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  • Obama, le Bush Bis hugambrules - 10 janvier 2017
    http://les-tribulations-de-l-ecocolo-ecoconome.over-blog.com/2017/01/obama-le-bush-bis.html

    Il y a huit ans, Obama a été élu, et la population avait placé son espoir en lui surtout que son intronisation s’était effectué en pleine crise financière des subprimes, qui avait décimé de vastes quartiers de grandes villes et fait tituber les banques. Pendant huit ans, Obama n’a agi pour atténuer la crise, qu’en défendant les intérêts des banques, des entreprises, des grandes sociétés d’assurance et de la classe des riches qui les contrôle. Les banques ont été renflouées de sommes énormes aux dépens des contribuables, ce qui a conduit à une expansion de la dette publique à un niveau inimaginable (de 11 à 20 téra de dollars), qui a servi de justification à des coupes budgétaires et des restrictions dans les services sociaux, les services publics et l’éducation. Des écoles de quartier prenant en charge des enfants d’origine ouvrière ont été fermées. Les compagnies du secteur automobile ont été renflouées aux dépens des salaires et des emplois des ouvriers. Les conditions du renflouement exigeaient que les travailleurs de l’automobile lâchent d’importantes concessions sur les salaires et les avantages acquis. Les changements drastiques opérés dans le secteur automobile ont ensuite été répercutés dans la plupart des autres secteurs industriels. En moins d’une décennie, les salaires dans l’industrie, jusqu’alors relativement élevés, sont devenus faibles.

    En transformant des petits délits, voire des suspicions de délit, en crimes majeurs de jeunes hommes, à qui la société était incapable de fournir un emploi, étaient arrêtés. Ce programme qui a conduit à un extraordinaire niveau d’incarcération a conduit la population carcérale à hauteur de 2,5 millions (la plus importante du monde). Bien sûr, l’origine de ce vaste projet d’incarcération remonte à Reagan. Mais Obama l’a poursuivi, et a jugé bon durant la plus grande partie de sa présidence de sermonner les hommes noirs, leur reprochant ne pas s’occuper de leurs enfants, ces mêmes hommes noirs condamnés à la prison par un système judiciaire qui échappe inique ou aux violences policières envers les noirs non enrayés sous Obama.

    Le grand projet d’Obama a bien-sur été la fameuse loi pour l’accès à des soins abordables. En fait, c’était un programme obligeant les gens à souscrire une assurance médicale auprès de compagnies privées, qui pour la plupart sont à but lucratif. Rien de surprenant dans tout cela, puisque le programme a été littéralement rédigé par des représentants des sociétés d’assurance et de l’industrie pharmaceutique, comme l’a reconnu par la suite l’administration démocrate. Certes, les gens dont les revenus étaient faible pouvaient demander une subvention. Mais cette subvention, en réalité, est constituée de versements aux sociétés d’assurance. Et elle ne couvre pas la large franchise associée aux contrats les moins coûteux, qui s’élevait à plus de 6 500 dollars par famille en 2015. Cela veut dire qu’une famille devait payer 6 500 dollars de sa poche avant que l’assurance ne commence à payer  : c’est la raison pour laquelle beaucoup de gens ne vont toujours pas chez le médecin d’autant que les franchises ont augmenté en moyenne de 63 % depuis que cette loi et les médecins ou les hôpitaux conventionnés sont très restreint.

    Les guerres américaines au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique ont été poursuivies et étendues, fournissant d’énormes profits aux industries de matériel militaire et de construction, sans même parler de la défense des intérêts des grandes compagnies pétrolières dans la région. Ces guerres ont aussi eu pour conséquences la mort ou la destruction mentale et physique de beaucoup de jeunes gens qui se sont engagés dans l’armée pour échapper au chômage omniprésent. Même la décision du retrait d’Irak est un fiasco. En fait c’est le résultat d’un échec des négociations visant à maintenir les troupes. En contrepartie, le gouvernement irakien réclamait la fin de l’immunité totale des GI’s, et c’est Obama qui a refusé. Pour ce qui est de la Libye, Obama n’a même pas tenu compte des erreurs de son prédécesseur quand il a décidé d’intervenir aux cotés de Sarkozy et Cameron ce qui a entraîné la dissolution du pays. En se passant du vote du congrès, Obama offre l’opportunité à ses successeurs de lancer des opérations sans l’avis de la chambre.

