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1. WENDI DENG FURIOSA DALLA DECISIONE DI RUPERT MURDOCH DI CHIEDERE IL DIVORZIO 2. UN AMICO: “PRESA TOTALMENTE ALLA SPROVVISTA. NON SE L’ASPETTAVA. NON NASCONDE CHE CI FOSSERO DEI PROBLEMI. MA NON HA MAI PENSATO CHE RUPERT VOLESSE CHIUDERE, AMMETTENDO IN PUBBLICO CHE IL LORO MATRIMONIO È STATO UN GROSSO ERRORE” 3. FIGLIA DI UN FUNZIONARIO MINORE DEL PARTITO COMUNISTA CINESE, LADY DENG È STATO VISTA CON SOSPETTO FIN DAL MOMENTO DEL MATRIMONIO, NEL 1999, DA ALCUNI MEMBRI DEL “CERCHIO MAGICO” DI MURDOCH, COMPRESI I SUOI FIGLI PIÙ GRANDI. CHE L'HANNO CONSIDERATA NIENTE DI PIÙ DI UNA “MOGLIE TROFEO” E “UNA CERCATRICE D'ORO” 4. A FINE MESE LO SCORPORO DEL SUO IMPERO DA 6 MILIARDI DI STERLINE CON LE ATTIVITÀ DI INTRATTENIMENTO SEPARATE DALLE DIVISIONI EDITORIALI. LO SQUALO COLTIVA IL VECCHIO SOGNO DI ACQUISIRE IL QUOTIDIANO DI HOLLYWOOD, IL “LOS ANGELES TIMES”

WENDI DENG FURIOSA DALLA DECISIONE DI RUPERT MURDOCH DI CHIEDERE IL DIVORZIO


1. ANCHE SILVIO BANANONI VUOL FARE IL ROTTAMATORE: NON NE PUÒ PROPRIO PIÙ DEL PDL! 2. IL SULTANO DI HARDCORE SI È ROTTO LA POMPETTA DEI CICCHITTO, DEI SACCONI, DEI QUAGLIARIELLO, E PERSINO DEGLI SCHIFANI, INSOMMA DI TUTTI QUELLI CHE PRIMA DELLE ELEZIONI DI FEBBRAIO ERANO PRONTI AD ANDARE CON IL DESAPARECIDO RIGOR MONTIS: LI CONSIDERA TUTTI DELLE VERE E PROPRIE SANGUISUGHE, E NON SOLO POLITICAMENTE 3. NON SOLO. NEI GIORNI SCORSI HA SPEDITO LA SANTADECHE' E DENIS VERDINI DALLA COSTOLA EX AN CON QUESTO MESSAGGIO: "FATECI IL FAVORE, ADESSO VE NE DOVETE ANDARE" 4. I PIÙ POLITICI DELL'ATTUALE PDL (ALFANO, LUPI, FITTO, ETC.) TROVERANNO LA FORZA PER AFFRANCARSI DAL CAVALIERE E DA UNA REDIVIVA FORZA ITALIA FATTA DI IMPRENDITORI?

ANCHE SILVIO BANANONI VUOL FARE IL ROTTAMATORE: NON NE PUÒ PROPRIO PIÙ DEL PDL
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1. COSA MAI AVRANNO DA RACCONTARSI GIOVEDÌ PROSSIMO A MILANO ELKANN E DE BENEDETTI? CHI LO SA, FORSE IL GIOVANE KAKI, DOPO I GOFFI TENTATIVI DI FONDERE ‘’LA STAMPA’’ E ‘’CORRIERE’’, PROVA A ORA A QUAGLIARE QUALCOSA CON MANZONI E FINEGIL? 2. COME MAI IL VISPO FINANZIERE DAVIDE SERRA CARO A RENZI HA INCONTRATO CAMERON? IL DOSSIER CHE AVEVA IN MANO UN DOSSIER ERA SULLA BANCA RBS (ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND) CHE SE LA PASSA MOLTO MALE PER I DEBITI FINO A 45 MILIARDI DI STERLINE? 3. PAUL KRUGMAN SMONTA COME UN LEGO GLI ERRORI SULL’INFLAZIONE DI MARIO DRAGHI 4. RAGOSA E PARISI, FURIOSI CON LETTA PER AVER DATO ITALIA DIGITALE IN MANO A CAIO

COSA MAI AVRANNO DA RACCONTARSI GIOVEDÌ PROSSIMO A MILANO ELKANN E DE BENEDETTI?


