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    How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero | World news | The Guardian
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

    They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars and generally made life harder for motorists.

    Now it appears the work is paying off. Two of Europe’s smaller capital cities – Oslo and Helsinki – are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.

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    London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to #Bibby_Stockholm

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    Dozens of demonstrators in #Peckham surround coach, preventing it from taking people to barge in Dorset.

    Hundreds of protesters have blocked an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a London hotel and take them to the Bibby Stockholm barge.

    Arrests were made as police waded into the crowd blocking the road near a Best Western hotel in Peckham. It was not until 3pm, seven hours after it turned up, that the coach sent for the asylum seekers was able to leave the area – without asylum seekers onboard – and a number of police vans carrying protesters who had been detained were also able to leave.

    The home secretary, James Cleverly, condemned the protesters and said they “will not … deter us from doing what is right for the British public”. But the scenes illustrated the challenges the government may yet face when it comes to carrying out deportations to Rwanda.

    It emerged on Thursday that the Home Office was abandoning plans to move asylum seekers in Margate to the Bibby Stockholm in the wake of protests there.

    Meanwhile, Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s outgoing first minister, denounced the Home Office’s “inhumane” and “cruel” detention raids on asylum seekers and urged the UK government to scrap the policy.

    At least eight asylum seekers living at the Best Western were told a week ago that they would be collected on Thursday morning and relocated to the Bibby Stockholm, moored at Portland in Dorset. The coach was expected to collect other passengers along the way, but it was blocked in when it was surrounded by protesters after pulling in at a bus stop at about 8am.

    At least one person received medical attention when they were knocked to the ground after police moved in at about 12.30pm.

    The people due to be removed were said to include teenagers attending colleges in the area. A number of men staying at the hotel said they feared the conditions that would await them on the Bibby Stockholm, where an Albanian man named Leonard Farruku died last year in a suspected suicide.

    One said: “We are also concerned this is happening at the same time as the government’s Rwanda plans have gone through. But it’s encouraging to see this sort of support.”

    The Metropolitan police’s deputy assistant commissioner, Ade Adelekan, said officers engaged with protesters at the scene and warned them they could be arrested.

    In Edinburgh, Yousaf told MSPs during first minister’s questions: “I deplore the inhumane Home Office enforcement action that we have seen. Detaining people to forcibly remove them to Rwanda is cruel, and punishes some of the most vulnerable in our society.”

    Yousaf was asked by the SNP MSP Karen Adams about the Guardian’s report on Sunday that the Home Office was to start detaining asylum seekers for forced deportation to Rwanda.

    He said: “At times like this, we all have an obligation to just step back. Actually think about what’s going on here, in a country, the UK, where those who flee persecution, war or extreme poverty, come to our shores.”

    Figures released on Thursday undermined Rishi Sunak’s claims that his Rwanda plan was working by putting off asylum seekers from trying to reach the UK. They showed that 711 people arrived by boat on Wednesday, more than half of the number who crossed during the whole of May last year, and a record for a single day since September.

    One of the coordinators of the protest in Peckham, Kojo Kyerewaa, of Black Lives Matter, said: “Our friends who are at a Home Office hotel got notification that they were going to be taken to the Bibby Stockholm today.”

    He said they were given a week’s notice and that “because of the bonds and relationships they’ve got in the community, we were made aware of that and organised a discreet action … so that they would not be abducted and taken away”.

    Kyerewaa said the protest was inspired by a similar one in Margate last week, where a coach was prevented from taking 22 asylum seekers to the barge.

    “We know that the residents don’t want to leave and we know that the Bibby Stockholm is a dangerous place to put anyone. It’s unsanitary and one person has taken their own life being there and there’s been multiple attempts of suicide by people told that they’re going to the Bibby Stockholm,” he said.

    The action is believed to be the first of its kind in London since 2022, when protesters gathered for hours to block a van transporting a man arrested for immigration offences.

    Some of those organising the action were from Black Lives Matter and the Southwark and Lambeth Anti-Raids network, while others were understood to be friends in the community, including those who taught the asylum seekers English at college.

    A Home Office spokesperson said: “This behaviour is intimidatory and aggressive. As part of our commitment to significantly reducing the use of hotels, asylum seekers are being moved into alternative accommodation to reduce costs on the taxpayer.

    “We have returned 150 hotels to local communities and we work closely with accommodation providers to manage the exit process in a way which limits the impact on local authorities and asylum seekers.”

    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/london-protesters-block-coach-peckham-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm

    #résistance #UK #Angleterre
    via @karine4

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    ajouté à la métaliste sur le Bibby Stockholm :
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    Pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/exxon-pipeline-leak-carbon-capture-safety-gaps
    Les pipelines de CO2, ça fuit, et ça peut être dangereux.

