Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the #Web
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/technology/personaltech/banner-ads-the-monsters-that-swallowed-the-web.html?_r=0
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Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the #Web
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/technology/personaltech/banner-ads-the-monsters-that-swallowed-the-web.html?_r=0
Tags : publicité Web
Pregnant, and No Civil Rights
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/opinion/pregnant-and-no-civil-rights.html?_r=0
Comment la politique #anti_avortement des USA met en péril les droits civils et la santé des femmes, même celles enceintes.
Anti-abortion reasoning has also provided the justification for arresting pregnant women who experience depression and have attempted suicide. A 22-year-old in South Carolina who was eight months pregnant attempted suicide by jumping out a window. She survived despite suffering severe injuries. Because she lost the pregnancy, she was arrested and jailed for the crime of homicide by child abuse.
These are not isolated or rare cases. Last year, we published a peer-reviewed study documenting 413 arrests or equivalent actions depriving pregnant women of their physical liberty during the 32 years between 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided, and 2005. In a majority of these cases, women who had no intention of ending a pregnancy went to term and gave birth to a healthy baby. This includes the many cases where the pregnant woman was alleged to have used some amount of alcohol or a criminalized drug.
Why Sand Is Disappearing - NYTimes
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/opinion/why-sand-is-disappearing.html?ref=international&_r=2
Why Sand Is Disappearing - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/opinion/why-sand-is-disappearing.html
Today, however, 75 to 90 percent of the world’s natural sand beaches are disappearing, due partly to rising sea levels and increased storm action, but also to massive erosion caused by the human development of shores. Many low-lying barrier islands are already submerged.
(…)
The sand and gravel business is now growing faster than the economy as a whole. In the United States, the market for mined sand has become a billion-dollar annual business, growing at 10 percent a year since 2008. Interior mining operations use huge machines working in open pits to dig down under the earth’s surface to get sand left behind by ancient glaciers. But as demand has risen — and the damming of rivers has held back the flow of sand from mountainous interiors — natural sources of sand have been shrinking.
One might think that desert sand would be a ready substitute, but its grains are finer and smoother; they don’t adhere to rougher sand grains, and tend to blow away. As a result, the desert state of Dubai brings sand for its beaches all the way from Australia.
(…)
But the greatest industrial consumer of all is the concrete industry. (…) Concrete still takes 80 percent of all that mining can deliver. Apart from water and air, sand is the natural element most in demand around the world, a situation that puts the preservation of beaches and their flora and fauna in great danger. (…)
The huge sand mining operations emerging worldwide, many of them illegal, are happening out of sight and out of mind, as far as the developed world is concerned. But in India, where the government has stepped in to limit sand mining along its shores, illegal mining operations by what is now referred to as the “#sand_mafia” defy these regulations. In Sierra Leone, poor villagers are encouraged to sell off their sand to illegal operations, ruining their own shores for fishing. Some Indonesian sand islands have been devastated by sand mining.
Cf. en France, les luttes des #Peuples_des_Dunes (Gâvres-Quiberon-Groix, Trégor,…)
Gâvres. Les différents Peuples des dunes se réunissent
▻http://www.ouest-france.fr/gavres-les-differents-peuples-des-dunes-se-reunissent-2755334
Réunion au sommet ce mardi [12/08/14], à Gâvres, entre les Peuples des dunes de Gâvres et de l’île de Sein (Finistère), et l’association Force 5 de Plougasnou (Finistère). Des militants des trois associations se sont rassemblés pour échanger leurs expériences dans la lutte contre l’extraction de granulats marins, et réfléchir à une mutualisation de leurs ressources. Les Peuples des dunes de Trébeurden et de Haute-Normandie, invités, étaient absents.
sur la mafia du #sable voir aussi ►http://seenthis.net/messages/143775 et ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/270356
Pense-bête : rechercher le lien sur les voleurs de sable au maroc (étude sortie par le PNUE il y a une petite dizaine d’année).
Je sais, ce n’est pas le rapport, mais c’est le Maroc, les plages, le trafic et ça cite le PNUE. C’est tout récent et c’est dans le Spiegel.
