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  • @hlc
    Articles repérés par Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc CC BY 16/06/2024

    Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
    ►https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda

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    Superbe et très long travail de Reuters pour montrer comment, indépendamment de toute considération humaine, la CIA a mené une action de psyop pour dénoncer le vaccin chinois Sinovac aux Philippines. Les fake news produites par les États dans le cadre de cyberattaques ne sont pas l’apanage des seuls Russes et Chinois. La montée des menaces guerrières détruit toute moralité et utilise l’internet comme média de désinformation. Et après, les mêmes Etats écriront des lois pour limiter le liberté d’expression.

    The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

    By CHRIS BING and JOEL SCHECTMAN

    Filed June 14, 2024, 9:45 a.m. GMT

    WASHINGTON, DC

    At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

    The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

    Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

    #Anti-vax #Fake_news #CIA #Phillipines #Psyop

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    Fil @fil 16/06/2024

    Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
    ►https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda

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    The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

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      Apparemment, les petits triangles ne s’affichent pas à chaque fois...
      ►https://seenthis.net/messages/1057877

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      ouaips, merci !

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    Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
    ►https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda

    At the height of the #COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

    [...]

    The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined. Tailoring the propaganda campaign to local audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Pentagon used a combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to spread fear of China’s vaccines among Muslims at a time when the virus was killing tens of thousands of people each day. A key part of the strategy: amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.

    The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.

    [...]

    To implement the anti-vax campaign, the Defense Department overrode strong objections from top U.S. diplomats in Southeast Asia at the time, Reuters found. Sources involved in its planning and execution say the Pentagon, which ran the program through the military’s psychological operations center in Tampa, Florida, disregarded the collateral impact that such propaganda may have on innocent Filipinos.

    “We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

    [...]

    Days later [in July 2020], China’s foreign minister announced Beijing would grant Duterte’s plea for priority access to the vaccine, as part of a “new highlight in bilateral relations.”

    China’s growing influence fueled efforts by U.S. military leaders to launch the secret propaganda operation Reuters uncovered.

    “We didn’t do a good job sharing vaccines with partners,” a senior U.S. military officer directly involved in the campaign in Southeast Asia told Reuters. “So what was left to us was to throw shade on China’s.”

    U.S. military leaders feared that China’s COVID diplomacy and propaganda could draw other Southeast Asian countries, such as Cambodia and Malaysia, closer to Beijing, furthering its regional ambitions.

    A senior U.S. military commander responsible for Southeast Asia, Special Operations Command Pacific General Jonathan Braga, pressed his bosses in Washington to fight back in the so-called information space, according to three former Pentagon officials.

    [...]

    Facebook executives had first approached the Pentagon in the summer of 2020, warning the military that Facebook workers had easily identified the military’s phony accounts, according to three former U.S. officials and another person familiar with the matter. The government, Facebook argued, was violating Facebook’s policies by operating the bogus accounts and by spreading COVID misinformation.

    The military argued that many of its fake accounts were being used for counterterrorism and asked Facebook not to take down the content, according to two people familiar with the exchange. The Pentagon pledged to stop spreading COVID-related propaganda, and some of the accounts continued to remain active on Facebook.

    Nonetheless, the anti-vax campaign continued into 2021 as Biden took office.

    [...]

    By spring 2021, the National Security Council ordered the military to stop all anti-vaccine messaging. [...]

    Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda efforts are set to continue. In an unclassified strategy document last year, top Pentagon generals wrote that the U.S. military could undermine adversaries such as China and Russia using “disinformation spread across social media, false narratives disguised as news, and similar subversive activities [to] weaken societal trust by undermining the foundations of government.”

    And in February, the contractor that worked on the anti-vax campaign – General Dynamics IT – won a $493 million contract. Its mission: to continue providing clandestine influence services for the military.

    #Chine #Philippines #vaccin #psyop #désinformation

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    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 14/06/2024

      #made_in_america

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    • @monolecte
      Monolecte 😷🤬 @monolecte CC BY-NC-SA 16/06/2024

      #criminels

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    • @sombre
      Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA 16/06/2024

      La #CIA, toujours dans les mauvais coups, est décidément fascist-friendly ... Bon après, c’est Trump qui était aux manettes à l’époque mais est-ce que ça change quelque chose ?

