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French activist goes on hunger strike to protest Israeli plans to demolish Khan al-Ahmar
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JERUSALEM, September 15, 2018 (WAFA) – A French-American activist started a hunger strike on Friday after he was detained by Israeli police when activists in Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem, blocked Israeli bulldozers trying to close roads to the village, according to Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, from the Save Khan al-Ahmar campaign.

He told WAFA that Frank Romano, professor of law at University of Paris and author of “Love and Terror in the Middle East”, was detained along with four other Palestinians when they confronted Israeli police and bulldozers attempting to block roads to the village, slated for demolition by Israel in order to replace it with a settlement.

Romano, who lives in France but is also an American citizen, was first taken to a police station in the nearby illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim before he was transferred to the Russian Compound police station in West Jerusalem where his detention was extended for four days.
Abu Rahmeh said Romano started a hunger strike until Israel annuls the demolition decision against Khan al Ahmar.

#FranckRomano

In Exceptional Move, Israeli Army Arrests French-American Law Professor in West Bank

Frank Romano was arrested along with two Palestinians while protesting the upcoming demolition of the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, police say ■ IDF allowed to keep him under arrest for up to 96 hours without bringing him to court
Yotam Berger
Sep 15, 2018 5:25 PM
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-in-rare-move-idf-arrests-french-american-law-prof-in-west-bank-1.6

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A 66-year-old French-American citizen and two other activists were arrested Friday in the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar.

According to border police, the three, law professor Frank Romano and two Palestinians, tried to block the road and disrupt soldiers situated near the village, which is slated for demolition.

Exceptionally, the arrest of Romano - a foreign national - was extended by 96 hours under military code rather than civil law. Military code applies to Palestinians and significantly reduces the rights granted to suspects. In comparison, in the Israeli legal system there is a duty to bring a suspect before a judge within 24 hours.

Attorney Gaby Lasky, who represents Romano, told Haaretz that this it is very rare for military code to be used for foreign citizens, saying that she had encountered only one such other case in the past. Lasky plans to appeal to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court to bring the man to a remand hearing.

pour la VO (pas encore lu, mais c’est toujours mieux en vo nan ?)

How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story
Reporter Ronan Farrow ultimately took the piece to The New Yorker after facing months of opposition at his home network.

▻https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nbc-harvey-weinstein_us_59de5688e4b0eb18af059685?qj7

En s’attaquant au « mogul » Weinstein, il a dû résister à la pression de la très efficace machine à dissimuler les scandales lancée contre lui par l’industrie cinématographique américaine. Celle-là même qui, jusqu’à très récemment, en les achetant ou en les menaçant, avait privé de parole les nombreuse victimes du baron pervers d’Hollywood.

On parle bien là d’un système criminel
#culture_du_viol

on doit pouvoir trouver mieux que l’express... mais bon.

@monolecte ’fectivement

By April, NBC News had two big scoops in its pocket: an on-record interview with McGowan and the explosive audio of Weinstein admitting to sexual assault. But Farrow was told by multiple NBC News executives and producers that the reporting and interviews he had conducted weren’t sufficient for a televised story. According to four sources, Farrow and McHugh also prepared a lengthy text story to run on the NBC News website, but Farrow was told it wouldn’t run.

By July, Farrow was ready with a bombshell story about Weinstein that included on-camera interviews with accusers and interviews with four female and male former Miramax and Weinstein Co. executives.

At this point, Farrow and McHugh were ready to move forward with the story but were told by NBC executives that the story had to go up to NBC News Chairman Andy Lack for approval and that the story would be under review by Steve Burke, executive vice president of Comcast and president and CEO of NBCUniversal — a highly unusual level of scrutiny, according to three NBC News staffers, who had never heard of Burke’s office needing to review a story.

In August, according to four sources familiar with the conversations, Farrow was repeatedly told by the network that he didn’t have enough reporting done to go to air but that he should also stop reporting on Weinstein’s story, putting him in an untenable position.

#complicité #obstruction

#fraternité

Les francophones auront peut-être vu l’article assez ridicule de l’Express ▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sciences/teleportation-quantique-tout-comprendre-a-la-prouesse-realisee-par-la-chine auquel je réponds en ►http://www.bortzmeyer.org/communication-quantique.html

et pour faire court, la conclusion de Stéphane Bortzmeyer :

Voilà, comme d’habitude, on a une avancée scientifique réelle, décrite dans un article sérieux mais que personne ne lira, sur-vendue dans un dossier de presse aguicheur, lui-même repris sans critique et sans vérification dans de nombreux médias. Vu l’information reçue par les citoyens ordinaires, il n’est pas étonnant que la sécurité informatique soit actuellement si mauvaise.

