mercredi 31 décembre 2014
John Oliver pour terminer 2014: bonne année 2015 tout le monde!
John Oliver aura été ma révélation de 2014. Je ne me lasse pas de ses émissions! Comme il n'est là qu'une fois par semaine, il a plus de perspective que Stewart ou Colbert. Il surpasse Bill Maher par l'intelligence du propos (quelle recherche!!) sans tomber dans les mêmes excès de vulgarité pour provoquer. J'ai déjà hâte de voir s'il pourra maintenir le cap en 2015.
dimanche 21 décembre 2014
Tuerie à New York: des syndicats blâment Bill de Blasio
"Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said that de Blasio was partially to blame for the shooting. "There’s blood on many hands tonight. Those that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protest that tried to tear down what NYPD officers did every day. We tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated," Lynch said, according to CBS New York. "That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor."
L'équipe du maire a ensuite diffusé ce message: "It’s unfortunate that in a time of great tragedy, some would resort to irresponsible, overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people," spokesman Phil Walzak said. "Mayor de Blasio understands this is the time when we must come together to support the families and friends of those brave officers New York City lost tonight — and the entire NYPD community."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/police-unions-de-blasio-shootings
Policiers assassinés à New York: “I’m Putting Wings On Pigs Today"
"But the shooting on Saturday seemed reminiscent of decades past, when the city was mired in an epidemic of drugs and violence and, in 1988, a police officer was shot while he sat alone in his patrol car guarding the home of a man who had testified in a drug case. That killing shook the city, sparking an escalation in the war on drugs and an aggressive crackdown on violent crime. Mr. Bratton said that the attack on Saturday was the seventh time since 1972 that partners in the Police Department had been killed at the same time.
The killing seemed to drive the wedge between Mr. de Blasio and rank-and-file officers even deeper. Video posted online showed dozens of officers turning their backs to the mayor as he walked into anews conference on Saturday night.
“There’s blood on many hands tonight — those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protests, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day," the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, said outside Woodhull Hospital. He added, “That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/two-police-officers-shot-in-their-patrol-car-in-brooklyn.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
samedi 20 décembre 2014
Obama réserve ses réponses aux femmes pour sa dernière conférence de presse!
"The first woman ever to cover a president was the late Helen Thomas. Before her death last year, she had been a fixture in the first row of the briefing room and at presidential news conferences for decades beginning with John F. Kennedy's presidency.
Until 1962, women weren't even allowed to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Thomas helped change that, but the corps has long been dominated by men."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/12/19/that-time-obama-called-on-all-women-at-a-press-conference/?hpid=z3
"I'm not done": Obama n'a pas l'intention de baisser les bras
"In part, Obama’s got the larger political dynamics to thank. At this point in the run-up to 2008, everyone knew who the candidates were going to be, and most of the candidates had already started picking out office space for their headquarters.. This time around, even the politician most expected to run — Hillary Clinton — has pushed off a final announcement until the spring. The action’s so slim that Jeb Bush’s Facebook post that he was “actively exploring” a presidential run was enough to come off like a cannonball.
And as much as White House aides gloat about the recent run of good news that’s fed the sense of a turnaround — “It gets better,” was the year-end message Obama stressed as he closed up the press conference and got ready to head to Hawaii for two weeks — they admit that they’ve gotten lucky in the timing. The climate deal with China, the booming Obamacare enrollment numbers, the teetering of the Russian economy — were all the result of long planning but ripened in close succession more on their own timetable than due to any great plan to jam-pack the last few weeks of the year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/barack-obama-im-not-done-113716.html?hp=t1_r
Caricature Kim Jong-Un et le cinéma américain: "that's all folks"!!!
Caricature de TAYLOR JONES, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM
Une insulte pour Porky Pig?
vendredi 19 décembre 2014
Caricature Poutine et la flambée des prix du pétrole...
