#apprentis_sorciers

* Les collaborateurs des députés disent à leur tour leur « ras-le-bol » Le Figaro - 7 Décembre 2018
Apparitions des stagiaires et apprentis, et des collaborateurs bénévoles
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/12/06/01016-20181206LIVWWW00029-en-direct-gilets-jaunes-blocages-edouard-philippe

Les collaborateurs des députés ont dit ce jeudi à leur tour, au travers de leurs syndicats, leur « ras-le-bol » des conditions de travail, et réclamé « justice et équité ». « Nous alertons depuis des mois les représentants des députés-employeurs sur le profond malaise qui touche nos collègues, on ne compte plus les fins de contrats anticipées, les burn-out ou les cas de harcèlement moral », souligne une intersyndicale CGT, CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, SNCP-FO, Solidaires et Unsa dans un communiqué.

En outre, « le bureau de l’Assemblée nationale et le collège des questeurs [députés chargés de la gestion de l’institution] ont décidé unilatéralement, sans même une concertation avec les députés-employeurs, une série de mesures nous concernant et qui mettent le feu aux poudres ». Les questeurs ont décidé de permettre aux députés de rémunérer leurs stagiaires et apprentis avec l’enveloppe dédiée à la rémunération de leurs collaborateurs professionnels. De plus, il est désormais possible pour les députés de reporter d’une année à l’autre le reliquat d’enveloppe non utilisé, au détriment des collaborateurs, selon leurs représentants.

Par ailleurs, le bureau de l’Assemblée, plus haute instance collégiale, a autorisé récemment la prise en charge des frais de transport, de repas et d’hébergement des « collaborateurs bénévoles », sur l’avance mensuelle pour frais de mandat des députés. Les syndicats s’inquiètent de ces « collaborateurs bénévoles », catégorie qui n’existait pas jusqu’alors.

#Travail #Gratuit #stagiaires #stage #exploitation #apprentis_sorciers #apprentis #apprentissage #bénévolat #députés #assemblée_nationale #collaborateurs

IDA Urges Decision-Makers in China Consider Cost-Effective Alternatives to “Artificial Moon”
▻http://darksky.org/ida-urges-decision-makers-in-china-consider-cost-effective-alternatives-to-

Because the illumination satellite would replace streetlights, reports estimate energy cost savings of approximately 1.2 billion yuan ($170 million) per year. [2]

While IDA encourages creative solutions for lighting that reduce energy costs, we urge decision-makers in China and elsewhere to consider the impact of satellite illumination on wildlife, human health (specifically the interruption of circadian rhythms), and other unknown factors.

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Peter Oborne: Why #MI6 must share the blame for jihadis
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4546934/PETER-OBORNE-MI6-share-blame-jihadis.html

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In the case of Syria, they wanted to get as much help as possible in their mission to topple the Syrian president Bashir al-Assad.

There was a similar policy towards Libya. British citizens — it has been reported this week that among them was the father of the Manchester suicide-bomber — were undoubtedly encouraged to travel to the north African country to fight in the civil war there to get rid of Gaddafi.

Indeed, research by the Middle East Eye website has revealed the extent to which the British authorities, I believe with the encouragement of MI6, released terror suspects in this country from control orders which had previously been imposed on them in order to restrain their movements and stop them from using the internet.

Duly, these people were free to join terror groups in the Middle East and North Africa — organisations with links to #Al_Qaeda and other terror outfits. 

Of course, as well as being enemies of al-Assad and Gaddafi, these groups were also enemies of the West.

So, while MI5 officers were working day and night to prevent Islamist terrorists inflicting carnage on British streets, MI6 officers were complicit in creating a generation of British-born jihadis who are prepared to do anything, and kill anyone — even young children — in their efforts to destroy this country.

#apprentis_sorciers #incurie #criminels

60 Minutes investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S. and what the #FBI knew
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/terrorism-in-garland-texas-what-the-fbi-knew-before-the-2015-attack

Dan Maynard: I can’t tell you whether the FBI knew the attack was gonna occur. I don’t like to think that they let it occur. But it is shocking to me that an undercover agent sees fellas jumping out of a car and he drives on. I find that shocking.

Anderson Cooper: That he didn’t try to stop—

Dan Maynard: He didn’t try to stop ‘em. Or he didn’t do something. I mean, he’s an agent, for gosh sakes.

#apprentis_sorciers

Supprimer la malaria en supprimant les moustiques
▻http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/supprimer-la-malaria-en-supprimant-les-moustiques

Comment éradiquer la malaria, une des maladies les plus mortelles affectant l’humanité ? Une solution radicale serait d’en éliminer les porteurs, autrement dit les moustiques. Le programme Target Malaria, financé majoritairement par la fondation de Bill et Melinda Gates, serait en train d’étudier la technologie du « forçage génétique » pour éradiquer cette (...)

