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| | Sujet: 2436 - Issa presses W.H. for travel answers 4/6/2010, 13:27 | |
| Apres l'affaire Sestak, puis Romanoff (et une troisieme qui commence a faire surface)... Issa presses W.H. for travel answersThe top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is pressing the administration to disclose the White House political office’s role in coordinating taxpayer-funded travel by government officials on behalf of Democratic candidates. - Spoiler:
 Rep. Darrell Issa is launching an inquiry into taxpayer-funded travel by government officials on behalf of Democratic candidates. AP
But the push by Waxman to eliminate the office trailed off once Obama entered the White House. At the time, Obama aides said that keeping the office open did not mean the president-elect would default on his campaign promise to change politics-as-usual in Washington, which as a candidate he dubbed the "perpetual campaign."
Issa’s letter, provided to POLITICO, cited the Waxman investigation as reason why the issue remains a point of legitimate public interest.
“As you may know, during the last Congress then-Chairman Waxman and this Committee invested substantial time and effort to investigate the use of official resources at the behest of the White House for political purposes,” Issa wrote in the letter. “During the Committee’s investigation — which spanned nearly two years — the staff interviewed or deposed 18 political appointees, including President Bush’s political directors, and received nearly 70,000 pages of documents from the White House and 29 agencies.”
An Issa spokesman said the congressman is seeking the information now, in part, because enough time has elapsed since Obama entered the White House to judge how the administration is using the political office.
Issa faxed letters to every Cabinet secretary, plus the Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the General Services Administration, NASA and the Securities and Exchange Commission. They were asked to respond by June 17.
The letter seeks “a list of all events with elected officials or candidates for office that you attended outside of Washington, D.C.” in both official capacity and for political purposes. Issa also is seeking “all documents, including e-mails, that relate to the involvement of White House officials in scheduling, suggesting, coordinating, or directing public events with elected officials or candidates for office for any official at the department during the time period Feb. 1, 2009, to the present.”
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen who has been critical of Obama for keeping the political office, said the administration should provide the information.
“I would fully expect the political office under the Obama administration would be operating in many of the same ways the Bush administration operated with Karl Rove,” Holman said. “This is a campaign office that ought to exist separate from the White House and not supported in any way by the taxpayers.”
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| | Sujet: 2437 - Those troublesome Jews 4/6/2010, 14:03 | |
| Those troublesome JewsCharles KrauthammerFriday, June 4, 2010 The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. - Spoiler:
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets. In World War II, with full international legality, the United States blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba turned back because the Soviets knew that the U.S. Navy would either board them or sink them. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry. Oh, but weren't the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief? No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel's offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza -- as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza. Why was the offer refused? Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israel's inspection regime, which would mean unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas. Israel has already twice intercepted ships laden with Iranian arms destined for Hezbollah and Gaza. What country would allow that? But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade? Because, blockade is Israel's fallback as the world systematically de-legitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself -- forward and active defense. (1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward defense -- fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan Heights) rather than its own. Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for peace. But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer zone. Thus Israel retained a small strip of southern Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel. And it took many losses in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror attacks. It is for the same reason America wages a grinding war in Afghanistan: You fight them there, so you don't have to fight them here. But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the anti-Israel insurgencies -- and therefore withdrawal, by removing the cause, would bring peace. Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the land -- evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005. What did it get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of unrelenting rocket attack. (2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense -- military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President Obama's description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda) the newly armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon and Gaza after Israel withdrew. The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09. They were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the same international community that had demanded the land-for-peace Israeli withdrawals in the first place. Worse, the U.N. Goldstone report, which essentially criminalized Israel's defensive operation in Gaza while whitewashing the casus belli -- the preceding and unprovoked Hamas rocket war -- effectively de-legitimized any active Israeli defense against its self-declared terror enemies. (3) Passive defense: Without forward or active defense, Israel is left with but the most passive and benign of all defenses -- a blockade to simply prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed for international de-legitimation. Even the United States is now moving toward having it abolished. But, if none of these is permissible, what's left? Ah, but that's the point. It's the point understood by the blockade-busting flotilla of useful idiots  and terror sympathizers, by the Turkish front organization that funded it, by the automatic anti-Israel Third World chorus at the United Nations, and by the supine Europeans who've had quite enough of the Jewish problem. What's left? Nothing. The whole point of this relentless international campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense. Why, just last week, the Obama administration joined the jackals, and reversed four decades of U.S. practice, by signing onto a consensus document that singles out Israel's possession of nuclear weapons -- thus de-legitimizing Israel's very last line of defense: deterrence.The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million -- that number again -- hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists -- Iranian in particular -- openly prepare a more final solution.
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/6/2010, 14:52 | |
| Payrolls Increase 431,000 in May as Jobless Rate Dips to 9.7 Percent |
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| | Sujet: 2439 - 431 000 jobs created - 411 000 for the census 4/6/2010, 16:51 | |
| Le POTUS est content, content lui aussi 431 000 personnes ont ete engagees. Ca semble formidable jusqu'a ce qu'on en sache plus 411 000 sur les 431 000 temporairement pour le recensement!!! et elles seront payees par qui par quoi, par les contribuables avec nos impots!  Nation's Payroll Up 431,000 Due to Census HiringPublished June 04, 2010Associated PressWASHINGTON -- A wave of census hiring lifted payrolls by 431,000 in May, but job creation by private companies grew at the slowest pace since the start of the year. The unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent as people gave up searching for work.- Spoiler:
The Labor Department's new employment snapshot released Friday suggested that outside of the burst of hiring of temporary census workers by the federal government many private employers are wary of bulking up their work forces.
That indicates the economic recovery can only plod along and won't have the energy to quickly bring relief to millions of unemployed Americans.
Virtually all the job creation in May came from the hiring of 411,000 census workers. Such hiring peaked in May and will begin tailing off in June.
By contrast, hiring by private employers, the backbone of the economy, slowed sharply. They added just 41,000 jobs, down from 218,000 in April and the fewest since January.
The unemployment rate, which is derived from a separate survey than the payroll figures, fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent. The dip partly reflected 322,000 people leaving the labor force for any number of reasons. The number of people saying they were employed fell as did the number of people who said they were out of work.
All told, 15 million people were unemployed in May.
