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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

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Burris sought death for innocent man

By BEN PROTESS-- PROPUBLICA | 1/1/09 12:24 PM EST

Former Illinois attorney general Roland Burris, embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick to replace Barack Obama in the Senate, is no stranger to controversy.

Public fury over the governor's alleged misconduct has masked the once lively debate over Burris' decision to continue to prosecute, despite the objections of one of his top prosecutors, the wrong man for a high-profile murder case.

While state attorney general in 1992, Burris aggressively sought the death penalty for Rolando Cruz, who twice was convicted of raping and murdering a 10-year-old girl in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. The crime took place in 1983.

But by 1992, another man had confessed to the crime, and Burris' own deputy attorney general was pleading with Burris to drop the case, then on appeal before the Illinois Supreme Court.

Burris refused. He was running for governor.

"Anybody who understood this case wouldn't have voted for Burris," Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, told ProPublica. Indeed, Burris lost that race, and two other attempts to become governor.

Burris' role in the Cruz case was "indefensible and in defiance of common sense and common decency," Warden said. "There was obvious evidence that [Cruz] was innocent."

Deputy attorney general Mary Brigid Kenney agreed and eventually resigned rather than continue to prosecute Cruz.

Once Burris assigned Kenney to the case in 1991, she became convinced that Cruz was innocent, a victim of what she believed was prosecutorial misconduct. She sent Burris a memo reporting that the jury convicted Cruz without knowing that Brian Dugan, a repeat sex offender and murderer, had confessed to the crime. Burris never met with Kenney to discuss a new trial for Cruz, Kenney told ProPublica.

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Commission Urges 50 Percent Hike in Fuel Taxes to Fund Highway Construction

The National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing is the second group in a year to call for increased fuel taxes.

AP

Thursday, January 01, 2009

WASHINGTON -- A 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by a federal commission to finance highway construction and repair until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads.

The National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing, a 15-member panel created by Congress, is the second group in a year to call for higher fuel taxes.
With motorists driving less and buying less fuel, the current 18.4 cents a gallon gas tax and 24.4 cents a gallon diesel tax fail to raise enough to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs.
In a report expected in late January, members of the infrastructure financing commission say they will urge Congress to raise the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon and the diesel fuel tax by 12 to 15 cents a gallon. At the same time, the commission will recommend tying the fuel tax rates to inflation.

The commission will also recommend that states raise their fuel taxes and make greater use of toll roads and fees for rush-hour driving.

A tax increase on this order would be politically treacherous for Democratic leaders in Congress -- a gas tax hike was one of the reasons they lost control of the House and Senate in the 1994 elections. President-elect Barack Obama has expressed concern about raising gas taxes in the current economic climate. But commission members said the government must find the money somewhere.

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By Michael Abramowitz

updated 6:31 a.m. ET Jan. 2, 2009

WASHINGTON - White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control. In daily 7 a.m. meetings in the Oval Office, Bush reviewed "blue sheets" detailing incidents involving U.S. soldiers; he would circle the casualty figures and press his top aides for details about the deaths.

"It was pretty grim news," Hadley recalled last week. For him, however, the sessions underscored the president's focus. "This notion that somehow the president didn't know what was going on, information was withheld from him in some way, he didn't have a picture of what was going on: He got that picture" — Hadley smacked his palms together for emphasis — "at 7 o'clock every morning."

Few officials have had a closer view of the Bush presidency over the past eight years than Bolten and Hadley, who are among the handful of senior staffers who entered the White House with Bush in 2001 and will exit with him Jan. 20. Though the two Washington veterans did not meet Bush until his first presidential campaign, they developed a special loyalty to the president, seeking to keep his administration on an even keel through the turmoil of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the financial crisis that struck last year. The two men remained, even as well-known members of Bush's longtime Texas mafia — Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and others — moved on.

Last week, in lengthy interviews in the spacious chief of staff's office in the West Wing, Bolten and Hadley reflected on their White House years and painted an affectionate portrait of the president. As two of the top officials who have had to defend controversial administration policies for the duration of the Bush presidency, they voiced frustration over their inability to improve Bush's popularity and to counter the administration's image of arrogance. But in a wide-ranging conversation lasting more than two hours, the two men also rebutted what they consider common misconceptions of the George W. Bush era, such as the president's alleged insulation from bad news and the view that Vice President Cheney wielded unbridled behind-the-scenes power.

