In the ruins of Gaza, children are starving to death and there’s no cease-fire in sight
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-children-starving-famine-warning-death-destruction-rcna141
In the ruins of Gaza, children are starving to death and there’s no cease-fire in sight
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-children-starving-famine-warning-death-destruction-rcna141
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
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pa-man-arrested-decapitating-father-youtube-video-rcna136509
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.
#États-Unis : tueries de masse par jour et par État et nombre de morts — une infographie plutôt impressionnante dans Libé ce matin.
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
Plus que de jours écoulés : déjà 39 fusillades en 2023 aux USA
The U.S. has had at least 39 mass shootings in just 24 days so far this year, data shows | In the deadliest shooting of 2023, 11 people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a dance studio as people celebrated the Lunar New Year in Monterey Park, California
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-seen-least-39-mass-shootings-just-24-days-far-year-data-shows-rcna67133
Pertes de mémoire, vertiges... L’ambassade américaine en France rattrapée par le mystérieux syndrome de La Havane
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2022/01/29/l-ambassade-americaine-en-france-rattrapee-par-le-mysterieux-syndrome-de-la-
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).
encore un coup des envahisseurs !
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-3/19-20/wizernes-dans-le-nord-le-mystere-du-bruit-non-identifie_4934255.html
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9T_VrWouJM
Ceux qui souffrent d’acouphènes savent combien un bruit strident peut nuire à l’équilibre. Dans le Nord, depuis la fin du mois d’octobre, de jour comme de nuit, un bruit non identifié perturbe les habitants de la petite commune de Wizernes, près de Saint-Omer. Personne ne sait pour l’instant d’où vient ce bruit.
L’article Wikipedia consacré au syndrome de la Havane évoque cinq hypothèses :
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome#Theories_regarding_cause
– des micro-ondes ;
– des sons répétés ;
– des ultrasons ;
– des pesticides ou agents infectieux ;
– une origine psychogène.
Bien qu’il n’y ait pas de consensus d’experts sur la cause du syndrome, un comité d’experts des Académies nationales des sciences, de l’ingénierie et de la médecine a conclu en décembre 2020 que l’énergie micro-ondes (en particulier l’énergie RF pulsée dirigée ) " semble être le mécanisme le plus plausible pour expliquer ces cas parmi ceux que le comité a examinés » mais que « chaque cause possible reste spéculative ».
Wikipedia renvoie vers les conclusions de l’Académie nationale des sciences :
Havana Syndrome’ likely caused by pulsed microwave energy, government study finds
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250
Les mystérieux symptômes neurologiques ressentis par les diplomates américains en Chine et à Cuba sont compatibles avec les effets de l’énergie micro-ondes dirigée, selon un rapport tant attendu des Académies nationales des sciences qui cite des preuves médicales pour étayer la condamnation de longue date des responsables du renseignement américain. .
Le rapport , obtenu vendredi par NBC News, ne conclut pas que l’énergie dirigée a été délivrée intentionnellement, par une arme, comme certains responsables américains l’ont longtemps cru. Mais cela soulève cette possibilité inquiétante.
[...]
« Dans l’ensemble, l’énergie RF pulsée dirigée… semble être le mécanisme le plus plausible pour expliquer ces cas parmi ceux que le comité a examinés. ... La commission ne peut exclure d’autres mécanismes possibles et considère qu’il est probable qu’une multiplicité de facteurs explique certains cas et les différences entre d’autres. »
Le rapport indique qu’une enquête plus approfondie est nécessaire.
Cette affaire rappelle celle du « Signal de Moscou » pendant la guerre froide. Dans ce cas, des mesures de champs électromagnétiques avaient été réalisées.
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal
Le signal de Moscou était une transmission par micro-ondes signalée variant entre 2,5 et 4 gigahertz , dirigée vers l’ ambassade des États-Unis à Moscou de 1953 à 1976, entraînant un incident international. Le gouvernement américain a finalement déterminé qu’il s’agissait probablement d’une tentative d’ espionnage et qu’il n’y avait aucun effet significatif sur la santé du personnel de l’ambassade, bien que cette conclusion ait été contestée.
