An interactive guide to Europe’s arms trade | News | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jun/13/interactive-investigate-europe-arm-trade
An interactive guide to Europe’s arms trade | News | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jun/13/interactive-investigate-europe-arm-trade
(Il y a un mois) Selon l’Observatoire syrien des Droits de l’Homme, entre la moitié et le tiers des tués en Syrie seraient alaouites.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/syria-death-toll-120000_n_3272610.html
At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria’s two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The group said that at least 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites, the sect of President Bashar al-Assad.
Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory, said that the Alawite death figures were confirmed by eight different Alawite sources in coastal cities and in Homs.
À rapprocher de l’affirmation du même observatoire, cité le mois suivant, selon laquelle 43% des tués sont des soldats ou combattants du régime :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/144656
Comme tout le monde, j’ai du mal à admettre ces chiffres, et je pensais qu’il s’agissait d’une citation erronée (ou inventée) de cet Observatoire, mais là on a deux citations différentes sur des informations différentes mais concordantes.
Ami lecteur, si tu as d’autres sources, je suis vraiment preneur, parce qu’en dehors de ces deux billets (eux-mêmes cités comme uniques sources par Wikipédia…), je n’ai rien trouvé d’autre.
Selon l’Observatoire, 6000 tués en mars 2013 : 25% de rebelles, 24% de soldats, 35% de civils.
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/apr/02/6-000-killed-in-bloodiest-month-for-syria-crisis-live-updates
The Observatory gave figures of 1,486 rebels and army defectors and 1,464 Syrian army soldiers killed, along with 2,080 civilians, 298 of them children and 291 women. In addition, the group listed 387 unidentified civilians and 588 unidentified fighters.
U.N. says 93,000 killed in Syrian conflict, fears for Aleppo
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/us-syria-crisis-toll-idUSBRE95C08G20130613
One of the monitoring groups, the British-based, pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said on Thursday it had now confirmed at least 98,000 deaths in the conflict, but that the total figure could exceed 130,000.
It said the confirmed toll included 25,040 Syrian soldiers and security personnel, and 17,107 pro-Assad militiamen.
C’est cohérent avec les chiffres qu’il a donné la semaine dernière à McClatchy. Contrairement à ce que je pensais, l’Observatoire n’a donc pas démenti ces chiffres, mais les a répétés à Reuters.
LA Times - U.N. says Syria death toll has likely surpassed 100,000
▻http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76288195
Each side in the conflict has been implicated in mass killing, the U.N. noted, and the new study does not specify which side has been responsible for more deaths.
But Pillay noted that government forces have access to greater firepower — including heavy artillery, aerial bombardments and specialized ordinance such as cluster bombs, which drop numerous bomblets.
Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance revelations strain China-US relations | World news | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/13/snowden-revelations-nsa-china-relations
On a visit to Washington where he met the US secretary of state, John Kerry, [the British foreign secretary William] Hague said: “No two countries in the world work more closely to protect the privacy of their citizens than the United Kingdom and the United States.”
Science fiction authors attack sexism amid row over SFWA magazine
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/12/science-fiction-sexism-sfwa
A growing chorus of science fiction authors have been speaking out about sexism in the genre after much-criticised recent editions of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s (SFWA) magazine, Bulletin, which featured a woman in a chainmail bikini on the cover and the claim that Barbie is a role model because she “maintained her quiet dignity the way a woman should”.
Why does the games industry have such a problem with female protagonists? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2013/jun/12/games-industry-problem-female-protagonists
It’s a tired cliche that all gamers are male, and it’s time manufacturers woke up to the fact that women want to see female characters they can relate to
Ethiopia rejects Egyptian protests over Nile dam
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/ethiopia-rejects-egyptian-protests-nile-dam
Nothing is going to stop the Renaissance Dam. Not a threat will stop it," Getachew Reda said via telephone. “None of the concerns the Egyptian politicians are making are supported by science. Some of them border on what I would characterise as fortune-telling.”
