<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349</id><updated>2012-02-01T21:48:18.460+01:00</updated><category term='t'/><category term='Big Tobacco'/><category term='citazione'/><category term='John Pilger'/><category term='Study'/><category term='books'/><category term='document'/><category term='Latin America'/><category term='UFO'/><category term='Global Warming'/><category term='Robert Fisk'/><category term='documentary'/><category term='Israele'/><category term='Science'/><category term='60 minutes'/><category term='Big Pharma'/><category term='Military'/><category term='interview'/><category term='Wikileaks'/><category term='Pentagon'/><category term='animal'/><category term='Banks'/><category term='food'/><category term='Conference'/><category term='Massoneria'/><category term='luogocomune.net'/><category term='trailer'/><category term='CIA'/><category term='Libia'/><category term='Mind Control'/><category term='Money'/><category term='article'/><category term='Satira'/><category term='film'/><category term='Big Oil'/><category term='Middle East'/><category term='Religion'/><category term='911'/><category term='Media'/><title type='text'>Small-world network</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1327</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7344439542101323346</id><published>2012-02-01T18:36:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T18:42:10.605+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='911'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='document'/><title type='text'>FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”</title><content type='html'>&lt;b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;By Ed Haas&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;06/18/06 "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Muckraker Report&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt; "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt; - June 6, 2006 – This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through Internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (Winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist web page for Usama Bin Laden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;.[1]  In the e-mail, the question is asked, “Why doesn’t Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster make any direct connection with the events of September 11, 2001?” The FBI says on its Bin Laden web page that Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. According to the FBI, these attacks killed over 200 people. The FBI concludes its reason for “wanting” Bin Laden by saying, “In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorists attacks throughout the world.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;Surprised by the ease in which this FBI spokesman made such an astonishing statement, I asked, “How this was possible?” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” I asked, “How does that work?” Tomb continued, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice than decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connected Bin Laden to 9/11.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;It shouldn’t take long before the full meaning of these FBI statements start to prick your brain and raise your blood pressure. If you think the way I think, in quick order you will be wrestling with a barrage of very powerful questions that must be answered. First and foremost, if the U.S. government does not have enough hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to “smoke him out of his cave?” The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” Bin Laden and the Taliban. Through the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush Administration told the American people that Usama Bin Laden was Public Enemy Number One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001. Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;Next is the Bin Laden “confession” video that was released by the U.S. government on December 13, 2001. Most Americans remember this video. It was the video showing Bin Laden with a few of his comrades recounting with delight the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States. The Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said, “There was no doubt of bin Laden’s responsibility for the September 11 attacks before the tape was discovered.”[2] What Rumsfeld implied by his statement was that Bin Laden was the known mastermind behind 9/11 even before the “confession video” and that the video simply served to confirm what the U.S. government already knew; that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;In a BBC News article[3] reporting on the “9/11 confession video” release, President Bush is said to have been hesitant to release the tape because he knew it would be a vivid reminder to many people of their loss. But, he also knew it would be “a devastating declaration” of Bin Laden’s guilt. “Were going to get him,” said President Bush. “Dead or alive, it doesn’t matter to me.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;In a CNN article[4] regarding the Bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that “the tape removes any doubt that the U.S. military campaign targeting bin Laden and his associates is more than justified.” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “The tape’s release is central to informing people in the outside world who don’t believe bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks.” Shelby went on to say “I don’t know how they can be in denial after they see this tape.” Well Senator Shelby, apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation isn’t convinced by the taped confession, so why are you? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;The Muckraker Report attempted to secure a reference to the U.S. government authenticating the Bin Laden “confession video”, to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and U.S. Congress, along with the dead stream media, played the video as if it was authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? After all, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficking, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel opening talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand jury. The identified participants of the video would be indicted, and if captured, the video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court. So why is the Bin Laden “confession video” not carrying the same weight with the FBI? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;Remember, on June 5, 2006, FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex Tomb said, “The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11.” This should be headline news worldwide. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the U.S. media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of September 11, 2001? Why has the U.S. media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government’s account? And on those few rare occasions when a 9/11 dissenter has made it upon the airways, why has the mainstream media ridiculed the guest as a conspiracy nut, rather than listen to the evidence that clearly raises valid questions about the government’s 9/11 account? Why is the Big Media Conglomeration blindly content with the government’s 9/11 story when so much verifiable information to the contrary is available with a few clicks of a computer mouse? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;Who is it that is controlling the media message, and how is it that the U.S. media has indicted Usama Bin Laden for the events of September 11, 2001, but the U.S. government has not? How is it that the FBI has no “hard evidence” connecting Usama Bin Laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the U.S. media has played the Bin Laden - 9/11 connection story for five years now as if it has conclusive evidence that Bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the twin towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; "&gt;No hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11… Think about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Freelance writer / author, Ed Haas, is the editor and columnist for the Muckraker Report. Get smart. Read the Muckraker Report. &lt;a href="http://teamliberty.net/"&gt;http://teamliberty.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] Federal Bureau of Investigation, Most Wanted Terrorists, Usama Bin Laden, &lt;a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm"&gt;http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm&lt;/a&gt;, [Accessed May 31, 2006]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2] United States Department of Defense, News Release, U.S. Releases Videotape of Osama bin Laden, December 13, 2001, &lt;a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b12132001_bt630-01.html"&gt;http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b12132001_bt630-01.html&lt;/a&gt;, [Accessed June 5, 2006]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[3] BBC News, Bin Laden video angers New Yorkers, December 14, 2001, Peter Gould, &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1711874.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1711874.stm&lt;/a&gt;, [Accessed June 5, 2006]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[4] CNN, Bin Laden on tape: Attacks ‘benefited Islam greatly”, December 14, 2001, &lt;a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/ret.bin.laden.videotape"&gt;http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/ret.bin.laden.videotape&lt;/a&gt;, [Accessed June 5, 2006]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://images2.corriereobjects.it/gallery/Scienze/2012/01_Gennaio/consumo-suolo/img_consumo-suolo/suol_02.jpg_672-458_resize.jpg?v=20120131161932" alt="L'Emilia Romagna: secondo l?indagine di Fai e Wwf il consumo di suolo tra il 1949 e il 2008 ha raggiunto la velocità di 9 ettari al giorno" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://images2.corriereobjects.it/gallery/Scienze/2012/01_Gennaio/consumo-suolo/img_consumo-suolo/suol_03.jpg_672-458_resize.jpg?v=20120131161932" alt="Il Lazio, una delle regioni più colpite dall?abusivismo" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://images2.corriereobjects.it/gallery/Scienze/2012/01_Gennaio/consumo-suolo/img_consumo-suolo/suol_04.jpg_672-458_resize.jpg?v=20120131161933" alt="Milano come appariva negli anni Cinquanta e come è oggi. Molte città italiane continuano a crescere nonostante l?emigrazione di migliaia di abitanti verso altri luoghi di residenza" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://images2.corriereobjects.it/gallery/Scienze/2012/01_Gennaio/consumo-suolo/img_consumo-suolo/suol_05.jpg_672-458_resize.jpg?v=20120131161933" alt="Roma e l?espansione inarrestabile che la città ha vissuto in mezzo secolo" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://images2.corriereobjects.it/gallery/Scienze/2012/01_Gennaio/consumo-suolo/img_consumo-suolo/suol_07.jpg_672-458_resize.jpg?v=20120131161934" alt="La città di Bari e l?espansione a macchia d?olio verso l?entroterra. In Puglia la crescita delle costruzioni ha un tasso del 7 per cento" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;MILANO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;- L’inquinamento, la caccia, gli incendi dolosi sono i mali minori contro i quali la natura in Italia si trova a dover fare i conti. Il peggiore? È il consumo di suolo: la copertura di terreni vergini o agricoli con asfalto e cemento per costruire case, industrie, strade o grandi arterie autostradali. In Emilia Romagna tra il 1954 e il 2008 sono spariti 9 ettari di suolo al giorno. In Sardegna l’incremento di terreno urbanizzato è cresciuto del 1.154% rispetto agli anni Cinquanta. E le città continuano a ampliarsi nonostante migliaia di residenti scelgano ogni anno di andare a vivere altrove: per ogni abitante «perso» la città cresce invece di 800 metri quadrati. Se il processo non verrà governato, nei prossimi vent’anni si perderanno 75 ettari al giorno.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;L'ITALIA CHE SCOMPARE&lt;/span&gt; – A lanciare l’allarme su questo fenomeno sono i risultati del dossier &lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Terra rubata–Viaggio nell’Italia&lt;/span&gt; che scompare: un progetto di ricerca svolto dall’Università degli studi dell’Aquila e promosso dal Fondo ambiente italiano (Fai) e dal Wwf e presentato martedì mattina, a Milano. «Il territorio è sottoposto a una minaccia spaventosa di cui pochi si rendono conto», ha detto il presidente onorario del Wwf Fulco Pratesi, mentre Giulia Maria Mozzoni Crespi, presidente onorario del Fai, ha sottolineato la necessità di «affrontare il domani e non solo l’emergenza, perché poi si paga se nell’emergenza si è agito nella maniera sbagliata. Mi auguro che il governo Monti, che pure ha dovuto affrontare emergenze che risalgono all’epoca dei nostri padri fondatori, consideri anche il domani che seguirà alle sue scelte».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;CEMENTIFICAZIONE &lt;/span&gt;- Una «dissennata cementificazione» ha già fatto diminuire il turismo in Italia: «Tutto il territorio italiano è un'opera d'arte creata dall'uomo con l’agricoltura, che, se fatta bene, è un’opera d’arte», ha detto Crespi, ricordando un’ulteriore minaccia che riguarda proprio gli imprenditori agricoli: l’Imu sui terreni, che secondo una stima di Confagricoltura costringerebbe circa 600 mila aziende a cessare le attività, oppure a utilizzare i campi per installare pale eoliche, impianti a biomasse, pannelli fotovoltaici. La ricerca, prima nel suo genere, ha riguardato undici regioni che coprono il 44 per cento della superficie italiana: Umbria, Molise, Puglia, Abruzzo, Sardegna, Valle d’Aosta, Lazio, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia. Intorno al secondo dopoguerra, queste regioni avevano tassi molto contenuti di densità di urbanizzazione: dall’1 al 4 per cento. Oggi alcune arrivano al 10%. «In Italia non si può tracciare un cerchio del diametro di 10 km senza intercettare un nucleo urbano», ha detto Costanza Pratesi, responsabile ufficio Ambiente e paesaggio del Fai. Si tratta di una crescita a macchia di leopardo e senza pianificazione, che non è più legata a un contesto storico particolare, come lo era nel dopoguerra, ma che procede costantemente senza essere guidata: alcune leggi vigenti risalgono al 1942.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;MANCANZA DI PIANIFICAZIONE&lt;/span&gt; - Il risultato? «Mentre negli insediamenti storici c'è vicinanza tra abitazioni e servizi urbani, in quelli urbani moderni la lontananza genera necessità di infrastrutture e ulteriore consumo di territorio», spiega la Pratesi. Un esempio, a questo proposito, è la Legge Obiettivo del 2001, che in dieci anni ha fatto salire il numero delle opere previste da 115 a 390 (nel 45 per cento dei casi si tratta di strade), anche se, a oggi, solo l’1 per cento delle infrastrutture previste è stato ultimato. Alla mancanza di una pianificazione si aggiunge la deriva illegale della cementificazione, con l’abusivismo, lo smaltimento dei rifiuti nelle cave e i condoni. «In occasione delle tre normative del 1985, 1994 e 2003 sono stati richiesti 4 milioni 5oo mila condoni», spiega Gaetano Benedetto, direttore politiche ambientali del Wwf. «Sappiamo però che molte di queste pratiche, soprattutto al Sud, sono ancora giacenti. Due terzi si concentrano in cinque regioni: Campania, Calabria, Lazio, Puglia e Sicilia».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;ROAD MAP&lt;/span&gt; ANTICEMENTO&lt;/span&gt; - Il settore edilizio è, tuttavia, molto importante per l’occupazione: ci lavorano tra gli 8 e i 10 milioni di persone, che rappresentano tra il 14 e il 17% della popolazione. Come far convivere le necessità di questo settore con la salvaguardia dell’ambiente? Fai e Wwf propongono una&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;road map&lt;/span&gt;. Il primo passo sarebbe una «moratoria delle nuove edificazioni su scala comunale e il censimento degli effetti dell’abusivismo edilizio su sala comunale. Inoltre, dare priorità al riuso dei suoli anche utilizzando la leva fiscale per penalizzare l’uso di nuove risorse territoriali e permettere il cambio di destinazione d’uso di un terreno se coerente con le scelte in materia di ambiente, paesaggio, trasporti e viabilità». Indispensabile, poi, «rafforzare la tutela delle nostre coste, estendendo da 300 a mille metri dalla linea di battigia il margine di salvaguardia e difendere i fiumi non solo attraverso il rispetto delle fasce fluviali, ma con interventi di abbattimento e delocalizzazione degli immobili situati nelle aree a rischio idrogeologico». Questo dovrebbe evitare il ripetersi di esondazioni dagli esiti tragici come quella che ha colpito qualche mese fa le Cinqueterre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="footnotes" style="margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="author" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;“Il motivo per cui manteniamo una presenza in Medio Oriente – ha detto il Ministro della Difesa USA Leon Panetta davanti a 1.700 marinai della USS Enterprise, come riferisce la AP – è per fargli sapere che siamo assolutamente pronti ad affrontare qualunque situazione, e che gli conviene trattare con noi attraverso la diplomazia.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Panetta ha aggiunto che la portaerei Enterprise è in partenza per il Golfo Persico, e attraverserà lo stretto di Ormuz per dare un messaggio diretto all’Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Questa la notizia, data da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://rt.com/news/aircraft-carrier-hormuz-iran-391/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Russia Today &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;. In questo video il commento di Mike Rivero: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iJY8PRtrSpY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3930"&gt;http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3930&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*1898 "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!" - Technical experts at the time of both investigations disagreed with the findings, believing that spontaneous combustion of coal in the bunker adjacent to the reserve six-inch magazine was the most likely cause of the explosion on board the ship. In 1976, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover published his book, How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed. The admiral became interested in the disaster and wondered if the application of modern scientific knowledge could determine the cause. He called on two experts on explosions and their effects on ship hulls. Using documentation gathered from the two official inquiries, as well as information on the construction and ammunition of Maine, the experts concluded that the damage caused to the ship was inconsistent with the external explosion of a mine. The most likely cause, they speculated, was spontaneous combustion of coal in the bunker next to the magazine. - DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND website&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq71-1.htm"&gt;http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq71-1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*1941  "Un collega peruviano ha rivelato al membro del mio staff di aver sentito da diverse fonti, compresa una fonte giapponese, che le forze militari giapponesi hanno progettato, in caso di problemi con gli Stati Uniti, di tentare un attacco a sorpresa su Pearl Harbor impiegando tutte le strutture militari a loro disposizione. Ha aggiunto inoltre che, ha aggiunto inoltre che sebbene il piano possa sembrare una fantasia, il fatto che l'abbia sentito da più parti l'ha indotto a passare l'informazione. Grew"  - Il segretario di stato Cordell Hull lesse il cablogramma 125 di Grew che il ministero degli esteri ricevette alle 6.38 del lunedì 27 gennaio 1941 (ora East USA) in PHPT, pag. 1042&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788851521899/stinnett-robert-b-/giorno-dell-inganno.html"&gt;Robert B. Stinnett, Il giorno dell’inganno, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2001&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;24 nov 1941 l'Ammiraglio Yamamoto scrive all'ammiraglio Chuichi Nagumo intercettato dagli americani presso la stazione H": "The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining close guard agains novembre t submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow. The first air raid is planned for dawn of X-day (exact day to be given by later order)"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two sources of the above message are Admiral Homer Wallin's "Pearl Harbor", published by the US Government printing office, and the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific) Naval Analysis Division's "The Campaigns of the Pacific War", also published by the US Government printing office.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*1964 "The overwhelming body of reports, if used, would have told the story that no attack occurred." The evidence suggests "an active effort to make SIGINT fit the claim of what happened during the evening of 4 August in the Gulf of Tonkin." - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 132&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm"&gt;http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*2001 "I don't think anybody could have predicted that ... they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/18/attack/main509488.shtml"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/18/attack/main509488.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles. [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Six years before the September 11 attacks, Philippine police took down an al Qaeda cell that had been plotting, among other things, to fly explosives-laden planes into the Pentagon - By Matthew Brzezinski - Sunday, December 30, 2001; Page W09 The Washington Post&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14725-2001Dec21?language=printer"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14725-2001Dec21?language=printer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*2001 “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” - Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI (interview 2006)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm"&gt;http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*2003 "Now, look, I didn’t — part of the reason we went into Iraq was — the main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn’t, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction." What did Iraq have to do with the attack on the World Trade Center? "Nothing, except for it’s part of — and nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack." - George Walker Bush (press conference)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link transcript: &lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/22/president_bush_admits_iraq_had_no"&gt;http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/22/president_bush_admits_iraq_had_no&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link video: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSN-Kku_rFE"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSN-Kku_rFE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-3450624982529521548?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3450624982529521548/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/lo-strano-viaggio-della-enterprise.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3450624982529521548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3450624982529521548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/lo-strano-viaggio-della-enterprise.html' title='Lo strano viaggio della Enterprise'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/iJY8PRtrSpY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-231672620822749241</id><published>2012-01-31T20:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T20:55:48.787+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><title type='text'>Ciampi e la speculazione di Soros, Amato e le privatizzazioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-js9JEFDVLRI/TyhHPXm513I/AAAAAAAAEkA/661CVTzMJ7o/s1600/George%2BSoros.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-js9JEFDVLRI/TyhHPXm513I/AAAAAAAAEkA/661CVTzMJ7o/s400/George%2BSoros.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703887257425532786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Nel 1992 Ciampi, allora governatore di Bankitalia, dilapidò 48 miliardi di dollari in una assurda &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;difesa della lira&lt;/em&gt;, che era sotto attacco da parte di Soros. Difesa che fin dall’inizio era da abbandonare, dato che la Banca Centrale tedesca aveva chiarito che non avrebbe appoggiato l’Italia (doveva già proteggere la Francia).Soros aveva più mezzi:&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt; grazie all’effetto-leva e alla speculazione coi derivati, agiva come avesse 100 dollari per ogni 5 realmente impiegati.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;In pratica, con questa leva, Soros vendeva lire che non possedeva, contando poi di ricomprarle a svalutazione avvenuta. Inoltre, Soros aveva alle spalle i Rothschild, che dal 1989 avevano aperto a Milano la Rothschild Italia SpA, il cui direttore, Robert Katz (J), era diventato direttore del Quantum Fund di Soros proprio alla vigilia dell’attacco.&lt;/strong&gt;Il venerato maestro Ciampi, che sapeva come stavano le cose, avrebbe dovuto rinunciare fin dall’inizio alla sua &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;difesa&lt;/em&gt;, salvando i 48 miliardi di dollari. Invece la fece ad oltranza: cosa che costò ai contribuenti italiani 60 mila miliardi di lire (due o tre stangate alla Prodi) che in parte (almeno 15 mila miliardi di lire) finirono nelle tasche di Soros. E cosa ancora più grave, Ciampi prosciugò quasi totalmente le riserve in valuta di Bankitalia.&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Così, quando alla fine la lira fu svalutata del 30% – come i Rothschild e le banche d’affari USA volevano, per poter comprare a prezzi stracciati le imprese dell’IRI – non c’erano più soldi per la difesa della italianità di quelle imprese. La svendita era stata accuratamente preparata da Giuliano Amato che, appena diventato capo del governo, aveva trasformato gli enti statali in società per azioni, in vista delle privatizzazioni, in modo che le oligarchie finanziarie estere potessero controllarle diventandone azioniste, e poi rilevarle per il classico boccone di pane.&lt;/strong&gt;Il piano era stato probabilmente elaborato nella famosa riunione sul Britannia del giugno ‘92, panfilo della regina d’Inghilterra, su cui era salito Mario Draghi, allora funzionario del Tesoro. &lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;I magistrati di &lt;em style="font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;Mani Pulite&lt;/em&gt; diedero una mano, creando il clima di linciaggio contro Craxi (che si opponeva fieramente alle intrusioni straniere) ed arrestando preventivamente una folla di grand commis di Stato, poi risultati del tutto innocenti, in modo da sguarnire il fronte che si opponeva alle svendite. Così il saccheggio avvenne tra gli applausi degli italiani, ben contenti di vedere Craxi in fuga e la vecchia DC smantellata da Di Pietro.&lt;/strong&gt;La cosa fu così sporca che Ciampi (come minimo, se non da complice, si comportò da incompetente) una volta prosciugate le riserve, offrì le sue dimissioni. Gli fu detto di star tranquillo; sarebbe stato premiato con la presidenza della repubblica e santificato per sempre dall’aureola di &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;Venerato Maestro&lt;/em&gt;, conferitagli dai grandi giornali, &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;Corriere&lt;/em&gt; e soprattutto &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;Repubblica&lt;/em&gt;. C’è il sospetto infatti che anche De Benedetti avesse guadagnato dalla speculazione.&lt;br /&gt;Ci fu anche un’inchiesta. Nel ‘96 la Guardia di Finanza indagò se «&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;influenti italiani abbiano operato illegalmente dietro banche e speculatori&lt;/em&gt;», ricavando un guadagno accodandosi a Sorosnella speculazione contro la lira.&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt; Secondo &lt;em style="font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;Il Mondo&lt;/em&gt; del dicembre ‘96, la «&lt;em style="font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; "&gt;lobby a favore di Soros&lt;/em&gt;», secondo gli inquirenti, comprendeva Prodi, Enrico Cuccia (capo di Mediobanca per la Lazard) Guido Rossi, Isidoro Albertini, Luciano Benetton, Carlo Caracciolo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturalmente, le procure insabbiarono. Gli indagati erano tutti padri della patria, venerati maestri, riserve della repubblica. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Autore Maurizio Blondet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Fonte: &lt;span &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: inherit; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=67358:i-nemici-dellitalia&amp;amp;catid=13:politica-interna&amp;amp;Itemid=136"&gt;http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=67358:i-nemici-dellitalia&amp;amp;catid=13:politica-interna&amp;amp;Itemid=136&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Visto su: &lt;a href="http://www.ilmegafononline.com/content/ciampi-e-la-speculazione-di-sorosamato-e-le-privatizzazioni" style="text-align: left; "&gt;http://www.ilmegafononline.com/content/ciampi-e-la-speculazione-di-sorosamato-e-le-privatizzazioni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-231672620822749241?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/231672620822749241/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/ciampi-e-la-speculazione-di-soros-amato.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/231672620822749241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/231672620822749241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/ciampi-e-la-speculazione-di-soros-amato.html' title='Ciampi e la speculazione di Soros, Amato e le privatizzazioni'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-js9JEFDVLRI/TyhHPXm513I/AAAAAAAAEkA/661CVTzMJ7o/s72-c/George%2BSoros.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-1389141705862123923</id><published>2012-01-30T14:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T14:40:53.308+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='document'/><title type='text'>Debito sovrano europeo – Chi deve a chi?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Incrociando i debiti che i paesi europei hanno l'uno con l'altro, il debito totale si potrebbe ridurre del 64%!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(204, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;di &lt;i&gt;Tyler Burden (da &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european-sovereign-debt-cant-we-all-just-net-along" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;ZeroHedge&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); color: rgb(204, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;traduzione per&lt;i&gt; DoppioCieco &lt;/i&gt;di&lt;i&gt; Domenico D'Amico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;È sempre più evidente che con l'attuale struttura e composizione dei suoi aderenti l'Euro non funziona. Il mercato sembra orientare il cambiamento verso un cambiamento dei membri (attraverso ristrutturazioni e svalutazioni temporanee – i.e. GRE CDS [1] e una Dracma WI [2]) mentre il 'management' dell'Eurozona sembra tendere a cambiamenti strutturali (i.e. La protezione dell'EFSF [3], Euro-bond, e unione fiscale). A fronte del costo elevato di qualsiasi soluzione si adotti, &lt;b&gt;una ricerca effettuata quest'estate da ESCP Europe suggerisce che sia possibile un approccio più sofisticato, volto a ridurre il complesso del debito sovrano aggregato europeo di quasi il 64%. La soluzione: interconnessioni [netting] [4] bi- e tri-laterali, oltre al libero commercio&lt;/b&gt;[del debito].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Evidentemente, in questo 'libero scambio' ci sarebbero vincitori e perdenti, e il processo di negoziazione (da teoria dei giochi) tra 17 politici di carriera viziati ed egocentrici è improbabile che ottenga risultati positivi. In ogni caso, è altrettanto evidente che qualsiasi soluzione si adotti dovrà avere comunque quast'approccio da nodo gordiano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;La &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/weekinreview/02marsh.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;Rete Debitoria&lt;/a&gt; europea (aggiornata al Maggio 2011)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); clear: both; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss54/ullikummi_bucket/Blog/20110918_EURBEFcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="536" src="http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss54/ullikummi_bucket/Blog/20110918_EURBEFcopy.jpg" alt="debito sovrano europa interconnessione link" width="640" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; 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"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dopo tre fasi di 'negoziazione', cioè netting bi-laterale, netting tri-laterale e quindi un libero scambio&lt;/b&gt; [del debito] (per la gestione delle differenti maturazioni e scadenze), la &lt;b&gt;complessità si riduce drasticamente&lt;/b&gt; – rendendo molto chiaro dov'è che sta il vero debito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); clear: both; text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss54/ullikummi_bucket/Blog/20110918_EURAFTcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="594" src="http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss54/ullikummi_bucket/Blog/20110918_EURAFTcopy.jpg" alt="debito sovrano europa interconnessione link" width="640" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; position: relative; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 1px 1px 5px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Le principali conclusioni sono state le seguenti:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); "&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Attraverso la cancellazione incrociata del debito interconnesso, le nazioni dell'UE potrebbero &lt;b&gt;ridurre il loro debito del 64%&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Sei paesi – Irlanda, Italia, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Francia e Germania – potrebbero cancellare più del 50% del loro debito arretrato;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tre paesi&lt;/b&gt; – Irland, Italia e Germania – potrebbero &lt;b&gt;ridurre le loro pendenze in modo da dovere più di un miliardo di Euro solo ad altri due paesi.