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Divided Immigrant Families Reach Beyond Barriers - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/divided-immigrant-families-reunite-at-arizona-fence.html?nl=todaysheadlines

NOGALES, Ariz. — Three young immigrants had a jubilant and painful reunion here on Tuesday with parents who had been deported from the United States, sharing hugs through the steel bars of the border fence that separates this American town from its Mexican twin.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/06/12/us/DREAM-REFER/DREAM-REFER-articleLarge.jpg

#migrations #asile #états-unis #mexique

“This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.

That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists”.

Do you remember who said this ?

Hint - it was in August 2007. Yes, he may have changed his mind since then...

#Obama #NSA #Prism #surveillance #elections #lol

http://www.cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-woodrow-wilson-center/p13974

Egyptian government infected by mad Israeli wall disease-
http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/downloads/other_reports/the-arab-organisation-of-human-rights-in-the-uk-egypt-wall.pdf

The UK-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) confirms that the Egyptian government have started to build a steel wall along the Philadelphia route and that approximately 5.4 kilometres have already been completed under Franco-American-Israeli supervision. This extraordinary wall has no justification whatsoever and will deepen the humanitarian crisis affecting more than 80% of the population of the Gaza Strip who live below the poverty line.

Etats-Unis Mexique : On the Border - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/on-the-border/100510

Signalé par Elisabeth Vallet, professeur à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, que je remercie grandement. Des images tout à fait exceptionnelles de frontières et de murs.

On the Border

May 6, 2013 |

The border between the United States and Mexico stretches 3,169 kilometers (1,969 miles), crossing deserts, rivers, towns, and cities from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. Every year, an estimated 350 million people legally cross the border, with another 500,000 entering into the United States illegally. No single barrier stretches across the entire border, instead, it is lined with a patchwork of steel and concrete fences, infrared cameras, sensors, drones, and nearly 20,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents. As immigrants from Mexico and other Central and South American countries continue to try to find their way into the U.S., Congress is now considering an immigration reform bill called the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. The bill proposes solutions to current border enforcement problems and paths to citizenship for the estimated 11 million existing illegal immigrants in the U.S. Gathered here are images of the US-Mexico border from the past few years.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/border050613/s_b01_85427302.jpg

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/border050613/s_b20_97788455.jpg

#frontières #murs #etats-unis #mexique

Last Hope in Ruins - Bangladesh’s Race to Save Shaheena - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/world/asia/struggle-in-bangladesh-to-save-collapse-survivor.html?nl=todaysheadlines&em

SAVAR, Bangladesh — The rescuers discovered her by a faint, distant sound. They had spent four days crawling through the wreckage of Rana Plaza, tons of concrete and steel pressing down, saving hundreds of people. Now only the dead remained. Except for a lone woman, a garment worker.

She was trapped behind a fallen pillar, in a suffocating crevice maybe two feet high. First, the rescuers could see only her fingertips pressing through a tiny opening. After hours spent chipping a small hole, they could see her face. Her name was Shaheena. She was 32. She begged to see her young son.

#bangladesh #sweatshops

War reporting - a veteran’s guide: Shot at, seized by a murderous mob and chased by kidnappers...
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/war-reporting--a-veterans-guide-shot-at-seized-by-a-murderous-mob-and

But there are no set rules. Wearing a flak jacket is often good advice, though I remember a colleague who was killed because he was wearing one. The bullet penetrated his neck and then became trapped inside him by the steel jacket, revolving round and round until it had destroyed his torso. Besides, I don’t like turning up on a street corner among dozens of unprotected civilians, the flak jacket sending a vicious message to every man and woman there: this man’s life, this Westerner’s life is more precious, more valuable than your miserable lives. So yes, I often prefer to wear my ordinary clothes, no flak jacket, no helmet, just merge in with the rest. Faster on my feet, too. Running with a cumbersome jacket on is not easy – though the foreign editors who insist that you wear it rarely discover this.

Surviving legacy code
http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/04/02/surviving-legacy-code

In the software industry, legacy code is a phrase often used as a negative by engineers and pundits alike to describe the anchor around our collective necks that prevents software from moving forward in innovative ways.  Perhaps the correlation between legacy and stagnation is not so obvious—consider …

http://i0.wp.com/learningbyshipping.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/delorean-back-to-the-future.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000

Source: Learning by Shipping

The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/19/iraq-m19.html

The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
By David North
19 March 2013

This article was originally published on March 21, 2003, two days after the onset of the US assault on Iraq.

1. The unprovoked and illegal invasion of Iraq by the United States is an event that will live in infamy. The political criminals in Washington who have launched this war, and the wretched scoundrels in the mass media who are reveling in the bloodbath, have covered this country in shame. Hundreds of millions of people in every part of the world are repulsed by the spectacle of a brutal and unrestrained military power pulverizing a small and defenseless country. The invasion of Iraq is an imperialist war in the classic sense of the term: a vile act of aggression that has been undertaken on behalf of the interests of the most reactionary and predatory sections of the financial and corporate oligarchy in the United States. Its overt and immediate purpose is the establishment of control over Iraq’s vast oil resources and reduction of that long-oppressed country to an American colonial protectorate.