    About 5,000 miles [8000 km] of #CO2 #pipelines are currently operating in the US, which are predominantly for transporting the gas to oilfields where it is used to extract hard-to-reach oil – a process known as enhanced oil recovery. The pipeline running through Sulphur is part of a network stretching more than 900 miles [1500 km] through Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, which #ExxonMobile acquired from Denbury last year.

    In 2020, almost 50 residents required hospital treatment after the Denbury (now Exxon) pipeline ruptured in Satartia, Mississippi, releasing 31,000 barrels of CO2. The incident exposed major flaws in the existing health and safety regulations for CO2 pipelines, which as a result are currently being updated by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The update is already facing delays, and could take years.

    Yet the CO2 pipeline network is forecast to grow as much as tenfold thanks in part to billions of dollars of tax incentives in the 2022 #Inflation_Reduction_Act – as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in direct investment for CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. The Biden administration is counting on #CCS to meet its climate goals – despite compelling evidence that the technology is inefficient and will probably prolong the use of fossil fuels.

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    Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation

    Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections.

    The Home Office will launch a major operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday, weeks earlier than expected, in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, the Guardian can reveal.

    Officials plan to hold asylum seekers who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices or bail appointments and will also pick people up nationwide in a surprise two-week exercise.

    Lawyers and campaigners said the detentions risked provoking protracted legal battles, community protests and clashes with police – with officers in Scotland put on high alert.

    Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, said: “The government is determined to recklessly pursue its inhumane Rwanda plan despite the cost, chaos and human misery it will unleash. We know it is likely to cause a catastrophic system meltdown.”

    Detainees will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held until they are put on planes to Rwanda. Some will be put on the first flight due to take off this summer.

    The Home Office said ratification of the prime minister’s Safety of Rwanda Act meant “the government is entering the final phase of operationalising this landmark policy to tackle illegal migration and stop the boats”.

    It added: “At some stage inevitably this will include detaining people in preparation for the first flight, which is set to take off to Rwanda in 10 to 12 weeks. It would be inappropriate to comment further on operational activity.”

    The start of the Home Office’s detention operation, which had not been anticipated for weeks, coincides with Thursday’s local council elections in England where the Tories face losing up to half the seats they currently hold.

    Rishi Sunak said on Sunday that cracking down on illegal migration was central to the Tory campaign.

    Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risk of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions. Officers will not take part in the detentions but will take charge of crowd control and public order. A Police Scotland spokesperson referred the Guardian to the Home Office.

    Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests, on Kenmure Street in Glasgow in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022. On both occasions, hundreds of people surrounded immigration enforcement vehicles to prevent asylum seekers being removed.

    During an interview in which he mentioned Rwanda and illegal migration 13 times, the prime minister said on Sunday that he was focused on “stopping the boats”, as well as his pledges on the economy. He told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips of his “determination to get that Rwanda scheme going”.

    However, the latest official data, released on Sunday, showed the number of people arriving by small boats in the first four months of 2024 was the highest ever for that period, at 7,167 people, compared with 5,745 for the same period last year. The previous record for those four months was 6,691.

    Speaking on Monday before the Lords and Commons sat through the night to pass the safety of Rwanda (asylum and immigration) bill, Sunak said: “To detain people while we prepare to remove them, we’ve increased detention spaces to 2,200.

    “To quickly process claims, we’ve got 200 trained, dedicated caseworkers ready and waiting. To deal with any legal cases quickly and decisively, the judiciary have made available 25 courtrooms and identified 150 judges who could provide over 5,000 sitting days.”

    Aamer Anwar, a Glasgow-based human rights lawyer who was directly involved in the Kenmure Street protests, said Police Scotland and the Scottish government had to be certain they believed this was lawful.

    He revealed he had been inundated with calls from activists after the Guardian first reported the Home Office move on Sunday morning. “People are extremely angry and upset, and ready to mobilise,” Anwar said, adding it would be “extremely dangerous” for Police Scotland to put itself in the middle of a deportation protest if people felt they were acting to protect deportation operations.

    “I suspect in the coming days we will see an explosion of the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK, opposing a policy that will lead to misery, self-harm and death, driving so many more into the arms of people smugglers,” Anwar said. “The fundamental question for the Scottish government as well as Police Scotland is whether they are willing to engage in this barbaric abuse of power against a desperate people.”

    Solomon said the detention and removal operations were likely to persuade other asylum seekers already in the UK to disappear, for fear of being deported.

