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(18 dicembre) Tra le particelle che costituiscono la materia è in corso una interazione ininterrotta, di cui non è mio scopo investigare le caratteristiche, salvo dire che in certi punti essa assume una complessità a cui abbiamo convenuto di dare il nome di vita. In realtà non esiste alcuna differenza tra materia cosiddetta inanimata e materia cosiddetta animata; la nostra definizione deriva esclusivamente da noi stessi, basata, appunto, sulla constatazione di un livello particolare di complessità che notiamo in determinati oggetti (piante, animali).

usually give at this level of responsiveness on behalf of the senses, between which there seems to excel a feeling of subjective existence. This is what we call consciousness, which is both a prerequisite and the consequence of all other sensations, but it does not differ in any special way. This picture of the universe is ridiculously summary, but it has one advantage: it indicates quite clearly superfluous and illusory nature of special subject-object relations, that is, the two-dimensionality that is the basis for centuries of philosophy.

In questo continuum non vi è spazio logico nè per una particolare posizione delle varie individualità nè per interventi di natura soprannaturale. Che le cose stiano, più o meno, in questa maniera è sospettato dal tempo dei presocratici ed è stato espressso in modi diversi e frammentari attraverso l’intera storia del pensiero. In questi ultimi anni se ne sono avute tuttavia conferme sperimentali che eliminano ogni possibilità di dubbio, almeno sul piano logico.

I will only mention two, both the result of new branches of scientific research.

The first depends on the so-called cognitive psychology, which has shown that the sense of individual conscience is not, even in humans, is essential to life, it may be, as well as the other senses aside - experimentally or because of disease - or transferred from one individual to another, without causing interruption of mutual responsiveness between the sense of individuality 'and the outside world.

He particularly impressed with the experience of a young but already well-known scholar of neuroanatomy, Jill Bolte Taylor, a professor at Harvard, which was hit by a massive cerebral stroke, has lost its sense of individuality, but set them lentamenterecuperato as was the case a partial reorganization of its neural circuits. Thanks to its special expertise in psychological, it could minutely describe both processes, the forward, with the loss of personality, and the return flight, as they occurred or shortly thereafter. Then he described them in a book ("My Stroke of Insight," Plume, New York ).

The other set of studies belongs to synthetic biology, a field of study to generate vital events in the so-called inorganic matter, so far, it is limited to the microbial level, but success in this field already has a principle of immense value.

Last May, the world's leading exponent of experimental genomics, dr. Craig Ventner, author of the first deciphering the human genome, and a group of students have announced the creation of artificial genome of a bacterium with elements of inorganic chemistry, and its transplantation in a bacterium of a different species, this biological machine continued to function . The experiment prompted the American administration to subject the whole field of research to a committee on bioethics, which has nevertheless given the green light for the continuation of the experiments.

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ruins in ruins

(Dec. 17) comes just a few weeks after the collapse of the ceiling of the Domus Aurea, the news of landslides and irreparable destruction caused serious alarm at Pompeii in environments in America is still interested in the culture who are wondering, in the words of the New York Times, "What do the bureaucracy and cultural institutions [Italian] as well as offering places to a number of idlers indecent" (New York Times, 10:12:10). Two days later, the same day, ie main newspaper of world, come back by revealing that "the problems of Pompeii reflect an incurable old-old."

not for quotation, I would like to note that the shock registered on the world today might have been lower if he had given any weight to the warnings contained in my book, "Rome," published in several languages \u200b\u200b(German edition, 1996; Italian, 1999 English, 2005), in which signal years in Italy the existence of a cross between political corruption and criminal negligence in the conservation of artistic heritage, to which I gave the name of "complex political and archaeological" and which is due to the slow decline of what is one of the few remaining treasures of our country.

edition in which I have so far treated more extensively on the subject, one published in London in 2005 and currently being updated for publication in the United States, under the title "accessibility and preservation of Roman monuments" observed: "The public now has less access to the main monuments of Rome than he has ever had for several decades in this part ... The visitors are glad to hear the beginning of highly publicized archaeological campaigns, but what this ad does not say is that for every new archaeological site that is open, two are closed ... Galleria Borghese has been restored and repainted, but the work was so inept that pieces of the rear facade fell to the ground just a few months inauguration ... The roof of the basilica of S. Pancrazio has collapsed there during the renovation, but then ... Corruption and political patronage have always plagued Italy since the end of World War II, in Rome, but the phenomenon has had something special: a symbiotic relationship between political power and vast army of antiquarians, archaeologists and restorers, overflowing from the ranks of beneficiaries of nepotism and cronyism ... "

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(November 27) "Consider your origin: /" You were not made to live like brutes, "but to follow virtue and knowledge .

And 'one of the most famous and beautiful triplets Dante. Too bad that it is also incorrect and only reinforces one of the oldest. and the most harmful prejudices, specifically for the purpose of that "knowledge" that the poet invokes so warmly.

Prejudice reaffirmed by Dante is that man is something fundamentally different from animals, that the "beasts", because this is the meaning of the word he uses. Now, there is an atom of reality to confirm this idea, and everything we see around us gives us, however, a number of elements to disprove it.

The error, however, has always had the effect of putting serious off-road thinking rational, as happened to several others of the same type already denied by a few centuries, which places man at the center of the universe. It 'was an orgy of anthropomorphism that you are always made accomplices in a special way the religious and Christian (whose inanity I have had occasion to comment, see my note "This Side" (1), the October 23 last year), and fortunately it is nearing the end.

Of all the prejudices, of biblical origin or instinctive or philosophical or else it is ch and, to a man's innate superiority compared to the beasts is the most rooted and the oldest, and perhaps for this reason is one of the last to fall.

Every day that passes it becomes clear how the idea in question is false, with evidence coming from many different fields of knowledge from evolutionary biology to zoology to cognitive psychology and the etiology .

Recent research contradict the first assertion of Dante, that animals are incapable of "virtue," without, that is, moral sense. The underlying trends are any postulato morale, ossia l’altruismo e il senso di comunità, sono invece empricamente riscontrabili, perlomeno in germe, in ogni essere vivente. Curiosamente, proprio per effetto di un adattamento genetico, cioè nel senso invocato, sempre a sproposito, da Dante quando emette il suo accorato appello: “Considerate la vostra semenza.”

E’ interessante tuttavia constatare che mentre la prima delle due caratteristiche fondamentali di cui Dante dà erroneamente la privativa all’uomo, cioè la “virtute”, è oggetto di una sempre più vasta indagine scientifica negli animali, la seconda, che Dante indica come “conoscenza” (anzi lui impiega la parola fiorentina più arcaica, “canoscenza,” che le versioni attuali del suo poema generalmente modernizzano), non è stata ancora fatta oggetto dell’indagine che meriterebbe.

E’ ben vero, come dice Dante, che negli esseri umani il desiderio di sapere è più potente che in qualunque altra specie, in ovvia corrispondenza con la crescente complessità di cui l’evoluzione ha dotato il loro cervello; questo desiderio può giungere anzi a quell’estrema, dolorosa e quasi ossessiva passione, che i filosofi hanno chiamato la “desperatio veri,” la bramosia sempre inappagata di conoscere il vero. Ma ciò non significa affatto che, almeno come spinta iniziale, questo sentimento non esista anche negli altri animali; io non dubito che si tratti di una questione di quantità, non di qualità.

E’ questo un bellissimo campo per una ricerca che non è stata ancora adeguatamente intrapresa. A me sembra molto probabile che all’origine di ogni desiderio di conoscenza ci sia la necessità, esistente in ogni essere animato, di trovare una spiegazione dell’ambiente fisico in cui si trova: la domanda “che cosa è tutto questo?” è certainly the first and most important that each stands coming into the world.

The instinctive human pretension to be placed in a special position as regards the exercise of cognitive capacities has certainly practical advantages, but also the result of us believe that, Unlike animals, we are able to come sooner or later the revelation of the "mysterium supremum," the meaning of all that surrounds us, that puts us on the road does not understand anything at all, whereas otherwise we can understand a few basics. Our real knowledge is all there - "What you see is what you get" - but we do everything to miss.

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increasingly elusive peace in Palestine

(Nov. 8) four days ago to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, former President Clinton has published an extensive article in which he moved and, after commemorating the figure of only the character of the Israeli government that has ever really fought hard to make peace with the Palestinians, killed in cold blood by a terrorist of the Israeli right, says there are now indiscriminately all the requirements needed to achieve the dream of Rabin, which is peace , and enumerates them carefully, one one. At the end of that list, however, Clinton does not say that this peace achievable so obviously has a flaw: no.

Moreover, the same Clinton still totally optimistic after his diagnosis of the situation to succumb to a mysterious silence, because it does not have even the slightest, and even timid, even in part because of assumptions about this nonsense so blatant: a peace that exists in theory but in practice no. Neither is even remotely close to being there. One possibility for example would jump in the eyes of Clinton, since he is celebrating a man of peace and in doing so points out that he was made out to gunshots by an extremist right-wing Israeli precisely for his efforts in pro peace, it would be to suppose that peace is still made inaccessible by the Israeli right. But Clinton is so cautious not to dare, ohibò, to propose anything.

