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    vide @touti 20/01/2021
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    Olafur Eliasson: “Picasso era abusivo con las mujeres, como un Harvey Weinstein de su tiempo” | Cultura | EL PAÍS
    ▻https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/02/13/actualidad/1581625621_704069.html

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    “Creo que hay que descentralizar no solo la idea que tenemos de autor, sino también de autoridad. En ese sentido, es importante tener un punto de vista más feminista, porque el patriarcado está fuertemente arraigado. Esto lo sabéis muy bien aquí, en el país de Picasso, un hombre que fue abusivo con las mujeres, como un Harvey Weinstein de su tiempo, pero cuyo comportamiento se consideraba aceptable”.

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      vide @touti 20/01/2021

      Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market - The New York Times
      ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/arts/design/picassos-granddaughter-plans-to-sell-art-worrying-the-market.html

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      Her mother, Emiliénne, split from her father and struggled with alcoholism. She relied on handouts from her ex-husband to raise Marina and her older brother, Pablito. “I saw my father very little,” Ms. Picasso said. “I didn’t have a grandfather.”

      Her alienation from her grandfather and his entourage intensified after her brother was barred from Picasso’s funeral in 1973 by the artist’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque. A few days later her brother committed suicide by drinking bleach. Contributions from friends paid for Pablito’s funeral, according to Ms. Picasso, who supported herself then by working in a hospice for autistic and mentally ill children.

      Picasso left no will when he died at 91, setting off a bitter struggle among his widow, children and grandchildren. Unexpectedly, Marina Picasso was named an heir, inheriting a fifth of the estate, including the villa.

      “People say I should appreciate my inheritance and I do,” Ms. Picasso said, “but it is an inheritance without love.”

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      odilon @odilon CC BY-NC-ND 20/01/2021

      #grand_homme

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  • @hlc
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 2/11/2020

    Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Pay for Facebook - The New York Times | Zeynep Tufekci, 2015.
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/opinion/zeynep-tufekci-mark-zuckerberg-let-me-pay-for-facebook.html

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    Facebook and other social networking sites that collect vast amounts of user data are financed by ads. Just this week Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, announced plans to open users’ feeds to more advertisers. The dirty secret of this business model is that Internet ads aren’t worth much. Ask Ethan Zuckerman, who in the 1990s helped found Tripod.com, one of the web’s earliest ad-financed sites with user-generated content. He even helped invent the pop-up ad because corporations were wary of the user content appearing next to their ads. He came to regret both: the pop-up and the ad-financed business model. The former is annoying but it’s the latter that is helping destroy the fabric of a rich, pluralistic Internet.

    Mr. Zuckerman points out that Facebook makes about 20 cents per user per month in profit. This is a pitiful sum, especially since the average user spends an impressive 20 hours on Facebook every month, according to the company. This paltry profit margin drives the business model: Internet ads are basically worthless unless they are hyper-targeted based on tracking and extensive profiling of users. This is a bad bargain, especially since two-thirds of American adults don’t want ads that target them based on that tracking and analysis of personal behavior.

    Ad-based businesses distort our online interactions. People flock to Internet platforms because they help us connect with one another or the world’s bounty of information — a crucial, valuable function. Yet ad-based financing means that the companies have an interest in manipulating our attention on behalf of advertisers, instead of letting us connect as we wish. Many users think their feed shows everything that their friends post. It doesn’t. Facebook runs its billion-plus users’ newsfeed by a proprietary, ever-changing algorithm that decides what we see. If Facebook didn’t have to control the feed to keep us on the site longer and to inject ads into our stream, it could instead offer us control over this algorithm.

    #Zeynep_Tufekci #Facebook #Publicité #Ciblage

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  • @nidal
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    Pourquoi a-t-on saisi et stocké près de 3000 tonnes de nitrate d’ammonium dans le port de Beyrouth en 2013 ? Quelle était la destination de ce produit ?

    C’est la petite musique qui va se faire beaucoup entendre dans les prochains jours : très certainement pour alimenter les gentils « rebelles » syriens.

    Article de 2015 par exemple sur ce traffic : Fertilizer, Also Suited for Bombs, Flows to ISIS Territory From Turkey
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/world/europe/fertilizer-also-suited-for-bombs-flows-to-isis-territory-from-turkey.html

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    The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria.

    The Syrian town next door is firmly controlled by the extremists of the Islamic State, as is clear from the black flag flying over downtown. And while the fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, is widely used for agriculture, it has also been used by terrorists around the world — including the Islamic State — to build powerful explosives.

    Few here think the fertilizer is meant to help Syrian farmers.

