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This Sunday, Asko and Claude JDD Sarko show as new genius benefactor of our planet. The legend (the great George gives a hug to little Nicolas) in the picture is too cute: "Among the leaders of the world's most powerful, Nicolas Sarkozy has set his style." Read the reviews of Article 11 and Andre Gunthert (note: great illustration). A

AFP seems have gone unnoticed a few days ago (13 November). Receives at the Elysee the "price of political courage" award by the International Policy Review , Sarkozy seems to have outdone themselves to parody. It becomes difficult even for Asko, write editorials reaching the level of ridicule our president himself.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Thursday his foreign policy that has allowed, he said, to avoid a Russian military offensive on Tbilisi to end the war in Lebanon ", release the Bulgarian nurses in Libya and Ingrid Betancourt in the Colombian jungle.

He flayed the passage of caution by U.S. President George W. Bush in the Russian-Georgian receiving at the Elysee Palace in 2008 "award for political courage" awarded by the International Policy Review.

"When August 8, he had to leave for Moscow and Tbilisi, which has defended the rights? "asked Sarkozy.

" Is it the U.S. president who said" it is unacceptable "? Or is it that it is France that has maintained a dialogue with Mr. Putin, Mr. Medvedev and Saakashvili? , "he said on the eve of his departure for the G20 summit on financial crisis in Washington.

" I remember the call U.S. President saying the eve of our departure to Moscow: "There will not they (the Russians) want to go to Tbilisi, they are 40 km. There will not denounce. We've been with Bernard Kouchner, coincidentally, while we were there, the cease-fire was announced , "said the head of the French state.

few days after the start of military conflict between Russia and Georgia, the President of the European Union (EU) visited August 12 in Moscow and Tbilisi to negotiate a peace plan and a cease-fire agreed in the wake of the two belligerents.

Some critics, particularly among Eastern European countries EU members, felt that this plan was the pride of Russia and regretted that he did not explicitly defend the territorial integrity of Georgia.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has also scratched Thursday Nicolas Sarkozy asking him a few hours before a scheduled maintenance in the afternoon on the eve of an EU-Russia summit in Nice, to "keep principles " and not to yield to the "realpolitik .

Nicolas Sarkozy has also firmly rejected criticism on other issues international.

"If did not take the risk of peace and the rights of the Lebanese to live in freedom by inviting President Bashar al-Assad, it would still be war in Lebanon ," he said to those who criticized him having invited the Syrian leader to Paris and then he went to Damascus.

" I promised during my campaign that would free the nurses (Bulgarian owned by Libya). It was France who has paid them. Do you think we can get him out of jail let alone someone with the jailers? , "said Nicolas Sarkozy to justify his trip to Tripoli in the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

At the release of Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor in July 2007, some had criticized the French president of misappropriating the laurels of this success by minimizing the efforts of other EU countries.

" Is there a chance of escape if France had not made Ingrid Betancourt a central objective of its policy? No "Nicolas Sarkozy has finally dropped.

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Everyone baba is not happy with the election of Obama. And no, I'm not saying that because some prominent French like suddenly blacks . And it's not because it would (perhaps) was worse with McCain that Obama should also generate tremendous hope.

Last June, Obama's speech before the AIPC me flabbergasted ("AIPAC cries, barks Obama"). A few days before the election, Bakchich has published two articles of particular concern on the circle closest to Obama, Rahm Emanuel and Dennis Ross: "" Rahm-bo "future dir'cab Barack Obama " and " The chief adviser to Obama is a hawk anti-Iran ". Commenting on the choice of Rahm Emanuel Alain Gresh , inquiet, préfère attendre avant de se faire une opinion.

