Un article du New York Times en décembre 2012 :
Snowfall, décembre 2012 :
L’article dans la maquette actuelle (mai 2015) :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/americas/bolivia-reduces-coca-plantings-by-licensing-plots.html
Un article du New York Times en décembre 2012 :
Snowfall, décembre 2012 :
L’article dans la maquette actuelle (mai 2015) :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/americas/bolivia-reduces-coca-plantings-by-licensing-plots.html
Anniversaire du Rana Plaza : la responsabilité des multinationales pas encore à l’ordre du jour en #France
▻http://multinationales.org/Anniversaire-du-Rana-Plaza-la
Il y a un an s’effondrait l’immeuble du Rana Plaza, au #Bangladesh, faisant 1138 morts et plus de 2000 blessés, pour la plupart de jeunes ouvrières du secteur #Textile. Cette catastrophe - la plus importante de l’histoire industrielle moderne - a entraîné une prise de conscience de la communauté internationale et obligé les multinationales du secteur à prendre des engagements inédits pour améliorer les conditions de travail dans les usines de leurs fournisseurs. Mais les avancées (bien réelles) obtenues (...)
/ #Textile, France, Bangladesh, Textile, #Responsabilité_sociale_des_entreprises_et_investissement_éthique, #Auchan, #Carrefour, #responsabilité_pénale_des_entreprises, #responsabilité_sociale_des_entreprises, #chaîne_d'approvisionnement, #Gap, #Walmart, H&M, #Auchan, H&M, (...)
#H&M #Gap
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Un anti-inflammatoire dans la viande de cheval vendue par Auchan au Portugal
►http://www.leparisien.fr/scandale-alimentaire/un-anti-inflammatoire-dans-de-la-viande-de-cheval-vendue-par-auchan-07-03
Un anti-inflammatoire interdit pour des animaux destinés à l’alimentation humaine a été détecté dans de la viande de cheval retrouvée dans des hamburgers et des boulettes vendus au Portugal par le groupe français Auchan. C’est l’Association de défense des consommateurs (Deco) qui l’affirme ce jeudi.
À mettre en perspective avec cette info
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/118087
#merde #malbouffe #industrie_agroalimentaire #cheval #big_pharma #poison
et encore des milliers de chevaux qui ont vécu dans des conditions abominables et qui sont morts pour rien. Devenez végétariens, ça facilitera la vie de tous les êtres sensibles de la planète.
Je ne sais pas si on élève les chevaux pour la viande. J’ai l’impression qu’on les abats quant ils ne peuvent plus être rentable (retraité de clubs hippiques ou courses de chevaux ou chevaux de trait pour la Roumanie). Je n’ai pas l’impression qu’il y ait d’élevage de chevaux pour la seul production de viande. Ceci explique aussi la présence de médicaments impropre à la consommation humaine présente dans cette viande. J’ose pas imaginer ce qu’on injecte aux chevaux de course ni ce qu’on retrouve dans leur viande une fois revendu a comigel&co.
Pour le végétarisme je suis totalement d’accord avec toi, mais j’avoue manger encore de la viande et n’avoir aucune cohérence sur ce point. Je suis paresseuse, et gourmande, je n’arrive pas encor a joindre mes actes aux conclusions évidentes que tu présente. Je suis pas très fan de légumes ce qui ne simplifie pas les choses pour moi. Je pense assez sérieusement à devenir entomophage, et faire mon propre élevage de ténébrions bio et autres petites bêtes. Mon amoureux est pas super fan. Ça ne sera pas non plus du végétarisme, mais manger des invertébrés elevés par mes soins me semble moins cruel que manger des vertébrés. C’est pour des histoires d’allélophagie, j’avais mis un article la dessus dans une discussion ici sur ce sujet qui devrait t’intéressé si tu l’a pas déjà lu. ►http://terrain.revues.org/2932
Bonne journée
Pour les chevaux de course, ça commençait à faire (un peu) de bruit en décembre 2012.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sports/drugs-injected-at-the-racetrack-put-europe-off-us-horse-meat.html
PARIS — For decades, American horses, many of them retired or damaged racehorses, have been shipped to Canada and Mexico, where it is legal to slaughter horses, and then processed and sold for consumption in Europe and beyond.
