To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Donald Trump Would Follow These Steps
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-nuclear-weapon-launch
To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Donald Trump Would Follow These Steps
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-nuclear-weapon-launch
#otto_neurath et chez Bloomberg il doit y avoir une ou un ou des carto/information designer(s) de talent, c’est en général très très bien
Trump Weighing Combining Agencies Separated After Gulf Spill, Sources Say - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-08/trump-said-to-mull-combining-agencies-separated-after-gulf-spill
After the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Obama administration broke the scandal-plagued federal agency that policed offshore drilling into separate bureaus.
Now the Trump administration is considering putting it back together again.
The change, described by Interior Department officials and lobbyists familiar with the deliberations, would combine two agencies: one that enforces regulations on offshore drilling safety and another in charge of leasing offshore tracts. Keeping those roles separate was a key recommendation of a presidential commission that investigated the #Deepwater_Horizon blast that killed 11 men and sent oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for months.
Au cas où on n’aurait pas encore compris qui élabore la politique industrielle et la réglementation aux États-Unis…
Suddenly There’s Another Littoral Ship in Trump’s Budget Plans - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-26/suddenly-there-s-another-littoral-ship-in-trump-s-budget-plans
The White House budget office and the Navy are rushing to find an extra $600 million to buy a second Littoral Combat Ship after including only one in the budget that President Donald Trump proposed this week.
Allison Stiller, the Navy’s acting weapons buyer, disclosed the unusual budget maneuver Wednesday at a House Armed Services seapower panel whose members are sympathetic to adding more of the vessels made in competing versions by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal Ltd. A second ship would guarantee that each company will get to build one, keeping both of their shipyards running.
“The administration recognizes the criticality of our industrial base and supports funding a second LCS” in the fiscal 2018 budget, Stiller said. Referring to the Office of Management and Budget, she told reporters that adding the ship is “OMB’s prerogative.”
[…]
The budget office “will be publishing a budget errata that adds another LCS to the FY 2018 budget request,” Lieutenant Colonel Eric Badger, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. “The total request is two LCS ships. The Navy will identify” where the funds will come from, he said.
Un #erratum à 600 millions de dollars qui fait tousser même les intéressés…
Pentagon officials were surprised when OMB decided to add a second Littoral Combat Ship too.
Maintaining Workforces
Hours before Stiller’s testimony, Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley told the Senate defense appropriations panel that the budget sought just one littoral ship because “in 2018, budget-wise, we don’t have the capacity to grow in terms of procurement and modernization.”
Trump’s Arctic Plan Challenged by Environmental Groups - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-03/trump-s-arctic-drilling-plan-challenged-by-environmental-groups
Environmental groups are challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to restore oil and gas leasing on more than 125 million acres in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, arguing that a warming world doesn’t need the fossil fuels they contain.
The League of Conservation Voters, The Wilderness Society, Sierra Club and seven other conservation groups sued Wednesday in federal court in Alaska, taking aim at Trump’s attempt to make the acreage available for a new generation of oil exploration. President Barack Obama had moved to put those areas off limits for new oil leases.
The case joins a flurry of other lawsuits battling Trump’s recent moves to undo environmental regulations and climate policies imposed by his predecessor. It could decide how much authority presidents have to dictate when and where offshore drilling should take place, as the first test of a 64-year-old statute empowering presidents to rule out the activity "from time to time.
Trump to Order Oil Drilling Study Off California Coast, Sources Say - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-25/trump-said-to-order-review-of-oil-drilling-off-california-coast
President Donald Trump will open the door to new oil and natural gas drilling in Pacific waters off the coast of California with a directive Friday that sets up a certain clash with environmentalists.
Trump will order the Interior Department to review locations for offshore oil and gas exploration and consider selling drilling rights in territory that former President Barack Obama put off limits, according to people briefed on the order who spoke on the condition of anonymity before it is issued. That includes U.S. Pacific waters, as well as Arctic and Atlantic acreage left out of the five-year schedule of lease sales issued by Obama in November.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday nothing is off the table.
