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NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong | World news | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive

On Tuesday, the National Security Agency called at the University of Wisconsin on a recruitment drive.

Attending the session was Madiha R Tahir, a journalist studying a language course at the university. She asked the squirming recruiters a few uncomfortable questions about the activities of NSA: which countries the agency considers to be “adversaries”, and if being a good liar is a qualification for getting a job at the NSA.

She has posted a recording of the session on Soundcloud, which you can hear above, and posted a rough transcript on her blog, The Mob and the Multitude. Here are some highlights.

The session begins ...

Tahir: “Do you consider Germany and the countries that the NSA has been spying upon to be adversaries, or are you, right now, not speaking the truth?”

Recruiter 1: “You can define adversary as ’enemy’ and, clearly, Germany is not our enemy. But would we have foreign national interests from an intelligence perspective on what’s going on across the globe? Yeah, we do.”

Tahir: “So by ’adversaries’, you actually mean anybody and everybody. There is nobody, then, by your definition that is not an adversary. Is that correct?”

Recruiter 1: “That is not correct.”

Recruiter 2: “… for us, our business is apolitical, OK? We do not generate the intelligence requirements. They are levied on us ... We might use the word ’target’.”

Tahir: “I’m just surprised that for language analysts, you’re incredibly imprecise with your language. And it just doesn’t seem to be clear.”

Later ...

Tahir: “... this is a recruiting session and you are telling us things that aren’t true. And we also know that the NSA took down brochures and factsheets after the Snowden revelations because those factsheets also had severe inaccuracies and untruths in them, right? So how are we supposed to believe what you’re saying?”

Even later ...

Tahir: “I think the question here is do you actually think about the ramifications of the work that you do, which is deeply problematic, or do you just dress up in costumes and get drunk?” [A reference to an earlier comment the recruiter made about NSA employees working hard and going to the bar to do karaoke.]

Recruiter 2: “... reporting the info in the right context is so important because the consequences of bad political decisions by our policymakers is something we all suffer from.”

Unnamed female student: “And people suffer from the misinformation that you pass along so you should take responsibility as well.”

Later still ...

Male student: “General Alexander [head of the NSA] also lied in front of Congress.”

Recruiter 1: “I don’t believe that he did.”

Male student: “Probably because access to the Guardian is restricted on the Department of Defence’s computers. I am sure they don’t encourage people like you to actually think about these things. Thank God for a man like Edward Snowden who your organisation is now part of a manhunt trying to track down, trying to put him in a little hole somewhere for the rest of his life. Thank God they exist.”

And finally ...

Recruiter 2: “This job isn’t for everybody, you know ...”

Tahir: “So is this job for liars? Is this what you’re saying? Because, clearly, you’re not able to give us forthright answers. I mean, given the way the NSA has behaved, given the fact that we’ve been lied to as Americans, given the fact that factsheets have been pulled down because they clearly had untruths in them, given the fact that Clapper and Alexander lied to Congress – is that a qualification for being in the NSA? Do you have to be a good liar?”

Recruiter 1: I don’t believe the NSA is telling complete lies. And I do believe that you know, I mean people can, you can read a lot of different things that are, um, portrayed as fact and that doesn’t make them fact just because they’re in newspapers."

Unnamed female student: “Or intelligence reports.”

Recruiter 1: “That’s not really our purpose here today and I think if you’re not interested in that ... there are people here who are probably interested in a language career.”

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Volume Three of The History of Cartography Now Online
May 30, 2013

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A year in the life of That Tree, a photo a day by Mark Hirsch
▻http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/05/08/that-tree-a-photo-a-day-by-mark-hirsch/6021

Using only his iPhone, photographer Mark Hirsch spent a year documenting an ancient Bur Oak Tree and posting a photo a day on Facebook.
There is a tree that stands alone among the cornfields- about 5 miles south of Platteville, Wisconsin in the southwest corner of the state. Photographer Mark Hirsch drove by it almost every day for 19 years and never once stopped to take a picture. Then one day, he did.

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Predicting Collapse
▻http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/predicting-collapse.html?ref=hp

Now, physicists studying laboratory yeast have found a new way to tell when such a collapse is imminent. The researchers hope their warning signal can help fishery and wildlife managers act in time to save stressed populations.

