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Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse reaches 950 - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/10/bang-m10.html

Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse reaches 950
By Sarath Kumara and Wimal Perera
10 May 2013

The death toll of the Savar building collapse reached 950 by Thursday evening, refuting earlier claims of the Bangladesh government and business organisations, which put the number of deaths at a lower figure.

Press reports indicated121 decomposed bodies were retrieved from the wreck of the Savar building by noon on the 16th day after the disaster. It is feared that the death toll will increase further as the debris continues to be cleared.

Previous official estimates held that as there were fewer than 3,200 workers in the building at the time of the collapse on April 24, with 2,437 rescued, the death toll would be less than 763. This underscores that the figures published by the authorities after the disaster were unreliable

#sweatshops #bangladesh

Le capitalisme du ciment au Liban
Cement firms assure profits with state cover | Business , Lebanon | THE DAILY STAR
http://dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2013/May-08/216247-cement-firms-assure-profits-with-state-cover.ashx#axzz2SafzAYur

“You cannot switch suppliers. We are their property,” one concrete manufacturer told The Daily Star. “They have split the market between them and no one exceeds their percentage of the market.

“It’s a proper monopoly, but this is like the entire economy of Lebanon. Everything has someone behind it.”

#Liban
#industrie

Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building - World Socialist Web Site

Pressé de sortir de l’attention médiatique internationale, craignant que ce désastre soit une « mauvaise pub » pour l’activité manufacturière, le gouvernement accélère les opérations de déblaiement et commence a travailler avec du gros matériel alors que des centaines de personnes sont toujours coincées sous les débris et qu’il peut potentiellement rester des survivants. L’objectif est d’en finir au plus vite pour détourner les regards.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/01/bang-m01.html

Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building
By Sarath Kumara
1 May 2013

On Monday, the Awami League-led government in Bangladesh has wound up rescue operations at the site of last week’s building collapse that killed at least 380 people and left many others trapped in the rubble. Rescue workers, who had previously been carefully picking through the wreckage to find survivors, have begun using heavy equipment, including hydraulic cranes, heightening the risk of crushing anyone who remains alive.

#sweatshops #bengladesh

Ahmad Assir et la justice…

La semaine dernière : Les partisans d’Assir annoncent l’arrestation d’un proche du cheikh salafiste
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/809361/les-partisans-dassir-annoncent-larrestation-dun-proche-du-cheikh-sala

« Cheikh Hani Honeiné, l’un des principaux cheikh au sein de la mosquée Bilal ben Rabah à Saïda, a été arrêté par des membres des services de renseignement de l’armée, qui ont perquisitionné son bureau sans aucun mandat judiciaire », affirment les partisans d’el-Assir sur leur page Facebook.
 
« L’arrestation était musclée, non justifiée et humiliante », poursuivent-ils, tout en précisant que cheikh Honeiné est le fils de Loubnane el-Izza, le garde de corps d’el-Assir qui avait été tué en novembre dernier lors d’un clash armé avec des partisans du Hezbollah dans le quartier al-Taamir (bastion du parti chiite), à Aïn el-Héloué, à proximité du camp de réfugiés palestiniens.

Hier : Rival demos in Sidon banned as Assir arouses judicial ire
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Apr-18/214160-rival-demos-in-sidon-banned-as-assir-arouses-judicial-ire.ashx

In other developments, the general prosecutor of south Lebanon, Judge Samih Hajj, asked the police to provide him with a tape of Assir’s speech on April 12, in order to determine which legal measures to take against him, the National News Agency reported.

The judiciary has the authority to take legal measures against anyone who insults the Lebanese Army, the judiciary and the president, a judicial source told The Daily Star.

Dans la faille « Escroc salafiste », je voudrais le fils (il y a deux semaines) : Appeals court revokes move to drop case of Assir’s son
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Apr-06/212769-appeals-court-revokes-move-to-drop-case-of-assirs-son.ashx

The Court of Appeals revoked Wednesday a decision by Military Investigative Judge Nabil Wehbe to drop the case against Salafist Sheikh Ahmad Assir’s teenage son Omar.

