« Israeli General: We Cannot Defeat Hezbollah »
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israeli-general-we-cannot-defeat-hezbollah
In a lecture at Bar-Ilan University in occupied Palestine, former head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland drew a grim picture of any future confrontation with Hezbollah, warning that the result will be much like 2006, if not worse.
#Israël #Hezbollah #Liban #Proche-Orient #plo
Kissinger saw the benefits of Syrian intervention in Lebanon
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Sep-23/232198-kissinger-saw-the-benefits-of-syrian-intervention-in-lebanon.as
A new set of declassified documents on the run-up to the Syrian intervention in Lebanon’s Civil War sheds light on American diplomacy during the crisis, including contacts with late President Hafez Assad’s regime and U.S. hopes that a Syrian intervention would weaken Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization. The documents, minutes of meetings involving U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, reveal the top U.S. diplomat’s open contempt and frustration toward Israeli policymakers for threatening to invade south Lebanon in response to a Syrian intervention.
“You know these Israelis really are shits,” Kissinger said at a meeting in March 1976, expressing anger at the possibility of an Israeli attack.
The archival documents show the U.S. administration had foreknowledge of a possible Syrian intervention, deciding it was in accordance with U.S. interests but refraining from supporting it publicly in fear of the invasion sparking a broad Middle Eastern war.
“Now if I could design the solution, I would go to Assad and say, ‘If you could move in quickly, and if you could give us an iron clad guarantee that you will get out again quickly and that you will not go south of the [Litani] river, we will keep the Israelis out,’” he said in one meeting.
The minutes show a Kissinger deeply involved in Middle Eastern politics, conferring on an almost daily basis with top advisers and closely following Lebanon’s descent into violence while trying to grapple with the insurmountable complexity of its civil war politics.
Kissinger saw benefits to a Syrian intervention, guessing that it would weaken Arafat’s PLO, but he refrained from backing it publicly and in talks with Syrian officials.
The documents paint an image of an irreverent, sharp and sometimes profane man, who was also prone to generalizations, for instance describing Egyptian negotiators as “duplicitous.”
They are also striking because they show the relatively close relationship between the Assad regime and the U.S.
The documents are part of a multi-volume series called “Foreign Relations of the United States.” The volume dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute includes a set of archival files on meetings concerning Lebanon at the start of the Civil War.
American officials had a low opinion of Lebanese politicians at the time. Former President Suleiman Franjieh is described as “a disaster,” Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt as “crazy” and political leaders as “warlords.”
Syrian intervention in Lebanon was discussed in a meeting on Oct. 13, immediately sparking talk of a likely Israeli retaliation.
“There is no way – no way – in which the Israelis will sit still while the Syrians send in their troops. I am sure of that,” said Kissinger, who sought to find out from the Israelis what level of Syrian activity in Lebanon would be acceptable to them.
Kissinger was also dismissive of the Israeli government, describing former General and premier Yigal Allon as a “sweet fool” and Yitzhak Rabin as “weak,” while lamenting the U.S. failure to influence its ally.
The secretary said he was ready to support Syrian efforts to achieve a political solution in Lebanon.
“We have to go back to Assad ... Ask him what he is up to and, if we agree with him, we will do our best to help him,” he said. “But warn him what he does must be done without the use of Syrian regular forces.”
“Also have him give Assad my best personal regards,” he said to a diplomatic envoy.
In March 1976, as the Americans gleaned more details of the extent of Syria’s potential involvement, American officials sought clarity from Syria over its intentions in Lebanon and how long it would stay there.
Kissinger said the Israelis would intervene because they wished to strike a mortal blow to PLO strongholds in Lebanon, which he referred derisively to as “Fatahland.”
“Their position is that they cannot trust the Syrians,” Kissinger said. “They are not at all sure that the Syrians would leave if they go in, so that if they do go in, the Israelis would then quietly take over strategic points in southern Lebanon and in effect hold them hostage till the Syrians leave.”
