News-and-Politics

That’s what happens when you found your religion on the fact that [en:Pope|a Man] with a funny Hat is ELECTED “The Representation of God and His Willing on Earth”: Watch CBS Videos Online Where his humanity is? Why he didn’t just stop, send away the guards and touched the hands of the “so faithful” woman? Is this act REALLY the willing of God on Earth?

Yesterday, 25th of December, President of Iran [en:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] broadcasted from Channel 4 a Christmas Speech for people of UK. Now, I could understand the “surprise” of receiving a “classical” Christmas Speech from a President of an Islamic and Middle Eastern country, while Queen Elisabeth the II was doing the same (Yes! The British Monarchy has an Official Channel on YouTube!). But, reading the full transcription and watching the video I can’t see where exactly Ahmadinejad was “offensive” or expressing his “fanatic anti-semitism”. I mean, we all know what he said during the last years, and how much he would like to send a couple of nuclear bombs on the Israeli army, but there is nothing of that in this message. (By the way, would it be that bad to kick the ass of the IsrAmericans? :-P ) Particular interesting to read is the article from BBC, “Ahmadinejad show ‘causes offence’”, where different perspective and comments are reported, mostly from westerns. And the only thing I can see is that no one actually listened of what he said: westerns just assumed that he wants to kill Jews and Christians; while, actually, what he said is quite shareable and agreeable: changing just a couple of words it would easily be the Speech of the Pope!… Ehm… Mmm… Eee… Sorry, my mistake: the Pope will never send it’s Greetings to Muslims! He will just send some Crusaders! Yes, seriously: it’s actually a Positive and Good-Willing message. He just condemned the bullish and expansionisms of “some” countries, as something that Jesus will stand against, if he was on earth. I’m not supporting Ahmadinejad here: I’m simply highlighting how much our media (all of them) likes to control our perception of things, sometimes passing down to us just a surrogate (a POISONED SURROGATE) of the news. From my side, I just congratulate Channel 4 for doing this. Brave, Intelligent, Modern, Really Open-minded. Full video and transcript (both in english) follows. ...

Once, in a very weird and dark nightmare, I read this letter from the Pope: My dear Christians, The World is changing and a wave of new corrupted culture is establishing a new, different, atheist moral. Please, don’t join the World in it’s changing. Bear in mind that homosexuality is a Sin and an Abomination: I’m sure God is furious much more because of you loving your homosexual partner, than of the fact that you all are polluting the planet. So, please, stop bumping each other. Actually, I think would be way better if you were just raping your own sister! Being in this period of the year, bear in mind to destroy the Pagan beliefs of your kids: Santa Claus doesn’t exists. Only Jesus, with it’s collection of miracles, and it’s conception on the 8th of December and birth on the 25th of the same month, it’s real. Like Adam and Eva. Sincerely, your Cultural and Religious Dictator Pope ...

Sono sceso dall’aereo il 16 Dicembre… e da allora sto monitorando, a modo mio, quello che sta succedendo in questo mio paese natio. Crisi Mondiale A sentire le radio e le TV "maggiori", l'[it:Italia] e' una specie di oasi felice in mezzo ad un [it:Europa], un [it:Mondo] in piena crisi Economica e Finanziaria. L'unico sentore della crisi ce lo danno con i commenti (tagliati e riadattati) dei cittadini per strade e centri commericali: Spenderò di meno per regali, li farò solo a parenti e amici stretti… ma il panettone/capretto/pandoro/cibo-usanza non mancherà Questo rincuora l’Italiano Medio. Gli fa pensare «… tutto sommato non va così male…». E questo diventa il leitmotiv. Poi però mi ricordo che all’aeroporto di [en:Stansted] ho comprato un bel numero speciale dell’Economist, “The World in 2009”, e leggo. Leggo. Leggo. Non ci trovo traccia di ottimismo. Ma di sano “pessimismo riflessivo”. Non ci sono articoli fatalisti. Non ci sono dichiarazioni da fine millennio: solo coscienza che il 2009 non sarà un anno facile, e che i Leader di tutti i paesi devono intervenire ORA sulle economie per rallentare il più possibile la Spirale Recessica. ...

