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| Sujet: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/11/2008, 13:47 | |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 10:04 | |
| Ah bon, je m'en serais remise mais tout-de-meme. Tariq oui oui Tariq, l'idole de Benedicte, c'est ca? |
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Nombre de messages : 54566 Localisation : Jardins suspendus sur la Woluwe - Belgique Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 10:12 | |
| - Sylvette a écrit:
- Tariq oui oui Tariq, l'idole de Benedicte, c'est ca?
C'est ça même. | |
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Nombre de messages : 54566 Localisation : Jardins suspendus sur la Woluwe - Belgique Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 10:23 | |
| - TSUR a écrit:
- Pkoi tu dis des mechancetées...
Bonjour Tsur ! La vérité peut-être méchante à dire... mais encore plus à taire. Ces belles choses étant dites, ce film sonne à mes yeux comme une mise en scène. Peut-être une reconstitution fidèle de la réalité - auquel cas il devrait être présenté comme tel - mais une mise en scène quand même. Un peu comme les cabanes construites moyennant finances par des villageois angolais pour être incendiées par la suite et filmées par les "journalistes" qui finançaient l'opération, et dont les photos innondaient ensuite notre presse pour illustrer les horreurs du pouvoir blanc en Afrique du Sud. .. (Mais je peux me tromper dans mon interprétation sur le film, bien entendu.) | |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 11:46 | |
| Mon message a ete efface parce que je n'avais base ma reponse que sur les premieres images. En fait, et si je crois aussi que c'est une mise-en-scene, c'est une video qui ne pousse pas a la violence. |
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| Sujet: 2616 - PATTERSON: Al Gore's global-warming crusade shrinks 26/8/2010, 13:41 | |
| Il va nous faire une deuxieme depression Pour Tous et pour Biloulou en particulier Illustration: Al Gore melting by Alexander Hunter for The Washington TimesPATTERSON: Al Gore's global-warming crusade shrinksEco-autocrats are exposed as frauds By Matt Patterson
The Washington Times 5:23 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Poor Al Gore. As if an im- pending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren't bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair.
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But not before it helped Al Gore to earn an Academy Award, a Nobel Peace Prize and an undeserved reputation as a scientific guru. As The Washington Post once noted of Mr. Gore's academic credentials: "For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received [a] sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 ... and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year." |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 13:55 | |
| Je suis impressionné!
Madame en a des lectures! Et pas n'importe lesquelles.
Après la théologie de la prospérité, Madame s'intéresse aux propos du Révérend Moon.
Après Rupert comme gourou, on adopte Sun Myung? Après Faux News on passe au Washington Times...
Demain ce sera L. Ron Hubbard j'imagine...
Ou pourquoi pas Raël?
Il est vrai qu'il faut beaucoup se donner, intellectuellement, pour mériter sa place parmi le 1% des élus et les efforts de Madame en sont un exemple des plus inspirant. |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 18:20 | |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 26/8/2010, 22:43 | |
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| Sujet: 2620 - Democrats privately fear House prospects worsening 27/8/2010, 01:52 | |
| Democrats privately fear House prospects worseningBy JIM VANDEHEI & MIKE ALLEN8/25/10 9:07 PM EDT Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.- Spoiler:
In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.They no longer believe the jobs and housing markets will recover — or that anything resembling the White House’s promise of a “recovery summer” is under way. They are even more concerned by indications that House Democrats once considered safe — such as Rep. Betty Sutton, who occupies an Ohio seat that President Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote in 2008 — are in real trouble. In two close races, endangered Democrats are even running ads touting how they oppose their leadership. “Democrats kept thinking: ‘We’re going to get better. We’re going to get well before the election,’” said one of Washington’s best-connected Democrats. “But as of this week, you now have people saying that Republicans are going to win the House. And now it’s starting to look like the Senate is going to be a lot closer than people thought.” A Democratic pollster working on several key races said, “The reality is that [the House majority] is probably gone.” His data show the Democrats’ problems are only getting worse. “It’s spreading,” the pollster said. Not all Democrats — or Republicans, for that matter — share this pessimistic assessment 68 days before the election. Republicans need to pick up 39 seats, and polls show most voters still have a downbeat view of the GOP’s ability to govern any better than Democrats.Republicans have been out-raised and outspent at the national level and in many of the key races. “We have been saying for the past 18 months this will be a politically challenging environment,” said Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “That being said, we will retain the majority in the House. All of what you are hearing is the inside-the-Beltway chatter.” A top House Democratic strategist who agrees with Van Hollen conceded pessimism is spreading rapidly — but mainly in Washington. This strategist said the mood among individual Democratic candidates, many of whom enjoy a considerable cash advantage, is more upbeat.Yet Democratic concern continues to manifest itself in a variety of ways, including the purchasing of ads in districts — like that of veteran Ike Skelton of Missouri — that historically are only in play in miserable political years and were not considered at risk several months ago. And then there are more subtle hints that professional Democrats are worried — lobbyists are reporting a noticeable uptick in House committee staffers looking for jobs. Democrats disagree on the best national strategy to prevent losing the House — but mostly agree there are few good options beyond grinding it out in each individual race“It’s individual Democrats that are going to have to defeat flawed Republican candidates,” said Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker. “It’s important that Democrats succeed in individual races.” Democrats also hoped to leverage a decisive fundraising edge to bail out members over the final two months of the campaign. But while they have raised way more money than Republicans, Democrats head into the final stretch worried that when spending by outside groups is factored in, they will have little or no advantage in spending over the next two months. They had hoped Obama’s popularity — and appeal with base voters and donors — would help at the edges. “The concern I have is that the president is doing poorly in places you need him to perform strongly with your base,” a state party chairman told POLITICO. “You need to have confidence in your leader.” Several House Democratic sources said they are furious with the White House for keeping the debate over a New York mosque in play for two weeks — and then announcing Obama will use a prime-time address next week to discuss Iraq, not the economy. By the calculations of House Democrats, this means that by Labor Day they will have spent nearly nine weeks this summer beating back negative or unhelpful story lines instigated, in part or in total, by the White House. Finally, Democrats had hoped memories of unpopular Republican rule under George W. Bush would convince swing voters against installing a Republican House again. “The problem is that a lot of the message talks to the base, and we’ve got to talk to the middle,” a former state Democratic Party chairman said. “You can only blame Bush for so long.” In some races, endangered Democrats are trying to carve out their own separate identities from the national party — even if that means bashing Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “The incumbent needs to shape the races in their district,” said Parker.Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, a second-term congressman, is airing a new TV ad in his South Bend-area district pointing out that he voted against “Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax on Hoosier families.” “The Donnelly ad is who he is,” said Parker. “He’s independent.” It’s a spot that is strikingly similar to one Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire is running, which features supporters praising the second-term Democrat for “stand[ing] up” to Obama and Pelosi. In Washington, Democrats are testing a new strategy of trying to make the national conversation about Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) — who would become speaker of the House with a GOP takeover — a tough proposition given that most voters have never heard of him. “We want to elevate John Boehner,” said a senior Democratic aide involved in party strategy. “We want him and his ideas to be in the forefront.” Democrats may need this approach to stoke excitement among its base voters. But two different sets of data show Republicans with a big advantage when it comes to getting the base fired up for this campaign. A new Gallup Poll out this week shows 46 percent of Republicans and just 23 percent of Democrats to be “very enthusiastic” about voting. And before Tuesday night’s races, 15.4 million Republicans had already voted in primaries, compared with 12 million Democrats who have turned out for primaries so far in 2010. “Hopefully, we can rally the base and turn people out,” said Jamie Franks, chair of the Mississippi Democratic Party, who predicted his party will retain control of the House. What Democrats are watching most closely right now is to see if the field of at-risk seats does indeed keep expanding. There are fresh concerns about Reps. Allen Boyd of Florida, Jim Marshall of Georgia and Leonard Boswell of Iowa — all of whom were recently moved into the toss-up category by respected handicapper Charlie Cook. In addition, Reps. Ben Chandler of Kentucky and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota were both outraised by their opponents this past quarter, increasing concern about their races. Given that the DCCC has already purchased ads to defend 54 seats that the party controls, the last thing Democrats need is more seats to have to protect.Jake Sherman contributed to this report.
