a working group of nine European cities, meeting over a two year period, to achieve four aims:
Build a stronger body of evidence on city practices in relation to migrants with irregular immigration status
Share learning on policy and practices in relation to service provision to adults and children
Develop and disseminate guidance material on key areas of service provision, including four short videos, relevant to municipalities across Europe
Develop a shared, city perspective on ways in which irregular migrants could be mainstreamed into EU policy agendas
The working group, which had its first meeting in Utrecht, in June 2017, is comprised of the following cities from eight European countries: Athens, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Ghent, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Oslo, Stockholm and Utrecht (Chair). The cities of Helsinki and Zurich are Associate members.
▻https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/project/city-initiative-on-irregular-migrants-in-europe-c-mis
Et leur #rapport:
▻https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/City-Initiative-on-Migrants-with-Irregular-Status-in-Europe-CMISE-repor
Le mot #transmigrants existait déjà :
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▻https://seenthis.net/messages/448157
Plusieurs articles abordent la question du #vocabulaire. Faut-il les appeler #migrants #réfugiés #sans-papiers #demandeurs_d_asile #exilés ? Compilation ici :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/414225
America’s Jews are watching Israel in horror
The Washington Post - By Dana Milbank - September 21 at 7:25 PM
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/israel-is-driving-jewish-america-farther-and-farther-away/2018/09/21/de2716f8-bdbb-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html
My rabbi, Danny Zemel, comes from Zionist royalty: His grandfather, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, led the Zionist Organization of America in the late 1930s, and presided over the World Zionist Convention in Zurich in 1939. So Zemel’s words carried weight when he told his flock this week on Kol Nidre, the holiest night of the Jewish year, that “the current government of Israel has turned its back on Zionism.”
“My love for Israel has not diminished one iota,” he said, but “this is, to my way of thinking, Israel’s first anti-Zionist government.”
He recounted Israel’s transformation under Benjamin Netanyahu: the rise of ultranationalism tied to religious extremism, the upsurge in settler violence, the overriding of Supreme Court rulings upholding democracy and human rights, a crackdown on dissent, harassment of critics and nonprofits, confiscation of Arab villages and alliances with regimes — in Poland, Hungary and the Philippines — that foment anti-Semitism. The prime minister’s joint declaration in June absolving Poland of Holocaust culpability, which amounted to trading Holocaust denial for good relations, earned a rebuke from Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.
“The current government in Israel has, like Esau, sold its birthright,” Zemel preached.
Similarly anguished sentiments can be heard in synagogues and in Jewish homes throughout America. For 70 years, Israel survived in no small part because of American Jews’ support. Now we watch in horror as Netanyahu, with President Trump’s encouragement, leads Israel on a path to estrangement and destruction.
Both men have gravely miscalculated. Trump seems to think support for Netanyahu will appeal to American Jews otherwise appalled by his treatment of immigrants and minorities. (Trump observed Rosh Hashanah last week by ordering the Palestinian office in Washington closed, another gratuitous blow to the moribund two-state solution that a majority of American Jews favor.) But his green light to extremism does the opposite.
Netanyahu, for his part, is dissolving America’s bipartisan pro-Israel consensus in favor of an unstable alliance of end-times Christians, orthodox Jews and wealthy conservatives such as Sheldon Adelson.
The two have achieved Trump’s usual result: division. They have split American Jews from Israelis, and America’s minority of politically conservative Jews from the rest of American Jews.
A poll for the American Jewish Committee in June found that while 77 percent of Israeli Jews approve of Trump’s handling of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, only 34 percent of American Jews approve. Although Trump is popular in Israel, only 26 percent of American Jews approve of him. Most Jews feel less secure in the United States than they did a year ago. (No wonder, given the sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents and high-level winks at anti-Semitism, from Charlottesville to Eric Trump’s recent claim that Trump critics are trying to “make three extra shekels.”) The AJC poll was done a month before Israel passed a law to give Jews more rights than other citizens, betraying the country’s 70-year democratic tradition.
“We are the stunned witnesses of new alliances between Israel, Orthodox factions of Judaism throughout the world, and the new global populism in which ethnocentrism and even racism hold an undeniable place,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem sociologist Eva Illouz wrote in an article appearing this week on Yom Kippur in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper titled “The State of Israel vs. the Jewish people.” (...)
L’EPFZ accusée de mener des recherches risquées au Nigeria Jean-Marc Heuberger/jgal - 31 Aout 2018 - RTS
▻http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9812239-l-epfz-accusee-de-mener-des-recherches-risquees-au-nigeria.html
L’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (EPFZ) profiterait d’une législation plus laxiste en Afrique pour mener une expérience de dissémination d’OGM jugée dangereuse par plusieurs ONG suisses et nigérianes, révèle vendredi SRF.
Cible des critiques, le projet de la biologiste Livia Stavolone qui étudie en conditions réelles du manioc génétiquement modifié à Ibadan, au Nigeria.
« Cet essai est purement scientifique. Nous voulons savoir si les résultats obtenus en laboratoire à Zurich se confirment dans les conditions réelles », explique-t-elle à l’émission alémanique 10 vor 10. L’objectif est de rallonger la durée de conservation du manioc, l’un des aliments de base en Afrique, via génie génétique.Normes internationales « respectées »
Malgré les mesures prises pour surveiller le terrain jour et nuit, le projet est vivement critiqué par Swissaid. L’ONG suisse juge le projet risqué et accuse l’EPFZ de profiter de la législation moins stricte au Nigeria pour s’épargner des contrôles de sécurité qui seraient exigés en Suisse.
« Il faut s’assurer que les mêmes normes soient appliquées en Suisse comme à l’étranger », estime Céline Kohlprath, responsable de la politique de développement et médias pour Swissaid.
Du côté de la haute école, on assure que « les risques sont très limités ». « Nous respectons les normes internationales. Toutes les plantes ont un code et à la fin nous brûlerons tout ce que nous avons amené », indique Livia Stavolone.
#EPFZ #Suisse #OGM #livia_stavolone #manioc #Nigeria #Plantes #agriculture #environnement #nature_/_ecologie #Afrique #cobayes #génie_génétique
Suisse : Vélos vandalisés, un gros dégât d’image pour PubliBike à Berne Alain Arnaud/oang - 16 Aout 2018 - RTS
▻http://www.rts.ch/info/regions/berne/9777953-velos-vandalises-un-gros-degat-d-image-pour-publibike-a-berne.html
Le vandalisme cause de gros dégâts d’image pour les vélos PubliBike de Berne La Matinale / 1 min. / à 06:00
La moitié des 700 vélos en libre-service de la ville de Berne ont été vandalisés ou volés le week-end dernier. C’est un coup dur pour la société PubliBike et la polémique enfle dans les médias alémaniques.
Le délégué vélo de la ville de Berne, qui déplore la vulnérabilité des cadenas de ces vélos en libre-service, estime qu’il s’agit d’un « gros dégât d’image » pour une ville qui se veut capitale de la mobilité douce.
Mais c’est aussi un dégât d’image pour PubliBike, filiale de CarPostal, alors que bien d’autres fournisseurs convoitent le marché suisse.
Le directeur de la société, Bruno Rohner, confirme que pratiquement la moitié de la flotte a été vandalisée en l’espace d’un seul week-end. « Nous n’avons pas connaissance d’un tel phénomène dans d’autres villes comme Lausanne ou Morges ou Fribourg », précise-t-il.
Des cas ont en revanche également été signalés à Zurich. Apparemment, forcer les cadenas de ces vélos en libre-service est un jeu d’enfant et les auteurs des vols se sont passé le mot.
Problème technique à résoudre
« Avec notre fournisseur de cadenas, on a pu détecter le point faible », précise Bruno Rohner. « On est en train de tester des solutions, mais pour l’instant c’est encore trop tôt pour dire combien de temps cela va prendre et quelles mesures on va mettre en place. »
PubliBike annonce qu’il en saura plus vendredi, mais certains estiment qu’il faudra des mois pour résoudre les problèmes. En attendant, les esprits s’échauffent à Berne. Beaucoup reprochent à la Ville d’avoir misé sur un fournisseur unique, pour un programme qu’elle subventionne largement et dont les vélos ne sont pas équipés de puces GPS.
