President Giorgio Napolitano goes on with the terrorist action of his Secret Police corps (with annexed judiciary) against governments, oppositions, parliaments, and even (what is, again, Constitutionally subversive) giving public orders to the formal government

Ministeri al Nord, l'alt di Napolitano

Bossi e la Brambilla all'inaugurazione dei «ministeri» a Monza

Lettera a Berlusconi del capo dello Stato: «Preoccupato
per il decentramento» 

POLITICA La missiva al premier contiene i rilievi del Colle. Lega «irritata». La scorsa settimana esponenti del governo hanno partecipato all'inaugurazione 

PRIMO PIANO

POLITICA   Sui ministeri al Nord l'alt di Napolitano Il capo dello Stato oggi ha inviato a Berlusconi una lettera contenente "motivi di preoccupazione sul tema del decentramento" di quattro sedi inaugurate sabato scorso a Monza

ESTERI   "Ipotesi crimini contro l'umanità" Solo così Breivik prenderà 30 anniBorghezio choc, la Lega lo scarica L'imputazione potrebbe cambiare per rendere più severa la pena. Il leghista: giuste le idee dell'assassino. Calderoli si scusa: farnetica FOTO Le vittime di Utoya / BLOG Breivik, estremista o follia pura? VOCI GLOBALI + I cattivi maestri anti-Islam spaventano anche l'America  M. MOLINARI + Il poliziotto e il miracolato: i volti dell’inferno di Utoya  F.S. ALONZO

ESTERI

Lei musulmana, lui cristiano
Cuori ribelli in Pakistan

MAURO PIANTA

Fuga d'amore sfidando le leggi. Dopo le faide familiari, Salma
e Stephen, che si amano dal liceo, cercano una vita migliore.

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Politica
26/07/2011 20:22

Milanese difende Tremonti "Pagava l'affitto a Roma"

Memoria difensiva alla Giunta della Camera. "Contro di me fumus persecutionis, Procure colabrodo. Da Giulio 4.000 euro al mese"

Milanese "pronto a spiegare" Alla Camera nuove carte
Il 'superministro' vive gratis nella casa del braccio destro
Milanese: "Date alla Procura cassette e tabulati telefonici"

COMMENTI

Ministeri al Nord, stop di Napolitano

Lettera a Berlusconi: "C'è preoccupazione"

Messaggio del presidente della Repubblica al premier. Rilievi sullo spostamento delle sedi di quattro dicasteri a Monza. L'inaugurazione sabato con una coda di dure polemiche. Gli insulti della Lega

Alemanno contro Bossi: "A Monza buffonate"

"Breivik, siano crimini contro l'umanità"
Video: Borghezio choc. E la Lega chiede scusa

Il tentativo di superare il limite dei 21 anni per l'autore della strage. Un giudice dell'Aja: "Difficile". Lui: "Altri hanno agito con me". Il suo avvocato: "È pazzo". Il leghista: ha buone idee. Il ministro lo critica e lui replica: non ha i coglioni (FOTO - VIDEO)

BLOG Su al Nord di CINZIA SASSO
BLOG Dalla Norvegia all'Europa di ENRICO FRANCESCHINI
Utoya, gli spari e la fuga: videoracconto
Norvegia piange: foto/video Il piano del killer

Napolitano scrive a Berlusconi:
"I ministeri al Nord preoccupano"

Lettera del capo dello Stato al Cav per esprimere preoccupazione sul decentramento

ore 21:01

23

 commenti

Il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano ha oggi inviato al presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi una lettera contenente rilievi e motivi di preoccupazione sul tema, oggetto di ampio dibattito, del decentramento delle sedi dei ministeri sul territorio

 INTERNI

Tangenti, Bersani insiste ancora:
"Noi del Pd però siamo diversi..."

ore 17:00

238

 commenti

Bersani in una lettera al Corriere: "Non rivendichiamo una diversità genetica, ma una diversità politica". Poi però ammette: "Non siamo immuni da sospetti". Penati annuncia le sue dimissioni da vicepresidente del Consiglio regionale della Lombardia. I pm: Di Caterina come Greganti. "100 milioni a Botteghe oscure". E si riapre pure il dossier Serravalle

 La sicurezza di Penati: "La verità verrà fuori". Dubbi sull'inchiesta
 La carica degli autosospesi dal Pd quando il partito li ha già scaricati

