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
ALERT | Israel To Displace 1000 Palestinians Next Wednesday | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/alert-israel-to-displace-1000-palestinians-next-wednesd
ALERT | Israel To Displace 1000 Palestinians Next Wednesday
December 31, 2012 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments
“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’
Law resources below this article
Monday December 31, 2012 10:05 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies
Head of the Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the occupied West Bank, Aref Daraghma, stated that the Israeli army intends to displace around 10000 Palestinian Bedouins in the area in order to conduct military training.
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Image By PNN
Daraghma said that the Israeli army handed written military orders to the residents stating that they should leave as the soldiers will be using live ammunition in military drills in the area, the Palestine News Network (PNN) reported.
He added that the grazing area, inhabited by the shepherds, includes Wadi Al-Maleh, Ein Al-Hilwa, Al-Faw Valley, Al-Meeta, Al-Borj, and other villages.
The army informed the residents that they have until the morning of this coming Wednesday before the army conducts its trainings in the northern plains.
Israel performed similar military drills in the areas last summer forcing dozens of families to leave their homes seeking shelter in other areas until all drills were concluded.
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and repeatedly removed from the area since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967. Israel also demolished dozens of entire villages inhabited by Bedouins and shepherds.
LAW
“States may not deport or transfer parts of their own civilian population into a territory they occupy.”
Summary
State practice establishes this rule as a norm of customary international law applicable in international armed conflicts.
International armed conflicts
The prohibition on deporting or transferring parts of a State’s own civilian population into the territory it occupies is set forth in the Fourth Geneva Convention.[1]
It is a grave breach of Additional Protocol I.[2]
Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, “the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts.[3]
Many military manuals prohibit the deportation or transfer by a party to the conflict of parts of its civilian population into the territory it occupies.[4]
This rule is included in the legislation of numerous States.[5]
Official statements and reported practice also support the prohibition on transferring one’s own civilian population into occupied territory.[6]
Attempts to alter the demographic composition of an occupied territory have been condemned by the UN Security Council.[7]
In 1992, it called for the cessation of attempts to change the ethnic composition of the population, anywhere in the former Yugoslavia.[8]
Similarly, the UN General Assembly and UN Commission on Human Rights have condemned settlement practices.[9]
According to the final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer, including the Implantation of Settlers and Settlements, “the implantation of settlers” is unlawful and engages State responsibility and the criminal responsibility of individuals.[10]
In 1981, the 24th International Conference of the Red Cross reaffirmed that “settlements in occupied territory are incompatible with article 27 and 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention”.[11]
In the Case of the Major War Criminals in 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg found two of the accused guilty of attempting the “Germanization” of occupied territories.[12]
References
[1] Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49, sixth paragraph (cited in Vol. II, Ch. 38, § 334).
[2] Additional Protocol I, Article 85(4)(a) (adopted by consensus) (ibid., § 335).
[3] ICC Statute, Article 8(2)(b)(viii) (ibid., § 336).
[4] See, e.g., the military manuals of Argentina (ibid., §§ 346–347), Australia (ibid., § 348), Canada (ibid., § 349), Croatia (ibid., § 350), Hungary (ibid., § 351), Italy (ibid., § 352), Netherlands (ibid., § 353), New Zealand (ibid., § 354), Spain (ibid., § 355), Sweden (ibid., § 357), Switzerland (ibid., § 357), United Kingdom (ibid., § 358) and United States (ibid., § 359).
