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German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia
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The ship survived two atomic bomb blasts: Test Able, an air burst on 1 July 1946 and Test Baker, a submerged detonation on 25 July. Prinz Eugen was moored about 1,200 yards (1,100 m) from the epicenter of both blasts and was only lightly damaged by them; the Able blast only bent her foremast and broke the top of her main mast. She suffered no significant structural damage from the explosions but was thoroughly contaminated with radioactive fallout. The irradiated ship was towed to the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, where a small leak went unrepaired due to the radiation danger. On 29 August 1946, the US Navy decommissioned Prinz Eugen.

By late December 1946, the ship was in very bad condition; on 21 December, she began to list severely. A salvage team could not be brought to Kwajalein in time, so the US Navy attempted to beach the ship to prevent her from sinking, but on 22 December, Prinz Eugen capsized and sank.

The German warship, the Prinz Eugen, lies in the waters of the Kwajalein lagoon - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Merci !

Probablement, le paradis (ou l’enfer, au choix) pour le shipspotting… avec l’immense flotte fantôme abandonnée au mouillage en rade.

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@aude_v J’espère que tu as profité ton passage au sud de la Malaisie pour allez voir à quoi ressemble « forest city »

Je viens de remonter le temps avec gg:earth sur l’embouchure du détroit de Johor, la progression des terres à partir de 1995 est assez impressionnante.

Quant aux paquets de bateaux qui sont mouillés en rade, la vingtaine qui sont devant les chantiers navals de ces nouvelles terres a l’air d’être là depuis un bon bout de temps (au minimum 3 ans) et on les voit éviter au fil des vents et des courants… Ceci dit, ils sont dans les eaux malaisiennes, la délimitation remontant à avant les polders passe maintenant presque à toucher la côte singapourienne.

Je me demande, d’ailleurs, pour cette « flotte fantôme » s’il y a une quelconque forme de gardiennage et, donc, dans quel état se trouvent les navires ? En particulier l’équipement de passerelle (radar, radio, compas, …) et les apparaux de manœuvres. Ont-ils été démontés avant abandon, laissés en place en vue d’une réactivation éventuelle du navire (une partie est censée avoir été « mise sous cocon » ou vandalisés par les pirates dont la renommée n’est plus à faire dans ces détroits ?…

On trouve quelques (en fait, pas temps que ça) photos des files de navires, mais jamais vues des ponts ou des machines. Bon, il faut déjà pouvoir grimper à bord et ce doit être une sacrée expédition. La surveillance singapourienne doit (devrait ?) être relativement sérieuse, mais qu’en est-il de celle exercée par les autorités de Malaisie ?

Peut-être terrain glissant…

U.S. Navy Salvage Team Completes Oil Removal from Former German Cruiser Prinz Eugen – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-salvage-team-completes-oil-removal-from-former-german-cruiser-pri

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A U.S. Navy-led salvage team has successfully removed 229,000 gallons of oil from the sunken World War II vessel ex-Prinz Eugen located in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

229000 gallons -> 866 mètres cube (à peu près autant de tonnes, entre 1/3 et 1/4 de piscine olympique, pour prendre les éléments de comparaison habituels ;-)

On connaît le rôle des prédictions apocalyptiques dans le déclenchement de la seconde guerre d’Irak par Bush et par les néoconservateurs.

La première fois que j’ai entendu parler de cette histoire, c’était ici :

▻http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/looking-back-at-bush/7702590

Pour résumer : dans sa biographie de Bush fils, Jean E. Smith raconte comment le président US a tenté d’expliquer à Chirac l’histoire de Gog et Magog, et la nécessité théologique d’une intervention en Irak. Face à l’incompréhension de Chirac, Bush demande ensuite à ses services de contacter la faculté de théologie de Louvain, pour qu’ils expliquent à Villepin.

Or le mois dernier j’ai croisé avec un célèbre bibliste - professeur au collège de France. Et lui-même raconte une histoire similaire : il a été contacté, à cette même époque, par l’administration américaine pour donner des cours d’exégèse biblique « appliquée » à l’administration française.

