Inquality and Wealth Distribution in Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/inquality-and-wealth-distribution-in-germany-a-1190050.html
“50% pour 5%”
European Central Bank statistics show that wealth distribution in Germany is extremely unequal. But a new analysis by the German Institute for Economic Research shows that the situation is even worse than initially thought.
Attackers In Germany Had Contact with Suspected IS Members - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/attackers-in-germany-had-contact-with-suspected-is-members-a-1106271.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=https://t.co/BdZbljhgEZ
Transcripts of chats obtained by German authorities indicate that the two men involved in attacks in the German cities of Ansbach and Würzburg had repeated contact with suspected members of Islamic State via telephone numbers registered in Saudi Arabia, among other places, SPIEGEL has learned.
Qui fournit internet à l’Etat islamique ? - Libération
►http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/qui-fournit-internet-a-letat-islamique_25829
#ah !
On le sait, Internet est le canal privilégié de l’Etat islamique pour diffuser sa propagande soignée et pour embrigader de nouvelles recrues. Mais comment l’organisation terroriste, basée dans des zones de guerre où il ne reste souvent plus grand chose des infrastructures de télécommunication, peut-elle être aussi connectée ? Une enquête parue vendredi sur le site du Spiegel révèle que des sociétés européennes fournissent à l’organisation jihadiste un accès internet via satellite. Ses prestataires le font sciemment, d’après des documents obtenus par le journal allemand, selon qui ils pourraient relativement facilement couper cet accès.
Le Spiegel explique que pour se connecter en Syrie ou en Irak, les membres de Daech achètent du matériel à Antioche, une ville située dans une province de Turquie limitrophe de la Syrie, où des milliers de paraboles permettent d’accéder à internet par voie satellitaire (contrairement à notre ADSL, qui est une connexion de type terrestre). Révélation gênante : l’implication du groupe français de satellites Eutelsat (dont la Caisse des Dépôts, bras financier de l’Etat, est actionnaire). Contacté par le Spiegel, l’opérateur affirme qu’il ne peut pas contrôler à quelles fins sont utilisées ses terminaux et qu’il n’est pas en contact direct avec ses clients en bout de chaîne.
Islamic State Uses Satellite Internet To Spread Message - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-uses-satellite-internet-to-spread-message-a-1066190.html
The answer to this question is an extremely problematic one for Europe, for it is European companies that provide the terrorists with access to the platforms they use to spread their propaganda. It remains unclear whether the companies knowingly do so, but documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show that they may very well know what’s going on. And the documents show that the companies could immediately cut off Islamic State’s Internet access without much effort.
If you need to get online in Syria or Iraq, the technology needed to do so can be purchased in the Hatay province — a corner of Turkey located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian border.
Most of the satellite dishes going to the Middle East make their way through Rotterdam, the world’s third-largest port. It’s here, among the 12 million containers processed annually, that the satellite technology and modems arrive in Europe. Most of the manufacturers are located in the Far East, with their customers based in Paris, London or Luxembourg.
A number of distribution firms are involved in the sales chain of the technologies required to obtain satellite Internet access. At the beginning of this chain are the major European satellite operators, led by France’s Eutelsat, Great Britain’s Avanti Communications and Luxembourg’s SES. Among the most popular brands are Hughes by Avanti and, especially, Tooway by Eutelsat. The French company has been in business for years and offers almost complete global coverage with its satellites.
Distribution firms then buy facilities and satellite capacity from the big companies and resell it to corporate or private customers. They also work together with additional companies like the German firm Sat Internet Services based in the northern city of Neustadt am Rübenberge.
It’s a lucrative business for company CEO Victor Kühne, who expanded distribution to Turkey a few years ago. His problem is: the market for satellite Internet technology is limited in the European Union because of near blanket coverage of standard broadband Internet connections on the continent. Sales in Turkey are fairly slow too, because satellite connections are more expensive than classic DSL access.