What just happened will have consequences in the whole World, I’m sure of this. If either for Good or Evil, we still don’t know. We can just hope. But that’s the key: Now there is Space for Hope again! In the meantime, I must say, I have Very High Expectations.

I strongly suggest to see this documentary. It will help people understand a lot of things about “how” things actually works in the [en:World Economy], why we trade Money and… why [en:USA] holds in its hands the balls of the World Economy. Or, doesn’t it? The Day of the Dollar Roel van Broekhoven (Backlight 2005) The documentary is in [en:Dutch] with English subtitles.

Cioe’, Saviano riceve la solidarieta’ dall’Ordine dei Giornalisti perche': […] ha aiutato anche l’informazione a capire meglio come la criminalità organizzata corrompa e devasti tante zone d’Italia. Dobbiamo a lui, come a Rosaria Capacchione, a Lirio Abbate, a Pino Maniàci, a Nino Amadore e ad altri giornalisti, una fondamentale opera di risveglio della coscienza civile. Le parole di Saviano prendono di mira stavolta anche le aree di contiguità e di compromissione con gli interessi della malavita presenti all’interno del giornalismo italiano. La nostra solidarietà - sottolineano -suonerebbe vuota e ipocrita se fingessimo di non averle lette: è del tutto evidente che chi è compromesso o anche solo distratto nei confronti della grande criminalità non ha diritto di cittadinanza nel mondo dell’informazione, che si propone invece obiettivi di tutt’altro segno, quelli della trasparenza e della denuncia […] ...

Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHCis working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind ;) . 4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes): LHC Cooldown Status - It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o ...

There is this article from the Financial Times that I would like to link here but, because it needs a registration (that I strongly support you to do), I quote it here: Italian party seeks to block new mosques By Paul Bompard in Rome Published: August 25 2008 02:24 | Last updated: August 25 2008 02:24 Italy’s Northern League, the populist, xenophobic, sometimes separatist movement that is a key component of Silvio Berlusconi’s governing coalition, has proposed new legislation which would effectively halt construction of new Islamic mosques. The bill, which the League’s chief of deputies Roberto Cota is expected to send to parliament next week, would require regional approval for the building of mosques. It would also require that a local referendum be held, that there be no minaret or loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, and sermons must be in Italian, not Arabic. Chances of this being approved as it stands are slim, since it clashes with a number of constitutional rights and there was no immediate support from either Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party or from the ex-fascist National Alliance. But there has been cautious support from the small, ultra-Catholic UDC party, and the proposed anti-mosque legislation undoubtedly reflects widespread feeling among Italians that some defence against a rapidly rising Islamic presence is needed. At present, the Muslim population in Italy is estimated at 1m, with 258 registered mosques. The Northern League, which theoretically favours the secession of northern Italy from the centre and south, won more than 8 per cent of the vote at the April general elections, and has always trumpeted defence of national values of the northern Italian “race” as the natural product of its homeland. Without giving details, Roberto Maroni, the rightwing interior minister from the League, also said in April that “nomads” – as Italians call the Gypsies, although most do little roaming – who were not Italian citizens and did not meet conditions to stay would be deported to their “countries of origin”. The League has capitalised on a wave of xenophobia, of fear of crime committed by foreigners, and of preoccupation with illegal immigrants, which did much to help the Berlusconi alliance win the elections. CopyrightThe Financial Times Limited 2008 ...

… knows what a knob/dickwad is Bondi. I would like to drive your attention to one particular sentence in the end: … Mr Bondi has, however, had nothing to say about the artistic merits of the “popular” entertainment that passes for serious broadcasting on the TV channels owned by his political master, Mr Berlusconi. This is not the first time I see how strong is the position of international news papers and media against the Quality of our TV: how ugly we look like? :( ...