region:western europe

Votre scolarité est-elle inscrite dans vos gènes ? - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/515566/are-your-grades-written-in-your-genes

Une étude publiée par Science - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/05/29/science.1235488 - montre qu’un gène pourrait avoir des effets sur votre capacité à rester sur les bancs de l’école. Les chercheurs ont cherché des corrélations dans les données génétiques de 125 000 personnes et leur niveau d’étude. Trois variants d’ADN spécifiques (chacun étant associé à un gène différent) ont été mis en avant. Mais chacun ne pouvait expliquer que 0,02 % de la différence entre le nombre d’années où une personne (...)

#genome #intelligence

Big Earthquakes Create Global-Scale GPS Errors
http://www.livescience.com/34651-gps-errors-from-earthquakes.html

The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites and ground stations that provide location information anywhere on Earth. Except for spots in Australia, western Europe and the eastern tip of Canada, every GPS site on the ground underwent small but important shifts since 2000 because of big earthquakes, according to a study published May 6 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

#it_has_begun

UK Peace Index Video « Vision of Humanity »

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/ukpi-video

UK Peace Index Video

The UKPI video showcases the main findings of the UK Peace Index and includes a detailed description of the economic benefits that would flow from increase levels of peace.

Rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than anywhere else in Western Europe, researchers say.

The UK Peace Index, from the Institute for Economics and Peace, found UK homicides per 100,000 people had fallen from 1.99 in 2003, to one in 2012.

It found Broadland, Norfolk, to be the most peaceful local council area but Lewisham, London, to be the least.

#visualisation #mondialistation #royaume-uni #video

Al-Qaeda in Maghreb Recruits Locals for Jihad
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2013/04/al-qaeda-maghreb-jihadists-syria.html

Signs of a war between al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria have started lurking in the horizon.

Events took this drastic turn after AQIM issued a statement accusing groups that are trying to send jihadists from Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Western Europe to fight in Syria of coordinating with France and Arab regimes in the Maghreb. These groups are also accused of hindering cooperation with cells working on sending jihadists to Syria by way of Turkey. This is the first time that such tensions have arisen between two branches affiliated with al-Qaeda.

(Note : je ne sais pas ce que vaut el-Khabar, source de cet article.)

Sign of a saner #mobile #telecom market: European carriers are moving away from handset subsidies - http://gigaom.com/2013/03/18/european-carriers-are-moving-away-from-handset-subsidies-analysts-find

10 companies profiting the most from war
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997

10. United Technologies (UTX) — aircraft, electronics, engines
Arm sales: $11.6 billion, total sales: $58.2 billion
Gross profit: $5.3 billion, total workforce: 199,900
United Technologies makes a wide range of arms — notably military helicopters, including the Black Hawk helicopter for the U.S. Army and the Seahawk helicopter for the U.S. Navy. The company was the biggest employer in the top 10 though arms sales accounted for just 20% of revenue. UTX also produces elevators, escalators, air-conditioners and refrigerators. International sales comprised 60% of the company’s revenue in 2012.

9. L-3 Communications (LLL) — electronics
Arm sales: $12.5 billion, total sales: $15.2 billion
Gross profit: $956 million, total workforce: 61,000
Some 83% of L-3 Communications sales in 2011 came from arms sales, but this was down from what it sold the prior year. The company has four business segments: electronic systems; aircraft modernization and maintenance; national security solutions; and command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Among many products manufactured, the company has become a major provider of unmanned aircraft systems.

8. Finmeccanica — aircraft, artillery, engines, electronics, vehicles and missiles
Arms sales, $14.6 billion, total sales: $24.1 billion
Gross profit: $ -3.2 billion, total workforce: 70,470
Italian company Finmeccanica makes a wide range of arms, including helicopters and security electronics. Nearly 60% of the company’s sales in 2011 were in arms. Finmeccanica lost $3.2 billion in 2011. The Italian company is currently fending off allegation that it paid bribes to win an approximately $750 million contract to provide 12 military helicopters to the Indian government in 2010. The then-head of the company, Giuseppe Orsi, was arrested in February but has denied wrongdoing. Other executives, including the head of the company’s helicopter unit, have been replaced, and the company has delayed the release of recent financial results.

