Speech Obama to the British Parliament, has praised the strength, humility

London - in a historic speech to the British Parliament today, the Obama President has insisted that then that a new world order has been shaped, the United States, Britain and their allies will continue to play an essential role to bring peace and prosperity in the world.

Both of € a million is still denied their basic human rights issue of who they are, what they think, or the type of Government that they live as we are the nations more willing to defend the values of tolerance and self-determination that lead to peace and dignitya €

Large-scale speech, which has also focused on the economy, nuclear proliferation and the importance of education, received a standing ovation from Parliament and was commended for its topics human State and tones.

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"He has recognized the strength of the past but insists on the need to transform the values confirmed by Anglo-American relations, their origins in universal values," said James Ellison, school of history at Queen Mary, University of London. "It was a speech of interdependence and multilateralism." Obama s gone a long way today to extend the history of America beyond Bush.

"I can't think of an American President to make a such sensitive speeches in Europe for some time", he added, noting that it struck the right balance between the force and humility.

The speech was the first time that an American President had addressed the Parliament in the historical framework of Westminster Hall, who played a central role in the Government of the nation for 900 years. Only three other foreign dignitaries have been granted this honour since World War II: Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict XVI.

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Obama rejected the idea that the emergence of new superpowers made the alliance not less relevant. While China, India, Brazil and other nations assume the responsibilities of global leadership, ties with the United States and Europe remain a € ?indispensable € to the objective of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just, a

But he promised in the future, a more subtle approach to Foreign Affairs referring to the position of the United States has already taken on the Libya. "We will proceed with humility, and knowledge that we do not dictate results abroad." Ultimately, freedom must be won by the people themselves, not imposed from without. But us can and must stand with those who struggle as well. ?

At a press conference held jointly with Prime Minister David Cameron earlier in the day, Obama talks about winning the war in Libya as a "slow continuous process."

He returned to the theme of the North Africa and the Middle East in his address to Parliament, stressing that the United States and Britain supported those struggling for democracy, but implying that support did not mean military intervention.

"We must show that we back up our words deeds," he said. "This means investing in the future of these nations this transition to democracy, starting with the Tunisia and the Egypt - expanding trade links; by helping demonstrate them that freedom brings prosperity. ?

He said that, while many of the problems of the past decade have been retreating, the future would present major challenges. If while a large part of the speech reaffirmed the close relationship between Britain and the United States, the President also acknowledged that "a new chapter in the shared history" would require a building "new partnerships", to adapt to new circumstances and remake ourselves to meet the requirements of a new era

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The College in Parliament: have Quebec voters put in place the Opposition of the Canada to failure?

Opposition of the Canada policy took a hard left turn, with bizarre consequences. The fourth general election in just seven years has seen Canadians respond to conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper for political stability appeal referring him to the power with the Government of the majority that has eluded him already. Real surprise of the election, however, was the fact that labour's new Democratic Party (NDP) led by Salty Jack Layton ranked second for the first time - with the strong support of francophone Quebec voters normally support the separatist Bloc Québécois.

But the new crop of legislators, the NDP will bring to Parliament are hardly conventional political hacks. They include nine students and recent graduates, a former candidate of the Party of the community and a woman who spent part of his campaign on holiday in sunny Las Vegas. (See a profile of Prime Minister Stephen Harper).

Pierre-Luc Dusseault for the NDP, a student 19 years at the University of Sherbrooke, became the youngest Member ever elected to the Parliament of Canada. Need to give up his summer job at a golf course to take his duties with a salary of $leaving and staff. Before embarking on a federal political career, the biggest item on the curriculum vitae of Dessault may have been representing his high school swim team in the regional finals.

The Canada is something else in progress or has lost its marbles?

Everyone in the Canada think this is a bad idea electing beginners who may otherwise be landing jobs at Starbucks or the print service. Their victory was a sign that some candidates of this generation of social media is very effective Facebook and Twitter campaigns eclipsed traditional campaign work.

Mathieu Ravignat, the former candidate of the Party of the community and with the medieval sword Ottawa Guild Executive, toppled a champion of policy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon by over 8,000 votes. Alexandrine Latendresse, a student of Linguistics University Laval aged 26 years whose Facebook page reveals a weakness for ice vodka and procrastination, also ousted a Cabinet session. (See Quebec in the top ten nations aspiring).

"Perhaps it is time for what happened," explains Derek Leebosh with Toronto-based Environics Research Group, a company specialized in opinion polls. "The Parliament should reflect the population of the Canada not a club for the old fuddy duddies."