    Les politiques menées sous la présidence d’Obama ont été essentiellement la continuation des politiques mises en place sous Bush. Si le PIB a augmenté, 95% de l’accroissement des revenus durant les années Obama ont été accumulés par les 1 % les plus riches, notamment car Obama a maintenu la plupart des politiques fiscales de Bush qui ont contribué à ce processus. Pendant ces 8 ans d’Obama, 15 millions de personnes supplémentaires qui ont été exclues d’un marché du travail qui ne leur offre aucune issue. Au total, il y a maintenant 95 millions de gens qui sont en âge de travailler, mais qui ne travaillent pas.

    Obama est l’exemple type qu’un beau sourire, du charisme, un talent de tribun ou une couleur de peau ne sera jamais profitable au peuple. La seule façon pour se dernier de s’affranchir des représentations est d’appliquer le pouvoir lui même dans son propre intérêt. Et tant que l’on croira, qu’il existe une autre solution que la dictature du prolétariat, on contribuera à la perpétuation des souffrances de l’humanité.

    #Obama #Bush #guerre #crise #prison #beau_sourire #franchise #Obamacare #USA

  • Unpacking four years of frustration, Kerry leaves door open for Obama UN bid on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Nearly all of Obama’s advisers support U.S. action at the Security Council. Whether Obama decides to accept or reject their advice will have a significant impact on his legacy.

    Barak Ravid (Washington) Dec 05, 2016
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.756992

    WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat on the stage at the Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday and painted an exceedingly gloomy picture of the state of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Kerry, talking without notes, spoke from the heart like someone who truly fears for Israel’s future, as he expressed frustrations over four years of repeatedly trying to revive the two-state solution, the prospects for which seem to be expiring.
    Kerry’s criticism of the Israeli government’s settlement policy and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was unprecedented in its intensity. Fifty days before he leaves his post, Kerry finally publicly acknowledged the reality, admitting that the Israeli government was not really interested in a two-state solution. He made it clear that anyone who wants to know the Israeli policy should take heed of the words and actions of Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett rather than Netanyahu.
    The U.S. secretary of state described a situation where a small group within the Israeli government is exploiting the disinterest of the majority of the Israeli public to what goes on in the West Bank to work quietly behind the scenes and create facts on the ground that will make it impossible to establish a Palestinian state. The bill to legalize unauthorized outposts in the West Bank, the strengthening of illegal outposts, the massive demolitions of Palestinian homes in Area C and more and more Jews moving into settlements outside the established blocs and east of the separation barrier are just some of the issues Kerry mentioned.

  • De Sade comme gourou du mondialisme heureux
    http://www.dedefensa.org/article/de-sade-comme-gourou-du-mondialisme-heureux

    De Sade comme gourou du mondialisme heureux

    Vladimir Poutine défend contre Obama & co les valeurs chrétiennes. Or le marquis de Sade est un des inspirateurs de la mondialisation du culte du plaisir, des barrières abolies (morales et physiques - les frontières) et de la dette immonde. Le film de Scorsese sur le Loup de Wall Street a montré une réalité cachée par les médias, parfois révélée par des agents plus branchés. Clinton, Berlusconi, DSK, les épouses des présidents dénudées pour leur job sur le web, est-il besoin de feindre d’être choqué ?

    Sade a donc gagné la partie, et pas qu’un peu (revoyez Eyes Wide Shut d’un autre oeil). Il laisse Platon, Marx et Hegel loin derrière. Il est le vrai inspirateur de la société ouverte de George Soros (Bergson et Popper cela fait cheap). Une société (...)

  • Google’s remarkably close relationship with the White House, in two charts
    https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-tw

    Over the past seven years, #Google has created a remarkable partnership with the Obama White House, providing expertise, services, advice, and personnel for vital government projects.

    Precisely how much influence this buys Google isn’t always clear. But consider that over in the European Union, Google is now facing two major antitrust charges for abusing its dominance in mobile operating systems and search. By contrast, in the U.S., a strong case to sanction Google was quashed by a presidentially appointed commission.

    #Etats-Unis

  • Why Obama wants to spend millions relocating entire U.S. communities
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/09/why-obama-wants-to-spend-millions-relocating-entire-u-s-communities

    Obama’s budget request to Congress includes a proposed $ 400 million “to cover the unique circumstances confronting vulnerable Alaskan communities, including relocation expenses for Alaska Native villages threatened by rising seas, coastal erosion, and storm surges.”

    [...] “When Kivalina voted to relocate decades ago, they found there was no government agency in charge of #relocation, and that most funding was available only after disaster struck,” said Christine Shearer, a researcher who wrote a book on Kivalina and now works for the NGO CoalSwarm.