Africa, let us help – just like in 1884 | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/african-hunger-help-g8-grab
« Accords de partenariat » ? Entre la ploutocratie étrangère et l’"élite" compradore locale.
That African farming needs investment and support is indisputable. But does it need land grabbing? Yes, according to the deals these countries have signed. Mozambique, where local farmers have already been evicted from large tracts of land, is now obliged to write new laws promoting what its agreement calls “partnerships” of this kind.
Yahoo, Google, Facebook et d’autres : une question de confiance- The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/10/apple-google-giants-nsa-revelations
Pour le Guardian, l’affaire des fuites autour du programme #prism de la NSA risque de provoquer une grave crise de confiance pour les sociétés d’internet impliquées. Si les utilisateurs acceptent - pas toujours très bien - que ces entreprises utilisent nos données pour faire de la publicité, le fait qu’elles transmettent des informations au gouvernement ou à l’administration fiscale aura bien plus de mal à passer, estime Viktor Mayer-Schonberger. Pour Greg Nojeim du Centre pour la démocratie et la (...)
The houses built on China’s ’poisoned’ land | Environment | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/houses-chinas-posioned-land
Gao Shengke and Wang Kai have won the prize for Best Investigation atchinadialogue’s and The Guardian’s China Environmental Press Awards - 2013 for their investigation into contaminated earth in Chinese cities. Here is the first of their three-part series of reports.
The excavators are rumbling and dust swirls all about at the second phase of the Kangquan New City construction project in Guanzhuang village, Chaoyang District, outside Beijing’s east fifth ring road.
A 20-metre deep pit has been dug on the site. A foul stench rises from the pile of earth that has been removed. Until now, few people knew about the secret that was buried here.
This plot of land was previously the site of a factory owned by the Ministry of Railways that made anti-corrosive railway sleepers. The plant was in operation for more than 30 years; many kinds of organic pollutants continuously seeped into the topsoil, deeper soil layers, and into the groundwater. Some seven or eight years ago, the factory was relocated and this plot of ground was left unused. In January 2011, the city administration decided to convert the land into a development for affordable housing and it was taken over by the Residential Construction Service Centre for Civil Servants to build low-cost housing for civil servants from all ministries.
Mali at war
As peace talks begin between the Malian government and the Tuareg separatist MNLA, photojournalist Joe Penney describes his experiences of photographing war for the first time and talks about his distinguished work in Mali.
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2013/jun/10/photography-mali-conflict-joe-penney
▻http://www.joepenney.com/files/gimgs/43_mali-war-57.jpg
Site internet de Joe Penney :
▻http://www.joepenney.com/index.php?/photo/mali-at-war
#Mali #photographie #photoreportage #Joe_Penney
cc @reka
Que sont devenus les manifestants contre les #PIPA #SOPA #CISPA et autres tentatives de #censures_Internet ? On ne les entends pas au sujet de #PRISM. Autres pièces au dossier : Zimmermann : « Faire confiance à Google ou Facebook, c’est être à poil sur Internet » - ▻http://www.lepoint.fr/technologie/zimmermann-faire-confiance-a-google-ou-facebook-c-est-etre-a-poil-sur-intern - Edward Snowden’s choice of Hong Kong as haven is a high-stakes gamble - ▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-hong-kong-gamble
Pour être certains « qu’ils » trouvent ma question : partagé à Kweeper = ▻http://www.kweeper.com/oliviersc75/sentence/440011
#Obama n’est pas #Bush, qu’il fasse gaffe tout de même : ▻https://plus.google.com/u/0/114108954249717412482/posts/2mxyn9qiBhg
@olivier_sc, quelques éléments de réponse :
►http://bluetouff.com/2013/06/12/prism-pourquoi-ce-pseudo-scandale-men-touche-une-sans-faire-bouger-lautre
▻http://bluetouff.com/2013/06/16/prism-mainway-marina-nucleon-et-ce-nest-que-le-debut-de-la-liste
►http://reflets.info/spoiler-what-is-prism
et Kitetoa profitera d’ailleurs de Passage en Seine pour vous montrer à quel point PRISM est un tout petit bidule perdu, quelque part, en bas à gauche, d’un machin bien plus gros.
