Da colpevole ad innocente

Marcello Dell'Utri è stato condannato questa mattina a sette anni di reclusione per concorso esterno in associazione mafiosa. La richiesta dell'accusa era inizialmente di 11 anni, ridotti a sette in quanto l'imputato è stato assolto riguardo ai reati ipotizzati dopo il 1992, perchè "il fatto non sussiste".

Condanna dunque ad anni sette. Non è stato assolto, è stato condannato.

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Alla faccia dell'informazione libera e obiettiva.

Ho scoperto l'acqua calda

In mare non c'è campo.

We are merrily merrily merrily on the way to nowhere in particular

(The Merrily Song, extract from The Wind in the Willows - Walt Disney)

Happy B-day

Auguri Piero!

Obama sacks Afghan war commander

General Stanley McChrystal, the top man in charge of the ISAF operation in Afghanistan, has been sacked this evening by US president Barack Obama, following the chaos ignited by an interview given by McChrystal to Rolling Stone.

In the Rolling Stone article - available here - the general and some of his closest staff openly criticised figures in the White House, calling one "clown" and another "a wounded animal". McChrystal had to face hard accusations of insubordination, and was summoned to the White House this afternoon for a face-to-face talk with the president.

McChrystal has been now replaced with Gen. David Patraeus, the chief commander of the war in Iraq.

Read the full article of The Guardian here.

Deadly epidemic threatens Siberian tigers

The great species of the majestic Siberian tiger is under threat by a mysterious epidemic, which impairs the big cat's ability to hunt, and pushes it towards towns and villages looking for food.

The overall number of Siberian tigers has fallen by 40 per cent in the last five years.

Read here the complete article by The Independent.

Still supposing

Moses supposes

"Moses supposes his toses are roses, but
Moses supposes erroneously
Moses he knowses his toses aren't roses, as
Moses supposes his toses to be."

"Moses supposes his toses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously

"But Moses he knowses his toses aren't roses,
as Moses supposes his toses to be!"

"Moses supposes his toses are roses,
As Moses supposes his toses to be,

A Mose is a Mose,
A rose is a rose,
A toes is a toes,
Hoopdedillydilly!

"Moses supposes his toses are roses,
but Moses supposes erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toses aren't roses,
as Moses supposes his toses to be!

"Moses! Moses! Moses!
As Moses supposes his toses to be!

"A rose is a rose is a rose is a roses,
A rose is what Moses supposes his toes is,
It couldn't be a Lilly or a taffy-daffy- dilly,
It's got to be a rose cause it rhymes with Mose."

YEAH!

...but Sud-Tirol is close by

So far away from Wales...

BP's chief 'kicks the can down the road as if he had nothing to do with it' and denies involvment in Gulf plant oil leak disaster

Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, gave his testimony in front of the US Congress yesterday about the environmental disaster of BP's oil plant in the Gulf, from which thousands of barrells of oil are still leaking into the ocean.

The committee confronted Hayward with precise and direct questions, to which he many a time failed to give e proper and direct answer, repeating "It wasn't me" and "we haven't drawn any conclusion yet". The Congress defined his testimony "uncooperative" and "insulting".

Watch the video of some highlights of the Inquiry here (source: The Guardian)

Tempi duri

Berlusconi su ddl intercettazioni: "Toghe politicizzate vogliono sovvertire il voto."
Imminente, afferma, la riforma della giustizia e "appena possibile, rivedremo la parcondicio".

Non suona bene per niente.

A wounded country still bleeding

Watch here a brilliant 15-minutes reportage by the Guardian on the mass street demonstrations in Iran and the brutal quelling of the police forces, still going on a year after the Presidential elections.

Countdown - the truth

At last, I have to confess it. The whole countdown was faulted, because of an error in the original methodology applied to it. In simple terms, I counted in the wrong way. A proper countdown would have ended tomorrow, so that today would have been -1.

Anyway, here I am, still waiting, another long day.

Intercettazioni - comunicato Odg

“L’Ordine risponderà in sintonia con gli altri enti di categoria a questa sfida che è un atto di violenza alla Costituzione e ai cittadini italiani”. È l’annuncio del segretario dell’Odg, Enzo Iacopino, dopo l’approvazione in Senato del ddl Alfano: “Il tempo delle parole è purtroppo finito ed ha spazzato via la speranza alimentata in decine di incontri da parlamentari i quali, singolarmente o anche davanti a più persone, avevano manifestato perplessità sul contenuto delle norme e garantito un impegno per modificarle in maniera radicale. Resta la possibilità che la Camera recuperi spazi che garantiscano ai cittadini il diritto di essere informati in maniera piena. Ma c’è la consapevolezza che la determinazione di alcuni in grado di decidere con un semplice gesto chi sarà parlamentare e chi no, in occasione di elezioni nelle quali deputati e senatori sono di fatto nominati da un gruppetto di persone, non consente di farsi illusioni di sorta.
In queste condizioni le proteste più estreme dei giornalisti sono inevitabile risposta alla ostinazione e alle chiusure della maggioranza. C’è il dovere della disobbedienza civile davanti a norme che violano il diritto costituzionale dei cittadini di sapere per valutare e compiere scelte consapevoli.

Bored with life? Try this

I am not sure whether I would like to do it or not. It does look inviting, though.

Below: the Tough Guy race presentation video.

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For more information, visit the official Tough Guy website.

Countdown

I never, never, remember my time zone.

Now, today, is - 1

Countdown

- 1

Countdown

- 2

I'll tell me ma

The Dubliners performing I'll tell me ma at Vicar Street, in 2007. Watch out for Eamonn Campbell's rocking move - after the first chorus. Brilliant.

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Tintoretto's mystery

Can one of Tintoretto's less known painting, Apollo and the Muse , be hiding some secret meaning? Check here the nine doubts/questions that arise when watching carefully at the stunning canvas.

Countdown

- 3 (il gradino più basso del podio)

Intercettazioni

Countdown

I'm losing sanity -for the long waiting- and with it, the correct way to count.

I'll try to make it up:

For Sunday, 6: -5

For Monday, 7 (which, by the way, is today): -4

Countdown

Due to be post yesterday, Saturday June, 5:

- 6

Countdown -correction-

Ok, hold on. Now, today is - 7

40 years of Glastonbury

Look up at a series of 40 photographs taken of the most important music festival in Britain, Glastonbury.

The complete series is available here.

Countdown

- 7

Countdown

- 8 (1 week + 1 day)

Countdown

- 9

I'm weary of sleeping alone

I wish I had someone to love me
Someone to call me her own
Someone to sleep with me nightly
I'm weary of sleepin' alone

F**k them all

I hate internet providers.

Countdown

- 10