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inoltre:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); "&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Circa il 50% del debito portoghese è nei confronti della Spagna;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;L'Irlanda e l'Italia potrebbero completamente cancellare i debiti nei confronti di altri paesi PIIGS&lt;/b&gt;, e l'Irlanda potrebbe portare il suo debito dal 120% a meno del 20% del PIL;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;La Grecia potrebbe ridurre il suo debito del 20%, dovendone un 60% alla Francia e un 30% alla Germania;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;La Gran Bretagna ha un debito che è in assoluto il maggiore, prima e dopo&lt;/b&gt; l'operazione di cancellazione, dovuto principalmente a Spagna e Germania, ma potrebbe ridurre il rapporto debito/PIL di 34 punti percentuali;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;La Francia potrebbe a tutti gli effetti eliminare il suo debito&lt;/b&gt; (del 99,76%) - riducendolo a uno 0,06% del PIL;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Così gli autori sintetizzano il loro studio:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); "&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Queste ipotesi non risolvono il problema della crisi debitoria dell'UE, e suscita più domande che risposte in tema di affidabilità dei dati. In ogni caso, l'osservazione rivelatrice che il debito interconnesso possa essere ridotto (possibilmente perfino azzerato) costituisce un'opzione di tipo politico. Difatti, se è vero che questa ipotesi lascerebbe comunque ad alcuni paesi un grosso debito residuale, indica tuttavia la vera natura del problema. Sia come sia, getta luce sulla questione e fornisce nuovi dati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;Il fatto che una tale quantità del debito sia interconnessa ci offre una reale possibilità di risolvere il problema. La tela del debito interconnesso è troppo spessa per poterla spazzar via con un'ipotesi accademica, e tuttavia la classe politica dovrebbe prendere sul serio i risultati di questo studio: potrebbero scoprire che invece di continuare a tessere i fili della rete dovrebbero impugnare la scopa per dare una ripulita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;La nostra conclusione è che mentre la dismissione dell'Euro comporterebbe costi enormi e una drammatica destabilizzazione&lt;/b&gt; non solo dal punto di vista dei mercati (dato che la disarticolazione delle unioni monetarie tende storicamente a concludersi nel pubblico disordine), &lt;b&gt;questo studio ci indica un modo semplice di capire come un sistema dotato di una Banca Centrale e di un'unità fiscale 'potrebbe' risultare più solido.&lt;/b&gt; Comunque, &lt;b&gt;la strada verso questa solidità 'potenziale' sarebbe lastricata dalle carcasse di detentori di titoli finanziari e non, creditori senior e non, spacciatori di CDS, speculatori valutari [5] operanti, grazie ad aggiustamenti dei tassi a rischio zero, mutui subordinati, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ringfencing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt; [6], forzate ricapitalizzazioni, e conseguente &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;austerity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;note del traduttore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[1] Famigerati strumenti finanziari, in teoria &lt;a href="http://www.dizionariofinanziario.it/significato/c/1255612567/credit_default_swap_cds.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;assicurativi&lt;/a&gt;, in realtà speculativamente devastanti. “Questa, però, è la teoria. Nella pratica i «credit default swap» sono titoli scambiati tra operatori al telefono. E dato che il prezzo della polizza sale e scende ogni giorno in base alla maggiore o minore rischiosità delle società o Paesi, tanti operatori li usano solo per 'scommettere' sul rialzo o sul ribasso. Dato che nessuno sa cosa fanno gli altri, si arriva quindi al paradosso che su certe società esistono più «credit default swap» che debiti da assicurare.” “nessuno sa esattamente come giri il mercato dei Cds. Si conoscono quotazioni indicative, riportate da provider come Bloomberg, ma nessuno sa quanti volumi di scambi ci siano effettivamente sotto. Si conoscono solo gli ammontari nominali di questi derivati, perché sono contabilizzati (al 90%) da un'istituzione americana che si chiama Dtcc. Ma nulla di più. I grandi broker (JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Bank of America e le altre grandi banche mondiali) sanno quanti volumi fanno loro, ma nessuno conosce l'operatività degli altri. Nessuno sa quante telefonate tra trader ci sono state, quanti «Cds» sono stati comprati o venduti. Questo fa paura: l'opacità. Questo desta sospetti di speculazioni, di manipolazioni. Forse le speculazioni sono solo bluff con volumi irrisori (come ha ventilato la Consob tedesca pochi giorni fa), ma dato che nessuno lo sa, la paura dilaga. E contagia altri mercati. Come quello molto più consistente dei titoli di Stato.” (&lt;a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Finanza%20e%20Mercati/2010/03/credit-default-swap-speculazione-paese.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;ilSole24Ore&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[2] WI sta per “When Issued”. “Una transazione che è effettuata condizionatamente, in quanto un certo strumento finanziario è stato autorizzato, ma non ancora emesso [issued]” (&lt;a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wi.asp#axzz1jzno1GPt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;&lt;u&gt;Investopedia&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;È un mercato non ufficiale, che sfugge al controllo di qualsiasi autorità. Agisce alla condizione 'se e quando emesso' nell'intervallo di tempo che passa fra il primo giorno di un'emissione obbligazionaria e il momento in cui verrà fatto il primo prezzo sul mercato ufficiale.” (&lt;a href="http://ita.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_italian/finance_general/2261833-when_issued_market.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;&lt;u&gt;ProZ&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[3] il Fondo Europeo di Stabilità Finanziaria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[4] L'autore sembra fare un piccolo gioco di parole, dato che &lt;i&gt;net&lt;/i&gt; può indicare un'interconnessione, ma anche un guadagno economico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[5] Nell'originale “FX jockeys”, dove &lt;i&gt;FX&lt;/i&gt; sta per &lt;i&gt;Forex&lt;/i&gt;, cioè &lt;i&gt;Foreign Exchange&lt;/i&gt;, cioè il mercato internazionale delle valute, in cui può fare speculazioni e guadagni un “artista” del campo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; "&gt;[6] “Ecco quindi che il concetto di ring fencing, l'idea di isolare con un "recinto" i rami di attività di un'istituzione finanziaria per evitare contagi, viene usato in questi giorni con grande frequenza anche in riferimento ai titoli di stato greci, con l'idea di poterli isolare nel caso di un default o di un'uscita della Grecia dall'Europa.” (&lt;a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2011-09-16/ring-fencing-arginare-rischio-063654.shtml?uuid=Aa4QRp4D" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(155, 34, 41); "&gt;Sole24Ore&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 gennaio 2012&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://doppiocieco.blogspot.com/2012/01/debito-sovrano-europeo-chi-deve-chi.html"&gt;http://doppiocieco.blogspot.com/2012/01/debito-sovrano-europeo-chi-deve-chi.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-1389141705862123923?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/1389141705862123923/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/debito-sovrano-europeo-chi-deve-chi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1389141705862123923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1389141705862123923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/debito-sovrano-europeo-chi-deve-chi.html' title='Debito sovrano europeo – Chi deve a chi?'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss54/ullikummi_bucket/Blog/th_20110918_EURBEFcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-3851302417343093367</id><published>2012-01-23T00:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T00:31:51.739+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><title type='text'>MRI di una persona che muore - Dying person MRI</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/663217/online/tumblr_le8bmb1hwF1qdvstso1_500.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 247px;" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/663217/online/tumblr_le8bmb1hwF1qdvstso1_500.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-3851302417343093367?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3851302417343093367/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-uomo-che-muore-man-who-dies.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3851302417343093367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3851302417343093367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-uomo-che-muore-man-who-dies.html' title='MRI di una persona che muore - Dying person MRI'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-3160797460314858204</id><published>2012-01-23T00:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T00:32:03.896+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Violent Video Games Alter Brain Function In Young Men</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;h2 class="date-header" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; min-height: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; padding: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: inherit; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Sustained changes in the region of the brain associated with cognitive function and emotional control were found in young adult men after one week of playing violent video games, according to study results presented by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;A sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5lkCGkKYt9k/TxhDW80p3bI/AAAAAAAAEjo/lhES1c398Mc/s1600/38589_web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5lkCGkKYt9k/TxhDW80p3bI/AAAAAAAAEjo/lhES1c398Mc/s400/38589_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699379390000520626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;This is the first time the IU researchers, who have studied the effects of media violence for more than a decade, have conducted an experimental study that showed a direct relationship between playing violent video games over an extended period of time and a subsequent change in brain regions associated with cognitive function and emotional control.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;The controversy over whether or not violent video games are potentially harmful to players has been debated for many years, even making it as far as the Supreme Court in 2010. There has been little scientific evidence demonstrating that the games have a prolonged negative neurological effect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;"For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home," said Yang Wang, M.D., assistant research professor in the IU Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. "The affected brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;For the study, 28 healthy adult males, age 18 to 29, with low past exposure to violent video games were randomly assigned to two groups of 14. Members of the first group were instructed to play a shooting video game for 10 hours at home for one week and refrain from playing the following week. The second group did not play a video game at all during the two-week period.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Each of the 28 men underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis at the beginning of the study, with follow-up exams at one and two weeks. During fMRI, the participants completed an emotional interference task, pressing buttons according to the color of visually presented words. Words indicating violent actions were interspersed among nonviolent action words. In addition, the participants completed a cognitive inhibition counting task.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;The results showed that after one week of violent game play, the video game group members showed less activation in the left inferior frontal lobe during the emotional Stroop task and less activation in the anterior cingulate cortex during the counting Stroop task, compared to their baseline results and the results of the control group after one week. After the video game group refrained from game play for an additional week, the changes to the executive regions of the brain returned closer to the control group. Stroop task tests an individual's ability to control cognitive flexibility and attention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;"These findings indicate that violent video game play has a long-term effect on brain functioning," Dr. Wang said. "These effects may translate into behavioral changes over longer periods of game play."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Dr. Wang said that another important point of the study was that the young men were supplied with laptop computers and played at home in their "natural environment." Some of the previous research was done with players participating in a lab setting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Contacts and sources:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:mhardin@iu.edu" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 0, 210); "&gt;Mary L. Hardin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.medicine.iu.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 0, 210); "&gt;Indiana University School of Medicine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Coauthors are Tom Hummer, Ph.D., IU assistant research professor of psychiatry; William Kronenberger, Ph.D., associate professor of clinical psychology in the IU Department of Psychiatry; Kristine Mosier, D.M.D., Ph.D., IU associate professor of radiology; and Vincent P. Mathews, M.D., IU professor of neuroradiology. Drs. Wang, Hummer and Mosier are members of the IU Center for Neuroimaging.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;The research is supported by the Center for Successful Parenting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Nano Patents and Innovations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2011/12/violent-video-games-alter-brain.html"&gt;http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2011/12/violent-video-games-alter-brain.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-3160797460314858204?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3160797460314858204/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/violent-video-games-alter-brain.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3160797460314858204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3160797460314858204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/violent-video-games-alter-brain.html' title='Violent Video Games Alter Brain Function In Young Men'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5lkCGkKYt9k/TxhDW80p3bI/AAAAAAAAEjo/lhES1c398Mc/s72-c/38589_web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-5969985690356823024</id><published>2012-01-23T00:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T00:30:05.349+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conference'/><title type='text'>Irish journalist humiliates EuroBank technocrat who won't stop ducking hard questions</title><content type='html'>19 jan 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this video from a European Central Bank press-conference in Ireland, journalist Vincent Browne demands that the ECB representative explain why the ECB required the Irish people to bail out a bank's uninsured creditors. 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It's quite a stirring spectacle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HAf7J4a_T1g?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-5969985690356823024?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5969985690356823024/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/irish-journalist-humiliates-eurobank.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5969985690356823024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5969985690356823024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/irish-journalist-humiliates-eurobank.html' title='Irish journalist humiliates EuroBank technocrat who won&apos;t stop ducking hard questions'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/HAf7J4a_T1g/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-1740022319927109704</id><published>2012-01-21T19:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T00:30:53.586+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><title type='text'>Mafia e fascismo dietro i forconi siciliani</title><content type='html'>La cosiddetta "rivolta" dei forconi funziona così: entrano in negozi, officine. Intimano la serrata, minacciano di spaccare tutto con metodi parafascisti di stampo mafioso. Bloccano le strade, fanno scendere dai furgoni tutti. Un manipolo di persone che tiene in pugno con la violenza migliaia di attività siciliane e si spaccia per rivoluzione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hmw4wML6oo0?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-1740022319927109704?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/1740022319927109704/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/mafia-e-fascismo-dietro-i-forconi.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1740022319927109704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1740022319927109704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/mafia-e-fascismo-dietro-i-forconi.html' title='Mafia e fascismo dietro i forconi siciliani'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/Hmw4wML6oo0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7798099715226933902</id><published>2012-01-18T00:58:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T01:01:50.057+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><title type='text'>Vaticano, niente inchino per Monti</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2c9GeaTTxCQ/TxYLwdnunqI/AAAAAAAAEjY/nfvjII-vUAo/s1600/18-01-2012%2B01-00-27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2c9GeaTTxCQ/TxYLwdnunqI/AAAAAAAAEjY/nfvjII-vUAo/s400/18-01-2012%2B01-00-27.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698755305696829090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mario Monti ha stretto la mano a papa Benedetto XVI, senza inchinarsi per baciare l'anello pontificio.  Il ministro per le Politiche comunitarie Enzo Moavero ha baciato con slancio l'anello papale del pescatore, e anche il ministro degli esteri Giulio Terzi e il sottosegretario alla presidenza del consiglio Antonio Catricalà hanno accennato un inchino.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it"&gt;la Repubblica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/01/14/foto/monti_papa-28101553/1/?ref=FRAG-7"&gt;http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/01/14/foto/monti_papa-28101553/1/?ref=FRAG-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-7798099715226933902?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7798099715226933902/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/vaticano-niente-inchino-per-monti.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7798099715226933902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7798099715226933902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/vaticano-niente-inchino-per-monti.html' title='Vaticano, niente inchino per Monti'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2c9GeaTTxCQ/TxYLwdnunqI/AAAAAAAAEjY/nfvjII-vUAo/s72-c/18-01-2012%2B01-00-27.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-3167484475538338985</id><published>2012-01-17T18:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T18:55:33.121+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><title type='text'>Condanna definitiva per Radio Vaticana, le onde elettromagnetiche aumentano di 4-5 volte il rischio di leucemie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lNX3NqrMyIo/Tx7wiuANd4I/AAAAAAAAEj0/rrJ-Ba0S6CA/s1600/HL_T4_radiovaticana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 172px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lNX3NqrMyIo/Tx7wiuANd4I/AAAAAAAAEj0/rrJ-Ba0S6CA/s400/HL_T4_radiovaticana.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701258657552758658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;LIVORNO. E’ stata confermata la condanna per Radio Vaticana. La Corte di Cassazione ha infatti ribadito la decisione dalla Corte d’Appello del Tribunale di Roma: reato di “getto pericoloso di cose” (articolo 674 Codice penale) e risarcimento ai cittadini. Non si procederà però, nei confronti dell’unico imputato superstite, il cardinale Roberto Tucci, perché il reato si è estinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;«Ieri – dichiara il Comitato dei Comitati di Roma Nord – è stata una data storica per la giustizia italiana: la Suprema Corte di Cassazione ha respinto il ricorso della Radio Vaticana». Ed aggiunge «Ogni volta che rileveremo violazioni dei limiti di legge e disturbi alla nostra vita quotidiana sporgeremo querele contro i responsabili della radio vaticana».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La questione è iniziata molti anni fa (oltre 11) quando alcuni cittadini di Cesano denunciarono la trasformazione di alcuni elettrodomestici, citofoni, lampadari in duplicatori del segnale di Radio Vaticana. A ciò si aggiunsero gli esposti da parte di chi accusava malattie provocate dal superamento dei limiti di emissione delle onde elettromagnetiche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel tempo si sono infatti susseguiti due giudizi di primo grado, due pronunciamenti di secondo grado e si sono già avute quattro sentenze della Corte di Cassazione, di cui una nell’ambito del procedimento penale per omicidio plurimo colposo, per il quale il Giudice per le indagini preliminari del Tribunale di Roma, a seguito dei sorprendenti ed impressionanti risultati dell’indagine epidemiologica condotta in cinque anni nel territorio limitrofo agli impianti, il 13 novembre 2010 ha rinviato gli atti alla Procura della Repubblica per le conseguenti decisioni della pubblica accusa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gli studi hanno sottolineato che il rischio di mortalità di leucemia presenta un fattore di 4,9 volte superiore al valore atteso oltre i 12 km di distanza. In particolare lo studio di incidenza di leucemie e linfomi nei bambini da 0 a 14 anni ha dimostrato che il fattore è da 4,1 a 4,7 volte superiore al valore atteso oltre i 12 km. di distanza e fino a 6,9 volte se si considerano solo i bambini di età maggiore di un anno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto che la perizia del Tribunale di Roma ha annunciato che «l’eccesso di rischio è clamorosamente alto. … L’effetto è molto importante e non può essere dovuto al caso… I risultati ottenuti sono assolutamente impressionanti. … Non siamo stati in grado di trovare un fattore di causa diverso dalla Radio Vaticana. … Non si può non pensare che lì sia successo qualcosa di importante per la vita di quelle persone, che non è spiegabile con altra causa che non siano le emissioni della Radio Vaticana. … I risultati hanno a che fare con la dislocazione in cui queste persone hanno abitato nella loro vita e questi bambini hanno abitato nel loro periodo di vita. … Livelli così elevati di rischio si riscontrano, nella letteratura scientifica, soltanto negli studi epidemiologici relativi alle zone che hanno subito gli effetti dell’esplosione di una bomba atomica».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eleonora Santucci&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1 marzo 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fonte: Mai dire Radio Maria&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.maidireradiomaria.com/?p=1136"&gt;http://www.maidireradiomaria.com/?p=1136&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-3167484475538338985?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3167484475538338985/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/condanna-definitiva-per-radio-vaticana.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3167484475538338985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3167484475538338985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/condanna-definitiva-per-radio-vaticana.html' title='Condanna definitiva per Radio Vaticana, le onde elettromagnetiche aumentano di 4-5 volte il rischio di leucemie'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lNX3NqrMyIo/Tx7wiuANd4I/AAAAAAAAEj0/rrJ-Ba0S6CA/s72-c/HL_T4_radiovaticana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-8365929690385772799</id><published>2012-01-17T16:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T16:35:48.824+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Michael Hastings vs. Team America</title><content type='html'>&lt;span  &gt;by Kelley B. Vlahos, January 17, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The predominant feeling one gets coming off a weekend reading Michael Hastings’&lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/exclusive-excerpt-the-operators-by-michael-hastings-20120103" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is not outrage, nor gleeful satisfaction in seeing everything one suspects about this rotten war confirmed in tawdry black and white detail and in the rise and fall of one of the most celebrated generals in a generation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The overwhelming feeling is, well, sadness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operators-Terrifying-Inside-Americas-Afghanistan/dp/0399159886/antiwarbookstore" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://original.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/theoperators-198x300.jpg" alt="" title="" width="198" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2012038471" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 18px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;More on that in a minute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Hastings is the &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone &lt;/i&gt;reporter whose July 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then-commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, sank the man’s career and put celebrated Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the war — all within 48 hours of “&lt;a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;The Runaway General’s&lt;/a&gt;” auspicious release.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Hastings, 31, drew a ton of criticism for the profile, mostly from Washington military types and mainstream reporters with a fondness for high-level access, who thought McChrystal and his team had been “betrayed” by Hastings. That McChrystal and his top aides would let fly countless zingers, insults and questionable asides about not only the President of the United States, but top cabinet officials, statesmen, other generals, and foreign dignitaries and leaders “on the record” was unbelievable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The young hotshot reporter must have broken the ground rules somewhere to have collected such meaty — and damning — fodder for his story, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Turns out, according to &lt;em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;The Operators&lt;/em&gt;, he was pretty surprised that Team McChrystal (ironically they had taken to calling themselves Team America, after the &lt;a href="http://www.teamamerica.com/" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;dark satire&lt;/a&gt; of the same name) had been so candid and “freewheeling” in their exchanges with him, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“When I arrived in Paris, Duncan (Boothby) (McChrystal’s top civilian media adviser) repeatedly dismissed the idea of ground rules, telling me it wasn’t the way the team did things. McChrystal would also tell me he wasn’t ‘going to tell me how to write my story.’ In fact, McChrystal and his staff requested to go off the record only twice when it came time to write my story and that I continue to honor to this day.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The rest, as we say, is history. Hastings went for a ride in which, like some Hollywood movie, McChrystal was revealed to him in direct interviews and through the eyes of his loyal Team America, a god, while everyone else, particularly the civilian edifice and diplomatic machinery he was forced to work with, were merely obstacles on the way to winning the war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;What Hastings was able to capture by resisting the constant urge to “protect” his subjects — who seemed, honestly, to be rather convivial, if not naive when it came to Hastings’ presence — was not just that McChrystal and his team thought Obama an empty shirt, Afghan President Hamid Karzai a fool and diplomat Richard Holbrooke an annoying gasbag, but the starkest evidence of the breakdown in civilian-military relations to date. The military was indeed a planet onto its own. The politics from all corners, dizzying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Team America drinks hard. They brag, they boast, they cuss. They swap stories about female reporters who flash their breasts to get an exclusive, another who allegedly tells Boothby to cup her breast implants on a Blackhawk helicopter ride. They talk cynically about the war one minute, hopelessly romantic about their mission the next.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="img alignright size-medium wp-image-2012038472" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 18px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 300px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hastings.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://original.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hastings-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(242, 240, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 228, 207); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Michael Hastings (Rolling Stone)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Their “boss” is like Led Zeppelin and they, the ever-faithful handlers and road crew. At times, Hastings felt like his prototype, &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; writer Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical movie &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Famous" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Almost Famous&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, about a young writer who gets co-opted by rock stars only to disappoint them by publishing a truthful, if unflattering account of their (mis)adventures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“I’d enjoyed the movie, but my experience as a reporter had led me to believe that there wasn’t always a happy ending if you wrote about people with brutal honesty,” Hastings wrote. He would soon find out how right he was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;He traveled with The Team from Paris to Berlin, Afghanistan and Washington, too, gathering enough material for a frankly nuanced and complicated portrait of a general leading a war that no one seemed to think was going anywhere but down the toilet. But the pull into the bubble was very real, though, and, considering much of the hagiography that had been written about McChrystal and Petraeus and the “COINdinistas” in the year previous, most of his colleagues in the corporate media were quite susceptible to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Not surprisingly, when he got outside the distortion field to publish his experiences in earnest, the bubble dwellers turned on him with full-force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“The bubble had a reality-distorting effect on those inside it,” he wrote, “while perversely convincing those within the bubble that their view of reality was the absolute truth … the bubble was incredibly seductive, the ultimate expression of insiderness.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;For their part, the men surrounding the general should have been more with it. Getting “totally shitfaced” in front of a &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; reporter — one who is clearly staying sober throughout all of it, with his trusty notebook and tape recorder always at hand — turned out to be deadly for their careers. If this were a MTV “Behind the Music” documentary, Paris would have been the dramatic turning point in the demise of the band.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;And McChrystal, was he so dizzy up there on Mount Olympus that he couldn’t see the folly in saying things like “bite me” in reference to Vice President Joe Biden, or in calling the war in Afghanistan “very questionable” in the presence of a reporter whose magazine all but demands by reputation that he come back with something edgy and subversive?