    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operatio

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    ajouté à la métaliste sur la mise en place de l’#externalisation des #procédures_d'asile au #Rwanda par l’#Angleterre (2022) :
    ►https://seenthis.net/messages/966443

    elle-même ajouté à la métaliste sur les tentatives de différentes pays européens d’#externalisation non seulement des contrôles frontaliers (►https://seenthis.net/messages/731749), mais aussi de la #procédure_d'asile dans des #pays_tiers :
    ►https://seenthis.net/messages/900122

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      One in five asylum seekers on Rwanda deportation list is from Afghanistan, charity says

      Care4Calais says the government’s rounding up of asylum seekers for deportation to Rwanda was ‘deeply worrying’

      One in five asylum seekers due to be deported to Rwanda is from Afghanistan, according to a charity supporting the refugees.

      Care4Calais says that from the first group it has contacted, 18 per cent were Afghans and another one in five – 21 per cent – were Syrians.

      It’s not known whether the Afghans found by the charity included workers who supported the British armed forces overseas, such as interpreters and pilots.

      On Wednesday ministers released pictures of the first asylum seekers being rounded up for deportation to Rwanda after a controversial bill legalising such flights finally obtained royal assent last week.

      The House of Lords fought to have Afghans who supported British forces exempted from the legislation, but ultimately lost when it was forced to give way to the government in parliamentary “ping-pong”.

      The Independent has campaigned for these war heroes to be granted leave to remain in the UK.

      Care4Calais also said 15 per cent of the first cohort were Sudanese, while Eritreans and Iranians each accounted for 14 per cent.

      The remaining 18 per cent included Kuwaitis, Iraqis and Sri Lankans.

      Home Office immigration officers began detaining potential deportees on Monday at their homes or as they arrived at immigration centres, although the first flights are not due to depart until July.

      Around 800 officers are being deployed in Operation Vector, and home secretary James Cleverly said they were working “at pace”.

      Care4Calais said that from the first people it was in contact with, it was clear that those detained were predominantly from countries with a high rate of asylum granted by the UK.

      Hannah Marwood, head of legal access, said: “The government’s actions during this election week have been deeply worrying, but we are relieved that a significant number of people detained are now in contact with our caseworkers who will ensure they have access to legal support.

      “The people detained have not had their asylum claims processed, and it’s clear from the first cohort we are in contact with that if their claims were processed they would likely be granted refugee status in the UK.

      “It reaffirms how shameful the Rwanda plan is and why it must be stopped.”

      A Home Office spokesperson said: “We have proven time and again that Rwanda is a safe country, most recently with our landmark Safety of Rwanda Act and joint, legally binding treaty which makes clear that individuals relocated to Rwanda will not be returned to an unsafe country.

      “We remain confident in the country’s strong and successful track record in resettling people and are working at pace to get flights off the ground to Rwanda in the next to nine to eleven weeks.”

      ▻https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-asylum-seekers-deport-afghanistan-b2539287.html

      #réfugiés_afghans

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    We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein | The Guardian
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel
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    From the start it has been at war with dreams of liberation. At a Seder it is worth remembering that this includes the dreams of liberation and self-determination of the Egyptian people. This false idol of Zionism equates Israeli safety with Egyptian dictatorship and client states.

    From the start it has produced an ugly kind of freedom that saw Palestinian children not as human beings but as demographic threats – much as the pharaoh in the Book of Exodus feared the growing population of Israelites, and thus ordered the death of their sons.

    Zionism has brought us to our present moment of cataclysm and it is time that we said clearly: it has always been leading us here.

    It is a false idol that has led far too many of our own people down a deeply immoral path that now has them justifying the shredding of core commandments: thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet.

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    Ça se rebiffe aux US : 40 campus en campagne | The Guardian | 26.04.24

    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/pro-palestinian-protests-college-campuses

    Pro-Palestine camps spread to 40 US campuses, with hundreds arrested
    Following Columbia’s lead, students across the US are demanding ceasefire and divestment – and hundreds have been arrested.

    Les profs ramassent aussi, s’il/elles posent des questions quand les flics tabassent leurs étudiants devant leur nez.

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    ‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/kafala-labour-system-gulf-women-talk-about-life-as-a-domestic-worker-in

    Condemned as dangerous and abusive, the kafala labour system not only disregards migrant workers’ rights but depends on exploitation. But 10 years after Qatar was advised by the UN to abolish kafala (“sponsorship”) entirely and replace it with a regulated labour network, the system is thriving across Lebanon, Jordan and the Gulf states – with the region’s most vulnerable migrants hidden behind closed doors.

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    Middle East crisis: Israeli overnight strikes on #Rafah kill 18, including 14 children, say officials
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/21/middle-east-crisis-14-palestinians-killed-as-violence-flares-in-west-ba

    The first strike killed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old child, according to the nearby Kuwaiti hospital, which received the bodies. The woman was pregnant and the doctors managed to save the baby, the hospital said.

