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Bias on the Bench | Sarasota Herald-Tribune Media Group | Sentencing
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Justice has never been blind when it comes to race in Florida.

Blacks were first at the mercy of slave masters. Then came Jim Crow segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.

Now, prejudice wears a black robe.

Half a century after the civil rights movement, trial judges throughout Florida sentence blacks to harsher punishment than whites, a Herald-Tribune investigation found.

They offer blacks fewer chances to avoid jail or scrub away felonies.

They give blacks more time behind bars — sometimes double the sentences of whites accused of the same crimes under identical circumstances.

Florida lawmakers have struggled for 30 years to create a more equitable system.

Points are now used to calculate sentences based on the severity of the crime, the defendant’s prior record and a host of other factors. The idea is to punish criminals in Pensacola the same as those in Key West — no matter their race, gender or wealth.

But the point system has not stopped discrimination.

In Manatee County, judges sentence whites convicted of felony drug possession to an average of five months behind bars.

They give blacks with identical charges and records more than a year.

Judges in the Florida Panhandle county of Okaloosa sentence whites to nearly five months for battery.

They lock up blacks for almost a year.

Along the state’s northeast shore, judges in Flagler County put blacks convicted of armed robbery away for nearly triple the time.

Yes, you can blame millennials for Hillary Clinton’s loss - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/02/yes-you-can-blame-millennials-for-hillary-clintons-loss

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has lots of excuses for losing. There’s the electoral college, James Comey, the media’s alleged over-exuberance in digging into Clinton’s email server, etc. But Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Thursday that one particular group is especially to blame: millennials.
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Among those between 18 and 29, though, she took five points less — 55 percent versus Obama’s 60 percent. Here’s how those numbers compare to 2012:

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They, of course, are national polls, and the race was really decided in a handful of close states — Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, in particular. And sure enough, Clinton did even worse among young people in those states, according to exit polls.

While Clinton’s national margin of victory among young people was only four points worse than Obama’s 60-to-37 edge, Michigan’s exit poll shows her margin among young people there was five points worse (+28 for Obama vs. +23 for Clinton). In Florida, it was 16 points worse (+34 vs. +18). In Pennsylvania, it was 17 points worse (+28 vs. +9). And in Wisconsin, it was 20 points worse (+23 vs. +3).

Caveat: Exit polls, like any polls, are subject to error. Did Trump really only lose young people in Wisconsin by only three points? I’m very skeptical.

But if that number is anywhere close to accurate, it accounts for Clinton’s narrow loss in the Badger State.

Carnival’s Princess Cruises to Pay Record $40 Million Over Illegal Dumping, Cover Up – gCaptain
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Carnival Corporation’s Princess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from illegal oil dumping at sea and intentional acts to cover it up, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.

Princess will pay a $40 million penalty – the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution. 

The charges are tied to the Caribbean Princess cruise ship which visited various U.S. ports in Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands and Virginia.

The U.S. investigation was launched after information was provided to the U.S. Coast Guard by the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) indicating that a newly hired engineer on the Caribbean Princess reported that a so-called “magic pipe” had been used on Aug. 23, 2013, to illegally discharge oily waste off the coast of England.

According to the Justice Dept., after the incident the #whistleblower quit when the ship reached Southampton, England. The chief engineer and senior first engineer ordered a cover-up, including removal of the magic pipe and directing subordinates to lie. But the MCA shared evidence with the U.S. Coast Guard, including before and after photos of the bypass used to make the discharge and showing its disappearance. The U.S. Coast Guard conducted an examination of the cruise ship upon its arrival in New York City on Sept. 14, 2013, during which certain crew members continued to lie in accordance with orders they had received from Princess employees.
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In addition to the use of a #magic_pipe, the U.S. investigation uncovered two other illegal practices which were found to have taken place on the Caribbean Princess as well as four other Princess ships – Star Princess, Grand Princess, Coral Princess and Golden Princess.

One practice was to open a salt water valve when bilge waste was being processed by the oily water separator and oil content monitor in order to prevent the oil content monitor from otherwise alarming and stopping the overboard discharge. This was done routinely on the Caribbean Princess in 2012 and 2013, the Justice Dept. said. The second practice involved discharges of oily bilge water originating from the overflow of graywater tanks into the machinery space bilges. This waste was pumped back into the graywater system rather than being processed as oily bilge waste. Neither of these practices were accurately recorded in the oil record book as required by law. All of the bypassing took place through the graywater system which was discharged when the ship was more than four nautical miles from land.

Princess, headquartered in Santa Clarita, California, is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company. As part of the plea agreement, cruise ships from eight Carnival brands (Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line N.V., Seabourn Cruise Line Ltd. and AIDA Cruises) will be under a court supervised Environmental Compliance Program (ECP) for five years.

#lanceur_d'alerte

Daily chart: How Donald Trump won the election | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/daily-chart-5

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IT IS the biggest political upset in living memory. On the night of November 8th 2016 America decided that Donald Trump would be its 45th president. The vote stunned pollsters and pundits, who had reckoned that Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, would breeze to victory.

