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<title><![CDATA[Sicilia 2008 _ Fascio-Mafia - Libertà : 1-0 - Sostegno a Carlo Ruta!]]></title>
<link>http://gigionetworking.wordpress.com/?p=837</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Io sostengo

Carlo Ruta

Carlo Ruta è un giornalista siciliano, e scrive in un blog, il suo.
Anzi ]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000000;">Io sostengo</span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><br />
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<h1 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Carlo Ruta</span></h1>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Carlo Ruta</strong> è un giornalista siciliano, e scrive in un blog, il suo.</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Anzi “<em><strong>scriveva</strong></em>”<br />
perché è stato <strong>chiuso</strong>. </span></h3>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">L’8 maggio scorso è stato <strong>condannato </strong> (<a href="http://www.penale.it/page.asp?mode=1&#38;IDPag=692" target="_blank">leggi la sentenza</a>) dal Giudice penale, per il reato di <strong>stampa clandestina</strong> previsto dall’<a title="Consulta la legge" href="http://www.interlex.it/testi/l48_47.htm#16" target="_blank">art. 16 della legge sulla stampa del 1948</a> per non aver eseguito la registrazione del proprio sito web <a href="http://www.accadeinsicilia.net/" target="_blank">www.accadeinsicilia.net</a> presso la cancelleria del tribunale. Trattasi di una disposizione di <strong>legge del tutto fuori tempo e inconciliabile</strong> con le nuove forme di comunicazione introdotte con la rivoluzione portata dalla Rete. Soprattutto deve ritenersi incostituzionale perché il diritto di informare la costituzione lo riserva a tutti e non solo alla carta stampata che ha registrato il proprio marchio al tribunale.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L’onorevole <strong>Giulietti</strong>, deputato eletto nell’ Idv e portavoce dell’associazione <strong>Articolo 21</strong>, ha già chiesto al Ministro della giustizia tramite un'<a title="Leggi l'interrogazione parlamentare di Beppe Giulietti" href="http://banchedati.camera.it/sindacatoispettivo_16/showXhtml.Asp?idAtto=1183&#38;stile=6&#38;highLight=1&#38;paroleContenute=%27INTERROGAZIONE+A+RISPOSTA+SCRITTA%27+%7C+%27CAMERA%27" target="_blank">interrogazione a risposta scritta</a> di rivedere la disciplina della materia affinché non si lasci spazio alla censura.<br />
Quanto accaduto è un atto grave, anzi gravissimo ed è accaduto in una regione dove l’omertà è l’humus su cui cresce e prolifera l’arroganza della malavita organizzata.<br />
Sia chiaro, la colpa non è del giudice che ha dovuto applicare la legge, ma del legislatore che quando gli fa comodo <strong>finge di non vedere</strong> alcune norme desuete e superate.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Molti lettori del blog e sostenitori di <strong>Facebook </strong>mi hanno segnalato la petizione<br />
del sito <a title="Firma anche tu l'appello per Carlo Ruta" href="http://www.censurati.it/voxpeople/carloruta/" target="_blank">http://www.censurati.it/voxpeople/carloruta/</a> per Ruta, invito i lettori ad aderire, <strong>anche io l’ho fatto</strong>.<br />
Non basta. Ho disposto il deposito di un'ulteriore interrogazione affinché venga accelerato il processo di revisione della legge.<br />
Pubblicherò la risposta che mi verrà data, se mi verrà data. Altrimenti <strong>mi sentiranno</strong>.
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<p style="text-align:right;"><em><strong>Tratto e diffuso da: <a title="Sicilia - Terzo mondo d'Italia!" href="http://www.antoniodipietro.com/2008/09/una_piccola_censura_ma_importa.html" target="_blank">www.antoniodipietro.it</a></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>P.S</strong>. Ci toccherà mica tenerci vergogne semoventi come Vittorio Feltri, Feronimo l'anonimo e spazzature simili per sempre? Se ogni anima libera da lacci e lacciuli sti maiali la fottono sistematicamente questo è il pericolo. Io il mio bastone l'ho qui accanto a me, quando vogliamo cominciare a suonargliene di santa ragione, non sarà mai troppo presto. Per ora firmiamo in massa la petizione per far sentire ai maiali che i bastoni battono il selciato frementi, e c'è ancora qualcuno qui nel terzo mondo d'europa che si indigna!</p>
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<title><![CDATA["POVERO" ALDO.....]]></title>
<link>http://maik07.wordpress.com/?p=2047</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Già! Se oggi Cataldo Naro fosse ancora vivo,avrebbe fatto volare i tavoli in aria. Poichè è mo]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Già! Se oggi Cataldo Naro fosse ancora vivo,avrebbe fatto volare i tavoli in aria. Poichè è morto, si rivolta nella tomba. A cosa intendo riferirmi? Al convegno fatto stamane,presso una borgata storica ,a Gomorra,la città del grande peccato, denominato “Santità e Legalità”. Un progetto che è partito male e che è finito peggio. Voluto da Cataldo Naro,il progetto aveva la grande finalità di fare riscoprire alcune figure di santità che nel tempo si sono consolidate nel territorio unitamente ad alcuni martiri per la giustizia,cioè a coloro che sono stati uccisi dalla mafia in ottemperanza ai loro doveri istituzionali.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Il tutto per affermare che,come diceva Cataldo Naro,è arrivato il tempo di combattere la mafia e il malaffare con le categorie proprie del Vangelo e con le figure di santità.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><strong>L’amministrazione di Gomorra ha capito tutto!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Innanzitutto, hanno organizzato il convegno all’indomani della notte bianca:folla oceanica alla notte bianca e,con tutto il rispetto,quattro gatti al convegno. Poi invitando un personaggio,che io da tempo,chiamo</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>IL TUTTOLOGO,</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>(cioè è un grande pensatore di come far passare l'acqua da fredda a calda!!!)