Thursday, 27 August 2009

Messina: unknown trying to burn the Vara

Santino Irrera
An attempt to fire the Vara has been perpetrated by unknown assailants in the early hours of the new day today, Thursday 27 August.
The famous 'votive Machina', pride of many messinesi but obviously detested by others, and, as noted, placed on display in Piazza Duomo, with the equally renowned icon of the legendary Mata and Grifone: somebody has attacked the first (la Vara) the bottles with flammable liquid and a roll of toilet paper that was supposed to have, in the intentions of the Vandals, the function of fuse and spread of flame.
The fire was fortunately averted by the arrival of several police cars.
(Photo: Serena Musumeci)

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

The Daily Telegraph on Berlusconi: "Poor old nurse who will heal the debauched"

The British press insists on the events of Berlusconi
And the columnist ventured: "Treating an Italian sex is impossible"
The case also on Al Arabya
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London - There are very many articles on international press announced the release tomorrow of the new edition of "Trend Veronica Maria Latella's book that tells the last chapter of the marriage between Silvio Berlusconi and Veronica Lario. And all emphasize in particular the suggestion to the Knight to seek treatment in a clinic for sexual addiction.
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The article, however, resumed the subject in greater depth and controversial is that of Celia Walden, a commentator of the Daily Telegraph that takes its cue from the events of the Prime Minister to make an accusation at all heavy Italian men. "Poor nursing that Berlusconi will attend the clinic for sexual addiction - writes Walden - I can guess already, the old debauched, to invite the younger to sit in the lap of the Popes, or as she says to her therapist that would be wonderful if you untie your hair, deprive the glasses and wearing a bikini made of licorice. Yes, if the doctors will try to avoid a diagnosis of "hopeless case" may be in serious trouble. "
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"This, of course, if Berlusconi will decide to seek treatment - says the British journalist - but just takes a couple weeks to heal 60 years of womanizing? ". Walden goes on the particular case to the general thrust of the fact that, he says, when she was a student at Siena was caught pinching in the behind by a man while he was driving with his wife. "Remove the 'sexual addiction' to an Italian - supports - is like asking him to avoid the musical cadence when speaking. The symptoms - you have checked the description in medical dictionaries, says - fits the stereotypical national good title buckled Italians" . In practice, to Celia Walden and its clinical description, all Italians "have a profound and uncommon obsession with sex that makes them difficult to engage or maintain healthy personal relationships."
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It is more tender the French Le Figaro, which speaks of 'steel' Berlusconi in a whole page. Note however that the conservative newspaper with the latest scandals "his myth has been broken" and that on the eve of his 73 years had to "renounce the parties" to the "jokes fuoriluogo" for "trying to rebuild their reputation." On relations with the Church in Le Figaro noted: "It is his biggest concern at this time.
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A long article in the Arab website Al Arabya emphasizes the concern about the attitude of Italians "accustomed to scandal." The Arab media remember, as we did in recent days by other newspaper that Berlusconi already served as a pimp for Bettino Craxi and were introduced in its television broadcasts in Italy where the role of women is commodified. After making a list of trials against Berlusconi, and connections of the international press, Al Arabiya Knight likens to a novel Nero and explains his rise in the weakness of the opposition.
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Great publicity release of "Trend Veronica" in the German press, the "Frankfurter Rundschau, which states that the clamor for the story of Berlusconi was a bit 'waned, but now the book will open a new chapter interesting for the international press, and on Tagespiegel, stressing that Veronica Lario was tired of lies.
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Even the Irish Independent Irish speaking of the book emphasizes the "web of lies" that led Veronica Lario in divorce. The newspaper is surprised that "despite the explosive content of the tapes recorded by Patrizia D'Addario" "Italians remain so loyal to their controversial premier."
In Spain El Periódico Mediterráneo headline "Berlusconi sex addict according to his ex and El Periodico de Catalunya reported that Veronica Lario has revealed" the dirt "that surrounds her husband, especially to girls who go around" willing to throw the mouth of the dragon ". Even the Australian newspaper The Advertiser in Adelaide about a "Berlusconi sex addict."
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August 25, 2009
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Crisis: Trichet warns "there are difficult times ahead"

Trichet: We expect difficult times we are not yet to normal
Jean-Claude Trichet President European Central Bank's holding back the enthusiasm and warns: "There are difficult times ahead, no one imagined that the markets are back to normal, it would be a disaster if governments and banks do not learn the lesson of the crisis."
Trichet meets the most optimistic statements made by Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman during the annual summit on the state of the economy in Jackson Hole resort in Wyoming, where they gathered for their central bankers (for the Bank of Italy Mario Draghi).
Home sales in July in the United States increased by 7.3%, but also seizure in the second quarter of 2009 grew by 13%.
The consumer sales in July were weak and disappointing and there was a rebound in the number of new unemployed.
Banks continue to fail in small to medium - to the point that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was responsible for saving them nearly exhausted state funds available to him.
Bernanke also spoke in the same summit did not hide the negative elements that remain.

