Une statue à Berlin - vu sur Twitter
Klaus, c’est où précisément si tu connais ?
A Statue in Berlin of « Politicians Discussing Global Warming »
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A Statue in Berlin of « Politicians Discussing Global Warming »-
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This is what politicians debating global warming will look like soon | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-26/what-politicians-debating-global-warming-will-look-soonAprès avoir lu cet article je suppose qu’il faut demander à l’artiste. Les éléments sur la photo sont trop floues pour permettre une identification précise de l’endroit. Heureusement ils est assez loquace :
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Isaac Cordal Follow
electoral campaign
Gendarmarkt. Berlin. April. 2011.
You can see more here: ▻http://issuu.com/cmnteclps/docs/cmnt_berlinCordal installs the 15 to 25 cm tall sculptures in streets and public spaces across Europe, then photographs them to document their presence. The ongoing work — called “Cement Eclipses” — is meant as social critique.
« Follow the leaders, » Berlin, Germany, April 2011.Isaac Cordal’s “Follow the leaders,” Nantes, France, July 2013. (pinokda/Facebook)
Isaac Cordal
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_CordalCement Eclipses is one of his best known projects consisting of small cement sculptures photographed in urban space. His figures can be found pasted on top of bus shelters, walls, cornices ... by its small size (approximately 15 cm) is necessary to pay much attention to find them. The sculptures serve for the artist as a metaphor to reflect on politics, bureaucracy, power … They are presented in various absurd situations in urban space. His work can be seen both in galleries and urban space. Small nomadic sculptures have been seen in cities like Brussels, London, Berlin, Zagreb, Nantes, San Jose, Barcelona, Vienna, Malmo, Paris, Milan, Bogotá.
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Politicians discussing global warming
This image is a reproduction of a sculpture installation===The Electoral Campaign=== performed by Isaac Cordal in Berlin in 2011 became viral on the internet under the title Politicians discussing global warming although really is part of its series called Follow the leaders. -
#climat #art #art_de_rue #art_minimaliste :) (même si c’est pas vraiment ça c’est marrant)
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A bride-burning victim in Nepal says her counselors are helping her heal and look to the future | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-13/bride-burning-victim-nepal-says-her-counselors-are-helping-her-heal-and-look
https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/story_main/public/story/images/Dhapali_01.jpg?itok=fwoFcOdL Dhapali is a victim of a violent practice called bride burning (a form of “dowry death”), in which a husband sets his wife on fire — or the mother-in-law does. It might be because the wife has borne only girls, or her husband wants to marry someone new. The most common reason, however, is that the victim came to the marriage with a small dowry or none at all.
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No one knows precisely how many women like Dhapali there are in Nepal and whether the numbers are going up or down — around the world, information about bride burning is hard to come by. Women who die or don’t seek medical care are unaccounted for. Survivors often don’t admit what happened. Plus, travel to rural areas to gather data is challenging, and there’s no funding for studies.
The few studies of intentional burns in Nepal give, at best, a partial picture of bride burning. One study of patients admitted to one burn unit in Kathmandu between 2002 and 2013 found that 329 people — mostly women — came in with “intentional” burns. The majority of the women claimed to have set themselves on fire. But the study’s authors note that many bride-burning victims don’t admit it. Burn surgeons in two cities in Nepal told PRI they see it quite a bit, though not as often in Nepal as in neighboring India. They say their patients are either ashamed or afraid of retribution from their husbands’ families and say it was an accident or even a suicide attempt.
Burns Violence Survivors - #Nepal
▻http://www.bvsnepal.org.np
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Guatemalan women transform their town one brushstroke at a time | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-07/guatemalan-women-transform-their-town-one-brushstroke-timeThe goal is to strengthen community cohesion to tackle problems like a lack of sanitation and draw more visitors to the town, helping create jobs around tourism. But the connection to weaving gives it special resonance among women in the community — and by taking leadership of the initiative, they are also gaining the ability to challenge traditional gender roles.
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New research finds that heading the soccer ball may be riskier for women than men | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-03/new-research-finds-heading-soccer-ball-may-be-riskier-women-menstudies have already shown brain changes in soccer players who head the ball around 1,000 times per year or more.