#irak #états-unis

« The Spirit of ’45 » : Ken Loach, bâtisseur d’humanité
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/philippe-marliere/010313/spirit-45-ken-loach-batisseur-dhumanite

Le documentaire débute pendant les années de guerre. Il entremêle des extraits de films d’actualité et des entretiens contemporains qui sont filmés en noir et blanc pour se fondre dans les documents les plus anciens. La problématique principale du documentaire est posée d’emblée : comment un pays économiquement exsangue, dont l’industrie était à 75% consacrée à l’armement de guerre et dont l’infrastructure était à reconstruire, a-t-il pu mettre sur pied un réseau de services publics gratuits (National Health Service, éducation) ou à des prix modérés (logement, transports, eau, électricité) ? Comment une nation ruinée a-t-elle pu donner du travail, des logements de qualité au peuple ? Comment a-t-elle pu offrir une protection sociale aux chômeurs et aux malades ?

La réponse à l’écran est aussi claire que l’interrogation : parce qu’en 1945 et dans les années qui ont suivi la guerre, une population forte d’un esprit de corps hérité de quatre années de résistance a souhaité construire une société assurant le bien-être de tous. Le peuple a œuvré à un destin commun qui ne pouvait se réaliser que par le biais d’un effort collectif ; un mouvement de solidarité nationale dans lequel chaque individu se sentait responsable de son voisin.

L’Etat qui avait dirigé avec vigueur et efficacité l’économie pendant la guerre a été plébiscité. En 1945, les Britanniques ont voulu un Etat interventionniste sur le plan économique. Les soldats revenus du front et leurs épouses qui avaient fait fonctionner les usines en leur absence ont revendiqué le socialisme. Ils ont rejeté Winston Churchill qui leur promettait la prospérité en s’inspirant des idées ultralibérales de Friedrich von Hayek (The Road to Serfdom, La Route de la servitude). Les idées contenues dans l’ouvrage-clé de la pensée antiétatique n’ont pas pesé lourd face aux courant collectiviste du moment.

#cinéma #documentaire #ken_Loach #Royaume-Uni #histoire

Activists construct new protest village in south Hebron | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=563453

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Early Saturday, activists set up steel-framed tents near the Palestinian village of al-Tuwani, calling the encampment “Canaan”.

Younis Arar, coordinator of the popular committees in the southern West Bank, told Ma’an that soldiers assaulted the 30 activists who had gathered in the area.

“We began building the tents and were surprised when a large force of the Israeli army began attacking us and destroying tents and hitting us ... We will try and build Canaan village again,” Arar said.

A military spokeswoman said soldiers evacuated illegal structures, and responded with riot dispersal means when around 100 Palestinians “rioted” in the area.

Remote Sensing as Remote Control ? A Political Geography of EU Border Surveillance | AntipodeFoundation.org
#borders#technology#biometrics

http://antipodefoundation.org/2013/01/29/intervention-remote-sensing-as-remote-control-a-political-geogra

Wastelands of Beijing | Danwei
http://www.danwei.com/wastelands-of-beijing

This article is a tour through some of the more spectacular wastelands of contemporary Beijing, places that will surely be developed into something entirely different at some point in the future – when the interest groups that control the land and construction finally make a deal they can live with.

http://www.danwei.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/27430036.jpg
#ghost_places #chine

#Qatar_Leaks: The Business of Foreign Affairs | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/qatar-leaks-business-foreign-affairs

The first one is the minutes of a meeting between Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi that took place in September 2012, in which they discussed the situation in Syria.

In it, the Qatari prime minister talks of contacting Russia to convince it of abandoning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, offering guarantees from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) that Moscow’s naval base can remain in Syria.

The document also reveals that what Qatar offered Egypt in terms of financial assistance after the revolution is little more than loans with interest in return for giving the Qataris incentives such as investing in Egypt’s steel industry.

The second document is the minutes of a meeting between Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. The meeting took place in mid-March 2011 during the early stages of battle in Libya and the discussion revolves mainly about the situation on the ground there.

As for the third document, it also contains minutes of a meeting, this time between the Qatari Crown Prince Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and foreign minister Davutoğlu.

In it, the foreign minister stresses the importance of not allowing Assad to complete his term in office, which ends in 2014, because he will use it to defeat the opposition.

The euro crisis no one is talking about: France is in free fall -
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/09/france-economy-crisis

The main reason for France’s cost disadvantage is the burden of labor, a factor that typically accounts for around 70% of all corporate expenses worldwide. In France, the problem comprises a both high wage and social costs, and rigid laws, including a 35-hour work week that allows French employees the lowest number of working hours in the developed world. An astounding 86% of all wage earners enjoy “contrats a durée indéterminées,” permanent contracts that make layoffs extremely expensive and time-consuming.

