Naples, Mafia bosses kissing each other on the lips before jail

As soon as he left the police headquarters in Via Medina (Naples) to be brought to jail, Daniele D'Agnese  was approached by four of his associates to be embraced and kissed on his lips. Only the intervention of a police officer stopped the embarrassing public scene.

He is supposed to be the boss of the "Scissionisti" (Secessionists) which is the antagonist group to Di Lauro's clan and one of the "leaders" in the illegal drugs trade in Naples and Europe.

The story of this boss was even told by Roberto Saviano, the author of the best selling book "Gomorrah".

Germany protects 17 nazi war criminals

After more than 15 years in hiding, onetime Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was in a Belgrade jail Thursday night to face charges that he presided over Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
Unfortunately, in Europe there are still about seventeen former Nazi war criminals who live happily in their homes in Germany despite having been definitively convicted to life imprisonment as they are responsible for some of the worst massacres of World War II !. The story sounds incredible, about seventeen former Nazi war criminals are still among us!. European arrest warrants haven't brought them to jail yet.
The story was confirmed by an Italian military prosecutor in Rome, Marco De Paolis. In Italy the prosecutor is currently handling the larger number of these cases after the discovery of the "armoire of shame" (where hundreds of cases like them were found) when he was a military prosecutor in La Spezia. 

In particular, eight people had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian Supreme Court for the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema (560 victims), three for Marzabotto's (770 victims), one for the massacres of Civitella Val di Chiana, Cornia and San Pancrazio (244 victims), one for Branzolino and San Tome's (10 victims), one for the Certosa di Farneta's (more than 60 deaths) and one for Falze of Cortona's (16 civilians killed). Only Josef Scheungraber, 93 years old, is in prison serving the sentence just because he was sentenced in Germany too.

G8 France 2011: Berlusconi to ask Obama to intervene in Italy!?

"Let us remain human, even in the most difficult moments"

"I arrived in Gaza on the 23rd of August 2009 on a boat of the Free Gaza Movement with about 40 actvists from 17 different countries. We arrived and broke a siege lasting since 1967. I remember this day as one of the happiest and most emotional of my life, thousands of Palestianians came to the port to welcome the first foreign boats since 1967. Afterwards with about 15 activists, Italian, British, American, Spanish; we decided to restart the activities of the Interantional Solidarity Movement that were stopped in 2003 after the assesination of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall by the Israeli Army. My grandfathers were partisans who fought and died struggling against an occupation, another occupation, in Italy, it was the Nazi-fascist one. For this reason probably, in my DNA and blood there are particles that push me to struggle for freedom and human rights. The message of solidariety from outside has been well understood and especially thanks to us who have committed ourselves to fishermen and farmers, and particularily after the massacre of the  Mavi-Marmara when it became clear not only to the world but even to Palestianians that some people from elsewhere, despite the governments that are complacent and  accomplices of the Zionist Israeli government, are ready to spend their lives in order to come to hug their brothers here in Gaza. The problem with the International co-operation and, above all, the UN is that they treat it [Israeli-Palestinian conflict] as a humanitarian catastrophe, so I, an Italian, Edi, a British, Vera, a German who have our normal lives as student, workers in our countries had to come here to dare snipers, to be on board of boats as human  shields, exactly what the UN should be doing, an international  inter-position force to ensure respect for the rules of the international law".

(From an interview to Vittorio Arrigoni published by PeaceReporter)

Vittorio Arrigoni (1975-2011), an International Solidarity Movement (Ism) activist, was kidnapped and killed in Gaza

see also Vittorio Arrigoni's video interview

Who armed Gaddafi? Which EU countries export the most arms to Libya?

EU arms exports to Libya 
full data at www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog 

   

In the name of Feedom! please, don't say it again (part 2)

Sarkozy’s humanitarian war had already begun in early March. The onset of hostilities can be dated with the arrival in a cargo of 105 mm guns and anti-aircraft batteries in Benghazi, disguised as humanitarian aid to civilians. The sender was the French government, which accompanied the consignment with its military instructors, whom started training the rebels as soon as they touched the ground
Everybody knows it in Paris. French weekly Le Canard enchaîné gave the news on 16 March, hidden between its insider pages.
The reporter Claude Angeli wrote on the delivery of weapons by a DGSE’s action, (French intelligence).
Therefore, any deployment of weapons and military personnel took place before the resolution 1973, adopted by the UN Security Council on 17 March that called for "an immediate cease-fire" and authorized the international community to establish a no -fly zone in Libya and to use all necessary means to protect civilians.

In the name of Freedom!, Please, don't say it again

I am not surprised that the USA, the UK and France have just chosen to free Libya among many current conflicts in the world.

We must be honest, this is another war for oil. There is not Freedom in Sarkozy's dreams but oil  and a  new mandate which are why he is taking dangerous risks. “Sarkozy has a huge investment in seeing Qadhafi go,” said Justin Vaisse, the director of research for the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings in Washington. “He’s going to be a constant force in favor of hardening the stance and the action.” Once we’ve eliminated the air defense sites — then what next?.....

Generation 2.0: "Anonymous" attacks Berlusconi's journal and television networks

“Operation Italy”, this is the codename of the Distributed Denial of Service attack which hit the Italian Government’s Websites and Berlusconi's networks.

In a manifest appeared some days ago, the  "Anonymous" group denounced the Italian Government and its leader of having led the country into an untenable political and economic situation. In particular, today  Berlusconi's journal, "Il giornale.it", has been attacked by the hackers, although it didn't shutdown completely, and the owner accused of web censorship, encouraging prostitution, dealing with the Mafia, corruption and media manipulation.

http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/attacco_hacker_giornale__anonymous_prova_a_metterci_bavaglio/internet-hacker-cyber-ilgiornale-attacco-anonympus-wikyleaks/15-02-2011/articolo-id=506180-page=0-comments=1
Anonymous- Operation Italy part 2 PRESS RELEASE

Leonardo da Vinci's smile

Mona Lisa is a man,  an Italian art historian has claimed.  Silvano Vinceti, the head of the National Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, believes the painting like several of Leonardo’s works were inspired by Gian Giacomo Caprotti.

(Head of Christ, Gian Giacomo Caprotti 1511)

This boy, known as Salaì, played the role of friend, helper, student and quite possibly, lover to Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, the painted figure is androgynous and sources tell of one incident during Leonardo’s youth in which he and three other men were accused of commit­ting sexual crimes with a male prostitute, but the charges were dropped for lack of evidence. 
Although most of Leonardo’s personal life remains unknown because he guarded information about it, we can recognize the same likeness in most of Leonardo and his school’s portraits that is certainly not casual. Why? Personally, I agree with Lillian Schwartz. She split the faces of the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's self-portrait down the mid-dle, adjusting the sizes and juxtaposing them so that one side of Mona Lisa's face matched Leonardo's. The result was the picture on top-left.