Whaoo, quand tu réponds, @sammyfisherjr , tu ne fais pas semblant ;) Merci ! Certains intervenants sont ce qu’ils sont ; mais/et, tout ceci n’est pas rassurant... #espionnage #internet
« On » y revient, donc, dans : ▻http://www.kweeper.com/oliviersc75/sentence/440523
Et dans la Revue de blogs : Des espions du Net = ▻http://blogoliviersc.org/?p=6746 #espions #internet
Food #game: how well do you know the world? - interactive | Global development | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2013/jun/07/food-game-what-do-you-know
Do you know your oats from your oils? Think you can make your culinary knowledge bear fruit? Then pit your wits against our food game. With the timer eating away vital seconds, you’ll need to guess where different world foods come from, rank countries by rates of undernourishment, and negotiate a challenging picture round. If you’ve got an appetite for the challenge, just click below to get started …
Edward Snowden : saving us from the United Stasi of America | Daniel Ellsberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america?CMP=twt_gu
’Death map’ of deserts aims to save lives of desperate Mexican migrants
Illegal immigration: Humane Borders support group charts bodies found in US-Mexico frontier to try to limit future tragedies
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/01/map-us-mexico-migrant-deaths-border
La même chose serait utile dans le Sahara. Il y a quelques années, j’avais en passant là-bas vers le Niger eu l’occasion de m’entretenir avec le commandant du poste Algérien d’Ain-Guezzam et il me disait que la découverte de cadavres de migrants est une occurrence fréquente à laquelle son unité s’est habituée. En 2010, Fortress Europe avait positivement identifiés plus de 1600 décès depuis 1996 - ceux qui ont été retrouvés et dont le décès a été rapporté : ▻http://fortresseurope.blogspot.com/2006/02/nel-deserto-del-sahara.html
LES CIBLES SECRÈTES DE BARACK OBAMA- ▻http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Les-cibles-secretes-de-Barack-Obama-517819
Le Guardian publie en exclusivité un document ‘top secret’ très embarrassant pour la Maison Blanche : une directive signée par Barack Obama où figure une liste de cibles potentielle de #cyber-attaques contre des pays étrangers. Ce document de 18 pages daté du 20 octobre 2012, vante les mérites des « Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) » susceptible d’offrir « les capacité uniques et non conventionnelles susceptibles de faire avancer les objectifs nationaux américains à travers le monde ».
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks | World news | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas
Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.
The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year but never published, states that what it calls Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) “can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national objectives around the world with little or no warning to the adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to severely damaging”.
It says the government will “identify potential targets of national importance where OCEO can offer a favorable balance of effectiveness and risk as compared with other instruments of national power”.
The directive also contemplates the possible use of cyber actions inside the US, though it specifies that no such domestic operations can be conducted without the prior order of the president, except in cases of emergency.
The aim of the document was “to put in place tools and a framework to enable government to make decisions” on cyber actions, a senior administration official told the Guardian.
The administration published some declassified talking points from the directive in January 2013, but those did not mention the stepping up of America’s offensive capability and the drawing up of a target list.
Obama’s move to establish a potentially aggressive cyber warfare doctrine will heighten fears over the increasing militarization of the internet.
The directive’s publication comes as the president plans to confront his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a summit in California on Friday over alleged Chinese attacks on western targets.
Even before the publication of the directive, Beijing had hit back against US criticism, with a senior official claiming to have “mountains of data” on American cyber-attacks he claimed were every bit as serious as those China was accused of having carried out against the US.
