Berlusconi,..McCain...Obama. Come November

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Berlusconi Likes McCain — (It’s an Age Thing)
By Steven Lee Myers
ROME – International diplomacy obliges leaders not to comment on the political affairs of other countries.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, meeting with President Bush here, violated the protocol with an endorsement of Senator John McCain, though he might not necessarily appreciate the reason: Mr. McCain’s the older man.
Mr. Berlusconi, a conservative who is 71, began with a standard demurral when asked his preference at a press conference on Thursday in his official residence, Villa Madama. He then expounded with a command of detail that included Mr. McCain’s date of birth.
“I suppose I could express my own personal preference for one of the candidates,” he said with a pause, “the Republican candidate.”
“And this is for a very selfish reason, and that is that I would no longer be the oldest person at the upcoming G-8,” he said, referring to the annual meeting of the Group of Eight industrial nations, as Mr. Bush smiled, “because McCain is a month older than me.”
In fact, exactly a month, as he made clear. Mr. McCain, whose age has been raised as an issue in the campaign, was born on Aug. 29, 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone; Mr. Berlusconi on Sept. 29 in Milan. The Group of Eight summit in 2009 — should Mr. McCain win the right to attend for the United States in November — will be held around July here in Italy, on the tiny island of La Maddalena, near Sardinia. Both men will be 72.
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"Spero vinca Mc Cain: è un mese più vecchio di me".
Anche se il Berlusconi IV assume toni e profili sempre molto istituzionali, lo spirito del Cavaliere a un certo punto viene fuori. Così oltre alle dichiarazioni di amicizia eterna e di eterna riconoscenza, il premier improvvisa un endorsement per il candidato repubblicano Jhon McCain. "Mica per altro - precisa Berlusconi - è che McCain è un mese più vecchio di me e se vincesse lui non sarei il più vecchio ai vertici del G8".

NEW TRENDS IN AFRICAN COMMUNTIY POLITICS .ROME

THE ROME NIGERIAN AND CAMEROONIAN COMMUNITIES PREPARE FOR ELECTIONS.ARE THESE TYPES OF CAMPAIGNS NECESSARY FOR COMMUNITY ELECTIONS?

La comunità Nigeriana di Roma e anche quella della Cameroun preparano per le rispettive elezione.
E’ necessario questo tipo di campagna elettorale per i dirigenti della comunità ?

Chukwubike Okey. Charles

http://chukbyke.blogspot.com/

MUSEO e DIASPORA

Closing ceremony of the project "Museum , diaspora and ntercultural dialogu

e in the

meseum" A continuation of the EUROPEAN YEAR FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE 2008 AT -useo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini” ROMA. DELEGATES (DIASPORA) FROM OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WERE PRESENT.

SAME PEOPLE SAME OCCURANCE;DIFFRENT TIMES , DIFFRENT PRESIDENTS

THIS MAIL IS FROM NENWEONLINE (NOL) ARCHIVES ..JUNE 2004. a PHOTOCOPY IS BEING PRESENTED TO ROMANS AGAIN FROM TODAY. LAST WEEK-END IT WAS THE GAY PRIDE THAT PARALYSED ROME NOW WE HAVE MR PRESIDENT. FOR THREE GOOD DAYS.
THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THAT MAIL IS STILL A PRAYER AND I HOPE SOON TO BE IN A COMPLETE AFRICAN ATTIRE/DRESS WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG IN ONE HAND ......YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okey CC.
(Cisterna di Latina)
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--- In NENWEONLINE@yahoogroups.com, "MEDIA_SOLUTIONS" wrote:

Dear All,
What a relief for the Romans: the President has left town. Almost everyone
who had something to do with "Roma centro" ( city center) and Vaticano had
it tough. Romans are really one of the most tolerant in stomaching
disturburances of this sort( average of two demonstrations a week) but this
time a different phenomenon occurred.
Two streets to all his routs were blocked. The media even reported of some
families in strategic streets "kidnapped in their houses" for two days by
govt officials.
Trust Romans in funny behaviour; shops, factories,private enterprises, I
learnt even a hospital closed and all went on holiday or to the funeral of
a popular comedian who passed away .The escape from Rome was not only
because of no love lost for the visitor but the people just did not want to
be involved in anything anyway; call them cowards they would answer you.
Elections are due in two weeks here.