#Suisse #vélo #mobilité #transport #urbanisme #PubliBike #Globalisation #capitalisme #Transport #vélib #espace_public #free_floating #désordre #villes #smartcity #greenwashing #dégage
Chronique Suisse | Du 17 février au 13 mars 2018
▻https://asile.ch/2018/08/02/chronique-suisse-du-17-fevrier-au-13-mars-2018
17/19 février À Zurich depuis juillet 2016, des aumôniers musulmans interviennent au sein du Centre fédéral de Juch pour requérant.e.s d’asile. Ce projet pilote soutenu par le Secrétariat d’État aux migrations (SEM) a fait l’objet d’une évaluation par le Centre Suisse Islam et Société de l’Université de Fribourg : le bilan est positif et les […]
Chronique Suisse | De février à mars 2018
▻https://asile.ch/2018/07/21/chronique-suisse-de-fevrier-a-mars-2018
17/19 février Depuis juillet 2016 à Zurich, des aumôniers musulmans interviennent au sein du Centre fédéral de Juch pour personnes requérantes d’asile. Ce projet pilote soutenu par le Secrétariat d’État aux migrations (SEM) a fait l’objet d’une évaluation par le Centre Suisse Islam et Société de l’Université de Fribourg : le bilan est positif et […]
Où loger les réfugiés en attente de décision dans notre pays, et comment les faire cohabiter avec la population locale ? La question tient en général du casse-tête, et la création d’un centre d’accueil pour requérants d’asile suscite bon nombre de peurs dans le voisinage et de tensions au niveau politique.
Ces dernières années, lors de mes reportages en Suisse, j’ai été frappé par la diversité des formes de logements des requérants d’asile ou réfugiés : minuscules abris PC, hôtel de montagne, bâtiments grillagés, baraquements en bois, anciens couvents, bâtiments hospitaliers ou encore immeubles locatifs. Leur environnement est également très diversifié : zones isolées en rase-campagne, cols de montagne, quartiers résidentiels avec vue sur le lac, centre-ville de Lausanne ou Zurich. L’implantation de chacun de ces établissements a son histoire, elle est le résultat d’aménagements et de compromis politiques. Leur forme reflète l’état d’esprit des autorités locales vis-à-vis de la question de l’asile.
Mon projet est de réaliser un état des lieux photographique des bâtiments communaux, cantonaux et fédéraux abritant des réfugiés en Suisse. Le langage utilisé est celui de la photographie architecturale sans aucune personne dans le cadre. Le but n’est pas de s’attacher aux destins des individus qui occupent ces lieux, mais de comprendre le contexte politique dans lequel ces centres ont été créés.
▻http://www.yvaingenevay.com/3135992-personnal
#photographie #logement #hébergement #suisse #asile #migrations #réfugiés #bunker #abri_pc #montagne #Suisse
cc @albertocampiphoto @philippe_de_jonckheere
Derrière la porte close, un #foyer pour les déracinés
Durant l’année 2017, une personne dans le monde a dû quitter son foyer toutes les deux secondes en moyenne. Alors que le nombre de déplacés est en constante augmentation, le photographe suisse Yvain Genevay a photographié les endroits où ceux qui arrivent en Suisse trouvent temporairement refuge.
Les déplacements forcés ont atteint un nouveau pic en 2017, avec 68,5 millions de personnes concernées, selon le rapport annuel de l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés. C’est une proportion de l’humanité exceptionnelle depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un tiers de ces personnes sont réfugiées dans un autre pays, alors que deux tiers sont des déplacés internes.
En Suisse, les requérants d’asile sont logés temporairement en attendant que les autorités décident si leur demande est acceptée ou refusée. En 2017, 18’088 personnes ont déposé une demande d’asile dans le pays, selon le Secrétariat d’Etat aux migrations (SEM), ce qui représente une baisse de plus d’un tiers des demandes d’asile par rapport à 2016. Ce chiffre reflète toutefois la persistance des nombreux foyers de crise qui sévissent au Proche-Orient et sur le continent africain.
Une première impression
A travers ses photos, Yvain Genevay livre un commentaire politique sur ce que peut être la première impression des requérants d’asile en découvrant leur logement temporaire. Les entrées représentées vont des bunkers dans un contexte urbain aux hôtels au milieu de paysages montagneux.
« L’implantation de chacun de ces établissements est le résultat d’aménagements et de compromis politiques », écrit Yvain Genvay sur son site internet. Il note que leur « forme » reflète « l’état d’esprit des autorités locales vis-à-vis de la question de l’asile ».
Le photographe suisse avait été sacré photographe suisse de l’année 2015 pour sa série de photos sur une famille syrienne en deuil. L’affaire avait défrayé la chronique lorsque la mère de famille avait fait une fausse couche après un renvoi de Suisse vers l’Italie.
Les « commentaires racistes et xénophobes » d’Albert Einstein | Slate.fr
▻http://www.slate.fr/story/163142/albert-einstein-racisme
Quand on évoque Albert Einstein, on pense « théorie de la relativité », « E=mc2 » ou à la célèbre photo où il tire la langue. La publication en mai dernier des carnets de voyage du physicien théoricien par la Princeton University Press nous en apprend un peu plus sur la « personnalité du siècle » : Einstein était raciste.
Les journaux d’Einstein documentent ses cinq mois et demi de voyage en Chine, à Singapour, Hong Kong, au Japon et en Espagne entre 1922 et 1923. C’est la première fois que ces écrits sont mis à disposition du grand public. Le scientifique parle de science, de philosophie, d’art et de ses rencontres : « Les Chinois sont des personnes industrieuses, sales et obtuses. Ils ne s’assoient pas sur les bancs pour manger, ils s’accroupissent comme les Européens qui se soulagent dans les bois. Tout ça se passe dans le silence et la pudeur. Même les enfants sont sans âmes et obtus », lit-on dans un des extraits de ses carnets de voyage.
À LIRE AUSSI Le vol du cerveau d’Einstein
Une personnalité en inadéquation avec son image publique
Albert Einstein était connu pour ses actions humanitaires : prix Nobel de physique en 1921, il s’est notamment investi en faveur de la paix et de la coopération internationale. En 1946, lors d’un discours à l’université de Lincoln, ce défenseur des droits civiques avait aussi décrit le racisme comme la « maladie de l’homme blanc ». Pourtant, lui aussi, semble souffrir de cette maladie.
« Les commentaires racistes et xénophobes dans ses récits sont à l’opposé de son image d’icône humaniste. C’est un choc de lire ses pensées et de les comparer à ses déclarations publiques. Il ne s’attendait pas à ce qu’on les publie », explique Ze’ev Rosenkranz, éditeur et traducteur des carnets de voyage et rédacteur en chef du Einstein Papers Project (système d’archivage qui vise à rassembler tous les écrits du scientifique).
Ewan Palmer de Newsweek renchérit : « Ces publications nous permettent d’en savoir un peu plus sur la personnalité des célébrités. Pour Einstein, c’est vraiment intéressant de voir une telle différence entre l’image publique et la réalité historique ».
autres sources cités dans l’article :
▻http://www.newsweek.com/albert-einsteins-racist-views-chinese-revealed-previously-unseen-travel-97
▻https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-travel-diaries-reveal-shocking-xenophobia
#grand_homme #racisme #imposteur
Pour le pacifisme d’Einstein voici la lettre qu’il ecrivit à Roosvelt avant l’utilisation des bombes sur Hiroshima et Nagazaki.
Monsieur,
Un travail récent d’E. Fermi et L. Szilard, dont on m’a communiqué le manuscrit, me conduit à penser que l’uranium va pouvoir être converti en une nouvelle et importante source d’énergie dans un futur proche. Certains aspects de cette situation nouvelle demandent une grande vigilance et, si nécessaire, une action rapide du gouvernement. Je considère qu’il est donc de mon devoir d’attirer votre attention sur les faits et recommandations suivantes :
Au cours des quatre derniers mois, grâce aux travaux de Joliot en France et ceux de Fermi et Szilard en Amérique, il est devenu possible d’envisager une réaction nucléaire en chaîne dans une grande quantité d’uranium, laquelle permettrait de générer beaucoup d’énergie et de très nombreux nouveaux éléments de type radium. Aujourd’hui, il est pratiquement certain que cela peut être obtenu dans un futur proche.