Un participant au forum du blog de Gresh signale par ailleurs un article décrivant les liens de cette équipe avec les grandes boîtes de la finance: « Rahm Emanuel: Wall Street's man in the White house »:

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are also in Emanuel’s top-five career sources of campaign cash. As reported by the Center for Responsive Politics, Emanuel received more money from the securities and investment industry—$600,500 as of September 30—than did any other member of the U.S. House, and more than two presidential candidates (including Joe Biden) and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Angry Arab, from November 5, said he would now focus on the "Obama bashing "

To those who supported Obama, you will be disappointed and you will remember my warning. Remember this when Obama will approve a war against an Israeli refugee camp and against a village in Lebanon, and that qualify it for self-defense. Remember me cry when Obama Death and Israelis celebrate the deaths of Arabs and Muslims. Remember this when he ordered the first bombing campaign against a remote area of Pakistan. Remember when you betray the poor the benefit of Wall Street. Remember when you betray the aspirations of blacks in favor of the white middle class is now the main concern of the Democratic Party. Remember this when Obama will not fight for his plan to reform health and he will not realize any of his promises. Remember this when it will meet his campaign promise to oppose gay marriage. Remember when you continue to put the failed U.S. occupation of Iraq on the backs of the Iraqi people themselves.

Oh, and I remember that I already mentioned Joseph Biden here (September 2007), about his willingness to resolve the Iraq war by proposing a partition plan of Iraq, thus completing the work of neo-conservatives.

A text seems summarize many of the concerns that can legitimately be following the election. This is a text published by Ralph Nader (who financed his campaign, I recall, by selling the recipe for Hummus his mother) on the day of the election: "An Open Letter to Barrack Obama, Between Hope and Reality . I give you here a translation house (the hyperlinks are my own, they are not included in the original): Dear Senator Obama

,

During the nearly two years of your campaign Presidential, the words "hope and change", "change and hope" were your slogan. However, there is a big difference between these objectives and your own political persona, a character who succumbs to pressure groups who do not "change" or "hope", but only maintaining a status quo in the distribution of powers.

Although more than Senator McCain, you received contributions enormous and unprecedented interest from companies, Wall Street and, more interestingly, Law Firms Business Law. Never before has a Democratic candidate was able to such supremacy over his Republican opponent. Why, outside of your unconditional support for the bailout of Wall Street 700 billion dollars, is that large companies have invested so much about Senator Obama? Is it because your service as your State Senator, U.S. Senate and during your presidential campaign (in favor of nuclear power plants to coal, drilling offshore, business subsidies - which the "1872 Mining Act " - and avoiding any major program to combat the wave of economic crimes and limit military budget Pharaonic and unnecessary, for example) have already proved that you were their rights?

To advance the change and hope, we need a president who has the personality character, courage, integrity - not the connivance, accommodation and short-sighted opportunism. Take, for example, your conversion of an eloquent defender of Palestinian rights in Chicago before you do in the Senate, a sidekick, a puppet of extremist lobby AIPAC, which supports military oppression, the occupation, blockade, confiscation and colonization of the water for years, against the Palestinian people and reduced their territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Eric Alterman has summarized several surveys in December 2007 in a number The Nation, showing the positions of AIPAC are rejected by the majority of American Jews.

You know very well that only when the government of the United States supports the movement of Israeli and Palestinian peace, which led several years ago to a detailed solution to two states (which is supported by a majority Israelis and Palestinians), there will be an opportunity for peaceful resolution of this conflict more than 60 years. Despite that you align with Proponents of the tougher line, so that in your speech infamous and humiliating to the AIPAC convention, just after your appointment by the Democratic Party, you are supporting an "undivided Jerusalem" and you are opposed to negotiations with the Hamas - the elected government in Gaza. Again, you ignored the will of the people of Israel who, in a poll of 1 March 2008 published by the respected daily Haaretz , shows that 64% of Israelis favored "direct negotiations with Hamas." Align the toughest of AIPAC, is what one of many Palestinian intellectuals who claim dialogue and peace with the Israeli people have described as "Anti-Semitism today is the persecution of Palestinian society by the Israeli state."

During your trip to Israel this summer, you've spent barely 45 minutes of your time to the Palestinians, without press conference, and no visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that could draw media attention to the brutalization of the Palestinians. Your journey has supported the cruel blockade of the Gaza Strip in defiance of international law and UN Charter. You are concerned about losses in southern Israel, where losses last year amounted to a civilian casualty for 400 Palestinian casualties in Gaza. Instead of taking a political position that would have rejected all violence and their replacement by accepting the proposal of the Arab League in 2002, which would allow a viable Palestinian state within 1967 borders in exchange for the restoration of economic and full diplomatic between Arab countries and Israel, you held the role of a poor politician, leaving the place and the Palestinians with a sense of shock and some fear (" Much shock and awe little").