Sony a fait une erreur en retirant "The interview" selon Obama
"We cannot have a society in which some dictators some place can start imposing censorship here in the united states because if somebody is able to intimidate us out of releasing a satirical movie. Imagine what they start doing once they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like," Obama said. "That's now who we are. That's not what America is about."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/19/politics/fbi-north-korea-responsible-sony/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Caricature pape François et la relations États-Unis-Cuba
François répétant le geste de Moïse avec la mer Rouge...
Barack Obama premier président latino?
"Obama has already increased his Latino support from 67 percent in 2008 to 71 percent in 2012. If things keep up this way, pollsters see the chance that one of his electoral legacies could be helping deliver upward of 80 percent of a quickly growing population to the next Democratic nominee.
Gary Segura, the principal and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions, said Republicans risk hastening that along if they spend the next two years railing against the immigration executive actions — which, he said, will only help Obama’s standing among Latinos by giving him a chance to repeatedly remind them that he stood with them.
“He’ll spend most of the last two years of his presidency defending Latinos and his executive action. He’ll look good, his party will look good, the opposition party will look bad,” Segura said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/the-first-latino-president-113694.html?hp=t4_r
"The interview" et Hollywood: tous les films sont politiques
"The truth that the Sony/“Interview” debacle has laid bare is that all films are political, from the most banal escapist romp to the self-valorizing action adventures we aggressively send to the overseas markets — especially in Asia — that account for around 70 percent of the movie industry’s profits.
That point was inadvertently proved with perhaps the most provocative kernel of information that emerged during the disorienting past few days. In the middle of the swirl, the Daily Beast revealed communications between Sony Entertainment chief executive Michael Lynton and the State Department, which told him that “The Interview” had the potential of actually moving the needle in North Korea. Lynton had already run the project by a specialist at the Rand Corp. (where he sits on the board of trustees)."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sony-the-interview-and-the-unspoken-truth-that-all-movies-are-political/2014/12/18/406f84c6-86ca-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?hpid=z1
Caricature Obama et Castro: le président a-t-il trop donné?
jeudi 18 décembre 2014
Stephen Colbert: la fin et... Le début.
"The show was so good and so meticulously performed that you could, in fact, not watch it. That, too, is high praise. It’s rare for a show and a performer to become so enmeshed with the zeitgeist that ratings become a moot point. Only the most loyal citizens of the so-called Colbert Nation truly needed their nightly dose of the layered political satire that Colbert mastered in the guise of “Stephen Colbert,” a narcissistic, conservative blowhard spouting his fact-averse commentary on the day’s news."
Et je vous laisse une performance de Colbert qui a marqué les esprits. Il était l'humoriste invité pour le White House Correspondents Association dinner en 2006:
La Havane célèbre les changements dans les relations avec les États-Unis
"As politically charged as Mr. Obama’s new stance may be in the United States, the sweeping changes he outlined on Wednesday will have a much more profound impact on Cuba — where isolation by the United States has fundamentally shaped the island’s economy, its politics and even its sense of national identity.
For decades, the American embargo of Cuba has been the political sword and shield of the Castros, held responsible for stifling their nation’s development, depriving their people of the most basic needs, and justifying their tight control over all aspects of society.
Now their powerful rival is promising significant expansions in travel, exports and remittances to Cuba, the biggest erosion of the embargo since it was imposed more than 50 years ago.
Experts say it will bring a flood of new money to the island, potentially injecting new life into the economy and, coupled with restored diplomatic ties, transforming relations between the two countries in ways not seen since a bearded rebel named Fidel came down from the Cuban mountains.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/as-havana-celebrates-historic-shift-economic-and-political-hopes-rise.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Les républicains veulent bloquer la stratégie cubaine d'Obama
"Just hours after Obama announced that a prisoner swap with the Cuban government for two Americans was the start of a new relationship with the communist country, Republicans began informally kicking around ideas to stop any changes to the U.S.-Cuba relationship.
On the list: deny Obama funds to reopen an embassy in Havana, stall the nomination of a potential ambassador, vote down a bill to open up travel more widely and ignore requests from the White House to lift a decades-old embargo.
