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US to be hit worse than almost any other country by climate change, report says | The Independent
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-effects-country-us-india-saudi-arabia-a

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The research is the first time that researchers have developed a reliable set of data that allows each country to know just how much economic damage will be done by carbon dioxide emissions. And the surprising results show that considerable damage could be done to some of the world’s greatest powers.

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And it also found that the damage being done worldwide by those emissions is significantly higher than in estimates used by authorities including the US government.

Le pays qui fera les frais du réchauffement climatique révélé par des chercheurs - Sputnik France
▻https://fr.sputniknews.com/sci_tech/201809241038222883-rechauffement-climatique-etude-differents-pays

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La première victime du réchauffement climatique sera les #États-Unis qui devront débourser 250 milliards de dollars par an pour parer aux conséquences, tandis que la Russie et les pays de l’Union européenne pourraient améliorer leur vie en cas de remontée des #températures moyennes.

#climat #business

Des tactiques d’#annihilation...

Fight against ISIS has shifted to “annihilation tactics,” Mattis says - CBS News
▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fight-against-isis-has-shifted-to-annihilation-tactics-mattis-says

... à l’annihilation des responsabilités

They’re Still Pulling Bodies Out of ISIS’ Capital
▻https://www.thedailybeast.com/theyre-still-pulling-bodies-out-of-isis-capital

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An investigation by Airwars.org shows that Coalition-inflicted casualties were vastly higher than acknowledged, and the Trump administration doesn’t want to know.

#Raqqa #civils #victimes_civiles #etats-unis #indignation_sélective

Meat eaters are destroying the planet, says report | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meat-eating-destroying-planet-report-warning-a7985071.html

Meat consumption is devastating some of the world’s most valuable and vulnerable regions, due to the vast amount of land needed to produce animal feed, a report has warned.

The growing popularity of a Western diet, which contains high levels of meat and dairy, means an area 1.5 times the size of the European Union would be saved if global consumption of animal products was reduced to meet nutritional requirements, according to the WWF.

The new report, Appetite for Destruction, launched at the Extinction and Livestock Conference, says the consumption of animal products is leading to a vast and increasing amount of land being used for crops.

#viande #élevage

Another 3 million refugees? Really?

Another illustration of how the numbers of the refugee/migration crisis may be inflated, misrepresented or manipulated was brought to my attention by Professor David Ingleby (see my article on Frontex for another example). Many media are reporting with definitive headlines that the EU is expecting ‘another 3 million refugees and migrants in 2016′ (emphasis added). A few examples below:

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In fact, the EC forecast they refer to is not for 2016, but for 2015-2017 (‘the forecast period’, in EC lingo) and the 3 million figure includes also those who have already entered the EU this year. The extract from European Economic Forecast explains:

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The point here is not the reliability of the EU forecast, which may well be wrong and even underestimating arrivals, but the reliability of media in reporting data especially in a climate of moral panic and insecurity.

►https://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/another-3-million-refugees-really

#invasion #afflux #préjugés #statistiques #asile #migrations #chiffres #réfugiés #presse #alarmisme #journalisme #médias
cc @reka

Refugee crisis: Inside the Dunkirk camp where 2,500 refugees live in conditions ’far worse’ than the Calais Jungle | Europe | News | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-inside-the-dunkirk-camp-where-2500-refugees-live-in-co

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This, though, is not the Calais Jungle of notoriety. This is not the refugee camp where medical aid workers worry about infections like scabies.

This is not the place from which, as reported by The Independent last month, the British aid volunteer Rob Lawrie tried, and failed, to smuggle out the four-year-old Afghan girl Bahar Ahmadi – after being so struck by her plight that he was willing to commit “a crime of compassion”. This place, they tell you, is far worse.

This is the camp at Grande-Synthe, a small town next to Dunkirk – used by just 800 refugees two and a half months ago, now home to 2,500, and growing by the day.

UK’s first plus-size fashion magazine “Slink” hits the shelves: ’Style doesn’t stop at size 8’ - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/uks-first-plussize-fashion-magazine-slink-hits-the-shelves--but-is-th

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A glossy magazine using plus-size models goes on sale worldwide today - at a time when the fashion industry seems to be embracing diversity.

SLiNK, the UK’s first plus-size fashion magazine distributed across 15 countries, is hoping to tap into a growing demand for publications that, in the words of editor Rivkie Baum, realise “beauty and style doesn’t stop at a size 8”.

“We believe that women are tired of seeing the same unobtainable image. Women today are much more savvy,” Baum says.

“As the plus-size retail sector continues to outgrow its straight size counterpart, the market is crying out for an inspirational plus-sized publication.”

("Plus-size" = femme normale)

via @fil

#presse_féminine #mode #poids

Gender-specific books demean all our children. So the Independent on Sunday will no longer review anything marketed to exclude either sex
►http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/genderspecific-books-demean-all-our-children-so-the-independent-on-su

Happily, as the literary editor of The Independent on Sunday, there is something that I can do about this. So I promise now that the newspaper and this website will not be reviewing any book which is explicitly aimed at just girls, or just boys. Nor will The Independent’s books section. And nor will the children’s books blog at Independent.co.uk. Any Girls’ Book of Boring Princesses that crosses my desk will go straight into the recycling pile along with every Great Big Book of Snot for Boys. If you are a publisher with enough faith in your new book that you think it will appeal to all children, we’ll be very happy to hear from you. But the next Harry Potter or Katniss Everdeen will not come in glittery pink covers. So we’d thank you not to send us such books at all.

#genre

La Syrian Electronic Army
▻http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-bbc

Tags : #syrie #cyberguerre