Lately, however, European food safety officials have notified Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses of a growing concern: The meat of American racehorses may be too toxic to eat safely because the horses have been injected repeatedly with drugs.
(…)
In October, Stephan Giguere, the general manager of a major slaughterhouse in Quebec, said he turned away truckloads of horses coming from the United States because his clients were worried about potential drug issues. Mr. Giguere said he told his buyers to stay away from horses coming from American racetracks.
“We don’t want them,” he said. “It’s too risky.”
(…)
Some 138,000 horses were sent to Canada or Mexico in 2010 alone to be turned into meat for Europe and other parts of the world, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Organizations concerned about the welfare of retired racehorses have estimated that anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the population sent for slaughter may have performed on racetracks in the United States.
“Racehorses are walking pharmacies,” said Dr. Nicholas Dodman, a veterinarian on the faculty of Tufts University and a co-author of a 2010 article that sought to raise concerns about the health risks posed by American racehorses. He said it was reckless to want any of the drugs routinely administered to horses “in your food chain.”
J’en ai extrait pas mal, mais tout le reste de l’article est de la même veine…
oui j’en avais entendu parlé, probablement ici d’ailleurs. Merci pour l’article, c’est édifiant !
L’affaire de Steubenville
Extrait de Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?pagewanted=2
via @reka
Or take the Steubenville case. In Steubenville, Ohio, authorities charged two members of the high school football team with the repeated rape of a passed-out-drunk 16-year-old, but did not charge the many others who allegedly cheered them on and made videos. So the online activists of Anonymous took it upon themselves to hack into private accounts, recover deleted and incriminating videos, and make them public. Amanda Marcotte wrestled with the moral dilemma on Slate: “By stepping in and holding people accountable, Anonymous stands a very good chance of taking action that actually does something to stop rape. But: This type of online vigilante justice is potentially invading the privacy of or defaming innocent Steubenville residents, and even if everything published is true, there are very serious legal limits to the Anonymous strategy.”
Le paragraphe ci-dessus synthétise deux articles, la description des faits (viol collectif dans une fête en août 2012) ►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio parue dans le NYT du 17/12/12 et les suites de cette publication (hack par des Anonymous et divulgation de noms de personnes impliquées) ►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/sports/hackers-of-steubenville-football-teams-web-site-demand-apology-in-rape-case (NYT 25/12/12)
Philadelphia District May Close 37 Schools - NYTimes.com
Question : Où seront scolarisés les enfants de la région de Philadelphie ?
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/education/philadelphia-district-may-close-37-schools.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit
PHILADELPHIA — Like many public schools here, University City High School is underused, underfinanced and underperforming.
Nearly 80 percent of its 11th-grade students read below grade level in statewide tests this year, while 85 percent failed to make the grade in math. Last year, about only a quarter of its students participated in precollege testing like the SAT.
Rape Incites Women to Fight Culture in India - NYTimes.com
« Ça aurait pu être n’importe laquelle d’entre nous »
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/world/asia/rape-incites-women-to-fight-culture-in-india.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ed
NEW DELHI — Neha Kaul Mehra says she was only 7 years old the first time she was sexually harassed. She was walking to a dance class in an affluent neighborhood of New Delhi when a man confronted her and began openly masturbating.
#inde #viols #droits-des femmes #droits-humains
The Military’s Dirty Secret [in United States] - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/the-militarys-dirty-secret.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121231
Sexual assaults at the three military academies are at a record high, according to a December Defense Department report — 80 reported assaults for the 2011-12 academic year, up from 65 the year before and the third straight year that the number has risen. The report also found that 51 percent of academy women and 10 percent of men who answered a survey in the spring said they had been sexually harassed during the previous year. Twelve percent of women and 2 percent of men reported experiencing “unwanted sexual contact.