#it_has_begun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jlh8rHR5f7Y

Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually | Wired Design
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/ff-why-products-fail/all

The Failure Curve
Product failure happens in what’s called a Weibull distribution and often looks roughly like a bell curve. Ensuring reliability requires knowing where this curve begins and where it peaks. The chart below shows the logarithmic failure curve of steel bars placed in a fatigue machine. Most fail after 1 million cycles, but if you were to test only a few bars, those failures might occur after 10 million cycles. This might cause you to think the steel is much stronger than it actually is.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/10/ff_risk3_f.jpg

#panne #design #industrie

Beasties’ ’Paul’s Boutique’ reworked with original source samples

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-beasties-pauls-boutique-reworked-with-original-source-samples-2012

Looking for a killer weekend listening session, free of charge? Quick, race to the bottom of this post now and start listening to a masterful new reworking of the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique,” crafted from the original source material into an hour-long mixtape. Created by crate diggers/producers/DJs Cheeba, Moneyshot and Food over three years, the production is one of the coolest mixes I’ve heard all year.

http://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-31-8-1

#Beastie_Boys #Paul's_Boutique

Pourquoi la reconstruction au Liban, notamment au Sud, n’intègre-t-elle pas d’abris pour permettre aux civils de se protéger des bombardements ? L’enquête du Akhbar ne livre, à mon avis, aucune raison convaincante.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/south-lebanon-unable-seek-shelter

Six years on from the end of the July 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, most of the destruction has been cleared away and redevelopment has taken place, but the new structures do not include shelters that could protect civilians under renewed attacks. Al-Akhbar investigates why.

#Grèce #Crise #Mouvementsociaux #Résistance

Brutal police attack on steel strike in Greece

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/gree-j26.shtml

By Katerina Selin
26 July 2012

Last Friday police began a violent intervention to break up the picket line maintained by striking workers at the Halyvourgia Ellados steel plant. The offensive by police is directly related to the government’s plans to impose further austerity measures in the face of massive popular resistance. It stands as a warning to workers throughout Europe.

For the past nine months, workers at the steel mill in Aspropyrgos nears Athens have fought against layoffs and pay cuts. Though the strike has so far remained largely isolated, workers have courageously defended their right to a job and a decent income under conditions of huge pressure and threats from management, trade unions and the government.

London 2012: torchbearers picked by sponsors keep flame of commerce alive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/06/torchbearers-nominated-olympics-sponsors

Companies sponsoring the Games have been awarded hundreds of slots in the torch relay. Their nominations include directors, clients – and a steel billionaire

Répétez après moi : beauté du sport ...

#jo2012

This stove not only consumes half the wood than an open fire but also nearly eliminates the need for wood coal, burns with 90% less smoke and charges mobile phones & LED lights off the grid: http://biolitestove.com/BioLite_HomeStove.html - home and camp versions.

Bangladeshi workers risk lives in shipbreaking yards
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/05/bangladesh-workers-asia-shipbreaking

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/5/5/1336216660582/A-shipbreaker-with-a-weld-003.jpg

There’s no escape from the corporations that run India | Arundhati Roy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/19/corporations-india-arundhati-roy

We all watch Tata Sky, we surf the net with Tata Photon, we ride in Tata taxis, we stay in Tata hotels, sip our Tata tea in Tata bone china and stir it with teaspoons made of Tata steel. We buy Tata books in Tata bookshops. Hum Tata ka namak khatey hain. We’re under siege.

#multinationales #liberté_d'expression #Inde

Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203363504577187420287098692.html

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday, acknowledged the bomb’s shortcomings against some of Iran’s deepest bunkers. He said more development work would be done and that he expected the bomb to be ready to take on the deepest bunkers soon.

Et maintenant, essaie d’imaginer le ministre de la défense iranien tenant exactement les mêmes propos, expliquant que l’Iran a vraiment besoin de développer prochainement des bombes suffisamment puissantes pour pouvoir détruire les plus profonds bunkers installés aux États-Unis. J’aimerais bien voir la forme que prendrait l’article du Wall Street Journal.

Nouvelle une : retour sur les émeutes anglaises avec une « Lettre ouverte à ceux qui condamnent le pillage » signée Evan Calder Williams
https://www.lereveil.ch/no13-octobre-2011
« Tel que lorsque vous penchez vers la contrefactualité (comme beaucoup de ceux qui condamnent et qui se trouvent légèrement à gauche du centre le font) et dites, bon, mais, ce serait différent s’ils ne prenaient que de la nourriture, des couches, des médicaments, vous savez, les choses dont on a vraiment besoin pour s’en sortir, ce qui est en train de se dire est qu’ils ne devraient voler que des biens d’une qualité équivalente à leur niveau de vie. Les pauvres, qui n’ont pas un niveau de vie très élevé, devraient avoir des biens dont le standard n’est pas très élevé. Ils ne devraient pas prendre des cigarettes industrielles. Ils ne devraient pas prendre du champagne, ou du moins pas le bon et seulement pour les grandes occasions. Ils ne devraient pas prendre de grandes télévisions. Car ils ne méritent pas ces choses. Et ils devraient le savoir. »
#UKriots
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html

Labor Movement Rolls Into Wall Street Occupation (AlterNet)
http://www.alternet.org/story/152591/labor_movement_rolls_into_wall_street_occupation?page=entire

Occupy Wall Street seems to be following the trajectory of grassroots organizing: a spark of protest led by younger activists, followed by the support of labor organizations. (...) Source: AlterNet