Part of Israel Seperation Wall collapsed in Al Ram town N of Jerusalem City.
▻https://twitter.com/LocalFocus1/status/1489578735439331337
#Israël #Palestine #murs #walls_don't_work #Al_Ram #les_murs_tombent #frontières #Jérusalem
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WATCH: Viral video claims to show ‘Trump’s border wall’ COLLAPSE under the wrath of #Hurricane_Hanna
A section of the US-Mexico border wall in Texas allegedly failed to withstand the power of nature, according to a viral video. While its authenticity has been questioned, the clip sent President Trump’s critics into overdrive.
A viral video purportedly showing a partial collapse of the border fence between the United States and Mexico was widely shared online on Sunday. While it was not immediately clear where it was recorded and which segment of the fence was affected, several local journalists and media reports indicated the incident happened somewhere between Texas and the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas as the storm battered the region.
▻https://www.rt.com/usa/495928-texas-border-wall-collapse-hurricane
#murs #barrières_frontalières #destruction #walls_don't_work #les_murs_tombent #frontières #USA #Etats-Unis #Mexique
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Writers on the Range: The wall with Mexico will come tumbling down
Few walls last forever. Last winter, part of President Trump’s new border wall wavered toward collapse under the force of strong winds whipping through the twin cities of Calexico and Mexicali. An 80-foot segment lurched into Mexican territory, and it took cranes from the U.S. side to right the steel panels.
Most of the families I know that live close to the border have arrived at the same conclusion: The monstrous wall so close to them has further militarized our international boundary with Mexico. They say that a steel barrier with a yard-wide concrete footer — and lighting that never dims — permanently blocks the free flow of wildlife, seeds, pollen, water, religious pilgrims and essential workers across the U.S.-Mexico border. We have watched U.S. agencies rush to build a wall through the poorest communities in western North America without local consent.
Both supporters and opponents of this bigger wall speak fatalistically about the barrier. They seem to concede that more miles of wall are irreversible because the courts have upheld Trump’s legal waivers of 41 state and federal laws.
Meanwhile, the wall does damage wherever it’s built or expanded. Habitats for endangered species have been fragmented, and human remains in sacred sites have been desecrated. The doom-and-gloomers say there is no going back.
But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.
Thirty years ago this last November, the Berlin Wall was demolished after 26 years of dividing Berlin and East Germany from West Germany. Its deconstruction cost far less than its original construction, thanks in part to eager people who pitched in to turn the concrete part of the wall back into rubble. The two sections of Berlin have now been reunited for a longer period of time than the construction of the wall in 1961 divided them.
Closer to home, the first barrier built on our southern border, dividing Nogales Arizona from Nogales Sonora, came tumbling down faster than the walls at the Battle of Jericho. This wall was erected a little over a century ago, during the time that Mexico was in the depths of a revolution.
American-made rifles were frequently smuggled into Sonora through Ambos Nogales. To slow the flow of firearms, Sonora’s Gov. Maytorena ordered the erection of an 11- strand barbwire fence to run down the middle of International Street, where the two countries met.
Yes. That’s right: The first border barrier along the boundary line was erected to keep U.S. citizens from illegally passing rifles into Mexico.
But that first border wall so enraged the community of Ambos Nogales that it was brought down within a mere four months of its being erected. As soon as Gen. Obregón defeated Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in Nogales, Sonora, in 1915, he ordered the 11-strand fence torn down.
Regardless of your political stance about our current border policies, it is time that we recognize that a permanent border wall is not a fait accompli. The pandemic has reminded us what a true “national emergency” is, and a hyped-up emergency at the border does not justify such environmental and economic costs.
If we don’t want it, it can be legally deauthorized, once again allowing surface waters to flow. Dozens of species of wildlife now threatened by habitat fragmentation could once again migrate, and seeds could tumble across the desert floor.
A debate is already underway about how the wall should be deconstructed, how its materials could be recycled, how sacred sites along its pathway would be reconsecrated, and how damaged natural habitats could at last be restored.
I live just 14 miles as the crow flies from the Arizona-Sonora, Mexico, border, and though no one can predict when the times will dramatically change, it is never too early to consider the possibility that this foolish wall will fall.
It is already time to support a broad-based “Border Wall De-Commission,” one with United States, Mexican and tribal nation representatives. Let us now envision and restore a more just and humane future along our border with Mexico, and with trans-border tribes.
