La phrase la plus mystérieuse de la journée se trouve dans la traduction d’un article du Safir, The Jihadist Threat to Lebanon :
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2013/05/lebanon-jihadists-palestinian-camps-syria-conflict.html
The source asserts that “talk about similar affairs must remain within the framework of hypothetical scenarios that remain contingent upon the subsequent course of events.”
Ohhhh…
Syria: National Defense Forces at Forefront of Qusayr Fighting | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syria-national-defense-forces-forefront-qusayr-fighting
Backed by local forces, the Syrian army is closing in on the strategic town of Qusayr, which opposition fighters have controlled since the beginning of the Syrian crisis. Al-Akhbar toured the villages recently retaken by loyalist forces.
Justice et religion :
Religious politics in Israel: Who’s a Jew? | The Economist
An old religious argument once again rears its angry head
May 18th 2013
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21578098-old-religious-argument-once-again-rears-its-angry-head-whos-jew
WHEN is a Jew not a Jew? When he’s a Karaite. Or so says Israel’s chief rabbinate, which, after 65 years of relative harmony with an ancient Jewish sect, is reopening an old and bitter schism. In recent months, rabbis working for Israel’s ministry of religion have deemed Karaite marriages invalid, fined their butchers for claiming to be kosher, and demanded that Karaites marrying Orthodox Jewish women should convert, sometimes having to undergo tavila, or baptism. “We are already Jews,” protests Moshe Firrouz, a computer engineer who heads the Karaites’ Council of Sages. “The rabbinate is denying us our religious freedom.”
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The chief rabbinate, Israel’s state religious authority, reluctantly began legitimising their marriages again after a recent order by Israel’s Supreme Court , but it continues to argue that since Karaite rites are not Jewish, Karaites have lesser Jewish rights, too. “Israel is a Jewish state and Jews have superior rights,” says the chief rabbinate’s spokesman. “But the Karaites are not Jewish.”
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Women of the Wall member is targeted in ’Torah tag’ attack
By Michael Omer-Man|Published May 20, 2013
http://972mag.com/?post_type=nstt_feeditem&p=71809&preview=true
A board member of the Women of the Wall group woke to find hateful graffiti, reminiscent of ‘price tag’ attacks, on her Jerusalem home Monday morning.
The graffiti, which says “Torah Tag” and “Women of the Wall are wicked,” was spray painted on the apartment building where long-time board member of Women of the Wall Peggy Cider lives.
Earlier this month, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews came out to protest against Women of the Wall at the Western Wall, following a favorable court ruling that affirmed their right to pray as they wish at the Western Wall.
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Les ultra-orthodoxes juifs disent “non” au service militaire
17/05/2013
http://www.france24.com/fr/20130517-ultra-orthodoxes-juifs-haredim-jerusalem-disent-non-service-milit
« Laissez-nous éduquer nos enfants comme nous le faisons depuis des générations, a insisté le rabbin Moshe Shternboch dans les colonnes du “Jerusalem Post”. Vous pouvez voter des budgets et vos décrets mais nous continuerons, sans en tenir compte . »
The Gospel according to Sand: We are not Jews
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/the-gospel-according-to-sand-we-are-not-jews.premium-1.524748
Today, this confusion in defining a “Jewish people” manifests as confusion in justifying a Jewish state, Sand asserts, presenting what he sees as the “cardinal claim” of the State of Israel: “It defines itself as a Jewish state, or as the state of the Jewish people across the world, but is not capable of defining who is a Jew.”
Et ça rend fou ....
By Michael Omer-Man|Published May 20, 2013
Israeli man kills four at bank, reportedly after being denied credit
http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditem/israeli-man-kills-four-at-bank-reportedly-after-being-denied-credit
An Israeli man killed four others and himself after being denied credit by a bank in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva Monday, Israeli media is reporting.
According to initial reports, the man asked the bank to extend his line of credit after an ATM did not give him any money. The man was described as a former IDF officer and later a Border Police officer.
America’s hidden agenda in Syria’s war - The National
http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/americas-hidden-agenda-in-syrias-war
Then, by the rebel commander’s account, the discussion took an unexpected turn.
The Americans began discussing the possibility of drone strikes on Al Nusra camps inside Syria and tried to enlist the rebels to fight their fellow insurgents.
