Friday, October 03, 2008

While the USA Fiddles

Le Monde diplomatique - English edition | September 2008: "A threat to democracy
by GĂ©raldina Colotti

In Rome, police in battle dress have evacuated Gypsy settlements and prevented children from going to school, and the city’s rightwing mayor, Gianni Alemanno, is having fingerprints taken of those who remain. In Milan, Silvio Berlusconi’s government has appointed a “commissioner extraordinary for the Roma emergency” and enforced ID checks for people entering their camps. In Naples, the police (...)

Iranian Suicide Bomber Porn

Lula's Aura Lures Even Opposition in Brazilian Local Elections

By Andre Soliani and Katia Cortes

Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Three years ago, members of Brazil's opposition parties were threatening to impeach President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva amid a widening corruption scandal. Today, those parties' candidates are depicting themselves as his allies to avoid defeat.

Back in the USA, neither candidate seems aware that for the first time since Kennedy, a Russian naval fleet is cruising the Caribbean! Meanwhile, Palin McCain lump Venezuela and Cuba with Iran as a threat to world peace.


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