1. GRILLO SULLA VICENDA GAMBARO SI GIOCA TUTTO. ANCHE L'ONORE. TRA BLANDIZIE E MINACCE, CASALEGGIO L’HA COMUNICATO A CIASCUN PARLAMENTARE: O FUORI GLI ERETICI, OPPURE IL CAPOCOMICO SUPREMO E' PRONTO A GIOCARE LA MINACCIA PIÙ GRAVE. QUALE? DIMISSIONI IN MASSA DI TUTTI I DEPUTATI E SENATORI E CHI CI STA, CI STA 2. CHI È L'ISPIRATORE DI GIANROBERTO CASALEGGIO? SI TROVA IN ITALIA O ALL'ESTERO, E' UN SINGOLO, UNA SINGOLA O UN'ORGANIZZAZIONE? I SENATORI CHE SI STANNO APPASSIONANDO ALLA VICENDA DEI COLLEGHI GRILLINI SONO CONVINTI CHE CHIARITO QUESTO MISTERO SI CAPIRANNO GRAN PARTE DELLE INCONGRUENZE CHE HANNO CARATTERIZZATO LA CONFUSA FASE POST ELETTORALE DEL MOVIMENTO 5 PURGHE

GRILLO PRONTO A GIOCARE LA MINACCIA PIÙ GRAVE. QUALE? DIMISSIONI IN MASSA DI TUTTI I DEPUTATI E SENATORI


1. GOSSIP, NUOVI ORIZZONTI! LO STRANGOLAMENTO PAPARAZZATO (A QUANDO L’OMICIDIO?) 2. ALLE RISSE CON PUGNI E SBERLE E CALCI SIAMO ABITUATI FIN DAI TEMPI DI LIZ TAYLOR E RICHARD BURTON, CONTINUATE POI CON NAOMI E RIHANNA, MA ORA IL LIVELLO SI ALZA VERTIGINOSAMENTE GRAZIE AL TENTATO OMICIDIO: CHARLES SAATCHI, CODIRETTORE INSIEME AL FRATELLO DELL’OMONIMA E FAMOSISSIMA AGENZIA PUBBLICITARIA BRITANNICA, OLTRE CHE GRANDE COLLEZIONISTA D’ARTE, HA STRETTO IN UNA MORSA IL COLLO DELLA MOGLIE, NIGELLA LAWSON, UNO DEI CELEBRITY CHEF DELLA TV BRITANNICA, PRIMA CON UNA MANO SOLA, QUINDI CON ENTRAMBE, COME SE VOLESSE STROZZARLA

LA MASTERCHEF E IL PUBBLICITARIO SE L’AMORE VIP FINISCE IN RISSA

1. ASPETTANDO IL MERCOLEDÌ DELL’APOCALISSE BERLUSCONA, CARI E ANZIANI GIUDICI COSTITUZIONALI, VOLETE VOI ASSUMERVI LA RESPONSABILITÀ DI INNESCARE UNA CRISI DAGLI ESITI IMPREVEDIBILI E CHE POTREBBE PERFINO PORTARE ALLE DIMISSIONI DI RE GIORGIO? LEGGETE I GIORNALI, METTETEVI UNA MANO SULLA COSCIENZA E PERMEATEVI TUTTI 2. NELLA SPERANZA DI UN VERDETTO FAVOREVOLE, IL CAINANO SI SEGNALA PER LA BUONA CONDOTTA E SI GENUFLETTE LODANDO IL GOVERNINO DI LETTA. DOVESSE ANDARGLI MALE CON LA CORTE, POTRÀ SEMPRE DIRE DI ESSERE STATO MALTRATTATO OLTRE OGNI DIRE. E SE DOVESSE DECIDERE DI FAR SALTARE IL TAVOLO POTRÀ SEMPRE SOSTENERE DI FARLO DAVVERO A MALINCUORE E SOLO PERCHÉ COSTRETTO DAI “GIUDICI COMUNISTI”