The team’s work is “a really nice paper” that “could potentially lead to some new insights,” says Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, who has studied similar early warning signals in lakes.

The key to preventing a population collapse is spotting early signs of trouble. One recognized warning signal is that unhealthy systems often take longer than healthy ones to recover from a disturbance. Scientists call this “critical slowing down.”

#environnement #écologie

Comment les #trolls radicalisent l’esprit des lecteurs sur Internet — Science et Technologie — Sott.net
▻http://fr.sott.net/article/13403-Comment-les-trolls-radicalisent-l-esprit-des-lecteurs-sur-Internet

Chers lecteurs du monde.fr, la perception que vous aurez des informations contenues dans cet article changera en fonction de la nature des commentaires d’internautes qui l’accompagneront. C’est, en substance, le principal résultat d’une expérience conduite par Dominique Brossard (université du Wisconsin à Madison), à paraître dans la revue Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. Selon ce travail, la vitupération qui se manifeste sur les fils de conversation en ligne a pour effet de polariser les opinions.

Défaite syndicale dans le Michigan | La guerre mondiale contre les travailleurs ne faiblit pas.
►http://www.arretsurimages.net/vite.php?id=14877

Après le Wisconsin en 2011, l’Indiana en 2012, un nouvel État nord-américain est passé à l’offensive contre les syndicats : le Michigan vient de voter deux lois limitant les droits syndicaux des travailleurs des secteurs publics et privés.

Créateurs de richesse ? (Les vrais gens)
►http://cafemusique.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/createurs-de-richesse

Certaines collectivités, prêtes à tout pour retenir GM, ont fait des offres plus importantes : l’Ohio a proposé 56 millions pour garder l’usine de Moraine, et le Wisconsin 153 millions pour celle de Janesville. En vain. GM est parti, et grâce au plan de renflouement fédéral, est de nouveau bénéficiaire. Pas les villes, qui ont épuisé leurs réserves pour préserver des milliers d’emplois aujourd’hui disparus. La commune d’Ypsilanti (Michigan) poursuit GM en justice. « On ne peut pas faire des promesses pareilles et les oublier comme des pièces au fond d’un tiroir, » déclare son avocat. C’est pourtant ce que font des entreprises de tout le pays. Le NYT a mené l’enquête pendant 10 mois, et fait les comptes : les États, les comtés et les villes accordent 80 milliards par an en avantages fiscaux aux entreprises. Tous les secteurs en bénéficient, y compris les conglomérats pétroliers, les entreprises high-tech, l’industrie du spectacle, les banques, et les grandes chaînes de restauration. Le coût de ces aides est impossible à estimer, car elles proviennent de milliers de collectivités, et on ne sait pas combien d’emplois sont vraiment créés, et combien l’auraient été sans elles. Source : Les vrais (...)

Créateurs de richesse ?
►http://cafemusique.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/createurs-de-richesse

Certaines collectivités, prêtes à tout pour retenir GM, ont fait des offres plus importantes : l’Ohio a proposé 56 millions pour garder l’usine de Moraine, et le Wisconsin 153 millions pour celle de Janesville. En vain. GM est parti, et grâce au plan de renflouement fédéral, est de nouveau bénéficiaire. Pas les villes, qui ont épuisé leurs réserves pour préserver des milliers d’emplois aujourd’hui disparus.

La commune d’Ypsilanti (Michigan) poursuit GM en justice. « On ne peut pas faire des promesses pareilles et les oublier comme des pièces au fond d’un tiroir, » déclare son avocat. C’est pourtant ce que font des entreprises de tout le pays.

Le NYT a mené l’enquête pendant 10 mois, et fait les comptes : les États, les comtés et les villes accordent 80 milliards par an en avantages fiscaux aux entreprises. Tous les secteurs en bénéficient, y compris les conglomérats pétroliers, les entreprises high-tech, l’industrie du spectacle, les banques, et les grandes chaînes de restauration. Le coût de ces aides est impossible à estimer, car elles proviennent de milliers de collectivités, et on ne sait pas combien d’emplois sont vraiment créés, et combien l’auraient été sans elles.

