provinceorstate:hawaii

How ‘Oumuamua Got Shredded - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/how-oumuamua-got-shredded

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‘Oumuamua may be a piece of a torn-apart comet, gravitationally launched into interstellar space, that roamed the galaxy before dropping on our doorstep.ESO / M. Kornmesser / WikicommonsOur solar system’s first houseguest—at least, the first one we have seen in our midst—is a strange one. Scientists have taken to calling it ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “Oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah”), after it was seen, last October, as a faint streak against a backdrop of stars, by the Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope, in Hawaii. In Hawaiian, ‘Oumuamua means “a messenger from afar arriving first.”How do we know it’s “from afar”? ‘Oumuamua is fast. Minus the sun’s gravitational tug, it’s clocking 16 miles per second. A massive planet like Jupiter can gravitationally kick an object hard enough (...)

Hawaii proposes landmark legislation against loot boxes
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-02-13-hawaii-introduces-landmark-legislation-against-loot-boxes

State legislator claims more than half of US states are considering similar provisions

#Politics

Wikipédia a la tristesse de me faire savoir qu’Esther Williams est décédée. (En 2013, mais ça n’a pas dû beaucoup changer depuis.)

#la_main_noire

Sinon, @seenthis, j’aimerais initier mes enfants au bonheur des comédies musicales aquatiques. Tu aurais des choses à me conseiller en particulier ?

Hawaii
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Traffic on #PornHub during and after the #Hawaii_false_alert

▻https://www.pornhub.com/insights/hawaii-alert

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#data #porn

Après Hawaï, le Japon
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/apres-hawai-le-japon

Après Hawaï, le Japon

Les alertes se suivent et se ressemblent : fausses, tout simplement. Ce fut le cas samedi dernier à Hawaii, cela a été le cas avant-hier au Japon. Les circonstances sont évidemment différentes mais le fond de la chose est assez similaire. Simplement, les Japonais ont été plus rapides à rendre compte de leur erreur (ou de leur “erreur” ? On verra...). Il a fallu cinq minutes à la chaîne publique japonaise NHK entre l’envoi d’un message sur son site, sur ses comptes tweeter et sur sa téléphonie mobile, et le démenti penaud (ou “abject”, dit WSWS.org) du présentateur de la chaîne. Le texte de WSWS.org ci-dessous vous conte l’incident dans ses détails et insiste de plus en plus, après une première hypothèse samedi pour Hawaii, sur la possibilité d’incident(s) délibérément provoqué(s) :

« Il (...)

Days after Hawaii alert gaffe, Japan issues false alarm about a missile launch
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-japan/days-after-hawaii-alert-gaffe-japan-issues-false-alarm-about-a-missile-laun

Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued a false alarm about a North Korean missile launch on Tuesday, just days after a similar gaffe caused panic in Hawaii, but it managed to correct the error within minutes.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the mistake.

“We are still checking,” an NHK spokesman said.

NHK’s 6.55 p.m. alert said: “North Korea appears to have launched a missile ... The government urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground.”

The same alert was sent to mobile phone users of NHK’s online news distribution service.

In five minutes, the broadcaster put out another message correcting itself.

Ce qu’il y a fabuleux avec la fausse-alerte au missile à Hawaï, c’est que maintenant les médias ricains dissertent longuement sur… la menace des missiles atomiques nord-coréens…

Le NY Times t’explique :
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-missile.html

Estimates vary, but it would take a little more than half an hour for a missile launched from North Korea to reach Hawaii, traversing an arc of roughly 5,700 miles. State officials said that residents here would have as little as 12 minutes to find shelter once an alert was issued.

Chez CNN (comme des d’autres), c’est un très long développement sur le thème : Comment ça va se passer quand les Coréens nous bombarderont
▻http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-false-alert-how-process/index.html

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The detection triggers an instant Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, assessment process. The assessment looks at where the launch is, the potential type of missile, trajectory, apogee, distance and potential targets in the path of the missile.

Top military commanders join a conference call, with the top priority being to decide whether the missile is a threat to the US or its allies.

If the missile is a threat, the president is brought in and response decisions are made. NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command), STRATCOM, intelligence agencies and the National Security Council are involved in the decision-making.

Even if the missile is not a threat, the president usually is notified quickly, while missiles are still in flight.

The United States has not had to make a direct military response to recent North Korean launches because it’s been assessed they posed no threat to the United States. If they did, missiles on ships in the Pacific, or other land-based missiles, could be launched to try to shoot down an incoming missile.