The court also supported the decision of Military Prosecutor Saqr Saqr to refer the case to the military investigative judge to decide which party would be tasked with prosecuting him.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati phoned his Bahraini counterpart Sunday evening to express Lebanon’s respect for Bahrain’s sovereignty after critical remarks by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun provoked an angry response from the Gulf kingdom. Amid the political fallout over Aoun’s remarks, Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah alKhalifa said his country had arrested eight nationals in a militant cell with links to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon

The Daily Star

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Feb-18/206849-mikati-calls-bahrain-pm-after-aoun-sparks-row.ashx#ixzz2LEvTrsR

Et maintenant, la couverture américaine. Tu m’étonnes qu’Israël viole le droit international à chaque fois que possible :
http://news.yahoo.com/us-warns-syria-not-transfer-weapons-hezbollah-052920656.html

In the warning, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said ’Syria should not further destabilise the region by transferring weaponry to Hezbollah.’

#wag_the_dog

Number of vacant shops in Solidere mounts | Business , Lebanon | THE DAILY STAR
http://dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2013/Feb-01/204534-number-of-vacant-shops-in-solidere-mounts.ashx#axzz2JdEUOFdE

The retail exodus from Solidere that began late last year has picked up steam in 2013 and shows no sign of abating.

The Daily Star counted at least 50 vacant retail properties and countless more shops stocked with merchandise, but closed for business. Certain blocks, like MGR Toubia Aoun Street, are lined almost entirely with empty storefronts. Some of them still bear the names of previous occupants, while others have “for rent” signs. The men’s clothing store, Sinno, is the only one of at least 20 retail spaces on the block that was open for business at 4 p.m. Thursday, though a women’s store nearby, Vivae, is apparently open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

#Beyrouth
#Solidere
#tourisme

The message of deterrance from South Lebanon and the new balance of terror Hamas has gained (so far)
http://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/the-message-of-deterrance-from-south-lebanon-and-the-new-bala

Two 107mm Grad rockets located about 2 miles inside the border and aimed toward Israel were discovered and disarmed by Lebanese security forces on Monday. […] If fired, the missiles could have reached 4 to 5 miles into Israeli territory.  Lebanese authorities are continuing to investigate.

Pour mémoire, cette phrase ignoble du premier ministre libanais :
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/mass-lebanon-demonstrations-demand-government-ouster

He offered his resignation as a “national duty” and due to loyalties to his own sect, Sunnism: “My sect is being targeted,” he told the conference.

(1) Ce qui pousserait Mikati à démissionner, finalement, ce ne sont pas les menaces contre l’État et le Liban en général, mais contre « my sect ».

(2) L’abominable attentat à la voiture piégée a eu lieu en plein cœur d’Achrafieh, qui est un quartier très majoritairement chrétien (dans le genre, c’est même une sorte de symbole). En dehors de Wissam Hassan, les autres victimes (les morts et les dizaines de blessés) sont donc certainement très majoritairement chrétiens. Et tout ce que voit le Premier ministre, c’est que « sa secte » était la cible ?

Comme toujours, le confessionnalisme est une escroquerie et ceux qui justifient leurs décisions politiques par le confessionnalisme sont des escrocs.

Dans le Daily Star of Lebanon, on apprend qu’un groupe proche d’al-Qaïda a menacé non seulement le Hezbollah et Amal mais tous les chiites du Liban pour le soutien au régime syrien dont il les accuse :
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Aug-30/186114-al-qaeda-threatens-shiites-of-lebanon.ashx#axzz25Ec5Pp5P
Traduction de l’article :

Une déclaration d’al-Qaïda menace les chiites libanais d’avoir à « payer » pour leur soutien au régime syrien. La déclaration, apparue en tant que message audio sur un site web jihadiste le 17 août et qui a été récemment reprise par les médias, met en garde les chiites du Liban contre le fait que « les positions du Hezbollah et du mouvement Amal vis à vis de la révolution syrienne ne servent pas au mieux les intérêts de la secte... Si vous maintenez votre attitude arrogante, vous serez puni et vous paierez. Vous n’avez que vous mêmes à blâmer. »
La déclaration a été attribuée aux Brigades Abdullah Azzam, une branche d’al-Qaïda présumée être active au Liban et en Syrie. Elle avait revendiqué des tirs de roquettes du Liban vers Israël dans le passé.