En complément de ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/146382
Iain Banks dies aged 59
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer
In praise of Iain Banks, storyteller extraordinaire
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/03/iain-banks-my-fife-friend
Par Val McDermid
Un très chouette livre sur le whisky et l’Ecosse par Iain Banks
Iain Banks. WIth or without the M. par Neil Gaiman
▻http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2013/06/iain-banks-with-or-without-m.html
A personnal statement from Iain Banks
Le texte annonçant sa maladie...
▻http://www.iain-banks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-iain-banks
– ENDS -
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance | World news | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/etdward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
#Edward_Snowden, le lanceur d’alerte, a demandé à être identifié.
Despite his determination to be publicly unveiled, he repeatedly insisted that he wants to avoid the media spotlight. “I don’t want public attention because I don’t want the story to be about me. I want it to be about what the US government is doing.”
Edward #Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of #NSA #surveillance :
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in US history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows.
Surveillance d’Internet : un ancien employé de la CIA à l’origine des fuites
►http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/06/09/un-ancien-employe-de-la-nsa-derriere-les-revelations-sur-les-ecoutes-numeriq
Un employé de 29 ans d’un sous-traitant américain de la défense est la source qui a révélé au Guardian des informations confidentielles sur les programmes de surveillance des communications menés par les Etats-Unis, a annoncé le quotidien britannique dimanche 9 juin.
« Je n’ai aucune intention de me cacher parce que je sais que je n’ai rien fait de mal », a déclaré Edward Snowden dans un entretien publié sur le site internet du journal. Le Guardian explique que c’est Edward Snowden lui-même qui a demandé de révéler son identité.
Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks-
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/code-name-verax-snowden-in-exchanges-with-post-reporter-made-clear-he-knew-risks/2013/06/09/c9a25b54-d14c-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_print.html
Verax was the name he chose for himself, “truth teller” in Latin. I asked him early on, without reply, whether he intended to hint at the alternative fates that lay before him.
Two British dissenters had used the pseudonym. Clement Walker, a 17th-century detractor of Parliament, died in the brutal confines of the Tower of London. Two centuries later, social critic Henry Dunckley adopted “Verax” as his byline over weekly columns in the Manchester Examiner. He was showered with testimonials and an honorary degree.
le vieux pseudo de Julian Assange est l’exact antonyme de Verax : Mendax
▻http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mendax#Latin
Quelqu’un va-t-il rappeler qu’une des grandes causes du 14 Mars (les copains de Saad Hariri) au Liban a consisté, ces dernières années, à tout faire pour pouvoir transférer le maximum de « données téléphoniques » aux « enquêteurs internationaux » ? Mais pas du tout pour que les Américains et leurs amis israéliens puissent espionner le Liban, hein. Oh ben non, c’est pas le genre de la maison…
Boundless Informant : the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14bn reports in that period, followed by 13.5bn from Pakistan. Jordan, one of America’s closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7bn, Egypt fourth with 7.6bn and India fifth with 6.3bn.
Is the Middle East heading for a full-blown religious war? | World news | The Observer
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/middle-east-full-blown-religious-war
It has become a cliche in recent months to talk of an inevitable and intractable sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia, over a schism in Islam that occurred 1,400 years ago. The reality is that the present rising tensions in the Middle East are far more complex than simple religious hatred. Rather, they reflect a growing friction rooted in more recent competitions over power, rights and identity which have been exacerbated both by the war in Iraq and by the reconfigurations of the Arab spring.
At the very heart of the debate is how much sectarian tensions themselves are driving the new conflicts or whether Sunni-Shia tensions have been co-opted into local and regional competitions whose nature is as much about power, politics and the distribution of resources as it is religious.
The split in the two branches of Islam is almost as old as Islam itself, resulting from a political struggle for leadership between followers of the Prophet Muhammad after his death. What emerged were sometimes subtly different – and sometimes quite radically different – interpretations of Muhammad’s teachings. Despite that, there has been no equivalent in Islamic history of the Thirty Years’ War that pitted Protestant against Catholic in Europe, while for long periods and in many places – not least Iraq despite its recent problems – Shia and Sunni have not only coexisted but widely intermarried.