Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise

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Bonjour Biloulou

Il me semblait que cette nouvelle plairait!

Ah ben c'est malin!

Je ne pense pas que ca lui remonterait ses pourcentages, non.

Pour Tous et pour Lawrence (et autres supporters d'une Amerique CHANGEe) en particulier :

Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free

Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely.

The Wall Street Journal

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, July 07, 2009


WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.

Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department's chief lawyer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision that officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat.
Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration argues that the legal basis for indefinite detention of aliens it considers dangerous is separate from war-crimes prosecutions. Officials say that the laws of war allow indefinite detention to prevent aliens from committing warlike acts in future, while prosecution by military commission aims to punish them for war crimes committed in the past.

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Pour Information/rappel: hier nos soldats faisaient face en Afghanistan a un groupe de Taliban mene par un .... alumnus de Gantanamo...

au sujet de cet ancien...

Former Gitmo InmateLeading Fight Against U.S. in Helmand

As U.S. forces are pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, Mullah Zakir is leading the Taliban fight against them.



FOXNews.com

Tuesday, July 07, 2009


A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is leading the fight against U.S. Marines in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday.

Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, and was transferred to Gitmo in 2006. He was released in late 2007 to Afghan custody.

Now as the United States is pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern province of Afghanistan, Zakir is coordinating the Taliban fighters. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan forces have faced some resistance as they sweep across the province, reclaiming control of districts where Zakir and his comrades were running a shadow government.
Zakir was released from Afghan custody around 2008, according to the New York Post. He re-established connections with high-level Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan after his second release.

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ou encore: lorsque nos soldats meurent dans une guerre menee par des politiciens et des avocats.

Democrats stuck in stimulus jam

By VICTORIA MCGRANE | 7/7/09 6:04 PM EDT


President Barack Obama says there’s “nothing” he “would have done differently” about his economic stimulus plan, but one of his top outside economic advisers says the plan was “a bit too small.”

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says the idea of a second stimulus is a “non-starter,” but Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island says it “should be on the table.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says there’s “no showing that a second stimulus is needed,” but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says Congress needs to be “open to whether we need additional action.”

Democrats are all over the map on the stimulus and the possibility of a sequel, and it’s not hard to see why: When it comes to a second stimulus, they may be damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

“Right now, every headline across the board is the stimulus isn’t enough, states are in bankruptcy, states aren’t paying their bills,” says Wendy Schiller, a Brown University political scientist. “This is really deadly for the Democratic Party, because what it suggests is the Democratic Party cannot run the country.”

At the same time, however, polls show that voters have little appetite for a second stimulus, and Democrats fear that any attempt to pass one will provide Republicans too much ammunition to argue that Democrats are profligate spenders who can’t reverse the job-loss trend.

McCaskill says there’s no way to go back to the well.

“If we are trying to move anything on health care and we’re trying to move anything on climate change, then putting another stimulus on top of that is a backbreaker,” she told POLITICO. “It is a political backbreaker — for people from states like mine anyway.”

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“If we are trying to move anything on health care and we’re trying to move anything on climate change, then putting another stimulus on top of that is a backbreaker,” she told POLITICO. “It is a political backbreaker — for people from states like mine anyway.”

Il faudrait savoir ce qui est primordial pour ce gouvernement:

- le redemarrage de l'economie, ou
- socialiser le pays

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ou encore: lorsque nos soldats meurent dans une guerre menee par des politiciens et des avocats

Si je vous suis bien, vous n'êtes pas sortis de l'auberge aux E-U, car votre politicien en chef est également avocat !!!!

N'est-ce-pas, Eddie

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En passant: ce soir, 9 Juillet sur sol americain dans une capitale etrangere, c'etait donc le "4" pendant quelques heures mais bon pas beaucoup de gadgets, hein... deux drapeaux dont un tres grand quand meme, le long d'un mur, (pas tout neuf, sans doute laisse par un representant precedent exhuberant et excessif), notre hymne national, un speech ou il fut beaucoup question de notre NP CHANGEur de societe, puis une chorale locale qui a commence par: "We shall overcome"....

Yankee doodle peut aller se rhabiller.



Devinez.

Bonjour Sylvette !

Bonsoir Biloulou

C'est la degringolade!!!



Date.......... Presidential Approval Index Strongly Approve Strongly Disapprove Total Approve Total Disapprove

07/09/2009	-8	30%	38%	51%	48%
07/08/2009	-5	32%	37%	52%	48%
07/07/2009	-3	33%	36%	52%	47%
07/06/2009	-2	33%	35%	53%	46%

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01/21/2009

+28

44%

16%

65%

30%

Malheureusement, c'est la preuve que sa politique economique est un fiasco et que les problemes des Etats Unis ne s'ameliorent, et ca c'est loin d'etre drole.

