Trump Wants Families On Food Stamps To Get Jobs. The Majority Already Work : The Salt : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/24/529831472/trump-wants-families-on-food-stamps-to-get-jobs-the-majority-already-work
... the reality is, many people (44 percent) who rely on SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as food stamps is now known — have at least one person in the family working, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And when it comes to families on SNAP with kids, a majority — 55 percent — are bringing home wages, according to USDA. The problem is, those wages aren’t enough to actually live on.
#président_de_la_ripoux_clique #Etats-unis #salaires #pauvreté #bons_alimentaires
]]>2018 Pass the SALT - Secure And Libre Talks
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Pass the SALT 2018.
July 2-4, 2018 - Lille, France.
A free Security & Free Software conference.
For setting up bridges between Security communities and Free Software hackers!
]]>Shooting the Holy Land
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The genre of documentary films about documentary photographers has grown considerably and admirably over the last twenty-five years, including The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Sebastião Salgado, by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado; What Remains (2008) about Sally Mann, by Steven Cantor; War Photographer (2001), about James Nachtwey, by Christian Frei; and Pictures from a Revolution (1991), about Susan Meiselas, by Meiselas and Alfred Guzzetti, to name a few of the best.
To this list we can now add Koudelka Shooting Holy Land (2015), by the young Israeli photographer and filmmaker Gilad Baram. Baram was hired to assist Koudelka in Israel and the Palestinian territories by making travel arrangements and providing security, logistical support, and captions as the photographer worked on his epic project to document the building of the wall in Israel, culminating in the book Wall: Israeli & Palestinian Landscape, 2008–2012, published by Aperture in 2013.
Josef Koudelka, Rachel’s Tomb, 2009 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Josef Koudelka, born in 1938, is arguably one of the greatest living photographers. He burst onto the international stage in 1968, when he photographed the Russian invasion of his native Prague. His photographs were smuggled out of Prague to Magnum and published anonymously, but they were so distinctive that they refused to remain anonymous. His later books Gypsies (Aperture, 1975) and Exiles (Aperture, 1988) changed how people view documentary photography. More recently, his work has focused on panoramic landscapes.
Koudelka is part of a generation of documentary photographers who believe fervently that if you show people what is actually happening in the world, they will understand and be moved to demand change. Social documentary photography has always been defined by this passionate subjective belief in democracy and action. Without it, the practice devolves into self-involved sensationalistic pandering.
Josef Koudelka, A crusader map mural, Kalya Junction, Near the Dead Sea, 2009 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Josef Koudelka, A crusader map mural, Kalya Junction, Near the Dead Sea, 2009 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
This makes the filmic documenting of documentarians a rather precarious process. If you shift the focus of your inquiry too completely to the photographer, and away from his or her subject, you risk the diminution of the subject and obscure the motive force of the work.
At first viewing, one might think that Gilad Baram has made a nature film, perhaps about a particular species of bird. Everything this creature does has one purpose: to make better images. Everything else is peripheral. So Baram lets the peripheral in. What is happening around the photographer becomes the filmmaker’s subject, and this periphery is loaded with meaning, because the social landscape impinging on the wall is an especially complex one: the enforced borders between the State of Israel and its Other within, the Palestinians of the occupied territories.
Josef Koudelka, Shu’fat Refugee camp, overlooking Al ’Isawiya, East Jerusalem, 2009 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Josef Koudelka, Shu’fat Refugee camp, overlooking Al ‘Isawiya, East Jerusalem, 2009 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Koudelka continuously and relentlessly points his formidable and precise beak, a Fuji GX617 panoramic camera, into the crevices and fissures of this fraught border, and the official enforcers react with increasingly menacing warnings. As we watch Koudelka repeatedly violate these boundaries as he attempts to get into position to make the best photographs, we recall Magnum cofounder Robert Capa’s famous injunction: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” When Koudelka gets close, a disembodied voice from a loudspeaker barks, “Photographer, move away from the fence! Go back, photographer. Move back!”
Koudelka is not photographing war here, but the visible wounds of war in the form of walls built to control the movements of the enemy within. His movements reflect the preemptive violence of these walls that shatters lives on both sides of the divide. “One wall. Two jails.”