We have demonstrated the distribution of two
entangled photons from a satellite to two ground
stations that are physically separated by 1203 km
and have observed the survival of entanglement
and violation of Bell inequality. The distributed
entangled photons are readily useful for
entanglement-based quantum key distribution
which, so far, is the only way that has been demonstrated
to establish secure keys between two
distant locations with a separation of thousands
of kilometers on Earth without relying on trustful
relay. Another immediate application is to exploit
the distributed entanglement to perform a variant
of the quantum teleportation protocol for
remote preparation and control of quantum states,
which can be a useful ingredient in distributed
quantum networks. The satellite-based technology
that we developed opens up a new avenue
to both practical quantum communications and
fundamental quantum optics experiments at distances
previously inaccessible on the ground

C’est une traduction de l’AFP, donc autant trouver un article en français, comme celui-ci :

La température des #villes pourrait grimper de 8 degrés d’ici 2100
AFP, L’Express, le 29 mai 2017
▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/environnement/chaud-devant-la-temperature-des-villes-pourrait-grimper-de-8-degres-d-ici-2

et, bien sûr, à ajouter aux compilations :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/524060
►https://seenthis.net/messages/499739

#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
#réchauffement_climatique #dérèglement_climatique

Pour le State Department les White Helmet sont formidables, d’ailleurs l’USAID les a financé à hauteur de 23 millions de $, mais il vaut mieux que leur leader ne vienne pas sur le territoire américain pour raison de sécurité...

Point presse de Mark Toner, porte-parole du state Department le 27 avril 2016.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=792ODrhwKkk

Un journaliste (Matthew Lee d’AP) demande à Toner comment le State Department peut dire soutenir les White Helmets, et en même temps avoir révoqué le visa de son leader (Raed Saleh) pour raison de sécurité.
De fait Raed Saleh venait aux USA recevoir un prix décerné par InterAction, un appendice de l’USAID (voir article NYT : ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/world/middleeast/leader-of-syria-rescue-group-arriving-in-us-for-award-is-refused-entry.html ).
Toner explique qu’il faut distinguer entre le leader, dont il ne peut pas parler, et du groupe que les USA soutiennent.
Un autre journaliste insiste et finalement obtient la même réponse mais avec l’aveu implicite que Raed Saleh serait en relation avec des groupes extrémistes :
Voir vidéo de 3’20 à 3’54

QUESTION: How can you separate the leader of the group from the group?
MR TONER: Well, he’s one individual in the group.
QUESTION: But the leader of the group.
MR TONER: And any individual – again, I’m broadening my language here for specific reasons, but any individual in any group suspected of ties or relations with extremist groups or that we had believed to be a security threat to the United States, we would act accordingly. But that does not, by extension, mean we condemn or would cut off ties to the group for which that individual works for.

La discussion continue et Mark Toner balance que ce groupe a reçu pour 23 millions d’aides de l’USAID et redit à quel point les USA les soutiennent. M. Lee repose alors la question sur l’incongruité alors de révoquer le visa de son leader pour raison de sécurité.
Vidéo de 4’15 à 5’40

MR TONER: Well, I can tell you that we provide, through USAID, about $23 million in assistance to them.
QUESTION: Right.
MR TONER: I can say that they’ve saved over 40,000 lives, as I just mentioned at the – in the topper by acting as first responders. They go into combat zones, they save people after attacks. We’ve seen no action on the part of this group writ large that indicates in any way that they’re nothing but an impartial group that – like any humanitarian organization – works across lines of control and is in contact with a range of groups to facilitate their life-saving efforts. And that’s – again, we’ve talked about this the last couple days. Aleppo is —
QUESTION: I understand that.
MR TONER: — a very complex situation. We understand that. And for these groups to operate, they have to be able to operate within the milieu on which they’re working.
QUESTION: Mark, but can you ask for some – I mean, this just seems bizarre to me. You’re giving this guy and his group $23 million. Yes, they do good work, they save lives, but you’ve revoked his visa for some reason and you won’t say why and it just doesn’t make any sense. Why is the U.S. taxpayer supporting a group whose leader you have banned from coming to the States?

Cette vidéo là, de 2015, à Jisr al-Choughour, a aussi pas mal été commentée avec un white helmet qui explique qu’ils jettent le cadavre des « shabihas » aux ordures :
▻http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76f_1445681508

“Most Syrians perceive airstrikes against IS as aiding the Syrian regime. From their perspective, it looks like the West is attacking IS but not doing anything against the regime, who is responsible for most of the civilian casualties in this war. For locals on the ground it appears as though Europeans are solely concerned with their own security and potential IS attacks in Europe, while ignoring the fate of Syrians trapped in the war. This is a perfect propaganda tool for the Islamic State.”
Je pense juste que ce n’est pas vrai et que le ICG s’obstine à développer, depuis fort longtemps dans l’affaire syrienne, de bien curieuses analyses...

L’article de crisisgroup est une traduction anglaise de l’interview publiée dans l’Express :..
“This is an edited translation of an interview given to the French magazine L’Express.”

▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-moyen-orient/intervention-francaise-en-syrie-les-frappes-contre-daech-sont-contreproduct