Ce fait nouveau pourrait aussi conduire à la réalisation de bombes, et l’on peut concevoir – même si ici il y a moins de certitudes – que des bombes d’un genre nouveau et d’une extrême puissance pourraient être construites. Une seule bombe de ce type, transportée par un navire et explosant dans un port pourrait en détruire toutes les installations ainsi qu’une partie du territoire environnant. On estime néanmoins que des bombes de cette nature seraient trop pesantes pour être transportées par avion.
Les Etats-Unis n’ont que de faibles ressources en uranium. Le Canada est assez bien pourvu, ainsi que l’ancienne Tchécoslovaquie, mais les principaux gisements sont au Congo belge.
Devant cette situation, vous souhaiterez peut-être disposer d’un contact permanent entre le gouvernement et le groupe des physiciens qui travaillent en Amérique sur la réaction en chaîne. Une des possibilités serait de donner cette tâche à une personne qui a votre confiance et pourrait le faire à titre officieux. Cette personne devrait être chargée des missions suivantes.
a) Prendre l’attache des différents ministères, les tenir informés des développements à venir, faire des propositions d’action au gouvernement, en accordant une attention particulière à la question de l’approvisionnement américain en uranium.
b) Accélérer les travaux expérimentaux qui sont actuellement menés sur des budgets universitaires limités, en leur apportant un financement complémentaire, si besoin est, grâce à des contacts avec des personnes privées désireuses d’aider cette cause et en obtenant peut-être la
collaboration de laboratoires industriels disposant des équipements requis.
J’ai appris que l’Allemagne vient d’arrêter toute vente d’uranium extrait des mines de Tchécoslovaquie dont elle s’est emparée. Le fils du vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères allemand, von Weizsäcker, travaille à l’Institut Kaiser Wilhelm de Berlin, où l’on a entrepris de répéter des expériences américaines sur l’uranium. Voilà ce qui explique peut-être la rapidité de cette décision.
Sincèrement vôtre.
▻https://www.deslettres.fr/lettre-dalbert-einstein-au-president-franklin-d-roosevelt-des-bombes-dun-
Pour sa misogynie il y a quelques infos en cherchant Mileva Marić
Ici une lettre qu’il a adressé à Mileva :
le 18 juillet 1914
A. Assure-toi
1) que mes vêtements et mon linge soient tenus en bon ordre et en bon état.
2) que je reçoive régulièrement mes trois repas dans ma chambre.
3) que ma chambre et mon bureau soient toujours tenus propres, en particulier, que le bureau ne soit accessible qu’à moi seul.
B. Tu renonces à toutes relations personnelles avec moi tant qu’elles ne sont pas absolument indispensables à des fins sociales. Plus précisément, fais sans
1) ma présence à tes côtés à la maison.
2) mes sorties ou voyages avec toi.
C. Dans tes relations avec moi, engage-toi explicitement à adhérer aux points suivants :
1) tu ne dois ni espérer de l’intimité de ma part ni me reprocher quoi que ce soit.
2) tu dois cesser immédiatement de t’adresser à moi si je le demande.
3) tu dois quitter ma chambre ou mon bureau immédiatement sans protester si je te le demande.
D. Tu t’engages à ne pas me dénigrer, en mot ou en acte, devant mes enfants.
▻https://www.deslettres.fr/lettre-deinstein-sa-femme-tu-renonces-toutes-relations-personnelles-avec-
Sur les soupçons d’appropriation du travail scientifique de Mileva par Albert :
By the end of their classes in 1900, Mileva and Albert had similar grades (4.7 and 4.6, respectively) except in applied physics where she got the top mark of 5 but he, only 1. She excelled at experimental work while he did not. But at the oral exam, Professor Minkowski gave 11 out of 12 to the four male students but only 5 to Mileva. Only Albert got his degree.
Meanwhile, Albert’s family strongly opposed their relationship. His mother was adamant. “By the time you’re 30, she’ll already be an old hag!” as Albert reported to Mileva in a letter dated 27 July 1900, as well as « She cannot enter a respectable family ”. Mileva was neither Jewish, nor German. She had a limp and was too intellectual in his mother’s opinion, not to mention prejudices against foreign people. Moreover, Albert’s father insisted his son found work before getting married.
In September 1900, Albert wrote to Mileva: “I look forward to resume our new common work. You must now continue with your research – how proud I will be to have a doctor for my spouse when I’ll only be an ordinary man.“ They both came back to Zurich in October 1900 to start their thesis work. The other three students all received assistant positions at the Institute, but Albert did not. He suspected that professor Weber was blocking him. Without a job, he refused to marry her. They made ends meet by giving private lessons and “continue[d] to live and work as before.“ as Mileva wrote to her friend Helene Savić.
On 13 December 1900, they submitted a first article on capillarity signed only under Albert’s name. Nevertheless, both referred to this article in letters as their common article. Mileva wrote to Helene Savić on 20 December 1900. “We will send a private copy to Boltzmann to see what he thinks and I hope he will answer us.” Likewise, Albert wrote to Mileva on 4 April 1901, saying that his friend Michele Besso “visited his uncle on my behalf, Prof. Jung, one of the most influential physicists in Italy and gave him a copy of our article.”
The decision to publish only under his name seems to have been taken jointly. Why? Radmila Milentijević, a former history professor at City College in New York, published in 2015 Mileva’s most comprehensive biography(1). She suggests that Mileva probably wanted to help Albert make a name for himself, such that he could find a job and marry her. Dord Krstić, a former physics professor at Ljubljana University, spent 50 years researching Mileva’s life. In his well-documented book(2), he suggests that given the prevalent bias against women at the time, a publication co-signed with a woman might have carried less weight.
We will never know. But nobody made it clearer than Albert Einstein himself that they collaborated on special relativity when he wrote to Mileva on 27 March 1901: “How happy and proud I will be when the two of us together will have brought our work on relative motion to a victorious conclusion.”
Then Mileva’s destiny changed abruptly. She became pregnant after a lovers’ escapade in Lake Como. Unemployed, Albert would still not marry her. With this uncertain future, Mileva took her second and last attempt at the oral exam in July 1901. This time, Prof. Weber, whom Albert suspected of blocking his career, failed her. Forced to abandon her studies, she went back to Serbia, but came back briefly to Zurich to try to persuade Albert to marry her. She gave birth to a girl named Liserl in January 1902. No one knows what happened to her. She was probably given to adoption. No birth or death certificates were ever found.
▻https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife
SALE BOULOT : De gré ou de force
Expulser les migrants déboutés, c’est la mission des #agents_d'escorte en charge des renvois. Un gendarme neuchâtelois raconte comment il réveille des familles au milieu de la nuit, pour les raccompagner jusqu’à leur pays d’origine, en Afrique de l’Ouest ou ailleurs. De gré ou de force.
▻https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/vacarme/audio/sale-boulot-de-gre-ou-de-force?id=8845997&station=a9e7621504c6959e35c3ecbe7f6bed
#police #témoignage #renvois #expulsions #asile #migrations #réfugiés #déboutés #Suisse #travail #récalcitrants #moyens_de_contrainte #crachat #menottes #vol_spécial #vols_spéciaux #droits_humains #Commission_nationale_de_prévention_de_la_torture #CNPT #taser #armes #neutralité #fouille #sale_boulot #dignité #hystérie #avion #de_gré_ou_de_force #détresse
« On a des cas de #femmes_africaines qui montent en hystérie relativement rapidement. C’est une technique qu’elles utilisent de manière générale, les Africaines de l’Ouest, elles aiment bien faire du scandale physique et du scandale vocal. Elles se roulent par terre... Elles sont très expressives, ces dames. (...) ça arrive très souvent, après il y a les enfants qui pleurent, automatiquement. La maman est complètement hystérique, ça se répercute directement sur les enfants. Le papa souvent est calme. C’est pas forcément le papa le problème. Vous allez les chercher à 7 heures du matin, on va à Neuchâtel-Genève ou Neuchâtel-Zurich, ça crie tout le long. ça ne se fatigue pas. Ils ne se fatiguent pas ces gens. Ils durent pendant des heures : ça crie, ça crie, ça crie... »
Nombre de personnes rapatriées par vol spécial : de 1 à 250 (15 par pays : 15 de Suisse, 15 d’Espagne...) —> il s’agit, dans ce cas, de vols affrétés par Frontex (#vols_Frontex)
Sur les avions il y a aussi 2-3 agents par personne rapatriée.