[…]
Le nom « Signal de Moscou » a été utilisé par les responsables du renseignement américain pour décrire les fréquences de faible puissance enregistrées à l’ambassade. Les transmissions micro-ondes n’étaient que de cinq microwatts par centimètre carré, ce qui est bien en dessous de l’irradiance dans un four à micro-ondes , et bien en dessous de ce qui serait nécessaire pour chauffer quoi que ce soit. Cependant, les fréquences étaient cent fois plus puissantes que les normes d’exposition maximales de l’ Union soviétique , ce qui a inquiété les responsables américains.
[…]
L’ ambassadeur Walter Stoessel est tombé malade en 1975 avec des symptômes tels que des saignements des yeux. Il mourut plus tard d’ une leucémie . Lors d’un appel téléphonique en 1975, le secrétaire d’État américain Henry Kissinger a lié la maladie de Stoessel aux micro-ondes et a déclaré « nous essayons de garder la chose silencieuse ». Plusieurs autres ambassadeurs et membres du personnel de l’ambassade sont morts d’un cancer.
Bien que le rédacteur de l’article Wikipedia ait écrit que les émissions « n’étaient que de cinq microwatts par centimètre carré », il s’agit de valeurs élevées. En France, on utilise généralement comme unité de mesure le Volt par mètre (V/m). 5 µW/cm² équivalent à environ 4,3 V/m. Les valeurs sont faibles en effet si on ne prend en considération que les effets thermiques, mais devraient être considérées comme élevées si on prend en compte les aspects biologiques – d’autant plus s’il s’agit d’une exposition prolongée : dans le cas d’une ambassade, cette exposition est permanente.
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.”
▻https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_o-RJJWXn
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.”
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
Pendant ce temps là : Pfizer lance les essais sur les humains d’un vaccin à ARN messager contre la grippe
▻https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/pfizer-lance-les-essais-sur-les-humains-d-un-vaccin-a-arn-messager-contre-l
La mode de l’#ARN_messager . . . .
After she concealed her race, Black Indianapolis owner’s home value more than doubled
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-concealing-her-race-black-indianapolis-owner-s-home-value-n1267710
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.
#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
▻https://www.bbc.com/afrique/monde-56430785
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.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/he-unknowingly-had-covid-19-now-his-blood-contains-rare-n1254232
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.
Thousands of #Covid-19 vaccines wind up in the garbage because of fed, state guidelines
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-covid-19-vaccines-wind-garbage-because-fed-state-guidelines-n1254
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.
Pour ce que j’ai pigé, ici, ce sont les centres de vaccination et les hostos eux-mêmes qui ont mis en place le fait de pouvoir contacter des demandeurs (soignants ou vulnérables) afin de distribuer les doses de vaccin supplémentaire (1/6 des flacons Pfizer) ou risquant d’être inutilisés ? (par ailleurs, @kassem le même texte est copié deux fois)
Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uber-made-big-promises-kenya-drivers-say-it-s-ruined-n1247964
“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 (...)
##pauvreté
Michigan judge denies release of teenage girl who was jailed after not doing homework
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-judge-denies-release-teenage-girl-who-was-jailed-after-n1234377?ci
A 15-year-old Black girl who has been incarcerated in Michigan since mid-May after she failed to do her online schoolwork won’t be returning home, a judge decided Monday, in a case that has stoked outrage that it is emblematic of systemic racism and the criminalization of Black children.
Oakland County Judge Mary Ellen Brennan determined that the girl has been benefiting from a residential treatment program at a juvenile detention center, but is not yet ready to be with her mother. Brennan, the presiding judge of the court’s Family Division, scheduled another hearing for September, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.
The girl, who is being identified only by her middle name, Grace, was the subject of a report published last week by ProPublica Illinois, with politicians and community activists expressing outrage over her incarceration.
