#migrants #covid-19 #frontières #Pakistan
Closed Afghan-Pakistani Border Is Becoming ‘Humanitarian Crisis’
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Gifts Tied to Opioid Sales Invite a Question : Should Museums Vet Donors ? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/arts/design/sackler-museum-donations-oxycontin-purdue-pharma.htmlThe New York Times surveyed 21 cultural organizations listed on tax forms as having received significant sums from foundations run by two Sackler brothers who led Purdue. Several, including the Guggenheim, declined to comment; others, like the Brooklyn Museum, ignored questions. None indicated that they would return donations or refuse them in the future.
“We regularly assess our funding activities to ensure best practice,” wrote Zoë Franklin, a spokeswoman for the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was listed as receiving about $13.1 million from the Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation in 2012. “The Sackler family continue to be an important and valuable donor to the V & A and we are grateful for their ongoing support.”
De l’usage de la philanthropie comme écran de fumée
Robert Josephson, a spokesman for the company, pointed to its efforts to stem the opioid epidemic — distributing prescription guidelines, developing abuse-deterrent painkillers and ensuring access to overdose-reversal medication — and noted that OxyContin has never had a large share of total opioid prescriptions. In an email, he added, “Many leading medical, scientific, cultural and educational institutions throughout the world have been beneficiaries of Sackler family philanthropy.”
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The Soviet Propaganda Fabrics We Probably Shouldn’t be Lusting After
▻http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/10/the-soviet-propaganda-fabrics-we-probably-shouldnt-be-lusting-after
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/soviet1.jpg 
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/soviet13.jpg 
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/soviet22.jpeg CC @simplicissimus @reka
via : ▻http://www.messynessychic.com/2018/07/19/things-the-soviets-made
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Merci @mad_meg !
En tirant le fil,…
blog initial (?) juin 2012
The Russian Fashion Blog Soviet Textiles: Wearable Propaganda
▻http://www.russianfashionblog.com/index.php/2012/06/soviet-textiles-wearable-propagandaWhat can be a more stunning example of fashion and politics going hand in hand?
These textiles were produced in limited quantities during the early years of Soviet Russia by the finest designers of that time. Despite being a manifestation of constructivism they look surprisingly modern and fun to me. I was delighted to see Tata Naka revisiting this wonderful piece of history in their F/W 2002-03 collection. Today, when everybody is crazy about prints, I hope more designers would draw inspiration from this gorgeousness!
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Soviet textiles : designing the modern utopia : selected from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection (Livre, 2006) [WorldCat.org]
▻http://www.worldcat.org/title/soviet-textiles-designing-the-modern-utopia-selected-from-the-lloyd-cotsen-collection/oclc/71004542Between 1927 and 1933 a fascinating experiment in textile making took place in the Soviet Union. As the new nation emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young designers began to create thematic textile designs. They believed that by mass-producing fabrics depicting locomotives, factories, and other symbols of collective modernity for clothing and household use, they could mold the buyers into ideal Soviet citizens. While the experiment ultimately failed as propaganda (the ideal citizens clung to their traditional floral motifs), it yielded many bold and intriguing new designs. Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia presents some forty of these textiles and discusses the political and artistic contexts that gave rise to them. Author Pamela Jill Kachurin identifies major themes and motifs that permeate the designs: industrialization, transportation, electrification, youth, agriculture and collectivization, and sports and hobbies. In the final account, few of these designs ever saw mass production; but their graphic power - and their value as elements of artistic and social history - is undiminished
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Lloyd Cotsen, Collector of the Ordinary and the Odd, Dies at 88 - The New York Times (17/05/2017)
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/business/lloyd-cotsen-collector-of-the-ordinary-and-the-odd-dies-at-88.htmlIf you had called Lloyd Cotsen a collector, he might have corrected you and said that he was really an accumulator. With an eclectic eye, he accumulated Japanese bamboo baskets, small pieces of textiles, bronze Chinese mirrors and illustrated children’s books.
Collecting beguiled him as a child when he amassed baseball cards and matchbooks. The habit continued when he was a Navy lieutenant on layovers; an executive at Neutrogena, the skin and hair-care company his father-in-law founded; and a man of great wealth, after he sold the company to Johnson & Johnson in 1994 for $924 million.
“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell, they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”
He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was no more space to put anything.”