David Levy, a former negotiator Israeli peace, described your trip succinctly: "There is almost a voluntary demonstration of disdain for the fact that there are two versions of the story here. This may serve as candidate, but not as President. "

commentator Palestinian-American Ali Abunimah noted Obama has not issued a single criticism of Israel," its continued construction of settlements and the wall, its dams that make life impossible for millions of Palestinians ... Even the Bush administration recently criticized Israel's use of cluster bombs against Lebanese civilians [read www.atfl.org for more information]. But Obama defended Israel's aggression against Lebanon as an exercise of "their legitimate right to defend itself". "

In many editorials, Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, has strongly criticized the Israeli government's attacks against civilians in Gaza, including attacks "at the heart of crowded refugee camps ... with horrible bloodbath "in early 2008.

Israeli author and peace activist Uri Avnery described the shift from Obama to AIPAC as "breaking all records for obsequiousness and servility" adding that Obama "is ready to sacrifice the most basic American interests. After all, it is vital for the United States to reach an Israeli-Palestinian Peace, which will give him a way to win the heart of the Arab populations, from Iraq to Mark. Obama has harmed his image in the Muslim world and mortgaged his future - if he becomes president-elect, "explaining further:" What we can be certain: the statements of Obama to the IABC conference are very very bad for peace. And what is bad for peace is bad for Israel, bad for the world and bad for the Palestinian people. "

Another illustration of your lack of character is how you turned their backs on American Muslims in this country. You refused to send representatives to talk to voters at the events they organized. After visiting many churches and synagogues, you refused to visit a mosque in America alone. Even George W. Bush visited the Great Mosque in Washington DC after September 11 to express noble sentiments of tolerance to a major religious group of innocents.

Although New York Times published a long article June 24, 2008 entitled " Muslim voters detect a snub from Obama (signed Andrea Elliott), citing examples of your aversion to those Americans who come from all walks of life who serve in the armed forces who work to live the American dream. Three days earlier, the International Herald Tribune published an article by Roger Cohen titled "Why Obama scheduled to visit a mosque ." None of these comments and reports have changed your political bigotry against Muslim Americans - even if your father was a Muslim from Kenya.

Nothing perhaps better illustrates your complete lack of polique courage or even a lighter version of this character trait that your capitulation to the demands of hardline supporters of the ban for former President Jimmy Carter to speak at the Democratic National Convention. It is a tradition for former presidents, and was given prime time to Bill Clinton this year.

Here is a president who negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt, but his recent book pressing the dominant superpower to avoid Israeli Apartheid and the Palestinians to make peace was enough to sideline. Instead of an important speech to the nation by Jimmy Carter on this issue internationally, he has been relegated to a walk across the stage as a "thunderous applause" following the broadcast of a film about the work of the Carter Center after Katrina. Shame on you, Barack Obama!

But your shameful behavior has spread to other questions of American life. (Read the factual analysis by his running mate, Matt Gonzalez, on www.votenader.org.) You've turned your back to the 100 million poor Americans composed of white, African American and Latino poor. Toujous you talked about helping the middle class, but have always forgotten to mention the "poor" in America.

If you were elected President, it has to be more than social climbing unprecedented response to a brilliantly ruthless campaign that talked about "change" while demonstrating a strict obedience to the concentration of power in the hands of "supremacist large companies (" corporate supremacists "). This should be: return power seized by some to everyone. This should be a White House presided over by a black man who does not turn its back on the oppressed here and elsewhere, but confronts the forces of greed, control dictatorship of workers, consumers and taxpayers, and the militarization of foreign policy. This must be a White House that transforms American politics - starting with public financing of elections (through a proactive approach) - and allowing candidates to have a small chance to be heard in debates and in the fullness of their civil rights restricted currently limited. Call it a competitive democracy.

Your presidential campaign has demonstrated again and again taken positions cowards. Some say you can not kill the hope ("Hope springs eternal"). Except when "Reality" consumes each day.