The tables started to turn on Mrs Clinton’s campaign around 9pm eastern time (2am GMT) as county-level results trickled in, with Mr Trump outperforming his polls in key states like Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Over the next few hours, as more and more counties were marked as red, news organisations frantically updated their predictions to favour Mr Trump. As Mrs Clinton’s chances to win tumbled, so too did the financial markets. The value of the Mexican peso dropped 10% against the dollar. At 10:50pm eastern time Associated Press, a newswire, declared that the Republican candidate had won the vital swing state of Florida. From there Mr Trump’s victory became ever more likely.

#trump #états-unis

Plongée dans mes archives de novembre 2004 (eh oui, je garde tout!).

George W. Bush est réélu le 2 novembre contre John Kerry (et Ralph Nader dans le rôle de Jill Stein) alors que son bilan est terrible et que “tout le monde” pense la victoire de Kerry nécessaire et évidente...

Les articles du New-York Times pourraient être publiés ces jours ci en changeant juste quelques noms propres, si ça vous amuse de les relire...

Si l’analyse est bonne (mais ça se discute toujours: est-ce la “faute” des pauvres, incultes, sexistes et racistes, qui votent mal ou de l’establishment démocrate dans sa tour d’ivoire qui a perdu le contact avec la réalité?), les leçons, douze ans après, ne semblent pas avoir été tirées.

D’autre part, l’un des articles (et un autre de Michael Moore que je n’inclue pas ici) insiste sur le fait que les jeunes, eux, ont “bien” voté, sous entendant que le vote républicain est un vote du passé et que l’avenir appartient aux démocrates. Douze ans plus tard, les jeunes sont devenus vieux et la promesse n’a pas été tenue...

Op-Ed Columnist: Living Poor, Voting Rich
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, The New York Times Company, November 3, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/opinion/living-poor-voting-rich.html
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: The Day the Enlightenment Went Out
GARRY WILLS, The New-York Times, November 4, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/the-day-the-enlightenment-went-out.html?_r=0
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The Red Zone
MAUREEN DOWD, The New-York Times, 4 November 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/the-red-zone.html
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A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America
JOSEPH BERGER, The New-York Times, November 4, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/nyregion/a-blue-city-disconsolate-even-bewildered-by-a-red-america.html
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Scrooge’s nightmare
Leonard Steinhorn, Salon, November 25, 2004
▻http://www.salon.com/2004/11/25/new_silent_majority
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On recevait aussi à l’époque des messages plus ou moins humoristiques sur la situation. Aujourd’hui ce serait plutôt sur Facebook, mais ce sont à peu près les mêmes:

Blue America Charter
Barbara Moran and Brian Collins, November 3, 2004

Fellow citizens!

It gives me great happiness to unveil our plans for the liberation of Blue America. For the past three years, we have, in conjunction with a handful of MIT engineers, been constructing a giant, cordless circular saw, which is now complete. With this saw, we plan to carve our thriving, prosperous eastern Blue nation away from the spreading infection of red america. We will then set a mighty sail, which will carry us around the tip of South America and allow us to join our Blue compadres on the West Coast. We will use our giant saw to free our friends, then join our two lands together and sail to a designated point in the Pacific Ocean. There, we will establish our new country: Blue America.

Basic Tenets
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Blue America will be founded on the same ideals as the former United States of America. These ideals, sadly, have been decimated by the same red plague that scrambled the brains of so many of our unfortunate former fellow-citizens. These ideals include:
- The Separation of Church and State
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Assembly and Protest
- Equal rights for all and due process under the Constitution

Blue America will have many additional aspirations not shared by red america, including:
- The goal of giving every citizen high quality education and health care (even prescription drugs!), regardless of their race, ethnic background or income
- The right to a satisfying career with fair pay, job security and an eight-hour workday
- Respect for other cultures and honesty in our dealings with other countries
- The right to worship the deity of your choice (or not)
- Family values, meaning the right of anyone to form a family if they wish
- Compassion for the poor and sick
- Belief in the value of: fresh food, recycling, renewable energy, independent bookstores and movie theatres, literacy, the free exchange of ideas, clean air, clean water, sushi, Julia Child cookbooks, Scrabble, humor, honesty, exercise, art, poetry, community gardens, mass transit, local cheese, the scientific process, the theory of Evolution, national parks, bicycles, music, sidewalks, trees, books, family farms, locally-owned diners with revolving pie cabinets, and decent coffee.

Membership
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Membership in Blue America will be limited to residents of states that voted “blue” in the 2004 election, with the following exceptions:

1. Red “carriers” (or “vectors”) who are currently living in Blue America are kindly asked to leave before the liberation.
2. Members of certain Blue outposts in red america (like Austin, Texas) will be allowed to apply for Blue America citizenship.
3. Members of Blue outposts in Ohio (Oberlin) will also be allowed to apply for citizenship. However, if accepted they must accept a one-year probationary period. Similarly, members of Blue outposts in Florida (South Beach) will also be allowed to apply, but must accept a two-year probationary period.
4. Members of the Bush family are excluded for life, as are members of the Bush cabinet and all Fox News anchors, and Kid Rock. (Sorry, Colin Powell, but you had your chance.)

