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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 11/5/2010, 12:36 | |
| L'une des deux enfants cheris des dirigeants Democrates (en particulier du grand Barney Franck) a l'origine de la crise financiere actuelle avec Freddie Mack, Fannie Mae, donc, apres avoir perdu 11.5 milliards de dollars le premier trimestre demande encore un peu d'aide: A votre bon coeur, on vous remboursera quand on pourra.
Aucune des deux agences n'est sur la liste des organisations financieres dans le colimateur et sous la pression gouvernementale de l'administration Obama. Fannie Mae Needs $8.4 Billion More By NICK TIMIRAOS Mortgage Investor Posts Another Loss, Seeks Cash Infusion - Spoiler:
Fannie Mae asked the U.S. government for an additional $8.4 billion in aid after posting an $11.5 billion net loss for the first quarter, the latest sign that the bailout of the mortgage investor and its main rival, Freddie Mac, is likely to be the most expensive legacy of the U.S. housing-market bust.Fannie's losses reflected continuing weakness in the housing market and would have been worse without accounting changes that reduced its deficit. The quarterly loss was an improvement from the $23.5 billion loss for the year-ago quarter and marked the 11th consecutive quarterly loss for the Washington-based firm. Fannie Mae is asking for an additional $8.4 billion in government aid after reporting an $11.5 billion net loss for the first quarter. WSJ's Nick Timiraos joins the News Hub with more.The company has now racked up losses of nearly $145 billion, or nearly double its profits for the previous 35 years. While many of the nation's biggest banks have repaid their government loans and some are back to racking up big profits, Fannie and Freddie are still suffering from the housing-market crisis.In recent weeks, the Treasury pointed out how private-sector banks, insurers and even auto makers have repaid loans under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But red ink continues to gush from Fannie and Freddie because of their huge exposure to home loans. "Everyone's trying to sweep it under the rug, but there's a very large embedded loss that hasn't been fully realized yet," says Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. "Someone's going to have to write a check, and it's very large."The government's tab for Fannie will climb to $84 billion, while Freddie's stands at $61 billion. The government took control of both companies in 2008 through a legal process known as conservatorship as rising losses threatened to wipe out their thin capital reserves.Fannie's losses have surpassed Freddie's because its $3 trillion book of loan guarantees is nearly one-third larger than Freddie's. Delinquencies are higher at Fannie because the firm more aggressively dialed up its appetite for riskier loans at the peak of the housing boom.Despite their losses, the firms are helping to stabilize the housing market. Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration provided guarantees or insurance for 96.5% of the home mortgages that originated in the first quarter, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication. The companies also play a central role in the Obama administration's loan-modification effort designed to avert foreclosures. Losses at Fannie and Freddie continue to grow because the firms must set aside more capital to cover anticipated losses as mortgage delinquencies rise. The Treasury kicks in more capital every quarter if revenues can't meet those financial needs. Unlike many financial companies, the firms are exposed to a single asset class, holding nearly $5.5 trillion in mortgages and loan guarantees. Fannie's capital hole would have risen by $3.3 billion without new accounting rules that took effect Jan. 1. The firm's losses were driven by deterioration in its $3 trillion book of loan guarantees, which accounted for a $12.5 billion loss.One possible signal that losses will slow in the coming months: Fannie said 5.47% of its loans were 90 days or more past due at the end of March, down from 5.59% in February and the first monthly decline in nearly three years. That has stemmed in part from efforts to modify loans and from an uptick in liquidating delinquent loans through foreclosure. The company said Monday that credit losses could decline this year from record highs last year as delinquencies begin to level out.The company's loan-loss reserves fell to $61 billion from $64 billion three months ago, even as its pool of nonperforming loans grew to $224 billion from $217 billion. "If I was the government, I would plead with Fannie or Freddie to reserve far more than they are right now," given the prospect of future home-price declines, said Anthony Sanders, a real-estate finance professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.But the terms of the government conservatorship, which require Fannie and Freddie to pay an annual 10% dividend on their Treasury draw, could create an incentive to reserve more conservatively. Fannie had to pay the government $1.5 billion in dividends last quarter. "They don't want to raise the reserve levels because in a sense it doesn't matter and it could be perversely damaging to them," says Mr. Sanders.In its filings Monday, in the coming months Fannie said it wasn't likely to repay that its debt to the Treasury for the "indefinite future."  Ben tiens donc...
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| | Sujet: 2262 - 11/5/2010, 14:05 | |
| A Trillion for Europe, With Doubts AttachedBy LANDON THOMAS Jr. and JACK EWINGPublished: May 11, 2010Like the giant financial bailout announced by the United States in 2008, the sweeping rescue package announced by Europe eased fears of a market collapse but left a big question: will it work long term? Petros Giannakouris/Associated PressAn employee of the Greek Parliament carries copies of proposed pension reforms at a cabinet meeting in Athens on Monday. - Spoiler:
Stung by criticism that it was slow and weak, the European Union surpassed expectations in arranging a nearly $1 trillion financial commitment for its ailing members over the weekend and paved the way for the European Central Bank to begin purchases of European debt on Monday.
Markets rallied around the world in response to the concerted defense of the euro, a package that exceeded in size the United States bank bailout two years ago.
Major stock indexes in the United States rose about 4 percent on Monday, while a leading index of blue-chip stocks in the euro zone rose more than 10 percent. The premium that investors had been demanding to buy Greek bonds plunged. But by Tuesday, that rally appeared to have sputtered out, with many Asian markets down slightly.
And as details crystallized of the package’s main component — a promise by the European Union’s member states to back 440 billion euros, or $560 billion, in new loans to bail out European economies — the wisdom of solving a debt crisis by taking on more debt was challenged by some analysts.
“Lending more money to already overborrowed governments does not solve their problems,” Carl Weinberg, chief economist of High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y., said in a note. “Had we any Greek bonds in our portfolio, we would not feel rescued this morning.”
Such concerns may be part of the reason the euro fell back when American markets opened, after surging in Asian and European trading, to end the day at about $1.28.