    “It is not for farming. It is for bombs,” said Mehmet Ayhan, an opposition politician from Akcakale who is running for Parliament.

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      En France, ces histoires de livraisons en Syrie sont encore sensibles. Ici un article de 2019 : Tereos contre-attaque dans l’affaire du sucre syrien
      ▻https://www.courrier-picard.fr/art/173055/article/2019-03-21/tereos-contre-attaque-dans-laffaire-du-sucre-syrien

      Rappelons que le Canard enchaîné, dans son édition de mercredi, indique que huit betteraviers (sachant que Tereos est une coopérative de planteurs) ont choisi de déposer plainte après la découverte en novembre 2016, de sacs de sorbitol dans des entrepôts de Daesh en Syrie. Mélangé à du nitrate d’ammonium, ce sucre qui a un usage essentiellement pharmaceutique peut entrer dans la fabrication d’un puissant explosif.

      Dans la plupart des articles, on parle plutôt de nitrate de potassium dans cette affaire de sucre. Plainte contre le sucrier français Tereos pour des livraisons en Syrie
      ▻https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/plainte-contre-le-sucrier-francais-tereos-pour-des-livraisons-en-syrie-2019

      Dans ce document consulté par l’AFP, les plaignants rappellent que fin 2016, après la libération de Mossoul en Irak, l’ONG Conflict Armament Research (CAR), mandatée par l’Union Européenne, inspecte « un entrepôt de l’Etat islamique » et y découvre « des dizaines de sacs de sorbitol estampillés Tereos ». Or, ce dérivé du sucre est utilisé comme propulseur d’engins explosifs lorsqu’il est mélangé à du nitrate de potassium.

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    • @nidal
      Nidal @nidal CC BY 5/08/2020

      Attention, la grosse difficulté ici c’est la destination finale du navire : d’après le document relatant l’interception :
      ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/870422#message870458
      la destination était le Mozambique, et le navire ne se serait arrêté à Beyrouth qu’à cause de problèmes techniques, pas pour décharger.

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      ▻https://www.al-akhbar.com/Politics/292312/حرب-نووية-وقعت-في-بيرو

      هذه الشحنة من المواد التي ارتُكبِت بها جريمة الرابع من آب بحق بيروت وعموم لبنان، موجودة في المرفأ منذ عام 2013، بقرار قضائي لبناني. حينذاك، كانت سفينة مولدوڤية آتية من جورجيا، وفي طريقها إلى الموزنبيق مرّت بالمياه اللبنانية، حيث تعرّضت لعطل. بعد ذلك، تقدّم عدد من الدائنين بشكاوى قضائية ضد مالكي السفينة، فاحتجز القضاء الشحنة التي أبقيت في العنبر رقم 12.

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      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 5/08/2020

      Beirut blast: Tracing the explosives that tore the capital apart
      Timour Azhari, Al Jazeera, le 5 août 2020
      ▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/officials-knew-danger-beirut-port-years-200805032416684.html

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    • @nidal
      Nidal @nidal CC BY 7/08/2020

      Explosions à Beyrouth. Le bateau incriminé ne devait pas aller à Beyrouth, déclare son capitaine
      ▻https://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/liban/explosions-a-beyrouth/explosions-a-beyrouth-le-bateau-incrimine-ne-devait-pas-aller-a-beyrout

      « Il ne cherchait qu’à faire du profit », a déclaré Boris Prokochev, capitaine du Rhosus en 2013, à propos du propriétaire du cargo, qui lui a donné pour instruction de faire une escale imprévue au Liban pour charger des marchandises.

      Le Rhosus transportait alors 2 750 tonnes de nitrate d’ammonium de la Géorgie vers le Mozambique et aucun arrêt à Beyrouth n’était prévu au départ, a-t-il dit.

      L’équipage a reçu l’ordre d’embarquer du matériel lourd à destination d’Aqaba, en Jordanie, avant de reprendre la route de l’Afrique, où le nitrate d’ammonium devait être livré à un fabricant d’explosifs. Mais le cargo n’a plus jamais quitté Beyrouth, à cause de l’impossibilité d’assurer un chargement sûr et d’un différend au sujet des redevances portuaires.

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  • @hlc
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 14/04/2020
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    La valse des logos à la NASA

    Deux articles sur la bataille interne à la NASA pour choisir le logo apposé sur les fusées et satellites (et le reste des activités spatiales de l’Agence). Un aller-retour stylistique intéressant.

    $79 for an Out-of-Date Book About a Modern NASA Logo - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/science/space/79-for-an-out-of-date-book-about-a-modern-nasa-logo.html

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/01/science/01nasalogo_painter/01nasalogo_painter-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

    For $79 plus shipping, you can buy a reprint of a long-obsolete federal government publication.