C’est donc ça... ;)
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Floating Guantanamos:
The US Coast Guard is operating floating prisons in the Pacific Ocean, outside US legal protections | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-24/us-coast-guard-operating-floating-prisons-pacific-ocean-outside-us-legal
▻https://cdn1.pri.org/sites/default/files/styles/original_image/public/USCG_National_Security_Cutter_BERTHOLF_%28WMSL-750%29.jpeg?itok=j0savHeMNow, it turns out, there’s a secret US detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard US Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating #Guantánamos’ - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/magazine/the-coast-guards-floating-guantanamos.htmlIn an expansion of the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is targeting low-level smugglers in international waters — shackling them on ships for weeks or even months before arraignment in American courts.
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The environment is in crisis. We’re launching a new Livable Planet desk to cover it. | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-14/environment-crisis-were-launching-new-livable-planet-desk-cover-itOur country has become much more polarized in recent years, and the word “environment” has itself become one of the fault lines, increasingly more of an ideological indicator than a broadly shared value. The word has also diminished over time — what was once a powerful new way of understanding how humans are damaging our world and ourselves has, for many, become a box that holds marginal concerns that aren’t part of our daily lives.
Livable Planet is a new frame for reporting on these evermore important challenges. It’s about people as part of the natural world instead of apart from it. It’s about finding ways for human communities and enterprise to coexist alongside the healthy natural systems that support us. It’s about what we can agree on and aspire to, rather than just what we fight over. It’s about what we need to have a future.
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Le crédit de la magnifique photo:
A young girl gets drenched in a large wave during high tide at a sea front in Mumbai, India, May 24, 2016.
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Online location data on endangered species might be putting them in harm’s way | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-15/online-location-data-endangered-species-might-be-putting-them-harm-s-wayThe growth of data publicly available on the internet has been a boon for biological science and conservation. But it is also being used by poachers and dishonest collectors to locate rare plants and animals and sell them illegally for a hefty price.
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Why Oklahoma has the highest female incarceration rate in the country | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-03/why-oklahomas-female-incarceration-rate-so-highFor over 25 years, Oklahoma has led the nation in the rate at which it sends women to prison. Roughly 151 of every 100,000 Oklahoma women are behind bars — twice the national average.
And, they’re staying longer. Stephens County, a mostly rural area where Allen is from, had the third-highest rate of women in prison. Allen is serving 20 years for possession of methamphetamines — two times longer than the state average.
“You can sometimes find ... three generations of a family incarcerated at the same time. For example, a mother, a grandmother, the daughter,” she said.
The majority of women incarcerated in Oklahoma are doing time for nonviolent crimes and drug-related offenses. As Sharp explains, women, particularly mothers, are treated more harshly and sometimes receive longer sentences than men because their crimes are drug-related.
“I think the general population of the state feels that a woman — particularly a woman who has children — who uses drugs, violates all the norms in a way that they find unacceptable and they would rather see those children grow up in foster care than to be with a mother who had a drug problem.”
Sharp also explains that Oklahoma has outdated attitudes about what constitutes proper womanhood.
“This is an extremely conservative state and an extremely religious state and very evangelical and a lot of biblical literalism. So, the belief that women have a certain role in society — that role is to give up themselves and put themselves and their own wants, goals, desires secondary to taking care of their husband and children.”
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Romania faces a rush of migrant boats as smugglers test new routes to Europe | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-26/romania-faces-new-rush-migrant-boats-smugglers-test-new-routes-europe
Et maintenant, le corridor roumain
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During World War II, Romania’s Jewish refugees, fleeing extermination in Europe, would pay to cram aboard flimsy boats crossing the Black Sea to the Middle East. In 2017, Romania’s shores have been the recipient of migrant boats traveling the journey in reverse, as a rarely-used smuggler’s passage is reactivated.
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These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-20/these-photos-show-strength-and-beauty-aboriginal-cultures-canadaEarlier this summer, the first Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week featured the creations of 25 designers from First Nations communities across Canada. Joleen Mitton, a former model who has Plains Cree and Blackfoot ancestry, launched the four-day event, held at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Canada.