[5] See, e.g., the legislation of Armenia (ibid., § 361), Australia (ibid., §§ 362–363), Azerbaijan (ibid., §§ 364–365), Bangladesh (ibid., § 366), Belarus (ibid., § 367), Belgium (ibid., § 368), Bosnia and Herzegovina (ibid., § 369), Canada (ibid., §§ 371–372), Congo (ibid., § 373), Cook Islands (ibid., § 374), Croatia (ibid., § 375), Cyprus (ibid., § 376), Czech Republic (ibid., § 377), Germany (ibid., § 379), Georgia (ibid., § 380), Ireland (ibid., § 381), Mali (ibid., § 384), Republic of Moldova (ibid., § 385), Netherlands (ibid., § 386), New Zealand (ibid., §§ 387–388), Niger (ibid., § 390), Norway (ibid., § 391), Slovakia (ibid., § 392), Slovenia (ibid., § 393), Spain (ibid., § 394), Tajikistan (ibid., § 395), United Kingdom (ibid., §§ 397–398), Yugoslavia (ibid., § 399) and Zimbabwe (ibid., § 400); see also the draft legislation of Argentina (ibid., § 360), Burundi (ibid., § 370), Jordan (ibid., § 382), Lebanon (ibid., § 383) and Trinidad and Tobago (ibid., § 396).
[6] See, e.g., the statements of Kuwait (ibid., § 405) and United States (ibid., §§ 406–407) and the reported practice of Egypt (ibid., § 402) and France (ibid., § 403).
[7] See, e.g., UN Security Council, Res. 446 , 452 and 476 (ibid., § 408), Res. 465 (ibid., § 409) and Res. 677 (ibid., § 410).
[8] UN Security Council, Res. 752 (ibid., § 411).
[9] See, e.g., UN General Assembly, Res. 36/147 C, 37/88 C, 38/79 D, 39/95 D and 40/161 D (ibid., § 412) and Res. 54/78 (ibid., § 405); UN Commission on Human Rights, Res. 2001/7 (ibid., § 413).
[10] UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, Final report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer, including the Implantation of Settlers and Settlements (ibid., § 415).
[11] 24th International Conference of the Red Cross, Res. III (ibid., § 419).
[12] International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Case of the Major War Criminals, Judgement (ibid., § 421).
How Civil Disobedience Improves Crowdsourced Disaster Response (and Vice Versa) | iRevolution
http://irevolution.net/2012/08/22/civil-resistance-improve-disaster-response
The most recent example of the link between disobedience and disaster response is Occupy #Sandy. As the New York Times and ABC News have noted, ”the movement’s connections and ‘altruistic drive’ has led to them being some-what more effective in the northwestern Hurricane Sandy relief movement than ‘larger, more established charity groups.’”
#catastrophes #crowdsourcing #révolte #mobile #iran et plein d’autres exemples (attention à ne pas en tirer de conclusions hâtives)
Qu’est-ce que ça serait si ça n’était pas « un succès » et des « progrès étonnamment bons » ? Libya : Despite everything, it’s still a success
http://www.economist.com/node/21562944
Despite everything, it’s still a success
Libya is making surprisingly good progress, despite the murder of America’s ambassador and the government’s failure to control the country’s myriad militias
Someone is adding every single tree in Gulu to OpenStreetMap: http://j.mp/O98uQP - German levels of detail obsession are reaching Africa... Even tree trunk sizes are recorded. Here is the Mapnik render: http://j.mp/PeiUvP - looks great too !
Ah, une nouvelle incarnation de Captain Israël :
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-06-20/news/gay-inc-free-speech-rights
But when gay-porn king Michael Lucas got wind of the group’s plans, he vowed to keep them (or anyone else) from criticizing Israel within the Center’s walls. Lucas is primarily known for his puffy lips, his nine-inch custom dildo in the shape of his manhood, and his shameless self-promotion. Increasingly, he’s also known for his Zionism and open hatred of Muslims. And so, Lucas went about getting the Center to eject Siege Busters.
#pink_washing (mais pas seulement)
Urgent call for Red Cross access to Homs as dozens injured in shelling face death without treatment
via Avaaz
Activists in the Homs districts of Khaldiya, Joret al Shayah and Hamidiyeh have made an urgent plea for medical assistance after at least 50 people were injured in a brutal shelling attack by regime forces today.
