U2's early sound was rooted
in post-punk but
eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular
music. Throughout the group's musical pursuits, they have maintained a
sound built on melodic instrumentals, highlighted by The Edge's timbrallyvaried guitar sounds and Bono's expressive vocals. Their lyrics, often
embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes and sociopolitical
concerns
U2 have released 12 studio
albums and are among the all-time best-selling music artists,
having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. They have won
22 Grammy
Awards, more than any other band, and in 2005, they were inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their
first year of eligibility.
Rolling Stone ranked
U2 at number 22 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"
and has labelled them the "Biggest Band in the World". Throughout
their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human
rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA
campaigns, Product Red, and The Edge's Music
Rising . . .
SitiWanMahani-Mangsa dihitung: Amerika Syarikat keberatan untuk mengakui berapa ramai orang awam mati dalam serangan Drone. Amerika Syarikat enggan untuk mengakui berapa ramai orang awam terbunuh dalam CIA yang diketuai Drone perang di Pakistan, tetapi UK satu kumpulan bukan keuntungan adalah menggali kebenaran.
Biro Kewartawanan Siasatan sedang mencari untuk menamakan semua mangsa serangan Amerika Syarikat di rantau ini, dengan harapan ia boleh meletakkan wajah manusia mengenai apa yang berlaku. RT ini Polly Boyko mempunyai laporan ini.
Numberless Victims: US reluctant to admit how many civilians
died in drone strikes
The US is reluctant to admit how many civilians have died in the CIA-led drone war in Pakistan, but one UK non-profit group is digging for the truth.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is seeking to name all the victims of US strikes in the region, in a hope it could put a human face on what's happening. RT's Polly Boyko has this report.
An Evening with Mark Knopfler ‘Brothers In Arms’ . . .
think IN pictures: Mark Knopfler & Band(An Evening with Mark Knopfler@1WORLDCommunity) . . .
SitiWanMahani| Ct1MahaniThe show was officially recorded and broadcasted both on TV and internet. This is the soundboard recording from the internet and has perfect sound quality.(Acara ini telah secara rasmi direkodkan dan disiarkan kedua-dua TV di dalam dan di internet. Ini adalah rakaman soundboard dari internet dan mempunyai kualiti bunyi yang sempurna).
Mark Freuder Knopfler,OBE (lahir 12 Ogos 1949) adalah Scotland yang dilahirkan, film score composer, pemain gitar, pengeluar rekod dan penyanyi-penulis lagu. Beliau dikenali sebagai pemain gitar utama, vokalis, dan pencipta lagu untuk band rock English Dire Straits, yang beliau bersama-diasaskan bersama adiknya, David Knopfler 1977.
Selepas Dire Straits dibubarkan pada tahun 1995, Knopfler terus merakam dan menghasilkan 7 album solo, dan, dengan tempoh sebelum ini, lagu-lagu yang dihasilkan banyak. Beliau telah terdiri dan menghasilkan film scores untuk 8 filem, termasuk Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), danWag the Dog (1997).
Knopfler adalah seorang pemain gitar fingerstyle dan berada di kedudukan ke-27 pada senarai majalah Rolling Stone daripada 100 pemain gitar Terbesar Masa Semua. Knopfler dan Selat Dire telah menjual lebih 120 juta album sehingga kini. 4 kali pemenang Anugerah Grammy, Knopfler adalah penerima Anugerah Edison Award dan Anugerah Steiger Award, dan memegang 3 darjah doktor kehormat doctorate dalam muzik dari universiti-universiti di United Kingdom
Mark Freuder Knopfler,OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a Scottish-born, English film score composer, guitarist, record producer and singer-songwriter. He is known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the English rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded with his brother, David Knopfler in 1977.
After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler went on to record and produce seven solo albums, and, as with his previous tenure, produced many hit songs. He has composed and produced film scores for eight films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), and Wag the Dog (1997).
Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award and the Steiger Award, and holds three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom.
Pejuang Free Syrian Army menggali parit di kawasan Jabal al-Akrad di barat laut wilayah Latakia Syria, 4 September, 2013 (Free Syrian Army fighters dig trenches at the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province, September 4, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani-Sekurang-kurangnya 190 orang terbunuh dan lebih 200 tebusan oleh pemberontak Syria dibiayai oleh penderma Teluk swasta dalam 4 Ogos serangan tentera di Latakia governorate, menurut satu laporan Human Rights Watch.