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    • @biggrizzly
      BigGrizzly @biggrizzly CC BY-NC-SA 16/06/2024

      #cépalérusses ?

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 14/10/2023
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    American Dreams
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-tennessee

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    As part of a series on slavery and America’s political elite, Reuters found that a fifth of U.S. congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors have direct ancestors who enslaved Black people.

    #états-unis

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 16/06/2023
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    Rich nations say they’re spending billions to fight climate change. Some money is going to strange places.
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-finance

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    Reuters found large sums going to projects including a coal plant, a hotel and chocolate shops.

    […]

    Although a coal plant, a hotel, chocolate stores, a movie and an airport expansion don’t seem like efforts to combat global warming, nothing prevented the governments that funded them from reporting them as such to the United Nations and counting them toward their giving total.

    #climat #sans_vergogne

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 26/05/2023

    How doctors buy their way out of trouble
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-healthcare-settlements

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    “A wealthy doctor bought his way out of jail,” whistleblower Mark Favors told Reuters in his first public interview about the Qin case. “How many people get a deal like that?”

    The answer, it turns out, is plenty.

    #états-unis #médecins

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  • @reka
    Phil Reka docs & archives @reka CC BY-NC-SA 24/12/2020

    Challenging police violence … while Black
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-race

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    Encounters like these, occurring across the United States, inform persistent complaints that racial bias poisons policing in the country — complaints that coalesced into a mass movement for policing reform after the May 25 death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis cop.

    A growing body of research supports the perception that police unfairly target Black Americans. They are more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested than their white compatriots. They also are more likely to be killed by police.

    The aftermath of each of the three incidents examined for this article followed a common pattern. The officers who killed Stewart and roughed up Dobbins and Howse said the force they used was appropriate because the men ran, resisted or otherwise didn’t follow orders. The officers – all of them white – were cleared of wrongdoing by their departments. Local prosecutors brought no charges against them.

    But Stewart’s family, Dobbins and Howse all felt wronged and hoped to hold the police accountable. The men didn’t comply, they said, because they had no idea why police engaged with them in the first place, and as Black men, they were justifiably frustrated or afraid or both. As Stewart’s mother, Mary, put it: “Luke wasn’t doing anything illegal, and now he’s dead … It was racism. It was police brutality.”

    #états-unis #violences_policières

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 20/11/2020

    A cop shoots a Black man, and a #police union flexes its muscle
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-rochester-shooting

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  • @jeanmarie
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    Reprise d’un thread de Dr Gonzo sur Twitter
    ▻https://twitter.com/DocteurGonzo4/status/1310642886225154050

    Les Narcos blanchissent l’argent de la #cocaïne en vendant l’#or du #Pérou, extrait illégalement, au prix de désastres écologiques et sociaux, aux multinationales véreuses qui en nécessitent : #Apple, #Samsung, #Téléphone mobile #Tiffany, #Cartier Bague et même la Monnaie des États Unis (#US_Mint)

    ▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1310642813906935808/pu/vid/638x360/l94yUiqM6nbcmChp.mp4

    La commercialisation de l’or illégal par les #narcotrafiquants est devenu plus rentable que la cocaïne. #Miami est la plaque tournante de ce marché : 35 milliards $ d’or (28 milliards €) reçues en 10 ans.

    ▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1310643117171920896/pu/vid/480x270/oyCgMPjRfjFNEH3L.mp4

    L’extraction illégale d’or, encouragée par l’avidité des multinationales, et par l’absence de répression judiciaire des dirigeants d’entreprises et des politiciens américains et péruviens qui se servent au passage, engendre des catastrophes sociales et écologiques en #Amazonie

    ▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1310643521079173123/pu/vid/640x360/A7qxlBn84tk0XTzN.mp4

    En tant que larbin de la finance et des multinationales, #LREM promeut l’orpaillage légal, tout aussi dévastateur pour l’environnement que l’illégal, en soutenant des projets industriels en #Guyane et la réouverture de mines en métropole (projet de réforme du code minier) ... : ▻https://twitter.com/DocteurGonzo4/status/1287957950024364032

    1Kg de cocaïne se vend 2.500$.
    1Kg d’or se vend entre 30 et 40.000$.