At one point, seventy-five-year-old Koudelka painstakingly slides on his back under and inside a mass of razor wire, trying to get into position to compose a shot, as the barbs tear his clothes. All that matters is the photographs, because they’re the only thing that will last. The characteristically laconic photographer says little about the situation, directly. “I hate the Wall. But, at the same time, it is pretty spectacular, this Wall.” He speaks at one point about the necessity “to keep the healthy anger; to keep it as long as possible.”
Josef Koudelka in Israel/Palestine. Still from Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land, 2015 © Gilad Baram
#Josef_Koudelka in Israel/Palestine. Still from Koudelka: #Shooting_Holy_Land, 2015 © Gilad Baram
But mostly, he only talks about the pictures: “In this place there is a picture waiting for me.” There is a lot of waiting. Waiting for the picture, waiting for the weather to break, waiting to get into position. Watching, looking, moving, waiting. “Sometimes it happens. Sometimes not.”
Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem; Qalandiya Checkpoint in Ramallah; “Detroit” (Al Baladiya) Urban Warfare Training Facility near Tze’elim; Shab Al Dar in East Jerusalem; the Judean Desert; the memorial site for the Israeli Army’s 679th Armored Brigade in the Golan Heights; Mount Gerizim in Nablus. Four frames on a roll of 120mm film. One day = 20 rolls. Focus to infinity.
David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic based in New York and the author, most recently, of Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (2014).
Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land will be screened at Finale Plzen, April 15–21, 2016 and DOK.fest Munich, May 5–15, 2016.
]]>Mr Monopoly à la conquête du Cap ! - NdifunaUkwazi
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You simply can’t make it up. In the midst of a housing crisis in our City, entrenched segregation and spatial injustice, post-apartheid forced removals and state led evictions, devastating gentrification, a student uprising and a nationwide call for transformation of white capital - Monopoly decides to launch a Cape Town edition!
Here your generic #white international venture #capitalist is roaming the streets, demonstrating our Big 7. It illustrates, a now common sense logic, welcomed by the current City administration that both public and private homes and land are commodities to be sold and accumulated.
Mr Monopoly has already walked all over De Waterkant which is now dead for 9 months of the year, sold to tourists. He is nearly done with Bo-Kaap, though he may be in for a fight still. He is currently evicting across the central CBD, Woodstock and Salt River to make way for his friends.
Forward to urban land justice, forward!
(cette photo: devant l’embarquement pour Robben Island)
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]]>Bel exemple de culture adaptative. Une sorte de #champignon colonise les épis de maïs, mais il est apprécié comme un met de choix dans la culture au #Mexique . Il a très bon goût et, ça tombe bien, complète bien le maïs au niveau du profil des acides aminés. Pendant ce temps la culture occidentale a dépensé des millions pour le détruire.
Scourge No More : Chefs Invite Corn Fungus To The Plate : The Salt : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/24/433232707/scourge-no-more-chefs-invite-corn-fungus-to-the-plate
But in Mexico, corn smut is known as huitlacoche, and it’s long been a delicacy . Traditionally, families would walk miles among the cornstalks just to gather a basket of ears infected with this distant relative of mushrooms. It is still sold fresh at markets and used as a filling in tacos, quesadillas and soups. “It may have been ambrosia of the Aztec gods with an inky, mushroomy flavor that is almost impossible to describe,” wrote Diana Kennedy, the “Julia Child of Mexico,” in her 1986 book The Cuisines of Mexico.
In Mexico’s corn-loving culture, the quasi-mushroom also provides nutrition: high amounts of the essential amino acid lysine that’s absent in corn, as well as lots of fiber and protein. Together, corn and huitlacoche make a complete protein meal.
]]>Will The Dietary Guidelines Consider The Planet? The Fight Is On : The Salt : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/26/389276051/will-the-dietary-guidelines-consider-the-planet-the-fight-is-on
When it comes to eating well, we should consider the health of our bodies and the planet. This was the recommendation coming from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on Feb. 19.