    [...] In the U.S., the problem with #climate-related relocations is that while funding may now be emerging, there still isn’t a process in place to determine when communities should try to obtain it or how they should recognize that it is time for them to move, said Robin Bronen, executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice, who is working on a NOAA-funded project on relocations.

    • A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change
      http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/29/science/alaska-global-warming.html

      At least two villages farther up the western coast, Shishmaref and Kivalina, have voted to relocate when and if they can find a suitable site and the money to do so. A third, Newtok, in the soggy Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta farther south, has taken the first steps toward a move.

      But, after years of meetings that led nowhere and pleas for government financing that remained unmet, Shaktoolik has decided it will “stay and defend,” at least for the time being, the mayor, Eugene Asicksik, said.

  • New Russia-China alliance latest diplomatic, strategic blow to Obama - Washington Times
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/30/china-russia-alliance-challenges-us-western-domina

    Adversaries during the long Cold War, Beijing and Moscow have increasingly found common cause in challenging the U.S. and Western-dominated order in Europe and Asia, finding ways both symbolic and concrete to challenge what they see as Washington’s efforts to contain their rise.

    The latest sign of closer ties emerged Thursday with the announcements of the first joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean and that Russia will be one of the biggest outside investors in China’s proposed development bank, which the Obama administration tried to undercut.

    Et ce commentaire de la BBC qui vient donner une touche subtile à l’analyse géostratégique…

    Analysts even see a budding “#bromance,” as the BBC recently put it, between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

    Bromance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromance

    A bromance is a close, emotionally intense, non-sexual bond between two (or more) men. It is an exceptionally tight affectional, homosocial male bonding relationship that exceeds that of usual friendship, that is distinguished by a particularly high level of emotional intimacy. The emergence of the concept over the past decade has been seen as reflecting a change in societal perception and interest in the theme, with an increasing openness of society in the twenty-first century to reconsider gender, sexuality, and exclusivity constraints.

  • Londres et Washington froncent un tout petit peu les sourcils en matière de livraison d’armement à israel :

    Londres menace de ne plus livrer Israël
    Le Figaro, le 12 août 2014
    http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/08/12/97001-20140812FILWWW00313-treve-londres-menace-de-ne-plus-livrer-israel.php

    Israël a envoyé un obus de char qui a tué 20 civils dans une école de l’ONU, parti des USA sans l’approbation d’Obama – La bombe du Wall Street Journal
    Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, le 15 août 2014
    http://www.aurdip.fr/Israel-a-envoye-un-obus-de-char.html

  • Prezi, la start-up hongroise devenue partenaire d’Obama
    http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/2014/06/12/01007-20140612ARTFIG00063-prezi-la-start-up-hongroise-devenue-partenaire-d-

    Lancée en 2009, Prezi propose un logiciel de présentation en ligne qui veut remplacer le PowerPoint dans les entreprises et les salles de classe.

    Peter Arvai en est persuadé : « lorsque l’on se souvient de quelque chose, ce n’est jamais sous la forme d’une liste. » Pour illustrer ses propos, l’homme d’affaires demande généralement à ses interlocuteurs de lui décrire ce qu’ils possèdent dans leur cuisine. « Lorsque vous vous rappelez de votre maison, vous n’ordonnez pas les objets les uns en dessous des autres », explique-t-il ensuite. « Vous zoomez sur un élément. Puis vous revenez en arrière pour avoir une vue d’ensemble, et ainsi de suite. »
    L’image plutôt que le texte

    C’est de ce constat qu’est né Prezi, un logiciel de présentation qui espère mettre fin au règne de PowerPoint dans les entreprises et les universités. La start-up a été créée à Budapest en 2009 par Peter Arvai, Adam Somlai-Fischer et Peter Halacsy. « Lorsque l’on présente quelque chose à un public, nous pensons que l’agencement dans l’espace est aussi important que son aspect visuel », décrit Peter Arvai, le PDG de l’entreprise. Sur Prezi, les utilisateur peuvent créer des présentations qui sont ensuite stockées en ligne. Elles se distinguent par leur design soigné et par une navigation originale, loin du format en diapositives auquel les internautes sont habitués. Prezi fait la part belle à l’image plutôt qu’au texte. « Si on se contente de lire ses notes, ça ne sert à rien de les montrer à son public », tranche Peter Arvai.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bHyW6un-Kc

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    #Prezi
    #start-up
    #hongrie
    #partenaire d’ #Obama
    #Powerpoint

  • #Obama Lets #N.S.A. Exploit Some #Internet Flaws, Officials Say
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/politics/obama-lets-nsa-exploit-some-internet-flaws-officials-say.html

    WASHINGTON — Stepping into a heated debate within the nation’s intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances — reveal them to assure that they will be fixed, rather than keep mum so that the flaws can be used in espionage or cyberattacks, senior administration officials said Saturday.