“The US intelligence officer said, ’We can train 30 of your fighters a month, and we want you to fight Al Nusra’,” the rebel commander recalled.
Opposition forces should be uniting against Mr Al Assad’s more powerful and better-equipped army, not waging war among themselves, the rebel commander replied. The response from a senior US intelligence officer was blunt.
“I’m not going to lie to you. We’d prefer you fight Al Nusra now, and then fight Assad’s army. You should kill these Nusra people. We’ll do it if you don’t,” the rebel leader quoted the officer as saying.
Are we all Muslim now? Assata Shakur and the Terrordome
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/20135712155495678.html
Organised confusion
By all credible accounts, Assata is not guilty of killing Officer Forester in 1973. But the focus by many on her innocence as the reason why she is not a “terrorist” misses the point completely. Because whether she’s innocent or not, the labelling of her as a “terrorist” has more to do with her political beliefs and the liberation struggles that she was a part of. In fact, it’s those very beliefs and activities that led to her (and others) being targeted under the FBI’s COINTELPRO, persecuted, put on trial, convicted and then forced to ultimately flee the country and live in exile in Cuba. For the US state, when it comes to labelling a “terrorist”, innocence or guilt are simply irrelevant details.
For her supporters and those on the Left who deny that she’s a “terrorist”, we have to understand that to the US government that’s exactly what she is. But instead of denying it, it’s high time that we instead challenge the prevailing logic of “terrorism”, refuse to normalise it, and recognise it for what it is: not only a political label used to discredit and undermine struggles for self-determination, but also a legal frame that then gives the state the sanction and power to narrow the scope of dissent and violently crackdown and arrest, incarcerate, torture, bomb, drone, invade, and even assassinate those deemed threats to state interests.
US Asked Moderate Syrian Rebels to Fight Al-Nusra « Antiwar.com Blog
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/05/08/us-asked-moderate-syrian-rebels-to-fight-al-nusra
US foreign policy is constantly remedying the catastrophes it has previously wrought. Bush’s war for regime change in Iraq gave rise to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Obama’s meddling (and that of his allies in the Gulf) in Syria’s civil conflict prompted AQI to move to Syria and fight Assad as Jabhat al-Nusra. Now the meddling continues to try and eliminate al-Nusra, which has quickly become the foremost element in Syria’s rebellion. It is an endless trail of failures, leading to more interventions, which lead to more failures.
Trapped
A man has been singing songs at the top of his lungs for the last two days, while another, hunched on his bed, wails from under a blanket. In a cell across the hall, a man shakes as he yells to his wife he has not seen in five years and to the thug down the street. In reaction to the noise, another man bangs endlessly on his cell door until an officer comes by and asks him to stop. He smiles and says he just wanted someone to talk to.
“We (prisons) are the surrogate mental hospitals now,” says Larry Chandler, warden at the Kentucky State Reformatory.
With the rising number of mentally ill, this Kentucky reformatory was forced to restructure a system that was designed for security. Never intended as a mental health facility, treatment has quickly become one of their primary goals. Unfortunately, this situation is not unique to Kentucky. The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities.
Since the 1960s, there has been a shift from housing the mentally ill in hospitals to locking them in prison. The prison system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. A report by the U.S. Department of Justice shows that the number of Americans with a mental illness incarcerated in the nation’s prisons and jails is disproportionately high.Almost 555,000 people with mental illness are incarcerated while fewer than 55,000 are being treated in designated mental health hospitals.
What started out as a 13-bed special unit has grown to a 150-bed treatment unit for the state’s most severely mentally ill inmates. Staffed by licensed mental health professionals, the unit provides crisis intervention, stabilization and individual counseling. Despite their attempts to meet the needs of these inmates, many including Kevin Pangburn, mental health director for the Kentucky Department of Corrections, believe these men are “trapped with nowhere else to go”.
This project portrays the daily struggle inside the walls of the unit redesigned to treat mental illness and maintain the level of security required in a prison. The photos take viewers into an institution where the criminally insane are sometimes locked up in their cells for 23 hours a day with nothing to occupy their minds but their own demons.