But in a meeting with President Gerald Ford in late March, Kissinger said the U.S. might benefit from a Syrian intervention that strikes at the PLO.
“If Syria could go in quickly and clean it out, it would be good,” he said.
Kissinger floated the idea at the time that the Syrians could be replaced by a U.N. force after destroying the PLO.
But Kissinger was frustrated by Israel’s objections, and decided it was not worth the risk to greenlight a Syrian invasion of Lebanon if it risked sparking a regional war.
“If we had freedom of action we could perhaps act differently,” he said. “We could let the Syrians move and break the back of the PLO.”
Such an intervention would unite the Arab world, Kissinger lamented.
“The end result would be exactly what we have worked all these years to avoid: It would create Arab unity.”
He decried what he called “those idiots in Tel Aviv,” saying Israel would not acquiesce to U.S. pressure against invading south Lebanon unless America threatened to end military assistance and support sanctions in the U.N. against Israel.
(...)
Kissinger also excoriated the Israeli lobby in Washington for trying to shape American foreign policy.
“The Israelis used to lobby for their own interests,” he said at a meeting in August 1976. “Now they are lobbying to change the entire course of our policy to coincide with their own policy rather than our interests.”
European lawmakers tell EU to stand up to lobby pressure, implement ban on settlement funding
▻http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/european-lawmakers-tell-eu-stand-lobby-pressure-implement-ban-se
As negotiations on Israel’s participation in the 70 billion euro Horizon 2020 research funding program continue, Israel and its supporters have been pulling out all of the stops to pressure the EU not to apply the new guidelines.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the EU to drop its new guidelines, arguing that they will hinder negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. A statement published by more than 40 Palestinian civil society organizations condemned his comments as amounting to “an appeal to the EU to violate its own obligations under international law.”
On Tuesday, the European Parliament committee on relations with Israel hosted a special meeting with David Waltzer, Israel’s ambassador to the EU. A friend who was at the meeting told me that Waltzer was visibly angry and almost shouting into his microphone as he denounced the EU for “boycotting Israel.”
[…]
Worryingly, Ashton has also hinted at a possible compromise when she said she hoped a way could be found for the guidelines to be implemented “sensitively.”
Two Decades After Oslo: The Agreement That Uprooted #Palestine
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/two-decades-after-oslo-agreement-uprooted-palestine
Mugs with pictures of U.S. President Barack Obama wearing a keffiyeh, right, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top right, and Gazan Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, top left, are displayed in a souvenir shop in Gaza City, Tuesday,9 Nov. 2010. (Photo: AP - Adel Hana) Mugs with pictures of U.S. President Barack Obama wearing a keffiyeh, right, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top right, and Gazan Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, top (...)
1 Dead, 5 Hurt as Hizbullah Members Clash with Palestinians in Burj al-Barajneh
▻http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/97318-1-dead-5-hurt-as-hizbullah-members-clash-with-palestinians-in-burj-a
One person was killed and five others were wounded Sunday in an armed clash between members of Hizbullah and Palestinian young men near the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
State-run National News Agency identified the dead man as Palestinian national Mohammed al-Simrawi, saying the gunfight erupted when a number of Palestinians in a wedding convoy refused that their cars be searched by a Hizbullah checkpoint.
“Security forces and representatives of the factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization intervened in a bid to contain the incident as clashes abated,” the agency added.
Earlier, MTV said a number of Palestinians “opened fire on a Hizbullah checkpoint near the Burj al-Barajneh slaughterhouse after they refused to be searched.”
Al-Jadeed television said Hizbullah was “communicating with the camp’s security committee to pacify the situation.”