ICRC and Red Crescent teams are blocked from the area and the injured are being treated by a handful of paramedics and medical students with limited training. One man with a deep shrapnel wound was forced to have his leg amputated by a medical student using only rudimentary equipment and few drugs.
Prominent citizen journalist Waleed Fares, who has been reporting regime violence to the world’s media for the past 14 months, was hit by shrapnel in the stomach. Waleed told Avaaz: “I was injured in the stomach from shrapnel during the shelling. People are dying all around me in the field hospital. There are no doctors here, only paramedics and medical students. More than 50 injured people are in need of surgery. 12 cases are absolutely critical. Most of the injured are likely to die without medical aid. They can only give them first aid, there are no surgeons.
“The shelling is still continuing. We called the UN observers, they said they had no medical personnel and did not have the capacity to enter. I’m pleading for help, we need a surgeon, even if it’s just one. The regime needs to allow access to the Red Cross or the Red Crescent now.”
Alice Jay, Campaign Director at Avaaz, said: “Right now, Homs is being shelled to pieces by Assad’s forces. In the past few hours dozens of people have been injured, and many will die as they have no access to medical care. Red Cross teams must be allowed immediate access. UN observers nearby need to urgently go to this area and see for themselves the bloodbath being unleashed by the regime on innocent civilians.”
“Homs is no more”
Regime shelling is ongoing in the neighbourhoods of Khaldiya, Jouret al Shayah, Hamidiya and Old Homs. Citizen journalist Fadi said: “All the shelling and the bombardment of Homs, the noise and the sound of the shelling is something unbelievable. Everything is destroyed. Homs is no more.”
Internet and phone lines have been cut off in these neighbourhoods, which remain in the control of the FSA. Speaking by satellite phone, activist Khaled Tellawi from Old Homs told Avaaz: “This morning more military reinforcements arrived to the city – thousands of soldiers – and they have imposed a complete siege on us.” He pleaded for the ICRC and Red Crescent to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the neighbourhoods and provide medical staff and surgeons to treat the injured.
Red Crescent ‘blocked’
Activists reported that the regime had blocked local Red Crescent teams from accessing these neighbourhoods to distribute aid. Activist Abu Bilal al Homsi told Avaaz: “We are completely besieged. We have no water, no sufficient medical supplies to treat the wounded, nor safe hospitals to transfer these wounded to after regime forces took over the hospitals of al Kendi and al Riaya al Tibbiya – which were the only two hospitals providing medical care for those injured in the attacks. Snipers have scattered across the hospitals’ rooftops.”
Media centre hit
Regime forces shelled the media centre in Hamidiya, injuring 6 citizen journalists, some of whom with serious injuries. Activists told Avaaz that the field hospitals in the area are only capable of providing basic first aid.
Activists reported an acute shortage in everything from food and water to ammunition and medical supplies, saying the shortage of bullets could leave the FSA unable to hold off advancing regime forces for much longer. Tellawi told Avaaz: “There are few families remaining in the neighbourhoods of Hamidiya and Joret al Shayah. The regime forces offered to vacate them using buses, but the families refused for fear of being used as human shields to break into the neighbourhoods. The families are now in a panic state, fearing that the regime might commit massacres against them if the regime troops storm these neighbourhoods.”
UN monitors prevented from accessing area
Activist Abu Bilal al Homsi told Avaaz that they have called the UN monitors ‘repeatedly’, urging them to visit the area, but the monitors told them ’they cannot go into these neighbourhoods or even come close to them because the regime had prevented them from going there and the pace of bombing has also intensified.’
Shelling on the neighbourhood of Khaldiya:http://www.ayyam.org/english/?p=481
BBCBreaking
Appalling scenes in #Syria: Gutted buildings, no signs of life in #Qubair, says @pdanahar at site of alleged massacre http://t.co/iTfgGsUE
Trois exemples d’emploi de la #géolocalisation qui changent du matraquage FourSquare et de ses usages marketing :
– le super projet #Geohashing, toujours en cours chez les fans d’#XKCD : http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing - rencontres fortuites de Geeks entre exploration et exploit.