    The second strike killed 13 children and two women, all from the same family, hospital records showed, according to the Associated Press.

    Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from Israeli bombardment elsewhere.

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    Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study
    Quand tu respires à pleins poumons en regardant la mer, il y a des chances que tu absorbes une bonne dose de PFAS.

    The study measured levels of #PFAS released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash, spraying #aerosols into the #air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands times higher than levels in the water.

    The contaminated spray likely affects groundwater, surface water, vegetation, and agricultural products near coastlines that are far from industrial sources of PFAS, said Ian Cousins, a Stockholm University researcher and the study’s lead author.

    “There is evidence that the ocean can be an important source [of PFAS air emissions],” Cousins said. “It is definitely impacting the coastline.”

    [...] It is unclear what the findings mean for human exposure. Inhalation of PFAS is an issue, but how much of the chemicals are breathed in, and air concentrations further from the waves, is still unknown.

    [...] He said that the results showed how the chemicals are powerful surfactants that concentrate on the surface of water, which helps explain why they move from the ocean to the air and atmosphere.

    “We thought PFAS were going to go into the ocean and would disappear, but they cycle around and come back to land, and this could continue for a long time into the future,” he said.

    #pollution #plastique #océan

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    L’Australie exhorte ses ressortissants à quitter Israël et les territoires palestiniens | Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes
    ▻https://www.lnc.nc/article/pacifique/australie/l-australie-exhorte-ses-ressortissants-a-quitter-israel-et-les-territoires-pales

    Dans une note du ministère des Affaires étrangères diffusée ce vendredi, l’Australie incite ses ressortissants à quitter Israël et les territoires palestiniens après que des explosions ont été entendues en Iran et en Syrie, faisant craindre une régionalisation du conflit Israël-Hamas.

    Evoquant une « forte menace de représailles militaires et d’attaques terroristes », Canberra « exhorte les Australiens en Israël et dans les territoires palestiniens occupés à s’en aller, s’ils sont certains de pouvoir le faire en toute sécurité », a écrit le ministère des Affaires étrangères dans une note. L’Australie avait auparavant appelé ses citoyens à éviter ces deux zones et, en cas d’inquiétude, à partir.

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    #Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds | Global development | The Guardian
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/nestle-adds-sugar-to-infant-milk-sold-in-poorer-countries-report-finds

    Campaigners from Public Eye, a Swiss investigative organisation, sent samples of the Swiss multinational’s baby-food products sold in Asia, Africa and Latin America to a Belgian laboratory for testing.

    The results, and examination of product packaging, revealed added sugar in the form of sucrose or honey in samples of #Nido, a follow-up milk formula brand intended for use for infants aged one and above, and #Cerelac, a cereal aimed at children aged between six months and two years.

    In Nestlé’s main European markets, including the UK, there is no added sugar in formulas for young children. While some cereals aimed at older toddlers contain added sugar, there is none in products targeted at babies between six months and one year.

    #criminels #sucre #laits #bébés

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    Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse | Israel | The Guardian
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-laps
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    Exclusive: Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account

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    Peut-on croire les déclarations (dénégations et affirmations) de l’armée de l’état sioniste ?

    Thread by HediViterbo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
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    Can the Israeli military be believed?

    A thread

    #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Palestinians

    Let’s start with Israel’s use of white phosphorus, which can cause horrific burns and injuries.

    New videos, verified by @amnesty & @hrw, appear to show Israel using this weapon in civilian areas in #Gaza & #Lebanon:
    amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
    hrw.org/news/2023/10/1…
    Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate

    The Israeli army fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border between 10 and 16 October 2023.
    ▻https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-le

    Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon
    Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer d…
    ▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon

    The Israeli military denies using white phosphorus, but in the past Israel has lied about its use of this weapon.

    theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…
    Israel denies using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza
    Human Rights Watch says verified videos show ‘multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus’ from Israel’s military
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/israel-military-white-phosphorus-gaza-lebanon

    In 2009, reports emerged that the Israeli military had used white phosphorus in #Gaza.

    At first, Israel categorically denied these reports. But then @thetimes published the evidence – and Israel was forced to admit: “Yes, phosphorus was used.”
    web.archive.org/web/2021062310…

    ▻https://web.archive.org/web/20210623104248/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/israel-admits-using-white-phosphorous-in-attacks-on-gaza-3jngp502vh0

    Now let’s look at Israeli air raids.

    In 2019, Israel’s air force targeted the home of a family in #Gaza, killing eight #Palestinians.