'Hooey'
"One of the mythologies," Hadley said, "is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president's influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we have a more pragmatic foreign policy."

"That's just hooey — it's just hooey," the ever-polite Hadley concluded, with the strongest language he would muster for print. (Bolten chuckled and suggested earthier epithets, such as "bunk.")

But at the same time, Bolten said that one of his goals when he took over as chief of staff in the spring of 2006 was to put Bush back at the center of decision-making. From both officials' perspective, the administration got into trouble when aides tried to make big decisions without involving the president.

"He's a good decision-maker," Bolten said. "If it's important enough to be a presidential issue, we ought to expose the president to more information and more views, and we ought to let him decide."

Low-key approach
Both Bolten and Hadley worked for the administration of Bush's father, Hadley at the Pentagon and Bolten as a trade official, but their presence at the current apex of power reveals much about President George W. Bush's management style. Neither is a screamer or an alpha male along the lines of Henry A. Kissinger or other past West Wing figures who dominated decision-making through force of personality. The low-key approach of both Bolten and Hadley often frustrated colleagues who would have preferred more assertive figures surrounding Bush. Yet for better or worse, theirs is exactly the approach that Bush wanted during his years in the Oval Office.

"When the president offered me the job," Bolten recalled, "he said the same thing to me that I think he said to Andy Card when he offered him the job — that he neither wanted nor needed a prime minister. Our job is to make sure he's well positioned to make good decisions."

Bolten, 54, who served as deputy chief of staff and then budget director before replacing Card as chief of staff in 2006, dismisses the idea that the president has not been challenged by his aides. "Plenty of times I have said, 'Boy, I think that's a terrible idea,' " he said. "The president is, possibly contrary to public opinion, very good about hearing and wanting contrary advice."

Shift in economic policy
He echoed the point when discussing the dramatic shift in economic policy of recent months, dismissing the notion that Bush abandoned free-market principles and simply subcontracted decisions to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.

"He hasn't changed his philosophy, but he was advised and accepts . . . that massive government intervention has been necessary in the financial markets in order to protect the viability of the financial markets," Bolten said. "It's been a dialogue," he added. "It's not that Paulson all of a sudden shows up once a week and says, 'Here is what I am going to do,' and the president rubber-stamps it. It is a regular conversation between Paulson and Bernanke and Paulson and the White House."

Perhaps the best example of the president's approach to decision-making came in the January 2007 move to send more troops and adopt a new counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq. The decision was taken after Bush replaced Donald H. Rumsfeld as defense secretary and after Hadley led an intense policy review that offered a vehicle for critics of the existing strategy.

Hadley, 61, who was deputy national security adviser under Condoleezza Rice in Bush's first term and moved up in 2005 when Rice became secretary of state, describes the troop buildup in Iraq as "the most remarkable thing" Bush did in office. "With all the naysayers and the doubters and all the people who by the fall of 2006 say, 'Mr. President, this was a mistake; why won't you admit it and pull the plug on this effort?' he is the one guy who said we have to make it work," he said.

When asked why the president took so long to shift course after conditions in Iraq had clearly deteriorated, Hadley replied that Bush had a responsibility to keep hope alive for the soldiers, their families and other coalition partners in Iraq even while considering a new strategy. "Are there things we should and would have done differently? Sure," Hadley said. "Could it have been done sooner? I personally don't think so. You know, these things take some time. The trick was then to realize we had a strategy that didn't work and then to make the change —and that's what the president did."

Hadley also gave little ground to criticism of the administration's detention and interrogation policies, saying there is a balance to be struck between protecting the country and being transparent about what the government is doing to fight terrorism.

"I think the balance that you can strike now, after you have not been attacked for seven years, may be a little bit different than the balance that you would strike in the immediate year after the attack when you don't know who the enemy is," Hadley said. "You've got to be careful about that kind of second-guessing, because it's hard to re-create the environment in which those decisions were made in the immediate aftermath of 9/11."

