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Tiens la vente de ses 20% de parts dans EADS par BAE dès avril 2006 n’est pas rapprochée de l’entrée des Russes VTB+OAK pour 5% actuellement (plus Irkut pour A320/1) ?

De même l’évaporation (aéronautique) de l’industrie UK dans le complexe militaro-industriel “Pentagantesque” : BAE Systems compte faire de nouvelles acquisitions aux Etats-Unis (comment peser dans l’industrie aéronautique US avec LE pourcent nécéssaire à fabriquer ... les sièges éjectables : version industrielle britannique du virtualisme ? ).

Ces frémissements UE - CEI sont à intégrer dans la proximité ‘naturelle’ des abondantes matières premières Russes et de l’industrie UE : Rusal avale l’aluminium du suisse Glencore pour créer le nr 1 mondial devant l’américain Alcoa et le canadien Alcan. La Russie est le 2e producteur pétrolier, l’UE étendue à la Norvège est 5e producteur ... suivons les faisceaux de pipe-line.

D’autres blocs “régionaux” sont en gestation ALENA (Nord américain), ASEA, MERCOSUR ( monnaie locale à la place du dollar ? http://www.leblogfinance.com/2006/09/mercosur_monnai.html#more)

Mais quelle est la situation réelle d’Airbus ?

http://www.leblogfinance.com/2006/09/bae_systems_pre.html#more ... La somme annoncée aujourd’hui est bien inférieure à celle établie au terme de l’audit d’Airbus effectué cet été par BAE Systems ... le Britannique se serait toutefois résigné à baisser ses exigences, estimant qu’une vente rapide était dans le meilleur intérêt de ses actionnaires. ( 2,8 milliards d’euros ! ... évaluée à 3,5 milliards d’euros par EADS dans son dernier rapport annuel, et jusqu’à 6,5 milliards par une expertise de Goldman Sachs.)

... la situation pouvant encore empirer chez EADS, selon un analyste interrogé par le quotidien. Toujours selon The Observer, deux directeurs de BAE Systems, initialement opposés au montant suggéré par Rothschild, s’y seraient finalement ralliés.

... Ce jeu de chaise musicale fait bien évidemment suite au crash boursier et aux turbulences de la maison, occasionnés par les retards de production impactant les livraisons du nouveau géant des airs.  http://www.leblogfinance.com/2006/09/airbus_chaise_m.html#more

Ankara threatened with partial EU talks freeze

04.09.2006 - 09:51 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Finnish EU presidency has said Turkish EU membership negotiations could be partially suspended if Ankara continues to fail to open its ports and airports to Cypriot vessels and planes.

Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja told reporters on Saturday (2 September) that a “serious situation” would emerge if Turkey remains defiant on blocking traffic from EU member state Cyprus.

The EU last October opened accession negotiations with Turkey, but only after the Turks had signed the so-called Ankara protocol obliging it to extend a customs agreement with Brussels to the bloc’s new member states – including Cyprus.

The customs agreement precludes any trade obstacles with EU members.

In the case of continuing non-compliance with the customs agreement by Ankara, “at the minimum it is understandable that we cannot continue membership negotiations on any items pertaining to the [EU’s] single market,” said Mr Tuomioja.

“But having said this, we still hope to avoid any crisis in our relations. It is not inevitable,” he added.

In a statement adopted on 21 September 2005 just before the opening of the membership talks, the EU said that it would “evaluate full implementation” of the Ankara protocol before the end of this year.

The statement stressed that the opening of negotiations on the “relevant” negotiating chapters would depend on Turkey’s willingness to open its ports and airports.

Turkey’s accession talks are divided into 35 chapters, with some important sections related to the EU’s internal market.

Saturday’s comments by the Finnish foreign minister suggest that the EU is in any case ready to freeze talks on, for example, trade and competition policy.

Harder Cypriot line
But Cyprus - possibly with the backing of states wary of Turkish membership such as France and Austria - is expected to take a harder line, having already threatened to block the membership negotiations as a whole.

The opening and closing of any of the 35 chapters needs the approval of all 25 members of the EU, providing capitals with a raft of opportunities to block the talks.

Meanwhile the US, which strongly backs Turkish EU accession, is engaged in diplomatic efforts to avert a crisis over the issue.