Sports
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The first official sports team of Blue America will be the Boston Red Sox (hereby re-named the Boston Blue Sox). However, red propagandist Curt Schilling will be cut from the Sox and banished to the worst team in baseball. Also, we’ll take Derek Jeter, if he’s interested.

Timetable
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Engineers have already begun separating northern Maine from the continent. We plan to be fully liberated and set sail on Blue Inauguration day, January 21, 2005. Pack your guitars, books and Hawaiian shirts, and let’s hear it for the blue, white and blue!

Bring on the saw!
Barb and Brian
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Disaffected Americans look north to ’better government’
MARINA JIMÉNEZ, 4 November 2004

Some Americans are willing to do anything to avoid another four years of George W. Bush — even move to Canada.

Joe Auerbach is so disappointed with Mr. Bush’s election victory that he is planning to give up a job as a systems analyst and leave his comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, to move to a country with “a better government and more reasonable people.”

“Today, once the Bush victory was clear, my e-mail was burning up with people vowing to leave the U.S. for Canada,” said Mr. Auerbach, 27.

“I don’t want to be living in the U.S. when China decides we are a threat and when George Bush starts drafting computer engineers into the army. I’m morally opposed to the Bush administration.”

He and several other disenchanted Americans are contacting immigration lawyers north of the border to see whether they qualify to immigrate to Canada. It is too soon to say whether this is political hot air or the start of a new trend in immigration.

But among some middle-class, liberal Americans, there is a growing sense of political disengagement as they realize the majority of their fellow citizens support the conservative agenda of Mr. Bush, who received 51 per cent of the popular vote, winning more votes than any other president in U.S. history.

“Mr. Auerbach is one of many middle-class Americans who have a philosophical difference with the direction the U.S. is taking,” said Sergio Karas, a Toronto immigration lawyer. “I have received several inquiries from people like him who want to move here.”

Jacqueline Bart, a Toronto immigration lawyer, said she recently attended a conference in New York and more than a dozen U.S. lawyers asked her about sending their children to study in Canada. “There is a sense of hesitation about the direction Bush is taking the country in,” she said.

Clyde Williamson, a libertarian from Ohio, feels the Bush administration is too conservative on social-justice issues such as gay rights, abortion and the medicinal use of marijuana. He is also opposed to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

“I don’t think the U.S. is going to turn into Nazi Germany or anything. But it is going to become a much more conservative country,” said the 29-year-old computer-security engineer.

Others feel Mr. Bush’s unilateralist foreign policy is more troubling even than his social conservatism. A former U.S. diplomat who has already applied for permanent-resident status said yesterday that Mr. Bush’s election victory has accelerated his determination to relocate permanently to Vancouver.

“I’m watching this administration preside over the virtual destruction of relations with the Muslim world — and, I fear, end up strengthening the forces of terrorism as a result,” he said.

“The values of Canada are what I thought the values of the U.S. used to be: personal freedoms, a sense of need for a global community and consensus. The U.S. is losing its way.”

A Toronto lawyer representing three U.S. soldiers who have fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Iraq said Mr. Bush’s re-election means more U.S. deserters are likely to seek refugee status north of the border.

Jeffry House, a Vietnam-era draft-dodger who is steering the refugee claims of the three young men, says he has received about 80 e-mails from other U.S. soldiers stationed around the world, inquiring about escaping to Canada to avoid serving in Iraq. At least five U.S. soldiers are believed to have fled to Canada.

Maria Iadinardi, spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said it is too soon to say whether there has been a spike in the number of Americans being granted permanent residency, noting the number has fluctuated in recent years from a low of 4,437 in 1998 to a high of 5,604 in 2001.

So far this year, 5,353 Americans have become permanent residents.
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“Ladies and gentlemen, drop your borders: Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals - already a threatened species - will be desperate to escape. These lonely, afraid (did we mention really hot?) progressives will need a safe haven. You can help. Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American. Legions of Canadians have already pledged to sacrifice their singlehood to save our southern neighbours from four more years of cowboy conservatism...” To be continued on:
▻http://www.marryanamerican.ca
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
–- H.L. Mencken, journalist and satirist (1880-1956)
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THINGS WE SHOULD DO NOW WHILE WE STILL CAN

Get that abortion you’ve always wanted
Drink a nice clean glass of water
Two words - doggy style
Cash your social security check
See a doctor of your own choosing
Hug your draft age child
Visit Syria, or any foreign country for that matter
Get that gas mask you’ve been putting off buying
Move out of the red states
Horde gas
Buy all the porn you can carry
Borrow questionable books from the library - constitutional law books, Catcher
in the Rye, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer
If you have an idea for an art piece involving a crucifix - do it now
Two words - come out - then go back in - HURRY!
Jam in all the Alzheimer’s stem cell research you can
Stay out late before the curfews start
Get within 6 feet of a stripper in a state where its still allowed
Go see Bruce Springsteen before he has his “accident”
Go see Mount Rushmore before the “W” addition
Use the phrase - “you can’t do that - this is America”
If you’re white - marry a black person, if you’re black - marry a white person.
If you’re gay, learn to pass.
Take a snowmobile-noise free walk in Yosemite, without being hit by a base-jumper.
Enroll your kid in art or music class
Start your school day “without” a prayer
Pass on secrets of evolution to future genes
Learn French
Let’s go and live in France.
Attend a commitment ceremony with your gay friends.
Take a factory tour anywhere in the US.
Try to take photographs of animals on the endangered species list.
Visit Florida before the polar ice caps melt.
Visit Nevada before it becomes radioactive.
Visit Alaska before “The Big Spill”.
Visit Massachusetts while it is still a State.
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Et deux sites web qui sont encore valables, 12 ans plus tard:

▻http://www.sorryeverybody.com
▻http://www.apologiesaccepted.com

#Etats-Unis #Donald_Trump #Hillary_Clinton #George_Bush #John_Kerry #2016 #2004 #histoire #élections_présidentielles

Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution - The Globalist

▻http://www.theglobalist.com/connectography-mapping-the-global-network-revolution

Un livre qui a bien plu à @fil

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In the 1980s, Disney World, Florida offered a gripping, virtual journey as viewed by a blood corpuscle as it rushes through the arteries, veins, into and out of organs in the human body.

Parag Khanna’s fourth and latest book – Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution – does much the same for the world of physical and digital infrastructure.

#cartographie #réseaux #connectivité #accessibilité #monde_systémique #sémiologie #réflexion

Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery Suffers Cracked Hull in Collision with Tugboat – gCaptain
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The U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship USS Montgomery has suffered a crack in its aluminum hull after being hit by a tug as the ship sortied from Mayport, Florida ahead of Hurricane Matthew.

The incident occurred October 4 and was first reported by Navy Times, which obtained the following statement from the Navy:

“USS Montgomery (LCS 8) sustained a crack to its hull while getting underway from Naval Station Mayport under orders to sortie Oct. 4. This crack resulted in minor seawater intrusion, but was contained by the crew. An investigation into possible causes is underway, and the ship will receive more permanent repairs upon her return to port.”

Citing another report, the Navy Times said Tuesday’s incident opened up a foot-long crack amidships along a weld seam about three feet above the waterline. The water ingress was reported to be about a gallon of water every three minutes, the Navy Times said. Five of the ship’s horizontal beams in the hull, called stringers, were also bent.
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The USS Montgomery is the fourth ship in the Navy’s Independence variant of the LCS, featuring an all-aluminum trimaran hull and built by Austal USA.

Tiens, un (autre…) trimaran tout alu.
Celui-ci (et ceux de sa classe LCS Independence) coûte autour de 500 M$ pièce.

Elon Musk’s proposed spaceship could send 100 people to Mars in 80 days
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13058990/mars-mission-spaceship-announced-elon-musk-spacex/in/12838307

The trip will work like this: First, the spaceship will launch out of Pad 39A, which is under development right now at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. At liftoff, the booster will have 127,800 kilonewtons of thrust, or 28,730,000 pounds of thrust. Then, the spaceship and booster separate.

The spaceship heads to orbit, while the booster heads back to Earth, coming back within about 20 minutes. Back on Earth, the booster lands on a launch mount and a propellant tanker is loaded onto the booster. The entire unit — now filled with fuel — lifts off again. It joins with the spaceship, which is then refueled in orbit. The propellant tankers will go up anywhere from three to five times to fill the tanks of the spaceship.

The spaceship finally departs for Mars. To make the trip more attractive for its crew members, Musk promises that it’ll be “really fun” with zero-G games, movies, cabins, games, a restaurant.

Similarly, it’s inefficient to bring propellant for the return trip. Ideally, a team would build a propellant plant on Mars and send the ships back that way. (This is supposedly possible given the natural resources on the Red Planet.)

#mars #espace #spacex #facile #fun

Tufts Magazine / fall 2013

▻http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html

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Up in Arms
THE BATTLE LINES OF TODAY’S DEBATES OVER GUN CONTROL, STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS, AND OTHER VIOLENCE-RELATED ISSUES WERE DRAWN CENTURIES AGO BY AMERICA’S EARLY SETTLERS
BY COLIN WOODARD, A91
ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN STAUFFER

Last December, when Adam Lanza stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, with a rifle and killed twenty children and six adult staff members, the United States found itself immersed in debates about gun control. Another flash point occurred this July, when George Zimmerman, who saw himself as a guardian of his community, was exonerated in the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida. That time, talk turned to stand-your-ground laws and the proper use of deadly force. The gun debate was refreshed in September by the shooting deaths of twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard, apparently at the hands of an IT contractor who was mentally ill.

#armement #armes #états-unis #amérique_du_nord

High School Seniors Are Having A LOT Of Fun With Their Parking Spots
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High school students aren’t just decorating their lockers anymore.

In states including Texas and Florida, students are personalizing their parking spaces, and the photos showcasing their creativity are going viral.