Bunnies by the boxful
▻https://pateblog.nma.gov.au/2016/03/27/bunnies-by-the-boxful

Opened in 1916, the freezing works supplied rabbit meat to markets around southern Queensland (Brisbane, Toowoomba, and Warwick), while pelts were sent to Sydney for auction and to hat factories in Melbourne. In 1917 the works processed over 110,000 rabbits. This success led to plans to expand capacity and establish exports.

‘The plant which did the freezing was small at first, supplying mainly Brisbane markets, but this grew until it was supplying a large city in Indonesia, then as the years went by, a firm in England…’

Bert Wright, 1992

Bert Wright was one of many locals who found employment at the works, operated in the 1920s by local businessmen Bill Wilkinson and Ted Maher.

‘I worked for the Yelarbon chiller for years on and off. The rabbit kept me in good work whenever I needed it. … I drove for them … from Yelarbon to Stanthorpe – 90 odd miles. Of course you were all over the place picking up, grading and buying rabbits. A docket was issued – so many pair of large, medium and small – all at different prices.’

Bert Wright, 1992

Bert recalled that in the interwar years (1919-1938) Yelarbon was known as a ‘rabbit town’. Over 20 tons of rabbits were trucked to Brisbane each week in peak periods and 151 trappers were on the freezing works’ books. During the 1930s Depression prices for rabbits were very low but trappers were able to make a little over £1 a week, enough for their families to survive the difficult times.

With the start of the Second World War in 1939, most of the young trappers enlisted for the Army and the flow of rabbit carcasses to the freezing works dropped significantly, but the company remained in business. Bert explained the impact that the absence of trappers had on rabbit populations: when the war finished ‘… there were rabbits everywhere – even living under the freezing works itself.’ The trappers came back and shipments of rabbits started coming from as far away as St George, approximately 250 km west of Yelarbon. The record catch Bert remembers was 4007 pairs delivered by one trapper in 1947-48. The works closed in 1955.

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Extermination of rabbits in California
(From “The Picture Magazine,” 1894)

Louis Pasteur and the $10m rabbit reward
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Image: Plague proportions: farmers with one evening’s cull in central Victoria, 1949. (State Library of Victoria’s Pictures Collection/ Accession no H19019)

In the 1880s, the greatest threat to Australia’s political and economic future was the rabbit, and our desperate struggle with the bunny resembled a Looney Tunes plot, involving biological warfare, a scientific genius, a world famous actress and a $10 million reward. Lorena Allam reports.

Rabbits arrived in Australia with the First Fleet but didn’t thrive initially. The great bunny plague is commonly blamed on Thomas Austin of Barwon Park near Geelong, who decided in 1859 to organise a ’spot of hunting’ by releasing two dozen rabbits into the wild.

’Those two dozen rabbits went on to multiply, as rabbits do, to be a plague of a billion rabbits by the 1880s,’ says historian and author Stephen Dando-Collins.

The speed of the invasion was astonishing.

Some of the strong contenders were people who thought, “Well, let’s bring in something that will eat the rabbits.” In fact, some animals were brought in ... mongooses, cats.
Brian Coman, author and research scientist

’In the west of NSW in particular, properties were quite marginal to begin with,’ says Dando-Collins. ’Once the rabbits arrived and stripped them of all the crops and stock feed, these places became dustbowls and totally useless to farmers.’

Next the rabbits invaded politics.

’At that time there was no income tax, no company tax and the colonial government’s single biggest source of income was from the lease of crown lands,’ says Dando-Collins. ’By the late 1880s a lot of these leases were coming up for renewal, and farmers said to the government, “If you don’t sort out this rabbit problem, we’ll just walk away. We will not renew our leases.”’

Under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, the NSW government paid a rebate for rabbit scalps. The act spawned an entire industry.

’In just 12 months near Wilcannia 782,510 rabbits were caught, and they were still saying the property was useless,’ Dando-Collins says.

’Near Menindee 342,295 were scalped over three months. Word came back to the government in Sydney: “It’s just not working!”’

