country:malaysia

les sites d’actualités du 22/05/2013 :
–http://gatesofvienna.net
–http://www.capitalbay.com
–http://aiddatachina.org (data china)
–http://nwotruth.com
–http://sinonk.com
–http://siasatrooz.ir/en/world
–http://chainsoff.wordpress.com
–http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress
–http://peoplestrusttoronto.wordpress.com
–http://www1.jamejamonline.ir/en/service.aspx
–http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB
–http://www.breakingnews.ie/world
–http://www.newsmaxworld.com
–http://intellihub.com
–http://www.veteranstoday.com
–http://www.malinsmalines.com/Actualites.mvc/ALAUNE
–http://www.thesyrianpolicy.com
–http://www.equaltimes.org
–http://www.freeinews.com/category/global
–http://www.therepublic.com
–http://www.terminalx.org (geopolitique)
–http://nigeriacamera.net
–http://riyadhbureau.com
–http://www.islamtimes.org/en
–http://www.britishpathe.com (archive)

Myanmar’s Muslims: Kicked in the teeth | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/05/myanmars-muslims?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/kickedintheteeth

I AM in Malaysia for the election on May 5th, and up here in the north of the country quite a lot of the political to-and-fro is about political Islam. The opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (better known as PAS) is strong up here in states like Kedah, so the ruling coalition Barisan Nacional is trying to scare people off voting for them by claiming that, if they were to be elected nationally, they would force the opposition coalition into turning Malaysia into an extremist Muslim state. It’s a lame old tactic, but still seems to find some traction.

A fellow-member of ASEAN, Myanmar, is wrestling with its own Islamic problem, but in a much more volatile and blood-soaked manner. This week saw another nasty outbreak of violence between Burman Buddhists and Muslims in central Myanmar, this time in a village called Oakka. It was sparked off by another minor incident, when a young girl apparently bumped into a monk. This set off a chain events that left one person dead and nine injured; reports say that Buddhist mobs torched 77 houses and a couple of mosques.

#birmanie #discrimination #conflit-ethnique

Spyware used by governments poses as Firefox, and Mozilla is angry | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/spyware-used-by-governments-poses-as-firefox-and-mozilla-is-angry

The Citizen Lab research team has provided us with samples from the following three instances that demonstrate how this misuse of our brand, trademarks and public trust is a designed feature of Gamma’s spyware products and not unique to a single customer’s deployment:

A spyware attack in Bahrain aimed at pro-democracy activists;
The recent discovery of Gamma’s spyware apparently in use amidst Malaysia’s upcoming General Elections; and
A promotional demo produced by Gamma.

Un commentaire :

Good news about the Gamma/FinFisher GNU violation: The FSF will take a look at enforcing the license ;)
https://twitter.com/Voulnet/status/329729311210872832

Khairat al-Shater : I do not interfere in state affairs

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/khairat-al-shater-i-do-not-interfere-state-affairs

Dernière interview du numéro 2 des Frères et ex-candidat à la présidentielle.

Bornéo : le conflit meurtrier entre un « sultan » et la Malaisie s’éternise - LExpress.fr
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/monde/borneo-le-conflit-meurtrier-entre-un-sultan-et-la-malaisie-s-eternise_12277

FELDA SAHABAT (Malaisie) - Un conflit d’un autre âge opposant dans la jungle de Bornéo des fidèles d’un « sultan » philippin autoproclamé aux forces malaisiennes, qui a déjà fait 60 morts, ne semblait pas prêt de s’éteindre jeudi, après le rejet par la Malaisie d’une offre de cessez-le-feu.

Un autre point de vue avec
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.jp/2013/03/malaysia-invaded-100s-of-terrorists.html

March 7, 2013 (LD) - Hundreds of heavily armed terrorists have crossed from the Philippines and landed in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Dozens are already dead, and the Malaysian military has brought in aircraft and armor to confront the audacious, bizarre invasion, scattering militants into the jungles of Borneo island. A seemingly headline news event, the invasion has been downplayed and spun by the Western media, many calling militant Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, an “armed Filipino clan.”