Et ce processus qui consiste à mettre ça sur le dos de Kim, ça s’appelle : « a broader discussion » :
▻https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-agency-behind-false-missile-alert-getting-death-threats

The false alarm triggered a broader discussion about national security at a time when North Korea has been flexing its muscles by launching test missiles and bragging about its nuclear capability.

C’est assez miraculeux, avec les Ricains : ils te disent que c’est une banale erreur de manipulation de bouton, mais ils font tout pour que ça ressemble à une banale opération psychologique !

Tulsi et la Corée du Nord
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/tulsi-et-la-coree-du-nord

Tulsi et la Corée du Nord

Tulsi Gabbard, dont on a déjà parlé comme un membre du monde politique washingtonien aussi rare et aussi remarquable qu’un Ron Paul en son temps, est intéressée par la crise de la Corée du Nord notamment en sa qualité de députée des iles Hawaii. Les îles constituent en effet l’État de l’Union (Guam n’étant pas un État) le plus proche de la Corée du Nord, dont divers experts commencent à apprécier qu’elle serait sur le point d’atteindre ou atteindrait la capacité de développer des missiles balistiques à portée intercontinentale (à têtes nucléaires, certes), donc capables de toucher l’Ouest des USA, et a fortiori bien entendu les Hawaii.

Il y a eu à Hawaii, il y a deux jours, une fausse “alerte réelle” (du type “ceci n’est pas un exercice”, etc.) annonçant une attaque nord-coréenne par (...)

Ça y est, la Corée a bombardé les États-Unis (#ou_pas) :
▻https://apnews.com/179e1a9dc23d43b2996ac7093897fa77

A push alert that warned of an incoming ballistic missile to Hawaii and sent residents into a full-blown panic Saturday was a mistake, state emergency officials said.

The emergency alert, which was sent to cellphones, said in all caps, “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Repoza said it was a false alarm and the agency is trying to determine what happened.

Can Hawaii’s waterfall-climbing fish survive when mountain rains change?
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/hawaii-waterfalls-fish-clouds-climate-change

O’opu make extreme treks to breed that depend on stable climate conditions

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Star Wars Battlefront loot boxes are gambling, say Belgian authorities
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-11-22-loot-boxes-are-gambling-say-belgian-authorities

Hawaii also considers legislation against “Star Wars-themed online casino”

#Politics

Une très belle comète passe actuellement juste à côté du Soleil, et autres rendez-vous astronomiques | Autour du Ciel
▻http://autourduciel.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/10/27/une-tres-belle-comete-passe-actuellement-juste-a-cote-du-s

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La comète 96P Machholz 1 a une période d’un peu plus de 5,2 années, elle est donc passée plusieurs fois à proximité du Soleil depuis sa découverte par l’astronome amateur américain Don Machholz, le 12 mai 1986. Il existe plusieurs centaines de comètes périodiques répertoriées, dont la célèbre comète de Halley (1P), mais 96P Machholz 1 est l’une de celles qui passent à la plus petite distance du Soleil lors de son périhélie, ce qui rend souvent son observation particulièrement délicate. Cette fois-ci, la configuration de la Terre, du Soleil et de 96P Machholz 1 est plutôt favorable puisque cette comète va virer la nuit prochaine autour du Soleil, juste sur sa droite depuis notre point de vue. Elle sera alors à 18,5 millions de kilomètres de notre étoile – environ trois fois plus près que la planète Mercure – et le rayonnement solaire intense va permettre à son panache de gaz et de poussière de se développer majestueusement.
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Cette seconde hypothèse [elle pourrait provenir d’un autre système stellaire et aurait été capturée par l’attraction gravitationnelle du Soleil] prend un relief tout particulier ces jours-ci puisque, alors même que nous observons le passage au périhélie de 96P Machholz 1, des astronomes de l’observatoire du Mauna Haleakalā (Hawaii) viennent d’annoncer la découverte, le 19 octobre dernier, de l’objet A/2017 U1 – probablement un astéroïde ou le noyau inactif d’une vieille comète – dont l’orbite très spéciale semblerait favoriser une origine externe au Système solaire. Mesurant probablement moins de 400 m de diamètre, ce petit corps inerte est en effet arrivé à grande vitesse sur une trajectoire hyperbolique inclinée de près de 120° par rapport au plan de l’écliptique – le plan de l’orbite de la Terre – et il n’a subi apparemment aucune autre attraction gravitationnelle que celle du Soleil. Il provenait d’une direction proche de celle de la constellation de la Lyre sur la sphère céleste et il a viré le 9 septembre autour du Soleil à l’intérieur de l’orbite de Mercure, à moins de 40 millions de kilomètres de notre étoile. Le 19 octobre, lors de sa découverte, il filait à près de 24 millions de kilomètres de notre planète à la vitesse de 44 km/s (158 000 km/h), sur une trajectoire de sortie du Système solaire en direction de la constellation de Pégase.