في برج البراجنة سقط سمراوي شهيـداً ... «فدا المخيّم» | الأخبار
▻http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/190868
بالعودة الى سبب الإشكال، لكل طرف وجهة نظر وقصة. أحد شبان الحزب ممن كانوا على الحاجز يقول: «كان موكب العرس يمر عبر الحاجز. رفضوا أن يتم تفتيشهم. قلنا إننا سنستخدم آلة كشف المتفجرات من دون فتح أغطية المحركات أو داخل السيارات كي لا نؤخرهم، فوافقوا. عندما مرّر أحد شبابنا الآلة أصدرت صوتاً، فطلب تفتيش السيارة، لكنهم رفضوا وبادروا إلى إطلاق النار عليه». يضيف: «رد عناصر الحماية بإطلاق النار على السيارة، فهربت الى المخيم».
ولكن، في المخيم، تروى الحادثة بطريقة أخرى. يقول أحد من كانوا في الموكب: «كنا نمر على الحاجز، طلبوا تفتيشنا. رفضنا ذلك، أطلقوا النار علينا، فهربنا». بالطبع، لا يمكن الآن تبني أي من الروايتين، وستكشف التحقيقات في الأيام المقبلة ما حدث. «المهم الآن حقن الدماء ومنع الانجرار الى الفتنة»، كما قال أحد مسؤولي حزب الله الذين شاركوا في صياغة البيان الذي صدر بعد اجتماع مسؤولي الفصائل مع مسؤولين من الحزب. وأضاف: «اتفقنا على اعتبار الإشكال فردياً ولا خلفية سياسية أو مذهبية له، والشهيد الذي سقط هو شهيد المقاومتين الإسلامية والفلسطينية».
Oslo’s Roots: Kissinger, the PLO, and the Peace Process | Al-Shabaka
▻http://al-shabaka.org/policy-brief/negotiations/oslos-roots-kissinger-plo-and-peace-process
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s highly publicized efforts to foster negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The conventional wisdom is that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) — weakened and on the verge of bankruptcy after the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War — signed the Oslo Accords to stave off the emergence of an alternate leadership from the occupied Palestinian Territories and irrelevancy.
PA attacks demonstration against negotiations
►http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/politics/palestinian-society-/6835-pa-attacks-demonstration-against-negotiations.html
The Palestinian Authority police thwart demonstration in Ramallah against political negotiations; arresting four and attacking dozens of demonstrators, among them Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar.
On Sunday afternoon, the Palestinian Authority (PA) police in Ramallah assaulted dozens of demonstrators who marched in a peaceful demonstration called by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) against the resumption of the Palestinian Authority negotiations, which they described as indicative of a “willingness to concede, against the position of the Palestinian national consensus and even the decisions of the PLO institutions themselves, is deeply dangerous to the Palestinian national cause.”
(...)
Addameer strongly condemns the attack on the demonstrators and considers it an assault on the Basic Law of Palestine, as well as a violation of the political and civil rights upheld by Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1976 and Articles (18) (19) which affirmed freedom of expression and right to political participation.
In light of these grave violations against demonstrators, Addameer calls for:
1. The Palestinian government and Interior Minister to form an independent investigation committee to hold accountable all those that ordered and implemented the violations and attacks against the demonstrators.
2. The urgent and immediate release of those arrested and detained.
3. Respect of the rights and civil and political freedoms and acceleration of ratification of all international agreements, treaties, and conventions and the International Convention on Civil Rights by the Palestinian Authority.