In light of recent horrific events including the one at Sandy Hook, I hope to continue this project about mental illness. I plan to photograph in city jails and the few mental health facilities that exist in the US including one in St. Paul, MN. While a dialogue about mental illness and gun control continue to pepper the media, I would like for this project to be a thoughtful documentation about the connection between the prison system and people with mental illness. There needs to be a shift in the way our society sees mental illness and I am hoping this project starts a dialog about the impacts of imprisoning the mentally ill.
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#photo #photographie #prison #handicap #maladies_mentales #Kentucky
Colonies dans les territoires palestiniens occupés (suite)
The Palestinians’ West Bank
Squeeze them out
As Jewish settlements expand, the Palestinians are being driven away
May 4th 2013 | SUSIYA |From the print edition
Voir aussi la video
« IT WAS just another day for the Israeli army on the West Bank. Having parked its jeeps in the hills south of Hebron, a unit of soldiers checked the papers of the Palestinians who lived there, confiscated one or two, and then herded the people and their flocks off a hilltop which a nearby Jewish settlement, called Susiya, has been eyeing with a view to taking it over. “Military zone,” tersely explained an Israeli officer, who had just received a warrant declaring it such. “Off you go.” (...)
Military sex assault monitor accused of sex assault
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/06/air-force-sexual-assault-watchdog-arrested-for-sexual-assault/2139325
WASHINGTON — An Air Force officer in charge of sexual assault prevention was arrested in Arlington early Sunday for drunkenly groping a woman, according to police.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, was arrested and charged with sexual battery. He allegedly grabbed the woman’s breasts and buttocks. When he attempted to grope her again, she fought him off and called police, according to the police report. The victim did not know Krusinski, said Dustin Sternbeck, an Arlington County Police spokesman.
Krusinski is the chief of the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch at the Pentagon, according to the Air Force.
Dexter Filkins : What Should Obama Do About Syria ? : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/13/130513fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all
Ce (très long) texte prend pour acquis que le régime syrien a utilisé des armes chimiques.
In May, the senior American official who is involved in Syria policy met me at his office in Washington. When I asked him to predict Syria’s future, he got up from his desk and walked over to a large map of the country which was tacked to his wall. (...)
“What does that sound like? Lebanon. But it’s Lebanon on steroids.” He walked back to his desk and sat down. “The Syria I have just drawn for you—I call it the Sinkhole,’’ he said. “I think there is an appreciation, even at the highest levels, of how this is getting steadily worse. This is the discomfort you see with the President, and it’s not just the President. It’s everybody.” No matter how well intentioned the advocates of military intervention are, he suggested, getting involved in a situation as complex and dynamic as the Syrian civil war could be a foolish risk. The cost of saving lives may simply be too high. “Whereas we had a crisis in Iraq that was contained—it was very awful for us and the Iraqis—this time it will be harder to contain,” he said. “Four million refugees going into Lebanon and Jordan is not the kind of problem we had going into Iraq.” In a year, he estimated, Lebanon alone could have four million refugees, doubling the population of the country. “Jordan will close its borders, and then you will have tens of thousands of refugees huddling down close to that border for safety.”
The rapid growth of Al Qaeda in Syria is deeply troubling, he said. “In February, 2012, they were tiny. No more than a few dozen. Now, fast-forward fourteen months. They are in Aleppo. They are in Damascus. They are in Homs.” In Iraq, he said, “They didn’t grow so fast and they didn’t cover all the big cities. In Syria, they do.” Also, he pointed out, there were no chemical weapons in Iraq, as there are in Syria. “We will have a greater risk, the longer this goes on, that the bad guys—they are all bad guys, but I mean terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Islamist extremist groups—will acquire some of these weapons. How do you plan for that? The longer the war goes on, the more the extremists will gain.” Indeed, the longer the war goes on, the greater the threat that it will engulf the entire region.
The official said that the United States’ quandary was clear enough: “...I know there is a debate on military intervention. I cannot recommend it to the President unless there is a very clearly defined political way back out. People on the Hill ask me, ‘Why can’t we do a no-fly zone? Why can’t we do military strikes?’ Of course we can do these things. The issue is, where does it stop?” ♦
Reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria could accelerate U.S. decision process - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/reported-israeli-airstrikes-in-syria-could-accelerate-us-decision-making/2013/05/05/72c6eafc-b5c2-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_print.html
Israel’s reported airstrikes in Syria — and the threat of a retaliatory strike by the Syrian government — are likely to accelerate the decision-making of the Obama administration, which was already moving toward a sharp escalation of U.S. involvement in the two-year-old crisis.