Washington is proposing that in return for Turkey fulfilling its EU customs obligations, the UN could play a role in supervising free trade to the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, which is currently under an international trade embargo.

Ankara is so far making any concessions to Nicosia dependent on moves by the EU to end the economic isolation of northern Cyprus - something Nicosia has so far fiercely rejected as undermining its sovereignty over the whole island.

http://euobserver.com/9/22327/?rk=1

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EU warns of ‘serious situation’ in talks over Cyprus

Sunday, September 3, 2006

BRUSSELS -AP with TDN
  The European Union said Saturday that Ankara’s refusal to let Greek Cypriot ships and planes load and unload cargo in Turkey is jeopardizing the country’s membership negotiations with the bloc.
  Turkey is refusing to implement a protocol extending its customs union with the EU to 10 new nations that joined the EU in 2004, including Greek Cyprus, which it does not recognize.
  Speaking after a two-day EU foreign ministers meeting, Finish Foreign Minister Erkki Toumioja, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the bloc, said signing the protocol was “a commitment that has to be respected. If this is not the case, it will create a serious situation,” said Toumioja.
  “We still hope to avoid any crisis in our relations. It is not inevitable.”

  Cyprus has become a highly contentious issue in Turkey’s relations with the EU. The bloc demands that Turkey recognize EU member Greek Cyprus by the end of 2006 - or its entry talks - which began last fall - will be suspended.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=53159&mailtofriend=1
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European Parliament to debate Turkey report
Monday, September 4, 2006

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
  Members of the European Parliament are set to vote on a report highly critical of the slow pace of reforms and freedoms in European Union-aspirant Turkey.

  Penned by Dutch Rapporteur Camiel Eurlings, the report urges Ankara to speed up its reform process as well as enhance freedoms and religious and minority rights, civilian-military relations, women’s rights, cultural rights, the independence of the judiciary and the implementation of the reforms.

  Touching on a shadowy bombing targeting a bookstore in the southeastern Anatolian town of Åemdinli in which two noncommissioned officers and a former member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were involved, the report said developments in the aftermath of the Åemdinli affair had highlighted the role of the military in politics.

  The prosecutor of the case was sacked after suggesting in his indictment that then Land Forces Commander Gen. YaÅar BÃyÃkanÄt was involved in an organized effort to derail Turkey’s EU process. The report said the dismissal of Van Prosecutor Ferhat Sarakaya from his post was a source of deep concerns.

  Under the title of southeastern Anatolia, the report strongly condemned the terrorist attacks launched by the outlawed PKK, stressing that Europe was in solidarity with Turkey in its fight against terrorism.

  The report cited the government’s call for a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem, describing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s key speech in the southeastern Anatolian province of Diyarbakir earlier this year as encouraging.Erdogan had pledged to resolve the Kurdish issue with more reforms and greater democratization.

  The report also condemned an attack in May against the Council of State by an armed assailant who shot one judge dead and wounded four others.
  Advising the government to reduce the 10 percent threshold required to secure seats in Parliament, the report said that would open the way for broader representation in the Turkish Parliament.

The report also said a new constitution drafted in line with EU reforms might be needed.
  The European Parliament’s report welcomed the EU-inspired Ninth Harmonization Package, which has not yet been enacted as Parliament is currently in summer recess. The report suggested that Ankara’s new antiterror law exclude elements that restrict fundamental rights and freedoms.

  Modern, democratic and secular Turkey could play a constructive role in the better understanding between civilizations,� the report said. It called on Ankara to normalize its ties with its neighbor Armenia.

  Turkey severed its relations with Armenia and closed its border after Armenian troops occupied the Azeri territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Ankara now says normalization of ties depends on Armenian withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh as well as on progress in resolution of a series of bilateral disagreements. The report urged Ankara to reopen its border gate with Armenia.

  More than 300 motions submitted by political groups at the European Parliament seeking amendments to the report will also be debated at today’s meeting at the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. The report will be discussed once again at meetings in Strasbourg in late September and put to a vote. 
 
Opening ports is obligatory part of negotiating process, report says:
  The report demanded that Ankara honor a customs deal obliging it to open its ports and airports to traffic from all EU member states, including the Greek Cypriot administration. �Recognition of all EU member states including Greek Cyprus is an obligatory part of the negotiating process,said the report. 
 
