The lie of the young Murdoch

The Anglo-Saxons do not like lies. Crime in general is serious, very serious for all politicians in the lead. But the lying is perhaps even more. It is the fear of being put the lie to shake the dreams of the protagonists of the scandal interceptions. By Rebekah Brooks, a former director of the group News International, Rupert Murdoch, to the Prime Minister, all apologize, more or less deeply, the damage to spy on victims, but they proclaim in unison: I knew nothing until a few days ago.

Neruda's killers will be exposed

Pinochet was ordered to anticipate the death of Pablo Neruda: "He has not killed the cancer, but the assassins of General a few days after the coup, Sept. 23, 1973, eight days after the end of Salvador Allende. The lawyer Eduardo Contreras asked the Prosecutor of Santiago, Mario coach, to open an investigation.

Carrozza is investigating 726 "dead uncertain" that followed the military coup a few days ago and ordered it to exhume the body of Allende. The evidence on suicide are disputed by witnesses who 40 years later, they found the courage to speak. And the investigation started running again.

If Africa has a sore in Europe

We are constantly asked to pay via SMS, an offering for black Africa, especially for children who do not have schools that are not eligible for an education as they should, who die of diseases we treat, such as typhoid or disappeared for some time such as malaria. Some companies, to win potential customers, say that one or two Euros will be allocated to help Africa.

When the money reaches its destination, where you arrive, which are handled by NGOs, the best of intentions, using them for certain projects on site. These 'beautiful souls' I want to tell the story of Nana Konadu Yadom an Ashanti, ancient tribes of black Africa, the queen of a small village, Besora, surrounded by subtropical jungle of Ghana.

Berlusconi and Obama: lurking with self-timer

The fact that B. went to warn his personal photographer, one minute before diavvicinarsi to harass Obama does not care about his legal problems of the rest (the summit this year, the war in Libya, Greece in bankruptcy, the international economic crisis, the Arab riots , Japan on his knees, the arrest of Mladic, and Executioner even economic catastrophe and political institutions of Italy) is not an irrelevant detail.

"We indignados", the words to say

Indignados. Spaniards are tired of the political class that, say, does not care about the country or the future of young people (the rate of unemployment among the under 30 nearly 45%). From May 15 to 22, the day of the vote in local elections which has severely punished Zapatero, thousands of people have joined the movement Democracia Ya Real and have even camped out at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid and in Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona (until the evacuation of this morning).

Privacy and accomplices of the powerful journalists

One of the things that the affair Strauss-Kahn highlighted is typically French attitude that is consumed in the name of respect for privacy: ilNew York Times calls him "The Code of Silence", a form of privacy that is carried to excess which is now under consideration and mea culpa. The Code follows a clear ritual: "A scandal threatens to destroy the reputation of a powerful figure in France.

I Strauss-Kahn, you bidet

It seems that men think about sex every 54 seconds (or every 7, or 18 times a day, several studies have different priorities). It is reassuring but, fortunately, not always thought to correspond to the Act. Which allows the girls to lie down and not be penetrated down the street, queuing at the post office.

This, of course, with regard to normal men. For special men, between thinking and doing, standing in the way little. Not an embarrassment, not a request, not a word. Horny exit from the bathroom, passing by a female of the species and you servants of his body. Like it's your stuff. If you are number one in the International Monetary Fund, and thus the number two in the world, you have the mathematical certainty that you download that stubborn excess libido, quickly and at no additional cost.

The Clinton after the League

Hillary Clinton is playing in the dark and emotional event for the Pakistan office of uncertainty for the Italian event. The problem with the Italian event, the U.S. secretary of state, is that apparently is just easier to understand, clarify, organize, and tell. There's less drama, but Clinton quickly realized that there was something inexplicable, as in religions and traditions unknown.

What was discussed for a whole day, to end clashes with the world, the Italian Parliament, sharing not only between majority and opposition, but also within each discrete part and ferocity? The fact care about Clinton, because he will also make a report that one day Wikileaks spread around the world.

The coffee is also no parking for the police

London. A police van parked with flashing lights lit in blue stripes reserved for the bus stop. The fact attracts the attention of passers-by who think in an emergency, a call to 999 (our 113). But no car chases or excitement. Only one of the two agents descend slowly from the car and goes at a slow pace towards a Costa coffee, and then return without rushing toward the van carrying two coffees in hand.

Obama's response to Faenza

Dear Roberto Faenza, I read with great interest your letter sent to the front page of the newspaper Done May 4 President Obama. She wrote it without being in Pakistan and I say without being in Washington because we are both great travelers, connoisseurs of both countries and - I assume - with the same feelings towards the United States and its president.

I know a habit of Obama responds to points memo to its employees, in order to avoid emotional involvement. I will try to imitate him. 1) "The first thing that leaps to the eyes to those of these things is meant is that if you wanted to really capture and kill the leader of al Qaeda would have been feasible," she writes.

Now it comes with Mullah Omar?

The Washington Post suggests that the death of Osama bin Laden could help the negotiations with the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Omar. Would finally be a thing of common sense after ten years of futile war on Afghanistan which has caused 60 000 deaths among civilians, Taliban fighters between 35 000 and 2441 fell between the soldiers of the Coalition.