THE DAILY STAR :: Opinion :: Columnist :: Manaf Tlass breaks his silence on Syria
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2012/Aug-30/186093-manaf-tlass-breaks-his-silence-on-syria.ashx#axzz251ipf1Qy

Tlass said that before there can be a political transition, there must first be a channel of trust between the opposition Free Syrian Army and reconcilable members of the military who are ready to break with Assad, much as Tlass did. Without such links, he said, Assad’s overthrow would plunge the country into a period of anarchic violence and Syria’s chemical weapons would be up for grabs.

L’info qui a circulé aujourd’hui : Samaha serait revenu sur ses confessions, prétendant qu’il avait avoué sous la contrainte. Mais selon le Daily Star, cette information serait fausse :
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Aug-14/184654-reports-of-samaha-recanting-confession-baseless-sources.ashx

Lebanese judicial sources denied Tuesday local media reports that former Information Minister Michel Samaha had recanted the confession he made during police interrogation.

“If reports that Samaha withdrew his earlier statements are true, therefore the military judge would have been convinced and Samaha would have been released,” one source told The Daily Star.

“But the mere fact that the arrest warrant is still in place for Samaha is proof that the reports are baseless,” the source added.

En même temps, la logique de cette « source judiciaire » est totalement farfelue : selon elle, si Samah s’était rétracté, le juge aurait été obligé de le libérer ? Ça n’a aucun sens.

La suite de l’article est plus intéressante : la version d’Al Manar (chaîne du Hezbollah, pro-syrien) :

Al-Manar said Samaha had confessed to transferring explosives from Syria to Lebanon with the aim of using them to prevent opponents of the Syrian regime from smuggling militants and weapons through Lebanon’s northern border, rather than to carry out a plot to destabilize the country.

Et selon Marada (également pro-syrien) :

Marada movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh said Monday Samaha had confessed to attempting to target the Free Syrian Army and the routes to smuggle arms from Lebanon to Syria, adding that his confessions were manipulated by the Information Branch for political reasons.

Youssef Finyanous, one of Samaha’s lawyers, is a Marada movement member and Franjieh’s personal lawyer.

et enfin, ça va jaser :

Kfouri, who sources identified as having provided incriminating footage in the Samaha case, was reportedly flown outside the country just before the police raids on Samaha’s residences in Ashrafieh, Beirut, and Metn’s Khanshara-Jwar, for fear over his safety.

Exceptionnellement, tu as le droit de lire la revue de la presse libanaise de L’Orient-Le Jour :
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C0+La+Une/article/772771/Affaire+Samaha+%3A+coup+dur+pour+Damas%2C+champ+de+mines+pour+le+8+Ma

Si pour tous les éditorialistes libanais l’arrestation jeudi matin de l’ancien ministre libanais et proche de Bachar el-Assad, Michel Samaha, est un événement majeur, elle ne l’est pas nécessairement pour les mêmes raisons.

Quand le football rend con, mais alors très con (le tatoué en premier lieu, les supporters de Liverpool – le plus grand club britannique de tous les temps s’il en est – en second lieu) :

Menacé de mort pour un tatouage provocateur
http://www.sofoot.com/menace-de-mort-pour-un-tatouage-provocateur-160356.html

Un jeune supporter de Manchester United est menacé de mort par des supporters de Liverpool après s’être fait tatouer une phrase célébrant la disparition de 96 supporters des Reds à Hillsborough en 1989 et regrettant qu’il n’y en ait pas eu plus…

#Football #MU #Liverpool_FC

Un expert libanais appelle à acheter de l’électricité auprès des générateurs - solution, ou collusion (qui aboutirait à la reconnaissance du secteur) ?
THE DAILY STAR :: Business :: Lebanon :: Lebanon in darkness, repairs under way
►http://dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jun-20/177425-lebanon-in-darkness-repairs-under-way.ashx#axzz1yJkPpWau

But according to Abi Said, an immediate solution to the power crisis should involve private power generators that are already operating illegally across the country.