The satellite operators don’t provide data on the number of customers they have, but there is anecdotal evidence. In Turkey, for example, those seeking to access the Internet using a satellite dish are required to register with the government’s BTK telecommunications authority. According to the most recent data available from the agency, there were 11,000 registered satellite Internet users in Turkey during the first quarter of 2015, only 500 more than the previous year.
But during 2013 and 2014, alone, Neustadt-based Sat Internet Services exported more than 6,000 dishes to Turkey, customs agency documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show. It is likely that most of those satellite dishes did not remain in Turkey, and there’s a strong chance a good deal of them ended up in Syria. The Syrian market has a decisive advantage in that there is no alternative Internet access available, meaning prices can be set very high.
#ISIS #OEI #connectivité #infoguerre
Possible connections linking Eutelsat with Syria could be particularly uncomfortable for the French government, which indirectly holds a 26-percent share in the satellite operator through the state-owned Bank Caisse des Dépôts.
Former US Intelligence Chief Discusses Development of IS - SPIEGEL ONLINE
29 novembre 2015 Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-us-intelligence-chief-discusses-development-of-is-a-1065131.html
SPIEGEL ONLINE: In February 2004, you already had Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in your hands — he was imprisoned in in a military camp, but got cleared later as harmless by a US military commission. How could that fatal mistake happen?
Flynn: We were too dumb. We didn’t understand who we had there at that moment. When 9/11 occurred, all the emotions took over, and our response was, “Where did those bastards come from? Let’s go kill them. Let’s go get them.” Instead of asking why they attacked us, we asked where they came from. Then we strategically marched in the wrong direction.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The US invaded Iraq even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.
Flynn: First we went to Afghanistan, where al-Qaida was based. Then we went into Iraq. Instead of asking ourselves why the phenomenon of terror occurred, we were looking for locations. This is a major lesson we must learn in order not to make the same mistakes again.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Islamic State wouldn’t be where it is now without the fall of Baghdad. Do you regret ...
Flynn: ... yes, absolutely ...
SPIEGEL ONLINE: ... the Iraq war?
Flynn: It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
et ce n’est pas un rigolo qui le dit :
Lire les commentaires de @souriyam sur l’article du Spiegel :
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Question de David Lagarde sur twitter...
Very interesting map, but anybody here could confirm these sources ?
Voici la carte “incriminée”:
Pour cette carte je ne sais pas mais il se peut que ce soit cette source dont tout le monde parle en ce moement :
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How Thomas van Linge Mapped Islamic State - SPIEGEL ONLINE
►http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-thomas-van-linge-mapped-islamic-state-a-1048665.html
One of the foremost cartographers of the Islamic State conflict is a 19-year-old from Amsterdam. Now that he’s graduated from high school, he’s preparing to take his activism to the next level.
#Whistleblower on Medical Research Fraud: ’Positive Results Are Better for Your Career’
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/spiegel-interview-with-whistleblower-doctor-peter-wilmshurst-a-1052159.html
SPIEGEL : In your early years as a researcher, a pharmaceutical company offered you a bribe equivalent to two years of your salary: They wanted to prevent you from publishing negative study results. Were you disappointed that you weren’t worth more?
Peter Wilmshurst : (laughs) I was just a bit surprised to be offered any money, really. I was a very junior researcher and doctor, only 33 years old, so I didn’t know that sort of thing happened. I didn’t know that you could be offered money to conceal data.
#pharma #corruption #corrompus #recherche #études #auteurs #fraude #carrière #médecine #médecins
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En Allemagne, les violences se multiplient contre les foyers de réfugiés, cibles des néo-nazis
▻http://www.bastamag.net/En-Allemagne-des-neonazis-recensent-sur-le-net-les-foyers-de-demandeurs-d-
La page a entretemps été supprimée par Google. Mais elle est restée assez longtemps en ligne pour choquer l’Allemagne. Début juillet, des néonazis ont posté sur la toile une google map qui recensait très précisément, avec adresses et nombre d’habitants, les centres d’hébergement de demandeurs d’asile à travers tout le pays. La démarche a d’autant plus inquiété que les attaques contre les foyers d’accueil de réfugiés se multiplient depuis plusieurs mois en Allemagne. Le 15 juillet encore, un futur centre (...)