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| Sujet: 2621 - Recovery Summer Update: 27/8/2010, 02:12 | |
| Tiens, il etait justement question de Chavez, hier... New England fishermen flotilla protests today off Obama's vacation island over more fed regulationsAugust 26, 2010 | [color=#000000]2:04 [color=#000000]am Recovery Summer Update:Having successfully shut down an estimated 23,000 American oil drilling jobs off the Gulf Coast, citing possible environmental concerns, the Obama administration is now moving on New England fishermen.- Spoiler:
It's rained during much of Obama's latest vacation there. And now the Democratic president is scheduled to be confronted with a flotilla of protesters today off his private estate on the souvenir-laden island of Martha's Vineyard.The immediate boating protest is about their claim the feds are using bad science to set extremely limited area fishing allotments, certain to wipe out many traditional private family businesses.The fishermen -- possibly involving as many as two dozen vessels -- will be traveling from as far away as New Jersey and all along the Northeastern coastline. Wednesday the noon protest earned the support of the Greater Boston Tea Party.The fishermen maintain that once-threatened stocks have returned naturally under existing regulations and don't require the newly shaped government-run market system favored by President Obama. Elizabeth Scalia calls it: "So Soviet."As explained by the ever-thoughtful Ed Morrissey, the move by Obama appointee Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is designed to replace private fishing with new government-regulated operations:"They want to close the fisheries into 'commodities markets' where the government essentially licenses fishermen and then allocates the catch based on a predetermined distribution plan. The 'commodities markets' will kill many fishing-based jobs and essentially turn fishermen into government employees, and they’re not happy about it." Lubchenco, a former official with the Environmental Defense Fund, has said that her policy goal is to eliminate "a significant fraction of the vessels."Negotiations between Lubchenco and congressional delegations from New England, an important region within Obama's political base, have broken down. Vice President Joe "I Still Have a Job, At Least" Biden will visit New England today too. But he'll be onshore in New Hampshire to claim more progress on stimulus spending.This non-stimulus plan is part of a larger private sector job-killing pattern detected by Michelle Malin involving the elimination of thousands of private sector car dealerships and their employees, thousands of deep-water drilling job losses due to Obama's controversial drilling moratorium, more jobs lost when Interior Department officials pulled Bush-era oil and gas leases, and more. Next week Obama returns to the stricken Gulf Coast but not about offshore drilling. His cited reason is to observe the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which provides another opportunity to talk about eight years of you-know-who.-- Andrew Malcolm
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| Sujet: 2622 - How Vindictive Is This Administration? 27/8/2010, 02:27 | |
| How Vindictive Is This Administration?
By Daniel Foster August 26, 2010 9:54 A.M.
I’m not usually the conspiratorial type, but watch Gov. Chris Christie explain how the Obama administration disqualified the state of New Jersey from hundreds of millions in education funds because some clerk in Trenton turned in the wrong excel spreadsheet: Video
Democrats in Washington have already shown a willingness to withhold federal education dollars from states that don’t follow their preferred tactic for navigating the recession: giving teachers raises like it’s the Gay ’90s. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is more punishment for a state that committed the crime of [color:0981=#000000]balancing its budget.
But the Obama administration has made a serious mistake here: they’ve given Chris Christie an opening, a reason to take them on directly. And how does the old saying go? Never go up against a Sicilian, when political credibility is on the line? |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 02:29 | |
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Ils devraient! Les Repubs ont lancé, avec l'aide de leurs alliés dominionistes, les quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse à leurs trousses.
Une fois qu'ils auront repris le contrôle de la Maison, ils pourront assurer le 1% Club, fratterie privilégiée dont Madame rêve de faire partie, de la certitude qu'il pourra jouir encore plus longtemps, pour l'éternité probablement, des exemptions d'impôts BaBushiennes qui lui sont si justement méritées. Le déficit sera réglé en un tournemain en abolissant les foodstamps, l'école publique, le Medicare, la police et tous les allégements fiscaux pouvant favoriser la classe moyenne.
Le « Drill, baby, Drill » que même Obama supporte allégrement sera amplifié et les normes gouvernementales éradiquées pour le bien... euuuuh... de... eux?
Après, le «posse» qui anime Madame pourra s'assurer de l'élection présidentielle de la très respectable Sarah Palin ou mieux encore de Newt Gingrich et on assistera à la fin de l'Empire américain...