    The captivating title? “National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graphics Standards Manual.”

    It may not be a page turner, but among certain design and space aficionados, it is a cherished piece of history.

    A Kickstarter campaign begun on Tuesday will produce a high-quality hardcover printing of this bureaucratic relic. In 1975, NASA adopted a new logo, a minimalist twisting of letter forms that soon gained the nickname “the worm.” The standards manual, published a year later, prescribed how the space agency should deploy the logo across its publications, signs, aircraft, vehicles and spacecraft.

    “It is a wonderful example of modernist design thinking that was prevalent in the ’70s and the ’60s,” said Hamish Smyth, a designer at the firm Pentagram. “To me as a designer, technically, it’s pretty perfect.”

    The linear treatment that would become the worm was a simplification of letter forms that embodied “the technological base of the agency and had some future orientation as well,” Mr. Blackburn said. “It was extremely simple. It was direct.”

    In the logo, the two A’s lack crossbars, suggestive of a rocket nose cone or an engine nozzle.

    When Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Danne presented it to NASA’s leaders, they made sure to show how it would look “applied to a lot of real things,” Mr. Danne said. “We knew in the presentation maybe it would be too abstract, too theoretical.”

    But James C. Fletcher, then NASA’s administrator, was skeptical about the missing crossbars. Mr. Danne recalled Dr. Fletcher saying, “I just don’t feel we are getting our money’s worth!”

    Mr. Blackburn said he had returned to the office and tried to make a more conventional A. “You kill the baby when you do that,” he said. “They ultimately caved in.”

    With the graphics standards manual, NASA began rolling out its new look.

    But even a decade and a half later, many at NASA still hated the logo — too sterile, too much Spock and not enough Captain Kirk.

    The change did not happen overnight. The worm logo remained on the space shuttles until they were refurbished beginning in 1998.

    The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, carries it still. So does the first space shuttle, the Enterprise, now on exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. The Enterprise was used for glide tests but never went into space, and never received the updated markings.

    The worm also lives on in Washington at the NASA headquarters building, which opened in 1992, the year Mr. Goldin banished the logo. But it was already prominently carved in stone on the outside.

    “I didn’t know that,” Mr. Blackburn said. “Well, hallelujah. The good guys won one.”

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    NASA’s ‘Worm’ Logo Will Return to Space - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/nasa-logo-worm-spacex.html

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    NASA’s ‘Worm’ Logo Will Return to Space

    The new old logo, dropped in the 1990s in favor of a more vintage brand, will adorn a SpaceX rocket that is to carry astronauts to the space station in May.

    #NASA #Logo #Design

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    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 25/06/2019

    Facebook Takes a Step Into Education Software - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/technology/facebook-education-initiative-aims-to-help-children-learn-at-their-own-pace

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    SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, which transformed communication with its social networking service, now wants to make a similar impact on education.

    The Silicon Valley company announced on Thursday that it was working with a local charter school network, Summit Public Schools, to develop software that schools can use to help children learn at their own pace. The project has been championed by Mark Zucker

    berg, Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive, and one of his top lieutenants, Chris Cox.

    “We’ve seen that there’s an opportunity to help apply our skills to the future of education, and we all wanted to find a way to help make an impact by doing what we do best — building software,” Mr. Cox wrote in a blog post announcing the initiative.❞

    “It’s really driven by this idea that we want to put learning in the hands of kids and the control back in the hands of kids,” Ms. Tavenner said in a telephone interview. The software, she said, allows students to work with teachers to create tailored lessons and projects. Teachers can also administer individualized quizzes that the software can grade and track.

    The platform, which is separate from the Facebook social network, is now being used by nine Summit schools and about 20 others. Ultimately, Ms. Tavenner said, “our motivation is to share it with everyone and anyone who wants it,” including other charters and public school districts. The software would be free for all users.

    Like Internet.org, Facebook’s latest education initiative is not quite philanthropy and not quite business. The company owns the rights to the contributions it makes to Summit’s original software and could use that to eventually enter the education software business.