Back in the 1980s, Howard University psychology professor Jules Harrell took racism to the lab to see how witnessing acts of racism affects blood pressure and cardiovascular events. He found that Black people may even carry the stress of racism in their sleep, NBC reports.
That research focused on the “meanness and inconvenience” of racism—but it couldn’t compare to the blatant brutality soon to be revealed in the beating of Rodney King—and now the homicide of George Floyd.
The rise of social media means that high-profile killings of Black people replay on a loop, disseminating waves of secondary trauma.
Psychologist Gail Parker’s advice: don’t watch. “It’s about self-protection. Secondary trauma is just as lethal to Black people as secondhand smoke.”
Proper mental health care is also key. But frequent misdiagnosis by non-Black doctors and a dearth of Black mental health professionals are yet another health disparity that needs addressing, NPR reports.
Black Americans experience deadly stress as a pandemic and violent racism collide, experts say
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-americans-experience-deadly-stress-pandemic-violent-racism-collide-ex
Burke Harris, the mother of twin sons age 17 and sons 8 and 4, told NBC News that her entire medical training and career have been devoted to reducing health disparity.
“The way chronic stress and trauma gets under our skin and affects our biology was not being addressed. That’s why it felt important to me not only to elevate the issue, but also to elevate the science,” she said. “The science has been around for decades.”
Research has long shown a disparity between the health of Blacks and whites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there is an overrepresentation of Blacks hospitalized and dying of COVID-19. Overall in the U.S., Black people are more likely to die at early ages from all causes of illnesses.
Local governments, including those of Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver; Indianapolis; and Dallas, have recently declared racism a public health crisis. Now advocates wait to see what solutions they will implement.
Burke Harris said: “We have to help health care providers understand how trauma affects people’s health. It is just like lead poisoning. Doctors can do medical treatment to help reduce the impact of lead on someone’s health. But the real answer is to get lead out of the paint.”
Black Americans Face Higher Barriers To Getting Good Mental Health Support : Shots - Health News : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/25/877549715/bear-our-pain-the-plea-for-more-black-mental-health-workers
Two decades of life experience made a mental-health activist of Kai Koerber. When he was 16 and a student at a Parkland, Fla., high school, a gunman killed 17 people, including one his friends.
“I really did suffer a domestic terrorist attack, and that’s not something that happens to you every day,” Koerber says.
But as a young Black man growing up in the South, Koerber had already faced threats of racial and police violence routinely, and those experiences, too, shaped his relationship with the world. He’s coped with that stress, he says, through a lifelong practice of meditation. And after the school massacre, Koerber also sought emotional support from a therapist with a deep empathy for his personal traumas.
“Finding a Black therapist really saved me some time, and there was more connection, in terms of the kinds of struggles that I might feel or the the kinds of ways I might think about certain scenarios,” Koerber says.
Now a rising sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, Koerber says having access to good mental health care is critical to both preventing and dealing with the after-effects of violence.
#Princeton to remove #Woodrow_Wilson's name from school, citing his ’racist thinking and policies’
“Trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake” for the School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton president said.
▻https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2020_26/3393125/200627-woodrow-wilson-princeton-al-1244_ffafbd36f937e1aae675e2d425
Princeton University’s board has voted to remove the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from the university’s prestigious School of Public and International Affairs due to his “racist thinking and policies.”
Friday’s statement by the board of trustees was shared with the Princeton community by Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber.
“On my recommendation, the board voted to change the names of both the School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College,” Eisgruber wrote. “As you will see from the board’s statement, the trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms.”
The board had previously considered removing Wilson’s name in 2016 after a group of student activists occupied the university president’s office months earlier, Eisgruber noted.
But a review committee chose to keep the name, recommending instead a “number of reforms to make this University more inclusive and more honest about its history,” the president said in his email Saturday.
The decision to reconsider came in the wake of deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks, which have sparked nationwide protests.
What was Wilson College will now be called First College, while the public affairs school will be known as The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice. He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today,” the president wrote.
