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VOICI LA NOUVELLE MAISON DU PRÉSIDENT DE L'ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE DE LA RD CONGO - VITAL KAMERHE - À RABAT AU MAROC

Correspondance d'Achille Nzuzi, Rabat

 

Voici la belle villa de vital Kamerhe à Rabat

Au moment où ses frères et soeurs du Kivu connaissent les pires moments de leur existence, vital Kamerhe est entrain de finir la construction de sa nouvelle maison dans une banlieue chic de Rabat au Maroc. La construction de cette belle villa avec 8 chambres à coucher et 3 salons, dans une architecture arabe a commencé au début de l'année 2006.  Le coût des travaux est estimé  à 250.000 euros. Derrière  la grande villa il y a une grande piscine moderne construite par des architectes sud africains qui sont venus au Maroc spécialement pour réaliser ce projet.

Cette belle villa a été découverte, grâce à la vigilance de nos deux compatriotes étudiants installés à Rabat depuis quelques années. Depuis un moment, ils avaient remarqué la présence répétée de vital Kamerhe dans la capitale de royaume chérifien. Un des ses cousins amené au Maroc, était chargé de surveiller les travaux de la construction. Mais, depuis un moment le cousin sentinelle n'était plus payé. Se trouvant dans cette galère dans un pays qu'il connaît à peine, il est allé s'est confié aux deux étudiants congolais qu'il a croisé par hasard dans un super marché de la capitale marocaine. Le ventre affamé n'a point de secret, le cousin s'est confié à ses amis en donnant le détail sur cette villa.

J'ai eu l'occasion de le rencontrer et il a promit de s'adresser à la presse avant la fin de la semaine prochaine. Vous aurez le détail de cette histoire dans notre édition de mardi prochain. Le temps pour moi, de réunir tous les éléments nécessaires pour mettre à jour les magouilles de nos ces soi disant libérateurs. D'après le cousin, plusieurs Kabilistes sont entrain de construire au Maroc. Il donnera les précisions dans sa conférence de presse.                                                    

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11/13/08

 

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La jurisprudence Péan

Paris, 11 nov. (ARI) - Pierre Péan, ainsi que son éditeur Claude Durand, ont été relaxés vendredi dernier par la 17ème chambre correctionnelle de Paris, devant laquelle ils étaient poursuivis par SOS Racisme pour diffamation raciale et provocation à la discrimination raciale. Cette plainte avait fait suite à la publication de l'ouvrage Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs. SOS Racisme a déclaré avoir fait appel de ce jugement, dont il est rendu-compte ci-après.

Le jugement aborde la référence que Pierre Péan fait, dans son ouvrage, aux écrits de Paul Dresse. Selon ce dernier, la « duplicité » des Tutsis est « ce qui fait de cette race l'une des plus menteuses sous le soleil ».

Les juges consignent que Péan a donné « la parole à des Européens ayant vécu au Rwanda durant l'époque coloniale ». Des Européens qui, selon le jugement rendu, « ont observé « cette formation au mensonge » ». Les magistrats font remarquer que l'auteur jugé prend la précaution de mettre le lecteur en garde, en écrivant qu'il s'agit du « langage colonial de l'époque ».

Les juges ont remarqué le « caractère archaïque du vocabulaire employé ». Dans leur jugement, ils présentent Dresse comme le fait Péan : un « ancien agent territorial » ; ce faisant, la Cour décide de faire l'impasse sur ce dont la Partie civile l'avait publiquement informé : Dresse était un sympathisant nazi, membre du parti fasciste belge.

Le « choix de citer » les propos de Paul Dresse « ne saurait », pour la Cour, « caractériser le délit reproché, s'agissant pour l'auteur », qui se situerait clairement sur un registre anthropologique, « de souligner la supposée permanence d'un particularisme culturel. ».

Extrapolation pour le moins étonnante et dangereuse de la part du tribunal ! Usant de la jurisprudence Péan qu'il vient de consacrer, on peut aujourd'hui citer Goebbels aux fins de défendre le droit d'évoquer certains « particularismes culturels » des Juifs, pour peu que l'on prenne soin de présenter le nazi comme un communicateur, dont le langage serait aujourd'hui archaïque.

La défense s'était, au cours des trois jours d'audiences, appuyée sur le fait que Péan, pour défendre sa thèse relative à la « culture du mensonge » chez les Tutsis, se référait implicitement au concept rwandais désigné sous le vocable d' « Ubwenge ».

Le jugement établit cependant qu'il est « loisible à Pierre Péan de se référer à ce trait culturel, même s'il doit être noté qu'à aucun moment de son ouvrage, celui-ci ne cite expressis verbis ce terme d' « Ubwenge » ».

Le jugement précise que « de nombreux témoins ont souligné d'ailleurs le caractère sommaire et équivoque de sa traduction par l'expression « culture du mensonge », laquelle ne rend pas compte de la richesse du concept ». La Cour omet, ce faisant, de mentionner ceux des témoins qui ont souligné le caractère totalement impropre de la traduction de l' « Ubwenge » par « culture du mensonge ».

Ainsi en est-il du point de vue exprimé par le Rwandais François-Xavier Ngarambe, anciennement président de l'association des rescapés du génocide, que les juges ont entendu désigner l'Ubwenge comme l'expression de « l'intelligence et de la sagesse ».