Sekurang-kurangnya 67 mangsa dilaksanakan telah menetap di Negara-Negara Berkecuali kerajaan kampung Alawi, HRW berkata dalam laporan itu,” Anda Masih Boleh Lihat darah mereka,” yang dikeluarkan hari Jumaat, yang menyaksikan peristiwa-peristiwa sebagai bukti pertama yang dirancang jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan yang dilakukan oleh kuasa pembangkang.
Pembunuhan berlaku apabila kuasa-kuasa Presiden Bashar Assad, telah terharu dengan militan, yang kemudiannya memasuki 10 kampung berdekatan Alawi, kadang-kadang pembundaran sehingga dan dilaksanakan seluruh keluarga, di samping mengambil yang lain tebusan.
Penyeksaan dan pemenggalan leher juga bukti kepada sifat lebih teruk daripada serangan tentera, bukti yang telah dikumpulkan oleh HRW melalui laporan, kenyataan saksi, rekod hospital dan bahan-bahan yang dicatatkan oleh pemberontak diri mereka sendiri.
Syria extremists financed by private Gulf donors carried
out mass killings – HRW
At least 190 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Syrian rebels financed by private Gulf donors in an August 4 military offensive in the Latakia governorate, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
At least 67 of the victims executed had lived in government-aligned Alawite villages, HRW said in its report, “You Can Still See Their Blood,” released Friday, which saw the events as the first evidence of planned crimes against humanity perpetrated by opposition forces.
The killings took place when President Bashar Assad’s forces were overwhelmed by the militants, who then proceeded to enter the 10 Alawite villages nearby, sometimes rounding up and executing entire families, while taking others hostage.
Torture and decapitations were also testament to the aggravated nature of the military offensive, proof of which was gathered by HRW through reports, witness statements, hospital records and materials recorded by the rebels themselves.
HRW Syria dan Lebanon penyelidik, Lana Fakih, memberitahu Reuters bahawa “rumah telah musnah dan dibakar. Kebanyakan penduduk kampung telah tidak dikembalikan.” Dia bercakap dengan Hassan Shebli, yang tua dan orang kurang upaya isteri anak 23 tahun telah ditembak mati dan dikebumikan di sebelah rumah beliau, kerana beliau mendapati apabila pulang ke kampung beliau. Penyerang mengambil video dan ditimbulkan dengan mangsa2 mereka sebelum pembunuhan.
Menurut badan pemantau hak asasi manusia, alam semula jadi, skala dan penyelarasan penyelewengan dan pembunuhan mengangkat mereka kepada status jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan. Pemangku pengarah Timur Tengah pada HRW, Joe Stork, menjelaskan bahawa "ini penyelewengan tidak tindakan pejuang penyangak . . . operasi ini adalah diselaraskan, serangan terancang terhadap penduduk awam di kampung-kampung Alawi.”
HRW’s Syria and Lebanon researcher, Lana Fakih, told Reuters that “homes were destroyed and burned. Most villagers had not returned.” She spoke to Hassan Shebli, whose elderly wife and disabled 23-year-old son were gunned down and buried next to his home, as he found upon his return to his village. The assailants took videos and posed with their victims before the killings.
According to the human rights watchdog, the nature, scale and coordination of the abuses and killings elevate them to the status of crimes against humanity. Acting Middle East director at HRW, Joe Stork, explained that “these abuses were not the actions of rogue fighters…this operation was a coordinated, planned attack on the civilian population in these Alawite villages.”
Satu pandangan di dalam sebuah rumah yang rosak selepas apa yang aktivis katakan, adalah satu serangan udara oleh pasukan yang setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di bandar Salma, Latakia governorate 16 Ogos 2013 (A view inside a damaged house after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Salma town, Latakia governorate August 16, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Serangan itu didapati telah dirancang dan dijalankan oleh 5 kumpulan yang berbeza, termasuk Jabhat Al-Qaeda berkaitan al-Nusra dan Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant, serta jihad yang berasal dari luar Syria.
Walau bagaimanapun, serangan yang lebih luas, yang berlangsung sehingga 18 Ogos, dianggap termasuk 20 kumpulan yang berbeza.
Operasi ini telah digagalkan oleh kuasa kerajaan pada hari itu, selepas mendapatkan semula kawalan di kawasan ini.
Walaupun laporan itu tidak dapat mengesahkan kehadiran pejuang dari Barat bersandarkan Free Syria Army, komander pasukan itu, Salim Idris, mencatatkan video seminggu selepas serangan Latakia di mana beliau mendakwa FSA mengambil bahagian dalam operasi “ke tahap yang dahsyat.”