Counting people who have given up looking for work and part-timers who would prefer to be working full time, the underemployment rate fell to 16.6 percent in May from 17.1 percent in April. Even with the drop, the figures show just how difficult it is for jobseekers to find work.
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| | Sujet: 2440 - The Art of Seaborne Humiliation 4/6/2010, 17:09 | |
| The Art of Seaborne Humiliation
There’s just a chance that, if Israel doesn’t lose its nerve, it could restore a climate of deterrence against seaborne provocations.A tiny flotilla of “peace ships” sets out to run an Israeli blockade of the Gaza coast. The Israeli strategy in response is intended to ensure that neither weapons nor terrorists enter the Hamas-held territory, at a time when Hamas is in a virtual war with Israel. - Spoiler:
Once the ships neared the coast, the choices were not good. Either the Israelis could allow the ships through, rendering the blockade irrelevant and permitting dozens of unknown persons to enter Gaza, along with unspecified cargos — or the Israelis had to intervene, ensuring that at some point they might have to use force, perhaps against some passengers who were not entirely unarmed.
And once things reached that point, the militarily dominant Israelis had lost the public-relations war — at least as conventional wisdom defines it. The Gaza flotilla, then, joins a long list of incidents — intifadas, kidnappings, rocket attacks — in which the provocation proves minor in comparison with the hoped-for response.
The aim of such provocations is to create over time a narrative in which the Israelis appear to be bullying aggressors not worthy of global, and perhaps not even of Western, support. As these incidents continue, Israel’s enemies hope that at some point Israel will go too far, wear too thin the patience of the West, and finally lose the financial, military, and diplomatic support necessary for its very survival. That point has already been reached in Europe, and the Gaza-flotilla incident was aimed at doing the same within the United States — given the reset-button Middle East policy of President Obama.
As a general rule, nothing much good comes to a Western power when a rogue nation or anti-Western organization seeks confrontation on the seas. In such incidents, Iranians, Palestinians, North Koreans, and generic pirates are judged on an entirely different set of moral rules that tend to offer exemption for the weaker power (i.e., the victims of “disproportionate” force) or the crazier party (i.e., we expect provocation from them, but not retaliation from you).
In an unprovoked attack this past March, North Korea torpedoed a South Korean ship, killing 46 sailors. The general facts were clear enough, given torpedo fragments and the conclusions of an international body of experts who examined them.
But was South Korea going to risk a war — or even a small and temporary economic downturn — in any such period of heightened tensions? Would it restore deterrence if the South Korean navy sank the next North Korean ship that came its way?
Probably not. After all, there were neither worldwide demonstrations lamenting the killing of the South Korean sailors nor popular demands for retaliation against such naked aggression. But then, South Koreans are listening to iPods while not long ago North Koreans were eating grass.
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| | Sujet: 2441 - Obama's Youth Brigade Burns Out 5/6/2010, 18:40 | |
| Obama's Youth Brigade Burns Out
by Dayo Olopade  Dayo Olopade is a political reporter for The Daily Beast and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. A crowd of twentysomething true believers followed Obama from the campaign to Washington. But 18 months in, the "Yes We Can" crowd is losing faith.
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Joe Boswell quit his job at Camp David. But first, he played a tennis match with Michelle Obama. Her second chief of staff, Susan Sher, is an avid tennis fan, and Boswell, her assistant, was game for a doubles match. After a straight-sets victory, he leveled with the first lady of the United States. “I was tired of going through the motions,” he remembers. “She told me to go out and save the world and come back.”
“It’s cool to my family, or the girl that I meet at the bar, but in terms of day-to-day work—am I really doing the change we can believe in?” asked one Iowa veteran.
Today, Boswell isn’t so sure he’s coming back. The 25-year-old Dartmouth graduate served as one of a “dirty dozen” of young campaign fixers who roamed the country for President Barack Obama’s campaign. Yet, less than a year into the Obama administration, “I was bored,” he says. “I like to execute things; I like to get people empowered,” he adds. Despite helping to plant the first lady’s famous White House kitchen garden and holding playdates with the Obama daughters, “I knew it was time to go when I was falling asleep at meetings,” he said.
Boswell is not the only one looking for a change of scenery. Former Michigan field director Elizabeth Wilkins left her position at the Domestic Policy Council last week to attend Yale Law School. Longtime press assistant Priya Singh departed the beehive of the communications shop a month earlier to work with Ambassador Susan Rice at the United Nations. Her move came on the heels of the departure of Rice’s previous assistant—a young Harvard graduate more interested in journalism. Elizabeth Bafford, a key aide to budget director Peter Orszag, will attend Duke’s Fuqua School of Business this fall. Jake Levine, special assistant to climate adviser Carol Browner, is revisiting his decision to defer law school for the campaign life. His housemate, Eric Lesser, right-hand man to senior Obama adviser David Axelrod, is reportedly more interested in national-security issues. Yohannes Abraham left a job working under legislative affairs chief Phil Schiliro in order to become the national political director for Organizing for America.
The 18-month itch hits every administration—and some of these folks are heading for new jobs with their belief in Obama intact. But others are clearly suffering from "change" fatigue. And this presidency was supposed to be different. The young people working in the White House are supposed to be the truest of true believers. Countless postmortems attribute the Democratic Party’s 2008 success to a unique surge in “Barack the Vote” enthusiasm among 18- to 34-year olds. Many of these folks followed their political hero from the fields of Iowa into the White House—hoping to translate their dreams into policy, and build satisfying careers in the process.
A recent New York Times Magazine article focused on White House “twentysomethings” like Lesser, Levine, Jon Favreau, Reggie Love, and Samantha Tubman—and what they’re learning on the job. But as the campaign juggernaut settles into the grind of governing, many junior staff across the administration are heading for the exits, burned out and tired of life in the Obama bubble.
“Everyone, for better or worse, gets that it’s a special place to be,” says a former campaign staffer who worked in two federal agencies in Washington before leaving the government in March. “But the challenge is: What does it mean to ‘make it’”? One young graduate who left a plum job at the White House for more policy-related work at a federal agency explained the choice: “I can’t have the same job on my résumé for two and a half years. If I was going to stay, I needed to grow, and so I had to move.”
Of course, commuting to the most exclusive office building in America has its perks—and these privileged few are wary of whining at a time when so many of their peers are struggling just to find a job, any job. Toasting health care’s passage on the Truman Balcony of the White House, high-fiving members of the U.S. men’s soccer team, or sitting in on international climate negotiations are unforgettable memories. “You get to learn from the people that are making the decisions that affect the course of our country,” says Ross Weingarten, who recently left the Justice Department for a summer of service in Uganda. “For a young person, few experiences could be more educational, more exciting, or more fulfilling.”