Tsunami carried a million sea creatures from Japan to US west coast | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/29/tsunami-carried-million-sea-creatures-from-japan-to-us-west-coast?CMP=f

The deadly tsunami that struck north-east Japan in 2011 has carried almost 300 species of sea life thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of the United States.

In what experts are calling the longest maritime migration ever recorded, an estimated one million creatures – including crustaceans, sea slugs and sea worms – made the 4,800-mile (7,725km) journey on a flotilla of tsunami debris.

“This has turned out to be one of the biggest unplanned natural experiments in marine biology – perhaps in history,” said John Chapman, an expert at Oregon State University who co-authored a study of the creatures published this week in the journal Science.

The towering tsunami, triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March 2011, generated five million tonnes of debris from the three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

About 70% sank quickly to the ocean floor, according to experts, but countless buoys, docks, boats and other items with buoyancy were swept out to sea.

Between June 2012 and February this year 289 Japanese species attached to 600 pieces of debris washed up on beaches in the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as in the Canadian province of British Columbia, according to the study.

#tsunami #biologie_marine

Comment le tsunami a provoqué une migration marine massive
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/environnement-comment-le-tsunami-provoque-une-migration-marin

Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October • The Register
▻https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/planetary_defence_test_as_asteroid_2012_tc4_flies_by_in_october

NASA’s preparing another round asteroid defence tests, thanks to the October fly-by of a rock that may come within a cosmic whisker of the Earth.

Asteroid #2012TC4 is said rock and is between ten and thirty metres across. NASA says it is “certain it will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) from the surface of Earth.” That’s a very close encounter indeed given the term “nearby” is applied to rocks that get anywhere inside lunar orbit.

We don’t know a lot about 2012 TC4 because when it was spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescopes in Hawaii we only got a look at it for seven days.

That’s not a bad thing for a dry-run asteroid-spotting campaign, something proposed by University of Arizona astronomer Vishnu Reddy.

As Reddy explains in the University’s announcement, what’s on the table is “an observational campaign to exercise the network and test how ready we are for a potential impact by a hazardous asteroid”.

GÉOGRAPHIE DU SURF

Ressources pour préparer les concours de l’enseignement en géographie autour des questions :
– Géographie des mers et des océans (agrégation interne en histoire et géographie),
– Les espaces du tourisme et des loisirs (Capes/Cafep externe en histoire-géographie, agrégation externe de géographie et agrégation externe d’histoire).

Le géographe Jean-Pierre AUGUSTIN a « inauguré » une série de travaux sur le surf et ses spatialités, notamment dirigeant l’ouvrage Surf Atlantique. Les territoires de l’éphémère (Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, 1994). Depuis, les travaux se sont multipliés appréhendant des questions aussi diverses que la mondialisation de ce sport (qui est un parfait exemple pour comprendre les principes de la diffusion spatiale en géographie), les conséquences de cette pratique sportive et touristique en termes d’aménagement (alors même que la pratique elle-même ne nécessite pas d’infrastructures particulières) et de conflits d’usages sur des littoraux convoités, ou encore les modalités de l’appropriation de l’Océan par les surfeurs.

Sans prétendre à l’exhausivité et en favorisant les ressources accessibles à tous, voici quelques ressources pour construire une étude de cas autour du surf.

https://www.franceculture.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2012/07/eee146bb-d1d0-11e1-a7b7-782bcb76618d/738_capture-decran-2012-07-18-a-10.13.03.jpg

LA DIFFUSION SPATIALE ET LA MONDIALISATION DU SURF
AUGUSTIN, Jean-Pierre, 1996, « Les variations territoriales de la mondialisation du sport », Mappemonde, n°4/1996, pp. 16-20, en ligne :
▻http://www.mgm.fr/PUB/Mappemonde/M496/Augustin.pdf
=> Cet article n’aborde pas seulement le cas du surf, mais cette pratique y est abordée et détaillée de manière synthétique et utile pour comprendre les étapes de la mondialisation du surf.

https://www.franceculture.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2012/07/ccc1809a-d0e1-11e1-a7b7-782bcb76618d/738_capture-decran-2012-07-17-a-11.39.54.jpg