Kumpulan lain bongkaknya tentang eksploitasi mereka dalam rakaman mereka sendiri, yang digunakan oleh HRW untuk menyokong penemuan, walaupun pemberontak sendiri juga menceritakan serangan kepada wartawan dari Reuters, mendakwa telah membunuh kira-kira 200 orang.
Walau bagaimanapun, tidak semua kumpulan dimasukkan ke dalam pembunuhan tersebut. Seorang ahli Sunni Ahrar al-Asham militia mendakwa bahawa pejuang itu hanya menembak dalam diri, walaupun kumpulan itu adalah antara 5 yang didapati telah mengambil bahagian dalam pembunuhan Latakia .
Jurucakap Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, Khaled Saleh juga mengutuk serangan itu dan berkata bahawa jika apa-apa penyalahgunaan oleh pemberontak yang dikaitkan dengan gabungan itu didapati telah berlaku di Latakia, pelaku akan dibawa ke muka pengadilan.
“Kami pernah melakukan diri kita untuk memohon peraturan-peraturan ke atas semua briged yang bekerja untuk kami dan kami akan mengadakan bertanggungjawab, selepas penyiasatan dan perbicaraan yang adil, semua mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk pelanggaran terhadap hak asasi manusia atau undang-undang antarabangsa. Kejadian di Latakia tidak terkecuali dan kami akan melayan mereka seperti yang kita rawat kes sebelum ini,” kata Saleh dalam satu kenyataan bertulis kepada Reuters.
The attacks were found to have been planned and carried out by five distinct groups, including the Al- Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as jihadists originating from outside Syria.
However, the broader offensive, which lasted until August 18, was thought to include 20 distinct groups.
The operation was thwarted by government forces on that day, after regaining control of the area.
Although the report could not confirm the presence of fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, the force’s commander, Salim Idriss, posted a video a week after the Latakia attacks in which he claimed the FSA participated in the operation “to a great extent.”
Other groups boasted about their exploits in their own recordings, used by HRW to corroborate its findings, although the rebels themselves also recounted the offensive to correspondents from Reuters, claiming to have killed about 200 people.
However, not all the groups admitted to the killings. A member of the Sunni Ahrar al-Asham militia claimed that his fighters only shoot in self-defense, although the group was among the five that were found to have participated in the Latakia killings.
The Syrian National Coalition’s spokesman, Khaled Saleh, also condemned the attacks and said that if any abuses by rebels associated with the coalition were found to have happened in Latakia, the perpetrators would be brought to justice.
"We have previously committed ourselves to applying these rules on all the brigades that work for us and we will hold accountable, after investigation and fair trial, all those responsible for violations against human rights or international laws. The incidents in Latakia are not an exception and we will treat them as we treated previous case,” Saleh said in a written statement to Reuters.
Asap naik selepas apa yang aktivis katakan telah serangan oleh pasukan yang setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di kampung Dourit, di Latakia desa 17 Ogos 2013 (Smoke rises after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the village of Dourit, in Latakia countryside August 17, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Walau bagaimanapun, berpuluh-puluh akaun saksi dari wilayah kekal, bersama-sama dengan rakaman yang ditembak oleh pemberontak, sebagai peringatan ngeri hukuman mati dijalankan pada 4 Ogos. Penduduk kembali melaporkan penemuan mayat orang tersayang bertaburan di jalan-jalan, yang terletak bersebelahan dengan rumah mereka, serta mayat hangus berbaring dalam kubur besar-besaran.
Organisasi ini juga ingin menunjukkan bahawa laporan itu adalah tidak bererti perpindahan dari meneliti sendiri pencabulan hak asasi manusia kerajaan Syria - termasuk pengeboman kelompok mazhab kawasan Sunni pada bulan Mei, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh pegawai PBB.
Laporan itu mencadangkan bahawa Majlis Keselamatan PBB mengenakan sekatan ke atas membekalkan senjata kepada semua pihak yang terbabit dalam penyalahgunaan sistematik hak asasi manusia dan menjalankan serangan yang dirancang, yang diklasifikasikan sebagai satu jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan. Organisasi ini juga mencadangkan merujuk segala durhaka ke Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa di Hague.