    But Mr. Obama carved a broad exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” the officials said, a loophole that is likely to allow the N.S.A. to continue to exploit security flaws both to crack encryption on the Internet and to design cyberweapons.

    #failles #surveillance

  • Obama can’t point to a single time the NSA call records program prevented a terrorist attack
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/23/obama-cant-point-to-a-single-time-the-nsa-call-records-program-preve

    Obama and Co : Il n’y a pas eu de nouveau « 9/11 » parce qu’il n’y a eu aucune nouvelle tentative mais c’est quand même la #surveillance de la #NSA qui a empêché un nouveau « 9/11 »...

    National Security Agency defenders, including President Obama, continue to cite the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001 when defending the program that scoops up domestic call records in bulk. But asked specifically, on Friday, if he could identify a time when that program stopped a similar attack, President Obama couldn’t. That’s because the program hasn’t prevented a second 9/11.

    But the lack of evidence that the program is effective will probably not prevent the NSA’s defenders from continuing to invoke 9/11 to protect the program. Another member of the task force, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, admitted the group had found that “the program to date has not played a significant role in stopping terrorist attacks in the United States,” but earlier in his interview credited the NSA as one of the agencies responsible for the lack of successful terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11.

  • Sep 1, 4:44 AM EDT
    CONSENSUS, THEN ABOUT-FACE FROM OBAMA ON SYRIA
    BY JOSH LEDERMAN
    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_SYRIA_DECISION?SITE=AP

    Obama’s national security team was in agreement that while consulting with Congress was critical, there was no need for formal approval, officials said. Seeking a vote in Congress to authorize a strike wasn’t even an option on the table.

    –—

    All that changed Friday night, when Obama left the West Wing with his chief of staff, Denis McDonough. Under cloudy skies and temperatures nearing 90 degrees, the two walked on the White House grounds for the better part of an hour, and Obama confided in his adviser that he had changed his mind. He laid out an idea to ask Congress to approve a strike.

    By 7 p.m., top aides including deputy national security advisers Ben Rhodes and Tony Blinken had been summoned to the Oval Office, where Obama shared the new plan. It was the right thing to do, the president said, and would make the U.S. stronger.

    Aides went to work immediately, with some drafting an authorization that Congress could take up and others hashing out the timeline.

    –—

    But the next morning, there was pushback from some on the president’s team. The National Security Council convened Saturday to firm up the plan, with Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, national security adviser Susan Rice and others in attendance.

    When Obama said he wanted to ask Congress for a vote, some of his advisers dissented. Officials wouldn’t say which participants argued against Obama’s proposal.

    After a two-hour debate, Obama’s team agreed to support Obama’s decision, officials said. So Obama went upstairs and called the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate to inform them of his about-face. He also notified French President Francois Hollande.

    By mid-afternoon, Obama emerged in a steamy White House Rose Garden, surprising lawmakers, reporters and the public with news of his plan.

    “I’m ready to act in the face of this outrage,” Obama said. “Today I’m asking Congress to send a message to the world that we are ready to move forward together as one nation.”

    Then Obama and Biden left the White House by motorcade to play a round of golf.

  • Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective
    http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/bombing-unlikely-effective.html

    – Unlike in Bosnia, this is not a war by an outside force like the Serbs of ethnic cleansing against a neighbor, but rather it is a civil war. The Alawis, Christians and secular-minded Sunnis in Syria are afraid of the rebel forces and either support or are neutral toward the Syrian government; together they may well come to half the country. That isn’t exactly a mandate for outside intervention.

  • Shocking Chart Reveals True Beneficiaries of Obama’s Spending - Businessweek
    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-02/shocking-chart-reveals-true-beneficiaries-of-obamas-spending#r=hpt-ls

    Unemployment benefits are plummeting, partly (one assumes) because the economy is improving, but also because states such as North Carolina are eliminating federal unemployment benefits. On the other hand, the government under Obama has dramatically increased spending on veterans, a set of beneficiaries rarely mentioned by those who hew to the idea that Obama bought the election.