Yet virtually all of the young White House and administration staffers I spoke to (most were unwilling to be named because of the sensitivity of their positions) have grown somewhat disillusioned—and say the glamour factor noted in the Times article is overblown. “It’s cool to my family, or the girl that I meet at the bar, but in terms of day-to-day work—am I really doing the change we can believe in?” asked one Iowa veteran. “Probably not. And it is very much of a shock.”
The central challenge for the twentysomethings is converting campaign skills into the realm of government. On the trail, “we got accustomed to marching orders: ‘You’re going to Iowa, you’re going to South Carolina, you’re going to New Hampshire,’” says the former agency staffer. “And in the real career world, you’re supposed to navigate this on your own.” For some of the wunderkind campaigners, who coordinated overseas trips, managed hundreds of volunteers, or oversaw multimillion-dollar budgets at Chicago headquarters, setting up the East Room for a bill signing, conducting West Wing tours or getting coffee for bull sessions in the Executive Office Building was a frustrating letdown. “We wanted change and we got it,” says Orrin Evans, who began working for Obama at the age of 21. “But we’re now hit with a new set of challenges.”
Of course, this White House is hardly the first to draft young and idealistic staffers, only to burn them out. “You become an adrenaline junkie and you don’t even know it,” says Heather Hurlburt, a White House and State Department speechwriter in her 20s during Bill Clinton’s administration. “People talk about first year Clinton as being a soccer team of preschoolers, where people just run for the ball—and there was a lot of fatigue and burnout and exhaustion as a result.”
Still, there is something poignant about the exodus among the “Yes, We Can” crowd. Key senior staffers such as Daniel Meltzer, Neera Tanden, Linda Douglass, and Sarah Feinberg have all left the White House in recent weeks, expressing a desire for a new direction—or relief from the punishing pace of the Executive Branch. The full-throttle Obama campaign—and the administration’s ambitious agenda since taking office—have clearly taken a toll. “We worked a 22-month campaign where you had to be perfect every single day… and now the stakes are even higher,” says the former agency staffer. “We all celebrated the inauguration, but the next day a lot of us went into work.”
Leaving Obamaland yields minor perks—Google’s popular email service is blocked at the White House—but also significant opportunities for advancement. The 24-year-old Abraham, for example, is suddenly helping to run the biggest grassroots mobilization effort in American politics to date.
Then there is the liberating impact of fleeing the bureaucracy. Just after the 2008 election, 26-year-old Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes explained his choice not to join the administration: “There was never any particular position or set of responsibilities that really excited me,” he said. “There’s a challenge in prioritization, there’s a challenge in working within constraints of the law, any political constraints that are there, to actually get good work done.”
“You can’t flip a switch and change the country,” adds Evans, now at the USDA. “We’re like a big, slow tanker—and I think a lot of folks are frustrated with that.”
There is also an achievement gap between more experienced staffers and those with only a BA to their name. Thirty-year-old Alejandra Campoverdi, also profiled in the Times, has a master's degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School and now serves as an aide to deputy chief of staff Mona Sutphen. Joshua Dubois, the 27-year-old director of the White House faith office, graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs. Jason Green, a 29-year-old associate in the Office of Legal Counsel, balanced previous campaign experience with a degree from Yale Law. But there is a ceiling for the younger staff.
“There is only one Dan Pfeiffer in all of Washington,” said one junior press aide contemplating law school, referring to the 35-year-old White House communications director. Some feel that to break into the power class, it’s important for them to catch up.
“A lot of folks have identified that [they] should actually know what [they're] talking about,” says Evans, “not just advocate what’s in my heart, but what works.”
So this summer, you’re just as likely to see Obama aides cruising GMAT or LSAT preparation classes as to find them playing on the STOTUS (Softball Team of the United States), shooting hoops at the Department of the Interior, or celebrating on the roof of Tabaq—a popular destination for birthday parties.
The restlessness may be the natural way of Washington, but stings more because of the campaign trail togetherness so many young staffers remember. The experience “was like the best preview in the world, the movie you want to see so badly,” says Boswell. “And then you see the movie and it’s mediocre.”
Dayo Olopade is a political reporter for The Daily Beast and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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| | Sujet: 2442 - EyePoppers: The Best Science Photos of the Week 5/6/2010, 19:12 | |
| EyePoppers: The Best Science Photos of the Week The latest findings in the world of science, as told through pictures. What's a Nanosponge? When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material called nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection. The nanosponge’s particle (shown here attaching to human breast cancer cells) hold an anticancer drug that they can release gradually as they decompose. Source: Harth Laboratory Suite... |
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| New Flotilla To Israeli Navy: "Go Back To Auschwitz," "Don't Forget 9/11" Video In response to a radio transmission by the Israeli Navy warning the Gaza flotilla that they are approaching a naval blockade, passengers of the Mavi Marmara respond, "Shut up, go back to Auschwitz" and "We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11" (source: IDF) |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 5/6/2010, 20:32 | |
| J'ai deja parle a plusieurs reprises d'Helen Thomas, la doyenne des reporters bases a la Maison Blanche et, il y a quelques temps, la question selon laquelle des juifs pouvaient reellement etre anti-semites (oui je sais.. je parle des Israelites et des Israeliens) s'etait posee au sujet de Jean Ferrat: ci-apres une video d'Helen qui donne un exemple parfait de ce qu'est un(e) Juif(ve) antisemite. Helen Thomas To Jews: "Get The Hell Out Of Palestine"
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White House correspondent Helen Thomas to Jews in Israel: "Get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people are occupied, and it’s their land." Egalement un autre exemple du soutien et du fort lien entre l'extreme gauche et l'islamisme? |
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| | Sujet: 2445 - Two Men Arrested Before Boarding Plane to Join Terror Group 6/6/2010, 09:14 | |
| Two Men Arrested Before Boarding Plane to Join Terror GroupBy Jana WinterPublished June 06, 2010FOXNews.comThe FBI arrested Two New Jersey men at JFK International Airport on Saturday night as they were preparing to board separate planes in an alleged terrorism plot tied to a radical Islamic group based in Somalia, FOXNews.com confirmed. - Spoiler:
Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, of Elmwood Park were charged with conspiracy to commit international terrorism and were picked up by the FBI before boarding flights to join the Somali Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab, officials said. Both men are believed to be American citizens.
