mercredi, 10 octobre 2007
FINALLY, A FACEBOOK FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN DONORS
(By Sarah Lai Stirland / Source: Wired) Two tech-minded Republican operatives launched a web site Monday they hope will be their party's answer to the Democrats' successful fundraising clearinghouse, ActBlue. The GOP activists plan to convert reserves of online conservative energy into hard cash. "We're trying to be a directory for Republican activists," says David All, co-founder of the new online fundraising hub Slatecard, "so people can not only support candidates with a donation, but they can also support that person within their social network."
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samedi, 15 septembre 2007
RUSSIAN POKER WITH A MARKED DECK
Is the end of the last emperor who came in from the cold getting closer and is he going to give up power easily or is he going to become a puppeteer in the long Russian tradition that not even the Soviet regime stopped? The Russian Prime Minister, or better, the former Russian Prime Minister resigned excusing his act with these words, "Significant political events approaching", which refers to the coming presidential elections.
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vendredi, 14 septembre 2007
MoveOn.org MOVES FROM FROM «BETRAY US» TO «BETRAYAL» AD
(By Alexander Mooney / Source : Political Ticker – USA) Five days after MoveOn.org set off a political firestorm by publishing an ad in the New York Times attacking the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, the liberal advocacy group has set its sights on President Bush. The organization announced Friday it is rolling out a new national television ad campaign next week accusing Bush of "a betrayal of trust."(Read more
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jeudi, 06 septembre 2007
DARFUR: BANNING DIGNITY
I know, I know, I’m going to be my usual cynical self but it was about time for the General Secretary of the United Nations to remember why he’s actually there and move from the fancy New York receptions to Darfur. Really, has anybody noticed that the UN has a new secretary? And what has he done to excuse his position in the last few months?10:24 Publié dans ENGLISH EDITION , RELATIONS EXTERIEURES , RELATIONS INTER INSTITUTIONNELLES , THANOS KALAMIDAS | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : politics, Darfur, UN, Thanos Kamalidas, europeus.org
mercredi, 05 septembre 2007
THE HUMAN BOMB: THE SARKOZY REGIME BEGINS
(By Adam Gopnik / Source : The New Yorker) To understand Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been President of France for three intense months, it helps to know the story of the human bomb. “It was in 1993, when Sarkozy was the mayor of Neuilly,” Philippe Labro, the novelist and talk-show host, recalled over lunch a week or so after Sarkozy received his first Bastille Day salute as President. (Neuilly is a small leafy suburb of Paris.) “A psychotic took over a nursery school. He strapped explosives to his body, and he held the children hostage. He called himself H.B., the human bomb. He had an incoherent set of demands—a true lunatic—and the police surrounded the place. Sarkozy went into the school, completely alone, and began to talk to the human bomb. He engaged him in conversation: what did he want, what were his problems, could he solve them?...(Read more)
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REPUBLICANS ROCKED BY YET ANOTHER GAY SCANDAL
(By Alexander Cockburn / Source : Creators Syndicate) The casualty list of senior Republican politicians nailed for frequenting hookers, propositioning policemen, sending hot emails to pageboys and so forth is beginning to look like one of those interminable genealogies in Chronicles or the Book of Kings. The name of David Vitter, Louisiana's Republican senator, was recently discovered on the "D.C. Madam's" escort service list. Vitter was regional chair of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. Last year, two congressmen, Mark Fowley (R-Fla.) and Don Sherwood (R-Pa.), lost their House seats because of problematic interactions with underage male interns (Fowley) and adultery (Sherwood).(read more)
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dimanche, 29 juillet 2007
NATION'S LEADER WANTS TO TALK -- ON FACEBOOK: BERMUDAN PREMIER PERSONNALY MIXES IT UP WITH 353 'FRIENDS' ON FACEBOOK
(By LINDSAY HAMILTON / Source ABC News - USA) It's hard for many young people in Bermuda to believe, but the island nation's top government official really does want to be their friend -- their Facebook friend, that is. Politicians on social networking Web sites are nothing new. Every 2008 candidate from Joe Biden to John McCain can be found on Facebook and MySpace, but users certainly don't expect Barack Obama to be managing his own message queue and user profile.
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lundi, 16 juillet 2007
ARUNDHATI ROY - WE
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dimanche, 17 juin 2007
THE G8 SUMMIT - A USELESS EXERCISE AT HIGH COSTS
The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, was expensive (app. 100 million €), troubled (1,045 people arrested), violent (several hundred protesters and police injured), puzzling (the 12 million € fence reminded in an ugly way the Israel and the former Berlin wall), weird (police had collected weeks ago used clothes of "possible protesters" to hunt the dogs on the trails of the owners), difficult to understand (violent "agents provocateurs" to justify the presence of 16,000 police forces), frightening (when a police boat crushed a Greenpeace boat, risking the lives of the Greenpeace team) and above all – a real flop.15:00 Publié dans ENGLISH EDITION , KAI LITTMANN , POLITIQUE , RELATIONS EXTERIEURES | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : europe, politics, g8, kai littmann, europeus.org
mercredi, 02 mai 2007
WHAT’S UP MR. ANNAN?
The best way to start this is with a scream! But let me rephrase it: the former General Secretary of the United Nations Kofi Annan warns that the aid targets for Africa “will be missed” unless more is done. This is the part you start screaming. Mr. Kofi Annan was UN Secretary General for two terms and his last day at the office was just four months ago, so except the usual P.R. and preparing for his new job, which will definitely be properly rewarded, what else did he do? I could have thought of other ways to phrase my question…but let’s stick with this one.
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