By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif., Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about half of the material in his collections to institutions like the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
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Fragmentary Tales: Selections from the Lloyd Cotsen “Textile Traces” Collection | LACMA (exposition en 2014)
▻http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/fragmentary-tales-selections-lloyd-cotsen-%E2%80%9Ctextile-traces%E2%80%9D-coVisually and intellectually compelling, textile fragments hold clues and tell stories about the past. An excerpt from the extensive collection of fragments assembled by Lloyd Cotsen, this exhibition presents mysterious and tantalizingly incomplete segments of textiles from throughout history and from around the world, from Peru to Uzbekistan to China and representing a span of more than 2,000 years.
Fragmentary Tales traces a collector’s interest in pattern, color, and texture; the tension between chaos and order; and the exquisite trace of what was once a masterpiece, now isolated because of time or circumstance.
Examining these fragments out of any context is instructive, and Cotsen seeks to share his wide-ranging collection with the public to challenge the visual experience of objects. Despite existing as remnants of a whole, each fragment reveals much about its purpose, method of construction, and aesthetic sensibility of its time and place.
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CFAR – Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research
▻http://cfarfoundation.orgThe Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research (CFAR) is dedicated to expanding both public and scholarly knowledge of the arts, making the renowned art collections of Lloyd Cotsen, businessman, collector, and philanthropist, accessible to museums and the academic world.
“All of these objects strike some emotional bell within me, they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary, to my sense of humor, to my search for the beauty in form and simplicity.”
Lloyd Cotsen
Les autres collections…
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Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump ; Many Scoff
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-analytica.htmlStanding before political and business leaders in New York last fall, Alexander Nix promised a revolution. Many companies compete in the market for political microtargeting, using huge data sets and sophisticated software to identify and persuade voters. But Mr. Nix’s little-known firm, Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have developed something unique : “psychographic” profiles that could predict the personality and hidden political leanings of every American adult. “Of the two candidates left (...)
#CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #algorithme #élections #manipulation #électeurs #BigData (...)
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100 missing women: Drawings at African American museum tell a powerful story of loss
▻http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-kenyatta-hinkle-caam-20170327-htmlstory.html
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/15/arts/15kenyattahinkle1/15kenyattahinkle1-blog427-v2.jpg 
http://www.latimes.com/resizer/QmkK6JeYHDMBtT3haMnIGgJVrv8=/1200x0/www.trbimg.com/img-58d9953f/turbine/la-et-cm-kenyatta-hinkle-caam-20170327#.jpg One hundred drawings by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle of 100 missing African American women simultaneously startle and beguile. Their subject represents the tip of a statistical iceberg of almost unfathomable scope — thousands of black women disappear every year in the United States, whether through criminal activity or for other motives, but their names and faces most often remain obscure.
#art #femmes #Kenyatta_A.C._Hinkle #disparitions #trafic #meurtresautre source
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/arts/design/one-artists-melancholy-look-at-missing-african-american-women.html“It’s sublime,” Ms. Hinkle said, “64,000 missing African-American women. For all of those faces, there’s a family. There’s a whole set of circumstances. They have favorite colors. All of those things that they like to do.”
To evanesce means to disappear gradually, vanish or fade away, and Ms. Hinkle’s work is poignant, timely — and coincidental. In March, a social media campaign was started to raise awareness about missing young women of color in Washington. The hashtag, #MissingDCGirls, started trending, helped by celebrities like Ludacris and Viola Davis. [...]
In Ms. Hinkle’s eyes, it was a major theft of identity. “My mother always taught me that if I feel an injustice or an abuse of authority, to never be afraid to speak up about it,” she said. “She really instilled in me this powerful self-possession.”
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From Sex Object to Gritty Woman : The Evolution of Women in Stock Photos - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/upshot/from-sex-object-to-gritty-woman-the-evolution-of-women-in-stock-photos.htmlThe change from women lounging naked (or perhaps laughing alone with salad) to women demonstrating physical or professional prowess was driven in part by the Lean In collection, which Getty developed in 2014 with Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit to seed media with more modern, diverse and empowering images of women. The collection, now with 14,000 photos, has the unofficial tagline, “You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Je reste sceptique, ça semble une bonne occasion de se faire de la pub, à voir sur le long terme #getty #photos #femmes_images
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What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings ? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html
Pas mal ce graphique
#états-unis #arms_légères #meurtrs_de-mass #visualisation_classique_mais_puissante (ce qui veut dire que pour être puissante une visu n’est pas nécessairement un truc super designé)
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Est-ce qu’il ne manque pas le Canada plus « en bas à droite » que l’Inde ? De ce dont je me rappelle du film de Moore, le Canada a beaucoup beaucoup d’armes. S’il manque un pays clef dans ce genre de statistiques, le graphique ne veut plus dire grand chose (cherry picking quoi)
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C’est parce que le graphique retenu (et mis en tête de l’article du NYT) est en chiffres bruts. Rapporté à la population, le Canada (un peu plus de 10% de la population états-unienne, un peu moins que la Californie) sort du paquet.