    – ▻https://courrierinternational.com/article/trafic-de-drogue-comment-lor-sale-blanchit-largent-des-narcos
    – ▻https://miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article194188034.html
    – ▻https://verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verite-Report-Illegal_Gold_Mining-2.pdf
    – ▻https://netflix.com/fr/title/80118100
    – ▻https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/narco_finance_impunis
    – ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/gold-peru-swiss

    #Ecologie #drogue

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    • @rastapopoulos
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      et #TIC #informatique #smartphone #ordiphone #téléphone_mobile

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  • @etraces
    e-traces @etraces ART LIBRE 6/08/2020

    Rite Aid deployed facial recognition system in hundreds of U.S. stores
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-riteaid-software

    In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, Reuters found. Among the technology the U.S. retailer used : a state-of-the-art system from a company with links to China and its authoritarian government. Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States, in one of the largest rollouts of such (...)

    #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #consommation #racisme #supermarché #reconnaissance #consentement #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #pauvreté (...)

    ##supermarché ##pauvreté ##surveillance

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 9/07/2019
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    Project Raven — Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven

    Ex-NSA operatives reveal how they helped spy on targets for
    the Arab monarchy — dissidents, rival leaders and journalists.

    By Christopher Bing + Joel Schectman

    https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/testfiles/raven-assets/images/lori.jpg

    In 2013, her world changed. While stationed at NSA Hawaii, [Lori] Stroud says, she made the fateful recommendation to bring a Dell technician already working in the building onto her team. That contractor was Edward Snowden.

    “He’s former CIA, he’s local, he’s already cleared,” Stroud, 37, recalled. “He’s perfect!” Booz and the NSA would later approve Snowden’s transfer, providing him with even greater access to classified material.

    Two months after joining Stroud’s group, Snowden fled the United States and passed on thousands of pages of top secret program files to journalists, detailing the agency’s massive data collection programs. In the maelstrom that followed, Stroud said her Booz team was vilified for unwittingly enabling the largest security breach in agency history.

    “Our brand was ruined,” she said of her team.

    In the wake of the scandal, Marc Baier, a former colleague at NSA Hawaii, offered her the chance to work for a contractor in Abu Dhabi called CyberPoint. In May 2014, Stroud jumped at the opportunity and left Booz Allen.

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    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 9/07/2019

      #etats-unis

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    China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific

    The Chinese navy, which is growing faster than any other major fleet, now controls the seas off its coast. Once dominant, the United States and its allies sail warily in these waters. A former U.S. naval officer says China’s advances have caught America napping.
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-army-navy
    #chine #etatsunis

    • #China
    • #United States
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      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 1/05/2019

      la version en ligne “ classique ” de ce très bel article interactif :

      Special Report: China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific - Reuters
      ▻https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1S6139

      https://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20190430&t=2&i=1382188782&w=1200&r=LYNXNPEF3T0TE#.jpg

      FILE PHOTO - Warships and fighter jets of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy take part in a military display in the South China Sea April 12, 2018.
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      For now, many of China’s warships are smaller vessels, including a big fleet of fast missile-attack craft. But Chinese shipyards are launching surface warships that are closing the gap in size, quality, and capability with the best of their foreign counterparts, according to interviews with veterans of the U.S., Taiwanese and Australian navies. China’s big fleet of conventional and nuclear submarines is also improving rapidly, they say.

      By 2020, the PLA navy will boast more big surface warships and submarines than the Russian navy, the former head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, told a congressional committee last year. Some American naval experts believe China could achieve rough parity with the U.S. Navy in numbers and quality of major surface warships by 2030.

      Crucially, the Chinese navy already has an edge in hitting power, according to senior officers from the U.S. and other regional navies. The best Chinese destroyers, frigates, fast attack craft and submarines are armed with anti-ship missiles that in most cases far outrange and outperform those on U.S. warships, these officers say.