COËFFÉ, Vincent, Christophe GUIBERT et Benjamin TAUNAY, 2012, « Émergences et diffusions mondiales du surf. De l’invention à la mise à l’épreuve de normes corporelles », Géographie et cultures, n°82, pp. 61-76, en ligne :
▻https://gc.revues.org/1342

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LE SURF ET LE PAYSAGE
SAYEUX, Anne-Sophie, 2010, « Les paysages vagues », Sociétés, n°109, pp. 91-103, en ligne :
▻https://www.cairn.info/revue-societes-2010-3-page-91.htm

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LES SURFEURS ET LEURS PRATIQUES SPATIALES
Audio : L’émission « L’espace des surfeurs », Planète Terre, France Culture, 18 juillet 2012, animée par Sylvain Kahn, avec pour invités Anne-Sophie SOYEUX et Guillaume MARIANI, en ligne :
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/planete-terre/lespace-des-surfeurs

SAYEUX, Anne-Sophie, 2008, Surfeurs, l’être au monde. Une analyse socio-anthropologique, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 196 p.
=> Cet ouvrage est issu de la thèse de doctorat de l’auteur :
▻https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00872190/file/ThA_se_sayeux_surfeurs_l_A_tre_au_monde_HAL.pdf

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MUSEREAU, Jonathan, 2008, « Vagues à la carte », EspacesTemps.net, rubrique Objets, 28 octobre 2008, en ligne :
▻https://www.espacestemps.net/articles/vagues-a-la-carte

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AUGUSTIN, Jean-Pierre, 2009, « L’océan, le surf et les territoires de l’éphémère », Cafés géographiques, compte-rendu du café géographie du 2 octobre 2009 à Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, par Bénédicte Tratnjek, en ligne :
▻http://cafe-geo.net/locean-le-surf-et-les-territoires-de-lephemere

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FALAIX, Ludovic, 2009, « Une géographie de l’intime : l’exemple des territoires du surf », Revue Européenne de Management du sport, n°24, pp.32-41.
Article en accès réservé : ▻http://www.territorial.fr/PAR_TPL_IDENTIFIANT/13352/TPL_CODE/TPL_REVUE_ART_FICHE/PAG_TITLE/Une+g%E9ographie+de+l%27intime+%3A+l%27exemple+des+territoires+du+surf/334-rems.htm

SAYEUX, Anne-Sophie, 2010, « Au coeur de la vague. Comment peut-on être surfeur ? », Ethnographiques, n°20, septembre 2010, en ligne :
▻http://www.ethnographiques.org/2010/Sayeux

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FALAIX, Ludovic, 2012, Des vagues et des hommes. La glisse au coeur des résistances et contestations face à l’institutionnalisation des territoires du surf en Aquitaine, thèse de doctorat en aménagement et urbanisme, Université de Pau, en ligne :
▻http://www.theses.fr/2012PAUU1006
–> voir un résumé : ▻http://www.carnetsdegeographes.org/carnets_soutenances/sout_04_07_Falaix.php

FALAIX, Ludovic, 2014, « L’habiter des surfeurs face au réenchantement touristique du littoral aquitain », Loisir et société, tome n°37, n°1/2014, pp. 132-150, en ligne :
▻https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00969125

DES LIEUX TRANSFORMÉS PAR LE SURF
GUIBERT, Christophe, 2006, L’univers du surf et stratégies politiques en Aquitaine, L’Harmattan, Paris, 321 p.

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COËFFÉ, Vincent, 2014, « Jack London et la fascination du surf », chapitre n°3, dans Hawaï. La fabrique d’un espace touristique, Presses universitaires de Rennes, collection Géographie sociale, pp. 47-50, en ligne :
▻http://books.openedition.org/pur/34556
–> Voir également dans le même ouvrage : « Les jeux du surf », chapitre n°15, pp. 167-177, en ligne :
▻http://books.openedition.org/pur/34572

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FALAIX, Ludovic, 2015, « Le surf à Taghazout - Maroc : De l’émergence spontanée de néoterritorialités sportives à la laborieuse mise en tourisme institutionnelle d’une pratique », Via@, rubrique Brèves, en ligne :
▻https://viatourismreview.com/fr/2015/06/francais-le-surf-a-taghazout-maroc-de-lemergence-spontanee-de-neot

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HATT, Emeline, Jérôme PIRIOU, Ludovic FALAIX et Anne GOMBAULT, 2015, « La valorisation touristique des ressources territoriales dans les trajectoires des stations : les cas de Lacanau-Océan, Biarritz et Martigues », Sud-Ouest Européen, n°39, pp. 65-79, en ligne : ▻https://soe.revues.org/1897

