Didier “Ice” Iceman

Carl Chenet est un acteur beaucoup plus impliqué que moi dans ce qu’on appelle encore la Communauté du Logiciel Libre, que ce soit via son blog, le site LinuxJobs pour les chercheurs d’emploi, et le Journal du Hacker dont j’ai déjà eu l’occasion de parler à maintes reprises, même si peu en détails. Il m’a recontacté récemment pour demander si je m’étais intéressé au Courrier du hacker; et si j’avais vu passer les annonces de loin, ça ne m’intéressait pas plus que ça. Pourtant, ça pourrait VOUS intéresser !

Au commencement, était le Journal du Hacker

Le constat de Carl, c’est qu’il n’existait pas de site à la Hacker News, site américain existant depuis fort fort longtemps, en langue française. En bon développeur et contributeur qu’il est, il a trouvé une base de code sur laquelle capitaliser pour lancer sont propre « Hacker News », d’abord appelé Journal du Pirate.

Le concept, ce sont les utilisateurs qui partagent les articles qu’ils trouvent intéressants, et peuvent voter pour augmenter la visibilité des articles postés par les autres, ainsi que les commenter. Le site de plus propose un flux RSS pour suivre les nouveaux liens, ce qui me plaît particulièrement puisque cette technologie est mon outil principal de veille. Il est donc vrai que je ne contribue que très peu, principalement par manque de temps, pourtant certains utilisateurs partagent volontiers mes articles dessus, et il n’est pas rare qu’il soit majoritaire sur Twitter en termes de sources de visites enregistrées par Matomo :

Ajoutez à ça un relai des articles sur Twitter, Diaspora* et Mastodon, et vous pouvez booster la visibilité d’un article de manière assez impressionnante. Le « JdH » va bientôt avoir cinq ans et son succès ne se dément pas, longue vie à lui

Le besoin de curation

Avec le succès grandissant, le nombre de liens quotidiens devient important, je ne lis pas tout, si le titre me plaît, soit j’ai le temps de le lire tout de suite, soit je le garde en « non-lu » dans FreshRSS le temps d’être à la cool (ou sur un écran confortable, plus que celui de mon smartphone). Mais ça fait encore beaucoup, et parfois, on aime avoir des outils qui feraient le tri.

Les votes sur le site sont déjà une forme de tri, mais ça casse un peu la temporalité, et un article sorti un peu trop tôt risque de ne pas être bien noté tout de suite, et quand sa pertinence sera totale, il ne sera pas remonté car trop ancien et déjà oublié, dommage. Cette notion de tri et de sélection, c’est ce qu’on appelle la curation.

C’est un peu ce que je fais déjà avec mes propres billets « Liens en vrac et en Français », pour ceux qui suivent le JdH il est évident que plusieurs des articles relayés ont été découverts par ce biais. Ça reste toutefois ma sélection, avec mes centres d’intérêts, et parfois une emphase volontairement mise sur un sujet en particulier quand le nombre d’articles le justifie. Et un point de vue unique n’est jamais bon pour nourrir un cerveau, ou plusieurs dans le cas d’une publication.

Carl opérait déjà lui aussi un début de curation, via ses propres billets de blog « Liens intéressants du Journal du Hacker », hebdomadaires, mais la diffusion n’est pas optimale, le blog n’a pas vocation à être un canal de diffusion prioritaire pour un contenu en lien avec le JdH.

Ah, cette bonne vieille newsletter

Le concept de newsletter remonte à loin, très loin, et même s’il a été dévoyé à des fins de marketing, de ciblage publicitaire honteux (qui n’a pas été agressé par un popup à l’arrivée sur un site vous demandant votre adresse mail pour recevoir des informations et/ou des bons plans par mail ?), il reste un outil qui s’avère particulièrement adapté pour l’exercice qu’effectuait Carl. Admirez plutôt : au lieu d’avoir à surveiller une publication sur un blog, vous recevez directement, dans votre boite mail, une sélection hebdomadaire des meilleurs liens du Journal du Hacker. En clair, vous n’avez plus à aller chercher le contenu, il vient à vous, et même si je n’en ai pas directement besoin, j’avoue que j’aime ce fonctionnement, qui me rappelle mon article sur les notifications.

