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In the ruins of Gaza, children are starving to death and there’s no cease-fire in sight
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Comme tout le monde, je fais régulièrement ces deux cauchemars : dans le premier, je meurs coincé dans un boyau étroit en faisant de la spéléologie ; dans le second, un de mes enfants est de droite.

Pennsylvania man arrested after allegedly decapitating his father and displaying his head on YouTube
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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly killing his father, before displaying his decapitated head in a gruesome YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories.

Justin Mohn, 32, is accused of killing his father, Michael Mohn, Capt. Pete Feeney of the Middletown Township Police Department told NBC News.

Mohn was taken into custody on suspicion of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possessing an instrument of crime with intent, according to a court docket released early Wednesday. He was arraigned at 4 a.m. and denied bail, Feeney said.

In the YouTube video, which was titled “Mohn’s Militia - Call To Arms For American Patriots,” Mohn is seen wearing gloves and holding his father’s head in a plastic bag. Later, the head can be seen in a cooking pot.

Mohn says his father was a federal employee for 20 years and refers to him as a traitor, calling for the death of all federal officials, attacking President Joe Biden’s administration, the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community and antifa activists. YouTube removed the video, which is more than 14 minutes long, hours after it was posted.

Senior education official cites Biden’s ’blind eye to the atrocities’ in Gaza as reason for resignation
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A senior Biden education official announced his resignation Wednesday, citing the administration’s failure to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza from Israel’s offensive in its deadly war with Hamas.

In a letter Wednesday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Tariq Habash, a policy advisor in the department’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, wrote, “I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government.”

Habash, a Palestinian American, is a political appointee and a student loan and college affordability specialist.

Hundreds of Jewish organization staffers call for White House to back Gaza cease-fire
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One of the letter’s signers, who works for a Jewish museum in Washington and slipped out of his office to not be overheard speaking with a reporter, said he was worried that members of his organization’s board or a major donor would find out about his support for the letter.

Poll: Biden’s standing hits new lows amid Israel-Hamas war
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President Joe Biden’s approval rating has declined to the lowest level of his presidency — 40% — as strong majorities of all voters disapprove of his handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll.

What’s more, the poll finds Biden behind former President Donald Trump for the first time in a hypothetical general-election matchup, although the deficit is well within the poll’s margin of error for a contest that’s still more than 11 months away.

Security bolstered for judge overseeing Trump election case
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/security-bolstered-judge-overseeing-trump-election-case-rcna99221

Judges typically do not get such escorts when they move around the courthouse, and Chutkan was observed as recently as last week walking around the building without security.

Judge Tanya Chutkan.U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
CNN first reported the heightened security.

The change comes after the former president complained about Chutkan on his social media platform, Truth Social, this week.

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Prosecutors pointed to Trump’s Truth Social post last week that read: “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”

C’est une bonne idée, ça, de menacer la personne qui va te juger sur les réseaux sociaux…

#États-Unis : tueries de masse par jour et par État et nombre de morts — une infographie plutôt impressionnante dans Libé ce matin.

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Le nombre de décès par armes à feu aux Etats-Unis bat lui aussi des records : 48 830 en 2021, en hausse de 8 % par rapport à 2020, une année jugée « historique » par les autorités sanitaires. Environ 54 % de ces décès sont des suicides.

Les tueries de masse, elles aussi, font de plus en plus de victimes - près de 700 morts et 1 300 blessés l’an passé, contre 275 et 433 en 2014. Et inexorablement, leur fréquence s’accélère. Sur les 25 #massacres les plus meurtriers perpétrés aux Etats-Unis, et dont les noms restent gravés dans la mémoire collective (Parkland, Orlando, Sandy Hook, El Paso, Virginia Tech, Uvalde, Buffalo…), vingt ont été perpétrées depuis l’an 2000 et douze au cours des cinq dernières années.

#fusillade #armes #meurtre #fussillade_de_masse #violence_armée #turie_de_masse #fusillades

Supreme Court rules for former coach in public school prayer case
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“Today’s decision is particularly misguided because it elevates the religious rights of a school official, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection,” Sotomayor wrote. “In doing so, the Court sets us further down a perilous path in forcing States to entangle themselves with religion, with all of our rights hanging in the balance.”

