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| IL GIORNALE del 29/6/2011 |  PASSA LA LINEA DEL PREMIER E SFUMA IL PIANO DI CASINI PER UN ESECUTIVO TECNICO (SIGNORE ADALBERTO) a pag. 4 | |
| IL GIORNALE del 29/6/2011 | TELENOVELA INFINITA TRA IL CAV E GIULIO: UN CONFLITTO DI INTERESSI E DI CARATTERI (PERNA GIANCARLO) a pag. 4 | |
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Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, your Guide to Home Cooking
What will you be cooking for 4th of July? Drop into the Krazy Kitchen forum message board and tell us your holiday favorites and check out what the gang is making. Have a safe, enjoyable 4th!
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Key Lime Pie Recipe
It's sweet, tart, tangy, and cool -- perfect for 4th of July celebrations. Key lime pie is extremely easy to make. The main time factor is zesting and squeezing all those little Key limes, but it is definitely worth it. If absolutely necessary, you can find bottled Key lime juice in most markets. Persian limes may be substituted as a last resort. It won't be key lime pie, but it will still be yummy... Read more
Try these easy beer brats for the Fourth of July or any celebration. It's perfect for a last minute party food. It is hard to believe you only need four simple ingredients to make this quick and tasty dish. Don't restrict yourself to bratwurst. Use this method with hot dogs, Italian sausage, knockwurst, or just about any link sausage... Read more
It does not seem to matter whether the weather is hot or cold, everyone seems to love chicken wings. Hot Buffalo-style wings win hands-down over others, but how about trying Margarita Wings, Key Lime Barbecue Chicken Wings, or Sticky Red Wings? Great for parties, appetizers, or informal meals... Read more
Beercan chicken is a popular outdoor grill recipe, but it is not feasible for everyone nor at any time of the year. The solution is this easy beercan chicken made in the oven. It is incredibly moist, tender, and flavorful. The only thing you may miss is a slightly smoky flavor that naturally comes with a grill. I think you will really enjoy the spice rub, so double or triple it to keep on hand. Although I have used some leftover sangria here, your choice of liquid for the beercan (or soda can) is limited only by your imagination... Read more
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06/29/11
The Eternal Boyhood of Mark Twain. Michael Lewis *|FACEBOOK:LIKE: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/90498/mark-twain-autobiography|*
It is hard to think of another writer as
great as Mark Twain who did so many things that even merely good writers are not
supposed to do. Great writers are not meant to write bad books, much less
publish them. Twain not only published a lot of bad books, he doesn’t appear to
have noticed the difference between his good ones and his bad ones. Great
writers are not meant to care more about money than art. Twain cared so much
about money that what little he writes about his art in his autobiography is
almost entirely, and obsessively, about the business end of things: his
paychecks, his promotional tours, his financial disputes with publishers, his
venture capital investments in publishing and printing technology. He stops and
starts Huckleberry Finn over and again to devote vast amounts of his time and
energy to losing $190,000 (roughly $4 million today) in a doomed typesetting
machine, and nearly bankrupts himself. Great writers are expected to be
interested in ideas; they should associate themselves with at least a few
convictions. Apart from a frontier notion of freedom, Twain never met an idea he
could not reduce to a joke. He doesn’t even appear to have been wedded to his
own skepticism.At the very least, great writers are supposed to think that writing is an important, if not a sacred, activity. When Twain set out to write the story of his life, he found the written word wanting (“too literary”), and elected instead to dictate it. The book in question has been advertised and sold as the autobiography that Mark Twain wrote and declined to publish in his lifetime because the material was simply too shockingly honest. There are enough hoaxes in this claim to make Tom Sawyer blush. Twain didn’t write it; hardly any of it is shockingly honest; just about all the material in it has seen print in one form or another, either in biographies of Twain or in Twain’s own magazine work. The book weighs in at 736 pages printed in a microscopic font, which gives it the feel of a serious and deeply felt venture. For its editors, it clearly was; but for Twain, I’m not so sure.
Continue reading "The Eternal Boyhood of Mark Twain"
How Sonia Sotomayor Became The Public Face of the Supreme Court's Liberal Wing David Fontana
Why Bostonians Are So Obsessed With Whitey Bulger Margo Howard *|FACEBOOK:LIKE: http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/90971/whitey-bulger-arrest-fbi-boston|*
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Estimated cost of post-9/11 wars: 225,000 lives, up to $4 trillion
The cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan are estimated at 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending, in a new report by scholars with the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. ...
The cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan are estimated at 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending, in a new report by scholars with the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. ...
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and Counterterrorism, on Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise
"Today, we are releasing President Obama’s National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which formalizes the approach that we’ve been pursuing and adapting for the past two and half years to prevent terrorist attacks and to ensure al-Qa’ida’s demise." ...
"Today, we are releasing President Obama’s National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which formalizes the approach that we’ve been pursuing and adapting for the past two and half years to prevent terrorist attacks and to ensure al-Qa’ida’s demise." ...
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French military officials say they aided Libyan rebels this month with weapons, munitions and food in their battle against government forces in the western Libyan mountains. ...