Quand je pense que son bras droit expliquait qu'il ne fallait jamais rater l'occasion d'une bonne crise, ben en effet, c'est reussi.

J'en connais qui vont bien dormir !

Vous croyez?

Plumage -- But at a Price
By Charles Krauthammer

Thursday, July 9, 2009; 4:37 PM

The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.
Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at worst.
Useless because the level of offensive nuclear weaponry, the subject of the U.S.-Russia "Joint Understanding," is an irrelevance. We could today terminate all such negotiations, invite the Russians to build as many warheads as they want and profitably watch them spend themselves into penury, as did their Soviet predecessors, stockpiling weapons that do nothing more than, as Churchill put it, make the rubble bounce.
Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama's intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. There is not a shred of evidence that cuts by the great powers -- the INF treaty, START I the Treaty of Moscow (2002) -- induced the curtailment of anyone's programs. Moammar Gaddafi gave up his nukes the week we pulled Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole. No treaty involved. The very notion that Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will suddenly abjure nukes because of yet another U.S.-Russian treaty is comical.
The pursuit of such an offensive weapons treaty could nonetheless be detrimental to us. Why? Because Obama's hunger for a diplomatic success, such as it is, allowed the Russians to exact a price: linkage between offensive and defensive nuclear weapons.
This is important for Russia because of the huge American technological advantage in defensive weaponry. We can reliably shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile. They cannot. And since defensive weaponry will be the decisive strategic factor of the 21st century, Russia has striven mightily for a quarter-century to halt its development. Gorbachev tried to swindle Reagan out of the Strategic Defense Initiative at Reykjavik in 1986. Reagan refused. As did his successors -- Bush I, Clinton, Bush II.
Obama, who seeks to banish nuclear weapons entirely, has little use for such prosaic contrivances. First, the Obama budget actually cuts spending on missile defense, at a time when federal spending is a riot of extravagance and trillion-dollar deficits. Then comes the "pause" (as Russia's president appreciatively noted) in the planned establishment of a missile shield in Eastern Europe. And now the "Joint Understanding" commits us to a new treaty that includes "a provision on the interrelationship of strategic offensive and strategic defensive arms." Obama further said that the East European missile shield "will be the subject of extensive negotiations" between the United States and Russia.
Obama doesn't even seem to understand the ramifications of this concession. Poland and the Czech Republic thought they were regaining their independence when they joined NATO under the protection of the United States. They now see that the shield negotiated with us and subsequently ratified by all of NATO is in limbo. Russia and America will first have to "come to terms" on the issue, explained President Dmitry Medvedev. This is precisely the kind of compromised sovereignty that Russia wants to impose on its ex-Soviet colonies -- and that U.S. presidents of both parties for the past 20 years have resisted.
Resistance, however, is not part of Obama's repertoire. Hence his eagerness for arcane negotiations over MIRV'd missiles, the perfect distraction from the major issue between the two countries: Vladimir Putin's unapologetic and relentless drive to restore Moscow's hegemony over the sovereign states that used to be Soviet satrapies.
That -- not nukes -- is the chief cause of the friction between the United States and Russia. You wouldn't know it to hear Obama in Moscow pledging to halt the "drift" in U.S.-Russian relations. Drift? The decline in relations came from Putin's desire to undo what he considers "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century -- the collapse of the Soviet empire. Hence his squeezing Ukraine's energy supplies. His overt threats against Poland and the Czech Republic for daring to make sovereign agreements with the United States. And finally, less than a year ago, his invading a small neighbor, detaching and then effectively annexing two of Georgia's provinces to Mother Russia.
That's the cause of the collapse of our relations. Not drift, but aggression. Or, as the reset man referred to it with such delicacy in his Kremlin news conference: "our disagreements on Georgia's borders."

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Plumage -- But at a Price

Yet the price plummets ! Quel plaisir de constater que les Etatsuniens font entrer dans leur vocabulaire ce "maux" qui accable tant la France depuis la Révolution de 1789.

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Obama doesn't even seem to understand the ramifications of this concession. Poland and the Czech Republic thought they were regaining their independence when they joined NATO under the protection of the United States. They now see that the shield negotiated with us and subsequently ratified by all of NATO is in limbo. Russia and America will first have to "come to terms" on the issue, explained President Dmitry Medvedev. This is precisely the kind of compromised sovereignty that Russia wants to impose on its ex-Soviet colonies -- and that U.S. presidents of both parties for the past 20 years have resisted.

Voilà l'occasion rêvée si nos dirigeants européens ne sont pas de mauvais Trokhôns - du verbe troquer... - pour relancer un vaste et sérieux programme de coopération militaire et de défense intégrée intra Union européenne un peu mieux ficelé que ce saucisson d'ânes bricolé dans le Traité de Lisbonne (Cf.Titre 5 - DISPOSITIONS GENERALES RELATIVES A L’ACTION EXTERIEURE DE L’UNION ET DISPOSITIONS SPECIFIQUES CONCERNANT LA POLITIQUE ETRANGÈRE ET DE SECURITE COMMUNE ).