He attributes the NDP unprescedented victory in Quebec, where he won 58 of 75 seats, a desire to suddenly of radical change. Voters had grown frustrated by the inability of the Bloc Québécois to secure any policy victories with his independence seeking shrill agenda for the French territory. By choosing an alternative, they skip on the Conservatives and the Liberals, the traditional parties of the Canada.

But he has been head of the NDP Layton, who, in the last days of his campaign, with questions to the bare subject of discovery by the Toronto police to a massage parlor Chinatown years earlier, which proved to be unstoppable. The affable cancer survivor marked the point after point against PM Harper and Harvard professor-turned-Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff in two national debates. He seduces the québécois with his popular style, wielding a big smile and a cane during an appearance recent hip surgery on a French popular talk-show.

The campaign in early April, support for the NDP in Quebec amounted to 21% of the block 34%, according to the firm Environics for interrogation. Three weeks later, these figures had overthrown, with the NDP to 41% of the 28% block - thanks in large part to the performance of Layton in the eyes of the public. (See the thinker of Harvard, changing of the Canadian political scene).

Many voters in Quebec, said that they voted NDP to federalism one last chance, after what they consider that the failure of other national parties. But what chance the new official opposition meet traditional recriminations of Quebec - which include the call for autonomy on language policy and immigration - while relying on a strong contingent of MPs with training wheels?

It is fair to say that many NDP candidates was not expected to win seats, and they face a steep learning curve that will include language courses for unilingual Anglophones representing French only constituencies.

"The NDP will need to turn his mind to how it can consolidate support in Quebec, without alienating supporters in the rest of the country" said Robert Drummond, Professor of political science and public policy at York University in Toronto.

That balancing act could well prove to cause the loss of the NDP to take on the role of the official opposition. Cast of inexperienced deputies more used to write reviews that they are to the period of the questions on the Hill, and it is easy to imagine Quebec voters again feeling excluded out in Ottawa. That could lead to another referendum on independence for Quebec in four years, in which separatists say that Ottawa has proved unable to do. But before this rendezvous with history, at least more recent members of the Canada will have a few years working on their French.

Thai Parliament dissolved: open the season of the campaign

With the announcement of national elections, on 3 July, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand, has placed its destiny in the hands of voters and develop democracy in development which can be a perilous test. At 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, Parliament was formally dissolved after 30 months under Abhisit that have been marked by bloody events, economic crisis and deepening social and political polarization. The elections will be the Thailand second since a military coup without bloodshed in 2006, and rumors of another military intervention have been undermined in recent weeks. Once considered a beacon of stability in Southeast Asia, the Thailand has been in almost constant unrest since late 2005.

The elections will be "decide what direction the country takes... should walk to come... or to dwell on conflicts," Abhisit said in announcing the dissolution of Parliament. The country is polarized in recent years many analysts have said that the elections will not succeed to put an end to the bitterness. However, Ukrist Pathmanand, Professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, is more optimistic. "This is really a new beginning for our democratic process", Ukrist said, adding that he did not believe that the military will directly intervene in the result.

Is a series of parties challenging the election, but the pit of mainly will race Abhisit and his democratic party against opposition Pheu Thai Party, led at distance by the wealthy businessman Thaksin Shinawatra. The elected Prime Minister who was ousted by the army in 2006, Thaksin living abroad, who had fled after being found guilty of corruption and sentenced to a penalty of two years in prison, that he was not used. The Pheu Thai campaign slogan is "Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai acts," and party cadres acknowledge that Thaksin should appoint his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, a business woman with no political experience, as a candidate of the party for Prime Minister. (Read in time Q & A with Thaksin Shinawatra.)

The race is too close to call. A survey conducted by the University of the assumption in April showed Democrats with a thin razor with 26.4 percent advance, Pheu Thai to 25.5% and smaller parties, collecting of 15.4%. Undecided voters were the largest group of 32.7%. "There are so many factors that could change the way in which the voters feel between now and the election day it is simply too difficult to predict," said a member of the Government who asked not be named because the electoral laws prohibited him from comment before his campaign has officially ". started Tuesday afternoon.

Thaksin is supported by most of the members of the shirt red, named after the color they wear, which organized mass demonstrations against Abhisit to Bangkok in 2009 and 2010, requiring him to resign and call a new poll. The protests became violent, and in May 2010, the army dispersed the red shirts, some were armed and burned buildings more than 30 in Bangkok, as they fled. Eighty eleven people, mainly red shirts, but also a few soldiers, were killed in two months in length disorders. Although the red shirts have been able to mobilize more than 100,000 demonstrators sometimes, a recent survey by the Asia Foundation indicates that only 14% of the interviewees expressed its support for the group. (See pictures of the red shirt protests).