Gates Sends Message Thanking Troops for Service
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has sent a message to every post, ship, base and installation thanking service members and their families for their service. ...
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has sent a message to every post, ship, base and installation thanking service members and their families for their service. ...
Wanat Review
Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced today that the Army has completed action on the U.S. Central Command's independent investigation of the July 13, 2008, battle fought by soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team at Wanat Village, Afghanistan. This engagement claimed the lives of nine U.S. Army soldiers and resulted in 27 casualties. ...
Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced today that the Army has completed action on the U.S. Central Command's independent investigation of the July 13, 2008, battle fought by soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team at Wanat Village, Afghanistan. This engagement claimed the lives of nine U.S. Army soldiers and resulted in 27 casualties. ...
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Who is Behind the Second Gaza Flotilla?
Ehud Rosen
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The second flotilla is coordinated by Muhammad Sawalha, a senior UK-based Muslim Brotherhood figure connected to Hamas. Many of the participating organizations can be directly linked with the Union of Good (UoG), a coalition of European charities affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which in 2008 was designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury for transferring funds to Hamas. The UoG was initiated by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood on a global scale, shortly after the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000.
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For the Brotherhood, two chief centers of organization can be clearly seen. On the European and global scene, the centrality of its UK-based activists is once again demonstrated, while in the Middle East, its Jordanian branch is noticeable.
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Other main organizers include the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), as well as far-left socialists from Europe and the United States. Many of the flotilla's main organizers have stated that its prime aim is to create provocations and harm Israel's image.
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Following Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, which ended in January 2009, a series of international conferences was held in Turkey to restructure the struggle against Israel. A conference in February 2009 featured 200 radical Islamist scholars who came to meet with senior Hamas officials to plot a new, "third jihadi front" (in addition to Pakistan and Iraq) centered on Gaza. The conference gave birth to the infamous, pro-Hamas Istanbul Declaration, which also provided justification for attacking foreign navies which might try to prevent arms smuggling to Gaza.
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In general, the same organizers stand behind the second flotilla, with several changes. The most important may be the IHH decision not to send the Mavi Marmara, the ship which brought the first flotilla its publicity following violent clashes between IHH activists and the IDF in which nine Turks were killed. Rather than take a leading role, it appears that the IHH will settle this time for sending activists to sail on other ships.
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Thus, the flotilla is far from being a peaceful, humanitarian effort to support the Palestinians in Gaza. It should instead be seen as a major, pro-Hamas effort to delegitimize Israel by a "red-green alliance" of leftists and Islamists.
The Seattle Plot: Jihadists Shifting Away From Civilian Targets?
On June 22 in a Seattle warehouse, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif pulled an
unloaded M16 rifle to his shoulder, aimed it, and pulled the trigger
repeatedly as he imagined himself gunning down young U.S. military
recruits. His longtime friend Walli Mujahidh did likewise with an
identical rifle, assuming a kneeling position as he engaged his notional
targets. The two men had come to the warehouse with another man to
inspect the firearms the latter had purchased with money Abdul-Latif had
provided him. The rifles and a small number of hand grenades were to be
used in an upcoming mission: an attack on a U.S. Military Entrance
Processing Station (MEPS) in an industrial area south of downtown
Seattle.
After confirming that the rifles were capable of automatic fire and
discussing the capacity of the magazines they had purchased, the men
placed the rifles back into a storage bag intending to transport them to
a temporary cache location. As they prepared to leave the warehouse,
they were suddenly swarmed by a large number of FBI agents and other law
enforcement officers and quickly arrested. Their plan to conduct a
terrorist attack inside the United States had been discovered when the
man they had invited to join their plot (the man who had allegedly
purchased the weapons for them) reported the plot to the Seattle Police
Department, which in turn reported it to the FBI. According to the
federal criminal complaint filed in the case, the third unidentified man
had an extensive criminal record and had known Abdul-Latif for several
years, but he had not been willing to undertake such a terrorist attack.
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Dispatch: Egypt's Military and Upcoming Elections
Analyst Bayless Parsley examines the Egyptian military’s role in shaping
the politics of a future government composed of Islamists and
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When the Public Rises, We'll Want an Ally in Congress
By David Swanson
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25420
Global Research, June 28, 2011
War Is A Crime - 2011-06-27
For
the majority of people in the United States -- a majority does not
vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks
our public policy is headed in the wrong direction -- the fact that we
call this place a democracy is apparently outweighed by the fact that
our national government almost never does what a majority of us want
done. Some of the things we don't want done include the destruction of
the planet's environment, the mass slaughter of war, the spreading of
violence, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny
aristocracy while millions at home and billions abroad suffer
horrifically for lack of readily available resources.
When
the people of Egypt decided earlier this year to rise up and resist
their government's abuses, it would have been helpful for them to have
more real allies already in positions of partial power within that
government. The same applies to us, should we ever determine that we are
not going to take it anymore. Perhaps that moment will come in
October: http://october2011.org Perhaps,
as momentum builds around the country for real resistance, it will come
ahead of schedule this summer. Perhaps it will come a few years down
the road.