Sunday, 23 August 2009

Hamid Dabashis cloud cuckoo home

The one described Professor Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University, NY) in his commentary the torture and rape reports from Iranian prisons are true, but he characterized Karroubi as credible and sincere testimony of the Islamic revolution, although he himself recently had his statements relativized.
Below shows Dabashi although, to judge that a change from the "Islamic" to the "Iranian" Republic will be completed, however, speaks in the same breath that it will consequently also no Jewish state could give.
They simply ignored it, that the Jewish state of Israel does not monolithic world is completed, but a very vital-plural. Here is Dabashi at the same anti-Zionist (and anti-Semitic in the core) by thinking like Karroubi. A pity, because his analysis fits in large parts.
Commentary: Iran confront rape, torture allegations
(CNN) - troubling news of kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder is flooding out of Iran.
Neda AQA Soltan was murdered point-blank in the streets of Tehran for the whole world to see, while Sohrab Arabi was killed far from any global attention and his body given to his mother quietly to bury, as was the body of Tortured Mohsen Ruholamini.
These names have assumed symbolic significance for many more innocent young men and women murdered by the custodians of the Islamic Republic with a Wanton disregard for the lives and liberties of its own citizens.
Not just murder, but the rape of young men and women so shameless is on the roster of the Islamic Republic. After years of Sporadic charges and troubling rumors, finally a Courageous cleric has put a stamp of public recognition on atrocious practices in the theocratic state.
Mehdi Karrubi - one of the revolutionary founders of the Islamic Republic, a high-ranking cleric, a presidential candidate, a former speaker of the house and now a widely popular political activist - has published a letter, addressing it to the former president and current head of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He accuse the security officers of the Islamic Republic of violently and repeatedly raping young women and men while they are in custody.
Since the publication of this letter, a massive outpouring of testimony and reports has come out, corroborating Karrubi's charges that Rapes of young women and men are a widespread, common practice in the Islamic Republic.
These are not light charges for any state, for any republic, let alone for an Islamic Republic.
These charges are no longer brought by expatriate, and at times discredited, opposition. It is the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic, with impeccable revolutionary credentials, who are bringing these charges, as others are coming out and corroborating them in excruciating detail.
The Islamic Republic has never faced such a deep crisis of Legitimacy in its turbulent 30-year history.
As widely evident, it is not just the regime's claim to a "republic" that is in question and in jeopardy, but, perhaps far more seriously, it is its claim to Islam that has troubling consequences for more than 1.3 billion Muslims around the world .
People in the streets of Tehran are chanting, paraphrasing a famous slogan of the 1979 revolution, "Independence, Freedom, Iranian Republic," pointedly replacing "Iranian" for "Islamic."
Though this a perfectly legitimate demand, given the criminal record of the Islamic Republic, by no means is this feeling that a common denominator of the growing opposition to the regime.
To the degree that, at least in part, he represents this Uprising, Mir Hossein Moussavi, as a pious and practicing Muslim who continues to insist that he wishes to restore the ideals and aspirations of the Islamic revolution within the constitution of the state.
Never have the two opposing ideas of an "Islamic Republic," and Muslims living in a democratic republic seemed so at odds with each other. The 30-year experience of the Islamic Republic shows fundamental flaws in defining a state apparatus in the exclusive terms of a militantly legalistic Islam, while at the same time Iranian, the overwhelming majority of them Shiite Muslims, have repeatedly demonstrated, under this regime, they are perfectly capable of democratic behavior.
Not just as immigrants in the EU nations and the U.S., but as citizens in Iran, millions of Muslims have shown they are integral to the democratic institutions embedded in the notion of a nation-state.
What is in question is the viability of an Islamic republic - or for that matter, a Jewish state, a Christian empire, a Hindu fundamentalist government - or any state or movement that is not defined by the apparatus of democratic citizenry, but by exclusionary membership in a world religion.
As in the rest of the Muslim world, Islam is integral to Iranian society. But not exclusively so. Over the last 30 years, a radically legalistic interpretation of a cosmopolitan faith has been force-fed into a multifaceted political culture - and today all the world can see the violent convulsion of the system
There has been much talk of the need for an Islamic "Reformation" over the last few years. But what Islam needs is not a Christian-style reformation.
What Islam needs is a restoration of its historically cosmopolitan character in which Muslims and non-Muslims live in peace and prosperity, and which they now need to retrieve in order to live in peace and prosperity in a world that is not entirely Muslim.
By virtue of living in a democracy, and having endured indignities of rampant Islamophobia in their own country, American Muslims have a historic role to play, by way of sending a delegation to Iran, connecting to this grass roots democratic movement in a Muslim nation, and helping it restore its cosmopolitan character in pursuit of Enduring democratic institutions.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hamid Dabashi.
Hamid Dabashi is the author of "Iran: A People Interrupted." He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Afghanistan: Blood and threats vote

