\tAmbiance… On dit que le pr\u00e9sident Obama fait la politique qu’il fait, qui d\u00e9\u00e7oit ses \u00e9lecteurs les plus \u00e0 gauche sans vraiment satisfaire les \u00e9lecteurs qu’il n’a pas \u00e0 droite (y compris les extr\u00e9mistes-sudistes-racistes de Tea Party<\/em>), parce qu’il a peur d’\u00eatre assassin\u00e9 … Cela, lors du show<\/em> de Bill Maher du 11 octobre, Real Time<\/em> sur la cha\u00eene UBO, de Bill Maher lui-m\u00eame, rapport\u00e9 par le Washington Times<\/em> le 13 octobre 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abHBO’s Bill Maher suggested during his show Friday that President Obama is leading as a centrist out of fear of being assassinated like John F. Kennedy. The Real Time host said that leaders such as JFK always get cut out of the picture, violently or otherwise, and maybe that is why Barack Obama is a little more of the centrist than we want him to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMSNBC host Chris Matthews, appearing as a guest on the show, said he was surprised by the extraordinary statement. I’m amazed. I’m impressed you think that, Mr. Matthews said. Mr. Maher explained that assassination is probably something that President Obama thinks about at night. He has to change his policies for that reason? Mr. Matthews asked. I don’t think that is an insult to say to somebody that he may modulate his policies because he is afraid of all the hate that he sees, Mr. Maher replied.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNe dirait-on pas \u00e9galement, d’une fa\u00e7on diff\u00e9rente mais sans cacher que l’id\u00e9e de la peur de l’assassinat n’est pas trahie, que non, finalement, les v\u00e9ritables \u00e9lecteurs de BHO se nomment aussi bien Big Business<\/em> et les march\u00e9s ? Le 13 octobre 2013<\/a>, dans le New York Times<\/em>, Paul Krugman avait, avec sa sagesse coutumi\u00e8re, dress\u00e9 le bilan sympathique de la situation, avec perspectives m\u00eame dans le meilleur des cas (\u00e0 ne pas confondre avec Le meilleur des mondes<\/em>) : \u00abOur current state of dysfunction looks like a chronic condition, not a one-time event. Even if the debt ceiling is raised enough to avoid immediate default, even if the government shutdown is somehow brought to an end, it will only be a temporary reprieve. Conservative activists are simply not willing to give up on the idea of ruling through extortion, and the Obama administration has decided, wisely, that it will not give in to extortion.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t… Il n’emp\u00eache, le commentaire n’emp\u00eache pas la franchise par inadvertance. On la trouve dans le dernier, et tr\u00e8s court paragraphe. Krugman nous informe apr\u00e8s tout de l’exacte identit\u00e9 de qui tient qui par la barbichette, de qui tient par-dessus tout \u00e0 un accord, et de qui, apr\u00e8s tout, tient en otage, dans le sens contraire des extr\u00e9mistes r\u00e9publicains, ce pilier du Syst\u00e8me qu’est le gouvernement des USA, sinon le Syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame, dans le chef du Big Business<\/em> et des march\u00e9s : \u00abThe question for the next few days is whether plunging markets and urgent appeals from big business will stiffen the non-extremists’ spines. For as far as I can tell, the reverse-Dixiecrat solution is the only way out of this mess.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAinsi le Prix Nobel qui fulminait contre le Big Business<\/em> et les march\u00e9s \u00e0 l’automne 2008 nous dit-il successivement qu’il n’y a plus aucun espoir avec ce Washington D.C. ingouvernable, \u00e0 moins qu’un nouveau Sherman ne remette le Sud au pas du feu et du sang (reverse-Dixiecrat solution<\/em>), et que le seul espoir se trouve, conjointement \u00e0 la sagesse de Sa Majest\u00e9 BHO (pseudo-BHC<\/a>), dans les conseils avis\u00e9s du Big Business<\/em> et des march\u00e9s. Par cons\u00e9quent, poursuivons, le Prix Nobel nous assure qu’il n’y a plus aucun espoir et que le seul espoir (disons, pour les next few days<\/em>) r\u00e9side dans l’adh\u00e9sion aux conseils pressants de ceux qui ont fait en sorte qu’il n’y ait plus aucun espoir. Le seul enseignement assur\u00e9 qu’on peut tirer d’un tel commentaire est que le commentateur nous dit le vrai apr\u00e8s tout, puisque, Prix Nobel ou pas, son \u00e9tat de confusion est assez proche de celui du Congr\u00e8s des \u00c9tats-Unis, o\u00f9 tout ne marche pas comme sur des roulettes dans la valse \u00e0 mille temps du volcan-sur-le-Potomac.