The two men were arrested following a years-long investigation and were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism through a group tied to Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, a federal law enforcement source told FOXNews.com.
"FBI New York arrested two men at JFK in support of an ongoing investigation," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told FoxNews.com. "There was no threat at the airport. No additional information is available at this time."
Kolko said the two were arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation and could not provide further details.
They are scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
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| Suite du 2444... et une enorme erreur a reparee.  : Madame Thomas n'est pas juive du tout. Elle est nee au Kentucky de parents immigres Chretiens Libanais (On peut se demander ce que serait sa reponse si quelqu'un demandait aux Libanais de rentrer "chez eux") et a grandi a Detroit (Michigan) elle ne peut donc pas etre un exemple de juif antisemite. Je regrette de n'avoir pas verifier l'information (ce que je fais normalement) avant de la trompetter ici. ----- Pour en revenir a la video du 2444, Thomas a dit ce qu'elle pensait reellement, pourquoi s'en excuser? Maintenant qu'elle continue a faire partie des reporters bases a la Maison Blanche, c'est a eux de voir si cela les derange ou pas et si Hears souhaite la garder en son sein. Une chose est certaine, ceux qui avaient a ce jour refuser de voir qui elle etait n'ont plus d'excuse. Thomas comes under fire for Israel remarksBy PATRICK GAVIN | 6/5/10 6:05 PM EDT  The Hearst newspaper columnist made the comment during an interview with RabbiLive.com. | Photo by APClose Germany. - Spoiler:
The Hearst newspaper columnist made the comment during an interview with RabbiLive.com's Rabbi David Nesenoff at last week's Jewish Heritage Celebration at the White House. “Remember these people are occupied and it’s their land,” Thomas says in the video. “It’s not German and it’s not Polish.” Asked what Jews in Israel should do, Thomas says “go home.” Asked where that home is, she replies: “Poland. Germany. And America and everywhere else.” On a statement issued on her website Sunday, Thomas said she regretted her comments, made in late May but widely seen Friday after the Drudge Report picked them up. The Drudge Report as of this writing shows a picture of Thomas with President Obama’s arm around her in the White House press room, and the banner headline: "WH PRESS QUEEN: JEWS GET OUT OF ISRAEL, GO BACK TO POLAND!" "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians," Thomas said Sunday. "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon." The apology isn’t likely to end the heat Thomas is facing, however, especially from conservatives who have long complained about Thomas's special status within the White House Press Corps (the James S. Brady Briefing Room has a special seat reserved for Thomas, as a way of recognizing her long and storied history covering the White House). Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer has called for Hearst Newspapers to end its relationship with Thomas. "She should lose her job over this," Fleischer told the Huffington Post Friday. "As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling. ... She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs." Some of Thomas' colleagues in the White House press corps are chiming in on Thomas' comments. "Helen Thomas does not speak for me, and she does not represent the White House press corps," said McClatchy's Stev Thomma. "It was an offensive comment. She was right to apologize for it." "Helen has been a columnist for about a decade now and her strong beliefs on the Middle East are well known," said ABC News' Ann Compton. "I think I saw that she regretted these remarks and realized they were hurtful and inappropriate. Ari Fleischer is a private citizen and certainly free to express his opinion that this was a firing offense even for an opinion columnist. I would agree with you that Helen enjoys a rather special status as the White House. But I think her employer will have to decide whether the comments went over the line." "This is disgusting stuff," said one White House correspondent who knows both Thomas and Fleischer. "If anyone else said it, they would probably be fired. Ari has every right to be mad." Hearst, however, does not yet seem ready to part ways with Thomas. A spokesperson told POLITICO, ""We deeply regret Helen Thomas' remarks, which in no way reflect the views of Hearst Newspapers or its employees. Helen has expressed her own profound regret over the incident." "Ms. Thomas' comments were repugnant," siad Ori Nir, a spokesperson for Americans for Peace told POLITICO. "She did the right thing by apologizing for making them. Whether she should end her relationship with Hearst over these comments is up to her and Hearst."Another former White House spokesman under President Bush, Dana Perino, agreed that Fleischer's comments warrant more attention. "I think that Ari is right to make this point," Perino told POLITICO. "The press corps should ask itself if this is acceptable and if it would tolerate it from anyone else. It is sad, unfortunate – and utterly disappointing." Both Fleischer and Perino, like most White House spokesman, had their respective bouts with Thomas over the years. During a heated back and forth between Thomas and Perino in 2007 over American military actions in Iraq, Perino lashed back after Thomas interjected: “You mean how many more people we kill?" Perino replied: "Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive." Fleischer once responded to a Thomas question by saying, "We will temporarily suspend the Q & A portion of today's briefing to bring you this advocacy minute." But Joe Lockhart, who served as press secretary under President Clinton, defended Thomas, saying “I hope we are strong enough as a country to sustain voices that are wrong, voices that offend, even voices that incite.” “The good news is Ari no longer has the weight of government behind him in intimidating voices he doesn't agree with. And by the way, his attack on Bill Maher, and the cancelling of his show in the aftermath of 9/11 didn't seem to hurt [Maher’s] career,” Lockhart added. After the “Politically Incorrect” host stirred an uproar in early 2002 when he remarked on the courage of the 9/11 suicide bombers, Fleischer said Americans “need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Earlier this week, Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, pressed White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on the administration's non-judgmental stance on the Israeli military’s decision to intercept a flotilla trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which erupted into violence that ended in the deaths of 9 members of ship. “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful," barked Thomas. "What do you mean you regret something that should be so strongly condemned, and if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up in arms? What is this ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people." Those remarks were made several days after her comments about Israel, but before those earlier comments had received widespread attention.Her comment revealed unbridled hostility to Israel's very existence, if not to the Jewish people," said American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris. "It also showed profound ignorance, as half of Israel's Jews come not from Germany or Poland but from the Arab world, itself a telling point. Her apology, such as it was, seemed contrived and therefore unconvincing. She's outed herself as a hater of Israel, and her credibility on the subject, if ever she had any, has been totally shot." Still, there's a sense amongst Thomas' colleagues that little will — or should — be done within the White House Correspondents Association in reaction to this. Much of that is due simply to the high premium placed amongst journalists on one's freedom of speech. Another is out of respect for Thomas' storied career. And, lastly, Thomas turns 90 in just a few months and there is a feeling that she ought to be able to enter the sunset of her life with grace and respect. Thomas shares her birthday with President Barack Obama, coincidentally. Last year, Obama brought her White House cupcakes to the briefing room, the image Drudge has above the banner headline. Given this latest dust-up, it's not yet clear whether she'll receive similar treatment from Obama this time around.