In Ireland, Carbon Taxes Pay Off - NYTimes
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/science/earth/in-ireland-carbon-taxes-pay-off.html
Over the last three years, with its economy in tatters, Ireland embraced a novel strategy to help reduce its staggering deficit: charging households and businesses for the environmental damage they cause.
(...) The government imposed taxes on most of the fossil fuels used by homes, offices, vehicles and farms, based on each fuel’s carbon dioxide emissions, a move that immediately drove up prices for oil, natural gas and kerosene. Household trash is weighed at the curb, and residents are billed for anything that is not being recycled.
The Irish now pay purchase taxes on new cars and yearly registration fees that rise steeply in proportion to the vehicle’s emissions.
Environmentally and economically, the new taxes have delivered results. (...)
“We just set up a price signal that raised significant revenue and changed behavior. Now, we’re smashing through the environmental targets we set for ourselves.”
By contrast, carbon taxes are viewed as politically toxic in the United States
Death Valley Temperature Record Is Restored - NYTimes.com
Via Florent Latrive
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/science/earth/death-valley-temperature-record-is-restored.html?_r=0
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: December 28, 2012
A Record Worth Wilting For: Death Valley Is Hotter Than ...
Eric Thayer for The New York Times
A 134-degree reading registered on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, Calif., is now the official world record.
FURNACE CREEK, Calif. — For Death Valley, a place that embraces its extremes, this has long been an affront: As furnace-hot as it gets here, it could not lay claim to being the hottest place on earth. That honor, as it were, has gone since 1922 to a city on the northwestern tip of Libya.
In Italy, Shantytowns of Refugees Reflect Paradox on Asylum
ROME — The abandoned university building on the outskirts of Rome, colloquially known as Salaam Palace, was once a sparsely populated makeshift shelter where new arrivals from Africa — fleeing war, persecution and economic turmoil — squatted to create their own refuge.
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/europe/the-italian-paradox-on-refugees.html?ref=world&_r=1&
Iran Suggests U.S. and Israel Are Behind Computer Attacks - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/world/middleeast/iran-says-hackers-targeted-power-plant-and-culture-ministry.html?hp&_r=1&
The latest Iranian sabotage reports raised the possibility that the attacks had been carried out in retaliation for others that crippled computers in the Saudi Arabian oil industry and some financial institutions in the United States a few months ago. American intelligence officials have said they believe that Iranian specialists in cybersabotage were responsible for those attacks, which erased thousands of Saudi files and temporarily prevented some American banking customers from gaining access to their accounts.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta cited those attacks in an Oct. 11 speech in which he warned of America’s vulnerability to a coordinated computer warfare attack, calling such a possibility a “cyber-Pearl Harbor.”
peut-être la #cyberguerre ne fait-elle que des « cybermorts », mais la #logique_de_guerre reste identique… #cyberwar #stuxnet #iran #etats-unis via @alaingresh
The Italian Paradox on Refugees - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/europe/the-italian-paradox-on-refugees.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=world
Réfugiés africains en Italie. Reportage dans un squat de la banlieue de Rome. Soudanais, Erythréens, « Dublinés ».
“Italy is quite good when in the asylum procedure, recognizing 40 percent, even up to 50 percent of applicants in some years,” said Laura Boldrini, the spokeswoman in Italy for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees. “What is critical is what comes after.”
Italy has only about 3,150 spots in its state-funded asylum protection system, where refugees receive government assistance. Waiting lists are astronomical. (...)
Last summer, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, Nils Muiznieks, visited Salaam Palace and was struck by the “destitute conditions” of its residents and “the near absence of an integration framework” for refugees in Italy, according to a report issued in September.
Mr. Muiznieks “witnessed the shocking conditions in which the men, women and children were living in this building, such as one shower and one toilet shared by 250 persons,” the report said.
#asile, #Dublin, #Europe, #migrations, #santé
Bahrain, a Brutal Ally
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/bahrain-a-brutal-ally.html
The United States speaks about supporting human rights and democracy, but while the Saudis send troops to aid the Khalifa government, America is sending arms. The United States is doing itself a huge disservice by displaying such an obvious double standard toward human rights violations in the Middle East. Washington condemns the violence of the Syrian government but turns a blind eye to blatant human rights abuses committed by its ally Bahrain.