L'Amérique est au bord du gouffre, les gens du parti chou-chou de Madame lui feront faire un pas en avant! |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 02:39 | |
| Bien sur qu'il y a des americains tres bien, et il y en a d'autres plus...potaches qui font dans le registre du bizutage somme toute inoffensif comme dirait Biloulou... U.S. soldiers face murder charges in deaths of Afghan civiliansHal Bernton | Seattle Times last updated: August 25, 2010 09:47:09 PM Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. — In one of the most serious war crimes cases to emerge from the nine-year war in Afghanistan, five U.S. soldiers from a Stryker brigade in the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division have been charged with murder for allegedly killing three Afghan civilians. While they were on patrol, the soldiers threw grenades at two of the Afghans and shot them, according to charging documents. The third civilian also was shot, and anyone who dared to report the events was threatened with violence, according to statements made to investigators. The accused soldiers are with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Wash., Some 3,700 soldiers in the brigade were deployed throughout southern Afghanistan, involved both in combat and in wide-ranging efforts to open schools, train Afghan forces, improve agriculture and take other measures to win the support of civilians. All five accused soldiers are awaiting court-martial proceedings, and their families have retained civilian attorneys to aid in their defense. If convicted, they face the possibility of life imprisonment or death. The Seattle Times has reviewed court documents filed by a defense attorney with a U.S. Army magistrate that summarize some of the evidence in the case. The Times also has interviewed attorneys for three of the defendants. The documents provide new insight into how the alleged murder plot may have evolved, but they offer few clues about the soldiers’ motives. Allegations of drug use The plot came to the attention of the Army in May, according to court documents. Army officials were investigating an assault on an enlisted man who’d informed on soldiers smoking hashish when an informant told investigators that he'd heard other soldiers talk about civilian killings. The original murder charges were filed in June. At the request of The Seattle Times, Joint Base Lewis-McChord late Tuesday afternoon released additional charges that have been filed against the five soldiers, including conspiracy to commit murder and, for three of the soldiers, use of a controlled substance. One of the accused soldiers, Spc. Jeremy Morlock, a 22-year-old from Wasilla, Alaska, had a brutal year in Afghanistan, where he was exposed to four explosions that caused traumatic brain injury, said his attorney, Michael Waddington. To help him remain in Afghanistan, Morlock was prescribed a cornucopia of drugs that included anti-depressants, muscle relaxants and a sleep drug frequently used by soldiers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, Waddington said. There was significant use of hashish and occasional opium use in Morlock's platoon, according to Waddington. Morlock has played a major role in helping the Army develop the case. He’s given numerous details about his involvement in the killings and also implicated others. Waddington said he’d try to have those statements withdrawn because his client spoke while he was under the influence of the drugs he was taking for his battlefield injuries. In May, Army medical staff decided to evacuate Morlock because of his head injuries. Shortly before his departure, investigators started questioning him about the civilian killings. "Our position is that his statements were incoherent, and taken while he was under a cocktail of drugs that shouldn't have been mixed," Waddington said. "What he said is not consistent with other evidence that comes out of the case." The alleged ringleader In interviews with Army criminal investigators, several soldiers have portrayed Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, 25, of Billings, Mont. as a ringleader. Gibbs, who like Morlock has been charged in all three killings, has denied any involvement. Gibbs is a veteran of two previous combat tours, one in Afghanistan and a second in Iraq. In the fall, he joined the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, part of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division that went to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, to replace a squad leader who’d been injured by an explosion. Gibbs allegedly boasted about "stuff" he’d gotten away with in Iraq and discussed plans for killing Afghans with a small circle of soldiers, according to statements by other soldiers. Last December, Gibbs began joking with other soldiers about how easy it would be to "toss a grenade" at Afghan civilians and kill them, according to statements fellow platoon members made to military investigators. One soldier said it was a stupid idea. Another said he thought that Gibbs was "feeling out the platoon." Others told investigators that Gibbs eventually turned the talk into action, forming what one called a "kill team" to carry out random executions of Afghans. The first killing The first murder allegedly occurred on January 15 during a patrol in the Afghan village of La Mohammed Kalay. While some soldiers spoke with village elders, Morlock was assigned to security duty at the edge of a poppy field along with Pfc. Andrew Holmes from Boise, Idaho, one of the youngest and least experienced soldiers in the platoon. Morlock, in his statement cited in court documents, said that an Afghan civilian named Gul Mudin emerged from the field and stopped behind a low wall that separated him from the soldiers. Morlock tossed a grenade that Gibbs had given to him over a wall to kill the man, according to Morlock's statement. In his statement, Holmes said he then was ordered to fire over the wall. He was unsure whether he hit anyone. Later that day, Morlock told Holmes that the killing was staged and unnecessary, according to Holmes. Holmes, who’s charged with Morlock and Gibbs in that killing, also said that Morlock threatened his life if he told anyone. Holmes' attorney, Daniel Conway, said his client wasn’t involved in the killings or part of the inner circle that plotted crimes. "We're eager to move forward with this process to show the world that Pfc. Holmes is a good 19-year-old kid with a big heart that was fighting a difficult war," Conway said. Army prosecutors allege that Spc. Michael Wagnon, of Las Vegas, Nev. was involved with Morlock and Gibbs in the murder of the second Afghan, Marach Agah, in February. The second killing Morlock said that Gibbs shot Agah and then placed an AK-47 rifle by the corpse to make it appear to have been an act of self-defense, according to an attorney who’s examined his statement. Morlock alleges that Wagnon was an accomplice. However, other soldiers have contradicted Morlock’s statements, according to Colby Vokey, an attorney for Wagnon. Some soldiers have told investigators that they heard shots that might have indicated that the Afghan fired first. Vokey said his client is innocent and has no knowledge of any murders. The third killing In the third killing, Morlock and Gibbs are accused of throwing a grenade at an Afghan named Mullah Adahdad, and then shooting him. Spc. Adam Winfield of Cape Coral, Fla. also is charged in that killing. Hearings are expected to start later this year. The joint Army-Air Force base Tuesday also disclosed that charges have been filed against seven other soldiers that include impeding an investigation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawfully striking another soldier and conspiracy to commit assault and battery. All the charges made public Tuesday stem from the initial investigation, as well as a related assault on a U.S. soldier, according to an Army official. : Col. Harry Tunnell, the commander of the 5th Brigade, interviewed in July, declined to comment on the criminal cases. But he noted that the brigade generated the investigation that led to the criminal charges, which he called “a good comment on how the system is supposed to work." Passing notes in jail All the accused soldiers were jailed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Several still share a common area and are allowed to talk with each other, provided that they don't mention anything concerning the upcoming trial. Gibbs and Morlock, however, were locked in separate cells, and aren’t allowed to mingle or communicate with their fellow defendants. Several weeks ago, Army officials discovered that the two men were exchanging notes. The notes were innocent communications, according to Waddington. Morlock talked about his difficulties reaching his attorney and their shared plight as Army prisoners. "He said, 'maybe we should go down fighting like soldiers,' " Waddington said. After Army officials found the notes, they transferred Morlock to a Navy brig in Bremerton, Wash. (Seattle Times staff researcher David Turim contributed to this report. )
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 02:39 | |
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Très amusant le vidéo présenté par Madame. Il a à peu près la même valeur éditoriale que... disons une envolée lyrique de Keith Olberman sur MSNBC!
Et là, je suis gentil. Je regarde dans ma cour, ce que Madame appréciera, j'espère.
