Monthly Archives: September 2011

Breaking point between America and its ally Pakistan

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Are we close to the breaking point between America and its ally Pakistan elusive? There were at least as long as the Americans had expressed with such clarity and brutality their frustration vis-à-vis Islamabad, pinned for having armed and used in covert network services Islamist Haqqani in Afghanistan to attack the United States and the international coalition they lead.

This is Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff until the end of the month, which led the charge during a parliamentary hearing before the Armed Services Committee of the Senate, accusing the Pakistani intelligence (ISI) of having “helped” Haqqani’s men plan their recent attack against the U.S. embassy in Kabul, and a bomb attack against a NATO post September 10. The Pakistanis have also helped their extremist allies of the shadows to attack the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in June

“The Haqqani Network has acted as a real weapon of services of Pakistan,” Mullen hammered Thursday. “By choosing to use violent extremism as a political tool, the government of Pakistan not only undermines the prospect of a strategic partnership with us, but also the opportunity to be a respected nation enjoying a legitimate regional influence” , he warned.

The instrumentalization of the Taliban network in Islamabad, which seeks to counter the influence of his great rival Indian ally of Kabul today, is not new. But in the mouth of Mullen, the pivotal relationship with the Pakistanis in recent years, the charges are a particular weight. The U.S. is trying to weigh the pros and cons of the response they should make to the betrayal of an ally which receives billions of dollars in bilateral aid.

While Troy Davis Was Executed Lawrence Brewer Was Too

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Hours before the execution of Troy Davis, his antithesis, Lawrence Brewer, was killed in the state of Texas in almost indifference. The racist murder of which he was convicted had shocked the United States.

While the eyes of the world were focused on Georgia, where Davis was waiting to be executed, another has been sentenced to death by lethal injection in Texas in the almost universal indifference. Indeed, all separated by Lawrence Davis Brewer. The latter, aged 44, was convicted with two other accomplices, a sordid racist murder in the late 1990s.

Small strikes, joined a pro-white racist organization after a stay in prison, Lawrence Brewer said the last day does not regret the murder of the father of Black 49. As summarized by one member of the Movement for the Abolition of the death penalty in Texas, Lawrence Brewer “is not a nice guy.”

On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, who can not afford a car, walking in the town of Jasper, Texas a small community of 7,000 people a hundred miles of Houston. It took a lift by three men: John William King, Lawrence Brewer and Shawn Berry. Fifteen miles later, the pickup stops on a lonely road. James Byrd was beaten and fainted. It is then tied by the legs with a chain connected to the vehicle.

The three men dragged the body of the father of nearly five miles on a country road, taking care to zigzag the vehicle so that the body horehound from left to right. James Byrd, who has regained consciousness, trying to protect itself by moving up on his forearms. But it was soon skinned elbows to the bone. His head then hits an obstacle on the road. He was beheaded on the spot. The three men leave what remains of the body a few yards away.

Stock markets opened on an uncertain note

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Stock markets opened on an uncertain note Tuesday in the wake of profit taking and as investors questioned whether the Fed will back a move to boost growth.

In early trade, the Dow was stable (0.04%) to 11,406 points. The Standard & Poor’s also (-0.01%) to 1204 points while stocks tumbling on the Nasdaq composite fell by 0.1% to 2610 points.

The Federal Reserve, which meets Tuesday and Wednesday, is expected to announce steps to further lower the long-term rates by changing its own bond portfolio.

Wall Street has little else to move, in the absence of outside major indicator of housing starts, or major corporate earnings.

The housing starts fell more than expected in August, falling 5% to a seasonally adjusted pace of 571,000 units, according to the Commerce Department (consensus: 590,000 units).

Markets on both sides of the Atlantic do not seem overly unsettled by the decline of Italy by rating agency Standard & Poor’s, a decision yet unexpectedly revives the specter of a contagion of debt crisis in the eurozone.

In other news on stock tips and values​​, Xilinx lost 2.38% at the opening. The programmable chip maker cut its revenue forecast for the second quarter due to the sluggishness of some of its markets. Our advice, sell.