D’où vient le « mouvement anti-shariah » ?
David Yerushalmi, the Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/us/31shariah.html
In fact, it is the product of an orchestrated drive that began five years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the office of a little-known lawyer, David Yerushalmi, a 56-year-old Hasidic Jew with a history of controversial statements about race, immigration and Islam. Despite his lack of formal training in Islamic law, Mr. Yerushalmi has come to exercise a striking influence over American public discourse about Shariah.
Working with a cadre of conservative public-policy institutes and former military and intelligence officials, Mr. Yerushalmi has written privately financed reports, filed lawsuits against the government and drafted the model legislation that recently swept through the country — all with the effect of casting Shariah as one of the greatest threats to American freedom since the cold war.
Déjà en mars dernier, un article de Mother Jones présentait le gugusse :
Meet the White Supremacist Leading the GOP’s Anti-Sharia Crusade | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/david-yerushalmi-sharia-ban-tennessee
Yerushalmi, a lawyer, is the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), which has been called a “hate group” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His draft legislation served as the foundation for the Tennessee bill, and at least half a dozen other anti-Islam measures—including two bills that were signed into law last year in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Ces articles sont vraiment très intéressants mais... parviennent à ne jamais citer Israël. Voici ce qu’on peut pourtant lire dans une biographie du bonhomme :
IASPS Staff
►http://www.iasps.org/dybio.htm
From the Institute’s founding, Yerushalmi took a leading role as a substantial financial contributor, in addition to serving on the Board of Trustees for over a decade and as Chairman for more than five years. In 1991, teaming up with the Institute’s policy experts, Yerushalmi was instrumental in establishing the Israel Export Development Co., Ltd., as an entrepreneurial policy tool to initiate radical free market reforms in Israel. Working along side fellow board members and shareholders such as Robert Tishman, Jerry Speyer, Larry Silverstein, Lawrence Tisch, Eugene Grant and Sy Syms, Yerushalmi was appointed the company’s CEO and Chairman.
Over a two-year period, Yerushalmi built an international sales force for marketing free zones and knowledge parks in Israel and around the world, successfully attracting $750 million in financial commitments and identifying over 20,000 high-technology jobs for Israelis. In addition, he successfuly headed an international lobbying effort to persuade the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israel’s entrenched statist institutions and politicians to enact the revolutionary Israeli Free Processing Zones Law. (The Zone “story” can be found throughout this web site.) As a result of his work on the Israeli free zone project, Yerushalmi has also provided select services for free zone projects in Hungary, the Republic of Chuvashia, and the Baltic States.
Les deux articles (y compris dans le très « mainstream » et pas du tout pro-arabe New York Times) sont donc intéressants, puisqu’ils identifient clairement la source de la campagne islamophobe « Anti-Sharia » aux États-Unis : ils révèlent qu’il ne s’agit donc pas d’une idéologie spontanée, mais bien d’un thème construit et promu, dont la source est ici clairement nommée.
Là où ces deux articles échouent, en revanche, c’est à signaler que l’individu qui est derrière ce nouveau grand combat islamophobe est directement lié à Israël. À ce sujet, à nouveau, il faut relire l’enquête de Max Blumenthal sur l’origine des réseaux islamophobes aux États-Unis :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/28980
(En signalant clairement que Yerushalmi, activiste islamophobe, est juif, mais en occultant ses liens avec Israël, on peut considérer que ces deux articles font en pratique la promotion de l’antisémitisme.)
The Centrist Cop-Out | Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html?hp
The facts of the crisis over the debt ceiling aren’t complicated. Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage, threatening to undermine the economy and disrupt the essential business of government unless they get policy concessions they would never have been able to enact through legislation. And Democrats — who would have been justified in rejecting this extortion altogether — have, in fact, gone a long way toward meeting those Republican demands.
The Centrist Cop-Out | Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html
The facts of the crisis over the debt ceiling aren’t complicated. Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage, threatening to undermine the economy and disrupt the essential business of government unless they get policy concessions they would never have been able to enact through legislation. And Democrats — who would have been justified in rejecting this extortion altogether — have, in fact, gone a long way toward meeting those Republican demands.