In 1887, the premier of NSW, Sir Henry Parkes, appointed an Inter-Colonial Rabbit Commission made up of prominent graziers, men of science and government administrators. The commission’s task was to find a biological solution to the rabbit problem. It sent out a global call for entries, with prize money of £25,000 ($10 million in today’s terms) for ’any method or process not previously known in the colony for the effectual extermination of rabbits’.
Rabbit plague Image: Plague proportions: farmers with one evening’s cull in central Victoria, 1949. (State Library of Victoria’s Pictures Collection/ Accession no H19019)

The Rabbit Commission received more than 1,500 suggestions, most of them ’pretty insane’ according to author and research scientist Brian Coman.

Coman worked for the Victorian Department of the Environment for 23 years, battling rabbits for much of that time.

’Some of the strong contenders were people who thought, “Well, let’s bring in something that will eat the rabbits.” In fact, some animals were brought in ... mongooses, cats. There was a whole trainload of cats dispatched into outback Australia and let loose at various points along the line,’ he says.

The NSW government and pastoralists sought a ’magic bullet’ because keeping rabbit numbers down was (and still is) expensive, backbreaking and unrelenting work. Coman, who grew up in the Western Districts of Victoria, can relate.

’Back then the first sort of crude methods—other than trapping and bounties, which were totally ineffectual—were broad-spectrum poisons like arsenic and phosphorous. These were terrible poisons to use in the bush because they were non-specific. A lot of other animals got killed as well,’ he says.

’They were also very dangerous. My father has a recollection, as a little boy, of coming home at night after he’d been with his uncle poisoning on a farm up near Euroa, and rubbing his hands and they glowed in the dark. That was the phosphorous all over his hands.’

The Rabbit Commission did receive a few useful suggestions, including one from a great man of science: Louis Pasteur.

Pasteur claimed he could eradicate rabbits with chicken cholera—something he’d trialled with some success in France. Pasteur dispatched his nephew, the scientist Adrien Loir, on a steamer from Paris to Australia with vials of chicken cholera in his luggage.

The Rabbit Commission agreed to allow Loir’s team to conduct experiments and built them a laboratory and accommodation on tiny Rodd Island, which sits in a quiet bend of the Parramatta River, a safe distance from civilisation.

Loir’s plan was to ’inject nine rabbits with food containing microbes of chicken cholera, placed in equal numbers in wooden hutches, wire-bottomed cages, and artificial burrows with healthy rabbits, and to place two healthy rabbits in a hutch with the excrement of diseased rabbits.’

They would also ’feed sheep, cattle, calves, lambs, horses, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, rats and mice once a day for six days with cholera-tainted food. Various birds, including nearly all kinds of poultry and the principal native birds, are also to be fed and inoculated.’

It soon became clear that chicken cholera killed the rabbits, but only those who ate the tainted food. It was not contagious for them but—and perhaps the clue was in the name—chicken cholera killed all the birds.

The Rabbit Commission retired to consider its decision, and Adrien Loir was left to wait. Over the next few months he used the lab on Rodd Island to research the mysterious Cumberland disease which at the time was devastating Australia’s sheep and cattle. Loir established that Cumberland disease was actually anthrax and—better still—he had a vaccine.

The Rabbit Commission eventually decided against ’recommending any further expenditure by government on testing the efficacy of this disease’. Nobody won the £25,000 prize. Instead, Loir and The Pasteur Institute made a healthy profit manufacturing anthrax vaccine on Rodd Island for the next four years.

In 1891 Loir’s island life took a dramatic turn, thanks to a visiting actress and her two dogs.
Sarah Bernhardt Image: The greatest actress of her age, Sarah Bernhardt (Photographed by Felix Nadar, 1864; Licensed under Public Domain via Commons)

’Sarah Bernhardt was the superstar of her age, and she brought her entire acting troupe to Australia for a tour,’ Stephen Dando-Collins explains. ’She arrived with her two dogs, and just as Johnny Depp ran afoul of quarantine regulations, she had her dogs taken off her, and she too was threatening to leave the country.

’Young Loir had bought tickets to all her shows, he was such a huge fan, and he approached her and said, “I think I can convince the NSW government to declare Rodd Island a quarantine facility and I’ll look after your dogs while you’re in Australia.”’