      This firepower explains why Washington keeps its carriers at a distance. The last U.S. carrier to pass through the Taiwan Strait was the now-decommissioned USS Kitty Hawk, which made a transit with its battle group in late 2007 after being denied a port visit to Hong Kong.

      The U.S. Navy and other foreign navies still sail near the Chinese mainland. But they avoid overt shows of force that would increase the risk of clashes with modern Chinese warships and submarines. Retired U.S. Navy carrier-fleet officers say that in recent years the Pentagon has also avoided sending carriers to the Yellow Sea between the Korean Peninsula and the Chinese mainland, amid repeated Chinese warnings.

      An example of China’s determination to control its near waters came this month, when a French warship passed through the Taiwan Strait. After the April 6 transit of the frigate Vendemiaire, China informed Paris that France was no longer welcome to attend celebrations last week to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese communist navy, U.S. officials told Reuters.

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    • @cedric3
      Cédric Ridel @cedric3 CC BY 2/05/2019

      On peut mettre cet article en perspective avec celui sur les conséquences de l’austérité sur l’armée britannique (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/world/europe/austerity-britain-military.html) alors que partout les dépenses augmentent (▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/une/rearmement-le-boom-des-depenses-militaires-un-parfum-de-guerr) ; La Russie est en recul, dépassée notamment par la France (▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures)

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    Special Report - Inside the UAE’s secret #hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
    ▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-raven-specialreport-idUKKCN1PO1A6

    She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to help the United Arab Emirates engage in #surveillance of other governments, #militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy.

    #mercenaires #etats-unis #droits #emirats_arabes_unis

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    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 11/12/2019

      Aux Émirats Arabes Unis, le Project Raven espionne des citoyens américains
      ▻https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Moyen-Orient/Au-Emirats-Arabes-Unis-Project-Raven-espionne-citoyens-americains-2019-02-

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    • @kassem
      Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 11/12/2019

      Complètement d’enquête par les mêmes journalistes :

      #Made_in_America
      ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-raven-whitehouse

      Reuters reports this year revealed how a group of former National Security Agency operatives and other elite American intelligence veterans helped the UAE spy on a wide range of targets through the previously undisclosed program — from terrorists to human rights activists, journalists and dissidents.

      Now, an examination of the origins of #DREAD, reported here for the first time, shows how a pair of former senior White House leaders, working with ex-NSA spies and Beltway contractors, played pivotal roles in building a program whose actions are now under scrutiny by federal authorities.

      [...]

      In an interview in Washington, Clarke said that after recommending that the UAE create a cyber surveillance agency, his company, Good Harbor Consulting, was hired to help the country build it. The idea, Clarke said, was to create a unit capable of tracking terrorists. He said the plan was approved by the U.S. State Department and the National Security Agency , and that Good Harbor followed U.S. law.

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 15/12/2018

    #J&J knew for decades that #asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer

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    J&J didn’t tell the #FDA that at least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had found asbestos in its talc – in one case at levels reported as “rather high.”

    #etats-unis #criminels “#pacte_de_responsabilité” #poudre #cancer

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  • @odilon
    odilon @odilon CC BY-NC-ND 3/12/2018
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    Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-camps-china

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    China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite images of 39 of these facilities shows they are expanding at a rapid rate.

    #chine #camps_de_travail #musulman #Ouïghours #détention

    • #China
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      Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 3/12/2018
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      Très belle illustration visuelle !

      La légende des différentes étapes :

      Here are the footprints of all 39 camps. Prior to April 2017, these facilities had a total of 539 buildings covering 379,000 square meters.

      By August this year, the number of buildings at these facilities had more than doubled to 1,129. The area they covered had almost tripled to more than 1 million square meters - roughly the size of 140 soccer fields.

      And the expansion continues. A further 67 buildings, covering an area of 210,000 square meters, are now under construction in these compounds, according to the most recent satellite imagery that was analyzed.

      Infographie vraiment remarquable.

      #merci @odilon

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    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 14/01/2019

      Opinion: The Strange Silence Over China’s Muslim Crackdown

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      President Trump says trade talks between the United States and China have been, “going very well.” The United States put $250 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods last year, to counter what it considers unfair trade practices and theft of U.S. technology.

