Edifiant : l’Union Européenne constate que les banques chypriotes ne cherchent absolument pas à connaitre l’origine des dépôts qu’elles acceptent, mais versent quand même l’argent pour les garantir :
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Près des yeux, loin du coeur.
EU : Field testing : CLOSEYE project puts drones over the Mediterranean
Statewatch News Online :
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2013/may/02eu-drones-mediterranean.html
Via la liste Migreurop, Charls Heller et Sebastian Cobarrubias
Field testing: CLOSEYE project puts drones over the Mediterranean
10.05.2013A multi-million euro border control project was launched in Spain at the end of April that will see drones, satellites and aerostats deployed over the southern Mediterranean in an attempt to provide the EU “with an operational and technical framework that increases situational awareness and improves the reaction capability of authorities surveying the external borders of the EU.” [1]
The project - “collaborative evaluation of border surveillance technologies in maritime environment by pre-operational validation of innovative solutions”, shoehorned into the abbreviation CLOSEYE - has received over €9 million in funding from the security strand of the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7), an amount that makes up more than three-quarters of its €12.2 million total budget. [2]
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About Closeye
http://www.closeye.euCollaborative evaLuation Of border Surveillance Technologies in maritime Environment bY -pre-operational validation of innovativE solutions
CLOSEYE comes to life with the aim of providing the EU with an operational and technical framework that increases situational awareness and improves the reaction capability of authorities surveying the external borders of the EU.
As the first Pre-Operational Validation project in FP7 security theme, CLOSEYE will pursue the validation of innovative services applicable to the surveillance of the EU Maritime Borders in real operational environment following the Common Application of Surveillance Tools concept, established by EUROSUR.
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Adolescence denied
Hundreds, thousand, hidden in the abandoned industrial areas that surround the port of Patras; I stayed with them in the old disused train station in the centre of Corinth; I found them in the ‘urban holes’ that dot the landscape of an Athens wounded by the crisis. They are the kids I followed for this project, some of whom are very young. After desperate journeys, they arrive from the wars which have tormented their countries in recent years. But war, for them, was only the beginning of the tragedy. Those who come from the Middle East and Central Asia try to reach Europe, the land I am lucky enough to call home, through its eastern door, Greece. They then get stuck there, amidst increasingly harsh security checks and racism which tragically often degenerates into neo-Nazi violence. For many, there is the hope of being able to rebuild the sort of life which would be impossible in their country of origin. The young Afghans I met are mainly fleeing the forced militarization practiced by the Taliban in Afghanistan, subsequent to the war that affected the country in 2001. For many others who are fleeing a scorching North Africa in revolt, the hope is to have the rights they were denied by the radicalization of the violence in their country of origin, recognized. Persecution for religious and ethnic reasons, or due to political opinion, could allow them to obtain refugee status in European Union countries, but certainly not in Greece. There, the rules are so tight that more than 99.5% of requests for asylum are refused. For this reason, they are forced to hide, because having a Greek police record would mean the end of the dream of safe reception in Europe. I learned that this is set out by the Dublin Regulation, the EU law with responsibility for granting asylum. According to the regulation, the country where a person is first identified is the country that has the duty and right to decide whether to grant refugee status or not, irrespective of where the application for asylum is made. Attempts to harmonize regulations on asylum in Europe have been dramatically swept away by the economic crisis. The Mediterranean countries have been the most affected by the flows and at the same time, have the fewest economic resources to manage them. What’s more, the difficult social conditions in these countries are providing an outlet for the phenomena of cultural closure, xenophobia and violence, which represent, for those who arrive, an insurmountable obstacle to obtaining the enjoyment of even the most basic human rights.
http://c0875922.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/67375.story_x_large.jpg #photo #photographie #Grèce #migration #Patras #réfugiés #asile #Dublin #droits_humains #xénophobie
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Echoes of Lebanon in Syria-
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/echoes-lebanon-syria-8436By the early 1980s Lebanon had been suffering several years of combat among sectarian militias, reflecting disagreement over the fairness of old power-sharing agreements among the confessional communities. The biggest stirring of this already turbulent pot came in 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon. The principal Israeli targets—declared targets, at least—were fighters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization who had been in Lebanon ever since being kicked out of Jordan a decade earlier, after losing the Black September confrontation with King Hussein. A small multinational force of U.S., French, and Italian troops entered Lebanon in August 1982 and supervised the extraction of the PLO to Tunisia before itself withdrawing to ships in the Mediterranean.