Sincerely, Ralph Nader
, November 3, 2008

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The worst Rrrizbollah loves rrroumous

The big political news of the world gives me the opportunity to finally make this post I wanted to write for a while ...

" Do not touch my houmous, warns Lebanon " says AFP:

"" What disgusts me with Israel is that they are marketing hummus as a traditional Israeli product when it Clearly it is a Lebanese product, "said Ramez Abi Nader, a member of the association."

Take the test, ask a Lebanese say "what the uprising with Israel," you will not be disappointed. The Guardian is also the case fascinating. Obviously it's silly: of course the hummus is not Israeli, but he is not Lebanese-Lebanese. Rami Zurayk kindly reminds: "Drop the chauvisinism." And I give you a link to Syrian Academy of Gastronomy to complete to annoy my Lebanese friends.

When the tabbouleh, I am sorry to inform my (rare) Lebanese readers that for the French, is a kind of couscous salad without taste or flavor served warm in a tupperware . It is eaten with difficulty, on a picnic complete with a crushed tomato at the bottom of the backpack, a hard boiled egg and mayonnaise sandwich which sank off the paper-plastic. And it is absolutely impossible to share with your classmates whose mother, less concerned with nutritional balance, lined with the bag of a large package of Mars and Milky Way. For the baba

ghanouge, tells a joke in Egypt, if a woman asks her husband what he wants to eat during the season of the eggplant, it has the right to seek divorce.

Anyway, anyone knows that best hummus is neither Lebanese nor Syrian or Palestinian, "the best hummus is one of my mother." For example, for Ralph Nader, well, is that of ... guess who .

However, what is remarkable is that the Arabs pronounce "hhoumous" with an "h" expired, while the Israelis pronounce it "rrroumous" with an "r" rolled way English jota. And that's what really irritates the Lebanese. Passes though the Israelis like a flat Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian-Egyptian, but they pronounce it "rrroumous" is the real shocker!

I come to this topic I wanted you cause for a while ...

Do you know how to recognize a journalist who is just to explain how the Islamist threat, Eurabia and dhimmitude by the Israeli ambassador in Paris, or to find inspiration after several hours of viewing Guysen TV? It's very simple, and it is not necessary to resort to a conspiracy theory too complicated. This journalist is easily recognized: it says "Rrrezbollah" (or, worse, "Rrrizbollah") and "Rrramas" instead of "Hhezbollah (" h "out) and" Hhamas "(even" h "expired). This letter is

not hard to pronounce. As explained by Father Andre Alverny ("Arabic Language" in the 1950s - from true, I copied the text message of the book):

is a very high end of the back of the throat, without friction, and it looks like the breath of the chameleon.

The breath of the chameleon, so. As in "hip hip hip hooray."

short, anyone who says, "Nasrallah Hhassan Hhezbollah loves Hhoumous. If a columnist analysis: "Nasrallah's Rrrassan Rrrizbollah loves Rrroumous", now you know: it's a thurifer Zionism.

is even more silly for analysts Zionists, getting caught as easily as, moreover, all they would not dream of pronouncing "Rafiq Rrrariri. It's the same letter. At worst, they will say "Rafikariri" in one go, but not "Rrrariri. (However, Rafiq Rrrariri loved the rrroumous.)

Say "Rrrizbollah" that you betrayed the Zionist propaganda as surely as if he said "Eretz Yisrael" instead of "illegitimate regime occupying Al-Quds" in log 20 hours ...

Nothing to see, but it is pleasing to note that when talking about French Carlos Ghosn, the Lebanese do not knows that he speaks ("Carlos Guausne?). I do not know, moreover, why it transliterates "Ghosn". Because here you have the right to roll the "r" as any rrroumous eater: it's pronounced somewhere between "Rrroussoune" and "Rrressen. Personally, I find that "Carlos Roussoune, it has to face.

In fact, is what Carlos loves Roussoune hhhoumous? It turns out that yes and that he prefers is that of ... his wife (Rita Roussoune, restaurant My Lebanon "in Tokyo ).

Thereupon sahten.