When
such a moment comes, we will have to face violence without employing
it. We will have to counter the crimes of war makers and robber barons
with the impoliteness of uncompromising refusal to allow their
operations to continue. We will have to make sacrifices and steadfastly
advance the struggle while resisting innumerable temptations to
compromise with the unconscionable. But we will also have to lead the
way forward, negotiate, unite, and synthesize.
I'm
not suggesting the rather silly critique that we know what we are
against but not what we are for. Those questions answer themselves. We
are against making war on the world. We are for making friendship with
the world. We are against coal, oil, nuclear, and gas. We are for solar,
wind, tides, and all renewables. We are against legalized bribery. We
are for clean elections, free media time, verified vote counting, and
automatic registration. We are against ignorance. We are for investment
in education and journalism. We are against secrecy. We are for
transparency. We are against corporate health coverage. We are for
single payer. We are against plutocracy and corporate power. We are for
taxing billionaires, imposing the law equally on all, and providing
human rights to all and only humans.
If
we make it impossible for the banksters to fund crimes in our name with
impunity, we will also need to make it possible for working people to
borrow money, diplomats to negotiate alliances and trade agreements, and
criminals -- including the biggest and most powerful of them -- to be
given fair trials. It will be helpful to us if we have some friends
already in official positions of governance. But who will they be?
The
very idea of aligning ourselves with allies in Congress has been given a
bad name. And it damn well deserves it. Allies in Congress should align
themselves with us, not the other way around. But even when they do so
in large numbers, they are consistently out-numbered by their colleagues
and by the power of the two parties to which they answer. We don't seem
capable of electing 218 principled House members, much less 60
uncorrupted Senators. And yet, we are better off with some minority in
Congress speaking -- even if, for now, it is only speaking -- for the
majority outside of Congress. I would even say we are better off with
members in Congress who sometimes represent us and sometimes cave in to
corrupting influences, as compared with those who never represent us at
all.
Look
at the people we idolize as whistleblowers. They are usually people who
have been cooperative cogs in a machine of death and destruction, often
for many years, who finally decided to expose a particular abuse. We
don't reject their good deeds on the grounds that they aren't angels. I
think Congress members' actions should be treated the same way. They
stand or fall on their own merits, not the personality of the member,
much less the imagined holy or hellish nature of the member's political
party.
And
yet, goddamn it, wouldn't it be nice to really have one of us in
Congress? Wouldn't that be useful if the tide began to turn, whether
slowly or in an immediate upheaval?
As
I write this, Republicans in Ohio are working on eliminating
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's district. They're not trying to vote him
out, but to erase his district from the map so that he has nowhere to
run for reelection, at least not in Ohio. Also, as I write this,
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, longtime chair of the Progressive Caucus and
ally of the peace movement, is announcing her intention not to run for
reelection.
Yet
a possibility is opening up of replacing Woolsey with someone who
clearly has the potential to be even better than Kucinich has been thus
far.
No
matter how Woolsey's district is redrawn in California, it will remain a
very progressive district. This means that nationally those who pay
attention to and work on elections, as well as those who want their
children to have a decent world to live in, ought to take some interest
in replacing Woolsey with a real progressive leader, not just someone
who will vote the right way most of the time, not just someone who will
say the right things, not even just someone who will stick their neck
out and take the lead on matters that are deemed controversial within
the Beltway, but someone who will educate, encourage activism, and
organize within the government.
Luckily,
that candidate is available and running, and he's running against one
-- possibly two -- Obama followers. No Republican or independent is
going to be elected to Congress from Marin County. The representative is
either going to be a robotic Democratic drone who votes as the
President instructs, thus inverting and perverting our system of checks
and balances. Or the representative is going to be the person that
progressives turn to for support from around the nation in the years to
come: Norman Solomon.
If you don't know who Norman is, read his Wikipedia page.
Norman is one of the best activists I know, and one of the best book
authors, possibly the very best columnist, and undoubtedly one of the
easiest colleagues to work with whether we agree on something or not
(we're working together on http://rootsaction.org ).
Norman may not agree with everything in this column. But I'm not
looking for someone identical to myself to elect to Congress. I think
Norman Solomon would make a better Congress member than I would, and
than most of us would. I think he is ideally suited for it. I expect him
to stay connected to the activist world, to make ideal use of
independent and corporate media, and to build a caucus of Congress
members that doesn't just add members to its ranks but actually takes
actions that impact our public policy. When I say I expect these things,
I don't mean that I am making these demands of Norman (though I am); I
mean that we can safely predict that he will conduct himself in this
manner if elected.
That's
always a big if. The forces of mediocrity are always gathering strength
against the exceptional. Let's nip in the bud the notion that
California's Sixth District should be "represented" by a run of the mill
hack. We can do that by pumping thousands of small donations from
ordinary people all over the country into Solomon's campaign this week
before the totals raised thus far are counted and announced at the end
of June. Solomon has already raised over $100,000. If Rahm hadn't left
for Chicago, the national machine to stop Solomon would be in full gear
already. But people who stand for nothing are easily intimidated. I'm
doing my bit to help scare them off right now. Won't you? Please give at
least the price of a fancy coffee for the sake of having a people's
leader in Washington when we need one:
