• Actress sues over anti-Islam video
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/09/201292022655471310.html

    The head of the Christian broadcasting charity Media for Christ, identified as the production company behind the movie, said Tuesday that he, too, had been fooled by the producer.

    Malheureusement pas aussi sympa que Plan 9 from Outer Space :
    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space

    Pour financer son film, Ed Wood obtint des fonds d’une Église baptiste. Afin de satisfaire la production, tous les membres de l’équipe du film se firent baptiser.

    Le titre original du film était Grave Robbers from Outer Space. Cette référence explicite à des pilleurs de tombes ne plut pas aux producteurs baptistes, qui suggérèrent à la place le titre Plan 9 from outer space en référence au Plan 9 déployé par les extraterrestres pour amadouer les Terriens.

  • Encore une affaire d’#entrapment : c’est à nouveau le FBI qui donne l’idée, qui manipule un pauvre type de 18 ans et lui remet l’explosif avant de l’arrêter. Alors évidemment, après tu mets ça si tu veux dans la colonne « terrorisme islamiste » (parce que la colonne « foutaises du FBI » n’existe pas).
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/09/201291523744314661.html

    An 18-year-old man who tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar has been arrested and charged in a federal undercover sting operation, authorities said.

    Adel Daoud, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, planned for months for the attack and prayed with a man who turned out to be an undercover agent before attempting to set off a bomb in a Jeep outside a bar, authorities said on Saturday.

    Daoud was charged with one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of attempt to damage and destroy a building by means of an explosive.

    The inert explosives posed no threat to the public and were supplied by undercover law enforcement, acting US Attorney Gary Shapiro said in a statement.

  • Bill Gates invests in solar-powered toilet
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/08/201281601350190483.html

    US billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is investing in a solar-powered toilet for the developing world that will use little or no water.

    The need for a new type of toilet is an important part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s push to improve health in the developing world, officials familiar with the project said.

    Pour @fil

  • Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges
    http://www.aljazeera.com//news/americas/2012/08/2012888192018138.html

    The list of violations includes possessing automatic weapons in the US without registration, lying to federal firearms regulators about weapons provided to the king of Jordan, passing secret plans for armoured personnel carriers to Sweden and Denmark without US government approval and illegally shipping body armour overseas.

    Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents said the company, which has held billions in US security contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, repeatedly flouted US laws.

    #mercenaires

  • UK bank’s actions under scrutiny in US
    http://www.aljazeera.com//news/americas/2012/08/201286175518978631.html

    A banking regulator in New York state has said that a rogue Standard Chartered Plc banking unit violated US anti-money laundering laws by scheming with Iran to hide more than $250bn of transactions, and may lose its licence to operate in the US state.

    […]

    Lawsky’s order quotes a senior Standard Chartered official in London who, upon being advised by a North American colleague that its Iran dealings could cause “catastrophic reputational damage”, reportedly replied: "You f---ing Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians."

    • Salut @mbbloom1,

      Bienvenue sur Seenthis et merci pour tes premiers référencements. En revanche, je te suggère d’essayer d’exploiter les spécificités de Seenthis, pour que ça ne ressemble pas à du Touitteur en moins bien.

      Notamment :
      – pas de limite de caractères, donc tu peux décrire ce que tu références,
      – un extrait de ce que tu références, généralement c’est sympa,
      – du coup : as-tu essayé le bookmarklet qui se trouve en haut à droite de ta page « Accueil » (une fois connecté) ? Ça automatisme énormément le référencement, ce qui te permet de travailler plus vite et, en même temps, d’obtenir un meilleur résultat.

  • Bolivia nationalises electrical grid
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/05/20125122339862111.html

    President Evo Morales has announced that his government is completing the nationalisation of Bolivia’s electricity sector by seizing control of its main power grid from a Spanish-owned company.

    Morales on Tuesday took advantage of the symbolism of May Day, the international day of the worker, to order troops to occupy installations of the company, a subsidiary of Red Electrica Corporacion SA.

    The president’s placing of another of what he deems basic services under state control comes as neighbouring Argentina moves to take control of the country’s oil company, YPF, from the Spanish energy company Repsol SA, which had held a majority interest.

    Spain’s ambassador to Bolivia, Ramon Santos, told reporters the electric grid takeover “is sending a negative message that generates distrust”.

    Morales did not say how much Red Electric would be compensated, but the nationalisation decree says the state would negotiate an indemnisation fee.

    Morales said only $81m had been invested in the grid since it was privatized in 1997.

    The government, meanwhile, “invested $220m in generation and others profited. For that reason, brothers and sisters, we have decided to nationalise electricity transmission,” he said.

