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11
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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3
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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17
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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14
Feb 10

Teabagging the Nation – A Patriotic Pursuit

Sarah Palin on Twitter

On February 10, Sarah Palin tweeted a public birthday greeting to Glenn Beck: “Happy B’day Glenn Beck! Ah, the wisdom of our elders…” Apart from the feigned folksiness of the word “B’day” and the astonishing attributing of wisdom to Glenn Beck, the tweet primarily declares an attempted strategic alliance. Self-professed “rodeo clown” Glenn Beck soon reciprocated by suggesting one of the few strategic alliances described by the American Constitution: “Happy belated birthday to my younger friend Sarah. Let’s just have a combined party in 2013, to save the WH pastry chef some work.” So, however jokingly it may have been put forth, we now have the proposition of a Palin/Beck ballot in 2012.

This twittering mating game may not disclose actual political plans and aspirations on behalf of Glenn Beck but Palin has declared herself ready and willing if not rough and ready, she has publicly cuddled up to elderly wisdom, and the wise old man is apparently going along as far as the ride will take him. Both twitterers seem to be flaunting blatant political opportunism in a giddy, frivolous manner indicating that whatever they are doing, it is working.
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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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