samedi 30 septembre 2017

Caricature Donald Trump et la réélection de Merkel

Caricature de Patrick Chappatte, The International New York Times

Caricature Donald Trump et Porto Rico

Caricature de RJ Matson, CagleCartoons.com 

 Matson est un brin malhonnête dans sa caricature, l'aide a été déployée et elle serait adéquate dans les circonstances. Une fois de plus c'est la gestion des relations que Trump envenime en tardant à se manifester puis en s'en prenant à la mairesse de San Juan qui lançait un cri du coeur.

Caricature Tom Price "démissionne"

Caricature de RJ Matson, Roll Call

Caricature Tom Price règle ses comptes

Caricature de Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

vendredi 29 septembre 2017

Caricature NFL et Antifa...

Caricature de Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch

Travailler jusqu'à sa mort: la nouvelle réalité des gens âgés aux États-Unis?


Prendre une retraite? De plus en plus d'Américains n'en ont plus les moyens et les causes du phénomène sont multiples. Un topo dans les pages du Washington Post. Je serais curieux de lire une étude canadienne ou québécoise sur le même sujet.

 "People are living longer, more expensive lives, often without much of a safety net. As a result, record numbers of Americans older than 65 are working — now nearly 1 in 5. That proportion has risen steadily over the past decade, and at a far faster rate than any other age group. Today, 9 million senior citizens work, compared with 4 million in 2000.

While some work by choice rather than need, millions of others are entering their golden years with alarmingly fragile finances. Fundamental changes in the U.S. retirement system have shifted responsibility for saving from the employer to the worker, exacerbating the nation’s rich-poor divide. Two recent recessions devastated personal savings. And at a time when 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every day, Social Security benefits have lost about a third of their purchasing power since 2000."

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/seniors-financial-insecurity/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_rigged-pensions-1213pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0d0be93e4cc2

Jay Silveria, Lieutenant-Général, dénonce le racisme dans son unité


Si le Président Trump est pour le moins timide quand vient le temps de rassembler les Américains sur la question raciale, Jay Silveria s'est exprimé de manière on ne peut plus claire auprès de ses hommes après qu'on eut trouvé une inscription raciste sur un mur près de la chambre de membres noirs de son unité. La vidéo de son discours est devenue virale, plusieurs y voyant un exemple du leadership qui fait défaut chez le Président.
 

Caricature femmes au volant en Arabie saoudite

Caricature d'Osama Hajjaj, Jordan

jeudi 28 septembre 2017

Caricature Donald Trump et le respect au drapeau

Caricature de Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com

Caricature Donald Trump et l'imposition sumplifiée

Caricature de Jimmy Margulies, Politicalcartoons.com

Collaboration dans "Radio-Canada cet après-midi": baisse impôts, abrogation Obamacare et Porto Rico


Nos échanges à 17h43 sur l'Audio fil du 28 septembre:
  http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/radio-canada-cet-apres-midi

Caricature Hugh Hefner, un héritage controversé

Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star

Caricature Hugh Hefner en enfer?

Caricature de Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

Caricature Hugh Hefner n'est plus

Caricature de Bob Englehart, CagleCartoons.com

Hugh Hefner meurt à 91 ans


Éternel adolescent, symbole d'une époque sexiste ou pionnier indépendant qui a illustré la révolution sexuelle, "Hef" a laissé bien peu de gens indifférents. Son héritage est assurément controversé.

 "Love him or loathe him, no one doubts Mr. Hefner's influence in American cultural history," The New York Times wrote in 2009. "As a magazine publisher, he essentially did for sex what Ray Kroc did for roadside food: clean it up for a rising middle class."

Although he was accused repeatedly throughout his career of objectifying and degrading women, Hefner remained unapologetic about Playboy's mission.

"If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private," his magazine quoted him as saying in 1974. "If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights."

