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Février 2012 ................................
La Virginie vote une loi imposant une échographie aux femmes souhaitant un IVG (Raw Story)		Sociétés
	24 février 2012 National Organization of Women president Terry O’Neill said Wednesday that laws requiring women to view an ultrasound before terminating their pregnancy were “ritual humiliation laws.” Lawmakers in Virginia on Wednesday approved a controversial bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound (...)

Les cinq regrets majeurs des mourants (Guardian)		Sociétés
	24 février 2012 A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying ... Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as (...)

Grèce : un plan de sauvetage dont bien peu croient au succès (Pragmatic Capitalism)		Economie
	24 février 2012 ... Although the officially stated goal is to reduce Greek government debt from its current 164% of GDP to 120% by 2020, it is clear that no one really believes it. The northern tier nations are skeptical that Greece will keep its promises after the election. The IMF said that the balance of (...)

Plus l’austérité est forte, plus la dette s’alourdit rapidement, constate le Global Economy Tracker (Agence)		Economie
	24 février 2012 Far from falling, debt burdens are rising fastest in European countries that have enacted the most draconian austerity programs, according to The Associated Press’ Global Economy Tracker, ... The numbers back up what many analysts say : Austerity isn’t just painful. It can be counterproductive (...)

Les banques européennes vont se refinancer à hauteur de 450 milliards auprès de la BCE (Bloomberg)		Economie
	24 février 2012 Euro-area banks may tap the European Central Bank next week for almost as much three-year cash as they did in December in an operation that could prolong a rally in bond markets. Financial institutions will ask the ECB for 470 billion euros ($629 billion) in three-year funds for allotment on (...)

« Nous avons sauvé les gens plutôt que les banques » (Roberto Lavagna, ancien ministre de l’Economie argentin, Libération - RECO du jour)		Economie
	24 février 2012 L’ancien ministre de l’Economie argentin Roberto Lavagna, 69 ans, est le principal artisan du redressement de l’Argentine engluée dans une terrible crise économique il y a dix ans. Lorsqu’il prend ses fonctions, en avril 2002, le peso vient d’être dévalué de 70%, le pays est en cessation de paiement, la (...)

Moins d’austérité = plus d’activité (Guillaume Duval, Alternatives Economiques)		Economie
	24 février 2012 L’économie a moins reculé en France qu’ailleurs fin 2011, notamment parce que l’austérité a été plus modérée. Fin 2011, l’économie française a donc été l’une des seules en Europe à ne pas plonger dans la récession. L’économie de la Grèce a reculé de plus de 1,5 % en l’espace d’un seul trimestre, celle du Portugal de 1,3 % (...)

Tel quel : Niall Ferguson se réjouit de la perspective de "destruction créatrice" d’un conflit entre Iran et Israël (NewsWeek)		International
	23 février 2012 Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War Feb 6, 2012 There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad. Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford (...)

Comment les iraniens voient l’occident (Spiegel)		International
	23 février 2012 Israeli hawks are threatening a military strike in order to stop Iran’s nuclear program and many Republican presidential candidates in the US also support action. A loose survey of students and academics in Tehran shows that even among opponents of President Ahmadinejad, anti-Western sentiment (...)

Révisions : l’empathie, la coopération sont des comportements innés chez l’homme (American Association for the Advancement of Science via Al Jazeera)		Sociétés
	23 février 2012 Biological research is increasingly debunking the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish. "Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies," Frans de Waal, a biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (...)

Eurozone : la Commission européenne prévoit une récession en 2012 (Business Insider)		Economie
	23 février 2012 ... In its latest projections Thursday, the European Commission’s forecast forecasts a 0.3 percent contraction in the eurozone economy, with Greece leading the way downwards with a massive 4.4 percent decline. In its last forecast in November, the Commission was predicting a 0.5 percent (...)

Pauvreté, problème de santé publique : réapparition de la tuberculoase à Londres (Bloomberg)		Sociétés
	23 février 2012 In the shadows of some of London’s tallest skyscrapers and richest banks lurks a disease borne of the poverty and squalor usually associated with the Victorian era rather than a 21st-century financial capital. Tuberculosis is staging a comeback in London, where some neighborhoods suffer (...)

Grèce : les créanciers se sont arrogés le droit de saisir l’or du pays (NYT)		Economie
	23 février 2012 ... Ms. Katseli, an economist who was labor minister in the government of George Papandreou until she left in a cabinet reshuffle last June, was also upset that Greece’s lenders will have the right to seize the gold reserves in the Bank of Greece under the terms of the new deal, and that future (...)

Un constructeur automobile chinois ouvre une usine en Bulgarie (Spiegel)		Economie
	23 février 2012 It used to be that European carmakers opened plants to assemble their cars in China. Now the Chinese have turned the tables with the opening of their first factory in Bulgaria, an EU country with low labor costs and taxes. Increasingly, Chinese carmakers are setting their sights on the European (...)

Diktat : la date des élections grecques sera repoussée en raison des exigences de la Troïka (Press Project)		International
	23 février 2012 Elections set to be pushed back, again Elections probably will not happen in April, due to the "rigid and strict" schedule stemming from troika demands, reports Ethnos daily. That is, the unelected Greek prime minister will be too busy implementing a deeply unpopular program to actually (...)

