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Ian Dury & the blockheads : Itinerant child.wmv - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBnWGp9bPOg

The future British king, Saudi princes, and a secret arms deal | UK news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/defence-and-security-blog/2014/feb/24/arms-gulf-prince-charles

The day after Prince Charles donned traditional robes and joined Saudi princes in a sword dance in Riyadh, Britain’s biggest arms company announced that agreement had finally been reached on the sale of 72 Typhoon fighters sold to the Gulf kingdom.

Announcing the deal last Wednesday, Ian King, chief executive of BAE, manufacturer of the jets, said the public was “never going to know” how much the Saudis would pay for them. They were reported to have initially offered £4.4bn, but BAE had been pressing for more.

Andrew Smith, spokesman for the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, CAAT, said: “It is clear that Prince Charles has been used by the UK government and BAE Systems as an arms dealer.”

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Ian McKellen révèle le message caché des films X-Men : la défense des droits des #gays
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« Bryan m’a complètement vendu le rôle », se souvient #McKellen, "en me disant que"les #Mutants sont comme les gays. Ils sont rejetés par la société sans aucune bonne raison". Et, comme dans tout mouvement pour les droits civiques, ils doivent décider : soit de suivre la politique de Xavier -qui consiste à s’assimiler, s’affirmer et être fier de ce que l’on est, mais en s’entendant bien avec tout le monde- ou soit de suivre la voie alternative -qui est, si nécessaire, d’utiliser la violence pour affirmer vos propres droits. Et c’est vrai. J’ai été confronté à cette division au sein du mouvement des droits des homosexuels." McKellen, qui profite de l’interview pour donner un message d’espoir et d’encouragement aux jeunes gays, estime que beaucoup d’#homosexuels lisent les #comics #X-Men « parce qu’ils se sentent un peu comme des mutants » et n’osent pas se déclarer comme tels.

Ianoukovitch, politicien-Système de la Chute
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article-ianoukovitch_politicien-syst_me_de_la_chute_24_02_2014.html

• Parmi responsables du désordre ukrainien, Ianoukovitch est l’indisputable n°1. • Politicien-Système incapable de se légitimer, accouchant du désordre antiSystème.

O World Project: A Chat With Ian MacKenzie, Filmmaker, Media Activist
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/o-world-project-a-chat-with-ian-mackenzie-filmmaker-media-activist

O World Project interview with filmmaker Ian Mackenzie. Producer of ’Occupy Love’, Director of ’Reactor’, ’The Revolution is Love’.... discussing the state of the world today, consciousness and...

Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite? | Ian Birrell
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/bill-gates-preaches-fighting-poverty-hypocrite-microsoft-tax?CMP=twt_gu

In Britain, Microsoft reported revenues of £1.7bn in a single year for online sales on which it paid no corporation tax. This is why if you look at the small print when buying software through its British website, you find you are dealing with a Luxembourg offshoot. A newspaper investigation found a small office there with just six staff handling online sales from around Europe.
None of this is illegal, however absurd it appears. But it is highly unethical, especially when the chairman [Gates Bill] is exhorting countries to hand over taxpayers’ cash to his [Bill Gates’] pet causes – and it certainly tarnishes that saintly image.

How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/How_To_Occupy_The_Noosphere_Ian_MacKenzie_TEDxVictoria_2013

Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie’s most recent film, Occupy Love, explores...

Ingenious: Ian Tattersall - Issue 8: Home
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In his essay, “In Search of the First Human Home,” in this issue of Nautilus, Ian Tattersall calls humans’ modern notion of home “revolutionary.” In our video interview (above), the paleontologist and former chairman of the department of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History explains why. Our idea of home is characteristic of symbolic thinking, he maintains, a revolution in human development that separates us from all other animals; what’s more, “it’s something that is completely accidental.” The millions of people who have passed through the august doors of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City have experienced Tattersall’s work. For the past four decades, Tattersall, now a curator emeritus at the museum, has shaped its magnificent exhibitions on human (...)

Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/hyperemployment-or-the-exhausting-work-of-the-technology-user/281149

In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes famously argued that by the time a century had passed, developed societies would be able to replace work with leisure thanks to widespread wealth and surplus. “We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day,” he wrote, “only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines.” Eighty years hence, it’s hard to find a moment in the day not filled with a duty or task or routine. If anything, it would seem that work has overtaken leisure almost entirely. We work increasingly hard for increasingly little, only to come home to catch up on the work we can’t manage to work on at work.

#travail #overdose_informative #infobésité

SolFed supports Boycott Workfare’s Noise Demo
▻http://internationalworkersassociation.blogspot.com/2013/11/solfed-supports-boycott-workfares-noise.html

On 2nd December, those driving forced labour for unemployed people on the government’s workfare schemes are getting together for their annual conference at Senate House, Malet Street, London.ERSA, the trade body for the ’welfare to work’ industry, have called their conference “Challenge and change in an evolving landscape”. Those attending include Esther McVey (Minister for Employment); Stephen Timms (Shadow Minister for Employment); The Department for Work and Pensions Director of Social Justice; Chairs, Heads and Directors from workfare profiteers A4E, Avanta, Seetec, G4S, Pinnacle People, Groundwork UK, Tomorrow’s People; the lead researcher from Ian Duncan Smith’s thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice; and the Chief Executive of the Tax Payer’s Alliance. (...)

New book opens a window to a little known era of South Africa’s #jazz history
▻http://africasacountry.com/new-book-opens-a-window-to-a-little-known-era-of-south-africas-jazz

A new book, #Keeping_Time, celebrates the public emergence of an extraordinary visual and audio archive begun by Ian Bruce Huntley in #Cape_Town fifty years ago. In short it challenges a long-held belief that jazz in South Africa went silent after Dollar Brand, Miriam Makeba, Bea Benjamin and the Blue Notes left South Africa […]

#BOOKS #MUSIC #Electric_Jive #Ian_Huntley

Comment la science nous appelle tous à la révolte. Naomi KLEIN

▻http://www.legrandsoir.info/comment-la-science-nous-appelle-tous-a-la-revolte-new-statesman.html

Mais il y a beaucoup de gens qui connaissent bien la nature révolutionnaire de la science du climat. C’est pourquoi certains gouvernements, qui ont décidé de jeter leurs engagements sur le climat aux orties en faveur d’encore plus d’extractions de carbone, ont dû trouver des moyens de plus en plus coercitifs pour réduire au silence et intimider les scientifiques. En Grande-Bretagne, cette stratégie est de plus en plus manifeste, où Ian Boyd, le conseiller scientifique en chef du ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Alimentation et des Affaires rurales, a écrit récemment que les scientifiques devraient éviter « de laisser entendre que des politiques peuvent être bonnes ou mauvaises » et devraient exprimer leurs points de vue « en travaillant avec les conseillers embarqués (comme moi), et en étant la voix de la raison, plutôt que celle de la dissidence, dans l’espace public ».

Si vous voulez savoir où cela mène, vérifiez ce qui se passe au Canada, où je vis. Le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a fait un travail si efficace pour bâillonner les scientifiques et arrêter des projets de recherche essentiels que, en Juillet 2012, quelques deux mille scientifiques et sympathisants ont organisé une veillée funèbre sur la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa en mémoire de « la mort de la preuve scientifique ». Leurs pancartes disaient : « Sans science, pas de preuves, pas de vérité ».

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Mais la vérité est en train de surgir, malgré tout. Le fait que la poursuite de profits et de croissance, comme si de rien n’était, est en train de déstabiliser la vie sur terre n’est plus une information confinée dans les pages des revues scientifiques. Les premiers signes se déroulent sous nos yeux. Et de plus en plus de gens réagissent en conséquence : blocage des activités de fracturation hydraulique à Balcombe ; interférence avec les préparatifs de forage dans l’Arctique dans les eaux russes (avec un coût personnel énorme) ; plaintes déposées contre les exploitants de sables bitumineux pour violation de la souveraineté autochtone, et d’innombrables autres actes de résistance, petits et grands. Dans le modèle informatique de Brad Werner, c’est cela la « friction » nécessaire pour ralentir les forces de déstabilisation ; le grand militant climatique Bill McKibben les appelle les « anticorps » qui se dressent pour combattre la « fièvre galopante » de la planète.