But what others say, American commentators? Even there, not even a breath. In addition to their matches to the corresponding note that Israel, which is the icon in the historical narrative of Israel, the figure of Rabin in recent years has gradually faded, and now those who celebrate the anniversary of his death are less and less, and that the values \u200b\u200brepresented by Rabin weigh less and less in the consciousness of the community. The corresponding the Christian Science Monitor to Israel stresses that, for example, the historic Jewish political party of the Left, the Labour Party, of which Rabin was one of the last great exponents, has gone from controlling the time of Rabin third of the Israeli parliament, to control ten percent. In fact, the left has today, in Israel, less than nothing. The only other heir to the Labour Party, the chairman of the state, Shimon Peres, has no voice and he has written that in order not to lose the long black car of the Israeli government would be ready to prostitute not only himself but also his old grandmother.

Other Israeli commentators explain that the dominance of the final right and the opponents of peace seems to be assured that substantial part of the Jewish population, at least 300,000 people, which has already been permanently installed in areas inhabited by Palestinians, which in theory they should be returned to any peace agreement, and both the security that the Israelis seem to finally enjoy by virtue of the rulers of the wall erected to protect them right on the edge of the area inhabited by Palestinians, as well as from the same cage in which the right has managed to imprison the population of Gaza, the elements active resistance.

Well, that icon now actually reflects the values \u200b\u200bof the Palestinian people is no longer Rabin, the murdered dead, but if anything is Ariel Sharon, who died of a stroke that is lying in coma in the most perfect indifference and immobility, a state almost symbolizing what prevails today in Israel: Sharon the "butcher" man recognized by the UN guilty of genocide for the slaughter of men, women and children in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila, and the man, finally, which was due in part to the conception and practice in the implementation of strategy and the wall of the cage, with which the Arab people of Palestine has been permanently reduced to a helpless state of bondage.

Che dire, poi, dello stato di paralisi quasi equivalente in cui è caduta anche l’amministrazione del presidente Obama, cioè la nazione senza il cui appoggio e aiuto Israele difficilmente potrebbe continuare a realizzare la sua politica di apartheid e di illegalità internazionale? Dire che il povero Obama, che aveva presentato al mondo iniziative di pace in Palestina tanto coraggiose, è bloccato dalle stesse forze misteriose che hanno costretto al mutismo nel suo articolo il suo predecessore democratico, Clinton, è un altro di quei tabù della vita politica americana - il cosiddetto fenomeno dell’elefante nel salotto - la cui presenza da nessuno vuole essere riconosciuta.

E’ lecito fare invece l’ipotesi che non solo l’ importante “lobby” del fondamentalismo ebraico americano, una organizzazione di cui è stata ad abbondanza dimostrata la forza politica, ma lo stesso Congresso americano, alla cui approvazione ogni realizzazione di Obama è subordinata, siano tra le forze che azzerano qualunque conato di pace dell’attuale presidente americano. Clinton nel suo articolo non ha neppure menzionato questo singolare colore ebraico del Congresso americano, un carattere tanto più evidente, in quanto le elezioni per il rinnovo di buona parte del Congresso erano avvenute solo due giorni prima del suo articolo, e i loro risultati avevano ancor più marcato la detta colorazione.

In America, in fact, the results of the "mid-term elections" have been analyzed in more depth and comprehensive, so you learned how many of the new members of Congress and among the new governors of those states are right and the left How many blacks and many whites, how many men and many women, how many homo-and heterosexuals, many lawyers and many businessmen and so on. But how many Jews or those who are pro-Jewish, whose victorious campaigns had been financed by lobbying Israeli-American linked to the right of Israel, no one has found it necessary, or feasible, to go and see and say. The

Israel's growing strength in the new Congress, however, is strangely discussed in Israel, where usually you have more courage to talk openly about things than it has in the United States. It was, for example, openly and enthusiastically proclaimed by a member of the wing of the extreme right-wing party Likud, (it belongs to Prime Minister Netanyahu), Danny Danon, who said: "A huge influx of new members of the House and U.S. Senate in Washington [determined by this election], includes dozens of close friends who will put stop to Israel always dubious and sometimes dangerous, Obama's policy initiatives set out in the first two years of his presidency. "

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The "mid-term elections"

(Nov. 3) Someone like me convinced that all the troubles of the vast U.S. domestic situation does not stem from domestic politics, foreign policy, but did not find the interest of the so-called "mid-term elections" American, because foreign policy in these elections if they have not spoken at all. This is an extraordinary phenomenon, I would say an unprecedented phenomenon, and the most important aspect of these elections, though no one has noticed.

Yet wars are, that is, foreign policy, that led America into the mess that is. But no one spoke in the great debates between left and right and even gli uomini e le donne “nuove” portati alla ribalta dalla grande ventata di qualunquismo, il "tea party", che a detta di tutti sarebbe stata la grande novità. Invece la vera grande novità è stato il mutismo di cui sopra. Ma che cosa è successo?

Ciò che è successo è abbastanza chiaro. Le cause del disinteresse per la rovinosa politica estera americana – quella che Obama ha cercato finora sinceramente di correggere, ma senza risultati – sono essenzialmente due. Non so quale delle due sia la maggiore o se esse abbiano operato di conserva. Comunque sono queste: da una parte, il fatto che l’America è divisa oggi in due Americhe, una grande, che delle due guerre in corso – effect, cause and substance of the country's foreign policy - will not care so total, so why are not his sons who are fighting, are the children of military families and volunteers who are part of this separate, Little America, which can be without consequences, so far, ignore. So needless to talk about or discuss.

The other reason is in the vital interest of the vast majority of the political world, which is under the meticulous and thorough inspection of the large "lobby" Israeli-American in the largest, AIPAC, following eo encourages or finances or torpedoes one by one almost all the members of Congress to keep secrets of all the key issues of foreign policy. Why? But why when you talk about, it turns out the altars of why America has so far had to bear the interests of the extremist government of Israel rather than the interests of its own, throwing in the Middle East in the catastrophic situation in which there is almost ten years without a way out, and maybe the general public, then, began to protest. So do not talk about it, not discuss, nor between political competitors, or newspapers, or on television or on radio or elsewhere with the exception of those parts of the Internet is still too sophisticated for the masses, and not because it would be useless, but because it would be politically suicidal.

writer, on the other hand, preferred to remain completely left out of these "elections". Also because, upon completion, things have remained largely as before, even a little 'worse for the coolness shown by the audience to the only entity that had promised a change, Barack Obama. So it is not strange that in this group of "mid-term elections" has not spoken almost.

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58 spectra for Berlusconi and the pope

(Nov. 3) The ghosts of the 58 Catholic faithful - men, women and children - songs made two days ago by a bomb in the church of Our Lady of Redemption at the center of Baghdad have to thank in a special group of beings living among which, in macabre irony, two characters of the country most at least nominally Catholic world, the Pope and Prime Minister Berlusconi.

The first, last week called "irrelevant" by one of the elderly, acute and popular commentators American Catholic, Garry Wills, continues to assist dull and powerless to the tragedy that is tearing her world, which is also ours, with yet more devastating than those created by the clerical pedophilia. The second, when it was still possible to force the insane U.S. President Bush the Younger to withdraw from his criminal policy of aggression against Iran, but has slavishly supported in precipitate the entire Western civilization in this hellish vortex, nor mentions any way to change his mind.

It must, in Italy, men like Benedict XVI and Silvio Berlusconi, if the 'Jihad' or let's say the Islamic revenge are clearing at full speed not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East from Jerusalem to Lebanon and Somalia Pakistan, the presence of Christian communities. In a single generation, the two men have done for the glory of Mohammed more than the Great Saracino and all his predecessors and successors were able to do everything in the Middle Ages

In Iraq alone, at least half a million Catholics, mostly Syrian rite, the approximately one million they were before 2003 were forced to flee abroad, and those who remain in despair for the future. "Nobody has any solution for us," said Rudi desperate Khalid, a believer of sixteen escaped the massacre the day before yesterday. "Of our destiny no one wants to talk." In Lebanon, a position of absolute pre-eminence Catholics have fallen into a position of inferiority trembling. Do not talk about Jerusalem and what is now the fundamentalists want to be officially called the "Jewish State," where Christians, a dominant presence throughout the centuries and until recently, at least in the greek-orthodox version, no longer a political force a any weight.

Berlusconi who, at one time, had entrusted to Italy in the faint hopes of the Italian liberal center, despite some initial success is now on the brink of an ignominious ouster for investing the stench from the streets of Naples, but no spot excremental incancellabilmente cover it more than that produced by the foreign policy peconoresca idiot and he began in 2003 with the participation of Italian occupation of Iraq.