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/media/hugh-hefner/index.html

Caricature la mélodie du bonheur: abrogation d'Obamacare

Caricature de Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch

mercredi 27 septembre 2017

"Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House" (critique du New York Times)


Critique du film sur celui qui a été la source des journalistes Bernstein et Woodward dans le scandale du Watergate.

 "But whether "Mark Felt" adds clarity to the legend of Watergate or further mythologizes it is up for debate. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the famed journalists whose reporting earned the Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize, say Peter Landesman's film overstates the importance of Felt in untangling Watergate, portraying him as a puppet master pulling the strings that would, as the subtitle asserts, topple Richard Nixon.

Felt, then the No. 2 official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, played an integral role in exposing Nixon's attempted cover-up. But by depicting Felt as the grand orchestrator of the president's demise, Woodward and Bernstein say, "Mark Felt" distorts the history — and lessons — of Watergate.

"Felt played a role, at times a courageous one," Woodward told The Associated Press. "But this portrait of him as 'the man who brought down the White House' just isn't accurate."

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/09/26/us/ap-us-film-mark-felt-.html?mcubz=3

Caricature Twitter songe à doubler le nombre de caractères

Caricature de Joe Heller, PoliticalCartoons.com

Caricature les femmes pourront conduire en Arabie saoudite

Caricature de Tom Janssen, The Netherlands

Caricature aide à Porto Rico

Caricature de Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

Chronique dans "Québec aujourd'hui" sur les ondes de BLVD 102,1: football, courriels et documentaire!


La chronique dans la section "Réécouter" du 27 septembre:
http://blvd.fm/emissions/3-quebec-aujourd-hui

Caricature Arabie saoudite et droits de l'homme...

Caricature d'Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

Caricature axe du mal 2017

Caricature de Jeff Darcy, Cleveland.com

mardi 26 septembre 2017

Abrogation d'Obamacare: le Sénat ne votera pas sur le plan Graham-Cassidy


Tout indique que ce qui pouvait bien être la dernière tentative d'abroger Obamacare avant les élections de mi-mandat a échoué. Un revers difficile à avaler pour la formation politique qui promettait ce résultat depuis 2010.

 "The Senate will not vote on Republicans' latest bill to repeal Obamacare this week, putting an end, for now, to the GOP's seven-year campaign promise to dismantle the health care law.

The decision was reached at a party lunch Tuesday after it became clear the plan would fail, GOP senators said. Three Senate Republicans had already said they would vote against the measure, and the GOP could only afford two defections."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/obamacare-repeal-failure-republican-senate-243148

Courriels privés: six membres de l'entourage de Donald Trump ont utilisé leur compte personnel dans le cadre du travail


C'est Hillary Clinton qui doit rager... Il y a cependant une différence majeures dans ce dossier puisque Mme Clinton utilisait également un serveur privé.

 "The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone. Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief White House strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff, also occasionally used private email addresses. Other advisers, including Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, officials said.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter, who is married to Mr. Kushner, used a private account when she acted as an unpaid adviser in the first months of the administration, Newsweek reported Monday. Administration officials acknowledged that she also occasionally did so when she formally became a White House adviser. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters.

 Officials are supposed to use government emails for their official duties so their conversations are available to the public and those conducting oversight. But it is not illegal for White House officials to use private email accounts as long as they forward work-related messages to their work accounts so they can be preserved."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/politics/private-email-trump-kushner-bannon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Facebook et la publicité achetée par des intérêts russes: on tentait de favorise Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders et Donald Trump


On pourrait résumer aisément en affirmant que ces publicités visaient à affaiblir la campagne d'Hillary Clinton... Le principe de base étant de déstabiliser le système américain.

 "There is no indication Stein, Sanders or Trump was aware of the advertisements, which were described to POLITICO by people with knowledge of them.

 Facebook declined to comment on the specifics of the advertisements but noted a previous statement: “The vast majority of ads run by these accounts didn’t specifically reference the U.S. presidential election or voting for a particular candidate. Rather, the ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.”