7. EADS — aircraft, electronics, missiles and space
Arm sales: $16.4 billion, total sales: $68.3 billion
Gross profit: $1.4 billion, total workforce: 133,120
The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), based in the Netherlands, had sales in 2011 roughly in line with the prior year. Arms sales comprised just 24% of the company’s revenue. EADS and BAE Systems unsuccessfully attempted to merge for $45 billion in 2012, which would have created the world’s largest aerospace company. The deal collapsed in October after German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concerns about the merger.

6. Northrop Grumman (NOC) — aircraft, electronics, missiles, ships, space
Arm sales: $21.4 billion, total sales: $26.4 billion
Gross profit: $2.1 billion, total workforce: 72,500
Northrop Grumman’s 2011 arms sales comprised about 81% of total sales even after a sharp decline in arms sales year over year. The company attributed the decline to reduced government spending on defense projects. Nevertheless, the company was more profitable than in the prior year.

5. Raytheon (RTN) — electronics, missiles
Arm sales: $22.5 billion, total sales: $24.9 billion
Gross profit: $1.9 billion, total workforce: 71,000
Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., is one of the largest defense contractors in the U.S. The company makes the Tomahawk Cruise Missile, among others. Arms sales comprised about 90% of the company’s sales in 2011 though they as a total they were lower than in the prior year. The slide hasn’t let up. Total sales in 2012 fell 1.5%, and Raytheon is expecting sales to fall 3% in 2013, a projection which doesn’t take into account the effects of mandated budget cuts. The company can rely on overseas customers to somewhat offset weak sales at home. As of January, approximately 40% of the company’s backlog was booked overseas. The company expects approximately a 5% increase in international sales in 2013.

4. General Dynamics (GD) — artillery, electronics, vehicles, small arms, ships
Arm sales: $23.8 billion, total sales: $32.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.5 billion, total workforce: 95,100
With 18,000 transactions in 2011, General Dynamics was the third-largest contractor to the U.S. government. Of those contracts, approximately $12.9 billion worth went to the Navy, while an additional $4.6 billion went to the Army. The company’s arms sales in 2011 comprised 73% of total sales. Arms sales in 2011 were slightly below 2010 levels. The company makes a host of products, including electric boats, tracked and wheeled military vehicles, and battle tanks. The company announced layoffs in early March, blaming mandated federal budget cuts.

3. BAE Systems — aircraft, artillery, electronics, vehicles, missiles, ships
Arm sales: $29.2 billion, total sales: $30.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.3 billion, total workforce: 93,500
BAE Systems was the largest non-U.S. company based on arms sales. Arms sales represented 95% of the company’s total sales in 2011 even though they were lower as a total of overall sales compared to the prior year. The products BAE sells include the L-ROD Bar Armor System that shields defense vehicles and the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer that provides sophisticated simulation training for military pilots. In 2013, the company said its growth would likely come from outside the U.S. and Great Britain — its home market. BAE noted that its outlook for those two countries was “constrained,” likely due to the diminished presence in international conflicts and government budget cuts.

2. Boeing (BA) — aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales: $31.8 billion, total sales: $68.7 billion
Gross profit: $4 billion, total workforce: 171,700
Boeing was the second-largest U.S. government contractor in 2011, with about $21.5 billion worth of goods contracted. The Chicago-based company makes a wide range of arms, including strategic missile systems, laser and electro-optical systems and global positioning systems. Despite all these technologies, just 46% of the company’s total sales of $68.7 billion in 2011 came from arms. Boeing is the largest commercial airplane manufacturer in the world, making planes such as the 747, 757 and recently, the 787 Dreamliner. The company is also known for its space technology — Boeing had $1 billion worth of contracts with NASA in 2011.