Israeli objectives were not limited just to booting the PLO out of Lebanon, however, and Israeli forces remained enmeshed in the sectarian fighting, besieging Beirut. Menachem Begin had ideas about trying to maintain a client to the north in the form of the pro-Israeli Christian government of Bachir Gemayel, who became president about when the PLO was leaving. Three weeks later Gemayel was assassinated, triggering the most horrid blood-letting of the Lebanese war. At least several hundred—and by some outside estimates perhaps something closer to 2,000—Palestinian civilians were slaughtered in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The massacre was carried out by the Christian Phalangist militia, which was allied to and supplied by the Israelis. Israeli forces, whether wittingly or not, facilitated the massacre by maintaining a cordon around the area of the camps, and fired illuminating flares that enabled the Phalangists to continue their work by night.
The massacre stimulated the Reagan administration to organize a new multinational force that eventually included 1,800 U.S. marines as well as French and Italian troops. The force initially had some success in acting as a buffer between contending elements. But the intervention later became a textbook example of the near-inevitability of getting drawn into ever costlier commitments and endeavors in any situation as messy as Lebanon at that time. U.S. military engagement included not only the marines on the ground but also combat between carrier-based U.S. aircraft and Syrian forces (which had originally entered Lebanon as part of an Arab League peacekeeping force). At one point even the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey were brought into action.
Those striking back at the increasingly resented foreign forces used methods against which jet fighters and battleships are of little use. In April 1983 a truck bomb was detonated at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 persons. Six months later, another truck bomb was used against barracks housing U.S. troops (along with an identical and simultaneous attack against French troops). 241 U.S. servicemen were killed in that bombing—the deadliest terrorist attack against U.S. citizens until 9/11. Congressional pressure on the administration to withdraw from Lebanon increased. The last U.S. forces left in February 1984. The Lebanese civil war continued for several more years until sheer exhaustion, and a new political accord brokered by Saudi Arabia and Syria, brought it to an unsatisfying end.
Some parallels between that experience and the current situation regarding Syria are obvious. There is the overall complexity of the conflict and the presence of bad guys all around. There also is Israel taking advantage of a neighboring state’s civil war to pursue its own objectives, whether those are to smash a Palestinian force or to intercept long-established Hezbollah supply lines, regardless of how much its actions stoke and escalate the war. And if much of the discourse in Washington about Syria since the (presumed) Israeli attacks there over the past few days are any indication, there again is the pattern of Israeli actions increasing the chance of the United States getting sucked into the mess.
Let us hope that those eager to get into the mess will reflect more than the statesmen of 1982 did about how this all will end. Moreover, those who talk about damage to U.S. prestige or credibility also ought to think about that aspect of the experience in Lebanon. Withdrawing the U.S. troops in 1984—although it was the least bad thing the Reagan administration could have done at the time—was a U.S. defeat by Hezbollah. There is no way to sugar-coat that conclusion. It was just the sort of caving in to bad guys that we so often hear that we need to avoid. And it could have been avoided in Lebanon if the United States had not gotten involved in the mess in the first place, or at least if Israel had not—in its futile pursuit of absolute security for itself regardless of the insecurity it causes for everyone else—made the mess worse.