A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/nyregion/a-revenge-plot-so-intricate-the-prosecutors-were-pawns.html?_r=1&hp
But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen.
Comment? Tu n’expédies pas tes enfants en colo en jet privé?
To Reach Simple Life at Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/nyregion/to-reach-simple-life-at-camp-lining-up-for-private-jets.html?_r=2&hp
For decades, parents in the Northeast who sent their children to summer camp faced the same arduous logistics of traveling long distances to remote towns in Maine, New Hampshire and upstate New York to pick up their children or to attend parents’ visiting day.
Now, even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps. One private jet broker, Todd Rome of Blue Star Jets, said his summer-camp business had jumped 30 percent over the last year.
This weekend, a popular choice for visiting day at camps, private planes jammed the runways at small rural airports.
Tout à fait impressionnant ! Ce business a fait un bond de +30% en un an ! J’adore le coup des auto-stoppeurs qui prennent un ticket simple en ligne régulière pour déposer les enfants et espèrent faire de l’avion-stop au retour. :-)
Ceci dit, vus les tarifs des camps, et les grandes distances liées aux Etats-Unis, ça a un certain sens. Après tout, on en est à faire des avions qui consomment autant par passager au kilomètre transporté qu’une voiture, alors pourquoi pas ?
Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right-Wing Sentiment in Europe - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24europe.html
Yet some of the primary motivations cited by the suspect in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, are now mainstream issues. Mrs. Merkel, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain all recently declared an end to multiculturalism. Multiculturalism “has failed, utterly failed,” Mrs. Merkel told fellow Christian Democrats last October, though stressing that immigrants were welcome in Germany.
Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/business/energy-environment/utility-shelves-plan-to-capture-carbon-dioxide.html
“We are placing the project on hold until economic and policy conditions create a viable path forward,” said Michael G. Morris, chairman of American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest operators of coal-fired generating plants in the United States. He said his company and other coal-burning utilities were caught in a quandary: they need to develop carbon-capture technology to meet any future greenhouse-gas emissions rules, but they cannot afford the projects without federal standards that will require them to act and will persuade the states to allow reimbursement.
Soyons clairs : sans « marché du carbone » et sans subventions, les entreprises ne feront rien contre l’émission de gaz à effet de serre.
Ce qui conforte l’idée que « l’économie verte » est avant tout un modèle spéculatif, et que la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ne saurait se limiter aux mécanismes « incitatifs » proposés depuis Kyoto.
Sans parler évidemment de la faisabilité technique de la « séquestration du carbone » (i.e. combien de temps le carbone empaqueté sous terre y restera-t-il ? Quelles seront les conséquences à long terme,...). Mais si demain est déjà trop loin pour le capital, que dire d’une ou deux générations !
The Hated and the Hater, Both Touched by Crime (The New York Times)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/us/19questions.html?_r=1
Enraged by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mark Anthony Stroman shot people he believed were Arabs. A survivor of the attack, Rais Bhuiyan, is now petitioning to spare Mr. Stroman’s life.
The Clash of Generations - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17friedman.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
Indeed, if there is one sentiment that unites the crises in Europe and America it is a powerful sense of “baby boomers behaving badly” — a powerful sense that the generation that came of age in the last 50 years, my generation, will be remembered most for the incredible bounty and freedom it received from its parents and the incredible debt burden and constraints it left on its kid....
You can see that when you walk around Athens’s central Syntagma Square, where young people now gather every evening to debate the crisis and register their protests at the future being imposed on them. The facades of banks around the square have been defaced, and flapping in the wind are two large banners. One says “IMF Employee of the Year” and has a picture of Prime Minister George Papandreou, and the other says “Goldman Sachs Employee of the Year” and pictures George Papaconstantinou, the former finance minister. (And these are the good guys, trying to fix the problem.) Nearby is a picture of a baby, saying: “Father, whose side were you on when they were selling our country?” And the more blunt: “Yield to rage,” “Class war, not national war,” and, finally, “Life — not just survival” — a message that seemed filled with foreboding about what the next decade is going to be like for young Greeks.