Another big issue is whether bailing out economies creates moral hazard. Other countries may continue to skirt the kinds of actions that would lower their budget deficits and debt loads — steps painful to the public and dangerous to politicians — because they too can expect to be rescued.
It is clear that Europe’s fund will require the sustained support of the 27 nations that form the European Union — not to mention its richest member, Germany, which has until now deeply opposed a bailout.
Indeed, for all the excitement about the scale of the effort, it is important to remember that the core fund does not now exist. The fund, known as a special purpose vehicle, would raise money by issuing debt and making loans to support ailing economies. The European countries would guarantee that fund.
So the package is merely a commitment for the vehicle to borrow money if a large economy like Spain, which represents 12 percent of the output in the euro zone, asks for assistance. The International Monetary Fund is pledging 250 billion euros to support the effort. Sixty billion euros under an existing lending program pushes the total to near $1 trillion.
The fund is therefore more a theoretical construct than the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was created in the United States, and that is where things get tricky.
By definition, if Spain came to a point where it could no longer finance itself, interest rates would be on the rise. The several hundred billion euros for the fund would not only come at a high cost, but would bring additional pain to already indebted countries like Portugal, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, which back the special purpose entity, thus compounding the region’s debt woes.
For Dominique Strauss Kahn, the I.M.F.’s ambitious managing director, the program is a hard-earned victory that allows the fund to assume a central role in pushing for economic reform in Europe.
Greece’s cabinet on Monday approved major changes in its pension system, including an increase in the early retirement age to 60 and the broader retirement age to 65, as part of a three-year package of reforms imposed by the fund and the European Union.
Yet some fund staff members have pointed out that, if anything, the rescue package and the I.M.F. commitment to support it might give countries like Spain an excuse to retreat a bit from the tough measures that have distinguished Ireland’s and Greece’s austerity efforts.
“It shows that Europe can come together,” said a banker with close ties to the fund who was not authorized to speak on the record.
Though it takes the pressure off Spain, “it does not address structural pressure in Europe.”
In effect, Germany and other wealthier European countries are assuming responsibility for the creditworthiness of Greece, Portugal and the other debt delinquents.
But the European central government is weak and must invent new structures to administer the promised aid.
“The debt crisis will change the nature of European monetary union,” Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank, wrote in a note on Monday. “The euro zone has moved away from a monetary union and towards a transfer union.”
Mr. Krämer warned that the shift could “undermine political support for the euro zone in the long run. After all, it is unlikely that the countries receiving support will let others permanently dictate their economic policies. Moreover, voters in the countries giving support will not be willing to permanently give financial support to other countries.”
On Monday, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, warned European governments, all of which will probably miss the budget deficit goals they agreed to when they created the euro, that they must continue to cut government spending.
At a time when economies, from Romania and Hungary to Britain and Spain, are struggling to meet their deficit goals, Mr. Trichet’s warning took on extra resonance.
Romania and Hungary are operating under I.M.F. programs, while Britain and Spain are trying desperately to persuade markets that they will not experience the financing problems that have forced so many countries in Europe to seek assistance.
“For us, what is absolutely decisive is the commitment of governments of the euro area to take all measures needed to meet their fiscal targets this year and in the years ahead,” Mr. Trichet told reporters at a press conference in Basel, Switzerland.
But after 10 years of mostly missing fiscal guidelines during a worldwide economic boom, it remains uncertain if more finger-wagging by Mr. Trichet and a new fund backed by the I.M.F. will be enough to return European nations to fiscal health as their economies stagnate and social pressures build.
James Kanter, David Jolly and Sewell Chan contributed reporting.
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| Vraiment n'importe quoi.  In Athens on Monday, passersby look at a burned-out bank where three workers died during demonstrations.
A €750 billion ($955 billion) bailout package for euro-zone governments facing debt troubles has created another urgent challenge for European policy makers: how to keep free-spending governments in line.- Spoiler:
The rescue funds, together with a commitment from the European Central Bank to buy up governments bonds, have "weakened incentives for fiscal discipline" in the euro zone, says Marco Annunziata, chief economist of UniCredit Group in London.
Economists say the euro zone needs more budget discipline and much greater fiscal coordination if the common currency is to survive. But past European efforts to interfere with governments' rights to tax and spend as they please have foundered.
Eleven years of sharing a currency have pulled the 16 nations of the euro zone ever closer to one another. So close that when Greece, which accounts for just one-fortieth of the euro-zone economy, hit debt troubles, it started to threaten the entire currency union.
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| | Sujet: 2264 - 11/5/2010, 15:24 | |
| O'Reilly - Video - Il se felicite du changement de cap tenu par Le Procureur General Federal Eric Holder concernant le traitement de terroristes arretes sur le territoire americain (On ne leur expliquera leurs droits qu'APRES les avoir interroges alors que l'administration Obama avait decide qu'on devait les prevenir qu'ils ont droit a un avocat et qu'ils ne sont pas obliges de repondre aux questions qui vont leur etre posees..) - Il commente la relance de la bourse de New York apres que les Americains, par l'intermediaire de l'IMF, aient apporte leur aide a la Grece et l'impossibilite de continuer a instaurer ou a maintenir des programmes sociaux sans riquer le desastre. - Il attend d'en savoir un peu plus au sujet de l'ex-Dean Kagan (Harvard University), elle est " liberal" - gauche aux Etats Unis (mais dans quelle mesure?)
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| May 12, 2010
al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attack on British ambassador in Yemen (AFP/SITE Intelligence Group)Uthman Noman al-Salwi launched a suicide attack on the British ambassador in Yemen- Spoiler:
The organisation, which has also claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas day airline bomb plot, identified the would- be assassin as Uthman Noman al-Salwi, whose head was found 50 yards from the blast site.
The ambassador, Tim Torlot, a 52-year-old career diplomat who has served in the Arab state since July 2007 escaped injury when al-Salwi, dressed in a school boy’s shirt and suicide vest threw himself at the ambassador’s armour-plated vehicle in the capital, Sanaa.