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GUIBERT, Christophe et Vincent COËFFÉ, 2016, « Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii) », Mondes du tourisme, hors-série, en ligne :
▻https://tourisme.revues.org/1211

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GUYONNARD, Valentin et Luc VACHER, 2016, « Définition d’un espace de pratique du système littoral touristique et sportif charentais : le spot de surf », Territoire en mouvement, n°30, en ligne :
▻http://tem.revues.org/3354

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DES PRODUCTIONS GRAPHIQUES
Ces productions sont toutes issues de la cartothèque du laboratoire Géode Caraïbe :
▻http://aihp-geode.martinique.univ-ag.fr/cartotheque
=> Voir notamment la page de Corine Plantin : ▻http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/page5/page17/page45/page85/page85.html

Dynamiques et mutations littorales créées par le surf (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte419.jpg

Le pôle de surf de la Caravelle à la Martinique (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte417.jpg

Surf, diffusion et décalages spatiotemporelles (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte414.jpg

Les dynamiques migratoires du spot de Soup Ball (Barbade) (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte418.jpg

Distribution et dynamiques spatiales des spots de surf à la Barbade (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte415.jpg

Distribution et dynamiques spatiales des spots de surf à la Guadeloupe et à la Martinique (Corine PLANTIN) :

http://www1.univ-ag.fr/aihp-geode/ea929/images/cartes/carte416.jpg

#Géographie #Géographie_du_Tourisme #Géographie_des_Mers_et_Océans #Géographie_des_Mers_et_des_Océans #Capes #Capes_Externe #Capes_Cafep #Capes_Cafep_Externe #CapesHG #Capes_HG #Capes_Histoire_Géographie #AgregInterneHG #Agreg_Interne_HG #Agrégation_Interne #Agreg_Interne #Agrégation_Interne_Histoire_Géographie #Les_Espaces_du_Tourisme_et_des_Loisirs #Tourisme #Surf #Géographie_du_Surf #Géographie_du_Sport #Sports #Sport #Sports_Nautiques

Hawaii’s Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hawaiis-homeless-community-taking-matters-into-their-own-hands

With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group of homeless...

Carbon Dioxide Could Reach 410 PPM This Month | Climate Central
▻http://www.climatecentral.org/news/carbon-dioxide-410-ppm-21223

Signalé par @freakonometrics sur Twitter

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A never-ending stream of carbon pollution ensures that each year the world continues to break records for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This year will be no different.

Like a rite of spring, carbon dioxide is poised to cruise pass the previous mark set last year and reach heights unseen in human history. In the coming weeks, carbon dioxide will start to breach the 410 parts per million threshold on a daily basis at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The monthly average for May could come close to topping 410 ppm, too, according to the U.K. Met Office’s inaugural carbon dioxide forecast, released last week.

#climat

Nouvelles de la Résistance : Rand rejoint Tulsi
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/nouvelles-de-la-resistance-rand-rejoint-tulsi

Nouvelles de la Résistance : Rand rejoint Tulsi

L’état de l’esprit de l’antiSystème est résilient, selon un terme souvent utilisé par les temps qui courent si vite, autant qu’il est Résistance en soi. Qui plus est, il se niche partout, y compris au Congrès des États-Unis, ce temple de la corruption-Système. Ainsi en est-il avec l’annonce heureuse d’une union entre la magnifique Tulsi Gabbard, démocrate héroïque à la Chambre, et Rand Paul, fils de Ron et républicain opiniâtre au Sénat. Le second a rejoint la première pour co-parrainer symboliquement, en introduisant une proposition identique au Sénat, la proposition de loi dite SATA (Stop Arming Terrorists Act) qu’a lancée à la Chambre la députée de Hawaii, interdisant la livraison d’armes US aux organisations terroristes type-Daesh et le reste.

Il s’agit (...)

Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood
(Irina Alexander, August 2016)

A long but interesting read about how Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” came to be.

Oliver Stone, director
Moritz Borman, the producer
Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s Russian lawyer
Ben Wizner, Snowden’s lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

▻https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/edward-snowdens-long-strange-journey-to-hollywood.html

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On “Snowden,” he and Borman became so preoccupied with American government surveillance that they had their Los Angeles offices swept for bugs more than once.