Le dernier conflit à Gaza résumé en une photo.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/content/swedish-photographer-paul-hansen-wins-premier-photo-contest-award

Global Resource Depletion : Monthly Review :: Monthly Review
http://monthlyreview.org/2013/01/01/global-resource-depletion

The general problem of rapid resource depletion that occurs in the poor countries of the world is frequently a result of foreign exploitation and not because of a country’s growing population. The exploitation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s natural resources by shady means—“opaque deals to acquire prime mining assets”—organized through shell companies by British and Israeli capital is an example of what can happen.

Signalé par Ramy Zuraik :
http://landandpeople.blogspot.fr/2013/01/opaque.html

Sex taboos: a brief and incomplete tour « Mind Hacks
http://mindhacks.com/2012/11/18/sex-taboos-a-brief-and-incomplete-tour

Cultures around the world have restrictions or prohibitions on when sex is allowed which turn out to be quite amazing in their diversity.

This is a fascinating section on the wide world of sex taboos from the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender:

In some societies, sexual activity is prohibited during certain times of day. The Cuna of Panama approve of sexual relations only at night in accordance with the laws of God. The Semang of Malaysia believe that sex during the day will cause thunderstorms and deadly lightening, leading to drowning of not only the offending couple but also of other innocent people. And the West African Bambara believe that a couple who engage in sex during the day will have an albino child.

Sometimes, sex is prohibited in certain places. The Mende of West Africa forbid sexual intercourse in the bush, while the Semang condemn sex with camp boundaries for fear that the supernatural will become angry. Among the Bambara, engaging in sexual relations out of doors will lead to the failure of crops.

...

Of course, while these may seem exotic, our own social practices regarding sex probably seem equally as unusual to outsiders.

Imagine Jivaro anthropologists, watching Nicki Minaj videos, slapping themselves, shouting “you won’t believe what the people of North America have to do to have sex!”

Broken BRICs

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/135439
November/December 2012
Why the Rest Stopped Rising
Ruchir Sharma

RUCHIR SHARMA is head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and the author of Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles.

Over the past several years, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the so-called rise of the rest, which saw the economies of many developing countries swiftly converging with those of their more developed peers. The primary engines behind this phenomenon were the four major emerging-market countries, known as the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The world was witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime shift, the argument went, in which the major players in the developing world were catching up to or even surpassing their counterparts in the developed world.

These forecasts typically took the developing world’s high growth rates from the middle of the last decade and extended them straight into the future, juxtaposing them against predicted sluggish growth in the United States and other advanced industrial countries. Such exercises supposedly proved that, for example, China was on the verge of overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy-a point that Americans clearly took to heart, as over 50 percent of them, according to a Gallup poll conducted this year, said they think that China is already the world’s “leading” economy, even though the U.S. economy is still more than twice as large (and with a per capita income seven times as high).

Your Smartphone’s Dirty, Radioactive Secret | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/11/rare-earth-elements-iphone-malaysia?page=1

Workers then boil off the liquid and separate out the rare earths from rock and radioactive elements. This is where things get dangerous: Companies must take precautions so that workers aren’t exposed to radiation. If the tailings ponds where the radioactive elements are permanently stored are improperly lined, they can leach into the groundwater. If they are not covered properly, the slurry could dry and escape as dust. And this radioactive waste must be stored for an incomprehensibly long time—the half-life of thorium is about 14 billion years, and uranium’s is up to 4.5 billion years. Reminder: Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old.

Not coincidentally, the refining tends to happen in areas where weak environmental rules mean that companies can process the elements on the cheap. Take the Baotou region of Inner Mongolia, where most of China’s rare-earth mines are clustered, and where waste has leached into waterways and irrigation canals, according to several independent investigations. Communities around one former mine in Mongolia blame at least 66 cancer deaths on leaked radioactive waste, and local people complain that their hair and teeth have fallen out.

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https://www.motherjones.com/files/earths_iphone_630.gif

#terres_rares #technologie #radioactivité #santé #cancer #travail

End Child Detention

endchilddetention.org | http://endchilddetention.org

“Child detention is a problem, not a solution!”

Thousands of children are detained every day, simply because they were forced to leave their home countries and do not have visas. This campaign is asking governments to stop detaining children and their families. Support the global campaign to end this damaging practice.