(Je trouve "sabot" un Européen qui rêve).

Report: Major mosques close in Urumqi, China

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Five major mosques near the center of violence last weekend in Urumqi, the capital of China's far-west Xinjiang region, were closed Friday morning, state-run media reported.

A Chinese Uyghur man opens the gate to a mosque in Urumqi on Thursday during a media tour.

Same smaller mosques in the city remained open, according to the Xinhua news agency.

"Mosques in some sensitive areas were closed at their imams' suggestion," an official in charge of religious affairs with the Xinjiang regional government said Friday. "Muslims normally perform rituals at home in time of plague or social unrest."

Friday is the main day of worship for Muslims.

Violent demonstrations on Sunday left at least 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured in the capital, according to government figures. Heavily armed troops remain on the streets of Urumqi and curfews are in effect. See a map of China's Xinjiang region »

More than 1,400 suspects have been detained, according to Chinese officials, who have vowed to deal harshly with those involved in Sunday's riot.

"For those who brutally killed the other people in the riot, the government will execute them," Urumqi's Communist Party leader, Li Zhi, said Wednesday.

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AFRICA
By BONO
Published: July 9, 2009

DATELINE: Imminent. About now, actually.

Bono se dit "apolitique" (lui aussi) mais s'il parle de morts d'enfants dues au paludisme, du Millenium il ne fait aucune reference a l'immense aide apportee par Pres. Bush (la plus importante de tous les presidents) ni du fait que le Millenium ait ete fonde egalement pas Bush 43.

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From his bully pulpit, the president can take aim at the bullies. Without accountability — no opportunity. If that’s not a maxim, it ought to be. It’s a truism, anyway. The work of the American government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation is founded on that principle, even if it doesn’t put it that bluntly. United States aid dollars increasingly go to countries that use them and don’t blow them. Ghana is one. There’s a growing number of others.
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Dommage.

Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser


Kate Davison/Greenpeace, via Agence France-Presse

Protesters unfurled a banner on Mount Rushmore this week in a criticism of President Obama’s stance on climate legislation.

By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Published: July 10, 2009

For environmental activists like Jessica Miller, 31, the passage of a major climate bill by the House last month should have been cause for euphoria. Instead she felt cheated.

Ms. Miller, an activist with Greenpeace, had worked hard on her own time to elect Barack Obama because he directly and urgently addressed the issue nearest her heart: climate change.

But over the last few months, as the ambitious climate legislation was watered down in the House without criticism from the president, Ms. Miller became disillusioned. She worried that the bill had been rendered meaningless — or had even undermined some goals Greenpeace had fought for. And she felt that the man she had thought of as her champion seemed oddly prone to compromise.

“I voted for the president, I canvassed for him, but we just haven’t seen leadership from him,” said Ms. Miller, who rappelled down Mount Rushmore on Wednesday with colleagues to unfurl a banner protesting what they called

President Obama’s acquiescence to the compromises. (They were arrested and charged with trespassing.)

While most environmental groups formally supported the House bill, the road to passage proved unsettling for the movement. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and

Public Citizen opposed the bill; members of some other groups privately berated their leaders for going along with it. And some, like Ms. Miller, have shifted to open protest.

Few politicians make the transition from campaign trail to White House without sacrificing a few starry-eyed supporters along the way, of course.

And Mr. Obama’s early record on environmental issues suggests that he is more aggressive than any of his predecessors in supporting causes like combating global warming and shifting to renewable energy sources.
In an interview last month, Mr. Obama defended the House bill as “a good start.”

Referring to European leaders and others who said the bill was not strong enough, Mr. Obama said, “We don’t want to make the best the enemy of the good.”

He went on: “By putting a framework in place that is realistic, that is commonsensical, that protects consumers from huge spikes in electricity costs while setting real, meaningful targets — what we are doing is changing the political conversation and the incentive structures for businesses in this country.”

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C'est marrant je croyais que les verts etaient contre la polution et ils placardent leurs tracs ou bon leur semble?

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C'est marrant je croyais que les verts etaient contre la polution et ils placardent leurs tracs ou bon leur semble?

Vous omettez qu'ils utilisent pour leurs placards du papier recyclé parfaitement biodégradable, "that is commonsensical".

... papier recyclé parfaitement biodégradable ...

Sans doute, sans doute, aucun, meme, Eddie ; comme tout ce qui fut laisse sur le mail a Washington en janvier 2009 dernier apres l'inauguration de notre president.

L'"autre question": et la pollution esthetique, alors?