De plus :
Note: Includes countries with more than 10 million people and at least one mass public shooting with four or more victims.
ce qui exclue les « champions d’Europe »…
Armes à feu : Une carte d’Europe des pays où les habitants sont les plus armés | VoxEurop.eu : actualités Europe, cartoons et revues de presse
▻http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/news-brief/4918131-une-carte-d-europe-des-pays-ou-les-habitants-sont-les-plus-armesEn Europe, la Serbie est en tête (et numéro deux au monde, derrière les Etats-Unis), avec 69,7 armes à feu pour 100 habitants. Elle est suivie de la Suisse, avec 45,7 armes pour 100 habitants, et Chypre, avec 36,1. Quatre pays scandinaves (Suède, Norvège, Islande et Finlande) sont parmi les dix pays les plus « armés ». La Roumanie ferme la marche, avec moins de 0,5 armes pour 100 habitants.
(même source : Small Arms Survey mais en 2007)
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merci @simplicissimus !
Du coup, pour toi la carte du NYT est-elle pertinente, sincère, etc ? Parce que je me dis que le nombre d’armes du’un pays est quand même moins pertinent que le nombre d’armes par habitants
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Carte ? je n’en vois pas ; j’imagine que tu parles des graphiques. Et oui, c’est assez idiot (bon d’accord, très peu pertinent) de mettre en avant le graphique avec les données en nombre. Pour la sincérité, je ne sais pas, j’imagine que la raison du choix est que celui qu’ils retiennent accentue l’effet É.-U. contre reste du monde (mais que Chine et Inde ne figurent sur le graphique qu’à cause de leur population).
Le choix de filtrer pour les pays de plus de 10 M d’habitants, justifié par l’autre variable (nombre de fusillades collectives), fait disparaitre un pays comme la Suisse, ce qui est dommage dans la mesure où la suite de l’article indique clairement que c’est un problème de culture. En Suisse, par exemple, l’ensemble de la population masculine de plus de 20 ans (et de moins de 50 ans (?)) est équipé d’une arme de guerre (en général un fusil d’assaut…) avec ses munitions. Ainsi, dans mon patelin d’origine, 3 de mes cousins se partageaient, outre leur arme individuelle, un mortier, l’un le tube, l’autre l’embase, le troisième trois obus (peut-être avec le bipied, je ne me souviens plus) stocké chez eux…
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Google Play Store : plus de 250 applications armées à l’ « Alphonso », un logiciel qui analyse les contenus TV pour les annonceurs
▻https://www.developpez.com/actu/181863/Google-Play-Store-plus-de-250-applications-armees-a-l-Alphonso-un-logiciIl s’agit d’un module destiné à collecter des données à l’intention des annonceurs TV, ce, en enregistrant les sons ambiants desquels il extrait l’empreinte qui correspond à une publicité. L’outil permet ainsi aux annonceurs, auxquels ces data sont revendues, de garder un œil sur leur audience. Ils savent quelles sont les publicités auxquelles les possesseurs d’ordinophones sont exposés chez eux, chez des amis ou dans la rue. Le stratagème permet également de savoir lesquelles ont poussé les utilisateurs à se rendre dans une boutique physique ou à une vente aux enchères pour effectuer un achat. Pour couronner le tout, ces informations sont, dans certains cas, combinées à des données de géolocalisation.
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L’article original en anglais :
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html“When you see ‘permission for microphone access for ads,’ it may not be clear to a user that, Oh, this means it’s going to be listening to what I do all the time to see if I’m watching ‘Monday Night Football,’” Mr. Brookman said. “They need to go above and beyond and be careful to make sure consumers know what’s going on.”
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In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
(Sept 2017)“A cellphone and some earbuds are all it takes to place yourself in your own world, isolated from the rest of society,” Mr. Wesner said. “In some sense that is profoundly anti-Amish.”
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/amish-technology.html
The Amish have not given up on horse-drawn buggies. Their rigid abstinence from many kinds of technology has left parts of their lifestyle frozen since the 19th century: no cars, TVs or connections to electric utilities, for example.
But computers and cellphones are making their way into some Amish communities, pushing them — sometimes willingly, often not — into the 21st century.
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But for people bound by a separation from much of the outside world, new tech devices have brought fears about the consequence of internet access. There are worries about pornography; about whether social networks will lead sons and daughters to date non-Amish friends; and about connecting to a world of seemingly limitless possibilities.