Accoding to the terrorist monitoring organisation SITE, a communique from AQAB which identfied al-Salwi as a member of the organisation’s ‘Brigade of Sheikh Abu Omar al-Baghdadi,’ went on to accuse Britain of plotting against the Arabian Peninsula and to vilify the UK for its role in the establishment of Israel.
Al-Salwi, 22, had previously been jailed for two years for suspected ties to al-Qaida. His father said in an interview after the April 26 bombing that authorities had agreed to release his son into parental custody as long as he checked in with police daily and attended school. Instead, he said his son disappeared without notifying his family of his whereabouts.
Mr Torlot was reportedly about 600 yards from the embassy in the new part of Sanaa, close to the heavily fortified US mission, when the attack came. He usually travels in an armoured car followed by an escort vehicle of armed Yemeni police. The embassy itself is protected by razor wire and sandbagged machinegun posts manned by Yemeni forces.
The British Embassy was closed in January after Yemeni intelligence sources said that an al-Qaeda cell was planning to target it and the US embassy. The Yemeni Army later attacked the cell and killed several of its members.
The attack has heightened concerns about security in Yemen, where AQAB, a relatively new organisation, has been gaining strength over the past year, steadily building its capabilities. It recently opened a training camp in the south of the country, which houses more than 400 fighters, of whom Yemenis, Saudis and Somalis make up the majority.
Yemen is now thought to be the third-largest haven for Al-Qaeda, and AQAB is expected to become a major threat. The organisation has launched attacks both inside Yemen and abroad, including a failed suicide attack on a Saudi prince in charge of fighting terrorism.
The group came to prominence last December when 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmautallab, who allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit bound US airliner on Christmas Day admitted that he had been trained in Yemen. Mr Abdulmutallab said that he had been given an explosive device, which was sewn into his underpants, after going into hiding last year while at an Arabic-language school in Sanaa and attending an al-Qaeda training camp.
The Yemeni Government has launched an offensive against al-Qaeda, but senior clerics have threatened to declare a jihad, or holy war, if foreign troops are deployed inside the country.
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 12/5/2010, 08:51 | |
| Obama changes anti-drug policiesFocus is prevention, educationBy Kara RowlandThe Obama administration unveiled a new drug-control policy Tuesday that emphasizes community-based prevention and the role of doctors in screening for drug problems, signaling a shift in strategy while continuing to embrace key tenets of the decades-old war on drugs. - Spoiler:
But while the strategy outlined Tuesday represents a new tack on several fronts, supporters and critics of the drug war alike agreed it's not a major departure from previous administrations.
"When push comes to shove, they're making a few little steps and giving lip service in the direction of a public-health approach, but you can still see their knee-jerk reflex is to focus on law enforcement and supply-and-control strategies that have never worked well in the past," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group devoted to ending the federal drug war.
The White House's first anti-drug plan calls for prevention at the local level through mentoring programs and education initiatives, not just for children, but also for their parents at the workplace, as well as expanding treatment programs from specialty facilities to community health centers. The policy also lays out a series of five-year goals that include cutting youth drug use by 15 percent, drug-caused deaths by 15 percent and instances of "drugged driving" by 10 percent.
Obama drug czar Gil Kerlikowske billed the strategy as "a balanced policy of prevention, treatment, enforcement and international cooperation."
The administration has already taken some steps to reform drug policy, repealing a long-standing ban on federal funds for needle-exchange programs aimed at preventing HIV and deferring to states that pass laws allowing medical marijuana. Mr. Obama has also asked Congress to amend federal law so that sentencing guidelines treat crack and powder cocaine the same.
As a candidate for the Senate in 2004, Mr. Obama described the war on drugs as an "utter failure" and suggested the country look at decriminalizing marijuana, but he has consistently sided against legalization as president. Indeed, the White House policy stresses that the administration "firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug."
While Mr. Nadelmann lauded some of the administration's efforts, he likened changing U.S. drug policy to "trying to turn around an ocean liner." He said the administration's budget reflects a continued emphasis on prosecution and imprisonment, as opposed to tackling drug addiction as a health issue.
At the other end of the spectrum, Calvina L. Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation praised the administration for "still embracing the comprehensive approach with prevention, treatment and law enforcement all having a role to play."
In particular, Mrs. Fay said she was pleased to see a focus on educating parents in the workplace, where they're a captive audience, as well as efforts to curb substance abuse among prisoners.
But she said she was disappointed at what appeared to be a lack of emphasis on random drug testing in schools. "From what we've seen, that's been a very effective approach not only in intervening ... it's been a tremendous deterrent."
The Obama plan also includes a push to screen patients early for signs of substance abuse, even during routine appointments, and the expansion of prescription-drug monitoring programs. It also calls for more international cooperation in disrupting the flow of drugs and money, as well as promoting alternative career paths for farmers abroad who grow coca and opium.
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 12/5/2010, 09:14 | |
| Report: 105 People Killed in Plane Crash at Libya's Tripoli Airport (FOXNEWS) |
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| | Sujet: 2268 - 13/5/2010, 22:58 | |
| Bien qu'il y ait encore presque 6 mois avant les elections de mi-mandat et que beaucoup de choses puissent encore se passer, les Democrates (et la il s'agit tout de meme de Carville) sont obliges de reconnaitre que le Congres risque d'etre repris par les Republicains. Democrats Could 'Absolutely' Lose Majority Control in Congress, Some Strategists SayNew Poll Shows More Voters are Supporting Republicans in Mid-Term ElectionsBy HUMA KHANDemocrats, especially incumbents, could be in for a very tough fight in November's midterm elections as Americans increasingly switch their support to the Republican Party, according to a new poll. - Spoiler:
A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released today found that voters were split over which party they preferred to have a majority in Congress, with 44 percent favoring Democrats and 44 percent Republicans; 12 percent said they weren't sure. But 56 percent of those Americans who said they were most interested in the midterm elections supported Republicans, and 36 percent backed Democrats, "the highest gap all year on that question," according to the poll.
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The White House and Democrats are "acutely aware" of the sentiment in the country, said Democratic strategist James Carville on "Good Morning America" today, and it's "absolutely possible" that Democrats could lose control of Congress.