Ngarambe avait précisé lors du débat que cela « n'a rien à voir avec la fourberie », mais que l'Ubwenge  caractérisait, au contraire, que « le Rwandais idéal est juste et dit la vérité. Dans les proverbes anciens », avait ajouté Ngarambe, « on dit que la vérité est plus que l'antithèse du mensonge, elle chasse le mensonge, traverse le feu ; la vérité est au dessus de tous les intérêts ». Ce témoin avait conclu que « le Rwandais est prêt à tout perdre plutôt que de mentir ».

Après l'arrêt de vendredi, on peut désormais écrire impunément des Tutsis qu'ils sont culturellement menteurs, sans pour autant avoir à s'encombrer de l'explication de l'Ubwenge. En cas de mise en cause, on s'appuiera sans hésiter sur la nouvelle jurisprudence.

Le lecteur appréciera en imaginant toutes les insultes à caractère raciale que cette jurisprudence permet dorénavant de légaliser, dès lors que sont autorisées les traductions personnelles de concepts culturels étrangers, auxquels il n'est même plus nécessaire de se référer explicitement.

Le texte du jugement cite Péan : « Depuis 1959, chaque tentative de reconquête lancée par les Inyenzi [les rebelles Tutsis] a déclenché des massacres de Tutsis restés à l'intérieur… ».

Aux fins d'éviter les équivoques, le tribunal a pris la précaution d'ajouter la mention française « rebelles tutsis » à Inyenzi, qu'elle considère être son équivalent en kinyarwanda.

Mais « rebelles tutsis » rend-il bien compte de la richesse du concept exprimé en kinyarwanda par « Inyenzi » ?

Non pas ! Inyenzi, en rwandais, signifie « cafard », le vocable précis dont les génocidaires ont qualifié les Tutsis afin de les déshumaniser pour mieux les tuer.

Erreur de traduction de la part des juges ? Lorsqu'un tribunal rend un jugement relaxant un auteur qui insulte une ethnie entière, on ne sait plus bien ce qu'il y a lieu de penser des limites qu'il s'est fixé. Est-il toutefois admissible qu'un tribunal parisien confonde, dans sa sentence, les Tutsis et les cafards ? Replacée dans son contexte, qui a fait, il vaut mieux ne pas l'oublier, un million de morts, cette erreur ne trahit-elle pas par un lapsus calami un a priori inquiétant au détriment des Tutsis ?

On peut légitimement le craindre, en remarquant que, dans le but évident de démontrer fallacieusement que Péan ne généralise pas ses propos à l'ensemble des Tutsis, les juges ont également pris le plus grand soin de n'extraire de la série de phrases incriminées par les plaignants que celles qui n'en visent que des sous-groupes.

La Cour perd ainsi du même coup son âme et sa fonction en statuant que « ne sont à ce titre évoqués que « les associations de Tutsis hors du Rwanda » ainsi que les « rebelles tutsis », avant de conclure « qu'il en résulte que cette dernière série de propos ne vise pas les Tutsis dans leur ensemble ».

Or seule la « dernière série de propos » extraite par la Cour ne vise pas les Tutsis dans leur ensemble.

Philologiquement, n'en déplaise à cette Cour, il suffit que Péan proclamât, ne serait-ce qu'une seule fois, que tous les Tutsis sont des menteurs, pour qu'écrire par ailleurs, autant de fois qu'il lui plût, que seule une partie d'entre eux le sont, ne parvienne à réduire la portée de sa stigmatisation à caractère incontestablement raciste.

Le tribunal a fait appel à une méthode de démonstration supplémentaire autant qu'inédite pour prétendre que Péan n'aurait pas généralisé son insulte à l'ensemble des Tutsis. Sans, visiblement, réaliser l'aberration et la dangerosité judiciaire de cet attendu, les juges ont relevé que Péan n'avait pas réservé sa stigmatisation ethnique aux seuls Tutsis.

Ainsi raisonne la juridiction parisienne, sans s'inquiéter que Péan n'apparaisse dès lors plus raciste encore que la plainte à son encontre ne le lui reprochait. Le jugement précise ainsi que « si l'auteur attribue principalement aux Tutsis ce particularisme culturel, il le prête également aux Hutus et, plus généralement, aux Rwandais ».

En relevant par ailleurs, dans son jugement, que Péan attribue la systématisation du recours au mensonge « aux Tutsis » et non à des Tutsis, la Cour reconnaît de jure la « racialisation » des propos infâmants de l'auteur.

Au tour du fond maintenant : le fait que ces stigmatisations ne visent pas que les Tutsis mais tous les Rwandais, ne saurait, d'aucune façon, minimiser la généralisation faite aux Tutsis. Elle l'aggrave au contraire, en l'étendant à l'ensemble des Rwandais, tout en différenciant les Rwandais du reste du genre humain.

L'extrait précis, de la plume de Péan, est « tant la culture du mensonge et de la dissimulation domine toutes les autres chez les Tutsis et, dans une moindre part, par imprégnation, chez les Hutus ».

A 180 degrés des conclusions du tribunal, la philologie exige de déduire du texte de l'écrivain, non seulement que la race des Tutsis est menteuse, mais aussi celle des Hutus et que, de plus, les Tutsis sont contagieux !

Toujours à l'appui de la thèse selon laquelle Péan ne ferait pas de généralisation à l'ensemble des Tutsis, le jugement reprend la formule de l'auteur selon laquelle « cette culture du mensonge s'est particulièrement développée dans la diaspora tutsie ».