En bref
/ #Droites_extrêmes, #Europe, #Discriminations, #Migrations
Allemagne : recrudescence des attaques contre les centres de réfugiés
Depuis janvier, 150 incendies volontaires ou attaques contre des foyers de réfugiés ont été recensés en Allemagne. C’est presque autant qu’au cours de l’année 2014. Si ce phénomène de rejet est relatif - les Allemands se montrant plus choqués par les actes xénophobes que dans les années 1990 -, il intervient alors que le pays est confronté à un nouveau record de demandes d’asile : 400 000 sont attendues cette année. Et les communes d’accueil peinent à faire face.
▻http://scd.rfi.fr/sites/filesrfi/imagecache/rfi_16x9_1024_578/sites/images.rfi.fr/files/aef_image/2015-07-22T133534Z_772646754_LR2EB7M11QZ08_RTRMADP_3_GERMANY-IMMIGRATION_0.J
▻http://www.rfi.fr/europe/20150723-allemagne-centre-refugie-est-attaque-quasiment-chaque-jour/?aef_campaign_date=2015-07-23&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&dlvrit=1448817&ns_cam
Is the Ugly German Back? Flames of Hate Haunt a Nation
During the first six months of this year, right-wing extremists in Germany committed attacks against places housing asylum-seekers on an almost daily basis. Many refugees living in the country fear for their lives. By SPIEGEL Staff
Pro-immigrants German politician bombed; neo-Nazis suspected
MAINZ, Germany – A German leftist politician who had faced threats for his work in support of refugees and immigrants escaped unhurt, after a bomb exploded outside his home overnight Monday.
Attacken gegen Flüchtlinge: Terror in Deutschland
Die Zahl der Angriffe auf Asylunterkünfte steigt enorm an. Politiker und Journalisten sind mitverantwortlich für die Eskalation der Gewalt: Sie haben Ressentiments gegen Flüchtlinge allzu oft befeuert.
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Germany Has a Refugee Problem, and the Problem Is the Germans
Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling violence and arson. What’s the matter with Deutschland?
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/07/germany-refugees-asylum-seekers-arson-violence-unlwecome
Terror gegen Geflüchtete
„Besorgte Bürger*innen“ und sogenannte „Asylkritiker*innen“ protestieren gegen die Unterbringung von geflüchteten Menschen in ihrer Nähe. Gleichzeitig nimmt die rassistische Hetze online wie offline zu, was Rassisten motiviert, Gewalt gegen Geflüchtete aus zu üben. Die Stimmung ist so aufgeheizt, das mittlerweile täglich, teilweise mehrere Angriffe auf Unterbringungen für Geflüchtete oder Geflüchtete gibt. Die Amadeu Antonio Stiftung und PRO ASYL haben hierdrüber eine detaillierte Dokumentation eingerichtet.
La carte des attaques:
▻https://batchgeo.com/map/AsylAngriffe
Die Helfer brauchen selber Hilfe
Zehntausende Freiwillige engagieren sich in Deutschland für Flüchtlinge. Aber die Bürokratie erschwert ihre Arbeit – und Fremdenhasser attackieren sie immer rabiater.
▻http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/die-helfer-brauchen-selber-hilfe/story/29724017
German neo-Nazi protesters clash with police at new migrant shelter
Two consecutive nights of violence force police to seal off shelter near Dresden as Germany prepares for biggest influx of asylum seekers since second world war
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/23/german-neo-nazi-protesters-clash-with-police-at-new-migrant-shelter
La police déjoue des projets d’incendies de foyers de réfugiés
Une dizaine de personnes ont été interpellées pour avoir tenté de bouter le feu à des centres de migrants, en Allemagne.