Témoignage de l’agent par rapport à un vol avec beaucoup de monde dans l’avion. L’agent parle d’un vol vers le Nigeria :
"On allait prendre des collègues maltais. C’était un vol Frontex, un vol où il y avait d’autres pays qui rapatriaient la même communauté. Le maltait était un peu chaud-bouillant de pas vouloir partir. Les maltais pendant 2 heures ils ont essayé de le calmer comme ils pouvaient en discutant avec lui. En fait, c’est le nôtre, notre Nigérian, qui s’est levé et qui a dit, en gros : « Ecoutes, arrête de faire le con, parce que les miens, les Suisses, c’est des horlogers, c’est pas très drôle. Il a calmé son Nigérian pour que lui puisse dormir, en disant que nous, les Suisses, les policiers suisses, on pouvait être assez sévères. Puis ça a calmé le gars. Entre eux ils se calment. Ils arrivent à se calmer entre eux. C’est drôle. »
Une partie de l’interview transcrite :
Un incubateur pour les entrepreneurs réfugiés (RFI)
▻https://www.wereport.fr/articles/un-incubateur-pour-les-entrepreneurs-refugies-rfi
Après Zurich, Berlin ou Paris, un incubateur hors norme vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Lyon, en France. Les entrepreneurs sélectionnés sont des réfugiés, des migrants ou des personnes qui lancent des projets liés à l’asile. Ce concept est porté par Singa, une association internationale qui milite pour une société plus inclusive. Daphné Gastaldi s’est rendue sur [...]
Tsunami blochérien
Le processus de #concentration dans la presse va de l’avant, avec l’annonce ce mercredi d’une reprise de la #Basler_Zeitung – actuellement en main de Christoph #Blocher – par #Tamedia. En échange, le tribun udéciste met la main sur le gratuit zurichois #Tagblatt_der_Stadt_Zurich, propriété du groupe de presse, ainsi que sur deux gratuits alémaniques. En Suisse romande, les tout-ménages #GHI et #Lausanne_Cités, à 50% détenus par Tamedia, pourraient eux-aussi tomber dans l’escarcelle de l’ex-conseiller fédéral.
Deux obstacles peuvent encore prétériter l’opération. Premièrement, la Commission de la concurrence (Comco) doit donner son feu vert. Le fera-t-elle, alors que Tamedia contrôle déjà 68% des quotidiens alémaniques et 40% de ceux de Suisse romande ? Sans oublier que le groupe pratique une politique de la terre brûlée en concentrant ses rédactions dans des #newsrooms uniques –l’une à Zurich, l’autre à Lausanne– au détriment de la #pluralité_de_l’information. Un certain pessimisme est de mise. Jusqu’à présent, la Comco n’a pas fait de la question de la pluralité des médias une priorité.
Deuxième incertitude : pour les deux gratuits romands, Tamedia n’est actionnaire qu’à 50%. Or, l’actuel partenaire, Jean-Marie Fleury, dispose d’un droit de préemption, comme il l’a opportunément relevé mercredi. En fera-t-il usage autrement que pour faire monter les enchères ?
Dans tous les cas, le sort des deux gratuits lémaniques ne devrait pas bloquer l’opération. Le noyau dur de l’échange est bien la reprise par Blocher du tout-ménage zurichois. Celui-ci fait d’ailleurs aussi office d’organe de communication de la Ville – un partenariat évalué à 800 000 francs –, ce qui pose aussi la délicate question de l’aide publique à la presse au bénéfice d’un multimilliardaire.
Globalement, le but de l’ex-conseiller fédéral #UDC consiste à se doter d’un réseau de titres servant de force de frappe idéologique. En termes industriels, la masse critique ainsi atteinte lui permettra aussi de mettre sur pied un réseau de portage à même de diffuser les publications de sa formation.
Du coup, les Romands risquent bien de devoir s’habituer à la #propagande servie à un rythme soutenu par le parti d’extrême droite qu’il affourage. A Zurich, les Verts ont déjà proposé un autocollant à poser sur sa boîte aux lettres aux plus rétifs à cette pollution idéologique. Mais cela risque de ne pas suffire à bloquer le raz-de-marée blochérien qui s’annonce.
▻https://lecourrier.ch/2018/04/18/tsunami-blocherien
#Christoph_Blocher #presse #journalisme #médias #Suisse #it_has_begun (depuis bien longtemps, mais c’est une autre petite pièce du puzzble)
An Alternative to Burial and Cremation for Corpse Disposal | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation
Enfin une solution propre et sans gaspillage énergétique pour remplacer les enterrements et crémations traditionnels ?
Alkaline hydrolysis ... was conceived in the mid-’90s to solve Albany Medical College’s problem of research rabbit disposal—the bodies were radioactive and therefore could not be burned or buried affordably—and in 2003 Minnesota became the first US state to allow its use on human remains. (The business of body disposal is highly regulated at the state level, and authorities are generally wary of novelty.) In the years since, a growing number of independent funeral homes have added alkaline hydrolysis to their list of services, and last October, California became one of a dozen or so states to legalize it. Jack Ingraham, CEO of Qico, a San Diego startup that’s joined the two established players in the field—the UK’s Resomation (creator of Fisher’s machine) and Bio-Response Solutions in Indiana—expects Utah to be next, with more states to follow as awareness spreads and demand grows. “Our goal is that, in 10 or 20 years, the term ‘cremation’ will be thought of entirely as a water-based process,” he says.
Les origines du procédé sont beaucoup plus anciennes. Pour le savoir il suffit de consulter l’article de Wikipedia cité plus bas. Restons méfiants envers les auteurs de Wired l’organe central des libertarians étatsuniens.
The alkaline hydrolysis machine turns cadavers into liquid and pure white bone.One obstacle to wider-spread adoption: Big Funeral needs to back it, and according to Fisher, who was a funeral director before working in body donation, industry leaders have been reluctant to offer it for a simple reason: “Money,” he says. “The big corporations—Service Corporation International, Carriage, Stewart Enterprises—have set up billion-dollar models to sell you a casket, give you a ride to the cemetery in that hearse, sell you the cemetery plot, and put up the marker.” Alkaline hydrolysis doesn’t require any of that.
...
In a crematory retort, prosthetics melt or burn or, in the case of a pacemaker’s lthium-ion battery, explode. Titanium ball-and-socket hip joints don’t come out polished like a pristine mirror as they do in Fisher’s cupboard, they come out battered with carbon. The silicon breast implant that Fisher jiggles in his hand (“We call them jellyfish”) has already spent a good few years inside a woman and four hours inside the machine, but would melt like gum in a crematory. Other implants, like plastic urinary pessaries or penile pumps, would never even be seen by a crematory worker. They melt and escape into the atmosphere through the chimney along with the mercury in your teeth.
Alkaline hydrolysis (body disposal) - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal)
The process was originally developed as a method to process animal carcasses into plant food, patented by Amos Herbert Hobson in 1888.
Je pensais que les maisons funéraires étaient toutes tenues par ma mafia : en techniques de disparition d’un corps sans laisser de trace, elle est une référence mondiale !
Mais non @monolecte , une mère de la classe de ma fille était toute fière d’avoir enterré le président d’Allemagne. Elle m’a fait rire quand elle a raconté que l’essentiel de l’ambiance majestueuse de l’événement venait des bougies à chauffe-plat qu’elle avait acheté pour pas cher chez Ikea, alors qu’elle facturait au prix d’or une impressionnante cérémonie d’état.