Le shithole country ne déçoit jamais.

President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine | May 31, 2022
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opinion/biden-ukraine-strategy.html

As the war goes on, I want to be clear about the aims of the United States in these efforts.

America’s goal is straightforward: We want to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous #Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression.

As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said, ultimately this war “will only definitively end through diplomacy.” Every negotiation reflects the facts on the ground. We have moved quickly to send Ukraine a significant amount of weaponry and ammunition so it can fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.

[...] My principle throughout this crisis has been “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” I will not pressure the Ukrainian government — in private or public — to make any territorial concessions. It would be wrong and contrary to well-settled principles to do so.

Ukraine’s talks with Russia are not stalled because Ukraine has turned its back on diplomacy. They are stalled because Russia continues to wage a war to take control of as much of Ukraine as it can. The United States will continue to work to strengthen Ukraine and support its efforts to achieve a negotiated end to the conflict.

U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-helped-ukraine-protect-air-defenses-shoot-russian-plane-carry-rcna

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Ukrainian forces have used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and aircraft, current and former officials tell NBC News.

#états-unis

Pertes de mémoire, vertiges... L’ambassade américaine en France rattrapée par le mystérieux syndrome de La Havane
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Apparu à Cuba en 2016, ce mal dont la cause reste inconnue frappe des personnels diplomatiques américain et canadien à travers le monde. Attaque aux ultrasons ou psychose collective, les services de renseignement sèchent. Un premier cas présumé, recensé cet été à Paris, vient d’être révélé.

A Paris, le mystère aurait aussi pris la forme de maux de tête, de vertiges et parfois de pertes de mémoire. Des manifestations typiques du syndrome de La Havane, comme a été surnommé cet énigmatique trouble neurologique visant uniquement des diplomates américains et canadiens. Le 13 janvier, le Wall Street Journal a révélé trois nouveaux cas à Genève et un dans la capitale française. Tous datant de l’été 2021. A l’ambassade des Etats-Unis, un vaste bâtiment ultra-sécurisé, situé à quelques centaines de mètres du palais de l’Elysée, un e-mail a été envoyé pour encourager le personnel à signaler d’éventuels symptômes.

Impossible de savoir si d’autres cas crédibles ont été recensés : « Pour des raisons de confidentialité et de sécurité, nous ne pouvons pas évoquer les détails ou les opérations de l’ambassade, précise Colton P. Seigel, du département d’Etat, par e-mail, au sujet de ce que l’administration Biden a baptisé « incidents de santé anormaux » (anomalous health incidents, ou AHI).

Australian Olympic swimmer Madi Wilson hospitalized with Covid in Italy By Tim Fitzsimons
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/australian-olympic-swimmer-madi-wilson-hospitalized-covid-italy-n1279654

Wilson, 27, said her vaccination protected those around her and encouraged followers to get the shot: “Please continue to get vaccinated.”
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Australian Olympic swimmer Madi Wilson announced that she has tested positive for Covid-19 and is hospitalized in Italy as a precaution because of “underlying chest and lung issues.”

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Wilson, who competes with the Los Angeles Current team in the International Swimming League, or ISL, wrote that she tested positive even though she is “double vaccinated and took the right precaution set in place through the ISL.”

Wilson, who was in Naples, Italy, for an ISL competition, said she would be forced to miss the next match.

“Covid is a serious thing and when it comes it hits very hard,” she wrote. “I’d be stupid to say I wasn’t scared.”

Wilson guessed that she might have been more susceptible to a breakthrough Covid infection after “a crazy few months,” including the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, had left her “run down physically and mentally.”
#crise_sanitaire #covid-19 #sante #santé #coronavirus #sars-cov-2 #variant #covid #pandémie #vaccin #vaccins #vaccination #santé_publique #obligation_vaccinale #Australie #Italie

After she concealed her race, Black Indianapolis owner’s home value more than doubled
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A Black Indianapolis homeowner who had a nagging suspicion that her house was lowballed in two appraisals last year went to great lengths to conceal her race in a third. She removed photos of herself and her relatives and had a white friend pose as her brother for the appraiser’s home visit.

The result? The appraisal of Carlette Duffy’s home more than doubled.

