Tuesday, March 29, 2011

With Gino, against the certainty of war

The war killed, wounded, suffering enormous. The war does not absolve never the objectives: Ten years after the invasion of Afghanistan, Bin Laden was not captured, the war in Iraq, began March 20, 2003 and formally ended only by Obama on August 31, 2010 without able to stabilize the situation and never was no trace of chemical weapons deemed safe by U.S.

strategists, in Libya, as in previous cases, at the beginning there was talk of "lightning war" but the facts are showing that it will not be so . The war is Important, but not to the people. Since you continue to waste our money to buy more expensive planes (10.5 million euro each) as unnecessary and to participate in acts of war.

Countries using the death penalty more and more isolated, says Amnesty

If at least 527 people were executed worldwide in 2010, the NGO Amnesty International notes that abolitionist countries that use the death penalty are "increasingly isolated" in its annual report on capital punishment. "At the end of 2010, the existence of a global trend towards abolishing the death penalty was no longer any doubt," the report notes.

According to figures available, the organization notes that if the mid-1990s averaged forty countries were carrying out executions each year, they were more than thirty in the new millennium. And in 2010, according to Amnesty, only twenty-three countries have carried out executions, a slight increase over 2009 (nineteen, the number of countries the lowest ever recorded by Amnesty).

Frattini: Italian-German plan for Libya, "Gaddafi in exile and more rights to the tribes"

ROME - An Italian-German axis to the Libyan diplomatic solution to the crisis. Inevitably destined to flank the initiative announced by Sarkozy and Cameron. The Italian government will not give the baton to the Franco-British control room, in short, has a plan and is working so could result in a proposal.

A real document to be finalized with the Registry and submit to the Merkel coalition summit Tuesday in London. A way out policy that Foreign Minister Franco Frattini anticipates Republic in its guidelines and that it should go - here is the turning point - through the exile of Colonel Gaddafi.

Exploding ammunition factory in Yemen, killing at least 80 people

A series of explosions at a munitions factory in the town of Jaar killed at least 80 people and left 50 wounded, according to police sources. The factory located south of the country was sacked on Sunday by suspected militants of Al Qaeda. Local residents said that more than a hundred men, women and children were taking bags of food from the factory when the first explosion was apparently triggered by the cigarette from one of the looters.

Engineers are working to get water plant in Japan

.- Japanese engineers struggled on Sunday to remove radioactive water from the damaged nuclear power plant after the radiation levels rose seawater near the plant, where it has been more than two weeks since it was affected by a major earthquake and a tsunami. Friday's tests showed that levels of radioactive iodine in sea water 30 kilometers from the seaside resort rose 250 thousand times above normal but was not considered a threat to marine life or food safety, said Nuclear Security Agency and Industry of Japan.

In Libya, the coalition bombed Tajura, Zliten and Al Wati

.- The international coalition bombed on Friday night to Saturday Zliten City, 160 km east of the capital, the Al Watts (W) and attacked a military complex on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya said on national television and a witness. "The district has been rocked by three blasts in succession. The glass windows were broken.

The attack targeted a military radar is on fire," said an inhabitant of Tajura, a suburb of Tripoli, whose house is 300 meters from the bomb site. In this place on the outskirts of Tripoli are several military complexes, which are attacked almost daily since the beginning, March 19, the international operation in Libya.

Napolitano abronca the Government and the Regions: "It is unacceptable Lampedusa"

The President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano has been defined as "unacceptable" situation in the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which is crowded with 6,200 immigrants waiting to be taken by the Government. Napolitano has asked the regions of the country on behalf of cohesion and solidarity to help the island welcoming refugees landed in recent days.

"Italy, the Italian regions, can not give a show of uncertainty and division and you have some that agree to receive immigrants and others not," said the head of state, an apparent reference to the Northern League, whose regional presidents and ministers call for return of the landed forcibly to their country of origin.