For his part, Bolten defended the administration's handling of the economy, save for what he describes as its ineffectiveness in obtaining early legislation reining in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "We pressed hard. I wished we had been more effective in that. We got resistance from the Congress," Bolten says. "That's not a partisan comment, because we got bipartisan resistance in Congress on the reform of Fannie and Freddie before it was too late.

"If we had gotten control of Fannie and Freddie substantially earlier than we did, I think the problem could have been substantially mitigated. I don't think it would have prevented it," Bolten said, referring to the meltdown of the housing market. Other than that, he adds, "maybe there's stuff you would go back and do differently in this administration, but I don't know what that is today."

After eight years of punishing hours — both men work six days a week in the office and often a seventh — the end is now in sight. Both Hadley and Bolten insist they have no clue what they will do after Jan. 20, save take a nap (in Bolten's case) and take his wife to breakfast (in Hadley's). Neither is planning a tell-all book, an aide said.

Likable boss
Bolten and Hadley have plainly loved their jobs — and the man they have built their life around for the past eight years. "Something that is totally lost is what a blast it is to be around here," Bolten said. "Even the hard days, there's some element of humor, of being a big person, of affection that's just overwhelming."

Bolten said another of his goals when he took over was to try to get the country to see the likable boss he and other aides saw in private, convinced that would boost Bush's popularity. "I failed miserably," he conceded. "Maybe in the beginning of the sixth year of a presidency, that's a quixotic task. . . . But everybody who has actual personal exposure to the president, almost everybody, appreciates what a good leader he is, how smart he is and, especially, how humane he is."

Hadley invoked Bush's 2000 campaign theme in summing up the president's personal qualities. "He has got this great compassion which was not just a slogan, 'compassionate conservative.' It is who he is. It is one of the great things he brought to this office," Hadley concluded. "This is the one thing that just drives me crazy, that somehow this is an arrogant administration, an arrogant president running an arrogant policy. This guy — one thing he is not is arrogant."

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Reading Into Bush's Book List
By Richard Cohen

Tuesday, December 30, 2008; Page A15

In what without a doubt is the most astounding op-ed piece of the year, Karl Rove reveals that his friend and former boss, George W. Bush, has read probably hundreds of books over the course of his presidency. One of them was Albert Camus' "The Stranger," with its unforgettable opening lines: "Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don't know." After reading Rove's Wall Street Journal column, it's clear there's much we all don't know.

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My hat is off to Bush for the sheer volume and, often, high quality of his reading. But his books reflect a man who is seeking to learn what he already knows. The caricature of Bush as unread died today -- or was it yesterday? But the reality of the intellectually insulated man endures.

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Les faits etant les faits, difficile de s'y opposer (a moins de traiter de menteur Karl Rove et Pres. Bush), mais quand il est question de jugement, alors la le terrain est sans limite et comme c'est subjectif et que chacun a droit a son opinion, on peut continuer de denigrer en toute tranquilite. C'est pas beau la liberte d'expression?

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Women after my own heart! cheers

En rapport avec ce que j'ecrivais a Shansaa il y a quelques jours concernant l'auto-defense.

Pistol-packing woman, 85, forces intruder to call 911
rockymountainnews.com — An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said...

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88 year-old woman yanks nude intruder's testicles
cnn.com — A naked intruder, Michael Dick, was scared away by the 88 year-old woman whose home he invaded. The woman yanked Dick's testicles to fight him off.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/crime/2008/12/31/or.naked.intruder.kptv

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Bristol Palin goes on the record:Teen pregnancy 'not ideal'

Posted: 05:21 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Johnston and Palin have plans to marry.

(CNN) — Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is going on the record about the recent birth of her son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

In a statement dated Wednesday but posted on the Alaska governor's Web site Friday, Bristol says the pregnancy was "not ideal," but is thankful to have a family who supported her.

