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  • Stop elite research now!
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Research in universities across the globe is becoming more and more privatised.
    This must be stopped because it will centre power in the hands of a few who will inevitably ask for the payment of very high university fees and will not give access to research which does not support their speculative interests.
    Berlusconi in Italy is trying to privatise most of the public university research. This should be stopped!
    Italian students and universtity professors are united in a "line of (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • SILVIO MON AMOUR (Vaff....!) Video
    31 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Our italian friends, comrades and compatriots are about to chose new parliamentarian, new government on the 13d and 14th of april...what a harsh choice - (…)

  • "la sapienza" rome, pope free area
    16 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although nearly no space has been given to the following news I report it for you benefit:
    "The POPE has been heavily contested with an occupation of the University Senate rooms by autonomous students at "La Sapienza" university in Rome. He will not go and give a speech at the university for the inaugural celebration of the Academic Year".
    This of course is a great victory for academic freedom in Italy.
    The right of reply has been given to the students and they took it and they made (…)

  • Open letter to Fabio Mussi on the paradox of his university reforms
    8 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the 30 December the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" cited that the Decreto Milleproroghe reform proposed by Fabio Mussi, Minister of University and Research and leader of the Sinistra Democratica party in Italy is a sort of Copernican revolution. But what Copernican revolution? This is a carbon copy of what researchers and academics in Britain are trying to get rid of!
    The following is an open letter to Fabio Mussi
    30 December 2007
    Egr. Ministro Mussi,
    I have today read on (…)

  • Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons
    18 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 18, 2007
    AVIANO, Italy — The mayors of two towns in Italy with U.S. bases thought to house nuclear missiles have signed onto a petition calling for a global end to such weapons by 2020.
    Stefano Del Cont, mayor of Aviano since June, said he and Anna Giulia Guarneri, the mayor of Ghedi, joined hundreds of other city leaders around the globe in seeking the ban. (…)

  • Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
    1 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of ’Balkan Syndrome’ and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
    By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07)
    An increase of the number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans during the 1990s who are falling seriously ill due to depleted uranium exposure is causing a public outrage in Italy, as the government downplays the extent (…)

  • Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
    10 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scientists a step nearer to creating artificial life
    New progress towards synthetic organism Hope of fuels, drugs and ways to fight pollution
    James Randerson, science correspondent
    The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/06/2/print Thursday September 6 2007
    To the untrained eye, the tiny, misshapen, fatty blobs on Giovanni Murtas’s microscope slide would not look very impressive. But when the Italian scientist saw their telltale green fluorescent glint he knew he (…)