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How society silences sexually abused children - The Washington Post

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By Sarah Chang
October 23, 2015

During my first week as a federal prosecutor of sexual abuse crimes against children, one of my colleagues told me her chief coping mechanism: Turn the sound off when you have to watch a video multiple times. This advice scared me. I imagined children screaming, crying and shrieking in pain — the stuff of nightmares.

My office is responsible for investigating and prosecuting such crimes, namely the production, possession and trafficking of child pornography. My first case file contained multiple CDs and DVDs showing a young girl being sexually abused by her father, who filmed his crimes with a handheld camera. Despite my colleague’s warning, I knew I couldn’t remain deaf during my first pass at the evidence. I went to our forensic computer lab and braced myself.

#enfant #enfance #viol #culture_du_viol

Detroit’s unexpected — and unexpectedly moving — outdoor art scene - The Washington Post

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We bump down an alley, trying to remember how we got to our destination the last time. We’re on a hunt for Hamtramck Disneyland, my favorite place to take visitors to my newly adopted city of Detroit. I like taking out-of-towners — who’ve heard me enthuse about the city’s outdoor art for the past year and a half — to places not packed with Instagram-snapping tourists, where artists don’t emerge from their studios to remind you to tag your photos with their names.

#détroit #art #art_de-rue

In this part of the United States, principals still legally hit students - The Washington Post

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Greenwood’s policy is not uncommon — at least not in the Deep South. Though a majority of U.S. states banned the spanking or paddling of students over the last few decades, public schools in some Southern states still depend on the practice — creating one more stress point for students already more likely to confront ill-qualified teachers, crumbling infrastructure and chaotic classrooms.

#états-unis #violence #école

A remote corner of China wants access to the sea. The obstacle is North Korea. - The Washington Post

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FANGCHUAN, CHINA — You can almost smell the sea air from here, at the point where China, Russia and North Korea meet, where slogans pronounce “One eye, three countries” and tourists pose for photos against a green landscape in which the borders are imperceptible.

But for the Chinese, smelling the sea air is all they can do. Their border lies 10 miles inland, because of the Russian annexation of the area in 1860. That means China’s landlocked northern provinces are dependent for sea access on Russia, whose efforts to develop eastern ports haven’t amounted to much, and North Korea — which has some reliability issues, to say the least.

#chine #russie #territoire #frontières

There have been 1,001 mass shootings in America since 2013 - The Washington Post

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It’s difficult to tell, exactly, which gunman pushed America past a milestone of violence in the early hours of Saturday morning this past weekend. Was it the unknown man who opened fire at a house party in Charlotte, injuring four? Or the home invader in Peoria, Ill., who shot a 14-year-old student athlete dead and wounded three other teens? Or the gang members who shot and injured five people at a shopping plaza Memphis?

Regardless, some time between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday, somebody pulled the trigger on what would be America’s 1,000th mass shooting incident since January 2013. This figure comes from the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker, maintained by a community of redditors with an aim toward drawing attention toward gun violence. The tracker defines a mass shooting as any single incident in which four or more people are injured by gunfire.

#états-unis #meurtres #police #massacre #armes #armement

What is a rhino in the wild really worth? - The Washington Post

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What is a rhino in the wild really worth?

By Michael Gerson
October 12 at 7:29 PM

In Africa, the average cost of an AK-47 is a little over $300. A single rhinoceros horn — reputed (falsely) in Asia to have cancer-healing properties — can bring $300,000 on the black market. So a criminal gang or a terrorist group knows what a dead rhino is worth: several hundred assault rifles (less the commission owed middlemen). Al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group behind the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, uses poached ivory to fund its operations.

#rhino #environnement cc @fil

Life in the Islamic State: A climate of fear and violence - The Washington Post

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Islamic State militants dragged the blindfolded man into the main square in a town near the city of Raqqa, their self-proclaimed capital in Syria. It was Friday, right after prayers, when the market was filled with people. The fighters loudly announced that the man was a government spy, and they pulled off his blindfold so that everyone could see his face.

#is #ei #Syrie #état_islamique
Nabiha, a 42-year-old woman who fled the town in April and now lives in a refugee camp in Jordan, recalled her disgust as she watched the militants force the man down on a wooden block normally used to slaughter sheep, then raise a heavy butcher’s cleaver.