▻http://www.24heures.ch/monde/police-dejoue-projets-incendies-foyers-refugies/story/15553371
SPIEGEL Interview with Julian #Assange: ’We Are Drowning in Material’
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-with-wikileaks-head-julian-assange-a-1044399.html
SPIEGEL: So we can expect new publications?
Assange: We are drowning in material now. Economically, the challenge for #WikiLeaks is whether we can scale up our income in proportion to the amount of material we have to process.
The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates — NYMag
▻http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/ta-nehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me.html
Late this spring, the publisher Spiegel & Grau sent out advance copies of a new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a slim volume of 176 pages called Between the World and Me. “Here is what I would like for you to know,” Coates writes in the book, addressed to his 14-year-old son. “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body — it is heritage.”
Archive : novembre 2011, Der Spiegel interview le Grand mufti de Syrie, Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, proche de Bachar Assad. Quand il décrit des événements du début du soulèvement qui ne cadre pas avec la narrative occidentale du moment, le journaliste lui balance l’accusation de « théorie du complot ». Charmante méthode.
Interview with Syrian Grand Mufti : ’Assad Could Step Down After Free Elections’
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-syrian-grand-mufti-assad-could-step-down-after-free-elections
Hassoun: In March, there was a completely justified, peaceful rally in Daraa against the governor of the region, who had thrown schoolchildren into prison. Daraa is a town near the Jordanian border known for smuggling. I went there right away and brought calm to the situation, and I promised the people an independent investigation. At my suggestion, the president removed the governor from office. But then imams who had come from abroad, especially Saudi Arabia, stirred things up with their inflammatory speeches. The news channels stationed in the Gulf states, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, helped them by falsely claiming that the clergy was on the side of the anti-Assad protesters.
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that the uprising against Assad was not triggered by regime repression but is being controlled from abroad?
Hassoun: Look at the second center of unrest, next to Daraa: Homs. That city is also very close to the border, in this case with Lebanon. Unpleasant elements — Iraqis, Afghans, Saudis and Yemenis — have also come from there, all with a radical, fundamentalist agenda. The provocateurs even attacked police chiefs and military officers in their homes.
SPIEGEL: It sounds like a conspiracy theory, with which you are trying to gloss over the failure of the Assad regime.
Expert Criticizes Allegations of Russian MH17 Manipulation
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/expert-criticizes-allegations-of-russian-mh17-manipulation-a-1037125.html
Kriese: It attempts to determine compression artifacts. Those are the small deviations created when a photo is saved in JPG format — differences from the original. It is possible to depict them in color. But: The final decision on whether a manipulation has occured or not is then still a personal decision made by the viewer. One has to decide whether variations should be attributed to manipulations or are they normal and could be attributed to clouds, for example?
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you consider the Russian satellite images to have been manipulation?
Kriese: That’s not the right question. We are not talking about satellite images here. We only know the version published by Moscow. That is a satellite image that has been prepared for use in a presentation.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Bellingcat has come to the conclusion that they were edited using Photoshop.
Kriese: That’s an erroneous interpretation. They claim that the metadata shows that the images were processed using Photoshop. Based on that they are concluding it was the clouds that were likely added in order to conceal something. The truth is that the indication of Photoshop in the metadata doesn’t prove anything. Of course the Russians had to use some sort of program in order to process the satellite image for the presentation. They added frames and text blocks in order to explain it to the public. The artifacts which have been identified could be a product of that — or also a product of saving multiple times in JPG format.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Bellingcat says its findings are based on the use of the analysis tool FotoForensic.com, a website.
Kriese: And its founder Neal Krawetz also distanced himself from Bellingcat’s conclusions on Twitter. He described it as a good example of “how to not do image analysis.” What Bellingcat is doing is nothing more than reading tea leaves. Error Level Analysis is a method used by hobbyists.