The university had already planned to close Wilson College and retire the name as it builds two new residential colleges but decided the course of action would be to accelerate the retirement of the name.
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss wrote on Twitter that “Princeton is doing the right thing by firmly separating itself from the Woodrow Wilson legacy.”
In a second tweet, he posted a screenshot of a quote from the racist film, “#Birth_of_a_Nation,” in which #Wilson praised the Ku Klux Klan.
▻https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1276931208778260481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E12Sam Wang, a professor of neuroscience at the university, also praised the decision as did several students.
“He was a consequential figure in our nation’s history and in building Princeton University. But his racism, unacceptable even during his lifetime, was too much,” Wang tweeted.
Chaya Crowder, a doctoral candidate at the university, wrote on Twitter that the renaming is “a product of years of dedicated organizing by students activists.”
“It took too long and is absolutely the [bare] minimum, but the removal of the woodrow wilson name is a direct result of the work of the BJL,” student Josiah Gouker posted, referring to the student activist organization the Black Justice League.
“We need to continue that work,” Gouker tweeted.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/princeton-remove-woodrow-wilson-s-name-school-citing-his-racist-n1232340?ci
#toponymie_politique #toponymie #USA #Etats-Unis #racisme #KKK #Ku_Klux_Klan
Faced with choice, migrant parents in ICE detention refuse to separate from children
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#US#centrederetention
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faced-choice-migrant-parents-ice-detention-refuse-separate-children-n120984
The agency presented parents with the option to release their children in response to a court order.
Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-ex-employees-allege-google-drastically-rolled-back-diversity-inclus
One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees. Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to eight current and former employees. Since 2018, internal diversity and inclusion training programs have been scaled back or cut entirely, four Google employees and two people who recently left the (...)
#Google #racisme #sexisme #discrimination #extrême-droite #travail
Judge orders release of migrant children despite challenges presented by pandemic
#Covid-19#US#liberation#mineur#migrant#migration
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-orders-release-migrant-children-despite-challenges-presented-pandemic
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration was again violating a longstanding agreement that compels the government to release migrant children detained at the border within 20 days and ordered the minors be released.
Bishop who preached ’God is larger than this dreaded virus’ dies of COVID-19
Ben Kesslen, NBC News, le 14 avril 2020
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bishop-who-preached-god-larger-dreaded-virus-dies-covid-19-n1183281
#gorafi_encore_plagié #religion
La compile #Coronavirus et #humour :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/842026
’Sailors do not need to die,’ warns captain of coronavirus-hit U.S. aircraft carrier - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-idUSKBN21I2SV
The captain of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in a blunt letter, has called on Navy leadership for stronger measures to save the lives of his sailors and stop the spread of the coronavirus aboard the huge ship.
The four-page letter, the contents of which were confirmed by U.S. officials to Reuters on Tuesday, described a bleak situation onboard the nuclear-powered carrier as more sailors test positive for the virus.
The Navy puts the ship’s complement at 5,000, the equivalent of a small American town.
The letter was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Captain Brett Crozier, the ship’s commanding officer, wrote that the carrier lacked enough quarantine and isolation facilities and warned the current strategy would slow but fail to eradicate the highly contagious respiratory virus.
In the letter dated Monday, he called for “decisive action” and removing over 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them. Along with the ship’s crew, naval aviators and others serve aboard the Roosevelt.
“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset - our sailors,” Crozier wrote.
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that nearly 80 people aboard the ship had tested positive for the coronavirus, a number likely to increase as all personnel on the ship are tested.
Nous ne sommes pas en guerre, les marins n’ont pas à mourir.
Le commandant de l’USS Theodore Roosevelt.