Tammy Baldwin makes history as first openly gay person elected to US Senate | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/tammy-baldwin-makes-history-first-openly-gay-person-elected-us-senate07

Tammy Baldwin makes history as first openly gay person elected to US Senate
Democratic candidates defeats Republican Tommy Thompson
07 November 2012 | By Greg Hernandez

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin made history Tuesday (6 November) by becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to the US Senate.

Baldwin, who has represented Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives for seven terms, defeated Republican Tommy Thompson who is opposed to gay marriage. She replaces retiring Democrat Herb Kohl in the Senate.

’I am honored and humbled and grateful, and I am ready to get to work - ready to stand with Barack Obama, and ready to fight for Wisconsin’s middle class,’ Baldwin told supporters at her victory party.’

Baldwin, 50, has said her sexuality has not been an issue on the campaign trail because voters in her state care more about such issues as the economy and jobs than their representative’s love life.

But Baldwin has acknowledged the significance of a lesbian being elected to the US Senate. She has gotten used to making history in this regard starting with becoming the first lesbian elected to the Wisconsin Assembly then the first non-incumbent gay person elected to the US House of Representatives.

Baldwin recently told the British paper The Guardian: ‘We never had an openly LGBT member of the US Senate and, even though there are strong pro-equality allies who serve there, it has always been a conversation about a group of people. So this changes everything.’

For fifteen years, her domestic partner was Lauren Azar, until the couple separated in 2010. They had registered as domestic partners in Wisconsin a year earlier.

Herndon Graddick, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin were among the LGBT leaders enthusiastic about the result.

’Tonight Tammy Baldwin made history and shone a bright light across America,’ Graddick said in a statement. ’No longer is the United States Senate a place for only a select few but for every citizen, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. Tammy Baldwin’s victory showed what a majority of Americans already know: that candidates should be judged on their qualifications for the job and not their sexual orientation.’

Said Griffin: ’As the first openly gay person elected to the United States Senate, she is a role model for LGBT youth and all young women across the country. With a relentless focus on the issues that matter most to Wisconsin voters – economic security, access to healthcare, and fairness and inclusion for all – Senator-elect Baldwin earned the respect of all her constituents, gay and straight.’

Megadeth frontman believes Aurora and Wisconsin shootings were ‘staged’ and that Obama is Kenyan | Death and Taxes
►http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/187235/megadeth-frontman-believes-aurora-and-sihk-shootings-were-staged-a

Today in “what are you still doing here?” news, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine announced at a recent show in Singapore that he believes that:
a) Obama is here to take away our guns
b) that he is Kenyan
c) that the birth certificate was faked
d) that Obama orchestrated the “Fast and Furious” killings
e) that Obama orchestrated the Aurora movie theater killing spree
f) that Obama orchestrated the Sikh temple massacre
e) that he believes America is turning into “Nazi Germany”

How Rural America Got Fracked | Ellen Cantarow (The Nation)
►http://www.thenation.com/article/167980/how-rural-america-got-fracked

March in Wisconsin used to mean snow on the ground, temperatures so cold that farmers worried about their cows freezing to death. But as I traveled around rural townships and villages in early March to interview people about frac-sand mining, a little-known cousin of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” daytime temperatures soared to nearly eighty degrees—bizarre weather that seemed to be sending a meteorological message. In this troubling spring, Wisconsin’s prairies and farmland fanned out to undulating hills that cradled the land and its people. Within their embrace, the rackety calls of geese echoed from ice-free ponds, bald eagles wheeled in the sky and deer leaped in the brush. And for the first time in my life, I heard the thrilling warble of sandhill cranes. (...) Source: The Nation

This is a “must read” article

How Rural America Got Fracked - The Nation
Ellen Cantarow
May 21, 2012

This is a “must read” article

►http://www.thenation.com/article/167980/how-rural-america-got-fracked

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.

If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out. As Wisconsinites are learning, there’s money (and misery) in sand—and if you’ve got the right kind, an oil company may soon be at your doorstep.

March in Wisconsin used to mean snow on the ground, temperatures so cold that farmers worried about their cows freezing to death. But as I traveled around rural townships and villages in early March to interview people about frac-sand mining, a little-known cousin of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” daytime temperatures soared to nearly eighty degrees—bizarre weather that seemed to be sending a meteorological message.

