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Hard Brexit Means Hard Times on the Toilet – Foreign Policy
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/05/hard-brexit-means-hard-times-on-the-toilet

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The Brexit secretary has warned of food shortages. The defense secretary has warned of soldiers on the streets. The Bank of England has warned of a financial crisis. The Taoiseach of Ireland has warned of violence at the border. And the queen, it has been reported, will be evacuated. With Britain inching ever closer to the edge of a no-deal Brexit, however, these dire warnings are increasingly falling short. In a January column in the Telegraph, Boris Johnson observed of his fellow Brexiteers: “[T]he grimmer the warnings, and the more systematic the efforts to make their flesh creep, the greater has been their indifference and their resolve.”

But new rumblings from Britain’s beleaguered paper importers may finally make clear what’s at stake. In conversations with industry experts, Foreign Policy has learned, a no-deal Brexit may leave Britain without an adequate supply of toilet paper.

#papier_toilette #papier_hygiénique

#Calais police using #drones to arrest migrants before they cross Channel

Police in Calais are using drones to locate migrants preparing to cross the Channel by boat, so that they can be arrested before they reach the water.

In an escalation of security measures, the remotely controlled aerial vehicles have been seen flying low above the main Calais Migrant camp and sweeping across nearby beaches.

Drones can cover much more ground in much less time than other vehicles, and are able to relay a live video camera feed.

Ingrid Parrot, from the French Naval headquarters for the Channel and North Sea, said: “What we are trying to do with the police is exchange information and stop the migrants reaching the sea.

“Our aim is to stop people on the beach reaching the water.

“In the last three weeks, we have increased the number of ships and helicopters in the area to dissuade the migrants from attempting to go out to sea.

“The police, I understand have also increased their numbers on the ground to stop people getting into boats.”

Ms Parrot would not be drawn into giving specific figures because she did not want the smugglers to be alerted to the scale of the operation.

“There are many people involved,” she added.

The move has come after a recent spike in attempted crossings of the English Channel by predominantly Iranian migrants.

On Tuesday, two men were picked up in St Margret’s bay, Kent at 3pm, having crossed the world’s busiest shipping lane in nothing more than a small dinghy in broad daylight.

They presented themselves as Iranian, and were taken into custody by border force agents.

On Wednesday, four men who said they were Iranian were picked up by the side of the road in Lincolnshire, having seemingly overshot the Kent coastline.

Lincolnshire Police said: “The four men aged 30, 29, and two aged 31, were arrested by officers in the Roman Bank area of Mablethorpe at around 7.30pm on December 4. “It was reported these men had arrived by boat.”

In France, there was activity too.

Eight men in a pleasure craft were caught by police while trying to set sail across the channel from a beach just north of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

A police spokesperson said that four of the migrants were Iranian and four were Iraqi. None were injured or taken to hospital, and all were taken into custody.

In the strangest incident of the evening, a man radioed for help while struggling in a seven-metre pleasure cruiser in shallow waters near Equihen-Plage, just south of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

He abandoned ship when it became clear that no boat was able to tug him away.

It emerged that the craft had been bought the day before by a man who claimed to be British, and suspicions have been raised that he may have been trying to smuggle migrants across the channel.

One coastguard insider said: “You don’t buy a boat like that at this time of year and take it out on the water at night. I think it’s quite clear what he was trying to do, and that was go round the corner and try and pick up a group of migrants.”

The Telegraph visited the beach on Wednesday evening and saw the boat beached on the sand at low tide, with its propeller jammed into the sand and a life jacket left in the cabin.

The man who abandoned ship had apparently not been back.

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#frontières #militarisation_des_frontières #fermeture_des_frontières #asile #migrations #réfugiés #UK #France #Angleterre #mer #contrôles_frontaliers

Egyptian Chronicles: Corbyn and Rabaa Salute misinformation : The sign’s true story

▻https://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2018/08/corbyn-and-rabaa-salute-misinformation.html#more

The Telegraph says in the report that Corbyn is under fire because he was doing the Salute of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group linked to terrorism in Egypt and the Middle East.
The news article is currently viral on main news websites and newspapers that can’t stomach the Labour leader like The Sun and The Metro.
That photo is making rounds on alt-rights and Islamophobia fanatics on social media.