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Published yesterday, an article of Christian Chavagneux for "Alternatives Economiques" makes me want to prolong matters my previous post . Indeed, if the moral aspect of the plan is often discussed (in terms of "taking from the poor to give to the rich"), I find it regrettable that the political aspect is fairly systematically forgotten. It was the subject of my post.

Christian Chavagneux supports "Paulson plan" with an enthusiasm that left speechless. The post title ("The rejection of the Paulson plan plunges finance in a dual crisis") is confirmed in the hat ("The rejection of the Paulson plan by a majority of U.S. lawmakers has plunged the financial internationally, including Europe, into a gulf that is difficult to know how it goes out. "). The article points out, however, further evidence: the (double) crisis precedes the rejection of the Paulson plan, not vice versa. So why the title and this introduction?

The last two paragraphs are pretty amazing.

If $ 700 billion may be incurred, it is unclear whether the government will need to use all that money. Moreover, once the crisis has passed, some of the purchased assets will see their value increase and the government could even make money on some transactions. In addition, the latest version the plan provides that the government has been offered as security the opportunity to buy shares in banks it helps. Thus, if the situation of banks is improving, the government may sell the shares and earn money to repay the cost of the plan. Last but not the least progress, the plan includes a review of the implementation of the plan after 5 years and allows the government to tax the financial sector if the final budget cost is important.

If I read correctly, this plan is so good:

1. is a plan that will cost 700 billion to 700 billion;
2. and more at the end, we'll get a good Part of this money;
3. and even the government could "earn money to repay the cost of the plan."

It's party time!

But then, why such a good plan he was initially rejected?

The plan required, was rejected by 228 MPs, 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans. We knew from the beginning that the Democrats would reject the plan and was expected to mobilize the Republicans. This has occurred but to reject the plan. In total irresponsibility with regard to history and their country, these MPs have rejected the plan for two reasons. Either by pure ideology, calling it "financial socialism". Or because elected officials with a small margin and early November to stand before voters reluctant to Helping Wall Street, they chose to reject the plan rather than to explain the need. The violence of the rejection of the plan, Paulson and authority of George W. Bush has been such that 18% of MPs retiring Republicans, and therefore no election issue have voted no anyway.

Again, if I read well: U.S. lawmakers have refused because:

1. they are ideologues (Hum. .. elected by the people reject a plan for political reasons while the plan is economically "necessary" is it now a valid argument in "Alternatives Economiques"?)
   
2. they are demagogues who seek re-election (which is bad) ;
3. even those who are not ideologues and are not seeking re-election are cons (good: "18% of Republican congressmen retiring," it must do two people to break everything, like it's been 2 of 11 18%): This proves something but I do not know exactly what. 82% of Republican congressmen (type: 9 out of 11) who go on voted for retirement, but that it does not prove much (personally, if 82% of Republicans are for, I tend to find this suspect, but that's another story). The

Diplo posted at the same time, a "pouch " which still makes less "ideologue," "demagogue" and the untenable choice of some parliamentarians:

In an election campaign, many Parliamentarians have measured the extent of popular resentment to a plan that , at taxpayer expense, erases losses for banks, while anything so massive had been anticipated when hundreds of thousands of Americans were thrown into bankruptcy by the decline in their real estate assets.

[...]

Beyond the horror that can inspire them an additional commitment of public power (a Republican is theoretically in favor of "less government" and accounts in order ...), their negative vote is attributable to the authoritarian and hasty decision that would make them

Another question should be, in my opinion, asked. She joined my questions about the political risks induced by the crisis: under what conditions can we further empower as large in the Bush administration, knowing how this administration is able to abuse any power entrusted to him, and how these abuses of powers are the successes that we know?

The three men who have direct hands on this gold mine of over 700 billion dollars, are:

• Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr., "United States Treasury Secretary" (here I prefer not to translate names of official institutions and to avoid misinterpretation), appointed by George W. Bush May 30, 2006;
• Ben Shalom Bernanke "Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve, appointed by George W. Bush on February 1, 2006; it should be noted that all members of the Board of Governors took their current position under the presidency of George W. Bush, Christopher Cox
• "Chairman Of The Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by George W. Bush August 3, 2005.