U.S. officials are investigating whether about 3,000 ads purchased on Facebook by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency might have been part of a larger Russian government scheme to meddle in the 2016 election."

  http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/facebook-russia-trump-sanders-stein-243172

Caricature Oncle Sam pose un genoux au sol

Caricature de Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com

Caricature nation divisée

Caricature de Jeff Koterba, Omaha World Herald, NE

Caricature Porto Rico s'agenouille aussi

Caricature de RJ Matson, Roll Call

Caricature NFL et Bill of rights!

Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star

Caricature Donald Trump et la réponse de la NFL

Caricature de Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com

Intervention dans "Plan de match" sur les ondes de BLVD 102,1: Donald Trump et la NFL


Nos échanges au tout début de l'intégrale du 25 septembre. Dans la section "Réécouter": http://blvd.fm/emissions/24-le-plan-de-match

Caricature Donald Trump et Porto Rico

Caricature de Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons

Bientôt des accusations contre Michal Flynn et Paul Manafort?


Le Sénateur démocrate du Connecticut affirme être sûr à 99% que des accusations seront portées contre Michael Flynn et Paul Manafort. Si L'enquête du procureur spécial Mueller ne semble pas pour l'instant impliqué directement Donald Trump, d'autres membres de son entourage pourraient également être accusés.

 "“I'm about 99 percent sure there will be some criminal charges from this investigation,” said Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Blumenthal has also served as a U.S. attorney and spent 20 years as his state's attorney general.

Blumenthal said he is less certain Trump himself would end up facing charges, including for possible obstruction of justice for his firing of FBI Director James Comey."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/indictments-michael-flynn-paul-manafort-richard-blumenthal-says-243158?lo=ap_c1

Le Texas, Donald Trump et la NFL



Les texans ont largement encouragé Donald Trump lors de la dernière campagne électorale et c'est un fait bien connu qu'ils adorent le football. Comment allait-il réagir hier lors que le joueurs et le propriétaire des Cowboys ont posé un genoux au sol pendant l'hymne national? Les réactions sont multiples.

 "In a state-of-the-art sports bar alongside Interstate 20 about an hour east of Dallas on Monday night, there came the oddest non-sound: a silence that began to seem loud. It came from 14 tables and the crowded bar area. It filled the room as only silence can, and it lasted all the way through the national anthem being played through the screens from Arizona. It featured bar patrons who had been chattering or studying phones, their faces rapt with what looked like a mix of curiosity and respect.

It ended when the anthem ended, and with a booming cheer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/the-anthem-debate-rages-in-the-heart-of-trump-and-cowboys-country/2017/09/26/c5553064-a2c4-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_nfltexas-120p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ec4e60b1b784

lundi 25 septembre 2017

Les Cowboys de Dallas et leur propriétaire s'agenouillent avant le match


Les manifestations contre les propos de Donald Trump se sont poursuivies lors du traditionnel match du lundi soir. Si les Cards de l'Arizona ont signifié leur désaccord, tous les joueurs, le personnel d'entraîneurs et le propriétaire des Cowboys ont carrément posé le genoux au sol. Jerry Jones, le propriétaire des Cowboys était un partisan de Donald Trump lors de la dernière campagne et il a contribué à l'investiture.

" Charlotte Jones Anderson, a Cowboys executive and the daughter of the owner, told ESPN’s Lisa Salters Monday that the team would take a knee “as a statement for equality and as a representation of unity.” According to Salters, Anderson said that the players wanted to “separate that message from the national anthem.”"

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/09/25/cowboys-players-take-a-knee-with-owner-jerry-jones-before-standing-for-anthem/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_cowboysanthem-840pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.0c7add29d7e5

Donald Trump et la gênante décision des Penguins (Martin Leclerc, Radio-Canada)


Je souhaitais relayer ici un texte de Martin Leclerc dont je partage l'argumentaire.