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les reportages concernant le scandale Democrate Blagoyevich, font preuve de beaucoup de calme et de retenue. Des faits rien que des faits, rien a voir avec la hargne qui entourait le moindre probleme Republicain. Particulierement interessant, l'acceptation totale quant a la veracite du rapport de l'equipe de transition d'Obama alors que tout rapport emis par la Maison Blanche a toujours ete presente comme un mensonge. mais bon

Impeachment
By MONICA DAVEY and CARL HULSE

Published: January 2, 2009

CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers will be called back into session next week, which is earlier than expected, in an effort to expedite impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, and, ultimately, some said, to prevent his appointee from becoming the state’s next United States senator.
In a letter to representatives, Michael J. Madigan, the powerful Democratic speaker of the Illinois House, said the chamber might be asked as early as next week to vote on an impeachment committee’s findings against Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat who is charged with corruption and accused of trying to sell the United States Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama.
In Washington, meanwhile, senior Democratic officials say the party leadership remains determined to prevent Roland W. Burris, a Democrat and former Illinois attorney general, from joining the Senate because he was appointed by Mr. Blagojevich. Mr. Burris is expected to try to take a seat when the 111th Congress convenes Tuesday.

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By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: January 2, 2009

WASHINGTON — Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration — that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them
with a crime.

Peoria Journal Star, via Associated Press Ali al-Marri is being held in a Navy brig in South Carolina.

The Detainees

By reviewing government documents, court records and media reports, The Times was able to compile an approximate list of detainees currently at Guantánamo.

The new administration’s brief, which is due Feb. 20, has the potential to hearten or infuriate Mr. Obama’s supporters, many of whom are looking to him for stark disavowals of the Bush administration’s legal positions on the detention and interrogation of so-called enemy combatants held at Navy facilities on the American mainland or at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
During the campaign, Mr. Obama made broad statements criticizing the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power. But now he must address a specific case, that of Ali al-Marri, a Qatari student who was arrested in Peoria, Ill., in December 2001. The Bush administration says Mr. Marri is a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda, and it is holding him without charges at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. He is the only person currently held as an enemy combatant on the mainland, but the legal principles established in his case are likely to affect the roughly 250 prisoners at Guantánamo.
Many legal experts say that all of the new administration’s options in Mr. Marri’s case are perilous. Intelligence officials say he is exceptionally dangerous, making deportation problematic.

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Mr. Marri’s lawyers would be delighted to see their client freed, but they are also eager to vacate a decision of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., in July upholding the president’s authority to detain Mr. Marri subject to a court hearing on whether he was properly designated an enemy combatant.

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Barack Obama

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 12, 2008; Page A27

Barack Obama has garnered praise from center to right -- and has highly irritated the left -- with the centrism of his major appointments. Because Obama's own beliefs remain largely opaque, his appointments have led to the conclusion that he intends to govern from the center.

Obama the centrist? I'm not so sure. Take the foreign policy team: Hillary Clinton, James Jones and Bush holdover Robert Gates. As centrist as you can get. But the choice was far less ideological than practical. Obama has no intention of being a foreign policy president. Unlike, say, Nixon or Reagan, he does not have aspirations abroad. He simply wants quiet on his eastern and western fronts so that he can proceed with what he really cares about -- his domestic agenda.

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Sylvette a écrit:: Les faits etant les faits, difficile de s'y opposer (a moins de traiter de menteur Karl Rove et Pres. Bush), mais quand il est question de jugement, alors la le terrain est sans limite et comme c'est subjectif et que chacun a droit a son opinion, on peut continuer de denigrer en toute tranquilite. C'est pas beau la liberte d'expression?

Les faits cites ne sont que des faits rapportes par Rove dont on connait..... la probite et l'honnetete intellectuelle......donc pour moi sujet a la plus grande caution.

Mais si Pres. Bush lit, tant mieux, j'espere qu'il en aura tire quelques lecons.

Plus deconcertant est le timing de ce genre de declarations que l'on voit fleurir ici et la ces derniers jours, pour donner un visage un peu plus humain au futur ex president comme pour temperer sa sortie loin d'etre glorieuse, avec le taux d'approbation le plus bas de l'histoire du pays et le jugement le plus negatif de presque tout les presidents qui l'ont precede au moment ou ils ont quitte la Maison Blanche.
Mais bon.....