In this troubling spring, Wisconsin’s prairies and farmland fanned out to undulating hills that cradled the land and its people. Within their embrace, the rackety calls of geese echoed from ice-free ponds, bald eagles wheeled in the sky and deer leaped in the brush. And for the first time in my life, I heard the thrilling warble of sandhill cranes.

Yet this peaceful rural landscape is swiftly becoming part of a vast assembly line in the corporate race for the last fossil fuels on the planet. The target: the sand in the land of the cranes.

99% of what? » Freedom Press - The Home of Freedom Books and Freedom Newspaper
►http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2012/01/16/99-of-what

The wave of occupations that has rolled around the world from Madison, Wisconsin to Tahrir Square in Cairo, from the Spanish M15 movement and onward via Occupy Wall Street has been deeply inspiring to us, and deeply challenging to the system we live under. While it is reaction to a global, though particularly western, economic crisis we must give credit to all those camping out for their commitment, for instigating the debate as to where we can and want to go, and for breaking the deadening political stagnation of recent years.

So to make a critique of the Occupy movement at this moment, seems at first absurd. To think five years ago that city centres across the globe would be occupied by hundreds of thousands of people, would have been laughed off. Yet they are. And it is a fantastic. It has created a space where capitalism, democracy and revolution are being openly discussed like never before. But that debate also needs to look at the Occupy movement itself and the fundamental problem with the concept of the 1% versus the 99%.

Anti-capitalist vs anti-banker
As someone who has been politically active on the libertarian left since the late 1970s, there is something in the rhetoric of this 99% movement that I and many of my generation find disturbing. We were, and are, anti-capitalists and revolutionaries but this new movement is neither anti-capitalist or even just reformist, but explicitly concerned with elites. Exemplifying this, the banner at Occupy London stating “Capitalism is Crisis” was removed after much debate and replaced with “What would Jesus do?”

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And that is what needs restating; the 1% are out of control not because they are a conspiracy but because that is how capitalism works! And people only notice when the trickle down stops trickling! There is no pure capitalism without finance capitalism, but finance capital does not control capitalism. It is still production that is the key, because that is where ‘surplus value’ (profits) are extracted by paying people less than they produce. And in the West that mode of production is in crisis.

Enter the conspiracy
But the other very dangerous problem that comes for the 1% idea is how it leads very easily and smoothly into the idea that we are dealing with an out of control elite which operates through conspiracies. And indeed we see this all over the camps, and online, where the crazies of Zeitgeist, David Icke, and other random conspiracy theorists, often go unchallenged [2]

And from the idea of conspiratorial elites it is a stones throw to anti-Semitism i.e. anti-Jewish. It is suggested that Jews have historically controlled all the worlds’ finances/banks and that therefore it is their actions that are behind the crisis. This anti-Jewish bullshit is never usually overt though, the right-wing scum who push this have words and phrases they couch their lies in, but it is there. [3]

Another classic device these racists/fascists use is the deliberate confusion of a very real Zionism, the brutal nationalist and expansionist project of the Israeli ruling class, aided by the US, with a mythical Zionism that runs the world. [4] And sooner rather than later this bullshit manifests itself in reality. At the beginning of November a young Jewish woman was told to fuck off at Occupy Finsbury Square (London) as she, it was suggested, was part of the problem.

De « très méchantes bestioles » en laboratoire | Anne Poupon (Les blogs du Diplo)
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-12-09-De-tres-mechantes-bestioles-en-laboratoire

Les républicains ouvrent la chasse aux syndicats - Libération
►http://www.liberation.fr/economie/01012368695-les-republicains-ouvrent-la-chasse-aux-syndicats

« Les offensives auxquelles nous assistons aujourd’hui dans le secteur public sont sans précédent », observe Robert Bruno, professeur à l’université de l’Illinois. Pour ce spécialiste des syndicats américains, « c’est clairement un châtiment infligé aux syndicats pour leur contribution à la victoire démocrate en 2008 ». Durant la campagne d’Obama, le mouvement syndical a fait la différence dans des Etats clés comme la Pennsylvanie, le Wisconsin ou l’Ohio. Pendant un moment assez bref, on a pu croire que les syndicats allaient réussir à changer les lois du travail en faveur des salariés. « C’était très effrayant pour le patronat et les républicains, qui ont fait de la lutte antisyndicale une priorité », explique Robert Bruno. Dans les entreprises privées, les efforts pour empêcher la formation de syndicats « n’ont rien de nouveau », rappelle Kate Bronfenbrenner, spécialiste de la question à l’université Cornell à New York, mais ces attaques « s’intensifient ».