"It's not good," Carville said. "The Democrats need a strategy to re-energize some of their voters."
Conservative activist Bay Buchanan said the numbers aren't just a referendum on Democrats, they prove that there is a strong anti-Washington, anti-incumbency mood around the country.
"I think there's a real problem here for Democrats," Buchanan said on "GMA." "What's motivating these voters is this huge debt that we have, this increasing deficit, the incredible unwillingness for Washington to get control of this spending."
"People are unnerved by this," she said. "They pull in their belts, and communities and states are pulling in theirs, Washington just keeps spending as [if] that's the only solution. You can't solve that in the next six months."
Both Republican and Democratic incumbents have already experienced that fervor firsthand.
On Tuesday, Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., lost the primary battle for a 15th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first incumbent to fall in a campaign aimed at Washington. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, the state's only Democratic representative in Congress, did not win enough votes to avoid a primary challenge from a retired schoolteacher who has never run for Congress. Matheson never had to partake in a primary before.
On the GOP front, three-term senator Bob Bennett lost in Utah's GOP convention to a tea party activist. Bennett came under fire for supporting the Wall Street bailout and a bipartisan bill mandating health insurance coverage.
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| Outrage Spreads Over Decision Not to Send Girls' Basketball Team to ArizonaFOXNews.com The outrage over an Illinois school administrator's decision to cancel a girls' basketball team's trip to Arizona has caught fire on the Internet, where a Facebook group has been set up to call for her to be fired.- Spoiler:
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| | Sujet: 2270 - Modernizing Miranda: A new consensus, Charles Krauthammer 14/5/2010, 21:29 | |
| Modernizing Miranda: A new consensus By Charles KrauthammerFriday, May 14, 2010 It's not often that I agree with Attorney General Eric Holder. But, then again, it's not often that Holder publicly embraces an anti-terrorism measure I proposed 48 hours earlier. - Spoiler:
In last week's column, I suggested that the 1984 "public safety" exception to issuing Miranda warnings be significantly modified for terrorists such as confessed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Rather than just allowing pre-Miranda questioning about any immediate danger, the public safety exception should be expanded to allow full interrogation of the outer limits of that attack and any others being plotted. Two days later, Eric Holder said this on ABC: "If we are going to have a system that is capable of dealing in a public safety context with this new threat [international terrorism], I think we have to give serious consideration to at least modifying that public safety exception." "The public safety exception," he told NBC, "was really based on a robbery that occurred back in the '80s. . . . We're now dealing with international terrorists." Which is why we need to be "perhaps modifying the rules that interrogators have" to be "more consistent with the threat that we now face." This shift, added Holder, "is, in fact, big news." It is remarkable how base-pleasing civil-libertarian rhetoric, so easily deployed when in opposition, becomes chastened when one is entrusted with the safety of the American people. The fact that the Times Square bomber did talk after he was Mirandized is blind luck. Holder is undoubtedly aware of just how much information about the Pakistani Taliban, which he now tells us funded and directed Shahzad's attack, would have been lost to us had Shahzad stopped talking -- and therefore how important it is to make sure the next guy we nab trying to blow something up is not Mirandized until a full interrogation regarding that plot and others is completed. The liberals' problem with such interrogation begins with their insistence that terrorists be treated as ordinary criminals rather than enemy combatants. The administration treated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber, that way, and appears to think it was surely required to so treat Shahzad, a naturalized American. Not at all. As The Post noted in its editorial supporting widening the government's interrogation prerogatives, the two relevant precedents for designating enemy combatants are the Quirin and Hamdi cases. In both, American citizens were subjected to military jurisdiction. Quirin (1942) allowed a U.S. citizen engaged in sabotage on U.S. soil to be tried and convicted as an enemy combatant. Hamdi (2004) upheld the designation as enemy combatant of a U.S. citizen picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan. It is true that the Supreme Court has not recently ruled whether that applies to a U.S. citizen apprehended committing an act of war on American soil. But why not press the court to decide? After all, had Shahzad's car bomb gone off, Times Square would indeed have been turned into a battlefield. Nonetheless, this administration seems intent upon using the civilian legal system rather than designating caught-in-the-act terrorists as enemy combatants. I think it's a mistake, but they will be in power for almost three more years, possibly seven. In the interim, therefore, we have to think about how to adapt this administration's preferred domestic-judicial model to the real world. The way to do it, as Holder has come to understand, is by modifying Miranda. The usual objection is that the courts will reject such a modification. The 2000 Dickerson case is cited to suggest that the Supreme Court will not countenance congressional intrusion on its jurisdiction over constitutional protections against self-incrimination. But what Dickerson struck down was a provocative congressional attempt to simply overturn and liquidate Miranda. Expanding the public safety exception would be no such affront. It would be acting on the Supreme Court's own Miranda adaptation in Quarles (1984) -- the public safety exception -- and applying its principles to the age of an ongoing campaign of mass attacks upon civilians. Protection from that requires information not just about ticking bombs but also about future bombs. The ACLU is predictably apoplectic about Holder's "big news." But the idea is supported by an impeccably liberal attorney general, progressive think-tank king John Podesta and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (who is working to draft such legislation) -- and that's not even counting us troglodytes on the right. Modernizing Miranda would garner widespread public support as well as bipartisan congressional majorities. Go for it, Mr. Attorney General.
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| Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear dealBy ALI AKBAR DAREINIThe Associated Press
Monday, May 17, 2010; 2:24 AM TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran agreed Monday to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal that could ease the international standoff over the country's disputed nuclear program, just as pressure mounts for tougher sanctions.- Spoiler:
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, shakes hands with his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva during an official welcoming ceremony for him at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi - AP)
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, welcomes his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva during an official welcoming ceremony at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi - AP)  Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, listens to Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, unseen, after his arrival at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi - AP) 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives at the presidency for an official welcoming ceremony for his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)(Vahid Salemi - AP)
The deal was reached in talks with Brazil and Turkey, elevating a new group of mediators for the first time in the dispute over Iran's nuclear activities.