Senior officials said the deployment of U.S. troops to Syria remains unlikely, but they have indicated that a decision will come within weeks on options ranging from the supply of weapons to the Syrian rebels to the use of U.S. aircraft and missiles to ground President Bashar al-Assad’s air power by destroying planes, runways and missile sites inside Syria.
Neither Israeli nor U.S. officials confirmed an attack Sunday morning that reportedly hit a weapons shipment in Syria — including sophisticated missiles and air defense equipment — about to be transferred to Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
But President Obama, in an interview broadcast just hours later Sunday, said Israel is justified in preventing the provision of weapons to Hezbollah.
“We coordinate very closely with the Israelis, recognizing that . . . they are very close to Syria, they’re very close to Lebanon,” Obama said in the interview, recorded Saturday with the Spanish-language Telemundo, after an earlier Israeli attack reported late Friday.
Throughout the Syrian crisis, the administration has repeatedly voiced the belief that Syria is already awash in weapons and that sending more will not tip the balance in favor of the rebels.
Now, in part because of growing confidence in the rebel Free Syrian Army, “the national security team and the diplomatic team around the president” favor increased involvement, and their views are gaining momentum despite the caution expressed by Obama’s political advisers, according to a senior Western official whose government has closely coordinated its Syria policy with Washington and who spoke before the reported Israeli strikes. The official discussed sensitive diplomatic assessments on the condition of anonymity.
Even U.S. lawmakers who have expressed reservations about stepped-up U.S. involvement appeared to now see it as inevitable.
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The impunity with which the Israelis apparently struck targets in Damascus, McCain said on “Fox News Sunday,” undercut the argument of the U.S. military that Syrian air defenses would pose a formidable impediment to imposition of a no-fly zone over rebel-held areas of Syria.
“The Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it rather easily,” McCain said. The “red line” Obama drew, promising consequences for Assad if he used chemical weapons, “was apparently written in disappearing ink,” he said.
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The administration has long exercised caution out of fears that U.S. involvement could worsen the situation. But Obama’s reservations have been challenged by U.S. allies and partners who have urged the United States to take more of a leadership role over their disparate efforts to help the Syrian opposition. At the same time, U.S. confidence has been growing in the cohesiveness of the Free Syrian Army led by Gen. Salim Idris.
Idris, who met with Secretary of State John F. Kerry in Istanbul two weeks ago, pledged that no U.S.-supplied arms would go to Islamist extremist groups fighting for the same cause as the U.S.-backed rebels and said that all weapons would be carefully supervised and returned to donors at the end of the conflict.
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US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantánamo, lawyer says- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/02/us-drone-strikes-guantanamo
The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.
John Bellinger, who was responsible for drafting the legal framework for targeted drone killings while working for George W Bush after 9/11, said he believed their use had increased since because President Obama was unwilling to deal with the consequences of jailing suspected al-Qaida members.
“This government has decided that instead of detaining members of al-Qaida [at Guantánamo] they are going to kill them,” he told a conference at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Albanian Islamists Join Syrian War - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2013/04/albanian-kosovo-islamists-join-syria-war.html
Albanian Islamists Join Syrian War
This coincided with the growth of political Islam, which in the past few weeks expressed itself in an unprecedented way with the emergence of Kosovo’s first officially registered Islamist political party: the Islamic Movement to Unite (LISBA). It is headed by Arsim Krasniqi and supported by Sheikh Shaukat Krasniqi and a former Yugoslavian army officer, Fuad Ramiqi. The latter made no secret of his goal to change Kosovo’s secular constitution in order to “defend the Islamic identity of Kosovo’s Albanians, who make up 95% of the population.”
There has long been behind-the-scenes talk that young Albanians, influenced by political Islam’s rise in Syria, are participating in the fighting there among the ranks of Islamist groups (Jabhat al-Nusra and others). When news emerged in November 2012 that the first Albanian martyr, Naaman Damoli, had fallen in Syria, the Kosovar newspaper Koha Ditore brought that issue to light in its Nov. 12, 2012, issue.