Germany Faces Challenge of Reintegrating Returning Islamists - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-faces-challenge-of-reintegrating-returning-islamists-a-1032208.html
German Islamists are returning from war abroad, some reformed but others more dangerous than ever. Social workers, imams and extremists are fighting for their souls — and for Germany’s safety. Government officials have few answers to the problem.
German Asylum: Attacks on Refugee Hostels a Growing Problem
The recent arson attack against a refugee hostel in #Tröglitz has made headlines around the world. But it is far from the exception in Germany. Even as most asylum-seekers in the country are left in peace, there has been a disturbing rise in anti-refugee violence. By SPIEGEL Staff
Allemagne : le bâtiment qui devait accueillir des demandeurs d’asile incendié à Tröglitz
Le futur centre d’accueil de demandeurs d’asile de Tröglitz, en Allemagne de l’Est, a été incendié, probablement de manière intentionnelle, dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi. Des néonazis s’étaient mobilisés contre ce foyer.
▻http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/fr/monde/allemagne-le-batiment-qui-devait-accueillir-des-demandeurs-d-asile-inc
#incendie #extrême-droite #néonazis #NPD #menace
Germany Concerned about Aggressive NATO Stance on #Ukraine - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html
US President Obama supports Chancellor Merkel’s efforts at finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. But hawks in Washington seem determined to torpedo Berlin’s approach. And NATO’s top commander in Europe hasn’t been helping either.
#OTAN #belliciste #Russie
Le même article constitue le fond du billet de @dedefensa ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/349500
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle
By Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt and Michael Sontheimer, in Der Spiegel
More documents revealed.
Welcome to D weapons in addition of ABC weapons (atomic, biological, chemical).
►http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-10134
The NSA’s mass surveillance is just the beginning. Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars — a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.
[...]
According to top secret documents from the archive of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden seen exclusively by SPIEGEL, they are planning for wars of the future in which the Internet will play a critical role, with the aim of being able to use the net to paralyze computer networks and, by doing so, potentially all the infrastructure they control, including power and water supplies, factories, airports or the flow of money.
[...]
NSA agents aren’t concerned about being caught. That’s partly because they work for such a powerful agency, but also because they don’t leave behind any evidence that would hold up in court. And if there is no evidence of wrongdoing, there can be no legal penalty, no parliamentary control of intelligence agencies and no international agreement. Thus far, very little is known about the risks and side-effects inherent in these new D weapons and there is almost no government regulation.
Edward Snowden has revealed how intelligence agencies around the world, led by the NSA, are doing their best to ensure a legal vacuum in the Internet. In a recent interview with the US public broadcaster PBS, the whistleblower voiced his concerns that “defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.”
Snowden finds that concerning. "What we need to do," he said, “is we need to create new international standards of behavior.”
backup link:
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Je crois qu’on n’a pas encore référencé cette nouvelle grande réussite du journalisme d’investigation international : Report : Assad Building Hizbullah-Guarded Nuclear Plant 2 Kms from Lebanon (oui, rien que ça…)
▻http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/162364-report-assad-building-hizbullah-guarded-nuclear-plant-2-kms-from-le
Intelligence suggests that Syrian President Bashar Assad is building a secret underground plant with the aim of developing nuclear weapons, Germany’s Spiegel news magazine said Friday.
Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, two kilometers from the Lebanese border.
It is deep underground, near the town of Qusayr and has access to electricity and water supplies, the magazine said in a pre-released version of the story released ahead of Saturday’s publication.
It said it had had access to “exclusive documents”, satellite photographs and intercepted conversations thanks to intelligence sources.
Western experts suspect, based on the documents, that a reactor or an enrichment plant could be the aim of the project, whose codename is “Zamzam”, Spiegel said.
Ca vient de passer dans le journel de vingt heures Tagesschau . C’est qui la source ?
C’est la magie de ce genre de fadaises : « une source de renseignement non identifiée ».
Et comme par hasard al-nusra et ISIS sont justement en grande difficulté dans la zone en question.
« an inaccessible mountain region » : eueueuhhh, c’est pas l’Afghanistan tout de même !