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| Oil spill tests President Obama's management styleBy GLENN THRUSH & CAROL E. LEE | 6/6/10 6:59 AM EDT
Barack Obama has done more to expand government than any president since Lyndon B. Johnson, but the Gulf oil crisis is testing his ability to master the federal bureaucracy in a way no other crisis has — with decidedly mixed results. - Spoiler:
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People who have worked closely with Obama say he doesn’t think like a bureaucrat, is far more interested in changing the way Washington works than in understanding its machinations and isn’t excited by the kind of gears-of-government reforms that interested a previous generation of Democrats, particularly Al Gore.
The Gulf crisis has shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of Obama’s unique management style, which relies on a combination of his own intellect, a small circle of trusted advisers and a larger group of outside experts. But it’s also driven home a more generic lesson all presidents learn sooner or later: Administrations are defined, fairly or not, by their capacity to control stagnant backwater agencies, in Obama’s case the Minerals Management Service, which failed to detect problems with the Deepwater Horizon well.
“This is a centralized government power guy from the word go, and this may be the best education Obama may get on the ineffectiveness of government and just how hard it is to get the bureaucracy to solve problems,” said John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor who was an iron-fisted, chief of staff to President George H. W. Bush.
“He’s strong on decision-making but weak on implementation and follow through,” said John Burke, a University of Vermont professor who has studied presidential management.
“This is what you get when you elect someone with legislative, not executive experience," Burke added. "Legislators don’t really have to rely on people to implement their laws — their job is to get them passed. He seems to be that kind of guy, as evidenced by the whole set-up down there [in the Gulf], which is organizationally odd.”
Burke says he’s already seen Obama make good adjustments, but the drip-drip of bad news, much of it now out of the president’s control, “makes the oil spill less like Hurricane Katrina and more like the Iranian hostage crisis” under President Jimmy Carter.Much of Obama’s energy has been exerted in the legislative arena pushing through the stimulus, health care reform and the Wall Street overhaul. If George W. Bush’s West Wing was controlled by political operatives and executive branch control freaks, Obama’s has been dominated by his political guru David Axelrod, former congressman Rahm Emanuel and a cast of former congressional aides who transformed Obama’s hope-change agenda into a record of concrete, even historical legislative achievement. The ongoing economic crisis vested in Obama an extraordinary freedom to act during his first year in office, allowing him to float above the mundane management tasks that have occupied many presidents. Plus, there's been a succession of international crises, two wars and a series of political setbacks for Democrats. With all that has been on Obama’s plate, who has had time to debate the overhaul of the Interior Department? Even Obama’s harshest critics acknowledge that the Deepwater Horizon spill, gushing a mile below the surface, is beyond the technical capacity of the federal government to fix. But Obama himself has identified a series of early missteps and oversights made by his administration that contributed to the crisis: Federal agencies accepted BP’s outrageously low initial estimates of the spill rate, although the White House says the flow rate has nothing to do with the government's response; the administration didn’t move quickly enough to reform MMS, as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed; and the Coast Guard was slow in deploying booms and other oil-blocking materials requested by Gulf area governments. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and other local officials have been far more critical, saying Obama’s team failed to aggressively push on-scene federal agencies. The administration, they say, dragged its feet in green-lighting a plan to block some oil with sand barriers and took too long to deploy containment booms, in some cases waiting until the first wave of crude lapped into coastal wetlands. “It’s really difficult for presidents to find the right altitude to fly at,” said former Clinton adviser Paul Begala, an Obama supporter. “You don’t want to be Jimmy Carter, scheduling the White House tennis court — and you don’t want to be Ronald Reagan, not even knowing the name of your HUD secretary. I think all in all, President Obama has found the right altitude.” Still, Begala cautioned: “On this BP issue, he’s flown far too high. ... I think we need more of a hands-on, take-charge kind of attitude. … I worry that he has too much faith in experts. I hear this a lot, ‘we’ll put the best people in the room.’ They will mislead you.”White House officials are clearly tired of the Monday morning quarterbacking — especially by Begala’s former partner, Louisiana native and political analyst James Carville — and say they have been planning for worst-case scenarios from Day One, regardless of BP’s estimates of the spill’s severity. The administration has created a commission to study the spill, initiated a Justice Department probe into BP’s actions and sent the company a $69 million cleanup bill. Obama has made three trips to the region — two in the past week alone, including a Friday tour of coastal Louisiana, where he huddled with local officials, announced a plan to quickly expedite damage claims against BP and taped his weekly radio address. In an interview with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod cast the trouble as a public relations problem rather than a management failure. “Nobody can look at the response and say we were slow in doing what we were doing,” he said, adding, “We didn’t communicate it well.” The Obama White House has a history of blaming its sub-par handling of a situation on communications, including the health care debate and the implementation of the stimulus bill. Critics like Sununu say that’s a dodge — and that the White House has yet to establish a coherent structure for the response. “They need to separate this into two pieces: stopping the leak, which is BP’s responsibility, and the clean-up, which is the government’s job — but the Obama administration hasn’t figured this out yet,” Sununu said. “All you need from BP for the cleanup is a check. They shouldn’t be involved otherwise.” “This is an administration that believes in management by rhetoric," he added. "They really haven’t come to grips with this.” Obama tends to lean on a small inner circle of insiders to make big decisions and few of them have extensive experience in the executive branch or in running businesses. Not that such experience is a guarantee of anything — Sununu was fired by the President George H.W. Bush because of his imperious management style. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs points to the experience of Emanuel, who served in the Clinton White House before running for Congress, and senior adviser Pete Rouse, a 30-year Capitol Hill veteran, though neither has run a big organization. “Part of the role that Rahm played in the Clinton administration was in moving decisions,” Gibbs said. “Getting those actions to go from thought to real policy. Pete Rouse deals with Cabinet people. And obviously, you’ve got a whole section of Cabinet affairs that helps to coordinate everything that’s going on.”Perhaps the most distinctive element of Obama’s management style is his reliance on the oft-ridiculed “czar” system. During the spill, for instance, Obama has turned over day-to-day supervisory responsibilities to environment adviser Carol Browner, an administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration, and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, a career CIA official who was CEO of a consulting firm after leaving the agency. With a few exceptions — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Education Secretary Arne Duncan — Obama hasn’t developed a strong rapport with his Cabinet. Top aides to cabinet members often grouse they are out of the loop, according to several department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. “You don’t know anything until someone in the White House calls over and says, ‘You’re doing this, you’re doing that,” said one former administration staffer. “It’s frustrating.” Obama — a lightning quick study — prefers to dip in and out on issues, micro-focusing on things he cares deeply about or on crises. Offshore drilling fit neither of those categories until the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk on April 20. Just 18 days earlier — on April 2 — Obama insisted drilling is safe and a massive spill unlikely, despite the industry’s mixed safety record and what he now decries as an overly “cozy” relationship between MMS and Big Oil. The president made the announcement in hopes of wooing conservative backing for his energy bill — but he proceeded without challenging norms and questioning any basic assumptions. Every modern president has had to wrestle the bureaucracy and juggle the micro with the macro. But despite his oft-repeated attacks on the “culture of Washington,” Obama doesn’t seem to possess the bone-deep distrust of federal bureaucrats that many of his predecessors with executive experience possessed. In 1980, for example, during Bill Clinton’s first term as Arkansas governor, Cuban detainees being housed at federal facility at Fort Chaffee rioted — and Clinton was furious with Carter for reacting too slowly to the crisis, which cost Clinton reelection. Clinton seldom trusted what Cabinet officials told him — and was suspicious even of his own appointees, often with good reason. Gibbs, though, dismisses the notion that Obama was too trusting of the agencies handling the oil spill, saying Salazar had planned to reform oversight of offshore drilling but was preempted by the disaster. “There’s no doubt that more has to be done and more needs to be done to make sure that we don’t have that type of cozy relationship,” he said. Asked if Obama has expressed frustration with the agencies, he said, “I don’t think he’s thought, ‘Oh, we just need to totally reorganize.’ … I think you’ve just got so many moving parts."
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| Joint Chiefs Chair Says Al Qaeda in Iraq Has Been 'Devastated'Published June 07, 2010| Associated Press- Spoiler:
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| | Sujet: 2449 - In poor economy, public workers become targets 7/6/2010, 09:40 | |
| In poor economy, public workers become targetsBy MAGGIE HABERMAN & BEN SMITH | 6/6/10 11:09 PM EDT Spurred by state budget crunches and an angry public mood, Republican and some Democratic leaders are focusing with increasing intensity on public workers and the unions that represent them, casting them as overpaid obstacles to good government and demanding cuts in their often-generous benefits- Spoiler:
Unlike past battles over the high cost of labor, this time pitched battles over wages and pensions are being waged from Sacramento to Springfield to New York City and the conflict is marked by its bipartisan tone, with public employee unions emerging as an intransigent public enemy number one in cities and state capitals across the country.
They're the whipping boys for a new generation of governors who, thanks to a tanking economy and an assist from editorial boards, feel freer than ever to make political targets out of what was once a protected liberal class of teachers, cops, and other public servants.
Republicans around the nation have cheered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose shouting match over budget cuts with an outraged teacher—“You don’t have to” teach, he told her without sympathy—became a YouTube sensation on the right last week.
And even Democrats, like the nominee for governor in New York, Andrew Cuomo, have echoed the attacks on unions.
Christie is merely the most florid voice for a calculated, national effort to fundamentally reshape the debate on the labor costs that account for the bulk of government spending at every level. And at the core of the shift is a perception among many political leaders that public anger at civil servants is boiling over.
“We have a new privileged class in America,” said Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who rescinded state workers' collective bargaining power on his first day in office in 2006. “We used to think of government workers as underpaid public servants. Now they are better paid than the people who pay their salaries.”
“It's a part of a very large question the nation's got to face,” Daniels told POLITICO in an interview. “Who serves whom here? Is the public sector—as some of us have always thought—there to serve the rest of society? Or is it the other way around?”
The new focus on public workers is the product of a perfect storm of anti-labor factors.
First are the very real financial obligations imposed by their salaries, health benefits and—especially—their traditional, defined-benefit pension plans, which have been sweetened over the years in many states by legislators eager for the support of politically-powerful unions. This is particularly true in the northern and western states that allow public workers to organize. A recent study from the Pew Center on the States found that states are short $1 trillion toward the $3.35 trillion in pension, health care and other retirement benefits states have promised their current and retired workers, the product of a combination of political decisions and the recent recession.
But the immediate cause of the new spotlight on public sector unions is the collapse in tax revenues that came with the 2008 Wall Street crash, something that union leaders bitterly note is not their fault
“It’s outrageous to blame a librarian – to blame a fireman for the financial mess that we find this country it,” the president of the American Federation of State County, and Municipal Employees, the largest national public workers union, Gerard McEntee, said. “We are the scapegoats in the states.”
The revenue crunch coincides with a bipartisan national resistance against teachers’ unions and the power they wield over classroom instruction, an effort financed – ironically -- largely by Wall Street and championed by figures ranging from Barack Obama to Newt Gingrich, Mike Bloomberg to Al Sharpton.
Governors have made sporadic attempts over the last decade to fundamentally alter the spiraling pension costs that have consumed increasing shares of state budgets, and which legislatures in states like New York and California often sweetened as a gift to political allies.
The recent revenue crunch, though, has given governors and big-city mayors new leverage. The early initiatives have largely been stopgap measures: everything from furloughs in the two biggest states, New York and California, to initiatives like Bloomberg’s deal last week in New York City with teacher unions to cancel raises in exchange for avoiding layoffs.
Other executives have won larger, structural changes. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, signed into law last month a bill changing benefits for all five of the state’s pension systems, raising the retirement age, limiting pension raises, capping maximum benefits and ending public pensions for people who work another public job.
California, however, remains ground zero for pension fights, as the seat of both the nation’s highest-profile budget crises and some of its most powerful public unions. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been fighting them since he took office, and they have handed him his most stinging political defeats. He failed in 2003 and 2004 to attack pension costs through the legislature, then in 2005 backed ballot initiatives to shift public workers to a 401(k)-style pension system, to cap spending and to roll back teachers’ tenure. But he was forced to drop the pension measure amid claims it would cut death benefits for police widows, and lost the other measures in an expensive, bruising political fight that was the worst defeat of his tenure.