Ecrire des Tutsis qu'ils sont particulièrement menteurs en diaspora, c'est toutefois sous-entendre qu'ils le sont moins au Rwanda, donc, qu'ils le sont quand même au Rwanda. La Cour confirme ainsi, sans s'en rendre compte et pour la troisième fois dans son délibéré, la généralisation des propos de Péan à l'ensemble des Tutsis.

La Cour retient que Péan s'est appuyé, aux fins de bâtir sa thèse, sur une remise en cause de « l'opposition, selon lui simplificatrice, entre victimes, les Tutsis, et bourreaux, les Hutus ». Le fait d'adjoindre au génocide perpétré au détriment des Tutsis un autre génocide, imaginaire, celui-là, qu'auraient commis les Tutsis à l'encontre des Hutus, permet à Péan d'induire chez le lecteur l'assimilation de ce que le jugement qualifie de « drame rwandais » à une lutte tribale.

Par ailleurs, on cherche en vain la logique par laquelle la thèse du double génocide impliquerait, de quelque façon, que l'ethnie tutsie s'appuyât systématiquement sur le mensonge.

Le jugement précise que Péan pratique ses « développements sur « la culture du mensonge et de la dissimulation » de telle manière que « la formulation qu'il emploie peut légitimement heurter ceux qu'il vise ». Or n'ont de légitimité à être heurtés que ceux qui sont injustement accusés. La Cour reconnaît donc ici que ceux que Péan vise sont injustement dénigrés.

La Cour considère que « les passages poursuivis doivent être appréciés au regard (…) de la thèse avancée par Pierre Péan, qui entend, en substance, « démontrer que le génocide de 1994 ne fut qu'un épisode dans une guerre civile et régionale ignorée » ».

Noyer le génocide d'un million de Tutsis dans tous les affrontements qui secouèrent, dans l'Histoire, la région des Grands Lacs, aussi bien que dans les guerres du Congo, participe de la même démarche intellectuelle que celle employée par Le Pen, lorsqu'il tenta d'immerger le génocide de 6 millions de Juifs, au titre de péripétie, dans la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Les deux attitudes ayant pour objectif de minimiser la culpabilité des assassins et la centralité, voire la gravité des génocides.


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Rwanda Keeps Diplomatic Ties With Germany


12 November 2008

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Rwanda will maintain diplomatic ties with Germany, despite recalling its ambassador from Germany and sending the German ambassador home from Kigali this week. Thomas Rippe reports for VOA from Rwanda's capital.


Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali said that her country will not break ties with Germany over the arrest earlier this week of Rose Kabuye, a top aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.  

Diplomatic tensions between the two countries have been building all week, beginning with Kabuye's arrest in Germany on Sunday. Monday thousands of Rwandans began protests outside the German embassy that have continued each day.  

Minister Museminali said ambassadors from both countries have returned home, but that dialogue between the countries remains open.

"We have recalled Ambassador Gasana, who is our ambassador in Germany, to come home for consultations," he said. "That is the normal process. We have also asked the German ambassador to leave until these things are cleared. That does not mean that we have broken diplomatic relations with Germany. Their embassy remains open here, our embassy remains open in Berlin, and we believe that when these issues are settled we should be able to go back to normal business," said Museminali.

The minister said that relations with Germany were very good until the arrest, and that both countries are working to repair the rift.

"We always hope to work on these things as fast as we can. But it would be difficult to give a time frame. One hopes that it does not take so long," he said.

The prison including the women's prison, in Frankfurt,where Rose Kabuye is being held, 11 Nov  2008
The prison including the women's prison, in Frankfurt, where Rose Kabuye is being held, 11 Nov 2008
Kabuye was arrested on a 2006 French indictment that alleges she was involved in the 1994 downing of a plane that killed then-Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana. His death sparked the genocide that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.  


Rwanda broke diplomatic relations with France after indictments were issued against several people. Minister Museminali said Rwanda is especially upset with Germany over its treatment of the French indictments.

"Germany should have looked at these indictments and seen them for what they were," he said. These are politically motivated indictments that had a very flawed process in getting to them, that had very shaky information that was collected around Rose Kabuye and the other counterparts that the indictments accuse," the minister said.

Many Rwandans said they still resent the international community for not doing more to stop the genocide. They remain skeptical of the intentions of the international community and of ideas of international justice.

"We think they were really high-handed. They were very unfair. And we believe that our action really has expressed how unhappy we were," Museminali said.

Minister Museminali said there is still a lot of activity between Rwanda and Germany, and she expects the two countries to resume their friendship.



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Uganda Baati in Rwanda
Wednesday, 12th November, 2008
 

By Kiganda Ssonko 


UGANDA Baati, one of the leading steel products manufacturer, has opened a $2m (sh4b) plant in Kigali, Rwanda, Rakesh Bhatnagar, the managing director, has said.

Speaking at the company headquarters in Kampala Industrial Area on November 11, he said the firm, Safintra Rwanda, would make similar products as its mother company.

�Safintra Rwanda started a few weeks back.

�We manufacture the same products like those made here, except for the galvanised items which we have not gone into.

The company produces steel materials like iron sheets, pipes, wire mesh and angle bars.

He said they were expanding to Rwanda because of its favourable investment environment and policies that would allow the growth of the steel sector.

�Uganda�s steel industry is becoming weaker compared to other East African countries because of lack of friendly policies.

�There is no stamp duty in Rwanda, no taxes on imported raw materials, minimal bureaucracy and easy access to financing of development projects,� he said.