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;These answers may never really be known. Even Hastings questioned it. “I’d seen another side of (McChrystal’s) personality. I didn’t quite know why they had shown it to me,” he wrote, noting that, after covering the war since 2005, he had never heard such high-ranking officers badmouth such high-ranking civilians before — at least in front of journalists. “The wars had been going on for nearly ten years, and it had clearly taken its toll … McChrystal appeared to present a new kind of military elite, a member of the warrior class that had lost touch with the civilian world.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“Or maybe the side I had been shown was there all along, and no one else had decided to write about it,” he surmised.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Maybe so. Some of the loudest shrieking at the time came from Hastings’ media peers who said he had broken the “gentleman’s agreement,” that he should have known implicitly when to turn the tape recorder off and put the pen away, ostensibly when the sources start wearing neckties around their heads and the sentences begin with a slurred, “I love this guy ….,” or when one tells you he’ll kill you (half jokingly) if you write an unflattering portrait of the boss. That last one actually happened, and Hastings kept it out of the article, but it made the book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner &lt;a href="http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=9a1c8a02-6193-4a47-9513-02d499f79cad" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;John Burns in an interview shortly after McChrystal was fired&lt;/a&gt;, said, “I think it’s very unfortunate that America has lost the services of such an outstanding general. I think it’s very unfortunate that it has impacted, and will impact so adversely, on what had been pretty good military/media relations.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="img alignright size-medium wp-image-2012038473" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 18px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 300px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mcchrystal.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://original.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mcchrystal-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(242, 240, 217); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 228, 207); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Gen. Stanley McChrystal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Then there was CBS’s Lara Logan,&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2009/10/12/lara-logan-casts-her-spell-for-war/" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;who I once described &lt;/a&gt;as the military’s “secret weapon” for all the surrogacy she’s provided stateside. She has played the network embed program in Iraq and Afghanistan like a virtuoso and to her greatest advantage, and was furious when Hastings appeared to be threatening it. Perhaps there was a bit of an identity crisis, too, as she seemed to forget who she was working for when &lt;a href="http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Lara-Logan-On-CNNs-Reliable-Sou" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;she said to CNN&lt;/a&gt;: “Michael Hastings has never served his country the way Gen. McChrystal has.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Hastings seems to have recovered from what was a rather pissy circling of the wagons by some (not all) of his colleagues, whom he consigns to the “Media-Military-Industrial Complex” chapter in his book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“A number of famous journalists would say they heard these kinds of things all the time, but never reported them … it didn’t seem to make a difference that I hadn’t violated any agreement with McChrystal. The unwritten rule I’d broken was a simple one: You really weren’t supposed to write honestly about people in power.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Before Christmas, &lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt; columnist David Ignatius — a true company man if there ever was one — was talking foreign policy on &lt;i&gt;National Public Radio’s&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-12-16/friday-news-roundup-international/transcript" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Diane Rehm show&lt;/a&gt;. The topic: the U.S. pull-out from Iraq and how the war had been waged on false pretenses from the beginning. I almost ran off the road in my car when I heard this part of the exchange:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; quotes: ''; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Rehm&lt;/b&gt;: David, I’m going to ask you an unpleasant question. Do you think that journalists were complicit in promoting the idea that war in Iraq was inevitable?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Ignatius:&lt;/b&gt; Let me speak about my own work rather than talk about the profession as a whole. As I look back, there are no columns I’ve ever written that I’d more like to revise in light of what I know now than the ones I wrote then… And I think everybody in our profession looks back and I hope learned lessons from that, to ask more questions, just to insist on getting the evidence for things that are so consequential for the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Rehm:&lt;/b&gt; I, for one, feel very disappointed in our profession that we did not ask the questions that should have been asked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Speak for yourself guys. There were plenty of people in “our profession,” at the risk of public scorn and career marginalization, who “questioned.” You and your friends merely refused to listen, perhaps out of some uncomfortable fear you’d hear your old journalistic integrity knocking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Michael Hastings questioned too, by writing &lt;i&gt;Runaway General, &lt;/i&gt;not the way everyone wanted, but according to the way his time in McChrystal’s world “actually happened” — which also included a damning vignette in which U.S. infantry soldiers in Afghanistan tell McChrystal to his face that the new rules of engagement under the heralded COIN (counterinsurgency) doctrine had left them confused and feeling vulnerable on the battlefield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;This brings us right back to the word “sadness.” Aside from the stunning display of Team America’s misjudgment and crass behavior, aside from McChrystal’s ballsy disregard for his civilian colleagues and leaders, aside from the fact that everyone seemed to be having too much fun waging the war (except for those poor bone-weary troops outside the wire), there is really nothing truly ground-breaking in Hastings’ reporting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In fact, he strings a lot of old news stories and investigations together to build the historical narrative, burnishing them with a number of heretofore buried government reports and surveys about the progress (mainly lack thereof) in Afghanistan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;But what the narrative underscores in a fresh way, is just how little faith our military and civilian leaders had in our ultimate success in the mission. Yet they kept those instincts, those ever-gathering red flags, away from the American public, ostensibly because their politics and myriad self-interests required that the Afghan “surge” in 2010 must go on as planned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The story begins with Gen. David McKiernan, who in 2009 thinks “the trend lines aren’t great,” and is “skeptical on Afghanistan,” but he asks newly-elected President Obama for more troops anyway, according to Hastings. But it’s not as many as “the golden boys” Petraeus and McChrystal want in order to transfer their COIN doctrine from Iraq to Afghanistan. After 37 years and no major screw-ups, McKiernan is summarily fired by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in May 2009 to make way for McChrystal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;It’s McChrystal’s war now and he knows it. He gathers his think tank friends and friendly scholars to assess the situation and they produce what he wants: a recommendation for 40,000 more troops. He gets 30,000. He surges into Helmand and Kandahar provinces in 2010, including a march into Marjah that he later calls “a bleeding ulcer.” He tells Hastings the success of Afghanistan is “questionable,” while his Team and everyone Hastings talks to seem to pepper their upbeat talk with more uncertainty and cynicism by the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;By the end of the book, Petraeus, “who keeps spinning progress, despite the fact that violence keeps going up,” quits the war in July 2011. Military experts say, “&lt;a href="http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/16/coin_is_dead_long_live_the_coin" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;COIN is dead&lt;/a&gt;.” “Petraeus hates Afghanistan,” an Afghan official tells Hastings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Nevertheless, “by all accounts, Petraeus has exited gracefully,” Hastings adds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;There is no such graceful exit for the U.S. from Afghanistan. This may be a cathartic end to Hastings’ experience, but so far, no end to the story. &lt;i&gt;The Operators&lt;/i&gt; is sadly familiar: a million film plots of mortal men who flew too high and came down with a crash. The rest — Afghanistan, scarred by war but still standing while its brutal terrain grinds general upon general, diplomat after diplomat, into pieces — is just plain sad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;i&gt;Twitter Vlahos &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/KelleyBVlahos" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;@KelleyBVlahos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/01/16/the-operators/"&gt;http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/01/16/the-operators/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-8365929690385772799?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8365929690385772799/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/michael-hastings-vs-team-america.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8365929690385772799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8365929690385772799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/michael-hastings-vs-team-america.html' title='Michael Hastings vs. Team America'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-3270462984931827299</id><published>2012-01-17T15:35:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T15:42:27.922+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='document'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>The Enemy Expatriation Act, no different than the Nazi Nuremberg Laws (H.R. 3166; S. 1698)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-McjVpsux7_Q/TxWH7VeHhHI/AAAAAAAAEjM/tDu2X3aKRvg/s1600/AdolfHitlerAdolfObama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-McjVpsux7_Q/TxWH7VeHhHI/AAAAAAAAEjM/tDu2X3aKRvg/s400/AdolfHitlerAdolfObama.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698610356952728690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span  &gt;January 14, 2012 by Brian D. Hill   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;The Enemy Expatriation Act (H.R. 3166; S. 1698), an act that the U.S. Congress is now considering, that will allow the U.S. Government to take away citizenship of anybody that is considered a hostile enemy or supporting hostility towards the U.S. Government, is similar to the Nazi Factions Nuremberg laws where Adolf Hitler took away Germans citizenship based on race, bloodtypes, and those against the Hitler regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“If the Enemy Expatriation Act passes in its current form, the legislation will let the government strike away citizenship for anyone engaged in hostilities, or supporting hostilities, against the United States” in a news article by &lt;a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/expatriation-act-citizenship-ndaa-737/" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;RussiaToday&lt;/a&gt; News.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The United States Government is actively passing laws mirroring the Nazi regime before they started killing anybody who was Jewish, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Politically against the Nazis or even Hitler himself, and attacked those that helped Jews and other political fugitives escape or hide in Nazi Germany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Chuck Baldwin posted on &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/first-ndaa-now-enemy-expatriation-act/" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Infowars&lt;/a&gt; that the “Congress is considering HR 3166 and S. 1698 also known as the Enemy Expatriation Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Charles Dent (R-PA). This bill would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of being ‘hostile’ against the United States. In other words, you can be stripped of your nationality for ‘engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States.’ Legally, the term ‘hostilities’ means any conflict subject to the laws of war but considering the fact that the War on Terror is a little ambiguous and encompassing, any action could be labeled as supporting terrorism.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Nuremberg Laws&lt;/a&gt; were established in 1935 were &lt;a title="Antisemitism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;antisemitic&lt;/a&gt; laws in &lt;a title="Nazi Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Nazi Germany&lt;/a&gt; introduced at the annual &lt;a title="Nuremberg Rally" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Nuremberg Rally&lt;/a&gt;of the &lt;a title="Nazi Party" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Nazi Party&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;Despite whether you are pro semitic or antisemitic, it is a very good idea to pay attention to the passing of the Enemy Expatriation Act&lt;/span&gt;, because Hitler first passed laws to get rid of certain Germans citizenship due to certain races and those against Hitler’s eugenics philosophies, right before he sent them to the Concentration camps aka death camps since the laws took away their citizenship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;So all the U.S. Pentagon, Northcom, the White House, the Capitol, or any agency in the U.S. government has to do is put out propaganda against certain races (bloodtypes), political groups, religions, and individual beliefs and any U.S. citizen that meets the attack propaganda quotas &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;will instantly lose their citizenship&lt;/span&gt;, be secret arrested and detained without a court trial under the&lt;a href="http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=4382" style="color: rgb(169, 27, 51); text-decoration: none; "&gt;NDAA&lt;/a&gt;, and then sent to death camps to be exterminated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Your probably wondering why U.S. citizens that lose their citizenship will be exterminated by their Government? Because as hundreds of natural born U.S. Citizens lose their citizenship in America and in the event no country will accept deportation of U.S. Citizens, the U.S. government will encourage death since there will be no way the taxpayers would want to pay loads of tax payers money to pay for hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens given illegal status and lose their citizenship status plus having no country to be deported to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;This will pave the way for the death camps in America to kill those that lose their U.S. citizenship to keep the budget deficit good, and also in cases where no foreign country will grant deporting Americans that lost their citizenship status to their country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The Enemy Expatriation Act is no different then the Nuremberg laws because they both took away natural citizenship of citizens due to meeting certain racial and political criteria that was considered a threat to the Nazi regime or in this case the establishment in America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The suspension of rights and then citizenship is what happened in Nazi Germany. Be aware this is now happening here in the good ole United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://uswgo.com/the-enemy-expatriation-act-no-different-then-the-nazi-nuremberg-laws-h.r.-3166-s.-1698.htm" style="text-align: left; "&gt;http://uswgo.com/the-enemy-expatriation-act-no-different-then-the-nazi-nuremberg-laws-h.r.-3166-s.-1698.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-3270462984931827299?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3270462984931827299/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/enemy-expatriation-act-no-different.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3270462984931827299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/3270462984931827299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/enemy-expatriation-act-no-different.html' title='The Enemy Expatriation Act, no different than the Nazi Nuremberg Laws (H.R. 3166; 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outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Mac Slavo&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Prisonplanet.com&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;January 17, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Well known economist, trend forecaster and &lt;a href="http://new.gloomboomdoom.com/portalgbd/homegbd.cfm" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Gloom, Boom and Doom&lt;/a&gt; Report publisher&lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/category/marc-faber" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Dr. Marc Faber&lt;/a&gt; joined some of the world’s leading investment minds at the &lt;a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/barrons_cover.html#articleTabs_article%3D0" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Barron’s 2012 Roundtable&lt;/a&gt; to discuss what’s in store for 2012 and beyond with respect to the economy, inflation, political stability and a host of other issues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;As is generally the case, Dr. Faber doesn’t mince words and warns that, despite what happens in the near term, the end game is global conflict.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.25em; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Excerpted from &lt;a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/barrons_cover.html#articleTabs_article%3D0" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Barron’s 2012 Roundtable&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://sgtreport.com/" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;SGT Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Marc Faber:&lt;/strong&gt; On another optimistic note, World War III will occur in the next five years. That means the Middle East will blow up. New regimes there will be less Western-friendly. The West has also figured out it can’t contain China, which is rising rapidly and will have more military and naval power in Southeast Asia. The only way for the West to contain China is to control the oil tap in the Middle East.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Bill Gross (Founder, Pimco)&lt;/strong&gt;: How does your World War III hypothesis affect the financial markets? Is it positive for stocks?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Marc Faber&lt;/strong&gt;: It is very positive for stocks and negative for bonds, because debt will grow dramatically. There will be massive monetization of debt. When the U.S. entered World War II total credit equaled 140% of GDP, and there were no unfunded liabilities. Now total credit-market debt is 380% of GDP, and unfunded liabilities make that 800%.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Brian Rogers (Chairman, T. Rowe Price)&lt;/strong&gt;: How is World War III good for stocks?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Felix Zulauf (Zulauf Asset Management)&lt;/strong&gt;: Unused capacity in an economy can be directed to the defense and war industry. That will be paid for by new government debt, and that keeps the economy growing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Scott Black (President, Delphi)&lt;/strong&gt;: Marc, if Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities, they will use air power. They aren’t going to commit ground troops. It won’t be the kind of conflagration you’re thinking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Bill Gross&lt;/strong&gt;: War takes place today in cyberspace and in terrorist space. Whether or not there will be a land war isn’t the question.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Dr. Faber has also expressed his views on prior occasions, suggesting that World War III is an inevitable outcome when nations begin to default on trillions of dollars worth of debt (whether by refusing to pay or simply easing their monetary supply).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/marc-faber/marc-faber-protect-your-property-with-high-voltage-fences-barbed-wire-booby-traps-military-weapons-and-dobermans_08082010" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;August of 2010&lt;/a&gt; Faber urged his subscribers to begin making preparations for worst case scenarios:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.25em; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In his latest GBD Report, Faber again advises those with the means to do it, to leave urban areas and seek safety in rural, country areas, preferably farms, and to be prepared to defend that land in the event the worst happens:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Faber has an interesting suggestion for investors if the plunge comes to pass.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;With tongue apparently in cheek, he says buy a farm you can tend to yourself way out in the boondocks. And protect it with high voltage fences, barbed wire, booby traps, military weapons and Dobermans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;While several members of the Roundtable disagree with the idea that a conventional global war is out of the question, suggesting instead that conflicts will be dealt with through air superiority and in cyberspace (in itself a potentially catastrophic battlefield for modern civilization), they are ignoring the real possibility that an attack on Iran, or even a rogue attack against Europe or the United States, could escalate to such a level that &lt;a href="http://sgtreport.com/2012/01/jim-willie-interview-with-tekoa-da-silva/" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;China&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.thedailysheeple.com/russia-attack-on-tehran-is-attack-on-moscow_012012" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Russia would&lt;/a&gt; have no choice but to get involved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;While hard to believe, we’ve seen it before. Twice just in the last century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Not many people would have believed it prior to 1914 either. But within just a few short months of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in late June of that year, millions were dead and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Sea" target="_blank" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Western front&lt;/a&gt; had extended hundreds of miles across Europe to the North Sea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Events played out with similar velocity in World War II when Adolf Hitler’s aptly named Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) overtook entire nations in a matter of days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;It only takes one country, one sociopathic leader with his finger on the button, to get the ball rolling. Then there is no stopping it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Mac Slavo is the editor and writer at &lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/marc-faber/doctor-doom-warns-world-war-iii-will-occur-in-the-next-five-years_01172012" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;SHTFPlan.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C2xxA0Qcqio/TxV-_4R76QI/AAAAAAAAEjA/qNuuAAVwBRU/s400/fluoride_water_main_600_1_.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698600539411704066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Anthony Gucciardi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Prisonplanet.com&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;January 17, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;the leading cause of death worldwide&lt;/strong&gt;. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;stimulates the hardening of your arteries&lt;/strong&gt;, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is &lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;highly correlated&lt;/em&gt;with the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/your-drinking-water-may-be-lowering-your-iq-giving-you-cancer/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;linking it to decreased IQ&lt;/a&gt; and infertility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a &lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;significant correlation&lt;/em&gt; between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, &lt;a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/there-association-vascular-fluoride-uptake-vascular-calcification-and-coronary-artery-diseas" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;the research&lt;/a&gt; highlights the fact that &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic&lt;/strong&gt; that takes &lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;more lives each year than cancer&lt;/em&gt;. In 2008, cardiovascular &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;killed 17 million people&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;According to the authors of the study:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.25em; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation, however the United States government along with other nations have allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/water-fluoridation-war-government-admit-dangers-experts-speak-ou/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;U.S. government has even gone on record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected &lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children&lt;/em&gt;. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems&lt;/strong&gt;. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;only 8% of fluoridated children did the same&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In fact, the &lt;a href="http://www.cbwinfo.com/Chemical/Precursors/p42.html" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;safety precautions regarding sodium fluoride&lt;/a&gt; are quite telling themselves:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.25em; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Risk and Safety Phrases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;blockquote style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1.25em; "&gt;&lt;ul style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;ul style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;ul style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;R25 – Toxic if swallowed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;R32 – Contact with acid liberates very toxic gas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;R36/38 – Irritating to skin and eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;S1/2 – Keep locked up and out of reach of children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;S22 – Do not breathe dust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;S36 – Wear suitable protective clothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;S45 - In case of accident or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately (show the label whenever possible.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;But what about cavity prevention?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nations drinking water. Toted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;does nothing&lt;/strong&gt; to prevent &lt;a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ontario-fluoride-may-make-minor-difference/article1535873/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;against cavities&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, &lt;a title="vitamin D" href="http://naturalsociety.com/the-powers-of-vitamin-d/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;vitamin D&lt;/a&gt; has been found to be &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/vitamin-d-better-than-fluoride-at-cavity-prevention/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;significantly more effective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride &lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;was &lt;/em&gt;found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;This article first appeared at &lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/breaking-fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in-new-research/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;NaturalSociety.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in-new-research.html"&gt;http://www.prisonplanet.com/fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in-new-research.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-9192551539197530819?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/9192551539197530819/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/9192551539197530819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/9192551539197530819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in.html' title='Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C2xxA0Qcqio/TxV-_4R76QI/AAAAAAAAEjA/qNuuAAVwBRU/s72-c/fluoride_water_main_600_1_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-1721234086828361521</id><published>2012-01-17T14:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T14:53:39.124+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>Israele-Palestina, chiusa Kol Ha-Shalom, la radio della pace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zerh8hjfOfw/TxV9W6J30YI/AAAAAAAAEi0/wwUZr_Un0ls/s1600/60244.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 257px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zerh8hjfOfw/TxV9W6J30YI/AAAAAAAAEi0/wwUZr_Un0ls/s400/60244.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698598736028488066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;21/11/2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;i&gt;Il governo cede alle pressioni della destra: 'trasmetteva contenuti anti-israeliani'&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;La polizia israeliana ha chiuso a Gerusalemme gli studi di una piccola emittente israelo-palestinese,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;'Kol ha-Shalom'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; (la voce della pace). Lo ha reso noto il suo direttore, Ran Adelist. L'emittente, che trasmette sia sulla modulazione di frequenza sia via internet, è nata alcuni anni fa su iniziativa di una organizzazione di Ramallah (Biladi) e di un kibbutz israeliano (Ghivat Haviva). La sua chiusura &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;era stata invocata mesi fa da un deputato del Likud&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;, Dany Danon, secondo cui la radio diffonde. "La nostra chiusura è solo un tassello di una tendenza crescente da parte del governo israeliano di mettere a tacere le voci indipendenti", ha sostenuto Adelist. Oggi intanto a Tel Aviv si terrà una "Riunione di emergenza per salvare i mass media" indetta da giornalisti dei principali mezzi di comunicazione, che denunciano crescenti ingerenze del governo nelle loro attività. Le autorità israeliane sostenevano che l'emittente era una radio pirata perché operava senza permessi. I responsabili di Kol haShalom sostengono di possedere una licenza dall'Autorità palestinese, e che &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Israele non ha mai chiesto loro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;, in sette anni di rapporti con il ministero delle Comunicazioni, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;un permesso per la radiodiffusione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;. Gli uffici sono a Gerusalemme Est, ma la radio trasmette da Ramallah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.peacereporter.net/articolo/31690/Israele-Palestina,+chiusa+Kol+Ha-Shalom,+la+radio+della+pace"&gt;http://it.peacereporter.net/articolo/31690/Israele-Palestina,+chiusa+Kol+Ha-Shalom,+la+radio+della+pace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-1721234086828361521?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/1721234086828361521/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/israele-palestina-chiusa-kol-ha-shalom.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1721234086828361521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1721234086828361521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/israele-palestina-chiusa-kol-ha-shalom.html' title='Israele-Palestina, chiusa Kol Ha-Shalom, la radio della pace'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zerh8hjfOfw/TxV9W6J30YI/AAAAAAAAEi0/wwUZr_Un0ls/s72-c/60244.