Ces places de parking peintes semblent faire un petit buzz (désolé), mais c’est vrai que ça pourrait rendre ces immenses parking à voiture bien plus gais… en attendant des vélos partout…

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▻http://pix-geeks.com/etats-unis-etudiants-peignent-place-parking

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#street_art #parking

Early voting already: Trump chances may hinge on non-whites - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/early-voting-already-trump-chances-may-hinge-on-non-whites/2016/09/02/cf4ef3bc-7137-11e6-993f-73c693a89820_story.html

Two months before Election Day, early voting kicks off next week in North Carolina, the first in a run of key states where minority voters and young adults who cast ballots in advance could give one of the White House contenders a decisive advantage.

For Donald Trump, it’s a major test of whether his recent outreach to non-white groups is translating into votes. In the increasingly diverse battleground states of North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia — all must-win states for Trump, except Colorado — it’s minorities in particular who can tip the scales.

Early voters are expected to make up between 50 to 75 percent or more of all ballots in the six states, based on 2012 figures. That’s compared to a national average of 35 percent, up from 22 percent in 2004, according to election data compiled by The Associated Press.

Mail-in ballots are popular among older, white Republicans, and party officials are betting they can bank plenty of their votes. But in several swing states, Hispanics, blacks and first-time voters typically have been more likely than whites to cast ballots early — and cast them for Demo

#c'est_parti …

Southwest Airlines plane’s engine breaks apart midflight - NY Daily News
▻http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/southwest-airlines-plane-lands-fla-engine-malfunction-article-1.2768491

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A Southwest Airlines jet bound for Orlando, Fla., was forced to make an emergency landing in Pensacola after one of its engines fell apart over the Gulf of Mexico.

Startled passengers on board Flight 3472 from New Orleans heard a frightening blast to the aircraft’s left at an altitude of 30,700 feet. Outside their windows, they saw smoke fuming from the exposed turbine blades at around 9:20 a.m. Saturday.

“All of a sudden, outside my window, there was a loud explosion, and then the plane started shuddering,” passenger Tami Richards told KOCO-TV.

Chunks of the engine’s cowling had fallen off, according to photos taken from the aircraft’s window midflight. Another photo shows a metal object had pierced the fuselage.

Les interdictions du ‘burkini’ en France ont à voir avec bien autre chose que la religion ou l’habillement

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Washington – Il y a quelque chose qui donne le tournis dans ces arrêtés d’interdiction du burkini qui fleurissent sur le littoral français. L’évidence de la contradiction – imposer des règles sur ce que les femmes peuvent porter sur la base de l’idée qu’il est injuste pour les femmes de devoir obéir à des règles sur ce que les femmes peuvent porter – montre clairement que quelque chose de plus profond doit être à l’œuvre.

« Les « burkinis » sont à la base des maillots de bain qui recouvrent tout le corps en conformité avec les normes musulmanes relatives à la pudeur, et mercredi, le premier ministre Manuel Valls s’est jeté dans le débat enflammé sur les interdictions prononcées sans quelques villes balnéaires du pays, dénonçant ce vêtement qu’on voit rarement comme un élément de « l’asservissement des femmes. »

Ceci ne porte évidemment pas réellement sur une tenue de bain. Les sociologues disent que cela n’a pas non plus un rapport premier avec la protection des femmes musulmanes contre le patriarcat, mais que c’est en lien avec une volonté d’éviter à la majorité non musulmane de la France de devoir se confronter à un monde qui change : un monde qui leur demande d’élargir leur vision de l’identité quand beaucoup voudraient qu’elle demeure telle qu’elle était.

« Ce genre de déclaration [celle de Manuel Valls, NdT] est une manière de sanctionner [le sociologue emploie le verbe to police qui signifie contrôler, surveiller] ce qui est français et ce qui n’est pas français, » explique Terence G. Peterson, un professeur de la Florida International University qui étudie la relation de la France avec les immigrés musulmans et avec le monde musulman.

Si cette bataille sur l’identité prend de l’ampleur au lendemain des attentats terroristes [Nice et Saint-Etienne du Rouvray, NdT], elle fait en réalité rage sous une forme ou une autre depuis des dizaines d’années dans la société française, affirme le Professeur Peterson. Ce qui semble être une confrontation sur une petite question de vêtement islamique porte en réalité sur ce que signifie être français.

Pendant l’époque coloniale, quand la France contrôlait de vastes régions musulmanes, le voile était devenu un « symbole hyperchargé » explique le Professeur Peterson. Le voile était considéré comme un symbole de l’arriération des Musulmans et les normes vestimentaires féminines françaises, plus flexibles, étaient considérées comme un signe de supériorité culturelle, des façons de voir qui justifiaient le colonialisme.

Le colonialisme est au fondement de la crise d’identité que vit la France actuellement parce qu’il a ancré un sentiment d’identité nationale française en tant que distinct et supérieur aux identités musulmanes – tout en promettant l’égalité aux Musulmans colonisés qui avaient commencé à immigrer en France en grand nombre. La choc qui en résulte prend souvent la forme de débats sur les tenues vestimentaires.

Le voile est resté un symbole puissant de l’altérité quand le colonialisme s’est effondré après la seconde guerre mondiale et que les Musulmans des pays colonisés ont afflué en France. Mais maintenant, cette altérité se joue à l’intérieur même d’un pays qui tente de définir sa propre identité post-coloniale.