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Tales from Gaza: What is life really like in ’the world’s largest outdoor prison’? - Middle East - World - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tales-from-gaza-what-is-life-really-like-in-the-worlds-largest-outdooWith its sandy beaches and sumptuous seafood, it could be a holiday resort. But life in Gaza, post-Israeli sanctions and with 50 per cent unemployment, has never been more difficult. Alistair Dawber meets the people trying to survive on the Palestinian coast.
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Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/02/russ-a02.html
Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces
By Clara Weiss
2 April 2013President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials have repeatedly stressed that the upgrading of Russia’s military capacity is a top priority of Kremlin policy and that Russia is preparing for armed conflicts.
The Kremlin is currently carrying out a comprehensive modernization programme of the army and navy. The military rearmament coincides with increased attacks on the working class and fierce conflicts within the ruling elite.
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Controverse à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond à un énorme congrès de géographie aux Etats-Unis.
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/it55ije6xi4995d/jareddiamond.jpg La liste de géographie critique s’est enflammée à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond au grand congrès annuel des géographes américains (AAG 2013) qui se tient cette année à Los Angeles.
C’est Jamison Miller, du John Tyler Community College en Virginie (Etats-Unis) qui ouvre le bal :
While I am in the middle of designing the last section of my Intro to Cultural Geography course, I am jollily uploading Jim Blaut’s 1999 article devouring Diamond, and the slew of 2003 articles from the special edition of Antipode on the same lines. I’m still figuring out how to explain how he is welcomed at the AAG to my students.
Is anyone planning to oppose/heckle Diamond’s talk on what we can learn from freaking “traditional societies” at our AAG in LA?
John Paul Catunga, géographe à l’universté de de Totonto poursuit en racontant son expérience (et son dégoût) lorsqu’il a participé au AAG 2007 :
He also gave a keynote talk at the San Francisco AAG (2007) where he talked partly about Papua New Guinea coming into modernity with the arrival of an airport. I was then an MA student and was utterly shocked and livid. It was my first AAG and I was really not sure what avenues there were to voice my displeasure and concern.
It remains one of the ugliest moments of any AAG for me.
Why is he welcomed at the AAG? Probably in no small part because he is appointed to a department of geography and probably because he is well known and therefore “relevant”.
This reminds me of David Harvey’s 1974 piece “What kind of geography for what kind of public policy?” in which he argues that we need to examine what kind of relevance we want geography to play, mentioning of course that Pinochet was a geographer...
With all the commendable focus on geographies of racialization that the AAG has focused on recently, I sure hope we could be more reflexive: why we feature environmental determinist and racist scholarship in marquee events such as AAG keynotes?
Filippo Celata, de l’Université de Rome propose avec une grande sagesse :
...Wouldn’t it be an option to listen to Diamond’s talk and to “oppose” him with critical questions?
I attended to Krugman’s talk at the AAG in 2010 and even if I think his “geographical” theories are limited and dangerous, I have been happy we had the chance to tell him and to listen to his replies....
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Lunch with the FT : Jared Diamond
By David Pillinghttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/144fa854-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2P1DsRs8b
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Environmentalism and eurocentrism - J M Blaut
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/diamond.htmGuns, Germs, and Steel is influential in part because its Eurocentric arguments seem, to the general reader, to be so compellingly “scientific.” Diamond is a natural scientist (a bio-ecologist), and essentially all of the reasons he gives for the historical supremacy of Eurasia and, within Eurasia, of Europe, are taken from natural science. I suppose environmental determinism has always had this scientistic cachet. I dispute Diamond’s argument not because he tries to use scientific data and scientific reasoning to solve the problems of human history. That is laudable. But he claims to produce reliable, scientific answers to these problems when in fact he does not have such answers, and he resolutely ignores the findings of social science while advancing old and discredited theories of environmental determinism. That is bad science.
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A rural exodus as drought takes hold of Syria | Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/03/16/a_rural_exodus_as_drought_takes_hold_of_syria.htmlA rural exodus as drought takes hold of Syria
Un écho de plus sur une thèse qui revient régulièrement...