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-5811302160944301365</id><published>2012-01-17T14:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T14:50:43.732+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>Il “razzismo” della Corte suprema israeliana</title><content type='html'>&lt;span  &gt;13/01/2012 15:12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="autore" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;di Joshua Lapide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span class="sottotitolo" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Palestinesi che si sposano con un israeliano non possono godere della cittadinanza. Per i conservatori questo salva Israele dal “suicidio demografico”, ma per attivisti e liberali la decisione della corte è una discesa “verso l’apartheid”.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asianews.it/files/img/PALESTINE_-_palestinian_family.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.asianews.it/files/img/size2/PALESTINE_-_palestinian_family.jpg" alt="" border="0" align="left" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="articolo_inside" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Gerusalemme (AsiaNews) – Gruppi per i diritti umani e blogger danno pesanti giudizi di “razzismo” e di incostituzionalità alla decisione della Corte suprema israeliana di vietare la cittadinanza israeliana a palestinesi che sposano un/una israeliana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La sentenza della Corte, che conferma una legge del 2003, è stata diffusa nella serata dell’11 gennaio ed è passata per 6 voti contro 5. Uno dei giudici a favore, Asher Grunis ha difeso la scelta dicendo che “i diritti umani non prescrivono il suicidio nazionale”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La legge era passata in origine come legge di emergenza e vietava a palestinesi sposati con partner israeliano di ricevere la cittadinanza e la residenza permanente nello Stato. I motivi erano dettati dalla sicurezza: in quel periodo vi erano stati attacchi terroristi compiuti da palestinesi entrati in Israele,provenienti dai Territori occupati e aiutati nel loro compito da palestinesi israeliani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La legge ha continuato ad essere applicata con qualche emendamento: nel 2005, per esempio, si è dato il permesso a donne sopra i 25 anni e uomini sopra i 35 anni di risiedere in modo temporaneo in Israele, ma sempre escludendo l’acquisizione della cittadinanza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel 2007 il divieto è stato ampliato per abbracciare anche persone che provengono da Iran, Iraq, Siria e Libano. In seguito si è cercato di fare qualche eccezione, visto che molto raramente spose palestinesi sono divenute terroriste. Lo scorso anno sono state approvate 33 eccezioni su oltre 3mila richieste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attivisti per i diritti umani accusano come “razzista” questa legge perché in pratica costringerebbe qualunque israeliano di origine palestinese a dover emigrare in caso egli voglia sposare una palestinese dei Territori o di Gaza, o a dover vivere lontano dalla sua sposa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondo i politici conservatori, la legge salva gli israeliani dal “suicido demografico”: se si concede alle donne palestinesi di diventare cittadine israeliane, in poco tempo l’equilibrio fra le due comunità verrebbe squilibrato a favore dell’etnia palestinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La legge è comunque molto controversa. Lo stesso presidente della Corte suprema, Dorit Beinisch, contrario alla legge, afferma che la libertà di sposarsi e il diritto di una famiglia è alla base dei principi democratici.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un editoriale di Haaretz pubblicato oggi ricorda che nel 2006 la stessa legge venne considerata “incostituzionale”, con un voto della Corte suprema di 6 a 5. Oggi, con la stessa votazione (6 a 5) essa viene considerata “costituzionale. Secondo il giornale, questa legge mette lo Stato di Israele “sulla china dell’apartheid”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span class="articolo_inside" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span class="articolo_inside" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.asianews.it"&gt;AsiaNews.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span class="articolo_inside" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Il-%E2%80%9Crazzismo%E2%80%9D-della-Corte-suprema-israeliana-23691.html"&gt;http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Il-%E2%80%9Crazzismo%E2%80%9D-della-Corte-suprema-israeliana-23691.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-5811302160944301365?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5811302160944301365/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/il-razzismo-della-corte-suprema.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5811302160944301365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5811302160944301365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/il-razzismo-della-corte-suprema.html' title='Il “razzismo” della Corte suprema israeliana'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-3003725446948438300</id><published>2012-01-17T13:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T13:33:21.725+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Kiran Bedi: Un capo della polizia con una differenza</title><content type='html'>Kiran Bedi ha uno straordinario curriculum. Prima di diventare Direttore Generale del Servizio di Polizia Indiano, ha diretto una delle prigioni più violente del paese - e ha dato nuova centralità alla prevenzione e all'educazione al fine di trasformarla in un centro di apprendimento e meditazione. 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Gets Resounding "Yes!"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IsVWvwbQqXU/TxVe2xVW9kI/AAAAAAAAEic/2im3md4jLUU/s1600/22Times-articleInline.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 342px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IsVWvwbQqXU/TxVe2xVW9kI/AAAAAAAAEic/2im3md4jLUU/s400/22Times-articleInline.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698565198556100162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "&gt;Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane's question on reporters' duty to challenge misleading political speech has permanently altered readers' expectations.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;By Clay Shirky, Comment Is Free&lt;br /&gt;Posted on January 15, 2012, Printed on January 17, 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt; &lt;a href="http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/should-the-times-be-a-truth-vigilante/"&gt;Arthur Brisbane, the public editor of the New York Times, went to his readers with a question&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"I'm looking for reader input on whether and when &lt;a title="More from guardian.co.uk on New York Times" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/new-york-times"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt; news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write about."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;Brisbane (who, as public editor, speaks only for himself, not the Times) referred to two recent stories: the claim that Clarence Thomas had "misunderstood" a financial reporting form when he left out key information, and Mitt Romney's assertion that President Obama gives speeches "apologising" for America. Brisbane asked whether news reporters should have the freedom to investigate and respond to those comments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;The reaction from readers was swift, voluminous, negative and incredulous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"Is this a joke? THIS IS YOUR JOB."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"If the purpose of the NYT is to be an inoffensive container for ad copy, then by all means continue to do nothing more than paraphrase those press releases."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"I hope you can help me, Mr Brisbane, because I'm an editor, currently unemployed: is fecklessness now a job requirement?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;Brisbane had clearly not been expecting this excoriating and one-sided a reaction. Brisbane has since tried to clarify his views twice. The first was &lt;a href="http://jimromenesko.com/2012/01/12/nyt-public-editor-on-reaction-to-truth-vigilante-post/"&gt;on the media blog JimRomenesko.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"What I was trying to ask was whether reporters should always rebut dubious facts in the body of the stories they are writing. I was hoping for diverse and even nuanced responses to what I think is a difficult question."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;The second was &lt;a href="http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/update-to-my-previous-post-on-truth-vigilantes/"&gt;on the NY Times site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"My inquiry related to whether the Times, in the text of news columns, should more aggressively rebut 'facts' that are offered by newsmakers when those 'facts' are in question. I consider this a difficult question, not an obvious one."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;This only added fuel to the fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard question at all, considered from the &lt;em&gt;readers'&lt;/em&gt; perspective. Readers do not care about the epistemological differences between lies and weasel words; we want &lt;a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Newspapers" s="" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/newspapers"&gt;newspapers&lt;/a&gt; to limit the ability of politicians to make dubious assertions without penalty. Judging from the reactions to his post, most of us never understood that this &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; the newspapers' self-conceived mission in the first place.Now, it's worth noting that Brisbane's question makes perfect sense, considered from the newsroom's perspective. Romney's claim that Obama makes speeches "apologising" for America isn't readily amenable to fact-checking. Instead, Romney relied on what are sometimes called "weasel words", in which an allegation is alluded to, without being made head-on. (Romney, for instance, never quotes any of the president's speeches when making this assertion.) For Brisbane, the open question was whether a hard news reporter should be calling out those kinds of statements, or should simply quote the source accurately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;If the Times were to commit itself to challenging deliberately vague political language, it would have to express skepticism about some huge percentage of utterances made by public figures. Newspapers, at least in their US configuration, are simply not in the business of broadcasting skepticism about mainstream political speech.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;This is partly because centrist publications enjoy more uniform access to politicians than partisan ones (even if the partisanship is simply an intolerance for hogwash). It's also because treating readers as political participants rather than spectators would be frowned on by advertisers, for whom the relative neutrality of the mainstream press is a prized part of that platform's value.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;The immediate fallout from Brisbane's question will be minor – no paper in the &lt;a title="More from guardian.co.uk on United States" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;, not even the Times (&lt;a href="http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/update-to-my-previous-post-on-truth-vigilantes/"&gt;as its editor partially concedes&lt;/a&gt;), has enough staff to express continuous skepticism about political speech – but there may yet be a lasting effect to be reckoned with. Having asked, in a completely innocent way, whether the Times should behave like an advocate for the readers, rather than a stenographer to politicians, the question cannot now be unasked. Every day in which the Times (and indeed, most US papers) fail at what has clearly surfaced as their readers' preference on the matter will be a day in which that gap remains uncomfortably visible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span   &gt;© 2012 Comment Is Free All rights reserved.&lt;br /&gt;View this story online at: &lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/153778/"&gt;http://www.alternet.org/story/153778/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-5741282320029914223?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5741282320029914223/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-york-times-public-editor-asks.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5741282320029914223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5741282320029914223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-york-times-public-editor-asks.html' title='New York Times Public Editor Asks Whether Paper Should Fact-Check Politicians; Gets Resounding &quot;Yes!&quot;'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IsVWvwbQqXU/TxVe2xVW9kI/AAAAAAAAEic/2im3md4jLUU/s72-c/22Times-articleInline.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-6218492204815617037</id><published>2012-01-17T12:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T12:29:43.279+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Invasion ‘Within Months’</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; line-height: 1.25; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Military Eyes 'Similar Model' to 2008 Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gaza.gif" alt="" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jerusalem Post reports today that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=253916" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Israel’s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a “large scale” invasion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt; of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months.&lt;/span&gt;by Jason Ditz, January 16, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/2011/12/27/in-telethon-israeli-military-chief-pushes-new-gaza-invasion/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;repeatedly pressed for an invasion of the Gaza Strip over the past few months, while trumpeting the late 2008 invasion as a “great success.&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Officials today indicated that the next invasion would be very much on the same model as 2008, which saw massive Palestinian civilian casualties and destruction of considerable civilian infrastructure, much of which remains unrepaired as an Israeli blockade has prevented construction materials from being imported.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;The exact timing of the invasion will also be tricky, as Israel will of course rely on the US to run interference in the UN when the ugliest aspects of the war begin to trickle out. The last invasion came after the 2008 US Presidential election but was virtually wrapped up before President Obama took office. It may be that Israel will try a similar strategy of starting the war after the vote in an effort to keep it from being a political issue in the US.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive-gaza-invasion-within-months/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive-gaza-invasion-within-months/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-6218492204815617037?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6218492204815617037/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6218492204815617037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6218492204815617037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/israeli-military-prepares-for-massive.html' title='Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Invasion ‘Within Months’'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-4376561692352006200</id><published>2012-01-17T12:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T12:31:33.840+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Iran Reports Arrests in Nuclear Scientist Murder</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/iran.gif" alt="" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sunday Times&lt;/i&gt; Says Mossad Behind Killing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(120, 120, 120); "&gt;by Jason Ditz, January 16, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Speaking today on Iranian television, Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani announced that Iran has arrested several suspects &lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4176322,00.html" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;over the assassination of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Rohsan&lt;/a&gt; last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;“Investigation is underway to identify the terrorists and details about the assassination,” Larijani added. Iranian officials have blamed the United States and Israel for the killing, terming it “state-sponsored terrorism.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;And indeed, the British Sunday Times has also reported the&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/sunday-times-mossad-agents-behind-iran-scientist-assasination-1.407593" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Israeli Mossad were behind the killing, citing “unnamed Israeli sources” who argued that the assassination&lt;/a&gt; was a prelude to a military attack, saying Israel was hoping to ensure Iran could not rebuild the nuclear sites the war would destroy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;A number of US presidential candidates have praised the assassination as well, expressing hope that the United States was involved in the killing and promising more such killings if elected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/iran-reports-arrests-in-nuclear-scientist-murder/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/iran-reports-arrests-in-nuclear-scientist-murder/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-4376561692352006200?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/4376561692352006200/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-reports-arrests-in-nuclear.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4376561692352006200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4376561692352006200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-reports-arrests-in-nuclear.html' title='Iran Reports Arrests in Nuclear Scientist Murder'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-1255903378131718190</id><published>2012-01-17T12:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T12:24:24.103+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>NATO: Afghanistan Will Need ‘Decades’ of Additional Support</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Afghans Expected to Need $7 Billion Annually Just for Military&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;by Jason Ditz, January 16, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Top NATO official Sir Simon Gass indicated today the alliance plans a more or less open-ended commitment to &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistan-will-need-years-of-help-6290692.html" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;funding the Karzai government, saying he believed the nation will require “decades” of support beyond 2014&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/af-map1-e1314724177458.gif" alt="" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Sir Simon insisted that NATO would have to learn the mistake from the failed Soviet occupation — apparently not the “don’t occupy Afghanistan” mistake. Instead, he sees the mistake coming three years after the Soviet troops left, when they withdrew funding from the Najibullah regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;And there appears to be no chance of that happening here, with the Karzai government expected to be on the dole more or less forever, &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/us-usa-afghanistan-troops-idUSTRE80F19Z20120116" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(237, 139, 0); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;needing $7 billion annually in foreign funding just to prop up their military&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;That funding is going to come in part from NATO, but the vast majority of it will be coming directly from the US, where the Obama Administration seems to have no problem pressing for an occupation through at least 2024. US Officials have argued throwing massive funding at the Afghan military annually is not only sound policy but is America’s “long-term solution” to the war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/nato-afghanistan-will-need-decades-of-additional-support/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/16/nato-afghanistan-will-need-decades-of-additional-support/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-1255903378131718190?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/1255903378131718190/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/nato-afghanistan-will-need-decades-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1255903378131718190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/1255903378131718190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/nato-afghanistan-will-need-decades-of.html' title='NATO: Afghanistan Will Need ‘Decades’ of Additional Support'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-6540808493061871547</id><published>2012-01-17T12:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T12:03:54.802+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luogocomune.net'/><title type='text'>La NASA "scopre" la fusione fredda?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Se un giorno il governo americano annunciasse di avere messo a punto una nuova tecnologia per produrre energia con una reazione nucleare pulita, si presume che la notizia uscirebbe su tutte le prime pagine del mondo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Finchè sono due “emeriti sconosciuti” come Rossi e Focardi a fare un annuncio del genere, si può anche comprendere che fatichino ad ottenere l’attenzione dei grandi media, ma le stesse affermazioni fatte dalla NASA avrebbero un peso ben diverso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Eppure questo annuncio, fatto quasi in sordina dall’ingegnere della NASA Jozeph Zawodny, è passato del tutto inosservato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MApCq04lwJI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Sembra quasi che termini come “polaritoni plasmonici di superficie” siano stati messi lì apposta per confondere le idee, ma il titolo stesso del video parla chiaramente di “reazione nucleare a bassa energia”, che è semplicemente il nome con cui è stata ribattezzata la “fusione fredda”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Gli stessi Rossi e Focardi commentano la notizia con un misto di entusiasmo e di rabbia malcelata,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; facendo chiaramente capire che siamo di fronte ad un caso di concorrenza commerciale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Rossi infatti si &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://e-catalyzer.it/e-catalyzer/lenr-concorrenza-tra-nasa-e-andrea-rossi" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;premura di affermare &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;che il suo “E-Cat avra’ la meglio su qualsiasi altra invenzione dovesse sopraggiungere. Senza mezzi termini Rossi sostiene che gli avversari che l’avevano tanto ridicolizzato in passato ora lo stanno copiando. Ma lui non si arrende certo, affermando che non smettera’ mai di credere nella validita’ del suo prodotto e che entro un anno comincera’ la consegna di milioni di pezzi da 50$/kw.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Pensate che ridere, se in qualche modo gli avessero rubato l’idea, e nel frattempo riuscissero a “screditare” il suo E-cat facendolo passare per una baracca che non serve a niente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Certo che Rossi ha il brevetto, certo che potrebbe fare causa alla NASA quando vuole. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Anche Nikola Testa aveva il brevetto per le sue apparecchiature, ma ci mise 40 anni per vedersene riconoscere la paternità. Nel frattempo lui era già morto e dimenticato, mentre la fama per aver inventato la radio era andata tutta a Guglielmo Marconi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Una volta scritti, i libri di storia non li cambia più nessuno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Massimo Mazzucco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/media/CC/lenr/lenr.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;video originale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; della NASA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;(Grazie a CNJ per la segnalazione)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3919"&gt;http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3919&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-6540808493061871547?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6540808493061871547/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-nasa-scopre-la-fusione-fredda.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6540808493061871547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6540808493061871547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-nasa-scopre-la-fusione-fredda.html' title='La NASA &quot;scopre&quot; la fusione fredda?'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/MApCq04lwJI/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-598947877801773118</id><published>2012-01-16T23:59:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T00:22:35.470+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='document'/><title type='text'>Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf"&gt;http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 1 ( Layers )&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7s9StxsFllY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 2 ( Optimizing )&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JT0Tpf1IhxA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 3 ( Short Form )&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9eJx7jsPV44?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator - Official Proof 4 ( OCR / Optimizing )&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nW_PWzhgvDs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-598947877801773118?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/598947877801773118/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-birth-certificate-faked-in-adobe.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/598947877801773118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/598947877801773118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-birth-certificate-faked-in-adobe.html' title='Obama Birth Certificate Faked In Adobe Illustrator'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/7s9StxsFllY/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-6154237066770746014</id><published>2012-01-16T23:07:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T23:39:08.469+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>Intervista alla ragazza olandese che scuoia gli animali</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Questo pomeriggio una mia amica mi ha fatto leggere un articolo dal titolo scioccante &lt;a href="http://www.notizie.it/uccide-cani-e-gatti-per-farne-opere-darte-la-legge-glielo-consente/"&gt;"Uccide cani e gatti per farne opere d’arte, la legge glielo consente".&lt;/a&gt; Incuriosita (ed anche un pò disgustata) mi leggo subito l'articolo che parla di una ragazza olandese che torturerebbe ed ucciderebbe gli animali tutelata dalle leggi crudeli del suo paese che permettono tutto questo. Avrei potuto fermarmi a quell'articolo, magari condividendolo su facebook accompagnato da un commento di indignazione come hanno fatto in tanti oggi; oppure avrei potuto limitarmi a chiudere la pagina e dimenticare &lt;i&gt;quella brutta storia. &lt;/i&gt;Invece no. Ho aperto google ed ho digitato "Katinka Simonse", il nome della ragazza, meglio conosciuta come "Tinkebell". Mi guardo qualche suo video su &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/looovetinkebell"&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt; e finisco anche sul suo &lt;a href="http://looovetinkebell.com/"&gt;sito&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n9Ery_ATSPY/TvJhxK5uVmI/AAAAAAAAAOI/ZuTr8zglmfA/s320/tink.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Leggo (e traduco) la sua presentazione sul sito:&lt;br /&gt;"Tinkebell provoca esemplificando i punti ciechi della società moderna. Si confronta con un pubblico che gode ad essere indignato per tutto ciò che non li riguarda, ma allo stesso tempo è molto dispiaciuto per le proprie azioni.Si chiede come mai milioni di pulcini maschi vengano brutalmente uccisi ogni giorno (spesso lanciandoli contro un muro) e lei viene arrestata per aver minacciato di fare lo stesso in pubblico.&lt;br /&gt;Perché le persone che discutono apertamente l'abbassamento dell'età del consenso sessuale vengono trattati come vili pedofili eppure i siti internet&lt;i&gt;'barely 18'&lt;/i&gt; (a mala pena diciottenni) sono più che popolari?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trasformando il suo gatto in una borsa, lei cerca di mostrare alla gente la loro ipocrisia circa l'uso di animali per la produzione e il consumo di pelle. Se non altro, le sue opere costituiscono un incentivo estremo per la discussionedella nostra morale e il modo in cui la società si sta sviluppando."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sempre più incuriosita decido di cliccare su "Contact/Info" e le invio una mail in cui le chiedo un'intervista. Nel giro di 5 minuti Katinka mi risponde accettando. Ed ecco le domande che le ho posto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fs_CXc7MQ1M/TvJpj_Rp-qI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/BPsV2DuZdcw/s320/IMG_4112+due.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Puoi spiegarci chi è Tinkebell?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tinkebell è l'alterego di Katinka Simonse ed è lo specchio della società occidentale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ho letto su diversi articoli in rete che tu avresti torturato ed ucciso più di cento animali, è vero?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. Non è vero.&lt;br /&gt;Quando uso pelli di animali (tassidermia, &lt;i&gt;ovvero la tecnica per la conservazione di animali morti, adottata per preservare nel tempo l’integrità dell’aspetto di un animale, bloccando i processi di decadimento e di decomposizione&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;nda&lt;/i&gt;) nel mio lavoro, uso sempre animali investiti o animali che sono morti di morte naturale. Unica eccezione per l'opera "il mio carissimo gatto Pinkeltje", quello era proprio il mio gatto.&lt;br /&gt;Capisco perché la gente salti subito alla conclusione che sia io aduccidere gli animali, perché questa è la norma della nostra società: quandoabbiamo bisogno di animali per i vestiti, accessori (e per cibarcene!) li uccidiamo.&lt;br /&gt;E non lo facciamo qualche volta, ma ogni singolo giorno, milioni e milioni ..Quindi quando si è abituati al fatto che la gente uccida animali di continuo, se si utilizzano parti di animali per il proprio piacere, io capisco perché si pensalo stesso di me.&lt;br /&gt;Questo è in realtà quello che volevo mostrare.&lt;br /&gt;Non trovi sia pazzesco incazzarsi per un gatto malato che ha avuto una buona vita soppresso umanamente e trasformato in una borsa, mentre si sta mangiando un hamburger (carne di animale allevato ed ucciso brutalmente, tra l'altro piena di antibiotici) seduto sul divano in pelle (stessa storia)?&lt;br /&gt;Penso che questa sia una domanda molto importante e credo davvero che la gente si dovrebbe porre certe domande poichè il farsele potrebbe portare ascelte diverse... scelte migliori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;E' legale in Olanda uccidere gli animali? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se sei proprietario di un animale hai il permesso di farlo, purchè tu lo faccia in un modo umano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Parliamo ora della sezione del sito "il suo nome è..." (&lt;a href="http://looovetinkebell.com/pages/projects/categories/her-name-is"&gt;"her name is..."&lt;/a&gt;). Hai camminato per le strade di Chicago, Los Angeles e Beijing trascinando per un guinzaglio un cagnolino morto. Immagino che quest'azione abbia scioccato parecchi passanti. Qualcuno ha provato a metterti le mani addosso? Oppure ti hanno semplicemente guardata in malo modo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. A Chicago un uomo mi ha rincorsa gridandomi "Signorina,signorina! Il suo cagnolino è appena morto!"&lt;br /&gt;A Los Angeles la gente mi diceva "Oh mio Dio, questa è una performance fantastica!!"&lt;br /&gt;A Beijing la gente era terrorizzata ma mi hanno lasciata passeggiare indisturbata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VLV0DDVGIjs/TvJz32UnIHI/AAAAAAAAAOY/SY75vSpzvng/s320/hernameissarahsmall.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Sul tuo sito leggiamo che "l'animale viene utilizzato come un oggetto:come parte di un individuo per la costruzione della sua immagine e del proprio ego, piuttosto che essere riconosciuto come un essere con bisogni e caratteristiche". Vuoi quindi fare la morale alla gente uccidendo gli animali?&lt;br /&gt;(NB: La domanda è stata fatta insieme alle altre, quindi non sapendo la risposta alla domanda numero 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, perché io non uccido gli animali. Anzi, io nemmeno mi vesto con animali e nemmeno li mangio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ho letto in un articolo italiano che "di solito i serial killer iniziano uccidendo animali"&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;Come rispondi a questa provocazione?