[…]
While he is moving to expand offshore access, Trump on Friday also is slated to direct a review of regulations safeguarding offshore oil and gas exploration, including a well-control rule triggered by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The industry is also lobbying for changes to mandates for Arctic drilling.
Tomahawk Launches Practiced by U.S. Before Trump Gave Go-Ahead - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-07/tomahawk-launches-practiced-by-u-s-before-trump-gave-go-ahead
The U.S. used the latest-model Tactical Tomahawks, which can be redirected in mid-flight, transmit images to commanders and loiter over a potential target area, according to accounts by U.S. military officials who briefed reporters or spoke in interviews. They asked not to be identified discussing operational details.
[…]
The fusillade of Tomahawks aimed at the Shayrat airfield was one of the options prepared by U.S. Central Command in about a day after Trump condemned the April 4 gas attack, on the assumption the White House might want to act fast to back up the president’s implied threat, one of the officials said. That proved correct when the administration formally requested that the Pentagon ready alternatives.
Once Trump gave the go-ahead order for the Tomahawk strike, the operation moved at a rapid pace. Shortly after 4:35 p.m. New York time on Thursday, Army General Joseph Votel, the head of Central Command, received a call from Marine Corps General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, telling him to execute the attack. Votel, who was at an event on the U.S. East Coast, passed the order on via a secure video link even before the White House’s written authorization, according to one of the officials.
The 59 missiles launched — a 60th malfunctioned — hit an equal number of targets at the Shayrat air field, which one of the military officials said had been associated with Syrian government chemical attacks since 2013.
[…]
The Navy says it’s buying the last 100 Tomahawks this year before ending production in favor of upgrades to the inventory and starting development on a successor “Next Generation Land Attack Weapon.”
Bon, c’est le tout dernier modèle (avec les options…) mais c’est quand même du déstockage avant remplacement.
@Simplicissimus : sans compter qu’une bonne partie sont tombés on ne sait pas trop où (ou alors on ne nous le dit pas).
Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle opens the door for nuclear deal in South Africa | Hartmut Winkler
▻https://theconversation.com/zumas-cabinet-reshuffle-opens-the-door-for-nuclear-deal-in-south-af
The cabinet reshuffle can therefore be viewed as a desperate bid by the Zuma faction, and associated beneficiaries such as the Gupta family, to drive the pro-nuclear agenda. This is despite the dangerous financial burden it would impose on the country, and the massive resultant debt repayment obligations. Source: The Conversation
Reshuffle Chronicles: ANC Integrity Commission wants Zuma to resign | Daily Maverick
▻https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-04-03-reshuffle-chronicles-anc-integrity-commission-wants-zuma-to-resign/#
A letter signed by ANC Integrity Commission Chair Andrew Mlangeni will be delivered to ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe on Monday calling for an urgent meeting with the party’s top officials. Mlangeni said the Integrity Commission is “deeply perturbed” by President Zuma’s decision to reshuffle Cabinet without consultation. Also, public statements from the SG and Treasurer General, Zweli Mkhize, distancing themselves from Zuma’s conduct were unprecedented in the history of the movement. The IC intends to meet with President Zuma at the historic Liliesleaf farm on April 9 and ask him to step down.
Zuma Said to Survive Calls to Quit Ruling South Africa’s ANC
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-05/zuma-said-to-survive-calls-to-quit-in-south-african-ruling-party
L’hiver approche pour la politique étrangère britannique
▻http://www.taurillon.org/l-hiver-approche-pour-la-politique-etrangere-britannique
En se coupant de l’Union européenne au profit de l’imprévisible #Donald_Trump, le Royaume-Uni se retrouve privé des piliers traditionnels de sa politique étrangère.