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Avant de penser que l’internet puisse être une institution signifiante de défense des libertés publiques, peut-être vaudrait-il mieux constater qu’il est fragile, en constatant que trois pauvres malheureux semblent pouvoir déconnecter peut-être involontairement 75.000.000 d’usagers
Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said on his Facebook page that the three men had been caught diving from an inflatable dinghy as they worked underwater to try and cut the cable at a point just north of the port city of Alexandria, AP reports. Alexandria is the main entry point for the multiple submarine cables that bring internet connectivity to Egypt.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/egypt_cables_cut_arrest
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The Ottoman Age of Exploration: Giancarlo Casale
Oxford University Press
Chaudement recommandé par @alaingresh
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/India/?ci=9780195377828
Recognition of Excellence Award, Cundill Prize in History
Honorable Mention, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Description
In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim” conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia.#cartographie #cartographie-ancienne #turquie #empire-ottoman
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Le Royaume-Uni envoie du cash aux forces basées à Chypre.
http://qz.com/64663/a-plane-loaded-with-e1-million-is-on-its-way-from-britain-to-cyprus
“The airlift of euros, worth £860,000 or $1.3 million, is intended to provide liquidity for members of the British armed forces, who, like everyone else in Cyprus, may not be able to access cash when banks there reopen on Thursday, March 21.”
Mais qu’y font-elles ? Protéger la mafia russe ?
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The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.’s massive new climate change report | Grist
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The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.’s massive new climate change report
By Philip Bump
Thinking about a Mediterranean vacation? Might want to go sooner rather than later.
http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/5d-projected-extremes-europe.png?w=470&h=243 The above map shows how the “tourism climate index” — a calculation of how amenable the climate in a location is to outdoor activity — will be affected by climate change during the summer in Europe. Blue areas will see climatic improvements; yellow, moderately worse climate; brown, significantly worse climate. So if you want to visit, say, Italy or Spain — book your flight.
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Un rapport israélien sur les impacts de la découverte de réserves gazières en Méditerranée.
The Geopolitical Impacts of the Discovery of Natural Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/b69fb5e1-b575-4ddf-a792-3aae0c3d189c# -
Mediterranean Diet Can Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
Pour éviter la crise cardiaque, adoptez le régime alimentaire méditerranéen (huile d’olive, etc...)
About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study has found.
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Karl reMarks: The Onion to Sue Lebanon for Making Its Headlines Look Reasonable
http://www.karlremarks.com/2013/02/the-onion-to-sue-lebanon-for-making-its.htmlIt emerged today that the American satirical magazine The Onion is to sue Lebanon for unfair competition practices and for making its headlines look totally reasonable. The Onion is demanding millions of dollars in compensation, claiming that the small Mediterranean country has ‘ruined the business of writing satirical headlines’. The magazine’s claim refers to a ‘sustained campaign of nonsensical but nevertheless real headlines’ over a number of years, during which Lebanon, ‘went out of its way to make The Onion’s headlines look ordinary by comparison.’
The straw that broke the camel’s back was Lebanon’s adoption of a new electoral law that requires members of each sect to vote for candidates from their sect only. A senior staff member at The Onion, Andy Mitchell, revealed the pressure that the magazine’s writers have been under in an interview earlier today. “How can we possibly satirize that? Anything we will come up with will look extremely normal. This is fucking insane.”
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The GCC in the Mediterranean in Light of the Arab Spring
Plusieurs études sur les pays du Golfe et les révolutions arabes
http://www.iai.it/pdf/mediterraneo/GMF-IAI/Mediterranean-paper_20.pdf
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The Geopolitical Impacts of the Discovery of Natural Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
►http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/b69fb5e1-b575-4ddf-a792-3aae0c3d189cLa découverte de gaz dans l’est de la Méditerranée risque de modifier la géopolitique de la région. Une intéressante étude.