Chez nous c’est toujours un métier de petit commerçants ;-)
L’engin pour l’aquamation vaut à peu près € 200.000. Ils ne sont pas prêt à investir dans de telles dimensions. Peut-être pendant le prochain génocide ce sera une affaire rentable.
Les théories explicatives du nazisme et les interprétations sociologiques de la modernité : des théories de la modernisation aux perspectives postmodernes
▻https://archipel.uqam.ca/8709/1/M14273.pdf
À partir des années 1970, l’effritement des« grands récits » d’émancipation modernes s’accompagne d’un scepticisme grandissant envers le projet des Lumières et les idéologies du progrès. Avec ce changement de paradigme, l’accent est mis sur la continuité du nazisme avec la modernité, dont Auschwitz devient le telos.
Hitler a été porté par les commerçants et les artisans - swissinfo.ch
▻https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/hitler-a-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-port%C3%A9-par-les-commer%C3%A7ants-et-les-artisans/6957668
Ce ne sont pas les ouvriers ou les chômeurs qui ont le plus contribué à l’accession d’Hitler au pouvoir, mais les petits commerçants, fermiers ou artisans indépendants. C’est ce que démontre une nouvelle étude de l’Université de Zurich.
La mafia est une grande industrie, alors ...
John Higgs « the KLF : chaos, magic & the band who burned a million pounds »
À ranger aux côtés du Lipstick Traces de Greil Marcus, pour son approche décomplexée de l’histoire secrète des récentes décennies.
▻https://laspirale.org/texte-557-john-higgs- the-klf-chaos-magic-the-band-who-burned-a-million-pounds.html
The #KLF, Robert Anton Wilson, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Alan Moore, Principia of Discordia, Timothy Leary, le Cabaret Voltaire de Zurich...
Autant de noms qui évoquent un tumulte créatif et salvateur, qui illuminent, de par leur simple mention, la pénombre culturelle de nos années 2.0 et qui figurent tous au registre de l’excellent The KLF : Chaos, magic and the band who burned a million pounds de John Higgs, biographie non autorisée et néanmoins amplement documentée du fameux duo électronique britannique de la fin des années 1980 et du début des années 1990.
J’essaie de réunir ici quelques liens déjà sur seenthis sur la #persécution de citoyens de #Turquie à l’#étranger, suite à la #purge après le #coup :
▻http://seen.li/d36u
#Allemagne
▻http://seen.li/e8dx
#Belgique #Suisse
Turquie : Erdoğan traque les collaborateurs de Gülen dans tous les Balkans
▻https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Turquie-Erdogan-traque-les-collaborateurs-de-Gulen-dans-tous-les-
#Balkans #Albanie #Bosnie-Herzégovine #purge
cc @isskein
Il y a cette liste sur twitter
▻https://twitter.com/TurkeyPurge?lang=fr
Oui, oui, je sais @odilon et je les suis de près pour compléter cette liste : ►http://seen.li/axcx
Mais ici, je voulais mettre ensemble les informations concernant les persécutions envers des citoyens de Turquie à l’étranger... la traque en dehors des frontières turques...
Tens of students march to Pristina airport after finding out Gulen educators not yet deported
Tens of students march to Pristina airport after finding out six Turkish teachers who were arrested early on Thursday, not yet deported.
Earlier today, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported that the arrestes were already brought to Turkey in a joint operation by the Turkish and Kosovar intelligence services.
However, Turkeypurge has learned that teachers may still be on the ground in #Kosovo.
The claim has neither been confirmed nor denied by any authorities in Kosovo.
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Six Turcs « gülénistes » arrêtés au Kosovo, extradés vers la Turquie
Six ressortissants turcs arrêtés au Kosovo pour leurs liens avec des écoles financées par le mouvement du prédicateur Fethullah Gülen, tenu responsable par Ankara du putsch avorté de juillet 2016, ont été extradés vers la Turquie, rapporte jeudi l’agence de presse officielle Anatolie.
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/290318/six-turcs-guelenistes-arretes-au-kosovo-extrades-vers-la-turquie
Kosovo police confirm: 6 Turkish teachers were flown to Turkey at 11:05 local time
Kosovo police has confirmed to a local news portal that the 6 Turkish citizens who were abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization in Kosovo, were flown to Turkey on March 29, at 11:05 local time, Kosovar journalist Xhemajl Rexha tweeted.
Teacher abducted from Malaysia subjected to beating, torture in Ankara: cellmate
#Alaaddin_Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by Turkish intelligence agency over his links to the Gulen movement in 2016, has been subjected to beating, torture and death threats during pre-trial custody in Ankara, according his cellmate.
His cellmate, identified with his initials S.T. who has been recently released from prison. told journalist Fatih Akalan during a video interview on Saturday that Duman was threatened with death on several occasions.
S.T. also called on foreign governments to avoid extraditing Gulenists to Turkey where they face similar treatment.
Erdoğan implies Gülen will be abducted from Pennsylvania just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as six Turks who were abducted in Kosovo and removed to Turkey on March 29, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Thursday abducted six Turkish nationals, one doctor and five educators, working for a group of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement and removed them to Turkey the same day.
Hailing the MIT operation during a party meeting in İstanbul on Saturday, Erdoğan said: “The one [Gülen] who fled to Pennsylvania gets into a big flap. He wonders what his end will be. You will share the same end as those in Kosovo.”
Erdogan reiterated his words during a Sunday rally saying that Gulen “will come to Turkey, too. You can escape only for some time.”
Arrest warrant issued for exiled journalist Hayko Bagdat for insulting Erdogan
Arrest warrant has been issued for exiled journalist #Hayko_Bagdat for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Media reported March 30 that a Turkish court issued the warrant since Bagdat failed to show up for his trial over a column he wrote back in 2015.
Bagdat, in his column, claimed that Erdogan targeted journalists with his words such as “traitors,” and “collaborator of foreigners.”
Bagdat currently lives in self-exile in Berlin as hundreds of his colleagues have been jailed in Turkey very recently.
“Due to some assassination rumors, I have been living under heavy protection in Germany,” Bagdat told media.
Turkish court seeks Interpol warrant for exiled journalist #Can_Dundar
An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia and sought an Interpol Red Notice for exiled Turkish journalist #Can_Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the critical Cumhuriyet daily, over a story he published about Turkish intelligence trucks allegedly carrying weapons to radical groups in Syria.
Dündar had been arrested and jailed for 92 days along with colleague Erdem Gül for publishing a story on Turkish intelligence trucks carrying hidden weapons bound for Syria in early 2014. They were arrested on Nov. 26, 2015 and released on Feb. 26, 2016 pending trial following a Constitutional Court decision.
Shortly after his release and an armed attack against him, Dündar quit his position as editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet and left Turkey as scores of other journalists under pressure have done. Gül remains in the country and is free on his own recognizance while his appeal is in process.
Last March Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a five-year jail sentence for Dündar, saying he should instead face up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges.
The top court ruled that the lower court should have sentenced Dündar on espionage-related charges, which carry a 15 to 20-year sentence, rather than the lesser charge of disclosing confidential information. The court said Gül should be acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
Following the top court’s decision, Dündar’s dossier was sent to the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court, which subsequently issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Dündar and also asked that Turkey’s Justice Ministry request a Red Notice from Interpol for Dündar and his extradition from Belgium.
Dündar has been living in Germany since June 2016.
Speaking to Deutsche Welle following the İstanbul court’s decision on Monday, Dündar said the court’s move is aimed at intimidating him, while he called on Interpol to examine Red Notice requests from Turkey with care because they are politically motivated.
The journalist also said he does not know why the Turkish court is seeking his extradition from Belgium and not Germany.
“I went to Belgium last week. Maybe they saw me there, I don’t know. You just get an idea about the situation of the Turkish judiciary from this,” said the journalist.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/turkish-court-seeks-interpol-warrant-exiled-journalist-can-dundar
#Allemagne #Interpol #notice_rouge
#Gabon police detain 5 ‘Gülenist’ teachers at Turkey’s request
Gabon police have detained at least five Turkish nationals working at a group of schools affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of masterminding a failed coup attempt in 2016.
