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U.S. clamps down on banking transactions; terror group finds new funding

By Robert Windrem and Garrett Haake
NBC News
updated 7:56 a.m. ET Nov. 14, 2008
Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence officials believe they've won many small victories against al-Qaida's ability to finance its operations, but they remain unable to put a concrete dollar figure on their impact.

That's because they have no reliable estimate of al-Qaida's overall budget, according to current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials, which means the only measures of the organization's economic health are sporadic, anecdotal and fragmentary.

"When you see a cell complaining that it hasn't received its monthly or biannual stipend and it's unable to pay the salaries of the people in the cell, unable to make the support payments to the families of terrorists living or dead, that's a tremendous indicator we have pressured the financial channel," said Adam Szubin, the director of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and the man in charge of tracking terrorist finance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27644191

Question economie, le vent commence a tourner egalement. J'entendais tout-a-l'heure un professeur de Harward qui expliquait que les plans de relance etaient voues a l'echec depuis le debut et qu'il aurait bien mieux valu faire des reductions d'impots...

Pensez-vous ?

Personnellement j'ai l'impression qu'elle voyage beaucoup, nous lit souvent et n'attend que l'occasion d'avoir un peu de temps libre d'une façon plus suivie pour engager de nouveau la conversation.

Mais je peux me tromper...

Vous ne pouvez qu'avoir raison, Biloulou

Sylvette a écrit:

Question economie, le vent commence a tourner egalement. J'entendais tout-a-l'heure un professeur de Harward qui expliquait que les plans de relance etaient voues a l'echec depuis le debut et qu'il aurait bien mieux valu faire des reductions d'impots...

On m'a enseigné que l'Économie n'est pas un science exacte mais une science humaine qui relève plutôt de l'art divinatoire que des attentes scientifiques.

Dès lors toute certitude, même celles diamétralement opposées, peuvent se vérifier un jour....

(J'interprète, hein ?)

Sylvette a écrit:

Vous ne pouvez qu'avoir raison, Biloulou

Puisse-t-il en être de même pour vous...

Allez encore une bouffee... non, mais ils se surpassent!!!

Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar

By MIKE ALLEN & MICHAEL CALDERONE | 7/2/09 8:04 AM EDT

Updated: 7/2/09 4:57 PM EDT

Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do."

Weymouth said the paper had planned a series of dinners with participation from the newsroom “but with parameters such that we did not in any way compromise our integrity. Sponsorship of events, like advertising in the newspaper, must be at arm's length and cannot imply control over the content or access to our journalists. At this juncture, we will not be holding the planned July dinner and we will not hold salon dinners involving the newsroom. “

She made it clear however, that The Post, which lost $19.5 million in the first quarter, sees bringing together Washington figures as a future revenue source. “We do believe that there is a viable way to expand our expertise into live conferences and events that simply enhances what we do - cover Washington for Washingtonians and those interested in Washington,” she said. “ And we will begin to do live events in ways that enhance our reputation and in no way call into question our integrity.”

Executive editor Marcus Brauchli was as adamant as Weymouth in denouncing the plan promoted in the flier. “You cannot buy access to a Washington Post journalist,” Brauchli told POLITICO. Brauchli was named on the flier as one of the salon’s "Hosts and Discussion Leaders."

Brauchli said in an interview that he understood the business side of the Post planned on holding dinners on policy and was scheduled to attend the July 21 dinner at Weymouth’s Washington [color=#004276 !important][color=#004276 !important]home, but he said he had not seen the material promoting it until today. “The flier, and the description of these things, was not at all consistent with the preliminary conversations the newsroom had,” Brauchli said, adding that it was “absolutely impossible” the newsroom would participate in the kind of event described in the solicitation for the event.

"Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate," says the one-page flier. "Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. ... Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table. Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders."

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Oula, la soirée est avancée !
Bonne nuit à vous, Sylvette, ainsi qu'à tous les autres... et bienvenue à l'équipe de nuit !

Biloulou a écrit:

Sylvette a écrit:

Vous ne pouvez qu'avoir raison, Biloulou

Puisse-t-il en être de même pour vous...

Vous savez Biloulou je prefererais souvent m'etre trompee.

Bonne Nuit, dormez bien!

Lorsque meme Helen Thomas (la doyenne des journalistes attaches a la Maison Blanche, "nee Liberale, elle mourra Liberale, en tant que journaliste que pourrait-elle etre d'autre?" selon ses propres propos.

La meme dame qui posait ses questions a Pres. Bush affalee dans son fauteuil et debout, soutenue par ses voisins devant Obama.., Helen Thomas donc, lorsqu'elle denonce la manipulation des media par l'equipe de presse d'Obama, vous savez que les limites ont ete depassees!

Bozell: When Even Helen Thomas Denounces Obama Media Manipulation, You Know It's Out of Control

At yesterday’s White House briefing, CBS’s Chip Reid and Hearst Newspapers columnist Helen Thomas confronted Press Secretary Robert Gibbs over how "very tightly controlled" the media are by the Obama Administration. After the briefing, CNSNews.com reports that many members of the press corps went out of their way to thank Thomas for making her stand.

In a subsequent interview with CNSNews.com, Thomas again articulated her outrage at how the media are being controlled.

"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they [the Obama Administration] think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them."

Thomas continued, "When you call the reporter the night before, you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well--for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell commented:

"Good for Helen Thomas and Chip Reid for standing up for journalistic principles and integrity. The fact that so many of their colleagues congratulated Helen for doing so shows that the press may finally have had it with being led around by the nose.

"To which I say – fantastic. But if the media are fed up with being manipulated, there’s an easy solution: stop allowing yourselves to be manipulated, and begin reporting with the skepticism these two exhibited and you all applauded.