Ajoutez à ça la possibilité de consulter les archives des précédents numéros sur un site web dédié, ainsi qu’un partage de ces mêmes archives sur les mêmes réseaux sociaux mentionnés plus haut, et vous avez là un outil très appréciable, et manifestement très apprécié si l’on en croit les chiffres remontés par Carl. Les archives sont notamment pratiques si on veut se faire une idée avant de s’inscrire, voire choper un ou deux trucs intéressants qui datent d’avant son inscription.

Mieux, je disais que le concept avait été dévoyé par les publicitaires, qui s’amusent à tenter de profiler un max et revendre les profils associés aux adresses, augmentant dès lors la probabilité de se faire inonder de merde dans sa boite mail. Ici ça n’est pas le cas, il n’y a donc aucun risque, le seul que vous aurez, c’est d’être hébergé chez Microsoft qui pourra facilement décider de placer le Courrier dans les spams, voire pire en quarantaine (et je peux vous dire que c’est merdique comme système, au boulot on a des mails clients qui finissent en quarantaine, on est prévenu que plusieurs jours après).

Ça ne coûte rien d’essayer, ni même de l’adopter

Pour l’instant je préfère continuer de fonctionner à ma manière, avec le flux RSS du JdH. Mais dans tous les cas, vous ne perdrez rien, ou vraiment pas grand chose à part du temps, à l’essayer si vous souhaitez aborder votre veille dans d’autres conditions : le mail sort généralement le vendredi, vous laissant le week-end pour découvrir les articles à la cool. Et la désinscription est aussi simple que l’inscription, pensez-y quand vous demanderez à un site X d’aller supprimer votre adresse et demander aux partenaires à qui elle a été vendue d’en faire de même… Un grand merci donc à Carl pour son implication à rendre notre consommation d’information plus agréable

PS : si vous cherchez encore le lien pour vous inscrire, autant que je le remette ici : Courrier du Hacker

Entre les dizaines de milliers de boursiers saoudiens, des programmes de recherche commandités par Riyad et de pures logiques de relations publiques, beaucoup d’universités américaines ont des liens financiers avec Riyad. Des liens qui sont de plus en plus critiqués.

Lors d’un sommet de l’Union africaine dimanche 7 juillet, les pays membres ont célébré l’entrée en vigueur de la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLEC) qui doit favoriser le développement économique du continent. Pour ce journal burkinabé, c’est une avancée majeure mais des obstacles demeurent.

Dans le sillage de l’attaque contre deux pétroliers dans le golfe d’Oman, jeudi 13 juin, les autorités américaines ont rapidement accusé la République islamique. Mais la piste menant aux Houthis yéménites n’est pas à exclure, selon ce journal israélien. D’autant qu’elle arrangerait un peu tout le monde. 

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The shooting down of a US drone by Iran has had some unintended consequences for Pakistan. Desperate for more energy security, while its economy is in the doldrums, Pakistan was hoping to move forward on an energy pipeline with Iran through a third party. But, like the US drone, Pakistan’s hope for such a pipeline seems to have hit a major setback.

While Pakistani officials publicly maintain that there is little hope for an Iran-Pakistan pipeline, they have been quietly working with China and Russia in the hope that a third party can pull it off. But even those plans hit a roadblock after tensions between Iran and the US escalated.

The Chinese angle

Pakistan and China had signed a framework agreement on April 20, 2015, to award, without a bidding process, a contract to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline between Gwadar and Nawabshah pipeline and an LNG terminal. The contractor was to be China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). Exim Bank of China was to provide 85% financing for the project.

This was an alternate model to implement the gas pipeline project. CNPC was also to connect an 80km pipeline from Gwadar in Balochistan to the Iranian border if the US sanctions were lifted. “Now, CNPC is still interested in initiating work on this project,” an official said, adding that this is the only option that is available with Pakistan and Iran to implement the gas pipeline project.

But Dr Gulfraz Ahmed, former secretary of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said that Pakistan cannot afford to implement the project. “Pakistan is also facing problems with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In view of this situation, it cannot afford to implement the project. It can ask Iran if it would implement the IP project after sanctions are lifted. India had been importing oil from Iran but stopped after the US waiver ended,” Dr Ahmed told Asia Times.

The former managing director of the state run gas utility Sui Southern Gas Company, Zuhair Siddiqui believes that pushing this project at this stage is likely to increase Pakistan’s political complications exponentially. Instead, he suggested that Pakistan look at other alternatives like LNG imports and the TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) pipeline project.

In June 2017, then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia for high-level talks. This was at a time when the diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar was at its height. Saudi Arabia and its allies — Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – announced the withdrawal of diplomatic ties with Qatar.