» Mais l’#honneur de la marine nationale étant en jeu... »| Euronews
▻https://fr.euronews.com/2020/04/02/en-infectant-le-porte-avions-roosevelt-le-coronavirus-affaiblit-la-puis
Mais l’honneur de la marine nationale étant en jeu, le ministre américain de la Défense, Mark Esper, refusant toute évacuation, avait aussitôt rétorqué :
« Nous avons une mission : notre mission est de protéger les Etats-Unis et notre peuple (...) Nous vivons dans des quartiers étroits, que ce soit à bord d’un porte-avions, d’un sous-marin, d’un char ou d’un bombardier, c’est comme ça ! »
Navy relieves captain who raised alarm about coronavirus outbreak on aircraft carrier
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/navy-expected-relieve-captain-who-raised-alarm-about-covid-19-n1175351
Capt. Brett Crozier, who commands the Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier with a crew of nearly 5,000, was relieved of his command on Thursday, but he will keep his rank and remain in the Navy.
On ne tue pas comme en Chine, on laisse les gens se suicider.
Le commandant du Roosevelt limogé après avoir alerté sur la COVID-19 à bord
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/202004/02/01-5267704-le-commandant-du-roosevelt-limoge-apres-avoir-alerte-sur-la-covi
Le secrétaire à l’US Navy a souligné que ce n’était pas le fait que le commandant du porte-avions ait lancé une alerte qui méritait son limogeage, mais le fait qu’il ait envoyé un courriel aussi alarmiste au commandement régional avec une trentaine de personnes en copie.
C’est ce qui a apparemment permis que la lettre soit parvenue au San Francisco Chronicle, a-t-il ajouté sans accuser directement le commandant de l’avoir fait fuiter lui-même.
Je serais commandant de la marine états-unienne, je te mettrais l’ensemble de l’équipage du Theodore Roosevelt aux arrêts sans solde pour non respect des règles de distanciation sociale !
N’empêche, quelle sortie !
Exclusive: Navy probe to decide future of fired U.S. carrier commander - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-exclusive-idUSKBN21L28Q
Even as he is hailed as a hero by his crew, the fired commander of a coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier is being reassigned while investigators consider whether he should face disciplinary action, acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told Reuters on Friday.
Captain Brett Crozier was relieved of his command of the Theodore Roosevelt on Thursday after a scathing letter in which he called on the Navy for stronger action to halt the spread of the virus aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was leaked to the media.
Modly said in an interview that the letter was shared too widely and leaked before even he could see it.
But the backlash to Modly’s decision to fire Crozier has been intense. In videos posted online, sailors on the Theodore Roosevelt applauded Crozier and hailed him as a hero, out to defend his crew - even at great personal cost to his career.
“And that’s how you send out one of the greatest captains you ever had,” exclaimed one sailor in a video post, amid thunderous applause and cheering for Crozier as he left the carrier and its 5,000 crew members in Guam.
Modly did not suggest that Crozier’s career was over, saying he thought everyone deserved a chance at “redemption.”
“He’ll get reassigned, he’s not thrown out of the Navy,” Modly said.
But Modly said he did not know if Crozier would face disciplinary action, telling Reuters it would be up to a probe that will look into issues surrounding “communications” and the chain of command that led to the incident.
“I’m not going to direct them to do anything (other) than to investigate the facts to the best of their ability. I cannot exercise undue command influence over that investigation,” he said. Crozier’s firing has become a lightning-rod political issue at a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism over its handling of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 people across the country, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden accused the Trump administration of poor judgment and said Modly “shot the messenger.”
A group of prominent Democratic senators formally requested on Friday that the Pentagon’s independent Inspector General investigate the firing.
The dismissal, two days after the captain’s letter leaked, demonstrated how the coronavirus has challenged all manner of U.S. institutions, even those accustomed to dangerous and complex missions such as the military.
Crozier’s removal could have a chilling effect on others in the Navy seeking to draw attention to difficulties surrounding coronavirus outbreaks at a time when the Pentagon is withholding some detailed data about infections to avoid undermining the perception of U.S. military readiness for a crisis or conflict.
Reuters first reported last week that the U.S. armed forces would start keeping from the public some data about infections within its ranks.
Le commandant Crozier est positif au covid-19…
… suivi du détail des tensions internes à la Maison Blanche et avec les forces armées autour de cette affaire.