“The government should prepare a conditions document including an environmental criteria and move to buying electricity from the private generators. This would add hundreds of MW to EDL’s power capacity almost instantly,” he said, adding that the measure would be far more effective than leasing electricity generating barges.

#Liban
#électricité
#générateurs
#pénurie

Appel de certains experts libanais à acheter de l’électricité auprès des générateurs - solution, ou collusion (qui aboutirait à la reconnaissance du secteur) ?
THE DAILY STAR :: Business :: Lebanon :: Lebanon in darkness, repairs under way
►http://dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jun-20/177425-lebanon-in-darkness-repairs-under-way.ashx#axzz1yJkPpWau

But according to Abi Said, an immediate solution to the power crisis should involve private power generators that are already operating illegally across the country.

“The government should prepare a conditions document including an environmental criteria and move to buying electricity from the private generators. This would add hundreds of MW to EDL’s power capacity almost instantly,” he said, adding that the measure would be far more effective than leasing electricity generating barges.

#Liban
#électricité
#générateurs
#pénurie

L’EDL ou la honte de toute une nation ! | Économie Liban | L’Orient-Le Jour
http://www.lorientlejour.com//news/article.php?id=764393

Un bilan sans concession des promesses non tenues du ministre Bassil. Les commentaires accablent les ministres aounistes qui s’étaient faits forts d’être jugés sur leur bilan. Accablant hélas.

L’ironie du sort veut que cette institution obsolète ait des places vacantes. Vous n’avez pas le courant ? Pas grave, paraît que l’EDL embauche.

#Liban
#électricité

Les Libanais de retour en 1982, usant de tous les moyens pour regarder le Mondial à la TV...
THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Local News :: Sidon power outages frustrate locals
http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jun-15/176911-sidon-power-outages-frustrate-locals.ashx#axzz1xwFcNFSQ

“Electricity is everything. This generator will light up my home, and most importantly turn on the TV so we can watch the European [football] Championship,” he said.

#Liban
#électricité

The Muslim and the biased media: Proof (via @alaingresh)
http://islamonline.net/en/761

For every one moderate Muslim mentioned, 21 examples of extremist Muslims are mentioned in the British press. It is also interesting to note that so-called ‘moderate Muslims’ often got praised in a way which implies they are good because they aren’t fully Muslim.

Incompréhension au Liban au sujet du énième rebondissement concernant le plan de redressement électrique. Le Premier ministre s’oppose au ministre aouniste en charge du dosier après des mois de tergiversation et sort une nouvelle « solution » de son chapean...
THE DAILY STAR :: Opinion :: Editorial :: Bare necessities
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2012/Mar-24/167789-bare-necessities.ashx#axzz1qDMP3Hpe

So, with the full heat of summer only a few months away, the country is back to square one. It is hard to deny that this government has failed on yet another level, on top of political shortcomings; the inability to appoint officials to senior positions and to protect the Lebanese people from expired foodstuffs, medicines, and unlicensed water sellers.

All this government actually seems to have provided the people with is a never-ending circle of empty assurances that it is doing a good job, when that would only have been feasible if the time spent on intra-government fighting had instead been spent on improving the welfare of the Lebanese.

Power is an eternally essential issue, on which rests virtually every sector, from industry to tourism and everything in between.

The Lebanese people deserve answers, and fast.

Cette info circule beaucoup, d’autant que le Daily Star n’est pas (du tout) un journal prosyrien au Liban. Après, Daily Star ou pas, c’est invérifiable.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Mar-05/165514-13-french-officers-being-held-in-syria.ashx

BEIRUT: Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star, a claim that the French Foreign Ministry said it could not confirm.