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Indian court rules that men need protection from women making unsubstantiated domestic harassment claims | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-15/indian-court-rules-men-need-protection-women-making-unsubstantiated-domestic“We are deeply concerned and dismayed that the entire judgment proceeds on the basis that women are liars and file false cases,” read the statement, quoting data by the National Family Health Survey, which found that 1 in 3 women faces mental, physical and verbal domestic violence. “The judgment is part of a backward trend that ... completely overlooks the fact that women are daily recipients of harassment for dowry and of domestic violence.”
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Mongolian nomads say goodbye to herding, hello to smog | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-10/mongolian-nomads-say-goodbye-herding-hello-smogBut things are changing fast in Mongolia. And recently this nomadic family set down its portable home in a place they never expected to end up — a sprawling patchwork of dirt roads, makeshift fences and hundreds of yurts in the country’s crowded capital city of Ulaanbaatar.
A few years ago the family gave up on herding and moved to the city after losing most of its livestock in a harsh winter, known here as a “dzud.”
And they weren’t alone.
“So many nomadic families lost their herds” during that time, says Jargalsaikhan Erdene-Bayar, the father of the family. “So they started moving here. And it’s still happening.”
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Foreign coverage of the shooting of Justine Damond is giving Americans new perspective | Public Radio International
There is still much we don’t know concerning Damond’s death, but basic facts are these: On the night of July 15, Damond called 911 to report that she heard what sounded like a rape occurring behind her house. Damond approached the responding squad car. Then, the officer in the passenger seat, Mohamed Noor, shot her. His partner, Matthew Harrity, the driver, told investigators that he was startled by a loud noise in the moment before Damond approached.
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What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb? | Public Radio International
▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-04/what-if-your-hometown-were-hit-hiroshima-atomic-bomb
▻https://cdn1.pri.org/sites/default/files/styles/open_graph/public/nukeshot.png?itok=WDRn5H-qBut how to show the damage more clearly? We’ve developed an application that allows you to visualize the damage of the same atomic bomb on another location in today’s world, such as your hometown. You may be surprised at the extent of the damage.
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A village’s first female chief ended illegal logging with spies and checkpoints | Public Radio International
▻http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-30/villages-first-female-chief-ended-illegal-logging-spies-and-checkpointsHamisah never went to high school, and people say she used to be shy. But the flooding and the problems it was causing her community pushed her out of her comfort zone.
“I thought it was time for me to be brave and run for village leader,” Hamisah says.
There had never been a female village leader in the area. But Hamisah had some built-in support. She knew a lot of people through her work as a health aide, working for a local clinic to help people take their tuberculosis medication.
“Maybe because I’m a woman, I’m a mom, a lot of people came to me when they had a problem,” Hamisah says. “I listened and tried to suggest solutions. And so after a while, people started telling me I should run for office.”
She did, and she won, in 2013 becoming village leader of Sidorejo in the district of Sedahan Jaya.
Hamisah set to work trying to stop the illegal logging, beginning with the village’s women.
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US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks - ABC News
▻http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota-trucks/story?id=34266539U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group’s propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned.
Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is “supporting” the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department — part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group.
“We briefed Treasury on Toyota’s supply chains in the Middle East and the procedures that Toyota has in place to protect supply chain integrity,” said Ed Lewis, Toyota’s Washington-based director of public policy and communications.
Toyota has a “strict policy to not sell vehicles to potential purchasers who may use or modify them for paramilitary or terrorist activities,” Lewis said. He said it is impossible for the company to track vehicles that have been stolen, or have been bought and re-sold by middlemen.
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ISIS militants race through Raqqa in a propaganda training film released online in September 2014.more +
Toyota Hilux pickups, an overseas model similar to the Toyota Tacoma, and Toyota Land Cruisers have become fixtures in videos of the ISIS campaign in Iraq, Syria and Libya, with their truck beds loaded with heavy weapons and cabs jammed with terrorists. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, told ABC News that in addition to re-purposing older trucks, his government believes ISIS has acquired “hundreds” of “brand new” Toyotas in recent years.“This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbors,” Faily said. “How could these brand new trucks... these four wheel drives, hundreds of them — where are they coming from?”