      But there are no indications the United States, the United Nations, or any government is prepared to use any economic or diplomatic leverage to oppose China locking up between 800,000 and 2 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Chinese Muslims into internment camps in the western Xinjiang region.

      The camps are in remote locations — closed to the world — and ringed with barbed wire. But they have been photographed by satellite. The Chinese government calls them “re-education centers,” a phrase that carries a sinister history from the murderous purges of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.

      The people in the camps are forced to denounce their faith and pledge loyalty to the Communist Party. According to multiple reports, a number of people in the camps have also been tortured.

      As Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, told The Independent, “If any other government in the world was locking up a million Muslims I think we can reasonably expect to have seen demands for a debate at the U.N. Security Council or an international investigation. That’s generally unlikely to happen with China.”

      There were calls in the U.S. Congress last fall for the Trump administration to consider sanctions against China for what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced as “awful abuses.”

      But China is America’s largest creditor: it holds more than a trillion dollars in U.S. Treasury securities. Look down at whatever you’re wearing, carrying, riding in or working on right now. American businesses get rich relying on Chinese workers who earn low wages to produce our clothing, mobile phones, building materials, and dazzling new tech devices.

      The Trump administration imposed tariffs on China over unfair trade practices. But it has offered no more than a few rhetorical flourishes over human rights crimes. Neither did the Obama administration, or the European Union.

      And Muslim countries — including Saudi Arabia and Iran — have been similarly, conspicuously, silent. China invests heavily, and strategically in their nations too.

      Sometimes, the price of human rights just cannot compete.

      ▻https://www.npr.org/2019/01/12/684687441/opinion-the-strange-silence-over-chinas-muslim-crackdown
      #disparitions

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  • @kassem
    Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 28/09/2018

    As a Saudi prince rose, the Bin Laden business empire crumbled
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/saudi-binladin-fall

    The Bin Ladens’ undoing exposes the contradictions in Prince Mohammed’s plan to build a modern economy, some economists say. He has embraced privatisation, hoping to inject dynamism, yet the state has intervened in firms such as Saudi Binladin Group. He has tackled corruption, yet there has been little transparency around the process. One Saudi businessman said the Bin Laden saga had become a “symbol of what’s happening between the government and the private sector - a breakdown of trust.”

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  • @alaingresh
    Nouvelles d’Orient @alaingresh 16/05/2018
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    Under Sisi, firms owned by Egypt’s military have flourished
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/egypt-economy-military

    In the four years since former armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became Egypt’s president, companies owned by the military have gone from strength to strength. Local businessmen and foreign investors are concerned.

    By Reuters staff Filed May 16, 2018, 11 a.m. GMT

    CAIRO – In a four-decade military career, Osama Abdel Meguid served in the first Gulf War and was an assistant military attaché in the United States.

    These days he issues orders from an office that overlooks the Nile, as chairman of the Maadi Co. for Engineering Industries, owned by the Ministry of Military Production.

    Maadi was founded in 1954 to manufacture grenade launchers, pistols and machine guns. In recent years the firm, which employs 1,400 people, has begun turning out greenhouses, medical devices, power equipment and gyms. It has plans for four new factories.

    “There are so many projects we are working on,” said Abdel Meguid, a 61-year-old engineer, listing orders including a 495 million Egyptian pound ($28 million) project for the Ministry of Electricity and an Algerian agricultural waste recycling contract worth $400,000.

    Maadi is one of dozens of military-owned companies that have flourished since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former armed forces chief, became president in 2014, a year after leading the military in ousting Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

    The military owns 51 percent of a firm that is developing a new $45 billion capital city 75 km east of Cairo. Another military-owned company is building Egypt’s biggest cement plant. Other business interests range from fish farms to holiday resorts.

    In interviews conducted over the course of a year, the chairmen of nine military-owned firms described how their businesses are expanding and discussed their plans for future growth. Figures from the Ministry of Military Production - one of three main bodies that oversee military firms - show that revenues at its firms are rising sharply. The ministry’s figures and the chairmen’s accounts give rare insight into the way the military is growing in economic influence.