  • US flight diverted after pilot is restrained
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/201232851646254661.html

    A JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas was diverted to Texas following what federal authorities described as “erratic behaviour” by the captain, who passengers said had to be restrained after he pounded on the locked cockpit door.

    The captain went to a toilet just outside the cockpit, and when he emerged began shouting “Iraq, al-Qaeda, terrorism, we’re all going down!” according to the Amarillo Globe-News newspaper.

    “It was a little scary. He was pretty freaked out,” passenger Heidi Karg told a US network.

    “When they were trying to calm him down... they had to restrain him and a bunch of male passengers ran to the front of the plane to subdue him.”

    The FBI is investigating the incident on Flight 191 from New York, which had 135 passengers on board, when the pilot-in-command decided to redirect the plane to Amarillo, Texas.

    #wtf

  • Chevron staff charged over Brazil oil spill - Americas - Al Jazeera English
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/20123225656977253.html

    Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed criminal charges against 17 Chevron and Transocean company executives over an oil leak in the Atlantic Ocean in November 2011.

    Prosecutors on Wednesday accused the executives of environmental crimes, of misleading Brazil’s oil regulator about their safety plans and not providing accurate information in the wake of the spill.

    At least 416,000 litres of oil seeped through cracks on the ocean floor near a Chevron appraisal well off the Rio de Janeiro coast.

    The federal prosecutors’ office in Rio de Janeiro said in an emailed statement that the two companies and 17 of its executives had been charged with “crimes against the environment.”

    If found guilty, the executives could face up to 31 years in prison.

    #crime_contre_l'environnement #pétrole #Brésil #pollution

  • US firm must return Spain shipwreck treasure
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/20122186547857739.html

    A US federal judge has ruled that a Florida-based company that found sunken treasure from a 19th century warship must return 594,000 silver and gold coins to the Spanish government by next week.

    The 17 tonnes of coins and other items are valued at more than $500m, making it the biggest sunken treasure recovery in history.

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ui05_salut-l-ami-adieu-le-tresor_news

  • Man arrested near US Capitol in ’bomb plot’ - Americas - Al Jazeera English
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201221719157983635.html

    Suspect was carrying fake explosives provided by FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda to carry out attack, US officials say.

    Encore un énorme attentat déjoué par le FBI : le FBI trouve un pauvre taré, lui propose de faire un gros attentat, lui remet le faux explosif, puis l’arrête fort médiatiquement.

    “It seems to be right out of the FBI playbook. It is almost identical to a number of prior arrests, where the FBI finds some vulnerable young man ... They then basically encourage him to get involved in a campaign to be recruited, in this case by some sort of al-Qaeda creation, which really isn’t al-Qaeda. And then arm him weapons and then arrest him.

    “We’ve seen things along these lines for years now, of #entrapment as a technique supposedly for investigative purposes, but actually for prosecutorial purposes.”

  • Probe call over ’spying’ on Shias in New York
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/2012247749953957.html

    US civil rights groups have called on the New York attorney-general to investigate the city’s police department, after leaked documents showed police recommended increasing surveillance of Muslim Shia mosques based on their religion.

    In a letter to Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman, 33 rights organisations urged him to open a probe into the New York police department’s surveillance operations.

    Schneiderman’s office did not immediately comment on the letter.

    The move comes after the AP news agency revealed its investigation into the surveillance techniques, which it said monitored entire neighbourhoods and built databases about life in Muslim communities.

    A May 2006 report addressed to the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, recommended increased spying at mosques and an assessment of the region’s Palestinian community to look for potential terrorists, AP said.

    The report, entitled “US-Iran Conflict: The Threat to New York City”, made a series of recommendations to Kelly, including: “Expand and focus intelligence collections at Shia mosques.”

    It included a list of mosques and community organisations, extending from southern New Jersey to Connecticut.

  • Tiny frogs are world’s ’smallest’ vertebrates
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/01/2012111231848770776.html

    Frogs that can perch on the tip of your little finger with room to spare have been claimed as the world’s smallest vertebrates, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006.

    The Paedophryne amauensis and Paedophryne swiftorum are now the smallest known frogs as well as the smallest known vertebrates, a report in the science journal PLoS ONE said on Wednesday.

    The frogs, that live in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest, are about 7.7 millimetres and 8 millimetres long.

  • Blackwater settles Iraq killings legal case
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/01/2012176192887652.html

    The US private security company formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to settle a wrongful death legal case with the families of four of its contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush that was a defining moment of the Iraq war for the American public.

    The families reached a confidential settlement with Academi, as Blackwater is now known, agreeing to the dismissal of their case before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit based in Richmond, Virginia.

    […]

    Blackwater, which changed its name to Xe Services and then to Academi, came to symbolise the US policy of hiring private contractors to perform work previously handled by the military.

    #mercenaires