ASPETTANDO IL MERCOLEDÌ DELL’APOCALISSE BERLUSCONA, CARI GIUDICI COSTITUZIONALI METTETEVI UNA MANO SULLA COSCIENZA


1. LA MOSSA ANTI-RIBALTONE DEL COLLE: PROVATECI A FARE UNA NUOVA MAGGIORANZA PIDDINOSAURI (EPIFANI E BERSANI) E GRILLINI IN CRISI DI IDENTITA’ E RE GIORGIO SI DIMETTERA’ 2. COME ACCADDE NEL MARZO SCORSO, CULATELLO FA I CONTI SENZA L'OSTE DEL QUIRINALE. ANCHE NEL CASO DI SPACCATURA ALL'INTERNO DEL M5S, NAPOLITANO NON MOLLA LETTA E FAREBBE DI TUTTO PER DARE CONTINUITÀ ALL’ESECUTIVO DELLE LARGHE INTESE 3. L'ITALIA NON VUOLE DARSI IL PRESIDENZIALISMO, EPPURE CE L'HA GIÀ, A INSAPUTA SUA

LA MOSSA ANTI-RIBALTONE DEL COLLE: NELL’ IPOTESI DI NUOVA MAGGIORANZA PD-GRILLINI, RE GIORGIO SI DIMETTERA’…


1. POMPIERE DELLA SERA NEL PANICO: IL CDR NON SA PIU' COME SALVARE I SOLDATI DE BORTOLI E IL VICE LUCIANO FONTANA MORDICCHIATI DA BISI & RISI E DAI CANI DELLA BRAMBILLA 2. IN FERIE LA FIRST LADY LETTA-FREGONARA, TUTTI EX ‘’UNITÀ” A CAPO DELLE PAGINE DEL CORRIERE CRONACA DI ROMA PER LA GIOIA DEL NEO SINDACO MARINO. NEPPURE UNA PAROLA DI SOLIDARIETA' PER CORRADO RUGGERI INFANGATO DA UNA INFORMATIVA FARLOCCA 3. "L UOMO CHE SUSSURRA AI POTENTI " IN TESTA IN TUTTE LE CLASSIFICHE DI SAGGISTICA (“LA STAMPA”, “REPUBBLICA”, AMAZON) CON 75 MILA COPIE VENDUTE TRANNE CHE SUL CORRIERE DOVE LO FANNO PRECEDERE DA DUE TASCABILI CHE SI VENDONO A MENO DI UN EURO

POMPIERE DELLA SERA NEL PANICO: IL CDR NON SA PIU' COME SALVARE I SOLDATI DE BORTOLI E IL VICE LUCIANO FONTANA

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SPIEGEL ONLINEINTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER 

Compiled on June 17, 2013, 06:40 PM CET

OVER THE RED LINE

West Considers Entering the Syrian Quagmire

The US may soon begin delivering weapons to the rebels in Syria. But the situation in the war-torn country is massively complicated with extremists seeking to take advantage of the situation on both sides. Could Western arms prolong the suffering?

INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE TURKI BIN FAISAL

'Saudi Arabia Wants Downfall of Assad'

Saudi Arabia has long urged the West to arm the Syrian rebels as they battle forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he explains why. He also says Europe should change its strategy in nuclear negotiations with Iran.

'HATEFUL' SPEECH IN ISTANBUL

Erdogan Throws Fuel on Flames

He cleared out Gezi Park with brutal violence, disparaged the protesters as terrorists and railed against the foreign media. After a brief conciliatory respite, Prime Minster Erdogan is inflaming the conflict in Turkey once more. But the protest movement shows no signs of backing down.

WORLD FROM BERLIN

Iranian Vote Sends Positive Message to World

The election of moderate cleric Hassan Rohani as Iran's new president has the potential to end the stalemate in the nation's nuclear dispute with the West, say German commentators. The West should seize the opportunity.

OBAMA'S SOFT TOTALITARIANISM

Europe Must Protect Itself from America

Is Barack Obama a friend? Revelations about his government's vast spying program call that assumption into doubt. The European Union must protect the Continent from America's reach for omnipotence.

BREAKING A TABOO

German-Russian Relations Hit a Deep Chill

The relationship between Berlin and Moscow has been strained for some time. But German President Joachim Gauck's recent public admonition of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin seems to have sunk the two countries into a new diplomatic ice age.

BATTLING THE FLOODS

Ships Sunk to Plug Massive Dike Breach

Three large barges were sunk over the weekend in a desperate effort to plug a massive breach in an Elbe River dike just east of Berlin. The operation became necessary due to continued flooding of several villages behind the break. It appears to have been successful.

THE GERMAN PRISM

Berlin Wants to Spy Too

The German government has been largely silent on revelations of US Internet spying. Berlin profits from the program and is pursuing similar plans.