Dando-Collins says the pair dined in her hotel each evening and Bernhard spent her weekends on Rodd Island ’visiting her dogs’. After one particularly boisterous party, Bernhard and her entourage were ’found on the laboratory roof’ drinking champagne.

Loir eventually returned to France and Rodd Island is now a public recreation space.
Rodd island Image: The view from Loir’s balcony on Rodd Island on a sunny winter’s day (Lorena Allam)

So, what about that pesky plague of a billion rabbits?

Australia had to wait another 60 years before the magic bullet was found.

In 1950, after years of research, scientists released myxomatosis—and it was devastating. The rabbit population dropped from 600 million to 100 million in the first two years. The change was immediate.

Brian Coman remembers walking in a field with his father as a boy and looking at a hill, part of which was covered with bracken fern.

’He clapped his hands, and it was almost as if the whole surface of the ground got up and ran into the bracken fern. There were hundreds upon hundreds, perhaps thousands of rabbits. It was a sight I’ll never forget.’

But after myxomatosis ’the grey blanket’ disappeared.

’You could walk all day and not see a rabbit,’ says Coman.

Even scientists were shocked by the cruel effectiveness of the disease.

’I had a friend, Bunny Fennessy, who was of course fortuitously named,’ says Coman.

’He remembers walking to the crest of this hill. There was a fence line there and a gate. He leaned over the gate and looked down. In front of him was this mass of dead and dying rabbits, blind rabbits moping around, birds of prey flying in the air, flies everywhere, a stench in the air—he was simply overawed. He had never seen sick rabbits before.’

Genetic resistance to myxomatosis has been increasing since the 1970s and even after the release of the virulent rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD, or calicivirus) in 1991, the search for a biological solution continues.

In the meantime, the ’traditional’ means of keeping rabbits under control—poisoning, and warren destruction—are still necessary. Coman says it’s a war that doesn’t end.

’You’ve got a situation here where an animal is causing immense ecological damage, not to mention economic damage, and you simply cannot let that go on. You have to act.

’We simply can’t allow them to gain a foothold again; the cost environmentally and economically would be enormous.’

La myxomatose c’est vraiment sale, le lapin souffre beaucoup avant d’en mourir. Cet enflure de français d’Armand-Delille est allé l’inoculer aux lapins de sa propriété d’Eure-et-Loir et ça a finit par gagner toute la France puis l’Angleterre et à la fin des années 1950, toute l’Europe était touchée. Ce ne sont pas seulement les lapins sauvages qui en sont morts, mais aussi les domestiqués ou dans les élevages familiaux. WP note Entre 1952 et 1955, 90 à 98 % des lapins sauvages sont donc morts de la myxomatose en France.

Aujourd’hui le lapin élevé industriellement a moins de considération qu’une poule, c’est dire les conditions de vie infectes dans lesquelles il est maintenu.

#épizootie

#haut_les_mains_peau_de_lapin

Nouvelle-Zélande : les autorités répandent un virus pour décimer les lapins nuisibles RTBF - Antoine Libotte - 28 Février 2018
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_nouvelle-zelande-les-autorites-repandent-un-virus-pour-decimer-les-lapin

Le ministère néo-zélandais de l’Agriculture a annoncé le déploiement à travers le pays d’une nouvelle souche du virus de la maladie hémorragique virale du lapin. Il s’agit du RHDV1-K5, provenant de Corée.

Les lapins, qui ont été introduits dans l’archipel au début du 19ème siècle, causent beaucoup de soucis aux agriculteurs du pays. Selon la BBC, ils « entrent en concurrence avec le bétail pour le pâturage et causent aussi des dégâts en creusant des terriers. »

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Selon le ministère de l’Agriculture, les pertes de production imputées aux lapins s’élèvent à 50 millions de dollars néo-zélandais (soit un peu plus de 29,5 millions d’euros), à quoi il faut ajouter 25 millions (environ 14,8 millions d’euros) pour la lutte contre les lapins.

La population divisée
Si la Fédération des fermiers néo-zélandais (FF) se réjouit de cette décision, la Société pour la prévention de la cruauté envers les animaux (SPCA) aurait préféré une autre solution au problème.