    Initially, Israel claimed that the building was a training facility of Palestinian militants.

    aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/1Gaza: Eight family members killed, 12 critical in Israeli raids
    Three adults and 5 children were killed in attacks while 12 other Palestinian family members in critical condition.
    ▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/14/gaza-eight-family-members-killed-12-critical-in-israeli-raids

    After the truth was revealed by the media, the Israeli military had to confess:

    haaretz.co.il/news/politics/…
    תחקיר צה"ל על הרג המשפח בעזה: אם היה מוגדר נכון, המתחם לא היה מותקף
    ▻https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2019-12-24/ty-article/.premium/0000017f-da83-d938-a17f-feabc1d30000

    Israel behaves in the same way whenever its soldiers assault, abuse, or kill Palestinians.

    In 2016, an Israeli military medic killed a disarmed and injured Palestinian by shooting him in the head.

    At first, the military decided not to press charges against the soldier.

    Then, Israeli NGO @btselem published a video of the killing, which led to condemnations around the world.

    Only at that point was the soldier taken to court. He was convicted and, after 9 months, was released from prison.
    btselem.org/video/20160324…
    ▻https://www.btselem.org/video/20160324_soldier_executes_palestinian_attacker_in_hebron#full

    Another Israeli soldier shot to death a 17-year-old Palestinian in 2014.

    The soldier was prosecuted – and convicted – only after @CNN published a video of the killing.

    He spent less than a year in prison:
    edition.cnn.com/2018/04/25/mid…
    Israeli police officer jailed for 9 months for killing Palestinian teen | CNN
    ▻https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/25/middleeast/israeli-police-officer-jailed-intl/index.html
    In that case, both the military and the soldier claimed that he had used only rubber-coated bullets.

    But the autopsy, which found three live bullets, refuted their claims.
    haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

    Border policeman who killed unarmed Palestinian teen released from prison after less than year
    ▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-01-03/ty-article/.premium/border-policeman-who-killed-unarmed-palestinian-teen-released-early-from-prison/0000017f-e3c1-df7c-a5ff-e3fb77470000

    Similarly, in 2018, Palestinians in the West Bank accused the Israeli military of firing tear gas into their school.

    Initially, the military denied these allegations. But it was forced to admit after a video surfaced:
    web.archive.org/web/2022070521…

    ▻https://web.archive.org/web/20220705214724/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-12-06/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-denied-throwing-tear-gas-into-hebron-school-then-a-video-surfaced/0000017f-f94d-ddde-abff-fd6db1780000

    Last year, the Israeli military had to change its story about another incident: the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

    At first, Israel denied responsibility – and blamed Palestinian militants.
    @AJEnglish @ShireenNasri

    But then, the international media, the U.N., and the U.S. investigated the incident, and found that an Israeli soldier had killed Abu Akleh while she was wearing a blue press vest.

    Israel had no choice but to admit. No soldier has been prosecuted:
    edition.cnn.com/2022/09/05/mid…

    Israeli military admits Shireen Abu Akleh likely killed by Israeli fire​​​​, but won’t charge soldiers | CNN
    ▻https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/05/middleeast/idf-shireen-abu-akleh-investigation-intl/index.html

    Although Israel’s armed forces killed 10,556 Palestinians between October 2001 and September 2023, soldiers who kill Palestinians are rarely prosecuted.

    As we’ve seen, prosecutions usually occur when Israel is unable to deny what the soldiers did.
    statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalit…

    ▻https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=overall&tab=overview
    More than 99% of complaints regarding harm caused to Palestinians by soldiers end without a trial, according to Israeli NGO @YeshDin.

    And the few soldiers who are prosecuted and convicted - tend to receive extremely lenient sentences:
    15/20 yesh-din.org/en/law-enforce…

    Data sheet: Law enforcement against Israeli soldiers suspected of harming Palestinians and their property - Summary of figures for 2017-2021 - Yesh Din

    Every year, Yesh Din publishes up-to-date figures on military law enforcement against Israeli soldiers suspected of harming Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The inf…
    ▻https://www.yesh-din.org/en/law-enforcement-against-israeli-soldiers-suspected-of-harming-palestinians

    Again and again, the Israeli military denies allegations, and is forced to confess only when left with no other choice.

    And even when the Israeli military admits to accusations, it makes up excuses: “we acted lawfully,” "these are just a few rotten apples"…

    So, the military tries to deny the facts. When this doesn’t work, it denies the meaning of these facts.

    Following sociologist Stanley Cohen, the former denial tactic of the Israeli military can be called “factual” (or “literal”) denial.

    The latter can be called “interpretive” denial.
    18/20 wiley.com/en-us/States+o…

    States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
    Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of denial. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their con…
    ▻https://www.wiley.com/en-us/States+of+Denial%3A+Knowing+about+Atrocities+and+Suffering-p-9780745623924

    Even a retired major general in Israel has warned of the Israeli military’s “culture of lying and deceit.”