One article of the plan gave the extent of making enormous power he represents:

aussi Rosner says full disclosure Is Important Since The bill as it now stands Gives the U.S. Treasury Secretary unchecked Basically power to deal with $ 700 billion in Taxpayer funds. According to Section 8 of the proposal, the decisions are " non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency ."

That "prevents judicial action could allow the protection of decisions that create false marks, hide prior marks, or could be used to prevent civil or criminal prosecution in situations where a management knowingly provided false marks that aided the growth of this crisis of confidence," Rosner said in a note to clients.

Pour se donner une idée du «pouvoir» que représentent 700 milliards de dollars, signalons que c'est une somme supérieure au montant total du budget militaire des États-Unis (651 billion). It is also a sum greater than all the combined military budgets of all other countries in the world. And that would be directly managed by three men named by George W. Bush (that will end its mandate January 20, 2009).

short, is there political risks associated with this plan? The U.S. lawmakers who are reluctant to sign this huge transfer of power they have as ideological and demagogic, or do they have some reason to worry? Is there an effective power-cons expected (or even possible) against the power entrusted to three men?

Christian Chavagneux explains (with an adorable final exclamation point):

In the final version, completed in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Treasury Secretary is granted the discretion to see who he wants to buy at the price he wants and with the method he wants to risky real estate assets from banks. But then came under fire from four projectors that will scrutinize what it does: A Financial Stability Oversight Board before which must be reported monthly or whenever 50 billion dollars are spent; the Comptroller General, which oversees how the state spends its money, should follow the implementation of the plan, an inspector General Plan is also appointed to follow closely, and finally, a Congressional panel will also follow what happens!

Could it be that the U.S. Congress after eight years of neo-conservative adventurism, still can not find it quite reassuring?

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ticket Very good, in my opinion, Denis Sieffert today on the website of Politis.

I do not believe that the current crisis will end by:

• the fall and beyond capitalism,
• questioning of neoliberal policies.

I offer some reflections, some bulk. These are generally issues, but the reader has the right to think that, for me, they are purely rhetorical.


1. Hence out (s) billion (s) of a billion dollars that the U.S. administration will use to pay off the debts of the rotten great players of the scholarship? It meets frequently and is already shocking: pockets of taxpayers.

According to the usual Americans, this will not be raising additional taxes that will be immediate, but the use of budget deficit. This money will be ... borrowed. And

borrowed from whom? If I do not lie: borrowed from the market. The market does not lend more money to the market will pay for administration. And, thanks to interest rates, to pay these bills treasure.


2. banks that issued loans will therefore see their rotten slate cleared. But, as I know, these loans are still at the side of individuals who have undertaken these loans. Individuals who have "bought" a house with one of the many credits whose rates have soared, and who can not pay, will they also have their slate wiped, or will they end up on the street, all their seized property?


3. While we experienced a period of market euphoria, the pressure on the colonial and neo-country producers of raw materials was phenomenal. Silly question: with the general crisis of Western economies, this pressure will she fall, or will it increase?


4. If the pressure colonial and neocolonial increases, will there be more or less need for an alibi (im-) moral of the "clash of civilizations" to support the economy of predation?


5. neoliberal pressure on our own societies Will it increase, or fall because of its economic failure and the obvious lie that she represents? For now, it seems that the countries most directly affected take the opportunity to impose additional measures to deregulate the labor market.


6. Despite the stock market euphoria, the tools of social control, on the grounds of "struggle against terrorism" have developed in democratic countries to an alarming degree (see Hedwig in France for example). Faced with an economic crisis that will befall the "real economy", these tools be directly returned against companies (trade unions, social movements, advocacy groups ..;)?


7. If we have a conjunction between the imposition of neoliberal policies accelerated (due to "fight against the crisis), use of tools of control against the companies and the intensification of colonial tool what" Clash of Civilizations ", there is a risk of tipping (violent or through the electoral process) to one or more large" liberal democracies "to authoritarian systems? Is it like too many "ifs" for that we should worry?


8. What about the pressure on the environment? Kyoto, Alaska drilling, exploitation of polar areas, alternatives to nonrenewable fuels and all ... Crisis Will it help reduce the environmental impact of our systems (for example, reductions in consumption), or otherwise to complete an excuse to sack the world ("It is not the right time ")?


