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Mar 10

Kaffee statt Tee, Kooperation statt Hass

Leonie Seifert | Die Zeit | March 11, 2010

Während die rechtskonservative Tea Party in den USA gegen Obama hetzt, wächst in diesen Tagen eine weitere Graswurzelbewegung heran: die Coffee Party. Die Mitglieder organisieren sich über Facebook und sammeln rasant Unterstützer. Was sie wollen, wissen sie selbst noch nicht.

“Wenn uns einer fragt, wofĂĽr wir stehen, mĂĽssen wir eine Antwort haben”, ruft ein Mann im “Vote-Obama”-Shirt. “Wir brauchen konkrete Ziele!” Die anderen klatschen Beifall. Sie haben sich ĂĽber das soziale Netz Facebook kennengelernt, in der Bar Le Monde Deli in Manhattan sehen sie sich zum ersten Mal.

Sie sind Mitglieder einer neuen Bewegung in den USA, die sich Coffee Party nennt. Es ist eine Gegenbewegung zur sogenannten Tea Party, einer rechtskonservativen Gruppierung, die sich vor rund einem Jahr aus zunächst losen Protesten gegen Barack Obamas Politik entwickelte. Mittlerweile ist die Tea Party zu einer großen Protestbewegung geworden, die lautstark und radikal gegen die Obama-Regierung hetzt.
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Mar 10

Eric Besson : “Je n’ai pas fait le jeu du Front national”

Luc Bronner et Françoise Fressoz | Le Monde | March 6, 2010

Après avoir lancĂ© le dĂ©bat controversĂ© sur l’identitĂ© nationale, Eric Besson s’est fait plus discret. Le ministre de l’immigration, de l’intĂ©gration et de l’identitĂ© serait-il en disgrâce, obligĂ© de se brider ? Il nie et repart Ă  l’offensive : “C’est le tabou et non le dĂ©bat qui entretient les mauvais instincts”, assure-t-il en annonçant la tenue d’un colloque le 8 avril.

On ne vous entend plus. Vous ĂŞtes en quarantaine depuis le dĂ©bat manquĂ© sur l’identitĂ© nationale ?

Pas du tout, j’ai participĂ© Ă  plusieurs rĂ©unions publiques, j’Ă©tais mercredi 3 mars en Isère, je serai mardi 9 en Alsace et en Lorraine aux cĂ´tĂ©s de Xavier Bertrand. Etant plus prĂ©sent dans les rĂ©unions locales depuis quinze jours, je me suis moins exprimĂ© au niveau national.
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Mar 10

Une ville du Kansas se rebaptise provisoirement “Google”

Le Monde avec AFP

Topeka, ville d’un peu plus de 100 000 habitants dans le Kansas, aux Etats-Unis, s’appellera “Google” pendant le mois de mars, a expliquĂ© son maire, lundi 1er mars. Le site Internet de la ville accueille dĂ©sormais les visiteurs par un bandeau : “Ville de Google”, Ă©crit dans la police de caractères et les couleurs du logotype de la firme californienne.

“Cette proclamation est plus un clin d’Ĺ“il qu’autre chose”, prĂ©cise le maire, William Bunten, dans le quotidien local The Topeka Capital Journal. Mais par cette initiative, les autoritĂ©s locales cherchent en rĂ©alitĂ© Ă  attirer le gĂ©ant amĂ©ricain, et son projet d’installer des rĂ©seaux Ă  très haut dĂ©bit.
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Feb 10

Arizona Goes ‘Birther’? Nearly Half Of State Legislators Want To See Obama’s Birth Certificate Before 2012 Run

JONATHAN J. COOPER – 02/23/10 – The Huffington Post

Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election.

A state House committee on Tuesday approved the measure sponsored by 40 of the state’s 90 legislators. It would require presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the requirements to be president.
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Feb 10

Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis

Jackie Calmes – The New York Times
February 16, 2010

Senator Evan Bayh’s comments this week about a dysfunctional Congress reflected a complaint being directed at Washington with increasing frequency, and there is broad agreement among critics about Exhibit A: The unwillingness of the two parties to compromise to control a national debt that is rising to dangerous heights.

After decades of warnings that budgetary profligacy, escalating health care costs and an aging population would lead to a day of fiscal reckoning, economists and the nation’s foreign creditors say that moment is approaching faster than expected, hastened by a deep recession that cost trillions of dollars in lost tax revenues and higher spending for safety-net programs.
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Feb 10

McCain Challenger: Birther Questions Are Legit In Days Of Identity Theft

Sam Stein – The Huffington Post
February 16, 2010

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.), has clearly made the political calculation that the longtime senator and 2008 presidential candidate is vulnerable on his conservative flank.

But how vulnerable is that flank? McCain supporters are sending around a clip of Hayworth’s appearance on CNN last night, in which the onetime congressman refuses to flat-out disavow the birther conspiracy movement and even suggests that, in the age of identify theft, questions about President Obama’s citizenship are legitimate.
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Feb 10

Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

David Barstow – New York Times
February 15, 2010

Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple fronts, before her son lost his job and his house. Mrs. Stout said she awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated — even manufactured — by both parties to grab power.
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Feb 10

Hardline Iranian judiciary likely to execute more dissidents

Omid Memarian – The Huffington Post – February 11, 2010

The decision by Iranian judicial authorities to start executing political dissidents shows the courts are closer to the regime than ever and neither has any intention of compromising with protesters.

Two political prisoners have been executed and the courts have imposed nine further death sentences; the country is waiting to find out whether there will be more.
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7
Feb 10

Palin Says Democrats Are ‘Running Out Of Time’ — But Also Warns Of Primary Challenges For Republicans (VIDEO)

Sam Stein – The Huffington Post – February 6, 2010
In a fiery speech before a small crowd of Tea Party convention-goers, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin branded President Obama and the Democratic Party as “out of touch, out of date” and “running out of time.”

She mocked Obama’s supporters: “How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for you?” she asked. And she savaged the whole Democratic program: “The only place the left hasn’t placed the blame is on their agenda,” she said. “So, some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that’s where you gotta look because that’s what got you into this mess.”
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6
Feb 10

Le mouvement “Tea Party” tente d’organiser la fronde anti-Washington

Corine Lesnes – LE MONDE | 06.02.10

Le mouvement populiste Tea Party tient ce week-end Ă  Nashville (Tennessee) sa première “convention nationale”. Rien de comparable avec la manifestation du 12 septembre 2009 lorsque plusieurs centaines de milliers de radicaux avaient dĂ©barquĂ© Ă  Washington avec leurs pancartes protestant contre la dictature rampante qui sĂ©vit depuis que “MaoBama” a franchi les grilles de la Maison Blanche. La rĂ©union de Nashville se tient dans un hĂ´tel cossu. Les participants ont payĂ© 549 dollars d’inscription, auxquels s’ajoutent 269 dollars pour un dĂ®ner au homard suivi d’un discours de Sarah Palin (l’hĂ©roĂŻne de la base rĂ©publicaine se fait payer 100 000 dollars pour s’adresser aux convives du banquet final).

La convention est organisĂ©e par un groupe appelĂ© “Tea Party Nation”, fondĂ© par un avocat de Nashville. Elle est boycottĂ©e par les “Tea Party Patriots”, un groupe parti de Chicago et qui se proclame l’organe originel. Le “Tea Party Express”, fondĂ© en Californie, attend son heure : ce sera en mars lorsqu’il organisera une traversĂ©e du pays en bus qui culminera avec la date de remise des dĂ©clarations d’impĂ´t le 15 avril.
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