Sunday, February 27, 2011

Clothes/dressie Pant Suites

Notes on the Arab uprisings


Adel Jabbar ( sociologist and essayist)




January 14, 2011: E 'This is the date that marks the turning point much sought after by multitudes of Arab countries, where the despot (al-taghiya) Ben Ali has fled. The tyrant who held hostage the Tunisia for 23 years is gone.

January 25, 2011: It 'was the day when the youth in Egypt has accepted the invitation of the youth movement on April 6 to demonstrate to end the dominance of another Arab dictator who made of the emergency laws a systematic practice of government turning the entire country of eighty million well of citizens in a family estate.

These two dates indicate a radical departure from decades of stagnation, which could become a unique aspect of Arab societies. Protests (al-tadhahurat) the insurgency (al-wathba), the uprising (intifada) and revolution (al-Thawra) who are going through the entire Arab region, from Mauritania to Yemen, I would like to highlight the a spring of the Renaissance (Nahdha), the public and the will to be free as well as renewal (Tajdid). These events occur after a long period marked by endless oppression, repression, persecution, impoverishment general society as a whole with the exception of a small circle of family and courtiers. Years of political and socio-cultural retreat, of heavy defeats in terms of foreign policy and the loss of sovereignty. The entire Arab world, in fact, found himself, once again, to suffer the constraints that refer to the memory of the colonial era.

With millions of youth movements of the Arab inhabitants, in these days begin to see the end of the tunnel and see the light of a new and necessary awakening (sahawa).

The events that are shaking Arab societies and the overwhelming number of princes and vassals show: 1) that the population exceeded the fear that has paralyzed them for decades, and in fact have found the strength to defeat the culture of 'intimidation and terror that tyrants have used and use as the only way to govern, and 2) that elites, often secular not cliques are nothing more than a nepotistic Mafia, and 3) that the Western democratic powers have claimed violent and corrupt regimes by foregrounding forgetting their material interests of all the human rights culture, which use them, not infrequently, in purely instrumental terms, 4) a maturity and political awareness of the younger age groups unmarked by references to twentieth-century ideological; 5) assume that large sections of nonviolence and civil disobedience as a practice to claim their rights and their dignity , then denying and refuting the cliché Arab societies soaked of violence and religious fanaticism, flattening the image of Arabs on the figure of Bin Laden and al-Qa'aida, 6) the absence di retorica anti occidentale – non sono stati presi di mira né interessi né persone né simboli occidentali – e il sapere parlare un linguaggio transculturale in grado di comunicare in un mondo di differenze e di molteplicità attraverso parole d’ordine quali dignità, libertà e giustizia.

In molti si chiedono quali saranno le conseguenze di queste sollevazioni. Si può tentare sommariamente di indicare due plausibili cambiamenti, uno di natura interna e l’altro di natura esterna. Relativamente alla realtà interna, si potrebbe avviare un corso politico caratterizzato from the recognition of different political parties that tend to position themselves at first in the new scenario has arisen at a later time and will compete for the acquisition of popular through the ballot box. In this view the various and diverse visions of an Islamic certainly play a significant role, but it would not be a totalizing and hegemonic role, unlike what some analysts argue. Although some Islamic education will occupy a key position in the new structure will be very close to the experience of the democratic-Islamic Turkish team, and then will have some similarities with Christian democratic experiences in Europe. Regarding the second point, namely that the external changes that will occur will be slower and will be developed with caution. One of the changes likely involve a rethinking of relations interarabe in terms of increased collaboration in order to restore some role on the world scene and acquire political clout than some hot and sensitive issues, such as the question of the Palestinian people's situation Somalia and relations with Iran. In addition we will try to distance itself from some of the decisions of U.S. politics and find a separate item, without having to flatten as has happened on the choices of Washington negli ultimi decenni (per esempio la partecipazione alla guerra contro l’Iraq, l’appoggio alla guerra contro l’Afghanistan e l’adesione ad un eventuale attacco contro l’Iran).

Quello che è certo e lo dimostrano gli accadimenti in atto, è che le genti arabe hanno già conquistato un ruolo determinante nell’agenda politica sia nazionale che internazionale, avendo oggi una perfetta consapevolezza del proprio ruolo, dei propri diritti e della propria dignità.