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[Wizner said] that Snowden wasn’t profiting from Stone’s film in any way. “One hard-and-fast rule Ed always had was, I’m not selling my life rights,” Wizner said. Snowden’s participation in a Hollywood movie would only fuel the claims of his critics — that he was a narcissist eager to cash in. That said, Stone’s film would be seen by millions of people, which meant it could sway public opinion. “We were choosing between two bad options,” Wizner said.

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Wizner had negotiated veto control over any footage featuring Snowden in the film. After we spoke, the lawyer says he asked Borman to put that in writing. He also reiterated that if Stone took a reporter along, Snowden would not participate. Stone and I eventually reached a compromise: I wouldn’t observe the shoot, but I could still come and meet Kucherena.

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Anticipating a homesick Snowden, [Stone’s co-writer] hauled over a duffel bag packed with the stuff of Americana dreams: Kraft macaroni and cheese, Jell-O cups, Oreos, Pepperidge Farm cookies, Twizzlers, peanut butter, Spam, an Orioles baseball cap and a pair of Converse sneakers. “It was like delivering a care package to a kid at summer camp,” [he said.] He also slipped in a copy of “The Odyssey” translated by his grandfather “I thought it was appropriate, since Ed was on his own kind of odyssey trying to get home.”

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Wizner, who is 45, has been at the A.C.L.U. since 2001. Before Snowden, he tried to bring several suits to increase oversight over the intelligence community. Wizner likes to say that he spent a decade banging his head against a wall, and then Snowden came along and brought that wall down. Snowden had not only revealed the scope of the surveillance apparatus, but also that top government officials routinely misled the public about it. Since becoming Snowden’s advocate, Wizner has become a figure of not insignificant geopolitical importance. Those revelations have since formed a critical backdrop for legislative reforms, and there are few things that irritate Wizner more than claims that threaten to tarnish Snowden’s character and their common cause.

It would not be a stretch to say that for Wizner, Kucherena has become a bit of a liability. Since 2013, the Russian lawyer has announced that Snowden landed a job at a major Russian website — news that turned out to not be true — and has supplied the news media with photos of his client enjoying his new life in Russia, attending an opera at the Bolshoi Theater and cheerfully hugging a dog named Rick. (Rick later turned out to be the dog of one of Kucherena’s friends). Now Kucherena had sold a novel to Stone, making it seem as if the director had to pay a Russian fixer to have access to Snowden — or worse, that Snowden was somehow under the lock and key of the Russian authorities, lent to Stone for a Hollywood movie.

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According to Wizner, [Snowden] leads a free existence in Russia, making appearances via live video and publishing op-eds against Russia’s human rights violations. “I think people are inclined to believe that Russia would never let him stay there unless he was paying for it in some way,” Wizner said. “But it’s just not true. Not only is he not cooperating, but he’s actually being critical.”

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Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Anatoly Kucherena and Kieran Fitzgerald in Kucherena’s office in Moscow.

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The shoot took place at Kucherena’s dacha. The day went long. Stone’s idea was to interview Snowden and capture an affecting moment that would give the film its dramatic ending. But the first takes were stiff. “Ed is used to answering questions on a level of intelligence,” Stone said. “But I was interested in the emotional, which is difficult for him.”

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“Suddenly this little creature comes teetering in — so fragile, so lovely, such a charming, well-­behaved, beautiful little man,” the cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, told me. “He’s like an old soul in a very young body. He’s got fingers like violins.” Filming Snowden reminded Mantle of shooting other men with outsize reputations and slight builds. “It’s like Bono or Al Pacino,” he added. “Those guys are teeny-­weenies. But if you isolate him into a frame, he can be as big as anybody else.”

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Convinced that making the film on American soil would be too risky, Stone decided to film in Germany, where Borman was able to score some tax subsidies. With roughly 140 script pages to shoot in 54 days, the crew sprinted from Munich to Washington, to Hawaii, to Hong Kong, and then back to Munich. Often, Mantle wouldn’t get to see locations before he had to film in them. To cut costs, the suburbs of Munich had to stand in for rural Maryland and Virginia, with German extras cast as Americans. “Thank God the Germans act like Americans,” Stone said.

The production itself resembled a covert operation, with a code name (“Sasha” had stuck) and elaborate security protocols. Worried that “Sasha” would be of interest to the N.S.A., Borman and Stone avoided discussing production details by phone or email — “It was all handwritten notes and long walks in the park,” Borman said — and kept the script on air-­gapped computers, ones that have never been connected to the internet. If it had to be mailed, Borman would mix up the pages into four packages, which he would send with four different couriers to four different addresses. “Maybe nobody gave a [expletive],” Borman told me. “Or maybe the N.S.A. is laughing at us like, ‘Look at those idiots — of course we copied everything that came through DHL and FedEx!”