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=53162

lundi 4 septembre 2006 - dernière mise à jour le 4/09/2006 à 08h31 - Bruxelles

L’Otan frappe fort en Afghanistan
Rédaction en ligne

dimanche 03 septembre 2006, 19:42

Les forces de l’Otan ont poursuivi ce dimanche leur plus importante offensive dans le sud de l’Afghanistan, qui a déjà coûté la vie à plus de 200 rebelles talibans, mais aussi à 18 militaires de l’Alliance atlantique.

L’opération Medusa, qui mobilise environ 2.000 hommes de l’Otan et des forces de sécurité afghanes, a débuté samedi avec pour objectif de chasser les talibans du district de Panjwayi dans la province de Kandahar. Quatre soldats canadiens ont été tués dimanche, a indiqué le porte-parole du ministère afghan de la défense, le général Mohammad Zahir Azimi. La Force internationale d’assistance à la sécurité (Isaf), conduite par l’Otan, a confirmé la mort de quatre de ses soldats, mais sans préciser leur nationalité.

L’Isaf a également indiqué que sept soldats avaient été blessés dont six légèrement. Il s’agit également de Canadiens, selon le général Azimi.

Du côté des rebelles, le bilan est lourd. “Plus de 200 talibans ont été tués depuis que l’opération Medusa a commencé tôt samedi matin”, indique un communiqué de l’Isaf, qui précise être arrivé à ce bilan en compilant

Le district de Panjwayi, situé à seulement 35 kilomètres à l’ouest de Kandahar, la plus grande ville du Sud, est un bastion de la rébellion où les affrontements parfois très violents se sont multipliés depuis le printemps. Le mouvement taliban est né dans cette région avant d’imposer sa loi pratiquement partout en Afghanistan en 1996. Reconquérir le district a donc aussi une valeur de symbole pour l’Alliance.

Le bilan humain est lourd
Si l’Isaf voit un début de succès dans l’opération, le bilan des victimes du côté des forces internationales est lourd. Samedi, 14 militaires britanniques sont morts dans la chute de leur avion de reconnaissance, probablement à cause d’ennuis mécaniques. L’appareil participait à l’opération Medusa en faisant des relevés destinés à éviter les victimes civiles, selon l’Isaf.

Dix-neuf soldats canadiens - le Canada a déployé 2.300 hommes dans la province - sont morts au combat en Afghanistan depuis le début de l’année, y compris les militaires décédés dimanche
L’objectif de Medusa, la plus importante opération lancée depuis que l’Otan a pris le commandement de la région Sud le 31 juillet, est aussi de faire revenir des personnes déplacées par les combats incessants et de faire du district une vitrine de développement, selon l’Isaf.

La sécurisation, suivie du développement et de la reconstruction, sont au coeur de la stratégie du commandant des troupes de l’Otan en Afghanistan, le général britannique David Richards, qui dispose de plus de 10.000 hommes dans le Sud pour atteindre ses objectifs. Il y voit le moyen de gagner le soutien de la population locale et d’asseoir peu à peu l’autorité d’un gouvernement afghan, dont l’emprise sur la région est rendue fragile par le manque de moyens matériels et en hommes, mais aussi du fait de la corruption et de l’incompétence.

Si l’opération atteint son objectif, ce sera un succès bienvenu pour l’Otan, qui jusqu’à présent n’a pu consacrer que peu de temps au volet développement de sa stratégie, alors que le général Richards s’est engagé à obtenir des résultats concrets d’ici aux mois d’octobre-novembre.

Dans la province voisine du Helmand les troupes de l’Isaf, essentiellement des unités britanniques, sont constamment harcelées par l’ennemi au point que Londres doit envoyer des renforts. Les quelque 4.000 soldats de Sa Majesté déployés dans ce bastion de la rébellion, mais aussi principale région productrice d’opium d’Afghanistan, ont connu des combats dont l’intensité a été comparée à ceux de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale ou de Corée.
(D’après AFP)
http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/monde/2006/09/03/article_l_otan_frappe_fort_enafghanistan.shtml

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L’offensive de l’OTAN en Afghanistan aurait fait plus de 200 morts parmi les talibans

LEMONDE.FR Avec AFP et Reuters | 03.09.06 | 10h59 •  Mis à jour le 03.09.06 | 17h11

Plus de 200 talibans ont été tués depuis le début de l’offensive lancée par l’OTAN samedi dans le sud de l’Afghanistan pourdéloger les rebelles d’un de leurs bastions, selon une source proche de la Force internationale d’assistance à la sécurité (ISAF) conduite par l’OTAN.