Au fil des générations, le voile s’est répandu chez les Musulmanes françaises, en tant que pratique religieuse et, peut-être, comme symbole de leur héritage culturel particulier. Il était un signe visible de la manière dont la France elle-même, ainsi que son rôle dans le monde, était en train de changer.

Le résultat a été que le voile est devenu le symbole non seulement d’une différence religieuse mais du fait que les Français « de souche » n’avaient plus le monopole de la définition de l’identité française. La France était devenue une nation multiculturelle et multiethnique où les traditions signifiaient différentes choses pour différentes personnes.

Le symbole du voile à l’époque coloniale en tant que signe de l’infériorité musulmane en a fait une cible commode pour les arguments selon lesquels l’identité française « traditionnelle » devait demeurer non seulement dominante mais la seule identité culturelle en France.

Les burkinis peuvent sembler effrayants car ils sont perçus comme menaçant ce type particulier d’identité française par l’expression d’une forme alternative d’identité – dans ce cas, en tant que Musulmans. Beaucoup de Français, au lieu de croire que ces identités peuvent coexister, les perçoivent comme nécessairement concurrentes.

Il existe même un mot français péjoratif pour qualifier l’introduction de ces identités alternatives, le « communautarisme » dont le développement est considéré comme une crise nationale.

Des articles d’habillement musulmans comme le voile ou le burkini sont devenus des symboles du fait que l’identité nationale française n’est plus le domaine réservé de groupes de populations qui vivent dans ce pays depuis des siècles. Des décisions comme les interdictions cet été du burkini ont pour but d’empêcher une redéfinition élargie de l’identité française en contraignant les Musulmans non seulement à s’assimiler mais aussi à adopter l’identité plus étroite et rigide [celle qui exclut les Français issus de l’immigration musulmane, NdT].

C’est une méthode à laquelle la France a recouru pendant des dizaines d’années, et qui a à chaque fois échoué.

John Bowen, anthropologue à la Washington University de Saint-Louis, explique que la France a rendu à essayer ce genre de restrictions aux moments où elle affrontait des tensions aussi bien sur le plan intérieur qu’extérieur en relation avec les Musulmans et le monde musulman.

Les choses ont commencé en 1989 avec la fameuse affaire du foulard quand trois collégiennes françaises avaient été exclues pour avoir refusé de retirer leur coiffe. Ostensiblement, la raison était que les foulards étaient des symboles religieux visibles et qu’ils contrevenaient donc avec la loi française sur la laïcité, ou sécularisme. Mais la laïcité était dans la législation depuis 1905 et les foulards sur la tête étaient néanmoins autorisés en général.

Ce qui a changé, écrivait le Professeur Bowen dans un livre sur le sujet, ce sont des événements dans le monde qui ont fait que l’Islam a semblé être une force particulièrement pernicieuse. En 1989, le leader de l’Iran, l’Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini avait signé un décret contre l’écrivain Salman Rushdie. A la même époque, des Algériens avaient constitué le Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), un parti tenant d’une ligne dure et qui basculera ensuite dans l’insurrection.

Interdire les foulards dans les écoles françaises devenait une manière de gérer l’anxiété générée par les événements à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur du pays, et d’affirmer le droit de protéger les valeurs françaises.

Les foulards à l’école sont revenus sur le devant de la scène nationale en 1993 et 1994 quand les autorités françaises craignaient de voir de jeunes hommes membres de familles immigrées algériennes rejoindre les rangs de l’insurrection islamiste en Algérie. Après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, le voile cristallisa une fois de plus les peurs à l’égard de communautés musulmanes qui étaient à l’écart de la culture et de la société française dominantes.

Et cet été, la France est sous le choc d’une série d’agressions terroristes et est de plus en plus préoccupée par les jeunes Musulmans qui vont en Syrie pour rejoindre l’Etat Islamique ou d’autres organisations djihadistes. Une fois de plus, certains en France voient le processus d’assimilation comme une question de sécurité nationale.

Le voile est un symbole qui a une puissance anxiogène spécifique en matière d’assimilation parce qu’il est porté par choix. Tandis que des caractéristiques fixes comme la race ou la couleur de la peau n’impliquent aucun jugement sur la culture ou les valeurs françaises, l’habillement implique une décision de se différencier – de donner la priorité à son identité culturelle ou religieuse par rapport à celle de son pas d’adoption.

Les interdictions vestimentaires ont pour but, en effet, de faire pression sur les Musulmans français pour qu’ils se détournent de tout sentiment d’identité communautaire et adoptent l’identité française étroitement définie qui préexistait avant leur arrivée. Mais essayer de forcer à l’assimilation peut avoir l’effet contraire : dire aux Musulmans français qu’ils ne peuvent pas avoir simultanément une identité musulmane et une identité française, les forcer à choisir, c’est ainsi les exclure de ce que recouvre l’identité nationale au lieu de les convier à y contribuer.