Stork , Timur Tengah Ketua HRW, berkata: “mangsa jenayah perang Syria dan jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan telah menunggu terlalu lama untuk Majlis Keselamatan untuk menghantar mesej yang jelas bahawa mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk penyalahgunaan dahsyat akan diadakan untuk akaun.”
“Rujukan ICC lama tertangguh,” kata Stork.
Perang saudara, yang kini dalam tahun yang ke-3, telah meragut nyawa lebih daripada 100,000 orang, menurut anggaran PBB. Ramai pakar-pakar bimbang bahawa sifat mazhab dan kepentingan bercanggah kumpulan pemberontak yang terlibat diburukkan lagi oleh pembiayaan di luar, dan kini beralih ke Syria sarang ekstremisme hanyut lebih jauh daripada mana-mana resolusi yang pelakon luar mungkin telah dirancang untuk itu.
Nonetheless, dozens of witness accounts from the province remain, together with footage shot by rebels, as a gruesome reminder of the executions carried out on August 4. Returning residents reported finding the bodies of loved ones strewn around the streets, lying next to their homes, as well as charred corpses lying in mass graves.
The organization also wished to point out that the report is by no means a move away from scrutinizing the Syrian government’s own human rights abuses – including sectarian cluster bombings of Sunni areas in May, as reported By UN officials.
The report proposes that the UN Security Council imposes an embargo on supplying arms to all sides implicated in the systematic abuse of human rights and the carrying out of planned attacks, which is classified as a crime against humanity. The organization also proposed referring all transgressions to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Stork, HRW’s Middle East chief, said: “Syrian victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity have waited too long for the Security Council to send a clear message that those responsible for horrible abuses will be held to account.”
“The ICC referral is long overdue,” Stork said.
The civil war, now in its third year, has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, according to UN estimates. Many experts fear that the sectarian nature and conflicting interests of the rebel groups involved are exacerbated by outside funding, and are turning Syria into a hotbed of extremism drifting further away from any resolution that outside actors may have planned for it.
SitiWanMahani- Vatican telah ditarik balik
daripada jualan 6,000 salinan pingat paus baru selepas mendapati bahawa tulisan
pada mereka telah dinyatakan bukan Isa, tetapi Lesus .
Pingat dan syiling
menggambarkan Paus Francis dan Nabi Allah Isa Alayhis Sallam telah dicetak
untuk dijual kepada pengumpul di seluruh DUNIA. Barang-barang itu dibuat bagi
setiap Paus baru dan bertindak sebagai sumber pendapatan tambahan untuk
Vatican.
Siri dengan kesilapan yang
memalukan telah melanda pada mint Itali, dengan 200 pingat emas yang dihasilkan
di 3,000 di perak dan 3,000 dalam
gangsa.
Mengelilingi rim medalyon
berjalan ‘motto peribadi, frasa dalam bahasa Latin: “Vidit ergo Isa publicanum,
et quia miserando atque eligendo vidit, AIT illi,’ Pope Francis. Sequere saya’ “[Isa
itu melihat pemungut cukai, dan sejak dia melihat dengan mempunyai belas
kasihan dan dengan memilih, dia berkata kepada beliau, ‘follow saya.’]
Malangnya bagi Vatican, perkataan Isa telah diberikan dalam bahasa Latin
sebagai Lesus.
Sebelum misspelling telah
melihat dan pingat yang telah ditarik balik dari Vatican Penerbitan House di
Dataran St Peter, 4 telah pun dijual kepada beberapa yang bernasib baik, yang
kini, ironinya, mungkin melihat peningkatan pingat mereka dalam nilai. Barangan
koleksi yang cacat, seperti setem pos atau syiling dengan tipo, sering amat
dicari oleh para pecinta.
Gaffe ini menimbulkan ribut
kecil jenaka dalam media sosial mengenai tokoh agama yang baru. “Marilah kita
berdoa kepada Lesus,” salah tweet menyindir berkata, manakala seorang lagi
mendakwa bahawa: “Saya menyalahkan Lesuits”
What would Lesus do? Vatican withdraws misspelled
Papal medals . . .
The Vatican has withdrawn from
sale 6,000 copies of a new papal medal after finding that the inscriptions on
them were spelled not Jesus, but Lesus.
Medals and coins depicting Pope
Francis and Jesus Christ were minted for sale to collectors around the world.
Such items are made for every new pontiff and serve as a source of extra income
for the Vatican.
The series with the
embarrassing mistake were struck at an Italian mint, with 200 medals produced
in gold, 3,000 in silver and 3,000 in bronze.