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se questo articolo parla di me, credo che il giornalista dovrebbe imparare a leggere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Durante un'intervista dici che hai scritto il libro "Dearest Tinkebell" utilizzando solo l'1% delle mail piene di insulti che hai ricevuto.Suppongo quindi che avrai ricevuto milioni di messaggi contenenti minacce e cattiverie gratuite. Come reagisci a questa cosa?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non milioni. Ne ho ricevute circa 150.000. Comunque io nemmeno le leggo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Ext4STPZIs/TvJ9kD7_UPI/AAAAAAAAAOg/kalUVgzKWio/s320/Dearest_Tinkebel_%2528inside%2529_5_0.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Cos'è per te l'arte?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa è una domanda difficile perché ci sono troppe risposte.&lt;br /&gt;Per quanto mi riguarda, l'arte mi da la libertà di mostrare al mondo la vera natura delle persone. L'arte mi da la possibilità di fare ciò che reputo importante. Mostro le abitudini della popolazione occidentale e la loro mancanza di ragionamento circa le norme che usiamo quotidianamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qual è la tua opera d'arte preferita, e perchè?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non credo che tu debba guardare alle mie opere come delle "opere". Fanno tutte parte di un progetto più grande. Si completano tra di loro.&lt;br /&gt;Mi piace quando le cose cominciano a funzionare, quando danno il via ad un dibattito pubblico e a volte anche politico. Questo è ciò che l'arte può fare e ciò che dovrebbe fare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ti ringrazio molto per la tua disponibilità.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Grazie a te.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qW8yOCTXn4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Da questa breve intervista e da ciò che ho potuto leggere sul suo sito, Katinka Simonse non è la sadica ragazza che "detiene gli animali in condizioni disumane" come si evincerebbe da certi articoli e blog. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span&gt; Anzi, Katinka è attualmente impegnata in alcuni progetti per salvare degli animali randagi (come potete verificare &lt;a href="http://looovetinkebell.com/pages/the-home-of-ana-and-tinko-in-guinea-bissau"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://looovetinkebell.com/pages/save-the-world-at-mediamatic"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;, e &lt;a href="http://looovetinkebell.com/pages/the-gambian-streetdog"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Ovviamente ciò non toglie che la sua idea di arte sia più che discutibile e che spesso le sue "opere" siano di dubbio gusto.&lt;br /&gt;Ad ogni modo ho voluto condividere con la rete ciò che ho avuto modo di verificare, un pò per la mia conoscenza delle lingue e un pò per la mia curiosità e voglia di verificare ciò che leggo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Laura Caselli]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://lalternativaitalia.blogspot.com/2011/12/intervista-alla-ragazza-olandese-che.html"&gt;http://lalternativaitalia.blogspot.com/2011/12/intervista-alla-ragazza-olandese-che.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-6154237066770746014?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6154237066770746014/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/intervista-alla-ragazza-olandese-che.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6154237066770746014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6154237066770746014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/intervista-alla-ragazza-olandese-che.html' title='Intervista alla ragazza olandese che scuoia gli animali'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n9Ery_ATSPY/TvJhxK5uVmI/AAAAAAAAAOI/ZuTr8zglmfA/s72-c/tink.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-661187447762830851</id><published>2012-01-16T15:21:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T15:32:49.679+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Rivelazioni Di Un Sicario Dell'Economia</title><content type='html'>Le inquietanti rivelazioni di un "sicario dell'economia".&lt;br /&gt;Dietro al debito pubblico di molti stati, ci sono i poteri forti dell'economia e le grandi multinazionali, che hanno l'esclusivo interesse di accaparrarsi grosse fette di sovranità nazionale, grazie alle privatizzazioni ed alle ricche concessioni su cui riescono facilmente a mettere le mani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/chpcC-7Zkuw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Libri:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.minimumfax.com//libri/scheda_libro/469"&gt;Confessioni di un sicario dell’economia&lt;/a&gt; - John Perkins&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.minimumfax.com//libri/scheda_libro/362"&gt;La storia segreta dell’impero americano&lt;/a&gt; - John Perkins&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nuovimondi.info/Un-gioco-vecchio-come-il-mondo/"&gt;Un gioco vecchio come il mondo&lt;/a&gt; - Steven Hlatt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-661187447762830851?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/661187447762830851/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/rivelazioni-di-un-sicario-delleconomia.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/661187447762830851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/661187447762830851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/rivelazioni-di-un-sicario-delleconomia.html' title='Rivelazioni Di Un Sicario Dell&apos;Economia'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/chpcC-7Zkuw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-5040975069751470303</id><published>2012-01-16T15:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T15:19:29.535+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>US Backs Off Iran Attack?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Massive joint US-Israeli drill postponed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Paul Joseph Watson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Prison Planet.com&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Monday, January 16, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The United States has cancelled a joint military exercise with Israel in a move some analysts are saying could represent a reluctance to support an attack on Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="caption right" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.8em; float: right; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/25102009/2239341/1_wa.jpg" alt="US Backs Off Iran Attack? 1 wa" width="370" height="250" title="US Backs Off Iran Attack? Photo" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; " /&gt;&lt;br style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“Israel and the United States have postponed a massive joint defense exercise, which was expected to be carried out in the coming weeks, in order to avoid an escalation with Iran,”&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-and-u-s-postpone-massive-defense-drill-in-fear-of-escalation-with-iran-1.407466" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;reports Haaretz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Although the United States has already sent 9,000 troops to Israel, a move described as a “deployment” rather than an exercise by US Commander Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc, the Austere Challenge 12 drill, intended to be a wargame response to missiles fired by Iran, has now been postponed until the summer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The Obama administration cited “budgetary constraints” as the primary reason for delaying the exercise, although observers suggest the move could be explained by a number of different circumstances, including Washington’s anger at how last week’s assassination of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, all but admitted to have been the work of the Israeli Mossad, was conducted so brazenly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The postponement could signal that the US is backing off its support for an attack on Iran, but it could equally mean that the attack plans have already been finalized and that the drill was cancelled because it would have coincided with the actual start of hostilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;“Did the U.S. cancel them to show displeasure to Israel?” &lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/01/15/u-s-cancels-joint-missile-war-games-with-israel/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;asks Richard Silverstein&lt;/a&gt;. “And if so, why? Does Obama know something about Israeli intentions we don’t know? Are plans underway to strike Iran? Is Obama seeking to show his displeasure? Or is he trying to soothe Iran by not going through with a highly provocative military exercise which would’ve placed thousands of U.S. troops in the heart of Israel as a show of solidarity with Israel in its crusade against Iran?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The Israeli intelligence outfit &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21652/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;DebkaFile speculates&lt;/a&gt; that the postponement of the drill is another sign that Washington is concerned about the effect tensions in the region are having on oil prices, which would also explain why the &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-12/oil-rises-from-lowest-2012-level-on-nigerian-strike-and-iran.html" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;EU embargo on Iranian oil has also been delayed&lt;/a&gt; by six months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Whether or not the Obama administration has cooled its support for an attack on Iran, the US military is undoubtedly preparing for turmoil in the region, with &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/three-us-warships-to-patrol-waters-near-strait-of-hormuz.html" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;three US aircraft carriers now stationed&lt;/a&gt; just outside Iranian waters, in addition to 15,000 troops that were sent to Kuwait at the end of last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The naval build-up could also be because “the United States intends to beat Israel to the draw and attack Iran itself,” points out DebkaFile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Even if the Obama administration does not publicly back a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, it is highly unlikely to stand in the way of Israel. Once Iran retaliates, the US will then claim its interests are threatened and won’t hesitate to become embroiled in the conflict.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In addition, the US has made it clear that should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point, a “red line” will have been crossed. Iran is currently &lt;a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010171347" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;studying a letter&lt;/a&gt; sent by the US concerning the Strait. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said Iran “will respond if necessary.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey is &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-army-chief-heads-to-israel-as-fears-over-attack-on-iran-mount-1.407342" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;due to arrive in Israel on Thursday&lt;/a&gt; for talks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other senior defense and intelligence officials, a meeting at which the US will try to convince Israel to delay any attack until sanctions, which have already crippled the Iranian economy, are allowed to take full effect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;*********************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for &lt;a href="http://prisonplanet.com/" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "&gt;Prison Planet.com&lt;/a&gt;. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com"&gt;Prison Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-backs-off-iran-attack.html"&gt;http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-backs-off-iran-attack.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-5040975069751470303?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5040975069751470303/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-backs-off-iran-attack.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5040975069751470303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5040975069751470303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-backs-off-iran-attack.html' title='US Backs Off Iran Attack?'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-564585869509752558</id><published>2012-01-16T15:03:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T15:10:41.112+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>Andrew Spannaus a "Piazzapulita" de La7 sul Britannia, il Governo Monti e la fine dell'Euro 17 novembre 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;È andata in onda un'intervista con il Segretario di MoviSol Andrew Spannaus nel corso del programma "Piazzapulita" de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;La7&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; giovedì scorso, in cui ha potuto parlare della separazione delle funzioni bancarie, la svendita del patrimonio pubblico in Italia iniziata con l'incontro sul Britannia nel 1992, e la necessità di uscire dalla BCE e dall'euro, tra l'altro. Il servizio della giornalista Francesca Nava è stato girato al BlogEconomyDay II tenutosi a Castrocaro Terme il 12-13 Novembre, dove decine di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;blogger&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; economico-finanziari hanno discusso del fallimento dell'attuale sistema finanziario internazionale e della necessità di cambiamenti coraggiosi per evitare di finire come la Grecia o molto peggio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;In ossequio alle regole del &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;politically correct&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;, il conduttore Corrado Formigli ha presentato l'evento come un ritrovo di "complottisti", pur volendo chiaramente fare sentire gli interventi al pubblico televisivo e costringere i politici e i professori a misurarsi con le accuse fatte. Inoltre, nonostante le promesse in senso contrario, è stato tagliato ogni riferimento a MoviSol e Spannaus è stato presentato solo come blogger economico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Tuttavia, l'importanza dell'intervento è stato recepita dal pubblico e dagli ospiti in studio, alcuni dei quali hanno appoggiato quello che è stato detto, mentre altri hanno dovuto arrampicarsi sugli specchi per evitare di ammettere che Spannaus aveva ragione. Esemplare è il caso del Prof. Daveri della Bocconi, che ha voluto ridurre il concetto della legge Glass-Steagall alla sola "Volcker Rule", la proposta diluita appoggiata da Obama per evitare di discutere di un cambiamento vero del sistema della speculazione finanziaria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/THoYXCp7Hi0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.movisol.org/11video13.htm"&gt;http://www.movisol.org/11video13.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fKaO4BiAwOQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-564585869509752558?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/564585869509752558/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/andrew-spannaus-piazzapulita-de-la7-sul.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/564585869509752558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/564585869509752558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/andrew-spannaus-piazzapulita-de-la7-sul.html' title='Andrew Spannaus a &quot;Piazzapulita&quot; de La7 sul Britannia, il Governo Monti e la fine dell&apos;Euro 17 novembre 2011'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/THoYXCp7Hi0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-239789559255850185</id><published>2012-01-16T14:58:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T15:00:58.610+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>La censura nella lettera di Claudio Giudici al Financial Times</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_2kdpndnGc/TxQtN4yjGPI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/o267zYgq9W8/s1600/120106_Lettera_Giudici_FT.jpg"&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_2kdpndnGc/TxQtN4yjGPI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/o267zYgq9W8/s400/120106_Lettera_Giudici_FT.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698229145136470258" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;15 gennaio 2012 (MoviSol) - La &lt;a href="http://www.movisol.org/12news004.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; "&gt;lettera con cui Claudio Giudici risponde al&lt;i&gt;Financial Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; è pubblicata con un tocco &lt;i&gt;british&lt;/i&gt; di censura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.movisol.org/12video02.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Come Giudici ha ricordato nel suo intervento a «Servizio Pubblico» il 12 gennaio scorso&lt;/a&gt;, la &lt;i&gt;liberalità&lt;/i&gt; del quotidiano della City di Londra preferisce omettere i riferimenti al «Britannia» e alla qualità ontologica (essenziale) della coscienza individuale, "il mare dentro cui il fiume della verità trova sbocco".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Riportiamo in sequenza la lettera orginale, la sua traduzione inviata al quotidiano finanziario e il testo pubblicato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="blurb" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Il testo integrale in italiano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "&gt;&lt;p class="sub" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 51); font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Monti sarà sconfitto da democrazia, verità e coscienza, più che dai tassisti!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;p&gt;Egr. dott. Giugliano,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;per fortuna esiste ancora la democrazia!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quella che viene descritta come una fase di "resistenze" di un sistema di corporazioni, è più propriamente da intendere come l'appassionato tentativo di vere e proprie forze di resistenza democratica alla completa trasformazione dell'Italia da repubblica a oligarchia. Tassisti, farmacisti, edicolanti, negozianti, sono prima che dei lavoratori dei cittadini che godono ancora di un diritto di voto, e che fanno pressione su un sistema che – nonostante il "congelamento" del processo di individuazione della &lt;i&gt;premiership&lt;/i&gt;da parte di una serie di forze nazionali ed internazionali – passa ancora per il Parlamento e per l'elettorato passivo di cui queste persone ancora godono. Questo è il primo ostacolo ad un disegno neo-liberista che mira a mettere il Paese, nelle sue articolazioni economiche, produttive e distributive, pubbliche o parcellizzate tra una moltitudine di cittadini, nelle mani di un'oligarchia finanziaria che spadroneggia sul Paese da almeno il 1992 (anno dei famosi accordi del "Britannia").&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il secondo ostacolo che sta incontrando Monti è la verità. Tutti i cittadini-lavoratori sopra citati si stanno mobilitando per far comprendere ai propri concittadini che la campagna mediatica messa in campo, non dice la verità. Proprio perchè i vari &lt;i&gt;talk-show&lt;/i&gt; televisivi e radiofonici non danno spazio al contraddittorio – o lo limitano fortemente, rendendolo un accidente – le associazioni di rappresentanza ed i lavoratori in prima persona, stanno dando luogo ad un vero e proprio sistema informativo parallelo attraverso l'uso dei &lt;i&gt;social network&lt;/i&gt;, volantinaggi, passaparola.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il terzo ed ultimo ostacolo per Monti è rappresentato da quella qualità ontologica propriamente umana che si chiama coscienza. Questa è il mare dentro cui il fiume della verità trova sbocco: lo trova in diversi parlamentari, in alcuni giornalisti, in molti concittadini.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dunque, non è chissà quale magica forza dei tassisti a fermare Monti, ma questo mix di democrazia, verità e coscienza che sta impedendo al Paese di esser definitivamente – ed inutilmente – messo nelle mani degli squali della finanza!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claudio Giudici&lt;br /&gt;Presidente Uritaxi Toscana&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="blurb" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;La traduzione inviata al &lt;i&gt;Financial Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "&gt;&lt;p class="sub" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 51); font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Monti will be defeat by democracy, truth and conscience, more than by taxi drivers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;p&gt;Sir,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In reference to Mr. Giugliano's article of Dec. 29 ("Monti needs more than Europe's cheers to hold Rome"), what is being described as "resistances" by a system of "closed shop professions" must be more properly viewed as the passionate effort by forces engaged in an actual democratic resistance against the transformation of Italy from a republic into an oligarchical state. Taxi drivers, pharmacists, newsvendors, shopkeepers - before being workers, are citizens who still enjoy voting rights and who put pressure on a system which – despite the "freezing" of the constitutional process of selection of the Prime minister by a series of national and international forces – is still centered around Parliament and voting rights which these persons still enjoy. This is the primary obstacle to a neo-liberal blueprint aiming at putting the country - with its economic, productive and distributive expressions, both state-owned and shared among a multitude of citizens - in the hands of a financial oligarchy which has domineered upon the nation at least since 1992 (the year of the famous "Britannia" deals).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second obstacle faced by Mr. Monti is truth. All above mentioned citizen-workers are mobilizing to make their co-citizens clear that the current media campaign is not truthful. Since most television and radio talk-shows do not allow or severely limit a real debate, union organizations and single workers have established a real parallel information system by using the social network, leaflets and word-of-mouth advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The third and last obstacle faced by Monti is represented by that properly human ontological quality called conscience. This is the sea where the River of Truth finds its mouth: it finds it in a few members of Parliament, in some journalists, in many citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it is not some magical power by taxi-drivers that is stopping Monti, but this mix of democracy, truth and conscience which is keeping the country still safe from ultimately falling in the hands of financial sharks!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claudio Giudici&lt;br /&gt;Chairman&lt;br /&gt;Uritaxi (national taxi drivers union), Tuscany region&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="blurb" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;La trascrizione del testo pubblicato sul &lt;i&gt;Financial Times&lt;/i&gt; del 6 gennaio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; "&gt;&lt;p class="sub" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 51); font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Power of taxi-drivers is not to blame for blocking Monti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;p&gt;Sir,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sir, In reference to Ferdinando Giugliano’s article “Monti needs more than Europe’s cheers to hold Rome” (December 29), what is being described as resistance by a system of “closed shop professions” is more properly viewed as the passionate effort by forces engaged in an actual democratic resistance against the transformation of Italy from a republic into an oligarchical state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before they are workers, taxi-drivers, pharmacists, news vendors, and shopkeepers are citizens who still enjoy voting rights and who put pressure on a system that – despite the “freezing” of the constitutional process of selecting a prime minister by a series of national and international forces – is &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt;centred around parliament and voting rights these persons still enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the primary obstacle to a neoliberal blueprint aiming at putting the country into the hands of a financial oligarchy which has dominated the nation at least since 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second obstacle faced by Mr Monti is truth. All the above groups are mobilising to make it clear the current media campaign is not truthful. Since most television and radio talk-shows do not allow or severely limit a real debate, union organisations and single workers have established a parallel information system by using social networks, leaflets and word-of-mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The third and last obstacle faced by Mr Monti is represented by conscience – in a few members of parliament, in some journalists, and in many citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it is not some magical power taxi-drivers have that is stopping Mr Monti, but this mix of democracy, truth and conscience which prevents the country from ultimately falling into the hands of financial sharks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claudio Giudici&lt;br /&gt;Chairman,&lt;br /&gt;Uritaxi (national taxi drivers union), Tuscany region&lt;br /&gt;Florence, Italy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.movisol.org"&gt;MoviSol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.movisol.org/12news005.htm"&gt;http://www.movisol.org/12news005.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-239789559255850185?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/239789559255850185/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-censura-nella-lettera-di-claudio.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/239789559255850185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/239789559255850185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-censura-nella-lettera-di-claudio.html' title='La censura nella lettera di Claudio Giudici al Financial Times'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_2kdpndnGc/TxQtN4yjGPI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/o267zYgq9W8/s72-c/120106_Lettera_Giudici_FT.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-2119176056831896178</id><published>2012-01-16T11:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T11:28:19.455+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><title type='text'>Rating, è difficile rompere la morsa di S&amp;P e Moody</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nYls_S7On-Q/TxP7sas5HbI/AAAAAAAAEiE/XalOIQUlQf4/s1600/img261627.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 205px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nYls_S7On-Q/TxP7sas5HbI/AAAAAAAAEiE/XalOIQUlQf4/s400/img261627.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698174694054239666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Di Gianni Pittella, primo vicepresidente del Parlamento europeo&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;E’ ormai noto a tutti che il mercato finanziario globale e’ dominato da una ristretta oligarchia di centri di investimento che manovrano flussi di denaro quantificabili in 20 volte il Pil mondiale e che hanno partecipazioni dirette nella governance delle maggiori agenzie di rating. E’ difficile quindi non pensare che nel furioso attacco speculativo all’Euro e nella sistematica declassazione dei debiti sovrani dei paesi di Eurolandia non vi sia una regia e quello che sta accadendo ancora in queste ore lo conferma. Che cosa deve accadere ancora per convincere i governi della Ue e la Commissione europea a sposare la posizione del Parlamento che chiede l’istituzione di un’agenzia di rating indipendente al quale tutte le istituzioni pubbliche dovrebbero fare riferimento, di applicare sanzioni in presenza di giudizi sbagliati, di affidare la classificazione dei debiti sovrani alla Corte dei conti europea?  Se la politica e’ debole vincono speculatori e quattro agenzie che senza controlli decidono sui destini di tutti noi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Le agenzie di rating che operano attualmente sono tutte private e questa situazione accende discussioni a non finire sul reale grado di legittimità delle stesse, ma il costo di creazione e gestione di una nuova agenzia, europea e pubblica, pari ad almeno 300-500 milioni di euro per cinque anni, è stato per il momento ritenuto eccessivo dalla Commissione. C’è molta apprensione per la situazione dei mercati, che sembrano a tratti incontrollabili. Questo spiega come su una materia non legata alle agenzie ma ai limiti da imporre agli strumenti in mano agli speculatori finanziari, la plenaria del Parlamento abbia votato a grande maggioranza (507 voti a favore) un regolamento. Lo scopo è quello di frenare le vendite allo scoperto e vietare derivati finanziari quali i Cds nudi, ovvero acquistati senza detenere i titoli dello stato per i quali ci si assicura contro il rischio di fallimento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Le agenzie di rating fanno politica. Ce lo dicono da oltre oceano gli analisti e gli osservatori che conoscono bene il ruolo ricoperto dalle nuove grandi sorelle nello scenario statunitense e gli interessi dei poteri forti che si agitano nel suo backstage. L’amministrazione Obama, investita prima dall’ondata della crisi dei subprime, e’ stata poi portata sull’orlo del default di bilancio per costringerla a trattare sul budget con i repubblicani ed oggi e’ alle prese con il crollo delle esportazioni americane per la debolezza dell’euro causata dalla speculazione. Sullo sfondo rimane la guerra fredda in atto da un decennio, che vede la supremazia del dollaro come moneta ufficiale del commercio mondiale minacciata dall’euro, dopo essere stata conquistata dal marco in tutta l’area dell’est Europa, dal crollo del Muro al 2001. Le ripercussioni per i vecchi equilibri economici e finanziari che hanno governato finora il mondo sono facilmente intuibili e ci danno un’utile chiave di lettura di quel che si sta agitando oggi sui mercati. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Il Tesoro americano comincia a vedere minacciato lo stesso spazio di manovra di un tempo, che gli dava la possibilita’ di stampare moneta praticamente all’infinito senza creare inflazione e di spingere l’economia con flussi di denaro illimitati a bassi tassi d’interesse. Prima della crisi, cinesi e arabi stavano ragionando seriamente, per motivi non solo economici ma anche geopolitici, sulla opzione di sostituire il dollaro con l’euro nelle loro enormi transazioni internazionali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Se questa e’ la posta in gioco e’ chiaro che davanti alla dimensione degli attacchi speculativi, economici e politici in atto nell’area della moneta unica l’Europa non puo’ che rispondere con la massima unita’ politica, economica e finanziaria, rafforzando tutti i meccanismi di governance comune e abbandonando prima possibile l’assetto di una catena di Stati, sballottata dagli interessi particolaristici nazionali e dai suoi anelli deboli, per assumere la forma di una federazione, forte, coesa e solidale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.milanofinanza.it/"&gt;Milano Finanza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.milanofinanza.it/news/dettaglio_news.asp?id=201201151311024643&amp;amp;chkAgenzie=TMFI&amp;amp;titolo=Rating,%20%C3%A8%20difficile%20rompere%20la%20morsa%20di%20S&amp;amp;P%20e%20Moody"&gt;http://www.milanofinanza.it/news/dettaglio_news.asp?id=201201151311024643&amp;amp;chkAgenzie=TMFI&amp;amp;titolo=Rating,%20%C3%A8%20difficile%20rompere%20la%20morsa%20di%20S&amp;amp;P%20e%20Moody&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-2119176056831896178?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2119176056831896178/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/rating-e-difficile-rompere-la-morsa-di.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/2119176056831896178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/2119176056831896178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/rating-e-difficile-rompere-la-morsa-di.html' title='Rating, è difficile rompere la morsa di S&amp;P e Moody'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nYls_S7On-Q/TxP7sas5HbI/AAAAAAAAEiE/XalOIQUlQf4/s72-c/img261627.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7588502324674809617</id><published>2012-01-16T11:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T11:22:49.586+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Is Eight Enough? US Reports Killing Hakimullah Mehsud Yet Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 1.25; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Pakistani Taliban Again Denies Leader's Slaying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;With officials desperately hoping that the eighth time is the charm, they have reported today that they believe the &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2012/01/12/us-drone-strike-kills-six-in-pakistan/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;January 12 drone strike against a pair of cars&lt;/a&gt; in North Waziristan &lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/15/pakistan-taliban-leader-reported-dead-us-strike/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;has killed Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/haki.jpg" alt="" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Readers &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2009/10/05/the-many-deaths-of-hakimullah-mehsud/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;may remember Hakimullah &lt;/a&gt;from the last seven times officials have claimed he was killed, most of them “confirmed kills.” Hakimullah was first slain in August 2009, and slain six addition times between then and February 2010. He appeared in May 2010 to report that despite being killed so many times he was “&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2010/05/03/hakimullah-confirms-survival-as-new-video-emerges/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;basically ok&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;As usual, officials cited “intercepted radio communication” in their speculation, because no one ever actually identified any of the victims of the US attacks and they simply hope that they got somebody they meant to get.