Global Sand Stocks Disappear As It Becomes Highly Sought Resource - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/global-sand-stocks-disappear-as-it-becomes-highly-sought-resource-a-994851.h
Sands are “now being extracted at a rate far greater than their renewal,” a March 2014 UNEP report found. “Sand is rarer than one thinks,” it reads.
Cité par Le Mag au Maroc
Der Spiegel : Des plages en disparition du fait du trafic de sable
▻http://www.lemag.ma/Der-Spiegel-Des-plages-en-disparition-du-fait-du-trafic-de-sable_a86280.html
Berlin : Le Maroc appartient à un groupe de pays dans le monde où un phénomène de disparition des plages est imminent à cause du trafic de sable.
En effet, le Maroc, le Cap-Vert, le Kenya, la Nouvelle-Zélande et la Jamaïque ont été placés sur une liste de pays qui risquent le plus, de voir disparaître leurs plages, laissant place à des étendues en masses de terre et de pierres noires avec des retombées environnementales et éco-touristiques graves.
Selon le site du quotidien allemand Der Spiegel, cette catastrophe naturelle que risquent le Maroc et ce groupe de pays, serait causée par l’aggravation ces dernières années, des trafics de sables.
Du coup, avec le titre, ça va tout seul,…
Sand, rarer than one thinks
▻http://na.unep.net/geas/getUNEPPageWithArticleIDScript.php?article_id=110
ou (pdf) ▻http://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/GEAS_Mar2014_Sand_Mining.pdf
Inside India’s Deadly Sand Mafia - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/indian-college-kids-a-sand-mafia-path-a-river-of-death.html
The sand mafia, a ubiquitous presence up and down the Beas, ran a brazenly open and illegal operation here, across the highway from the engineering and staff offices of the Larji Hydroelectric Project. (...)
How the sand mafia did so with impunity remains an unanswered question in the Beas River drownings. So does the issue, raised in the Indian press and in filings before the Himachal Pradesh High Court, of whether anyone with the Larji project had been cooperating with the sand mafia to artificially boost water releases — flushing out more sand for the mafia to steal.
In Egypt, Business as Usual : l’édito du NYT critique la conférence US organisée en Égypte pour les investisseurs américains en dépit des violations des droits humains
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/in-egypt-business-as-usual.html?smid=tw-share
The Obama administration’s Egypt policy — to the extent that one can be discerned — has been characterized by a combination of mixed messages, wishful thinking and a willful disregard of inconvenient truths.
It is nonetheless stunning that the State Department saw fit to help organize a large investment conference for American businesses in Cairo next week, coinciding with a deadline the Egyptian government imposed in a blatant effort to shut down independent groups that promote civil society and human rights.
A State Department official called the timing “inadvertent,” and said the gathering of more than 65 American executives, which is being billed as the largest of its kind, in no way diminishes Washington’s concerns about Egypt’s efforts to throttle pro-democracy organizations. Inadvertent or not, the conference will be seen by Egyptians as an unequivocal endorsement of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose ruthless authoritarianism is making Egypt’s past dictators look almost benign.
Under Egypt’s draconian 2002 Law on Associations, nongovernmental groups must be licensed by the state. Because the government has not accredited those that have brought to light government abuses and promoted democratic reforms, most such groups have operated in a gray legal area. By announcing a Nov. 10 deadline for all organizations to be accredited, authorities in Cairo are signaling that a new crackdown on such groups could be imminent.
The message has been reinforced in recent months as some of Egypt’s smartest and bravest activists have been encouraged by officials in the government to leave the country or face arrest. Some have slipped out, feeling fearful and resigned.
Adding to the angst, the Egyptian government recently promoted the architect of the last crackdown on civil society organizations, Fayza Abul Naga, to the post of national security adviser. This appointment of an official who in 2012 sparked a diplomatic crisis with Washington by prompting a criminal inquiry that ensnared American pro-democracy workers is an ominous move.