Malheureusement, elle, elle ne fait jamais de même. Pourtant, elle a entre autres un si riche potager avec son Faux News chéri! |
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| Sujet: 2626 - Pols Clueless on Ground Zero Mosque 27/8/2010, 02:50 | |
| 2) ========== Pols Clueless on Ground Zero Mosque By Nat HentoffThe angry national debate over Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's intention to build a mosque two blocks north of the horror of 9/11 at Ground Zero has been further fueled by supporter Nancy Pelosi declaring, "I join those who have called for looking into how ... this opposition to the mosque is being funded."- Spoiler:
If one of her sleuths knocks on my door, this opponent will readily state that I need no outside funding as a reporter who is deeply investigating the motivation of Imam Rauf's choice of this site of mass murder for the mosque. I will add that, of course, all American Muslims have their First Amendment right to exercise their freedom of religion in their place of worship. There have been other mosques in New York City built without opposition. That freedom is not at stake here. As for Rauf's inflammable site choice, however, one of a growing number of construction workers pledging they will not work on this mosque (New York Daily News, Aug. 20), Dave Kaiser, a blaster, explains: "I wouldn't work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11." Imam Rauf said was interviewed on CBS' 60 Minutes (Sept. 30, 2001) by Ed Bradley. (I have the transcript.) Asked how he felt as a Muslim "knowing that people of your faith committed this act," Imam Rauf spoke about Muslim reaction throughout the world "against the policies of the U.S. government, politically, where we espouse principles of democracy and human rights and where we ally ourselves with oppressive regimes in many of these countries." "Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?" Bradley asked. "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened," Rauf answered, "but the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. ... Because (the United States has) been an accessory to a lot of - of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, it - in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the U.S.A." Were the heads of government in Iran, Hamas and Sudan also "made in the USA?" Imam Rauf has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and had no comment when, on Aug. 15, Mahmoud al-Zahar, its co-founder, strongly supported the Imam's mosque near Ground Zero, saying, Muslims "have to build everywhere" (Associated Press, Aug. 16). Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the support by Hamas of the Imam's mosque carried no weight because "Hamas is a terrorist organization." Why, yes, it is, Imam Rauf, with its suicide bombers and endless rockets into Israel. How else can suicide bombers be characterized? This imam - widely lauded in much of the press as "a moderate" Muslim - is not reticent, however, in his firm commitment to Sharia (Islamic law), which regards women as far less than fully human. In the Dec. 9, 2007 Arabic newspaper Hadi el-Islam, Rauf insisted: Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy. The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia that are required to govern. I would greatly appreciate it if Imam Rauf explained, maybe Pelosi will ask him, more fully what he meant in his 2004 book, "What's Right With Islam is What's Right With America." In it he declares: "American Constitution and system of governance uphold the core principles of Islamic law." Rauf says Sharia law is a core principle of Islamic law. Does that also include a core principle of our Constitution? This 2004 book's title in the English-language edition yields to a different title for non-English-speaking readers in Malaysia, reports Andrew McCarthy ("Rauf's Dawa from the World Trade Center Rubble," nationalreview.com). This alternate title in Malaysia brings us right back into the civil war here about the imam's mosque near Ground Zero: "A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11." What does "dawa" mean? McCarthy explains: "Dawa, whether done from the rubble of the World Trade Center or elsewhere, is the missionary work by which Islam is spread. ... The purpose of dawa, like the purpose of jihad, is to implement, spread, and defend Sharia. ... through means other than violence and agents other than terrorists." As of this writing, Imam Rauf is on the State Department tour (financed by us) of Arab nations in the Middle East. He has been on four such State Department tours - two under George W. Bush. Says State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley (New York Post, Aug. 20): "I wouldn't be surprised if he talks about the ongoing debate within the United States, as an example of our emphasis on religious tolerance and resolving questions that come up within the rule of law." Does our State Department include Sharia as being within our rule of law? At the end of that news story, we are told that Rauf "is not allowed to fund-raise on the trip." Yet, in the Aug. 18 New York Post, Geoff Earle and Tom Topousis report that "in an interview overseas, he (Rauf) said 'he would also tap Muslim nations for help.'" I would not be surprised if Saudi Arabia ultimately becomes a generous contributor, but not quite in the agreement with the State Department's "emphasis on religious tolerance." New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg charges that opponents of Imam Rauf's mosque "should be ashamed of themselves" and are bigots. Me, too, Mr. Mayor? If you want to join Speaker Pelosi in investigating me, your honor, I'd be glad to oblige. I'm just doing my job as a reporter. I wish more reporters had gone beneath the shouting on both sides. There's another part of the First Amendment in addition to the free exercise of religion: The press is free to investigate the reasons for Imam Rauf's fixation on the 9/11 location of his mosque. And why does this location make Hamas glow?
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Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the libertarian Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.
Dernière édition par Sylvette le 27/8/2010, 03:09, édité 1 fois |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 02:57 | |
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Preuve de plus que Republicains ou Democrates, c'est bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet.
Reste que les Democrates eux, ont un handicap sérieux. Le président est demi-noir et son second prénom est de consonance arabe.
Ça fait grincer des dents l'électorat blanc magistralement manipulé par les campagnes de haine raciste orchestrées par les Faux News et Breitbart.com, les complices de Madame.
Pendant ce temps:
Republican Congressman Mike Pence proved once again that the GOP only has one plan for the economy: No Millionaire Left Behind!
Dernière édition par Pétard le 27/8/2010, 03:16, édité 1 fois |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 03:10 | |
| Puisqu'on en est là:
Saudi Royal Backs Imam and Fox News
Évidemment, c'est pas clair tout ça!
Donc, si j'ai bien compris, les Wahabites financent et Faux News et la Mosquée de la Mort question de monter l'esprit fasciste et raciste américain pour prouver aux Musulmans que les ÉU ont vraiment contre eux une haine mortelle et diabolique?
Ce qui me désole c'est voir que la toute innocente et naïve Madame se retrouve complice sans le vouloir de ces abominables islamistes au milieu de cet imbroglio.