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;And, just as usual, the TTP has already denied the death, with spokesman Asimullah Mehsud saying that Hakimullah wasn’t even in the area where the strike occurred. Indeed the last reports on North Waziristan were that the TTP leadership &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2010/05/25/hakimullah-allies-said-to-leave-north-waziristan/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;had agreed to leave the region&lt;/a&gt; at the behest of the Bahadur faction, and that they had all moved to South Waziristan, Kurram and Orakzai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/is-eight-enough-us-reports-killing-hakimullah-mehsud-yet-again/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/is-eight-enough-us-reports-killing-hakimullah-mehsud-yet-again/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-7588502324674809617?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7588502324674809617/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-eight-enough-us-reports-killing.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7588502324674809617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7588502324674809617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-eight-enough-us-reports-killing.html' title='Is Eight Enough? US Reports Killing Hakimullah Mehsud Yet Again'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7796946159751290980</id><published>2012-01-16T11:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T11:20:25.987+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Top Iran General Threatens Retaliation Over Scientist Killing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; line-height: 1.25; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Warns US, Britain and Israel Will All Be 'Held Accountable'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;In an interview with the Iranian state media this weekend, Iran’s Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Brigadier &lt;a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/meast/iran-nuclear-scientist-killed/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;General Massoud Jazayeri promised retaliation against “supporters of state terrorism” related to the assassination of an Iranian scientist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iran-12.gif" alt="" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; " /&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Insisting Iran would “hold the US, Britain and the Zionist regime (Israel) accountable” for the killing, Brig. Gen. Jazayeri promised a “punitive response” at some unspecified future date.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The a&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2012/01/11/iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-in-car-bomb-attack/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;ssassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan &lt;/a&gt;last week led to an angry response from the Iranian government, which says they have “&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/2012/01/14/iran-sends-letter-in-response-to-attacks-on-nuclear-scientists/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Assassinations of scientists inside Iran has become a favored tactic in recent months, though officials have largely publicly denied that they are directly involved. Interestingly, the tactic has gained considerable political traction among several Republican presidential nominees in the US, who say that such killings are laudable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/top-iran-general-threatens-retaliation-over-scientist-killing/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/15/top-iran-general-threatens-retaliation-over-scientist-killing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-7796946159751290980?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7796946159751290980/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-iran-general-threatens-retaliation.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7796946159751290980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7796946159751290980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-iran-general-threatens-retaliation.html' title='Top Iran General Threatens Retaliation Over Scientist Killing'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-4139394719147858155</id><published>2012-01-16T10:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T10:57:58.430+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>Che c'è di strano? E' solo intimo sexy per bambine.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "  &gt;Il concetto di &lt;i&gt;normalità&lt;/i&gt; è un concetto particolare.&lt;br /&gt;Consideriamo &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; tutto ciò che ci appare consueto, ripetitivo, comune, "ortodosso".&lt;br /&gt;Se non mi credete provate a pensare ad un fenomeno che avete osservato tante volte ma che non è &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt;; oppure pensate ad una frase che avete ascoltato o detto tante volte e che è a-&lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt;; oppure pensate ad un gesto non &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; che fate tutti i giorni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lGbpi8oPo_w/TkwcmpBT-OI/AAAAAAAAAGA/jmPbtGa70zs/s320/tumblr_lq21you64Y1qz6fdso1_500.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "  &gt;A causa di questa "legge" tutti gli usi e i costumi di un popolo risultano&lt;i&gt;normali&lt;/i&gt; (per quel popolo).&lt;br /&gt;Quindi è &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; vedere ragazzi che allo stadio si picchiano perché uno è vestito a righe bianco/nere e un altro a righe nero/azzurre; così com'è&lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; sentir parlare di "guerra di pace"; così com'è &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; passare davanti ad un bambino che chiede l'elemosina senza degnarlo di uno sguardo, entrare in un bar e giocare il "gratta &amp;amp; vinci".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturalmente, tutto ciò che è &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; oggi potrebbe non esserlo domani e quello che era &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; ieri potrebbe non esserlo oggi. Ad esempio oggi è&lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; volare con gli aeroplani mentre un secolo fa era un gesto da folli e fra un secolo magari l'aereo sarà un mezzo obsoleto e non sarà più &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt;utilizzarlo per volare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...Insomma, &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; non significa un cazzo, significa solo che in un certo momento, in un determinato luogo, una cosa &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; - per la massa - è più facile da accettare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie alla TV e ai mezzi di comunicazione di massa in generale, diventa&lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; tutto ciò che i proprietari di tali mezzi decidono che debba essere&lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt;. Questi mezzi servono infatti a ripetere tante-tante volte lo stesso concetto/atteggiamento/stile-di-vita che per forza, chi ne usufruisce, non può non notarne la ripetitività ed associare tale ripetitività alla &lt;i&gt;normalità&lt;/i&gt; di quel dato concetto/ecc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Risulta semplice concludere che i proprietari dei mass-media decidono cosa debba essere &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; e cosa no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sfortunatamente per noi, questi uomini hanno un concetto di &lt;i&gt;normalità&lt;/i&gt; molto particolare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tralascierò molti aspetti della nostra "cultura indotta" per analizzarne, adesso, uno solo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimamente i bambini "crescono" più velocemente. "Crescono" nel senso che si adattano prima agli usi e ai costumi ritenuti &lt;i&gt;normali&lt;/i&gt; dagli adulti. La tendenza, per qualche motivo a me sconosciuto, riguarda principalmente LE bambine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie ad un servizio di Studio Aperto sono venuto a sapere ad esempio che il regalo più richiesto ai genitori dalle diciottenni è "rifarsi il seno". Come abbia fatto Studio Aperto ad essere sicuro di questo dato è un mistero, certo è che dopo il servizio alcune minorenni avranno inserito un'opzione alla loro lista dei desideri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie al Corriere vengo a sapere invece che una certa Sarah Burge (Ma chi cazzo è? Perché dovete scrivere articoli su Sarah Burge??), famosa per essere la&lt;a href="http://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_marzo_04/botox-sedici-anni-iniettato-mamma-rodota_cf907f58-275b-11df-badf-00144f02aabe.shtml"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Human Barbie", detentrice del record di interventi estetici, fa regolari iniezioni di botox sulla faccia della figlia Hanna&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; di 16 anni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p-w_HeX61gk/TkwNRwSzB3I/AAAAAAAAAFw/W902uyCFSlE/s320/Sarah+Burge+botox.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;Sempre la stessa signora, evidentemente molto gettonata negli articoli di gossip, &lt;a href="http://www.tuttogratis.it/attualita/poppy_burge_ballerina_di_lap_dance_a_sette_anni/"&gt;insegna a ballare la lap dance all'altra figlia di 7 anni&lt;/a&gt; (a cui ha già regalato un "seno nuovo" che la bambina potrà rifarsi appena avrà raggiunto i 16 anni).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZw4bpPCaFo/TkwP9JAGxNI/AAAAAAAAAF0/qK2rJcrj8-k/s320/Sarah+Burge+figlia+7.jpg" /&gt;  &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Per la signora non è un problema se la figlia impara a 7 anni delle movenze sensuali, perché, dice, che quando ballano la lap dance a casa, non ci sono dei pedofili a guardare...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purtroppo la signora non riesce a capire che oltre a rovinare la "sua" bambina, rischia di rovinare le figlie di tante altre mamme che vedono/leggono/vengono-a-sapere certe cose e, credendole &lt;i&gt;normali&lt;/i&gt;, desiderano imitarle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pensate solo che questo video che io definirei "osceno" - ma forse solo perché non sono al passo coi tempi - è stato visto su youtube da 2 milioni e mezzo di persone:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TYRIYL5uP6w?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;...E non crediate che questo sia un caso isolato! Negli Stati Uniti, che sono da tempo il paese più "al passo coi tempi" e al quale tutti gli altri paesi prima o poi si adattano, negli USA, dicevo, esiste un programma per bambini condotto da due "giovani presentatrici" che fungono da modelle per milioni di ragazzine che tentano di diventare come loro:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3HC1e3kL4jo/Tkwa7Spz1nI/AAAAAAAAAF4/YG5Xj0vy4zk/s320/noah+emily+1.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0NwLKiXTHTM/Tkwa8duJh8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/HYjjI66fZ-U/s320/Noah+emily+2.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;La "moda" è già arrivata oltreoceano. In Francia è appena uscita una linea di&lt;a href="http://www.ilgiornale.it/esteri/lingerie_sexy_bimbe_la_campagna_pubblictaria_che_sconvolge_francia/marchio-jours_apres_lunes-pubblicita-pedofilia-lingerie-reggiseno-mutandine/17-08-2011/articolo-id=540554-page=0-comments=1"&gt;intimo sexy per bambine&lt;/a&gt;. Per capire cosa cazzo voglia dire "intimo sexy per bambine" guardate queste foto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-myI2EuUo1TE/TkwcnQsU7TI/AAAAAAAAAGE/Utt1-4Ejm34/s320/alg_jours_apres_lunes2.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vRK9jT5Zw2g/TkwcobjoLMI/AAAAAAAAAGI/87sGrqDn4Qw/s320/Apr%25C3%25A8s+Lunes.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3dAE2Pcd3UA/TkwcrLu5w6I/AAAAAAAAAGM/3D8PYsuttyE/s320/Screen-shot-2011-08-16-at-10.14.46-AM.png" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Naturalmente la notizia ha scandalizzato tutti i francesi perché, fortunatamente, la massa &lt;b&gt;ancora&lt;/b&gt; non ritiene &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; una simile situazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purtroppo è evidente che esiste una tendenza. Altrettanto palese è che questa tendenza sia voluta, per chissà quale schifoso motivo, da uomini potenti che hanno il potere di creare le tendenze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Già oggi assistiamo a scene &lt;i&gt;normali&lt;/i&gt; che fino a qualche anno fa sarebbero state completamente assurde: donne (e uomini) che si rifanno qualsiasi cosa fino a diventare così:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Fe9m3UGDPc/Tkwe7opwCuI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/galBM1Hhwks/s320/plastica418.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-APmz-OHjbeY/Tkwe8Q1RAoI/AAAAAAAAAGU/7M3uPzLFWaU/s320/article-0-02AC919A00000578-592_468x567.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;...&lt;a href="http://www.diredonna.it/sheyla-hershey-rischia-la-vita-per-un-seno-xxl-1589.html"&gt;Donne che rischiano la vita&lt;/a&gt; per avere un seno enorme e che &lt;a href="http://www.diredonna.it/sheyla-hershey-seno-guiness-tenta-il-suicidio-27909.html"&gt;tentano il suicidio se il seno enorme si rimpicciolisce&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xu2zdwUbVe4/TkwgCqZqDoI/AAAAAAAAAGY/Ba6srHFHqhk/s320/sheyla2.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Abbiamo visto come il concetto di &lt;i&gt;normalità&lt;/i&gt; si modifichi nel tempo perché nel tempo si modifica l'opinione pubblica. ...C'è una cosa che però nel tempo dovrebbe rimanere invariata ed è la nostra natura umana: i nostri valori, la nostra legge morale, dovrebbero essere universalmente &lt;b&gt;normali&lt;/b&gt;, sempre uguali, in ogni tempo e in ogni luogo. ...E soprattutto dovrebbero essere a prova di modelli televisivi et similia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speriamo che la ripetizione non faccia in modo che in questo mondo, ormai&lt;i&gt;normalmente&lt;/i&gt; schifoso, non diventi &lt;i&gt;normale&lt;/i&gt; assistere a scene di bambine travestite da pseudo-prostitute... Speriamo che per la massa diventi &lt;b&gt;normale &lt;/b&gt;indignarsi contro certe tendenze e chi le propone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://lalternativaitalia.blogspot.com/2011/08/che-ce-di-strano-e-solo-intimo-sexy-per.html"&gt;http://lalternativaitalia.blogspot.com/2011/08/che-ce-di-strano-e-solo-intimo-sexy-per.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-4139394719147858155?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/4139394719147858155/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/che-ce-di-strano-e-solo-intimo-sexy-per.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4139394719147858155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4139394719147858155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/che-ce-di-strano-e-solo-intimo-sexy-per.html' title='Che c&apos;è di strano? E&apos; solo intimo sexy per bambine.'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lGbpi8oPo_w/TkwcmpBT-OI/AAAAAAAAAGA/jmPbtGa70zs/s72-c/tumblr_lq21you64Y1qz6fdso1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7551923114963780312</id><published>2012-01-16T00:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T00:30:34.038+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is ‘Aggression’</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg-0PBam30g/TxNhk5KxEeI/AAAAAAAAEh4/RwiK2hitq9w/s1600/American-Power.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg-0PBam30g/TxNhk5KxEeI/AAAAAAAAEh4/RwiK2hitq9w/s400/American-Power.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698005240002974178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(120, 120, 120); line-height: 20px; "&gt;by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/author/kevin-carson/" title="Posts by Kevin Carson" rel="author" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Kevin Carson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(120, 120, 120); line-height: 20px; "&gt;, January 14, 2012&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new "defense" guidance document: "Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense." I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite right to use "defense" to describe a document that — like its predecessors — envisions something like an American Thousand-Year Reich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The greatest shift in emphasis is in the section "Project power despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges." The "threat" to be countered is that China and Iran "will continue to pursue asymmetric means to counter our power projection capabilities."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;That refers to a long-standing phenomenon: What Pentagon analysts call "Assassin’s Mace" weapons – cheap, agile weapons that render expensive, high-tech, weapons systems ineffective at a cost several orders of magnitude cheaper than the Pentagon’s gold-plated turds. In the context of "area denial," they include cheap anti-ship mines, surface-to-air missiles, and anti-ship missiles like the Sunburn (which some believe could destroy or severely damage aircraft carriers).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Thus the Pentagon defines as a "threat" a country’s ability to defend itself effectively against attack or to prevent an enemy from putting offensive forces into place to attack it. Yes, you read that right: to the American national security establishment, it’s considered threatening when you prepare to defend yourself against attack by the United States. It’s the perspective of a &lt;em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Family Circus&lt;/em&gt; character: "Mommy, he hit me back!" That kind of double standard is pretty common in the National Security State’s assessment of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;What can one say of a situation in which America runs a military budget equal to the rest of the industrialized world put together, maintains military bases in half the countries around the globe, routinely intervenes to overthrow governments, rings China with military bases — then solemnly announces that China’s military establishment is "far larger than called for by its legitimate defensive needs?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Considering that the US considers its "legitimate defensive needs" to encompass outspending the other top ten military powers in the world combined and maintaining the ability to preemptively attack any other country in the world, it’s hard to guess what the Pentagon’s criterion is for determining China’s "legitimate defensive needs." But it’s safe to say "legitimate" defensive forces don’t extend to the ability for China to defend its territory against attack from the main actual threat facing it: A global superpower trying to turn China’s neighborhood into a battlefield.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;And how about attacking Saddam for "making war on his own neighbors" – when the US actively supported his invasion of Iran in the 1980s? Not to mention the US Marines waltzing in and out of most of America’s Caribbean "neighbors" throughout the middle of the 20th century. Did they have "incubator babies" in Nicaragua and Costa Rica back in the 1930s?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;To Washington, any country capable of resisting American attack, or of "defying" American commands (whether under a UN Security Council figleaf or not) is by definition a "threat." And any country inflicting significant losses on US military forces, in the process of defending itself against American military attack, is guilty of aggression (against US attempts to "defend our freedom," one presumes).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;American perceptions of "self-defense" and "aggression" are as distorted as those of Nazi Germany. When the only way you can "defend yourself"  against another country’s "threat" is to go to the other side of the world to fight it, because it lacks the logistical capability to project military force more than a few hundred miles outside its own borders — and the main "threat" is its ability to fight back when you attack it — you know something’s pretty messed up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Originally published at the &lt;a href="http://c4ss.org/content/9475" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Center for a Stateless Society&lt;/a&gt; | Licensed for reproduction under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-carson/2012/01/13/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-and-fighting-back-is-aggression/"&gt;http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-carson/2012/01/13/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-and-fighting-back-is-aggression/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-7551923114963780312?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7551923114963780312/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7551923114963780312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7551923114963780312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-and.html' title='War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is ‘Aggression’'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jg-0PBam30g/TxNhk5KxEeI/AAAAAAAAEh4/RwiK2hitq9w/s72-c/American-Power.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-2827327875960291907</id><published>2012-01-16T00:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T00:20:11.293+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Confessioni di un ex credente del ‘Peak Oil’</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s7utEIXEJB8/TxNfDQZ4MfI/AAAAAAAAEhs/wD-jon_KF74/s1600/24bb6e3a4e7a7833965f157def79.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 259px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s7utEIXEJB8/TxNfDQZ4MfI/AAAAAAAAEhs/wD-jon_KF74/s400/24bb6e3a4e7a7833965f157def79.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698002463101563378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;14 gennaio 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/print/Peak%20Oil.htm" target="_blank" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;F. William Engdahl &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; 14 Settembre 2007&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;La buona notizia è che gli scenari di panico per il mondo a corto di petrolio nel breve tempo, sono sbagliate. La cattiva notizia è che il prezzo del petrolio è destinato a continuare a crescere. Il picco del petrolio non è un problema nostro. Lo è la politica. &lt;em&gt;Big Oil&lt;/em&gt; vuole mantenere elevati i prezzi del petrolio. Dick Cheney e amici sono tutti troppo disposti ad aiutare.&lt;br /&gt;Nota personale, ho studiato le questioni del petrolio dal primo shock petrolifero degli anni ’70. Sono stato incuriosito, nel 2003, da qualcosa chiamato teoria del Peak Oil. Sembrava che spiegasse la d’altronde inspiegabile decisione di Washington di rischiare il tutto per tutto in una mossa militare contro l’Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;I sostenitori del &lt;em&gt;Peak Oil&lt;/em&gt;, guidati dall’ex geologo della BP, Colin Campbell, e dal banchiere texano Matt Simmons, sostengono che il mondo affronta una nuova crisi, la fine del petrolio a buon mercato, o il picco del petrolio assoluto, forse entro il 2012, forse entro il 2007. Il petrolio era presumibilmente alle sue ultime gocce. Hanno indicato nella impennata dei nostri prezzi della benzina e del petrolio, il calo della produzione del Mare del Nord, in Alaska e in altri campi, come la prova che avevano ragione.&lt;br /&gt;Secondo Campbell, il fatto che nessun nuovo grande giacimento del Mare del Nord sia stato scoperto dalla fine degli anni ’60, ne era una prova. Secondo quanto da lui riferito, riuscì a convincere di ciò l’Agenzia Internazionale dell’Energia e il governo svedese. Ciò, tuttavia, non prova che abbia ragione .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fossili Intellettuali?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scuola del Peak Oil poggia la sua teoria sui convenzionali manuali di geologia occidentali, la maggior parte dei geologi britannici o statunitensi, che dichiarano che il petrolio è un ‘combustibile fossile’, un residuo o detrito biologico dei resti fossili di dinosauri o forse di alghe, e quindi un prodotto dall’offerta finita. L’origine biologica è fondamentale per la teoria del &lt;em&gt;Peak Oil&lt;/em&gt;, utilizzata per spiegare perché il petrolio si trova solo in alcune parti del mondo, dove s’è geologicamente intrappolato milioni di anni fa. Ciò significherebbe che, per esempio, i resti di un dinosauro morto vengono compressi e per decine di milioni di anni, fossilizzati e intrappolati in giacimenti sotterranei a, forse, 4-6000 metri sotto la superficie della terra.  In rari casi, così gira la teoria, enormi quantità di materiale biologico sarebbero state intrappolate in formazioni rocciose al largo di mari poco profondi, come il Golfo del Messico o il Mare del Nord o il Golfo di Guinea. La geologia dovrebbe solo cercare di capire dove siano queste sacche negli strati della terra, chiamati giacimenti, che si trovano all’interno di alcuni bacini sedimentari.&lt;br /&gt;Una teoria interamente alternativa sulla formazione del petrolio esiste dai primi anni ’50 in Russia, quasi sconosciuto in Occidente. Essa sostiene che la convenzionale teoria dell’origine biologica statunitense è un assurdo scientifico, e che non è dimostrabile. Essi sottolineano il fatto che i geologi occidentali hanno predetto più volte che il petrolio sarebbe finito nel secolo scorso, solo per scoprire, poi, di più, molto di più.&lt;br /&gt;Non solo questa spiegazione alternativa sulle origini del petrolio e del gas esiste in teoria. L’emergere della Russia e prima dell’URSS, come il più grande produttore mondiale di petrolio e gas naturale, si è basata sull’applicazione della teoria nella pratica. Questo ha conseguenze geopolitiche di grandezza impressionante.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Necessità: la madre dell’invenzione&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Negli anni ’50 l’Unione Sovietica affrontava l’”&lt;em&gt;isolamento&lt;/em&gt;” della cortina di ferro da parte dell’Occidente. La guerra fredda era al culmine. La Russia aveva poco petrolio per alimentare la sua economia. Trovare sufficiente petrolio indigeno, era una priorità della  sicurezza nazionale di prim’ordine.&lt;br /&gt;Gli scienziati dell’Istituto di Fisica della Terra dell’Accademia Russa delle Scienze e l’Istituto di Scienze Geologiche dell’Accademia Ucraina delle Scienze iniziarono un’indagine fondamentale nei tardi anni ’40: da dove proviene il petrolio?&lt;br /&gt;Nel 1956, il Prof. Vladimir Porfir’yev annunciò le loro conclusioni: &lt;em&gt;‘Il petrolio greggio e il gas naturale non hanno alcun legame intrinseco con la materia biologica proveniente dai pressi della superficie della Terra. Sono materiali primordiali che sono stati eruttati da grandi profondità.&lt;/em&gt;‘ I geologi sovietici avevano capovolto la geologia ortodossa occidentale. Hanno chiamato la loro teoria dell’origine del petrolio teoria ‘a-biotica’ -non-biologica- per distinguerla dalla teoria occidentale delle origini biologiche.&lt;br /&gt;Se avessero ragione, la fornitura di petrolio sulla terra sarebbe limitata solo dalla quantità di costituenti idrocarburici presenti nelle viscere della Terra, al momento della formazione della Terra. La disponibilità del petrolio dipenderebbe unicamente sulla tecnologia per perforare pozzi ultra-profondi e esplorare le regioni interne della terra. Hanno anche realizzato che vecchi campi potevano essere ricuperati per continuare a produrre, chiamandoli così campi che si auto-alimentano. Essi hanno affermato che il petrolio si forma nelle viscere della terra, si forma in condizioni di temperatura molto alta e pressione molto alta, come quella richiesta per formare i diamanti. &lt;em&gt;‘Il petrolio è un materiale primordiale di origine profonda, che viene trasportato tramite ‘freddi’ processi eruttivi ad alta pressione, nella crosta della terra&lt;/em&gt;‘, aveva dichiarato Porfir’yev. La sua squadra aveva respinto l’idea che il petrolio sia un residuo biologico di resti fossili di origine animale e vegetale, come una bufala destinata a perpetuare il mito dell’approvvigionamento limitato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sfidando la geologia convenzionale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tale approccio scientifico radicalmente diverso russo e ucraino portò alla scoperta del petrolio, che ha permesso all’URSS di sviluppare le enorme scoperte di petrolio e gas nelle regioni precedentemente giudicate inadatte alla presenza di petrolio, secondo le teorie occidentali dell’esplorazione geologica. La teoria del petrolio è stata utilizzata nei primi anni ’90, ben dopo la dissoluzione dell’URSS, per trivellare gas e petrolio in una regione creduta, per più di 45 anni, geologicamente sterile, il Bacino Dniepr-Donets della regione tra Russia e Ucraina.&lt;br /&gt;A seguito della loro teoria abiotica o non-fossile delle origini profonde del petrolio, i geofisici del petrolio e i chimici ucraini e russi, iniziarono con una analisi dettagliata della storia tettonica e della struttura geologica del basamento cristallino del bacino del Dniepr-Donets. Dopo una profonda analisi tettonica e strutturale  della zona, fecero delle indagini geofisiche e geochimiche.&lt;br /&gt;Un totale di sessantuno pozzi perforati, dei quali trentasette erano commercialmente produttivi, un tasso estremamente impressionante di successi dell’esplorazione di quasi il sessanta per cento. La dimensione del campo scoperto va comparato col North Slope in Alaska. Al contrario, la perforazione a gatto selvatico degli statunitensi, era considerato riuscito con un tasso di successi del dieci per cento. Nove dei dieci pozzi sono in genere dei “&lt;em&gt;buchi secchi&lt;/em&gt;“.&lt;br /&gt;Questa esperienza geofisica russa nel ritrovamento di petrolio e gas, è stato avvolto dall’abituale velo sovietico di sicurezza dello stato, durante la Guerra Fredda, e rimase in gran parte sconosciuto ai geofisici occidentali, che hanno continuato ad insegnare le origini fossili e, di conseguenza, i gravi limiti fisici del petrolio. Lentamente cominciò a crescere l’idea, in alcuni strateghi dentro e intorno al Pentagono, ben dopo la guerra all’Iraq del 2003, che i geofisici russi potessero avere qualcosa di profonda importanza strategica.&lt;br /&gt;Se la Russia avesse il know how e la geologia occidentale no, la Russia possederebbe una carta strategica vincente dal dirompente effetto geopolitico. Non sorprende che Washington abbia iniziato a erigere un “&lt;em&gt;muro d’acciaio&lt;/em&gt;“, una rete di basi militari e di scudi anti-missili balistici intorno alla Russia, per tagliare le sue pipeline e porti di collegamento con l’Europa occidentale, la Cina e il resto dell’Eurasia. È il peggior incubo di Halford Mackinder – una convergenza cooperativa di interessi reciproci dei principali stati dell’Eurasia, nata per necessità e bisogno del petrolio, per alimentare la crescita economica – sta emergendo. Ironia della sorte, sono stati i palesi arraffi statunitensi delle vaste ricchezze petrolifere dell’Iraq e, potenzialmente, dell’Iran, che ha catalizzato una più stretta cooperazione tra dei tradizionali nemici eurasiatici, Cina e Russia, e una crescente consapevolezza in Europa occidentale, che le loro opzioni sono  troppo esigue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Re del Picco&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La teoria del &lt;em&gt;Peak Oi&lt;/em&gt;l è basata su un documento del 1956 di Marion King Hubbert, un geologo del Texas che lavorava per la &lt;em&gt;Shell Oil&lt;/em&gt;. Egli ha sostenuto che i pozzi di petrolio seguono una curva di produzione a campana, e una volta il loro “&lt;em&gt;picco&lt;/em&gt;” è raggiunto, segue un declino inevitabile. Ha previsto che la produzione di petrolio negli Stati Uniti avrebbe raggiunto il picco nel 1970. Un uomo modesto, che ha chiamato la curva di produzione che ha inventato, curva di Hubbert, e il picco &lt;em&gt;Hubbert’s Peak&lt;/em&gt;. Quando la produzione di petrolio degli Stati Uniti ha cominciato a declinare intorno al 1970, Hubbert guadagnò una certa fama.