 INTERNI

Milanese: "Persecuzione nei miei confronti
Il ministro Tremonti pagava l'affitto della casa"

ore 18:50

7

 commenti

L’ex consigliere del ministro Tremonti, Marco Milanese, scrive una memoria difensiva alla Giunta per le autorizzazioni della Camera che dovrà decidere sulla richiesta d’arresto nei suoi confronti: "L’iniziativa giudiziaria assume la veste della persecuzione poiché diseguale è il trattamento riservatomi rispetto alla generalità dei casi"

 INTERNI

Pdl, Alfano cerca il dialogo con Casini e finiani
E Bocchino gli sbatte subito la porta in faccia

ore 18:15

73

 commenti

Il neosegretario del Pdl rilancia la proposta di formare un Ppe italiano riagganciando le forze del centrodestra. Lancia un appello a Casini e Fini per fare un fronte comune e li invita ad abbandonare il proprio odio contro Berlusconi. Ma Bocchino non sembra ancora pronto per farlo...

 INTERNI

Approvato alla Camera l'odg dell'opposizione:
"Vogliamo portare i rifiuti in tutte le regioni"

ore 20:20

1

 commenti

L'odg passa nonostante il parere contrario del governo. Il documento indica in prima battuta l'inceneritore di Brescia e gli altri impianti del nord gestiti dalla società A24 come luogo dove avviare lo smaltimento dei rifiuti. Ma la Lega: "Odg senza valore, vigileremo perché non abbia seguito"

 INTERNI

Omofobia, bocciato il ddl: è incostituzionale
Ma il Pdl assicura: "Ora riprendere il dialogo"

ore 19:05

26

 commenti

Affossato il provvedimento sul contrasto dell’omofobia: "Il disegno di legge avrebbe offerto una protezione privilegiata alla persona offesa in ragione del proprio orientamento sessuale e avrebbe creato discriminazioni fra chi subisce forme di violenza". La Carfagna: "Bocciato questo testo, ma riprendiamo il dialogo". L'opposizione: "E' una vergogna"

 MILANO

Contro la stangata di Pisapia la rivolta leghista:
"Fate come i rom, non pagate tram e metro"

ore 12:55

70

 commenti

Venerdì la giunta darà il via libera ai rincari sul biglietto dell'Atm e all'introduzione dell'addizionale Irpef. La Lega invita disoccupati, precari, cassintegrati e 65enni a non pagare la corsa su tram e metropolitana: "E se sale il controllore ci si dichiari clandestini"

 INTERNI

Val di Susa, l'ultima provocazione dei No Tav:
tolgono il Tricolore dal monumento ai Caduti

ore 14:48

41

 commenti

Ancora una giornata di proteste fuori dai cantieri della linea ad alta velocità. I manifestanti hanno impedito agli operai di lavorare e poi uno sfregio alla bandiera: hanno tolto il Tricolore dal monumento ai caduti sostituendolo col vessillo dei movemineti No Tav

 Che brutta scena vedere 300 alpini in mezzo ai No Tav

IN PRIMO PIANO

MINISTERI AL NORD

Napolitano a Berlusconi, iniziativa preoccupante

Il Presidente della Repubblica ha inviato una lettera al presidente del Consiglio

Cerimonia di inaugurazione degli uffici ministeriali a Monza

-- POLITICA --

Quirinale sottolinea rilievi e motivi di preoccupazione sul tema del decentramento delle sedi dei Ministeri sul territorio

• LA GIORNATA POLITICA
• Alle 18 funerali del caporalmaggiore Tobini
• Senato, attesa per voto sulle missioni militari
• Rifiuti al Nord: Camera approva odg Pd col no governo
• FOTO: Inaugurati gli uffici di quattro ministeri a Monza
• Video: Ministeri a Monza, Lega contestata

Bufera sull'omofobia, Camera affossa testo

-- POLITICA --

Bersani, brutta pagina. Carfagna astenuta. Capezzone, occasione persa.