La vie est si injuste! |
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| Sujet: 2629 - Soldier killed in Afghanistan is hailed a hero 27/8/2010, 03:19 | |
| 3) 4) et 5) ========== We laid an American Soldier to rest today. Another American hero lost in Afghanistan. This one was someone I knew and too close to home, once again. Read about him and see photos and videos below.Captain Kyle Comfort October 17, 1982 – May 8, 2010 Fire Support Officer Company D, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger RegimentKyle Comfort had just recently been promoted to Captain and been assigned to a Ranger Regiment in the [color:ade1=#000000]Army. His accomplishments as a Soldier, in such a short time, were a testament to the fact that he was an excellent Soldier. Unfortunately, in this war, it doesn’t make a lot of difference how good you are at your job. The difference seems to be left to chance. Where you are sitting in your vehicle or which vehicle you are sitting in when you hit an IED or where you are standing on your FOB when the mortars come in. All chance and circumstance.It has to be that way. The enemy that is fighting us now could never win a legitimate war with our Soldiers. So they fight as insurgents and use tactics that they know make our Soldiers [color:ade1=#000000]vulnerable.- Spoiler:
That is how they got CAPT Kyle Comfort. With an IED just a month into his tour of duty in Afghanistan. If they had fought him face-to-face, they never would have gotten him.When I first heard this news my heart broke. This wasn’t a name in the paper or that I read on the internet. This was someone I knew. He was one of my son’s best friends from college. A kid who had come to my house, hung out with my son and been one of the regular American boys that we all know. He liked the things all of our sons like, girls, pizza, burgers, cars, hunting …. the list goes on as we all know. An all-American boy and more. He had been raised with a sense of honor, integrity and duty to family, community and country. He was one of us. He was one of our best and our brightest.Kyle Aaron Comfort was killed in the line of duty on May 8, 2010 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A hot-bed of al-Qaeda and Taliban activity. Our casualties there have been rising at an alarming rate, even as our media neglects to bring the casualties to the attention of the public anymore. His remains were brought back to his home of Jacksonville, Alabama on May 15, 2010. A memorial service and family visitation was held on May 16, 2010 and he was laid to rest, among family and friends in the red clay of Calhoun County, Alabama, on May 17, 2010. His service included full military honors and was befitting his service and sacrifice to our country.A large group of friends, acquaintances and relatives flew in from all corners of the earth for his funeral. He was truly loved and will be truly missed. He was gregarious, fun-loving, full of life and personality. He enjoyed a good party and a gathering of his friends. Throughout the events of the last few days, I couldn’t help but think how much he would have enjoyed everyone being together again. He would have been [color:ade1=#000000]planning events and shaken the hand of everyone there. I heard over and over that there is nothing bad you can say about Kyle Comfort, and that is true. Everyone liked him and he liked everyone.CPT Comfort is survived by his young wife, Brooke Clopton Comfort, and 6-month-old daughter Kinleigh. He is also survived by his mother Ellen Comfort and his sister and brothers, Karena Comfort Sayers, MAJ Kevin Comfort and Kenny Comfort.His military awards include the Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal with combat star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon and Overseas Service Medal. He also earned the Ranger Tab, Parachutist Badge and the Air Assault Badge. CPT Comfort has been awarded posthumously, the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Combat Action Badge.Kyle Comfort was just 27-years-old when he was killed in action. His daughter Kinleigh will not remember her father, but his friends made a videotape for her to let her know what a special man he was and how much he loved her mother and her. In the week since he was killed, I have thought of him and his mother, siblings, young wife and infant daughter often. Often with tears of real grief for their loss, and with tears of real fear that one so close, from our own tribe, has been lost in such a cruel and tragic manner. Its too close to home, I’ve thought repeatedly. Just too close to home.As is the way of our country now, protest groups came to town to use the funeral of an American hero to garner publicity for themselves. They were enormously outnumbered by Patriots who surrounded them and kept them from view of the family and friends of this Soldier. The community would not allow their fallen son to be disrespected in this way.The community rose up and honored him. All flags in town were at half-mast. Every business honored him in one way or the other. His name and memory were on the lips and in the hearts of the entire community. The local fire department brought out fire engines to wave huge flags in his honor high above the crowded streets. The local college displayed his photo and expressed their support on the signs around campus. When his body was finally brought home, the streets were lined with supporters as far as the eye could see. And when his remains were finally taken to their final resting place, there wasn’t a spot on the street that wasn’t lined with Patriots, saluting one of our own who had fallen. Hundreds of Patriot Guard Motorcycles escorted him. A Ranger Squadron guarded him and provided the military honors that were due him. Thousands came out to show their respect. It was an overwhelming and emotional time.Later today, the guests, friends, out-of-town family, spectators, rubberneckers, protesters, counter-protesters, Patriot Guards, Rangers and towns people dispersed and started back to their lives. Which left me to wonder, ‘What now?’. What happens now to the family that has been surrounded with this overwhelming show of support since they first received the news he had died of the wounds he had received in battle.While those of us who knew him can go back to our lives, those to whom he was an integral and daily part of their lives will never be the same. He’s left a 26-year-old widow with a 6-month old daughter. A young woman who has been with him since they first went to college. My heart breaks for them and the hole his absence has made in their lives.We laid an American Soldier to rest today. One of our own. At the young age of 27-years, his work is done, he’s done his part. As Abraham Lincoln said, he has given ‘the last full measure of devotion’. Now it’s up to us to pick up the baton and do our part. What is left is for us to follow Lincoln’s advice.‘… that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’My prayer for the United States is that we never run out of this kind of young men and women.Rest in Peace CPT Kyle Aaron Comfort. More pictures and videos of Kyle Comfort can be seen below. Another American hero lost in Afghanistan.
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 03:40 | |
| Bon, c'est pas amusant, c'est en anglais, mais n'empêche que c'est vrai. Une sorte de dissertation sur l'art de se faire enc...r par l'industrie pétrolière...
Au fait, notre tendre Madame, c'est pas dans le pétrole qu'elle a trouvé ses bijoux?
Big Oil Earns 45 Billion Dollars a Year Virtually Tax Free
Jacqueline Marcus Buzzflash
Democrats told voters that they would not raise taxes for those who earn less than $200,000 a year. What about those who earn $45 billion dollars a year? Most Americans believe that oil billionaires, logically speaking, have to pay the highest income taxes. Wrong. Big Oil billionaires pay far less taxes than the average working American.
Exxon/Mobil earns $45 billion dollars in profits a year. Guess how much corporate income taxes Exxon/Mobile has to pay from that $45 billion? A pittance.
Big Oil should pay 35 percent of their earnings in federal taxes, but thanks to our oil-friendly congress, they pay a mere 5.3 percent. That’s far less than working Americans have to pay.
You can count on the average American paying much higher taxes than U.S. oil executives that earn billions of dollars a year. So while Kerry and Obama target those who earn $200,000 annually, the oil billionaires get a tax-free pass.
Republican candidates yell and scream about not raising taxes, but they’re not thinking about the Tea-baggers’ taxes; no, they have their bosses in mind, the ones that have them on a tight leash. They owe their souls to the industrial polluting billionaires, Big Oil, which means they’ll do everything in their congressional power to protect Big Oil from paying their fair share of taxes.
That’s how corrupt the system has become over the last decade. The Bush administration broke all records by reducing federal corporate taxes for corporations to its lowest percentage in nearly six decades. (1)
Thus, if you’re a Big Oil billionaire, jackpot! You don’t have to contribute a dime to the country. Well, maybe a dime compared to your earnings, but that’s about all. You don’t have to pay your fair share of taxes for schools, roads, bridges, hospitals, educational grants, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, police, firemen, postal services…you get a free pass! while working Americans carry the largest tax burden on their shoulders, taxes that are, incidentally, being slashed for all the above social services so that they can be given to the Pentagon weapon contractors, Big Oil, and Wall Street bailouts.