Du côté des forces de l’Alliance atlantique, dix-sept soldats de l’OTAN ont trouvé la mort samedi 2 et dimanche 3 septembre dans le sud de l’Afghanistan. Trois soldats canadiens ont été tués dimanche. Quatorze militaires britanniques sont morts samedi, dans le sud de l’Afghanistan, dans le crash de leur avion, alors qu’ils participaient à la vaste offensive militaire - baptisée opération Médusa - déclenchée samedi par l’Otan et les forces de sécurité afghanes. 

L’appareil, un avion de reconnaissance Nimrod MR2, effectuait “un relevé très détaillé de l’objectif” au moment où il s’est écrasé. C’est l’accident le plus meurtrier enregistré par les Britanniques depuis leur déploiement en Afghanistan. Il à 36 le nombre de soldats de la couronne morts en Afghanistan depuis novembre 2001.

Un problème mécanique serait à l’origine de l’accident. Scott Lundy, porte-parole de l’Otan, a qualifié d’“absolument fausses” des allégations diffusées par les talibans, qui affirmaient avoir tiré sur l’avion. Les opérations de récupération se poursuivent dimanche sur le site du crash.

LA PLUS IMPORTANTE OPÉRATION LANCÉE DANS LE SUD

Dimanche, les forces de l’Otan poursuivent leur offensive, qui mobilise 2000 hommes, ainsi que des moyens aériens. C’est la plus importante opération lancée depuis que l’Otan a pris le commandement de la région sud le 31 juillet.

L’objectif est de réussir à chasser les talibans du district de Panjwayi (à quelques kilomètres à l’ouest de Kandahar) afin de permettre le retour des populations déplacées dans cette région. 

Haut lieu du mouvement taliban, le secteur de Panjwayi avait vu se multiplier ces derniers mois les affrontements violents entre force de sécurité et rebelles.

Dès le lancement de l’opération, les forces internationales, en majorité canadiennes, et afghanes, se sont heurtées à des poches de résistance des talibans, selon l’Isaf. Les renseignements recueillis dans le district avaient révélé que des combattants talibans aguerris fortifiaient leurs positions et se ravitaillaient en munitions. Au deuxième jour de l’opération, un porte-parole de l’Otan a indiqué qu’une vingtaine de rebelles talibans avaient été tués.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3216,36-809050@51-799721,0.html
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British troops die in Afghanistan
BY TIMES ONLINE AND PA

Fourteen British armed personnel died today when the Nato aircraft in which they were travelling crashed in southern Afghanistan.

The aircraft was thought to have come down due to a technical fault at 13.30pmBST (4.30pm local time) 12 miles west of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said enemy action had been discounted at this stage.

An MoD spokesman said: “The Ministry of Defence is extremely sorry to have to confirm that the aircraft lost in Afghanistan earlier today supporting an ISAF mission was British, and that the crash led to 14 fatalities, 12 RAF, a Royal Marine and one from the Army.”

Defence Secretary Des Browne described the news of the deaths as “dreadful and shocking” and said it appeared to have been a “terrible accident”.
He said: “I know that the people of Britain will join me in sending our deep condolences to the loved ones of those who have lost their lives, and to the British military as it deals with the loss of friends and comrades.

“This is not the time for speculation, as the operation to secure the crash site is ongoing. We will provide further information as soon as there is more to say.

“Everyone will understand that our first priority is to inform and support the families of those on board.

“I can say, however, at this stage all the indications are that this was a terrible accident and not the result of hostile action.

“This tragic incident should serve to remind us all of the risks the British military shoulder on all our behalf, across the world every day.”

The MoD has set up a helpline for worried relatives on 08457 800 900.

No details have yet been released of the type of aircraft involved.