He said the Rwanda plant was producing for domestic consumption for the start but would go into exports once it expands in future.

�We shall increase production for wider markets in countries like Burundi and parts of Eastern DR Congo,� he said.

Uganda Baati is a member of the Safal Group of companies, the largest manufacturer of metal roofing products in eastern and central Africa and the leading producer of roofing products in Africa.

The Safal Group also has galvanising lines and aluminium firms in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

and l as Aluminium-Zinc and Colour Coating lines in Kenya. Safal is the first organisation in Africa to have set up the Aluminium-Zinc coating technology.


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Rwanda ready to welcome Interahamwe militia
Wednesday, 12th November, 2008
Ambassador Kamali

Ambassador Kamali

By Henry Mukasa

Rwanda is ready to welcome back the Interahamwe militia, who are accused of genocide and hiding in the Democratic Republic of Congo, if they renounce rebellion.

In an interview yesterday, the Rwandan ambassador, Iganatius Karegesa Kamali, said Rwanda was not involved in the fighting between Gen. Laurent Nkunda and the Congo army. He said Kigali demands that her neighbour disarms the Interahamwe.

�The Interahamwe committed genocide in Rwanda. They fled to Congo in organised military formation in big numbers and they are armed. What we want is for them to be disarmed or disbanded because we are ready to welcome them back in Rwanda and integrate them in society,� Kamali said.

�Those who would want to join the army would be integrated. If that is not the case, they will be relocated to another place,� he explained.

Kamali said while the Tripartite Plus arrangement by regional countries would have helped to stem violence in the Congo and bring a permanent solution, its resolutions and agreements have been ignored.

�Much of the blame should go to the people who are hosting the negative groups and this is DRC. If agreements are concluded and specify what action to be taken, then the action is not taken� not because those who have opposed it have failed, but rather because someone who is hosting the armed groups does not cooperate; then I will say straight away he is to blame,� Kamali stated.

Kamali said the arrest of Rwanda�s director general of state protocol, Rose Kabuye, at an airport in Germany on Sunday, was a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Kabuye was arrested as she arrived in Germany to prepare for the visit of the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame.

Arrest warrants by a French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, were issued against Kabuye and nine other Rwanda Patriotic Front members.

Bruguiere accuses them of participating in the conspiracy to shoot down the plane of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, an incident which sparked a genocide.

�It was very unfair. Rose Kabuye has a diplomatic status and, therefore, has diplomatic immunity. For a country to pounce on her and arrest her, erodes her immunity and violates the Geneva Convention,� Kamali said.

He said the warrants upon which Kabuye was arrested were contested by not only Rwanda, but also several European Union countries and by all members of the African Union.

�It has been contested as a controversial arrest warrant. To base on that and arrest an official of Rwanda is a violation of universal jurisdiction. We demand her unconditional release,� Kamali said.

On Tuesday, Rwanda expelled the Germany ambassador and recalled its envoy from Berlin.

�We have made a loud statement that we are not pleased. Asking the Germany ambassador to leave is another eloquent statement that we are not happy,� Kamali said.


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11/12/08

Former Harvard fellow charged in Burundi

By Farah Stockman Globe Staff / November 11, 200


WASHINGTON -- A Burundi opposition leader was charged yesterday in Bujumbura with contempt for the president, despite strong condemnation of his arrest last week by State Department officials and human rights groups in the United States.




Alexis Sinduhije, a former radio journalist who has defied threats to his life for years, was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1997 and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people this year.

"This is a purely political matter. It has nothing to do with the law," Sinduhije's lawyer Prosper Niyoyankana said yesterday, Agence France Presse reported. "Alexis Sinduhije, like other political prisoners in this country, is being punished by the government for their criticism" of the regime.

Sinduhije was arrested in Bujumbura on November 3 with 37 other founding members of the Movement for Security and Democracy, a newly-created opposition party dedicated to reaching out to both Hutu and Tutsi citizens in a country plagued by civil war and ethnic violence. The State Department called last week for their immediate release.

The others were freed last week, according to news reports. But the case against Sinduhije, a contender for Burundi's presidential election in 2010, appears to be going forward. It is based on documents allegedly criticizing Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza that were found in his home, according to press reports citing his lawyer.

The news has sparked anguish and dismay at Harvard, where several specialists on journalism and human rights have followed Sinduhije's career.

"I very much hope that wisdom and cooler heads will prevail and he will be released quickly," said Alex S. Jones cq, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center of Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School. "He is very highly regarded as a journalist. His core values are ones of telling the truth."

Sinduhije, 43, became a celebrated national figure -- and an international hero -- when he founded an independent radio station in 2001 that encouraged reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi Burundians. At his radio station, Radio Publique Africaine, he put former soldiers from both the Tutsi and Hutu ethnicities to work as journalists covering the country's attempt to heal from years of civil war.

Sinduhije has been threatened, beaten and arrested repeatedly throughout his years as a journalist. The government banned his station in 2003 for airing an interview with a spokesman for an armed rebel group. But the ban was lifted days later, when other stations boycotted government news until it was lifted. The same year, unidentified assailants fired at his home, killing his night watchman in an alleged assassination attempt, according to a 2004 State Department report on human rights practices.

In 2005, the government suspended his radio station for 48 hours for "offending public morals" by reporting the rape of an eight-year-old girl and threatening public security by "deforming" the words of Tutsi politician and former President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, according to a 2006 State Department human rights report.