Duffy’s home, which was assessed by different companies last year, was first appraised at $125,000, then $110,000 and finally $259,000 in November, according to the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana. The nonprofit announced this month that it had filed housing discrimination complaints on Duffy’s behalf with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Amy Nelson, executive director of the group representing Duffy, said it’s “heartbreaking” that she had to do so much to secure a fair appraisal.

#racisme_institutionnalisé #états-unis

#Covid-19 : le cas de l’homme possédant des superanticorps contre le #coronavirus et pourquoi il constitue un espoir pour les scientifiques - BBC News Afrique
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Le problème est que lorsqu’une personne entre en contact avec le virus pour la première fois, il faut du temps pour que son organisme produise ces anticorps spécifiques, ce qui permet au virus de se propager.

Mais les #anticorps de Hollis sont différents : ils attaquent diverses parties du virus et le tuent rapidement.

Ils sont si puissants qu’Hollis est immunisé contre les variantes les plus récentes du coronavirus.

« On pourrait diluer ses anticorps à un millième et continuer à tuer 99 % du virus », affirme Liotta.

He unknowingly had Covid-19. Now his blood contains rare antibodies.
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On apprend rétrospectivement que le concerné avait eu une forme légère de Covid-19 qui est passée en 2 jours, et que c’est lui qui avait contaminé son voisin.

#variants #immunité #sars-cov2

#Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism and sexism
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#sans_vergogne

Thousands of #Covid-19 vaccines wind up in the garbage because of fed, state guidelines
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A hospital Covid-19 vaccination team shows up at the emergency room to inoculate employees who haven’t received their shots.

Finding just a few, the team is about to leave when an ER doctor suggests they give the remaining doses to vulnerable patients or nonhospital employees. The team refuses, saying that would violate hospital policy and state guidelines.

Incensed, the doctor works his way up the hospital chain of command until he finds an administrator who gives the OK for the team to use up the rest of the doses.

But by the time the doctor tracks down the medical team, its shift is over and, following protocol, whatever doses remained are now in the garbage.

Isolated incident? Not a chance, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told NBC News.

#absurdités #états-unis #leadership

Insecure wheels : Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/snitches-wheels-police-turn-car-data-destroy-suspects-alibis-n1251939

Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement. On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. French, a grandfather of eight who always tried to help people “down on their luck,” his daughter Ronda Hamilton told NBC affiliate WOOD of Kalamazoo, had disappeared three weeks before. According to the police report, a cord (...)

#Cellebrite #Bluetooth #capteur #smartphone #voiture #GPS #USBKey #géolocalisation #criminalité #données #écoutes #surveillance (...)

##criminalité ##FTC

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Google employees form workers’ union in United States
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Jan. 4, 2021, 3:04 PM CET / Updated Jan. 4, 2021, 3:05 PM CET
By Reuters
More than 200 Google employees in the United States have formed a workers’ union, the elected leaders of the union wrote in a New York Times opinion piece on Monday.

The “Alphabet Workers Union” aims to ensure that employees work at a fair wage, without fear of abuse, retaliation or discrimination, the union heads wrote here.

Google has been under fire here from the U.S. labor regulator, which has accused the company of unlawfully questioning several workers who were then terminated for protesting against company policies and trying to organize a union. Google has said it was confident it acted legally.

“We’re building on years of organizing efforts at Google to create a formal structure for workers,” the union leaders wrote, adding that so far 226 employees had signed union cards with the Communications Workers of America.

“Our employees have protected labor rights that we support. But as we’ve always done, we’ll continue engaging directly with all our employees,” Kara Silverstein, director of people operations at Google, said on Monday.

#Google #Syndicat #Travail

Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives.
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“When you have a family to feed, kids to pay school fees for, rents to pay, a loan to pay and your work is too much and exploitative, what happens ?” a driver said. NAIROBI, Kenya — At first, work as an Uber driver seemed to offer Harrison Munala everything he’d hoped for when he moved from a town in the western part of Kenya to its capital, Nairobi. Uber seemed like the answer to Munala after he had spent nearly 15 years of informal employment as a house cleaner and school bus driver. Many (...)

#Uber #conducteur·trice·s #GigEconomy #pauvreté #travail

##pauvreté

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How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
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The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity , according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator.

c’est le #progrès