#A_lire_ailleurs #Recherches #biologie_synthétique #biotechnologies #Santé

CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time
▻http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-gene-editing-tested-in-a-person-for-the-first-time-1.20988

A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary #CRISPR–Cas9 technique.

On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered the modified cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer as part of a clinical trial at the West China Hospital, also in Chengdu.

Earlier clinical trials using cells edited with a different technique have excited clinicians. The introduction of CRISPR, which is simpler and more efficient than other techniques, will probably accelerate the race to get gene-edited cells into the clinic across the world [...].

[...]

The researchers removed immune cells from the recipient’s blood and then disabled a gene in them using CRISPR–Cas9, which combines a DNA-cutting enzyme with a molecular guide that can be programmed to tell the enzyme precisely where to cut. The disabled gene codes for the protein PD-1, which normally puts the brakes on a cell’s immune response: cancers take advantage of that function to proliferate.

Lu’s team then cultured the edited cells, increasing their number, and injected them back into the patient, who has metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. The hope is that, without PD-1, the edited cells will attack and defeat the cancer.

#biologie #gènes #ADN

Islamic State v. al-Qaida
Owen Bennett-Jones
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n21/owen-bennett-jones/islamic-state-v-al-qaida

For Paul Rogers, violent jihadism is a symptom first and foremost of global inequality, a revolt from the margins by people who see no evidence that increases in total global wealth are a benefit to them. On the contrary, improvements in education and mass communication only mean that they can appreciate more clearly the extent of their disadvantage and marginalisation. In that sense they are not all that different from the Naxalites in India, the Maoists in Nepal and Peru and the Zapatistas in Mexico.

There are other, on the face of it more surprising, non-religious sources of jihadi violence. The jihadists may have severely disrupted the international system of nation states, but they have had support in doing so from ‘enemy’ governments. The story of the United States and Saudi Arabia helping Osama bin Laden fight the Soviets in Afghanistan is now familiar. Iran supported Zarqawi in Iraq, tolerating his slaughter of Shias because he offered the most effective opposition to the US occupation of Iraq. Syria took the same view, allowing al-Qaida in Iraq’s fighters to slip across the border. One of Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails reveals that as recently as 2014 she believed Qatar and Saudi Arabia were providing ‘clandestine financial and logistic support’ to IS. Turkey also helped both organisations in Syria in the hope that they would oust Assad. Even Assad himself helped them. Calculating that the jihadists would not have the strength to oust him, he released them from jail, bought oil from IS and bombed the Free Syrian Army while leaving IS positions alone. Assad’s idea was to scare either the Americans or the Russians into defending his regime. Putin took the bait.

These policies generally turn sour. A direct line can be drawn from American support for the Afghan Mujahidin to 9/11. Iran’s backing of Zarqawi may have helped Tehran gain influence in the power vacuum left by America’s withdrawal from Iraq, but the Iranians now find themselves having to raise militias to confront IS. Assad and Erdoğan both believed that, having used the violent jihadis to further their purposes in Syria, they could dispose of them when they were no longer needed. Whether that will be as easy as Ankara and Damascus hope remains an open question.

There is another aspect to these machinations. Governments of all types reckon it is better to export violent jihadism than to experience it at home. The Saudis have been the most brazen advocates of this policy but before 9/11 many Middle Eastern governments complained that the UK offered sanctuary to Islamists in the hope that London would not be attacked. And papers captured in Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad hideout revealed that the chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, offered al-Qaida a restoration of good relations with the Pakistan government in return for no attacks in his province.

#apprentis_sorciers #mėdiocrité_meurtrière

La #NSA dans le viseur des « Shadow Brokers »
▻http://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2016/08/17/la-nsa-dans-le-viseur-des-shadow-brokers_1473072

Le mystérieux collectif prétend être entré en possession de « cyberarmes » utilisées par un autre groupe de hackers, l’« Equation Group » [une émanation de la NSA], et les avoir déposées dans une archive mise en ligne sur plusieurs sites d’hébergement de fichiers. L’archive contient deux dossiers, tous deux chiffrés. Dans leur message, les Shadow Brokers fournissent le mot de passe du premier dossier. Et ils annoncent mettre aux enchères celui qui permet de déchiffrer le second : ils publient, à cet effet, une adresse bitcoin, la fameuse monnaie cryptographique et décentralisée lancée en 2009.