– une étude sur l’apport d’une cartographie des signaux des téléphones mobiles pour faciliter la prise en charge des crises humanitaires telles qu’un tremblement de Terre : http://irevolution.net/2012/02/26/mobile-technologies-crisis-mapping-disaster-response (Patrick Meier)
– et une visualisation des territoires et migrations pendant l’Antiquité, via l’interface GapVis (à partir de Google Maps) et des textes de référence de l’époque (Flavius Josèphe, Thucydide...) : http://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/blogues/les-mutations-tranquilles/344034/la-geolocalisation-au-service-des-textes-ancients
+ pour les fans de #cartographie, #géographie et visualisations, l’incroyable collection de cartes historiques de David Rumsey : http://www.davidrumsey.com
Bloguer ou ne pas bloguer » Alias moi-même
http://blogoliviersc.org/?p=5126
Heureusement que l’on a des outils comme celui-ci lorsque des url ne fonctionnent plus au bout d’un moment , pour censure ? ...
Syria : Red Cross convoy enters Homs | euronews, world news
http://www.euronews.net/2012/03/02/syria-red-cross-convoy-enters-homs
A Red Cross convoy has entered Homs in Syria, bringing life-saving aid for the shattered district of Baba Amro.
RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/iraq-death-secret-detention-camp
Later it became clear that this was not correct: they were being transported to an altogether more secret location. The truth about the mission raises some searching questions about the legality of some of the British forces’ operations carried out in close co-operation with US allies.
Tiens, intéressant. Sur sa page LinkedIn, Angie Nassar livre des chiffres des visites du « Blog » de Now Lebanon.
http://lb.linkedin.com/pub/angie-nassar/42/8a7/ba6
Expérience de Angie Nassar
Journalist and Blogger
NOW Lebanon
Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry
July 2010 – Present (1 year 7 months) Beirut, Lebanon
NOW Lebanon - the sixth most visited news website in Lebanon.
– Responsible for developing all news, feature and creative content for the NOW Lebanon Blog.
– Research and post five to seven blog entries per day along with occasional news articles for the website
– Increased blog traffic from 1,781 hits per week (July 2010) to 9,306 hits per week (September 2011)
– Increased blog’s absolute unique visitors per week from 863 (July 2010) to 6,161 (September 2011)
Le blog de Now-Truc, c’est ça :
http://www.nowlebanon.com/blogs.aspx
Ça fait moins de 1000 visites par jour. Pas de quoi se taper les fesses par terre.
Haiti After the Quake (CounterPunch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/03/haiti-after-the-quake
Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded. The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake (about $155 per Haitian) and over $2 billion in recovery aid (about $173 per Haitian) over the last two years. Yet Haiti looks like the earthquake happened two months ago, not two years. Over half a million people remain homeless in hundreds of informal camps, most of the tons of debris from destroyed buildings still lays where it fell, and cholera, a preventable disease, was introduced into the country and is now an epidemic killing thousands and sickening hundreds of thousands more. (...) Source: CounterPunch
La misère au #Canada (CBC News)
►http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/29/attawapiskat-tuesday.html
Turmel told CBC News she was “upset” by the “unacceptable” conditions she observed, with as many as 100 people living in a trailer and others living in shacks without heat or running water.
réaction aux commentaires racistes reçus à la suite de cette émission
http://apihtawikosisan.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/dealing-with-comments-about-attawapiskat
Deep rooted problems won’t disappear
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-attawapiskat-deep-rooted-problems-wont-disappear-in-an-instant/article2266791
Marketing the Aboriginal housing crisis - The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/marketing-the-aboriginal-housing-crisis/article2266788
When Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency in late October, Mr. Angus knew he could go much further by leveraging a pair of tools that weren’t around in 2005: Facebook and YouTube.
South Pacific islands face water crisis after six months of low rainfall | Environment | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/04/south-pacific-water-crisis-rainfall
Crops are wilting, schools have shut their toilets and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe shortage of fresh water in a swath of the south Pacific.