    He describes military investigations as filled with “lies, cover-ups, cutting corners, hiding information, and coordinating testimonies”:
    mida.org.il/2022/02/17/%D7…
    צה"ל שבוי בתרבות ארגונית של שקרים והולכת שולל
    מיוחד ל’מידה’: האלוף (במיל׳) יצחק בריק שימש בין היתר גם בתור נציב קבילות החיילים, חושף עדויות של מפקדים בצה"ל על תרבות והרגלים של שקרים וטיוחים. אם הנושא לא יטופל ומיד - זה עוד יעלה לנו ביוקר.
    ►https://mida.org.il/2022/02/17/%D7%A6%D7%94%D7%9C-%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%95%D7%99-%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%95%
    Lastly, Israel hides unflattering documents, including previously public ones.

    The aim (as revealed by @Akevot & @haaretzcom) is to protect Israel’s reputation, discredit critical scholars, and prevent Palestinian unrest:
    web.archive.org/web/2022060220…
    akevot.org.il/wp-content/upl…

    ▻https://web.archive.org/web/20220602201255/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-07-05/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-israel-systematically-hides-evidence-of-1948-expulsion-of-arabs/0000017f-f303-d487-abff-f3ff69de0000
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    #sionisme #mensonges

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  • @hlc
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    How Hollywood writers triumphed over AI – and why it matters | US writers’ strike 2023 | The Guardian
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/01/hollywood-writers-strike-artificial-intelligence
    ▻https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/689771a4945d1c8d8a88bf3f3d759512c6110153/0_221_5292_3175/master/5292.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-ali

    Hollywood writers scored a major victory this week in the battle over artificial intelligence with a new contract featuring strong guardrails in how the technology can be used in film and television projects.

    With terms of AI use finally agreed, some writers are breathing easier – for now – and experts say the guidelines could offer a model for workers in Hollywood and other industries. The writers’ contract does not outlaw the use of AI tools in the writing process, but it sets up guardrails to make sure the new technology stays in the control of workers, rather than being used by their bosses to replace them.

    The new rules guard against several scenarios that writers had feared, comedian Adam Conover, a member of the WGA negotiating committee, told the Guardian. One such scenario was studios being allowed to generate a full script using AI tools, and then demanding that human writer complete the writing process.

    Under the new terms, studios “cannot use AI to write scripts or to edit scripts that have already been written by a writer”, Conover says. The contract also prevents studios from treating AI-generated content as “source material”, like a novel or a stage play, that screenwriters could be assigned to adapt for a lower fee and less credit than a fully original script.

    For instance, if the studios were allowed to use chatGPT to generate a 100,000-word novel and then ask writers to adapt it, “That would be an easy loophole for them to reduce the wages of screenwriters,” Conover said. “We’re not allowing that.” If writers adapt output from large language models, it will still be considered an original screenplay, he said.

    Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT who studies technological transformation, called the new terms a “fantastic win for writers”, and said that it would likely result in “better quality work and a stronger industry for longer”.

    #Intelligence_artificielle #Scénaristes #Hollywood #Grève

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  • @klaus
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    Roger Waters interview BERLINER ZEITUNG 4th FEBRUARY 2023
    ▻https://rogerwaters.com/berliner

    Dans cette interview R.W. exprime des points de vue qui sont le contraire de ce que tu peux dire en Allemagne sans subir des conséquences drastiques. Tout n’est pourtant pas assez précis dans ses déclarations pour qu’on puisse décider si on est d’accord avec lui. Une chose est sûre c’est qu’il a montré au monde entier l’absurdité des paroles des bigots d’Allemagne et d’Israël.

    ...
    Ukrainians are standing up to defend their country. Most people in Germany see it that way, which is why your statements cause consternation, even anger. Your perspectives on Israel meet with similar criticism here. That is also why there is now a discussion about whether your concerts in Germany should be cancelled. How do you react to that?

    Oh, you know, it’s Israeli Lobby activists like Malca Goldstein-Wolf who demand that. That’s idiotic. They already tried to cancel my concert in Cologne in 2017 and even got the local radio stations to join in.

    Isn’t it a bit easy to label these people as idiots?

    Of course, they are not all idiots. But they probably read the Bible and probably believe that anyone who speaks out against Israeli fascism in the Holy Land is an anti-Semite. That’s really not a smart position to take, because to do so you have to deny that people lived in Palestine before the Israelis settled there. You have to follow the legend that says, “A land without a people for a people without a land.” What nonsense. The history here is quite clear. To this day, the indigenous, Jewish population is a minority. The Jewish Israelis all immigrated from Eastern Europe or the United States.

    You once compared the state of Israel to Nazi Germany. Do you still stand by this comparison?