Opinion piece in Saudi pro-monarchy daily : No fear of 9/11 lawsuit since US/CIA was main trainer of terrorists
▻https://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/opinion-piece-in-saudi-pro-monarchy-daily-no-fear-of-911-laws

From Okaz -

“…If these files are opened, we would learn the reasons behind the CIA chief’s visit to Afghanistan with the famous $1 billion in cash, to create the Afghan Mujahedeen. We would also learn who trained and organized them, created what was later dubbed Al-Qa’idah, excluded and chased them and did not contain them once the mission was over, and how and where they retaliated against those who tricked them. Congress and its claims do not threaten the Kingdom. They rather create an opportunity to expose the involved Americans and their leaders’ lies one after the other, and expose the reality of their advisors’ presence in Afghanistan as trainers in the arts of terrorism.

“Yes, the Kingdom did send youth, but upon Washington’s request and under its direct supervision. What happened later on is a different thing, which ended with a terrorist attack on the Kingdom, pushing it to exert strenuous efforts to keep [terrorism] away from the Kingdom, Europe, and even America itself, as confirmed by the files of its domestic and external intelligence. What is noticeable at this level is that President Obama is the American president who visited the Kingdom the most, but also who harmed it the most. Strategies are not built with deceivers or goners, or even based on public relations. Therefore, let us leave Mr. Obama to drown in his reluctance between isolation and interaction, and wait for the newcomer to the White House, and more importantly the new Congress that will be produced by the elections…”

#Arabie_saoudite #Etats-Unis #linge_sale #apprentis_sorciers #terrorisme #dommages_collatéraux #délétère

Dans le Guardian, le témoignage d’une mère belge dont les 3 enfants sont partis en Syrie et qui critique les autorités de son pays :
‘Our sons are victims of Isis brainwashers – and of our government’
Guardian / 27.03.2016
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/belgian-mother-betrayed-by-government-and-isis-when-sons-went-to-syria?
Elle a averti les autorités en 2013 sur le risque que son fils de 22 ans parte là-bas, à quoi on lui a répondu qu’il n’était pas illégal de partir combattre Assad. Puis ensuite sur son fils le plus jeune de 16 ans, qui peut prendre tranquillement l’avion en direction de la Turquie :

Her younger son, Rashid, followed three months later, when he was still only 16. He told his mother he was going to the movies and on for a bowling game with some friends, and that evening he called home from Istanbul.
“How come he could cross the border at Zaventem when he was under 18? The airport authorities should have stopped both of them,” she told the Observer. “I was totally shattered. I only had the energy to call the police and ask them to go and bring him back.”

Et le rappel des déclarations du ministre des affaires étrangères belge expliquant que les « combattants » belges partant en Syrie mériteraient plus tard un monument à la gloire de la révolution, donne de la substance aux accusations de cette mère :

“Today they all say, ‘we never would have imagined, we never knew’, but actually they were accomplices,” she said. “Our children are first victims of a criminal organisation that brainwashed them. But they are also victims of our political leaders and foreign minister.”
The horror of Brussels: ’My memories stop at 9.10am. When they come back, I have blood on my face’
A few days after Rashid left Brussels, Didier Reynders, Belgium’s foreign minister, said of those going to fight: “One day, perhaps, we will build a monument for them as heroes of the revolution. ”

Méchants coups de pinces dans le panier de crabes : les Turcs balancent des infos compromettantes sur le comportement étonnant des Européens et l’exportation si facile de leurs jihadistes vers la Syrie.

Turkish officials : Europe wanted to export extremists to Syria
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/turkish-officials-europe-wanted-to-export-extremists-to-syria

Turkish officials have accused European governments of attempting to export their Islamic extremist problem to Syria, saying the EU has failed to secure its own borders or abide by pledges to share intelligence and cooperate in fighting the jihadist threat.

The failures were outlined by Turkish officials to the Guardian through several documented instances of foreign fighters leaving Europe while travelling on passports registered on Interpol watchlists, arriving from European airports with luggage containing weapons and ammunition, and being freed after being deported from Turkey despite warnings that they have links to foreign fighter networks.

[…]

In interviews with the Guardian, Turkish officials challenged the assessment that they did not do enough to combat the terror threat, and provided details of several incidents they say show European governments allowed people to travel to Turkey.

In June 2014, Turkish security officers at Istanbul airport interviewed a Norwegian man who openly told them that he had come to Turkey in order to travel to Syria for “jihad”. Isis had just surged through Iraq, conquering the plains of Nineveh, and would soon announce a caliphate on its territories in Syria and Iraq, upending fragile nation states that had already begun to collapse.