&lt;br /&gt;L’unico problema era che non aveva raggiunto il picco a causa dell’esaurimento delle risorse nei campi degli Stati Uniti. Esso “&lt;em&gt;ha raggiunto il picco&lt;/em&gt;“, perché &lt;em&gt;Shell, Mobil, Texaco&lt;/em&gt; e gli altri partner della Saudita Aramco stavano inondando il mercato statunitense con importazioni di greggio a buon mercato del Medio Oriente, tariffe libere, a prezzi così bassi che molti produttori del Texas e della California non potevano competere, e furono costretti a chiudere i pozzi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Successo del Vietnam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mentre le multinazionali petrolifere statunitensi erano impegnate a controllare i grandi campi facilmente accessibili di Arabia Saudita, Kuwait, Iran e altre aree a basso costo, durante l’abbondante petrolio nel corso degli anni ’60, i Russi erano impegnati a verificare la loro teoria alternativa. Hanno iniziato la perforazione in una regione apparentemente arida della Siberia. Vi svilupparono undici campi di petrolio e un campo gigante sulla base delle loro stime geologiche ‘a-biotiche’ in profondità. Perforarono il basamento di roccia cristallina e scovarono l’oro nero a una scala paragonabile a quella del North Slope dell’Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;Poi andarono in Vietnam negli anni ’80 e si offrirono di finanziare i costi di perforazione per mostrare come funzionava la loro nuova teoria geologica. La società russa Petrosov perforò la roccia basaltica del giacimento offshore &lt;em&gt;White Tiger&lt;/em&gt; del Vietnam per circa 17.000 metri di profondità ed estrassero 6.000 barili di petrolio al giorno per nutrire l’economia affamata di energia del Vietnam. In URSS, i geologi russi addestrati alla teoria a-biotica, perfezionarono le loro conoscenze e l’URSS emerse come il più grande produttore mondiale di petrolio dalla metà degli anni ’80. Pochi, in Occidente, ne capirono il perché, o si presero la briga di chiederselo.&lt;br /&gt;Il Dr. JF Kenney è uno dei pochi geofisici occidentali  che hanno insegnato e lavorato in Russia, studiando con Vladilen Krayushkin, che ha sviluppato l’enorme bacino del Dnieper-Donets. Kenney mi ha detto, in una recente intervista, che “&lt;em&gt;solo per produrre la quantità di petrolio che ha prodotto fino ad oggi il giacimento di Ghawar (Arabia Saudita) sarebbe stato necessario un cubo di resti di dinosauri fossilizzati, assumendo una efficienza di conversione del 100%, misurante 19 miglia in profondità, larghezza ed altezza&lt;/em&gt;“. In breve, una assurdità.&lt;br /&gt;I geologi occidentali non si preoccupano di offrire un seria prova scientifica dell’origine fossile. Esse si limitano ad affermarla come una santa verità. I Russi hanno prodotto volumi di documenti scientifici, la maggior parte in russo.  I giornali occidentali dominanti non hanno alcun interesse a pubblicare una tale visione rivoluzionaria. Opportunità di lavoro, intere professioni accademiche sono in gioco, dopo tutto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chiusura della porta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’arresto del russo Mikhail Khodorkovsky della &lt;em&gt;Jukos Oil&lt;/em&gt;, nel 2003, è avvenuto poco prima di riuscire a vendere la quota maggioritaria di Jukos alla &lt;em&gt;ExxonMobil&lt;/em&gt;, dopo un incontro privato con Dick Cheney. &lt;em&gt;Exxon&lt;/em&gt; aveva ottenuto il diritto con cui avrebbe assunto il controllo della più grande risorsa del mondo che i geologi e gli ingegneri esperti nelle tecniche a-biotiche di perforazione profonda, avevano creato.&lt;br /&gt;Dal 2003 la condivisione scientifica russa della loro conoscenza è notevolmente diminuita. Offerte nei primi anni ’90 per condividere le loro conoscenze con gli Stati Uniti e altri geofisici del petrolio, avevano  incontrato un freddo rifiuto secondo i geofisici statunitensi coinvolti.&lt;br /&gt;Perché allora l’alto rischio della guerra per controllare l’Iraq? Per un secolo i giganti petroliferi occidentali, statunitensi e alleati, hanno controllato mondialmente il petrolio attraverso il controllo dell’Arabia Saudita o del Kuwait o della Nigeria. Oggi, mentre molti giacimenti giganti sono in declino, le società vedono i giacimenti petroliferi  statali dell’Iraq e dell’Iran come la restante più grande base di petrolio economico e di facile accesso. Con l’enorme domanda di petrolio dalla Cina e dall’India, ora, diventa un imperativo geopolitico per gli Stati Uniti  prendere direttamente il controllo militare di quelle riserve in Medio Oriente, il più velocemente possibile. Il vice presidente Dick Cheney, proviene dalla &lt;em&gt;Halliburton Corp.&lt;/em&gt;, la più grande compagnia di servizi geofisici petroliferi del mondo. L’unico potenziale che minaccia il controllo degli Stati Uniti del petrolio sembra che si trovi solo all’interno della Russia, e dai giganti dell’energia oggi controllati dallo stato russo. Hmmmm.&lt;br /&gt;Secondo Kenney, i geofisici russi utilizzano le teorie del brillante scienziato tedesco Alfred Wegener, da 30 anni prima che i geologi occidentali “&lt;em&gt;scoprissero&lt;/em&gt;” Wegener negli anni ’60. Nel 1915 Wegener pubblicò il suo testo fondamentale, &lt;em&gt;‘L’origine dei continenti e degli oceani’&lt;/em&gt;, che suggeriva che una massa di terra originale o unificata, “&lt;em&gt;Pangea&lt;/em&gt;“, più di 200 milioni di anni fa si divise negli attuali continenti, in quello che lui chiamava ‘spostamento dei continenti’.&lt;br /&gt;Fino  agli anni ’60, si suppone che scienziati statunitensi come il dottor Frank Press, consigliere scientifico della Casa Bianca, definisse Wegener un “&lt;em&gt;lunatico&lt;/em&gt;“. I geologi, alla fine degli anni ’60, furono costretti a rimangiarsi le loro parole, mentre Wegener offriva la sola interpretazione che gli ha permesso di scoprire le vaste risorse petrolifere del Mare del Nord. Forse in alcuni decenni, i geologi occidentali ripenseranno la loro mitologia delle origini fossili e realizzeranno ciò che ai russi è noto fin dagli anni ’50. Nel frattempo Mosca ha una grande carta energetica vincente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Traduzione Alessandro Lattanzio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://aurorasito.wordpress.com/"&gt;AURORA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://aurorasito.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/confessioni-di-un-ex-credente-del-peak-oil/"&gt;http://aurorasito.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/confessioni-di-un-ex-credente-del-peak-oil/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-2827327875960291907?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2827327875960291907/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/confessioni-di-un-ex-credente-del-peak.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/2827327875960291907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/2827327875960291907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/confessioni-di-un-ex-credente-del-peak.html' title='Confessioni di un ex credente del ‘Peak Oil’'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s7utEIXEJB8/TxNfDQZ4MfI/AAAAAAAAEhs/wD-jon_KF74/s72-c/24bb6e3a4e7a7833965f157def79.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-7206322827848739798</id><published>2012-01-15T23:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T23:56:18.681+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><title type='text'>L'uomo elettrico - The Electric Man</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GIDCw5K-Hec?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-7206322827848739798?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7206322827848739798/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/luomo-elettrico-electric-man.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7206322827848739798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/7206322827848739798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/luomo-elettrico-electric-man.html' title='L&apos;uomo elettrico - The Electric Man'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/GIDCw5K-Hec/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-392330711038534607</id><published>2012-01-15T22:33:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T22:42:23.759+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Ecco il vero obiettivo di Monti: Trovare 125 miliardi di euro</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;lunedì 19 dicembre 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;Editoriale a cura dello staff di &lt;a href="http://nocensura.com/"&gt;nocensura.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Le tasse imposte da Mario Monti agli italiani servono davvero per scongiurare il fallimento? Per evitare il default, come ci hanno detto e ripetuto? NO! SERVONO PER CORRISPONDERE LA CIFRA DI 125.395.900.000€ al nuovo organo sovranazionale europeo, creato per gestire la "crisi del debito sovrano" degli stati dell'Unione. La notizia - ignorata da tutti i mass media - è come vedremo, riportata nero su bianco sul testo del trattato. Ma procediamo per gradi.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Per convincere gli italiani che "è necessario fare dei sacrifici" e che "dobbiamo aumentare le tasse", i politici e i loro fedeli mass media asserviti hanno fatto e detto di tutto.&lt;/b&gt; Questo scampolo di governo Monti è stato caratterizzato da numerosi "colpi di scena", che hanno offerto molti argomenti di discussione ai "professionisti della distrazione di massa", che hanno imbastito salotti su salotti per discorrere della manovra e della sua iniquità. Tra l'altro, sono stati prospettati agli italiani interventi addirittura peggiori di quelli assunti, in modo da offrire maggiore spunti su cui dibattere, &lt;b&gt;iniziando e chiudendo ogni discussione con le "paroline magiche" descritte sopra: "è necessario fare dei sacrifici" &lt;/b&gt;e &lt;b&gt;"dobbiamo aumentare le tasse".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Siccome come ben sappiamo, per renderle "più digeribili" i governanti sono soliti "dilazionare" le stangate&lt;/b&gt; (E' come se ti chiedono 100€ subito, oppure 20€ oggi, 20€ tra tre giorni, altri 20€ tra una settimana, etc fino a raggiungere 100€: &lt;b&gt;il risultato non cambia, &lt;/b&gt;ma viene percepito in modo meno "traumatico") il lavoro lo aveva iniziato Tremonti, con 2 "manovrine" a breve distanza l'una dall'altra, di cui una da ben &lt;b&gt;50 miliardi, &lt;/b&gt;e lo sta finendo Monti: che ha esordito con&lt;b&gt;una finanziaria che hanno dichiarato valere 25 miliardi, ma che in realtà ne vale circa 60-65 miliardi, &lt;/b&gt;come hanno rilevato "&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lettera43.it/economia/macro/33539/cgia-mestre-la-manovra-vale-olre-60-miliardi.htm"&gt;CGIA di Mestre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;" e "&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agoravox.it/La-manovra-Monti-vale-63-miliardi.html"&gt;ConfArtigianato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;"&lt;b&gt;. Infine, ce ne sarà un'altra:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2011/12/18/governo-rischia-arrivare-2013-accelera-monti-prepara-nuova-manovra-miliardi/178410/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;che secondo le indiscrezioni, potrebbe valere altri 40 miliardi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Tremonti - che è riapparso criticando le troppe tasse, e invocando tagli - &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2011/12/18/alfano-meglio-sostenere-monti-andare-voto-subito/"&gt;lo ha, in qualche modo annunciato, anche se Passera ha smentito&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; In realtà l'ex ministro, senza (ovviamente) rivelare &lt;b&gt;i veri motivi &lt;/b&gt;per il quale ci metteranno ulteriormente le mani in tasca, ha &lt;b&gt;semplicemente predetto il futuro: possiamo scommetterci. &lt;/b&gt;Se non lo fanno subito, è solo per non &lt;b&gt;esasperare eccessivamente &lt;/b&gt;gli animi. Ci daranno giusto il tempo di "sbollire",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;SE LA CIFRA NECESSARIA PER L'ACQUISTO DEI JET VI SEMBRA ALTA, REGGETEVI FORTE:&lt;/b&gt; di farci passare il "bruciore", e torneranno alla carica: magari accompagnando la nuova manovra da una nuova tranche di "terrorismo mediatico", seminando paura e incertezza tra i cittadini, come hanno fatto poco più di un mese fa con "l'allarme spread".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;16 miliardi di Euro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt; verranno impiegati per &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nocensura.com/2011/12/come-i-piccoli-colibri-che-spensero.html" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;acquistare 131 cacciabombardieri F35&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;, la cifra corrisponde al gettito generato dalla reintroduzione dell'ICI (ora IMU, che vale 11 miliardi di euro all'anno) e l'aumento delle accise sui carburanti, che hanno portato la benzina verde oltre quota 1,71€ (gettito annuo 4,8 mld).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;Iscriviti alla pagina "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/FermiamoLoSprecoDeiJet"&gt;Fermiamo l'acquisto dei Jet F35 da 16 miliardi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;PER CAPIRE QUALI SONO I VERI MOTIVI DELL'AVVENTO DI MONTI, CHE SONO BEN DIVERSI DA QUELLI DICHIARATI, BASTA OSSERVARE COME SARANNO IMPIEGATI I SOLDI RICAVATI DALLE MANOVRE FINANZIARIE CHE E' VENUTO A IMPORCI, RICHIESTE A GRAN VOCE DAGLI ORGANI SOVRANAZIONALI EUROPEI (la famosa lettera della BCE) COMPRESI I 50 MILIARDI DI EURO RICAVATI DALLA FINANZIARIA DI TREMONTI.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-adAVKS0zD_c/TxNH6c8TlnI/AAAAAAAAEhg/i2Cofi33FGM/s400/C_2_articolo_1031218_imagepp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697977023080928882" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 370px; " /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;125.395.900.000€ saranno versati nelle casse del "MES" - "Meccanismo Europeo di Stabilità", &lt;a href="http://consilium.europa.eu/media/1216793/esm%20treaty%20en.pdf"&gt;come espressamente indicato nel trattato&lt;/a&gt; che istituisce questo nuovo organo sovranazionale, la cui approvazione è prevista entro la fine dell'anno dal parlamento europeo. Il MES, su cui i mass media non hanno proferito parola, avrà il compito di affrontare "la crisi dei debiti sovrani" &lt;/b&gt;e disporrà di una liquidità iniziale di 700 miliardi di Euro. La quota iniziale di partecipazione stabilita per l'Italia, come potete osservare nell'immagine estratta dal trattato pubblicata di seguito è di 125 miliardi di Euro. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;La fonte è &lt;b&gt;il trattato ufficiale, che delibera la costituzione del MES, che potete scaricare &lt;a href="http://consilium.europa.eu/media/1216793/esm%20treaty%20en.pdf"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; E' stato diffuso esclusivamente&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;in lingua inglese, nonostante il 96,5% della popolazione dell'area euro parli altre lingue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Monti solo pochi giorni fa ha annunciato che affretterà i tempi per l'approvazione dell'adesione al MES: &lt;/b&gt;infatti il Meccanismo Europeo di Stabilità entrerà in vigore solo dopo che tutti i parlamenti dell'Unione lo avranno ratificato nel proprio parlamento nazionale, una vera e propria &lt;b&gt;formalità, &lt;/b&gt;visto che i mass media europei &lt;b&gt;non ne parlano. Una vera e propria CENSURA DI LIVELLO EUROPEO, &lt;/b&gt;nonostante il trattato che regola il MES, e i &lt;b&gt;molti punti oscuri che lo caratterizzano, siano a disposizione di tutti, sul sito del "Consiglio dell'Unione Europea, &lt;a href="http://consilium.europa.eu/"&gt;http://consilium.europa.eu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (clicca &lt;a href="http://consilium.europa.eu/media/1216793/esm%20treaty%20en.pdf"&gt;&lt;b&gt;qui per il trattato del MES in formato PDF&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Risulta fin troppo evidente come l'avvento di Monti sia dovuto alla "necessità" di imporre agli italiani l'adesione al MES, ed in particolare per assumere i provvedimenti necessari per trovare i soldi da destinare alla sottoscrizione fondo, la cui quota italiana ammonta ad OLTRE 125 MILIARDI DI EURO, cifra che - conti alla mano - corrisponde all'insieme delle ultime manovre finanziarie. &lt;/b&gt;Di tutto questo, la &lt;b&gt;stragrande maggioranza &lt;/b&gt;dei cittadini italiani ed europei, non sanno niente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La costituzione di questo organismo &lt;b&gt;è stata nascosta in modo a dir poco scandaloso, &lt;/b&gt;così come la partecipazione dell'Italia e sopratutto, la quota di adesione, che è scritta &lt;b&gt;nero su bianco&lt;/b&gt;nel trattato.  &lt;b&gt;Di seguito vi riportiamo un video che abbiamo più volte proposto sulla nostra pagina Facebook, che illustra alcuni "punti oscuri" del Meccanismo Europeo di Stabilità.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hr5bAKibsqI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Si tratta di una strategia &lt;b&gt;ben consolidata, studiata a tavolino, come dimostra il seguente video, risalente a Febbraio, &lt;/b&gt;dove&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Monti spiega, in pratica, che "politici e cittadini europei per accettare di cedere la propria sovranità nazionale all'Europa hanno bisogno di una crisi grave e conclamata": &lt;b&gt;praticamente ciò che è accaduto in Italia.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HORaWaxi6io?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.nocensura.com/2011/12/esclusivo-ecco-il-vero-obiettivo-di.html"&gt;http://www.nocensura.com/2011/12/esclusivo-ecco-il-vero-obiettivo-di.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-392330711038534607?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/392330711038534607/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/ecco-il-vero-obiettivo-di-monti-trovare.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/392330711038534607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/392330711038534607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/ecco-il-vero-obiettivo-di-monti-trovare.html' title='Ecco il vero obiettivo di Monti: Trovare 125 miliardi di euro'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-adAVKS0zD_c/TxNH6c8TlnI/AAAAAAAAEhg/i2Cofi33FGM/s72-c/C_2_articolo_1031218_imagepp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-4305219245233466369</id><published>2012-01-15T22:10:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T22:23:12.698+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='citazione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>"In america, in questo periodo della storia del mondo, una stampa indipendente non esiste." - John Swinton</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;Quello che segue è il discorso che John Swinton, l’allora redattore-capo del New York Times (1860-1870), pronunciò in occasione di un banchetto con i suoi colleghi presso l’American Press Association:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“In america, in questo periodo della storia del mondo, una stampa indipendente non esiste. Lo sapete voi e lo so pure io. Non c’è nessuno di voi che oserebbe scrivere le proprie vere opinioni, e già sapete anticipatamente che se lo facesse esse non verrebbero mai pubblicate. Io sono pagato un tanto alla settimana per tenere le mie opinioni oneste fuori dal giornale col quale ho rapporti. Altri di voi sono pagati in modo simile per cose simili, e chi di voi fosse così pazzo da scrivere opinioni oneste, si ritroverebbe subito per strada a cercarsi un altro lavoro. Se io permettessi alle mie vere opinioni di apparire su un numero del mio giornale, prima di ventiquattr’ore la mia occupazione sarebbe liquidata. Il lavoro del giornalista è quello di distruggere la verità, di mentire spudoratamente, di corrompere, di diffamare, di scodinzolare ai piedi della ricchezza, e di vendere il proprio paese e la sua gente per il suo pane quotidiano. Lo sapete voi e lo so pure io. E allora, che pazzia è mai questa di brindare a una stampa indipendente? Noi siamo gli arnesi e i vassalli di uomini ricchi che stanno dietro le quinte. Noi siamo dei burattini, loro tirano i fili e noi balliamo. I nostri talenti, le nostre possibilità, le nostre vite, sono tutto proprietà di altri. Noi siamo delle prostitute intellettuali.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;"There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fonti:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="citation book" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Upton Sinclair, ed. (1915). &lt;i&gt;The Cry for Justice - An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest&lt;/i&gt;. p. 754.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;amp;rft.genre=book&amp;amp;rft.btitle=The+Cry+for+Justice+-+An+Anthology+of+the+Literature+of+Social+Protest&amp;amp;rft.aulast=Upton+Sinclair%2C+ed.&amp;amp;rft.au=Upton+Sinclair%2C+ed.&amp;amp;rft.date=1915&amp;amp;rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B754&amp;amp;rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Swinton_(journalist)" style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bartleby.com/71/1523.html" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;bartleby.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="citation book" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Upton Sinclair (1920). &lt;i&gt;The Brass Check&lt;/i&gt;. p. 400.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;amp;rft.genre=book&amp;amp;rft.btitle=The+Brass+Check&amp;amp;rft.aulast=Upton+Sinclair&amp;amp;rft.au=Upton+Sinclair&amp;amp;rft.date=1920&amp;amp;rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B400&amp;amp;rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:John_Swinton_(journalist)" style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=pZXZRxCVAZwC&amp;amp;pg=Pt400" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;books.google.de&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;cf. Hamilton Holt: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=P1jgFS3WWzkC&amp;amp;pg=PA4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "&gt;Commercialism And Journalism (1909) p. 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; quoting "confessions of one [unnamed] New York journalist who wrote [...]"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-4305219245233466369?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/4305219245233466369/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/quello-che-segue-e-il-discorso-che-john.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4305219245233466369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/4305219245233466369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/quello-che-segue-e-il-discorso-che-john.html' title='&quot;In america, in questo periodo della storia del mondo, una stampa indipendente non esiste.&quot; - John Swinton'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-6062693669120328193</id><published>2012-01-15T21:53:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T22:00:11.007+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>L'AFP (ANSA Francese) beccata in flagrante delitto di manipolazione mediatica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;L'AFP (Agence Française de Presse), equiparabile alla nostra ANSA, è riuscita a trasformare un discorso di pace di 30 minuti, in un discorso di guerra di 30 secondi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Venezuela: La AFP attribuisce a Chávez il contrario di quel che ha detto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante la visita a Caracas del leader iraniano Ajmedinajad, la agenzia di stampa francese AFP ha superato se stessa, sostenendo il contrario di quanto é effettivamente accaduto durante la conferenza stampa. Andando ben oltre il tradizionale compito della diffamazione permanente a mezzo stampa, questa volta ha riferito l'esatto contrario di quel che il presidente del Venezuela ha effettivamente dichiarato durante un evento trasmesso in diretta televisiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h5ckUGX7N5o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-6062693669120328193?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6062693669120328193/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/lafp-ansa-francese-beccata-in-flagrante.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6062693669120328193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/6062693669120328193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/lafp-ansa-francese-beccata-in-flagrante.html' title='L&apos;AFP (ANSA Francese) beccata in flagrante delitto di manipolazione mediatica'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/h5ckUGX7N5o/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-8419807428832504427</id><published>2012-01-15T17:36:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T17:49:41.766+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mind Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>L'Italia è "sotto occupazione" straniera? Incontro con Gianandrea Gaiani</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eLt65442kc/TxMBMlDOLsI/AAAAAAAAEhU/iOJjpEJJ6r0/s1600/gianandrea_gaiani.r3w79nvgi4g48488gkocgs8w.brydu4hw7fso0k00sowcc8ko4.th.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 285px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eLt65442kc/TxMBMlDOLsI/AAAAAAAAEhU/iOJjpEJJ6r0/s400/gianandrea_gaiani.r3w79nvgi4g48488gkocgs8w.brydu4hw7fso0k00sowcc8ko4.th.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697899269169491650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;i style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Intervista a Gianandrea Gaiani&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Gianandrea Gaiani, analista militare, è direttore del mensile telematico &lt;a href="http://www.analisidifesa.it/" style="background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;“Analisi Difesa”&lt;/a&gt; e collaboratore di varie testate: ha una sua rubrica su &lt;a href="http://blog.panorama.it/mondo/author/gianandrea-gaiani/" style="background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;“Panorama”&lt;/a&gt; e scrive per “Il Sole 24 Ore”, “Il Foglio” e “Libero”. Recentemente il dottor Gaiani ha espresso posizioni molto dure sul nuovo governo italiano, sia in un &lt;a href="http://cca.analisidifesa.it/it/magazine_8034243544/numero124/article_004115412762442470328353725264_7505023515_0.jsp" style="background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;editoriale&lt;/a&gt; di “Analisi Difesa” sia in una &lt;a href="http://www.difesa.it/Sala_Stampa/rassegna_stampa_online/Pagine/PdfNavigator.aspx?d=10-01-2012&amp;amp;pdfIndex=7" style="background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;lettera&lt;/a&gt; a “Il Foglio”. Definito come un “governo di occupazione”, imposto all’Italia da potenze esterne, il gabinetto Monti, a giudizio del dott. Gaiani, si distinguerebbe per sudditanza e non starebbe facendo davvero gl’interessi dell’Italia, ma anzi danneggiandoli. Il con-direttore Daniele Scalea ha incontrato il dott. Gaiani per discutere con lui della sua forte presa di posizione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DS:&lt;em&gt; Dottor Gaiani, pare di capire che, a suo giudizio, i paesi che avrebbero imposto questo “governo d’occupazione” all’Italia sarebbero Francia, Germania e USA. È corretto?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;GG:&lt;/strong&gt; Per essere precisi, ritengono che siano state Parigi e Berlino a prendere la decisione. Washington si è limitata ad intervenire per salvaguardare i propri interessi: Obama, in un colloquio telefonico col presidente Napolitano, gli avrebbe suggerito i nomi cui affidare i dicasteri della Difesa e degli Esteri (evidentemente più cari agli USA), ossia rispettivamente quello del presidente del Comitato militare della NATO ammiraglio Di Paola e dell’ambasciatore a Washington Terzi di Sant’Agata.&lt;br /&gt;In sostanza, comunque, è avvenuto ciò che è avvenuto in Grecia: è stato imposto un “governo fantoccio”, che rende conto a potentati esterni anziché al popolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Nei suoi interventi ha attirato l’attenzione su una questione inspiegabilmente passata sotto silenzio dai media: la richiesta dell’UE di abrogare le cosiddette “golden shares”. Ossia le quote e ben precisi poteri decisionali che lo Stato italiano mantiene nelle aziende strategiche privatizzate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;È paradossale che l’UE, in una situazione descritta come di piena emergenza, non trovi di meglio da fare che occuparsi delle &lt;em&gt;golden shares&lt;/em&gt; italiane. Tanto più che Francesi e Tedeschi hanno meccanismi simili per proteggere le loro aziende strategiche. A breve scade l’ultimatum lanciato dall’UE all’Italia: senza una legge che sostituisca le &lt;em&gt;golden shares&lt;/em&gt; e fornisca una protezione da scalate esterne, il settore strategico italiano (Telecom, Finmeccanica, ENI, Enel, ma anche le banche) sarà acquisito dagli stranieri per due soldi, complici le cadute nelle contrattazioni borsistiche. Facciamo qualche esempio. Le banche italiane hanno oggi una capitalizzazione che supera di poco i 30 miliardi di euro, ma gestiscono una quantità di denaro che è cinque volte superiore. Eppure, acquistarle tutte assieme costerebbe meno che acquistare la sola BNP Paribas. Finmeccanica ha una capitalizzazione di 2 miliardi, ma possiede beni immobili che da soli valgono 4 miliardi. Francesi, Tedeschi, ma non solo, si preparano a comperare i pezzi pregiati della nostra industria, e lo faranno anche per eliminare dei rivali. In fondo, la guerra in Libia non è servita a togliere interessi strategici all’Italia, e rimpiazzarla nel paese nordafricano? Vi sono due modi per togliere di mezzo un rivale: soffiargli i contratti, come in Libia, oppure comprarlo, farlo passare sotto il proprio controllo, come rischia di succedere alle aziende italiane.&lt;br /&gt;Il negoziato per alleggerire i termini del rientro sul debito, chiesto dall’Italia all’UE, ci metterà di fronte ad un ricatto: svendere in cambio le nostre industrie pregiate. I due pesi e le due misure sono palesi: alla Germania è stato chiesto di eliminare dei provvedimenti che tutelano il suo settore automobilistico; non lo fa, eppure non riceve alcun ultimatum. Ben diverso è il trattamento riservato all’Italia, alla Grecia o all’Ungheria. Quest’ultima è stata costretta a rinunciare a leggi decise dai suoi rappresentanti eletti in cambio d’aiuti finanziari europei.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Poche settimane prima della caduta del governo Berlusconi, si era parlato di un interessamento della Cina ad acquisire partecipazioni nell’industria strategica. Non è possibile che queste manovre siano state motivate anche dalla decisione di non permettere a Pechino di realizzare queste acquisizioni?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Non credo, perché l’interesse cinese tende più verso i titoli di debito pubblico. È più semplice penetrare lì, che nel settore strategico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Alcuni critici hanno tacciato il gabinetto Monti d’essere un “governo dei banchieri”. Tuttavia, si è visto come le banche italiane siano state discriminate dall’UE, che ha richiesto una ricapitalizzazione in ragione dei titoli del Tesoro italiano posseduto da queste banche, risparmiando invece gl’istituti finanziari francesi e tedeschi pieni di “titoli tossici”. Insomma: se anche le banche sono “vittime”, chi sono i “complici” interni di questa “occupazione”? E se non ve ne sono, come ha potuto essere imposto all’Italia un “governo d’occupazione”, come lo definisce lei?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Si è imposto grazie alla debolezza della politica. Ed a metodi di pressione dall’esterno che non necessariamente richiedono complicità interne. Berlusconi ha accelerato i tempi delle sue dimissioni dopo che un pesante attacco speculativo fece crollare il titolo Mediaset in borsa… E comunque, un governo delle banche non deve esserlo necessariamente di quelle italiane (che pure sono state favorite da numerosi provvedimenti). La stessa ricapitalizzazione chiesta dall’UE può aiutare gli stranieri ad entrare nelle banche italiane. Che sono particolarmente ghiotte perché contengono l’ingente risparmio delle famiglie italiane.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Ma insomma, esistono settori “nazionali”, animati da senso dello Stato e – perché no? – sano patriottismo, che potrebbero reagire a tutto ciò?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;L’unico modo per reagire è far mancare il sostegno al Governo in Parlamento. Ma la politica non è in grado, perché non può fornire un’alternativa e comunque è lieta che ad aumentare le tasse sia un governo tecnico. Un “governo d’occupazione”, dico io, perché favorisce i competitori dell’Italia. Sono davvero “straordinarie”, come le ha definite la Merkel, le misure del gabinetto Monti: infatti ci garantiranno recessione ed inflazione allo stesso tempo. Togliere di mezzo una delle maggiori potenze economiche mondiali è nell’interesse di parecchi paesi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;E dato che lei è prima di tutto un analista militare, veniamo ad una scottante questione che è salita all’onore delle cronache, proprio in rapporto alla politica d’austerità, negli ultimi giorni. Mi riferisco alla polemica relativa all’oneroso acquisto dei caccia multiruolo statunitensi “Joint Strike Fighter” F-35 da parte dell’Italia. Al di là degli argomenti antimilitaristi, da un punto di vista realista, quest’acquisizione conviene o non conviene?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Il programma JSF avrebbe dovuto costare all’Italia, nei piani originari, 2 miliardi per lo sviluppo e 15 miliardi per l’acquisto di 131 aerei. Si tratta d’una cifra che è già oggetto di riesame: probabilmente ne compreremo solo un centinaio. In ogni caso, lo sviluppo dell’aereo è arrivato in ritardo rispetto alla tabella di marcia, ed il conseguente aumento dei costi è difficile da quantificare. In Italia ufficialmente si prevede d’acquistare ciascun velivolo al costo unitario di 78 milioni di dollari. I canadesi, però, calcolano che ogni JSF costerà loro 146 milioni.&lt;br /&gt;Diciamo subito che gli aerei, dopo trent’anni, è normale vadano cambiati. Si può ovviamente decidere di cambiarli con meno mezzi, ed è già il nostro caso: i 131 F-35 daranno il cambio a 220-250 velivoli più vecchi. Ma all’Italia servono questi F-35? Servono se vogliamo continuare a bombardare in giro per il mondo a fianco dei nostri alleati. Quest’aereo sarà acquistato da altri paesi della NATO, e possederlo renderà le nostre forze integrabili con quelle alleate.