PICTURE THIS

G8 Fakes 

Tipico deliro all'italiota. Cosa copre? Copre, come tutti gli altri, che stanno incrementando ulteriormente i fondi per le predazioni burocratiche ed oligarchiche, con più tasse che sfondano ancor di più la già sfondata e marginalizzata Italiozia. **************************************************************Bilancio in attivo! Taglio, subito, del 75% della spesa pubblica! Rimborso, subito, del debito pubblico. Divieto di qualunque debito pubblico!

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Joseph Stiglitz: the euro may not survive

Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's leading economists, has warned that the future of the euro is "looking bleak" and the fragile European economic recovery could be irreparably damaged by a "wave of austerity" sweeping the continent.

Joseph Stiglitz: the euro may not survive
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize winner, warned that speculators are putting pressure on Spain 
The former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel prize winner also predicted that short-term speculators in the market could soon start putting pressure on Spain, which is struggling with a large deficit and high unemployment. Last week, Moody's cut the country's credit rating from AAA to Aa1.
The former adviser to President Bill Clinton also says that the banking sector has gone back to "business as usual" too quickly and that there are still risks of another financial crisis despite some improvements in regulation.
Mr Stiglitz, now a professor at Columbia Business School, makes the arguments in an updated edition of his book, Freefall, on the credit crunch. In the new material, exclusively extracted in today's Sunday Telegraph, he reveals fears that governments around the world will attempt to cut their deficits too quickly and risk a double dip recession.
Tomorrow, George Osborne will outline the Government's latest plans for multi-billion pound public sector cuts to tackle the historically-high UK deficit. He has faced criticism that the Coalition is in danger of cutting too hard and too fast but the Chancellor has said that without a credible programme for getting the UK economy into balance, interest rates will rise and growth will be choked off.
"The worry is that there is a wave of austerity building throughout Europe and even hitting America's shores," Mr Stiglitz said. "As so many countries cut back on spending prematurely, global aggregate demand will be lowered and growth will slow – even perhaps leading to a double-dip recession.
"America may have caused the global recession but Europe is now responding in kind."
Mr Stiglitz warned that Spain, similarly to Greece, was now in the speculators' sights.
"Under the rules of the game, Spain must now cut its spending, which will almost surely increase its unemployment rate still further," he said. "As its economy slows, the improvement in its fiscal position may be minimal.Spain may be entering the kind of death spiral that afflicted Argentina just a decade ago. It was only when Argentina broke its currency peg with the dollar that it started to grow and its deficit came down.
"At present, Spain has not been attacked by speculators, but it may be only a matter of time."
Turning to the euro, Mr Stiglitz said that the different needs of countries with high trade surpluses, particularly Germany, and those running deficits such as Ireland, Portugal and Greece, meant that the single currency was under intense pressure and may not survive. He suggests that one way to save the euro would be for Germany to leave the eurozone, so allowing the currency to devalue and help struggling countries with exports.
"Countries that share a currency have a fixed exchange rate with each other and thereby give up an important tool of adjustment," he said. "So long as there were no shocks, the euro would do fine. The test would come when one or more of the countries faced a downturn."


Ue salva solo se Berlino lascia l’euro L’idea del Nobel Stiglitz fa proseliti
Se la Germania torna al marco, i Paesi del Sud ne avrebbero grandi benefici, a partire dall’Italia. Presentato il 15 giugno un manifesto che propone l’uscita degli Stati più competitivi, come strategia per evitare il collasso economico e politico dell’Ue

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Russia Says It Will Not Allow Syria No-fly Zones
 
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"I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding that calls for a no-fly zone showed disrespect for international law.
 
 
Fighting Terrorism by Arming Terrorists
 
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The Syrian intervention John McCain and the Clintons want would be a war for Islamism, not democracy.
 
 
Israel's Best Hope in Syria is Survival of a Weaker Assad
 
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The fact is that Israel stands to lose strategically if either the regime or the opposition wins decisively.
 
 
The War against Syria was Planned Two years before "The Arab Spring": Former French Foreign Minister:
 
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin
 
''This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned... in the region it is important to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance. Consequently, everything that moves in the region- and I have this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me 'we'll try to get on with our neighbours but those who don't agree with us will be destroyed.
 
 
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Engineering Consent For The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
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Bennett emphasized that the establishment of a Palestinian state is a pointless issue and stated that the Palestinians have no right to self-determination or a state of their own between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
 
 
The Israeli Lab and the Palestinian Guinea Pigs
 
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The Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank and Gaza have become test subjects for Israeli tactics, weaponry and fighting philosophy.
 