When they searched his luggage, they found that he had managed to travel out of Oslo with a suitcase that contained a camouflage outfit, a first aid kit, knives, a gun magazine and parts of an AK-47, the contents of which had managed to elude customs authorities in Europe.

Two months later, a German man arrived in Istanbul with a suitcase containing a bulletproof vest, military camouflage and binoculars that he managed to carry through an airport in Paris on his way to Turkey.

In 2013, A Danish-Turkish dual citizen, Fatih Khan, left Denmark for Syria, but was detained while trying to cross the border in the Turkish province of Kilis and deported back to Copenhagen. He was given another passport by the Danish authorities, and made his way back to Syria.

That same year, Mohamed Haroon Saleem, a British citizen, arrived in Istanbul from London and travelled to Syria, having managed to travel out of the UK with a passport that was flagged on the Interpol list as stolen or lost.

Mohamed Mehdi Raouafi, a French citizen, left France in January of 2014 to join the war in Syria. Despite his sister warning the Turkish authorities who subsequently informed the French government that he was going there to join radical groups, he was allowed to travel out of France.

Gérer les ruptures - New York Times
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Rompre une relation semble être devenu plus compliqué à l’heure de Facebook, rappelle Penelope Green pour le New York Times. Depuis novembre, Facebook a lancé un kit pour gérer ses documents liées aux ruptures (disponible seulement sur mobile et aux Etats-Unis pour l’instant), imaginé par une nouvelle équipe chargée “de la compassion”, permettant de réduire l’information provenant d’un ou d’une ex., de masquer des messages, etc. L’équipe en charge de la compassion a pour objectif de rendre les interactions via FB plus humaines. Ils créent des outils pour aider à faire face à l’intimidation en ligne, à l’agression ou à l’anorexie… et travaillent avec le Greater Good Science Center de Berkeley et le Centre pour l’intelligence émotionnelle de Yale. Des projets sont en cours pour identifier et prévenir les idées (...)

#psychologie #design

Les #Apprentis_Sorciers Du #Climat
▻http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/051152-000/les-apprentis-sorciers-du-climat

Stimuler le plancton, repeindre les toits en blanc, envoyer des miroirs dans l’espace… : des #lubies ? Non, la #géo-ingénierie. Ces techniques plus ou moins fantaisiste, visent à modifier le climat afin d’enrayer le réchauffement de la planète. Longtemps, les scientifiques se sont refusé à mentionner ce plan B parce qu’ils pensaient qu’il détournerait le monde politique du plan A (limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre). Autrefois décrié, il opère aujourd’hui un retour en force.

Les recherches les plus avancées se proposent d’imiter l’effet des éruptions volcaniques en pulvérisant des particules refroidissantes dans la stratosphère. Pour l’instant, ces expériences restent confinées en laboratoire. Mais jusqu’à quand ? Aux #États-Unis, la géo-ingénierie séduit les milieux conservateurs, ceux-là mêmes qui nient le lien entre le réchauffement climatique et l’activité humaine. Cette solution présente, il est vrai, des avantages : elle évite de se mettre les industries polluantes à dos, d’imposer de nouvelles taxes, de changer nos modes de vie, et crée du #business. Mais des scientifiques prédisent des effets dévastateurs en cascade : augmentation des pluies, suppression de la mousson, désertification...

Course à l’arme météorologique

Ce documentaire réunit de nombreux experts, partisans ou critiques à l’égard de la manipulation du climat : scientifiques, journalistes, lobbyistes, historiens, « géo-ingénieurs », exposant placidement des projets qui font froid dans le dos… À l’aide d’un riche fonds d’archives, le film se penche sur l’histoire ahurissante de ces techniques qui ont pris leur essor durant la course à l’armement de la guerre froide, brossant au passage le portrait d’Edward Teller, qui a inspiré le docteur Folamour de Stanley Kubrick. Ce dernier pensait, notamment, régler le problème de la sécheresse californienne par une explosion nucléaire…

Comment les #apprentis_sorciers [...] aggrav[aient déjà] le #chaos au #Proche-Orient
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1987/02/BEAUJEU/39829

#Etats-Unis

How Saudi/Gulf Money Fuels Terror
▻https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/14/how-saudigulf-money-fuels-terror

In the wake of the latest terrorist outrage in Paris, the big question is not which specific group is responsible for the attack, but who’s responsible for the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the first place. The answer that has grown increasingly clear in recent years is that it’s Western leaders who have used growing portions of the Muslim world as a playground for their military games and are now crying crocodile tears over the consequences.