Now, though, Schwarzenegger – in his final months as governor– is gearing up for what he views as a final, climactic battle over public sector pensions. And he told POLITICO in an interview that he feels the time is now ripe for elements of the fight he lost five years earlier.
“The atmosphere has changed,” Schwarzenegger said. “People understand that they have to lay off their workers or they don’t have the money for their family. What they don’t like is when there is a certain group that doesn’t like to make the sacrifices.”
Schwarzenegger said he “will not sign” a budget without pension reform.
“I will hold up the budget. It doesn’t matter how long it drags—into the summer or fall or into November or after my administration—and I think the people will support that,” he said.
Schwarzenegger’s political judgment reflects a growing national consensus that public sector unions may be at their most vulnerable point ever.
The public mood is clearly changing regarding these issues,” said Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty, a likely 2012 presidential candidate, boasts of weathering a 44-day bus strike in 2004, the longest in the nation’s history, and recalled that during that “knockdown, drag-out brawl,” he shored up support by telling the public that “bus drivers under one version of their contract could get retirement benefits for the rest of their lives after working for just 15 years.”
“If you inform the public and workers in the private sector about the inflated benefits and compensation packages of public employees, and then you remind the taxpayers that they’re footing the bill for that – they get on the reform train pretty quickly,” he told POLITICO.
The assault has caught the giant national unions that represent public employees largely flatfooted, and many leaders concede privately that they find themselves on defense.
“The Al Shankers and the Victor Gotbaums .....they're not around any more,” said Norman Adler, the former political director of the New York City public workers union , referring to public sector union leaders who battled through the crises of the 1960s. “The people who have replaced them are either not as sophisticated or not as talented as the old guard was.”
But another consultant to major unions pointed to a different, more structural shift: Public sector unions are increasingly the face of American labor, and they have prospered as private sector unions disappeared and workers’ wages stagnated.
"The face of labor today is now public employee unions whose wages and benefits largely outstrip those of average Americans,” said the consultant.
But union leaders they also express outrage at what they see as the fundamental opportunism of politicians whose own Wall Street supporters caused an economic collapse using it to attack middle-class union members.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, for instance, blamed “the hedge fund folks” who, she said, are “trying to use charters as a way of demonizing public school teachers.
Democrats from Obama on down, however, have backed the pressure on teachers’ unions to drop inflexible work rules and accept private-sector style merit pay. But the sharp attacks on the workers and their leaders remain largely a Republican theme. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, for instance, who won a major victory over unions in the pension changes (which start applying only to workers hired next January) distanced himself from the Republican rhetoric.
“I don’t get involving in that kind of scapegoating – I don’t think it’s right,” he said, after hearing Daniels’ remarked about a “privileged class. “I respect public employees, I respect teachers, and I think they deserve a pension,” he said.
Quinn noted that pension liabilities had blossomed under the Republicans who governed Illinois from 1977 to 2002, and indeed, local Republicans from coast to coast have often accepted the support of unions and defended their perks. That day appears to be over, at least for now. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, campaigning to replace Schwarzenegger, has promised to cut 10 percent of the state work force, or 40,000 jobs.
The lingering question, however, is whether the turn against public sector unions is here to stay. Union leaders hope that rising state revenues will ease the pressure, while Republicans insist that there has been a deep shift in the perception of public workers and even of the typically popular teachers.
“The question now is, is there going to be a paradigm shift,” said E.J. McMahon, the director of the conservative Empire Center for New York State Policy.
“Or are the unions simply going to hunker down, let the wave wash over them, and emerge stronger than ever?”
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| | Sujet: 2450 - Israeli Navy Fires at Palestinian Divers Off Gaza, 5 Killed 7/6/2010, 10:12 | |
| Israeli Navy Fires at Palestinian Divers Off Gaza, 5 KilledPublished June 07, 2010NewsCoreThe Israeli Navy said Monday its commandos killed five militants dressed in diving gear off the coast of Gaza -- while Palestinian medics claimed the dead were fishermen.- Spoiler:
The five -- believed to be all men -- were spotted on a boat heading north towards Israel, from the Nuseirath refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, an IDF spokesperson told The Jerusalem Post.
The spokesperson said they were heavily armed and dressed in diving gear -- and they were trying to swim to shore when a firefight erupted.
An army source told Haaretz that the firefight about 4:30am (local time) was a success for the Navy's elite commando unit, Shayetet 13, and prevented a rare attempt at a seaborne attack on Israel.
There were no Israeli casualties.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that those killed on Monday were fishermen, but the Israeli navy claimed they were divers planning a "terror attack."
Four bodies were retrieved and taken to a hospital in central Gaza, with two of the dead suffering multiple gunshots to the head, Palestinian health official Moawiya Hassanain said. A fifth person was initially reported missing, feared dead.
The incident comes amidst tensions between the two nations after Israel killed nine pro-Palestinian activists during a raid last week on a six-ship humanitarian aid flotilla headed to Gaza.
Israel has claimed the flotilla was linked to terrorists.
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| | Sujet: 2451 - Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy 7/6/2010, 10:28 | |
| Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign PolicyWalter Russell MeadThese days, there’s an unusual spectacle in world affairs. The United States has relatively good relations with the major powers: China, the EU states, India and even Russia are all more or less working together. But two middle powers, Turkey and Brazil, are not only asserting themselves more effectively than in the past; they have chosen to do this in ways that run counter to US policies. In particular their united and coordinated opposition to US policy on Iran has raised eyebrows and significantly complicated what was already a very difficult situation for American diplomacy. More recently, the strong reaction in Turkey to the Israeli interception of a convoy organized by Turkish groups with aid for Gaza underlines the possibility that Turkey is moving decisively away from its longtime partnership with the United States.- Spoiler:
The new bout of activism by these middle powers is a harbinger of things to come, not only in Turkish and Brazilian foreign policy but it the policies of a number of other middle powers that can be expected to become more assertive going forward. They are going to enjoy tacit and sometimes overt support from some of the great powers who would also like to see us taken down a peg or too. The American establishment by and large was taken by surprise by the new and more difficult Brazilian and Turkish foreign policies; it’s worth looking a little deeper to see what is behind this and see what lessons if any there are for the future.