Despite those experiences, Sinduhije frequently spoke of the time he spent interviewing African Americans in Boston and New York as the most challenging thing he had ever done, according to former colleagues. He was stunned by their lack of knowledge of his homeland and called the research into what African Americans know of Africa as "the most difficult task of my career," according to a research paper he wrote for the Shorenstein Center posted on the Internet.

In 2004, Sinjuhije received the International Press Freedom Award from the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Last year, he left journalism to found a new political party, and announced his intention to run for president. The move earned him a place on Time Magazine's list of influential people, and an appearance as a guest on PBS's "Charlie Rose" show earlier this year.

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Op-Ed Contributor
The Climate for Change
By AL GORE
Published: November 9, 2008



The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.

The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.

The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late.

Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.

Economists across the spectrum -- including Martin Feldstein and Lawrence Summers -- agree that large and rapid investments in a jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive our economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our economy will fall behind if we continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign oil every year. Moreover, national security experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.

As Abraham Lincoln said during America's darkest hour, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." In our present case, thinking anew requires discarding an outdated and fatally flawed definition of the problem we face.

Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." His statement came three weeks after the Arab oil embargo had sent prices skyrocketing and woke America to the dangers of dependence on foreign oil. And -- not coincidentally -- it came only three years after United States domestic oil production had peaked.

At the time, the United States imported less than a third of its oil from foreign countries. Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds -- and many feel that global oil production is at or near its peak.

Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production at home, they argue, then we wouldn't have to rely on imports from the Middle East. Some have come up with even dirtier and more expensive new ways to extract the same old fuels, like coal liquids, oil shale, tar sands and "clean coal" technology.

But in every case, the resources in question are much too expensive or polluting, or, in the case of "clean coal," too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate. Indeed, those who spend hundreds of millions promoting "clean coal" technology consistently omit the fact that there is little investment and not a single large-scale demonstration project in the United States for capturing and safely burying all of this pollution. If the coal industry can make good on this promise, then I'm all for it. But until that day comes, we simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical and self-interested illusion.

Here's what we can do -- now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century technologies that use fuel that is free forever: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.

What follows is a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. It is a plan that would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis -- and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced.

First, the new president and the new Congress should offer large-scale investment in incentives for the construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.

Second, we should begin the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with "smart" features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The cost of this modern grid -- $400 billion over 10 years -- pales in comparison with the annual loss to American business of $120 billion due to the cascading failures that are endemic to our current balkanized and antiquated electricity lines.

Third, we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new startup companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available as the rest of this plan matures. In combination with the unified grid, a nationwide fleet of plug-in hybrids would also help to solve the problem of electricity storage. Think about it: with this sort of grid, cars could be charged during off-peak energy-use hours; during peak hours, when fewer cars are on the road, they could contribute their electricity back into the national grid.

Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings with better insulation and energy-efficient windows and lighting. Approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States come from buildings -- and stopping that pollution saves money for homeowners and businesses. This initiative should be coupled with the proposal in Congress to help Americans who are burdened by mortgages that exceed the value of their homes.

Fifth, the United States should lead the way by putting a price on carbon here at home, and by leading the world's efforts to replace the Kyoto treaty next year in Copenhagen with a more effective treaty that caps global carbon dioxide emissions and encourages nations to invest together in efficient ways to reduce global warming pollution quickly, including by sharply reducing deforestation.

Of course, the best way -- indeed the only way -- to secure a global agreement to safeguard our future is by re-establishing the United States as the country with the moral and political authority to lead the world toward a solution.

Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves.

In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years. Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11 from the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average age when President Kennedy announced the challenge was 18.

This year similarly saw the rise of young Americans, whose enthusiasm electrified Barack Obama's campaign. There is little doubt that this same group of energized youth will play an essential role in this project to secure our national future, once again turning seemingly impossible goals into inspiring success.

Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He founded the Alliance for Climate Protection and, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy companies.

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Church leaders urge peace action in Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo

By agency reporter
12 Nov 2008

A delegation of church leaders from Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo has set out to meet the presidents of the latter two countries in order to convey them a strong message in favour of peace.

The 5-strong ecumenical delegation was gathering yesterday at the Congolese capital Kinshasa, where they expect to meet with President Joseph Kabila before travelling in the coming weeks to the capital city of Kigali in order to meet the Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

"The aim is to transmit them a message of peace," says the Rev Dr André Karamaga, the World Council of Churches (WCC) programme executive for Africa and general secretary-elect of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC).

The initiative was taken at a meeting of church leaders from the Great Lakes region convened by the AACC in Nairobi, Kenya on 22-23 October 2008. On that occasion, some 12 church leaders from Burundi, Rwanda and D.R. Congo decided that the heads of state and the rebel leader should hear a clear message: "People are tired and want an end to the war," and "dialogue costs much less than armed confrontation".

Some 250,000 people have fled their homes in the eastern part of the D.R. Congo escaping the fight that broke out between the army and rebels in August. Rebels are led by renegade General Laurent Nkunda, who says they fight to protect the Congolese Tutsi community from being attacked by Rwandan Hutu fighters, who fled to D.R. Congo, some of them perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Congolese government seems to have failed to deliver on its promise to stop the Hutu forces from using its territory.

The D.R. Congo, a country the size of Western Europe and located in the heart of Africa, is striving to recover from a long civil war that reportedly killed some three million people, mostly through starvation and disease. As the newly internally displaced people join about one million already displaced in the region, fears of a humanitarian disaster are on the rise.