La France a un autre choix : elle pourrait élargir sa définition de l’identité nationale pour inclure les Musulmans français tels qu’ils sont. C’est quelque chose qui peut effrayer beaucoup de Français, qui le vivrait comme renoncer à une identité « traditionnelle » confortable et non comme l’ajout d’une nouvelle dimension à celle-ci. En l’absence d’acceptation de ce changement, il existe une volonté de faire pression sur les Musulmans français pour résoudre la crise identitaire, mais cette démarche employée pendant des dizaines d’années n’a apporté que peu de progrès – et beaucoup de tensions.

[ Amanda Taub , The New York Times, 18 août 2016 traduit par Djazaïri ]

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Florida Company Gets Approval to Put Robotic Lander on Moon
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/science/moon-express-faa.html

Moon Express, based in Cape Canaveral, Fla., announced Wednesday that it had received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to set a robotic lander on the moon.

That feat would win the Google Lunar X Prize competition for the first private organization to reach the moon and an accompanying $20 million reward.

[...] The approval reflects an effort to encourage 21st-century commercial space endeavors while staying within an international space treaty written 49 years ago when outer space was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the idea of a start-up going to the moon an unlikely fantasy.

“There are a lot of things in the treaties we’re testing the limits of right now,” said Henry R. Hertzfeld, a professor of space policy and international affairs at George Washington University in Washington. “We’re trying to define them in ways that will encourage private investment and private opportunities but not violate any international agreements.”

#lune #espace

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Nation’s Longest Bike Path Will Connect Maine to Florida - EcoWatch
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The East Coast #Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, a 2,900-mile distance. The project will provide non-motorized users a unique way to travel up and down the East Coast through 25 cities and 16 states. Walkers, cyclists, runners and other active-transportation users will be able to travel on a continuous, firm and paved greenway with a route specifically designed to give travelers a traffic-free experience, East Coast Greenway Alliance, the non-profit organization behind the project.

#route_verte #vélo #marche

Mieux que Chuck Norris - Snake Plissen (Kurt Russell contre les terroristes ?)
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/07/19/snake-plissken-escapes-from-fl.html
Snake Plissken escapes from Florida / Boing Boing

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Snake Plissken is back in these epic Escape from New York comics!

I loved the comic book continuation of Big Trouble in Little China and these Escape from New York books are more of the same. Excellent art and story telling pick up right where the film ended, the ass-kicking continues. Our hero Snake decides he needs a little vacation and heads south to Florida. Naturally, nothing works out as easily as he plans, and Plissken finds himself stuck putting down a new southern rebellion.

#film #bande_dessinée #action

In the Age of ISIS, Who’s a Terrorist, and Who’s Simply Deranged?
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/world/europe/in-the-age-of-isis-whos-a-terrorist-and-whos-simply-deranged.html

he age of the Islamic State, in which the tools of terrorism appear increasingly crude and haphazard, has led to a reimagining of the common notion of who is and who is not a terrorist.

Instances of wanton violence by deranged attackers — whether in Nice or in Orlando, Fla. — are swiftly judged to be the work of terrorists. These judgments occur even when there is little immediate evidence that the attackers had direct ties to terrorist groups and when they do not fit a classic definition of terrorists as those who use violence to advance a political agenda.

“A lot of this stuff is at the fringes of what we would historically think of as terrorism,” said Daniel Benjamin, a former State Department coordinator for counterterrorism and a professor at Dartmouth College. But, he said, “the Islamic State and jihadism has become a kind of refuge for some unstable people who are at the end of their rope and decide they can redeem their screwed-up lives” by dying in the name of a cause.

Mr. Benjamin said this also led the news media and government officials to treat violence like the Nice attack differently from other mass attacks, like shootings at schools and churches that have been carried out by non-Muslims.

“If there is a mass killing, and there is a Muslim involved, all of a sudden it is by definition terrorism,” he said.

Senate hearing hears more dire Zika warnings | Miami Herald
▻http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article89422647.html

• 40 countries, territories in Western Hemisphere have mosquito-born transmission
•7 microcephalic infants have been born in the United States
•CDC head says health agency diverting funds from other needs to fight Zika
[…]
Republicans, who hold majorities in both the House and Senate, have blocked a $1.9 billion emergency Zika-prevention package President Barack Obama sent to Congress in February.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a compromise $1.1 billion bill in May, but when it was returned to the chamber last month, House Republicans in a conference committee had inserted provisions unrelated to Zika that Democrats have long opposed.

Among the provisions are limits on Obamacare, restrictions on abortions, funding cuts for birth control and the lifting of key environmental controls.

Branding those provisions “poisons pills,” Senate Democrats last month voted down the altered Zika measure, leaving it at an impasse. Rubio and Sen. Bill Nelson, an Orlando Democrat, want a new vote on a clean bill limited to the Zika response.
[…]
Florida, [Rubio, a Miami Republican] said, reported 13 new infections Monday. With those, the state had a total 282 known cases – 129 of them in South Florida – more than any other state except New York.
[…]
Pregnant women are most at risk because Zika can cause birth defects such as microcephaly, a congenital condition marked by abnormally small heads and stunted brain development in infants.