    Mike Sego, the Facebook engineering director running the Summit software project, said making money was not an immediate goal. “Whenever I ask Mark, ‘Do I need to think of this as business?’ he always pushes back and says, ‘That shouldn’t be a priority right now. We should just continue making this better.’ ”

    #Facebook #Education #Summit

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  • @tradfem
    Tradfem @tradfem 30/09/2018

    #Rachel_Dolezal, au centre d’une tempête, lance un défi : « Je m’identifie comme noire. » [traduction d’articles du New York Times]
    ▻https://tradfem.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/a-propos-du-transracialisme

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    Quand elle est venue vivre au sous-sol chez son oncle à Cœur d’Alene, dans l’Idaho, une ville à la population en grande partie blanche, en 2004, Rachel.A.Dolezal était encore blonde et pâle de teint ; elle s’identifiait en tant que femme blanche ayant quitté un mari noir et ayant un enfant métis.

    Mais après quelques années, son engagement déjà bien ancré pour les causes et les cultures noires s’intensifia. Ses collègues de travail comme sa famille commencèrent à entendre dire, par elle et par d’autres, que ses origines étaient un mélange de races – et même qu’elle s’était dite noire.

    Beaucoup mirent en question la manière dont elle se décrivait, tandis que d’autres l’acceptèrent au pied de la lettre. Personne ne sembla en faire un problème, mais beaucoup virent en elle une force de caractère qui faisait d’elle une avocate puissante et passionnée au Human Rights Education Institute à Coeur D’Alene où elle commença bientôt à travailler.

    « C’est vraiment impressionnant, ce qu’elle a accompli ; elle a apporté beaucoup d’énergie en ces lieux », s’est rappellé son oncle Daniel A.Dolezal dans une interview téléphonique mardi dernier, en parlant du groupe des Human Rights, ainsi que de la section du N.A.A.C.P. de Spokane, qu’elle a fini par diriger plus tard. Il a rappellé son parcours depuis l’époque où elle était une mère célibataire malchanceuse, qui donnait des cours à temps partiel, qui essayait de vendre ses œuvres d’art, et travaillait dans son magasin de photographie à Coeur d’Alene, dans cette partie de la bande côtière de l’Idaho qui avait été autrefois le quartier général de la Aryan Nations, un groupe suprémaciste blanc.

    Alors quand Mme Dolezal (prononcer Dole-Uh-Zahl) apparut à la télévision mardi pour la première fois depuis qu’elle était l’objet d’un débat qui faisait rage sur l’identité raciale et le mensonge, ce ne fut pas une surprise, car bien qu’elle ne puisse se targuer d’aucune filiation d’origine noire, elle refusa d’admettre qu’elle avait trompé qui que ce soit. « Je m’identifie comme noire », a-t-elle dit tout sourire.

    Traduction : #Tradfem
    Version originale : ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/rachel-dolezal-nbc-today-show.html
    #transracialisme #antiracisme #N.A.A.C.P. #identité

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    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 24/03/2018
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    What’s at Stake for Oil as Trump Appoints Another Iran Hawk? - Bloomberg
    ▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/what-s-at-stake-for-oil-as-trump-appoints-another-iran-hawk

    Iran is trying to attract more than $100 billion from international oil companies to boost crude and condensate output by about 25 percent to more than 5 million barrels a day. Without new investment from international companies production will stagnate.

    Trump’s disdain for the nuclear deal has already deterred investors from the country, the third-biggest producer in OPEC. Of the Western energy majors, only France’s Total SA has returned, and its gas venture is proceeding slowly. Iranian officials are already complaining that western oil companies are too cautious to return to the country and there are signs that Russian companies are stepping in to fill the vacuum.

    Total has the biggest financial stake of any international energy major, having pledged to invest $1 billion in the first phase of an offshore natural gas project. Overall investment in the project could reach $5 billion, and while the company is determined to press ahead, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne has promised to review the legal consequences of any new U.S. restrictions.
    […]
    Three years ago, in a New York Times op-ed titled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran,” Bolton argued that the only way to prevent Tehran obtaining nuclear weapons was a military strike. He cited Israel’s preemptive strike in 1981 on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor as an example of effective action.

    Bolton downplayed the significance of his past public statements in an interview with Fox News shortly after the appointment was announced, saying he would defer to the president’s judgment.

    “I’ve never been shy about what my views are,” Bolton said. But, he added, that “now is behind me, at least effective April 9, and the important thing is what the president says and what advice I give him.”

    Bolton’s appointment has lots of implications beyond just Iran, Ian Bremmer, president of consultant Eurasia Group, said on Twitter. It also makes Trump’s scheduled talks with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un riskier, he said.

    Thursday was “probably the worst/biggest single day for geopolitical risk since I started Eurasia Group in 1998,” Bremmer said on Twitter.