Actualités
/ #Brexit, #États-Unis_d'Amérique, Donald Trump, #Economie
▻http://www.thenewfederalist.eu/why-hard-brexit-is-probably-happening
▻https://www.ft.com/content/24fe34cf-45db-31fb-a385-e2fd8514c58f
▻https://www.ft.com/content/0d48300a-de3b-11e6-86ac-f253db7791c6
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38833883
▻https://www.ft.com/content/618b2896-e6fd-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539
▻https://www.ft.com/content/519694e0-e719-11e6-967b-c88452263daf
▻https://www.ft.com/content/bcc88048-d274-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1b51
▻https://www.ft.com/content/17991aea-ad2c-3c55-ac00-d1a358e20b88
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-21/britain-s-may-mexico-s-pena-nieto-to-meet-with-trump-this-month
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-us-trade-deal-donald-trump-theresa-may-nhs-privatised-food-sta
▻https://www.ft.com/content/c1ad96fa-e239-11e6-9645-c9357a75844a
▻https://www.ft.com/content/fde7616a-e6cf-11e6-967b-c88452263daf
#Google Parts With Podesta Lobbying Firm as Trump Enters Washington
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-25/google-parts-with-lobbyist-amid-trump-led-shift-in-washington
Les rats quittent le navire
After at least 12 years together, Alphabet Inc., the parent of Google, won’t be represented by one of Washington’s most prominent lobbying groups, a firm with long-standing ties to the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton.
Trump Revamps U.S. Trade Focus by Pulling Out of Pacific Deal - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-23/trump-said-to-sign-executive-order-on-trans-pacific-pact-monday
With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free trade by acting to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that had been promoted by companies including Nike Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as well as family farmers and ranchers.
“Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said on Monday after signing a memorandum directing the U.S. Trade Representative to withdraw the U.S. as a signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership accord with 11 other nations. He left the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada untouched for now, but an aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said action on that accord is still in the works.
#Davos Wonders If It’s Part of the Problem
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-13/davos-wonders-if-it-s-part-of-the-problem
Even as Davos attendees say they aren’t about to stop advocating for the policies they’ve endorsed for decades, which they believe remain the best way to deliver prosperity, [...]”
L’élite économique veut renouer avec les classes moyennes occidentales
▻http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/actualites-economiques/489478/davos-la-classe-moyenne-s-invite
Des recommandations qui ont fait éclater de rire le Prix Nobel d’économie Joseph Stiglitz. « Ces gens ont contribué à mettre en place les conditions pour l’arrivée de Trump », a-t-il assuré à l’AFP, rappelant notamment que M. Summers était secrétaire au Trésor sous Bill Clinton. « Qu’on leur demande à eux comment régler le problème est un peu bizarre », a-t-il affirmé.
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-19/obama-said-to-use-1953-law-to-block-drilling-in-arctic-atlantic
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide latitude to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced. Until now the law has been used sparingly to permanently preserve coral reefs, walrus feeding grounds and marine sanctuaries.
Coming in the waning days of his administration, Obama’s move — which could come as soon as Tuesday — responds to a clamor from environmental activists who have looked for a way to lock in protections before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Related actions by Canada may be announced at the same time, the people said.
C’est fait
Obama bans new oil, gas drilling off Alaska, part of Atlantic coast | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-drilling-idUSKBN1492KU
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, in a push to leave his stamp on the environment before Republican Donald Trump takes office next month.
Obama used a 1950s-era law called the Outer Continental Shelf Act that allows presidents to limit areas from mineral leasing and drilling. Environmental groups said that meant Trump’s incoming administration would have to go court if it sought to reverse the move.
The ban affects 115 million acres (46.5 million hectares) of federal waters off Alaska in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea and 3.8 million acres (1.5 million hectares) in the Atlantic from New England to Chesapeake Bay.
EU Fatigue Over Russia Sanctions Shows as Putin Reset Looms - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-15/eu-fatigue-over-russia-sanctions-on-display-as-putin-reset-looms
European Union differences over Russia were exposed as leaders arrived for their last summit of the year, underlining the 28-nation bloc’s fatigue with a sanctions regime that is losing support globally.
Even as EU leaders agreed to roll over economic penalties imposed on Russia over Ukraine, they sent divergent signals on whether to widen sanctions against the Kremlin in response to Russia’s bombing of civilians in Syria.
The mixed messages underscored the shifting mood in Europe as well as in the U.S. in favor of resetting relations with President Vladimir Putin even as Russian forces are blamed for escalating a humanitarian crisis in the final assault on the Syrian city of Aleppo.