There have been 599 cases of Zika among pregnant women in the United States and its territories, Frieden said Wednesday. Seven infants have been born with Zika-related birth defects, he said.
[…]
The vast majority of the almost 1,200 Zika cases in the continental United States and Hawaii have come through contact among people who have traveled in Puerto Rico, Brazil or other heavily infected places.

Gay At Sea - A Look At The US Coast Guard’s LGBT Community - gCaptain
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Despite the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in 2011, and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 2013, total equality for the LGBT community is still a work in progress. One of the ways the Coast Guard is helping its LGBT members is by creating an open dialogue.

“People say I don’t look ‘gay,’” said Fairburn. “But what does ‘gay’ look like?”

“Well, actually I look pretty ‘gay,’” Lt. Cmdr. Hillary Allegretti, the executive officer of Marine Safety Office Cleveland, said as the audience erupted with laughter.

This was the beginning of the first-ever dialogue of LGBT equality amongst shipmates in the open setting of a leadership conference.

Allegretti, Fairburn and Petty Officer 1st Class Audrey Russo, a liaison officer at Coast Guard flight school in Pensacola, Florida, participated in a panel focused on LGBT equality in the Coast Guard during the Women’s Leadership Symposium held at Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan in March 2016.

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1.4 Million Adults Identify As Transgender In America, Study Says : The Two-Way : NPR
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The numbers fluctuate by state, but they also double the findings from a decade ago: An estimated 1.4 million people – around 0.6 percent of U.S. adults — identify as transgender, according to a new study.
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The fully urban District of Columbia has the highest percentage of adults who identify as transgender, with 14,550 people — around 2.77 percent of the federal district’s population.

Several states have 100,000 or more people who identify as transgender, according to the researchers: California, with 218,000; Florida, with 100,300; and Texas, with 125,350.

The highest percentages of adults identifying as transgender per state were found in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and New Mexico — all with 0.8 percent — followed by Texas and Florida with 0.7 percent, according to the study.

Five states were found to have the lowest percentages of transgender-identified adults, all with 0.3 percent: North Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota.

U.S. flag at half-staff 328 days last year : Is the tribute overused ? - San Jose Mercury News
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Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant official gestures of mourning and respect, an Associated Press analysis found.

The centuries-old practice can be a visible, public answer to extraordinary loss, as when more than four dozen people were killed last month at a gay nightclub in Florida. But as the nation marks Independence Day on Monday, flag buffs have noted that the honor has been extended more widely over time, including to celebrities and police dogs. And some have questioned whether the country has lowered the bar on the lowering of the flag.
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Eight states had orders lowering the U.S. flag in effect over more than 30 days; Massachusetts led all others, keeping the flag at half-staff for over a quarter of the year, including on the Fourth of July.
[…]
Even denying flag honors to a convicted felon didn’t fly in Rhode Island. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo initially declined to lower flags this year for longtime former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci, a Republican-turned-independent who’d been convicted of corruption. Amid an outcry from Cianci fans, Raimondo changed her mind “out of respect for the office he held for 20 years.”

Difficile d’imaginer en effet que Levallois-Perret ne porte pas le deuil de son maire emblématique lorsque celui-ci achèvera le cours de son existence. Et son patronyme mériterait de rejoindre, voire remplacer, ceux des immortels spéculateurs fonciers qui ont donné leurs noms à la commune.

Hundreds of U.S. Clinics Sell Unapproved Stem Cell ’Therapies’ | Health, Medicine and Fitness | mtstandard.com
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Hundreds of clinics across the United States are marketing unapproved stem cell treatments for conditions ranging from aging skin to spinal cord injuries, a new study finds.

In an online search, researchers found at least 570 clinics offering unapproved stem cell “therapies.” They tend to be concentrated in a handful of states — including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New York and Texas — but are scattered across many other states, too.

Most often, the clinics market stem cell procedures for orthopedic conditions, such as arthritis and injured ligaments and tendons. This does have science behind it, but is still experimental, medical experts said.

In other cases with little or no supporting evidence, clinics hawked stem cell “facelifts” and therapies for serious conditions such as chronic lung disease, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis.

If these pricey stem cell treatments are unproven and unapproved by federal regulators, how can these clinics exist?

“I ask myself that question all the time,” said Leigh Turner, a bioethicist who worked on the study.

Turner, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics, said attention used to focus on “stem cell tourism” — where people travel to countries such as China, India and Mexico to get unproven treatments.

“I think there’s a misperception that everything here [in the U.S.] is regulated,” Turner said. “But these clinics are operating here, and on a relatively large scale.”

Before Omar Mateen Committed Mass Murder, the FBI Tried to ’Lure’ Him Into a Terror Plot
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Before Omar Mateen gunned down 49 patrons of the LGBTQ Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the FBI attempted to induce him to participate in a terror plot. Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida’s St. Lucie...

Gun Violence ’A Public Health Crisis,’ American Medical Association Says : The Two-Way : NPR
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Days after the deadly mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., the American Medical Association says it is adopting a policy calling gun violence in the U.S. “a public health crisis,” and it says it will actively lobby Congress to overturn 20-year-old legislation blocking research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries,” AMA President Steven Stack said in a statement