"It was agreed during the trilateral meeting of Iranian, Turkish and Brazilian leaders that Turkey will be the venue for swapping" Iran's stocks of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods to power a medical research reactor, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on state TV Monday.
The deal would deprive Iran - at least temporarily - of the stocks of enriched uranium that it could process to the higher levels of enrichment needed in weapons production. The material returned to Iran in the form of fuel rods could not be processed beyond its lower, safer levels, which are suitable for use in the Tehran research reactor.
The deal goes to the heart of international concern over Tehran's nuclear activities. Earlier negotiations led by Germany and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China - have sought to stop Iran from enriching uranium, and thereby deprive it of a possible pathway to nuclear weapons.
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| Mort Zuckerman: The Crippling Price of Public Employee UnionsBy Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Posted May 14, 2010
The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that taxpayers are being taken for an expensive ride by public sector unions. The extraordinary benefits the unions have secured for their members are going to be harder and harder to pay. - Spoiler:
The political backlash has energized the Tea Party activists, put incumbents at risk in both parties, and already elected fiscal conservatives such as Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. Over the next fiscal year, the states are looking at deficits approaching hundreds of billions of dollars. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, estimates that this coming year alone states will face an aggregate shortfall of $180 billion. In some states the budget gap is more than 30 percent. The result is a crowding out of the state role as the supporter of adequate infrastructure, education, and healthcare.How did we get into such a mess? States have always had to cope with volatility in the size and composition of their populations. Now we have shrinking tax bases caused by recession and extra costs imposed on states to pay for Medicaid in the federal healthcare program. The straw (well, more like an iron beam) that breaks the camel's back is the unfunded portions of state pension plans, healthcare, and other retirement benefits promised to public sector employees at a time when federal government assistance to states is falling—down by roughly half in the next fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.It is galling for private sector workers to see so many public sector workers thriving because of the power their unions exercise. Take California. Investigative journalist Steve Malanga point out in the City Journal that California's schoolteachers are the nation's highest paid; its prison guards can make six-figure salaries; many state workers retire at 55 with pensions that are higher than the base pay they got most of their working lives. All this when California endures an unemployment rate steeper than the nation's. It will get worse. There's an exodus of firms that want to escape California's high taxes, stifling regulations, and recurring budget crises. When Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, says he will not build any more facilities in California, you know the state is in trouble.The business community and a growing portion of the public now understand the dynamics that discriminate against the private sector. The public sector unions organize voting campaigns for politicians who, on election, repay their benefactors by approving salaries and benefits for the public sector, irrespective of whether they are sustainable. And what is happening with California is happening in slower motion in the rest of the country. It must be one of the reasons the Pew Research Center this year reported that support for labor unions generally has plummeted "amid growing public skepticism about unions' power and purpose."There has been a transformation in the nature of our employment. Labor is no longer dominated by private sector industrial workers who were in large part culturally conservative and economically pro-growth. Over recent decades public sector employment has exploded and public workers have come to dominate the labor movement. These public sector employees have a unique and powerful advantage in contract negotiations. Quite simply it is their capacity to deliver political endorsements and votes for the very people who are theoretically on the other side of the negotiating table. Candidates who want to appear tough on crime will look to cops, sheriffs' deputies, prison guards, and highway patrol officers for their endorsement.These unions will naturally back a candidate willing to support better pay and benefits for their members, and this means as much as, or more than, the candidate's views on law enforcement. The result has been soaring pay and the ability of state police and other safety officers to retire with pensions that place an increasingly unbearable financial burden on the states. In California, such retirees at age 50 often receive pensions at 90 percent of their pay; comparable retirees in most other states get about half their final working salary. *Suite...* Ce fut le cas au niveau federal avec l'election du POTUS
Dernière édition par Sylvette le 17/5/2010, 12:17, édité 1 fois |
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| Au sujet des " Entrepreneurs" ridiculises et meme demonises par tant. Kauffman Foundation Unveils the 'Entrepreneur's Pledge' as Part of its 'Build a Stronger America Movement'Contact:
Benjamin Branham, Edelman, 212-704-4577, Benjamin.Branham@edelman.com
Barb Pruitt, Kauffman Foundation, 816-932-1288, [url=mailto://bpruitt@kauffman.org]bpruitt@kauffman.org[/url] Movement supporters can now publicly express their support for the causeView the Entrepreneur's Pledge video |
(WASHINGTON and KANSAS CITY, Mo.) May 13, 2010 - The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today unveiled the "Entrepreneur's Pledge," a new component of the Entrepreneurs' Movement that the Foundation launched last fall at www.BuildAStrongerAmerica.com. The Pledge went "live" before more than 500 entrepreneurs at the DC10 Summit Series, an invitation-only event in Washington this week for some of the nation's top young innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders. "The Entrepreneur's Pledge allows entrepreneurs to not only publicly express their enthusiasm for being a business owner, but also to show their support for entrepreneurship as a cause," said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. "Entrepreneurs continue to be the key to our country's economic recovery because they are the primary source of new job creation. Introducing the Pledge only enhances the Entrepreneurs' Movement, which is aimed at giving entrepreneurs a platform to share their stories and amplify their voice."The Entrepreneur's Pledge: | I am an Entrepreneur.
I am following a dream, pursuing an opportunity, taking charge of my own destiny.
I am bringing something of value to society, making a job for myself and for others, and creating wealth that benefits my family, my community, my country, my world.
I am one of a movement of millions of entrepreneurs and innovators who made America great, and who will continue to keep our economy going...and growing.
I am what I am because many people have helped me along on this journey.
Therefore:
I will tell my story, sharing my successes and failures, so that others taking the entrepreneurial path can learn.
I will strive to mentor an aspiring entrepreneur.
I will make my voice heard by those who make policy decisions that affect me and my business.
I will appreciate and celebrate my accomplishments, and the accomplishments of all my fellow entrepreneurs.
I will give back to the society that helped me to be successful.