▻https://www.parkrecord.com/news/writers-on-the-range-the-wall-with-mexico-will-come-tumbling-down
via @isskein
Homeland tour: Why I didn’t write about the breach in the border fence
Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side
Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border.
The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.
Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Protection sector in El Centro, California, told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.
The National Weather Service reports that winds in the area gusted as high as 37 mph Wednesday. Video from CNN affiliate KYMA shows the metal panels leaning against trees adjacent to a Mexicali, Mexico, street as the wind whips up dirt from the construction site on the other side of the border.
“We are grateful there was no property damage or injuries,” said Pitones.
Customs and Border Protection says local Mexicali officials diverted traffic from the area of the accident, and the agency is working with the Mexican government on the next steps to right the wall. Pitones said it is not currently known how long the construction work in the area will need to be suspended in order to allow for cleanup.
Three years into his presidency, President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise has faced a host of legal and logistical challenges. Even with funding, the administration will have to contend with private landowners whose property may be seized to build barriers along the border.
Trump has sought to pull hundreds of millions of dollars from several government accounts as his administration looks to construct 450 miles of barriers in the ramp-up to the presidential election.
Earlier this month, the administration announced that the wall had reached the 100-mile mark, the majority of which was replacing barriers with newer, enhanced designs, and around half a mile was constructed in the Rio Grande Valley where no wall previously existed.
The White House has pushed for construction on the US-Mexico border to be dubbed new wall, according to a former administration official. There was a “constant drumbeat” from the White House to call it “new wall” within the Department of Homeland Security, the official added. “There is a lot of pressure on the President to deliver in the campaign promise.”
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan has previously said he feels “no pressure from the administration to build more miles of wall.”
▻https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html
#murs #barrières_frontalières #destruction #walls_don't_work #les_murs_tombent #frontières #Californie #USA #Etats-Unis #Mexique
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Les murs tombent... petite #métaliste...
#murs #barrières_frontalières #destruction #walls_don't_work #les_murs_tombent #frontières
ping @mobileborders @reka @isskein
Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side
La #Slovénie érige de nouvelles barrières à sa frontière avec la #Croatie
« Par exemple, en ce moment, avec l’hiver et les forts courants, les rivages sont boueux, poreux, alors, les terrains bougent, la clôture s’effondre. Les migrants qui veulent passer n’ont même pas besoin de se fatiguer, ils ont juste à l’#enjamber », continue Marco en riant. « Il y a des endroits où des sillons se sont creusés. Ils peuvent aussi passer sous la barrière ! »
Έπεσε ο φράχτης του Έβρου : Ο Σαμαράς τον έχτιζε, η φύση τον παρέσυρε
Πολλαπλές καταστροφές έχει προκαλέσει η κακοκαιρία που πλήττει τη βόρεια Ελλάδα τις τελευταίες ημέρες.
Μεταξύ άλλων, τα ορμητικά νερά του ποταμού Έβρου που εισχωρούν στην ελληνική πλευρά από τη Βουλγαρία, προκάλεσαν την καταστροφή περίπου 100 μέτρων από τον φράχτη που είχαν κατασκευάσει οι προηγούμενες κυβερνήσεις για την αποτροπή των μεταναστών.
Η ροή των υδάτων είναι συνεχώς αυξανόμενη μετά την απόφαση των βουλγαρικών αρχών να ανοίξουν το φράγμα του Ιβαήλογκρατς, προκειμένου εκτονωθούν πλημμυρικά φαινόμενα στη γειτονική χώρα.
Την Τετάρτη θα είναι η κρισιμότερη μέρα οπότε αναμένεται να κορυφωθεί η ροή, μέσα στην κοίτη του ποταμού Άρδα, δεδομένου ότι χρειάζονται περί τις 12 ώρες για την μετακίνηση όλου του όγκου των υδάτων από τη Βουλγαρία προς την Ελλάδα.
Αποκλεισμένο συνεχίζει να είναι το τμήμα της Εθνικής Οδού, που οδηγεί στα Ελληνοβουλγαρικά σύνορα, λόγω της υπερχείλισης του νερού που κάλυψε το οδόστρωμα, ενώ δεν λειτουργεί και το τελωνείο στις Καστανιές.
Σε ό,τι αφορά πάντως τον φράχτη, ο νέος αναπληρωτής υπουργός Δημόσιας Τάξης, Γιάννης Πανούσης, δήλωσε πως πρέπει να παραμείνει παρά το γεγονός ότι προεκλογικά ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ ήταν κατά της κατασκευής και « ύπαρξης του ».