(Trump veut la peau de Crozier, Crozier a le soutien de la quasi-totalité de ce qui porte un uniforme…)
Fired aircraft carrier commander has COVID-19 - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/06/mili-a06.html
The aircraft carrier commander who urged the evacuation of his ship because of widespread COVID-19 infection has himself tested positive for coronavirus, it was reported Sunday afternoon.
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Another columnist with close ties to the military, onetime Iraq War cheerleader Max Boot, wrote a scathing denunciation of the firing of Crozier from the standpoint of aggrieved military officers.
“The damage that was done to the military by Trump’s decision to pardon suspected war criminals will be compounded by Thursday’s decision to fire the skipper of the Theodore Roosevelt,” he wrote. “The message that the administration is sending to the armed forces is that committing war crimes is acceptable but telling the truth and protecting the personnel under your command is not.”
war crimes : référence à l’affaire E. Gallagher, peu évoquée sur ST p. ex. ►https://seenthis.net/messages/820749
Le 6 avril, le secrétaire à la marine (par intérim) déblatère sur le réseau de communication interne du porte-avions en critiquant et se moquant du commandant Crozier…
(décidément, ils font tout ce qu’il faut pour se retrouver enduits de goudrons et de plumes #tar_and_feathers)
Suit une description de l’état de la marine états-unienne rappelant les abordages récents où l’on apprend que sur l’un des bâtiments (non nommé) les canonniers ne sont pas capables de savoir où ils tirent…
Seasickness - Covid-19 takes out a warship. The US Navy shoots the messenger | United States | The Economist
▻https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/04/06/covid-19-takes-out-a-warship-the-us-navy-shoots-the-messenger
HUNDREDS OF CHEERING sailors thronged the cavernous belly of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a 100,000-tonne nuclear-powered aircraft-carrier, crowding around neatly parked jets. “Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!” they chanted, as the commanding officer, Brett Crozier, walked forlornly down the gangway into a warm Guam evening on April 3rd, bidding farewell to his warship. “Now that’s how you send out one of the greatest captains you ever had,” remarked a sailor in the crowd. The result is the latest civil-military calamity of the Trump administration.
In mid-March the Roosevelt was exercising in the South China Sea, fresh from a visit to Vietnam. Then covid-19 struck. On March 24th three infected sailors were flown off. Three days later the ship docked in Guam, with at least 23 cases. From there, on March 30th, as the virus raged through a crew of over 5,000, Captain Crozier sent an imploring four-page letter to his colleagues. The spread of the disease was “ongoing and accelerating”, he warned. The warship’s confined spaces did not allow for effective quarantine. “We are not at war,” he urged. “Sailors do not need to die.”
At first navy leaders expressed support, insisting that Captain Crozier would not face retaliation for sounding the alarm. A day later he was removed. Thomas Modly, America’s acting secretary of the navy, offered a jumble of reasons. The captain had “undermined the chain of command” and “created...panic on the ship” by copying 20-30 people on his letter. He had created “the perception that the Navy is not on the job, the government’s not on the job.” And he might also have “emboldened our adversaries to seek advantage”.
Then, in an intemperate and rambling speech aboard the Roosevelt on April 6th, Mr Modly told its crew that Captain Crozier had either deliberately leaked the letter to the media, or was “too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer”. Mr Modly mockingly called the captain—who remains a serving officer—a “martyr” and accused him of “betrayal”. He complained that “it’s now become a big controversy in Washington, DC” and told sailors, who are supposed to remain non-partisan, that “the media has an agenda”.
Mr Modly’s remarks, which were piped over the ship’s intercom and, ironically, promptly leaked to the media, were met with incredulity on the ship. They came a day after Captain Crozier was reported to have tested positive for covid-19 and reinforced the sense that his offence was to have embarrassed the administration rather than violated protocol or undermined readiness. The decision “smacks of politics rather than military discipline,” says Jim Golby, an expert on civil-military relations and a serving army officer. “It’s notable that the military officers in the chain of command appear to have recommended against his removal.”