Today’s crash is thought to be the biggest single loss of British troops in Iraq or Afghanistan since the war on terror began in November 2001.

Ten British armed personnel were killed when a Hercules C130K crashed 19 miles north-west of Baghdad on January 30, 2005.

News of today’s crash emerged shortly after 2pm today when ISAF reported an aircraft “missing” in southern Afghanistan.

ISAF spokesman Major Luke Knittig said the aircraft had made an emergency call shortly before it disappeared.

Locals near the scene described how coalition force helicopters were seen flying towards the crash site.

Haji Eisamuddin, a local tribal elder, said the wreckage of the plane was burning in an open field.

“I can see three to four helicopters in the sky, and coalition forces are also arriving in the area,” he said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2340404.html

September 4, 2006
New Assault Takes Big Toll on Taliban, NATO Says
By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 — NATO and Afghan forces encountered fierce resistance from Taliban rebels on Sunday in a new offensive in southern Afghanistan, where four Canadian soldiers were killed and several were wounded in the fighting, officials said.

A NATO spokesman, Mark Laity, said that reports from the field estimated that as many as 200 Taliban fighters were killed Sunday, with 80 people captured by Afghan troops. Casualty figures for the Taliban, in particular, have been impossible to confirm, but, if true, the toll would be one of the highest in what has been months of intensifying battles in the south.

It was also unclear whether some of the dead might have been civilians. Even before NATO took command of operations in southern Afghanistan, officials from the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission were complaining of civilian casualties in its airstrikes against insurgents, and some villagers who have tried to flee in advance of military operations have reported being shelled.

Military officials said they had warned tribal elders about the approaching operation and had told people to leave to avoid civilian casualties. But the governor of Kandahar Province said people had been told not to allow the Taliban into their houses and not to go out on the roads.

The battle occurred a day after 14 Britons were killed when their Nimrod MR2 reconnaissance plane crashed near Kandahar early in the operation.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters have been massing in the Panjwai and Zhare districts, just west of Kandahar, the main city in southern Afghanistan. For months, the rebels have mounting attacks on and near the main highway, stirring fear of an imminent assault in Kandahar.

“The Taliban presence in Panjwai is undoubtedly having a large psychological effect on Kandahar and has to be dealt with,” a senior NATO officer said last week.
Heavy fighting in May and sporadic violence since have forced hundreds of families to flee Panjwai and seek refuge in Kandahar. Airstrikes by NATO and a suicide car bomb in the busy bazaar in Panjwai have caused dozens of civilian casualties in the area in recent months, according to witnesses.

In response, NATO officials planned a long operation to clear the area of Taliban fighters and establish a lasting security presence to allow displaced families to return safely and to permit reconstruction.

On Saturday, NATO forces in Kandahar Province, mostly Canadian troops, fired the opening shots in the operation, pounding the area with 40 strikes from artillery and aircraft, said Gen. Zaher Azimi, the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman.
At dawn on Sunday, Afghan and NATO forces began pushing ahead on the ground. They immediately encountered mines, General Azimi said, but they cleared them and advanced slowly.

A NATO spokesman, speaking at a news conference, said that the troops encountered a “substantial number of insurgents in that area” and heavy defenses that the Taliban had put up.

The Canadian commander of NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, Gen. David Fraser, told reporters on Sunday evening that the four soldiers who had been killed were Canadian and that several more had been wounded, Agence France-Presse reported from Kandahar.

The battle focused around Pashmul in the Zhare district, General Azimi said. Early in the day, he said that troops were reporting that as many as 89 Taliban had been killed, though that estimate was made before the broader NATO estimate.

“This is completely different from other operations. We are going very slowly,” he said, adding that it would take weeks. “We will not abandon again the places we are capturing.”

The governor of Kandahar Province, Asadullah Khalid, said by telephone that he had asked NATO and Afghan officials to move against Taliban in the area for months, but that the Afghan police were too weak and that troops had often been occupied elsewhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/world/middleeast/04afghan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757743.html  How the IDF blew chance to destroy short-range rockets, By Ze’ev Schiff

... rockets fired at Israel from southern Lebanon were launched from permanent positions ... then this is a major intelligence failure.