The group of church leaders is led by the Anglican Archbishop of Burundi Bernard Ntahoturi,. Ntahoturi chairs the Council of Churches of Burundi and the Great Lakes Ecumenical Forum and is a member of the WCC Central Committee. Also a member of the group is the Anglican Bishop of Rwanda Onesphore Rwaje, who is the president of the Protestant Council of Rwanda. Mbari Kioni, AACC director of Advocacy, Research and Communication is accompanying the team.

The Congolese members of the delegation are: Bishop Dieudonné Mbaya Tshiakany, moderator of the National Synod of the Church of Christ in Congo and president of the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of Great Lakes and Horn of Africa (FECCLAHA); Bishop Jean-Luc Kuye-Ndondo wa Mulemera, president of the Church of Christ in Congo in South Kivu and a member of the senate; and the Rev Dr Kakule Molo, president of the Baptist Community in Central Africa, based ineastern Congo, and a member of parliament.

Churches in D.R. Congo are working to alleviate the humanitarian crisis. While many aid groups work to assist those in camps for displaced people, local members of Action by Churches Together (ACT) International are striving to help the largely "invisible" displaced families – those who are not in camps but sheltered in family homes – and the increasingly vulnerable communities who are hosting them. Initial plans for assistance include support for an estimated 60,000 people, as well as access to water and sanitation for significantly more families.

Source: Action by Churches Together (ACT) International: http://act-intl.org/alerts/Alerts_2008/Al44-08_DRCViol.html






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SCANDALE À L´AMBASSADE DE LA RDC À PARIS: LA POLICE FRANÇAISE  A MIS LE GRAPPIN SUR UN TRAFIQUANT DES PASSEPORTS NATIONAUX !

Kinshasa, 10/1172008

Les milieux de la communauté congolaise de France ergotent avec indignation autour de la découverte par la police française au sein de l´ambassade de la RDC à Paris d´un suspect agent secret congolais impliqué dans le réseau de vente parallèle des passeports nationaux.

C´est un véritable "Width=100% trésor", une caverne d´Ali Baba avec tout l´arsenal du parfait petit faussaire mafieux et dealer, que la police française a découvert en perquisitionnant, la semaine dernière, au domicile de l´un des fonctionnaires de la mission diplomatique de la RDC en France. Des passeports pré-signés par le chargé d´affaires a.i. et non enregistrés à l´ambassade, des doubles de tous les cachets en usage à l´ambassade, du papier à lettre et des enveloppes à l´en tête officielle de l´ambassade, de la marijuana, du chit, de l´héroïne et une importante somme d´argent que la police soupçonne provenir du fruit de ce trafic.

Après quarante huit longues heures de garde à vue, le suspect, chef d´antenne adjoint de l´Agence Nationale des Renseignements (A. N.R.) à l´ambassade de la RDC en France, a bien reconnu les faits qui lui étaient reprochés par la police et a livré les noms de certains de ses complices dont...-surprenante et scandaleuse révélation- le chargé d´affaires en personne, chef de mission par intérim de l´ambassade de la RDC en Paris!

Les prisons françaises étant engorgées, ce fonctionnaire de l´ambassade qui renoncé depuis longtemps à sa nationalité congolaise pour prendre la nationalité française, a été reconnu coupable mais laissé en semi liberté. Il a toutefois été condamné à porter un bracelet électronique qui lui interdit de quitter la France. Ce bracelet qui permet à la police de localiser son porteur en tout moment, constitue, en quelques sortes, une assignation à résidence.

Celui qui porte ce bracelet a interdiction de s´approcher d´une frontière française pour s´évader, par exemple, sous peine d´aller directement dans la cellule d´une prison. Il lui est imposé un trajet unique pour se rendre de son domicile à son lieu de travail, d´où il doit retourner directement chez lui. Le Chargé d´Affaires a.i, quant à lui, ne doit son demi salut qu´à sa qualité reconnu diplomate. Pour cette qualité, la Convention de Genève interdit, en effet, toute perquisition à son domicile. Dieu sait quelle autre caverne d´Ali Baba la police aurait pu y découvrir.

La Mafia qui a infiltré et mis la main sur la totalité du personnel de l´ambassade de la RDC à Paris depuis de longues années, commence donc à livrer ses secrets et ses réseaux. Il se passe pas une semaine sans que la police ne découvre un  circuit parallèle de vente des passeports et autres documents officiels congolais. Il est donc établi désormais que ces faussaires que l´on nomme à Paris "Paparazi" travaillent en toute impunité avec des fonctionnaires même de l´ambassade. La rumeur circule cependant selon laquelle tous ces pseudo diplomates auraient été rappelés à Kinshasa. C´est grâce aux complicités au sein même de la Centrale aux Affaires Étrangères qu´ils continueraient à sévir à Paris.

En voilà des fléaux qui ternissent l´image de la RDC. Alors que le pays se débat pour se trouver des alliés à travers le monde afin de soutenir la cause nationale face aux diverses forces du mal qui tentent de déstabiliser la jeune démocratie congolaise, on se demande bien pourquoi les responsables des Affaires  ne songent toujours pas à doter la RDC d´une diplomatie active, avec des animateurs compétents acquis à la cause de la République, pour redorer à l´étranger une image que des Congolais indignes ont ternie.