@netlibertaire, tu as essayé d’utiliser le bookmarklet de Seenthis (proposé sur ta page « Accueil » en haut de colonne de droite ? Vu que tu références pas mal de choses avec des citations, ça te simplifierait carrément la vie, tu aurais un meilleur rendu graphique de tes messages (avec séparation claire des citations et de tes commentaires), et même des automatismes sémantiques (dont la proposition de traduction automatique des extraits).
oui j’utilise le bookmarklet , c’est pratique, il faut sélectionner pour faire apparaître le texte (je crois )je le fais pas à chaque fois ne sélectionnant que quelques extraits
ça morche pas ! quand tu sélectionne pas en bloc un extrait je crois bien
Pour tes citations, Shift+Tab, bien pratique, ça permet de distinguer rapidement ton commentaire perso / ton introduction du texte que tu mets en avant. Et tu peux aussi le faire après avoir posté, en survolant ton texte, un bouton modifier apparaît.
@tom_dubois merci du tuyau je vais tester ça
Libya Rebels Get Formal Backing, and $30 Billion - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/africa/16libya.html
The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country’s legitimate government on Friday, allowing the rebel government access to $30 billion in Libyan assets held in the United States. It is not yet clear how and when the money would be released.
Alors évidemment, le New York Times tente toujours de te faire croire que les « officiels américains », qui viennent de décider de transférer 30 milliards de dollars à leurs nouveaux alliés, en fait, sont des philanthropes aussi naïfs que Oui-Oui au pays du pétrole. Ils aimeraient bien que leurs gentils copains ils développent des services publics, l’approvisionnement en électricité et les services de santé (autant de choses que, par ailleurs, l’administration américaine s’interdit rigoureusement de faire chez elle) ; mais il est à craindre que les 30 milliards passent dans l’achat de F-16, de tanks Abrams et de fusils M16. Et ça, on s’en doute, ça chagrinerait carrément les officiels américains.
Ce que ce magnifique paragraphe résume ainsi :
Although American officials expressed hope that the newly recognized Transitional National Council would use the money for traditional public services — to pay for health care and electrical power, for example — one of the council’s immediate priorities is arming and training its fighters so they can finally defeat the forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi.
Bonjour,
Connaissez-vous ce site :
►http://allainjules.com/2011/07/17/libye-brega-ou-le-mensonge-des-insurges-libyens
De nombreux articles du journaliste Allain Jules sont très intéressants, ses sources complètement inconnues pour les médias, mais certains commentaires sont ahurissants....
Bonne lecture !
Cela fait maintenant une centaine d’années que la #polygamie est interdite en #Utah, « l’Etat des Mormons ». Mais certains fondamentalistes n’ont désormais plus peur d’affronter cette loi et de demander la reconnaissance de leur situation.
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/us/12polygamy.html?_r=2
#Mormons
Gilead to Share 4 AIDS and Hepatitis Drugs With Patent Pool - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/health/12global.html?_r=1
In the first agreement between a pharmaceutical company and the new international Medicines Patent Pool, Gilead Sciences announced Tuesday that it would license four of its AIDS and hepatitis B drugs to the pool.
(...)
“This is a great achievement,” said James P. Love, a campaigner for lower drug prices who first proposed a pool in 2002. “The other drug companies didn’t want Gilead to sign anything, and this will put pressure on them.”
l’article du blog de Nature :
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/07/first_drug_company_to_dive_int.html
The D.A. Did the Right Thing | Joe Nocera (The New York Times)
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05nocera.html?_r=1
A young immigrant woman, lacking privilege and money, alleges that she was raped while on the job. She reports the incident soon after it takes place. There is semen on her clothes and bruises on her body. She tells her story with such conviction that, according to The Times, seasoned investigators cry when they hear it.