Gabon is a country along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa.
According to an e-mail sent to Turkeypurge.com, the teachers work at Gabon Turkish International School and are belived to be detained by Gabon police upon a request by the Turkish government.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/breaking-gabon-police-detain-5-gulenist-teachers-turkeys-request
Kosovo-Turchia, frizioni dopo l’estradizione di sei cittadini turchi
Le autorità del Kosovo, in collaborazione con l’intelligence turca, hanno estradato sei cittadini turchi. Il premier Haradinaj ha negato di essere stato informato sull’azione di polizia e ha accusato il presidente turco Erdoğan di ingerenza
▻https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Kosovo/Kosovo-Turchia-frizioni-dopo-l-estradizione-di-sei-cittadini-turchi-
Government spokesman: Turkish secret services seized 80 ‘Gulenists’ from 18 countries so far
A total of 80 people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group has been captured and brought to Turkey from 18 different countries, according to Turkish government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ.
“Up to today, the agency [Turkish National Intelligence Organization] have packaged up and delivered 80 FETÖ members from 18 countries,” Islamist newspaper Yeni Şafak quoted Bozdağ as saying.
FETÖ [Fethullahist Terrorist Organization] is a buzzword, coined by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to refer the the Gülen group as.
Turkish government accuses the group of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt although the latter denies involvement. More than 120,000 people have been detained and some 55,000 were put in pretrial arrest while over 145,000 have lost their jobs amid the government’s post-coup crackdown against people deemed to have ties to the group.
So far, a number of countries like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Georgia and Myanmar handed over academics, businessmen and school principals upon the Turkish government’s request despite the fact that some of those victims already had refugee status with the United Nations.
#Gabon hands Turkish educators, families over to Turkey
Three Turkish educators and their families who were arbitrarily detained in Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, were handed over to Turkish officials and taken to İstanbul on Sunday morning.
After the arrival of the 13 Turkish nationals in İstanbul the police reportedly released the spouses and children of the teachers, who were taken to the police department for interrogation.
Les « enfants soldats » d’Erdogan dans les mosquées turques en Allemagne
En Allemagne, des enfants se produisent en spectacle avec des treillis de l’armée turque. Dans une mosquée DİTİB à Herford, des enfants ont reçu des fusils-jouets, ont été vêtus de treillis militaires et ont chanter des hymnes racistes.
‘Gülenist’ teacher extradited from Malaysia gets 18-year jail sentence on coup charges
A high criminal court in the Turkish capital of Ankara has handed down a jail sentence of 18 years to #Alaaddin_Duman, a teacher who was extradited from Malaysia to Turkey due to his links to the Gülen group in 2016, on terror charges.
Duman was given the jail sentence by the Ankara 15th High Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of membership in a terrorist organization.
In the final hearing of his trial, Duman denied the terror charges and said he was self-employed in Malaysia and did not use the mobile phone application ByLock, which Turkish authorities say is the top communication tool among followers of the Gülen group.
4,167 Gulenists in 110 countries under investigation in Turkey: report
At least 4,167 in 110 countries are being investigated in Turkey over their links to the Gulen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) said Thursday.
AA said that an arrest request issued by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office for the three Turkish nationals, forcedly returned from Gabon to Turkey earlier this month, has revealed that Turkish prosecutors investigate 4,167 people in 110 countries over their links to the movement.
The three Gabon-based men were detained after being brought to Turkey in a joint operation by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the local law enforcement.
The Istanbul prosecutor demanded that the court overseeing the trio’s case arrest them saying that 4,167 people including the three have been under investigation for some time.
A total of 80 people affiliated the Gülen group has been captured and brought to Turkey from 18 different countries, Turkish government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ said on Apr 5.
25-year-old woman escapes Turkey’s witch-hunt as Bosnia grants asylum
A 25-year-old woman, identified as H.G., was granted asylum by Bosnian court which dismissed Turkey’s request for extradition, according to media.
Reuters reported on Monday that H.G. an appeal court in Bosnia last month ruled against the extradition of H.G. on the grounds that she had requested asylum in Bosnia before Turkey had asked for her extradition.
A source with the knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Turkey has requested the extradition of several more people who have arrived in Bosnia after the coup attempt.
▻http://turkeypurge.com/25-year-old-woman-escapes-turkeys-witch-hunt-as-bosnia-grants-asylum
Erdoğan’s foundation takes over 76 Gülen-affiliated schools in 10 countries to date
The #Maarif_Foundation, which was established by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in 2016, has taken over 76 schools linked to the Gülen movement in 10 countries, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, the Maarif Foundation took over Gülen movement schools in Guinea, Somalia, Sudan, People’s Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tunisia, Senegal and Chad with their 8,506 students. The foundation also signed an agreement to take over Gülen movement schools in Afghanistan, which have more than 8,000 students.
‘Gülenist’ businessman abducted under eyes of UN-appointed lawyers in Baku
#Mustafa_Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, was reportedly kidnapped by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, Azerbaijan, according a Twitter account believed to be controlled by Mr. Ceyhan’s wife, Meryem Ceyhan.
Purge-victim businessman dies at a public park in #Sarajevo
#Recep_Güneş, a Turkish businessman who sought aslyum Bosnia claiming he fled the Turkish government’s post-coup purge, died on Monday at a public park at the foothills of the Mount Igman on the outskirts of Sarajevo, several media outlets reported.
The cause of death is unknown at this time.
‘Secret witness’ accuses US pastor Brunson of ‘aiding terror organizations’ in Turkey: report
A secret witness testifying against American pastor Andrew Brunson has claimed that Brunson helped militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and “aimed to create a Christian Kurdish state” in Turkey, the Hürriyet Daily News reported.
Switzerland issues arrest warrants for 2 Turkish diplomats allegedly involved in plan to kidnap businessman in Zurich: report
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has issued arrest warrants for two Turkish diplomats for allegedly planning to kidnap a Turkish-Swiss businessman, according to the Swissinfo news website.
Diplomatic immunity reportedly does not apply to the men, who are also accused of espionage.
The office confirmed on Monday that they will arrest the Turkish nationals upon their entry to Switzerland.
At the time of the alleged incident, the two men worked for the Turkish Embassy in Bern, one as a press attaché, the other as second secretary. Neither men currently resides in Switzerland.
Criminal proceedings against the two diplomats have been ongoing since March 2017. They will not be granted diplomatic immunity, the foreign affairs ministry said three months ago, because the alleged crimes do not fall within the boundaries of diplomatic tasks.
The diplomats are accused specifically of having gathered political intelligence for another state and of having attempted to kidnap a Swiss businessman with Turkish roots.
The Swiss man is supposed to have been a supporter of the Gülen movement, which the Turkish regime says was responsible for a failed coup that took place in July 2016. The alleged kidnapping was attempted a month after the coup.
The Turkish foreign minister has denied the allegations.
Swiss officials had made clear to Turkish representatives that intelligence activities directed against the Turkish diaspora in Switzerland were unacceptable, the Swiss News Agency said on Monday.
511 German citizens scammed over alleged post-coup probes in Turkey
At least 511 German citizens were scammed out of 7 million euros in total, fearing investigations allegedly opened against them in Turkey.
Media reported Tuesday that 11 people were detained on fraud charges in Turkey’s resort province of Antalya. The detainees are accused of swindling German citizens who were tricked to giving away thousands of euros to ditch alleged, Turkey-originated investigations against them.
“An arrest warrant was issued for you over your support for FETO [short for alleged Fethullahist Terror Group]. In order for us to revoke the warrant, you are required to pay 12,500 euros,” victims had been told.
At least 511 German citizens have been scammed out of 7 million euros in total so far, media said.
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Cambodian police keep Mexican-Turkish national in custody over Gülen links: report
Cambodian police have detained the Turkish-Mexican former director of a school run by the movement of US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, his wife said on Friday, according to Reuters.