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Les faits cites ne sont que des faits rapportes par Rove dont on connait..... la probite et l'honnetete intellectuelle.....*1 .donc pour moi sujet a la plus grande caution.*2

*1 la probite et l'honnetete intellectuelle: oui c'est un fait que si l'on ecoute les anti-Bush, il est surprenant que Carl Rove ne se promene pas avec des cornes sur la tete, une cape rouge et un trident. mais bon. Les Bush haters n'ont-ils pas toujours discredite toutes les personnes prochent de Pres. Bush Ou ce sont des imbeciles incultes ou ce sont des montres prets a tout pour reussir : "mafia texane". (Pres Bush, lui etant, une fois l'un une fois l'autre, selon l'interet du moment!)

*2 Oui un peu comme ceux du rapport de l'equipe de transition d'Obama concernant le scandale de Blagojevic.

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Mais si Pres. Bush lit, tant mieux, j'espere qu'il en aura tire quelques lecons.

Bien evidemment, il nous le prouve tous les jours: - Meme si vous n'appreciez pas ses decisions ca ne veut pas dire qu'elles soient forcement mauvaises - et meme si les media les ont toujours critiquees.

Voyons - en politique etrangere - a quel point Obama va reellement se differencier de Pres. Bush.

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Plus deconcertant est le timing de ce genre de declarations que l'on voit fleurir ici et la ces derniers jours, pour donner un visage un peu plus humain au futur ex president*1 comme pour temperer sa sortie loin d'etre glorieuse*2, avec le taux d'approbation le plus bas de l'histoire du pays et le jugement le plus negatif de presque tout les presidents qui l'ont precede au moment ou ils ont quitte la Maison Blanche.
Mais bon.....

*1 timing parlons-en justement: depuis quelques semaines, la critique de Pres. Bush est presque inexistante et puis ces reportages sortent dans la presse elite - la meme qui le harcelait jusqu'a present.

Je pense, qu'elle tente de se faire du bien a elle-meme, une sorte de regret de derniere minute.

De plus, n'etant vraiment pas certains des positions d'Obama, les media la jouent un peu "cool" imaginez qu'ils continuent a attaquer ce que Pres. BUsh dit en ce moment par exemple au sujet de Gaza et qu'Obama suive la meme ligne de politique exterieure, ils n'auraient pas l'air tres malins.

*2 evidemment tout le monde ne peut pas partir de la Maison Blanche la risee du monde, apres avoir menti sous serment et a la population tout entiere par camera interposee, avoir eu a subir la honte d'un empeachment, l'horreur de la Somalie, la participation au Kosovo, le refus de l'offre de ben laden (mais bon on ne l'a appris que plus tard...), plus tard aussi la mauvaise situation economique et les semance d'un terrible probleme auquel nous faisons face actuellement avec la mauvaise gestion de Fanny Mae et Freddy Mac et c'est pourtant vrai qu'avec tout ca, il avait encore de meilleurs resultats au sondage.

Une chose est certaine, la presse elite ne l'a jamais denigre, ni ridiculise (excepte pour ses "indiscretions" - je suis tres diplomate ce soir), ni demonise comme ce fut le cas pour Pres. Bush, des l'annonce de sa candidature alors evidemment...

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Obama Considers Major Expansion in Aid to Jobless
By JACKIE CALMES and CARL HULSE
Published: January 3, 2009

CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are considering major expansions of government-assisted health care insurance and unemployment compensation as they begin intensive work this week on a two-year economic recovery package.

One proposal, as described by Democratic advisers, would extend unemployment compensation to part-time workers, an idea that Congressional Republicans have blocked in the past.
Other policy changes would subsidize employers’ expenses for temporarily continuing health insurance coverage to laid-off and retired workers and their dependents, as mandated under a 22-year-old federal law known as Cobra, and allow workers who lose jobs that did not come with insurance benefits to be eligible, for the first time, to apply for Medicaid coverage.

The proposals indicate the sorts of potentially long-range changes that Mr. Obama intends to push in his promised American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, as he named it in his weekly Saturday address on the radio and YouTube. They will be combined with one-time measures that are more typical of federal stimulus packages to jump-start a weak economy, like spending for roads and other job-creating public works projects.

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Barack Obama

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 12, 2008; Page A27

Barack Obama has garnered praise from center to right -- and has highly irritated the left -- with the centrism of his major appointments. Because Obama's own beliefs remain largely opaque, his appointments have led to the conclusion that he intends to govern from the center.