Ce n’est pas une révolution, mais c’est un début. Et cela pourrait bien nous faire gagner suffisamment de temps pour trouver un moyen de vivre sur une planète qui serait nettement mois foutue.

Naomi Klein

Qu’est-ce que le mal pour #Google ? - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/what-is-evil-to-google/280573

Pour le game designer, Ian Bogost, qui s’interroge sur la contribution de Google à la #philosophie morale, "l’industrie de l’internet n’est engagée que par elle-même, que par la conviction que ses principes doivent s’appliquer à tout le monde. « Ne pas faire le mal » est juste un autre moyen de le dire." Tags : fing internetactu internetactu2net philosophie (...)

When the New York Times went to bat for the one-state solution -

Haaretz, By Sara Hirschhorn | Oct. 15, 2013

▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.552574

Loath or lust after his ideas, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick created a tempest in a teapot — pardon the idiom, I’m new to Britain — with a recent polemical New York Times op-ed entitled “The Two State Illusion.” In it he heaped opprobrium and a last mound on dirt on the grave of the two-state paradigm and called for consideration of, if not resignation to, the reality of the one-state solution.

Subsequently, academicians and practitioners across the political spectrum have debated the piece. (The responses include provocative essays by leftist cultural icon Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz, right-leaning Middle East Studies scholar Martin Kramer in Commentary, Arab-American advocate Hussein Ibish and academic Saliba Sarsar of the American Task Force on Palestine in The Daily Beast, left-leaning Jewish intellectual Bernard Avishai in the New Yorker as well as letters to the editor of the Times by Kenneth Jacobson of the Anti-Defamation League and Alan Elsner of JStreet, among others.)

Seemingly the only “Washington consensus” they can concur with is how wrong Lustick is. Yet while the merits of his argument certainly require further examination, the larger questions about the agenda of the publishers and the audience for this discussion have been largely overlooked — why has Western journalism seemingly been so intent on a campaign to “mainstream” the one-state discourse, and who is really listening?

Reading Lustick’s editorial myself, I was deeply impressed by his description of the current state of affairs in Israel/Palestine: grim realities, blissful ignorances, misguided optimisms, ingrained inequalities, dangerous fantasies and violent cataclysms. (Full disclosure: I am indebted to his scholarship and assistance in my own research on the Israeli settler movement.) Few have written with such piercing yet empathetic clarity of the dilemmas and delusions of both nations under siege and how (as he wrote in a rebuttal in The Daily Beast) “the illusion” of ultimately achieving two states for two peoples has helped to justify and normalize an interim state of “systematic coercion” and “permanent oppression.”

Lustick’s is a searing cry to mobilize action that will wrest the “peace process industry” from its collective apathy and acquiescence with the two-state solution. (It should be noted that his vigorous attacks on this “industry” come more from the standpoint of an insider, bearing in mind his role in Middle East policy planning in the State Department and consulting to subsequent administrations, than the putative outsider position he takes.) He seems to be seeking “redemption” for the (retrospective) wisdom ignored by himself and others in the 1980s.

Yet, while illustrating the vastly different conclusions that political scientists and historians reach, often working with the same raw material of conflict, I consider his conclusions somewhat too “parsimonious” (as the disciplinary lingo would have it); I see the correlation but not the causation in his case study. While undoubtedly the passage of time has failed the two-state solution, this is as much a problem of praxis by politicians as with the theory of nationalist ideology.

I have yet to see a better solution — complicated by the thin descriptions of workable alternatives in a climate where the only salient scenarios are usually “one nation pushes the other nation into the sea.” Lustick himself is too facile in his willingness to be “untethered” from “Statist Zionism” and “narrow Israeli nationalism,” even if the means to do so will necessarily unleash violence.

The looming (if not current) expiry for the viability of the “land for peace” rubric and the attractions of power-sharing arrangements notwithstanding, as a Zionist, I’m still not quite ready to be an early adopter in abandoning the state system. Yet, I unabashedly admit that I am what Lustick disparagingly calls the two-state “true believer.” If, as he later suggested, the disciples of the two-state rubric are a group of messianic, faith-based, deus-ex-machina-dependent, self-deluding zealots, in contrast with those converts to the timely, rational, human-agency-enlightened evangelists of the one-state solution, than I suppose I am one of the last doomed members of that fundamentalist cult.