Sur la question de la désinformation qui fait rage au Bahrein : l’allégation de viol d’une femme enceinte par les Forces Spéciales de Police qui a circule sur les réseaux sociaux a été déclarée dépourvue de tout fondement et de toute validité par le Wifaq
Bahrain rape allegation was ‘concocted’ : Al Wefaq
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-rape-allegation-was-concocted-al-wefaq-1.1176559
29 April 2013
A story that shocked Bahrainis about an alleged rape by a Bahraini police officer of a pregnant woman last week proved to be untrue and had been concocted, according to a political society.
“Following an intensive follow-up, investigations and a scrutiny launched since the time of the incident, we have concluded that what had been published on the incident was not true,” Al Wefaq, the largest opposition society, said in a statement posted on its website.
الوفاق : بيان بشأن ما نشر عن تعرض إمرأة للإغتصاب - جمعية الوفاق الوطني الإسلامية
http://alwefaq.net/index.php?show=news
بعد التحقق والتدقيق، فيما انتشر حول تعرض إمرأة لإغتصاب، فبعد المتابعة الحثيثة والمعلومات والتدقيق منذ وقت الحادثة حتى الآن توصلنا لعدم صحة ما نشر بشأن موضوع الحادث المنتشر .
ونهيب بأبناء شعبنا المؤمن الغيور تحري الدقة في مثل إثارة هذه الأخبار الحساسة والمثيرة لما لها من تداعيات وخيمة على المجتمع بأكمله.
وحرص المخلصين وتثبتهم قاد الى الوقوف على عدم صحة الخبر بتفاصيله المنشورة
Du sperme explosif
Alarm in Bellevue : Verdächtiger Brief an Gauck enthielt nur ein Kondom - Welt - Tagesspiegel
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/alarm-in-bellevue-verdaechtiger-brief-an-gauck-enthielt-nur-ein-kondom/8137528.html
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4136/4763963244_06ba2ce6a2_b_d.jpg
Der vor zehn Tagen im Bundespräsidialamt eingegangene verdächtige Brief hat nach Informationen des „Focus“ lediglich ein benutztes Kondom enthalten. Spezialisten der Polizei sprengten den Brief im hinteren Teil des Parks von Schloss Bellevue.Aus Sicherheitskreisen hieß es damals, ein Verdacht auf Sprengstoff in dem Brief habe sich bestätigt.
Ils sont fous ces spécialistes de la sécurité. Quelqu’un envoie une lettre avec un préservatif utilisé aux président allemand et on la fait exploser dans un coin caché du parc du palais présidentiel parce qu’on croit y avoir détecté des explosifs.
J’ai l’impression que les services de sécurité du président figurent également sur la listes des acheteurs de l’appareil ADE 651.
How A Millionaire Sold Fake Bomb Detectors To Governments All Over The World http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-04/how-millionaire-sold-fake-bomb-detectors-governments-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
The «crime» of solidarity | SocialistWorker.org
http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/29/the-crime-of-solidarity
The “crime” of solidarity April 29, 2013
On April 24, Frank Barat, a Palestine solidarity activist and co-coordinator of last year’s Russell Tribunal on Palestine, was stopped at Ben Gurion International Airport by the Shabak, Israel’s internal security service, and subjected to four hours of interrogation and nearly a full day’s detention before being deported back Belgium. His “crime”? To have visited Israel while e a supporter of Palestinian rights. Here, he describes what took place.
Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official | MadCow Morning News
http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/26/boston-bombers-uncle-married-daughter-of-top-cia-official
The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller
The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media’s focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers.
Culture of disbelief works against asylum seekers
JOHANNESBURG, 24 April 2013 (IRIN) - Most asylum seekers arrive in host countries with no evidence to prove they have fled persecution. This means the success of their applications for refugee status depends largely on whether their stories are believed. But the credibility of asylum seekers is increasingly being called into question, particularly in countries that receive large numbers of asylum claims.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97906/Culture-of-disbelief-works-against-asylum-seekers
#migration #asile #preuve #statut_de_réfugié #réfugié #crédibilité
Liban : une grenade explose devant le club des officiers de Kobbé (les grenades explosent régulièrement, en ce moment à Tripoli)
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/810110/-liban-une-grenade-explose-devant-le-club-des-officiers-de-kobbe.html
L’Agence nationale d’information (ANI, officielle) a rapporté qu’une grenade a explosé lundi devant le club des officiers de Kobbé, à Tripoli (Liban-Nord) sans causer de dégâts matériels ni faire de victime.
Ne pas oublier, il y a un mois :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/121196
qui référençait :
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-tripoli%E2%80%99s-armed-commanders-mutiny-against-future
The commanders also singled out the most prominent military face of the Future Movement, former Lebanese army officer Amid Hammoud, saying he was responsible for much of Tripoli’s insecurity. In particular, they say that Hammoud is behind the recent spate of hand grenade attacks.
Chez NowHariri, le contrefeu prend la forme d’un long billet avec force graphiques (qui, en gros, ne servent en rien la démonstration), pour finalement affirmer que c’est Mikati qui arme les salafistes et les extrémistes islamistes de Tripoli, avec la complicité du Hezbollah : Sects and the city
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/specialreports/sects-and-the-city
The fighters, he believes, are pawns in a larger game which serves the interest of all those involved. On one hand, Hezbollah sees that their Sunni fighters’ very existence fits Assad’s narrative that extremists from the ‘Emirate of Tripoli’ are sending ‘terrorists’ across the border to fight the regime. On the another hand, Miqati sees a chance to expand his popularity by mobilizing them.
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“But Miqati now holds the key to almost all fighters that surround the Alawites of Jabal Mohsen. The question is, what does he plan to do with them and how does he plan to protect them now that he’s no longer in government,” closed Ahdab.
Mais est-ce que, le 11 avril 2013 (date de cet article), Assad a encore besoin des groupes armés de Tripoli pour « faire croire » que son régime affronte des extrémistes fondamentalistes ? Sérieusement.
Glenda Jackson : En plus de la force du discours, quel anglais !
un député s’étrangle et jette : "We can’t take it !! [all what you say]
Glenda Jackson qui termine par un : [thatcher ? A woman ? not on my terms !]
Les conservateurs se sont offusqués, mais rapidement mouchés par le président de séance.
Très très fort. Total respect Glenda. Et vous aurez remarqué que c’est [encore] une femme qui parle comme ça.
Sur Youtube, le speech de Glenda Jackson vu plus d’un million de fois en trois jours, c’est aussi le signe de quelque chose, non ?
et The Economist :
http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/print-covers/20130413_cna400_2.jpg
pour mémoire :
In a policy which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, [Ronald Reagan’s] administration funded “freedom fighters” such as the Contras in Nicaragua, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, RENAMO in Mozambique, and UNITA in Angola.
(la citation n’est pas, comme tu l’as deviné, de The Economist, mais rapidement tirée de vikipedia)
Glenda Jackson’s speech (repris du lien de @denisb ci-dessous) :
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn) (Lab): It is hardly a surprise that Baroness Thatcher was careless over the soup being poured over Lord Howe, given that she was perfectly prepared to send him out to the wicket with a broken bat.
When I made my maiden speech in this Chamber, a little over two decades ago, Margaret Thatcher had been elevated to the other place but Thatcherism was still wreaking, and had wrought for the previous decade, the most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country, upon my constituency and upon my constituents. Our local hospitals were running on empty. Patients were staying on trolleys in corridors. I tremble to think what the death rate among pensioners would have been this winter if that version of Thatcherism had been fully up and running this year. Our schools, parents, teachers, governors, even pupils, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time fundraising in order to be able to provide basic materials such as paper and pencils. The plaster on our classroom walls was kept in place by pupils’ art work and miles and miles of sellotape. Our school libraries were dominated by empty shelves and very few books; the books that were there were held together by the ubiquitous sellotape and off-cuts from teachers’ wallpaper were used to bind those volumes so that they could at least hang together.
By far the most dramatic and heinous demonstration of Thatcherism was certainly seen not only in London, but across the whole country in metropolitan areas where every single night, every single shop doorway became the bedroom, the living room and the bathroom for the homeless. They grew in their thousands, and many of those homeless people had been thrown out on to the streets as a result of the closure of the long-term mental hospitals. We were told it was going to be called —it was called—“care in the community”, but what it was in effect was no care in the community at all.