Andrew Simpson, porte-parole de la FF, explique à la BBC que certains agriculteurs sont désespérés : « Si une autre année s’écoule sans le virus, les dégâts écologiques causés à certaines propriétés seraient effrayants. »

Pour Arnja Dale, de la SPCA, cette décision est décevante, vu « les souffrances que le virus causera aux lapins touchés et le risque potentiel pour les lapins de compagnie. Nous préconisons l’utilisation de méthodes plus humaines. »

La SPCA pointe également du doigt le vaccin conçu pour protéger les lapins domestiques et dont l’efficacité n’aurait pas été suffisamment prouvée. Or, pour le ministère de l’Agriculture, la souche RHDV1-K5 a été déployée en Australie en 2017 et aucun lapin domestique n’a été touché par la souche virale.

Vidéo : An introduction to the rabbit problem in Australia
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xieW62u2bZQ

#Nouvelle_Zélande #Australie #virus

Merci peg. On fera ce projet un jour avec toi !

Royaume-Uni. Les Américains font le tri dans leurs statues, et nous ?

Alors qu’aux États-Unis on déboulonne les statues des confédérés, The Guardian, appelle, dans un article très commenté, à faire de même au Royaume-Uni : l’#amiral_Nelson, qui a milité contre l’abolition de l’esclavage, a-t-il vraiment sa place, en majesté, sur Trafalgar Square ?

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#Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770

As the debate about whether to change the #Captain_Cook statue in Sydney continues, a small town in far north Queensland has spent the past eight years working towards better representing its history.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-01/cooktown-eight-year-fight-for-statues-mark-1770-reconciliation/8862118
#Australie

Avec cette photo qui accompagne l’article :

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#Cook

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ou sur The Sun
▻https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4253375/mh370-search-missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-indian-ocean-objects-spotted

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13 deaths due to swine flu in UP - OTHER STATES - The Hindu
▻http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/13-deaths-due-to-swine-flu-in-up/article19448254.ece

Govt medical colleges have been directed to reserve five-bed isolation ward

With over 300 confirmed cases of swine flu and 13 deaths, the H1N1 virus is fast become a cause for concern for the health department officials in Uttar Pradesh. In the last week, five deaths were reported from the State due to the virus.

According to numbers released by the health department, the total number of 298 swine flu cases have been reported from 38 districts of the State till August 6. Of these, the highest number of patients at 129 are from Lucknow, followed by Gautam Buddh Nagar with 39 cases.

Gujarat: Swine flu kills 3 including 2 year old girl in Ahmedabad; toll in Gujarat rises to 170 | Ahmedabad News - Times of India
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Swine flu continued its death march unabated as total 170 people were reported dead due to H1N1 virus till August 12 this year. In Ahmedabad, H1N1 wreaked havoc as three more people including a two year old girl from Jivraj succumbed to swine flu while 60 fresh positive cases were detected.
Two other who succumbed to H1N1 complications include a 39-year old resident of Bapunagar and a 65-year old Khokhra resident.
AMC data revealed that 151-odd patients are under treatment for H1N1 out of which 21 are on ventilator support.
[…]
Health commissioner Jayanti Ravi said that H1N1 is likely to spike for the next 15 days wherein there affecting more patients. It is likely to get a little less aggressive after a fortnight if trends as we follow trends in other states.

Gujrat: 11 more swine flu deaths; toll reaches 201 since January - Read Health Related Blogs, Articles & News on Health News at TheHealthSite.com
▻http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/gujrat-11-more-swine-flu-deaths-toll-reaches-201-since-january-ag0817

With 11 more swine flu deaths in Gujarat on Monday, the death toll due to the disease since January has risen to 201, even as 145 new cases have been reported from across the state, officials said. According to official figures, as many as 1,754 H1N1 cases have been reported so far, with 913 people still under treatment and 640 of them cured. Ahmedabad was the worst-affected city with 51 deaths, followed by Vadodara (32). Surat and state capital Gandhinagar reported nine deaths each. The Saurashtra region with 11 districts reported 61 deaths.

#timeline

Résumé sur The Lancet

Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study - The Lancet
▻http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)32399-6/fulltext

Summary
Background
Emerging evidence suggests that living near major roads might adversely affect cognition. However, little is known about its relationship with the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. We aimed to investigate the association between residential proximity to major roadways and the incidence of these three neurological diseases in Ontario, Canada.