Syria denies nuclear allegations, weapons experts skeptical too
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.636715
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« Parachèverons-nous l’Ordre Mondial par le chaos ou la réflexion ? » par Henry Kissinger
▻http://www.brujitafr.fr/2014/12/paracheverons-nous-l-ordre-mondial-par-le-chaos-ou-la-reflexion-par-henry-
Superbe interview réalisée par Juliane von Mittelstaed et Erich Follath pour le journal allemand Spiegel.
Cette bonne vielle crapule de Kissinger – tel un Talleyrand – a juste raison depuis le 1er jour - relire son interview de début mars ici. Mais qu’importe, quand l’intégrisme et la bêtise gouvernent ?
Henry Kissinger est le plus fameux et le plus controversé des secrétaires d’état qu’aient jamais eu les États-Unis. Dans une interview, il commente son dernier livre dans lequel il analyse les crises de notre temps, de la Syrie à l’Ukraine, ainsi que les limites de la puissance américaine. Il affirme s’être conformé à ses convictions lors de la guerre du Vietnam.
Henri Kissinger fait plus jeune que ses 91 ans. Il est concentré, affable, mais aussi sur ses gardes, sur la défensive à tout instant pour (...)
Why Sand Is Disappearing - NYTimes
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/opinion/why-sand-is-disappearing.html?ref=international&_r=2
Why Sand Is Disappearing - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/opinion/why-sand-is-disappearing.html
Today, however, 75 to 90 percent of the world’s natural sand beaches are disappearing, due partly to rising sea levels and increased storm action, but also to massive erosion caused by the human development of shores. Many low-lying barrier islands are already submerged.
(…)
The sand and gravel business is now growing faster than the economy as a whole. In the United States, the market for mined sand has become a billion-dollar annual business, growing at 10 percent a year since 2008. Interior mining operations use huge machines working in open pits to dig down under the earth’s surface to get sand left behind by ancient glaciers. But as demand has risen — and the damming of rivers has held back the flow of sand from mountainous interiors — natural sources of sand have been shrinking.
One might think that desert sand would be a ready substitute, but its grains are finer and smoother; they don’t adhere to rougher sand grains, and tend to blow away. As a result, the desert state of Dubai brings sand for its beaches all the way from Australia.
(…)
But the greatest industrial consumer of all is the concrete industry. (…) Concrete still takes 80 percent of all that mining can deliver. Apart from water and air, sand is the natural element most in demand around the world, a situation that puts the preservation of beaches and their flora and fauna in great danger. (…)
The huge sand mining operations emerging worldwide, many of them illegal, are happening out of sight and out of mind, as far as the developed world is concerned. But in India, where the government has stepped in to limit sand mining along its shores, illegal mining operations by what is now referred to as the “#sand_mafia” defy these regulations. In Sierra Leone, poor villagers are encouraged to sell off their sand to illegal operations, ruining their own shores for fishing. Some Indonesian sand islands have been devastated by sand mining.
Cf. en France, les luttes des #Peuples_des_Dunes (Gâvres-Quiberon-Groix, Trégor,…)
Gâvres. Les différents Peuples des dunes se réunissent
▻http://www.ouest-france.fr/gavres-les-differents-peuples-des-dunes-se-reunissent-2755334
Réunion au sommet ce mardi [12/08/14], à Gâvres, entre les Peuples des dunes de Gâvres et de l’île de Sein (Finistère), et l’association Force 5 de Plougasnou (Finistère). Des militants des trois associations se sont rassemblés pour échanger leurs expériences dans la lutte contre l’extraction de granulats marins, et réfléchir à une mutualisation de leurs ressources. Les Peuples des dunes de Trébeurden et de Haute-Normandie, invités, étaient absents.
sur la mafia du #sable voir aussi ►http://seenthis.net/messages/143775 et ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/270356
Pense-bête : rechercher le lien sur les voleurs de sable au maroc (étude sortie par le PNUE il y a une petite dizaine d’année).