... The rockets, stored near the launch points in underground shelters or houses, were usually aimed with a direction and trajectory precalculated to hit a specific target in Israel. They were usually set up in orchards by arrangement with the grove owners, who were paid by Hezbollah. The two-by-three-meter positions consisted of a hydraulic launch pad in a lined pit. The pad could be raised to fire the 122-mm rockets from a launcher at its center, and then lowered and camouflaged with vegetation. The farmers received instructions by cell phone regarding the number of rockets to launch and in what direction and range. ...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_Frank_Rich_on_Donald_Rumsfelds_0902.html

New York Times columnist Frank Rich slams “Donald Rumsfeld’s dance with the Nazis” in a recent speech as particularly “brazen” coming from a Defense Secretary who was once photographed shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.

... Rich continues. “Presumably he was not only describing the usual array of ‘Defeatocrats’ but also the first President Bush, who had already been implicitly tarred as an appeaser by Tony Snow last month for failing to knock out Saddam in 1991.”

... Here’s how brazen Rumsfeld was when he invoked Hitler’s appeasers to score his cheap points: Since Hitler was photographed warmly shaking Neville Chamberlain’s hand at Munich in 1938, the only image that comes close to matching it in epochal obsequiousness is the December 1983 photograph of Rumsfeld himself in Baghdad, warmly shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in full fascist regalia. Is the defense secretary so self-deluded that he thought no one would remember a picture so easily Googled on the Web? Or worse, is he just too shameless to care?

http://bib1.ulb.ac.be/index.php?id=854  * * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Pirenne

L’œuvre du professeur Henri Pirenne est tombée dans le domaine public cette année. ... l’illustre historien belge ... plus de septante ans après sa disparition, toujours au centre du débat historique. ... Au cours des années 2006 et 2007, la totalité des chapitres de monographie, articles, comptes-rendus et rapports sera numérisée.

http://www.samefacts.com/archives/language_and_usage_/2006/09/englishwinglish_dictionary_updated.php

alternative energy sources : /n. phr./ 1. New locations to drill for gas and oil. 2. Coal mines.

climate change : /n. phr./ Progress toward the blessed day when the blue states are swallowed by the oceans.

growth : /n./ 1. The justification for tax cuts for the rich. 2. What happens to the national debt when policy is made according to Definition #1.

laziness : /n./ When the poor are not working.

leisure time : /n./ When the wealthy are not working.

Et ma préférée : woman : /n./  1. Person who can be trusted to raise a child but can’t be trusted to decide whether or not she wishes to have a child in the first place.  2. Person who must have all decisions regarding her reproductive functions made by men with whom she wouldn’t want to have sex in the first place.

Les Etats-Unis perdent plus de 227 milliards de litres d’eau—tous les jours—à cause d’infrastructures usées, défectueuses ou insuffisantes. C’est écologiquement inadmissible… et dans un monde où l’eau se fait de plus en plus rare, ça devient aussi économiquement insoutenable.
D’après la Société américaine des ingénieurs de travaux publics, les Etats-Unis devront verser “près de 1 000 milliards de dollars en investissements essentiels dans le domaine de l’eau potable et des eaux usées au cours des deux prochaines décennies”

http://www.linstantane.com/

Commentaire entendu dans la bouche d’un cadre d’EADS: cette opération doit aussi être vue comme un accès à la matière grise russe dans les domaines scientifiques et techniques.

Ria Novosti 01/09/2006 à propos des confessions de Gunther Grass:
[...comme pour dire: moi, votre maître à penser, j’ai été là-bas, mais je suis prêt aujourd’hui à exposer ma réputation d’écrivain allemand aux critiques de l’Europe entière, et c’est à vous de juger ce que nous sommes, nous les Allemands, si vous êtes prêts à accepter notre repentir ou si nous resterons à jamais des monstres à vos yeux.

Günter Grass a demandé pardon, mais il ne s’agit pas d’une doléance primitive, car il ne se croit pas coupable de quoi que ce soit. Ses arguments exposés dans l’interview sont très fragiles, il ne pourra jamais se justifier, comme l’Allemagne ne pourra jamais justifier ses propres crimes. Willy Brandt ne plaidait pas innocent quand il s’est agenouillé pour demander pardon. Günter Grass, lui, ne se repent pas, il ne veut pas s’agenouiller et il fait partie, à cet égard, des millions d’Allemands qui ont fait la guerre parce que c’était leur devoir.]