Methods
In this population-based cohort study, we assembled two population-based cohorts including all adults aged 20–50 years (about 4·4 million; multiple sclerosis cohort) and all adults aged 55–85 years (about 2·2 million; dementia or Parkinson’s disease cohort) who resided in Ontario, Canada on April 1, 2001. Eligible patients were free of these neurological diseases, Ontario residents for 5 years or longer, and Canadian-born. We ascertained the individual’s proximity to major roadways based on their residential postal-code address in 1996, 5 years before cohort inception. Incident diagnoses of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis were ascertained from provincial health administrative databases with validated algorithms. We assessed the associations between traffic proximity and incident dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis using Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for individual and contextual factors such as diabetes, brain injury, and neighbourhood income. We did various sensitivity analyses, such as adjusting for access to neurologists and exposure to selected air pollutants, and restricting to never movers and urban dwellers.

Findings
Between 2001, and 2012, we identified 243 611 incident cases of dementia, 31 577 cases of Parkinson’s disease, and 9247 cases of multiple sclerosis. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of incident dementia was 1·07 for people living less than 50 m from a major traffic road (95% CI 1·06–1·08), 1·04 (1·02–1·05) for 50–100 m, 1·02 (1·01–1·03) for 101–200 m, and 1·00 (0·99–1·01) for 201–300 m versus further than 300 m (p for trend=0·0349). The associations were robust to sensitivity analyses and seemed stronger among urban residents, especially those who lived in major cities (HR 1·12, 95% CI 1·10–1·14 for people living <50 m from a major traffic road), and who never moved (1·12, 1·10–1·14 for people living <50 m from a major traffic road). No association was found with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.

Interpretation
In this large population-based cohort, living close to heavy traffic was associated with a higher incidence of dementia, but not with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.

Funding
Health Canada (MOA-4500314182).

#pollution #démence #circulation #voitures

Who will help Myanmar’s Rohingya?

Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.

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Outcast: Adrift with Burma’s Rohingya

Persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar face a dangerous journey on their way to freedom in Thailand and Malaysia.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rewind/2016/11/outcast-adrift-burma-rohingya-161128063953657.html

Dozens of Rohingya missing as boat sinks off Bangladesh

Boat packed with at least 31 people reportedly chased by a Myanmar army speedboat as it tried to reach Bangladesh.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/dozens-rohingya-missing-boat-sinks-bangladesh-161205132909880.html

Rohingya Face Health Care Bias in Parts of Asia, Study Finds

HONG KONG — Members of the Rohingya ethnic group face chronic discrimination in access to medical care in Myanmar and other Asian countries, with severe consequences for health and mortality rates, a study has found.

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Burmese military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee

Woman’s account is one of a wave of reports of murder and rape by soldiers in Myanmar, amid claims of genocide

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/10/burmese-military-killed-seven-of-my-children-says-rohingya-refugee?CMP=
#génocide

A family torn apart at sea

The trawler’s captain had abandoned the ship and naval authorities in the region had pushed it back out to sea, bereft of fuel and potable water with over 800 refugees and migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh onboard. With passengers crammed above and below deck in sweltering heat, a deadly brawl over water erupted.

▻http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2016/12/58453b454/a-family-torn-apart-at-sea.html

Myanmar stops migrant workers going to Malaysia after Rohingya row

YANGON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar has stopped workers going to Malaysia after Malaysia’s leader criticised its treatment of Muslims, while Indonesia joined a growing chorus of concern about the fate of Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya Muslims.

▻http://news.trust.org/item/20161207111227-90q04/?source=dpagetopic

UN getting daily reports of rapes, killings and other abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Burma

UN human rights chief accuses Burmese government of taking ‘short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous’ approach to crisis

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burma-rohingya-muslims-rape-murder-accusations-un-aung-san-suu-kyi-a7

Burma: Security Forces Raped Rohingya Women, Girls

(New York) – Burmese government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against ethnic Rohingya women and girls as young as 13 during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses in northern Rakhine State, including into possible systematic rape against Rohingya women and girls.