• Due nonne le prime spose gay a New York
• Morta Gio' Stajano, primo trans dichiarato ispiro' Fellini
• Video: A New York prime nozze gay
• Video: Broadway: nozze gay sul palco di Hair

LIBIAGHEDDAFI: SU MISURATA MARCERANNO IN MILIONI

Quattro mesi dopo l'inizio dei raid aerei, Londra offre una exit strategy per la Libia

• Speciali: Guerra al raìs che non si arrende
• Speciali: La rivolta contro i regimi

1- AIUTO, ARRIVANO I “PORNODEM”! MILITANTI HARD E STRIP-TEASE ALLE FESTE DELL'UNITÀ
2- PD DIVISO TRA BOICOTTAGGI IN NOME DEL BUON GUSTO E LO STRIP IN NOME DELLA CASSA
3- IL "BUNGA BUNGA" DEMOCRATICO FA IMBUFALIRE L'ALTRA METÀ DEL CIELO: TALE MANUEL DETTO “IL VICHINGO” HA PAREGGIATO IL CONTO APERTO DALLA BALLERINA JESSICA
4- LO "SCANDALO" DELLA GIOVANE SEGRETARIA DI UN CIRCOLO PD DELLA PROVINCIA DI PISA CHE AVEVA DECISO DI GIRARE UN FILM PORNO INDOSSANDO UNA MASCHERINA
5- SEGNO DEI TEMPI RIDURRE IL PALCOSCENICO DELLE FESTE DELL'UNITÀ, CHE HANNO SEGNATO LA CULTURA DEL PAESE, A UNA RIBALTA DI AVANSPETTACOLI DA FESTA STRACAFONAL

"LA FRANCA"! - LA LECTIO MAGISTRALIS DELLA NOSTRA PIÙ GRANDE AUTRICE E ATTRICE, FRANCA VALERI - “IL TEATRO È LA BELLA COPIA DELLA VITA” - “NOI ATTORI INSEGNIAMO A TRADIMENTO. NEL PUBBLICO CHE ERA VENUTO SOLO PER DISTRARSI, SERPEGGIA IL DUBBIO DI UNA RIFLESSIONE CHE GLI È STATA IMPOSTA, NE VUOLE PARLARE MENTRE SI INFILA IL CAPPOTTO. PIÙ SPESSO IL SOSPETTO DI UNA RIVELAZIONE SI DISPERDE SALENDO IN MACCHINA. E’ COME BUTTARE IL LIBRO UNA VOLTA FATTO L’ESAME”…

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN July 26, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Note from Tom I wanted to let you know that I have to make another visit to the hospital for a medical procedure, similar to the one I had last month. (Angioplasty) This means I will be unable to update the website or send out a newsletter for a few days.  I hope to be able to return to work on Monday August 01, 2011 Peace and Joy Tom Feeley === "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. - The language of strategy and politics is designed, so far as it is possible, to conceal this fact, to make it appear as though wars were not fought by individuals drilled to murder one another in cold blood and without provocation, but either by impersonal and therefore wholly non-moral and impassible forces, or else by personified abstractions." - Aldous Huxley - From Words and Behavior (1936) = Take The Pledge "I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." http://october2011.org/welcome === 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:  4,792www.icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,605 = Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,226,269,518,124http://www.costofwar.com/ = I Saw Many Killed Under Torture: Guantanamo Torture Survivor By RT "I was one of those who survived those kinds of torture. They used electroshocks on me because I would not sign papers." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28691.htm === The Left Has Lost Its Way Over Libya By William Bowles I think it's time to take a look at the timeline of the latest barbarian attack on the defenceless of the world. I think it reveals far more about how the left in the West operates. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28685.htm === The Saudi States of America By Julia Davis Look behind the mask of false pretenses to see the awful truth: riches seeking ever more money, celebrity looking for more notoriety, propaganda masquerading as the truth and the deprivation of liberties posturing as the savior in the "war on terror" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28694.htm === Fundamentalism Kills By Chris Hedges The gravest threat we face from terrorism, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28693.htm === Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown By Chuck Collins, Alison Goldberg, Scott Klinger, Sam Pizzigati Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation's largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28686.htm === The Unintended Consequences of Debt Ceiling Intransigence By Paul Craig Roberts We are talking about a crisis beyond anything the world has ever seen. 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But a downgrade of the nation's stellar AAA credit rating seems a lot more likely, and a lot sooner. http://news.yahoo.com/u-credit-downgrade-inevitable-032700785.html === "Let us be peace and joy" Tom Feeley

RFE/RL Headlines 7/26/2011 8:26:42 PM A daily digest of the English-language news and analysis written by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/RL is looking for guest bloggers, preferably writing from and about our broadcast region. If you're interested, drop us a line at webteam@rferl.org.