Now there is a little misinformation here that needs to be corrected.

Jeremy Corbyn was doing Rabaa the sign which is not an MB salute.
The four-finger sign of Rabaa was made in 2014 by a Turkish graphic designer to commemorate the victims of Pro-Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s sit-in’s forcible dispersal in Rabaa and Nahda squares in Egypt on 13 August 2013.

According to the different human rights organizations, whether Egyptian or international, at least 600 human beings were killed on that day.
The numbers of the victims are still disputed but at least 600 victims have been officially confirmed by the semi-official National Council For Human Rights.
The Rabaa sign is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood because its members began to do it in their trials, rallies and protests in Egypt and around the world to commemorate the victims. The group indeed adopted it but it is not their salute

That sign is banned in Egypt and some have paid a heavy price because of doing it publicly even accidentally.
I would have ignored this matter but unfortunately, it came at the same time as the anniversary of that sad event that we have been suffering from its consequences up until now. I do not need to post a disclaimar that I am not a Muslim Brotherhood supporter or member.

Antarctic Research Ship to Search for Wreck of Shackleton’s ’Endurance’ | Smart News | Smithsonian
▻https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antarctic-research-ship-will-search-wreck-shackletons-endurance-1809

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The polar exploration ship Endurance has not been seen since 1915, when it was crushed by sea ice in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea during a failed Trans-Antarctic crossing by Ernest #Shackleton. But in 2019, Jonathan Amos at the BBC reports that a team of scientists will attempt to locate the wreck when they visit the area to study the #Larsen_C Ice Shelf, the mega-iceberg that broke off the continent last July.

The S.A. Agulhas II should reach the area in January or February as part of the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019. But the search for the remains of Endurance will be contingent on if the crew has the time and opportunity to send an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the right location.
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The final position of the ship when it sunk November 21, 1915 is believed to be about 100 to 150 nautical miles from Larsen C, making the ship an irresistible target. If it is found, it’s likely to be in excellent condition, reports Henry Bodkin at The Telegraph. That’s because the Antarctic Circumpolar Current may have kept wood-boring sea worms from damaging the wreck, which, if discovered, will be declared a protected historic monument.

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EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google
▻https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/03/25/eu-competition-chief-keeps-threat-breaking-google-table

The European Union harbours “grave suspicions” about the dominance of Google and has not ruled out breaking it up, the bloc’s competition commissioner has warned. Margrethe Vestager told The Telegraph that the threat to split the internet giant up into smaller companies must be kept open. In June last year, the Danish commissioner hit Google with a record £2.1 billion fine – which the firm is appealing against – for giving its own comparison shopping service an illegal advantage in search (...)

#Google #GoogleSearch #algorithme #domination

Digisexuality Likely To Rise As Sex Robots Become More Popular | Alternet
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With the rise of technology, so too comes the rise of a new category of intimacy. Digisexuals, or people who primarily use technology for sexual satisfaction, could soon become more prolific in society, according to experts.

“It is safe to say the era of immersive virtual sex has arrived,” said Neil McArthur, the director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba and the author of a new scientific study on digisexuality.

McArthur and a team from the university published a new report in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy detailing the need to be prepared for a rise in digisexuality.

“As these technologies advance, their adoption will grow and many people will come to identify themselves as ‘digisexuals’ – people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology, McArthur said, according to the Telegraph. “Many people will find that their experiences with this technology become integral to their sexual identity and some will prefer them to direct sexual interactions with humans.”

Ah l’anglais... quant à ceux qui garderons le terme américain en français, ils n’ont pas fini de nous faire rigoler. Et vlan pour ceux qui prône le retour du terme “digital” qui serait “autre chose que le numérique” ;-)

#Sexualité #Robots #Digisexuels #Propagande_éhontée

WikiLeaks founder Julian #Assange in war of words with nation granting him asylum | The Telegraph

Shortly after taking office, Moreno dismissed Assange as a “hacker” and said hacking is an activity “I personally reject.” Moreno affirmed that Assange would be allowed to remain in the Ecuadorean embassy but warned him not to interfere in Ecuador’s relations with other countries.

Media Lens - Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo
▻http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2017/852-mass-media-siege-comparing-coverage-of-mosul-and-aleppo.html

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When Russian and Syrian forces were bombarding ’rebel’-held East Aleppo last year, newspapers and television screens were full of anguished reporting about the plight of civilians killed, injured, trapped, traumatised or desperately fleeing. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, both Official Enemies, were denounced and demonised, in accordance with the usual propaganda script. One piece in the Evening Standard described Assad as a ’monster’ and a Boris Johnson column in the Telegraph referred to both Putin and Assad as ’the Devil’.

As the respected veteran reporter Patrick Cockburn put it:

’The partisan reporting of the siege of East Aleppo presented it as a battle between good and evil: The Lord of the Rings, with Assad and Putin as Saruman and Sauron.’

This, he said, was ’the nadir of Western media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Syria.’ Media reporting focused laser-like on ’Last calls (or messages or tweets) from Aleppo’. There were heart-breaking accounts of families, children, elderly people, all caught up in dreadful conditions that could be pinned on the ’brutal’ Assad and his ’regime’; endless photographs depicting grief and suffering that tore at one’s psyche.

By contrast, there was little of this evident in media coverage as the Iraqi city of Mosul, with a population of around one million, was being pulverised by the US-led ’coalition’ from 2015; particularly since the massive assault launched last October to ’liberate’ the city from ISIS, with ’victory’ declared a few days ago. Most pointedly, western media coverage has not, of course, demonised the US for inflicting mass death and suffering.

As Cockburn pointed out, there were ’many similarities between the sieges of Mosul and East Aleppo, but they were reported very differently’.

The British establishment is putting our lives at risk: Our state’s key ally is a major public threat – Mark Curtis
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The British elite is perfectly aware of the insidious role that Saudi Arabia plays in fomenting terrorism. In October 2014, General Jonathan Shaw, a former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, told the Telegraph that Saudi Arabia and Qatar were primarily responsible for the rise of the extremist Islam that inspires IS terrorists.

Christopher Steele, Former MI6 Agent Who Reportedly Assembled Trump Dossier, Appears To Be In Hiding : The Two-Way : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/12/509493584/ex-spy-who-reportedly-assembled-trump-dossier-appears-to-be-in-hiding

Meanwhile, a man named Christopher Steele was living quietly outside London. He was “eating his favorite tapas and pottering around Victoria, home to his newly refurbished office,” The Guardian reports. He ran a private intelligence company, but aside from a spare LinkedIn page had almost no presence on the Internet; searching for his name would bring up hits on a porn actor, a musician and a TV doctor instead.

This week, everything changed.
[…]
Steele’s name was everywhere, and the man himself nowhere to be found.

On Wednesday, he asked a neighbor to look after his cat, The Telegraph reports. He said he’d be gone for a “few days.”
[…]
As you might expect with a story about a spook, all the published reporting on Steele relies heavily on anonymous sources. NPR has not independently confirmed any of these details.

Outrage as war crimes prosecutors say Tony #Blair will not be investigated over Chilcot’s Iraq war report – but British soldiers could be
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will examine the Chilcot report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have already ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes, The Telegraph can disclose.

The decision has outraged families of troops killed in Iraq who blame Mr Blair for engineering the war.

Sir John Chilcot’s report will finally be published on Wednesday and is expected to strongly criticise Mr Blair’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

But in an official statement to the Telegraph, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said its prosecutors would comb through the 2.3 million word report for evidence of war crimes committed by British troops but that decision to go to war remained outside its remit.

Fatou Bensouda ou pas, c’est pareil,
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#CPI #parodie #justice #crimes #complicité

En Arabie saoudite, une domestique indienne se fait couper la main en tentant de fuir
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Kashturi Munirathinam, une Indienne qui travaillait en tant que domestique en Arabie saoudite, s’est fait couper la main par son employeur alors qu’elle tentait de s’enfuir de la maison où elle subissait de mauvais traitements. L’affaire a provoqué un début de crise diplomatique entre les deux pays, d’autant que les incidents de ce type sont loin d’être inhabituels en Arabie saoudite.

L’Inde, par le biais de sa ministre des affaires étrangères Sushma Swaraj, s’en est formellement plaint auprès des autorités saoudiennes, rapporte The Telegraph. Sur Twitter, la ministre a dénoncé un acte « innaceptable ».

▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11921039/India-protests-to-Saudi-after-maids-hand-chopped-off.html

Foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup told AFP that Munirathinam was still recuperating in hospital and efforts were being made to bring her home.

“We are in touch with the woman, hospital and the local police authorities. She will get all possible legal and other help from the embassy,” Swarup said.

Hundreds of thousands of Indian migrants work in households in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries but complaints about their treatment by their employers often make headlines back home.

A video showing a male Indian worker being beaten by his Saudi employer went viral in September, sparking a widespread backlash on social media.

There was also widespread anger last month when the first secretary at the Saudi embassy left India under diplomatic immunity after being accused of holding captive and raping two Nepalese maids in his home.

#arabie_saoudite #violences #sexisme #discrimination #féodalisme #travailleuses_domestiques

Fleeing Syria for Europe: Safaa’s fatal journey
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Eight-year-old Safaa and her family fled war-torn Syria three years ago. Now, after a doomed attempt to get to Europe from Egypt, she is dead. But why are so many desperate to make the same journey? Source: The Telegraph

Live du « The Telegraph » sur les bombardements russes en Syrie,
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11903702/Russias-Vladimir-Putin-launches-strikes-in-Syria-on-Isil-to-US-anger-li

Are the non-Isil groups being bombed terrorists?

The groups they are bombing a spectrum of opposition groups from an alliance called Jaish al-Fatah - Army of Conquest - to brigades of “moderate” rebels backed and even, according to one account, trained by the US.
Jaish al-Fatah made up of hardline groups that include Jabhat al-Nusra, which is aligned to #al-Qaeda, so they are formally designated by the West and the United Nations as terrorists.

Good ! Hit ALL jihadi groups ! Create a coordination center !
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“So, who else could Russian jets be targeting? Ruth Sherlock writes:

Russia may have targeted Jaysh al-Fatah as they are the rebel group that poses the greatest threat to Latakia, the regime’s heartland and location of the Russian controlled port of Tartous.

Some background on who this group are: Jaysh al-Fateh - the Army of Conquest - is a broad alliance of hardline Islamist groups, which includes both Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham.

In March this group captured Idlib, making it the second provincial capital to fall to the opposition since the start of the war.

Since then they have been effective in fighting the regime in Idlib and it looks like they may be able to push on government strongholds in central Syria and Latakia.

One interesting note - the Russians appear to have been watching this group for a long time: A year ago much of the Ahrar al-Sham leadership was wiped out by an explosion that took place where all the commanders had gathered.” Telegraph

#Book: The Dark Net - Inside the Digital Underworld - Jamie Bartlett (2014)

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Nominated for the Debut Political Book of the Year, the Transmission Prize and the Orwell Prize.

Jamie Bartlett is a journalist, blogger, incl. for The Telegraph, and director of the Centre for the Analytics of Social media (CASM).
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▻http://www.jamiebartlett.org

In this book Jamie Bartlett explains why he thinks the dark net is becoming mainstream. He shows the shift towards a consumer centric attitude (customer service), where sellers build and care about reputation, customer reviews & grading. Prices go down, quality goes up. In order to appeal some even go as far as advertising “fair trade” organic cocaïne, straight from the Guatemalan farmer instead of the drug lords.

The dark net is going mainstream. #Aphex_Twin announced his last album directly on the dark net. Even #Facebook has a dark net .onion entry in order to be accessible via TOR.

Bartlett predicts that social media going to expand its foothold in the dark net.

▻http://www.amazon.fr/Dark-Net-Jamie-Bartlett/dp/0434023175

Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net.

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don’t know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes—and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.

Appearance on #TED: "How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream"
▻https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_bartlett_how_the_mysterious_dark_net_is_going_mainstream?language=en

Talk at Google:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzXEa9kpnE

Book reviews:

In French:

▻http://www.ladn.eu/actualites/the-darknet,article,24787.html

Ce livre est un voyage auprès des âmes sombres du net, des sous-cultures créatives, et des plus destructrices. Au nom de l’innovation, de la liberté, de l’anonymat, ou encore de la perversité et de la haine, les sans-visage mènent une vie parallèle dans un monde souvent discuté, jamais vraiment exploré.

In English:

- ▻http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-dark-netinside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlett-book-revi

– ▻https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820.900-meeting-the-human-faces-of-the-internets-dark-places

– ▻http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9308562/the-dark-net-by-jamie-bartlett-review

– ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-tour-of-the-webs-other-dark-side/2015/06/25/19a5ee2e-0e11-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html

– ▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/10/15/book-review-the-dark-net-inside-the-digital-underworld-by-jamie-bartlet

List of articles written by Jamie Bartlett:

▻http://www.jamiebartlett.org/articles

–On Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) conviction & Doctor X. Salon, June 2015
– How we became obsessed with online privacy The Telegraph, June 2015
– On the Nathan Barley World of the Klout Obsessives The Telegraph, April 2015
– Bot army unleashed onto Twitter to troll online misogynists, The Telegraph, April 2015
– Islamic State and encryption: what to do? The Telegraph, March 2015
– Ethereum: ethical hackers plot to transform the internet The Spectator, March 2015
– The radical right are now the most vocal supporters of free speech. How? Little Atoms, February 2015
– Cover of Darkness: will online anonymity win out? Aeon, January 2015
– Why do we feel the need to tweet after tragedy? The Telegraph, January 2015
– Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower: The Many Faces of Anonymous The Guardian, November 2014
– Review of Russell Brand’s ’Revolution’ Harry’s Place, November 2014
– Most British Jihadis are dumb thrill-seekers The Telegraph August 2014
– How the dark net drugs markets work Sunday Times, August 2014
– Battle of ideas moves online New York Times, August 2014
– Wikiwashing and paid Wikipedia editors The Telegraph, July 2014
– My interview with Tommy Robinson The Telegraph, June 2014
– Mo Ansar and the rise of the bogus social media commentator The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Anarcho-primitivists The Telegraph, May 2014
– On the Transhumanists The Telegraph, April 2014
– Dying online: digital grieving and Twitter grief The Telegraph, April 2014
– Algorithms will soon rule the world The Telegraph, March 2014

#dark_net #darknet
#TOR
#drugs #pornography #terrorism #anonymity #privacy
#silk_road
#moral_ambiguity
#bitcoin #multi-signature_escrow

Varoufakis reveals cloak and dagger ’Plan B’ for Greece, awaits treason charges - Telegraph
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11764018/Varoufakis-reveals-cloak-and-dagger-Plan-B-for-Greece-awaits-treason-ch

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A secret cell at the Greek finance ministry hacked into the government computers and drew up elaborate plans for a system of parallel payments that could be switched from euros to the drachma at the “flick of a button” .

The revelations have caused a political storm in Greece and confirm just how close the country came to drastic measures before premier Alexis Tsipras gave in to demands from Europe’s creditor powers, acknowledging that his own cabinet would not support such a dangerous confrontation.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister, told a group of investors in London that a five-man team under his control had been working for months on a contingency plan to create euro liquidity if the European Central Bank cut off emergency funding to the Greek financial system, as it in fact did after talks broke down and Syriza called a referendum.

Et maintenant, Al Qaeda reproche aux Américains de ne pas bombarder ISIS…
Syria rebels blame US for failing to strike advancing Isil militants in Turkey border town
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11644674/Syria-rebels-blame-US-for-failing-to-strike-advancing-Isil-militants-in

“How did Isil manage to move with these military convoys and to attack without being attacked by coalition warplanes?” asked Ahmed Qura Ali, spokesman of the powerful opposition group Ahrar al Sham, in a rare interview with The Telegraph.

La rumeur du jour : Bashar al-Assad’s spy chief arrested over Syria coup plot
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11596142/Bashar-al-Assads-spy-chief-arrested-over-Syria-coup-plot.html

The Assad regime has placed its intelligence chief under house arrest after suspecting he was plotting a coup, in a sign that battlefield losses are setting off increasing paranoia in Damascus.

Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country’s National Security Bureau, and one of the few officials still to have access to President Bashar al-Assad, was accused of holding secret talks with countries backing rebel groups and exiled members of the Syrian regime.

Mr Assad is struggling to keep together the regime’s “inner circle” of the regime, who are increasingly turning on each other, sources inside the presidential palace have told The Telegraph.

Meet the woman mapping street harassment in Brazil

▻http://www.dailylife.com.au/health-and-fitness/dl-wellbeing/meet-the-woman-mapping-street-harassment-in-brazil-20150417-1mmz6t.htm

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Juliana de Faria’s first experience of street harassment was at age 11, walking home from a bakery in Sao Paolo.

“He said things to me that you could never print in your paper,” she told The Telegraph. “I was too young to fully understand what had happened, but I felt violated and I started to cry.”

At the time, an elderly woman nearby told her to take it as a compliment.

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#sexisme #harcèlement #brésil #cartographie #droits_humains #droit_des_femmes #discrimination

#horreur!
The shocking abuse refugees endure at the hands of people smugglers in Libya

Videos shown to the Telegraph reveal the violence of people smugglers herding migrants out of Libya and into Europe

▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/11428572/The-shocking-abuse-refugees-endure-at-the-hands-of-people-smugglers-in-
#Libye #asile #migration #réfugiés #vidéo #violence

Why I Have Resigned from the Telegraph
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/why-i-have-resigned-from-the-telegraph

The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is...

Questions over Tony Blair’s ’opaque’ deals in Africa - Telegraph
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/11262947/Questions-over-Tony-Blairs-opaque-deals-in-Africa.html

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according to emails obtained by The Telegraph.

The emails sent between one of Mr #Blair’s charities – the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) – and the US government suggest the former prime minister was eager to use his connections with sovereign wealth funds to secure deals in South Sudan, an impoverished African state with untapped oil reserves.

The latest disclosure threatens to embroil Mr Blair in fresh criticism over his charitable activities. One Conservative MP said it was time for Mr Blair to make a “full disclosure” of his various business dealings to ensure there was no conflict of interest between his philanthropic and moneymaking activities, while a leading human rights charity criticised Mr Blair for being “opaque”.

De la à ce que ces tours commencent à surveiller le Hezbollah il n’y a qu’un angle de deux degrés

The British watchtowers beating back jihadists - Telegraph
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Tango 10, built in 17 days, dominates the pass leading to the Christian village of Ras Baalbek. Less than two weeks after it was built, at a cost of only £150,000, Isil decided to attack.

Bodyguard of Syrian rebel who defected to Isil reveals secrets of the jihadist leadership
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But much of the fighting is led by warriors from a variety of backgrounds, including Saddam Hussein’s dismantled army. Some have an even shadier past.
Saddam Jamal was originally a drug dealer, Abu Abdullah, told The Telegraph. Then, when the war began, he made money from its financiers, eventually becoming a top commander in the Western-backed Free Syrian Army.
After his defection to Isil, Abu Abdullah said, he followed the example of other Isil “emirs” or leaders, who reigned over his territory with violence, extortion and hypocrisy.
“They kidnap and carry out assassinations,” he said. “They think nothing of bringing down a whole building with women and children inside, just to kill one person.
“A lot of their local and foreign fighters smoke but if they ever catch a civilian doing the same they lock him up, whip him and forced into community service. Why the double standards?”
The war in opposition-held Syria is characterised by shifting alliances, with rebels joining and defecting from Islamist and secular armed groups according to which has the better financial backing.
In this respect Isil was little different, Abu Abdullah said.

Vague de démissions chez les navigants de #Malaysia_Airlines.
J’imagine que ce qu’il en est pour les passagers…
Malaysia Airlines : ’spike in cabin crew resignations’ after MH17 and MH370 tragedies - Telegraph
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Almost 200 cabin crew resigned from Malaysia Airlines in the year to July, many as a result of the MH17 and MH370 tragedies, Malaysia Airlines has confirmed, as rumours swirl about the airline’s future.
"Following the MH17 incident, there was a spike in crew resignations but the number has now decreased to acceptable and routinely expected levels,” Malaysia Airlines said in a statement to the Telegraph.
“Many cited ’family pressure’ as the reason for their resignation due to the MH17 and MH370 tragedies,” the statement said.

D’ailleurs,

“The situation is now that they have to change in order to survive. They had cut fares after MH370, and they’ve put up commissions to Australian travel agents,” Mr William said.
The company has told Australian travel agents it will pay them a commission of 11 per cent for all tickets issued in Australia until September 15 - almost double the previous 6 per cent commission, Mr William said.
"It’s difficult to work out how much demand has been affected, but if staff can see passenger demand falling away there’s probably a significant element of uncertainty around whether their jobs are secure.”