Even before this episode, it was clear that America’s globe-girdling navy was not in tip-top shape. In January the Pentagon’s Inspector General scrutinised a dozen destroyers and found deficiencies with training. In one case it concluded that “the ship will not be able to conduct gunnery support”—including trifling matters “such as identifying where the ship is shooting”. That came on top of several troubled years for the navy.
Shoddy seamanship in the Seventh Fleet, based in Japan, resulted in two warship collisions that killed 17 people in 2017. “The navy selectively punished people,” says a former admiral. “The people at the very top who made the most egregious decisions got promoted or moved to new jobs.” The Seventh Fleet was also rocked by a separate corruption scandal, leading to reprimands for at least ten captains and admirals, and the first-ever conviction of a serving admiral for a federal crime.
The fleet is also ageing: 57% of ships are more than 20 years old. Crumbling shipyards and the relentless pace of operations have made it harder to maintain them. The navy is also short of more than 6,000 sailors—with recruitment, retention and morale unlikely to be helped by the sacking of officers who stand up for sick sailors. “Without increased and sustained funding...the readiness of the Navy’s fleet will remain compromised,” concluded a report by the Heritage Foundation, a think-tank, last year.
Then came covid-19. Though the Pentagon has stopped publishing infection numbers for individual ships, the disease has spread on several vessels. Cramped quarters on board make social distancing impractical. “It is a Petri dish of virus,” says a former carrier strike group commander. Sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, a carrier moored in Japan, have also tested positive. That does not mean America’s fleet would be paralysed in a crisis—warships can lose much of their crew and remain viable in wartime—but it may keep many in port.
Mr Modly himself is only in charge of the navy because of the last mess. In November his predecessor, Richard Spencer, was fired after resisting what he called Donald Trump’s “shocking and unprecedented intervention” in the case of a Navy Seal who had been accused of war crimes. In a parting letter to the president, Mr Spencer said that this meddling had put at risk “good order and discipline”. War crimes, it turns out, can be smoothed over. Causing a stir in Washington is another matter.■
Bon, c’est bien ce qu’a dit Thomas Modly, mais il pense (et a toujours pensé) le contraire…
Navy chief apologizes for slamming carrier captain as ’naive’ and ’stupid’ - SFChronicle.com
▻https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Navy-chief-blasts-air-carrier-captain-as-too-15181872.php
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly denounced the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt Monday as either “too naive or too stupid” to be at the helm, according to a recording of the speech to the ship’s crew obtained by The Chronicle.
Then, after a daylong torrent of criticism over the recorded remarks that included congressional calls for his resignation, Modly flip-flopped and apologized Monday night.
“Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid. I think, and always believed him to be the opposite,” Modly said in a statement. He apologized to the Navy, Crozier, “his family, and the entire crew of the Theodore Roosevelt for any pain my remarks may have caused.”
Le secrétaire à la marine (par intérim) Modly est viré…
… pardon, démissionne.
’I own it :’ U.S. Navy secretary resigns over handling of coronavirus-hit carrier - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-idUSKBN21P333
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday after he faced mounting backlash for firing and ridiculing the commander of a U.S. aircraft carrier who pleaded for help stemming a coronavirus outbreak onboard.
Modly’s resignation highlighted the U.S. military’s struggle to meet increasingly competing priorities: maintaining readiness for conflict and safeguarding servicemembers as the virus spreads globally.
The episode deepened upheaval in Navy leadership. The Navy’s last secretary was fired in November over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct. The Navy SEAL had won the support of President Donald Trump.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Modly’s resignation on Twitter, saying the Navy’s top civilian had “resigned of his own accord.” Trump concurred, saying it was a selfless act and adding he had nothing to do with it.
“The whole thing was … very unfortunate,” Trump said at the White House.
Modly’s resignation occurred only after mounting pressure from Congress and a backlash from the crew, and followed Trump’s own suggestion on Monday that he might get involved in the crisis — saying the Navy captain whom Modly fired was also a good man.