During the meeting, Saudi Arabia also put pressure on Sharif to shelve any economic and diplomatic relations with Iran and Qatar. There was also pressure to suspend the IP gas pipeline project. The LNG Gwadar pipeline, which was an alternate plan to connect with the Iranian pipeline, was also shelved.

With Pakistan’s economy in meltdown, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had promised a US$ 20 billion package for Pakistan. Part of this is a US$10 billion oil refinery in Gwadar, Balochistan. “Since Pakistan has a long border with Iran, the IP pipeline project should not be abandoned due to Saudi Arabia,” Ahmed said. He believes that the pipeline will bring a lot of economic benefits and energy security to Pakistan.

The Russian option

The second alternative is to divert the gas allocated for the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project to an offshore pipeline project being planned by Russia. The Russian firm Gazprom is conducting a study to build an offshore pipeline project from Iran to India passing through Gwadar.

Pakistan and Russia inked a memorandum of understanding in February this year to conduct a feasibility study to implement the US$10 billion offshore gas pipeline. However, even that option seems unlikely in the current scenario. In November, 2018, a team from Iran which included legal experts, arrived in Pakistan to discuss the execution of the gas pipeline project.

Naturally, the Iranian team was of the view that US sanctions would not affect the gas pipeline project. However, Pakistan feared being brought under US sanctions if it went ahead with the deal. The US has already warned Pakistan about its sanctions and asked it not to move on the gas pipeline following the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

The pipeline is slated to deliver 21.5 million cubic meters of gas per day to Pakistan.

Trump had announced the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran on May 8, 2018, when he signaled US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He also threatened to slap secondary sanctions on foreign companies that do business with Iran.

Meanwhile, the Iranian delegation lobbied hard with Pakistan to implement the project. Iran, Pakistan and India were to be the key partners, while Russia was invited as an observer. However, Pakistan said that gas under IP gas pipeline project and the offshore gas pipeline would come from Iran and therefore, Pakistan should implement only one project. It could be either the offshore gas pipeline or the IP gas pipeline.

Iran had agreed to implement the offshore gas pipeline project. Under the new model, the gas volume allocated for the IP gas pipeline project would be diverted to the offshore gas pipeline project. Iran had agreed to follow this model and officials were of the view that they would be supporting this model.

Officials with the federal Petroleum Division said that Iranian team was scheduled to visit Pakistan on June 19, and these two options would be discussed. During the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to Iran in April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took up the matter with the Pakistani side, and officials of two sides had also held a meeting on this project. Iran had also offered Pakistan the opportunity to implement the project through a ‘third party’. However, nothing came out of these meetings.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Petroleum Minister, said that Pakistan could not implement the IP gas pipeline project even through a third party. “Pakistan will not be able to generate funds. Even old oil contracts were facing sanctions and India and China are facing disruptions and challenges in oil imports,” he said.

La défense des familles des victimes du bombardement de Bouaké, qui avait fait dix morts en 2004 dans le Nord de la Côte d'Ivoire, compte saisir en dernier recours la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme (CEDH).

The European Union and Vietnam on Sunday signed a long-awaited free trade, an agreement that pushes back against a rising tide of global protectionism and hailed as a “milestone” by Brussels.

The signing comes amid worldwide trade turmoil, with a dragging US-China row and Britain’s impending exit from the European Union casting a dark cloud over global growth.

It follows years of tough negotiations marred by Vietnam’s tarnished human rights record.

EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom called the deal “an important milestone” and a key step towards better co-operation with Southeast Asian economies.

“This is the most ambitious trade agreement that the EU has signed with a developing country,” she told reporters after the landmark deal was inked in Hanoi on Sunday in front of dozens of negotiators and diplomats.

The EU-Vietnam free trade pact will eventually see duties slashed on 99% of Europe’s imports from Vietnam.

Billed as a so-called next generation deal, it also includes rules around labour rights and environmental and intellectual property protections.

“We want to make sure that EU trade in this region has a positive impact so we have enshrined high standards,” Malmstrom said.

“It sends a very powerful signal that says ‘we believe in trade’,” she later told AFP.

The deal will come into force only once it is ratified, which could come by the end of the year if approved by lawmakers on both sides.

It is the second EU free trade agreement with a Southeast Asian nation after Singapore signed a deal with the bloc last year.

It comes on the heels of a watershed agreement on Friday between the EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur that will link 800 million people in what will be one the world’s largest regional commercial accords.