As we reported, after reviewing the science, the panel concluded that a plant-focused diet that’s lower in red meat not only promotes good health, but is also more environmentally sustainable.
Now, we already knew that some politicians opposed the idea of the federal government fusing nutrition advice with environmental concerns.
And even before the report was released, the meat industry was weighing in with its objections, pointing out that a discussion of sustainability was “outside the committee’s charter.”
The ball is now in the court of the Obama administration appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services who will oversee the process of writing the new, updated Dietary Guidelines.
So far, they’re keeping their reactions to the report under wraps.
But on Wednesday, on Capitol Hill, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack seemed to allay some of the objectors’ concerns. Sort of.
According to a report from Agri-Pulse, he hinted before a congressional committee that he would play a role in keeping the new Dietary Guidelines tightly focused on nutrition.
]]>How Much Sugar Is Too Much? A New Tool Sheds Some Light : The Salt : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/10/363058314/how-much-sugar-is-too-much-a-new-tool-sheds-some-light
These days, sugar is pretty much everywhere in the American diet. A new initiative from the University of California, San Francisco spells out the health dangers of this glut of sugar in clear terms.
For the project, called SugarScience, a team of researchers distilled 8,000 studies and research papers and found strong evidence that overconsumption of added sugar contributes to three major chronic illnesses: heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and liver disease.
(...)
Here are some key facts from the SugarScience website.
Added sugar is hiding in 74 percent of packaged foods. (Proposed changes to the nutrition label would change this by including a separate line for added sugars.)
#Fructose, a common type of sugar, can damage your liver more than other kinds of sugar — just like too much alcohol can.
One 12-ounce can of soda a day can increase your risk of dying of heart disease by one-third.
The site also includes tips on concrete steps that people can take to cut down on sugar. The most straightforward way is to stop drinking sugar-sweetened drinks, like sodas, sports drinks and energy drinks, the researchers say. More than one-third of added sugar in the diet comes from sugary drinks.
(...)
Dean Schillinger, a professor of medicine at UCSF and a primary care doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, is also part of the SugarScience team. He first came to San Francisco in 1990 at the peak of the AIDS epidemic. “At that point, 1 out of every 2 patients we admitted was a young man dying of AIDS,” he says. At that time, there were no treatments, little any doctor could do.
Today, he says, there are good treatments, and it’s rare to admit someone to the hospital dying of AIDS.
Instead, Schillinger says, that same ward, Ward 5A, where young men died of AIDS is now filled with diabetes patients.
]]>Iran’s Great, Dying Salt Lake - Facts So Romantic
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As Urmia dries up, it leaves huge salt beaches behind.Giulio M via FlickrThe last time my cousin Houman traveled to Lake Urmia was 10 years ago. He and four of his friends piled into his car and drove for roughly 12 hours, snaking west from the capital of Tehran. Iran is shaped like a teapot; its massive saltwater lake is nestled high in the tip of its spout and flanked by the mountains that run along the Turkish border to the west.They had heard a lot about it. The largest lake in the Middle East and one of the biggest saltwater lakes in the world, Lake Urmia at its peak was a popular draw for vacationers eager to float in its salty water—known for its healing properties—and sunbathe among the flocks of flamingos, pelicans, and yellow deer that made a home at the lake and its (...)
]]>Gardeners’ Gems: Designer Crops That Will Wow The Neighbors : The Salt : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/13/310459918/gardeners-gems-this-years-hottest-edibles-will-wow-the-neighbors
To the home gardener who says, “Been there, done that” to the heirloom green bean, the French breakfast radish or the Brandywine tomato, take heart.
]]>How That Food You Throw Out Is Linked To Global Warming : The Salt : NPR
►http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/10/07/141123243/how-that-food-you-throw-out-is-linked-to-global-warming
faut pas gâcher !
food waste is responsible for 135 million tons of greenhouse gases every year, or about 1.5 percent of all emissions.
Un petit documentaire sur la mer de Salton en Californie, « mer accidentelle », paysage d’apocalypse, villes fantômes...
YouTube - The Accidental Sea
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIU6Py4K_A&feature=player_embedded