Obama the centrist? I'm not so sure. Take the foreign policy team: Hillary Clinton, James Jones and Bush holdover Robert Gates. As centrist as you can get. But the choice was far less ideological than practical. Obama has no intention of being a foreign policy president. Unlike, say, Nixon or Reagan, he does not have aspirations abroad. He simply wants quiet on his eastern and western fronts so that he can proceed with what he really cares about -- his domestic agenda.

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British Prime Minister Brown Calls for Gaza Cease-Fire

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Cette fois-ci, l'action israelienne forcerait-elle des decisions chez les membres de l'Europe?

"So first we need an immediate cease-fire, and that includes a stopping of the rockets into Israel," Brown told the British Broadcasting Corp. "Secondly, we need some resolution of the problem over arms trafficking into Gaza and, thirdly, we need the borders and the crossings open and that will need some international solution."

Israel sent troops and tanks into Gaza late Saturday after a weeklong aerial bombardment. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed. Israel says it is responding to Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza, which have killed several Israelis.

Brown said pressure from the U.S., the EU and Arab states would be key to stopping the violence. He said a cease-fire should be followed by an end to arms trafficking into Gaza and a reopening by Israel of border crossings into the Palestinian territory.

Mais bon, de ce cote-la les promesses n'ont pas manque non plus, puis Israel retiree..... "on" a d'autres pre-occupations.

Sujet: 139- Re Ah! Ah! 4/1/2009, 14:52

C'est fou comme certains hommes politiques découvrent subitement que depuis bientôt NEUF ans Israël subit chaque jour le tir de plusieurs dizaines de missiles !
Mais bon, là c'est certainement de l'humour britannique.... jocolor

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Sans doute, Biloulou Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise - Page 6 659552

, ca doit etre ca... Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise - Page 6 456111

Sujet: 141- Rose ? 4/1/2009, 15:02

Rose ? Non, plutôt rubicon, ce doit être le soleit d'hiver en altitude - les jardins suspendus, vous comprenez ? Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise - Page 6 707951

Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise - Page 6 707951

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Biloulou a écrit:: Rose ? Non, plutôt rubicon, ce doit être le soleit d'hiver en altitude - les jardins suspendus, vous comprenez ?

Rose comme Marie ?

sunny

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Sujet: 144- Ouf ! 4/1/2009, 19:14

Je me sens déjà mieux. Merci. Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise - Page 6 61479

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Richardson ne sera pas Secretaire du Commerce dans le gouvernement Obama.

Il se retrouve devant le grand Jury qui se pose la question de savoir comment et pourquoi une societe californienne qui a contribue aux activites politiques de Richardson s'est retrouvee l'heureuse beneficiaire d'un contrat lucratif signe avec l'Etat du Nouveau Mexique Laughing

mais bon, il n'a rien fait de mal et ca sera prouve.

Richardson to withdraw as Commerce Secretary

New Mexico governor cites pending investigation of business dealings

BREAKING NEWS
NBC News
updated 1:14 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2009

The Associated Press contributed to this report

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.

"Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact," he said Sunday in a report by NBC News' Andrea Mitchell. "But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process."

He said he plans to continue in his role as governor. "I appreciate the confidence President-elect Obama has shown in me, and value our friendship and working partnership. I told him that I am eager to serve in the future in any way he deems useful. And like all Americans, I pray for his success and the success of our beloved country."

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Associated Press:
Jan 4, 1:43 PM EST

Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary

By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer

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Ancien candidat a la presidence, governeur du Nouveau Mexique, il a ete Ambassadeur Americain aux Nations Unies sous Clinton en 1997

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En 2 messages, c'est trop long....

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Citation :: *1 la probite et l'honnetete intellectuelle: oui c'est un fait que si l'on ecoute les anti-Bush, il est surprenant que Carl Rove ne se promene pas avec des cornes sur la tete, une cape rouge et un trident. mais bon. Les Bush haters n'ont-ils pas toujours discredite toutes les personnes prochent de Pres. Bush Ou ce sont des imbeciles incultes ou ce sont des montres prets a tout pour reussir : "mafia texane". (Pres Bush, lui etant, une fois l'un une fois l'autre, selon l'interet du moment!)