Rights woes

EU-Vietnam free trade negotiations kicked off seven years ago, and the EU has come under fire for not putting enough pressure on Vietnam to improve its dismal rights record.

The one-party communist state routinely jails activists and last year passed a restrictive cybersecurity bill that critics say is aimed at silencing dissent online.

Malmstrom said rights issues were raised throughout negotiations and the trade agreement would allow the EU to “engage rather than to isolate” Vietnam on human rights.

“I don’t think this trade agreement will solve these concerns but it creates a way to talk openly and frankly about them,” she told AFP after the signing.

The EU is pushing for better trade with Southeast Asian economies, who themselves are seeking multilateral agreements, especially as the United States has withdrawn from such deals under President Donald Trump.

The US president pulled out from the sprawling Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) soon after taking office, signalling Washington’s protectionist preference for bilateral deals.

The TPP has since been reborn as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a watered down version of the original pact without the inclusion of the world’s biggest economy.

Vietnam was set to gain enormously from that deal, and has courted other trade partners to soften the blow.

“Vietnam sought to accelerate its negotiations… in this case [with] the EU, clearly as a way of diversifying their trade,” Stephen Schwartz, head of Asia Pacific sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings, told AFP from Hong Kong.

Vietnam’s export-led economy has largely been buoyed by free trade, and open access to the European market is expected to boost its main deliveries to the bloc, namely textiles, shoes, smartphones and computer parts.

European countries are also eager to tap into Vietnam’s market of 95 million people and its mushrooming consumer class.

“The advantages we can get from [the FTA] will bring huge contributions to Vietnam’s exports and imports, Vietnam’s Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh said Sunday.

Vietnam has seen some short-term gains from the US-China trade spat as some companies shift from China into its lower-tariff, cheap labour market.

But analysts warn that a weaker China or US could ultimately dent economies like Vietnam that largely rely on exports to the world’s two biggest economies.

With exports from Vietnam to the US soaring amid the trade spat, US President Donald Trump last week threatened to slap tariffs on the manufacturing hub, calling it “the single worst abuser of everybody.”

– AFP

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It all started with the Vladimir Putin–Xi Jinping summit in Moscow on June 5. Far from a mere bilateral, this meeting upgraded the Eurasian integration process to another level. The Russian and Chinese presidents discussed everything from the progressive interconnection of the New Silk Roads with the Eurasia Economic Union, especially in and around Central Asia, to their concerted strategy for the Korean Peninsula.

A particular theme stood out: They discussed how the connecting role of Persia in the Ancient Silk Road is about to be replicated by Iran in the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). And that is non-negotiable. Especially after the Russia-China strategic partnership, less than a month before the Moscow summit, offered explicit support for Tehran signaling that regime change simply won’t be accepted, diplomatic sources say.

Putin and Xi solidified the roadmap at the St Petersburg Economic Forum. And the Greater Eurasia interconnection continued to be woven immediately after at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, with two essential interlocutors: India, a fellow BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and SCO member, and SCO observer Iran.

At the SCO summit we had Putin, Xi, Narendra Modi, Imran Khan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sitting at the same table. Hanging over the proceedings, like concentric Damocles swords, were the US-China trade war, sanctions on Russia, and the explosive situation in the Persian Gulf.

Rouhani was forceful – and played his cards masterfully – as he described the mechanism and effects of the US economic blockade on Iran, which led Modi and leaders of the Central Asian “stans” to pay closer attention to Russia-China’s Eurasia roadmap. This occurred as Xi made clear that Chinese investments across Central Asia on myriad BRI projects will be significantly increased.

Russia-China diplomatically interpreted what happened in Bishkek as “vital for the reshaping of the world order.” Crucially, RIC – Russia-India-China – not only held a trilateral but also scheduled a replay at the upcoming Group of Twenty summit in Osaka. Diplomats swear the personal chemistry of Putin, Xi and Modi worked wonders.

The RIC format goes back to old strategic Orientalist fox Yevgeny Primakov in the late 1990s. It should be interpreted as the foundation stone of 21st-century multipolarity, and there’s no question how it will be interpreted in Washington.

India, an essential cog in the Indo-Pacific strategy, has been getting cozy with “existential threats” Russia-China, that “peer competitor” – dreaded since geopolitics/geo-strategy founding father Halford Mackinder published his “Geographical Pivot of History” in 1904 –  finally emerging in Eurasia.

