The DSK Affair - Suddenly, the Fall !

The New York Police Department arrested Mr. Strauss-Kahn
at 2:15 a.m. Sunday “on charges of criminal sexual act,
attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment in connection
with a sexual assault on a 32-year-old chambermaid in the
luxury suite of a Midtown Manhattan hotel yesterday” about
1 p.m.

In short: a transatlantic bomb!

* The Timeline of D. Strauss-Khan's Week End, The Daily Beast


* The sequence of events according to Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman.
[The New York Times, May 22/2011].

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DSK - twitter search...

Berlusconi, a Sunset with no End?

This wax statue with reptilian eyes - one might think
ready for Madame Tussaud - yet resisted once more
in a country where many have sold their soul to the
devil.
Today was the 'voto di fiducia' day and, yes, the fools
and the Faust-like gave it to him.


Italian menu of December 14, 2010, in Rome :
- morning, peaceful protest of university students
- afternoon, Black blocs attack the police and it is the
guerrilla in central Rome.
... ma il Berlusco ottiene la fiducia, per 3 voti in più !


Through the looking glass of today's international Press...








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IRAN, Today's News...

- Revolutionary Road
- Portland Daily Photos (for Tehran 24)
- Guardian News Blog
- News BBC
- Le Monde
- Libération
- La Répubblica
- Corriere della Sera
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Rummaging among EU Elections News...

points out :

- Europe leans to the right
- EU elections put Lisbon Treaty on hold
- Night of a thousand cuts for French left
- Dismal night for Brown and Labour
- Electors prick Berlusconi bubble
- Spanish Socialists wounded in Euroelection
- Greens break out of minority ghetto
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- And the rabbit from the hat is : ... E U R O P E - E C O L O G Y !
>>
La Bellevilloise, up on Menilmontant hill, hosted a green Sunday's eve.
Watch the (julianmaos') video... and Danny in 1968...
*
(Click here for some views of La Bellevilloise).

EU Elections / Italians Abroad...

... in Paris, France > Enit - 23, rue de la ¨Paix.

Q : "May I..." ?
A : "No, no pictures" !

"and why the hell not ?

... is this a sardinian villa" ?
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(Opéra subway station)
My citizen's duty accomplished...

I'm back to my fief.
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(UpDate > Italians voting from abroad : only 6,6%).

Tiananmen crackdown, 20 years ago.

Former dissidents are under strict surveillance
and the big webwall tight up.

(plugsong)

- China calls this an "accident".
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[ChinaNews 1989]

Italy, the World is watching You !

Shame on you, Berlusco and - which is worse, on those Italians
who put you on command !
On the verge of European elections, Italy offers a foolish image
not only of the country but also of (more than 50%) Italians.










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I'm afraid that today's most representative cliché about Italy
- for and on behalf of pizza or spaghetti, is...
berlusco or bananas.

Yours faithful,
G@ttoGiallo

Enough Bananas !

Because the news from Italy are still distressing...
(e.g. : the Mills' affair) since Italians themselves
seem unable to ward off fate...

This is the video document about the Berlusco's Italy, realised
and released two years ago by WNET-channel 13, the most
watched public TV station in the New York metropolitan area.

Part I (of 6)


Part II


Part III


Part IV


Part V


Part VI
(where the immunity bill has been voted).

(Aquilasenzanido)

Does Berlusconi Threaten Italian Democracy?
(Crispian Balmer, Chief Correspondent, Reuters/Italy).

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European Elections... Faites vos jeux !

Poll :

Do you think using social media
for political campaigns works ?


Challenges ahead 2009-2014.

The Elders Wisdom...

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control
the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered".

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America,
(Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, 1802)
(Bcc to G@ttoGiallo, 2009).

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Global Crisis, April Fool's Day and...

... G20 summit in London.














A simple coincidence ?
<(:>><

But the best April 1st 2009 prank
was on TV today's news...

Les Eoliennes ralentissent la rotation de la terre [news] F2
(peanutsie)

June/2009 EU Elections - Get ready !

- Irish foe of EU treaty to set up party offshoot in Poland (France 24)
- Q&A : The Lisbon Treaty (BBC News)
- Tony Benn (former Labour MP) Interview on the Lisbon Treaty (YouTube)
- Lisbon Treaty Pros & Cons (here)


(ukipwebmaster, Dec. 31/2008)
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More on Tony Benn...

Routine Elections...

The first one... won.
But the french "gauche" is so ill... will this really change something ?

Lisbon Treaty : Who's Afraid of People Voice ?

Ireland asks France to organize new presidential elections !

... alas, this strong headline of the M'PEP (fr), a French political movement, is just a joke
to underline the absurdity of Sarkozy's request for a second Irish referendum in order
to ratify the Lisbon treaty... already massively rejected by France and Holland in 2005.

Sinn Fein eurodeputy Mary Lou McDonald pointed out that while speaking a lot about
democracy, European governments act as they were afraid of people voice.




















(source)

- 13 Dec. 2007 : EU heads of state and government signed the Treaty of Lisbon.
- 20 Feb. 2008 : Parliament approved treaty with 525-115 majority.
- 12 June 2008 : Treaty of Lisbon rejected by popular vote in Ireland.
- 19-20 June 2008 : European Council discussed the aftermath of the Irish referendum.
The Irish Government's request for time to analyse the situation was accepted.
- Oct. 2008 : Ireland expected to make proposals at Council summit.

Poland says NO to the UE Lisbon Treaty !

Thanks to Poland !



Intl Herald Tribune
SPIEGEL OnLine Intl
BBC News
The New York Times
Libération (fr)
Le Monde (fr)
Corriere della Sera (it)

About Irish NO to the EU Treaty...

Why nobody asks the essential question :
Ireland would it be alone now rejecting the
Lisbon treaty if this one had been submitted
to a referendum in the other countries ?

Probably not.

French people said no in 2005, when asked by referendum and so did
Holland. These people are not against European Union, they just refuse
an anti-democratic European Constitution, now called Treaty to be more
easily accepted.

"You don't say yes to something you don't understand" said
Hugo Brady, analyst at the Centre for European Reform thinktank.

John Barrys' point of view.

Choose your language

G@ttoGiallo : no comment

Il dado è tratto ! what a shame !
nonetheless...
STAND WITH ITALY BERLUSCO-FREE !
(or see Italy and die)

O tempora, o mores !

Quo usque tandem abutere, Silvius, patientia nostra ?

A dreadful week end is coming for all responsible and intellectually-non-indigent
person in Italy.

Die Presse, best front page in today's Press

The Guardian, UK
"... On Tuesday Berlusconi, who has been investigated -
though never convicted - for a string of alleged financial
offences, said he would introduce mental health checks
for prosecutors. Yesterday he lashed out at his main rival,
Walter Veltroni, saying: "The truth is, he remains a
communist." (read more)

La Repubblica, IT
Nanni Moretti :
"Ma come è possibile, dobbiamo
ancora occuparci di Berlusconi?!"
(...)


MicroMega, IT
"... Stamattina la rassegna stampa si apre con due notizie agghiaccianti :
- Berlusconi, ritornando su un tema già usato in passato, promette che se il suo partito prevarrà
in queste elezioni saranno instaurati degli "esami periodici che attestino la sanità mentale dei PM".

- Il pregiudicato Dell'Utri, candidato e sicuramente eletto nelle liste del PDL, afferma : "I libri di
storia, ancora oggi condizionati dalla retorica della resistenza, saranno revisionati se dovessimo
vincere le elezioni" (sic!). (...)



In such a poor landscape,
I dare to say porn star Milly's
bottom (top is neatly worse
by the way), had its right place.

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