I will Build a Stronger America. |
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| | Sujet: 2275 - The Euro Party's Over. What Now? 17/5/2010, 12:33 | |
| MAY 16, 2010, 8:39 P.M. ET The Euro Party's Over. What Now? By IRWIN STELZER "The party's over. It's time to call it a day. They've burst your pretty balloon, and taken the moon away." - Spoiler:
So wrote Betty Comden and Adolph Green over fifty years ago, when they couldn't possibly have realized they were creating a lyric that would some day describe the euro zone.  Bloomberg News The euro zone now has to contend with the IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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| | Sujet: 2276 - 17/5/2010, 15:59 | |
| Rasmussen | Date | Presidential Approval Index | Strongly Approve | Strongly Disapprove | Total Approve | Total Disapprove | | 5/17/2010 | -13 | 27% | 40% | 46% | 53% | | 5/16/2010 | -10 | 29% | 39% | 48% | 52% | | 5/15/2010 | -11 | 30% | 41% | 48% | 52% | | 5/14/2010.......... | -13 | 29% | 42% | 46% | 53% | | 5/13/2010.......... | -13 | 28% | 41% | 46% | 53% | | 5/12/2010.......... | -13 | 28% | 41% | 47% | 52% | | 5/11/2010.......... | -10 | 29% | 39% | 48% | 51% | | 5/10/2010 | No Polling | | | | |
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| | Sujet: 2277 - Senate 2010 Polls 17/5/2010, 16:14 | |
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| | Sujet: 2278 - Police Foil Bomb Plot in Jersey City, N.J., Pizzeria 17/5/2010, 18:20 | |
| Police Foil Bomb Plot in Jersey City, N.J., Pizzeria |
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| | Sujet: 2279 - Supreme Court Decisions 17/5/2010, 18:27 | |
| Deux decisions par la Cour Supreme Federale:
Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles
Supreme Court rules that juveniles may not be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole unless guilty of homicide.
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High Court Upholds Sex Offender Law
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President George W. Bush in 2006 signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which authorized the civil commitment of sexually dangerous federal inmates.
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| | Sujet: 2280 - 9/11 families blast Kagan 17/5/2010, 23:38 | |
| 9/11 families blast KaganBy SUSAN EDELMANLast Updated: 8:41 AM, May 17, 2010Posted: 2:30 AM, May 17, 2010Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has gotten an angry thumbs-down from 9/11 family members who say she played a key role in quashing a lawsuit that accused the Saudi kingdom of helping finance the terror attacks. "Kagan is the main reason why the Supreme Court ruled against the 9/11 families," said William Doyle, who lost his son in the Twin Towers. Doyle and thousands of other 9/11 relatives had joined in a suit that traced funding for the 19 hijackers to certain Saudi royals, along with banks, corporations and Islamic charities. The royals were let off the hook last year at the urging of Kagan, the US solicitor general. "Kagan protected them," Doyle said. "I think it's a huge issue, and I hope it comes up in her confirmation hearings." She filed a brief to the Supreme Court last May, arguing that the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act shielded Saudi princes from the suit's claims that they gave money to Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders or to charities that funneled funds to al Qaeda. Kagan cited "the potentially significant foreign-relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit." The Supreme Court declined to hear the case. susan.edelman@ny post.com Entre ca et le fait qu'elle ait agi contre la loi en interdisant les recruteurs de l'armee sur le campus de Harvard alors que la Cour Supreme avait unanimement juge cette action anticonstitutionnelle, Ms. Kagan devrait obtenir sans trop d'objection sa place au sein de la Cour Supreme des Etats Unis.  |
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| | Sujet: 2281 - Obama Distant in Primaries 18/5/2010, 08:21 | |
| Comme les temps changent tout de meme... Evidemment, il faut reconnaitre que les 2 derniers candidats Democrates qu'il a soutenu en se rendant physiquement dans leur Etat (Virginia, New Jersey) ont perdu (et c'est sans compter, Chicago devant le Comite des Jeux Olympiques), mais bon...  Obama Offers Democrats His Support but Not His Presence in Key PrimariesBy Major GarrettFOXNews.com Obama has backed Democrats in key primaries on Tuesday, but he hasn't campaigned for them down the stretch- Spoiler:
The political fate of two vulnerable Senate Democrats and the race for a House seat vital to any plausible Republican plan to knock Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of power are topics that, the White House claimed Monday, are barely raising an eyebrow in the administration.The question came up in the daily White House news briefing on the day before three key state primaries."How closely has the president been following the campaigns?" a reporter asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs."Not that closely," Gibbs said.  Gibbs' claim of West Wing disinterest comes after Obama endorsed party-switching Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and dispatched Vice President Biden to campaign for him. And it comes after Obama had his White House team say complimentary things about Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's bid to have big banks shed derivatives trading despite opposition from Obama's treasury secretary and his leading outside economic adviser. What Obama hasn't done for Specter and Lincoln is campaign for them down the stretch.Specter clearly wants an Obama visit. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Specter's leading get-out-the-vote voice, said Monday a last-minute Obama visit would mean at least one percentage point for Specter."It might jack up turnout," Rendell said, with voters heading to the polls Tuesday.Instead Obama will fly over Pennsylvania en route to Youngstown, Ohio, where he will make remarks about the economy.Of course, last-minute trips don't guarantee victories, as made clear when Obama campaigned for losing Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, losing New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and losing Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley.And Specter could very well lose the Senate primary to two-term Democratic congressman Joe Sestak on the grounds that Specter's down-the-line backing of Obama's agenda isn't good enough -- a criticism that could be vaporized by an Obama visit.Obama hasn't been to Pennsylvania's 12th District, either, despite its evident importance to Democratic plans of minimizing GOP mid-terms gains. The sprawling western Pennsylvania district is the only one in the country that went from Democrat John Kerry in 2004 to Republican John McCain in 2008.In this special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Pennsylvania political powerhouse John Murtha, Republican Tim Burns is giving Democrat Mark Critz fits, despite the a 2-1 Democratic registration edge.Already, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pre-emptively trying to devalue a Burns victory, noting the massive GOP spending on the election and expenditures from outside pro-GOP groups.In Arkansas, Lincoln's plans for a third term ran into a union-backed assault from the left in the form of Lt. Gov Bill Halter. The betting is Lincoln will win Tuesday, but probably not with the 50 percent she needs to avoid a June 8 runoff -- a contest that will further deplete Lincoln's campaign warchest. Meanwhile, Republican Rep. John Boozman is sure to emerge as the nominee and already leads Lincoln by double digits.So, at a time when Democrats need to rally their base and unify against Republican, two party incumbents and a long-held House seat hang in the balance -- in part because of intra-party fissures."The Obama machine is just as divided as the Democrats are in Pennsylvania, or the Democrats are in Arkansas," said Democratic strategist Steve McMahon. "All those Democrats are Obama Democrats, but half of them it seems are anti-incumbent, anti-establishment, anti-Congress Democrats." Republicans say it doesn't matter if the political seas are calm or roiling. They smell blood."There needs to be more than teleprompters and eloquence," said Rob Jessmer, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "People want policy and they want the president listening to them. The bottom line is people want a check on his agenda, and that's the problem (the Democrats) have."