 "Quand un fabricant de jeans exploite des enfants et que vous achetez ses produits, vous n’êtes pas neutre. Vous prenez position. Quand des travailleurs sont en lock-out ou en grève et que vous franchissez les lignes de piquetage, vous n’êtes pas neutre. Vous prenez position. Dans la même veine, si le président américain s’attaque à des valeurs fondamentales et que vous acceptez d’aller vous faire photographier avec lui, vous n’êtes pas neutre. Vous prenez position.

Et c’est franchement désolant."

  http://beta.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1057815/hockey-donald-trump-penguins-pittsburgh-lnh

Collaboration dans "Radio-Canada cet après-midi": Donald Trump et la réaction de la NFL


Nos échanges à 17h44 sur l'audio fil du 25 septembre:
  http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/radio-canada-cet-apres-midi

Caricature Donald Trump a ses priorités


Caricature de Randy Bish, PoliticalCartoons.com

Donald Trump, la NFL et le NASCAR: encore et toujours la base...


Pour galvaniser sa base autour de la question du nationalisme, Donald Trump n'a pas hésité à s'en prendre à la NFL, autant les joueurs que les propriétaires. Loin de se rétracter ou d'apaiser les tensions il relance ses opposants et se tourne vers le NASCAR comme exemple d'organisation qui ne tolère pas le manque de respect. Une fois de plus le Président évolue à la limite de la question raciale, les participants aux coures étant majoritairement blancs.

 "And while the NFL has borne the brunt of Trump’s criticism, the president’s national anthem-related focus wandered Monday morning to NASCAR, with the president praising the stock car racing league “and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag - they said it loud and clear!”

Multiple team owners from NASCAR, which is especially popular in the South and in more rural parts of the U.S., took a tougher stance than those from the NFL, warning that they would fire crew members or drivers who protest during the anthem. The Associated Press reported that Sunday’s race in New Hampshire appeared to be protest-free during the anthem."

Dale Earnhardt Jr., the recently retired NASCAR driver who nonetheless remains perhaps the sport’s biggest star, weighed in Monday morning, writing on Twitter that “all Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests” and quoting former President John F. Kennedy, “those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/trump-nfl-fight-nascar-243091

Caricature jeux de guerre

Caricature de Michael Kountouris, Greece

Caricature Angela Merkel: lendemain d'élection

Caricature de Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria

Caricature Donald Trump sceau présidentiel...

Caricature d'Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

dimanche 24 septembre 2017

Caricature Merkel seule dans la tourmente

Caricature de Ruben Oppenheimer, PoliticalCartoons.com

NFL: nombreuses manifestations pour dénoncer les propos de Donald Trump


Une question bien délicate que celle de manifester pendant l'interprétation de l'hymne national américain avant un match de football. Plusieurs équipes ont décidé de le faire malgré tout, ce qui place certains joueurs dans une position inconfortable. Je pense ici à l'ex-ranger de l'armée Alejandro Villanueva qui a servi trois fois en Afghanistan. Alors que ses coéquipiers sont demeurés au vestiaire, il s'est tenu bien droit à la sortie du tunnel en portant la main sur son coeur. Voici un survol des différentes manifestations.

 "Rather than taking a knee, most NFL players opted for a show of unity Sunday, locking arms ahead of their games amid criticism from President Trump who slammed players opting to protest during the national anthem.

Still, plenty opted to kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner," with the Baltimore Ravens' Terrell Suggs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Mike Evans among the stars following the lead of former pro quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who pioneered the anthem protests last year."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/us/nfl-trump-take-knee-protests/index.html

Caricature la mutinerie de John McCain

Caricature de Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

La NFL offre une réponse mesurée à Donald Trump


Une fois de plus vendredi Donald Trump a tenu des propos qui divisent plutôt que de rassembler. En invitant les propriétaires à congédier les "sons of bitches" qui manquent de respect à l'hymne nation, Donald Trump place les propriétaires et la ligue dans une position délicate. Les dirigeants de la ligue ont offert une petite leçon au Président en répondant de façon mesurée. La NFL n'est pas parfaite et elle est actuellement confrontée à plusieurs difficultés, mais au moins ici on favorise l'unité.