Ramallah - 28 juillet 2013
La police de l’Autorité palestinienne réprime violemment une manifestation contre les négociations ; plusieurs blessés et arrestations (vidéo)
▻http://www.ism-france.org/communiques/La-police-de-l-Autorite-palestinienne-reprime-violemment-une-manifestati
Par Addameer
Ramallah, 28 juillet 2013 – Cet après-midi, la police de l’Autorité palestinienne (AP) a attaqué des dizaines de manifestants qui défilaient de manière pacifique à l’appel du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP) (1) contre la reprise des négociations de l’AP [avec Israël], décrite comme l’indication d’une « volonté profondément dangereuse pour la cause nationale palestinienne de faire des concessions, contre la position du consensus national palestinien et même contre les décisions des institutions de l’OLP elle-même. »
Manifestation à Ramallah contre la reprise de « négociations » avec l’occupant
FPLP
▻http://www.info-palestine.eu/spip.php?article13799
Le Front Populaire pour la Libération de la Palestine [FPLP] a dénoncé la police de l’Autorité palestinienne [AP] et les assauts lancés par les forces de sécurité contre les manifestants à Ramallah le 28 juillet 2013, alors que ceux-ci manifestaient contre le retour de l’Autorité palestinienne dans des discussions avec Israël, et mettaient en garde contre les concessions dangereuses pour les droits nationaux palestiniens.
La police palestinienne a attaqué les manifestants à coups de matraque alors qu’ils marchaient vers la Muqata - le siège présidentiel de l’AP - et blessé des dizaines de participants à une marche pacifique et populaire contre les négociations. La décision de l’AP - l’acte individuel du président Mahmoud Abbas - est tout à fait contraire aux décisions des institutions nationales palestiniennes, y compris le Conseil central de l’OLP, et reflète une culture d’insouciance, de laxisme, de manque de responsabilité, et de mépris de la loi et des traditions nationales de notre peuple.
Le FPLP a exigé que ceux qui ont ordonné et exécuté ces violences soient tenus responsables de leurs actions. Le FPLP a déclaré que cette protestation contre la reprise des négociations est le début d’un mouvement populaire qui représente le peuple palestinien à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur Palestine, pour appeler à mettre fin aux négociations absurdes et à tout l’héritage d’Oslo, en obligeant ceux qui normalisent avec l’occupation à rendre des comptes. Les manifestants exigent le retour aux institutions internationales, dont l’ONU, pour lutter pour les droits des Palestiniens, en mettant fin à la division. Ils exigent également la création d’une stratégie alternative et nationale de résistance pour obtenir les droits de notre peuple : le droit au retour, l’autodétermination, l’indépendance, la souveraineté, et notre capitale à Jérusalem. (...)
Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/google-internet-traffic #plo
Everyone knows Google is big. But the truth is that it’s huge. On an average day, #Google accounts for about 25 percent of all consumer #internet_traffic running through North American ISPs.
That’s a far larger slice of than previously thought, and it means that with so many consumer devices connecting to Google each day, it’s bigger than Facebook, Netflix, and Instagram combined. It also explains why Google is building #datacenters as fast as it possibly can. Three years ago, the company’s services accounted for about 6 percent of the internet’s traffic.
29 000 prisonniers toujours en grève de la faim dans les #prisons californiennes.
Pourquoi les détenus californiens se rebellent | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/07/16/une-greve-de-la-faim-tres-suivie-dans-les-prisons-de-californ
D’après les chiffres officiels des autorités pénitentiaires, le nombre de détenus placés à l’isolement a augmenté de 15 % au cours de l’année passée et atteint actuellement un total de 4 527 prisonniers dans l’Etat de Californie.
La 2e page de l’article ne s’affiche pas.
Under the new policy, a serious rule violation can be the possession of self-made drawings, the wrong books or anything that “depicts affiliation” with a security threat group
Indeed, these days it is very rare for people to be put in a mental-health institution unless they are a danger to themselves or others. Even when they are held in a hospital, they are unlikely to stay long enough for any course of drugs to stabilise them. If someone decides he wants to walk around naked, or cannot give his name to a police officer, the likelihood is that he will end up in jail.
@framaka est donc sur seenthis ... il ne pourra pas poster de chatons sur seenthis ... utilisera-t-il ce rezo social ?