Αναλυτικά ο Γιάννης Πανούσης δήλωσε :
« Ο φράχτης στον Έβρο δούλεψε αλλά δεν έλυσε το πρόβλημα της παράνομης μετανάστευσης » και υπογράμμισε ότι είναι υποχρέωση της χώρας να περιφρουρεί τα σύνορα. Ωστόσο, σημείωσε : « αν μπει, περάσει τα σύνορα, ένας άνθρωπος, θα έχει στέγη, τροφή, νοσοκομειακής περίθαλψη. Θα είναι ανθρώπινες οι συνθήκες, αυτό είναι πολιτισμός ».
▻https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/epese-o-frachtis-toy-evroy-o-samaras-ton-echtize-i-fysi-ton-paresyre.6325470
Duncan en parle ici :
►https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/at-the-border/325751/weaponizing-a-river
#Evros #Grèce #Turquie
WATCH: Viral video claims to show ‘Trump’s border wall’ COLLAPSE under the wrath of Hurricane Hanna
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Part of Israel Seperation Wall collapsed in Al Ram town N of Jerusalem City.
Palestinian bulldozers are demolishing the smart-technology barrier at the #Gaza border.
Heavy rainfall or an act of God.. israel’s illegal apartheid wall comes tumbling down near the town of #Anata, northeast of Jerusalem
Les barrières anti-intrusion du port de #Calais vont être retirées
Jeudi matin, sous l’effet des fortes rafales de vent qui ont soufflé sur le littoral, les barrières anti-intrusion situées le long de l’#avenue_Cousteau, près du terminal portuaire, se sont couchées.
Barrières affaissées au port de Calais : les Anglais ne les retireront pas
La réponse des Britanniques, que nous avions sollicités lundi au sujet des nouvelles barrières installées au port de Calais, a été brève.
►http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/barrieres-affaissees-au-port-de-calais-les-anglais-ne-ia33b48581n261402
CALAIS, ENTRE FRANCE ET ROYAUME-UNI
Le feuilleton des grilles barbelées du port de Calais rebondit, d’une manière qui pose d’intéressantes questions politiques.
Samedi dernier, la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Côte d’Opale annonçait que les grilles posées en novembre et renversées deux fois par le vent (voir ici, ici et là) seraient démontées :
▻http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/les-barrieres-anti-intrusion-du-port-de-calais-vont-etre-ia33b48581n260
Hier mercredi, le Home Office, le ministère de l’intérieur britannique, annonçait que les grilles resteraient en place et seraient réparées :
►http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/barrieres-affaissees-au-port-de-calais-les-anglais-ne-ia33b48581n261402
Or le port de Calais est propriété du Conseil régional du Nord – Pas-de-Calais, et la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Côte d’Opale en est concessionnaire :
▻http://www.calais-port.fr/port-de-calais/organisation-et-missions
Et Calais n’est plus du ressort de la couronne britannique et du Home Office depuis l’an 1558 :
▻http://www.calais.ws/FrHistory.html
Les Calaisiens sont assez chatouilleux sur le point des ingérences anglaises, mais au-delà des susceptibilités le communiqué du Home Office pose la question de qui décide de ce qui se fait de ce côté-ci de la frontière. Les autorités françaises semblant, elles, hors-jeu.
▻https://passeursdhospitalites.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/calais-entre-france-et-royaume-uni
En #Israël/#Palestine, c’est la #pluie qui a détruit une partie du mur :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/763853
La nouvelle barrière anti-migrants du port de Calais arrachée par le vent - France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais
▻http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nord-pas-de-calais/2014/12/27/la-nouvelle-barriere-anti-migrants-du-port-de-calais-ar
Les fortes rafales de vent enregistrées ce samedi matin à #Calais ont eu raison de la nouvelle barrière anti #migrants installée autour du port. Installée ces dernières semaines, elle s’est en partie affaissée.
Car, comme le dit si bien @ElisabethVallet : « Parce que les murs finissent toujours par tomber » !
cc @reka
Calais migrant fence blown down by wind in French port
High winds have toppled part of a new metal fence erected in the French port of Calais to prevent migrants from slipping on to UK-bound ferries.
La nouvelle barrière anti-migrants du port de Calais arrachée par le vent
Les fortes rafales de vent enregistrées ce samedi matin à Calais ont eu raison de la nouvelle barrière anti migrants installée autour du port. Installée ces dernières semaines, elle s’est en partie affaissée.
En #Israël/#Palestine, c’est la #pluie qui a détruit une partie du mur :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/763853