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| | Sujet: 2282 - Arizona Law - Illegal Immigration Cost 18/5/2010, 08:26 | |
| Cost of Illegal Immigration Rising Rapidly in Arizona, Study FindsBy Ed BarnesFOXNews.com Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers even more than once thought -- a whopping $2.7 billion, according to researchers at the public interest group that helped write the state's new immigration law.- Spoiler:
 Jan. 9, 2008: A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over a group of immigrants arrested after crossing illegally from Mexico through the Altar Valley in Arizona.
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| | Sujet: 2283 - Obama's Aunt Granted Asylum 18/5/2010, 10:38 | |
| Obama's Aunt Granted Asylum, Stopping Her Deportation to KenyaAssociated Press Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of President Obama's late father, testified earlier this year in Boston in an asylum case that was re-opened after she illegally stayed in the United States following a 2004 deportation order.CLEVELAND -- A U.S. immigration court granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys said Monday.- Spoiler:
The decision was mailed Friday and comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston, where she arrived in a wheelchair and two doctors testified in support of her case.
The basis for her asylum request hadn't been made public. People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.
Her lawyer, Margaret Wong, said last year that Onyango first applied for asylum "due to violence in Kenya." The East African nation is fractured by cycles of electoral violence every five years.
In a November interview with The Associated Press, Onyango said she was disabled and was learning to walk again after being paralyzed from Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disorder.
Onyango moved to the United States in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected, and she was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.
Onyango's status as an illegal immigrant was revealed just days before Obama was elected in November 2008. Obama said he did not know his aunt was living here illegally and believes laws covering the situation should be followed.
A judge later agreed to suspend her deportation order and reopen her asylum case.
Wong has said that Obama wasn't involved in the Boston hearing. The White House also said it was not helping Onyango with legal fees.
In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," Obama affectionately referred to Onyango as "Auntie Zeituni" and described meeting her during his 1988 trip to Kenya.
Onyango helped care for the president's half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya.
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| | Sujet: 2284 - Conn. AG Blumenthal Defends Vietnam-Era Service 18/5/2010, 11:24 | |
| Conn. AG Blumenthal Defends Vietnam-Era ServiceTuesday, May 18, 2010  HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is defending himself against a report he misstated his military service in Vietnam.- Spoiler:
Blumenthal's campaign on Monday night called a report on the New York Times website, which includes video of him at a 2008 event saying he had served "in Vietnam," an "outrageous distortion" on his record."Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves and served for six months in Parris Island, S.C. and six years in the reserves," Mindy Myers, Blumenthal's campaign manager, said in a written statement. "He received no special treatment from anyone."Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty told The Associated Press, "We stand by the story."Blumenthal told The Times that he's always tried to make it clear that his Marine Reserve service never took him overseas. The Times reviewed documents which showed the Democrat -- who has been the front-runner in the Senate race -- got five deferments to avoid going to war between 1965 and 1970.Blumenthal told the Times he had misspoken at the 2008 event in Norfolk in which he said he served in Vietnam.  In a televised March debate, Blumenthal stated clearly he had not actually served in Vietnam during the conflict when asked a question about using military force in Iran.When called at home on Monday, Blumenthal's wife, Cynthia, said her husband was out-of-state. Blumenthal did not immediately returns messages left on his cell phone.Blumenthal has planned a news conference with Connecticut veterans on Tuesday, but no details have been released.Questions about Blumenthal's military service could have political reverberations. It comes days before Connecticut Democrats meet at their party convention on Friday night to endorse a candidate to fill the retiring U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's seat. Blumenthal is facing a challenge for the nomination from Mystic businessman Merrick Alpert, but is expected to easily win the party's endorsement.His two potential Republican rivals immediately jumped on the news."It's very clear to us, over the past few weeks and months as we've begun to research Mr. Blumenthal in earnest, there are some deeply troubling discrepancies between the image he's portrayed publicly and the truth," said Ed Patru, a spokesman for former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who is seeking the GOP nomination.Former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, a Vietnam veteran who is also seeking the party's endorsement, said he was "deeply troubled by allegations that he has misrepresented his service. Too many have sacrificed too much to have their valor stolen in this way," he added.The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee accused McMahon's campaign of being behind the Times story.C'est un vilain ce McMahon tout-de-meme! N'importe quoi ce Blumenthal  Un des rares sieges qui etait certain de rester chez les Democrates.