#Osman_Karaca, former director of #Zaman_International_School, was arrested by eight policemen while he was at a bank on Oct. 14 in the capital city of Phnom Penh, said his wife Grace Karaca, who fears he will be deported to Turkey.
“That’s the last we have heard of him,” Karaca told Reuters on Friday from Mexico, where she is living with her son.
The Mexican Embassy in Vietnam — it does not have one in Cambodia — confirmed the arrest in a letter and asked Cambodia’s Interior Ministry to provide information and let him communicate with a consul.
Cambodian Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak could not be reached for comment. Police spokesman Chhay Kim Khoeun declined to comment. Turkey’s Embassy in Phnom Penh did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Erdoğan accuses Gülen of orchestrating the coup attempt and has demanded the extradition of various people tied to Gülen’s movement — including staff at schools it funded worldwide. Gülen denies any connection with the abortive putsch.
At its peak, the Gülen movement operated schools in 160 countries, from Afghanistan to the United States. Since the coup attempt, Turkey has pressured allies to shut down Gülen-run establishments.
In Turkey’s three-year purge since the coup attempt, more than 77,000 people have been jailed pending trial and about 150,000 civil servants, military personnel and others have been sacked or suspended from their jobs.
Ankara has defended the clampdown as a necessary response to the scale of the security threat that Turkey faces, vowing to eradicate Gülen’s network.
Karaca, who was born in Turkey and holds a Mexican passport, was director of Zaman school until it was sold last year and has since been working as an educational consultant for the school, his wife said.
Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s regional director for East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, urged the Cambodian authorities to either bring Karaca promptly before a judge or release him immediately.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/cambodian-police-keep-mexican-turkish-national-in-custody-over-gulen-li
#Cambodge
Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh files fraudulent request to extradite Mexican citizen of Turkish origin on coup charges: report by @nordicmonitor ||
The Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh attempted to deceive Cambodian authorities to extradite Osman Karaca, a Mexican citizen of Turkish origin, due to his alleged ties to the Gülen group, the Nordic Monitor news website reported.
The Turkish government accuses the Gülen group of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt. The latter denies any involvement.
To secure his release from detention and ward off an attempt at an illegal extradition, the Mexican Embassy in Hanoi, accredited to Cambodia, had to convey a note verbale to prove Karaca’s Mexican citizenship and attached a copy of his passport in its communication to Cambodian authorities.
Karaca was detained in Phnom Penh on Oct. 14, 2019 by the Cambodian counterterrorism police at the request of the Turkish Embassy. According to the police report, the Turkish diplomatic mission provided a false notice to the police and accused Karaca of holding a fake Mexican passport, resulting in Karaca’s detention based on the embassy’s fabricated argument. The Turkish Embassy then demanded his deportation due to the lack of an international travel document.
The Mexican foreign ministry, its diplomatic mission in Hanoi and its honorary consulate in Cambodia are currently working towards ensuring the release of Karaca, a prominent businessman who acquired Mexican citizenship in 2018. Friends from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have already launched a campaign to prevent the extradition of Karaca to Turkey.
The Mexican Embassy in Hanoi informed the Cambodian interior and foreign ministries of Karaca’s nationality status and shared a copy of his Mexican passport via the note verbale dated Oct. 15.
▻https://turkeypurge.com/turkish-embassy-in-phnom-penh-files-fraudulent-request-to-extradite-mex
Cambodia: Confirm whereabouts of forcibly disappeared Turkish-Mexican national
Amnesty International has received reports that a Turkish-Mexican dual national, Osman Karaca, has been forcibly disappeared following his arrest by the Cambodian police on 14 October. Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said:
Cambodia has a shameful track record of colluding with other governments to return wanted individuals without due process.
“Cambodia has a shameful track record of colluding with other governments to return wanted individuals without due process. The Cambodian authorities must immediately confirm Osman Karaca’s fate and whereabouts, after he was last seen being taken away in a police vehicle.
“If he is in custody, he must have access to a lawyer and his family, and his safety should be ensured. The authorities must either bring him promptly before a judge or release him immediately.
“If he is forcibly returned to Turkey, he faces a very real risk of ill-treatment and further human rights abuses. Cambodia has an obligation to protect him from persecution, not collude in his abuse.”
Background
Osman Karaca is the former director of the Zaman International School in Phnom Penh. According to his wife, he was arrested by counter-terrorism police on 14 October 2019 in Phnom Penh in response to a request by the Turkish authorities to the Cambodian government. This arrest occurred in the context of an international campaign of political reprisals against Turkish nationals living abroad by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Mr. Karaca is a dual citizen of both Turkey and Mexico.
Since Karaca’s arrest, his family members have not been provided any information as to his fate and whereabouts. There are serious concerns regarding his safety and the protection of his human rights.
▻https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/cambodia-confirm-whereabouts-forcibly-disappeared-turkish-mexican-national
Tages Anzeiger | A Zurich, le Conseil d’État interpelé par le Parlement sur les pratiques d’Oseara
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Dans son édition du 9 mars 2018, le Tages Anzeiger continue son travail de suivi de l’affaire Oseara. Cette entreprise médicale privée est mandatée par le Secrétariat d’Etat aux migrations (SEM) pour délivrer des certificats d’aptitude à l’embarquement pour les vols de renvois de Suisse de personnes étrangères. En janvier, le journal avait révélé que […]
La cocaïne dans les eaux usées a augmenté de 60% en un an à Genève RTS - Marc Renfer - 9 Mars 2018
►http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9395866-la-cocaine-dans-les-eaux-usees-a-augmente-de-60-en-un-an-a-geneve.html
Cinq villes suisses se classent dans le « top 10 » des agglomérations où est consommé le plus de cocaïne par habitant en Europe. A Genève, la concentration de cette drogue dans les eaux usées a augmenté de plus de 60% en un an.
Une étude de l’Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxicomanies (OEDT) publiée mercredi a analysé la concentration de résidus de drogues dans les eaux usées de 56 villes européennes. Et les grandes cités suisses occupent les premières places :
Le « top 10 » des villes européennes accros à la cocaïne
Quantité de cocaïne consommée quotidiennement, pour 1000 habitants (2017)
Barcelone : 965mg
Zurich : 934mg
Anvers : 823mg
Saint-Gall : 822mg
Genève : 795mg
Bristol : 755mg
Amsterdam : 734mg
Bâle : 563mg
Berne : 528mg
Dortmund : 462mg
L’augmentation a été forte entre 2016 et 2017 en ville de Genève, avec une variation de +64%. La croissance dépasse même 80% à Saint-Gall.
« Si on ne connaît pas les raisons exactes de cette augmentation, elle doit être en partie liée à la demande et à l’offre, mais sans doute aussi à la pureté », explique Frank Zobel, directeur adjoint d’Addiction Suisse. « En Suisse comme en Europe la cocaïne a eu tendance à devenir plus pure ces dernières années », précise-t-il.
Consommation de cocaïne dans les villes suisses
Quantité de cocaïne consommée quotidiennement, pour 1000 habitants
Tableau : ►http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9395866-la-cocaine-dans-les-eaux-usees-a-augmente-de-60-en-un-an-a-geneve.html
« Champions » de Suisse, les Zurichois augmentent particulièrement leur consommation en fin de semaine. Toutes les villes suisses suivent une courbe identique, qui indique que la quantité consommée commence à croître à partir du mercredi, jusqu’au pic du weekend.
Consommation par jour de la semaine
Quantité de cocaïne consommée, pour 1000 habitants
Tableau : ►http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9395866-la-cocaine-dans-les-eaux-usees-a-augmente-de-60-en-un-an-a-geneve.html
L’usage de MDMA se répand
Autre substance recherchée, la MDMA, une molécule de la famille des amphétamines plus connue sous le nom d’ecstasy, est retrouvée dans des concentrations toujours plus élevées dans les égouts des villes suisses.
Comme pour la cocaïne, les Zurichois sont les plus gros consommateurs. A Genève la croissance a été constante et a quasiment quintuplé depuis 2017.