France and Germany had opposed the initiative of the criminal Bush and his advisers Israeli-American neo-con ", including how well the disastrous attack on the skyscrapers of New York, who was at the origin, fosse stato anche una reazione alla vile complicità dei governi americani nella politica d’Israele, di sterminio e asservimento del popolo palestinese. Se l’Italia, invece di fare causa comune con Bush si fosse allineata con Francia e Germania, forse Washington avrebbe fatto marcia indietro e non saremmo tutti scivolati in un abisso. Il nostro governo, per quanto di forza e livello internazionalmente quasi insignificanti, aveva un' occasione, forse, di salvare la nostra civiltà, e l’ha perduta. (In un’altra nota, “I barboncini di Bush” del 12 settembre – vedi archivio – ho ricordato i miei disperati quanto inutili sforzi fatti a suo tempo per ottenere un’evoluzione diversa dei fatti.)

Meanwhile the Italian government continues to meddle in inane wars that we consume nearly a decade, and losing every opportunity to demonstrate their independence and try to get back into a position of objectivity compared to the horrible clash with Islam.

Each year, our Foreign Ministry is concerned to mean the extremist government of Israel to respect Italy, giving instruction to the Italian consular why celebrate the rite of the public reading of names of Holocaust victims, with no hint, Of course, the other victims, those made by Israel in flagrant violation of international law in the territories it occupies in Palestina. Ogni anno alla delegazione diplomatica italiana a New York il mellifluo ministro degli esteri italiano viene ad incontrarsi con gli esponenti delle potenti associazioni israelo-americane che sostengono il governo d’Israele qualunque cosa esso faccia, ignorando che ne esistono anche altre, degli ebrei americani che lottano per un accordo con il mondo islamico e cercano di riportare l’America e il mondo occidentale verso una politica di giustizia e di pacifica coesistenza.

Non è, quella italiana, politica estera, ma solo vigliaccheria; vediamo se l'abbia capito almeno l'opposizione da cui dovrebbe uscire l'eventuale nuovo governo italiano.

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(27 ottobre) Il cinema – soprattutto quello Hollywood - affects the costume, or is the costume that affects the cinema? Or, the process is circular, meaning that the two influence each other?

Waiting for an answer, I realized that both the film and the costume really proceed in waves, though often an even realize it. For example, the beginning and then until the late thirties triumphant film focusing on the characters' ends, "" sensitive "is feminine (to mention a few, Lillian Gish in ancient times, most recently Ingrid Bergman) and male (type the first Richard Barthelmess, Paul Henreid and then the great Leslie Howard, who all believed the English way, but it was Polish), and their personal wayside. Often, the same securities made in starting the idea ("Broken Flowers").

Now, flowers are always broken in reality, but also in film and in fiction and in costume, who cares anymore? Those who talk more than men and women "sensitive"? If anything, involve the characters hard. Even certain words are coming out from use. As is the case in Italy, "is very fine," he said once to say a fine person. Now the "end" no longer say, or just for irony, or just to the concierge level.

After the mania they arrived in the last thirties and early forties, another also much greater strength, a tsunami wave more than just: that of psychiatric afflictions. In all versions, from "Psycho" or actual psychosis (Hitchcock made us, on no fewer than four films) to the multiple personality, the demented villains, to paranoia, with total amnesia romantic fallout, and then to psychoanalysis in all its variations, Freud, Jung, Adler.

people well, especially in America, had, one in two, the psychoanalyst, the children start school with the psychiatrist. Then, suddenly, the craze has gone completely and is never, or at least not yet, come back. Days ago I covered a pellicola del 1947 intitolata “Possessed” (“L’ossessa” o “Gli Ossessi,” il titolo di Dostoievski). Si era a quell’epoca all’apice dello tsunami. Ma il film era un prodigioso pastrocchio, nonostante il meraviglioso cast con Joan Crawford, Raymond Massey e Van Heflin, ed è rapidamente uscito dalla comune. Magari può essere stato proprio quello che ha indotto la gente a intravedere l’assurdità dell’intera voga, e a farla, nel giro di una ventina d’anni, scomparire.

E adesso? In mezzo a quale ondata siamo? Io non vedo o sento altro che film su puerili storie fantastiche con calci in bocca, o sulle parti basse, e grandi scopate; un appetito per la favola scema, la violenza e il sesso che mi pare più che altro uno sforzo per staccarsi dal presente, e che si inquadra benissimo nel declino cerebrale che è a sua volta un aspetto della deriva verso cui sta purtroppo andando questo grande Paese, e dietro a lui, ovviamente, Paesi già in partenza più rimbambiti e più arretrati come l’Italia.

Di questo lagrimevole moto discendente fanno parte tante altre cose, ma la più grave, con cui concludo, è la scomparsa della musica, perchè non voglio intendere questa parola i rumori e singhiozzi con accompagnamento di parolacce, che si sentono normalmente alla radio o televisione o nei cosiddetti "concerts".

Io parlo della musica seria, whose audience, across America, has fallen at least 80 per cent compared to times that were too thin financially much more, like the early postwar decades. The sale of the albums of classical music has plummeted to just over zero. In Manhattan there were even a few years ago, two radio stations broadcasting classical music 24 hours 24. A decade ago, the stations have become one. Then that was saved from bankruptcy by selling to third parties, but these have reduced to a flicker that is as personal as time and radius of diffusion. Now praying for help from the public for not having to close, too.

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This Side (1)

7:52 AM (23 October) few days ago, Woody Allen's packed with wonderful economy his whole world view in these words: "What you see is what you get," that is what you see is all there is. He further said that those who believe that there is something else, such as what is offered by religions, they are lucky because usually find some comfort in this, but he is not one of them.

I asked him to elaborate a bit 'these concepts, but he did not want to do it. So I will try to do it, for the simple reason that its main clause consenting to find me one hundred percent. But I do not exactly agree on the idea that religions necessarily represent a comfort, and leave this discrepancy to add a few words.

First, there is such a quantity of things to see around us, I do not understand why we should go hence to seek the other. But if I want more, just look up to heaven and think of the most rudimentary elements of astronomy to be at the same time, overwhelmed by a sense of wonder and amazement. Then there's a lot of stuff I do not see, but we know it exists, and this gives us a vast field on which to engage profitably thought.

It 'true that the things we see, or suppose that we are, we do not understand in fondo assolutamente nulla. Questa, anzi, è l’unica ragione per cui abbiamo il diritto di accettare le fantasie religiose: le une in certo senso valgono le altre (mi pare che il primo a sostenere questa equivalenza fu Sant’Agostino).

Purtroppo, però, le idee consolatorie derivanti dalle religioni sono in genere molto insipide. Di tutte le religioni che io conosco, forse la consolazione più concreta è quella maschilista proposta dalla religione mussulmana, le giovani urì che ci diletteranno in paradiso; ed è tutto dire. Il paradiso offerto dalla religione cristiana è di una vacuità e di una noia senza pari. Non un solo verso di Dante quando descrive l’empireo è passato alla storia. Le Eastern religions offer us finally to free existence after a large number of incarnations, but the comfort next is unclear. The Jewish religion, at least, has the good sense not to ensure no heaven.

On the other hand, try it yourself to evoke otherworldly consolations of the best, and you will find hard to even imagine, unless they are not the same ones that we experience in life, what would be a contradiction in terms. But if you find them, please let me know.

I suspect, however, that religion has a hand inherently negative. A resort to force it, force it to divert to that is a part of our thoughts, we decrease the amount of attention that we should turn instead to the things around us, whether we understand them, that is not, and I think if the place of religious practices in deliberate efforts to organize themselves, individual or collective appreciation of life, this would coll 'have a soothing effect no less mystical abstractions.

One consequence of the idea "what you see is what you get" is, on the other hand, it puts the emphasis on the fact that both of us, that everything around us, we are part of nature. This in turn can lead to some interesting assumptions about our role in the world, and the difference between living and what we non vive. Se mi sentirò di farlo ne parlerò un’altra volta.

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Bagatelle for a massacre

I commentatori e i conduttori di poll impegnati nel prologo alle elezioni americane di medio termine hanno fatto una grandissima scoperta: c’è la guerra. Anzi una guerra doppia, tripla, che va avanti da nove anni, di cui non si vede minimamente la fine, che ha fatto finora quasi cinquemila morti più trentamila mutilati e feriti solo da parte americana, forse un milione e più di morti e feriti altrove, più lo sperpero di qualche trilione di dollari, più il collasso dell’economia occidentale: ma pochi o nessuno sembrano ricordarsene tra quelli che si preparano a votare. Pochissimi, poi, la pongono come una ragione eminente of concern. I wonder why?

Observe, for example Tom Brokaw, special correspondent of the newspaper of the NBC television, the appearance in the disputed election of populist Party of Tea is the subject of enormous discussion and feedback, instead of this endless stream of death and destruction does not feel almost speak, nor amongst voters, nor among non-voters, nor among the employed, unemployed or between, or among investors, or among consumers, in fact almost anywhere. "It 's possible that nobody notices that something is missing from the landscape? ... And why is it that these wars, and their human and economic consequences, are not in the foreground, al centro, di questa campagna elettorale?” Si chiede Brokaw.
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Qualcuno, di tanto in tanto, incluso chi scrive e incluso uno degli stessi protagonisti principali come il presidente Obama, ha individuato e occasionalmente indicato durante tutto questo tempo la causa più chiara di questo letale fenomeno collettivo. E’ il fatto che nella nazione più profondamente responsabile e più abituata e attrezzata a fare grande rumore sulle sue vicende interne, cioè da parte americana, la gente se ne infischia, e se ne infischia, perchè solamente un uno per cento – i soldati dell’esercito volonario e le loro famiglie – è direttamente coinvolto. Per di più, questo un per cento è pagato; dunque, about his business. The dead? They are, in the vast majority of other people's children. And when he went to enlist knew that they were paid or to kill or be killed.