Ms. Abul Naga’s crusade, which sought to vilify foreign-financed nongovernmental organizations, prompted the United States in February 2012 to pay $4.6 million in forfeited bail money that was essentially a judicial bribe. As it has threatened watchdogs and critics, Mr. Sisi’s government has had a freer hand in cracking down on Islamists, a diverse segment of Egypt’s population that the government has branded as terrorists.
That campaign took an alarming turn in recent days when Egyptian officials started leveling houses along the country’s border with Israel in an effort to shut down smuggling tunnels. The government gave thousands of residents 48 hours to leave homes along the border, an arbitrary measure that is certain to be used by extremist groups to foment hatred of the state.
American executives taking part in the Cairo business conference next week should think long and hard about whether investing in Egypt now is worthwhile if it means strengthening a despotic system.
There Is No ‘Healthy’ #Microbiome
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/there-is-no-healthy-microbiome.html
It may be that a Hadza microbiome would work equally well in an American gut, but incompatibilities are also possible. The conquistadors proved as much. As they colonized South America, they brought with them European strains of Helicobacter pylori, a stomach bacterium that infrequently causes ulcers and stomach cancer, and these European strains also displaced native American ones. This legacy persists in Colombia, where some communities face a 25-fold higher risk of stomach cancer, most likely due to mismatches between their ancestral genomes and their H. pylori strains.
For a Packed Part of Jerusalem, Expansion Plans Have Built Mostly Outrage - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/world/middleeast/for-a-packed-part-of-jerusalem-expansion-plans-have-built-mostly-outrage-.h
But Shuafat residents point out that the whole neighborhood is on land that once belonged to their families. Israel recently took 20 more acres to build a new road in the area, and Palestinians fear that the road will make it more difficult for them to access their olive trees. They, too, are constructing illegal dwellings to absorb growth, since only a handful of building permits have been granted in recent years.
Named for Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, a yeshiva chief beloved across Orthodox sects who died in 1995, the neighborhood now has 42 large synagogues, according to Mr. Berger, including a red brick replica of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. There is a small post office, but no bank. There are also remnants of a quarry where King Herod may have taken stones for the Second Temple more than 2,000 years ago.
Ramat Shlomo’s official population in 2012 was 17,200, though Mr. Berger puts it at 23,000. There are 2,320 legal housing units, averaging about 1,000 square feet. Hundreds of illegal ones, most of them 200 square feet with pirated electricity and water, rent for $1,000 a month.
The so-called “Biden units,” reduced to 1,500, were approved again in December 2012 as part of Israel’s response to the United Nations General Assembly vote granting Palestine status as an observer state. And they were approved again in October 2013, after Palestinians who had served long terms in Israeli prisons were released amid American-brokered peace talks.
Tenders for 600 of the units were published in January, apparently as part of Mr. Netanyahu’s effort to offset domestic political fallout from another prisoner release. In June, yet another announcement was made about moving forward with the project, in retaliation for the Palestinians forming a new government based on a reconciliation pact with the militant Islamist Hamas movement.
Then last week, Mr. Netanyahu revived a plan that both Mr. Berger and Ir Amim say has been dormant since 2006, for about 600 units to be built on private land at the neighborhood’s northern tip, which the committee approved Monday with a reduction of about 100 units.
Des apatrides nommés Rohingyas
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/11/MOHAMED/50923
Depuis 1982, les Rohingyas ne sont plus officiellement birmans. Apatride, cette minorité musulmane visée par des campagnes haineuses est privée de droits élémentaires. Depuis l’indépendance de la Birmanie en 1948, les pouvoirs en place ont mené des politiques de délégitimation conduisant au nettoyage ethnique de « l’une des ethnies les plus persécutées du monde », pour reprendre une formulation de l’Organisation des Nations unies (ONU). (...) Source : Le Monde diplomatique
GCHQ chief accuses US tech giants of becoming terrorists ’networks of choice’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/03/privacy-gchq-spying-robert-hannigan
Privacy has never been “an absolute right”, according to the new director of #GCHQ, who has used his first public intervention since taking over at the helm of Britain’s #surveillance agency to accuse US technology companies of becoming “the command and control networks of choice” [#cybernétique] for terrorists.