    • #Iran
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      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 24/03/2018

      To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran - The New York Times
      By JOHN R. BOLTON – MARCH 26, 2015

      ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/opinion/to-stop-irans-bomb-bomb-iran.html

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      #John_Bolton

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    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 7/10/2017

    Apple’s New Emojis: Dinosaurs, Dumplings and ‘ILY’ - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/technology/new-emojis-apple.html

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    So, how does a new emoji find its way to your screen? The process is complicated enough that it might make you feel like a smiley face with a nuclear mushroom cloud erupting from your head. (Yes, that is one of the new ones.)

    The process is shepherded by the Unicode Consortium, a little-known group that meets quarterly and includes executives from several large technology companies, including Apple and Google.

    The Unicode Consortium’s co-founder and president, Mark Davis, 63, described how the group chose emojis in an interview with The Times in 2015.

    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/technology/how-emojis-find-their-way-to-phones.html

    Among the factors he cited for inclusion were whether the symbol had been translated into Unicode, and how likely it was to be popular or useful.

    “Completeness” was also an influential factor, he said, citing the addition of a mosque and a synagogue to the emoji lexicon that had already included an image of a church.

    #Emojis #Unicode

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    • @fil
      Fil @fil 7/10/2017

      … et toujours pas d’emoji pour dire #merci

      Fil @fil
    • @mad_meg
      mad meg @mad_meg CC BY 7/10/2017

      C’est vrai mais ca serait pas un peu fainéant d’avoir une émoji pour faire ca ?

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    • @simplicissimus
      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 7/10/2017

      ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3lXTL7hs8

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    • @fil
      Fil @fil 7/10/2017

      Vive les fainéants !

      Fil @fil
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  • @cdb_77
    CDB_77 @cdb_77 12/08/2017
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    Let Syrians Settle Detroit

    Syrian refugees would be an ideal community to realize this goal, as Arab-Americans are already a vibrant and successful presence in the Detroit metropolitan area. A 2003 survey by the University of Michigan of 1,016 members of this community (58 percent of whom were Christian, and 42 percent Muslim) found that 19 percent were entrepreneurs and that the median household income was $50,000 to $75,000 per year.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/15/opinion/15laitin/15laitin-master1050.jpg

    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/opinion/let-syrians-settle-detroit.html

    #réfugiés #économie #asile #migrations #Detroit #ouverture_des_frontières #frontières #bénéfice #ghost-town #renaissance #travail

    CDB_77 @cdb_77
    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 12/08/2017

      Open Up, #Europe! Let Migrants In

      Studies by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show that migrants tend to be net contributors to public finances. Educated abroad, they are typically young and healthy, and unlikely to be eligible for a pension if they leave again. Far from being a threat to Europe’s welfare programs, increased migration could make them more sustainable. An influx of new taxpayers would also alleviate the debt burden of the existing population. Since public debt per person in the European Union is nearly 25,000 euros (or $27,700), a 10 percent increase in the population would reduce debt per person by some 2,300 euros ($2,550).

      https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/06/opinion/06Legrain/06Legrain-master1050.jpg

      ►https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/opinion/open-up-europe-let-migrants-in.html

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 5/07/2017

    Foiling Electronic Snoops in #Email - The New York Times
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/technology/personaltech/foiling-electronic-snoops-in-email.html

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/19/business/19techfix/19techfix-facebookJumbo.jpg

    IT didn’t take much for Florian Seroussi, a technology investor in Manhattan, to become suspicious of his email.

    His misgivings were sparked late one night last year when he opened a message from an entrepreneur who was asking him to invest in a start-up. Minutes later, Mr. Seroussi’s cellphone rang with a call from the same start-up executive.

    Coincidence? Not to Mr. Seroussi. “What are the odds that at 10:30 at night, a guy suddenly has a vision that I’m reading his email?” he said. “They must know something that I don’t.”

    It turned out that the start-up executive had planted a tracking mechanism into his message to Mr. Seroussi, a trend that is increasingly afflicting all of our email. Trackers, which come in many forms including a single invisible pixel inserted into an email or the hyperlinks embedded inside a message, are frequently being used to detect when someone opens a message and even where that person is when the email is opened. By some estimates, trackers are now used in as much as 60 percent of all sent emails.

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  • @nidal
    Nidal @nidal CC BY 13/04/2017
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    ISIS c’est bon mangez-en: Thomas Friedman dans le New York Times…
    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/opinion/why-is-trump-fighting-isis-in-syria.html

    This is a time for Trump to be Trump — utterly cynical and unpredictable. ISIS right now is the biggest threat to Iran, Hezbollah, Russia and pro-Shiite Iranian militias — because ISIS is a Sunni terrorist group that plays as dirty as Iran and Russia.