This pattern had its beginnings in the 1980s in Afghanistan, where the Central Intelligence Agency and the Saudi royal family virtually invented modern jihadism in an effort to subject the Soviets to a Vietnam-style war in their own backyard. It was the case, too, in Iraq, which the United States and Great Britain invaded in 2003, triggering a vicious civil warfare between Shi‘ites and Sunnis.

#apprentis_sorciers

Dealing with blasphemy, the Saudi way. Kingdom condemns shootings, goes ahead with flogging
▻http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2015/january/saudi-blasphemy-badawi.htm#sthash.zLQUJl5R.3XpFe3w7.dpbs

The Saudi objection, therefore, is that the “punishment” of these blasphemers was not carried out according to due process. Yasir Qadhi, an American Islamic scholar, explains:

“Even for those who believe that the penalty for blasphemy should be death: by unanimous consensus of ALL the scholars of Islam, this must take place after a legitimate trial, by a qualified judge, appointed by a legitimate Islamic state. Under NO circumstances does Islam allow vigilante justice, for to open this door leads to chaos, confusion and bloodshed.”

This morning Saudi Arabia provided an example of the “correct” way to deal with such cases. As Friday prayers ended in Jeddah, Raid Badawi, a liberal activist, was hauled from his prison cell and given 50 lashes in public. He is due to receive 50 lashes every Friday over the next 20 weeks – making 1,000 lashes in total. He is also serving a 10-year jail sentence and has been ordered to pay a fine of one milion riyals ($266,000).

De l’audace, toujours de l’audace !

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#Guyane : un #insecticide interdit pour lutter contre le #chikungunya
▻http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/malathion-derogation-insecticide-neurotoxique-interdit-chikungun

Le #malathion n’est plus autorisé dans l’UE en tant que biocide depuis août 2008. S’il est « toxique » pour l’homme et les écosystèmes, sa persistance est « faible » dans le sol, selon l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire (Anses). Cet insecticide neurotoxique est « nocif » en cas d’ingestion et peut provoquer « une allergie cutanée ». Il est « très toxique » pour les organismes aquatiques, les abeilles et les oiseaux, a indiqué l’Anses dans un avis paru en mars dernier.

L’Agence a en effet été saisie par la Direction générale de la santé (DGS) sur l’efficacité et les risques d’utilisation du malathion comme moyen complémentaire de lutte contre les moustiques tigres adultes (genre Aedes), vecteurs du chikungunya qui a déjà touché 1.665 personnes en Guyane dont 55% à Cayenne, selon l’Agence régionale de santé (ARS). « La circulation du virus continue sa progression, de nouveaux foyers épidémiologiques ont été identifiés », a de nouveau alerté l’ARS le 14 août.

L’arrêté, signé le 5 août par les ministères de la Santé, de l’Ecologie et des Outre-mer, justifie l’utilisation du malathion par « la résistance des moustiques vecteurs de Guyane à l’adulticide deltaméthrine et l’absence de produits adulticides de substitution ». A la demande du préfet de la région Guyane, les ministres ont donc décidé d’autoriser l’insecticide à des fins de lutte antivectorielle pour une durée de 180 jours soit 6 mois, conformément à l’article 55 du règlement européen biocide de 2012.

Vins de Bourgogne : ce générateur de vortex anti-grêle
▻http://www.europe1.fr/France/Vins-de-Bourgogne-ce-generateur-de-vortex-anti-grele-2150277

Un système dangereux pour la santé ? Toutefois, l’envoi de produits chimiques dans l’air pour modifier le climat soulève inévitablement des questions de santé publique. La dose d’iodure d’argent est très faible selon l’association qui précise « que les études ne montrent pas de risque reconnus pour la santé ». De plus, l’association préfère insister sur le fait que l’utilisation des générateurs est une action locale qui peut être arrêtée à tout moment et a donc un impact très limité. Pourtant, cette vision est contestée par certains scientifiques qui rappellent que les données manquent pour avoir une vision objective de l’impact sur l’environnement mais que celui-ci ne doit pas être ignoré. De plus, l’Agence de protection de l’environnement américaine, à l’occasion du clean water act, l’avait jugée « #polluant_toxique », particulièrement pour les organismes aquatiques.

Bon, c’est E1, mais comme l’article est le plus documenté…

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#viticulture #grêle #agriculture #apprentis_sorciers #pollution

In Benghazi, CIA Trusted Local Militia That Melted Away - The Daily Beast
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/10/in-benghazi-cia-trusted-local-militia-that-melted-away.html

#Apprentis_sorciers

The agency seemed unaware prior to the attack of how unreliable or possibly compromised the February 17 militia actually was, reports Eli Lake.