Source:   Correspondance de Jean-Claude Kalala Madi/MMC

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11/9/08

Zuma seeks hard stand on Harare

By Richard Lapper

Published: November 8 2008 02:00 | Last updated: November 8 2008 02:00

Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, urged regional leaders yesterday to "force" a resolution of the stand-off that has paralysed Zimbabwe.

Signalling an end to the "quiet diplomacy" favoured by Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's former president, Mr Zuma said: "As far as I'm concerned, [the Southern African Development Community] must make those Zimbabweans reach an agreement."

The 15-nation grouping is due to meet tomorrow in an effort to end a dispute between Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader,over the allocation of cabinet posts.

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Some dignitaries from England, Scotland, France, and Spain also attended the Belgium online gaming event - the first of it's kind world-wide

Schlipp Fode, who spoke on the Belgium online gaming industry news panel, also has a prominent blog online.

Schlipp Fode offered some fresh points of view from recent blog entries and website submissions.

This was a refreshing review of the Belgium online gaming market, and was very informative.

Mayor Simona Godar, who spearheaded the original Belgium online gaming committee that brought the conference to town, spoke joyfully about the boom for local business: "Restaurants, Night Clubs, and the mall have all benefited greatly. Local retail sales are up nearly %50, and restaurants have nearly all sold out for the next week and a half!" The local news media also took to the streets to get general public's view about today's events.

Most reactions about the Belgium online gaming conference were positive, but a few people were not happy with the commotion created by evening party goers.

"I like the idea of having a Belgium online gaming conference in our town, but can't sleep at night with all them creating a ruckus," said Czapski Miyasato, who lives adjacent to the main facilities. "It wasn't so bad last year, but last night I didn't get to bed until 3 AM with all the shenanigans going on!"

Belgium online gaming conference goers, fans, and a few dignitaries from other countries all enjoyed the keynote speech by Cenci Haberkorn, director of the Rawls Beckum INC company.

The speech brought the crowd to its feet, with an ovation that lasted for nearly 6 minutes.

The following speaker, Donella Navratil, a long time conference support, echoed much of what was said during the key-note, along with a few other important ideas.

Some new Belgium online gaming product lines were also announced today, including the much anticipated release from Boike Kraus.com, a new leader in the industry. Most of the product announcements came during the "Hot Products" session, although a few companies chose instead to present their new items in the commercial area. Corporate attendees were advised to bring at least 1000 Belgium online gaming products with them to resell, and despite this quota, many companies sold out on the very first day!

"Wow!!!", said Erminia Huxley, a first time conference goer, "I'm so thankful that many Belgium online gaming industry heavyweights took time out to come and talk to us. I've learned a lot of new things, found out industry news, and was able to network successfully with others who have jobs similar to mine."

Some area Belgium online gaming commercial advertising firms also benefited from conference attendance.

One business owner stated that "I've got double the usual number of orders since the conference started… This means our company will probably have a surplus at the end of the year, and will allow us to continue strong into the next quarter!"

Dugas Zuckerwar, a well known Belgium online gaming marketer and former CEO of the Holahan Hockman INC firm, had a great panel discussion on the legalities of Belgium online gaming trade abroad. Holahan Hockman spoke briefly on current events, and then opened up the floor for Q & A from the audience.


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Germany marks shame - and golden hour

 

The anniversary of one of the most shameful chapters of Germany's turbulent history and one of its most euphoric both fall on Sunday, prompting commemorations and celebrations throughout the country.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish leaders will gather at Germany's biggest synagogue to pay tribute to the victims of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 and to the miraculous rebirth of Jewish life in recent years.

Because it shares the same date, the fall of the Berlin Wall will also be marked and the victims of communist East Germany remembered at low-key events ahead of the 20th anniversary next year.

The leader of the Central Council of Jews, Charlotte Knobloch, said she hoped a reminder of the atrocities 70 years ago would rekindle Germans' commitment to tolerance.

"This important day heavy in symbolism is an opportunity to show that Germany is a diverse and vibrant democracy," said Knobloch, who was six on Kristallnacht.

The pogrom, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, saw Nazi thugs plunder Jewish businesses throughout Germany, torch more than 200 synagogues and round up some 30,000 Jewish men for deportation to concentration camps.

Some 90 Jews were murdered in the orgy of violence, whose pretext was the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a student, Herschel Grynspan, who sought revenge for the expulsion of his family from Germany with about 15,000 other Polish Jews.

"From that moment on, Jews knew that those who could must save themselves," said survivor Betty Alsberg, an 88-year-old who now lives in Israel.

The pogrom was a prelude to the Nazis' extermination campaign launched three years later in which they murdered six million Jews.

After national unification in 1990, Germany began accepting Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet states and the country now has one of the fastest growing Jewish communities in the world with some 120,000 members.

The main ceremony will take place at Berlin's Rykestrasse synagogue, which reopened in August 2007 after a major restoration as a defiant symbol of a Jewish revival in the city where the Holocaust was planned.

The 1,200-capacity house of worship was one of the few Jewish institutions in Berlin to survive Kristallnacht.

It was only spared because it was between "Aryan" blocks of flats that might have caught fire had the synagogue been firebombed.

But its precious Torah rolls were damaged and rabbis as well as congregation members were seized and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

British violinist Daniel Hope will give a memorial concert on Sunday headlined "Do Something!" at Tempelhof Airport, the hub of the Berlin Airlift that closed last month after 85 years.