Sources said the group is being held in a field hospital in the city.

It was not clear why the officers were in Syria, when they had arrived or whether they were part of a larger contingent in the city.

THE DAILY STAR :: Opinion :: Editorial :: Power problems
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2012/Jan-26/161082-power-problems.ashx#axzz1kVUODE1n

the insinuation from the FPM that it is Muslim areas that are avoiding paying bills is a myth. Rather, the figures show that downloading electricity is a national sport in Kesrouan, the north, the south and the Bekaa. It’s a sickness shared by all the governorates.

The truth is that the failure to abide by regulations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, for example, is minimal compared to that in Kesrouan.

These facts render the suggestion that electricity is a Muslim-Christian issue a dangerous game, bringing differences among the Lebanese to a new high.

Cet éditorial du Daily Star est tout à fait juste sur ce point. A mon sens, le CPL n’a jamais été clair sur le plan de la confessionalisation de la question électrique comme je le relevais ici : "Dépolitiser la question électrique au Liban ?"http://rumor.hypotheses.org/207
et surtout là :
« Retour sur les coupures électriques : Jordanie, Egypte, Liban »
http://rumor.hypotheses.org/1029
#électricité
#Liban

#Electricité au #Liban : vers une égalité dans la pénurie ?

THE DAILY STAR :: Business :: Lebanon :: Bassil calls on EDL to apply fair distribution of power
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jan-24/160898-bassil-calls-on-edl-to-apply-fair-distribution-of-power.ashx#ax

Energy and Water Minister Jibran Bassil has urged state-run Electricite du Liban to distribute electricity equally throughout the country and called on citizens receiving a poor service to protest and demand their rights, An-Nahar reported Tuesday.

The daily newspaper quoted Bassil as requesting that "Electricite du Liban use an equality [formula] in distributing electricity to all areas compared to Beirut as it is not acceptable for Beirut to be fed with 21 hours of electricity while Sin el-Fil gets only 11 hours.”

Dans un autre article

Bassil proposed that one way to reduce the rationing was to make Beirut receive the same share of power as other Lebanese regions.

However, this proposal was dismissed by most politicians under the pretext that Beirut was the capital of the country.

peut être parce que la plupart d’entre eux y habitent, sans parler de leur famille, du siège de leurs entreprises, etc.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Jan-24/160876-edl-boosts-power-production-to-1500-mw-but-far-short-of-demand.

Ouah, le Daily Star a réussi à trouver une bande de branques (la très inconnue Association of Reporters Against Violence) qui voulait vraiment vraiment que Lara Fabian vienne au Liban chanter son amour pour Israël, et parvient à t’expliquer que le BDS, c’est la preuve que l’Iran a pris le contrôle du Liban.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jan-21/160670-activists-slam-campaigns-against-lara-fabian.ashx

Activists slammed over the weekend anti-Israeli campaigners who had rallied against a planned, but now canceled, visit by singer Lara Fabian to Lebanon.

“These suspicious campaigns do not affect Israel but reflect on Lebanon’s image and reputation,” the Association of Reporters Against Violence said in a statement released Saturday.

Et pour finir, une tirade contre les armes du Hezbollah (c’est la nouvelle private joker du 14 Mars).

THE DAILY STAR :: Opinion :: Editorial :: Ballot resolution
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2011/Dec-06/156124-ballot-resolution.ashx#axzz1fh0Vrjoe

The supply of electricity affects everyone equally, which means that the political power struggle over the Zahrani power plant has inevitably become a public affair, with its causes and fallout much discussed and debated. But this incident is merely the tip of the iceberg.

Incroyable affirmation (soulignée par moi). Est-ce que, au contraire, ce n’est pas parce que ce système est tellement inégalitaire, entre autres dans sa dimension, régionale, qu’il est insupportable ?
#Liban
#électricité