Taliban attack in Kabul in two days by presidential elections. Two rockets were fired against the presidential palace without causing victims, as reported to the police. The attack started from Bagram, on the south side of the Afghan capital. "Both rockets hit areas near the presidential palace but fortunately caused no victims." It is the second attack in Kabul, after the last Saturday in front of the headquarters of NATO, where the attacks are rare given the military presence of thousands of Afghans and international forces.
ELECTIONS
The Election Commission flaunts optimism: only 442 seats in 7000 will remain closed after tomorrow, when the Afghan citizens are called to choose the new head of state and 34 provincial councils. For Zekria Barakzai, deputy director of the committee, is a major achievement, given that until a few days ago it was feared that the conditions of widespread insecurity in the country become inaccessible and unusable, a number much higher, around 700. Yet if you look at the recent past, there is little to be cheerful. In 2004 when we held the previous president in the seats that were not able to open only 100.
Feroci Rappresaglia
Most election offices that do not come into operation is concentrated in the southern province of Helmand, the heart of the revolt integrist. To discourage citizens from participating in an "American initiative," and not be complicit in a plan "anti-patriotic and anti-Islamic, the Taliban have repeatedly threatened to attack both the seats and the roads to get there. In recent days the language of intimidation became increasingly grim. The latest propaganda leaflets circulated the other night in some areas of the South, promised fierce reprisals against those who go to vote. "Cut nose and ears," say the rebels, and also 'the ink-stained fingers. " A clear reference to the stamp that is stamped on the thumb in the electorate to prevent the recurrence of the same person to vote a second time.
ACROBAZIE POLICIES
Many polling stations closed, the climate of fear in the south Afghanisan where diavampano many weeks bloody clashes between Taliban and Afghan and international troops. It is inevitable that the risk of abstention here is particularly high. A problem more for Hamid Karzai, the outgoing head of state, as are areas populated predominantly by people dell'etnia Pashtun, one of which has the largest potential number of supporters. For this reason in recent days Karzai has resumed a series of alliances with people whose democratic faith is often uncertain, however, able to assure him of support consisting of slices of the population. First obtained the support of Ismail Khan, the powerful former warlord who enjoys wide following in Herat. In extremis then drew exile Rashid Dostum, leader of the minority Uzbek undisputed that in 2004 when it introduced the candidate, got 10%.
THE POLLS
In exchange for the return, Dostum has urged her to vote for Karzai. Considering that the polls give him 45% of votes, the support of the Uzbek leader is valuable in order to overcome the quorum of 50% and avoid the ballot. Dostum is a very unpleasant picture of the rooms UN and NATO for the crimes that have been spotted before and after the fall of the theocratic regime. But Karzai seems disposed to any acrobatics policy not face in the second round the former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, steadily in the polls. The latter is attributed 25% of the votes. Its popularity is largely overcoming the boundaries dell'etnia Tajik where it belongs.
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Monday, 17 August 2009