Yet, the fierce debate over Lustick’s high profile and pull-no-punches argument aside (which are unlikely to be resolved), the larger questions surrounding its agenda and audience remain. Lustick’s piece joins several others in The Times and other major Western media outlets from various perspectives that have sought to mainstream the one-state discourse in journalistic practice. Whether this has backfired or not in reinforcing two-state advocacy remains to be seen, yet there is no doubt that it has achieved a heightened profile and polemic surrounding this paradigm.

It is not clear, however, whether this agenda is a veritable chicken-and-egg between publishers and politicians to promote one-state alternatives of late, as evidenced by Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon’s own contribution to The Times a few weeks ago. Further, it remains to be seen whether journalists can (and should?) control the message in the months and years to come, in a hyper-competitive media landscape where the op-ed has become the new global public square.

Yet, the most important aspect of this agenda is the audience it may — or may not — be reaching. If recent items are representative of broader trends, the debate over Lustick’s piece has largely been confined to the English-language media for the politically aware (on both left and right, including the peace industry that he attacks), leaving out the apolitical indifferent and, most significantly, those actually in the region itself.

From a brief review of the Hebrew press it seems Lustick’s op-ed barely raised an eyebrow, with a rare column in the center-right daily Maariv dismissing the professor as “no lover of Israel,” one “who doesn’t get the way things are here” (a familiar brush-off that many Americans interested in Israel are subject to), and concluding that “practical Zionism, both in its classic and pragmatic [forms] is still what most Israelis are clinging to,” even if the “broad and tired” problem of the two-state solution requires “hard questions.”

Haaretz also translated Lustick’s piece into Hebrew, although it appears that some of the most inflammatory passages (the frolicking coalition of Orthodox Jews and Jihadis, Tel Aviv entrepreneurs and fellahin, Mizrahi Jews and their Arab brothers) was redacted for its apparently unprepared Israeli audience. There was scant coverage in the Arabic-language press as well, whether or not because the standard editorial line attacking Israel precluded more substantive discussion.

For all of the fuss from afar on the one-state idea, from the point of view of the relevant parties they aren’t ready for it (yet). As Lisa Goldman wrote so poignantly of the misguided turn of the discussion about the very issues Lustick so acutely illuminated: “While the debate itself was interesting and sometimes provocative, it seemed to circumvent the real elephant in the room – which was the urgency of the situation on the ground.” Perhaps there is more in heaven and earth than dreamt of in Lustick’s philosophy.

While I remain a true believer in the two-state solution and hope for its fulfillment, the time has come to at least explore other options for an open, constructive and visionary discussion of the one-state solution. An exploration of both policies, especially given current realities, is not and cannot be mutually exclusive. We must heed Lustick’s call, yet I hope for a conversation that more earnestly honors both Zionist and Palestinian national aspirations and is led by parties to the conflict — and its solution — themselves.

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is the new University Research Lecturer and Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies at Oxford University. Her research, teaching and public engagement activities focus on the Israeli settler movement, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the relationship between the U.S./American Jewry and Israel. She is writing a forthcoming book about American Jews and the Israeli settler movement since 1967.

Playing War: How the Military Uses Video Games - Hamza Shaban - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/playing-war-how-the-military-uses-video-games/280486

According to popular discourse, video games are either the divine instrument of education’s future or the software of Satan himself, provoking young men to carry out all-too-real rampages. Much like discussions surrounding the Internet, debates on video games carry the vague, scattershot chatter that says too much about the medium (e.g. do video games cause violence?) without saying much at all about the particulars of games or gaming conventions (e.g. how can death be given more weight in first person shooters?).

As Atlantic contributor Ian Bogost argues in his book, How to Do Things with Video Games, we’ve assigned value to games as if they all contain the same logic and agenda. We assume, unfairly, that the entire medium of video games shares inherent properties more important and defining than all the different ways games are applied and played. The way out of this constrained conversation is to bore down into specifics, to tease out various technologies, and to un-generalize the medium. We get such an examination in War Play, Corey Mead’s important new study on the U.S. military’s official deployment of video games.

