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  • The picture that shames Italy (video)
    24 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Popham in Rome
    It’s another balmy weekend on the beach in Naples. By the rocks, a couple soak up the southern Italian sun. A few metres away, their feet poking from under beach towels that cover their faces and bodies, lie two drowned Roma children.
    The girls, Cristina, aged 16, and Violetta, 14, were buried last night as the fallout from the circumstances of their death reverberated throughout Italy.
    It is an image that has crystallised the mounting disquiet in the country (…)

  • Catch 23
    22 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Probably the most profound statement made by a US President in the last fifty years was “It all depends on what your definition of is, is.” We no longer have Presidents who make profound statements, they would be lost over the heads of the masses and so the old axiom kicks in: If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
    Fox News claims the recent drop in oil prices is due to President Bush lifting the executive order banning coastal drilling. (…)

  • Marina Petrella: not the only former Red Brigade militant facing extradition
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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    A former member of the Red Brigades, Marina Petrella was convicted in absentia in 1992, and sentenced to life in prison. An Italian court found her guilty of the murder of a police chief in Rome in 1981, and the kidnapping of a magistrate.
    She was arrested in December 1982 and gave birth to her first daughter in prison a year later. In 1986, however, after being granted bail, she fled to France.
    Like other fugitive far-left activists, she benefited from a policy of (…)

  • Israeli soldier shown shooting at blindfolded Palestinian (video)
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    JERUSALEM, July 20 (Xinhua) - A video clip released Sunday showed an Israeli soldier shot a rubber bullet at a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian young man in what the army described as a "grave" incident, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
    In the video clip, an IDF soldier was filmed shooting at close range at the Palestinian youth whose eyes were covered with a strip and whose hands were bound behind his back, while another soldier was holding the victim’s right arm beside a (…)

  • 160 years of labor struggle for shorter hours
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michel Etiévent
    As far back as 1848, the employers opposed the reduction of the work day from 14 to 12 hours because “it would trigger a series of bankruptcies.”
    June 1936. The bosses are in a panic. The work week has fallen to 40 hours. The metal trades bosses thunder against the “law instituting laziness” : “Our companies are lost. How is the nation to recover if our workers, who are used to piece-work and are proud to do it, work half as much ? France is headed for disaster. And (…)

  • Americans – a Superior Breed of People?
    17 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Siv O’Neall
    If not inhibited by a wise and loving upbringing, human beings certainly turn out to be the cruelest of animals. Other animals kill for food and possibly to save their own lives or the life of a loved one. Humans kill and torture from a cruel sense of power or for the ultimate fulfillment of their greed.
    All human beings seem to have a deeply ensconced need to feel and express their superiority over other humans. In other cases, they take their viciousness out on animals (…)

  • Topless model turned Italian cabinet minister sues comedian over ’lewd act involving Berlusconi’ jibe (video)
    11 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Pisa
    It involves a former topless model and the Italian prime minister, and has all the makings of a risque joke.
    But the story about Silvio Berlusconi and a glamorous female cabinet minister hasn’t left many people laughing.
    In fact, model-turned-politician Mara Carfagna is now threatening to sue an Italian comedian who claimed she had performed a lewd act with the 71-year-old PM.
    For a fortnight, the country’s newspapers had been buzzing with wild rumours that Mr Berlusconi (…)

  • Friends and favours: Berlusconi & his ’butterflies’ (video)
    11 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Italian premier’s penchant for a pretty face usually arouses nothing more than a snigger. But now it could land him in court. By Peter Popham in Rome and Claire Soares
    by Leonard Doyle
    For years, Italy’s perma-tanned 71-year-old prime minister has got away with acting like a sultan in his harem, and the Italian media, forgiving to a fault of private peccadilloes, has left him to it. He has laid siege to television eye candy, appointed some of the prettiest and least qualified (…)

  • The World According to Monsanto
    18 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto -
    A documentary that Americans won’t ever see.
    The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
    http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105

  • Another Blow to the NWO: "The Irish People have Spoken": Lisbon is Dead"
    18 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dissident Voice June 17th, 2008
    by Mike Whitney
    Source: us.i1.yimg.com
    Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly . . . All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way. V.Giscard D’Estaing, Le Monde, June 14, 2007
    Irish voters delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists last Friday by rejecting plans for an EU Superstate. The so-called Lisbon (…)