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tC’est par contre, assur\u00e9ment, l’avis de l’inusable et transatlantique Timothy Garton-Ash (TGA), que tout ne marche pas comme sur des roulettes, r\u00e9publicains, d\u00e9mocrates et BHO confondus. TGA s’en retourne en Europe, apr\u00e8s un \u00e9t\u00e9 pass\u00e9 au milieu de ses copains am\u00e9ricanistes, compl\u00e8tement \u00e9cur\u00e9 par l’aveuglement des dits-copains. TGA, dont l’avis et l’influence dans les milieux de la globalisation ultralib\u00e9rale sont consid\u00e9rables, n’a pas de mot assez dur pour fustiger l’\u00e9tat des \u00c9tats-Unis, leur compl\u00e8te absence du sens des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s, leur totale abhorration pour la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 du monde ; eh, on croirait que TGA parle de la France du temps d’avant, c’est-\u00e0-dire d’avant-Sarkollande, la France retardataire et si d\u00e9raisonnablement hostile \u00e0 la globalisation ; mais non, il parle bien des USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tC’est dans le Guardian<\/em> du 15 octobre 2013<\/a> et cela vaut son pesant de citations, auxquelles nous sacrifions avec une r\u00e9silience de bon aloi, tant la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 peut aussi bien emprunter les fameuses voies imp\u00e9n\u00e9trables pour venir jusqu’\u00e0 nous. Dans cette admirable plaidoirie, nous distinguons l’inversion la plus compl\u00e8te de toutes nos valeurs ch\u00e9ries : le Nouveau-Monde, aujourd’hui selon TGA, c’est ROW (the Rest Of the World<\/em>), et il serait temps que les USA, l’ancien monde, les retardataires de la chicaya<\/em> d\u00e9mocratico-extr\u00e9miste, s’en avisent… Notez (soulign\u00e9 insolemment de gras par nous-m\u00eames) le passage sur l’\u00e9rosion of American power<\/em> qui va encore plus vite que les pires d’entre nous avaient pr\u00e9dit \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Le Syst\u00e8me est en mode full-turbo<\/em> de l’autodestruction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abOn Monday, government offices were closed in Washington DC, to mark Columbus Day. Except that most of them had been closed anyway, because of the US government shutdown. As everyone knows, Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator who, in the service of the Spanish crown, supposedly discovered America and reported its potential to a wondering world. I have spent the summer in the United States watching, with growing alarm, a country engaged in a degree of self-harming which, if observed in a teenager, would lead any friend to cry call the doctor at once. As I set course back to Europe, my conclusion is this: America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world’s view of America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOrdinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise<\/em> that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted<\/em><\/strong> while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe 24\/7 US news coverage follows every last lunge and twist of the stagfight. It is the political equivalent of ESPN, the non-stop sports network. Just occasionally, the rest of the world breaks through: for instance, when the World Bank and the IMF hold their annual meetings right there in Washington and the heads of both institutions, Jim Yong Kim and Christine Lagarde, warn of dire consequences. That gets a few column inches. Or when the government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinkmanship leads Barack Obama to cancel a major trip to Asia, including the Apec summit in Bali, leaving the floor wide open for president Xi Jinping to assert China’s regional leadership (the Asia-Pacific cannot prosper without China).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbA more direct taste of foreign news is available just a few clicks away. On my cable TV control, if I scroll down to channel number 73, or 355, or whatever it is, I can get Al-Jazeera, China’s CCTV and Russia’s RT. Their reporters often speak perfect American-accented journalese, and sometimes actually are career American journalists, lured away from job-shedding US news organisations to give credibility to these channels. CCTV’s Washington bureau chief, for instance, is Jim Spellman, formerly of CNN. These channels’ take on the Washington d\u00e9gringolade is much harder edged than the ESPN version. The website of the Russian state-backed RT quotes an editorial published by the Chinese state news agency, Xinhua, proposing that, in the light of this crisis, several cornerstones should be laid to underpin a de-Americanised world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOf course these channels are representative of their undemocratic states, not their peoples. And you may ask, well, who on earth watches CCTV or RT? Does anyone take them seriously? In Europe and North America the answers are still not many and not very. (That is somewhat less true of Al-Jazeera.) But in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia, it’s already a different story. In the global competition of international broadcasting, these well-funded networks are gaining influence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb… But if the US goes on like this, then one day one year, one decade the copper bottom of investors’ confidence will fall out.