    • #Egypt
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  • @reka
    Phil Reka docs & archives @reka CC BY-NC-SA 8/12/2017

    Exclusive: U.N. watchdogs call for probe of Taser assaults in U.S. jails
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taser-un-exclusive/exclusive-u-n-watchdogs-call-for-probe-of-taser-assaults-in-u-s-jails-idUSK

    Quel beau pays les Etats-Unis.

    ▻https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20171207&t=2&i=1212902658&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYN

    GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. special rapporteur on torture urged U.S. authorities to investigate and weigh criminal charges against jail officials in Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arkansas for the “clearly gratuitous infliction of severe pain and suffering” from the use of Tasers on inmates, citing a Reuters report this week.

    Shock Tactics: Inside the Taser, the weapon that transformed policing
    ►https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-taser

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    Shock Tactics: A 911 call, a Taser shot and the toll of stun guns
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-taser-911

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    A 911 plea for help, a Taser shot, a death - and the mounting toll of stun guns

    Part 1: In the most detailed study ever of fatalities and litigation involving police use of stun guns, Reuters finds more than 150 autopsy reports citing Tasers as a cause or contributor to deaths across America. Behind the fatalities is a sobering reality: Many who die are among society’s vulnerable – unarmed, in psychological distress and seeking help.

    Shock Tactics: Inmate deaths reveal “torturous” use of Tasers
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-taser-jails

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    Inmate deaths reveal “torturous” use of Tasers

    Part 6: Reuters documents 104 prisoner fatalities after corrections officers deployed Tasers, often with other force. Most inmates were unarmed, and many were handcuffed or pinned to the ground. Some abuses, experts say, are akin to torture.

    #états)unis #prisons #torture #police #meutres #violence

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  • @stephane
    Stéphane Bortzmeyer @stephane CC BY-SA 17/11/2017
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    Excellente et très détaillée enquête sur #Tezos, une #ICO (vente d’une #cryptomonnaie avant qu’elle n’existe) un peu plus malhonnête que la moyenne. Du bon travail de journalisme.

    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-funding-tezos

    Du point de vue politique, ce n’est pas mal non plus « He is still listed as a co-organizer and “dear leader” for the New York Anarcho-Capitalist Meetup in New York, which describes its philosophy as “a type of radical libertarianism that favors the abundant wealth production, rapid technological development, and high standards of living produced by capitalism.” Its website adds, “We are also fairly lazy about fighting the state.” »

    #Suisse #blockchain #anarcho_capitalisme

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  • @simplicissimus
    Simplicissimus @simplicissimus 12/10/2017

    Saudi de facto blockade starves Yemen of food and medicine
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/yemen-saudi-blockade

    The de facto blockade is exacting a dire humanitarian toll. The Saudi-led coalition’s ships are preventing essential supplies from entering Yemen, even in cases where vessels are carrying no weapons, according to previously unreported port records, a confidential United Nations report and interviews with humanitarian agencies and shipping lines.

    A U.N. system set up in May 2016 to ease delivery of commercial goods through the blockade has failed to ensure the Yemeni people get the supplies they need.

    The result is the effective isolation of Yemen, a nation of 28 million people where a quarter of the population is starving, according to the United Nations. The war has claimed 10,000 lives. Half a million children under the age of five are severely malnourished, and at least 2,135 people, most of them children, have died of cholera in the past six months.

    Aid agencies have ramped up their deliveries of food to some parts of Yemen this year. But Yemen imports more than 85 percent of its food and medicine, and commercial shipments have plunged. In the first eight months of this year, only 21 container ships sailed to Hodeida, according to port data compiled by the U.N. World Food Programme and Reuters. By comparison, 54 container ships delivered twice the volume of goods in the same period last year. Before the war, 129 container ships reached the port in the first eight months of 2014.

    Food and medicine are being choked off. No commercial shipment of pharmaceuticals has made its way to Hodeida since a Saudi-led airstrike destroyed the port’s industrial cranes in August 2015, according to the administrator of the port, which is under Houthi control. In at least one case this year, a blocked commercial shipment contained humanitarian aid as well.

    • #Yemen
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