Une étude publiée en 2009, portant sur 1 000 entreprises où des syndicats ont tenté de se créer, a révélé que 57% des patrons avaient menacé de fermer tout ou partie de leurs sociétés plutôt que de laisser leurs salariés s’organiser ; 47% ont menacé de réduire les salaires ; et 34% ont licencié des agitateurs ou supposés tels. « Les techniques de surveillance et de dissuasion sont devenues très sophistiquées, souligne Kate Bronfenbrenner. Parfois, il suffit d’afficher une carte géographique, pour suggérer où l’entreprise pourrait être délocalisée. Ensuite, le patron convoque les chefs de poste pour expliquer que leur tâche numéro 1 est d’empêcher la formation du syndicat, sinon ils perdront leur emploi. »

’Microgrids’ #energy storage project announced - JSOnline
►http://www.jsonline.com/business/microgrids-energy-storage-project-announced-131027148.html

A new project aimed at making Wisconsin a national center of expertise for energy “microgrids” was announced Monday by a team that includes the state’s four largest engineering schools and several large Milwaukee-area employers.

By using sophisticated new energy storage devices and battery systems, microgrid “energy islands” could function for some time off a main power grid if it were disrupted - and they also could maximize use of energy harnessed from renewable sources, such as solar and wind power.

Wisconsin companies are already working to develop technologies for advanced energy storage systems, including the state’s largest company, Johnson Controls Inc., and one of its smallest ZBB Energy Corp. of Menomonee Falls. They see a market for using energy storage to overcome the challenges of renewable sources that stop making power when the sun sets or winds ease.

Military spending on #microgrids is expected to grow fourfold between now and 2020, with Department of #Defense spending alone expected to reach $1.6 billion by then

Why Do Conservatives Hate High-Speed Rail? 5 Reasons Right-Wingers Are Sabotaging Public Transportation Projects | | AlterNet
►http://www.alternet.org/story/151748/why_do_conservatives_hate_high-speed_rail_5_reasons_right-wingers_are_sabo

High-speed rail is one of the rare areas where business, labor, and environmental activists are often in agreement. Republican transportation secretary Ray LaHood is a fan, as are, of course, President Obama and Vice-President Biden.

But Tea Party-supported governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin, John Kasich in Ohio and Rick Scott in Florida have made headlines by refusing billions in federal stimulus dollars aimed at creating new high-speed train lines between major cities.

Que s’est-il passé dans le Wisconsin ? (Contretemps)
►http://www.contretemps.eu/interventions/que-sest-il-pass%C3%A9-dans-wisconsin

mais que s’est-il réellement passé dans le Wisconsin ? D’où est venue la poussée de mobilisation de classe ? Qu’est-ce qui l’a différenciée d’autres grandes mobilisations ? Et surtout, comment interpréter la conclusion de cette révolte et la démobilisation ? Nous proposons d’ouvrir une discussion sur le contexte et la dynamique de la « Bataille du Wisconsin », qui permettra peu à peu d’en tirer des leçons politiques essentielles pour la prochaine phase de nos luttes dans le Wisconsin, et pour d’autres qui préparent leurs propres ripostes ailleurs. (...)

Comment le #vélo peut-il sauver notre économie (si on le laisse faire) ?
►http://www.weelz.fr/fr/velo-urbain/2011/07/11/comment-le-velo-peut-il-sauver-notre-economie

Une étude réalisée à Portland en 2008 estimait que l’industrie du cycle rapportait à elle seule 90 millions de dollars à l’économie locale chaque année. Le tourisme à vélo est également un argument de poids pour les régions qui peuvent en faire sa promotion. En 2010, l’état du Wisconsin a pu se vanter d’avoir générer 1,5 milliards de dollars uniquement avec le cyclotourisme.