This double standard is costing America its credibility across the region; and the message being understood is that if you are an ally of America, then you can get away with abusing human rights.
In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths - NYTimes
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/world/americas/in-aiding-quake-battered-haiti-lofty-hopes-and-hard-truths.html?smid=tw-sha
the numbers tell the story: Donors provided $2.2 billion of humanitarian aid in response to the earthquake. The United States Department of Defense got nearly a fifth of that aid to carry out its relief operation, which involved 22,000 troops. The Haitian government got less than 1 percent.
via @IrèneBonnaud qui twitte:
Reportage à #Haïti 3 ans après le #tremblement_de_terre. #Néo-colonialisme #humanitaire et toujours pas de reconstruction.
New Apps Recall the Details of Your Online Past - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/technology/new-apps-recall-the-details-of-your-online-past.html?nl=todaysheadlines&
L’affaire Merah : un excellent reportage du New York Times , sur ce qui se dit à la cité des Izards à Toulouse, sur les réactions des jeunes et leur discours.
After Toulouse Killings, an Area’s Anger Runs Deep - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/world/europe/after-toulouse-killings-an-areas-anger-runs-deep.html?_r=0
Don’t Blame Autism for Newtown - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/opinion/dont-blame-autism-for-newtown.html
This country needs to develop a better understanding of the complexities of various conditions and respect for the profound individuality of its children. We need to emphasize that being introverted doesn’t mean one has a developmental disorder, that a developmental disorder is not the same thing as a mental illness, and that most mental illnesses do not increase a person’s tendency toward outward-directed violence.
How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico - NYTimes.com
Walmart a encore frappé, cette fois au Mexique
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/walmart-bribes-teotihuacan.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121218&_r=
By DAVID BARSTOW and ALEJANDRA XANIC von BERTRAB
December 17, 2012
Wal-Mart Abroad | How a retail giant fueled growth with bribes
The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico
Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.
A preview of a New York Times investigation revealing bribery by Wal-Mart as it sought to build in the shadow of Mexico’s most revered cultural landmark, the pyramids of Teotihuacán.
SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACÁN, Mexico — Wal-Mart longed to build in Elda Pineda’s alfalfa field. It was an ideal location, just off this town’s bustling main entrance and barely a mile from its ancient pyramids, which draw tourists from around the world. With its usual precision, Wal-Mart calculated it would attract 250 customers an hour if only it could put a store in Mrs. Pineda’s field.
One major obstacle stood in Wal-Mart’s way.
After years of study, the town’s elected leaders had just approved a new zoning map. The leaders wanted to limit growth near the pyramids, and they considered the town’s main entrance too congested already. As a result, the 2003 zoning map prohibited commercial development on Mrs. Pineda’s field, seemingly dooming Wal-Mart’s hopes.
Voir aussi la vidéo
►http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/12/17/business/100000001950744/how-wal-mart-conquered-teotihuacan.html
N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/n-joseph-woodland-inventor-of-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html
What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.
Signals in China of a More Open Economy - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/world/asia/chinese-leaders-visit-to-shenzhen-hints-at-reform.html?nl=todaysheadlines&e
By EDWARD WONG
Published: December 9, 2012
BEIJING — In a strong signal of support for greater market-oriented economic policies, Xi Jinping, the new head of the Communist Party, made a visit over the weekend to the special economic zone of Shenzhen in south China, which has stood as a symbol of the nation’s embrace of a state-led form of capitalism since its growth over the last three decades from a fishing enclave to an industrial metropolis.
The trip was Mr. Xi’s first outside Beijing since becoming party chief on Nov. 15. Mr. Xi visited a private Internet company on Friday and went to Lotus Hill Park on Saturday to lay a wreath at a bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, the leader who opened the era of economic reforms in 1979, when Shenzhen was designated a special economic zone. Mr. Deng famously later visited the city in 1992 to encourage reviving those economic policies after they had stalled following the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989.