1. Lockheed Martin (LMT) — aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales:$36.3 billion, total sales: $46.5 billion
Gross profit: $2.7 billion, total workforce, 123,000
Lockheed Martin notched $36.3 billion in sales in 2011, slightly higher than the $35.7 billion the company sold in 2010. The arms sales comprised 78% of the company’s total 2011 sales. Lockheed makes a wide range of products, including aircraft, missiles, unmanned systems and radar systems. The company and its employees have been concerned about the effects of the “fiscal cliff” and sequestration, the latter of which includes significant cuts to the U.S. Department of Defense. In the fall of 2012, the company planned on issuing layoff notices to all employees before backing down at the White House’s request.

Forrester : les propriétaires de tablettes x4 d’ici 2017 en Europe - TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/forrester-tablet-ownership-in-europe-to-rise-4x-in-5-years-55-of-regions

Forrester estime qu’il y aura 147 millions de tablettes en Europe d’ici 2017. Tags : internetactu2net internetactu fing

US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries - World Socialist Web Site

L’espérance de vie aux Etats-Unis : la plus basse de tous les pays industrialisés

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/11/life-j11.html

US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries
By Kate Randall
11 January 2013

Life expectancy in the United States continues to lag behind that in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, according to a new report commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study’s findings are a stinging indictment of social inequality in the US and its impact on the conditions of life for wide layers of the American population, young and old.

The panel of experts from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine identified the inaccessibility of health care, high levels of poverty and income inequality, as well as the prevalence of gun violence as major contributing factors to the poor life expectancy rate in the US.

Country migration profile by Migreurop : Serbia

Since the 1960s, Serbia has been primarily the country of emigration : like hundreds of thousands citizens of ex-Yugoslavia, Serbians migrated to the countries of Western Europe, as temporary or “guest” workers (gastarbeiter). During the conflicts following the break-down of Yugoslavia, there were both many people who sought safety in Serbia and many Serbians who left to go to the countries of Western Europe. The term “refugee” (izbeglica) is now used to refer to people, most often of Serbian ethnicity, who fled Bosnia and Croatia and sought refuge in Serbia. It is estimated that there are around 86 000 Bosnian and Croatian refugees, as well as 206 000 internally-displaced persons who fled the armed conflicts in Kosovo, living in Serbia, many of whom still live in so called collective centres they were accommodated in when they first arrived, and face obstacles in their integration with the rest of the society. They remain most the visible and represented group of “migrants” in Serbia.

Serbia is a good example of a country, which has been turned into a “buffer” zone of the Fortress Europe, through the externalisation of the EU migration policy onto Serbia. While Serbia has been a country of transit for migrants from Asia and Africa, the number of non-ex-Yugoslav migrants stuck in Serbia has been increasing in the recent years, due to the increasing pressures from the European Union (EU) for Serbia to harmonise its policies with the EU migration policies. Since the 1st of March 2012, Serbia is officially a candidate to join the EU [1].

http://www.migreurop.org/article2226.html

#migration #migreurop #Serbia #country_profile
@reka

At Europe’s Doorstep, a Fierce War Against Tuberculosis - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324660404578201593636497964.html

Estonia—All along the edges of Western Europe, new and hard-to-defeat strains of tuberculosis are gaining a foothold, often moving beyond traditional victims—alcoholics, drug users, HIV patients—and into the wider population.

#Estonie #pays_baltes #santé #tuberculose #mdr-tb #drug-resistant

Russia starts construction of the South Stream pipeline
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/dec2012/pipe-d14.shtml

Russia starts construction of the South Stream pipeline
By Clara Weiss
14 December 2012

On December 7, the first two sections of the South Stream pipeline were laid in the southern Russian city of Anapa on the Black Sea. The pipeline will run along the bottom of the Black Sea and transport gas from southern Russia through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia to Italy, bypassing Ukraine on the way.

South Stream is to be completed by 2015 and will provide Central Europe with up to 63 billion cubic metres of gas per year. Along with the Russian state company Gazprom, which holds 50 percent of shares, other major participants in the project are the German company Wintershall, the French company EDF, and the Italian energy group Eni.