9. thousand billion dollars is, said Denis Sieffert, 8 years of war in Iraq. I guess we do here account the cost to Americans and not the total destruction of a country's infrastructure.

But other figures can be cited.

The total debt of third world in 2005 was 2.6 trillion dollars .
In 1980, the amount of this debt was 540 billion. Between 1980 and 2004, these countries have paid 5.3 trillion. As synthesized CADTM, "countries in the developing world have paid almost 10 times what they were in 1980, but debt has increased by almost 5". It would be impossible to cancel all or part of this debt without collapsing the global economy. Debt Player award, it will be mopped in a few months, cost estimates ranging from 1000 to 2000 billion dollars.

development assistance amounts to just over $ 100 billion per year. Already pathetic figure in absolute terms (eg money transfers performed by immigrants to their countries of origin represent them, 200 billion), compared with 1000 billion raised today.

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The increase of tuberculosis is linked to IMF loans

Today in The New York Times : "The increase of tuberculosis is linked to loans from the IMF," by Nicholas Bakalar. As I am not persuaded that our media will cause a lot of (currently, it is rather the subjects season Paris-Plage), I give you translation house

A new study has discovered that the rapid increase in the number of tuberculosis cases in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is strongly correlated to obtain loans from the Monetary Fund (IMF).

Critics have suggested that the Fund's financial requirements lead governments to reduce spending on health to obtain loans. This, the authors say, helps explain the link established by their study.

The Fund strongly refutes this conclusion, saying the former communist countries are in much worse without loans.

"TB is a disease that takes time to develop," says William Murray, a spokesman for the Fund, "so the increased mortality rate is certainly related to something that occurred prior financings the IMF. This is only a scientific hoax. "

The researchers studied health statistics in 21 countries and found that obtaining an IMF loan was associated with an increase of 13.9% of cases of tuberculosis each year, from 13.3% the number of people living with the disease and 16.6% of deaths due to TB.


The study, published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine , controlled statistically a number of other factors that influence the rates of tuberculosis, including the prevalence of AIDS, inflation rates , urbanization, unemployment rates, age of the population and improved medical care.

The study coordinator, David Stuckler, a research associate at Cambridge University, defended it against critics of the Fund, indicating that the researchers examined whether the increased mortality could not cause obtaining loans rather than the reverse.

Instead, they found that the increase in tuberculosis mortality followed the loan, each extra percent of loan is linked to a 0.9% increase in mortality. And when a country leaves a funding program of the IMF, the mortality rate fell by 31% on average.

"When you find a correlation, you raise an eyebrow," says Stuckler. "But when you find more than 20 correlations in the same direction, you begin to establish a strong link between cause and effect."

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assault a fan of brass knuckles

course, the assault of a young man in central Paris is dramatic. Of course, if the attack is anti-Semitic or racist, it is even more outrageous.

In contrast, the media circus that is taking place within hours of opening on the TV news business for 24 hours, crisis intervention policies ... all this causes some discomfort.

For example, it takes a little digging to find this AFP reproduced on the Libération website:

The young Jew, violently attacked Saturday in the Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (XIX) had been arrested "after incidents of sectarian" with another group of youths of North African origin, 9 December 2007. The brawl took place on the sidelines of an event at Bercy in Paris, for Hanukkah, the Jewish celebration of year end.
The teenager had been placed in custody with three friends. He and his comrades had been found carrying brass knuckles and "other weapons of defense." They were not detained.

Legal proceedings had been opened for these facts is "ongoing," said the source.
Furthermore, the source said, General Information (RG) reported in notes and reports of "several sharp tensions and incidents of community, since 2006, particularly in Buttes-Chaumont, where the young man was beaten to blows with an iron bar .