The consequences ; most of us who did not go to work for those days did not
bring any bread home for those days as is the case here. Almost everyone
lost. Even Mr Berlusconi (Prime Minister) lost, because most people did not
spend money in shopping-he owns about 15% of the big shops in Italy.
The streets were deserted , the peace movements, no-globals,anti-Bush etc
groups were kept at other zones of the town,therefore Mr President saw only
the people he was supposed to see and only the people who were supposed to
see him saw him. No more no less. The press called it 'a tunnel tour'.
Personally I enjoyed seeing (on TV) those 32 identical bullet proof dark
vans that came from USA for his escort drive in wonderful security formation
and synchro.

Ten years ago same day , same reason (the 50th anniversary of the liberation
of Roma)Bill Clinton was here and almost everyone in Rome had an American
flag. People missed work to go to the Centro to see Clinton pass and wave at
him ( some Roman girls-trust them- also came to see a huge, handsome
American- as their grandmothers did during the allied entry into the city 50
years earlier). Anyone seen the documentary? All squares were filled with
entertainment tents and benches. It was a big holiday and everyone wanted to
get involved in thanking America .
I happened to be around the city center then (1994) and that was also my
first time of buying an American flag. If I had wanted to I would have taken
a picture with Mr President during a hand shake as many did. He saw and met
all he wanted to see and all who wanted to see him did.
It is on record here that the longest standing ovation at the Quiranale
(Presidential Palace) was after Bill Clintons speech on that occasion. We
learnt that the river Tibers rose an inch because of the emotional tears
from the Romans after that speech.
Naturally, there was a lukewarm or "ignorable" protest from the then
neo-fascists in the town. Curious (or not) to note that most of them are in
this present government in Italy after some 're-cycling'.

My "Stelle e Striscia" stars and stripes flag is still in my study and I
hope I would have the opportunity to welcome another American with it.
May the soul of Reagan Rest in Peace. Amen
Okey.CC.

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G2

Salve
Vorrei condividere con voi tutto ciò che interessa le nostre seconde generazioni: prospettive, problematiche, idee creative e proposte. Ho due figlie adolescenti che affrontano la scuola, la società e che tra non molto entrerano nel mondo del lavoro. Vorrei che abbiano tutte le possibilità di scegliere ciò che preferiscono e che possano contribuire attivamente, consapevolmente e ....felicemente alla realizzazione di un'Italia moltietnica.
Marina

STILL... ON THE EUROPEAN TRAP

Fortress Europe


عربيAccording to the following press review at least 12,196 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. Among them 4,384 were missing in the sea. In the Mediterranean sea, and through the Atlantic Ocean towards Spain, 8,488 migrants died. In the Sicily channel 2,643 people died along the routes from Libya, Egypt and Tunisia to Malta and Italy, including 1,643 missing; 70 other people drowned sailing from Algeria to Sardinia. Along the routes from Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria towards Spain, through the Gibraltar strait or off Canary islands, at least 4,132 people died, including 1,986 who were missing. Then 895 people died in the Egean sea, between Turkey and Greece, including 461 missing, and 603 people died in the Adriatic sea, between Albania, Montenegro and Italy, including 220 missing. And at least 597 people were drowned trying to reach Frenc island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean. But the sea is not only crossed aboard makeshift boats. Sailing hidden inside registered ferries and cargo vessels 148 men died asphyxiated or drowned.
Sahara is a dangerous obliged passage in order to arrive to the sea. People crosse it on trucks as on off-road vehicle along the tracks between Sudan, Chad, Niger and Mali from one side and Libya and Algeria on the other one. Here at least 1,594 people have died since 1996. But according to the survivors, nearly every travel counts its victims. So the number of the victims could be higher and higher. The data includes also the victims of the collective deportations practiced by Tripoli, Algeri and Rabat Governments, accustomed to abandon groups of hundreds migrants in open desert border areas.
In Libya serious migrants abuses are also recorded. There is not any official data, but in 2006 Human rights watch and Afvic accused Tripoli of arbitrary arrests, beatings and tortures in the migrants detention centers, three of which are financed by Italy. In september 2000 in Zawiyah, in the north-west of the Country, at least 560 foreigners were killed during racist putsches
Travelling stowaways in the trucks 284 people were found dead. And 182 migrants drowned crossing border rivers , the majority in the Oder-Neisse, between Poland and Germany; in the Evros, between Turkey and Greece; the Sava, between Hroatia and Bosnia; and the Morava between Slovakia and Czech Republic. Then 112 other people froze to death in their tracks through the icy mountains frontiers, especially in Turkey and Greece. In the Greek border with Turkey there are still mine-fields along Evros river. Here at least 88 people died over the mines trying to enter Grece.
193 migrants were shot dead by border police: 35 of them were killed in Ceuta and Melilla Spanish enclaves in Morocco, 50 ones in The Gambia, 40 in Egypt and 32 in the eastern Turkey, along the Iranian and the Iraqi borders. But few people were also killed by French, German, Spanish and Swiss policemen . And others died in Morocco and Libya. Then 41 men were found dead hidden in the undercarriage of the planes, and 23 people died in Calais, or under the trains in The Channel tunnel trying to reach England, while other 12 people died under other trains in different borders and 2 drowned crossing the Channel
Read the 1988-2007 press review