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Le combat des conservateurs américains contre les syndicats des agents publics | Jean-Christian Vinel (Relevé sur le net)
►http://www.ies-salariat.org/spip.php?article126

Au printemps 2011, le Gouverneur du Wisconsin a fait voter une loi limitant grandement les droits syndicaux des agents publics dans son État, déclenchant un mouvement social et des débats de grande ampleur dans l’ensemble du pays. C’est pourtant dans ce même État que s’était mis en place, un peu plus de cinquante ans auparavant, le premier système de négociations collectives dans la fonction publique d’État, quelques années avant que John Kennedy ne l’institue par décret pour la fonction publique fédérale. Jean-Christian Vinel retrace les grandes étapes de cette évolution historique qui va de la démocratisation de l’emploi public à sa mise en danger actuelle, au nom du poids que feraient peser sur les budgets publics les avantages sociaux des fonctionnaires. Il met alors en lumière, derrière les discours libéraux et au-delà de la fonction publique, les enjeux de cette attaque des conservateurs contre l’une des institutions fondamentales du salariat américain, l’institution syndicale, là où elle est aujourd’hui la plus forte : dans le secteur public. (...)

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Que s’est-il passé dans l’Etat du Wisconsin ?
►http://www.mondialisme.org/spip.php?article1664

Indépendamment de leur sens spé­ci­fique, les évé­nements du début 2011 dans le #Wisconsin sont la plus grande mobi­li­sa­tion ouvrière aux #Etats-Unis depuis bien long­temps. En partie, ils pro­lon­gent d’autres luttes réc­entes ou faits signi­fi­ca­tifs de rés­ist­ance qui, bien qu’isolés, tém­oignent de la per­sis­tance de la #lutte de #classe. Ils tou­chent les rela­tions capi­tal-tra­vail et les formes qu’elles avaient prises au cours du xxe siècle. Le patro­nat amé­ricain, à la faveur de la #crise et des impor­tan­tes restruc­tu­ra­tions des condi­tions de l’#exploi­ta­tion, tente d’impo­ser de nou­vel­les rela­tions de tra­vail plus adaptées aux nou­vel­les tech­ni­ques de pro­duc­tion et à la glo­ba­li­sa­tion-mon­dia­li­sa­tion de la pro­duc­tion et du marché capi­ta­lis­tes.

Arrêt sur images - Loi anti-syndicats bloquée dans le #Wisconsin
►http://www.arretsurimages.net/vite.php?id=10834

Un point pour les manifestants ! Les manifestations contre la loi votée par l’état du Wisconsin remettant en cause les droits syndicaux de négociation collective, viennent de remporter une manche. Un juge bloque l’application de la loi, estimant qu’elle a été votée de manière non conforme.

Après le printemps arabe, bientôt une grève générale aux États-Unis ? | Sophie Chapelle (Basta !)
►http://www.bastamag.net/article1494.html

Non à l’anéantissement des droits sociaux ! Partie du Wisconsin, la contestation américaine prend de l’ampleur. Les manifestants dénoncent les projets de loi des élus républicains. Ces derniers, sous couvert de déficit budgétaire, tentent d’affaiblir les syndicats du secteur public trop enclins à soutenir le président Obama. Une mobilisation sociale qui s’inspire du printemps arabe. (...)

Conservative Crusade to Discredit Labor Experts Spreads to MI | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/mackinac-maddow-conservative-koch-prince

On March 24, William Cronon, an acclaimed history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offered a startling revelation on his personal blog: The Wisconsin Republican Party had filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding all emails sent or received via Cronon’s UW email account mentioning certain labor unions, labor leaders, the words “recall” and “collective bargaining,” and the names of a host of state Republican lawmakers, including Governor Scott Walker. The request was clearly aimed at intimidating and discrediting Cronon, a prominent academic who has criticized #Wisconsin Republicans, especially Walker, on his blog and in the pages of the New York Times.

Entretien exclusif avec Noam Chomsky II | Agnès Lebot (Là-bas si j’y suis)
►http://www.la-bas.org/article.php3?id_article=2143

De l’intervention en Lybie au mouvement Reopen 911, en passant par le Wisconsin, la Turquie et la Colombie, panorama de la situation mondiale avec Noam (...)