Why French women have so little equality, a story in charts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25/why-french-women-have-so-little-equality-a-story-in-charts

Other than Italy, which has long been accused of treating women relatively poorly, France is by far the worst country for women in Western Europe. (...)
Today, much of the inequality appears to affect women’s political empowerment, for which France ranks 63rd, just beneath Ethiopia. Economic opportunity for French women is similarly low, particularly on wage equality, on which France ranks a stunning 129th in the world. According to the World Economic Forum’s global survey, France is the absolute worst in the world for gender wage equality.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/10/france-gender-excel-chart.jpg

#femmes #inégalités #data

It’s Official: Western Europeans Have More Cars Per Person Than Americans - Max Fisher - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/its-official-western-europeans-have-more-cars-per-person-than-americans/261108

Amazingly, Americans still manage to suck up far, far more energy per person than do the people in those Western European nations with so many more cars per capita. Our oil usage per capita is about twice what it is in Western Europe, and here’s our overall energy usage:

Liban : manifestation contre d’humiliants tests d’homosexualité
http://fr-ca.actualites.yahoo.com/liban-manifestation-contre-dhumiliants-tests-dhomosexualit%C

Des dizaines de personnes ont manifesté samedi devant un tribunal de Beyrouth pour protester contre le recours à un « test » anal pour les hommes soupçonnés d’être homosexuels, une orientation sexuelle illégale dans ce petit pays arabe.

Ce genre de dépêche est très largement repris partout, et notamment par des médias qui ne publient jamais aucune information pertinente concernant le Liban.

Alors :
– Non, l’« orientation sexuelle » elle-même n’est pas « illégale » ; le Liban reste un pays où la justice n’essaie pas de deviner ce qui se passe dans la tête des gens. Ce qui est illégal, ce sont les pratiques sexuelles elles-mêmes. C’est moche, mais ça n’est pas la même chose.
– Pour le coup, il y a réellement le choc de découvrir la descente de police et la pratique inadmissible des tests (j’ai déjà référencé l’article du Akhbar sur le sujet). Mais ensuite, puisqu’on traite sous l’angle de l’« illégalité », il n’est jamais précisé dans ces dépêches si l’article indigne du code pénal libanais est réellement appliqué par les tribunaux. Je n’ai jamais vu de mention d’une telle condamnation ;
– Les 36 hommes humiliés l’ont-ils été par les flics, ou ont-ils ensuite été déférés devant les tribunaux, et y a-t-il eu des condamnations ? Pas à ma connaissance.
– C’est-à-dire qu’il faudrait nous expliquer clairement s’ils s’agit d’une dérive policière (certes inadmissible) relativement déconnectée d’une réalité judiciaire dans laquelle la loi 534 est, en pratique, obsolète et jamais appliquée, ou s’il y réellement des condamnations d’homosexuels au Liban. Je m’étonne toujours de voir que cette question n’est jamais abordée.

Et enfin : la série d’articles suite aux « tests » décontextualisent tous le fait qu’il s’agit d’une descente de police (certes scandaleuse) effectuée à la suite d’un « reportage » dégueulasse, parfaitement homophobe, de la chaîne de télévision Murr TV, dénonçant ce cinéma au motif qu’il s’y passerait des actes sexuels « contre nature » (entraînant je ne sais quel responsable débile local de la police à procéder à une descente pour mettre fin à ce que le reportage présentait comme une insoutenable nuisance dans le quartier, et aux risques que l’endroit faisait soit-disant peser sur les jeunes garçons du quartier). C’est une chaîne du 14 Mars (c’est-à-dire de nos amis modernistes et pro-occidentaux), qui s’était déjà auparavant illustrée en diffusant un autre « reportage » dégueulasse totalement raciste contre les travailleurs immigrés. Et c’est surtout la seule chaîne de télévision du Liban qui a reçu le soutien (et la visite récente) de l’ambassadrice américaine, en soutien à son courageux combat dans le brisage de tabous (c’est-à-dire la promotion du racisme et de l’homophobie au Liban).