That is not necessarily as media-catching as the assertion that the victim "was attacked because he wore a yarmulke ... ". This mention of "several sharp tensions and incidents of community" also appears in an interview Lubavitch Rabbi Mendel Samara :

week, everything goes well. However, on weekends, during the Sabbath, the Buttes-Chaumont, and especially the park becomes quite difficult. The eyes of different gangs intersect. This permanent tension makes possible slippage. Especially since there is animosity caused by frustration, misunderstandings and lack of dialogue in this area. According to Le Figaro

:

Speaking through its president, Raphael Haddad, UEJF is "very concerned" by fighting repeatedly in recent weeks between gangs, including the Parc des Buttes Chaumont.

gangs? A Jewish youth already arrested with brass knuckles, beaten near the Buttes Chaumont Saturday evening, a local rabbi stating that during the Sabbath, in the district, organized gangs distrust?

must read the policy statements for 24 hours, you should see the media emotion, observe these "special envoys" of newspapers TVs at the bedside of the young lover of brass knuckles (literally: they are mailed before the hospital and we infoment, hour by hour, his condition). You must see this and compare: with the almost total blackout of the possibility of consequences confrontation between a band organized Jewish (like Betar, JDL ...) and other gangs (even indirect consequence: if a small group or type Betar JDL rampant in the neighborhood, unfortunately, every Jew becomes a target for nerds d 'in front), or with the lack of response (or media circus) follows other attacks in Paris (the two-tier media outrage is certainly an aggravating factor at this kind of tension, each dreaming in "Defense League" Community are involved).

[Added 23 hours Monday night] Posted by a forum participant, this AFP :

The owner of a bar-tabac near the scene of the attack spoke Monday on RTL a "settling of accounts between small bands" rather than an antisemitic attack. "At around 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., there is a group of young Jews who arrived, they were about twenty that are directed towards the square at street level and that Small went directly assaulting the young and then later he followed was a rather violent altercation, "said the man, who did not give his name but said he was a direct witness of the scene.

"There were streams of objects, I was there going down my shutters for fear that my window was damaged, they are all saved, presumably they would have left one of their friends on shore, "he added.

Published at about the same time (22 hours) a note from Reuters suggests that the media frenzy is turning around, "Uncertainties after the assault of a young Jew in Paris .

[Added Tuesday, 10h] Brief of Figaro : the "demonstration for Chanukah" is not exactly a religious celebration:

On December 9, Rudy had participated in a demonstration in the Parc de Bercy in Paris in support of three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah. After the rally, he was arrested for "armed assault by destination" and placed in custody. It would be subject to judicial review.

Breaking the gook after a demonstration against Hezbollah, it is not exactly my idea of the festival, but ... Le Figaro said:

According to informed sources, it is close to the Jewish Defense League as Betar, what these movements to defend themselves.

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Even stories of Arabs

Even stories of Arabs who, apparently, not interested French media.

- The Israeli democracy and colleagues

The Israeli Ofer court martial sentenced the correspondent of the Aqsa TV satellite channel, Al-Mohammed Ezzat Halayka, a sentence of one year in prison, accusing work for a television channel "enemy." The court also sentenced Halayka, 25, who comes from the town of Al-Khalil in the West Bank was fined $ 1,200.

Halayka was arrested by Israeli troops last December and accused of "working for a flat channel to Hamas." Journalist Palestinian had previously been arrested by security forces of the Palestinian Authority under the command of Mahmoud Abbas, and was humbled by the intelligence services of the Palestinian Authority before his arrest by the Israelis.

- calm prevailed in Morocco

Residents of a Moroccan city where the police used force to end a blockade that lasted for a week complained methods very violent and claim that protesters are always hidden in the surrounding hills.

The government denied the allegations of several witnesses that demonstrators were killed and dozens injured when police intervened to end the Saturday events in Sidi Ifni by youths protesting against poverty and unemployment.

- calm prevailed in Tunisia

Police fired into the crowd to disperse hundreds of youths protesting against unemployment and the cost of living in south-western Tunisia, leaving one dead and several injured , said government officials and the union Friday.

In One Reporters Without Borders : "100 photos by Bettina Rheims" (take out the card). Only The World devoted an article on "Social Unrest murderers Morocco and Tunisia," by Florence Beauge. Le Figaro merely pass an AFP dispatch on its website. At the same time, everything had to tell Liberation is " The Maghreb, a breeding ground for Al Qaeda choice .

Long live freedom of the press.