I was interested to hear about Baroness Thatcher’s willingness to invite those who had nowhere to go for Christmas; it is a pity that she did not start building more and more social housing, after she entered into the right to buy, so that there might have been fewer homeless people than there were. As a friend of mine said, during her era, London became a city that Hogarth would have recognised—and, indeed, he would.
In coming to the basis of Thatcherism, I come to the spiritual part of what I regard as the desperately wrong track down which Thatcherism took this country. We were told that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice—and I still regard them as vices—was, in fact, under Thatcherism, a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees, all these were the way forward. We have heard much, and will continue to hear over next week, about the barriers that were broken down by Thatcherism, the establishment that was destroyed.
What we have heard, with the words circling around like stars, is that Thatcher created an aspirational society. It aspired for things. One former Prime Minister who had himself been elevated to the House of Lords, spoke about selling off the family silver and people knowing in those years the price of everything and the value of nothing. What concerns me is that I am beginning to see what might be the re-emergence of that total traducing of what I regard as the spiritual basis of this country where we do care about society, where we do believe in communities, where we do not leave people and walk by on the other side. That is not happening now, but if we go back to the heyday of that era, I fear that we will see replicated yet again the extraordinary human damage from which we as a nation have suffered and the talent that has been totally wasted because of the inability genuinely to see the individual value of every single human being.
My hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) referred to the fact that although she had differed from Lady Thatcher in her policies, she felt duty bound to come here to pay tribute to the first woman Prime Minister this country had produced. I am of a generation that was raised by women, as the men had all gone to war to defend our freedoms. They did not just run a Government; they ran a country. The women whom I knew, who raised me and millions of people like me, who ran our factories and our businesses, and who put out the fires when the bombs dropped, would not have recognised their definition of womanliness as incorporating an iconic model of Margaret Thatcher. To pay tribute to the first Prime Minister denoted by female gender, okay; but a woman? Not on my terms.
Sir Tony Baldry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The conventions of the House in respect of those rare occasions on which the House chooses to make tributes to a person who has been deceased are well established. This is not, and has never been, a general debate on the memory of the person who has been deceased, but an opportunity for tributes. It is not an opportunity for hon. Members to denigrate the memory of the person who has been deceased.
Mr Speaker : The hon. Gentleman will resume his seat. I am grateful to him for his—I use the term advisedly —attempted point of order. Let me be explicit for the benefit both of the hon. Gentleman and of the House.
All hon. and right hon. Members take responsibility for what they say in this place. The responsibility of the Chair is to ensure that nothing unparliamentary occurs. Let me assure the hon. Gentleman, for the avoidance of doubt, that nothing unparliamentary has occurred. We are debating a motion that says that this House has considered the matter of tributes to the Baroness Thatcher. That is what we are doing, and nothing has got in the way of that.
C’est dommage, c’est incomplet, il manque des passages très forts et très importants, toute la fin par exemple. Quelle est ta source ?
Et ce que dit le conservateur et le président de séance après, c’est aussi très intéressant. Peut-être trouvera-t-on le transcript sur le site du parlement.
LA FABRICATION DE LA DAME DE FER
http://www.pauljorion.com/blog/?p=52484
En dépit de ce que suggèrent les lazzi des parlementaires conservateurs présents dans la salle, Jackson a soigneusement respecté les convenances, ne critiquant celle que l’on qualifie de « méchante sorcière » ou de « dame de fer » selon le souvenir plus ou moins cuisant qu’on en garde, que sur ses positions politiques, lui reprochant sa brutalité ainsi que son apologie du comportement sociopathe où, comme chez Mandeville (1670 – 1733), les vertus sont présentées comme des vices et les vices, comme des vertus, vantant la cupidité et prônant le matérialisme à outrance. Jackson, fille de maçon, a rappelé l’Angleterre de son enfance : une société soucieuse de l’autre, protégée de la clochardisation que l’on observe aujourd’hui, société entièrement réglée par les femmes, les hommes étant alors mobilisés sur d’autres fronts, soulignant le rôle joué par Thatcher de femme politique à l’usage exclusif des hommes politiques. « Une femme sans doute, a-t-elle conclu, mais pas selon la définition que j’en donnerais moi ».