Je sais, ce n’est pas le rapport, mais c’est le Maroc, les plages, le trafic et ça cite le PNUE. C’est tout récent et c’est dans le Spiegel.
Global Sand Stocks Disappear As It Becomes Highly Sought Resource - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/global-sand-stocks-disappear-as-it-becomes-highly-sought-resource-a-994851.h
Sands are “now being extracted at a rate far greater than their renewal,” a March 2014 UNEP report found. “Sand is rarer than one thinks,” it reads.
Cité par Le Mag au Maroc
Der Spiegel : Des plages en disparition du fait du trafic de sable
▻http://www.lemag.ma/Der-Spiegel-Des-plages-en-disparition-du-fait-du-trafic-de-sable_a86280.html
Berlin : Le Maroc appartient à un groupe de pays dans le monde où un phénomène de disparition des plages est imminent à cause du trafic de sable.
En effet, le Maroc, le Cap-Vert, le Kenya, la Nouvelle-Zélande et la Jamaïque ont été placés sur une liste de pays qui risquent le plus, de voir disparaître leurs plages, laissant place à des étendues en masses de terre et de pierres noires avec des retombées environnementales et éco-touristiques graves.
Selon le site du quotidien allemand Der Spiegel, cette catastrophe naturelle que risquent le Maroc et ce groupe de pays, serait causée par l’aggravation ces dernières années, des trafics de sables.
Du coup, avec le titre, ça va tout seul,…
Sand, rarer than one thinks
▻http://na.unep.net/geas/getUNEPPageWithArticleIDScript.php?article_id=110
ou (pdf) ▻http://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/GEAS_Mar2014_Sand_Mining.pdf
Inside India’s Deadly Sand Mafia - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/indian-college-kids-a-sand-mafia-path-a-river-of-death.html
The sand mafia, a ubiquitous presence up and down the Beas, ran a brazenly open and illegal operation here, across the highway from the engineering and staff offices of the Larji Hydroelectric Project. (...)
How the sand mafia did so with impunity remains an unanswered question in the Beas River drownings. So does the issue, raised in the Indian press and in filings before the Himachal Pradesh High Court, of whether anyone with the Larji project had been cooperating with the sand mafia to artificially boost water releases — flushing out more sand for the mafia to steal.
La version des services secrets allemands.
German Intelligence Blames Pro Russian Separatists for #MH17 Downing - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/german-intelligence-blames-pro-russian-separatists-for-mh17-downing-a-997972
After completing a detailed analysis, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has concluded that pro-Russian rebels were responsible for the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on July 19 in eastern Ukraine while on route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
In an Oct. 8 presentation given to members of the parliamentary control committee, the Bundestag body responsible for monitoring the work of German intelligence, BND President Gerhard Schindler provided ample evidence to back up his case, including satellite images and diverse photo evidence. The BND has intelligence indicating that pro-Russian separatists captured a BUK air defense missile system at a Ukrainian military base and fired a missile on July 17 that exploded in direct proximity to the Malaysian aircraft, which had been carrying 298 people.
Malheureusement, pas de CR sur le site de la Commission,…
Deutscher Bundestag - Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium (PKGr)
▻http://bundestag.de/bundestag/gremien18/pkgr
Crash du vol MH17 : Moscou appelle Berlin à publier ses informations | International | RIA Novosti
▻http://fr.ria.ru/world/20141020/202766437.html
L’Agence fédérale russe de transport aérien (Rossaviatsia) a invité les services de renseignements allemands à publier les informations démontrant l’implication des insurgés ou de l’armée ukrainienne dans la catastrophe du Boeing malaisien en Ukraine, a déclaré lundi le directeur de Rossaviatsia, Alexandre Neradko.
« Personne ne connait les preuves fournies par le renseignement allemand. Dès le début, nous avons appelé toute personne connaissant des faits ou des circonstances objectives à communiquer cette information à la commission d’enquête néerlandaise. La partie russe l’a déjà fait. Nous avons présenté à la commission d’enquête tous les documents dont nous disposions », a indiqué M. Neradko dans une interview à la chaîne de télévision Rossiya 24.