 
President of International War Crimes Tribunal May Have Worked to Shield Israelis From Prosecution
 
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The New York Times reports that an Israeli diplomat turned U.S. citizen - and now president of the war crimes tribunal at the Hague - has been pressuring the court to acquit officials accused of war crimes.
 
 
Hassan Rohani: Iran's President-Elect
 
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Brutal Crackdown on Turkish Protests
 
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Washington Is Insane
 
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In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered.
 
 
NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants
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By Declan McCullagh
 
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
 
 
 
Nine Reasons You Should Care About NSA's PRISM Surveillance
 
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The issue with the NSA PRISM program, is not that we have "nothing to hide" - it's that we have everything to lose.
 
 
The Making of a Global Security State
 
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It matters little that terrorism as a phenomenon is one of the lesser dangers Americans face in their daily lives.
 
 
David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Edward Snowden Had Just Followed Orders
 
By Norman Solomon
 
What a contrast between big-name journalists craven enough to toss the Fourth Amendment overboard and whistleblowers courageous enough to risk their lives for civil liberties.
 
 
The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America
 
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The vast majority of Americans are becoming aware that fear instilled at home serves the interest of waging imperial wars abroad;
 
 
Your Drivers License Picture Treasure Trove for Police
 
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12 killed by three bomb attacks in Iraq, officials say:
The attack followed a day when at least 51 people were killed in a wave of bombs and shootings across Iraq.
 
 
Maliki accuses foreign countries of being behind Sunday bombings in Iraq:
In his speech during the central ceremony of the Iraqi Political Prisoners Day held in Baghdad on Monday "Certain foreign countries which claim democracy are responsible for the repeated bombings in Iraq, the last of which the bombings of last Sunday."
 
 
Car bomb at checkpoint in Syrian capital kills 10 soldiers, activists say:
A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in an upscale neighbourhood of the Syrian capital has killed 10 soldiers and wounded 10 others, activists said Monday.
 
 
Huge blast rocks Damascus military airport:
A powerful explosion has gone off at a military airport on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, according to witness reports and local media.
 
 
Israel not commenting on report IDF attacked Syrian airport:
The IDF was not commenting on a report on a Syrian TV station associated with the rebel forces that Israel attacked on Sunday night the military airbase Al-Miza, West of Damascus, Israel Radio reported.
 
 
US masses soldiers near Syrian border:
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Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt - If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit:
People kept foolishly lending money to the city of Detroit, and now many of them are going to get hit really hard.
 
 
Lenders seek court actions against homeowners years after foreclosure:
Lenders are filing new motions in old foreclosure lawsuits and hiring debt collectors to pursue leftover debt, plus court fees, attorneys' fees and tens of thousands in interest that had been accruing for years.
 
 
Faces of the Minimum Wage:
AT least one part of the labor force has expanded significantly since the recession hit: the low-wage part, made up of burger flippers, home health aides and the like.
 
 
Retiree Nest Eggs Look More Fragile:
MANY Americans don't have enough money to carry them through retirement - and many of them know it.
 

 
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"Let us be peace and joy"
  
Tom Feeley
Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,883

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan :3,335
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
      
 
 
