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Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack | Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C.
►http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html
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The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation.

Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack | Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington, D.C.
►http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html

As more information on the origin of the alleged perpetrators is coming to light, I am concerned to note in the social media a most unfortunate misunderstanding in this respect. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation.

Erdoğan says will travel to Gaza after Washington visit

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-312206-erdogan-says-will-travel-to-gaza-after-washington-visit.htm

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a long-awaited visit to the Gaza Strip will take place after he travels to Washington, D.C., in mid-May for talks with President Barack Obama.
“I think it will take place after the US visit,” Erdoğan told journalists en route to Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday evening, when he was asked about the planned trip to Gaza. The prime minister had earlier said he planned to visit the Hamas-run territory in April. Erdoğan and Obama are set to meet in Washington on May 16.

Grosse prestation du sénateur républicain, candidat potentiel pour 2016, à l’Université Howard ( an historically Black college in Washington, D.C. )

Rand Paul Says The Lack Of Black GOP Voters Stems From The Great Depression During Speech At Howard University : Politics : Latinos Post
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/16360/20130410/rand-paul-lack-black-gop-voters-stems-great-depression-during.htm

Après avoir étalé son ignorance en ne se « rappelant pas » le nom du premier sénateur noir, pourtant ancien élève de cette même Université…

The Kentucky senator also drew groans when he asked the crowd if they knew that Black Republicans founded the NAACP in the early 1900s.  “We know our history!,” an audience member yelled out.

Puis, il continue en analysant le vote des noirs en faveur des démocrates,

Just as painful was hearing Paul’s recounts of Black history. According to him, Republicans lost a majority of Black votes not because the party made efforts to appease white Southern voters, but because African Americans became ‘impatient for economic equality’ and thus gravitated toward Democrats who offered <stroke> free stuff </stroke> ‘unlimited federal assistance.’
“I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation,” stated the Kentucky senator.
‘African Americans languished below white Americans in every measure of economic success and the Depression was especially harsh for those at the lowest rung of poverty,’ continued the first term congressman.
‘The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible-the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.’

C’est sûr qu’avec le discours « vous vous êtes laissés bernés par les sirènes de l’État-Providence, au lieu de faire fonctionner les mécanismes de marché pour réduire les inégalités », il va mobiliser les masses pour le GOP…

De façon intéressante, ce compte-rendu critique, saluant tout de même le courage de Rand Paul, est fait sur le site Latinos Post …

Teacher opposes assault on public schools - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/05/teac-a05.html

Teacher opposes assault on public schools
5 April 2013

The WSWS received the following letter from a teacher in Washington, D.C., where one in ten public schools is slated for closure.

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After hearing for months that our school was closing for low enrollment, it became reality when a team of supervisors arrived from central office in March for a meeting with the staff. It was not so much of a meeting as it was a pep rally. The meeting was so upbeat. The supervisors stood for the majority of the meeting pumping fists in the air. They stated that they would host resumé building workshops and a job fair for teachers at the closing schools.

#états-unis #éducation

New poll, data point to vast social polarization in US

Pew Research: “Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/pewr-a24.shtml

New poll, data point to vast social polarization in US
By David Walsh
24 August 2012

A survey released August 22 by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. adds details to the picture of an American society divided sharply along class lines and dominated by growing social inequality.

“Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class” is based on the results of a national poll supplemented by data from the US Census Bureau and Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

world of religion

With the “world’s largest” gathering of atheists this weekend in Washington, D.C., the National Post’s graphics department takes a look at how the world’s religions break down. | Holy Post | National Post
http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/23/graphic-a-demographic-breakdown-of-the-world-of-religion
http://disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Religion.jpg

#religion

Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data - ScienceInsider
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/journals-warned-to-keep-a-tight.html

Editors with at least four research publications say they have received a letter advising them against “publication or other distribution” of data and draft documents. The warning, including a vague statement about “consequences” that could ensue if the advice is ignored, is signed by Henry Chajet, an attorney at the Patton Boggs firm in Washington, D.C., and a lobbyist for the Mining Awareness Resource Group, which works on behalf of the mining industry.

#recherche #santé #chimie #censure (carré d’as !)

Your Activist News Source : ’Patriotic Millionaires’ Beg Supercommittee for Higher Taxes
http://activistnews.blogspot.com/2011/11/patriotic-millionaires-beg.html

Two dozen wealthy members of the group Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are targeting members of the deficit “supercommittee” to increase their taxes.

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“America is no longer based on markets and capitalism, instead our economy is designed as ’ socialism for the rich ’ – it is designed to ensure that the wealthiest people take all of the gains, while regular Americans cover any losses,” he said at a press conference this afternoon in Washington, D.C.

Occupy Design: Visual Tools for the 99 Percent - Design - GOOD
http://www.good.is/post/occupy-design-visual-tools-for-the-99-percent

Last weekend, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. hosted spontaneous “Hackathons” to brainstorm how to use various platforms to help Occupy Wall Street. One of the ideas hatched was Occupy Design, a new website that gives a “visual language” to protesters across the country. Jake Levitas, a designer from San Francisco who’s heading up the project, says it’s a chance to fight back at media who characterize the movement as directionless.

U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted - ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-iran-tied-terror-plot-washington-dc-disrupted/story?id=14711933&nwltr=blotter_featureMore

FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.

The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C.

Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.

Bon, alors ça a l’air drôlement sérieux, super grave, total crédible, une enquête qu’elle est fortiche... Et puis tu arrives à ce paragraphe :

The new case, called Operation Red Coalition, began in May when an Iranian-American from Corpus Christi, Texas, approached a DEA informant seeking the help of a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, according to counter-terrorism officials.

The Iranian-American thought he was dealing with a member of the feared Zetas Mexican drug organization, according to agents.

Ah bon, c’est un sketch, en fait ! Hein ? Hein ?

Non mais sérieusement : qui écrit ces conneries ?

Un dossier sur le gourou américain de la représentation graphique, Edward Tufte

The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage

►http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php?page=1

The Information Sage

Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data.

By Joshua Yaffa

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members of the Obama administration. A few weeks earlier, he had received a phone call from Earl Devaney, a former inspector general in the Department of the Interior, who is best known for leading that agency’s investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Devaney had recently been appointed head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, the body created by the Obama administration to keep track of the $780 billion in federal stimulus money that has spread out across the country.

#cartographie #visualisation

Facebook’s Growing Role in Social Journalism
http://mashable.com/2011/02/27/facebooks-growing-role-in-social-journalism

The Rockville Central, a community news site in the Washington, D.C., area, will move all its operations and news coverage to its Facebook Page starting on March 1. This risky move by the site’s editor, Cindy Cotte Griffiths, highlights Facebook’s growing role as a platform for journalists to use for social storytelling and reporting.