But there is another reason for the silence that is mentioned even less, even though the courageous President Obama, even in the newspapers, at least those of America and other Western nations. It is linked to the original cause of this epopee of murder, and is a cause that, too, was put into evidence by the most monstrous colossal disaster ever suffered by a nation "advanced" as the United States. You want a clue to solve this riddle permanent? He tried at the time of the disaster to provide for the American public a gentleman billionaire who just recently reappeared on the scene after some of his investments in the stock market in New York. This is the Prince Walid bin Tal, the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, a figure much criticism in his country because of its pronounced pro-Americanism, and much criticized America for its pronounced pro-Islamism (This dual qualification would seem to itself indicative of some impartiality).

Prince Walid, the collapse of two skyscrapers of the World Trade Center, sent to Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of the city he lives in the largest aggregate of the Jewish world, greater even than that of any city in Israel, so large and dominant that a Swedish newspaper once dubbed the Jew York, a check for $ 10 million to be used for assistance to the families of thousands of victims. Together there was a note that said: "The United States should, however, also re-examine their policy prescriptions in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced position towards the Palestinian cause." Mayor Giuliani said in receiving this communication is supremely outraged by this even verbal intrusion in American foreign policy, and to bury everything under the more indignant oblivion also returned to the sender's gift of ten million. Used to you this episode nine years ago as a clue to the solution of that riddle?

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A look warily to the Middle East The New

(October 16) In an attempt to take stock of the situation in the Middle East, the writer has hit some reasons for aggravation of ungovernability noticeable in Israeli society for a long time, aggravation that comes today to cast doubt on even major external manifestations of what State. An example is the speech, and aggressive sconnnesso, presented at the annual UN General Assembly re-opened by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to indicate in broad terms, as is customary, the policy guidelines of his nation, and that is been rejected officially, as devoid of any national political representation of Israelis, just hours away from the prime minister of that government, Benjamin Netanyahu. A similar case of schizoid policy had never been registered at the UN.

Netanyahu, who was simultaneously engaged in one of the most critical diplomatic action that Israel has never ceased to play in cementing its instances of survival, he has also exhibited the effects of a congenital dysfunction of his government.

It was the umpteenth round of intermittency, almost twenty years of "peace process" with more or less authorized representatives of the Arab population, for a two-state arrangement of the Palestinian territory, but this time a round seconded with all its political potential can also by the American administration of President Obama. The two-state solution has only recently been accepted in principle by Mr. Netanyahu and his coalition government, which, however, are part of the ultra-religious factions and the movement of Russian-Jewish Lieberman.

simply to continue the dialogue, Netanyahu made his interlocutor
the strange request for a preliminary ruling and formally recognize the state of Israel in the nature of "Jewish state". Request difficult to understand, but who knows the meaning and the importance of ad essa viene annessa dalla componente estremistica su cui si regge il governo Netanyahu.

Per questa, il riconoscimento ufficiale di un carattere teocratico ed etnico del governo israeliano dovrebbe essere, sui tempi medi, la leva con cui forzare la popolazione araba della Palestina, inclusa la minoranza che già fa parte della popolazione d’Israele (nella misura del 20 per cento), ad accettare uno status di second’ordine che per il momento non viene specificato. Esso è tuttavia facilmente intuibile per via di comparazione con quello assegnato alla popolazione di Gaza.

Si tratta di uno del capisaldi del movimento per uno stato autoritario d’ispirazione post-sovietica ‘Yisraeli Beiteinu’ (‘Israele is our home ') by Lieberman, who, in alliance with the official ultra-religious minority groups and "de facto" with the group and potentially anarchic uprising of the 300,000 settlers illegally occupying the area of \u200b\u200bPalestine, Transjordan, is one of the pillars of the Netanyahu government .

Then the Israeli Ambassador in Washington has sought to clarify, in a newspaper article, the nature of this request to the Palestinian people, justifying it as a carrot that the neo-moderate his government could not do without Lieberman's extremist component to extend in order to advance in the negotiations. The idea that a similar proposal for self-castration, which draws in certo modo alla mente la disperata offerta di “bantustan” pseudo-indipendenti fatta alla popolazione negra nell’ultima fase del regime di apartheid in Sud Africa, possa essere accettata dai palestinesi, e sia pure dal loro rappresentante più mite e disposto alla collaborazione, il presidente "de facto” Abu Mazen, sembra avere le stesse possibilità di successo che ebbe a suo tempo quella messa sul tavolo dai coloni bianchi sudafricani.

Se anche questa tornata negoziale è destinata a fallire, la situazione che sembra delinearsi per la Palestina è di due aggregati umani ugualmente dissociati nel loro interno, in una strana simmetria il cui significato antropologico e politico per il momento sfugge.

On the one hand there is a Jewish people basically divided into two parts, a moderate and presumably motivated by intentions of peaceful coexistence with the Arabs, the other dominant, determined to impose at all costs a theocratic rule throughout Bible which preceded the second destruction of the Temple. Faced with these two sections there is a Palestinian people equally divided in two: the minority group that so far has favored negotiations with the Jews, on the banks of the Jordan illegally represented by a man who illegally carries the title of president, the other , based in Gaza, legitimately represented and controlled by a resistance movement that until now has never maximalist want to give up, at least in principle, the objective of expelling the Jews totally.

truncated circles around these companies at this time the individual who stood at the head of the Jihad movement in defense of Islam, under the anti-Islamic crusade waged by the West dating back as clearly as the Palestinian conflict. It 's the president of Iran Ahmadinegiad. And 'the man who put the unknown into the equation Atomic conservation with Israel and Pakistan. In his own name, and explicit representation of the Arab nation, Syria, with which his country has an agreement of action, is visiting Ahmadinegiad Lebanon officially in the hot zone of the border with Israel. In Lebanon itself, the movement Hezbollah, funded and armed by Iran and Syria, has been busily reorganizing and rearming after the confrontation with Israel in 2006. There is now, according to U.S. information, of 40,000 missiles in place of the 14,000 held four years ago.

It 's very hard to imagine what this foreshadows situation within the immense arc of instability extending from Pakistan to Somalia and in view of the wars that America and the West already committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan . But at least to this writer, it does not inspire thoughts are particularly pleased.

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York Times and the anti-Islam crusade

(October 10) A couple of days ago a well-known New York columnist, Bob Herbert, was added to a growing chorus of people who are realizing the multifaceted decline of American society, and, inspired by the fact that state authorities have given up to build a rail tunnel under the Hudson River, which is also urgently needed, he wrote: "We're good to go to war in Iraq and nell'Afganistan and throwing threats against Iran ... but we are unable to do even engineering work that once would have been almost routine ... America, which has so often astonished the world with the vision and the grandeur of its businesses ... is losing its capacity and increasingly slipping down ... It is not only that ... It 'that America is losing the soul ... There was a point, there were reasons, there have been times , that this upheaval has begun ... "Unless

mention the ongoing wars, the journalist does not dare to point out none of these reasons and mysterious moments, and yet, at least to understand what it is, it is enough to mention the newspaper on he writes, the powerful New York Times, still considered the most efficient and most influential newspaper in the world.

Owned by Israel, but In the past, always very careful not to derive from this the tone of his reports, the newspaper, in addition to losing share rapidly in quality in recent years, is becoming more clearly where the fielding side pushing forces on Judaism more fanatical and fundamentalist, in the tragic conflict that sees the United States, and behind them the rest of the West, increasingly tethered in a senseless struggle against the Islamic world, and this solely for the benefit of Israeli expansionism in Palestine. Sometimes - as happened today - to the extent that they occasionally, and it would seem, almost without knowing it, bearer of these forces in their most repulsive.

Today is the turn of an article on two full pages - a length unprecedented, as far as I know, for this newspaper, at least half a century in this part - accompanied by a dozen color photographs and conspicuously marked in first page, which tells the story of a new member of the movement and racist anti-Obama so-called "tea party" (see my article "proto-fascist assault on America," of 15:09:10). This is a repellent donnaccola, at least for my taste, Pamela Geller, editor of a blog on the internet called "Atlas Shrugs" (the title of a famous book by Ayn Rand, the philosopher anarchist right thirties), who is spending a million blog readers. Geller

The specialty of the general framework of anti-Obama "tea party" is an unbridled attack against all and any aspect of the Arab world. The Geller calls itself "Islamophobic racism." Coming from one of the chic surroundings of the Jewish New Yorker, she proposes a war to the bitter end against the entire Muslim world and in particular that the Palestinian movement should be denied even the possession of its ancient holy places within the boundaries of Jerusalem, the same al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the most venerable monuments of Islam, on the hill where once stood the Temple of Jews should be destroyed.

not talking about the treatment that Geller would like reserving Arab imam in New York would build a mosque, "the reconciliation of faiths" in the vicinity of where the towers collapsed in the Word Trade Center, applauded a plan by President Obama unless Mayor Bloomberg of New York, although he himself Jewish, nor dell'obbrobrio expressed by this harpy against any measures adopted so far by Democratic President Obama, in your opinion, are in fact causing the decline acknowledges that she also act in the United States. "A decline - he said - not only chaired but actively promoted by Mr. Obama. "

not talking about all this nonsense, I say, why even talk about it in absurd detail, the New York Times, with the effect, of course, to give huge publicity to a wretched as well as the fomenting of hatred its disgusting ideas, publicity worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, even if measured simply using the charges of the newspaper. If we think about next month's elections in which all the anti-Obama, even the most mephitic, are joining forces to deny the president a majority in Congress, the value increases greatly.

Only three days before the appearance of the article was finished the job in New York against the Pakistani-American bomber Shahzad Faisal, who five months ago inefficient car with explosives parked in Times Square. After hearing his sentence to life imprisonment, and he requested and was granted to speak, the prisoner gave a short and sensible speech on Arab relations with the West and the absurd anti-Islamic crusade that proceeds from nine months. The judge (a woman) has listened with interest and equanimity, even thanking him at the end. The New York Times, in his report, gave to the statements of this young man who is preparing to spend a lifetime in jail, five lines.

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Even death penalty

(October 6) The short article "The death penalty in Italy" (25.09.10) has provided me with many protests, to which I would like to respond briefly. However, excepting those of a theological ("the sanctity of life") than flat, by definition, an otherworldly logic, I do not susceptible to debate land.

All the objections that I have been made are based on one of two arguments or both. The first is an alleged lack of preventive and deterrent of the death penalty criminal activity. It 's a failure that has never been possible to demonstrate, however, even if proven, would still be better than a force that no sufficient force. The argument is, on the other hand, the main two.

The other is the severity of a sentence only in cases where the result of a miscarriage of justice, is, unlike all others, irreparable.

is an important topic, it is not, however, an argument against the death penalty. E 'argument against miscarriages of justice when leading to the death penalty, and therefore it must be done, and actually takes place, in these terms, and not in terms of un'inaccettabilità ruling of death sentence.

First you have to discard as a "non sequitur" the idea that the number of wrongful death sentences be derived from relatively alto dei casi in cui l’ingiustizia viene scoperta per i condannati in attesa di esecuzione, e che sono i casi generalmente riportati dai giornali. Caso mai questo numero elevato indica il contrario, ossia che le cautele che vengono prese, e che sono straordinariamente abbondanti per lo meno nella procedura americana, per evitare l’errore quando sia stata comminata la pena capitale, funzionano effettivamente.

Lo stesso dicasi per un’altro aspetto caratteristico della sorte dei condannati nei penitenziari americani, sia federali che statali – per inciso, non tutti gli stati della federazione applicano la pena di morte – e cioè il fatto che i “bracci della morte” rigurgitano di detenuti che vi risiedono per tempi incomprensibilmente lunghi. La media è di una decina d’anni prima dell’esecuzione, che spesso diventano quindici o venti.

In Europa questa lunghissima attesa, anch’essa abbondantemente pubblicizzata dalla stampa e dai film, viene spesso giudicata il risultato di una specie di sadismo delle autorità penali americane. Invece si tratta, anche qui, esattamente del contrario, cioè del tempo occorrente per riesaminare tutti i possibili difetti procedurali e vagliare, man mano che vengono presentati, tutti i possibili elementi di fatto a favore di una revisione o commutazione della sentenza. Questo tempo è evidentemente tanto più lungo quanto più numerosi e meticolosi siano questi riesami.

All’atto pratico, il filtro rappresentato da queste procedure cautelative fa’ sì che il numero dei giustiziati vittime di un errore è infimo. Il che non significa che non ve ne siano. Ma il loro numero è diminuito attraverso il tempo, proprio per effetto della meritoria campagna contro l’errore giudizario, da non confondere, come dicevo, con la campagna contro la pena capitale. Ai progressi della medicina legale ha d’altra parte enormemente contribuito negli ultimi anni lo studio del “dna”, e non solamente per quanto riguarda i delitti sessuali.

Certo, il giorno in cui il numero delle vittime dell’errore sarà ridotto a zero è ancora di là da venire e magari non verrà mai. It is however not a reason to abolish the death penalty, as well as the impossibility of reducing to zero the incomparably higher number of innocent people swept up and killed by drunk drivers has never been a reason to abolish the traffic.

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An army more or less gay

(October 1) have long pressed the administration's flagship liberal Washington to abolish the last obstacle that still exists homosexual activity in the armed forces: the rule of "do not ask, do not tell" ( "Do not say anything, nothing will be asked"), which prohibits openly gay people to declare themselves. Currently, if they do, they can be expelled. If you can remain silent, with the assurance provided by the rule that no one will ask on which side they are as sexual life.

With two or three hands for war, assailed by concerns over several - suicide recruits, soldiers go crazy, drug rimbecilliti soldiers who commit atrocities and obscenities unprecedented percentage of dead and maimed that increases rather than decreases, renal too frequent rotations of staff between the front and service times at home, excessive use of "national guard" or reserve land which also leaves too much open the country to natural disasters or malicious - Defense Secretary Gates, the chief of staff and commander in chief Mullen Obama has not yet decided how to respond to the advocates of total tolerance in the military.

The President and his aides do not hesitate to morality, but out of fear that the arrival of open gays in the military to give another blow to its efficiency, perhaps the final blow. On the other hand, pro-gay is a considerable section of the electorate, and an administration that already strong fear of desertions in the November vote to renew the Congress can not take the slight hostility in a group so important.

The military element is faced with a phenomenon part similar to that which troubles the Catholic Church. The conventional explanation is that the church's priest pederasty will appetites develops the rash is barred because the bed, but I found this explanation to be invalid, because those desires are announced well before the age of marriage. What really attracts the gay seminarian is, first, a predominantly male environment, with presence and availability of large and small males. Secondly, it is a conciliatory atmosphere toward gay, gays, and that more increases, it becomes more conciliatory.

What attracts gay volunteer military environment is the first of these two characteristics. The second is less present, but when the gay element, being tacitly tolerated, became officially accepted and protected, and even just for that reason his numbers began to increase, the risks to the volunteer army would become difficult to predict. It 'possible that the injury has been underestimated in its ranks, and then will split into two. Or, conversely, the injury is completely dissolved over time, and then the increased flow of gays create an environment not dissimilar to give examples, from the dancers or ladies' hairdressers. Even his conduct before the enemy, then, would become unknown.

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A "quack" very mysterious

(September 30) – “Quack, grug… uhu!” Attenzione: potrebbero essere le prime parole di un alieno che si siano mai udite sulla Terra.

Questa mattina ero all’inaugurazione del nuovo super-planetario dell’American Museum of Natural History di New York, che può mostrare, in forme dirette o generate dai computer, una buona fetta dell’universo, e c’erano, oltre ai giornalisti, astronomi, astrofisici e altri scienziati importanti.

Quando, prima che si spegnessero le luci, il noto astronomo e portavoce del museo, Neil Tyson-DeGrasse ha fatto una descrizione del nuovo super-planetario al radio-microfono della sala, l’onda elettromagnetica si è interrotta per due secondi giving rise to the mysterious sounds made about above. The return of the sound, the astronomer has thrown there, "the alien was discovered yesterday on the planet." Many have laughed, but that was not a noise, but, even bestial, a voice, and the joke -De Grasse Tyson was not totally laughable.

Planet "G" of the star Gliese 581, whose discovery was announced yesterday (see, those who want the scientific world-science.net site) is the first that, according, scientists, has the characteristics necessary to accommodate life, even intelligent life like ours. On the other hand, electromagnetic waves travel as we know, for all l’universo.

L’unico problema è che la stella e i suoi pianeti si trovano a una ventina d’anni luce dalla terra. Quindi è difficile che l’alieno, o l’aliena, si rivolgesse proprio a quella riunione di studiosi, che dovrebbero aver prevista vent’anni fa. Difficile ma non impossibile, se la loro avanzatissima civiltà avesse già trovato il modo di viaggiare a velocità superiore a quella della luce…

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In freefall

(28 settembre) Le forze oscure (così le ha chiamate qualche tempo fa l’ex presidente Carter) che stanno conducendo l’America dall’essere, come si diceva qui, “the city on the hill,” una città di hope and light, being, let me say, a city of shit pushing relentlessly. Now is the time of mercenary soldiers in Afghanistan drug addicts who kill for the taste and make collection of heads, fingers, other pieces of dead civilians, as well as photographs of necrofiliache even more horrific pictures of naked wretches dragged on the floor of the prisons of Iraq by crazed soldiers. Yes, it is true, at least these lunatics have appeared and appear before the U.S. courts. But before such courts appear responsible for these wars that show no sign of ending, of these wars conducted at a distance with weapons cowardly unmanned equipment, which for a true enemy slaughtered fifty innocent people?

Other news: the war waged by the monitor, now in Pakistan - the third Arab country where America is sinking, and wait in line behind which other Muslim countries such as Yemen, Somalia - is that the number direct incursions in the region of North Waziristan by pilots in all peace invulnerable sitting in the offices of the CIA near Washington, are increasing every day. Other massacres are perpetrated by helicopters that have their base in Afghanistan. Perhaps it is true that General Petraeus will succeed in a year to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, the price will probably return to Taliban control of the country. But I think unlikely to be able to get out in good condition from Pakistan, where the real war has commenced.

In Iraq, the organization associated with the head of the Arab terrorist Bin Laden, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, "which had been given to death and won, he suddenly raised his head now that the Americans have made the first moves to leave the country, and began to make havoc in several provinces. "As has been able to operate this reversal is a mystery," wrote the correspondent for the New York Times. The missiles of the rebels, although not very precise, the amount already fall into the "green zone" fortified Baghdad that houses the government and the American command, and could not be close to the day when they must evacuate the villages clinging to helicopters, as happened in Vietnam.

Faced with this general disintegration the slender Obama appears helpless. The negotiations, which he has undertaken with courage, given the repercussions against him internally, to push forward to stop the conflict burning for fifty years between Israelis and Palestinians, and that is the source of all is deadlock. "We do not understand how America can continue to say against the enlargement of the occupation of Arab land by Jewish settlers, but then does nothing to put an end, do not understand why America is unable to stop them, "said Palestinian negotiator tentatively. Former President Carter, the only one who is dedicated to the study of" dark forces "could give an explanation.

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Israel has already attacked Iran?

(September 26) The structures cybernetic Iranian nuclear plants have been invaded by a virus to which U.S. intelligence agencies give the name of Stuxnet. If Israel attacks, this would explain the strange silence maintained for some time now by the Israeli authorities with respect to the so-called 'existential threat' Israel accounted for by a nuclear Iran, but that in the past it was reported in every pie 'turn.

The news of the epidemic covering all computer networks in Iran, but especially those of use in nuclear power, has been launched by the Iranian semi-official Mehr and resume by the New York Times. The source is the Iranian Ministry that handles the atomic plant at Natanz and the many other structures, known or secret, involved in Iran's nuclear program. The announcement tends to minimize the effect of the infection and not advance hypotheses on its origin for now, but if Tehran is powerless to defend himself or retaliate, you may prefer not to dramatize.

According to the comments of the "intelligence" in Washington, aggression and technical sophistication of the epidemic fanno ritenere pressochè certo che l’autore sia uno stato e non un’organizzazione privata. Stuxnet – la cui esistenza in forma meno complessa era nota da tempo – ha la capacità di autoriprodursi e attaccare le reti cibernetiche anche quanto sono spente. Se, applicando il principio del “cui prodest”, si ipotizza che l’invasione proviene Israele, ne segue una folla di interrogativi come: lo sapevano gli Stati Uniti? Hanno dato la loro collaborazione? Che natura ha un attacco di questo genere dal punto di vista del diritto internazionale?

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Italy and the penalty The death of rats and the ship

(25 settembre) Essendo di passaggio in questi giorni a New York il ministro Frattini e la ministra Carfagna, si è fatto un gran parlare the position of Italy and other countries 'advanced' against the death penalty, which is opposed to that of the wicked and retrograde abolition of the death of Americans who do not want to hear. It 's true that Italy is the country of Cesare Beccaria, the fact remains that the aversion to capital punishment raises much more profound than generally does not recognize it. Ideally, this aversion is not due to ethical reasons, because these can be discussed ad aeternum without a solution, but to religious reasons, but religion from a couple of centuries in this part is not excluded from political life of nations? At worst, it abolitionist campaign due simply to the fact that it costs little, and that provides cheap, who leads it, an aura of goodness.

But the crucial point is this, but the question is: should also be good with everyone, even with the killers, even with the torturers. But then how do you 'just to be good and also against their victims or their families in the absence of the victims? How do you think they may feel, after the endless pain and irreparable damage that has been procured, when they see that the culprits get along with a punishment that is not even remotely comparable to the punishment imposed on that?

Just as they were here our ministers proceeded to New York il processo contro due giovanotti, i quali dopo aver invaso di notte una villetta suburbana, hanno massacrato a legnate il capofamiglia, poi lo hanno legato a un tubo in cantina. La moglie e le due figlie, due bambine di cui una vicina all’adolescenza, sono state invece legate per le mani al capezzale dei propri letti. Giunto il mattino, la signora è stata slegata e accompagnata al bancomat, dove le sono stati fatti ritirare i 15000 dollari esistenti sul conto di famiglia. Poi è stata riportata indietro dai due che, intascati i dollari, l'hanno nuovamente legata.

Allora è cominciata la vera festa dei due mostri: hanno prima stuprato la donna e la bambina più grande; poi le hanno tormentate e battute selvaggiamente.

The husband, who below had regained consciousness, he heard all the screams, the tears, then the thud of one of the bodies thrown down from the bed. Then did not hear anything for a while, alone, trapelante from the ceiling, smoke from a fire. Neighbors before the arrival of the police and then saw that the fire was caused by gallons of gasoline that the two had sprinkled the house to cover up the crime before fleeing. The smallest of the girls died as well, asphyxiated by the smoke, tied to the bed. The sole survivor of the massacre was the man. The two murderers were quickly tracked down and caught by the police.

Now I ask the "do-gooders" Italians, including Ministers and ministers, in good faith to do a thought experiment. Try to penetrate as much as possible the various aspects of this story, then immaginaserli as such but refer to their home, their children, their parents, their husbands or wives. After five minutes of concentration, they shake and pose themselves the question: I want, I have to apply or not the two criminals the death penalty? And then think for a long time that they are supposed to support, in imagination, the part of the surviving husband or father, if it appears to them right there in their country if the death penalty, that they should keep for a lifetime the memory of that night, and the memory of their family tortured and destroyed, while their murderers are still living, even in places that are not pleasant, but in short, to live forever, to remain among them, as Dante said, that "beasts eyes ... the sweet light strike, and hopefully come out free after a few years for an amnesty?

Think about it a bit ', then let me know if you support always, in principle, and of course with all the precautions, limitations and restrictions of the case, the abolition of the death penalty.

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Obama

(September 24) If, as seems, Rahm Emanuel, "chief of staff" (chief of staff) of the White House, will leave the post in a few days, the "quartet" that has put in place economic policies President Obama will be gone completely to pieces. Two other prominent members of the Quartet, the budget director Peter Orszag and the chief economic advisor Lawrence Summers, have resigned in recent days, and it remains only Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary.

The most serious loss to Obama and Emanuel, a political maneuver of the first class, even outside the economic man who had access to "oval room" at any time. But Emanuel also had another quality of the Jewish faith, his presence alongside Obama was held and quoted by Israeli-American circles as a guarantee that the president would never have dared to leave line pro-Israel categorically that characterized previous U.S. administrations. If

Emanuel leave really soon - the reason is to propose his candidacy for mayor of Chicago - the slap to Obama is all the more searing because Obama himself, pointing to three weeks ago in a radio interview to a possible departure his chief of staff, said they do not consider however that this could happen before the crucial mid-term national elections, which are in November. The reasons of the triple

exodus in recent days become the most varied circumstances, too numerous to mention. I would just add one that no one: all starters are Jews. Geithner, which remains, is not (a former Episcopal non-practicing). So the loss is certain that the Israeli-Americans were in the presence of Emanuel at the White House is even more accentuated by the departure of two others. On the other hand, Obama in recent days repeatedly expressed their willingness to push hard for the conclusion of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, exerting pressure that the right-wing government of Israel is not acceptable. Then there is a link between the tightening of Obama to Israel by Obama's abandonment of his advisers Israelites in the most delicate moment of his career, the end of the first half of office, and fight already under way for control of Congress in the second half?

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Franco Frattini, the clouds and the Vatican City

(September 22) Franco Frattini's the best Italian foreign minister I have met for several decades now. Talk inappuntabilmente languages, knows many things and can answer questions tone, even the most complicated of Italian and foreign journalists.

E 'from him that I learned, for example, that migration takes place in Italy in the 35,000 female genital mutilation each year. Or even some unexpected aspects of international financial transactions, such as the fact that if you force banks to halve the exorbitant fees charged on remittances migrants in Europe, the poor countries from which they come would receive $ 15 billion more each year.

But there is a problem, but not about what a minister says so effective. It concerns what is not said, or perhaps does not want to say.

For example, when I asked him, after a press conference in New York, if you could declare something on the investigation underway by the Italian authorities on the movements of some current accounts of the Vatican in Italy, and the freezing of approximately $ 30 million belonging to such accounts by the financial police, has made a small step back and just mumbled, "No, we lacked even the investigation in the Vatican. "Meanwhile, his spokesman made frantic gestures to silence, and as if to say that I would never have asked such a thing and that I never had an answer.

Why? The Holy See is not a foreign nation? We do not entertain diplomatic relations with it at ambassadorial level, and therefore the foreign ministry is not the right body to penetrate what it is obscure behind the Bronze Door? The Vatican has done, through a spokesman, official statements. And the Minister Frattini? Speaking with a colleague who saw him often, I wondered why the minister had fallen from the clouds. But he ruled that he did not know by heart the facts, adding, "' solo bravissimo a fingere di cadere dalle nuvole.” Allora, un altro talento che non gli conoscevo.

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"peace process" and the Italian mission to the UN

(21 settembre) “La pace in Medio Oriente non è mai sembrata più vicina,” ha detto Abraham Foxman, direttore della “Anti-Defamation League” ebraica negli Stati Uniti, nella riunione che questa ed altre organizzazioni israelo-americane hanno tenuto a New York con il ministro degli esteri italiano Franco Frattini. In realtà la pace non è mai sembrata più distante. I negoziati appaiono in procinto di arenarsi se il premier israeliano Netanyahu non revocherà la sua decisione di sospendere il moratorium che era stato applicato al programma di costruzione abusiva nei terroritori occupati by Israel in Palestine, a program that by itself blocks any possibility of agreement.

The good or bad faith with which the Israeli government proceed in the negotiations is clearly evident by the news came to New York to Jerusalem, which it is trying to use the extension of the moratorium (which counts for something only if there is a will for peace behind , otherwise it does not matter) as a bargaining chip to secure the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard-American who has been in prison since 1987 in America to life imprisonment. Pollard, who is one of many indicators that Israel has maintained and maintains the grounds of the great protector of his nation, including those stolen in the laboratories American design of the atomic bomb for the benefit of Israel, as revealed recently by the Nixon-Kissinger correspondence, must have done it even bigger for having been convicted of an offense so long. All work done for over twenty years with special insistence by the Israeli government to get its amnesty have always been rejected by American presidents. What Pollard has really done is covered by state secret, but one of the leaders of the Pentagon let out once more that, among other things, had sent to Jerusalem all ten volumes of manual network monitoring global electronic spying American (Radio-Signal Notations or Rasin), a revelation that could have compromised freedom or the lives of U.S. agents in other countries.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the 300,000 Jewish settlers that the Israeli government has allowed to settle over the years in the occupied Palestinian territory - this against international law and the provisions of the United Nations - has quietly let the government know with a letter that if it takes any effort in negotiating their settlement or otherwise compromising their interests, the settlers will immediately collapse, and there is no doubt that they can do that, because of their political strength, directly represented in the coalition government . These, therefore, the prospects of peace "never seemed so close."

La riunione dei capi di sei organizzazioni internazionali israelo-americane con il ministro Frattini, con cui è stata anche inaugurata la nuova, spettacolosa sede della missione italiana all’ONU nell’attico di un grattacielo accanto alle Nazioni Unite, si è svolta a porte chiuse e non si è saputo molto precisamente che cosa si sia detto. Non è però chiaro perchè l’Italia senta il bisogno di tenere all’estero queste riunioni, che un comunicato italiano ha chiamato “tradizionali”, e ancora meno chiaro è perchè le organizzazioni invitate siano soltanto quelle che difendono a spada tratta la linea di occupazione illegale della Palestina tenacemente seguita – in pratica se not in theory - by the Israeli government. Other hand, fighting for the two-state solution and a real, quick peace, were never been invited. Among other things, the positions of these organizations are much closer to those of current President Obama and his collaborators (Clinton, Mitchell), than they are those of the old-fashioned American Jewish organizations, which in fact are, on fondtamentali points, clearly the opposite.

I asked the Minister Frattini because of the omission of the Jewish peace organizations from the meeting with him and he told me, quite frankly, to ignore their existence has even asked me to disclose the identity to his ministry, as indeed I did. In the United States, the principal of these organizations are the "J - Street," who calls himself "the American movement pro-Israel and pro-peace" (President, Jeremy Ben Ami), based in Washington but with an office in New York (Director Gil Kulick), and the company "Americans for Peace Now, which is a subsidiary of the important association pacifist Peace Now operating in Israel.

These organizations are very large support from the Israeli-American population, almost all Democratic staining, which supported the election of Obama, while they are disdained by the organizations that are richer capo a Wall Street e che sono, all’incirca, quelle ricevute da Frattini. Esse sono abbondantemente documentate su Internet, Googles, Facebook e Twitter, e non vi è difficoltà dunque a conoscerne i recapiti.

Il ministero degli esteri italiano sa certamente anche che nello stesso Israele il movimento per la pace e contro le organizzazioni estremiste che condizionano il governo trova sempre maggiore aderenza tra la popolazione, che nelle “poll” si pronuncia a grande maggioranza, e sia pure, finora, invano, per l’accordo con i palestinesi. Il movimento “Peace Now” sta per inciso organizzando sorvoli del territorio occupato dagli insediamenti illegali, che mostrano come questi siano stati impiantati along strategic lines on top of the hills, as if waiting for armed conflict (employment snapshot of the highlands was the one that yielded the victory to Israel in the "Six Day War").

The Italian authorities in New York, for example, our Institute of Culture, would certainly give more space than they have done so far the peace movement, which both the U.S. and Israel is sponsored by Jewish figures of the highest intellectual value . In Israel, his popularity in the culture was only a few days ago demonstrated by the decision of the representatives of the organizations theater to refuse, block, each performance in the new theaters that "settlers" have opened in the settlements.

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Serie A

The probable line of the fourth day

Tomorrow in midweek to play the q uart day of the Serie A . The big match of the evening Lazio-Milan, but also pay attention to Juventus-Palermo. Following are all likely configurations.

Bologna-Udinese Bologna

The survivor of a great tie for second at 2 in the house of Rome, will play with (4-1-4-1)

Viviano goal. Defense to 4 with Esposito, Portanova, Moras, Rubin. In front of the defense Mudingayi. Siligardi, Perez, Casarini, Gimenez, will play behind the lone striker Di Vaio. A

Udinese, the last in the standings, sconfitta in casa per 4 a 0 contro la Juventus giocherà con un (4-3-1-2)

In porta Handanovic. Difesa a 3 con Benatia, Zapata, Domizzi, Pasquale.Trio di centrocampo composto da Pinzi,Asamoah e Inler. Abdi giocherà dietro le punte Sanchez-Floro Flores.

Brescia-Roma

Il Brescia tornato vittorioso a casa vincendo per 1 a 0 con il Chievo giocherà (4-3-1-2)

A difendere i pali troviamo Sereni. Trio difensivo composto da De Maio, Bega, Martinez, Dallamano. A centrocampo A.Filippini, Cordova, Kone. Diamanti dietro le punte Eder-Caracciolo.

Roma (4-2-3-1)

Julio Sergio. In difesa Rosi, Mexes, Juan, Cassetti. Davanti la difesa Pizarro e Brighi. Vucinic, Perrotta e Menez, dietro l'unica punta Borriello
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Cagliari-Sampdoria

Il Cagliari , dopo un noioso 0 a 0 col Bari giocherà con un (4-3-1-2)

Agazzi in porta. Difesa a 4 con Pisano, Canini, Astori, Agostini. A centrocampo Biondini, Nainngolan, Pinardi. Cossu dietro le punte Matri, Acquafresca.

La Sampdoria dopo la beffa col Napoli giocherà con un (4-3-1-2)

Curci in porta. Difesa a 4 con Zauri, Gastaldello, Lucchini, Ziegler. A centrocampo Mannini, Palombo, Dessena. Guberti dietro le punte Pozzi, Pazzini.

Catania-Cesena

The Catania after 2 to 0 in a large house of Milan plays with a (4-3-1-2)

In goal Andujar. Defense to 4 with power, Silvestre, Spolli, Capuano. Izco midfield, Carboni, Biagianti. Ricchiuti behind the strikers Maxi Lopez, Mascara. The

Cesena after winning the 3 points at home with the winning 1 to 0 Lecce will play with a (4-3-3) Antonioli

goal. Ceccarelli, Von Bergen, Pellegrino, Nagatomo defense. Midfield trio formed by Appiah, Colucci, words. Schelotto, Bogdani Giaccherini attack.

Genoa-Fiorentina

Genoa (3-4-3) in goal

Eduardo. Defense to 3 with Chico, Daines, Frogley. Rafinha, Milanetto, Veloso, Criscito in midfield. In attack Mesto, Toni, Sculli.

Mass hurt Fiorentina, after yet another defeat, this time at home for 2 to 1 against Lazio will play with a (4-2-3-1)

Frey to defend the posts. Defense to 4 with Comotto, Gamberini, Kroldrup, Felipe. In front of the defense are Donadel and Zanetti. Montolivo, Vargas and Cerci, behind the lone striker Gilardino.

Inter-Bari

After the comeback away from home for 2 to 1 against Palermo, the 'Inter play well (4-2-3-1)

Julio Cesar in goal. Maicon, Lucio, Samuel, Chivu in defense. Cambiasso and Mariga davanti la difesa. Pandev, Sneijder, Eto'o, dietro la punta Milito.

Bari (4-4-2)

Gillet. Difesa con Raggi, A.Masiello, Marco Rossi, Parisi. Centrocampo con Alvarez, Donati, Almiron, Ghezzal. Punte Barreto, Kutuzov.

Big Match della serata Lazio-Milan

Lazio (4-4-1-1): Muslera; Lichtsteiner, Biava, Dias, Radu; Mauri, Ledesma, Brocchi, Bresciano; Hernanes; Floccari.

Milan (4-3-3): Abbiati; Abate, Nesta, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta; Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf; Boateng, Ibrahimovic, Ronaldinho.

Lecce-Parma

Il Lecce after losing at home to Cesena a row (4-1-4-1)

Rosati, Rispoli, Fabiano, Ferrario, Giuliatto; Giacomazzi, Vives, Plates, Grossmuller, Di Michele Corvi. The

Parma, in the previous round broke up the stakes against Genoa with the result of 1 to 1. He will play with a (4-3-3)

Mirante; Zaccardo, Paci, A. Lucarelli, Pisano; Morrone, Dzemaili, Antonelli, Giovinco, Bojinov, Marques.

Napoli-Chievo

The Naples, after the great comeback against Sampdoria will play the following form (3-4-2-1)

De Sanctis on goal. Defensive trio with Grava, Cannavaro, Campagnaro. In midfield, Maggio, Pazienza, Gargano, Dossena. Hamsik and Lavezzi, behind the lone striker Cavani.

Chievo (4-3-1-2): Sorrentino, N. Frey, Andreolli, Cesar, Mantovani; Bentivoglio, Rigoni, Marcolini; Bogliacino; Granoche, Pellissier. Thursday, September 23



The challenge between Juventus and Palermo

Juventus with the classic (4-4-2).

Storari; Motta, Bonucci, Chiellini, Grygera; Krasic, Melo, Marchisio, Pepe, Iaquinta, Del Piero. The

Palermo after losing at home with the 'Inter 2 to 1, but having played a good game, the following row (4-3-1-2) con:

Sirigu; Cassani, Muñoz, Bovo, Balzaretti; Migliaccio, Bacinovic, Nocerino; Pastore; Hernandez, Maccarone.

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Serie A

Risultati della terza giornata

Dopo gli anticipi di sabato sera, si è conclusa ieri la terza giornata di Serie A, i risultati

Palermo-Inter 1 a 2

Samuel Eto'o salva l' Inter dalla disfatta con il Palermo. Inter che va in svantaggio al 28'Ilicic, neo acquisto rosanera, segna il momentaneo 1 a 0. Nella ripresa i nerazzurri, cambiano la musica grazie al camerunense che al 17 e 25' realizza la doppietta che permette alla squadra to bring home the 3 points. Milito still bad, not as it should be made.

Udinese-Juventus 0 to 4

A great Juventus taketh the Friuli Stadium in Udine with a loud and heavy 4 to 0. After the break-even in Europe League with Lech Poznan, where we saw all the shortcomings of the defensive line, this time the opposing team has failed even to score a goal. Go online: Bonucci (18 '), Quagliarella (24') and Marchisio (43 ') for the first time. In the second half to Iaquinta (32 ') closes the game. Ko third in a row for Udinese, which remains in last place with 0 points.

Roma-Bologna 2 to 2

momentaggio continues for the team AS Roma coached by Claudio Ranieri, who do you take advantage of the break from the two networks. Borriello ahead with the 18 th of the first half and after the own goal by Rubin on the 14th of the second half, salt Chair Marco Di Vaio, who at 32 and 45 th of the second half scored a brace that allows his team to go home with a point. They start the ill-feeling in the house red and yellow.

-Brescia Chievo 0 to 1

Thus ends the tale of two consecutive victories and earned first place in the standings for Chievo Verona. In his stage is to lose 1 to 0 against a very good Brescia. The match is decided by the new purchase diamonds that leads the lead against Brescia at 30 'for the first time with a surprising Sorrentino punizione perfetta.

Cesena-Lecce 1 a 0

Dopo la vittoria per 2 a 0 con il Milan, il Cesena in casa riesce a battere il Lecce, grazie al gol realizzato da Bogdani, al 9' del secondo tempo. Il Lecce torna sconfitto a casa dopo aver battuto nella seconda giornata la Fiorentina per 1 a 0.

Parma-Genoa 1 a 1

Perfetta parità allo stadio Tardini di Parma. Vanno in vantaggio i rossoblu con Luca Toni, che non sbaglia dal dischetto, dopo il colpo di mano di Zaccardo. Nella ripresa è proprio Zaccardo ha mettere in rete di testa, dopo uno splendido cross di Bojinov. Polemiche a fine partita, quando Eduardo, portiere del Genoa respinge, FORSE oltre la linea, una conclusione a few meters from the port Marques

Sampdoria-Napoli 1 to 2

In the evening, closing the third day of Serie A with Napoli victory against Sampdoria. Sampdoria who went ahead thanks to the net on a penalty kick by Antonio Cassano. Copyright comeback for Napoli, Hamsik with that before and after Cavani lead with 3 points at home, Sampdoria little cynical with serious problems in defense.

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Vultures on the head of Obama: Bloomberg among them?

(September 19) Most of Obama's popularity wears lasciatigli against intractable problems inherited from previous administration, the greater, of course, those who think of potergli blow the place will expire in two years when his first term.

Those who most fiercely criticize Obama belong to the movement of the Tea Party, which has fueled hatred for the black inhabitant of the White House (see the article in the September 15 "proto-fascist assault in the United States."). Stands out among them Sarah Palin and her former puppeteer, the already e forse ancora, aspirante alla presidenza John McCain. Ma tutti e due appartengono al partito repubblicano, dove costituiscono, per via del loro estremismo, un elemento di divisione. Se si presentassero come repubblicani, potrebbero avere il solo effetto di far naufragare alle elezioni del 2012 l’intero partito.

Non è assolutamente escluso che la Palin possa presentarsi come indipendente, ma in ogni caso l’etichetta del “Tea Party” non ha sui tempi lunghi gran possibilità di assicurare la vittoria a chi cerchi di giovarsene per la massima contesa. Questo movimento di tipo qualunquista, per quanto fondato in parte su motivi di protesta sentiti e legittimi è fondamentalmente un fuoco di paglia con una prognosi di sopravvivenza politica non superiore a quella che ebbero a suo tempo, nell’immediato dopoguerra, il qualunquismo italiano e il suo profeta Guglielmo Giannini.

E’ a questo punto che si leva all'orizzonte la sagoma di Michael Bloomberg, sindaco di New York, uno degli uomini più ricchi del mondo e molto ammirato come “doer” (uno che “fa le cose”) e per il buon lavoro che ha fatto sinora nella capitale cervello degli Stati Uniti.

Bloomberg è un vero e convinto uomo di centro: non è sollevato dall’ondata del “Tea Party”, che anzi cerca come può di contenere. Tra un paio di giorni, per esempio, inviterà a casa sua per una festa in suo onore il leader repubblicano the Senate, Harry Reid, who is a favorite target of the "Tea Party" (preparations are already underway, I can see why Bloomberg lives within walking distance of me).

Bloomberg is a friend of Obama, is indeed one of the few who calls on Obama to Washington for his rounds of golf. Despite being Jewish and from Wall Street, he was not intimidated by the powerful American Jewish lobby groups who seek to engage the West in their feud with the Muslims. For example, he instantly said, despite the ostracism of these furious lobbying in favor of the mosque, "ecumenical" designed as a peace initiative by a religious movement moderate Arab (Sufi) not far from the place where the Twin Towers collapsed.

Instead, Bloomberg is a friend of the great majority of Jews voted Democratic, support Obama and call for a solution bistatale and peace in Palestine. (The existence of this increasingly powerful current hostile fanatical pro-war and anti-Palestinian - aware that I promised to talk again - but seems to be unknown even to the rulers as Italian Foreign Minister Frattini, arriving in New York between a couple of days for the UN General Assembly will also need to meet or perhaps even prostrate themselves in front of representatives of the Israeli-American organizations on the right, apparently not knowing that there are Israeli-American organizations opposite sign.)

Bloomberg entered politics as a democrat, then took the Republican nomination a decade ago to compete for the office of mayor of New York finally became independent for a third term as mayor two years ago. If you wish to contribute to the White House was unlikely to be taken by the two major parties and it should stand as an independent.

The mayor of New York is a man too wise not to know that, historically, the leaders of the "third parties" almost always fail nell'assalto the White House (the experience of Ross Perot, another Wall Street tycoon, is still in the memory of all), and not to know also that, even historically, the mayor of New York has always been a lousy launching pad for this type of adventure.

But as the Americans say, "there is always a first time," and that Bloomberg does not deny to have a great desire, when in two years will end forever his position as mayor, to find another job at the highest level , Washington to find him and find him, if necessary, the White House. If he went to Washington, there should be only as president, told the New York Times, "I shall not accept, for example, a cabinet position." Then, if nothing sublime materialize for Bloomberg in 2012, he could always Starting in left for Washington four years later. In 73 years, he would have the "inauguration" three more of Reagan, who was the oldest of American presidents, but as we know, the age of men is increasing.