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| | Sujet: 2452 - Helen Thomas retires 7/6/2010, 19:33 | |
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| | Sujet: 2453 - Left to Obama: We're not happy 8/6/2010, 00:19 | |
| Left to Obama: We're not happyBy GLENN THRUSH | 6/7/10 5:34 PM EDT The left has a message for Barack Obama: Shape up, or we’re shipping out. - Spoiler:
 The White House says Obama has worked hard to achieve the goals of his progressive agenda, especially health reform. AP Absolutely! Depuis le temps que je le dis! * 2 Voila le pourquoi du comment de l'election de Barack Hussein Obama en 2008 "CHANGE"!
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| | Sujet: 2454 - What Helen Thomas Missed 8/6/2010, 09:18 | |
| What Helen Thomas Missed By Richard CohenAh, another teachable moment!This one comes to us from Helen Thomas, the longtime White House reporter and columnist who announced her retirement on Monday. - Spoiler:
Thomas, of Lebanese ancestry and almost 90, has never been shy about her anti-Israel views, for which, as far as I'm concerned, she is both wrong and entitled. Then the other day, she performed a notable public service by revealing how very little she knew. Asked if she had any comments about Israel, Thomas said, "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. ... Go home. Poland. Germany. And America and everywhere else." Well, I don't know about "everywhere else," but after World War II, many Jews did attempt to "go home" to Poland. This resulted in the murder of about 1,500 of them -- killed not by Nazis but by Poles, either out of sheer ethnic hatred or fear they would lose their (stolen) homes. The mini-Holocaust that followed the Holocaust itself is not well-known anymore, but it played an outsized role in the establishment of the state of Israel. It was the plight of Jews consigned to Displaced Persons camps in Europe that both moved and outraged President Truman, who supported Jewish immigration to Palestine and, when the time came, the new state itself. Something had to be done for the Jews of Europe. They were still being murdered. ...In his diary, Patton confided what he thought of Jews. Others might "believe that the Displaced Person is a human being," Patton wrote, but he knew "he is not." In particular, he whispered to his diary, the Jews "are lower than animals." ... Suite ... 
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| | Sujet: 2455 - 'Islamic terrorism' and the Obama administration 8/6/2010, 13:47 | |
| 'Islamic terrorism' and the Obama administration Critics on the right say the administration is deliberately denying the existence of 'radical Islam' and 'Islamic terrorism.' It's a drumbeat on the right: The Obama administration is in deliberate denial about the existence of "Islamic terrorism." A conservative columnist recently complained that two federal reports described terrorism and violent extremism but didn't mention "radical Islam as a motivator." Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent senator from Connecticut, has chided the administration for failing to identify "violent Islamist extremism" as the enemy.- Spoiler:
There is some truth in this criticism. The administration has assiduously avoided terms that recognize the distinct threat posed by those who cite Islam as a rationalization for terror. For example, a recent report by the Homeland Security Department's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group refers vaguely to "ideologically motivated violent crime." (The word "Muslim" does appear in descriptions of members of the working group.)
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Last month The Times reported that the administration was contemplating new efforts to deal with the radicalization of American Muslims.
So what should the proper terminology be? How about "terrorism, carried out in the name of Islam"?
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| | Sujet: 2456 - AR-Sen: Clinton Accuses Unions For "Manipulating" Votes In Ad For Blanche Lincoln 8/6/2010, 18:31 | |
| AR-Sen: Clinton Accuses Unions For "Manipulating" Votes In Ad For Blanche LincolnVIDEO
"Here is an article from the Washington Post, it says "Some national unions made a decision a few months ago, that they wanted to make Senator Blanche Lincoln the quote "poster child" for what happens when a Democrat crosses them. This is about using you and manipulating your votes. If you want to be Arkansas's advocate, vote for somebody who will fight for you. Vote for Blanche Lincoln." - President Bill Clinton C'est bien le meme Bill Clinton qui avait demande, il y a quelques mois, a un candidat au Senat: Sestak (Pennsylvanie) d'echanger sa candidature contre Specter (candidat soutenu par le POTUS) pour un bon job dans l'administration Obama. Incroyable...  |
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| Suite du 2453 'You Have Made Your Point' House Speaker Pelosi heckled at Washington event Si 60% de la population americaine ne veut par d'Obamacare, l'extreme gauche n'en veut pas non plus, mais pas pour les memes raisons. Ils voulaient un systeme a la francaise donc Obamacare ne va pas assez loin selon eux... et ils le font savoir. J'aurais presque pitie de Nancy  Video L'ete dernier lorsque la Tea Party faisait connaitre son mecontement, Nancy n'a eu de cesse de lui reprocher sa "violence" et meme de traiter ses membres de nazis, de racistes, de dingues des armes a feu. Voyons voir ce qu'elle aura a dire la... Enfin, bon, elle avait l'air moins rassuree la, que quand elle a parade arrogante devant des Tea Partiers, le jour du passage d'Obamacare, bien entouree de ses "amis" au cas ou et apres avoir fait arreter ceux qui avaient ose penetre dans l'edifice. Nancy et ceux qui la soutiennent ne representent pas l'immense majorite des Americains. Cette femme est une honte. |
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| | Sujet: 2458 - Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Denies Political Motive 8/6/2010, 22:29 | |
| Reuters Admits Cropping Photos of Ship Clash, Denies Political MotiveBy Ed BarnesPublished June 08, 2010| FOXNews.comThe British-based Reuters news agency has been stung for the second time by charges that it edited politically sensitive photos in a way that casts Israel in a bad light. But this time Reuters claims it wasn’t at fault.- Spoiler:
 On the left, the uncropped photo. On the right, Reuters' released photo. (Reuters)
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Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
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| C'est comme Bill, le POTUS n'a pas peur du ridicule. Fais ce que je dis pas ce que je fais... Obama Tells Graduating Class, 'Don't Make Excuses,' Drawing GOP TauntsPublished June 08, 2010| FOXNews.comThat was the advice President Obama gave to a graduating high school class in Michigan Monday night -- advice that sent off an irony alert among Republicans who accuse the president of having "spent his tenure" doing exactly that. - Spoiler:
 President Obama delivers the commencement address for Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 7. (AP Photo) Ben voyons donc!
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pourvu que ce soit definitif ce qui pourrait etre le cas en novembre si tout va bien.