  • L’oubli de Guantanamo et la honte d’Obama
    Le New York Times a récemment publié une lettre bouleversante du yéménite Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel, emprisonné depuis plus de 11 ans dans la prison de Guantanamo, ce Goulag tropical oublié des habituels défenseurs des droits de l’homme. Comme 43 des 130 détenus sur ce bout de l’ile de Cuba occupé par les Etats-Unis, le susnommé, âgé de 35 ans, est en grève de la faim depuis le 10 février. Il affirme avoir perdu plus de 15 kilos. Il est nourri de force. Il écrit : « Jamais, je n’oublierai la première fois qu’ils ont fait passer un tube par mon nez pour me nourrir. Je ne peux pas décrire à quel point c’est douloureux d’être nourri de cette façon ». Comme la plupart des prisonniers de Guantanamo, zone de non droit institutionnalisée, Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel n’a jamais été jugé. Il n’a même jamais été inculpé de quoi que ce soit, vu que la prison où il est enfermé tel un paria est dans une zone noire du point de vue juridique. C’est ce qui avait conduit Barack Obama, lors de sa première élection, à promettre la fermeture ce camp. Depuis, plus rien. Les grévistes de la faim risquent de finir comme Bobby Sands et les indépendantistes irlandais que Margaret Thatcher avait laissé mourir à petit feu, sauf qu’à l’époque, il y eut une mobilisation internationale. Elle s’avéra vaine, certes, mais pour Guantanamo, c’est l’oubli qui est de mise – l’oubli et la honte.

  • Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA - World Socialist Web Site

    le “head of drone asassination program” prend du grade "
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/08/bren-j08.html

    Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA
    By Barry Grey
    8 January 2013

    President Barack Obama on Monday named his counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, to head the Central Intelligence Agency in his second term. In choosing Brennan to lead the spy agency, Obama gave a clear signal that he intends to expand the illegal program of drone assassinations that has already killed thousands of innocent civilians—men, women and children—and mutilated thousands more in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

    #drone #états-unis #cIA

    Among those murdered on the say-so of the president, without any charges or judicial process, are at least three US citizens, including the New Mexico-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year old son, obliterated by drone-fired missiles in Yemen.

  • Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA - World Socialist Web Site

    le “head of drone asassination program” prend du grade "
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/08/bren-j08.html

    Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA
    By Barry Grey
    8 January 2013

    President Barack Obama on Monday named his counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, to head the Central Intelligence Agency in his second term. In choosing Brennan to lead the spy agency, Obama gave a clear signal that he intends to expand the illegal program of drone assassinations that has already killed thousands of innocent civilians—men, women and children—and mutilated thousands more in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

    #drone #états-unis #cIA

    Among those murdered on the say-so of the president, without any charges or judicial process, are at least three US citizens, including the New Mexico-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year old son, obliterated by drone-fired missiles in Yemen.

  • BREAKING NEWS: Big Red Flag Raised Over United States Ambassador to Australia “Bundler” Jeffrey Bleich Amid Revelations Bleich Founding Member and Co-Chair of Barack Obama’s National Finance Committee in 2007-2008

    A big red flag has been raised over Jeffrey Bleich, TLR has learned.

    Sources with knowledge of the inquiry, speaking on condition of anonymity, maintain an unusually somber YR reluctantly raised a big red-flag over Bleich due to the overall circumstances surrounding the sub-rosa transfer of whopping $780,000.00 from the California Bar Foundation to CaliforniaALL during a time period Bleich was serving as a founding member and co-chair of Obama’s national finance committee.

    The sources declined to provide specific details.

    According to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis, Bleich bundled at least $500,000 for Obama’s presidential run. (Bundlers are people who ask friends, associates, and well, anyone who’s willing to give, and then deliver the checks to a candidate in one big “bundle.”)

    Bleich has worked as a lawyer for nearly 15 years in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson and served as a member of both the Board of Governors and the California Bar Foundation’s board during the period of the sub rosa transfer of $780,000.

    Bleich is a friend of President Obama, and presently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia.

    As matters presently stand, prima facie evidence creates the appearance of a sophisticated financial scheme executed in 2008 involving Democratic party operatives James Brosnahan of Morrison & Foerster, Jeffrey Bleich , Assistant Attorney General Derek Anthony West (aka Tony West), Judy Johnson, Chris Young, as well as others to misuse the $780,000 originating from the California Bar Foundation by improperly transferring money from California Bar Foundation to Barack Obama’s coffers.