Just how far would our congressional members go for campaign contributions? What would they give away to Big Oil in exchange for a pocketful of campaign change? Well, they’ve given away our national forests, our oceans, our public lands, our majestic mountains, our rivers, our lakes, our wildlife—and the final freebie gift in return for campaign contributions: no taxes. Wow! that’s quite a bargain! For a couple hundred thousand, Big Oil can own the entire country.
We, on the other hand, have to pay twice for gasoline taxes: once at the pump and again through Big Oil tax abuse benefits such as subsidies, loopholes, and a little thing you never hear about at political debates: “depletion allowances”.
History lesson: Republican Andrew Mellon, one of the biggest corporate thugs that ever slithered his way inside the White House, was appointed treasury secretary from 1921-1932 for good corporate thievery reasons. Mellon cut taxes, regulation and oversight on corporations, especially Big Oil, and he basically initiated huge depletion allowances which began under President Wilson.
What exactly is a depletion allowance? Example: Big Oil says to the government: “We may be running out of oil in these wells—we haven’t yet, but you’re going to have to pay us anyway by allowing us to deduct from our taxable income. Mellon increased that deduction from 5 percent to 27.5 percent that companies received from their wells, with no limit on the total amount of money that a company could deduct. Mellon also eliminated the antitrust regulations, which led to Big Oil mergers that made a single polluting industry more powerfully wealthy than all the world governments combined. (2)
So much for those monopoly laws…While Mellon increased corporate welfare for the super rich, he reduced government spending for the poor.
Currently, the depletion allowance runs somewhere between 15%-25% of the gross income derived from oil and gas wells from Big Oil’s taxable incomes.
That’s a loss to our country’s national budget of billions a year that could be used to pay down the national deficit. And that’s only one tax scam from many loopholes. Big Oil, for instance, is allowed to deduct up to 70% from taxable income for oil exploration, which comes out of our pockets.
There’s also a tax break known as “enhanced oil recovery credit”. It encourages oil companies to go after reserves that are more expensive to extract—and far more polluting. (3)
Keep in mind that the oil extracted from oceans and federal lands belong to the public. Big Oil gets the oil for free and then sells it back to us for big profits, $45 billion dollars a year profits.
Together, these Big Oil tax benefits exceed the value of the energy produced by that oil. In other words, it would be cheaper for the government to just buy gasoline from the companies and give it to taxpayers free of charge. (4)
The bottom line is that we are essentially losing billions and billions of tax dollars from corporate oil “welfare” tax breaks. If Big Oil paid their fair share of taxes, and if the bloated Pentagon budget was cut by 35%, the national debt would disappear overnight. But what do congressional members target instead?—Social Security, extended unemployment, Medicare, educational funding, in short, our public services.
You will never hear this subject of corporate welfare: Big Oil tax benefits, discussed at national or local political debates or in the mainstream news. By analogy, imagine if we were trapped in a cage that is being lowered into the sea. There’s a TV screen that show pundits talking about the big, bad immigrants, Muslim Mosques, terrorists, Obama’s birth certificate…Everyone starts fighting over these distracting issues, but no one on the TV screen or in the cage bothers to ask why the cage is being lowered and if it can be stopped.
That’s the situation we’re in. The oil tyrants and their government paid-off whores want to keep us occupied and divided with inflammatory arguments while they step out the back door, counting their billions of tax-free dollars.
Sources:
1-2) The Tyranny of Oil; Antonia Juhasz; pages 76-77
3-4) Take the Rich Off Welfare; Zepezauer & Naiman; pages 100-101 |
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Nombre de messages : 54566 Localisation : Jardins suspendus sur la Woluwe - Belgique Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 10:32 | |
| - Shansaa a écrit:
- Bien sur qu'il y a des americains tres bien, et il y en a d'autres plus...potaches qui font dans le registre du bizutage somme toute inoffensif comme dirait Biloulou...
Roooh.... comme vous y allez.... appeler bizutage la mort voulue d'hommes ! Non, Shansaa, faire la guerre et tuer des hommes n'est pas un simple bizutage. Même si les meurtriers sont des hommes confortés par l'esprit de groupe, au jugement dénaturé par des drogues ou - c'est presque la même chose - par des hormones engendrées par un état de stress permanent et de refoulement des actions de survie. Allez, pour votre punition un petit apéro bien sagement hein ? (Pour ces actes qui les ont certainement dépassés, ils se trouvent maintenant entre les mains de la justice, n'est-ce pas ? Puisse-t-il en être de même dans tous les pays du monde tant qu'il y aura des guerres et de la violence...) | |
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| Sujet: 2632 - The last refuge of a liberal 27/8/2010, 12:45 | |
| Charles Krauthammer a encore raison, il suffit de contempler, pantois, la reaction de certains participants qui ne peuvent s'empecher de sous-entendre le racisme comme seule possibilite de motif valable a tout opposant a Obama le bien-aime... Sur ce fil, on observe meme: 1- un rejet du POTUS 1 an et 1/2 apres qu'il ait ete porte aux nues alors que les resultats de son programme sont un echec complet tant economiquement que politiquement et surtout ethiquement et moralement, et en meme temps, on nous fait comprendre que s'il gouvernait plus a gauche comme il l'avait promis (lorsqu'il faisait ses discours DEVANT ses supporters de gauche, par exemple a San Francisco) tout irait tellement mieux... On sait a quel point cela est verifiable tous les jours dans les pays communistes. Pas assez a gauche pour certains? (suivez mon regard) et pourtant quand on lit le message 2621, en particulier: "They want to close the fisheries into 'commodities markets' where the government essentially licenses fishermen and then allocates the catch based on a predetermined distribution plan. The 'commodities markets' will kill many fishing-based jobs and essentially turn fishermen into government employees, and they’re not happy about it." on realise que le POTUS n'en est plus a la redistribution des richesses "a la socialiste" mais qu'apres avoir mis main basse sur l'industrie automobile, les assurances, l'education, les services de sante, etc... il continue a appliquer allegrement les valeurs (? ) communistes) . 2- une rage et une hargne demesuree envers toute personne qui avait su lire et comprendre l'inexperience nocive du candidat, combinee a une ideologie d'extreme gauche des plus prejudiciables et des moins souhaitables et souhaitees par la grande majorite des Americains. Cette attitude non-surprenante a tous les attributs du mauvais perdant, il y en a qui s'y complaise et y font meme carriere. Bien entendu comme le mauvais ouvrier a toujours de mauvais outils, dans ce cas encore, le desastre, c'est la fote aux au-tres. D'ailleurs, le POTUS apres 1 and 1/2 continue a blamer Pres. Bush. On oublie un peu facilement que Pres. Bush avait pris le pouvoir en recession economique, apres Clinton, et qu'un choc financier aussi important qu'emotionnel pour les Americains avait presque fait couler l'economie le 11 sept et il l'avait remisesur d'excellents rails. Evidemment, ils evitent de mentionner le coup de grace donne par Fannie Mae et Freddie Mac dirigees par des Democrates, dont le plus connu est Barney Frank (qui reconnait ENFIN ses erreurs maintenant) et un Congres Democrate qui refusait toute action pour palier aux problemes de ces organismes de pret (la carte du racisme etant la encore employee contre Bush 43), qui ont eu les consequences nationales et mondiales que l'ont sait. Les media et le POTUS ne savent que repeter l'"etat desastreux dans lequel Pres. Bush a laisse le pays economiquement et qu'en plus, devrais-je dire surtout???, personne ne nous aimait. The last refuge of a liberalBy Charles KrauthammerFriday, August 27, 2010 Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them." - Spoiler:
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking. -- Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president. -- Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism. -- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia. -- Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia. Now we know why the country has become "ungovernable," last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes? Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities -- often lopsided majorities -- oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero. What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president's proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms. Then came Arizona and S.B. 1070. It seems impossible for the left to believe that people of good will could hold that: (a) illegal immigration should be illegal, (b) the federal government should not hold border enforcement hostage to comprehensive reform, i.e., amnesty, (c) every country has the right to determine the composition of its immigrant population. As for Proposition 8, is it so hard to see why people might believe that a single judge overturning the will of 7 million voters is an affront to democracy? And that seeing merit in retaining the structure of the most ancient and fundamental of all social institutions is something other than an alleged hatred of gays -- particularly since the opposite-gender requirement has characterized virtually every society in all the millennia until just a few years ago? And now the mosque near Ground Zero. The intelligentsia is near unanimous that the only possible grounds for opposition is bigotry toward Muslims. This smug attribution of bigotry to two-thirds of the population hinges on the insistence on a complete lack of connection between Islam and radical Islam, a proposition that dovetails perfectly with the Obama administration's pretense that we are at war with nothing more than "violent extremists" of inscrutable motive and indiscernible belief. Those who reject this as both ridiculous and politically correct (an admitted redundancy) are declared Islamophobes, the ad hominem du jour. It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with "antipathy toward people who aren't like them" -- blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims -- a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, "just downright mean"? The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them. |
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| Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 27/8/2010, 13:01 | |
| Madame nous fait une petite crise de victimite?
Le POTUS actuel peut bien blâmer légitimement l'emPOTUS précédent puisqu'il n'y a rien de changé fondamentalement dans les politiques que le syndicat d'enrichissement personnel du crime derrière le second, BaBush, avait instaurées et qui sont toujours au goût du jour. Obama, sert à l'Amérique du BaBush réchauffé aux micro-ondes.
Puisqu'on assiste encore et encore au démantèlement de la constitution américaine au profit du 1% Club, ce club dont l'appartenance comblerait les plus osés fantasmes de Madame, que reste-t-il donc pour comprendre la raison de la haine viscérale que ces libertariens et dominionistes, qui ont holduppé le parti Republicain, portent envers le Président Obama sinon le mépris du noir et la phobie des prénoms arabes?
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| Sujet: 2634 - 27/8/2010, 13:50 | |
| Madame nous fait une petite crise de victimite?Ah non, c'est la specialite du canard deplume. Il vole tres disgracieusement mais c'est la fote du vent qui ne le porte pas correctement, savez-vous... Des excuses, des excuses, toujours des excuses comme celle exployees pour defendre tous ces petits criminels a deux ronds qui brulent les voitures et attaquent les innocents: une pauvre et triste enfance.. Le gouvernement leur doit tout, et quand le gouvernment finit par dire non, on ne peut plus, il y a tout-de-meme une limite, meme au Canada, alors leurs amis doivent prendre la releve, les heberger, les nourrir, leur preter leur ordinateur ; quand meme les amis en ont assez, ils se refugient dans les associations caritatives chretiennes ce qui ne les empechent pas de dedaigner, de mepriser et de critiquer la religion, en quelque sorte mordre la main qui les nourrit. Ils disent tout et le contraire, tant que le fiel peut couler de leur bouche. Un moment, ils fustigent ceux qui ne pensent pas comme eux, pour, selon eux, propager l'anti-islamisme et quelques heures plus tard, ils denoncent la charia, mais eux... ont le droit s'ils font partie d'une minorite. Povre, povre, povre canard. Il a du en prendre du plomb dans le .. derriere, a croire qu'il aime ca. ========== Je crois que nous parvenons a peu pres a la limite acceptee par Saint Pierre. Une remontrance ne devrait pas tarder a se faire, s'il ouvre l'oeil. Alors, maintenant, petit caneton, je m'arrete, vous imaginez que je pourrais aller bien plus loin. Vous me detestez parce que malgre les coups de la vie, j'ai resiste, je ne suis pas une faible, et ca, c'est, je crois ce qui vous est le plus difficile a accepter. Mais bon, je dois dire que dans un sens c'est assez flatteur que vous me portiez ainsi tant d'interet, si, si... Bonne continuation. |
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| Sujet: 2635 - Decoding the Mideast peace rhetoric 27/8/2010, 14:03 | |
| Decoding the Mideast peace rhetoric Both Netanyahu and Abbas accept Clinton's invitation to Washington for a September 3 gathering. CloseBy BEN SMITH | 8/26/10 5:40 PM EDT Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week announced a new round of peace talks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (known as Abu Mazen) accepted her invitation to Washington for the talks beginning September 2. - Spoiler:
Clinton set a one-year deadline for the talks, amid pessimism on both sides that the bitter Israeli-Palestinian stalemate could truly be broken in that time. But you couldn’t tell that from what the parties said — all three spoke in incomprehensible diplomatic code. So here’s a POLITICO translation of what they really meant:HILLARY CLINTON WHAT SHE SAID: “The President and I are encouraged by the leadership of Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas and fully share their commitment to the goal of two states — Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security...” WHAT SHE MEANT: Listen: These talks are going to happen because we insist on it. The Israeli settlement moratorium was about to expire, and then things really could have gotten out of hand. So we had to move quickly, and sure, we may not have worked out all the details yet. But we’ve pressured you into sitting down for the first time since President Barack Obama took office. We’ve averted a crisis, and those are small victories. And let’s be honest: neither of you is being all that cooperative — and particularly you, Abu Mazen, with your foot-dragging and threats to drop out if somebody puts a concrete block down in the wrong place. So we’re going to lock you into a summit before either of you changes your mind. Once you’re at the table, the dynamic changes. You’ll become more invested in making the process a success and creating a public climate in which peace is imaginable and even popular. WHAT SHE SAID: “I’ve invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas to meet on Sept. 2 in Washington, D.C. to