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RAPPORTO MAGGIO 2008

112 morti in un mese alle porte dell'Europa di cui 102 soltanto nello Stretto di Sicilia, dove continuano ad affiorare i cadaveri di naufragi fantasma. Reportage dalla Grecia. I gommoni affondati dalla guardia costiera e i rifugiati somali e sudanesi bloccati ad Atene dalla Convenzione di Dublino ma a cui le autorità rifiutano l'asilo. E poi il caso Patrasso: 500 afgani costretti a vivere in una baraccopoli tentano ogni notte di nascondersi nei camion che si imbarcano per l'Italia. Storie di ordinari abusi e impunità. Storie di straordinario razzismo. Mentre in Italia si discute di reato di immigrazione clandestina e a Bruxelles si prepara l'approvazione definitiva della direttiva rimpatri [...]

	VIDEO Outside of Europe A short critical documentary examining Ukraine and the exclusionary nature of EU's immigration policies and responsibilities placed on periphery countries to handle the flow of migrants. Filmed by Amy Miller, Boban Chaldovich, Individeo Russia. In English only
	AUDIO Storie della fuga Audio documentario. Quattro profughi provenienti da diverse regioni del mondo – Ali dal Sudan, Dico Benti Debelar dall´Etiopia, Machmoud Mizibor dal Bangladesch e Benjamin Robot dalla Nigeria – raccontano assieme la storia della loro fuga. Di Roman Herzog
	FOTO Afghan refugees at the orange harvest in Argolis, Greece Every year, hundreds of undocumented refugees work at the harvest of oranges in southern Greece, in the region of Argolida, under very bad conditions. The Greek state refuses to grant them the right to seek asylum. Photo by Ioanna Katsarou and Christos Stefanou

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La Soprintendente al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”, Maria Antonietta Fugazzola, è lieta di comunicare che nei giorni 5, 6 e 7 giugno 2008 nel Salone delle Scienze del Museo si terrà l’atelier scientifico internazionale “Museo e Diaspora. Maschere e identità plurali”.
L’iniziativa fa parte del progetto europeo READ-ME, Réseau Européen des Associations de Diasporas & Musées Ethnographiques, teso a promuovere un rapporto più maturo e consapevole tra i musei e le comunità degli immigrati, nella prospettiva di una nuova Europa multiculturale.
Parteciperanno all'atelier i rappresentanti degli altri musei partner del progetto: il Muséè Royal de l'Afrique Centrale di Tervuren (Bruxelles), l'Etnografiska Museet di Stoccolma, il Musée du quai Branly di Parigi.
Il programma dei tre giorni è articolato in sessioni tematiche che prevedono confronti e dibattiti tra curatori di museo ed esponenti delle associazioni della diaspora italiani e stranieri, studiosi di antropologia e di letteratura, artisti e scrittori, tra cui Maryse Condé, sicuramente tra le più eminenti figure della letteratura francofona contemporanea.
L’atelier vuole permettere alle comunità della diaspora di “riscoprire” il proprio patrimonio culturale e di costruire un rapporto con il museo. L'atelier vuol dare al pubblico la possibilità di comprendere meglio il fenomeno dell’immigrazione, che si intreccia quotidianamente con le nostre vite, e di conoscere più a fondo le questioni legate alla diversità culturale.
La scelta del tema della maschera, un oggetto presente in tutte le culture del mondo, vuole favorire la discussione sui problemi legati alla diaspora e al dialogo interculturale: la maschera interpreta infatti i rischi e l’ambivalenza dell’incontro con la diversità, l’ambiguità inscritta nei processi di integrazione, le strategie identitarie giocate attraverso la reciprocità dello sguardo.