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In the spring of 2014, Stone flew to Berlin and met with Poitras. The meeting did not go well. According to Poitras, Stone proposed that she delay the release of “Citizenfour,” which she was then in the middle of editing, to time up with his film. “Because his film would be the real movie — because it’s a Hollywood movie,” Poitras told me. “Obviously I wasn’t interested in doing that. To have another filmmaker ask me to delay the release of my film was — well, it was somewhat insulting.”

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If Poitras had a strong reaction to Stone’s proposal, it was because she had already been hounded by Sony. After the studio optioned Greenwald’s book, Poitras says Sony asked to buy her life rights — an offer she declined. Sony suggested that she come on as a consultant, but when the contract arrived, it stipulated that the studio would have access to Poitras’s tapes and notebooks. “So I’d already gone through that when Oliver came in trying to position himself,” she said.

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Stone was right about Gordon-­Levitt. His performance is not an interpretation so much as a direct replica of the whistle-­blower’s even demeanor and intonation. Quinto plays Greenwald with such intensity that he appears perpetually enraged. Melissa Leo’s Poitras is in turn warm and protective, almost maternal.

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Snowden’s N.S.A. boss is unsubtly named Corbin O’Brian, after the antagonist in Orwell’s “1984.” “Most Americans don’t want freedom,” O’Brian tells Snowden. “They want security.”

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Snowden’s many storytellers all tell a similar hero narrative. But if Greenwald’s account is about journalism, Poitras’s is a subtle and artful character study and Kucherena’s is an attempt at the Russian novel — a man alone in a room, wrestling with his conscience — Stone’s is the explicit blockbuster version, told in high gloss with big, emotional music and digestible plot points that will appeal to mass audiences. As Wizner wisely anticipated, it is the narrative most likely to cement Snowden’s story in Americans’ minds.

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Snowden declined to comment for this article, but Stone told me he had seen the film and liked it. At a screening at Comic-­Con a few months later, Snowden would beam in via satellite to give his somewhat wary approval. “It was something that made me really nervous,” he said of Stone’s film. “But I think he made it work.”

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Gordon-­Levitt was so moved by Snowden’s story that he donated most of his salary from the film to the A.C.L.U. and used the rest to collaborate with Wizner on a series of videos about democracy.

Almost famous: Israel recruits D-list celebrities to counter BDS
Why should the government pay for flights and stays of Hollywood actors in order to combat the boycott movement?
By Itamar Zohar | Jan. 3, 2017 | 12:30 AM
▻http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.762642

If in the next few days you come across social media photos of minor American actors who are in Israel, either at the Western Wall or the Jordan River, you should know that they are the guests of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. As part of his roles as information minister and strategic affairs minister, and as part of the cabinet’s efforts to block the campaign calling to boycott Israel, Erdan invited actors Daniel Dae Kim (“Lost” and “Hawaii-Five-O”), Meagan Good (“Deception”), Sonequa Martin-Green and Kenric Green (“The Walking Dead”) and Mark Pellegrino (“Dexter” and “Supernatural”) to Israel.

You don’t recognize these names? You’re not alone. On their Instagram pages you’ll at least be able to find out what they did here – visit the Western Wall and the Dead Sea, while making sure to stay away from politics. Daniel Dae Kim stressed on Instagram that his visit to Jerusalem was apolitical. Of course it was. But coming on a government-sponsored visit posed no problem for him.

The visit of this delegation of minor Hollywood actors was the initiative of America’s Voices in Israel, an organization that strives to promote Israel’s image in the United States. It has already sponsored similar visits in the past. It now appears that the government wishes to join this initiative.

The question is, why should the government pay for flights and stays of Hollywood actors, well-known or less-known, in order to combat the boycott movement? This money could have been used to help people who live here, not for casual visitors who will forget what they saw here by next week.

Even if, as the official description of their visit contends, “they will document their visit for 50 million of their followers on social media,” their ability to impact anything here is marginal. For them it’s a freebie, an opportunity to collect yet another country’s stamp in their passports while touring it at someone else’s expense.

Erdan writes that the aim of the visit is “to expose the complex reality of Israel without any biased mediation,” but this is precisely what he’s doing. He’s a cabinet member trying to further its policies. What could be more biased than that? At the end of his announcement he writes “we see great importance in bringing influential people from diverse areas here, in order to show them the truth about Israel. We’re building bridges between Israel and communities around the world in all spheres of life.” (...)