Circling the rim of the
medallion runs Pope Francis’ personal motto, a phrase in Latin: “Vidit ergo
Jesus publicanum, et quia miserando atque eligendo vidit, ait illi, ‘Sequere
me.’” [Jesus therefore sees the tax collector, and since he sees by having
mercy and by choosing, he says to him, ‘follow me.’] Unfortunately for the
Vatican, the word Jesus was rendered in Latin as Lesus.
Before the misspelling was
noticed and the medals were withdrawn from the Vatican Publishing House in St
Peter's Square, four were already sold to the lucky few, who are now,
ironically, likely to see their medals
surge in value. Flawed collectible items, such as postal stamps or coins
with typos, are often much-sought after by connoisseurs.
The gaffe provoked a small
storm of jokes in social media about the new religious figure. “Let us pray to Lesus,”
one sarcastic tweet said, while another claimed: "I blame the
Lesuits."
SitiWanMahani- “Apa sebenarnya yang perjanjian
perdagangan bebas EU- Amerika Syarikat sedang dirundingkan melibatkan dan apa
maknanya untuk pengguna Eropah ?" - Andy, melalui Facebook.
Monique Goyens, Ketua Pengarah
Pertubuhan Pengguna Eropah, BEUC: “Perjanjian perdagangan bebas yang sedang
dirundingkan antara Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah bertujuan memudahkan pertukaran
perdagangan antara kedua-dua benua.
“Bagi pengguna Eropah, ini
bermakna dalam prinsip bahawa kita harus mampu untuk mempunyai lebih banyak
pilihan di antara barang-barang yang diimport dari Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah
barang-barang. Ini juga harus bermakna pada dasarnya bahawa harga akan turun.”
“Tetapi ia bukan semua yang positif
bagi pengguna Eropah. Apa yang kita bimbang adalah bahawa ini dilakukan di
bawah syarat-syarat yang memudaratkan kesihatan kita dan keselamatan kita
kerana terdapat risiko bahawa rundingan akan berakhir yang mengurangkan (yang
sedia ada) peraturan Eropah mengenai keselamatan makanan, keselamatan produk,
bahan kimia dan perlindungan data.”
“Semua ini kaedah-kaedah
perlindungan Eropah yang kita begitu bangga dan yang juga memberi kita
keyakinan dalam pasaran kita, boleh terjejas kerana peraturan Amerika tidak
sama seperti kami, mereka sering kurang ketat bagi pengeluar, dan ini mungkin
harga untuk membayar lebih banyak persaingan Jadi kami, -. sebagai sebuah
organisasi pengguna, yang kita akan sangat berhati-hati untuk mengelakkan
pembukaan pasaran Eropah menyebabkan kesihatan yang kurang dan perlindungan keselamatan
untuk pengguna kami.”
EU-US free trade talks - Utalk
"What exactly does the
EU-US free trade agreement currently being negotiated involve and what does it
mean for European consumers?" - Andy, via Facebook.
Monique Goyens, Director
General of the European Consumers' Organisation, BEUC: "The free trade
agreement which is currently being negotiated between the US and Europe aims at
easing commercial exchanges between those two continents.
"For European consumers,
this means in principle that we should be able to have more choice between
imported goods from the US and European goods. This also should mean in
principle that prices will go down."
"But it's not all positive
for European consumers. What we fear is that this is done under conditions that
are detrimental to our health and our safety because there is a risk that the
negotiations will end up reducing (existing) European rules on food safety,
product safety, chemicals and data protection."
"All these European
protection rules which we're so proud of and that also give us confidence in
our market may be undermined because American rules are not the same as ours,
they are often less restrictive for manufacturers, and this may be the price to
pay for more competition. So we, - as a consumers' organisation, we will be
very vigilant in order to prevent the opening up of the European market
resulting in less health and safety protection for our consumers."
Presiden Amerika Syarikat,
Barack Obama (U.S. President Barack
Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani- Presiden Obama telah menolak meningkatkan
hutang siling Amerika selama 6 minggu selepas 17 Oktober tarikh akhir. Kompromi
yang telah dikemukakan oleh kongres Republikan, yang berusaha untuk memenangi
masa untuk rundingan dan mengelakkan lalai Amerika Syarikat yang pernah berlaku
sebelum minggu depan.
tonton terkini LIVE untuk
penutupan Kerajaan Amerika Syarikat. hit (HERE)
Tiada keputusan bajet khusus
yang telah diambil di White House pada hari Khamis, di mana Presiden Obama bertemu
dengan 20 House Republikan, termasuk Speaker John Boehner, selama 90 minit
ceramah. Bagaimanapun, jurucakap White House berkata Presiden Obama “berharap
untuk kemajuan yang berterusan dengan ahli-ahli kedua-dua pihak.”