 "Wisely, Goodell and other owners refused Trump’s bid to separate players from fans by playing on their economic and racial differences. “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game, and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities,” Goodell said in a statement. It’s at its best as a league when it has “unity,” Goodell stressed."

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/trump-doesnt-get-the-nfl-its-not-about-power-unleashed-but-power-with-purpose/2017/09/23/08bdec8c-a0a0-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.5731c0f34da6

Hassan Rohani le prochain Rocket man?


Est-il bien sage de de mettre fin à l'entente avec l'Iran sur la question du nucléaire? Jeffrey Lewis nous rappelle qu'une entente du même type avait été signée avec la Corée du Nord en 1995.

 "The North Koreans may have been willing to trade away the possibility of nuclear weapons for promises of better relations. After the first nuclear weapons test, however, the window on denuclearizing North Korea began to close. Bush and then President Barack Obama each tried to reach an agreement with Pyongyang, but those efforts collapsed for many reasons that leave enough blame to go around.

It is far easier to persuade a country to abandon nuclear weapons it does not have. That is why the Obama administration threw itself into finding a solution to a not-yet-nuclear Iran. When asked about the festering problem of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, the administration had little to offer other than to point to its efforts to stop Tehran from following suit.

 And so here we are. Trump is faced with precisely the same choice as Bush — although with one important difference. Unlike North Korea, with its covert uranium enrichment program, Iran remains in compliance with the agreement signed in Vienna. The IAEA is absolutely clear on this fact, and Trump has twice certified that Iran is in compliance. And yet, like Bolton in 2002, there are those who are simply looking for a hammer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/if-trump-kills-the-iran-deal-he-may-give-the-world-another-rocket-man/2017/09/22/703788ec-9e79-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.747c32321098

La maladie mentale affecte-t-elle-t-elle Donald Trump ou tout le pays? (Washington Post)


Un sujet bien délicat qui provoque un sérieux malaise. Un article qui effectue un survol de trois livres qui ont comme thème principal l'élection de Donald Trump et ses comportements étranges. L'arrivée de Donald Trump au pouvoir de Donald Trump constitue-t-elle une exception, un moment de brève folie ou est-elle plutôt la manifestation d'une dérive plus profonde? Les psychiatres se prononcent.

 "If so, what should we make of the nation that entrusted him with precisely such powers? In his new book, “Twilight of American Sanity,” psychiatrist Allen Frances asserts that Trump is not mentally ill — we are. “Calling Trump crazy allows us to avoid confronting the craziness in our society,” he writes. “We can’t expect to change Trump, but we must work to undo the societal delusions that created him.” And those delusions, Kurt Andersen contends in “Fantasyland,” have been around for a long time. “People tend to regard the Trump moment — this post-truth, alternative facts moment — as some inexplicable and crazy new American phenomenon,” he writes. “In fact, what’s happening is just the ultimate extrapolation and expression of attitudes and instincts that have made America exceptional for its entire history.”

So, depending on which of these books you trust — and their persuasive powers vary considerably — you might conclude that Trump is of unsound mind, or that we’re the deranged ones for electing him, or that America has always been disturbed, with Trump’s presidency just the latest manifestation.

And here’s the really crazy thing: These options are not mutually exclusive."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/09/22/is-trump-mentally-ill-or-is-america-psychiatrists-weigh-in/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.af7f6f0d1036

Les Tours de Laliberté migrent: rejoignez-moi sur le site du Journal de Québec et du Journal de Montréal

Depuis un certain temps je me demandais comment faire évoluer mon petit carnet web. La réponse m'est parvenue par le biais d'u...