    Trump should want to defeat ISIS in Iraq. But in Syria? Not for free, not now. In Syria, Trump should let ISIS be Assad’s, Iran’s, Hezbollah’s and Russia’s headache — the same way we encouraged the mujahedeen fighters to bleed Russia in Afghanistan.

    Ah oui, c’est juste hallucinant.

    • #Trump
    • #ISIS
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    • @nidal
      Nidal @nidal CC BY 13/04/2017

      Et d’ailleurs Wikileaks ressort à l’instant un email d’un conseiller d’Hillary de février 2012 (Jacob Sullivan, alors “Director of Policy Planning” du Département d’État) :
      ▻https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225#efmAGIAHu

      See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria.

      Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected.

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    • @lyco
      Lyco @lyco 14/04/2017

      En 2015, du même Friedman :

      Now I despise ISIS as much as anyone, but let me just toss out a different question: Should we be arming ISIS? Or let me ask that differently: Why are we, for the third time since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran?

      [...] Obviously, I abhor ISIS and don’t want to see it spread or take over Iraq. I simply raise this question rhetorically because no one else is: Why is it in our interest to destroy the last Sunni bulwark to a total Iranian takeover of Iraq?

      ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/go-ahead-ruin-my-day.html

      Lyco @lyco
    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 14/04/2017

      Mais eh ! „Hégémonie bienveillante !”

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  • @contre
    Contre-attaques @contre 30/01/2017
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    Le #MuslimBan ne sort pas de nulle part : il s’inscrit pleinement dans la politique internationale US de ces dernières années
    ▻http://contre-attaques.org/l-oeil-de/article/il-n-en

    Il n’en demeure pas moins honteux. Alors que la résistance s’organise aux États-Unis contre le décret raciste interdisant l’accès au pays aux ressortissants de 7 pays, nous publions une traduction d’un texte de Glenn Greenwald, initialement paru sur le site de The Intercept. Il n’est pas difficile, pour quiconque a conservé son humanité, de comprendre d’emblée pourquoi la décision de Donald Trump d’interdire l’entrée sur le sol étasunien aux ressortissants de sept pays musulmans est inhumaine, (...)

    #L'œil_de_Contre-Attaques

    / #carousel, #Ailleurs_sur_le_Web, #Terrorisme, #Racisme

    « ►https://theintercept.com/2017/01/28/trumps-muslim-ban-is-culmination-of-war-on-terror-mentality-but-still- »
    « ▻https://twitter.com/Claire_Phipps/status/825114151928295428 »
    « ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html »
    « ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigration-ban-is-illegal.html »
    « ▻http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661 »
    « ▻https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/825088974410620934 »
    « ▻http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/09/muslims-aclu-challenge-government-no-fly-list.html »
    « ▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/09/eric-holder-miranda-right_n_569244.html »
    « ▻https://theintercept.com/2016/03/04/trumps-policies-are-not-anathema-to-the-u-s-mainstream-but-an-uncomfor »
    « ▻https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/824598162333728768 »
    « ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer »
    « ▻https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/syrian-jews-refugees »
    « ▻http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-order-blocks-green-card-visa-holders-airports-article-1.2957910 »
    « ▻https://theintercept.com/2014/07/09/under-surveillance »
    « ▻http://www.breitbart.com/tag/cair »
    « ▻https://www.cair.com/donations/general-donation/campaign/# »
    « ▻https://www.facebook.com/contreattaques »
    « ▻https://twitter.com/CAislamophobie »

    Contre-attaques @contre
    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 30/01/2017

      #Etats-Unis

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  • @reka
    Reka @reka CC BY-NC-SA 18/01/2017

    Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror | Equal Justice Initiative

    ▻http://eji.org/reports/lynching-in-america

    Et un résumé du rapport en pdf

    – ▻http://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-second-edition-summary.pdf

    – ▻http://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-second-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf

    Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 800 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.

    Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation. Lynchings were violent and public events that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials. This was not “frontier justice” carried out by a few marginalized vigilantes or extremists. Instead, many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators (including elected officials and prominent citizens) for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person. People who participated in lynchings were celebrated and acted with impunity.

    + l’article du NYT

    History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names - The New York Times
    ►https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/10/us/10LYNCHING1/10LYNCHING1-facebookJumbo.jpg

    DALLAS — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum. In 1910, a group of men rushed into the courthouse, threw a rope around the neck of a black man accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old white girl, and threw the other end of the rope out a window. A mob outside yanked the man, Allen Brooks, to the ground and strung him up at a ceremonial arch a few blocks down Main Street.