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John, the woodworker at Amish Country Gazebos, spends part of his time operating the computer-guided saw, which would look at home in any modern cabinetry shop. His mastery of the machine, at 68, can be a source of teasing at home.
“We call him the computer geek sometimes,” said his son, Junior, laughing as the family sat down to supper.
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Lizzie said she was upset by how people had become so attached to their phones.
“People are treating those phones like they are gods,” she said. “They’re bowing down to it at the table, bowing down to it when they’re walking. Here we say we don’t bow down to idols, and that’s getting dangerously close, I think.” -
‘The Daily’ Transcript : Interview With Former White Nationalist Derek Black - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/podcasts/the-daily-transcript-derek-black.html
(article du 22/08/2017, après les événements de #Charlottesville)Derek Black, a former white nationalist and a godson of David Duke, spoke with Michael Barbaro in an episode of “The Daily” that received a particularly intense response on Tuesday. In the podcast, Mr. Black describes his experience growing up in a white nationalist family, taking part in a radio show on his father’s website Stormfront.org and how he turned on the white nationalist movement.
This is an unedited transcription from the podcast. Please listen to the corresponding audio before quoting from it.
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Et ça continue...
Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman’s Accounts, Raising Policy Questions, Megan Specia, The New York Times, le 28 décembre 2017▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/world/europe/chechnya-kadyrov-facebook.html
Facebook did not respond to questions about [...] discrepancy in removals.
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Nouveau tag : #critiques_de pour recenser les critiques de #facebook, #google and co :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/670745
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That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html?_r=0At first glance, the gaming apps — with names like “Pool 3D,” “Beer Pong: Trickshot” and “Real Bowling Strike 10 Pin” — seem innocuous. One called “Honey Quest” features Jumbo, an animated bear.
Yet these apps, once downloaded onto a smartphone, have the ability to keep tabs on the viewing habits of their users — some of whom may be children — even when the games aren’t being played.
It is yet another example of how companies, using devices that many people feel they can’t do without, are documenting how audiences in a rapidly changing entertainment landscape are viewing television and commercials.
More than 250 games that use Alphonso software are available in the Google Play store; some are also available in Apple’s app store.
“A lot of the folks will go and turn off their phone, but a small portion of people don’t and put it in their pocket,” Mr. Chordia said. “In those cases, we are able to pick up in a small sample who is watching the show or the movie.” Mr. Chordia said that Alphonso has a deal with the music-listening app Shazam, which has microphone access on many phones. Alphonso is able to provide the snippets it picks up to Shazam, he said, which can use its own content-recognition technology to identify users and then sell that information to Alphonso.
Shazam, which Apple recently agreed to buy, declined to comment about Alphonso.
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Erica Garner, Activist and Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/nyregion/erica-garner-dead.htmlBlack Lives Matter vient de perdre une figure de proue. La fille de Eric Garner, assassiné par la police newyorkaise, vient de décéder suite à une crise d’asthme sévère.
Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who became an outspoken activist against police brutality after her father’s death at the hands of a New York police officer, died on Saturday, according to her mother. She was 27.
Ms. Garner became a central figure in the charged conversation about race and the use of force by the police after a New York Police Department officer placed her father into an unauthorized chokehold on Staten Island in 2014 while responding to complaints he was selling untaxed cigarettes.
As Mr. Garner, who also suffered from asthma, was being choked by the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, he repeated the words “I can’t breathe” 11 times — a phrase that became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and other activists.
“Erica took the truth with her everywhere she went, even if that truth made people uncomfortable,” he said, recalling her willingness to confront President Barack Obama and demand that he take a stand against racially charged policing tactics.
Civil rights activists and celebrities flooded social media with tributes to Ms. Garner.
Even as Ms. Garner pressed politicians and law enforcement officials to hold the police accountable for her father’s death, she was emphatic that her personal tragedy was also a public one.
“Even with my own heartbreak, when I demand justice, it’s never just for Eric Garner,” she wrote in The Washington Post in 2016. “It’s for my daughter; it’s for the next generation of African-Americans.”
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Unfiltered Fervor : The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.htmlLa méfiance de certains Etats-uniens envers l’#eau du robinet et l’eau de source mise en bouteille rapportée au seul #complotisme, sans jamais aborder la réelle #pollution de ladite eau.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/650539
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/624783Par ailleurs l’intérêt de la Silicon Valley pour l’"eau naturelle non traitée", abordée ici comme une des explications de l’engouement croissant pour cette eau, ne pourrait-il pas expliquer en partie la négligence des autorités quant à l’état de l’eau théoriquement potable ?