$1,448,507,602,346

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Scor-data: 16 giugno 1904

«Bloomsday», un giorno per Dublino e per tutti i joyciani
di Fabio Troncarelli (*) 
Il 16 giugno 1904 il giovane James Joyce incontrò Nora Barnacle. Nora era una cameriera, sboccata e sfrontata. James era timido, complessato, frustrato. Scoccò la scintilla o, se preferite usare le parole di Joyce, Nora insegnò su due piedi al ragazzino insicuro a essere un uomo. Da allora i due furono inseparabili, uniti in un rapporto complesso e conflittuale, pieno di luci e di ombre. Nora non capiva nulla di letteratura. E francamente non capiva nulla del suo compagno nevrotico e paradossale. Per dirla proprio chiara rimase tutta la vita quella che era stata: una cameriera volgare e procace, dai gusti facili e dai costumi, per così dire, disinvolti, proprio quello che ci voleva per mandare ai matti un intellettuale perduto al mondo col sangue bollente e il cuore di ghiaccio, congelato, rovinato da un’educazione bigotta e dall’angustia provinciale di un Paese in agonia come l’Irlanda. La contrapposizione fra i due fu quasi sempre un’autentica spaccatura. Accompagnata dalla miseria, dall’alcolismo, dalla disperazione produsse effetti devastanti sulla coppia e sui loro malcapitati figli: ne fece le spese soprattutto Lucia, la figlia più piccola, che – dopo un’adolescenza turbolenta e un rapporto intensissimo col padre – finì in un manicomio, che la madre non volle mai vedere neppure da lontano.
Eppure da questo rapporto drammatico e da questa vita disperata nacquero bellissime pagine di poesia e di prosa. Joyce rimase attaccato per tutta al vita al sogno di un amore totale e totalizzante che nella realtà si era trasformato in un incubo: amore che lo scrittore si compiaceva di presentare provocatoriamente nei suoi aspetti più esasperati e contorti, per mascherare la sua vulnerabilità, la sua nostalgia infinita per la tenerezza negata da un’infanzia fallita e da una vita adulta distruttiva, il suo rimpianto inconfessato per l’innocenza perduta. In ricordo di questo sogno, di una vita di sogno, Joyce scelse la data fatidica del suo incontro pieno di luce e di speranza per il suo grande, mostruoso, infernale antiromanzo l’«Ulisse», che si svolge in una sola giornata , la stessa in cui aveva conosciuto Nora in Nassau Street a Dublino. Per quanto possa sembrare paradossale questa data che ricorda un evento così privato è divenuta col tempo una vera e propria festa nazionale in Irlanda: il Bloomsday, il giorno di Leopold Bloom il protagonista dell’Ulisse. Dal 1950 tutta Dublino impazzisce il 16 giugno: durante la giornata si svolgono diverse attività culturali, come letture pubbliche e drammatizzazioni dell’Ulisse e un gran numero di entusiasti lettori dell’opera si vestono in stile edoardiano e ripercorrono i vagabondaggi di Leopold Bloom nella città, mangiando o bevendo come lui in locali mitici come il Davy Byrne’s pub. L’atmosfera è quella di un carnevale surreale, pieno di humour e di passione, in cui il sogno dello scrittore prende finalmente vita, affratellando giovani e vecchi. Questa passione è contagiosa: dopo anni e anni di festeggiamenti irlandesi, il Bloomsday è rinato in diversi Paesi legati in vario modo a Joyce: negli Stati Uniti a Philadelphia, dove si conserva l’autografo dell’Ulisse; a Trieste dove Joyce ha vissuto per molti anni; perfino a Szombathely, in Ungheria, da dove, secondo il romanzo, sarebbe venuta la famiglia originaria di Leopold Bloom (e dove, guarda caso, c’è realmente una famiglia Blum che gestisce una casa-museo dedicata a Joyce).
In un’epoca come la nostra nella quale la letteratura sembra non avere altro mezzo di manifestarsi che attraverso i mass-media, nella quale i sentimenti personali sembrano non avere più diritto a esistere a meno di non essere esibiti sfacciatamente, questo trionfo spontaneo, dal basso, di una dimensione squisitamente privata è stupefacente. Ci commuove questo omaggio a quello che un ragazzo (il quale non sapeva di diventare un grande scrittore) sognava e a tutto quello che da adulto è stato capace di rivivere «con quel suo cuore di una volta». E’ la più bella smentita ai presuntuosi presenzialisti che ci affliggono apparendo dovunque. Ed anche a tutti quei parrucconi di professorini che non sanno più distinguere le loro ubbie dal fuoco che alimenta l’arte. Come ha scritto Yeats – irlandese come Joyce e di Joyce grande ammiratore – «le teste calve» dei critici pieni di sussiego resterebbero di stucco se vedessero passare per strada Catullo, ardente e ingenuo, e resterebbero fulminati se pensassero che i suoi versi d’amore sono intrisi di lacrime cocenti, come il cuscino che abbracciava senza riuscire a dormire.

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GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water?