Baisses rétroactives : 64 000 fonctionnaires grecs devront travailler sans salaire ce mois-ci (Press Project)		Social
	23 février 2012 Up to 64.000 teachers, municipal employees etc to work without salary Salary cutbacks (called "unified payroll") for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result : Up to 64.000 people will work without (...)

Raisins de la colère : la dette des prêts immobiliers islandais réduite de l’équivalent de 13% du PIB (Bloomberg)		Economie
	22 février 2012 The island’s households were helped by an agreement between the government and the banks, which are still partly controlled by the state, to forgive debt exceeding 110 percent of home values. On top of that, a Supreme Court ruling in June 2010 found loans indexed to foreign currencies were (...)

Pourquoi le « mécanisme européen de stabilité » est une aberration (Yvan Duroy, Bastamag)		Economie
	22 février 2012 Extrêmement risqué du point de vue financier, destructeur sur le plan social, et antidémocratique, le mécanisme européen de stabilité symbolisera-t-il le suicide de l’Europe et la fin d’un demi-siècle de patiente construction et de progrès social ? Explications. (...)

Emmanuel Todd : « Annulons la dette du Vieux Monde ! » (Le Point)		Economie
	22 février 2012 ... Un État qui s’endette est un État qui, grâce au monopole de la contrainte légale, permet aux riches d’obtenir une sécurité maximale pour leur argent. Question : Donc, ce n’est pas la faute des gouvernements, puisqu’on les a poussés à emprunter ? Sauf que ce sont leurs choix fiscaux qui les ont conduits à (...)

Si la Grèce veut rester une démocratie, elle doit répudier sa dette ( Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times)		International
	21 février 2012 When Wolfgang Schäuble proposed that Greece should postpone its elections as a condition for further help, I knew that the game would soon be up. We are at the point where success is no longer compatible with democracy, says the FT’s Münchau . The German finance minister wants to prevent a “wrong” (...)

La Turquie dément la capture de soldats en territoire syrien (Today Zaman)		International
	21 février 2012 The Turkish Foreign Ministry denied on Sunday a report that claimed dozens of Turkish intelligence officers have been captured in neighboring Syria. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selçuk Ünal told Today’s Zaman that similar allegations surfaced earlier as well, adding that they did not reflect the (...)

Damas détiendrait 40 militaires turcs, capturés en Syrie (Haaretz)		International
	21 février 2012 ... Western officials fear that Iranian military presence along with Russian aid could turn Syria into a center of international friction much worse than the struggle inside Syria. They fear that the control over actions in Syria will be taken over by a Russian-Iranian "partnership" which would (...)

Espagne : 135 milliards d’emprunts douteux - le PIB devrait se cotracter de 1,5% (Bloomberg)		Economie
	20 février 2012 Lending fell by 3.3 percent in December from a year before, the biggest drop since Bank of Spain records started half a century ago, the regulator said on its website today. Bad loans as a proportion of total loans rose to 7.61 percent from 7.52 percent in November as borrowing considered (...)

Irlande : 9% des emprunts immobiliers en retard de paiement de 90 jours et plus (Bloomberg)		Economie
	20 février 2012 Irish home loans in arrears for more than 90 days rose to 9.2 percent at the end of last year from 8.1 percent at the end of the third quarter, according to the country’s central bank. A total of 107,708 home mortgages, or 14 percent of the total, were either 90 days in arrears or had been (...)

2002 redux : L’iran prépare-t-il une attaque des USA, s’interroge CNN (Video CNN)		International
	20 février 2012 CNN : Is Iran Planning An Attack In America ? Congressman Peter King

CHOMSKY / le déclin américain (Tom Dispatch)		International
	20 février 2012 Hegemony and Its Dilemmas “Losing” the World : American Decline in Perspective The Imperial Way : American Decline in Perspective

Fondamentaux : « l’emmerveillement et l’effroi » de l’astronaute John Glenn au spectacle de la planète bleue (via Common Dreams)		Environnement
	20 février 2012 beyond the scientific considerations, however, I am fortunate to have had the privilege of seeing for myself the beautiful blue-green sphere of the earth spinning silently against the vastness of space. As I looked back at our planet home, made small by great distance, I was filled with wonder (...)

Canada : le gouvernement censure les scientifiques (BBC via Common Dreams)		Environnement
	20 février 2012 The Canadian government has been accused of "muzzling" its scientists. Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication of vital research on health and environment issues is being suppressed. But one Canadian government department approached by the BBC said it held (...)

Serbie : la débâcle rapide du Danube provoque le chaos sur les berges de Belgrade (BBC Video)		Environnement
	20 février 2012 A rapid thaw has brought chaos to the River Danube in the Serbian capital Belgrade, where ice damaged boats, pontoons and floating restaurants. The thick ice covered one of Europe’s busiest waterways during the recent freeze, but began to break up on Sunday as temperatures rose. In Belgrade, (...)

Nouvelles normes : les évènements climatiques « centenaux » pourraient désormais se produire tous les 20 ans (Physorg)		Environnement
	15 février 2012 Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over seawalls and flooded seaside and inland communities. Many hurricane (...)

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