Hypothesis is plausible and feasible, although for different reasons than those advanced by the American newspaper's argument that the death of Caliph Arabia could lead the Afghan Taliban to finally break with al Qaeda and international terrorism. Omar and Osama are at loggerheads in 1998 after the attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which are attributed to Bin Laden, which caused 223 deaths and 4000 injuries.

Talleyrand, Berlusconi and Libya

The left is stupid. Too stupid. So stupid that Berlusconi will be held as long as I (and cynical and paranoid Campania dramatically). Summary. Just a phone call from Obama because Berlusconi, one of his usual antics, radically changed your mind about our commitment to Libya, from "do not ever bomb" to go to Tornado authorization to hurl missiles towards targeted.

" The League does not fit. As an important minister Roberto Calderoli said: "I will not vote ever in Parliament for authorization to bomb Libya." Position reiterated by the Commander in Chief. It is a glaring gap in the majority that, given the importance of this issue can lead to immediate collapse of the government of Silvio Berlusconi, an official statement, has already committed to obey the diktat of Obama.

William, Kate and Charles: the war with blows of gossip

Once, to determine the superiority of a people or a country on the other, without bothering to become a bloody and ruinous war, was the method-Orazi Curiazi, or the use of the duel, or, in more modern count of medals won at the Olympics or Nobel prizes lined up. Britain and France, which since the time of Napoleon did not make war anymore - Wellington and Nelson, Trafalgar and Waterloo, two to zero for Her Majesty -, vent, today, their perennial rivalry between European powers a little 'foggy, but always with the right of veto in the UN Security Council, in a battle raging as bloodless, with gossip about their premières dames (though the British, who are snobbish of the monarchy, fielding a junior, because Queen, God save it, is out of competition and the reserve Camilla and media impractical).

My Royal wedding

They arrived almost a week before the appointment for fear of not seeing the prince, wife and royal procession. Just because provident, camped just outside the entrance of the Gothic abbey of Westminster tomorrow to host the event of events (at least for them). The friendly campers who can not wait to enjoy the Royal Wedding, the royal marriage between William and Kate, are very young, since apart from a couple of kids with their parents, many of them well over seventy.

Who betrayed Tripoli

I'm trying to imagine what will be the Italy-Libya chapter in the history books of Carlucci, that books are not communists. The protagonists, as is known, are the bloodthirsty Colonel Gaddafi, which binds us even closer to the Treaty of fraternal friendship (triumphantly ratified almost unanimously by Parliament, but four cats and a few mavericks radicals) are the insurgents, who two months are slaughtered by their former glory and worship leader, is a French president in elections that he immediately realized that it is more noticeable when you bomb, that NATO is an alliance entirely devoid of political vision at the moment.

Diary from Palestine, 7 - 24 years to Volunteer

Andrea looks at the transition of children with attention from the road leading from the other villages in the South Hebron Hills, far south of the West Bank, that of At-Tuwani, where there is the school (6-15 years). Twice a day, when the children arrive and when they return to their homes. The passage is dangerous, because many attacks have been documented by Operation Dove (an NGO of which Andrew is a part), by the settlers of the outpost of Ma'on and Hill 833 (also considered illegal by the military Israelis).

Afghanistan: a peace of paper

Good thing there are the Northern League. To which the principles do not give a damn, but a lot of Danee. It is the Northern League that Berlusconi is pushing to scale back our involvement in so-called "peacekeeping missions". But Knight has put his finger on the lens further from the truth on the only real strong UN peacekeeping mission in recent years, in the presence of an international force to Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, thereby preventing the massacre of these two communities to each other.

London, the great escape from the royal wedding

Who can afford it goes away. The bridge of the Royal Wedding, the longest in the history of the British Empire, began yesterday with the Good Friday, that the Good Friday and ends Tuesday, May 3, because it is Easter Monday, April 25, and Monday, May 2 is a Bank Holiday , another day of celebration like the 29, the date of Royal Wedding.

A Filotto exceptional for these latitudes, where they are not used to attack our cabalistic calculations holidays, weekends and holidays. This strange combination then allows himself to Albion 11 days of vacation with three days off (Tuesday, Wednesday and next Thursday). And since the City more or less stops, even the London office is more or less the same.

The end of national sovereignty

In London was discussed whether to provide weapons to the insurgents Libyans is confirmation, if any were needed, that Libya has not taken steps to "safeguard the lives of civilians," the official reason was that the UN resolution, but in favor of one of the two factions in the camp. However, more disturbing news coming from the London summit is another: the decision to form 'a permanent contact group with the task of coordination among international organizations for humanitarian assistance and support of the opposition'.

Gaddafi and the Crusades selective

At the university we study the problem of state legitimacy: when it can be considered legitimate? Answer: when it is based on citizens' consent. Then, a tyrannical state is illegitimate? Depends: even a tyrant can have consensus, democracy is not the only possible form of government, certain that if deported, killed, imprisoned, if in fact ruled by terror, then his rule is illegitimate.

Even then I happened to think of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, all dictators with a strong popular support, and Stalin, who deported and instead killed millions of people. My professor would consider the first three legitimate governments, and the last unlawful. Now there's Gaddafi international intervention, and I've made me some ideas.