Il est d’autant plus intéressant de rapprocher la critique à fleurets relativement mouchetés de Glenda Jackson de la manière dont Germaine Greer avait choisi elle de critiquer Margaret Thatcher dans un article paru dans le quotidien The Guardian en avril 2009. Germaine Greer, personnage-clé de la révolution féministe, auteur en 1970 de « The Female Eunuch » : l’eunuque femelle, avait adopté un tout autre angle d’attaque, décrivant l’ancien premier ministre britannique, non pas comme une idéologue mais beaucoup plus banalement comme une personnalité corrompue, qui avait construit une image du monde favorisant ses propres intérêts immédiats et beaucoup plus souvent encore, ceux de son fils Mark Thatcher (« vérité » lisible en surface de sa mère, selon Greer), personnage à la moralité extrêmement souple qui, à une époque, fit carrière d’usurier en Afrique du Sud et fut condamné en 2004 à une amende d’un demi-million de dollars pour une tentative de coup d’État en Guinée Équatoriale.
Margaret Thatcher ’gave her approval’ to her son Mark’s failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea | Politics | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/14/thatcher-knew-of-equatorial-giunea-coup-attempt
Unpublished version of memoir by former SAS officer Simon Mann records Baroness Thatcher’s endorsement of plan to depose oil-rich country’s president
Undercover police ’gave drugs to dealers in return for information’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/06/undercover-police-drugs-dealers-information
Plowman spent 16 years in the Met and was one of around 10 full-time covert operatives. He was a close friend of Mark Kennedy, 43, the undercover officer who had at least one sexual relationship with a woman while infiltrating eco-activists. Plowman has written a book about his experiences, Crossing the Line, which is published next month.
Undercover police ’gave drugs to dealers in return for information’
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/06/undercover-police-drugs-dealers-information
Plowman spent 16 years in the Met and was one of around 10 full-time covert operatives. He was a close friend of Mark Kennedy, 43, the undercover officer who had at least one sexual relationship with a woman while infiltrating eco-activists. Plowman has written a book about his experiences, Crossing the Line, which is published next month.
Wearable Video Cameras, for Police Officers - NYTimes.com
HERE’S a fraught encounter: one police officer, one civilian and anger felt by one or both. Afterward, it may be hard to sort out who did what to whom.
Now, some police departments are using miniaturized video cameras and their microphones to capture, in full detail, officers’ interactions with civilians. The cameras are so small that they can be attached to a collar, a cap or even to the side of an officer’s sunglasses. High-capacity battery packs can last for an extended shift. And all of the videos are uploaded automatically to a central server that serves as a kind of digital evidence locker.
Law and disorder: the destructive dynamic of America’s segregated cities | Gary Younge | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/law-disorder-destructive-dynamic-segregated-cities
...in the absence of even a partial plan, let alone a comprehensive one, to improve the economic lot of people in these areas, the state’s response is simply to contain the chaos engendered by this neglect as though they are occupied territories subject to collective punishment.
Des compagnies liées au renseignement, aux militaires (mercenaires) ont des comptes offshore : Nominee Directors Linked to Intelligence, Military
http://www.icij.org/offshore/nominee-directors-linked-intelligence-military
Companies making use of offshore secrecy include firm that supplied surveillance software used by repressive regimes.
A number of so-called nominee directors of companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have connections to military or intelligence activities, an investigation has revealed.
D’accord, on s’en doutait, mais comme une bonne partie des leaks, c’est bien d’avoir des faits confirmés. #offshore_leaks
Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abuses
Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Once it was realised that Saddam’s regime had long since abandoned its WMD programme, TF 121 was re-tasked with tracking down people who might know where the deposed dictator and his loyalists might be, and then with catching al-Qaida leaders who sprang up in the country after the regime collapsed.
Suspects were brought to the secret prison at Baghdad International airport, known as Camp Nama, for questioning by US military and civilian interrogators. But the methods used were so brutal that they drew condemnation not only from a US human rights body but from a special investigator reporting to the Pentagon.
A British serviceman who served at Nama recalled: “I saw one man having his prosthetic leg being pulled off him, and being beaten about the head with it before he was thrown on to the truck.”