The island groups of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared emergencies, relying on bottled water and seeking more desalination machines. Parts of Samoa are starting to ration water.
Supplies are precariously low after a severe lack of rain in a region where underground reserves have been fouled by salt water from rising seas that scientists have linked to climate change.
Un article sur la pénurie d’#eau douce dans les îles du Pacifiques touchées par la sécheresse et l’élévation du niveau de la mer
#climat
Tuvalu faces drinking water emergency - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia-pacific/2011/10/201110364857797250.html
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency due to a severe shortage of freshwater,
with officials saying that some parts of the country may only have a two-day supply.
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x171fc_iron-maiden-the-rime-of-the-ancient_music
Food shortages have stunted 178m children under-five, report says | Global development | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/sep/22/world-disaster-report-food-shortages?intcmp=122
Every year about 3 million children die before they reach the age of five as a result of undernutrition, with the majority of deaths the result of long-term chronic hunger rather than famines and sudden food crises, according to a report published on Thursday.
The World Disasters Report, published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, says 178 million children under the age of five have stunted growth as a result of a lack of food.
The annual report, which this year focuses on hunger and malnutrition, says the rise in basic food prices, the impact of changing climate and an increasing population have pushed the number of people who are undernourished to at least 1 billion. Of these, around 60% are women. When food is scarce it is often women who receive less or give their share to their children.
Remembering my wedding month in Lebanon (with no wedding festivities of course...): #Israeli_bombing of #Lebanon from July 12th till August 10th 2006.
Complete violation of the Geneva Convention
— 90% of victims are civilians
— Bombing of media installations: radars of more than 3 TV stations, radio and mobile station
— Bombing of emergency installations: Red Cross ambulances, government’ emergency centers and UN peacekeeping forces
— Bombing of mosques, churches and husayniyas
— Use of cluster and internationally banned bombs on heavily populated civilian areas
$2.4 billion of civilian infrastructure losses
— More than 94 roads and 70 bridges bombed
— All three Lebanese airports and four ports bombed
— $173 million losses of water and telecommunication damages
— $1.5 billion losses of residences and commercial enterprises destroyed
— More than 22 fuel and gas station bombed
— Complete destruction of tens of industrial factories worth at least $190 million
The Arabic version published in a recent survey by Al-Akhbar newspaper:
http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/7949
http://twitpic.com/54m0qz/full
Le très officiel CDC américain a une nouvelle page intéressante (via Maître Eolas) :
CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101 : Zombie Apocalypse - Blog
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may include floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes. If you are unsure contact your local Red Cross chapter for more information.
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/images/zombieblog_photo4.jpg
#zombies !
Anthrax Redux : Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy ? | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_anthrax_fbi/all/1
plein de détails de laboratoire à propos de l’enquête sur les attaques au bacille du charbon en octobre 2001.
[Bruce] Ivins measured the concentration of the sample. It came out to a trillion spores per gram—three orders of magnitude more dense than anything the USAMRIID researchers had ever grown. “These are not ‘garage’ spores,” Ivins later wrote in an analysis. “Professional manufacturing techniques were used.”
http://stag.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/19-04/ff_anthrax_fbi3b_f.jpg
#bioterrorisme #etats-unis #recherche #bio-armement
Quakebook
http://quakebook.blogspot.com
un #livre crowdsourcé sur le tremblement de terre #japonais.
The 2:46 Quakebook project started with a tweet and is on the verge of something great, a way that we can help all those hit by the the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and its aftermath.
Led by OurManInAbiko, a call went out across Twitter for contributors to create a book to raise funds for Red Cross #Japan.
print et #ebook
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4cgEV8qjIes/TY_8ztesr1I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/nXdCEDZfZLY/s1600/qaukebookcover.jpg
In Haiti, former Hernando resident helps provide model aid - St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/article1126839.ece
#sante #haiti