#BDS

Going, going, gone … The last ship carrying the last load of sugar | News, Sports, Jobs - Maui News
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KAHULUI — Now, sugar really is gone.

On Friday, the same day that Puunene Mill smokestacks stopped puffing, the last shipment of Maui-made sugar was carried out of Kahului Harbor. Bound for a refinery in California, the 685-foot-long Moku Pahu held 32,000 tons of sugar and 2,000 tons of molasses.

“I’m going to miss it all the way around, just with the cane fields being green, everything,” stevedore Mark Souki said as he watched the ship cruise out of the harbor. “I hate to see big changes in Hawaii happen. I always worry what the future’s going to be after.”

The departure of “the sugar ship” capped a whirlwind 12 months on Maui. In January, Alexander & Baldwin announced it would shut down Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. after 145 years in business. The closure of the 36,000-acre plantation meant the loss of 650 jobs and the end of an industry that shaped Hawaii for more than a century and a half.
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From the first successful plantation on Kauai in 1835 to the last one on Maui in 2016, sugar has been intertwined with local life. It attracted a melting pot of workers and laid a foundation of success for countless immigrant families. It kept thousands of acres in agriculture and diversified Hawaii’s modern, tourism-based economy.

It also raised its share of controversy — some of which continues today — over the health effects of cane burning and the ethics of water diversion.

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Why Jennifer Lawrence’s Butt-Scratching Incident Caused a Stir with Native Hawaiians
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Turns out the area where Lawrence was shooting, the Waimea Valley on the island’s north shore, has tremendous historical significance. “It was an archeological site,” says Hawaiian cultural expert Kahokulua Haiku, who advised the #Hunger_Games production team. “It’s an ancient Hawaiian living site and there are several hundred burial caves right in that area. The caves contain the bones of our ancestors—but not just any ancestors. They are called Kahuna. These were the astronomers, navigators, and doctors of the time. They were the Einsteins and Marconis of Hawaiian culture. And they were filming just a few yards away.”

Issues of indigenous rights are hot button issues in #Hawaii, where many native people have felt swamped by mainstream American culture and are keen to protect their heritage. Hawaii was an independent monarchy until 1893, when its last monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, was overthrown by a party of American businessmen. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison annexed the Hawaiian islands. Many Hawaiians have felt disrespected by the mainland ever since.
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[Donne] Dawson [the Hawaiian state film commissioner] and others hope the incident helps outsiders understand that Hawaii is far more than a place to hit the surf. “It’s important for people visiting Hawaii, and certainly film producers, to understand that the native Hawaiian community is alive and well,” says the film commissioner “Although our kingdom was overthrown more than a century ago, a lot of what we’re experiencing now is a result of what happened to native Hawaiians all those years ago. It’s important for people to understand why these things are considered so egregious to native Hawaiians.”

Builders Escape Most Costs as Navy on the Hook for Warships - Bloomberg
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The U.S. Navy must pay “f_or the vast majority of defects_” on its troubled Littoral Combat Ship, not contractors Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal Ltd., according to congressional investigators.

The government has to foot the bill because the Navy didn’t require warranties that would force contractors to pay many of the costs, as the U.S. Coast Guard does, the Government Accountability Office said in a statement delivered at a congressional hearing Thursday.

La marine états-unienne passe donc en toute impunité des contrats qui exonèrent le constructeur de toute responsabilité financière en cas de malfaçon…

The contract with Austal to build the Coronado, the fourth vessel built, required that the Navy pay “all the costs to correct all defects,” the GAO said. In August, the Coronado suffered the failure of a part in its propulsion system while in transit from Hawaii to Singapore. A Navy review board identified “shaft misalignment” as a contributing factor that was part of “deficiencies in the ship construction process,” the Navy said last week in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/a-new-threat-to-oceans-deep_sea-mining-for-precious-metals

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Around 500 miles southeast of the bright turquoise waters at Honolulu Harbor, and two and a half miles down to the dark ocean floor, a massive carpet of potato-sized rocks stretches thousands of miles on the seabed. These rocks, called polymetallic, or manganese, nodules, are made up of manganese, nickel, copper, and cobalt. The nodules’ growth is one of the slowest geological processes in the world—it takes millions of years for one to grow a couple of millimeters: Tiny particles precipitate from the surface of the ocean to the seafloor and conglomerate around a core, like a rock or a shark tooth, and create a nodule. John Mero, a professor of mineral technology at the University of California, Berkeley, was the first to eye them as a potentially revolutionary mineral resource. (...)