#migrations #asile #enfance #détention

Australie : l’asile off-shore redevient d’actualité

via Jean-Pierre Allaux du Gisti que je relaye ici bien volontiers

Consulter les liens suivants pour les précisions :

UN agencies concerned about Australia refugee plan
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/un-agencies-concerned-about-australia-refugee-plan

Australia must meet its regional responsibilities for refugees
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/n/media/12 20814_ExpertPanel.pdf

L’Australie se résigne à rouvrir des camps pour ses immigrés clandestins
http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/international/artic cle/2012/08/16/australie-reouverture-des-camps-pour-les-immig gres-clandestins_1746513_3210.html

Nauru told prepare for first 150 detainees
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/nauru-told-prepare-for-first-150-detainees/story-fn59niix-12 226452128765

Manus Island detention camp derelict and overgrown
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/manus-island-detention-camp-derelict-and-overgro own/story-fn9hm1gu-1226452698128

Boatpeople rush to avoid Nauru and PNG
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/boatpeople-rush-to-avoid-nauru-and-png/story-fn n9hm1gu-1226452574989

MIGRATION : Reaction to Australian policy reforms
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96104/MIGRATION-Reaction-to-Australian-policy-reforms

re-opening detention camps for migrants in Nauru and Papua New Guinea
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2012-08-14/australia-to-open-immigration-camp-on-nauru

#migrations #asile #australie #déterritorialisation #camps-enfermement

Malaysian toddler dies in ’exorcism’ : police
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26876/malaysia-toddler-dies-in-exorcism

The toddler, identified only as Choy, died after being pinned down by her parents, relatives and the family maid with their bodies during a ritual ostensibly to chase away evil spirits in the family.

#religion

WashingtonPoint
#Syria opposition, rebels urge mass defections - Yahoo! News Malaysia http://my.news.yahoo.com/more-civilians-die-syria-russia-pushes-talks-044505748.htm

LeShaque
Protest in Malaysia in support of the Syrian Revolution: #Syria want Freedom | http://youtu.be/LeiJ9s1TGSg

Les contrées magnifiques: Pussy riots for ever
http://quadruppani.blogspot.com/2012/03/pussy-riots-for-ever.html

Article du blog féministe du groupe punk russe Pussy Riot.
8 mars, 2h 18.
Notre réponse à la répression revancharde — Journée internationale de solidarité des Femmes.
Il y a déjà longtemps que notre groupe déclenche la colère et l’ire du pouvoir, surtout pour son interprétation de la chanson Poutine a pissé dans son froc. Les chefs d’accusation présents font partie d’une campagne de calomnie, manifestement orchestrée pour des raisons politiques, qui, comme tout le monde a déjà pu le constater, n’a absolument aucun rapport avec la religion. « Les sentiments religieux des croyants », ne sont ici qu’une couverture formelle. À présent le pouvoir ne cache même plus ses projets machiavéliques, introduisant un nouveau chef d’accusation « Appel à l’extrémisme » on désigne ici clairement la chanson Poutine a pissé dans son froc, qui commence par les paroles : « Révolte en Russie… ».

Will Malaysians Get #Cancer for Your #iPhone or Prius? | Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/rare-earths-lynas-bukit-merah-malaysia

For the last few decades, China controlled the world’s market for rare earths, producing about 97 percent of the global supply. But in late 2010, China cut its exports by 35 percent to keep the valuable metals for its own manufacturers. The prices of rare earths shot up, and almost immediately mining outfits in other countries began cropping up.
One of the biggest to come on the scene is Lynas, an Australian company. Although the company will mine its materials in Australia, it hopes to build its refinery in Malaysia.

#terres_rares

The Southern Sudan pie
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19544

The successful South Sudan secession referendum in January 2011 and eventual independence celebration cooled the frayed nerves of many who had adopted a wait-and-see attitude over South Sudan.

However it is instructive to note that since 2005 USA, China, India, Norway, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Turkey, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa and their respective private sectors have been in the forefront seeking to secure business concessions with the new nation. To make this easier and faster all these nations have embassies and consulates in both Juba and Khartoum. Southern Sudan’s massive oil boom, tourism concessions, logging, lucrative mining and infrastructure tenders, medical supplies, education, financial services, agriculture, defense contracts and commodities supplies are a glee to many triggering what is now politically referred to as “land grab”.