"If every member of the media refused to stand for the White House tightly controlling them, the White House would have to stop doing it."

WOW!!! Allez, encore un bol d'air frais!!
Maintenant je peux aller me coucher, je suis bien de l'avis de NP, il faut garder l'espoir!!!

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Hey, Lawrence

Je recois ceci a l'instant. Il y en a qui de toute evidence n'abandonne toujours pas au sujet de l'acte de naissance de notre president. Est-il ou n'est-il pas ne aux Etats Unis???



We are in court, AGAIN, demanding that Barack Obama PROVE that he is a natural-born citizen...

BUT THE WHITE HOUSE JUST LAUGHS AT THIS CONSTITUTIONALLY BASED REQUEST!

Don't let Barack Hussein Obama laugh off the requirement of the United States Constitution that he must be a natural-born citizen to serve as President -- help us make him PROVE whether he is eligible or not!


The U.S. Constitution states, in Article II, Section 1: "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

That's pretty plain language. In order to qualify to be President of the United States, a person MUST be a natural-born citizen!

Seems simple enough. If someone is running for President, and there's any question about whether he or she is qualified under Article II, Section 1, it would be easy enough to prove:

Just show your birth certificate.

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Recently, in California, just like in every lawsuit filed over this issue, the Obama team of attorneys, working with liberal allies in the California Attorney General's Office, convinced a Sacramento County Superior Court judge to dismiss USJF's suit to force the truth to come out about whether Barack Obama is a "natural born" citizen, and, therefore, eligible to serve as President of the United States. They thought that would be the end of it.
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etc..

* certains doivent se dire qu'il porte bien son nom, mais bon, ils sont pas mal a ne pas etre convaincus!

JULY 3, 2009, 11:01 A.M. ET
British Embassy Staff in Iran Will Be Tried, Top Cleric Says

A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused the U.K. of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election.

The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati came a day after the European Union demanded Iran release the staffers, who were detained on June 27. The U.K. is pressing EU countries to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran in protest.
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Biden: U.S. Won't Stand in Israel's Way

Vice president gives Israel apparent green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat

Hey Lawrence

JULY 6, 2009
Iran's Clerics Denounce Vote Results

BY MARGARET COKER

ABU DHABI -- Members of Iran's powerful clerical class are stepping up their antigovernment protests in defiance of the country's supreme leader, just as Iran's political opposition was running out of legal avenues to fight what it sees as fraudulent presidential elections.

An association of religious scholars seen as politically neutral in the dispute between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Houssein Mousavi sharpened the debate, calling the country's highest election arbiter, the Guardian Council, biased and the June 12 election "invalid."

The statement carries moral weight -- especially after the security forces have quashed street protests and jailed hundreds of opposition supporters -- but has little practical ability to change the certification of Mr. Ahmadinejad as the election winner.

Associated Press
Worshippers chant anti-US and anti-Israel slogans during a Friday prayers ceremony.



It does, however, highlight a growing unease among Iran's scholarly ruling class about the direction of the country, and it questions the theological underpinning of the Islamic Republic: the assumption that the supreme leader and the institutions under him are infallible.

"I'm not sure the Persian equivalent of 'crossing the Rubicon,' but we are seeing it now. The future of the Islamic Republic, which has in recent years become a fig leaf for keeping a small clique of people in power, is now in question," according to Michael Axworthy, director of Exeter University's Center for Persian and Iranian Studies in the U.K.

With public protests withering following a crackdown, continued religious opposition to the electoral process could take on greater meaning. Public statements from clerics about perceived government injustice challenge the state's position that the protest movement is part of a foreign plot to undermine the Islamic Republic.

Since Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, certified Mr. Ahmadinejad's victory last week, the security forces and judiciary have moved to silence his political opponents. On Sunday, the head of the Revolutionary Guards' political office accused Mr. Mousavi of treason, according to the state news service. His statement came after the hard-line newspaper Keyhan, run by a retired Revolutionary Guards officer close to Mr. Ahmadinejad, ran an editorial accusing Mr. Mousavi of being a danger to the regime.

Security officials also have blamed outside agitators -- not their own forces -- for the street violence that has killed at least 20 people and wounded hundreds more.

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Finalement! les media seraient-ils tenus aux memes responsabilites que le reste des simples mortels?

Sarah Palin attorney warns press on "defamatory material"

Ratcheting up her offensive against the news media, Gov. Sarah Palin’s attorney threatened on Saturday to sue mainstream news organizations if they publish “defamatory” stories relating to whether Palin is under federal investigation.

In an extraordinary four-page letter, Alaska-based attorney Thomas Van Flein warns of severe consequences should speculation that until now has largely been confined to blogs — about whether Palin embezzled funds in the construction of a Wasilla, Alaska, sports arena — find its way into print.

“This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who republish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law,” Van Flein warned, citing Alaska liberal blogger Shannyn Moore.

Much like Palin did in her Facebook statement Saturday, Van Flein savages the news media in his letter.

“Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact,” the Anchorage attorney wrote.

Neither the Times or the Post made any mention of the embezzlement rumors in their Saturday editions, but sources close to Palin consider the letter a warning shot to stay away from the topic.

In the letter, Van Flein writes: "'The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those "responsible for the abuse of that right.'… These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable."

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Bonjour Sylvette !

Ce serait une excellente chose et j'espère que d'autres pays suivront.

Au lieu de tout permettre aux journalistes, de les laisser planer au-dessus des lois, de leur accorder toutes les mansuétudes, j'estime même que vu l'étendue des dégats qu'ils peuvent provoquer "en douce", les tribunaux devraient se montrer particulièrement sévères à leur égard.

Au contraire, le délit de presse qui relève (relevait ?) de la cour s'assises a pratiquement cessé d'exister en France.

Et ailleurs ?

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