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U.S. to Roll Back Safety Rules Created After Deepwater Horizon Spill - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.htmlWASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.
Il faudra boire la coupe jusqu’à la lie.
Environmental groups warned that reversing the safety measures would make the United States vulnerable to another such disaster.
“Rolling back drilling safety standards while expanding offshore leasing is a recipe for disaster,” Miyoko Sakashita, director of the oceans program at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “By tossing aside the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump is putting our coasts and wildlife at risk of more deadly oil spills. Reversing offshore safety rules isn’t just deregulation, it’s willful ignorance.”
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U.S. to Roll Back Safety Rules Created After #Deepwater_Horizon Spill - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.htmlThe Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.
“This proposed rule would fortify the Administration’s objective of facilitating energy dominance” by encouraging increased domestic oil and gas production, even as it strengthens safety and environmental protection, the proposal says.
In April Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to “reconsider” several oil rig safety regulations. Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, at the time did not specify which specific equipment regulations would be reviewed, saying only the review would apply “from bow to stern.”
C’est vrai quoi #l'environnement_ça_commence_à_bien_faire …
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#Recy_Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala., on the night of Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men.
The crime was extensively covered in the black press and an early catalyst for the civil rights movement. The N.A.A.C.P. sent a young activist from its Montgomery, Ala., chapter named Rosa Parks to investigate. African-Americans around the country demanded that the men be prosecuted.
But the attack, like many involving black victims during the Jim Crow era in the South, never went to trial. Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the men, even though one of them had confessed.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/recy-taylor-alabama-rape-victim-dead.html
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#France Fails to Face Up to Racism - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/france-racism-rokhaya-diallo.htmlThe term institutional racism, which in French is called state racism, is seen by many as an affront to the colorblind ideal of a universalist French republic. In France, it is illegal to classify people by their race or ethnicity.
Incredibly, the French education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said last month that he would sue a teachers union for using the words “institutional racism” during education workshops in ethnically diverse Seine-St.-Denis northeast of Paris. Mr. Blanquer has also threatened to sue Ms. Diallo. She has invited him to go ahead.
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The Opioid Plague’s Youngest Victims : Children in Foster Care - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/opioid-crisis-children-foster-care.html?_r=0Les conséquences de la crise des opioides vont bien au delà des overdoses, mais touchent les enfants délaissés par leurs parents. Merci la Sackler family.
As more Americans struggle with opioid addiction and find themselves unable to perform their duties as parents, children are pouring into state and county foster care systems. In Montana, the number of children in foster care has doubled since 2010. In Georgia, it has increased by 80 percent, and in West Virginia, by 45 percent. Altogether, nearly 440,000 kids are spending this holiday season in foster care, compared with 400,000 in 2011.
The data points to drug abuse as a primary reason, and experts have identified opioids in particular. Neglect remains the main reason children enter foster care. But from 2015 to 2016, the increase in the number of children who came into foster care as a result of parental drug abuse was far greater than the increases in the 14 other categories, like housing instability, according to data from the federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System.
Child welfare agencies across the country are doing heroic work, but they simply cannot find enough foster families to meet the growing demand. In some places, kids in foster care are sleeping in social workers’ offices. Many children are shipped off to prisonlike institutions where they languish for months, even years, without loving families. And many more bounce among multiple foster homes, deepening their feelings of abandonment, disrupting their education and severing their relationships with relatives, teachers and friends just when they need them most.
The consequences for these kids, and our country, are alarming. Children who have been in foster care are five times more likely to abuse drugs. As many as 70 percent of youths in the juvenile justice system have spent time in the child welfare system. One-third of homeless young adults were previously in foster care. Black children are twice as likely as white children to wind up in foster care and face its devastating effects, a symptom of our country’s disparate treatment of black and white families who experience similar challenges..
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Homeland Security Goes Abroad. Not Everyone Is Grateful. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/world/americas/homeland-security-customs-border-patrol.htmlAn estimated 2,000 Homeland Security employees — from Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents to Transportation Security Administration officials — now are deployed to more than 70 countries around the world.
Hundreds more are either at sea for weeks at a time aboard Coast Guard ships, or patrolling the skies in surveillance planes above the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
The expansion has created tensions with some European countries who say that the United States is trying to export its immigration laws to their territory. But other allies agree with the United States’ argument that its longer reach strengthens international security while preventing a terrorist attack, drug shipment, or human smuggling ring from reaching American soil.
“Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that’s where we need to be,” said James Nealon, the department’s assistant secretary for international engagement.