What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like - The Washington Post

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Penser l’an 2000 en 1900...

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There are few things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future.

“France in the Year 2000” is one example. The series of paintings, made by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, shows artist depictions of what life might look like in the year 2000. The first series of images were printed and enclosed in cigarette and cigar boxes around the time of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, according to the Public Domain Review, then later turned into postcards.

Lots of their ideas involve mechanized devices, flying, or a combination of the two. Some, strangely, involve people interacting in a very close and personal way with marine life. As Open Culture points out, however, there are no images of space travel.

Some of the portraits are fantastic — swashbucklers riding on giant seahorses, anyone? But others are actually surprisingly accurate visions of our current era, including farming machines, helicopters, and what looks like a precursor to the new robot vaccum, the iRobot Roomba vacuum:

By Hank Stuever
October 1, 2015

In this era of “limited” and “anthology” television series, would more shows be better off if they had kept things to one season? Certainly. For a while last fall, it seemed as if Showtime’s emotionally draining drama “The Affair” could have been one of those shows where a 10-episode arc would have been plenty.

But happily for fans of the show (and unhappily for the characters), “The Affair” continues Sunday, smartly and even provocatively expanding its ambition and tone in Season 2. Where the show initially asked viewers to simply puzzle over what actually happened between its two adulterers (Dominic West and Ruth Wilson), “The Affair” is now engaged in a deeper and more philosophical question: What is truth? Does truth exist?
Josh Stamberg as Max and Maura Tierney as Helen. (Mark Schafer/Showtime)

#futurisme

After hard journeys to Europe, who gets to stay? - The Washington Post

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KASSEL, Germany — Somali asylum seeker Ismail Mohamed Hassan, 22, awoke one nippy morning to an early knock at his refugee center door. It was the state police bearing two unpleasant gifts — a one-way ticket out of Germany and a car ride to Frankfurt Airport. This was it, he recalls thinking. Deportation.

Unless he could find a way to stop it.

#réfugiés #europe #migrations #asile

Key differences between the 1997 and 2015 El Niños, and their impact on our hurricane season - The Washington Post

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The 1997 and 2015 El Niño events are very similar in many ways — mainly in their stark intensity. But over the North Atlantic ocean, interesting differences emerge between the 1997 record-strong El Niño and its potential usurper.

Just past the halfway point, this Atlantic hurricane season has been relatively quiet. Hurricane activity is just 40 percent of normal for this time of year. El Niño, which is defined by the presences of warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific, is primarily responsible for the quiet hurricane season, through its influence on the upper-level wind patterns over the Atlantic Ocean

#climat #el_nino

As Europe seals borders, Germany mulls tougher rules at end of refugee trail - The Washington Post

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BREGANA, CROATIA — On a grim march through countries that do not want them, the tens of thousands of asylum seekers making their way across Europe again faced rejection Friday, after Croatia said it could not accommodate them though their path was barred to Western Europe.

The men, women and children fleeing war and poverty were ­being forced to improvise after their once-straightforward route to the havens of Germany and Sweden was blocked by Hungary’s barbed wire and truncheons this week. For days, the refugees have been forced to devise new routes across the Balkans, using word of mouth, the kindness of strangers and instinct as borders opened then rapidly closed.

The latest obstacle was Croatia, which staggered under the weight of the influx after initially opening its arms to the refugees. By late Friday, the nation had taken in more than 17,000 asylum seekers. Hundreds more were arriving ­every hour, even though the prime minister warned that the nation of 4.2 million could handle no more.

#réfugiés #europe #balkans

Chart: How much more the U.S. has bombed the Islamic State than the Taliban - The Washington Post

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The price of waging America’s wars has gone up dramatically this week.

First, we heard Republican presidential candidates in the debates Wednesday night saying they would send thousands of U.S. ground troops into Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic State. Earlier that day, we heard Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, head of the U.S. Central Command, tell Congress that only “four or five” Syrian trainees — from a $500 million American plan to prepare as many as 5,400 fighters this year — have ended up “in the fight” inside Syria.

#syrie #états-unis #ei #isis #Is