ABHISIT became Prime Minister with a parliamentary vote in December 2008, after a court dissolved another party supported by Thaksin who won the previous election for electoral fraud. ABHISIT took office, as the global economic crisis has hit the Thailand, but he led the country through the worst of the recession and presided over a strong recovery in 2010 which saw the country to register his highest rate of growth in 15 years at 7.5%. Nevertheless, disparities in wealth, regional differences, the feeling of injustice on how it is passed to the power and the loyalty of Thaksin left sections of the country, particularly the poor Northeast, strongly opposed to Abhisit.

Thaksin, who speaks of supporters through speech by video link, most often from its main base in Dubai, asked voters to back to the Thailand by electing the members of his party, while promising free government-issued credit cards to farmers and drivers of taxiet with promises of debt cancellation. It draws opposition on the part of many urban middle class voters who protest against all his populism and believe that it is an authoritarian traditionalists, who claim it is unfair of constitutional monarchy in the country and the members of the army who fear he will seek to take revenge on the coup of 2006 ousted him.

In its final year in power Thaksin to constants street demonstrations of opponents called the yellow shirts of the color of their costumes, and who wanted a military intervention or Royal to remove him. After his eviction, red shirts were organized with repeated protests demanding new elections. Most polls that Thai most are tired color street demonstrations. For democracy of the Thailand, the question is whether if the outcome of the next election is accepted by those who lose or be used as a spark for a new cycle of violent demonstrations further destabilize the country.

The Muslim Brotherhood will soon control Parliament the Egypt? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Cairo - new political party of the Muslim Brotherhood will field candidates in half of the parliamentary seats in the first post-revolutionary elections to the Egypt, the leaders announced Saturday.

After years of be banned for life policy and persecuted by the former President Hosni Mubarak, the official launch of the freedom and the Party of Justice of the Group was a historic moment.

Leaders portrayed the party as inclusive, say Christians and women can join. According to Egyptian law, the party is officially civilian, non-religious and is independent of the group. The leaders also repeated a commitment earlier do not run a candidate in the presidential elections.

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But plans to 50 per cent of parliamentary seats for the competition will be disturbing for young secular and liberal-leaning activists who have been a major force in the revolution. They fear that the brotherhood, Egypta€ ? s démêlera group, dominate the Parliament and to impose Islamic ideas on population. The leaders had said earlier that the group could challenge only about 30 per cent of the seats.

The decision to go for a bigger block to Parliament is probably partially a result of pressure exerted by the ordinary members, who are not content merely to a small percentage of the pie when the race is wide opensaid independent analyst Ibrahim El Houdaiby, a former member of the brotherhood.

The dissolution of Mubaraka€ ? s National Democratic Party has left the fraternity with an advantage over the rest of the opposition, which has not the Organization and discipline of the brotherhood.

But Mr. Houdaiby traces also the decision of the growing gap between the brotherhood and liberal secular groups since a constitutional referendum in February, when the two campaigned on the sides. As the gap is widening between the two parties, fraternity may feel he needs to win more seats to influence Parliament because it will be not able to create coalitions with such groups, said Houdaiby. "If you think you are on your own, on the other side of the game, then you must have more seats," he said.

Brotherhood has surprised many by winning approximately 20 per cent of parliamentary seats in the elections of 2005. Last year, the Mubarak regime ensured that the scenario did not repeat itself, and the elections have been regarded as the most fraudulent in recent history. Only a member of the brotherhood won a seat.

DIAA Rashwan, analyst at the Al Ahram Center for strategic studies, policies and calls for the decision to request as many seats an error which will be perceived as would represent by many Egyptians. The brotherhood has overestimated his own popularity and underestimated the strength of the sectors newly empowered population who discovered only political during the revolution, he said.

Organization of the Islamic Group has helped well it past votes, where turnout was low. If the participation rate is much higher than in September, organization of the group will be of lesser importance, said Dr. Rashwan. "The problem with their analysis is to underestimate the strength of the revolution." They have a very large number, and most of them have no Islamic feelings, "he says. "And now also for the average Egyptian, they have their fears and their doubts about the behaviour of the Salafi" extremely conservative Islamists, who have also benefited from the absence of Mubarak to enter the political scene. All these factors combined, said Rashwan, will mean that the brotherhood will not sweep elections in September.

The brotherhood says the freedom and the Justice Party will be independent of the religious organization, the leaders said, although he appointed personalities in the brotherhood to lead the party. And it prohibited the members of the brotherhood to join other parties. "People are feeling that it is first a political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, not an independent political party," said Rashwan.