re-launch direct negotiations to resolve all final status issues, which we believe can be completed within one year.” WHAT SHE MEANT: We all know we’re not going to resolve this in a year. But I had to throw the Palestinians a bone — they’re always going on about deadlines — and the Israelis don't want this process to just be an endless pretext for slowing their growth either. And I know some folks think we’re crazy to even hold the talks now, and raise expectations, but there is daylight on two of the four key issues, the border lines and the security status of a Palestinian state. Maybe, just maybe, we could get a preliminary agreement on those sometime next year, and then keep working. Maybe we could actually get a deal.WHAT SHE SAID: “The Quartet Representative Tony Blair has also been invited to the dinner in view of his important work to help Palestinians build the institutions of their future state, an effort which must continue during the negotiations.” WHAT SHE MEANT: Tony Blair! Remember him? He and Cherie haven’t exactly stayed as relevant as we have, eh guys? But this isn’t really about Tony. This is about the second-part, institution building — putting together the building blocks of the future Palestinian state, a government, courts, cops, schools — stuff like that. This isn’t some nice development plan for USAID. This is politics, this is grand strategy. Think of this as our Plan B: If the talks fall apart, as they probably will, I want to keep this path to peace open, and to let the Palestinians create a de facto state before they get a legal one. Ideally, the baby state in the West Bank will make it easier to talk about peace now, because it helps the Palestinians feel like all this “two state” talk isn’t just for show. Blair’s also a stand-in for the guy who in our fantasy world would have Abu Mazen’s job, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. He’s honest, he’s competent, he’s really getting things done and the situation on the ground in the West Bank — security, economy — is better than it’s been in memory. But he’s never going to be president — working for the World Bank, as he did, doesn’t buy you much street cred — and we don’t dare mention Fayyad, because that would infuriate Abu Mazen and drive him away from the talks. WHAT SHE SAID: “It is important that actions by all sides help to advance our effort, not hinder it.” WHAT SHE MEANT: Bibi: Just don’t build any more settlements. We’re not making a demand. It’s not a precondition. C’mon. Abu Mazen: No more threats to walk away. We’re not getting drawn into the settlement mess again. You can show you’re strong by staying at the table and actually getting something done. Oh, and please — stop letting the crackpots name streets after terrorists! BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WHAT HIS OFFICE SAID “Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomes the invitation of the United States to begin direct negotiations without preconditions.” WHAT HE MEANT: No preconditions? Then fire up the bulldozers. Not all of them. Well, really, maybe not any of them. We’re not returning to the expansions of the ‘90s. But I need to be able to get up in parliament and tell my people that I stood up for Israel where Tzipi Livni – seated in the opposition – would not have. And for the record: There’s no secret deal with Obama. Even without the talks, we can keep building in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, and in established settlement blocs that everybody knows will be part of Israel in any final settlement. The construction moratorium — which I never liked much, and which my coalition partners liked less — is over. We’re not going to pay for the right to talk to Palestinians. If we’re going to negotiate, it will be based on mutual benefit. If they want us to stop building, they — or their Arab friends — can make us an offer. This is how negotiations work. And if they want to take that as an excuse to walk away, fine. That will just prove what I already suspect: If Arafat was unwilling to close a deal, Abu Mazen is just too weak to make one.MAHMOUD ABBAS WHAT HE SAID:“Settlements and peace are two parallels that don’t meet. If Israel continues with the settlement construction, we will withdraw from the talks.” WHAT HE MEANT: Listen Hillary: You told us you had an implicit understanding with the Israelis that they wouldn’t be doing any more building that would change the strategic situation. But now some of Bibi’s key allies in his coalition are calling for just that — and don’t think we don’t follow Israeli politics as closely as anyone. The tacit thing isn’t going to work anymore. We’re facing pressure at home, pressure from Hamas, pressure from our friends and so-called friends in the Arab world to deliver something. We need a public commitment. We’re also worried that the Israelis could use talks to stall. We don’t want you spending another five years herding us to photo-ops while the Israelis double the number of settlers, like they did in the late 1990s. Look, I’m in a difficult place. I don’t have Arafat’s credibility with the people and with the hardliners. So while I may want to make peace, I constantly need to show I’m tough. Help! BARACK OBAMA WHAT HE MEANT: You’ve noticed I haven’t publicly commented on the summit? That’s no accident. I got burned badly enough on the first round of this — back when I thought just being Barack Obama (and not George W. Bush) would be enough to calm the waters and bring the sides together. I managed to get the Israelis and the American Jews ticked off at me, but I didn’t see the Arab League rushing to my defense to put pressure on the Palestinians, either. But I’m a man who thinks presidents should do big things, so I haven’t given up on it yet. Why should Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton be the only ones to get those great handshake pictures? But I’m a little older and a little wiser this time out. So I'm going to host a dinner and a series of bilateral talks to kick this thing off, but from there on in, I’m going to let you take the lead, Hillary. Knock yourself out. If this thing actually gets rolling, don’t worry, Air Force One is all gassed up and ready to sweep into the region to close the deal.
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À vous personnellement? Non.
Mais à ce que vous représentez, oui.
C'est que malheureusement ce 1% Club auquel vous voudriez tant appartenir s'accapare tout de même 95% de toutes la richesse non seulement de ce pays qui a eu la délicatesse de vous accueillir mais du reste de la planète et qui espère trouver encore plus à spolier.
Votre appel à St-Pierre est instructif, typique du colonisateur qui implore l'aide de la mère-patrie pour faire taire par la force le colonisé qui ose élever la voix ou prétendre corriger cette vérité distordue que vous propagez comme parole d'évangile. Il est typique aussi, cet appel, de ces libertariens et dominionistes à qui vous avez voué votre âme qui trafiquent les faits et qui, à couvert et ignomineusement, manipulent la masse des Tea-Partyers, ces tealibans et fedayins ignares et incultes qui composent votre armée de croisade.
S'il y en a pour défendre ceux que vous appelez des petits criminels à deux ronds, je ne suis pas de ceux-là. Mais vous Madame, vous défendez des criminels de haut-vol, les poches pleines à craquer de l'argent extorqué à la classe moyenne, qui commettent crimes de guerre et tortures de par la planète en toute impunité, protégés par leur gouvernement exécré mené par un demi-blanc, et qui s'apprêtent à établir une théocratie en Amérique pour le profit exclusif de leurs actionnaires.
En me traitant de canard déplumé, c'est vous Madame qui recourez à l'insulte et qui devrait être ramenée à l'ordre. Mais tous savent qu'il n'en sera rien. St-Pierre est un gentleman, toujours prêt à sauver la belle de l'ire des canards enragés. |
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