    Yes, of course. The Israelis are committing genocide. Just like Great Britain did during our colonial period, by the way. The British committed genocide against the indigenous people of North America, for example. So did the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese even the Germans in their colonies. All were part of the injustice of the colonial era. And we, the British also murdered and pillaged in India, Southeast Asia, China…. We believed ourselves to be inherently superior to the indigenous people, just as the Israelis do in Palestine. Well, we weren’t and neither are the Israeli Jews.
    ...

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    • @cabou
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      En ayant recours à une scénographie spectaculaire douteuse (costume de pseudo-nazi...), tout en prétendant dénoncer la politique d’Israël à l’encontre de la Palestine, alors qu’il est déjà accusé depuis plusieurs années d’antisémitisme, Roger Waters n’arrange pas son cas. Pas plus que la cause palestinienne, d’ailleurs.

      Robert Wyatt, par exemple – qui est, certes, moins connu que Waters - dénonce depuis très longtemps la politique d’Israël. Mais il le fait très clairement, sans user du grand spectacle ni de la confusion des symboles. Aucune ambiguïté.

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    • @arno
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      costume de pseudo-nazi

      Parmi les nombreux arguments contre Water, celui-ci est le plus minable : c’est The Wall, et ça a toujours été bourré de références à la seconde guerre mondiale, le personnage principal devenant un leader néo-nazi, avec défilé de marteaux-swastikas rouge et noire… Personne n’a vu le film, ou bien ?

      tout en prétendant dénoncer la politique d’Israël

      et ça aussi c’est une tournure bien pourrie.

      Pas plus que la cause palestinienne, d’ailleurs.

      D’ailleurs ce sont les Palestiniens et leurs organisations qui passent leur temps à dénoncer Waters, et non les propagandistes d’Israël.

      Sinon, tu es au courant qu’en ce moment, c’est Israël qui est en train de commettre un génocide de manière parfaitement ouverte et documentée. Non parce que des fois j’ai l’impression que la « cause palestinienne », ça n’est qu’un problème des gens qui « prétendent » la défendre.

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    • @cabou
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      La mise en scène grotesque d’un spectacle récent, fût-elle inspirée de The Wall, d’une part, n’est pas la meilleure façon de lever l’accusation d’antisémitisme et, d’autre part, cela ne représente pas une aide des plus efficaces pour promouvoir la lutte parfaitement légitime contre la politique colonialiste d’Israël.
      Je ne dis que ça. Probablement, de façon « bien pourrie ».

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      Ça change que « inspiré de… » suggère qu’il n’est pas légitime à reprendre l’imagerie de The Wall et que, ce faisant, il a une intention malhonnête derrière. Alors que c’est le même spectacle qu’il fait tourner depuis les années 80. De la même façon que « prétend dénoncer » introduit une distance et un jugement de valeur, alors qu’il « dénonce tout court » tout à fait la politique israélienne.

      Maintenant si les images volontairement outrées de The Wall (présentes depuis les origines), « c’est bien ça le problème », je constate qu’il devient vraiment très facile de dénoncer ce qui « dessert la cause palestinienne ».

      Et évidemment on tourne en rond, puisqu’une bonne partie de l’imagerie de The Wall est due à Gerald Scarfe, qui a eut lui-même droit à l’accusation d’antisémitisme parce qu’un de ses dessins dépeignait Netanyahu d’une façon qui manquait de subtilité et de bon goût :
      ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/is-the-sunday-times-cartoon-antisemitic

      A cartoon that appeared in this London’s Sunday Times this week depicting Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, building a wall with blood-red-coloured cement, trapping in between the bricks Palestinian-looking figures, is causing the latest “is-it-or-is-it-not-antisemitism” furore.

      Si ces polémiques ne surgissaient pas à chaque massacre de palestiniens, on pourrait croire au comique de répétition.

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    • @cabou
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      J’ai déjà regardé et lu des interview de Waters. Je ne remets en cause nullement ses intentions. Je n’ai jamais dit qu’il est malhonnête.

      Je me fous pas mal de savoir s’il est légitime ou non pour reprendre les trucs de Pink Floyd ou de considérer que c’est untel ou un autre qui a fait le truc, etc. Hors sujet.

      Je dis juste que son truc sur scène est complètement débile et que je trouve que ce n’est certainement pas la meilleure façon de combattre la propagande sioniste, dont il est notamment la cible, lorsqu’il est accusé d’antisémitisme.

      Je considère au contraire que la réfutation de l’accusation d’antisémitisme ; lorsqu’on porte une critique du sionisme, est une chose très importante. La grosse machinerie du show-biz n’est certainement pas la meilleure manière de traiter la question et là je trouve qu’il s’y est pris de la pire façon. C’est justement pour cela que j’évoquais Wyatt, qui me semble beaucoup plus crédible.