The reeleción: Delivering the Congress Parez Perez again

For the Central Editorial
SANTO DOMINGO. The Senate elected this Sunday and swore his management firm, to fall again in the chair Dr. Reinaldo Pared Perez and vice president Cristina Lizardo Mezquita and senators Dionis Sanchez and Ruben Cruz would Carrasco, secretaries for the period 2009-2010
It also left the Senate started the second regular term of the year, in compliance with the provisions of Articles 33 and 34 of the Constitution.
The healer in Puerto Plata, Francis Vargas, was introduced as a spokesman for the bloc of senators from the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Roberto Rodriguez, the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), and Felix Vasquez, the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC).
As a deputy spokesman for the PLD, Senator John Holland Mercedes Sena, by the PRD, César Díaz Filpo and Pedro Alegria, secretary.
Pared Perez completed the four years as chairman of the Senate, being the second in the past 30 years presiding over the Senate for four consecutive years.
Article 33 of the Constitution stipulates that the chambers will meet regularly on February 27 and August 16 and each term lasts 90 days, which may be extended up to 60 days more.
Article 34 provides that on August 16 of each year the Senate and House of Representatives shall choose their respective law firms managers.
The installation session was chaired by Senator Noel Vasquez Sterlin, older, and Leonel Alejandro Cordero and Luis Rene Willims Canaan, the youngest, as secretaries.
Verified the quorum, the President directed the firm's tentative vote on the plate and then filed a sworn those selected.
Senator Francisco Domínguez Brito was the only one who missed the session on medical leave.
After installation of the management firms, Wall Perez appointed a commission composed of the vice president Cristina Lizardo, spokesmen for the banks, Francis Vargas, Roberto Rodriguez and Felix Vasquez, as well as Senator Amarilis Santana, to deposit a wreath at the Pantheon Nacional, where lie the remains of the heroes of the Restoration of the Republic, which now meets its 146th anniversary.
Senate President Pared Perez convened on Thursday at 10:00 am and convened a meeting for Monday to the Coordinating Committee of the Assembly Editor, at 4:00 pm.
Also invited the Chairman of the Committee on Verification and Control of the House Frank Martinez and Lidio Cadet to perform as will a report on the work of the Assembly.
To say a few words, Pared Perez said that during his three years at the helm of the Presidency of the Senate has been characterized by respect for the political spaces of the senators and said that it expected to continue operating during the latter period.
He also said that he had no complaints from senators and highlighted the atmosphere of camaraderie that has prevailed in the Senate.
He thanked the senators for the legislative work that has been played, whose work is in the sight of all the Dominican people.
He also noted that because nearly all of the registration of senators hopes to be reelected, wished them luck and to achieve their political goals.
The senator from San Juan de la Maguana, Ramon de la Rosa, refused to be waived as was rumored last week.
The legislator described as a lack of respect to have a rumor circulating that he would resign his seat. He stressed that not delegate its functions to which he was elected and there is no reason to resign.

Sunday, 16 August 2009

Queens

A small tribute to two timeless myths, in the heart of all the movie lovers.
More than 100 years ago was born Greta Garbo.
"The Garbo is a prominent white spectrum, remote and immortal as a statue of Pallas Athena. It is expected that most will not die" says the biography dedicatale application by Richard Corliss in 1974.
Since its first appearance "Variety" said. "This girl has everything, beauty talented personality."
Soon the name Garbo echoes in the songs, writers, painters inspired poets, the style "garbesco" deeply renews the look feminine, is synonymous with beauty charm elusiveness. All in dell'iperbole sign, which is a sign of Hollywood, in whose golden age was the undisputed Divine.
In all the films (from best to worst), his acting is intense, a surprisingly modern, almost inspired.
The essence of Garbo (magnetic solitary inaccessible) is there on the screen, an image film par excellence, that history recognizes as perhaps the first real singer of that which is the new cinema.
More than 90 years ago was born Ingrid Bergman. Among the best actresses of all time.
It is a legend of cinema, but has never been a vamp (although in the history of celluloid for the longest kiss in screen "Notorius" film shot in 1946 by the magician who was Alfred Hitchcock).
E 'stata una donna sentimentally restless, unconventional for the times they ran. A star always ready to accept challenges, to break schedules and clichés. Despite being beautiful, it had something more: a talent out of the ordinary and the desire to get involved beyond the various clichés.
The Hollywood star system would make it a symbol of a sound morality, a woman without problems, most loving mother. But Ingrid rebelled both professionally - in 1941 interpreted the character of the prostitute in "Dr Jekill and Mr. Hide" - which in private life, when in 1949 fell in love with Roberto Rossellini and left him for her husband Petter Lindstrom and daughter Pia (America and the Hollywood decreed ostracism for 7 years did not work in U.S. productions).

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Disinterested

As the world constantly attacking Atomanalagen place or threaten to have Iran, generally concerned about the weal and woe of humanity, this problem is now completely selfless adopted: Iran wants world ban on attacks on nuclear facilities.
So declared the competent Iranians in IAEI "You just wanted to support a resolution that all attacks on nuclear facilities anywhere in the world prohibits Soltanieh said."
A very selfless initiative ist das

Gasparri, the "abortion pill" and the Inquisition.