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/06/burma-security-forces-raped-rohingya-women-girls

Rohingya Villagers Bear Witness to a Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar

On the morning of Oct. 10, Hussein Muhammad, an old Rohingya man who doesn’t know his age, was awoken at 6 a.m. by a noise outside his home. When he stepped outside, he saw that dozens of soldiers and members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police had his hut surrounded.

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Rohingya Muslims tell of gang rapes and secret killings in Myanmar’s hidden region

As the last of the foreign reporters walked over a bamboo bridge a young Rohingya woman dressed in black, with a black umbrella, raised her hand hesitantly.

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In return for taking a limited number of heavily-vetted asylum seekers, the Obama administration will deport to #Australia some Central American refugees currently languishing in #camps in #Costa_Rica, having been denied entry to the US. On both sides of the Pacific, some of the world’s most vulnerable people will be denied the basic right to seek protection, while many will face permanent separation from their families.

Far from alleviating the horrors produced by Australia’s “offshore” detention regime, the new deal will see hundreds of families split up forever, with many detainees, especially single men, unable to reunite with their spouses and children in Australia.

#accord #deal #USA

Refugees on #Nauru and #Manus_Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?CMP=sha

Australie : des réfugiés pourront s’installer aux Etats-Unis

Des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie dans des camps controversés sur des îles du Pacifique seront réinstallés aux Etats-Unis aux termes d’un « accord exceptionnel » avec ce pays, a annoncé dimanche Canberra, en soulignant que sa politique d’intransigeance envers les migrants restait inchangée.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/australie-des-refugies-pourront-sinstaller-aux-etats-unis.afp

Les Etats-Unis vont accueillir les réfugiés des centres de rétention australiens

Cela fait quatre ans qu’ils croupissent dans des centres de rétention. Les migrants enfermés par l’Australie sur des îles du Pacifique sortent de l’impasse. Canberra n’en veut toujours pas, mais les Etats-Unis vont en accueillir pour offrir à ces personnes une deuxième chance. Combien ? Pas encore de chiffre officiel. Mais les deux pays ont annoncé un accord historique ce dimanche 13 novembre 2016. A ce jour, 1 616 personnes retenues sur Nauru et Manus, sur environ 2 000 au total, ont obtenu le statut de réfugié.

▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20161113-etats-unis-refugies-migrants-australie-retention-papouasie-accord?ns_mc

Australia’s refugee deal may be scuppered by Trump, US expert warns

Immigration expert Niels Frenzen says Trump will want something in return if he is to honour the deal to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/15/trump-tear-up-australia-refugee-deal-us-expert-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_O

UNHCR to endorse Australia-United States relocations as “offshore processing” arrangements fail refugees

The approach taken by Australia in transferring refugees and asylum-seekers to open-ended detention in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has caused immense harm to vulnerable people who have sought asylum since 2013. In this context, UNHCR welcomes the announcement today that refugees currently held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea will be relocated under a bilateral arrangement between Australia and the United States.

▻http://www.unhcr.org/58290a5b4.html

Refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to be resettled in US – as it happened

Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in US under auspices of the UNHCR

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?platfor

Sudanese refugee dies in Brisbane hospital after medivac from Manus

A 27-year-old Sudanese refugee held on Manus Island has died following “a fall and seizure” inside the Australian-run detention centre.

It is understood the man, who had reportedly been unwell for several months, collapsed and suffered head injuries inside the detention centre on Friday. He was then evacuated to Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital, where he died on Saturday.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/sudanese-refugee-dies-in-brisbane-hospital-after-medivac-from-manus?CMP

Refugee pleaded with doctors on Manus Island for help before his death

Detainees’ letter claims medical staff ignored months of escalating complaints before #Faysal_Ishak_Ahmed collapsed

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Manus : les migrants se révoltent

Samedi soir, des migrants se sont révoltés au centre de rétention de Manus, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée pour protester contre la mort d’un jeune réfugié.

▻http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/manus-migrants-se-revoltent-428351.html

#externalisation #Australie #révolte

’Bashed’ asylum seekers on Manus Island ’deserved what they got’: PNG minister

Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year’s Eve “deserved what they got”.