Global Research, June 16, 2013

“Historians may look back and write about how willing we are to sacrifice our children and jeopardize future generations with a massive experiment that is based on false promises and flawed science just to benefit the bottom line of a commercial enterprise.” So said Don Huber in referring to the use of glyphosate and genetically modified crops. Huber was speaking at Organic Connections conference in ReginaCanada, late 2012.
Huber is an emeritus professor in plant pathology at Purdue University in the US and has worked with the Department of Homeland Security to reduce the impact of plant disease outbreaks. His words are well worth bearing in mind given that a new study commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE) and GM Freeze has found that people in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of glyphosate in their urine (1).
Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned laboratory tests on urine samples from volunteers in 18 countries across Europe and found that on average 44 percent of samples contained glyphosate. The proportion of positive samples varied between countries, with Malta, Germany, the UK and Poland having the most positive tests, and lower levels detected in Macedonia and Switzerland. All the volunteers who provided samples live in cities, and none had handled or used glyphosate products in the run-up to the tests.
The Influence of the Biotech Sector on Safety and Regulation
Although ‘weedkiller in urine’ sounds alarming, Tom Sanders, head of the nutritional sciences research division at King’s College London, says the levels found are unlikely to be of any significance to health because they are 300 times lower than the level which might cause concern. Alison Haughton, head of the Pollination Ecology Group at Rothamsted Research, said that if FoE and GM Freeze want their work to have scientific credibility and provide a genuine contribution to the debate on pesticide residues, they should submit their work for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Valid points, you might think. But FoE believes that there is sufficient evidence to suggest environmental and health impacts from glyphosate warrant concern. It wants to know how the glyphosate found in human urine samples has entered the body, what the impacts of persistent exposure to low levels of glyphosate might be and what happens to the glyphosate that remains in the body. New research published in the journal Entropy sheds disturbing light on such concerns (discussed later in this article).
In 2011, Earth Open Source said that official approval of glyphosate had been rash, problematic and deeply flawed. A comprehensive review of existing data released in June 2011 by Earth Open Source suggested that industry regulators in Europe had known for years that glyphosate causes birth defects in the embryos of laboratory animals. Questions were raised about the role of the powerful agro-industry in rigging data pertaining to product safety and its undue influence on regulatory bodies (2).
In the same vein, FoE says there is currently very little testing for glyphosate by public authorities, despite its widespread use, and authorities in Europe do not test for glyphosate in humans and tests on food are infrequent. Glyphosate was approved for EU-wide use in 2002, but FoE argues that the European regulatory agencies did not carry out their own safety testing, relying instead on data provided by the manufacturers.
Of course there are certain scientists (usually with links to the agro-industry) who always seem to be strident in calling for peer-reviewed evidence when people are critical of the biotech sector, but then rubbish it and smear or intimidate the scientists involved when that occurs, as has been the case with Dr Arsad Pusztai in the UK or Professor Seralini in France. It is therefore quite revealing that most of the data pertaining to glyphosate safety came from industry studies, not from peer-reviewed science, and the original data are not available for independent scrutiny.
Increasing Use
With references to a raft of peer-reviewed studies, FoE also brings attention to the often disturbing health and environmental dangers and impacts of glyphosate-based herbicides throughout the world (1). The FoE study also highlights concerns around the increasing levels of exposure to glyphosate-based weed killers, particularly as the use of glyphosate is predicted to rise further if more genetically modified (GM) crops are grown. It is after all good for business. And the biggest producer of glyphosate is Monsanto, which sells it under the brand name ‘Roundup’.
“The figures don’t lie; GMOs drive glyphosate sales.” (3)
Despite its widespread use, there is currently little monitoring of glyphosate in food, water or the wider environment. The FoE commissioned study is the first time monitoring has been carried out across Europe for the presence of the weed killer in human bodies. FoE Europe’s spokesperson Adrian Bebb argues that there is a serious lack of action by public authorities and indicates that this weed killer is being widely overused.
This certainly needs to be addressed not least because the prediction concerning increasing exposure to glyphosate is not without substance. The introduction of Roundup Ready crops has already resulted in an increase of glyphosate use. Using official US government data, Dr Charles Benbrook, research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University, states that since 1996 the glysophate rate of application per crop year has tripled on cotton farms, doubled in the case of soybeans and risen 39 percent on corn (4). The average annual increase in the pounds of glyphosate applied to cotton, soybeans, and corn has been 18.2 percent, 9.8 percent, and 4.3 percent, respectively, since herbicide tolerant crops were introduced.
Glyphosate is used on many genetically modified crops. 14 new GM crops designed to be cultivated with glyphosate are currently waiting for approval to be grown in Europe. Approval of these crops would inevitably lead to a further increase of glysphosate spraying. In the US, biotech crops, including corn, soybeans, canola and sugarbeets, are planted on millions of acres annually.
Increasing Dangers
Evidence suggests that Roundup could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new peer-reviewed report, published recently in the scientific journal Entropy (5). The study also concluded that residues of glyphosate have been found in food.
These residues enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease, according to the report, authored by Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a science consultant. The study says that negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body.
In 2010, the provincial government of Chaco province in Argentina issued a report on health statistics from the town La Leonesa. The report showed that from 2000 to 2009, following the expansion of genetically-modified soy and rice crops in the region (and the use of glyphosate), the childhood cancer rate tripled in La Leonesa and the rate of birth defects increased nearly fourfold over the entire province (6).
Professor Huber also notes the health risks associated with the (increasing) use of glyphosate. He says a number of plant pathogens are emerging, which when consumed could impact human health. Based on research that he alludes to (he refuses to make his research public or identify his fellow researchers, who he claims could suffer substantial professional backlash from academic employers who received research funding from the biotechnology industry), Huber notes that the use of glyphosate changes the soil ecology, killing many bacteria, while giving other bacteria a competitive advantage. This makes plants highly susceptible to soil borne diseases. At the same time, glyphosate has a negative effect on a number of beneficial soil organisms (7).
Huber’s concerns about the impact of long term use of glyphosate on soil sterility are similar to concerns expressed by Elaine Ingham, a soil ecologist with the Rodale Institute, and also research carried out in by Navdanya in India (8).
As for GM crops, Huber says they have lower water use efficiency, tend to be nutrient deficient, have increased bud and fruit abortion and are predisposed to infectious diseases and insect damage. He suggests that Roundup Ready crops, treated with glyphosate, have higher levels of mycotoxins and lower nutrient levels than conventional crops.
“... you could say that what you’re doing with glyphosate is you’re giving the plant a bad case of AIDS. You’ve shut down the immune system or the defense system.” Professor Ron Huber (7)
He concludes that, when consumed, the GM crops were more likely to cause disease, infertility, birth defects, cancer and allergic reactions than conventional crops.
Huber claims that consumption of food or feed that was genetically modified could bring the altered genes in contact with the microbes in the guts of the livestock or people who eat them. He feels this increases diseases, such as celiac disease, allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, gluten intolerance, irritable bowel disease, miscarriage, obesity and sudden infant death syndrome.
While none of these findings conclusively prove that plant (or animal) diseases are caused by the glyphosate, Huber feels safety evaluations have been inadequate, suggesting that previous (GM sector) research was substandard and extremely misleading in its interpretation of results – or worse.
With some hugely powerful players involved here, many of whom have successfully infiltrated important government and official bodies (9), much of the science and the ensuing debate surrounding glyphosate is being manipulated and hijacked by vested interests for commercial gain.
“... publishing in this area can also be difficult. I know from the International Symposium on Glyphosate that they had to find a journal publisher outside this country (the US) to publish the research data and symposium proceedings. It’s pretty hard to get it published in the States. There are also some hazards to publishing if you’re a young researcher doing research that runs counter to the current popular concepts. A lot of research on safety of genetic engineering is done outside of this country because it’s difficult to gain access to the materials, or the statements you have to sign to have access to those materials stating that you won’t publish without permission of the supplier. I think the 26 entomologists who sent their letter to EPA in 2009 stated it aptly when they said that objective data wasn’t available to the EPA because the materials haven’t been available to them or that they’re denied the opportunity to publish their data.” Professor Ron Huber (7)
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The Foreign Policy Impact of Iran's Presidential Election