Voilà une étrange mise en parrallèle: celle des situations de Gunther Grass, écrivain allemand (et tout ce qu’on pourra supputer sur ses engagements précoce et tardif) et celui de Willy Brandt, représentant officiel du peuple allemand post-2ième guere mondiale (et tout ce qu’on pourra supputer aussi).

Comme une supercherie.

Le texte complet: http://fr.rian.ru/analysis/20060901/53389642.html

Cela a-t-il un lien ?  Le salaire des présidents des entreprises liées à l’industrie de l’armement a doublé depuis 9/11.

Il y a de ces coïncidences parfois…
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?session=dae.20028971.1145477267.REaYk8Oa9dUAAGn798w&modele=jdc_34

Les affiches Wanted! étaient toujours visibles ces dernières années en Bosnie où la tête de Radovan Karadzic et du général Mladic a été mise à prix. Cela montre au passage que les Etats-Unis considèrent l’Est européen et l’Eurasie comme une sorte de Far West, on peut même dire de “Far East”... Mais ils ont déjà de gros problèmes en Serbie, en Slovaquie, en Ukraine. Sans parler de leur reflux en Asie centrale face à l’alliance géopolitique de la Russie et de la Chine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/ ( Keith Olbermann )

... Mr. Rumsfeld’s speechwriter was adroit in invoking the memory of the appeasement of the Nazis. For in their time, there was another government faced with true peril—with a growing evil—powerful and remorseless.

That government, like Mr. Rumsfeld’s, had a monopoly on all the facts. It, too, had the “secret information.” It alone had the true picture of the threat. It too dismissed and insulted its critics in terms like Mr. Rumsfeld’s—questioning their intellect and their morality.

That government was England’s, in the 1930’s.
It knew Hitler posed no true threat to Europe, let alone England.
It knew Germany was not re-arming, in violation of all treaties and accords. 
It knew that the hard evidence it received, which contradicted its own policies, its own conclusions — its own omniscience—needed to be dismissed.
The English government of Neville Chamberlain already knew the truth.

Most relevant of all — it “knew” that its staunchest critics needed to be marginalized and isolated. In fact, it portrayed the foremost of them as a blood-thirsty war-monger who was, if not truly senile, at best morally or intellectually confused.

That critic’s name was Winston Churchill.

Sadly, we have no Winston Churchills evident among us this evening.  We have only Donald Rumsfelds, demonizing disagreement, the way Neville Chamberlain demonized Winston Churchill. ...

( NB etc., Rumsfeld ‘clone batard’ de Chamberlain ! )

http://www.courrierinternational.com/article.asp?obj_id=65718 ( Benoît XVI se rapproche des créationnistes américains, Anne Collet )

... De nombreux signes précurseurs indiquent en effet que le pape cherche à rapprocher l’Eglise catholique de la théorie du “dessein intelligent” de Dieu. Le dernier en date est le séminaire que Benoît XVI organise dans sa résidence d’été, à Castel Gandolfo, où il rassemblera autour de lui, à huis clos, une quarantaine de penseurs qui ont été pour la plupart ses élèves du temps où il enseignait à Munich.

“Le pape Benoît XVI prend ainsi à contre-pied les positions de son prédécesseur Jean-Paul II qui, en 1996, avait estimé que les théories de Darwin étaient plus qu’une hypothèse”, remarque le quotidien britannique The Guardian.

... ‘La Repubblica’, qui précise que le débat a été relancé par le très conservateur cardinal de Vienne Christoph Schönborn, qui fut l’élève de Ratzinger en 1972 et qui, “il y a un an, rejetait les thèses de Darwin dans les colonnes du New York Times”. Dans son article publié à l’époque par le quotidien new-yorkais, “le cardinal de Vienne apportait son soutien à l’enseignement de la théorie du “dessein intelligent” dans les écoles américaines.  Il s’était alors attiré les critiques du père George Coyne, le directeur de l’Observatoire du Vatican. Or, le 19 août dernier, l’astronome du pape a été remplacé sans explications”, rapporte The Guardian.