&lt;br /&gt;In ogni caso, l’aereo è statunitense: noi abbiamo un ruolo di sub-fornitori, e dunque deboli ricadute industriali. Acquistando l’F-35, rinunciamo alla capacità di produrre da soli i nostri aerei, come con l’Eurofighter, o come fanno i Francesi con il Rafale. Rinunciamo a sviluppare la versione d’attacco al suolo dell’Eurofighter, su cui invece investiranno i Tedeschi. Ciò ci condanna a lavorare su prodotti nordamericani per molti anni a venire.&lt;br /&gt;I Francesi non riescono ad esportare il loro Rafale: esaurite le commesse interne, chiuderanno la catena di montaggio. Fra dieci anni in Occidente ci sarà una sola catena di montaggio: quella degli USA. Non è una scelta d’oggi: è stata presa nel 1996 e confermata nel 2002.&lt;br /&gt;Se vogliamo continuare a fare la guerra (anche contro i nostri interessi, come talvolta accade) ci servono questi aerei. Andrebbero bene anche gli Eurofighter, in realtà, a maggior ragione visto che i nostri avversari sono guerriglieri o eserciti scalcinati. La sofisticazione è però utile all’industria, perché permette d’acquisire tecnologia assieme agli aerei.&lt;br /&gt;Ma v’è infine un aspetto fondamentale di cui non si parla mai: gli F-35 costano molto, ma costa ancora più caro tenerli in linea. Il bilancio della Difesa sarà sempre più ridotto dai tagli finanziari: già oggi conta poco più dei soldi necessari a pagare gli stipendi. Dovremmo allora blindare i bilanci della Difesa per i prossimi 15-20 anni, o corriamo il rischio di ritrovarci con tanti moderni F-35, ma senza i soldi per fargli il pieno. Già succede in parte: la voce dell’esercizio è quella più colpita dai tagli. Se non garantiamo risorse alla Difesa, ha poco senso acquistare questi aerei. L’aeronautica italiana punta a mantenere una forza su due diversi velivoli, l’Eurofighter Typhoon per la difesa e l’F-35 per l’attacco. Anche la Gran Bretagna lo fa, ma ha molti più soldi di noi come del resto Francia e Germania che avranno invece un solo velivolo multiruolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Nei suoi interventi ha ricordato che l’Italia ha una “sovranità limitata” da molti decenni: potremmo dire dal 1943. La domanda che mi pongo è: l’Italia può essere sovrana dentro la NATO? Ovvero bisogna trovare una nuova configurazione strategica, quale può essere una ristrutturazione dell’Alleanza Atlantica, o un trattato di sicurezza collettiva pan-europeo, quale quello promosso dai Russi negli ultimi anni?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Durante la Guerra Fredda, anche se la nostra sovranità era limitata, gl’interessi dell’Italia (e dell’Europa) e degli USA convergevano. Oggi la situazione è mutata, come dimostra il caso libico. Gli USA negli ultimi mesi hanno sacrificato molti regimi arabi loro alleati per rimpiazzarli con nuovi regimi a loro volta non molto democratici. Persino l’Arabia Saudita si preoccupa, tanto da intervenire in Bahrayn prima che lo facessero gli USA. Siamo sicuri che il Mediterraneo dominato dall’islamismo sia nell’interesse europeo? Io credo di no. Invece può esserlo in quello degli USA, che sono più lontani, al di là dell’oceano.&lt;br /&gt;Bisogna rivalutare il ruolo italiano ed europeo rispetto ai nostri interessi. Gli USA hanno giocato un ruolo tutto sommato stabilizzatore fino a Bush, mentre ora ricoprono un ruolo palesemente destabilizzatore. L’Italia stessa è stata destabilizzata con la guerra di Libia. Berlusconi partecipò controvoglia all’intervento, inizialmente decidendo che i velivoli italiani non avrebbero lanciato bombe. Il venerdì di Pasqua Kerry, presidente della Commissione esteri del Senato statunitense, giunse in Italia per conferire privatamente con Berlusconi. La domenica successiva Obama telefonò a Berlusconi. Il giorno dopo, anche l’Italia diede il via ai bombardamenti. Questo significa avere sovranità limitata. Sovranità che oggi è proprio azzerata.&lt;br /&gt;Bisogna riflettere sulle alleanze. La Francia e la Gran Bretagna, in Libia, hanno fatto i loro interessi. Parigi ha scelto di tenere la propria flotta fuori dal controllo della NATO, perché alla testa di quest’ultima c’era un ammiraglio italiano. Il mondo è cambiato, bisogna riconoscerlo e guardare al nostro interesse nazionale. Oggi ci sono paesi pronti a tutto per un contratto petrolifero. Quando Sarkozy decise d’attaccare la Libia, gli aerei francesi sorvolarono l’Italia senza nemmeno chiederci il permesso. Questi sono competitori, non alleati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Lei è un “euro-scettico”, vero?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;L’Europa non c’è mai stata. Sono vent’anni che seguo guerre sul campo, e l’Europa non l’ho mai vista, se non nelle chiacchiere e nei regolamenti astrusi. Persino nei Balcani l’Europa si è dimostrata incapace, ed ha dovuto far intervenire la NATO. Non c’è un sentimento europeo. E l’Europa non è democratica: nessuno l’ha votata. Gli unici due referendum costituzionali li ha persi, per poi scavalcarli tramite il voto dei parlamenti. La verità è che oggi qualcuno sta riuscendo là dove non era riuscito Napoleone coi granatieri e Hitler coi panzer. Germania e Francia, con lo &lt;em&gt;spread&lt;/em&gt;, stanno creando un impero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Berlino e Parigi riusciranno a mantenere congiuntamente questo “impero”? O alla fine si scontreranno per il potere?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Oggi vi sono due assi in Europa. Il primo è quello franco-britannico sulla Difesa: lanciano progetti che poi si rifiutano di condividere col resto dell’UE. Il secondo è il direttorio economico franco-tedesco. Ma mentre gli USA prima realizzarono l’unione degli Stati tramite la guerra d’indipendenza e poi costruirono le istituzioni federali, noi europei prima abbiamo creato le istituzioni e la moneta unica, e poi stiamo pensando a costituire l’unione politica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Certo però che bisogna porsi il problema dell’alternativa all’Unione Europea. In questo mondo che viaggia verso il multipolarismo, in cui la tendenza evidente è all’integrazione regionale, come potrebbe l’Italia, da sola, sperare di conservare la sua sovranità, dovendo competere con grandi potenze semi-continentali o con possenti costruzioni integrate?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Io voglio mantenere l’UE, perché ha alcune cose positive, come il libero scambio interno. Ma la Turchia, fuori dall’UE, sta costruendo un suo “impero”, grazie ad una classe politica che ha il coraggio di muoversi su scala regionale in maniera vincente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Ma lei, da esperto militare, saprà bene che non si possono guardare solo le cifre. Certo, come PIL nominale l’Italia è anche più forte della Turchia. Ma la Turchia ha una coesione morale, una vitalità popolare, un entusiasmo che mancano all’Italia, un paese declinante sotto molti punti di vista. Ecco perché ci servirebbe un’alternativa all’UE, se non vogliamo più restarvi o se dovesse crollare nostro malgrado. Dove trovarla? Forse proprio in un asse mediterraneo con la Turchia, per gestire ed arrangiare congiuntamente il nuovo volto del nostro mare?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Non è necessario uscire dall’Europa ma mettere in discussione questo tipo d’Europa, puntando senza compromessi a garantire i nostri interessi nazionali specie nell’area mediterranea. Non possiamo diventare un lander sgangherato della Germania, o un “territorio d’Oltremare” francese. Ci manca purtroppo una classe politica capace di decisioni forti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Daniele Scalea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.geopolitica-rivista.org/"&gt;www.geopolitica-rivista.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.geopolitica-rivista.org/15559/litalia-e-sotto-occupazione-straniera-incontro-con-gianandrea-gaiani/"&gt;http://www.geopolitica-rivista.org/15559/litalia-e-sotto-occupazione-straniera-incontro-con-gianandrea-gaiani/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;12.01.2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-8419807428832504427?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8419807428832504427/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/litalia-e-sotto-occupazione-straniera.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8419807428832504427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8419807428832504427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/litalia-e-sotto-occupazione-straniera.html' title='L&apos;Italia è &quot;sotto occupazione&quot; straniera? Incontro con Gianandrea Gaiani'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eLt65442kc/TxMBMlDOLsI/AAAAAAAAEhU/iOJjpEJJ6r0/s72-c/gianandrea_gaiani.r3w79nvgi4g48488gkocgs8w.brydu4hw7fso0k00sowcc8ko4.th.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-5440651896729848980</id><published>2012-01-15T12:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:53:00.158+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>E io urino sulla vostra "civiltà"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTBP7ldN5Ww/TxK-E0Z6gJI/AAAAAAAAEhI/Wncxx7Pnl7U/s1600/marines-urinano-cadaveri-afgani.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTBP7ldN5Ww/TxK-E0Z6gJI/AAAAAAAAEhI/Wncxx7Pnl7U/s400/marines-urinano-cadaveri-afgani.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697825468573188242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;di Massimo Fini - 15/01/2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;La cultura superiore. Piscia sui cadaveri dei nemici uccisi, piscia sui prigionieri, dopo averli denudati, derisi, fotografati, portati in giro in carriola per renderli più ridicoli, piscia sui loro simboli religiosi. Pisciano i soldati della cultura superiore, quasi spurgo simbolico del marciume del mondo cui appartengono, ma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; non sanno più combattere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;. Per questo il più potente, moderno, sofisticato, tecnologico, robotico esercito che abbia mai calcato la scena, dopo dieci anni di occupazione sta perdendo la partita in Afghanistan ed è costretto a pietire dal nemico una qualsiasi ‘exit strategy’ che mascheri la vergognosa sconfitta. Che oltre, e prima, che militare è morale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;I Talebani sono feroci e crudeli in battaglia, certo, ma non pisciano sui nemici uccisi, non pisciano sui prigionieri ma li trattano, finché conservano questo status, con rispetto e, se sono stranieri, come ospiti. Possono uccidere, e uccidono, ma non torturano. Hanno conservato il senso di sé e della propria e altrui dignità, valori prepolitici, prereligiosi, di cui la cultura superiore si è completamente svuotata. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Hanno provato a corromperli in tutti i modi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;, i Talebani, ma non ci sono riusciti. Sulla testa del Mullah Omar, il loro capo indiscusso, pende una taglia di 25 milioni di dollari, ma in dieci anni non si è trovato un solo afghano disposto a tradirlo per una cifra che è enorme in sé e quasi inconcepibile da quelle parti. Nella cultura superiore uomini ricchi e potenti si vendono per un soggiorno in albergo, per un affitto, per un viaggio in aereo, per una nota spese mentre le donne, libere donne non oppresse dalla necessità, si fan comprare per 1.000 euro o poco più.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;La Cia è arrivata al ridicolo di offrire agli anziani capi tribali afghani, che han molte mogli, il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Viagra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;. A questi livelli si è abbassata la cultura superiore. Gli occidentali son sempre pronti ad accusare i propri nemici di perpetrare stupri (nel caso dei Talebani cosa ridicola, esclusa proprio dalla loro sessuofobia) ma non fanno che proiettare, come si dice in psicoanalisi, la propria ombra. Se i Talebani sono sessuofobi, gli occidentali sono sessuomani, ma non per un eccesso di virilità, bensì per il suo contrario, per impotenza, per estenuazione e son costretti a volare a Phuket per trarre, violando bambine, dal loro membro floscio, oltre che piscio, una goccia di sperma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Gli occidentali, affogati nella grascia del benessere,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; non sono più abituati al combattimento&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; in senso proprio. Il sudore e la ferocia del corpo a corpo gli fa orrore, la vista del sangue, se non è televisivo, li manda in deliquio. Appena possono i loro soldati evitano il combattimento. Usano quasi esclusivamente i caccia e i bombardieri contro un nemico che non ha aerei né contraerea ed è quindi inerme. E se in qualche caso vengono coinvolti in uno scontro ravvicinato, e subiscono le pesanti perdite che quotidianamente, con tranquilla coscienza, infliggono agli altri, lo sentono come un affronto, una slealtà, una vigliaccata, qualcosa di cui sdegnarsi, un atto illegittimo e immorale. Per la cultura superiore è &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;morale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; invece che aerei-robot colpiscano e uccidano teleguidati a diecimila chilometri di distanza da piloti che non corrono alcun rischio, nemmeno quello di infangarsi le scarpe. Dall’altra parte ci sono, all’opposto, uomini, armati quasi solo del proprio corpo, del proprio coraggio, della feroce determinazione a difendere i propri valori, giusti o sbagliati che siano, e che, per questo, si implicano totalmente. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti Barak Obama ha detto: “Se potessi farei combattere solo i robot per risparmiare le vite dei nostri soldati”. Ma è il combattente che non combatte a perdere ogni legittimità, ogni dignità e onore. Questa è la cultura superiore. Io ci piscio sopra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.ariannaeditrice.it/"&gt;Arianna Editrice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ariannaeditrice.it/articolo.php?id_articolo=41965"&gt;http://www.ariannaeditrice.it/articolo.php?id_articolo=41965&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-5440651896729848980?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5440651896729848980/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/e-io-urino-sulla-vostra-civilta.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5440651896729848980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/5440651896729848980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/e-io-urino-sulla-vostra-civilta.html' title='E io urino sulla vostra &quot;civiltà&quot;'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTBP7ldN5Ww/TxK-E0Z6gJI/AAAAAAAAEhI/Wncxx7Pnl7U/s72-c/marines-urinano-cadaveri-afgani.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-216011450796730164</id><published>2012-01-15T12:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:30:45.028+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>Iran Sends Letter in Response to Attacks on Nuclear Scientists</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; line-height: 1.25; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Tehran is claiming to have evidence that the assassinations are the work of the CIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;by John Glaser, January 14, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Iran said on Saturday &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/14/us-iran-idUSTRE80D0NI20120114" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;it has evidence that the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist&lt;/a&gt; was orchestrated, at least in part, by the Washington and the CIA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iran-12.gif" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;img class="alignright size-full wp-image-24962" title="" src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iran-12.gif" alt="" width="332" height="353" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 18px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Iranian nuclear scientist, 32-year old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/11/iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-in-car-bomb-attack/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;was killed on Tuesday by a magnetic bomb placed on his car by two unidentified assailants&lt;/a&gt; in northern Tehran. The attack, the fifth attack of its kind in two years, is &lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/01/13/is-assassinating-iranian-nuclear-scientists-characteristic-of-the-mossad/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;widely believed&lt;/a&gt; to have been the work of some combination of U.S. and Israeli covert operations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The U.S. has denied involvement in the attack. But in a letter to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, which represents the U.S. in Iran, the Iranian foreign ministry wrote “We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Iranian State TV also said another “letter of condemnation” had been sent to Britain, saying the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists began following an announcement by the head of Britain’s spy agency, MI6, operations against states seeking nuclear weapons would be taking place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;The rather calm, diplomatic reaction on the part of Iran has been difficult for foreign policy hawks to internalize. Sending a letter to the Swiss Embassy in response to international terrorist attacks, crippling sanctions, and provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf does not leave much room for hawks to paint Iran as the aggressor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span  &gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/14/iran-sends-letter-in-response-to-attacks-on-nuclear-scientists/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/14/iran-sends-letter-in-response-to-attacks-on-nuclear-scientists/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-216011450796730164?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/216011450796730164/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-sends-letter-in-response-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/216011450796730164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/216011450796730164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-sends-letter-in-response-to.html' title='Iran Sends Letter in Response to Attacks on Nuclear Scientists'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-8396187284725383790</id><published>2012-01-15T12:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:28:29.030+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israele'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>US Worries About Impending Preemptive Israeli Strike on Iran</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 id="pagesub" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; line-height: 1.25; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Some argue Israel would not bother to get clearance from US before launching a military attack on Iran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(120, 120, 120); top: -1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;by John Glaser, January 14, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel will take military action against Iran despite U.S. objections and are beefing up U.S. facilities in the region in case of a regional conflict, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=u.s.%20warns%20israel%20on%20strike&amp;amp;source=newssearch&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CDEQqQIwAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052970204409004577159202556087074.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj&amp;amp;ctbm=nws&amp;amp;ei=XQcRT-eCO-jYiQKE-cjuAQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHL-RptCj396jkSbrXvkeITNjZEPQ&amp;amp;cad=rja" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;according to the &lt;em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have privately sought assurances from Israeli leaders in recent weeks that they will not unilaterally attack Iran, but the Israeli response has so far been evasive, U.S. officials said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;The U.S. believes its military bases and personnel in neighboring Iraq, for example, would be vulnerable if war did break out and so is keeping its Embassy in Baghdad on alert. The U.S. has also sent a second aircraft carrier strike group to accompany its 15,000 troops based in Kuwait. Arms transfers to key allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, et al., have been sped up in recent months as a further deterrent to Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;The renewed concern of an aggressive Israeli strike comes after an Iranian nuclear scientist who supervised a department at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility was &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/11/iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-in-car-bomb-attack/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;killed by a bomb placed on his car by two assailants&lt;/a&gt; in northern Tehran. The act, which has a series of similar precedents, is &lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/01/13/is-assassinating-iranian-nuclear-scientists-characteristic-of-the-mossad/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;widely believed&lt;/a&gt; to be the work of U.S. or Israeli intelligence agencies, or both.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;There is no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, and the &lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/31/no-evidence-of-iranian-weapons-program-despite-rhetoric/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;opinion of&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/11/30/recap-iran-presents-no-threat-isnt-building-a-bomb-and-war-would-mean-reckless-disaster/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;U.S. intelligence community&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/10/goal-of-iran-sanctions-is-regime-change-us-official-says/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Obama administration&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/08/iaea-iranian-nuclear-explosive-development-may-still-be-ongoing/&amp;amp;sa=U&amp;amp;ei=qwINT_eoIofatwfB0P24BQ&amp;amp;ved=0CAYQFjAB&amp;amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFuFKCuujRTlj37P9sds0jCDALuLQv" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;the latest IAEA report&lt;/a&gt; is that Iran’s enrichment is so far civilian in nature. Additionally, Iran has agreed to host a delegation of United Nations nuclear inspectors this month, following up on &lt;a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2012/01/09/the-buried-lede-on-iran-all-nuclear-sites-routinely-inspected-no-violations/" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;continuous inspections in recent years&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Still, the U.S. posture has remained aggressive, even if the leadership is hesitant to start another war. Harsh U.S.-led economic sanctions that have been placed on Iran in addition to &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://original.antiwar.com/jglaser/2011/05/17/secret-war-on-iran-may-hurt-reform-movement/&amp;amp;sa=U&amp;amp;ei=Vc0RT_rwLITXtweJ6f23DA&amp;amp;ved=0CAgQFjAC&amp;amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHnDSbJh0l7fCx2EzS6Oojs4XmK3Q" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;a covert war&lt;/a&gt; consisting of cyber-attacks, commercial sabotage, and support for rebel groups inside Iran aimed at undermining the regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Writing in the &lt;em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/em&gt;, Micah Zenko, a fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, &lt;a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/30/opinion/oe-zenko30" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;maintains&lt;/a&gt; that “if Israel attempts such a high-risk and destabilizing strike against Iran, President Obama will probably learn of the operation from CNN rather than the CIA. History shows that although Washington seeks influence over Israel’s military operations, Israel would rather explain later than ask for approval in advance of launching preventive or preemptive attacks.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/14/us-worries-about-impending-preemptive-israeli-strike-on-iran/"&gt;http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/14/us-worries-about-impending-preemptive-israeli-strike-on-iran/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8395442578277644349-8396187284725383790?l=smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8396187284725383790/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/some-argue-israel-would-not-bother-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8396187284725383790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8395442578277644349/posts/default/8396187284725383790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallworldnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/some-argue-israel-would-not-bother-to.html' title='US Worries About Impending Preemptive Israeli Strike on Iran'/><author><name>Mauro Pennacchietti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01143105564158408271</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7CgMaCC8AMo/TcgfTf3DZqI/AAAAAAAADBw/Xh0f_azn1m0/s220/20091128_DSC04246quadrata.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395442578277644349.post-8227113808575604082</id><published>2012-01-15T12:22:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:24:20.167+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pentagon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military'/><title type='text'>The Navy Is Depending on Dolphins to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-soQ-saSVnuk/TxK3WlTv8LI/AAAAAAAAEg8/CoiReS5hd3s/s1600/military-dolphin2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 302px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-soQ-saSVnuk/TxK3WlTv8LI/AAAAAAAAEg8/CoiReS5hd3s/s400/military-dolphin2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697818077177049266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069219" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt;By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="fn" id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069533" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt;John Hudson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt; | &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="provider org" id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069536" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt;The Atlantic Wire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt; – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;abbr title="2012-01-13T20:36:18+00:00" id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069516" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: 12px; line-height: 26px; "&gt;Fri, Jan 13, 2012&lt;/abbr&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069219" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069219" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;If &lt;span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1326466936_0" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); "&gt;Iran&lt;/span&gt; closes the &lt;span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1326466936_1" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); "&gt;Strait of Hormuz&lt;/span&gt;, the U.S. Navy has a backup plan to save one-fifth of the world's daily oil trade: &lt;em&gt;send in the dolphins&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069352" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;small&gt;[RELATED: &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AiEufUXDny.ag60TV0R4D7q1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqMDgxZXM0BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwYmwwZmkwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWQ0MjkxZTMtYjRjZC0zNjM3LWI1MTAtZGUzYTMwMmY2YjEwBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13t3bee4v/EXP=1327835737/**http%3A//www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/irans-threat-close-strait-hormuz-isnt-entirely-empty/47025/" rel="nofollow" id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069351" style="color: rgb(93, 67, 112); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Iran's Threat to Close Strait of Hormuz Isn't Entirely Empty]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;The threat of Iran closing the strait has reached a fever pitch, reports today's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069360" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AlmQqENW1iWHBESrndTOHha1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaWd2Ymg3BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzIEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwYmwwZmkwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWQ0MjkxZTMtYjRjZC0zNjM3LWI1MTAtZGUzYTMwMmY2YjEwBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13lfnu9dp/EXP=1327835737/**http%3A//www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/report-us-warns-iranians-secret-back-channel/47370/" rel="nofollow" id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069359" style="color: rgb(93, 67, 112); text-decoration: none; "&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; with U.S. officials warning Iran's supreme leader that such moves would cross a "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AoBNbGX16q13DBRiY1GZiMK1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaTNjbzlmBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwYmwwZmkwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWQ0MjkxZTMtYjRjZC0zNjM3LWI1MTAtZGUzYTMwMmY2YjEwBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=1462unegt/EXP=1327835737/**http%3A//www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/middleeast/us-warns-top-iran-leader-not-to-shut-strait-of-hormuz.html%3Fhp" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(93, 67, 112); text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;red line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;" provoking a U.S. response. Iran could block the strait with any assortment of mines, armed speed boats or anti-ship cruise missiles but according to Michael Connell at the Center for Naval Analysis, “The immediate issue [for the U.S. military] is to get the mines.” To solve that problem, the Navy has a solution that isn't heavily-advertised but has a time-tested success rate: mine-detecting dolphins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069510" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;small&gt;[RELATED: &lt;/small&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AkOMjG.xlxEDYh7gEfW9Ibi1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqc2Fobm1zBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwYmwwZmkwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWQ0MjkxZTMtYjRjZC0zNjM3LWI1MTAtZGUzYTMwMmY2YjEwBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13qpcrirq/EXP=1327835737/**http%3A//www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/01/this-crisis-iran-exactly-why-we-have-oil-reserves/47094/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(93, 67, 112); text-decoration: none; "&gt;This Crisis with Iran Is Exactly Why We Have Oil Reserves]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;"We've got dolphins," said retired Adm. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1326466936_2" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;Tim Keating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; in a Wednesday &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AsW0ncW.tSH07Dqv27lR76m1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaGFmbHBnBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzUEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwYmwwZmkwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMWQ0MjkxZTMtYjRjZC0zNjM3LWI1MTAtZGUzYTMwMmY2YjEwBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=12ub4h49c/EXP=1327835737/**http%3A//www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php%3FstoryId=145051055" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(93, 67, 112); text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt; with NPR. Keating commanded the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain during the run-up to the Iraq war. He sounded uncomfortable with elaborating on the Navy's use of the lovable mammals but said in a situation like the standoff in Hormuz, Navy-trained dolphins would come in handy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069364" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 26px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 25px; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069375" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;KEATING: They are astounding in their ability to detect underwater objects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069372" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;NPR's TOM BOWMAN: Dolphins were sent to the Persian Gulf as part of the American invasion force in Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069367" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;KEATING: I'd rather not talk about whether we used them or not. They were present in theater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069363" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;BOWMAN: But you can't say whether you used them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id="yui_3_3_0_18_1326626141069378" style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;KEATING: I'd rather not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p id="y