A professor of English at Baruch College CUNY, Mead has written a history, a book most interested in the machinations of military game development. But War Play, too, lays a solid foundation from which to launch more critical investigations—into soldier’s lives, into computerized combat, and into the most dynamic medium of our time.

#jeux_vidéo #guerre #simulation

Ian Bogost : la "gamification", un concept utilisé à tort et à travers | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/10/07/ian-bogost-la-gamification-un-concept-utilise-a-tort-et-a-tra

Selon le concepteur de jeu Ian Bogost, la ludification (#gamification, en anglais), le transfert des principes des jeux dans d’autres domaines, est un terme souvent utilisé à mauvais escient. Les applications potentiellement prometteuses, elles, restent sous-exploitées.

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Article qui fait partie du hors-série « La vie est un jeu » :

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That pleasing feeling of #security !

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The Argument Over J.M. Coetzee
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Literature should generate lively public debates — all scholars worth their salt will proclaim. We believe in the importance of culture and think that intellectual tussles over significant #BOOKS, and not celebrity gossip, should grace the front page of newspapers. In reality, such prominent literary arguments rarely happen. Yet half a year ago, South African and […]

#MEDIA #OPINION #Ian_Glenn #Imraan_Coovadia #J_M_Coetzee #J.C._Kannemeyer

Israel and Palestine : Thinking Outside the Two-State Box - Yousef Munayyer
▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/09/israel-palestine-two-state-solution-counterargument.html

Ian Lustick had no problem putting the two-state solution in its final resting place this past week, in a lengthy Op-Ed in the Times. If this can open the door to new thinking on a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian question, the timing could not be better. Identifying the flaws and faults of a two-state solution has been done many times before. What we need now is new thinking on a policy level that grapples both with the failures of the two-state approach and the realities on the ground.

What is the solution? Standing alone without context, that question is impossible to definitively answer. We must first understand the problem we are trying to solve. And when it comes to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the two-state solution, which has dominated mainstream discourse on policy toward this issue, is primarily a solution to a problem: Israel’s problem.

Israel’s problem is one of identity and territory. It claims it is both Jewish and Democratic, and yet, under the control of the Israeli state today, between the river and the sea, there are an equal number of Jews and non-Jews. Those non-Jews, the Palestinians, are either treated as second-class citizens or have no citizenship rights at all.

The reason for this problem is the implementation of Zionism. The ideology sought to establish a Jewish state, which envisioned and required a Jewish majority. It did so, problematically, in a geographic space where the majority of the native inhabitants were Palestinians Arabs. Every attempt to resolve this conflict between Zionist ideology and demographic reality for the past hundred years has included some form of gerrymandering—drawing oddly shaped, impractical, winding borders around often sparse Jewish populations to encompass them in a single geographic entity. The most recent version of the two-state solution is yet another iteration of these attempts, but with lines drawn a little differently to account for even more illegal Israeli colonists in the West Bank year after year.

While the two-state solution might provide an answer to Israel’s identity crisis, it does little in terms of solving both the humanitarian and human-rights crisis facing Palestinians. In the best-case scenario, a Palestinian state would be demilitarized and have not a semblance of the sovereignty afforded to every other state in the international system. It would, more or less, be under glorified occupation. Palestinian refugees would not be permitted to return to their homes. The status of Jerusalem, having become so marred by Israeli settlement-building, would likely be indivisible and largely off limits to the Palestinian statelet.

Cet éditorial extrêmement hétérodoxe arrive après l’op-ed étonnant (qu’il cite) du New York Times que j’avais signalé ici :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/175781

Inside the #Kowloon Walled City where 50,000 residents eked out a grimy living in the most densely populated place on earth

Once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, these fascinating pictures give a rare insight into the lives of those who lived Kowloon Walled City.

Taken by Canadian photographer #Greg_Girard in collaboration with #Ian_Lamboth the pair spent five years familiarising themselves with the notorious Chinese city before it was demolished in 1992.

The city was a phenomenon with 33,000 families and businesses living in more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect.

