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Bill Maher et les candidats républicains: même Jésus ne pourrait gagner!

Bill Maher: il nous présente Rick Perry...

Occupy Wall Street: la police procède à 700 arrestations!

Pour une plus grande justice sociale... Les manifestants s'étaient regroupés sur le pont de .

"In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action.

“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, said. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”

But many protesters said they believed the police had tricked them, allowing them onto the bridge, and even escorting them partway across, only to trap them in orange netting after hundreds had entered.

“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us onto the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who marched but was not arrested."

Je vous laisse deux liens, le premier pour le site de Occupy Wall street et le second pour l'Article du NY Times:

https://occupywallst.org/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha29

Assurance-santé: depuis 19 mois un hôpital assume tous les frais pour un immigrant illégal

Pourquoi? Il n'au aucun endroit où aller... Le coût de ses soins est de 1,4 million... Il y a assurément un vide juridique sur cette question. Personne ne veut de ce patient sans assurances et sans papiers qui ne veut pas exposer sa famille, elle aussi sans papiers, à des représailles et/ou des coûts qu'elle ne pourra assumer. Pendant ce temps, l'hôpital perd des sommes astronomiques...

"Nineteen months later, Mr. Fok, 58, greeted a reporter from his bed in Room 516, eager to have a visitor. In the previous year and a half, perhaps 100 or more patients had come and gone from the room’s other bed, but Mr. Fok had gone nowhere. “Yes, I remember you,” he said. “John, right?”

The price of his treatment: $1.4 million.

And who was paying for it?

“The government,” Mr. Fok guessed, though he was not sure. “The hospital is losing money.”

In a city with a large immigrant population, it is not rare for hospitals to have one or more patients who, for reasons unrelated to their medical condition, do not seem to leave. At Downtown, where a bed costs the hospital more than $2,000 a day, there are currently three long-term patients who no longer need acute care but cannot be discharged because they have nowhere to go. The hospital pays nearly all costs for these patients’ treatment. One man left recently after a stay of more than five years.

They are the forgotten people in the health care system — uninsured, usually undocumented, without resources and stuck in the system’s most expensive course of care. Some are abandoned by or estranged from relatives; some belong in rehabilitation centers, where care is much cheaper, but because of their immigration status they are not enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare, so the places will not take them. For hospitals, some of these patients, like Mr. Fok, come in as medical cases and then quickly become puzzles for detective work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/nyregion/stuck-in-bed-for-19-months-at-hospitals-expense.html?pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha29

Lutte au terrorisme: dix ans plus tard, comment gère-t-on la liste de suspects?

Encore de problèmes de coordination? Comment utilise-t-on les listes de suspects? On s'interroge également sur la taille de la base de données qui présente 420 000 noms!

"One of the bitter lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the need for better coordination and sharing of intelligence among the nation’s security agencies, to flag dangerous people entering the country. But there were also well-founded concerns about how well that system was working, and whether it was being abused.

Ten years later, files released by the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act show that the government’s bloated terrorist watch list remains a flawed security tool in need of greater transparency and accountability. There are longstanding concerns about implementation and accuracy, including the omission of names from the list that properly belong there. There also has been a persistent problem of flagging the wrong people — including an 8-year-old and at least one senator — who then have serious trouble getting their names removed.

The 91 pages of newly disclosed files, described by The Times’s Charlie Savage last week, included a December 2010 memorandum to F.B.I. field offices revealing that even a not-guilty verdict may not always be enough to get someone off the list, if agents retain “reasonable suspicion” that the person might have ties to terrorism.

The database now has 420,000 names, including about 8,000 Americans. About 16,000 individuals are barred from flying. Timothy Healy, the director of the F.B.I.’s Terrorist Screening Center, which reviews requests to add or remove names from the watch list, says the multilayered process for vetting nominees for the list balances civil liberties and security well."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/antiterror-measures-at-home.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211

Thurgood Marshall: 2 octobre 1967, premier noir à la Cour suprême

Après un brillante carrière d'avocat, très impliqué dans la défenses des droits civils, Marshall deviendra juge sous John F. Kennedy en 1961 et accédera à la Cour Suprême sous Lyndon Johnson. On retrouve une statue du juge Marshall à Baltimore.

Steven Chu: un Nobel fait-il de vous un bon Secrétaire?

Chu est le Secrétaire à l'énergie dans l'administration Obama...

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu faces questions over whether his laboratory smarts and Silicon Valley background have undercut his ability to operate inside the Beltway.

Chu has kept a very low profile during the Solyndra affair, traveling to China and Vienna in September and speaking almost exclusively on other topics within his domain as questions pile up from Congress about the lost $535 million loan guarantee.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday that Chu has "the president's full confidence." But Chu, the Nobel laureate praised last year for spending weeks in a Houston control room brainstorming up engineering ideas that ultimately helped cap the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, is not out of the woods.

"Just because you are a Nobel Prize-winning physicist doesn't mean you'd be a good orthopedic surgeon," said one former Bush Energy Department official. "They're different skill sets."

"Impressive credentials, but sadly miscast for the rough and tumble, oft unforgiving world of oil and energy markets and its cast of malign actors," Raymond Learsy, author of "Oil and Finance: the Epic Corruption," wrote in a blog post published Monday on the Huffington Post.

The GOP-led House wants answers on how Chu and the rest of the administration missed — or just ignored — red flags surrounding Solyndra when it won the loan guarantee and then restructured the terms of the loan two years later so that taxpayers were on the hook if the company defaulted."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64862.html