ISIS propaganda videos show gunmen patrolling Syrian streets in what appear to be older and newer model white Hilux pick-ups bearing the black caliphate seal and crossing Libya in long caravans of gleaming tan Toyota Land Cruisers. When ISIS soldiers paraded through the center of Raqqa, more than two-thirds of the vehicles were the familiar white Toyotas with the black emblems. There were small numbers of other brands including Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu.
“Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand,” said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who is CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit working to expose the financial support networks of terror groups.
“ISIS has used these vehicles in order to engage in military-type activities, terror activities, and the like,” Wallace told ABC News. “But in nearly every ISIS video, they show a fleet — a convoy of Toyota vehicles and that’s very concerning to us.”
Toyota says many of the vehicles seen in ISIS videos are not recent models. “We have procedures in place to help ensure our products are not diverted for unauthorized military use,” said Lewis, the Toyota executive.
But, Lewis added, “It is impossible for Toyota to completely control indirect or illegal channels through which our vehicles could be misappropriated.”
Questions about the ISIS use of Toyota vehicles have circulated for years. In 2014, a report by the radio broadcaster Public Radio International noted that the U.S. State Department delivered 43 Toyota trucks to Syrian rebels. A more recent report in an Australian newspaper said that more than 800 of the trucks had been reported missing in Sydney between 2014 and 2015, and quoted terror experts speculating that they may have been exported to ISIS territory.
Attempts to track the path of the trucks into ISIS hands has proven complicated for U.S. and Iraqi officials.
Toyota’s own figures show sales of Hilux and Land Cruisers tripling from 6,000 sold in Iraq in 2011 to 18,000 sold in 2013, before sales dropped back to 13,000 in 2014.
Brigadier General Saad Maan, an Iraqi military spokesman, told ABC News he suspects that middlemen from outside Iraq have been smuggling the trucks into his country.
“We are spending our time to fight those terrorists so we cannot say we are controlling the border between Iraq and Syria,” he conceded. “We are deeply in need for answers.”
In a statement to ABC News, Toyota said it is not aware of any dealership selling to the terror group but “would immediately” take action if it did, including termination of the distribution agreement.
Toyota distributors in the region contacted by ABC News said they did not know how the trucks reached ISIS.
Sumitomo, a Japanese conglomerate that ships vehicles to the region, wrote to ABC News, “In terms of how anyone operating outside of the law obtain vehicles for misappropriation, we have no way to know and therefore cannot comment.”
A spokesman for former owners of the Toyota dealership in Syria said its sales operation was halted in 2012.
The former owners, a Saudi company called Abdul Latif Jameel, said it “made the decision to cease all trading activities in the country and fully divested the business in October, 2012,” according to a spokesperson.
Wallace, of the Counter Extremism Project, said his organization wrote directly to Toyota earlier this year to urge the company to do more to track the flow of trucks to ISIS, and noted that the trucks are stamped with traceable identification numbers.
“I don’t think Toyota’s trying to intentionally profit from it, but they are on notice now and they should do more,” Wallace said. “They should be able to figure it out... how are these trucks getting there. I think they should disclose that, put a stop to that, and put policies and procedures in places that are real and effective to make sure that we don’t see videos of ISIS using Toyota trucks in the future.”
Earlier this year, Toyota responded to Wallace’s organization with similar language the company has used to answer questions from ABC News, writing that Toyota stopped entirely its sales of vehicles in Syria several years ago.
Toyota told ABC News that after company officials briefed the U.S. Treasury team and that Treasury indicated the meeting was “helpful.”
“We cannot provide further details of our interaction with Treasury as we do not want to compromise its efforts to understand and prevent diversion, or make it easier for illicit groups to penetrate our supply chains or those of any other company,” Lewis said.
Treasury officials told ABC News they could not comment publicly about the agency’s engagement with specific private companies. But in response to questions about Toyota, the officials said investigators are “working closely with foreign counterparts and stakeholders” on the issue.
ABC News’ Randy Kreider and Mazin Faiq contributed to this report.