<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal">il quale nella sua grandiosa ONNISCIENZA INNATA, non ha osato proferire il nome di Mons.Cataldo Naro come ispiratore del progetto. Perché? Semplice:Ormai è morto e se lo sono tolto di mezzo ed è ritornato il far west! Così il tutto si è concluso a tarallucce e vino. Mi spiego meglio. Apprendiamo da fonti giornalistiche autentiche,che la manifestazione continuerà stasera,sempre alla borgata con uno spettacolo per giovani. Avete capito il grande rigore morale della nuova amministrazione di Gomorra? Utilizzare i fondi del ministero degli interni che ha finanziato il progetto (20 mila euro) per spenderli a tarallucce e vino.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>Viva la legalitè!</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">E la santità che fine ha fatto,dico nel convegno? Boh!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>cercasi Santità......</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grazie Sig.Tuttologo,Sig Sindaco,Sig.ri Assessori alla Legalità e alla Cuttura di Gomorra!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Povero Aldo,hai perso la tua giovane vita per provare a spalare la troppa me….. al punto tale che ti è scoppiato il tuo generoso cuore. E,adesso,quattro sciacalli si prendono gioco di te e delle tue straordinarie idee poiché incapaci di capirle e di attualizzarle.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oggi sei stato,ancora una volta,AGGREDITO E MALTRATTATO.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Castellammare: trasparenza vo cercando ch'è si rara !]]></title>
<link>http://diarioelettorale.wordpress.com/?p=341</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Qui si raccoglie l'<strong>appello del Presidente del Senato</strong> onorevole avvocato <strong>Renato Schifani</strong>, il quale, a margine della  cerimonia di commemorazione del Generale Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, svoltasi a Palermo il 3 settembre scorso nel sedicesimo anniversario della uccisione da parte di un commando mafioso, ha affermato: “<strong>La mafia si combatte anche con la trasparenza degli atti amministrativi</strong>”.</p>
<p>Una dichiarazione autorevole e rilevante in considerazione che <strong>sono proprio le pubbliche amministrazione a dare i peggiori esempi, arrivando persino a disattendere lo spirito delle leggi vigenti in materia di trasparenza</strong>.</p>
<p>Fra queste, le assemblee legislative, tra le quali il Parlamento siciliano, che dopo avere atteso ben 18 anni, infine ha disciplinato male, con il regolamento dell'accesso, i diritti all'informazione dei siciliani.</p>
<p>Un documento, firmato da 57 giornalisti, segnala che <strong>in un articolo del Regolamento vengono elencati almeno venti casi di esclusione dall’accesso che di fatto vanificano il principio di trasparenza </strong>e pertanto chiedono la revisione del Regolamento, al fine di garantire l'effettiva trasparenza dell’attività amministrativa.</p>
<p>I 57 giornalisti hanno esteso la loro richiesta di trasparenza a tutte le amministrazioni locali siciliane, al fine di rendere effettivo il diritto all'informazione sull'attività di Regione, Province e Comuni.</p>
<p>In quanto al <strong>Comune di Castellammare del Golfo</strong>, nell'attesa che l'autorevole appello del Presidente del Senato venga raccolto, <strong>si segnala che</strong> dalla pubblicazione di <a href="http://diarioelettorale.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/la-casa-di-vetro/">questo</a> post, <strong>nulla è cambiato</strong>.</p>
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<p>*** <em>"Or ti piaccia gradir la sua venuta: libertà va cercando, ch'è sì cara, come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta". Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, Canto I</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[made in Hollywood ]]></title>
<link>http://af11.wordpress.com/?p=113</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>af11</dc:creator>
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Although  his  Mob bosses  were  based  in  the  Big Apple,  Gambino-made-mobster,  Guido]]></description>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://af11.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/a-mobster.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-119" title="a-mobster" src="http://af11.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/a-mobster.jpg" alt="" width="128" height="127" /></a>Although  his  Mob bosses  were  based  in  the  Big Apple,  Gambino-made-mobster,  Guido  "The Bull"  Penosi, preferred  running  his  mob  business   from Mirabelle's   restaurant, located  on  Hollywood's, Sunset Strip....Penosi operated low-key,and </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:small;">lone-wolf-like -- while  he  brokered  big-league drug  deals.-- extorted  entertainers -- and  committed  countless  other. crimes. ... FB.I  agent's  accurately  pegged  Penosi  as a  man   who got-things-done.   The "Bull"  was a cash-cow   for  his east  coast  Capo's -- but  he had  never given as  much  as  a  crumb to  the  Los Angeles  mob in  the way  of tribute.. That changed when  he  cut  Milano, made  Mobster, Anthony  "The Animal " Fiato,  in for a big piece of his "sky-is-the-limit". poker game  that was located in a ritzy  Sunset Strip high-rise .. As L.A...Mafia boss Pete Milano was counting his end from the poker game an F.B.I.bug picked up Milano praising Fiato to capo Louie Gelfuso saying , " </span><span style="font-size:medium;">finally someone knows how to get things done the right way in this Family" --Anthony is  worth  ten  men."</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Outing Civile - Sandra Amurri]]></title>
<link>http://espressionilibere.wordpress.com/?p=142</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>taniaolaf</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Adesione all&#8217;inizia di Outing Civile con Sandra Amurri.
Sandra Amurri, candidata come capogrup]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adesione all'inizia di Outing Civile con Sandra Amurri.</p>
<p>Sandra Amurri, candidata come capogruppo al Senato per l'Italia dei Valori alle elezioni del 2006, è una giornalista che ha iniziato a scrivere al settimanale <strong>Epoca</strong>, poi <strong>Panorama</strong>, il <strong>Corriere della Sera</strong>, La <strong>Repubblica</strong> e <strong>L'Unità</strong>. Fa parte della Fondazione Antonino Caponnetto e Giovanni e Francesca Morvillo. Ha scritto il libro "L'albero Falcone". Si è sempre occupata di inchieste su mafia, politica, pubblici appalti. Ha perduto l'amica del cuore, Maria Grazia Cutuli, giornalista del Corriere della Sera uccisa in <strong>Afganistan</strong>. Eppure ogni volta che partivo per qualche inchiesta delicata era sempre lei a raccomandarmi di stare attenta», ricorda la Amurri. Ma ha anche visto morire i giudici <strong>Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino</strong> raccogliendo le loro ultime parole, veri e propri testamenti. «Così come non riesco a dimenticare -dice - i tanti giovani eroi quotidiani che rischiano la vita per uno stipendio ridicolo in nome e per conto di una divisa e di un ideale. Come Manuela Loi, bella come il sole, agente di scorta di Borsellino ammazzata con lui». Ha fatto in India l'ultima intervista <strong>a Madre Teresa di Calcutta</strong> prima che morisse.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Itália: ‘Ndrangheta, a máfia calabresa que controla 80% do tráfico mundial de cocaína]]></title>
<link>http://correiointernacional.wordpress.com/?p=283</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cinternacional</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Le Nouvel Observateur
Graças a negociações com os colombianos, a ‘Ndrangheta prospera. Familiar]]></description>
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<p>Graças a negociações com os colombianos, a ‘Ndrangheta prospera. Familiar e sangrenta, ela se infiltrou na Europa e não para de crescer.</p>
<p>A Cosa Nostra e sua prima longínqua, a ‘Ndrangheta, estão se preparando para agir. A Sicília e a Calábria, seus respectivos bastiões, serão brevemente ligadas por uma das maiores pontes suspensas do mundo. Uma imensa obra de arte que correrá por 3,3 km sobre o Estreito de Merssina. As duas máfias estão menos preocupadas com as proezas tecnológicas do que com a ponte de ouro que representa este investimento de 6 bilhões de Euros. Terceirizações, expropriações, desvios diversos e variados... Esta passarela jogada entre as duas famosas armadilhas de Caríbdis e Cila deveria permitir mensurar a potência de dois monstros da mitologia moderna. E, neste exercício, não é certo que seja a ‘Ndrangheta quem perca.</p>
<p>Nós a víamos como uma organização folclórica, selvagem e limitada a sua terra natal, especializada em seqüestros dignos de outra época. No dia 15 de agosto de 2007, ela ingressou no grupo dos grandes do crime organizado com um massacre em Duisburgo, na Alemanha. Seis mortes, todos jovens <em>mafiosi</em> emigrados na República Federal [Alemã] e abatidos a tiros de metralhadora em nome de uma <em>faida</em>, uma antiga vingança entre famílias calabresas. Neste dia, o mundo descobriu uma máfia ultramoderna, que havia investido em redes de pizzarias, que possuía um verdadeiro capital imobiliário, sobretudo nos países do Leste [Europeu], e lavava o dinheiro sujo em grande escala. Desde então, o chefe do principal clã familiar, Guiseppe Nirta, foi detido. Outras detenções seguiram: financeiros, armeiros... 52 prisões ao todo. Embora sangrada, a organização não foi decapitada. Longe disso.</p>
<p>A ‘Ndrangheta (do grego <em>andraghatos</em>: homem valoroso!) é um império que reivindica 7 mil afiliados. Como confirma o historiador Enzo Ciconte, ela "controla 80% do tráfico mundial de cocaína". Ela superou a Cosa Nostra junto aos traficantes colombianos. Seu faturamento foi avaliado em 44 bilhões de Euros em 2007, seja 3,5% do PIB italiano, segundo o instituto Eurispes. Mais que qualquer outra organização, ela tem capacidade de realizar, hoje, todo o tipo de transação internacional, lavar o dinheiro da droga, coletar um "imposto", o <em>pizzo</em>, e oferecer oportunidades inesperadas de lucro e prosperidade social em um contexto onde o desemprego alcança 30% dos jovens. Uma influência adquirida lentamente, na sombra, no silêncio e no medo.</p>
<p>A administração Bush incluiu no início de junho a ‘Ndrangheta em sua lista das organizações criminosas mais perigosas. <em>"A Europa e o mundo estão lotados de ‘ndranghetistas", confirma Ciconte. "Na Alemanha, na Holanda, na Espanha e mesmo na França (Juan-les-Pins, Nice, Saint-Etienne), sem esquecer o Canadá, a América Latina e a Austrália"</em>. Como explicar esse formidável sucesso? Primeiro, o declínio da Cosa Nostra sobre o mercado do crime. A velha máfia siciliana perdeu sua credibilidade após a prisão de diversos de seus integrantes, o que decapitou a organização (seus principais chefes estão presos, de Toto Riina a Bernardo Provenzano, passando pelo herdeiro designado, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, preso ano passado em Palermo). Um <em>pizzino</em> (bilhete) assinado por Mateo Messina Denaro, um dos raros chefes a ter escapado à prisão, resume a situação em 2006: <em>"Logo, não haverá mais ninguém... vão prender até mesmo as cadeiras..."</em>. Mas, em razão de sua estrutura piramidal, quando um capomandamento - um chefe da Cosa Nostra - é detido, uma seção inteira da organização desmorona. Pior: o mafioso confessa tudo e se torna um arrependido, colaborando com o Estado.</p>
<p>Este é um risco que não assume a ‘Ndrangheta. Sua estrutura a base de locali territoriais, sem ligação ente si, dissuade os desejos de deserção. <em>"Não há arrependido na máfia calabresa, com exceção de dois colaboradores de pequena importância"</em>, lembra Nicolas Grattieri, o magistrado encarregado das investigações sobre Duisburgo. Mas além da compartimentação rígida, é a consangüinidade que salva a unidade da ‘Ndrangheta. Pode-se contar quatro gerações de casamentos cruzados desde 1900, o que reduz o risco de colaboração com a Justiça: não podemos entregar nossa própria família! Tudo isso contribui para forjar um organismo criminal tão sólido quando o granito. Um interlocutor sério e eficaz para os cartéis colombianos, que paga à vista os carregamentos de cocaína. As ligações se multiplicam por toda parte. <em>"Eu contei 24 hostéis-restaurante da ‘Ndrangheta na ‘zona vermelha' de Bogotá"</em>, confia o magistrado Grattieri. Estes calabreses imigrantes vivem como agentes convenientes, adianta. Eles têm contatos permanentes com as FARC [Forças armadas Revolucionárias Colombianas] e compram a "coca" no Cartel de Cali a 1.200 Euros por quilo, quando a matéria tem 98% de pureza. Mas, no mercado europeu, um grama de cocaína misturada custa 70 Euros. Podemos imaginar os lucros. Mas como lavar este dinheiro?</p>
<p>Aí, é preciso distinguir entre a reciclagem local e internacional. O primeiro caso é ilustrado de maneira exemplar pela cidade de Reggio, na Calábria, 190 mil habitantes na ponta da "bota". Corso Garibaldi: 2 Km de butiques ultra-chiques ao longo de uma via reservada aos pedestres. Pode-se adquirir o que há de melhor em matéria de moda e <em>design</em>: roupas assinadas por Valentino ou Calvin Klein, bolsas Vuitton ou móveis Armani. Mas estas butiques estão vazias. Ninguém compra nada. Um mistério logo explicado por Vicenzo Macri, magistrado:<em> "Estas lojas não são mais que vitrines. Pouco importa que não vendam nada. O proprietário emite a cada noite tíquetes de caixa como se houvesse vendas. E assim é lavado o dinheiro sujo da droga..."</em>.</p>
<p>Ao nível internacional, os <em>mafiosi</em> calabreses se apresentam como perfeitos homens de negócios. <em>"Consegui capturar seis que faziam tráfico de drogas entre a Bélgica, a Holanda e a França, movendo somas importantes de capitais. Eles falavam quatro línguas. E estavam irreconhecíveis para um calabrês como eu"</em>, conta Grattieri. <em>"A Europa está cheia de ‘ndranghetistas"</em>, confirma Salvatore Boemi, procurador adjunto de Reggio. Eles se apóiam sobre os locali, de aproximadamente 50 pessoas cada um, instalados de maneira fixa sobre o território. "Nós sabemos que há um <em>locali</em> em Nice, por exemplo", segue Boemi.</p>
<p>Mas segundo ele, é nos países do Leste que a ‘Ndrangheta se desenvolve mais rapidamente. Uma escuta telefônica já considerada velha, pois data de 1989, é explícita sobre esse assunto: <em>"Compre tudo!"</em>, diz um ‘ndranghetista a seu interlocutor. <em>"Tudo o que?"</em>, responde. <em>"Tudo: imóveis, cafés, restaurantes, hotéis. O Muro [de Berlim] caiu"</em>.</p>
<p>A ‘Ndrangheta sabe explorar as carências da legislação internacional e a má cooperação entre os serviços de policiamento. Com sua fabulosa mescla de arcaísmo (para os valores) e modernidade (para os métodos), ela se tornou a organização criminosa de ponta no Ocidente. "Espera-se que os governos europeus de dêem conta", dizem em coro os magistrados Boemi, Grattieri e Macri. Estes não são mais que combatentes solitários às máfias.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"> <strong><em>Marcelle Padovani</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Acesse o texto original clicando <a href="http://hebdo.nouvelobs.com/hebdo/parution/p2285/articles/a381497-.html" target="_blank">aqui</a>.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[PAKISTAN: ELDERLY CHRISTIAN KILLED IN AXE MURDER ]]></title>
<link>http://pbaptist.wordpress.com/?p=445</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Particular Kev</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Suspects haven’t been charged; politicians shielding them from prosecution.
ISTANBUL, September 4 ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:1.5pt;">Suspects haven’t been charged; politicians shielding them from prosecution.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">ISTANBUL, September 4</span></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;"> (Compass Direct News) – Four Pakistani Muslims killed an elderly woman with an axe over a dispute with her husband, who has been unable to prosecute them due to his low social status as a Christian. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Case workers said the alleged culprits targeted the couple for theft and later murder because they believed Pakistan’s legal system would not prosecute them for murdering Christians. The suspects’ connections to mafia and national politicians further emboldened them, they said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">“The Muslims assume the Christians are sheep and don’t have any weight,” said Sohail Johnson, case worker and chief coordinator of Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan (SLMP), a Non-Governmental Organization that supports Christian prisoners throughout the Punjab province. “The culprits thought, ‘[The Christians] have no voice. Nothing will happen if we do something,’” he said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Noban Bibi, 65, was killed on July 2 in Pakistan’s eastern Kasur province in the village of Khraper. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">The dispute that led to her murder started in January, when two men stole money and gold items from the couple. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">According to a First Instance Report, Yaqoob Shareef and Hadayat Ali broke into the house of Dara Masih, 85, while his wife was away in Lahore. They stole gold ornaments and 15,000 Pakistan rupees (US$200). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Masih demanded they return the stolen goods or he would prosecute them. The alleged culprits then began threatening to kill him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">On July 2 at 2:30 a.m. Shareef, Ali, and two unknown persons entered their house and killed Bibi with a pickaxe. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">An autopsy obtained by Compass said Bibi had multiple lacerations on her head, some nearly four inches long. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Johnson of SLMP said the alleged culprits believed they wouldn’t be prosecuted due to their connections to politicians and mafia. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Shareef, 36, and Ali, in his late 20s, are members of a criminal organization and have connections with local and national politicians that they are using to leverage the criminal justice system, said Shazhad Kamran, an SLMP case worker. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">“In Pakistan, politicians always need criminals to assert their power in an area,” Kamran said. “They always depend on criminals, and criminals depend on politicians to save them.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Bribery and ‘Dissimulation’ </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Masih nevertheless registered the murder with the local police. He could not convince local police officer Muhammad Akram to arrest Shareef and Ali, according to an SLMP report, because Akram received a bribe requiring him to threaten Masih to drop charges against them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Masih then took the case to a district police officer in Kasur, who arrested Ali and Sharif. The two suspects, however, have not been formally prosecuted. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">When the SLMP’s Johnson and Kamran approached Sub-Inspector Aslam Pistooly and Investigation Officer Malik Mansab Ali on Aug. 2, Pistooly claimed the two suspects were not guilty. To prove this, he said the accused would swear an oath of innocence in front of prominent Muslims at a mosque, the report said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Johnson and Kamran refused the offer for the suspects to do so, stating that swearing an oath at a mosque is not a part of Pakistani criminal investigation proceedings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Pistooly then became angry and told Johnson and Kamran, “If you are not satisfied that Muslims will go into the mosque and swear they are innocent, then if you can go into the church, put your hand on the Bible, and swear they are guilty, then I will make legal action against him,” according to Johnson. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Speaking by telephone from Kasum, Investigation Officer Ali, who was at the Aug. 2 meeting, said swearing an oath in a mosque as proof of innocence is illegal under Pakistani criminal law. Asked if Pistooly had asked the culprits to testify in a mosque, he told Compass he could not confirm it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">“I have not compelled any person to swear an oath in a mosque, and Pakistani law does not permit it,” he said through a translator. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">The SLMP case workers said the Muslim suspects wanted to swear an oath at the mosque to take advantage of an Islamic tradition that allows accused men to give false testimony when under threat. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Known as <em>Al Taqiyya</em> (dissimulation), this concept allows Muslims to conceal the truth at a time of danger to save themselves from physical or mental injury. In some traditions, <em>Al Taqiyya</em> can only be used when one is wrongfully accused. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">On Aug. 4 Punjab Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Kamran Michael transferred the case from the district police office to the Karsur superintendent of police. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">The SLMP case workers met with Kasur Superintendent of Police Rana Shahid Ahmed on Aug. 18. In their first meeting he was uncooperative and pressured Masih to drop all charges against the two suspects, the report said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Johnson said he believes justice will not come easily for Masih because the case has become an issue of pride for local Muslims. Members of Parliament are supporting the alleged criminals and putting pressure on police to find them innocent, he said, “just to save the skin of Muslims.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">The SLMP is now trying to move the investigation to the Criminal Investigation Agency. It will first file a complaint in a lower criminal court against the alleged culprits and police for not registering the case. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Kasur is an agricultural city located in the Punjab province with a long Islamic history. The area contains radical conservative Muslim elements, such as members of <em>Jamaat-Ud-Dawa</em>, a Pakistani charity that the U.S. State Department designated a terrorist organization in 2006. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">In recent years Christians in Kasur have faced charges of blasphemy against Islam, torture and forced conversion. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">In July 2007 Catholic prisoner Dil Awaiz was tortured, barred from teaching Bible classes to fellow Christian prisoners and placed in solitary confinement. He was released in April this year. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Human Rights and Minority Affairs Minister Michael spoke to Christians in Kanganpur, 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of Kasur, on Friday (Aug. 29). He said the government was taking every step to protect minority rights, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;">Report from </span><a href="http://www.compassdirect.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;"><span style="color:#2e6db4;">Compass Direct News</span></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;letter-spacing:0.4pt;"></span></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Some time ago I was informed that Fresno, CA is the most corrupt city in the entire nation.  Of course I did not believe it until becoming targeted by what appears to be the biggest and most corrupt operation in history.  Not until getting away from the group and the chemicals out of my system was I able to "see" the danger that residents are unknowingly living in, as well as the violations of human rights.  To expose the entire nightmare would no doubt result in mass hysteria and lawsuits.  Yet allowing it to continue seems to be headed for a major disaster being planned.  Behind 45+ yrs of secretly altering the city water system.  Involving high-tech methods of tracking, monitoring, burglarizing, and annihilating innocent residents in order to seize control of their property to carry this out.  Major building, environmental, health and safety code violations as structures are re-built without permits or inspections; resold as "original to unsuspecting buyers.  On and on, the list is endless.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">I am not telling anyone how to do their job, but sometimes I find myself thinking what I would do if I was Mayor for a day, since name-calling and Restraining Orders against victims seems to be the current method being used.  If I was Mayor for a day, I think I could turn this nightmare around real quick, without creating a carnival or turning it into a decade of front-page news.  The damage has already been done, which cannot be reversed, therefore the goal would be to have the heinous crimes stopped so we could all move forward, with the least amount of attention.  But since I am not the Mayor, I am broadcasting all of this in hopes that someone will step in to intervene.  We have no help from local agencies.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">If I were the Mayor for one day.  I would begin with this list:  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Take necessary steps in enacting a new law regarding lie-detector tests.  Regardless that they are not admissible in court.  The law would allow any/all city employees, financial/broker-dealers, law enforcement, legal or health care provider to be asked to submit to a polygraph at any time, should they be suspected or accused of harming, grand theft, or conspiring in foul play.  </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">    Begin with city employees - line them up and ask them to submit or step aside.  Those who step aside will be given options.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Sewage testing by an outside, reputable firm, to expose suspected chemicals being used on residents without their knowledge.  Followed up with another testing by (later.)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">RFID chip implant detection and paid removal for any/all residents of Fresno, CA.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Unsolved murder cases re-opened.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Investigation into the reported real estate fraud i.e., verified forgeries, altered legal documents, which will lead to a multi-trillion dollar operation.  Will likely entail years to untangle; hire local residents.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Complete new census records taken - one by one, verifying NO ID theft.  Fingerprints and DNA of every person.  This will also lead to also exposing Medi-Cal and Medi-Care fraud, SSI benefits, etc. being paid to imposters.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">DNA verified upon death of every individual.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Outside firm to investigate tapped phones, hacked computers, alarm systems, and hidden cameras linked to the illegally altered/relocated utility poles.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">City to pay for having every home checked for:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">    Mold</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">    Radon</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">    Gas leaks</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">City to initiate new law regarding responsibility of clamped sewer and water lines on private property since they were altered and clamped without permits or inspections.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Investigation into every insurance client of WGS including the ones he shared with his attorney, DAS, who conspired in fraudulent legal documents.  Verify DAS is alive and well - not by word of mouth.  Bring him in for lie-detector test.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Until the fraud and forgeries behind local resort owner have been investigated, he should be considered a "danger to the public" and dealt with accordingly.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Enact law that allows for regular detection of hidden cameras in motels, including new casinos. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000080;font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:medium;color:#800080;font-family:Lucida Sans;">Well now, this would be a busy Mayor-for-a-Day, wouldn't it.  Just think what I would do if given a week. Feel free to add your own comments and suggestions - I'm all ears.  <a href="http://missmarla.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/telephone_woman_banana.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-146" title="telephone_woman_banana" src="http://missmarla.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/telephone_woman_banana.jpg?w=72" alt="" width="72" height="96" /></a></span></span></div>
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<description><![CDATA[Un gran personaggio questo Benny Calasanzio.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un gran personaggio questo Benny Calasanzio.</p>
<p>E' stato, come ricorderete, nostro ospite assieme a Salvatore Borsellino all'incontro contro la mafia del 26 luglio scorso.</p>
<p>E' in vendita da qualche giorno <a href="http://bennycalasanzio.blogspot.com/2008/09/introduzione-di-disonorevoli-nostrani.html" target="_blank">il suo primo libro</a>, Disonorevoli Nostrani, che illustra quanto la moralità nelle istituzioni siciliane sia molto elastica ed ancora troppo mafiosa.</p>
<p>Siccome per "cause non inerenti la sua volontà" non è stato trovato un editore disposto a pubblicare il lavoro, il buon Benny ha deciso di autoprodursi il libro che potrete acquistare online su <a href="http://www.ilmiolibro.it/libro.asp?id=48709" target="_blank">ilmiolibro.it</a> oppure <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/bennycalasanzio" target="_blank">scaricare in formato PDF su lulu.com</a> .</p>
<p>Ritengo che dedicare un po' di tempo e spazio a questo ragazzo sia un atto dovuto visto l'impegno e l'energia che Benny profonde nella sua lotta contro la mafia. E siccome non si vive di sole parole, mettete mano al portafoglio e sostenete questo ragazzo, che lo merita.</p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Inizio settembre. Inizio immatricolazioni universitarie. Inizio dei test per le facoltà a numero c]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Inizio settembre. Inizio immatricolazioni universitarie. <strong>Inizio dei test per le facoltà a numero chiuso</strong>, soprattutto per le lauree sanitarie e per quella in <strong>Medicina e Chirurgia</strong>. Quindi, di conseguenza, <strong>inizio delle raccomandazioni e dei concorsi truccati</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Si perchè lo scandalo che ha colpito l'università di Bari era qualcosa di veramente eclatante. <strong>Ma voi credete che, ad esempio, l'Università di Bologna</strong> --- quella della mia città --- <strong>sia poi tanto meglio?</strong> Assolutamente no. <strong>Le raccomandazioni ci sono eccome</strong>. Tutti i figli dei medici che hanno un irrefrenabile voglia di entrare a medicina, ma che magari sono delle emerite capre, superano il test. Magari anche con ottimi risultati (in graduatoria truccata, s'intende).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il problema di fondo però è un altro. La raccomandazione in sè non è più reato dal 1997. Ma solo se si tratta di raccomandazione. Non di <strong>falsificazione di documenti, di prove di accesso o di concorso pubblico. Questo è un reato, eccome!</strong> Raccomandare uno studente facendogli passare il test di Medicina significa, nel caso in cui l'interessato risultasse non idoneo, falsificare il test e di conseguenza la graduatoria. E qui si cade nel penale. Soprattutto se poi si scopre che dietro c'è della <strong>concussione</strong>, e in Italia ce n'è tanta (vedi caso Mastella-Sanità &#38; Co), <strong>che è il reato più grave nei confronti della pubblica amministrazione.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A volte però, si sentono discorsi quasi privi di senso, nonchè contraddittori. Per esempio il grande medico importante, magari primario di qualche reparto o luminare nel campo dei trapianti, decide di individuare quelle tre o quattro persone che hanno un'intelligenza superiore alla media, e che quindi <em>devono entrare per forza nella facoltà</em>, per mettersi al servizio della sanità pubblica e magari <strong>salvare centinaia di vite</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Certo, detto così risulta quasi lodevole come azione. Ma io sono fin troppo fiscale e corretto e quindi mi domando: ma se davvero l'intelligenza di queste eventuali persone è sopra la media, perchè non farle partecipare come tutti gli altri alla prova d'ingresso, senza alcun tipo di favoreggiamento? Riuscirebbero a superarla a pieni voti. Invece no.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La risposta che ho cercato di darmi, e che presumo sia quella esatta, è la seguente:  nessuno caso di "raccomandazione" ha alle sue spalle un ragionamento di quel tipo. <strong>I "raccomandati" --- che io chiamerei più propriamente "truccati" --- sono semplicemente legati a qualche personaggio "potente"</strong>. Chi è amico, chi è cugino, chi è nipote, chi è amico dell'amico, chi è collega, chi è figlio, chi è figlio del collega e chi è collega del figlio e così via. Una spirale interminabile che, su 300 posti disponibili e su 1500 domande, seleziona, ogni anno, una media di trenta raccomandati. Un terno al lotto!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>E il ragazzo intelligente, che avrebbe finito di laurearsi in corso e che è stato scavalcato dalla capra raccomandata? Per usare un francesismo: sono cazzi suoi.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Bisognerebbe fare, però, un discorso molto (ma molto) più ampio a riguardo. Se tutto il mondo è paese (e non è vero perchè nel resto d'europa i concorsi pubblici sono molto più seri che da noi), come si dice in questi casi, <strong>il nostro Paese è molto più paese degli altri</strong>. Un paese così piccolo e così c<strong>ulturalmente arretrato</strong> che, ormai, <strong>ha fagocitato al suo interno una serie di comportamenti</strong> <strong>scorretti</strong>, anche moralmente, ma non solo, <strong>trasformandoli in veri e propri tumori del tessuto sociale e, come spesso avviene, "normalizzandoli"</strong>. Si arriva quindi a parlare di "normalizzazione" di certi comportamenti pseudo-mafiosi che accompagnano da ormai duecento anni la storia Italiana.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Normalizzazione significa che se tutto è mafia, allora niente è mafia. Vale a dire che se tutto è truccato, tutto è raccomandato, tutto è lobbizzato e tutto è malato</strong>, allora la società  civile arriva, volente o nolente, ad accettare certi tipi di comportamento che, altrimenti, sarebbero da considerate osceni o, per meglio dire, <strong>criminali</strong>. "<em>Lo fanno tutti</em>". "<em>Ovunque è così</em>". "<em>Siamo in Italia</em>". Queste le frasi che giustificano e alimentano il marciume del nostro Paese.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Io personalmente ho deciso --- e sono fiero di questo --- di seguire l'iniziativa di Outing Civile di Sabina Guzzanti</strong>. Seganalate tutti gli amici o i parenti di medici o personaggi in vista nel mondo della sanità che sono riusciti ad entrare a medicina e, se siete davvero sicuri che al liceo erano delle grandissime capre, <strong>urlatelo al mondo</strong>. La gente non è tutta imbambolata. <strong>C'è ancora chi ha voglia di vivere in un paese libero da un'oligarchia che premia i rapporti mafiosi e stronca le menti pensanti.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Io, ovviamente, farò la mia parte.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEGNALAZIONI</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:x-small;"><br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:small;">Dal blog Voglioscendere.it il <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/SentenzaEconomist/sentenzaeconomistberlusconi.pdf">testo integrale della sentenza</a> del Tribunale Civile di Milano che ha <span style="font-weight:bold;">rigettato le domande avanzate da Silvio Berlusconi nei confronti dell'Economist</span>, dopo che questi aveva citato il settimanale britannico per diffamazione, a seguito di una famosa copertina che, prima delle elezioni del 2001, titolava "Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy" (<span style="font-weight:bold;">perché Silvio Berlusconi non è adeguato a guidare l'Italia</span>).<br />
</span><strong><span style="font-size:small;"><br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://voglioscendere.ilcannocchiale.it/post/2012758.html">I video della presentazione di "Bavaglio" a Roma</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;"><br />
<a href="http://www.robertocorradi.it/2008/09/04/bye-bye-alitalia/">Bye bye Alitalia</a> - guarda il video di <a href="http://www.robertocorradi.it/">Roberto Corradi</a></span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hear the words &#8220;Mafia boss&#8221; and you think: olive-skinned with dark, slightly bloodshot e]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;">Hear the words "Mafia boss" and you think: olive-skinned with dark, slightly bloodshot eyes and a sharp suit.</p>
<p>Louis Ferrante fulfils some of those preconceptions.</p>
<p>He is New York Italian, powerfully built, and was wearing a black shirt when interviewed for HARDtalk by Sarah Montague.</p>
<p><!--more-->He worked for John Gotti of the infamous Gambino crime family, which pulled off some of the most lucrative heists in American history.</p>
<p>But he is younger than you would think, given that he ran his own "crew" and did nine years in jail before deciding to change his life and become a writer.</p>
<p>Ferrante's moment of truth came when a prison guard at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center described him and his kind as "animals".</p>
<p>Two months in solitary forced him to ponder the question: was he an animal? If so, why was he one?</p>
<p>"I thought about the people I'd victimised... and I realised I did deserve to be in a zoo," he recalls.</p>
<p>For the first time in his life he started reading books, looking deeper into himself and searching for some answers.</p>
<p>He set himself the challenge to read the entire prison library.</p>
<p>"Prison was the greatest thing that happened to me, because it gave me time to look inside myself, the solitude that I needed to take a closer look at everything around me; to analyse myself."</p>
<p>He educated himself and converted to Judaism.</p>
<p><strong>Burgers and fries</strong></p>
<p>Given his experience behind bars, Ferrante believes the prison services should be about giving inmates the opportunity to change their lives.</p>
<p>But before his own transformation, Ferrante's "greatest aspiration" was always to be a member of the Mafia.</p>
<p>He started off as a kid, sawing the tops of meters to get the coins, and hijacked his first truck as a teenager, using a gun.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"I was 17 years old. I liked girls. I liked to drive fast cars. I liked hamburgers and French fries.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"And I'd just realised that I liked to hijack trucks".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A common misconception about the Mafia is that you have to have a genetic link to a "family" in order to be a member.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Not so, says Ferrante. The most famous Mob bosses were not born into "the Life".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Lucky Luciano, Thomas Lucchese, Carlos Marcello and Vito Genovese all started out as petty thieves, graduating to bigger crimes as the years passed. So did John Gotti and so did Ferrante.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44979000/jpg/_44979000_cover_226b.jpg" border="0" alt="UK cover of Louis Ferrante's book" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="226" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Whether he is accurately described as a "boss" is debatable.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">His memoir, Tough Guy, more modestly describes him as a "Mafia insider".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">But he was on the list being passed around the five Mafia families and was on the verge of being "made" when he was arrested for racketeering.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"I had a dozen good men under me... I was already equal to a made man, since I answered directly to the heads of my family."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In a legitimate business he would be considered middle management.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">At the height of his criminal career Ferrante had the trappings of wealth.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"I'd drop $10,000 at the tables in Atlantic City, pick up a $500 tab at a steakhouse, and hand out hundreds to anyone with a story."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">He made his money robbing trucks, selling on bent goods bought with fake credit cards made from stolen numbers, dealing with anything from high quality white goods to government bonds.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In an early mistake he robbed a truck load of cheap underwear.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"I was stuck with 500 boxes of brassieres I couldn't sell as slingshots".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">But mostly his jobs were highly lucrative.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Money collector</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">His book enables you to check what you think you know about the New York Italian underworld with reality.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">You have to be Italian to be "made"? True.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Under no circumstances do you take your beef with another gangster to his home, involving his family. Also true.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">He consorted with characters like Bert the Zip, Tony the Twitch and Barry the Brokester, who always maintained he could not pay you because he was broke.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Bobby Butterballs he leaves us to work out for ourselves.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">He maintains that there is honour amongst thieves:</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">"Jimmy and I had no contract, no lawyers, no bill of sale; a handshake sealed the deal. Try that in the straight world".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">And he would have you believe that he was a nice cuddly gangster. He maintains he never murdered anyone.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">But that was perhaps more by luck than judgement.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Ferrante glosses over quite how much he injured people, and he admits in his book that he beat someone up and left him not knowing whether he was alive or dead.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Collecting money, he says, was easy for him. "I collected $20,000 from a guy who owned a dress company in a garment centre. I threatened to hang him out the window. He paid, even though his office was on the first floor."</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">When HARDtalk presenter Sarah Montague asked him how he asserted himself in prison he used elliptical phrases like: I would have to "declare myself" or "express myself".</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Writing his life story cannot have been an easy decision. The Mafia are not keen on insiders discussing their modus operandi.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">He has changed the names to protect the innocent and conceal the guilty, and says as a matter of honour he has never ratted on his former associates.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7588537.stm" target="_blank">[source: BBC News]</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Are Autry's Fake Work Crews Comprised of Hit Men?]]></title>
<link>http://marlalk.wordpress.com/?p=982</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Behind Fresno, CA&#8217;s so-called &#8220;citywide upgrade.&#8221;

  
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Tahoma;">First, let's look at what the fake work crews are doing.  Annihilating various residents in order to seize control of their property and assets.  Tearing property apart in order to alter the city water system.  Quickly reconstructing without permits or inspections.  Forging deeds, altering legal documents. Leaving a trail of ID theft, forged deeds, illegal conversion of assets, bank fraud, suspected arson, suspected homicide, unsolved murder/s.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000080;font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#000000;">Now, let's look at some of the people among the fake work crew/s.  CLICK HERE ===&#62;</span>  <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/69f7fa">http://tinyurl.com/69f7fa</a></strong></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#000000;">Would this explain why reporting the barbaric crimes committed against my family members and me during the so-called "citywide upgrade" resulted in such anger, lies, and even filing a Restraining Order against me?!?  Even after the suspected homicide of my family members, robbing and tearing our properties apart, running us off our income properties, poisoning and attempted murder of me - I was made the criminal?  As I have said in earlier blogs, it was not expected / intended that I would survive the horrors - fraudulent legal documents had been prepared; fraudulent life insurance policy; told I would be meeting the others, "IN ANOTHER WORLD!"  My neighbor was also lied to and set up by the risk analyst - he was never seen again.  More forgeries and fraud.  Next door neighbor left dead after repeated exposure of raw sewage.  Man across the street shot/killed as this took place there.  "Planted" neighbors who rotate as this is carried out, they are the "credible witnesses" that nothing took place.    </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;color:#000000;">What does this make Mayor Alan Autry - the man who had Public Works commit perjury to call me a "liar" about what was done to our properties.  THE CITY'S OWN RECORDS VERIFY EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID!  From one end of Fresno to the other.  </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Cross-connected lines - even linked to next door!  Underground and overhead utilities altered - no permits or inspections.  Much more.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Secret water diversion.  Annihilating / eliminating various residents in order to alter the water system.</span>  </span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[26 anni fa moriva il Generale Carlo Alberto DallaChiesa e nessuno ne parla. ]]></title>
<link>http://stvenworldnow.wordpress.com/?p=475</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Si avete capito bene. Il 3 settembre D 26 anni fa moriva il Generale
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<p>Si avete capito bene. Il 3 settembre D 26 anni fa moriva il Generale<br />
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa e nessuno o quasi ne ha parlato.<br />
La cerimonia commemorativa si è svolta come ogni anno a Palermo alla presenza dei familiari e delle alte cariche dello Stato.<br />
DallaChiesa fu partigiano, generale dei Carabinieri e prefetto, divenuto<br />
noto per il suo impegno nella lotta contro il terrorismo italiano prima e la<br />
lotta alla mafia in seguito e per cui ha pagato con la propria vita. Per altre informazioni vi rimando al sito:</p>
<p><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Alberto_Dalla_Chiesa" target="_blank">http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Alberto_Dalla_Chiesa</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Hensley Bio &amp; the Big Lie]]></title>
<link>http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/?p=1575</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Big Lie goes on. The bio film of McCain&#8217;s wife, pretends that Jim Hensley didn&#8217;t get]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Big Lie goes on. The bio film of McCain's wife, pretends that Jim Hensley <a href="http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/mccains-big-lie/">didn't get his Budweiser distributor franchise from Mafia kingpin Kemper Marley.</a> The fact that the romantic meeting of John and Cindy leaves out the crippled wife, McCain left behind is somewhat mindblowing.</p>
<p>Of course, the Establishment media will never report this stuff. The contrast between Michelle Obama's authentic speech and Cindy's automaton reading of the teleprompter couldn't be more stark.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I love a good mafia/gaster movie.]]></title>
<link>http://mattboone.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/i-love-a-good-mafiagaster-movie/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching Goodfellas as i&#8217;m typing.  Some of the best movies of all time are mafia mo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm watching Goodfellas as i'm typing.  Some of the best movies of all time are mafia movies.  The Godfather triology... what else can be said.  You miss half the jokes in in movies if you've missed these classics.  Let me know what you're favorite mafia movie is.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mafia-Lesereise]]></title>
<link>http://reskisrepublik.wordpress.com/?p=681</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Am 22. September beginnt meine Mafia-Lesereise mit einer Lesung im Landgericht Hamburg. Alle anderen]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am 22. September beginnt meine Mafia-Lesereise mit einer Lesung im Landgericht Hamburg. Alle anderen Stationen sind jetzt auf meiner <a href="http://reskisrepublik.wordpress.com/lesereise/">Lesereise-Seite</a> nachzulesen.</p>
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