    #états-unis #racisme

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  • @fzs600
    fzs600 @fzs600 11/01/2017

    Je ne suis pas Charlie. Je suis CCIF (par Naëm Bestandji)
    ▻https://www.facebook.com/notes/na%C3%ABm-bestandji/je-ne-suis-pas-charlie-je-suis-ccif-par-na%C3%ABm-bestandji/10211314444114913

    Qu’on ne se dise pas être « Charlie Hebdo », je comprends. Personne n’est obligé d’aimer ce journal, même après les attentats. Mais refuser d’être « Charlie » ? « Je suis Charlie » est la réaction la plus pacifiste qui soit face aux attentats qui ont non seulement touché la France mais aussi et surtout nos valeurs fondamentales. Être « Charlie » signifie la volonté de rassembler tout le monde, quelles que soient nos origines, notre (non)religion ou nos opinions, contre l’obscurantisme et la barbarie. Cela définit le refus de répondre par la violence, la volonté de répondre par la fraternité à travers un mouvement pacifiste qui a pour seules armes la démocratie et quelques crayons. C’est un cri à la liberté d’expression et à l’humanisme.

    #ccif #islamisme

    • #Charlie Hebdo
    fzs600 @fzs600
    • @stephane_m
      Stephane M @stephane_m 11/01/2017
      @fzs600

      @fzs600

      Emmanuel Todd a bien pointé le caractère un peu gênant de ce consensus mou très instrumentalisé par Hollande.
      Quelques éléments ici :
      ▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/qui-est-charlie-la-polemique-emmanuel-todd_1678331.html

      Surtout la manifestation à Paris où ce slogan « Je suis Charlie » était affiché comprenait au premier rang Netanyahu et Ali Bongo, deux criminels que nos politiciens courtisent parce que cela leur rapporte de l’argent (l’argent des réseaux sionistes américains pour Netanyahu, l’argent du peuple Gabonais, pour Bongo).

      ▻http://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/attaque-au-siege-de-charlie-hebdo/bongo-orban-netanyahu-ces-chefs-d-etat-dont-la-presence-a-la-marche-fai

      Moi ce slogan me met mal à l’aise.

      Stephane M @stephane_m
    • @vanderling
      Vanderling @vanderling 11/01/2017

      I AM NOT CHARLIE
      source : New York Times - David Brooks 8/01/2015
      ▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/david-brooks-i-am-not-charlie-hebdo.html?_r=0

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  • @supergeante
    Supergéante @supergeante 15/02/2016
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    History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names
    ►http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html

    http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/10/us/10LYNCHING2/10LYNCHING2-articleLarge.jpg

    Map of 73 Years of Lynchings
    ►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching.html
    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/02/09/lynching/62d08cd01a9c83e23cb83d9b9d21f21c2be0f714/0209-nat-web-LYNCHING-Artboard_1.png

    #lynchage #histoire #etats_unis #cartographie

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  • @liotier
    liotier @liotier CC BY-SA 6/05/2015

    "Open up, #Europe - let «migrants in !»
    ►http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/opinion/open-up-europe-let-migrants-in.html

    • #Europe
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  • @unagi
    unagi @unagi CC BY-NC 11/02/2015
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    Map of 73 Years of Lynchings
    ►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching.html

    ►http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html
    “The most recent data on lynching, compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950 in 12 Southern states. The killers claimed to be enforcing some form of social justice. The alleged offenses that prompted the lynchings included political activism and testifying in court.”

    http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/02/09/lynching/62d08cd01a9c83e23cb83d9b9d21f21c2be0f714/0209-nat-web-LYNCHING-Artboard_1.png

    Without Sanctuary-Photographs & postcards of lynching in America
    ▻http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

    http://withoutsanctuary.org/photos/33.jpg

    The lynching of J. L. Compton and Joseph Wilson, vigilantes. April 30, 1870. Helena, Montana.

    Lithographed postcard. Printed 1920-1930. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

    Printed inscription in upper right hand corner reads, “Hangman’s Tree, Helena Montana.” Another version of this card states, “More than twenty men were hanged upon this tree during the early days.”

    "A one-thousand-member vigilance committee accused the two men of shooting and robbing an old man named George Lenhart. Their fate was decided on the courthouse steps by mock trial, because “the law was tedious, expensive, and uncertain.”