(Précision : mes critiques portent sur le traitement médiatique, surtout dans des médias qui, d’ordinaire, ne parlent jamais du Liban : une information même anecdotique - ici une manifestation de quelques dizaines de personnes - sur l’homophobie arabe est toujours reprise largement, quand les dépêches sur l’homophobie en Israël semblent peu intéresser. La délectation occidentale pour l’homophobie arabe ressortant en creux du pink washing orientaliste en faveur d’Israël. Le combat des associations pour les droits des homosexuels au Liban, qui rejoint d’ailleurs souvent les mobilisations pour la citoyenneté et la laïcité, a évidemment toute ma sympathie.)

Why Marxism is on the rise again | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/04/the-return-of-marxism

Un article qui a beaucoup tourné depuis 10 jours et dont je n’ai pas lu les 1142 commentaires

This chimes with something Rancière told me. The professor argued that “one thing about Marxist thought that remains solid is class struggle. The disappearance of our factories, that’s to say de-industrialisation of our countries and the outsourcing of industrial work to the countries where labour is less expensive and more docile, what else is this other than an act in the class struggle by the ruling bourgeoisie?”

There’s another reason why Marxism has something to teach us as we struggle through economic depression, other than its analysis of class struggle. It is in its analysis of economic crisis. In his formidable new tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism http://www.versobooks.com/books/1114-less-than-nothing , Slavoj Žižek tries to apply Marxist thought on economic crises to what we’re enduring right now. Žižek considers the fundamental class antagonism to be between “use value” and “exchange value”.

#marx #capitalisme et toujours la question de la #valeur

The Origins of Sex: How the First Sexual Revolution Shaped Modern Society | Brain Pickings
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/13/the-origins-of-sex-dabhoiwala

After last month’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, here comes The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (public library) by Oxford University historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala — a formidably research, absorbing, eloquent account of how, contrary to the modern mythology of the 1960s, today’s permissive sexual behavior first developed, seemingly suddenly, some three hundred years earlier, in 17th-century Western Europe.

Un pirate, qu’est que c’est ?

Le pirate et la piraterie désignent une forme de banditisme pratiquée sur mer. Cependant, les pirates ne se limitent pas seulement aux pillages de bateau, et attaquent parfois de petites villes côtières.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

Bei Piraterie (von griechisch πειρᾶν peiran, „versuchen, unternehmen, auskundschaften“, und πεĩρα peira, „Wagnis, Unternehmen, Überfall“ über πειρατής, peirātḗs und lateinisch pirata, „Seeräuber“) oder Seeräuberei handelt es sich um Gewalttaten, Eigentumsdelikte oder Freiheitsberaubungen, die zu eigennützigen Zwecken unter Gebrauch eines See- oder Luftfahrzeugs auf hoher See oder in anderen Gebieten verübt werden, die keiner staatlichen Gewalt unterliegen. Bis zu einer völkerrechtlichen Vertragsregelung 1958 wurden unter Piraterie meist dieselben Taten verstanden, soweit sie überhaupt auf See oder auch von See aus begangen wurden. Staatliche Maßnahmen stellen, selbst wenn sie unrechtmäßig sind, keine Piraterie dar. Heute sind solche Maßnahmen Kriegs- und Behördenschiffen vorbehalten, im Rahmen der Kaperei wurden sie bis 1856 jedoch auch von staatlich autorisierten Privaten (Freibeuter, Kaperfahrer) vorgenommen und waren dadurch in ihrer äußeren Erscheinungsform häufig nicht von Piraterie zu unterscheiden. Keine Piraterie im eigentlichen Sinn sind auch Strand-, Fluss- und Luftpiraterie.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraterie

On se rend compte à quel point les définitions ne font pas l’unanimité quand on suit la discussion autour des positions politiques des pirates :

►http://seenthis.net/messages/69508
http://seenthis.net/messages/69508#message69511

La course aux terres ne profite pas aux pays du Sud
►http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2012/04/27/la-course-aux-terres-ne-profite-pas-aux-pays-du-sud_1692292_3244.html
http://s2.lemde.fr/image/2012/04/27/540x0/1692312_5_1fdf_ill-1692312-fe0b-agri_1a230e78b61efecef1f6776388afc2f7.jpg

#terres #cartographie

et un nouveau site dédié à l’accaparement de terres
Land Matrix
http://landportal.info/landmatrix
http://landportal.info/fr

The Price of Sex
http://priceofsex.org

The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by the young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives.