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By a week the RU486 or the "abortion pill", is commercially available. Can be administered only in hospitals and up to quarantanovesimo days of pregnancy. This decision by a majority dell'AIFA (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco).
The controversy does not calm down. After the threat of excommunication by the Vatican [1], Maurizio Gasparri to raise doubts about the appropriateness of its use. In particular, the Senator of the PDL supports the need for a hearing of the Parliament about the effect of the drug in Italy and in countries where it was previously adopted. This because "it can not be delegated to technicians without democratic legitimacy a decision that the right to life" [2].
It is worth to say a few words on the reasoning that suggests Senator Gasparri.
1. You do not need a hearing of the Italian Parliament on the effectiveness of the drug, nor in Italy nor in the rest of the countries that have adopted. In the first case, in fact, the figures are these: 4000 interventions, of which 5.5% of the cases, women have had to resort to surgical abortion, 23% had experienced pain, 13% nausea, 5% and diarrhea the 0.007% had to undergo a transfusion. The data is updated to 19 February 2009 and relate, remember, a trial of the drug [3]. Regarding the efficiency in the rest of the world, refer to my previous post, which gives the figures reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) [4].
Where the need for a hearing? The results may be controversial to the point of forcing the Parliament to doubt that a positive trend during the trial in Italy and from 1988 to today in the rest of the world is to be reversed? The results are not in dispute: in the vast majority of cases the drug is effective and has no contraindications. Unless Gasparri does not consider that Parliament is not only more important dell'AIFA (guilty, he said, "not to be legitimized by the people") but of the WHO.
2nd Discussed the merits of the proposal, we try now to assess their recruitment background. Gasparri proceed from the premise that the effectiveness of a drug should be evaluated according to the majority: the drug is effective that the majority of citizens (or rather, that the parliamentary representatives of the majority of citizens) considers effective. Would not otherwise explain the lamentation about the "lack of democratic legitimacy" of the "technical" members to make the necessary controls.
We try to evaluate the goodness of this premise using the famous dispute between the Galilean-Copernican heliocentric and geocentric Ptolemaic. According to Gasparri, the Sun still rotate around the Earth. Indeed, such meters should have taken the Church of Rome to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed heliocentric Galileo? Democratic legitimacy, or the vote of the majority. I doubt that in the seventeenth century the majority of the people negotiate for Galileo. So the "hearing" of the Holy Office would have certainly led to the rejection dell'eliocentrismo.
This happens when you use a political criterion (the majority) to assess the scientific data (the effectiveness of a drug), which fortunately does not need any legitimacy of the majority: the scientific legitimacy may be in perfect solitude, or in an overwhelming minority, as in the case of Galileo. Therefore unnecessary to fill the mouth of demagoguery, Senator Gasparri: science and democracy, using different criteria, like it or not the voters.
Nobody wants to be clear, to have their own opinion on the ethical policy of the "abortion pill" to Gasparri as to anyone else. The call is simply not to confuse this with a view of science.
Never be someone who ends up confusing Senator Gasparri with the new Inquisitor.
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Antimafia homeopathy - Marco Travaglio - I want to get off