Bienvenue en tout cas, #suivre_mardi
#Fiscalité : le Sénat a maintenu dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi le monopole de saisine du fisc en matière de #fraude fiscale, rejetant un amendement de sa commission des Lois qui aurait permis à des magistrats de se passer du feu vert de Bercy pour enquêter sur des fraudeurs. (12:15 du Monde) [C’est vrai que ça s’est révélé probant avec Cahuzac ; #administration #Bercy juge et partie ; #droit #justice #corruption]
▻http://www.senat.fr/espace_presse/actualites/201307/la_lutte_contre_la_fraude_fiscale_en_examen_au_senat.html
Un outil hyper intéressant qui permet de voir l’évolution des gros titres heure par heure, dans une dizaine de pays :
▻http://newsmap.jp/#/b,e,m,n,s,t,w/uk/view
@tbn
wahou c’est malade ce truc #google_actu #merci #outil #temps_réel #veille #plo
Filtrage et neutralité sont par définition opposés !
The social devastation of Detroit - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/18/pers-j18.html
Detroit, l’agonie, la suite
The social devastation of Detroit
18 July 2013
A vast social crime is being carried out in Detroit. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to exercise a dictatorship over the city’s finances, is implementing an historic attack on the working class that will have devastating consequences for hundreds of thousands of people.
Wall Street profits and the widening social divide in America - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/17/pers-j17.html
Wall Street profits and the widening social divide in America
17 July 2013
The profits of the biggest US banks continued to swell in the second quarter of this year, even as the impact of five years of mass unemployment, stagnant economic growth and brutal cuts in social spending produced a further rise in poverty, homelessness and hunger.
Big Data bullshit
▻http://www.christian-faure.net/2013/07/16/big-data-bullshit
A propos de : Viktor Mayer-Schönberger et Kenneth Cukier, dans leur #livre Big Data : une révolution qui va transformer notre façon de vivre, de travailler et penser. Recension de @iactu :
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/05/14/big-data-nouvelle-etape
Lesquels écrivent, dans leur article paru dans Le Monde Diplomatique de Juillet 2013 :
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/07/CUKIER/49318 #plo
La manière dont la société traite l’information se trouve radicalement transformée. Au fur et à mesure que nous exploitons ces gisements pour élucider des faits ou prendre des décisions, nous découvrons que, à bien des égards, nos existences relèvent de probabilités davantage que de certitudes.
Ce changement d’approche à l’égard des données numériques – exhaustives et non plus échantillonnées, désordonnées et non plus méthodiques, explique le glissement de la #causalité vers la #corrélation.
On s’intéresse moins aux raisons profondes qui président à la marche du monde qu’aux associations susceptibles de relier entre eux des phénomènes disparates. L’objectif n’est plus de comprendre les choses, mais d’obtenir une efficacité maximale.
La conclusion de C. Fauré :
Nous vivons une époque de combinatoire des corrélations et il est plus que jamais nécessaire de dépasser la stricte catégorie de Causalité : soit à partir d’une causalité à rebours (inférence bayésienne), soit à partir des méthodes corrélatives. Et si vous voulez un exemple concret, regardez du côté du domaine de la santé dans ce que j’avais appelé la pollution relationnelle.
▻http://www.christian-faure.net/2009/02/27/la-pollution-relationnelle
On rappellera aux auteurs que nous sommes passés de la « causalité » à la « corrélation » depuis l’émergence des probabilités au XVII ° (cf. Ian Hacking, L’émergence de la #probabilité) et qu’il y a belle lurette que « nos existences relèvent de probabilités davantage que de certitudes ».
#statistiques #data #bigdata #chiffres via @fil
Henri Leclerc et la « longue bataille du Groupe d’information sur les prisons » - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/07/16/henri-leclerc-et-la-longue-bataille-du-groupe-d-information-sur-les-priso
Sort un #livre sur #histoire #gip #prison #plo :
Intolérable, Groupe d’information sur les prisons, de Philippe Artières, Ed Verticales, 16,50 euros.