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Manus Island refugees riot over food

60 refugees and guards fought a running battle yesterday at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

▻http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/328494/manus-island-refugees-riot-over-food
#alimentation

Photos show bullets fired into Manus Island detention accommodation, not just air: Amnesty

Human rights group Amnesty International has found the Australian Government downplayed the danger asylum seekers on Manus Island faced when the detention centre was attacked by soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/federal-government-downplayed-asylum-seeker-danger-amnesty-says/8525350

Oh merde... Un de mes héros aussi... :-(

Une bonne interview de Bill Mollison

▻http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.fr/2013/03/interview-de-bill-mollison-lun-des.html

SL : Est-ce à ce moment-là qu’est née l’idée de la permaculture ?

BM : Cela remonte en réalité à 1959. J’étais dans une #forêt tropicale de Tasmanie à étudier l’interaction entre la manière de s’alimenter des marsupiaux et la régénération de la forêt. Nous n’avions pas eu beaucoup de succès avec une grande population de marsupiaux. J’ai donc créé un système simple avec 23 espèces de plantes ligneuses, dont quatre seulement étaient dominantes, et seulement deux que broutaient les marsupiaux. C’était un système très flexible basé sur les interactions des composants, et non sur les types d’espèces. Il me vint à l’esprit un soir que nous pouvions construire des systèmes qui fonctionneraient mieux que celui-là.

Ce fut une révélation remarquable. Il n’arrive pas si souvent dans notre vie – une fois tous les dix ans peut-être – d’avoir une révélation. Si vous êtes un aborigène, cela définit votre âge. On n’a qu’une révélation à chaque âge, peu importe votre âge chronologique. Avec de la chance, on a trois bonnes révélations par vie.

Comme j’étais éducateur, j’ai réalisé que si je ne l’enseignais pas, cela n’aboutirait à rien. J’ai donc démarré à concevoir des instructions basées sur la connaissance passive et j’ai écrit un livre à ce sujet appelé Permaculture One. À ma grande horreur, tout le monde s’y est intéressé. [rires] J’ai reçu des milliers de lettres disant, « Vous avez mis en mots quelque chose que j’avais en tête depuis des années, » et « Vous avez mis quelque chose entre mes mains que je peux utiliser ».

▻http://permaculturenews.org/2016/09/25/bill-mollison

After founding Permaculture Institute in 1978, he formalized the training of practitioners, which directly impacted hundreds of thousands of lives, and indirectly many millions more. For his service to humanity, he was honored with numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. But of all the accolades he received, the one he was most proud of was the Vavilov Medal, in large part due to the tenacity, courage, and contributions of the award’s namesake, who Bill considered a personal hero. Bill was also the first foreigner invited and admitted to the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Tributes flow in for permaculture ’father’ Bill Mollison
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-26/tributes-flow-in-for-permaculture-father-bill-mollison/7878118

Bill Mollison, co-founder of global permaculture movement, dies in Hobart
▻http://www.news.com.au/national/tasmania/bill-mollison-cofounder-of-global-permaculture-movement-dies-in-hobart/news-story/503c4e606dc80d79936e1834618b19bd

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Y a de chouettes trucs qui sortent sur une recherche « mollison »

►https://seenthis.net/messages/241172

Par exemple, si nous déboisons des régions on a typiquement une grosse perte de nutriments et cela s’accumule en bas des coteaux et fini dans l’océan, mais si nous faisons une chose tout simple pour les vaches comme mettre un résineux sur les crêtes, les vaches vont toutes aller se poser dessous et vous obtenez un mélange d’aiguilles de pin et de bouse qui est un système de distribution goutte à goutte de nutriments pour tout le versant. Vous n’avez pas dû trimbaler le fumier jusqu’en haut mais vous avez dû mettre des résineux ou n’importe quels autres arbres à aiguilles. Cela apportera toujours les vaches sur la crête, et pourquoi donc ? Elles préfèrent une litière d’aiguilles à n’importe quel autre système. Elles s’allongent toujours sous les tamaris, sous les résineux, c’est leur endroit favori pour se poser.