    When law officers interrupted the proceedings, they were imprisoned by the mob."

    http://withoutsanctuary.org/photos/81.jpg

    Poeme figurant au dos d’une carte postale de lynchage.

    http://withoutsanctuary.org/photos/90.jpg

    • #America
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    • @reka
      Reka @reka CC BY-NC-SA 11/02/2015

      #états-unis #cartographie #visualisation #Lynchage #racisme

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    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 11/02/2015

      Etats-Unis : il y a eu plus de noirs lynchés que ce que l’on croyait jusqu’à présent | Slate.fr
      ▻http://www.slate.fr/story/97845/victimes-lynchage

      http://www.slate.fr/sites/default/files/video_thumb_h4ZyuULy9zs.jpg

      Certaines de ces victimes noires étaient incarcérées en attente de procès, et les foules en colère envahissaient la prison (avec la complicité des autorités) pour venir les pendre. Il y a eu de nombreux cas d’hommes brûlés vifs et démembrés. Beaucoup ont été tués pour ne pas avoir respecté la hiérarchie raciale en vigueur à l’époque : porter un uniforme de l’armée ou bousculer une femme blanche dans la rue pouvait suffir à déclencher la #folie meurtrière de la population. Pendant la période, aucun blanc n’a été condamné pour ces #meurtres #barbares, et des cartes postales avec photo des cadavres étaient vendues en tant que souvenirs après les exécutions.

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  • @cdb_77
    CDB_77 @cdb_77 17/08/2014
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    Syria’s Climate Conflict
    How climate change contributes to civil unrest

    https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/700/1*hnzy7WB96J6T9QuvKD5g8Q.gif https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/700/1*CKsDbGTgzG2HKQb3VAFwSQ.jpeg

    ▻https://medium.com/the-nib/syrias-climate-conflict-43559b8ec211

    #Syrie #climat #changement_climatique #guerre #conflit #BD #bande-dessinée #sécheresse #agriculture #eau #agriculture

    • #Syrie
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    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 2/06/2019
      @reka

      La guerre en Syrie causée par le réchauffement climatique ?

      Les controverses scientifiques sont les moteurs de la recherche, mais elles sèment parfois la confusion. La question des liens entre environnement naturel et conflits violents en est un bon exemple récent. Ainsi en 2015 une équipe de recherche publiait dans les Proceedings of the [American] National Academy of Sciences une étude intitulée « Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought » (▻https://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241) qui connut un succès médiatique majeur.

      Son argument central était qu’en Syrie, la sécheresse aurait, dès 2007, poussé les populations rurales vers les villes, aggravé la concurrence pour les ressources et exacerbé les tensions communautaires. Les révoltes de 2011, puis la guerre civile en seraient les conséquences, de même que la crise migratoire de 2015.

      L’étude fut relayée dans le New-York Times (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html) et, comme beaucoup d’autres, le président de la commission européenne Jean-Claude Juncker s’en fit l’écho en déclarant dans son discours sur l’état de l’UE de 2015 (▻http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-15-5614_fr.htm) que le changement climatique était « l’une des causes profondes d’un nouveau phénomène migratoire ».

      En 2017 cependant, un autre groupe de recherche publia une critique acerbe de cette thèse dans Political Geography sous le titre « Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited » (▻https://www.academia.edu/33880127/Climate_Change_and_the_Syrian_Civil_War_Revisited). Ils y affirmaient qu’il n’existe aucune démonstration probante selon laquelle la sécheresse aurait causé la guerre civile syrienne avec notamment l’argument que les régions plus touchées par la sécheresse n’ont pas été celles où les révoltes ont pris naissance. S’ensuivit un dialogue de sourds entre les deux équipes qui peut être suivi ici (▻https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography/vol/60/suppl/C) et qui laissa les observateurs perplexes.

      Une nouvelle publication vient heureusement de montrer il y a quelques semaines que si la science louvoie parfois, elle progresse quand on lui en laisse le temps. Dans une étude plus exhaustive que les deux premières publiée dans la revue Global Environmental Change, une troisième équipe (▻https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378018301596) passe en revue l’ensemble des connaissances et croise les données de migration, de climat et de conflits pour 157 pays. Il en ressort que le climat joue bel et bien un rôle dans certains conflits et dans les déplacements de réfugiés qui en découlent, mais que ce rôle reste modeste et largement conditionné par d’autres variables économiques et politiques.

      Sans l’oppression politique du régime, la guerre n’aurait pas eu lieu en Syrie, avec ou sans sécheresse.

      ▻https://blogs.letemps.ch/etienne-piguet/2019/05/31/la-guerre-en-syrie-causee-par-le-rechauffement-climatique/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

      ping @reka

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    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 14/03/2020

      A mettre en lien avec

      MOHAMED’S STORY. Escaping the #climate_conflict_trap

      https://seenthis.net/local/cache-vignettes/L492xH700/adelphi_lake8671-d91d8.jpg

      ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/830691
      #Lac_Tchad

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