#documentaire #prostitution #commerce_du_sexe

Jolie #visualisation des ensembles économiques
http://nalilord.livejournal.com/57668.html

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1023/balanceofpowerhistory10.png
via @karenbastien

The hard labour behind soft drinks - Features - Food & Drink - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/the-hard-labour-behind-soft-drinks-7440046.html

Coca-Cola is facing questions about its links to orange harvesting in southern Italy, which campaigners say relies on the cheap labour of African migrants living in squalid conditions.

An investigation into citrus fruit growing in Calabria has revealed how thousands of African workers, many of whom have made the treacherous voyage across the Mediterranean in search of a new life, are earning as little as €25 (£21) for a day’s picking in orange groves in a region that supplies juice concentrates to several multinational companies.

Evidence gathered by The Ecologist shows that many migrants, some of whom are in Italy illegally, live in slum conditions in makeshift camps without power or sanitation and fall prey to gangmasters who in some cases charge a “fee” from their workers’ wages for organising their picking shifts.

#Coca-Cola, whose global profits in 2010 stood at $11.8bn (£7.5bn), is one of a number of major buyers of concentrated orange juice in Calabria which it uses for its Fanta brand in Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9jTowyQ3B8&feature=player_embedded#

#agroalimentaire #pauvreté #migration #Italie #santé #exploitation #bidonville

A l’origine de la théorie du " Choc des civilisations ", un article écrit par l’Islamologue Bernard Lewis en 1990 et intitulé « The roots of muslim rage. Why so many muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified »...

« La lutte entre ces deux systèmes rivaux écrit-il dure maintenant depuis 14 siècles. Elle a commencé avec l’avènement de l’islam au 7e siècle et a continué en pratique jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Elle a consisté en une longue série d’attaques et de contre attaques, de jihad, de croisades, de conquêtes et de reconquêtes. Cela n’est rien moins qu’un choc des civilisations, la réaction surement traditionnelle, mais surement historique, d’un ancien rival contre notre héritage judéo chrétien, notre présent séculier et l’expansion mondiale des deux. »

http://hegemonie.blogspot.com/2012/02/roots-of-muslim-rage.html

#cartographie #architecture #frontière #irlande

The Map of Watchful Architecture
par Garrett Carr

http://echogeo.revues.org/12673

J’ai pas tout compris mais il y a beaucoup de nouvelles idées, très originales. c’est un texte qui donne beaucoup d’inspiration. Donc, à suivre

The international border between Northern Ireland and the South (the Republic of Ireland) came into beingin 1922, but there are many important historical antecedents to the notion and expression of spatial separation in this borderland. The author identifies historical precedents and links them to recent defensive features in order to generate a ’map of watchful architecture’ that includes recent and much older elements.

‘Pinkwashing’ and Israel’s Use of Gays as a Messaging Tool - Sarah Schulman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/opinion/pinkwashing-and-israels-use-of-gays-as-a-messaging-tool.html?_r=1

“pinkwashing”: a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that “#gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool,” even though “conservative and especially religious politicians remain fiercely homophobic.”

#homophobie #islamophobie #pays-bas #israel #palestine via @zackie

cf. http://seenthis.net/messages/34093 comme exemple-type de #pinkwashing

Climate Change and Natural Disasters : Why Women Get Hit Hardest
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/04/climate-change-and-natural-disasters-why-women-get-hit-hardest.html

In the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami, death rates for women across the region averaged three to four times that of men. (...)
in the 1995 Kobe Japan earthquake, one and a half times more women died than men; in the 1991 floods in Bangladesh, five times as many women as men died.

#femmes #catastrophes