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| | Sujet: 2285 - Rev. Wright: 'Obama Threw Me Under the Bus' 18/5/2010, 11:58 | |
| On croit qu'il a disparu eh bien non! il refait surface une fois de plus! C'est au POTUS que ca doit faire plaisir juste au moment des Primaires en plus (je pense que ca n'a pas ete fait sans le faire au moins un peu expres  ) Rev. Wright: 'Obama Threw Me Under the Bus'Tuesday, May 18, 2010
NEW YORK — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he is "toxic" to the Obama administration and that the president "threw me under the bus."- Spoiler:
In his strongest language to date about the administration's 2-year-old rift with the Chicago pastor, Wright told a group raising money for African relief that his pleas to release frozen funds for use in earthquake-ravaged Haiti would likely be ignored."No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them. I am 'toxic' in terms of the Obama administration," Wright wrote the president of Africa 6000 International earlier this year."I am 'radioactive,' Sir. When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!" he wrote. "Any advice that I offer is going to be taken as something to be avoided. Please understand that!"  The White House didn't respond to requests for comment Monday about Wright's remarks. Several phone messages left by the AP for Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ, where he is listed as a pastor emeritus, were not returned. Wright's spokeswoman, his daughter Jeri Wright, did not immediately comment on the substance of the letter.Then-Sen. Obama cut ties with Wright when his more incendiary remarks became an Internet sensation in the spring of 2008. At a National Press Club appearance in April 2008, he claimed the U.S. government could plant AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested Obama was putting his pastor at arm's length for political purposes while privately agreeing with him.Obama denounced Wright as "divisive and destructive" and later cut ties to the pastor altogether and left Wright's church.The letter was sent Feb. 18 to Joseph Prischak, the president of Africa 6000 International in Erie, Pa. Wright subsequently agreed to write a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the group's behalf to try to get access to millions of dollars.Wright's original letter ranting against Obama's treatment of him surfaced in an appeal filed by federal inmate Arthur Morrison, boxing great Muhammad Ali's one-time manager, who was convicted of making phone threats.Charles Lofton, Wright's executive assistant, told The Associated Press that he faxed a copy of the letter to Morrison's attorney as requested. A copy of the faxed letter signed by Wright showed that it was sent from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago on March 31 to the fax number for Goodwin's law office in Tulsa, Okla.Prischak, of Africa 6000 International, is a business partner of Morrison, who has been imprisoned for nearly 18 years after he was convicted of making phone threats between 1989 to 1992 to hospitals where an ex-girlfriend worked.Prischak told Wright in a Feb. 11 letter that he was seeking the clergyman's help in reaching out to the U.S. Treasury Department. He said that Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein, had entrusted 87 million British pounds in 1990 to Morrison and Ali to buy pharmaceuticals, milk and food for the children of Iraq.Prischak said the money was never spent because Morrison was imprisoned. He sought Wright's help in lobbying U.S. authorities to permit 25 million British pounds in interest from the money held in an overseas account to be allowed to be sent to faith-based groups for the children of Haiti.
Pour ceux qui auraient un peu oublie (je n'en avais guere parle a l'epoque ), Jeremiah Wright etait un ami intime du POTUS et de sa famille, un "mentor" a l'origine du livre de Barack Obama: "Audacity of Hope"), en plus d'etre le pasteur qui a celebre les ceremonies importantes de la famille Obama dont le mariage de Barack et de Michelle Obama. Ce pasteur hait les blancs, les Etats Unis et tout ce qu'ils representent et ne se cachait pas pour le hurler dans ses sermons du dimanche devant une assemblee de plusieurs centaines de paroissiens. Le POTUS a explique qu'il n'etait pas present a la messe ces dimanches-la. ( Une Video "God Damn America, it is in the bible!")Alors candidat a la presidence, le POTUS refusait de porter le petit drapeau americain au revers de son veston * depuis ca a change, il le porte et s'en entoure d'autant que possible. * (qualifie de " Gadget" sans importance par Shansaa... ) ah les souvenirs... Je serais presque contente d'avoir des nouvelles de Jeremiah!  |
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| | Sujet: 2286 - 55% Favor Immigration Law Like Arizona’s For Their State 18/5/2010, 17:39 | |
| 55% Favor Immigration Law Like Arizona’s For Their State Monday, May 17, 2010 Most U.S. voters have been following news reports about the new immigration law in Arizona, and 55% favor passage of such a law in their own state. - Spoiler:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 33% of voters are opposed to enactment of that kind of law. Another 12% are not sure.
When asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law, support is even higher. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or violation of some other law if he suspects the person might be an illegal immigrant.
Just 23% say police officers should not be required to do this.
Earlier reports suggested that the Arizona law would allow police to stop anyone they suspected of being an illegal immigrant. The law as it stands, however, applies only to situations where someone has been lawfully stopped for some other violation.
Since the law in Arizona has become popular in the polls, some political figures in Washington have sought to move away from the issue. Interestingly, 58% of Mainstream voters say immigration as an issue is Very Important in terms of how they will vote in the next election, a view shared by just 20% of the Political Class.
Most voters have supported the Arizona immigration law from the start, despite criticism of it by President Obama and others, including most major Hispanic groups. Only 25% have a favorable view of those who marched and protested for immigrant rights in major cities following passage of the law.
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters say the issue of immigration is at least somewhat important in terms of how they will vote in the next election. This includes 50% who say it is Very Important.
Among those who say immigration is a Very Important issue in their voting decision, 78% favor a law like Arizona’s in their own state.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters remain at least somewhat concerned that efforts to identify and deport illegal immigrants also will end up violating the civil rights of some U.S. citizens. Forty-three percent (43%) don’t have this concern. This includes 27% who are Very Concerned and 15% who are Not At All Concerned. This level of concern is consistent with previous surveys.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party are much more supportive than Democrats of having a law like Arizona’s in their home state.
But when asked the separate question of whether police officers should be required to check the immigration status of those stopped for other reasons, a majority of Democrats say yes.
While 68% of Mainstream voters favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, 66% of the Political Class are opposed.
But there’s a complete reversal of opinion when the Political Class is asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law. In that case, 69% of Political Class voters agree that a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of people they stop if the officer suspects they’re here illegally.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of all voters say they have followed stories about the new immigration law in Arizona at least somewhat closely, with 50% who are following Very Closely.
Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. But most Americans also favor a welcoming immigration policy that excludes only “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.”
Americans also continue to overwhelmingly believe that English should be the official language of the United States and reject by sizable margins the idea that such a move is racist or a violation of free speech.
Eighty percent (80%) of voters believe that those who move to America should adopt American culture. Again, this level of support has remained largely unchanged for years.
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