News Tensions High In Kosovo After Border Standoff Ethnic tensions have risen in northern Kosovo after an overnight stand-off between local Serbs and Kosovar police at a border checkpoint. More From Our Bureaus Armenian Parties To Talk Early Elections Officials from the Armenian governing coalition and the opposition Armenian National Congress say they have agreed to discuss the heated issue of holding early presidential and parliamentary elections. More Russian Protesters Arrested Demanding Activist's Release Four activists from the opposition Other Russia group were detained in the western city of Nizhny Novgorod. More Russia, Azerbaijan Discuss Radar Lease Russian officials are in Baku to discuss the renewal of Moscow's lease for Azerbaijan's Qabala radar station, More Iranian Activists Decry Violence Against Women More than 500 Iranian women's rights activists and their supporters have issued a statement calling on authorities to put an end to "systematic violence against women" as the sixth gang rape in recent months was reported. More Tajik Escaped Prisoner Killed Another one of the 25 convicts who escaped last year from a high-security Tajik prison has been recaptured while a second one has been killed. More Murder Suspect Shot Dead In Kazakhstan Police in Kazakhstan's northwestern city of Aqtobe have killed a murder suspect while trying to detain him and his associates. More Russian TV Crew 'Assaulted' By Military Valery Lazarev, an editor at the Volga TV company, told RFE/RL that the incident took place on July 23 when his crew was filming a fire at a military base in Nizhny Novgorod. More Transmission Tweets Made Evidence In Tymoshenko Trial Beleaguered former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has embraced new media with a passion. Armed with her iPad, she keeps all of her 27,328 Twitter followers well abreast of the shenanigans that take place in the Pechersk Regional Court, where she is on trial for abuse of power and corruption. More The Power Vertical The Popular Front's 'Liberal' Platform It appears that Gazeta.ru got a peek at a draft of the Popular Front's electoral program -- and it is surprisingly 'liberal.' More Caucasus Report Some Chechen Commanders Reaffirm Loyalty To Umarov In a move that insurgency commander Doku Umarov has hailed as marking "a new page" in the ongoing jihad against the Russian presence in the North Caucasus, several of the senior Chechen commanders who split with him a year ago have reaffirmed their allegiance. More Commentary Belarus And Norway Reflected In The Mirror Of Terrorism The terrorist bombing in the Minsk subway in April and the terrorist bombing and shooting in Oslo on July 22 have at least one thing in common: according to official accounts, both attacks were the work either of lone terrorists or a small group of acquaintances. More And Now Begins The Propaganda Phase... We can't help but pay attention to mass murderers like Anders Behring Breivik and Osama bin Laden. But we do so at our own peril. Their actions make it more difficult to hold the reasoned dialogue we need about how the world is changing. More

RFE/RL Russia Report 7/26/2011 8:25:08 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about domestic and foreign-policy developments in Russia. For more stories on Russia, please visit and bookmark our Russia page .

Russian Protesters Arrested Demanding Activist's Release Four activists from the opposition Other Russia group were detained in the western city of Nizhny Novgorod. More Russia, Azerbaijan Discuss Radar Lease Russian officials are in Baku to discuss the renewal of Moscow's lease for Azerbaijan's Qabala radar station, More Some Chechen Commanders Reaffirm Loyalty To Umarov In a move that insurgency commander Doku Umarov has hailed as marking "a new page" in the ongoing jihad against the Russian presence in the North Caucasus, several of the senior Chechen commanders who split with him a year ago have reaffirmed their allegiance. More The Popular Front's 'Liberal' Platform It appears that Gazeta.ru got a peek at a draft of the Popular Front's electoral program -- and it is surprisingly 'liberal.' More Russian TV Crew 'Assaulted' By Military Valery Lazarev, an editor at the Volga TV company, told RFE/RL that the incident took place on July 23 when his crew was filming a fire at a military base in Nizhny Novgorod. More Russians Remember Legendary Performer Vladimir Vysotsky, an immensely popular Soviet-era actor, singer, and poet, has been commemorated in Russia on the anniversary of his death more than three decades ago. More Prison Slams Khodorkovsky Cohort Officials at a labor camp in northwestern Russia have given a "negative assessment" of Platon Lebedev, a former associate of jailed former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky who is seeking release on parole. More Daghestani Villagers Face Deportation From Azerbaijan Hundreds of Daghestanis now living in Azerbaijan face a terrible, if unintended dilemma that will soon force them to abandon their homes or change their citizenship. More Muscovites Are Getting Hot And Heavy In Public Public displays of affection seem to be reaching a new level in the Russian capital. More Opposition Detained And Beaten For Staging Sit-In Over 'Political' Drugs Case A motley band of bearded and unkempt activists from the unregistered Other Russia party have become the latest addition to Russia’s offbeat opposition protest scene. More New Alcohol Restrictions Are Small Beer For Many Russians Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law new amendments that define beer as alcohol for the first time and place restrictions on its sale. No longer will Russians be able to buy a bottle of beer in a kiosk at any time of the day or night. More Tatarstan Students Outperform In Russian The statistics follow recent protests in Tatarstan organized by pro-Russian groups that claimed the teaching of the Russian language in Tatarstan is being neglected and obligatory Tatar-language classes prevent students from properly learning Russian. More A National Leader In Search Of A Post If Dmitry Medvedev remains president for a second term, as I suspect he will, what will Vladimir Putin's role be? More Hedging Putin's Will Russian asset-management firm Arbat Capital has tailored its services to reflect total uncertainty over who will run in the March 2012 presidential election. More

RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova Report 7/26/2011 8:22:23 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. For more stories on Eastern Europe, please visit and bookmark our Eastern Europe page .

Belarus Belarus And Norway Reflected In The Mirror Of Terrorism The terrorist bombing in the Minsk subway in April and the terrorist bombing and shooting in Oslo on July 22 have at least one thing in common: according to official accounts, both attacks were the work either of lone terrorists or a small group of acquaintances. More Belarus Catholics Bid Cardinal Farewell The first leader of the Belarusian Catholic Church, Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, is buried in the southwestern town of Pinsk. A former Gulag prisoner, Swiatek is credited with reviving the Catholic Church in Belarus and making it "Belarusian," which included the use of the Belarusian language at church services. More What's Belarus Doing In Breivik's 'Manifesto'? In his so-called manifesto "A European Declaration of Independence," Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted to carrying out terrorist attacks in Norway on July 23 that left more than 90 people dead, writes about how he visited Belarus and studied the political regime there. More Kazimierz Swiatek -- A Polish Cardinal For Belarusians I will never forget the goose bumps I had 10 years ago when Cardinal Swiatek brought the first large group of pilgrims from Belarus to Rome. It was impossible not to be shaken when he greeted Pope John Paul II and the pope made a speech in reply. Two Poles -- the pope and the cardinal -- spoke in the Belarusian language. More Belarusian Activists Wed In Jail Like most couples, Svyatlana Gorokhovik and Pavel Vinahradau had dreamed of a wedding filled with merriment, friends and champagne. This is difficult, however, when the groom is serving time in a drab Belarusian prison. More More Belarusian Protesters Detained Belarusian security forces have detained dozens of protesters who rallied against the government in another of the "silent" rallies that have been held in Minsk and other Belarusian cities every Wednesday for nine consecutive weeks, despite an official ban. More Belarusian State Radio Reportedly Bans Politically Sensitive Song Local media in Belarus are reporting that state-controlled radio has banned a politically suggestive song by Soviet-era rocker Viktor Tsoi. More Belarus Central Bank Chief Dismissed The head of the Belarusian central bank has been released from his position amid an economic crisis. More European Parliament Mulls How To Ramp Up Pressure On Belarus The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has discussed ways to put further pressure on Minsk over its crackdown on the opposition. Lawmakers and experts also agreed that the current sanctions directed against the ruling elite have paid dividends. More Belarus Drops Lawsuits Against Two Independent Newspapers Authorities in Belarus have dropped lawsuits aimed at closing two independent newspapers at the request of the Information Ministry. More Ukraine Tweets Made Evidence In Tymoshenko Trial Beleaguered former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has embraced new media with a passion. Armed with her iPad, she keeps all of her 27,328 Twitter followers well abreast of the shenanigans that take place in the Pechersk Regional Court, where she is on trial for abuse of power and corruption. More Ukraine's Only Astronaut Sad To See Space Shuttle Program End Leonid Kadenyuk, the only Ukrainian citizen to fly into space on a U.S. space shuttle, has expressed regret at the end of the 30-year-old space program. More European Parliament Chief Sees Change In Belarus, Says Door Open For Eastern Neighbors The door to the European Union remains open for the countries in Eastern Europe and political change in Belarus will happen sooner rather than later. That's the view of European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, who sat down with RFE/RL to talk about the future of the EU's Eastern Neighborhood. More