Antimafia homeopathy - Marco Travaglio - I want to get off.
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Unity, 10 August 2009
Luckily there is Roberto Formigoni, text appointed "governor of Lombardy to life" by his Silvio. Without him, nobody could have suspected that the gangs were trying to get their hands on 15 billion euros that are going to rain on Milan for the booths for Expo 2015. Instead, watch how a mole in hibernation, the pious governor has received "signals from several parts of tries very worrying Mafia infiltration of the construction sites. Probably, discarding the fish, must be capitato a sheet of newspaper with one of the thousands of articles published over the last two to three years on the alert launched by prosecutors, analysts, law enforcement. So much 'worried', launched in men who do not tell a "Committee for the law" for "the prevention of organized crime."
Nuanced applications of heroic Vittorio Mangano, premature failure and affection of his loved ones, and Marcello Dell'Utri and Salvatore Cuffaro, also very devoted to them, it was decided at the end for two former judges of the highest repute, Giuseppe and Salvatore Grechi Boemi. In order not to leave them alone, they will be joined by two policemen from Ros and Sisde: General Mario Mori, and Colonel Giuseppe De Donno. As it is assumed, experts in the field: it is in fact the same Mori De Donno and that in 1992, shortly after Able and then way beyond Amelio started negotiations with Vito Ciancimino and leaders of Cosa Nostra, Riina and Provenzano, who had just killed Falcone, Borsellino and men of stocks: the negotiation of the "papello ', delivered by a Ciancimino Riina and this in Mori, at least according to the latest revelations of the son of Mafia mayor of Palermo. Mori also has been accused for not searching the den of Riina in January'93 (an acquittal, but have serious objections on the specification) and still is for aiding and abetting aggravated the Mafia, accused of failing to stop since Provenzano 1995 when the former Mafioso Luigi Ilardi it signaled the presence in a cottage in the Mezzojuso Colonel Michele Riccio.
Now Mori Formigoni help to "monitor, monitor, study procedures for monitoring contracts and give advice to businesses" because they are away from the mafia. We obviously do not believe in only one of the charges hanging over his head, surely the result of "judicial theorems" and "justice show", as Berlusconi and Vendola say. But an application Formigoni the same place we would not think that the man who forgot to search the lair of Riina, who forgot to denounce the judiciary estorsive claims of mafia in the state notorious papello which he thought to fight mafia massacres of dealing with those who had just performed and who is accused of having escaped Provenzano as sentinel Antimafia is a 'careless?

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Raiding houses and threaten to lynch Haitians in reprisal for killing of neighbor

For the Central Editorial
Source. Agencia EFE
Santiago (Dominican Republic), 10 ago (EFE) .- Dozens of Haitians who were hidden in a ravine north of the Dominican despavoridos then fled on Monday that residents of one sector of this region destroyed and looted their homes and threatened to lynch in retaliation for the murder of a neighbor. The action came after the death last Saturday of the Dominican Jesus Rivas Polanco, 30, who died after receiving several stab wounds and blows contusion in the Reyna common cancer in the province of Santiago (north) allegedly at the hands of two undocumented Haitians.
Residents of the town today destroyed and looted at least nine homes of immigrants, who threatened to lynch in retaliation for this crime, allegedly committed the victim to steal a motorcycle, mobile phone and 8,000 pesos ($ 220).
Locals warn that "wherever you find a Haitian citizen come to lynch him" in revenge. However, the police said that will not allow anyone to take justice into their own hands.
Police officers and inspectors Migration cancer Reyna traveled today to prevent possible attacks against immigrants.
Also reported that at least four Haitians were detained for investigation in the barracks at the death of Tamboril Dominican.
One of those arrested is Pié Joselito, who complained that his house, like those of other Haitians, was destroyed and their belongings were looted by mobs of Dominicans.
He also said that unknown persons stole a cassava cultivation on land that was located near his home.
Another hit, Lalita Douglas, told a group of people armed with machetes and clubs were introduced in the morning at his home and threatening her, her husband and three sons to leave the place.
Immigrants seem to be resisted, so the Dominicans destroyed his house and took away their belongings.
Eladio Jose Paniagua, one of the neighbors of cancer Reyna said that the community does not want Haitians ", while denouncing the indifference that in his view, show the immigration authorities in the province of Santiago to the problem.
Another local resident, Pierre Morel, said that migration could have avoided this situation, as many times people had asked him to proceed with the repatriation of undocumented Haitians because, he said, is evidence that those involved in criminal acts .
Hundreds of people were mobilized yesterday, some armed with machetes, against undocumented Haitians.
The slippage in the Dominican-Haitian border in the province of Dajabón (northwest) facilitates the entry of thousands of undocumented Haitians in Dominican Republic.
Due to the criminal actions that are involved in Haitian immigrants in Dominican Republic, incidents between citizens of both countries are common in northern communities and many have been fatal and has caused friction between the two relations nations that occupy the Caribbean island the Spanish.

Elevator - Episode 8: The twins

She: I remember the elevator.
Him: Ok, c'est sympa.
Fortunately it is not coming the other day finally, it would have been hot with C +.
Level -1: it considers the door.
Him: Thank you.
She: So, Saturday was how?
Him: Well I have not spoken much about french.
Say So, I had never noticed it was so big ...
She: Really? You were with ...
Him: Yeah, nothing but the English and American.
It: English, ha ha ...
This small black and white top that highlights. They are beautiful.
Him: C + y'avait, S., M. L.
She: It's good, it allows to re-practice English.
Him: Yeah.
Do not set too still, lift the head a little. Here, she smiles.
Level 2 +: the door opens.
She: And bein, good evening!
Him: Yeah, hi.
I want to re suddenly.

Monday, 10 August 2009

I don't have any reasons, I've left them all behind

I have had an obsession with daily photo blogs from around the world for awhile. I used to wake up every Sunday morning and immediately go to my google reader to admire the beautiful photography of others and their themes. Unfortunately with my schedule changes my once relaxing Sunday mornings have disappeared. Now I check in a few times a week when I have time instead of making it a morning ritual. I particularly enjoy looking at places I would like to travel to in the future but mostly I do it so I can continue my love affair with a particular city from afar.
The capital of the world. The city so nice, they named it twice. The city that never sleeps. New York City. I cannot say enough things about the great state of New York. I don't have a life list but if I had one I would make #1 to visit New York once every year rotating seasons until I am unable to travel any longer. Then I would make #2 to move to New York once I could no longer travel. I guess you are now asking why I don't live there, huh? Not because I wouldn't want to. I was dealt a different set of cards in life and New York hasn't been in my path yet I assume. Although I truly believe that my love is stemmed because in another life I was there for all it's glory. I guess fear now holds me back from taking that leap and relocating. Fear and things I can't leave behind yet.
The city of New York is enigmatic. From the the moment I crossed over Queensboro into the City for the first time I knew the hype was real. I love the people in NYC and I love the feeling which is NYC. The people of New York love their city so I imagine that I am not alone in saying that Billy Joel was right that New York IS a state of mind. I often want to burst into song as Jenna Maroney of 30 Rock did and sing it a cappella to shock all those around. Back to blogging, when I found several bloggers who posted photos of different parts of the city daily I was the happiest person in the world. Why would I need multiple blogs of the same city? First of all, women love things in multiples. Proof, shoes and orgasms. Always preferred in multiples. Secondly, who wouldn't want several alternating views of NYC daily? I have to say that with each photo I fall deeper in love. There were several post this week that made my heart swell. I don't want to post them due to copyright issues but I will link you to a few.
Roof Shot
Lover's In The Night
Cherry Blossoms
Times Square Sanctuary
What city holds your heart?
Don't have one? Find one at CityDailyPhoto.

More rich at the wheel

Photo: Wikimedia.org
On 25 October 2009, the way to obtain a driving license will be mandatory for children under 25 years. Good.
The cost is currently around $ 600 + taxes could increase to $ 1,000, plus taxes. Bravo for the effort, but I do not think money is a barrier to discourage young people from driving on the roads of Quebec, except for the poor to be penalized once again and is perfect as well, they 'will only return to work for the newspaper The route while the son of wealthy lose their lives at the wheel of their Mercedes.
Students without access to the services of the STM, which pay the money in their education, food and rent will have to review their budget and / or leave the education to people who can really afford it, otherwise it loses weather.
Excellent initiative.
Accidents
People are guided by the phenomenon of trivialization. This is not because you're not dead after the cave on the highway that it will necessarily happen in the same way the next time! The possibilities of death remain the same, despite your great security insignificant. It is a human reflex to nowhere, the logic should always remain the only option.
We can apply this law in several situations, including pregnancy, transmission of an STI, drug overdose, and because surfing. In most cases, they are fools who have been lucky on several occasions, which led to believe that they were immune.

Welcome to Sicily "Cradle of Cosa nostra"

"Sicily. The triangle of the Mediterranean, the cradle of Cosa Nostra." This is what we read on the leaflet in which the hotel chain NH Hotels in Madrid advertises the island. The brochure, says today as' Republic 'have already been distributed in Germany and also in the English version is the reference to the mafia, to which there is no mention, however, copies in Italian.
"We are sorry for what happened, but the brochure that we distribute, we do not speak directly to the Mafia", will justify the NH direction of Catania. While the President of the Sicilian Region, Raffaele Lombardo, announces: "I will ask these gentlemen to immediately withdraw the brochure. Check where they were distributed. In any event, even if they were a few copies in circulation and only in some foreign cities, the fact does not weaken the seriousness of the fact itself, that offends an entire population ".
It is not hard unless the trial of Rita Borsellino, a European MEP, which is extremely serious trivialize the Mafia and reduce it to an element of color, to a tourist attraction. It is the sign of a lack of concern, this is a subculture difficle be eradicated, "said the sister of the judge killed by Cosa Nostra. Sergio D'Antoni speaks of "heavy and persistent injury on Sicily that you can not root out" the head of Pd for the policies of Southern NH calls to apologize for: "Do it for those who lost their lives fighting against the mafia and for those in danger of losing every day by hunting for the boss and their heritage. " They say deeply surprised by NH found the chairman of Confindustria Sicilia Ivan Lo Bello: "difficult for me to believe that you have a printed brochure of its kind - Lo Bello says -. I say this because I know the management of this company has always taken a seriously and correct. I guess there was a problem of lack of control. What we can not and should not be an element of tourist appeal. We can not expect to benefit by exploiting the subject mafia. " The writer Vincenzo Consolo uses words far less diplomatic: "Attracting tourists pointing to the fact that in Sicilian Cosa Nostra is un'indecenza is - says - This is not say that we must deny the existence of the Mafia: now unfortunately our whole country is invaded by gangs. But what we use to attract foreign tourists is unacceptable. "

»All Kappes«

This is a remake of a corresponding U.S. campaign - PRO turnout goes. Somehow, the irony, or so, and viral. A resolution is determined. But actually, I find the "do not select" very convincingly - to the guy (you must know) that the "economy" for the "free life" holds out where you should go - örgs, then perhaps you would prefer to choose go. Maybe or maybe not?
[Update: Moderate video comments "Not go out" - is now around the corner from the futility of non-voting illustrate? Or lack of irony ironically? Or so? ]
[Update2: The dissolution of the "irony" is ... weakly]

The 'End User'

Quentin Tarantino who had a well-known director and an intern reclutante pulzella dall'escort fascinating and easy, you know, it was one of the thieves crucified, not. Indeed, in his latest film "Bastardi without glory" impersonificato has the role of the victim, but the effort is worth, it seems is about to build a castle in stone, many of those who have pulled him (the beautiful gratitude). That the well-known lawyer and legal and political and skier (downhill) Niccolò Ghedini, who was a law, new springs, I always thought it was a Milanese un po 'snob and a northern accent is too strong (in fact I am surprised that is not blonde ), very often I also associated with a tender little dog with the first months of life, that is his gentleness and sympathy, but the mention of the term "End User" narrating the alleged love affairs nell'harem of potato Silvio Berlusconi, clearly demonstrates his ability to fantasy stories in which the powerful wizard with long gray hair and white beard, use all the means of magic in his possession to defeat the enemy in turn. Whether it was a mercenary corps there were noticed by his posture and his car mercedes old. Potatoes that after the countless proclamations on the nuclear family and the countless funds donated to the girls that are not earthquake had changed religion was known, in fact in his personal study giganteggia a picture of Mohammed and under a copy of the Koran in gold plated, coated step by step from the original, by Apicella, in Neapolitan dialect, but that was the end user had not been realized, and to think that his personal hairdresser had suggested to take a darker color for the dye (and shave each morning).
Enzo Castaldi

Sunday, 9 August 2009

But it's huge

I just hate to Spain for the simple reason that I can soon look at a big pile of grease seeping disgusting (if not already the case). Their food may have been skewed, fat, j'adore.
Furthermore I can hardly move of the day what was once my body, which perfectly complements the process of increasing the circumference of my buoy.
I hesitate to return to the beach for fear of scaring people, although many here have followed the same path as me.
As soon as I get home I stop the bullshit.

Flush Puppies

Has anyone tried these?
They are pricey... Wonder if I could find them online cheaper. Sorry for the blurry picture, it was taken with my iPhone on the plane!
Do you know that doggie poo run-off is bad for streams and rivers? I know, you'd think it would be a natural occurence you wouldn't have to worry about! I read an article about this issue recently that explained it really well, if I find it again I will update this post to include the link.
Thankfully, our pup dog Koda only does her business in our yard (we didn't purposely train her this way but we like it). We let her poo deteriate in the grass. It really hasn't been an issue for us since compared to other doggies we know she doesn't poop as much (we're convinced it's because we feed her Purina ProPlan). Obviously when we travel we have to clean up after her... But from what I've learned recently we should be picking up her poo all the time. Ugh.
I am selfishy posting these pictures of Koda because she's just a cutie and I miss her! One of her favorite things in the world is fresh cut grass :). I had to drop her off at the kennel today and it was harder than usual because I could hear her whining in the back... probably because she could hear me talking to the girl at the desk about her fear of thunderstorms.
Would you a) use Flush Puppies and actually flush them down your toilet, and b) pay $2 for 15? How do you manage your dogs/pets poo? Really, I wanna know!
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