Eeuhh Permettez moi de vous rappeler que Rove, le grand cerveau de l'administration Bush (surnomme Bush's brain d'ailleurs), qui s'il est un brillant stratege et un homme d'une exceptionnelle intelligence, n'en reste pas moins un menteur (oui je le dis) un tricheur pret a tout pour arriver a ses fins. L'exageration des WMD de l'Irak, c'est lui, l'affaire Plame c'est lui parce que Joe Wilson avait "ose" devoile les mensonges de l'administration sur les WMD, meme si je sais que vous soutiendrez le contraire. Libby "Scooter" dont on a fait le principal accuse et qui a ete condamne a ete gracie par Bush, Ben voyons, alors que devoiler le nom, l'identitie d'un agent est un crime federal.
Il était devenu l'une des principales cibles
de la Justice américaine en raison de son
implication dans de nombreuses affaires douteuses de l'administration (cité a comparaître devant la Commission
des affaires judiciaires du Sénat afin d'être entendu dans l'affaire du licenciement abusif de plusieurs procureurs
fédéraux jugés trop démocrates, mais Bush l'a couvert
en décrétant une immunité spéciale pour Rove, conseiller "dans l'exercice
de ses fonctions", Ben Voyons....!!!

Parmi les autres coups tordus il y a aussi l'utilisation
frauduleuse de papier à en tête d'un démocrate, des scandales d'espionnage téléphonique illégal et anti-constitutionnels, l'intimidation et les menaces envers certains journalistes ou opposants politiques, la
diffusion dans les médias de rumeurs malveillantes contre ses
adversaires, bref la liste est longue.

"Les fourberies et les manipulations douteuses qui ont jalonné sa
carrière font de Karl Rove la figure même du parfait salaud politique" a ecrit un journaliste, je suis d'accord.

"C'est une grosse perte pour nous, [...], un grand collègue et un bon
ami. Il nous manquera beaucoup. Mais [...] il continuera à être l'un
des meilleurs amis du président", a déclaré l'actuel secrétaire général
adjoint de la Maison Blanche.
Il ne me manquera pas une seconde.

Citation :: *2 Oui un peu comme ceux du rapport de l'equipe de transition d'Obama concernant le scandale de Blagojevic.

Nous verrons bien. Tout finit par se savoir, tot ou tard dans un sens ou dans l'autre.

Citation :: Mais si Pres. Bush lit, tant mieux, j'espere qu'il en aura tire quelques lecons.

Bien evidemment, il nous le prouve tous les jours: - Meme si vous n'appreciez pas ses decisions ca ne veut pas dire qu'elles soient forcement mauvaises - et meme si les media les ont toujours critiquees.

Ah bon, excusez moi je n'avais pas remarque la culture abyssale de cet homme qui est incapable de parler de quoique ce soit si ce n'est pas prepare a l'avance.
Je ne demande qu'a etre convaincue remarquez, c'est dur de ne pouvoir defendre le president de son pays quand on l'attaque sur ce point.

Citation :: Voyons - en politique etrangere - a quel point Obama va reellement se differencier de Pres. Bush.

On verra aussi. J'espere que cela changera vu le desastre de notre reputation et de nos actions. Mais je ne pense pas que dans un premier temps le changement soit vraiment perceptible helas. On ne peut pas tout transformer d'un coup. Je souhaite qu'Obama tienne la route de ce qu'il a promis de faire.

Citation :: *1 timing parlons-en justement: depuis quelques semaines, la critique de Pres. Bush est presque inexistante et puis ces reportages sortent dans la presse elite - la meme qui le harcelait jusqu'a present.

Je pense, qu'elle tente de se faire du bien a elle-meme, une sorte de regret de derniere minute.

Je ne le crois pas une seconde. Je penche plutot pour une espece de statu quo car l'homme n'est plus qu'a quelques jours de s'en aller et on adopte la politique de "Ne tirez pas sur l'ambulance".

Citation :: De plus, n'etant vraiment pas certains des positions d'Obama, les media la jouent un peu "cool" imaginez qu'ils continuent a attaquer ce que Pres. BUsh dit en ce moment par exemple au sujet de Gaza et qu'Obama suive la meme ligne de politique exterieure, ils n'auraient pas l'air tres malins.

S'il Obama suit la meme politique au MO, il sera largement temps de le critiquer.

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