Consommation de MDMA dans les villes suisses
Quantité de MDMA consommée quotidiennement, pour 1000 habitants
Tableau : ►http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9395866-la-cocaine-dans-les-eaux-usees-a-augmente-de-60-en-un-an-a-geneve.html
Consommation de MDMA par jour de la semaine
Quantité consommée, pour 1000 habitants
Tableau : ►http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/9395866-la-cocaine-dans-les-eaux-usees-a-augmente-de-60-en-un-an-a-geneve.html
Des données prises sur une semaine
Les eaux usées sont analysée durant une semaine et non pas de façon continue. Les données de l’enquête l’Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxicomanies ne sont donc pas annualisées.
« Il peut exister des variations dues à la population présente », explique Frank Zobel, qui cite par exemple la tenue d’un évènement festif comme un potentiel perturbateur. « Mais l’augmentation que l’on observe dans de nombreuses villes d’Europe suggère que la consommation et la pureté de cette substance sont généralement en hausse »
#cocaïne #MDA #ecstasy #Suisse #Europe #drogue #toxicomanie #trafic #mafia #santé #société #trafic #mondialisation
Mercredi à #Lausanne, la police a tué Mike du collectif Jean Dutoit
« Notre ami Mike a été tué cette nuit par la police à Lausanne. La maison est en deuil. Nous avons besoin de soutien » Voilà ce que l’on peut lire sur la page facebook du collectif Jean-Dutoit. Une manifestation spontannée partie de la place de la Riponne a eu lieu jeudi soir.
P.-S.
La police tue en Suisse, et souvent.
24 octobre 2017, #Lamine_Fatty
6 novembre 2016, #Hervé_Mandundu
18 avril 2010, #Umüt_Kiran, tué par balle dans une course poursuite
17 mars 2010, X nigérian tué sur le tarmac de Zurich lors de son renvoi forcé
11 mars 2010, #Skander_Vogt, asphyxié dans sa cellule de la prison de Bochuz
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#Suisse #violences_policières #police #décès
Mardi 20 mars 2018 : Rassemblement contre le racisme et les violences policières
entre 17h15 et 18h 15 à Place de la Palud, Lausanne.
Une année après la mort d’Hervé Mandundu à Bex et trois mois après celle de Lamine Fatty à Lausanne, un autre homme noir vient de mourir entre les mains de la police. Le jeudi 1er mars Mike Ben Peter, d’origine nigériane, a perdu la vie au CHUV suite à une interpellation des forces de l’ordre. Le communiqué de ces dernières, lacunaire et incohérent, pose de graves questions.
Mike était père de deux enfants de moins de 10 ans, et ceux qui sont dans la même situation, ou qui simplement ont migré dans la région lausannoise, craignent pour leur vie. Nous demandons que cesse immédiatement cette politique de la terreur, qui sous prétexte de lutter contre le deal de rue compte pour rien la vie d’êtres humains !!
NOUS EXIGEONS QUE LES VIOLENCES POLICIÈRES CESSENT TOUT DE SUITE !!!
Le Collectif Jean Dutoit et l’Association Sleep-In avec le soutien de solidaritéS Vaud vous appellent à venir nombreuses et nombreux pour interpeller nos élu-e-s communaux-ales sur le problème des violences policières et sur le racisme dont sont victimes les personnes noires.
Ce soir-là, le Conseil communal de Lausanne se prononcera sur deux objets liés à ces problèmes :
► Un postulat demande la mise sur pieds d’une instance indépendante pour recevoir les plaintes formulées à l’encontre de la police (une instance nécessaire au vu des nombreux obstacles à ce que justice soit faite dans les rangs de la police, et au vu des manœuvres d’intimidation dont les personnes migrantes et/ou noires sont victimes à l’Hôtel de Ville et ailleurs lorsqu’elles veulent porter plainte).
► Une interpellation urgente demande que la lumière soit faite sur la mort de Mike Ben Peter, décédé le 28 février à la suite d’une interpellation de police, et afin que la Municipalité réponde de sa politique répressive et des pratiques policières qui ont lieu sous sa responsabilité.
Venez nombreux-ses pour demander aux autorités de la Ville de prendre des mesures urgentes pour que cessent ces violences et ces abus !!!
L’huile de palme sur une pente glissante – Lignes d’horizon
▻https://blogs.letemps.ch/isolda-agazzi/2018/02/02/lhuile-de-palme-sur-une-pente-glissante
La coalition suisse sur l’#huile_de_palme demande d’exclure ce produit controversé de la négociation de l’accord de #libre-échange avec l’#Indonésie, qui touche à sa fin. A Bruxelles, le parlement européen vient de décider de l’exclure du quota d’#agro-carburants d’ici 2021.
Les signataires s’opposent aussi à la prise en compte de tout label prétendument durable sur l’huile de palme, dont le célèbre RSPO (Table-ronde sur l’huile de palme durable), une initiative volontaire créée à Zurich en 2004 et qui regroupe aujourd’hui plus de 2’000 membres, issus surtout du secteur privé, mais aussi quelques ONG comme le #WWF. Le problème du #RSPO est notamment qu’il autorise certaines formes de #déforestation, que ses lignes directrices sont vagues et que son mécanisme de contrôle et de plainte est faible. La lettre a été signée aussi par l’association indonésienne Wahli, membre d’Amis de la terre Indonésie, qui vient de soutenir la plainte de deux villages indonésiens contre le RSPO auprès du point de contact suisse auprès de l’OCDE. Les communautés villageoises reprochent à RSPO de ne rien faire contre la déforestation occasionnée par une société malaisienne, pourtant membre du label, à West Kalimantan.
Belgian police say Turkish embassy in Brussels behind online threats against journalists
▻https://turkeypurge.com/belgian-police-say-turkish-embassy-brussels-behind-online-threats-journ
#turquie #purge #surveillance #europe #Belgique #persécution #journalisme #médias #presse
Switzerland investigating allegations Turkey tried to kidnap businessman in Zurich
Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating whether Turkish diplomats and intelligence officers planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman shortly after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, local media said.
►https://turkeypurge.com/swiss-prosecutors-investigating-allegations-turkey-tried-kidnap-busines
Switzerland investigating allegations Turkey tried to kidnap businessman in Zurich
Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating whether Turkish diplomats and intelligence officers planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman shortly after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, local media said.
►https://turkeypurge.com/swiss-prosecutors-investigating-allegations-turkey-tried-kidnap-busines
#Suisse #purge
#macron et les 1 % : le tweet du berger à la bergère
▻https://reflets.info/macron-et-les-1-le-tweet-du-berger-a-la-bergere
Lors de son discours à #Davos, Emmanuel Macron dénonçait un « capitalisme de stars qui bénéficient de la financiarisation et de la technologie », s’en prenant aux 1 % de la population accaparant l’essentiel des […]
#Breves #injustice_sociale #politique_économique #retour_de_manivelle
Quelle impatience puisqu’on vous dit que #cela_va_ruisseler_velu
Comme dirait un grand sage :
« La force, du foutage de gueule, est puissante en lui. »
En fait, il dirait : puissante en lui est la force du foutage de gueule ?
Je me demande toujours pourquoi une attaque terroriste n’a jamais eu lieu pendant cette rencontre de raclures internationales. #cartel_de_Davos
Davos doit être l’endroit le plus surveillé au monde, en ce moment : les chiens de garde veillent sur leur maîtres.
Le terrorisme commet des massacres de masse et s’attaque essentiellement à des quidams, pas à des responsables.
Attaque pyrotechnique contre le Secrétariat d’Etat à l’économie suisse
▻https://renverse.co/Attaque-pyrotechnique-contre-le-Secretariat-d-Etat-a-l-economie-suisse-1373
Les manifestations interdites à Davos à cause de la neige
▻https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2018/01/22/manifestations-interdites-davos-cause-neige
300 manifestants anti-Trump à Lausanne, un millier à Zurich
▻http://www.bilan.ch/economie/300-manifestants-anti-trump-a-lausanne-un-millier-a-zurich
Zurich : plus d’un millier de manifestants contre la venue de Trump à Davos
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2018/01/23/97002-20180123FILWWW00390-zurich-plus-d-un-millier-de-manifestants-contre-l