RIC was also the basis on which the BRICS grouping was set up. Moscow and Beijing are diplomatically refraining from pronouncing that. But with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro seen as a mere Trump administration tool, it’s no wonder that Brazil has been excluded from the RIC summit in Osaka. There will be a perfunctory BRICS meeting right before the start of the G20 on Friday, but the real deal is RIC.

Pay attention to the go-between

The internal triangulation of RIC is extremely complex. For instance, at the SCO summit Modi said that India could only support connectivity projects based on “respect of sovereignty” and “regional integrity.” That was code for snubbing the Belt and Roads Initiative – especially because of the flagship China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which New Delhi insists illegally crosses Kashmir. Yet India did not block the final Bishkek declaration.

What matters is that the Xi-Modi bilateral at the SCO was so auspicious that Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale was led to describe it as “the beginning of a process, after the formation of government in India, to now deal with India-China relations from both sides in a larger context of the 21st century and of our role in the Asia-Pacific region.” There will be an informal Xi-Modi summit in India in October. And they meet again at the BRICS summit in Brazil in November.

Putin has excelled as a go-between. He invited Modi to be the guest of honor at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in early September. The thrust of the relationship is to show to Modi the benefits for India to actively join the larger Eurasia integration process instead of playing a supporting role in a Made in USA production.

That may even include a trilateral partnership to develop the Polar Silk Road in the Arctic, which represents, in a nutshell, the meeting of the Belt and Road Initiative with Russia’s Northern Sea Route. China Ocean Shipping (Cosco) is already a partner of the Russian company PAO Sovcomflot, shipping natural gas both east and west from Siberia.

Xi is also beginning to get Modi’s attention on the restarting possibilities for the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCMI) corridor, another major Belt and Road project, as well as improving connectivity from Tibet to Nepal and India.

Impediments, of course, remain plentiful, from disputed Himalayan borders to, for instance, the slow-moving Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the 16-nation theoretical successor of the defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership. Beijing is adamant the RCEP must go into overdrive, and is even prepared to leave New Delhi behind.

One of Modi’s key decisions ahead is on whether to keep importing Iranian oil – considering there are no more US sanctions waivers. Russia is ready to help Iran and weary Asian customers such as India if the EU-3 continue to drag the implementation of their special payment vehicle.

India is a top Iran energy customer. Iran’s port of Chabahar is absolutely essential if India’s mini-Silk Road is to reach Central Asia via Afghanistan. With US President Donald Trump’s administration sanctioning New Delhi over its drive to buy the Russian S-400 air defense system and the loss of preferred trade status with the US, getting closer to Bridge and Road – featuring energy supplier Iran as a key vector – becomes a not-to-be-missed economic opportunity.

With the roadmap ahead for the Russia-China strategic partnership fully solidified after the summits in Moscow, St Petersburg and Bishkek, the emphasis now for RC is to bring India on board a full-fledged RIC. Russia-India is already blossoming as a strategic partnership. And Xi-Modi seemed to be in sync. Osaka may be the geopolitical turning point consolidating RIC for good.

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More than 1,000 foreign women and children were rescued from more than 1,300 human traffickers between July and December last year in joint enforcement efforts by China and five neighboring countries, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Between July and December last year Chinese officials joined hands with counterparts from Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to combat illegal cross-border human trafficking and suspected sham marriages. The authorities successfully freed 1,130 foreign women and 17 children, most of whom had been abducted, bjnews.com.cn reported.

During the stated period, a series of operations were conducted and in 760 cases suspected traffickers were intercepted and 126 cases of sham marriages were identified.

A total of 1,332 alleged human traffickers were arrested, 262 of whom were foreign nationals.

Guo Lin, spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security, said in recent years human traffickers from China and neighboring countries traffickers often attract victims by offering them jobs, travel trips or legal cross-border marriages. But, these women were then detained and ‘sold’ abroad.

One of the active and notorious sham marriage syndicates was busted by Chinese authorities together with officials in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

Under the framework of the Mekong River sub-regional cooperation anti-trafficking process, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security strengthened law enforcement cooperation with police in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand.

As early as in October 2004, the six countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation against Trafficking in People in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region.

Officials say remarkable results have been achieved throughout the years with police jointly launching crackdowns to rescue victims of trafficking and arrest transnational criminals.

The president’s policy goals are murky, even as he triggers crises, raising the risk of conflict.

Michel Guerrin, rédacteur en chef au « Monde », revient sur la décision du quotidien américain de supprimer les dessins de presse de son édition internationale.

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