<\/em> […] … But even if they do, huge damage has already been done. Politically, in the eyes of the world, the full faith and credit of the US has been further eroded…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tBut<\/em>, but<\/em>, but<\/em>, ce mot, ce mot, ce mot… La course politique de Washington D.C. est encombr\u00e9e de mais, \u00e0 chaque fois que l’on croit toucher au but d’une r\u00e9paration de fortune de l’usine \u00e0 gaz pour les next few days<\/em>, un nouveau mais nous glace d’effroi. \u00ab…[A] tale\/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,\/ Signifying nothing<\/em>\u00bb, nous d\u00e9clare Hamlet, commentant les derni\u00e8res p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties du week-end, o\u00f9 l’on crut plusieurs fois toucher au but, pour voir l’illusion s’\u00e9chapper \u00e0 nouveau, au point que la digne agence de notation Fitch avertit (le Guardian<\/em> du 16 octobre 2013<\/a>) que America the Beautiful<\/em> pourrait bien perdre son magique triple A (AAA pour les amis), englouti dans ce chaos. La chose fut connue au sommet d’une montagne de pizzas tr\u00f4nant au sommet de The Hill<\/em>, surnom affectueux donn\u00e9 au Congr\u00e8s. (L\u00e9gende d’une photo non-reproductible sur notre r\u00e9seau : \u00abPizza being taken to John Boehner’s office as the House speaker held talks with Republicans after the collapse of a deal to raise the government debt ceiling temporarily. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite\/AP<\/em>\u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab…The White House seized on that announcement, saying it demonstrated the urgency of reaching a deal. But momentum had all but evaporated on Tuesday night when Republican leaders, realising that support for their proposed legislation had collapsed, gathered in Boehner’s office for crisis talks over pizza…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais (un de plus) on s’y remet. Les conversations vont reprendre aujourd’hui entre les deux leaders<\/em> du S\u00e9nat plein de sagesse, le d\u00e9mocrate Reid et le r\u00e9publicain McConnell, pour trouver encore quelques bouts de ficelle \u00e9pars, pour une nouvelle proposition d’accord type-the next few days<\/em>. Apr\u00e8s tout, il reste tout de m\u00eame 24 heures avant la date fatidique \u00e0 la sauce hollywoodienne du 17 octobre 2013, largement de quoi sauver le Nouveau-Monde, le Syst\u00e8me et ROW lui-m\u00eame, et \u00e9carter l’Apocalypse dont la derni\u00e8re heure, on vous l’assure, n’a pas encore sonn\u00e9. Il est m\u00eame possible que Dieu soit appel\u00e9 en consultation de la derni\u00e8re minute de la derni\u00e8re heure du Nouveau-Monde, histoire qu’il fasse jouer son joker<\/em> nomm\u00e9 R\u00e9surrection (ou Resurrectiun<\/em>). N’oubliez pas votre bonne action quotidienne : une petite pri\u00e8re d’Action de gr\u00e2ce, pour remercier par avance et sans le moindre doute le Seigneur de son intervention d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 programm\u00e9e. Nous comptons sur la conviction des croyants dans l’inalt\u00e9rable vertu du Syst\u00e8me-on-the-Potomac<\/em>. Il faut savoir s’entr’aider, que diable. (Oups ! Que diable, c’est fa\u00e7on de parler.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 16 octobre 2013 \u00e0 07H09<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danse au-dessus d’un volcan-sur-le-Potomac Ambiance… On dit que le pr\u00e9sident Obama fait la politique qu’il fait, qui d\u00e9\u00e7oit ses \u00e9lecteurs les plus \u00e0 gauche sans vraiment satisfaire les \u00e9lecteurs qu’il n’a pas \u00e0 droite (y compris les extr\u00e9mistes-sudistes-racistes de Tea Party), parce qu’il a peur d’\u00eatre assassin\u00e9 … Cela, lors du show de Bill Maher… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3790,15351,10771,3285,5252,11619,4832,898,8510,2878,2647,11009,6550,3738,5129],"class_list":["post-75256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-aaa","tag-bhc","tag-boehner","tag-congres","tag-dette","tag-fitch","tag-garton-ash","tag-krugman","tag-maher","tag-monde","tag-nouveau","tag-shutdown","tag-tga","tag-timothy","tag-triple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}