“I briefed President Trump after my conversation with Secretary Modly,” Esper said, as he named an Army Undersecretary Jim McPherson to replace Modly as acting Navy secretary.
In a note to sailors, Modly said he took responsibility for events over the past few days.
“It is not just missiles that can take us down, words can do it too, if we aren’t careful with how and when we use them,” Modly said.
“It’s my fault. I own it.”
Captain Brett Crozier, whom Modly relieved of command last week, favored more dramatic steps to safeguard his sailors aboard the Theodore Roosevelt in a four-page letter that leaked to the public last week.
When Modly fired him over the leak, his crew hailed Crozier as a hero and gave him a rousing sendoff captured on video, apparently upsetting Modly and leading the Navy’s top civilian to fly to Guam to castigate the captain in a speech to the crew on Monday.
Modly questioned Crozier’s character, saying at one point he was either “stupid” or “naive.” After audio of his speech leaked, including expletives, Modly initially stood by his remarks. But later, at Esper’s request, he issued an apology.
Trump appeared to take Modly’s side, saying Crozier had erred with the letter.
“The captain should not have written a letter. He didn’t have to be Ernest Hemingway. He made a mistake, but he had a bad day,” Trump told a news briefing.
‘NOBODY IS GOING TO FORGET’
But the apology was not enough to satisfy critics, who were calling for his resignation.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi added her voice to calls for Modly’s removal.
“Sadly, Acting Secretary Modly’s actions and words demonstrate his failure to prioritize the force protection of our troops,” Pelosi said in a statement.
A fellow Democrat, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, had already called for Modly’s removal.
Modly’s apology also did little to mollify the crew on the carrier.
“He said what he said and nobody is going to forget it,” a sailor on the carrier told Reuters.
Modly made the trip to Guam against the advice of his aides, doubling down on his decision to fire Crozier despite warnings that his trip might make the situation worse.
As of Tuesday, 230 of about 5,000 personnel on the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the coronavirus. Navy officials say that sailors on a number of other ships have tested positive too.
The crisis is the biggest facing Navy leadership since two crashes in the Asia Pacific region in 2017 that killed 17 sailors. Those incidents raised questions about Navy training and the pace of operations, prompting a congressional hearing and the removal of a number of officers.
The Republican who leads the Senate Armed Service Committee, Senator Jim Inhofe, said he was concerned about the turmoil in the Navy.
“In this difficult time, the Navy needs leaders now more than ever who can provide continuity and steady, insightful leadership,” he said.
Premier mort du Theodore Roosevelt
U.S. sailor from coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier dies after contracting virus - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-idUSKCN21V19F
▻https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20200413&t=2&i=1514898832&w=1200&r=LYNXNPEG3C0XW
A U.S. Navy sailor died on Monday after contracting the coronavirus, marking the first death of a sailor assigned to the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
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So far, about 585 sailors aboard the nuclear-powered carrier have tested positive for the coronavirus. About 4,000 sailors have been moved from the carrier to facilities in Guam, where the ship has been docked after the number of cases started increasing.
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This marks the first death of a sailor in the Navy, which so far has had almost 900 sailors test positive for the virus. The sailor is also the first active-duty U.S. service member to die from the virus.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that four additional sailors from the carrier had been taken to the hospital to be monitored. The officials said the sailors were in stable condition.
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▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761
“I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime,” the man said. The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in January, startling Zachary McCoy as he prepared to leave for his job at a restaurant in Gainesville, Florida. It was from Google’s legal investigations support team, writing to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account. The company said it would release the data unless he went to (...)
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Microsoft funded Israeli company that spied on West Bank Palestinians
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/why-did-microsoft-fund-israeli-firm-surveils-west-bank-palestinians-n107211
Microsoft invested in a startup that uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank, according to an investigation by NBC News.
Microsoft has positioned itself as a moral leader among technology companies, which has shielded the company from sustained public criticism faced by others like Facebook and Google.
The investment in AnyVision raises questions about Microsoft’s public stance on ethical questions surrounding technology.
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