« Il ne s’agit pas d’adhérer facilement à l’hypothèse proposée par la République fédérale, mais de demander à ses services de renseignements de publier les informations secrètes montrant la culpabilité de telle ou telle partie », a souligné le directeur de Rossaviatsia.
Robert Parry, à propos des déclarations du BND, souligne que pour ce dernier, le missile et son lanceur ne provenaient pas de Russie. Reste donc à savoir quel ukrainien l’a tiré…
Germans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case | Consortiumnews
▻http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/20/germans-clear-russia-in-mh-17-case
But some U.S. intelligence analysts offered conflicting assessments. After Kerry’s TV round-robin, the Los Angeles Times reported on a U.S. intelligence briefing given to several mainstream U.S. news outlets. The story said, “U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 [anti-aircraft missile] was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.”
A source who was briefed by U.S. intelligence analysts told me that some analysts had concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appeared Ukrainian government forces were to blame, although possibly a unit operating outside the direct command of Ukraine’s top officials.
The source specifically said the U.S. intelligence evidence did not implicate Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko or Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk but rather suggested an extremist element of the armed forces funded by one of Ukraine’s oligarchs.
Regarding the alleged Russian role, the source said the U.S. analysts had found no evidence that the Russian government had given the rebels a BUK missile system, which would be capable of shooting down a commercial airliner at 33,000 feet, the altitude of MH-17.
According to the Der Spiegel story, the BND reached the same conclusion, that Russia was not the source of the missile battery. But the BND and these U.S. analysts apparently differ on who they suspect fired the fateful missile.
What has been curious about the handling of the MH-17 case is the failure of the Obama administration and other Western governments to present whatever evidence they have, whether satellite, electronic or telephonic so the investigation can proceed more quickly in determining who was responsible.
By withholding this evidence for nearly three months, the West has benefited from keeping alive the anti-Russian propaganda – blaming Moscow and President Vladimir Putin for the tragedy – but the secrecy has given the perpetrators time to scatter and cover their tracks.
With Der Spiegel’s report, it’s now clearer why the delay and the secrecy. If the missile responsible for bringing down MH-17 came from a Ukrainian military base – not from the Russian government – then a very potent anti-Putin propaganda theme would be neutralized. More attention also would focus on whether the missile battery was really under the control of a rebel unit, as the BND suggests – or was in the hands of anti-rebel extremists.
Excavation of gas chamber at Nazi Sobibor concentration camp completed - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/16/sobi-o16.html
Excavation of gas chamber at Nazi Sobibor concentration camp completed
By Elisabeth Zimmermann
16 October 2014
With the assistance of supporters, archaeologists Yoram Haimi from Israel and Wojciech Mazurek from Poland have excavated the remains of the gas chamber at the Nazi Sobibor concentration camp near Lublin, near the eastern Polish border, as Spiegel Online reported on September 23.
In a clearing near the old Sobibor train station, one can see the newly discovered finds and remains of the walls. It includes the remains of an estimated four gas chambers, each 5 by 7 metres, which served as death chambers for between 70 and 100 people. Haimi and Mazurek hope that their findings will make the Nazi crimes at Sobibor more comprehensible. The Nazis destroyed the concentration camp 71 years ago, after SS officers and their allies had murdered between 170,000 and 250,000 people, mostly defenceless Jews and Roma.
#shoah #nazisma #camps_de_la_mort #histoire #sobibor #seconde_guerre_mondiale
Interview with Peter Piot Discoverer of the Ebola Virus
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-peter-piot-discoverer-of-the-ebola-virus-a-993111.html
Almost four decades ago, Peter Piot was part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus. In a SPIEGEL interview, he describes how the disease was isolated and explains why the current outbreak is different than any that have come before. (...) Source: Spiegel Online