Walaupun Republikan tidak
mencapai apa yang mereka mahu, wakil-wakil pihak menyifatkan mesyuarat itu
sebagai “yang berguna dan produktif”.
Semasa rundingan Washington
Obama tekankan Republikan untuk membuka semula kerajaan dan meningkatkan
kemungkinan bahawa pembiayaan akan dikembalikan pada awal minggu depan jika
syarat-syarat untuk rundingan bajet luas boleh dicapai, New York Times
melaporkan .
Republikan Speaker John Boehner
mencadangkan (proposed) melanjutkan hutang siling (debt
ceiling) selama 6 minggu meminta Presiden Obama sebagai balasan kepada
janji untuk berunding atas pelan penjagaan kesihatan beliau dikenali sebagai
ObamaCare.
Barak Obama menegaskan beliau
tidak akan ketara mengurangkan MediCare dan perbelanjaan MediCaid, jika
Republikan tidak bersetuju untuk meningkatkan hasil daripada pengurangan
pengecualian cukai bagi syarikat-syarikat dan individu-individu kaya. Encik
Boehner pula telah mengesahkan parti itu terhadap cukai yang ketat, yang
menunjukkan bahawa perbincangan masa depan pengasas boleh.
Terdahulu pentadbiran kata
Presiden itu bersedia untuk mempertimbangkan tawaran Republikan, tetapi tidak
akan membolehkan GOP untuk memegang ekonomi Amerika Syarikat “tebusan”.
“Berita baik adalah bahawa
Republikan telah menerima prinsip bahawa mereka tidak akan ke syarat-syarat
kepada hutang siling,” kata Wakil Chris Van Hollen Maryland, Demokrat kanan
pada Jawatankuasa Belanjawan House.
Program penjagaan kesihatan
Presiden Amerika Syarikat adalah batu penghalang utama dalam rundingan bajet
Washington, yang telah mendorong Kerajaan ke penutupan (shutdown)
pertama dalam 17 tahun. Dalam kes pihak berkuasa Amerika Syarikat terus bermain
ping pong politik dan gagal untuk bersetuju dengan bajet serta hutang siling sebelum
negara kehabisan wang tunai pada 17 Oktober, ekonomi terbesar di DUNIA boleh
lalai - kali pertama dalam 225 tahun.
No compromise: Obama refuses to raise debt
ceiling for 6 weeks
President Obama has rejected
raising America's debt ceiling for 6 weeks beyond the October 17 deadline. The
compromise was put forward by congressional Republicans, who sought to win time
for negotiation and avert an unprecedented US default next week.
No specific budget decision was
taken in the White House on Thursday, where President Obama met with 20 House
Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, for 90 minutes of talks. However,
a White House spokesman said President Obama "looks forward to continued
progress with members on both sides".
Even though Republicans haven’t
achieved what they wanted, the party representatives described the meeting as
"useful and productive".
During the Washington talks Mr.
Obama pressed Republicans to reopen the government and increase the possibility
that its financing would be restored by early next week if terms for broad
budget negotiations could be reached, the New York Times reports.
Republican Speaker John Boehner
proposed
extending the debt ceiling for another 6 weeks asking President Obama in
return to promise to negotiate over his healthcare plan known as Obamacare.
Barak Obama insisted he won’t
significantly cut Medicare and Medicaid spending, if Republicans don’t agree to
raise revenues from reduced tax breaks for corporations and wealthy
individuals. Mr. Boehner in turn has been reaffirming his party was against
tightening taxation, which suggests that future talks could founder.
Earlier the administration said
the President was ready to consider the Republicans’ offer, but wouldn’t allow
the GOP to hold the US economy “hostage”.
“The good news is that
Republicans have accepted the principle that they’re not going to attach
conditions to the debt ceiling,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of
Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
The US President’s health care
programme is a key stumbling block in Washington budget negotiations, which has
driven the Government into the first shutdown
in 17 years. In case US authorities keep on playing political ping pong and
fail to agree on its budget as well as a debt ceiling before the country runs
out of cash on October 17, the world’s biggest economy could default – the
first time in 225 years.