Robert Hannigan said a new generation of freely available technology has helped groups like Islamic State (#Isis #OEI) to hide from the security services and accuses major tech firms of being “in denial”, going further than his predecessor in seeking to claim that the leaks of Edward #Snowden have aided terror networks.
GCHQ and sister agencies including MI5 cannot tackle those challenges without greater support from the private sector, “including the largest US technology companies which dominate the web”, Hannigan argued in an opinion piece written for the Financial Times (03/11/2014) just days into his new job.
▻http://cryptome.org/2014/11/gchq-14-1103.pdf
#infoguerre #médias_sociaux Cf. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/306729
Voir aussi l’édito du Financial Times du 5 novembre 2014 : « It is time to forge a post-Snowden settlement » ▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9658b31a-6417-11e4-8ade-00144feabdc0.html (#paywall)
The terms of that debate should not be hard to define. In democratic states, there must be strong and independent accounting of the way the security services operate. Following Snowden, it is evident that procedures in the US and UK are insufficiently transparent.
That said, US internet companies cannot ignore their responsibilities vis-à-vis national security. These firms do not inhabit some separate planet where they can operate independent of state obligations to defend the public against terrorism. No government can tolerate a situation in which citizens communicate with one another over data networks without any possibility of legitimate surveillance. Mr Hannigan is correct to state that “privacy has never been an absolute right”.
The FT believes the moment has come to redress the balance in the debate over privacy and security. Mr Hannigan’s call for a “new deal” between the intelligence agencies and the tech companies is a good place to start – before another wave of jihadist violence is inflicted on the west.
Réponse du NYT à l’édito du FT :
But the crocodile tears of the intelligence chiefs overlook the fact that before those barriers were put in place, the United States National Security Agency and Mr. Hannigan’s GCHQ misused their powers for an illegal dragnet surveillance operation. The technology companies are doing their job in protecting people’s private data precisely because the intelligence agencies saw fit to rummage through that data.
Mr. Hannigan’s argument overlooks the many legal avenues intelligence agencies have to seek data. Demanding that the technology companies leave “back doors” open to their software or hardware also potentially assists Chinese, Russian and other hackers in accessing reams of data.
A Spy’s Deceptive Complaints (12/11/2014)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/a-spys-deceptive-complaints.html
Handling of Sexual Harassment Case Poses Larger Questions at Yale
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/us/handling-of-sexual-harassment-case-poses-larger-questions-at-yale.html
A sexual harassment case that has been unfolding without public notice for nearly five years within the Yale School of Medicine has roiled the institution and led to new allegations that the university is insensitive to instances of harassment against women.
I ♥ Uranium - A Cup of Tim (via @karlpro)
►http://www.acupoftim.com/article-uranium-71170410.html
Enquête en dessins sur le fort abandonné du #CEA à Vaujours. Ce qui m’impressionne ici comme à Tchernobyl (►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-04-24-A-Tchernobyl-la-fascination-du-desastre), c’est qu’il se trouve des gens assez fous / criminels / désespérés / mal informés pour aller y voler du métal radioactif. @anne me signale aussi une histoire de ferrailleurs et de Césium-137 à Goiânia, au Brésil (►http://www.monde-solidaire.org/spip/spip.php?article4261).
Nous sommes tous des mutants... Certains ont juste envie de muter plus vite... #Gloups
#vaujours n’apparait pas sur la carte …
Localisation des sites pollués en France
▻http://www.andra.fr/inventaire2012/03_pdf_inventaire/3-1-Les_sites_pollues_par_la_radioactivite.pdf
▻http://www.linternaute.com/actualite/societe-france/radioactivite-quels-sont-les-43-sites-en-france-contamines-0712.shtml
►http://www.bastamag.net/Menaces-radioactives-aux-portes-de
Dans sa large enceinte, les taux seraient même 33 fois supérieurs à la norme [1] ! On trouve aussi sur place des métaux lourds et autres polluants – notamment arsenic, mercure, amiante, cuivre, plomb, tungstène, zirconium – ainsi que divers composés chimiques tels que la dioxine, les PCB ou encore le perchlorate d’ammonium.