« Le discours actuel sur les prisons ne peut plus être détaché d’une réflexion sur la #loi_pénale. Tant que la #politique_pénale ne trouvera d’autres solutions que d’envoyer de plus en plus de personnes en prison pour des durées de plus en plus longues, on ne pourra améliorer les #conditions_de_détention grâce à des mesures hygiéniques. Or, il ne se passe rien politiquement rien sur le sujet, aujourd’hui. J’ai peur qu’il se passe quelque chose... mais à l’intérieur des prisons. »
Toute l’actualité en direct - photos et vidéos avec Libération - #Libération
▻http://beta.liberation.fr
C’est déjà mieux…
La seconde édition de la semaine européenne de l’#open data se tenait cette année à Marseille du 25 au 28 juin 2013
@hubertguillaud y était. #plo
1 : la technique a-t-elle pris le pas ?
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/07/12/open-data-13-la-technique-a-t-elle-pris-le-pas
2 : dépasser l’Open Data ?
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/07/15/open-data-23-depasser-lopen-data
3 : Et les gens ?
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/07/16/open-data-33-et-les-gens
Roooh ça suffit à la fin ! C’est quoi le rapport avec la Palestine ?! :D
▻http://tagdef.com/plo
j’essaie de le cacher mais ça marche pas apparemment :)
Zimmerman acquittal : Blame Florida for Trayvon Martin’s death. - Slate Magazine
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/07/zimmerman_acquittal_blame_florida_for_trayvon_martin_s_death.html
Here’s the problem: To convict Zimmerman of murder, the six women of the jury had to find that he killed Martin out of ill will, hatred, or spite, or with a depraved mind. The law didn’t account Zimmerman’s fear or feeling of being physically threatened.
#justice #Etats-Unis #milice #racisme #trayvon_martin
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Trayvon_Martin (la page #wikipedia n’a pas encore été mise à jour)
Me rappelle cet autre acquittement : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/146121
D’autres liens via @mona et @supergeante :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/156167
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/156193
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/156177
George Zimmerman, not guilty: blood on the leaves
▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/george-zimmerman-not-guilty-blood-on-the-leaves.html #plo
O’Mara’s statement echoed a criticism that began circulating long before Martin and Zimmerman encountered each other. Thousands of black boys die at the hands of other African Americans each year, but the black community, it holds, is concerned only when those deaths are caused by whites. It’s an appealing argument, and widespread, but it’s simplistic and obtuse. It’s a belief most easily held when you’ve not witnessed peace rallies and makeshift memorials, when you’ve turned a blind eye to grassroots organizations like the Interrupters in Chicago, who are working valiantly to stem the tide of violence in that city. It is the thinking of people who’ve never wondered why African Americans disproportionately support strict gun-control legislation. The added quotient of outrage in cases like this one stems not from the belief that a white murderer is somehow worse than a black one but from the knowledge that race determines whether fear, history, and public sentiment offer that killer a usable alibi.
Conservatives celebrate, race-bait and taunt in the wake of news that Trayvon Martin’s killer will walk free
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/07/14/most_disgusting_reactions_to_zimmerman_acquittal
Prayer, Anger and Protests Greet Verdict in Florida Case
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/us/debate-on-race-and-justice-is-renewed.html?pagewanted=all
Within moments of the announcement of the verdict Saturday night and continuing through Sunday, demonstrations, some planned and some impromptu, arose in neighborhoods in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, New York and Atlanta. There were no reports of serious violence or arrests as the day went on, a contrast with the riots that swept Los Angeles after the verdict in another race-tinged case, the 1992 acquittal of white Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King, a black construction worker.
pas vraiment des #émeutes, donc, à Los Angeles
▻http://berthoalain.com/2013/07/15/zimmerman-acquitte-affrontements-a-los-angeles-14-juillet-2013
President Obama’s remarks on Trayvon Martin (full transcript)
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-remarks-on-trayvon-martin-full-transcript/2013/07/19/5e33ebea-f09a-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html
So — so folks understand the challenges that exist for African- American boys, but they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it or — and that context is being denied. And — and that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.
et ►http://blog.emceebeulogue.fr/post/2013/07/29/Trayvon-Martin-et-le-discours-d-Obama,-le-Blanc-dissimul%C3%A9-de
Strong ties bind spy agencies and Silicon Valley | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-siliconvalley-idUSBRE96214I20130703
Former U.S. officials and intelligence sources say the collaboration between the tech industry and spy agencies is both broader and deeper than most people realize, dating back to the formative years of #Silicon_Valley itself.
#surveillance #silicon_army #plo
HISTORY OF SHARED INTERESTS
The close and symbiotic relationship between U.S. tech companies and government defense and intelligence agencies is frequently underplayed in the mythology of Silicon Valley. Defense contracts were its lifeblood through much of the 1950s and 1960s. Frederick Terman, who led Allied radio-jamming efforts in World War II, came to Stanford University with grant money and counted the founders of Hewlett-Packard Co among his students.
Varian Associates and other startups, many with ties to Stanford, got their start in the 1950s with military contracts for microwave and vacuum-tube technologies that were used in aerospace projects. In the 1960s, government space and defense programs, especially the Minuteman missile effort, were the biggest customers for the Valley’s expensive integrated circuit computer chips. Database software maker Oracle Corp’s first customer was the CIA.
“The birth of Silicon Valley was solving defense problems,” said Anup Ghosh, whose cybersecurity firm Invincea Inc was launched in 2009 with funding from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
#DARPA, which initially funded what became the Internet out of a desire for a communications network that would survive a nuclear attack, has intensified its work on Internet security in recent years and recently launched a “fast-track” program to get smaller amounts of money to startups more quickly.
Federal cybersecurity spending is expected to reach $11.9 billion next year, up from $8.6 billion in 2010, according to budget analysts at Deltek.
A quoi consens-je quand je clique ? - Le bien commun #plo #radio
▻http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-le-bien-commun-a-quoi-consens-je-quand-je-clique-2013-07-11
#Données_personnelles
▻http://rf.proxycast.org/m/media/296096201420.mp3?c=vie+pratique&p=LE+BIEN+COMMUN_16279&l3=20130711&l4=
Sujet traité du point de vue du #droit. Où il est question de la #CNIL (et de ses 450 interventions possibles par an - que dalle). Des #bigdata comme réserve juteuse (gore) de « formes de vie » (cf. théorie du #drone ) Où l’on se demande si une adresse #IP est une donnée personnelle. 80 % des employeurs américains déclarent avoir rejeté un candidat à l’emploi après une recherche sur le web. Double-cliquer, c’est comme acheter un vêtement sans en connaître le prix. Facebook capable de reconnaître facialement 500 000 personnes. Les mails d’une dame qui entretenait une relation extra-conjugale : le genre de preuves apportées lors d’audiences, c’est très courant, « on a pas idée ». Dormez tranquilles, on s’occupe de tout. Conclusion : soyez curieux.
Il semblerait que j’ai abusé du clic....j’apparais en triple..
oui c’est un #seenthis_bug qui revient parfois
Tu « dé-partages », normalement un clic fait disparaitre les 3, puis tu repartages.
Advanced Common Sense - Sample chapter from Don’t Make Me Think
▻http://sensible.com/chapter.html
When we’re creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading our finely crafted text, figuring out how we’ve organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click.
What they actually do most of the time (if we’re lucky) is glance at each new page, scan some of the text, and click on the first link that catches their interest or vaguely resembles the thing they’re looking for. There are usually large parts of the page that they don’t even look at.
We’re thinking “great literature” (or at least “product brochure”), while the user’s reality is much closer to “billboard going by at 60 miles an hour.”
#plo
#toread Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
▻http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/further-materials-toward-a-theory-of-the-man-child
#nolu (toi aussi fait ton #plo)