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▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html

#ville #géographie_urbaine #densité #mur #ville_murée #photographie

cc @albertocampiphoto

La chimérique « solution à deux Etats » est moribonde
par Ian S. Lustick / New York Times « Two-State Illusion » / traduction : Luc Delval / lundi, 16 Septembre 2013
▻http://www.pourlapalestine.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1609:la-chimerique-qsol

Les postulats nécessaires au maintien en vie du slogan de la « solution à deux Etats » nous a rendus aveugles à d’autres scénarios plus probables. Avec un statut mais aucun rôle, ce qui reste de l’Autorité Palestinienne va disparaître. Et Israël sera confronté au redoutable défi de devoir contrôler toute l’activité économique et politique et toutes les ressources foncières et en eau, entre le Jourdain et la Méditerranée. La scène sera dressée pour le spectacle d’une oppression impitoyable, pour des mobilisations de masse, des émeutes, la brutalité et la terreur qui provoqueront l’émigration tant de Juifs que d’Arabes, et une marée montante de condamnations internationales d’Israël.

Et face à l’indignation croissante, les Etats-Unis ne seront plus capables de maintenir leur soutien inconditionnel à Israël. Dès l’instant où l’illusion d’une solution nette et acceptable au conflit disparaîtra, les dirigeants israéliens commenceront à voir, comme avant eux ceux de l’Afrique du Sud l’ont vu dans les années 1980, que leur comportement conduit à l’isolement, à l’émigration et au désespoir.

Une nouvelle pensée pourrait alors voir le jour quant à la place d’Israël dans une région du monde qui évolue très rapidement. Il pourrait y avoir de généreuses indemnisations pour les propriétés perdues. Et des négociations avec les Arabes et les Palestiniens basées sur la satisfaction de leurs aspirations politiques essentielles, et non plus sur la maximalisation des prérogatives israéliennes, ce qui pourrait induire plus de sécurité et plus de légitimité. Peut-être le fait d’admettre publiquement les erreurs et les responsabilités israéliennes dans les souffrances infligées aux Palestiniens pourrait-il conduire la partie arabe à accepter moins que ce qu’elle considère comme la justice pleine et entière. Et peut-être l’arsenal nucléaire israélien, puissant et redoutable mais essentiellement inutilisable, pourrait-il être sacrifié pour l’avènement d’une zone sans aucune arme de destruction massive, de manière stricte et contrôlée, dans l’ensemble du Moyen-Orient.

De telles idées ne peuvent même pas être évoquées, aussi longtemps que la chimère d’une « solution négociées à deux Etats » monopolisera toutes les attentions. Mais une fois que la chimère s’évanouira et que les yeux s’ouvriront, la politique peut susciter d’étrangers compagnonnages.

cité par @nidal ►http://seenthis.net/messages/175781

FAO Issues Avian Flu Warning
▻http://www.voanews.com/content/fao-bird-flu-17sept13/1751216.html

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Avian flu continues to pose serious health threats to both human and animal health, especially as the flu season approaches. That’s the warning issued Monday by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Listen to De Capua report on avian flu

The FAO is calling on the international community to be vigilant for any signs of H5N1 and the new H7N9 avian flu. The former has been around for years, but H7N9 was first reported in China only last April. About 130 human infections were confirmed. Many of those patients had reported contact with poultry. Most had severe respiratory illness. Forty-four people died.

FAO senior animal health officer Ian Douglas saID timing of the warning is important.

“We’ve had over a decade of experience with H5N1 avian influenza virus and generally speaking we’ve seen this pattern of increase of incidence of the disease with the coming of cooler weather following summer. The experience with H7N9 version of avian influenza virus is much more limited. But whilst the number of human cases of that infection have declined, there is the possibility that it could reemerge and become a more prevalent infection.”

While both strains can jump from poultry to humans, there is a difference between the two.

Douglas said, “The difference perhaps is significant in so far as H7N9 has not been observed to cause much of clinical disease in poultry. And this constitutes a much great challenge because it’s not immediately obvious where the birds are infected and therefore, of course, the root of transmission to humans is somewhat more concealed.”

The lack of clinical signs makes is difficult to detect.

Health officials are very concerned that avian flu viruses might mutate and allow infections between people, not just between people and poultry. But is there any evidence, so far, that human to human transmission has occurred?

“There have been some suggestions,” he said, “of clusters where with very close contact that might have been the case. But of course the possibilities exist for a common exposure to an animal source. Avian influenza viruses can survive for some time outside of the bird or human host and contamination of the environment, at least for a reasonably short period of time, is possible.”

Douglas said that avian influenza viruses have the potential to produce a pandemic of human infection.

“In the case of H5N1, fairly rapidly. Over 60 countries in the world reported some cases occurring either in domestic or wild birds. That number is much reduced. Today, however, the infections remain endemic from Egypt across South and Southeast Asia and somewhat entrenched in those populations.”

He said it’s not clear whether H7N9 would behave the same way, adding there’s much to learn about the virus.

Established control methods involve culling — and vaccinations in the case of the H5N1 virus. But the response must also include tracking where the birds came from and their intended destinations – and ensure that poultry markets adhere to sanitation guidelines.

#H5N1
#H7N9
#U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
#China
#FAO

Depuis quelques mois, il y a des éditoriaux étonnamment hétérodoxes dans le New York Times, plusieurs annonçant la mort de « la solution à deux États » en Palestine. Celui va plus loin : il pronostique la fin d’Israël en tant que projet sioniste.
Two-State Illusion - Ian S. Lustick
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/two-state-illusion.html

But many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable. The State of Israel has been established, not its permanence. The most common phrase in Israeli political discourse is some variation of “If X happens (or doesn’t), the state will not survive!” Those who assume that Israel will always exist as a Zionist project should consider how quickly the Soviet, Pahlavi Iranian, apartheid South African, Baathist Iraqi and Yugoslavian states unraveled, and how little warning even sharp-eyed observers had that such transformations were imminent.

Arab springs, Arab falls | Ian Black
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/on-the-middle-east/2013/aug/25/saudi-bahrain-kuwait-sectarianism-shia-sunni

In the end however it is more about power than faith. Matthiesen observes that the official discourse surrounding the alleged meddling of (the Shia) Iranian state and the transnational (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood is actually very similar. And these allegations, he concludes, “are often about finding a scapegoat to deflect attention to an external enemy.” Saudi policy towards Bashar al-Assad — still one of the more opaque aspects of the Syrian crisis — includes the encouragement of vicious anti-Alawi rhetoric from Gulf-based Sunni clerics. (Alawis are an offshoot of Shi’ism). In Kuwait, official prejudice is directed against the Brotherhood (as it is, in spades, in the UAE), as well as the tribes and the stateless Bidoon.

Les mots sont importants : je voudrai relayer ici un message important arrivé sur la liste Migreurop : Comment nommer les migrants.

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Via Charles Heller en Tunisie

Article intéressant sur la politique de la dénomination des migrants, et proposition de l’utilisation du terme « illegalised » - illégalisé - pour souligner la production politique de la condition des migrants sans statuts légal.

L’article de presse ci-dessous se réfère à cet article académique :

▻http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/rcis/documents/RCIS_RB_Bauder_No_2013_1.pdf

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Et via Conni Gunsser

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
Excellent Toronto Star article on "Illegalized"migrant

Are they illegal or illegalized ?

The Associated Press bans the use of “illegal immigrants.” The UN calls them “irregular migrants.” A Toronto professor refers them as “illegalized.”

Ian Willms / Toronto Star

No One Is Illegal spokesperson Syed Hussan, left, says the grassroots organization is trying to promote the use of “undocumented” and “non-status,” rather than illegal.

By: Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter, Published on Sat Aug 17 2013

►http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/08/17/are_they_illegal_or_illegalized.html

What should we call people who are in Canada illegally, without status or proper immigration documents?

Some call them “illegal immigrants,” while others refer to them as “undocumented,” “non-status,” “irregular,” “unauthorized” or “migrants without papers.”

The naming of this particular population is always a contentious and polarizing issue, causing heated and emotional debates between the enforcement-minded, who are in favour of a law-and-order agenda to keep them out, and their libertarian opponents, who believe in the freedom of movement to give them a pathway to status.
In April, the Associated Press announced it would no longer use “illegal immigrants.”

Would the public respond differently in these surveys if the term “illegalized immigrants” were used in place of “illegal immigrants?”

#migration #asile #migrants