By Michael Nayebi-Oskoui and Kamran Bokhari

Iranians went to the polls Friday to elect outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor. Candidates reported few serious problems with the process, and the losers sent congratulations to the eventual winner, Hassan Rouhani.

Compared to the political instability that followed Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election, this process was relatively boring. But however the news media felt about the election, Iran needs domestic stability if it is going to change its foreign policy in a very challenging geopolitical environment. Read More »

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IL FOGLIETTO QUOTIDIANO

Edizione breve del quotidiano diretto da Giuliano Ferrara

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L’eloquenza del Papa gesuita

Non offre un canone morale, ma ha le stesse idee di Benedetto
Il Papa gesuita non offre un canone morale, fatto di valori non negoziabili, ma ha le stesse idee di Benedetto XVI, che quel canone ha definito con la grazia ferma di un teologo sapiente. Il giudizio sul mondo moderno non deve essere tanto diverso, tra i due, il regnante e l’emerito, ma sul modo di affrontare il mondo c’è una differenza di stile, o di eloquenza, che ha il suo peso e decide della guida pastorale della cattolicità. Entrambi, per fare un esempio venuto alla luce con l’Angelus di domenica scorsa, in occasione della celebrazione anniversaria dell’enciclica Evangelium Vitae, sono contrari alla pratica di massa e moralmente sorda dell’aborto, così come respingono la codificazione in quanto diritto astratto del morire eutanasico, ormai giunta ben oltre le soglie del suicidio assistito nella cultura ipersecolarista.
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