When Republicans control the Senate next year, the party would be in a good position to get some of their plans done. But even if they can’t fully stop Obama, who has some authority to act without Congress, the dispute will provide another opportunity for the president’s Hill rivals, including 2016 likely hopefuls Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, to continue to question his use of executive action — a theme Republicans had already planned to take on next year around Obama’s moves on immigration and Obamacare.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/congress-cuba-reaction-113654.html
Obama "free at last"?
"Obama feels liberated, aides say, and sees the recent flurry of aggressive executive action and deal-making as a pivot for him to spend his final two years in office being more the president he always wanted to be.
As of Wednesday, that includes doing what 50-plus years of predecessors couldn’t do in relations with Cuba, propelling a generational shift in American foreign policy that could bring down a final remaining pillar of the Cold War. The Cuba announcement follows a post-Election Day sprint that included sealing a landmark climate agreement with China, shielding 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, and reaching a deal that funds most of the government for nearly a year while protecting Obamacare and other top priorities."
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/obama-libre-113663.html?hp=t3_r
Jimmy Carter fier d'Obama sur la question cubaine
"Carter, who also tried to mend relations with Cuba as president, said that the Cuban people will be the main beneficiaries of a new relationship - not the country’s rulers - and he added that the move will be “good for both countries.” “I think this openness of communication will be much better, there will obviously be more trade, commerce, visitation back and forth, which I think will promote democracy,” Carter said.%
“The best way to bring democracy and freedom to Cuba…is to have full opportunity for Americans to go there, trade, to invest…I think this will open up the Cuban people to the realization that they need to move towards more freedom and more democracy.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/jimmy-carter-obama-cuba-113669.html?hp=l2_4
mercredi 17 décembre 2014
Le couple Obama et le racisme
"The President also appeared to reference the 2012 killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, who was shot by neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fl.
"It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress," he told the magazine."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obamas-share-experiences-racism
Corée du Nord, Sony et le film "The interview"
Des pirates informatiques nord-coréens auraient orchestré les menaces d'attaques terroristes contre les salles de cinéma qui auraient projeté le film "The interview". Cette comédie mettant en vedette Seth Rogen et James Franco racontaient l'histoire d'un producteur et d'un animateur que la CIA chargeait d'assassiner le leader nord-coréen. Voici une bande-annonce du film: Dans cet article on précise que l'ordre de pirater proviendrait des dirigeants de la Corée du nord: "U.S. investigators say an announcement pinning the blame on hackers working for the Pyongyang regime could come as soon as Thursday.
Because of the North Korean regime's tight control of the Internet in the reclusive country, U.S. officials believe the hack was ordered directly by the country's leadership.
North Korea experts say the country has spent its scarce resources on building up a unit called "Bureau 121" to carry out cyber attacks."
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/media/the-interview-sony-theater-owners/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Caricature Obama et Cuba: dépassé l'embargo?
L'image des vieilles voitures américaines est associée à l'embargo décrété en 1962. Lors de mes deux séjours sur l'île j'ai eu l'occasion d'en essayer quelques-unes et j'étais toujours impressionné par l'ingéniosité déployée pour les faire rouler malgré le manque de pièces.
États-Unis et Cuba: des mois pour préparer l'annonce d'aujourd'hui
La photo montre Obama serrant la main de Castro aux funérailles de Nelson Mandela. On avait beaucoup parlé de cette photo, mais on ne savait rien des négociations secrètes.
Des négociations débutées en 2013 et qui auront impliqué le Vatican et le Canada.
"In the account provided by senior administration officials, Obama authorized the exploratory discussions with Cubans in the spring of 2013. The meetings were conducted by two national security advisers — Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, and Ricardo Zúñiga, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs on the National Security Council. Their first face-to-face meeting with Cubans took place in June 2013."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secret-diplomacy-with-cuba-ended-in-breakthrough-deal/2014/12/17/c51b3ed8-8614-11e4-a702-fa31ff4ae98e_story.html?hpid=z2
Caricature Noël: reprise d'un vieux "classique"
Grandlund reprend les paroles de Silver Bell pour illustrer une autre réalité. Je vous laisse également une interprétation classique, celle de Bing Crosby.
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