#Sud-Soudan #business

Science hits GM crops (while China stops sowing) | Social Watch
http://www.socialwatch.org/node/13810

Far from putting an end to the hunger in the world and from improving farmer’s quality of life, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are raising food insecurity and health hazards and failing to increase the yields of crops, according to new scientific studies.

A month later, a report launched by 20 South-east Asian, African and Latin American civil society organizations proved that GMOs have caused an increase in the use of chemicals that contaminate the ground, and the rapid spread of infertile transgenic “superweeds” to lands where they were not seed.

Navdanya’s research in India has shown that contrary to [US firm] Monsanto’s claim of Bt cotton yield of 1500 kg per acre, the reality is that the yield is an average of 400-500 kg per acre,” wrote renowned scholar and activist Vandana Shiva, who led the report among with her colleagues Debbie Barker and Caroline Lockhart.

Another study, published on Sept. 28 by the Washington-based Food and Water Watch and titled “Genetically Engineered Food: An Overview”, conclude that GMO’s proliferation into vast lands have caused a slew of environmental and health crises, and actually increased poverty by forcing millions of farmers to “buy” patented seeds at exorbitant prices, reported IPS news agency.

A third report, published this month by the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), warned against the authorisation to conduct the first ever field trials in South Africa involving GM bananas not only because of the biosafety risks “to human and animal health, the environment and to society”, but also because of “the lack of public interest or commercial justification”.

ACB thinks that transgenic disease resistant bananas cannot overcome the problems of land tenure to competition from more ecologically suitable production areas, such as those in Mozambique, a shift in the industry that will mean the loss of 24 000 on farm jobs in South Africa.

#OGM #Monsanto #agriculture

Création d’extensions personnalisées dans le respect des normes de
base de l’internet. Open Root est un produit de la société
Savoir-Faire.

►http://www.open-root.eu

Je note les points suivants :

– aucune indication sur comment utiliser Open Root. Toutes les autres racines « alternatives » indiquent sur leur site comment se servir de leur racine, au moins en donnant les adresses des serveurs de noms et parfois en indiquant des fichiers de configuration tout prêts. Ici, rien, ce qui semble indiquer que le projet est vide.

– « Il est permis de penser que des versions ultérieures de navigateurs prendront acte de l’usage des racines ouvertes, en plaçant un menu de racines sur l’écran. » Il semble incroyable qu’en 2011, il existe encore des gens assez ignorants pour croire que l’Internet se limite aux navigateurs Web. Comment je configure mon vlc ou mon postfix avec leur système ?

– le formulaire de contact reprend le concept occidentalo-centriste de Prénom+Nom et ne permet pas d’autres systèmes de nommage, un paradoxe pour une organisation qui prétend avoir une vision réellement internationale ►http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

J’aurais bien fait ces remarques directement aux organisateurs mais le formulaire de contact ne permet que d’indiquer son adresse, pas son message...

PR agency used by tobacco firm hired by asbestos group
http://www.montrealgazette.com/agency%20used%20tobacco%20firm%20hired%20asbestos%20group/5480322/story.html

#amiante #tabac #cancer #propagande

Un excellent article (de Richard Ishida, un des meilleurs experts en internationalisation du logiciel) sur la réalisation de formulaires Web qui demandent son nom à l’utilisateur. Comment les faire sans imposer au monde entier d’écrire son nom selon les mêmes règles ?

►http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

[Une nouvelle illustration de la débilité de la politique « Real Names » de Google+.]

Personal names around the world
►http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

How do people’s names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

H5N1 en version mutante ? #it_has_begun

UN warns of mutant strain of bird flu virus - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia-pacific/2011/08/2011829165436251177.html

Food agency says new strain of H5N1 avian flu is spreading in Asia and may breach defences of existing vaccines.

farmlandgrab.org | Asian agri fund eyes Peruvian palm oil as Malaysia exhausts supply of land
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19098

Asian Agri Capital, a Singapore private-equity firm that focuses on early-stage plantations, is seeking to raise $100 million to invest in palm oil and other tropical commodities in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

#agrobusiness