    According to the sources, in 2007-2008:

    –James Brosnahan, the self proclaimed “mastermind behind the Democratic Party” (and former prosecutor of Caspar Weinberger), while associated with Morrison & Foerster executed from behind the scenes a scheme known as CaliforniaALL, which collected “hush-hush” sub rosa funds totaling approximately $780,000 from the Foundation of the State Bar of California.

    –Chris Young, while associated with Morrison & Foerster, served as Barack Obama’s Northern California Deputy Finance Director.

    –Tony West, while associated with Morrison & Foerster, served as Barack Obama’s California Co-Chair of the California Finance Committee.

    –Susan MacCormac, while associated with Morrison & Foerster, legally created the entity known as CaliforniaALL and served as its legal counsel.

    –Annette Carnegie, while associated with Morrison & Foerster, served as a board member of the California Bar Foundation during the period of the sub rosa transfer of the above-referenced $780,000.

    –Jeffrey Bleich, while associated with Munger Tolles & Olsen, served as a member of both the Board of Governors and the California Bar Foundation’s board during the period of the sub rosa transfer of $780,000. Bleich is a friend of President Obama who presently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia.

    During Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Bleich was a founding member and co-chair of Obama’s national finance committee, co-chair of Obama’s higher education advisory board, and California co-chair. He donated to Hillary Rodham Clinton and raised funds for her to retire her campaign’s debt after the Democratic primary . (from Wikipedia)

    Verizon Communications (which heavily contributed to CaliforniaALL) is a client of Munger Tules & Olson, where Bleich serves as partner.

    The California Bar Foundation is maintained and controlled by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California — which is largely comprised of California Democratic Party operatives such as “Shakedown Artist” Gwen Moore of Shrimpscam ; Jeannine English — the wife of controversial gambling attorney and Democratic Party operative Howard Dickstein ; “Gay Godfather” Dennis Manger; Democratic Party operative Joseph Lawrence Dunn (aka Joe Dunn) of Voice of OC ; Nancy Fineman, a partner at the firm of Democratic party operative Joe Cotchett; and Jon Streeter, President of the California State Bar Board of Governors and a partner at the firm of Democratic Party operative John Keker, former prosecutor of Oliver North.

    The State Bar of California has been involved in numerous financial scandals, the most notable of which involved the prolonged embezzlement of close to $900,000 by employee Sherri Pearl (who many believed was in cahoots with Executive Director Judy Johnson) , as well as the scandal involving Geoffrey Brown (former CPUC Commissioner) and Judy Johnson, as a result of which close to $30 million in fines and settlements the CPUC imposed on utility companies was funneled to the California Consumer Protection Foundation (“CCPF”), an entity for which Judy Johnson secretly served as its president. From there, CCPF funneled most of the money to ACORN-like entities in South Los Angeles — Gwen Moore’s territory — and to an entity associated with Michael Shames in San Diego which is presently under grand jury investigation.

  • On Aid, Obama Sells Out Poor Countries to Big Ag
    http://www.globalpolicy.org/home/217-hunger/51678-on-aid-obama-sells-out-poor-countries-to-big-ag.html

    Giant agribusinesses such as Cargill, Monsanto and Yara take the center in “The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition,” a new food-aid effort for Africa launched at the recent G-8 summit in May. These companies have pledged $3 billion in new agriculture investments for the continent, most of which will be spent on building a foreign-owned fertilizer production facility. Instead of promoting for a sustainable food production, this initiative reinforces the power of agribusinesses to make profits at the expense of small-scale African farmers and local biodiversity.

    #agrobusiness #multinationales #Afrique

  • #WikiLeaks cables and the Iraq War - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
    http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war

    à propos de Bradley Manning :

    In other words, whoever leaked that cable cast light on a heinous American war crime and, by doing so, likely played some significant role in thwarting an agreement between the Obama and Maliki governments to keep U.S. troops in Iraq and thus helped end this stage of the Iraq war (h/t Trevor Timm). Moreover, whoever leaked these cables — as even virulent WikiLeaks critic Bill Keller repeatedly acknowledged — likely played some significant in helping spark the Arab Spring protests by documenting just how deeply corrupt those U.S.-supported kleptocrats were. And in general, whoever leaked those cables has done more to publicize the corrupt, illegal and deceitful acts of the world’s most powerful factions — and to educate the world about how they behave — than all “watchdog” media outlets combined (indeed, the amount of news reports on a wide array of topics featuring WikiLeaks cables as the primary source is staggering). In sum, whoever leaked those cables is responsible for one of the most consequential, beneficial and noble acts of this generation.

    #cablegate #journalisme #justice #irak