"'Reichskristallnacht' took place 70 years ago and yet its consequences are still reflected in today's society," said Hope, whose family was forced to flee Berlin and the Nazis.

"Situations that require civil courage, individual or collective, continue to arise, whether it's an individual attack on a defenceless fellow human being or the brutality of groups such as right wing radical skinheads."

In the evening, a German doctors' association will honour Jewish colleagues who were first stripped of their right to practice medicine and later killed at the camps.

At Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin, a guided tour will recount the story of 6,000 Jews interned there after Kristallnacht.

In Munich, where Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels issued the call for the pogrom, the names of 4,587 Holocaust victims who lived in the city will be read out in public.

And two new synagogues will open, in Goettingen, northern Germany, and in the southern city of Loerrach.


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CPI : Une manifestation des partisans de JP Bemba dégénère en pugilat



 


Réunis devant le siège de la Cour pénale internationale à La Haye, des Congolais venus de l'Allemagne, de la Belgique et des villes des Pays-Bas ont dénoncé mardi 4 novembre l'audience prévue ce jour avant d'être reportée ainsi que le maintien en détention de l'ancien vice-président de la RD Congo et sénateur Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo.

Ils étaient plus ou moins trois cent manifestants dont plusieurs dizaines en tenue de camouflage. Ils ont rejoint La Haye dans la matinée de mardi par cars entiers. L'épouse Bemba, née Liliane Teixeira, était de la partie. Il en est de même du représentant au Benelux du MLC (Mouvement de libération du Congo), Dr. Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda et de plusieurs activistes politiques. Il faut que dire cette «démonstration» était prévue de longue date après que la CPI a fixé, au 4 novembre, l'audience de «confirmation des charges» dans l'affaire «Le procureur contre JP Bemba». Les partisans du «Chairman» avaient prévu d'aller au siège de cette juridiction internationale afin d'assister au procès. On le sait, le 31 octobre dernier, cette Cour, par sa Chambre de première instance III, a arrêté les dates de cette audience. A savoir du 8 décembre au 12 décembre prochain. «La manifestation de ce mardi avait un objectif majeur : dénoncer le report de l'audience autant que le maintien en "détention arbitraire" de JP Bemba», déclare Dieudonné Wabi, coordonnateur de l'«Association des Amis de JP Bemba». Pour lui, «JPB» fait l'objet d'une «grave injustice».

Mémorandums

A La Haye, les manifestants ont pu articuler leur indignation dans deux mémorandum remis au président de la CPI. L'un émane du MLC. L'autre, de diverses associations de la diaspora congolaise d'Europe. «Comme toujours à pareille occasion, commente une source jointe au téléphone, les débordements ne manquent pas…». Que s'est-il passé ? Il semble que les protestataires ont fini par envahir la voie publique provoquant des embarras de circulation à La Haye. «C'est ainsi, explique un témoin, que la police batave a appelé des renforts pour rétablir l'ordre en forçant les Congolais à monter dans les cars. Un des policiers a voulu bousculer Liliane Bemba. Le geste a suscité des vives réactions d'où les empoignades...». Bilan : un blessé léger (répondant au surnom de «Pharaon») et quelques interpellations. Pour des raisons inconnues au moment où nous couchons ces lignes, Jean-Jacques Mbungani a été interpellé de 14h00 à 20h00. Il était impossible de le joindre au téléphone. Henri Muke Disuishe du groupe de pression «Bana Congo» a subi un sort quasi-analogue. «Cette manifestation a été un grand succès, exulte Wabi. Désormais, les magistrats de la CPI savent que nous restons vigilants et que Bemba n'est pas un homme seul».

Audience cruciale

L'audience de confirmation des charges est un rendez-vous crucial. La Cour devra à cette occasion s'assurer que "les affaires renvoyées en jugement présentent des éléments de preuve suffisants pour établir l'existence de motifs substantiels de croire que la personne a commis les crimes qui lui sont imputés", indique le communiqué diffusé le 31 octobre par la CPI. "Suite à cette audience, la Chambre de première instance III décidera de confirmer ou non les charges retenues par le Procureur à l'encontre de M. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo et de le renvoyer, le cas échéant, en procès." Et ce, de cinq chefs de crimes de guerre et de trois chefs de crimes contre l'humanité commis sur le territoire de la République centrafricaine pendant la période allant du 25 octobre 2002 au 15 mars 2003. En décembre prochain, l'ancien vice-président de la RD Congo et sénateur Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo va entamer son septième mois de détention. L'homme a tenté en vain d'obtenir la libération sous caution afin de comparaître en "homme libre". Membre de l'équipe d'avocats chargée d'assurer la défense de Bemba, Aimé Kilolo Musamba, interrogé fin octobre par la rédaction de Congoindependant.com, est formel : «Les pièces communiquées, à la défense, par le procureur Luis Moreno-Ocampo se rapportent à des exactions commises par des «soldats» indéterminés.» Selon lui, le magistrat argentin a recueilli notamment des «témoignages» et des "preuves écrites" sans toutefois que ceux-ci fassent mention des noms des auteurs présumés des faits incriminés. «Aucun élément n'établit à ce stade la responsabilité irréfutable de Jean-Pierre Bemba», estime cet avocat du barreau de Bruxelles et de Lubumbashi. Son confrère Papis Tshimpangila d'enfoncer le clou : «Comment peut-on sanctionner un supérieur hiérarchique sans pour autant identifier et poursuivre ses subordonnés censés être les auteurs et co-auteurs des faits incriminés?».

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