      Le fait que Waters fasse tourner depuis les années 80, le même truc grossier et démago, sans considérer le contexte - notamment les accusations dont il est la cible - me pose problème, précisément parce que, depuis septembre noir, la cause palestinienne fait partie de ma culture politique et que j’ai eu à subir, à cause de cela, nombre d’accusations insupportables, d’antisémitisme, justement. Pour moi, l’antisémitisme n’est pas juste une invention des ennemis pour discréditer la cause palestinienne. Il est essentiel de ne pas traiter cette problématique à la légère, notamment parce que le sionisme est un construction politique historiquement inséparable de l’antisémitisme.

      On ne doit pas sous-estimer la contre-propagande sioniste qui se développe à partir de « prises de position pro-palestiniennes », venant notamment du monde du spectacle et qui ne sont pas toujours du meilleur effet ni très rigoureuse (désolé pour le verbiage alambiqué...).

      La polémique autour de « l’antisémitisme de Waters » est récurrente, indépendamment des périodes « fortes » de massacres commis en Palestine, telles que celle qui se déroule actuellement.

      Ça n’a absolument rien de comique.

      Et enfin, merci d’avance de ne pas me faire porter la responsabilité de propos qui ne sont les miens. Sans rancune.

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    • @colporteur
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      ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1028105

      mais ce film à propos de Waters n’est évidemment rien d’autre qu’une manifestation de soutien à Israël, tout comme les déclarations qui suivent relèvent de pures et simples embrouilles persos parmi les ex du groupe.
      ▻https://www.rtbf.be/article/david-gilmour-fait-la-promotion-du-documentaire-sur-lantisemitisme-presume-de-r

      David Gilmour n’a pas ajouté de commentaire lorsqu’il a reposté la vidéo, mais il s’est déjà exprimé sur les remarques antisémites de Waters. En février, la femme du guitariste, Polly Samson, a dénoncé Waters comme étant "antisémite jusqu’à la moelle", ainsi qu’une personne faisant "l’apologie de Poutine, un menteur, un voleur, un hypocrite, exempt de taxes, qui fait du lip-sync, un misogyne, maladivement envieux et mégalomaniaque." Gilmour avait également partagé ce tweet, qualifiant les affirmations de Samson de "manifestement vraies".

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    • @arno
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      Vous êtes dans votre zone de confort : si ça se trouve effectivement le gars dans sa vie privée est un antisémite pire que Dieudonné. Tout cela reposant uniquement sur des propos privés parfaitement invérifiables, plutôt que de l’attaquer clairement sur ses positions publiques, qui elles sont connues. C’est une très classique attaque ad hominem.

      Et je pense qu’on attaque systématiquement sur cette histoire totalement ridicule d’uniforme et de symboles dans le spectacle The Wall, c’est pour tenter de dépasser l’attaque sur des propos privés invérifiables.

      Mais encore une fois : vous êtes dans votre zone confort, alors que ne pas applaudir aux très classiques imputations d’antisémitisme, c’est prendre un risque. Genre « Miller recycle des tropes antisémites », c’est bien confortable (alors que c’est totalement odieux), mais dire publiquement qu’on n’est pas d’accord avec l’imputation d’antisémitisme, c’est prendre un risque – ici d’avoir défendu un type qui, finalement, se retrouve accusé de violer ses patientes.

      (Les « témoignages » entre Gilmour et Waters sont invérifiables, notamment parce que le catalogue de Pink Floyd était estimé à 500 millions de dollars en 2022. Alors personne là-dedans ne parle depuis nulle part.)

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  • @grommeleur
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    Raging fires and block-rockin’ parties: back to the Bronx – in pictures
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/20/raging-fires-and-block-rockin-parties-back-to-the-bronx-in-pictures-joe

    Joe Conzo Jr spent his teenage years with a camera strapped to him, capturing everything from protests to hip-hop battles in his local neighbourhood

    https://i.ibb.co/jJs8xF3/dj.jpg

    Charlie Chase of the Cold Crush Brothers at Club Negril, 1981
    ‘Hip-hop goes downtown – this is the pioneering Puerto Rican DJ Charlie Chase performing at Club Negril in NYC’ photo Joe Conzo
    #photographie #hip-hop #bronx

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    Study: ‘gamechanger’ diabetes drugs cost up to 400 times more than needed
    ▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/drug-companies-diabetes-drugs-medicines-ozempic-trulicity

    Drug companies are pricing diabetes medicines at almost 400 times the level necessary to make a profit, according to a new study.

    Researchers said it would also be possible for modern insulin pens, which are safer and offer more accurate doses than vials and syringes, to be used even in low-income countries if pharmaceutical firms “put people before their astronomical profits”.

    #pharma #diabète

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