“Israel is the Biblical land of milk and honey, and now it’s the modern-day land of milk, honey and natural gas. For in deep waters offshore Israel, in the virtually unexplored Levantine Basin, Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. has discovered a monster gas field.”
This was the opening line of Oil and Gas Investor Magazine’s cover story for November of 2009,[1] an article which outlines the oil and gas exploration being undertaken by US-based Noble Energy Inc. off the Palestinian coast, as well as some of the major offshore oil and gas discoveries made in 2009 and 2010.
In April of 2010, the US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated prospective resources in the Mediterranean’s Levant Basin at between 1.7 billion and 3.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. The survey refers to an offshore basin that covers the territorial waters off the Palestinian Coastal Plain, Lebanon, and Syria, and borders those of nearby Cyprus (Figure 1). The USGS further estimates the undiscovered natural gas resources in the same area to be between at least 122 to 227 trillion cubic feet (TCF*) of technically recoverable natural gas.
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Curieusement, ce rapport pas plus que celui que je signale n’anticipe une possible évolution des régimes des pays concernés vers des Etats de type rentier, avec de nouvelles coalitions socio-politiques structurés par des pactes de redistribution, avec les effets en termes de pertes de compétitivité et de faiblesse d’innovation qu’on connait en bcp d’endroits. Au contraire, ce rapport voit Israel devenir un nouveau cluster technologique autour des activités du gaz... Au Liban de nombreux analystes y voient au contraire un grand danger pour l’économie... voir par exemple
Atallah S., 2011, Lebanon’s gas fields, a gift or curse ?, < ►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2011/Sep-23/149460-lebanons-gas-fields-a-gift-or-curse.ashx#axzz1YmW8cEuJ >
2012, Lebanon can avoid the ‘resource curse’, The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon, 8 mars 2012, < http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2012/Mar-06/165646-lebanon-can-avoid-the-resource-curse.ashx >
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Israël-Palestine : vision partiale du conflit dans les manuels scolaires ([S]elon [une] étude financée par le département d’Etat américain et conduite par un professeur de l’Université de Yale (Etats-Unis) avec un universitaire israélien et un universitaire palestinien.)
http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_israel-palestine-vision-partiale-du-conflit-dans-les-manuels-scolaires?iLe ministère israélien de l’Education a dénoncé un rapport « partial, non professionnel et profondément subjectif », ajoutant que les résultats le confortaient dans sa décision de ne « pas coopérer avec des éléments désireux de diffamer le système éducatif israélien et l’Etat d’Israël ».
Et pour Yossi Kuperwasser, director general of the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israelis-unhappy-with-study-of-their-textbooks-and-palestinians/2013/02/03/f471e042-6e3d-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story_1.html
“To compare how each side presents the other is absurd, because we teach peace, and they teach hatred of Israel and perpetuating the conflict,” he said. “It’s a difference of night and day.”
Quant à un porte-parole du Département d’Etat, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israelis-unhappy-with-study-of-their-textbooks-and-palestinians/2013/02/03/f471e042-6e3d-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html
[He] called the findings “independent assessments” that were “not endorsed by the U.S. government,”...
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Yale professor blasts ’blindness’ of Israeli Education Minister over school textbook report
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/yale-professor-blasts-blindness-of-israeli-education-minister-over-school-t
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Naftali Bennett Interview: “There won’t be a Palestinian state within Israel” — FMEP
http://fmep.org/analysis/analysis/naftali-bennett-interview-201cthere-won2019t-be-a-palestinian-state-within-isr -
Tanning Bed Cancer Risk Double That Of Summer Sun
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255082.phpThe scientists examined 400 tanning beds in the UK and measured their levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. UV radiation was emitted at levels above British and EU guidelines in nine out of ten beds.
The average power of the tanning beds’ radiation was almost two times the suggested limit.
90% des 400 lits de bronzage examinés sont au dessus de la limite proposée dans les directives britanniques et européennes (apparemment la limite n’est pas impérative). La puissance moyenne est presque deux fois plus élevée que la limite recommandée.
Globalement, à durée d’exposition comparable, le risque de mélanome est deux fois plus élevé dans un lit de bronzage que sous le plein soleil méditerranéen.
Cependant,
Unfortunately, research has demonstrated that despite warnings, tanning bed usage is still on the rise.
L’utilisation de lits de bronzage progresse malgré les avertissements concernant ses dangers.
Petit rappel : le mélanome cutané est l’un cancer dont l’incidence augmente régulièrement…
http://i.imgur.com/oku4fXg.jpg
source : http://lesdonnees.e-cancer.fr/les-indicateurs/1-types-cancer/14-melanome-cutane/44-epidemiologie-melanome-cutane-france-metropolitaine-incidence-mortalite/103-evolution-incidence-taux-standardise-monde-melanome-cutane-s -
Iraq, Kurds, Turks and oil: A tortuous triangle | The Economist
Dec 22nd 2012 | ERBIL | from the print edition
The governments of Turkey, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan play a dangerous game
SNAKING their way from Kirkuk, a city 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, through Kurdistan and across Turkey’s eastern region of Anatolia to the Mediterranean are pipes that once carried 1.6m barrels a day (b/d) of Iraqi oil to the global market and yielded fat transit fees to Turkey along the way. The infrastructure underpinned the two countries’ mutual dependence. But nowadays the balance of power has shifted. A third party, the Iraqi Kurds, has changed it. It is unclear who will emerge on top. But Iraq’s central government in Baghdad is on the defensive.
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The Geopolitical Impacts of the Discovery of Natural Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
►http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/b69fb5e1-b575-4ddf-a792-3aae0c3d189c
“Israel is the Biblical land of milk and honey, and now it’s the modern-day land of milk, honey and natural gas. For in deep waters offshore Israel, in the virtually unexplored Levantine Basin, Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. has discovered a monster gas field.”
via @alaingresh
#méditerranée #énergie #gaz #israël
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Special issue on migration by Red Pepper:
Fortress Europe: The fight for migrants rights
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/editorial-solidarity-against-the-border
To really win migrant rights we need to organise a politics that goes beyond borders, writes James O’Nions
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Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis? | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/24/growing-food-in-the-desert-crisisthe work that Sundrop Farms, as they call themselves, are doing in South Australia, and just starting up in Qatar, is beyond the experimental stage. They appear to have pulled off the ultimate something-from-nothing agricultural feat – using the sun to desalinate seawater for irrigation and to heat and cool greenhouses as required, and thence cheaply grow high-quality, pesticide-free vegetables year-round in commercial quantities.
Seawater Greenhouse: A new approach to restorative agriculture | Global Water Forum
http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2012/05/28/seawater-greenhouse-a-new-approach-to-restorative-agricultureThere are now some 200,000 hectares of greenhouses around the Mediterranean, and over 1 million in China, where 30 years ago, there were almost none. This is because yields that are achieved in greenhouses can be 10 to 100 times greater than yields achieved outside. They also enable high value crops to be grown ‘out of season’.
The Seawater Greenhouse enables year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. In addition to not having to discharge concentrated brine, it also benefits from the fact that high salinity water has a powerful biocidal or sterilising effect on the air that passes through it. This reduces or eliminates airborne pests.
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The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.’s massive new climate change report | Grist
►http://grist.org/news/the-16-scariest-maps-from-the-e-u-s-massive-new-climate-change-report
By Philip BumpThinking about a Mediterranean vacation? Might want to go sooner rather than later.
The above map shows how the “tourism climate index” — a calculation of how amenable the climate in a location is to outdoor activity — will be affected by climate change during the summer in Europe. Blue areas will see climatic improvements; yellow, moderately worse climate; brown, significantly worse climate. So if you want to visit, say, Italy or Spain — book your flight.