Saturday, February 26, 2011

Types Ofbacteria Found In Cats Mouths

Letter to Young sacrificed in February



di Pina Piccolo





La prossima volta, il fuoco

The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power,

but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos

and ring down the curtain on the American dream

James Baldwin The fire next time

L’anno scorso di questi tempi, nello scritto Rapsodia in giallo mi trovavo a rievocare lo scrittore afro americano Ralph Ellison che nel suo libro Invisible Man parlava della condizione dei discendenti della tratta degli africani strappati a viva forza dalla loro terra per lavorare nelle piantagioni americane. In quell’occasione facevo l’analogia con quello che succedeva qui in Italia ai lavoratori migranti che si erano ribellati a Rosarno. Quest’anno, grazie ai cambiamenti intercorsi nella international situation acuity of racism and the institutional responses but I am remembering the work of a great African American writer, James Baldwin, in 1963, wrote a book titled successful The Fire Next Time (Next time , fire) whose title was inspired to sing spirituals black " Mary Do not You Weep " which contained the verse, "God Gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time. " (God gave Noah the sign, not more water, fire next time). .

Quel libro fu molto importante per delineare alcune questioni riguardanti le relazioni tra bianchi e neri negli Stati Uniti, il ruolo delle religioni sia islamica che cristiana. Parte del libro aveva la forma di una lettera scritta al nipote quattordicenne. Io sono convinta che chi sinceramente desidera un cambiamento radicale, un nuovo ordine mondiale e personale dovrebbe forse cominciare a scrivere simili lettere, guardarsi attorno, riflettere e poi agire. Cerchiamo di ritrovare coraggio e sincerità scegliendo i giovani come nostri interlocutori, non per cadere nella solita retorica ma anche perché da loro saremo giudicati. Forse questo esercizio potrebbe anche aiutarci ad unirci ai grandi movimenti che stanno mettendo in crisis in the world order without waiting for the diktat of parties, celebrities, without being there to await the evolution of events with our hands, fearing that shake the current balance may lead to a situation worse, as many are doing in this time, etc..

Thinking about the fires that we have witnessed in recent weeks, driven also by the sorrow and shame (a healthy psychological reaction that seems to have gone into disuse in Italy) I tried to write this letter, which will not certainly the depth and impact of the work of Baldwin, but I hope it will help stimulate debate and action.

Letter to the youth slain in February

Dear Nourredine,

now rest in peace after three days of agony

Dear Raul, Fernando Sebastian, Patrick,

that you died quickly, all four embraced on the mattress

(the cry that could not take it to emerge from Raul and Fernando, deaf children, shouted from older brothers that the voice we had)

all five guys Noureddine (27 years, father of a 2) and children (3 Raul, Fernando 5, Sebastian 8, Patrizia 10 years) of the fires of February ,

I write a red letter of shame for not doing enough because this country does not reach levels that touched abomination. I think that the omissions, the distractions and small cowardice of my generation have contributed to your stake. It may not have the gas or the match, but they have certainly provided material for combustion.

In this letter I will not try to console speaking of squares inflamed North Africa and the Middle East, perhaps now relieved of the body can go through and enjoy that vital energy that goes out from us for some decades. Quell'esilarante you travel you've earned it, we, who still breathe in Italy, we have to deal with a country of dead-alive, hoping that perhaps a second Risorgimento heralded by a white horse on the stage of Sanremo, conducted by a Garibaldi ridanciano less solemn and more. A future that you decide on television, not in the streets. With slicked Faccioni Maroni and Fazio .... In the living rooms of news design hyper ... Undoubtedly, Italians as a post-modern people have to take other routes, not those of the squares. Maybe we are a great experiment that demonstrates how you can ensure the immobility of the people manipulating the media. Perhaps we should not even dare to imagine a possible reconstitution of the civil society concept ... too old ... everything must be decided by benches of power, both nationally and internationally (after all we are or are not the American aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean? As we have been underlined by the latest Wikileaks).

Because you died and rigor of science with the physical eye the world of the living have lo potete vedere, vi descrivo una parte del Paese delle Meraviglie, nel quale ignoravate forse di essere, e per cui forse dal vostro rogo non sono nate splendide ribellioni bensì sciatti scaricabarile, scritte inneggianti al nazismo, qualche fiaccolata di “quattro poveri illusi” che credono ancora nella solidarietà, e qualche colletta dai giornali. Forse credevi Nourredine di emulare Mohammed Bouazizi, che la tua disperazione qualche vigile avrebbe cercato di fermarla, che col tuo gesto avresti acceso le coscienze? Anche tu giovane ambulante, lui laureato con le sue quattro mele sequestrate dalla polizia corrotta, tu con il tuo carretto, ancora una volta indugiavi in una strada di Palermo, quella degli antichi splendori Arabs and Germans, near the university. Fined because they stood too long trying to keep up with the money earned from the sale of four gadgets humble wife, son and six brothers. A small army that would one day be reunited with you in this land of false hope. In this fairy Morgana where happiness that always eludes you yearn to hand?

And you children, believed that few tears would have given to your parents? A hug, the recognition of a loss so terrible? A Word to compel spending detestable human beings to live in conditions where a fire was not God Almighty's punishment of some solemn but the result of a trivial match? No, in a country full of psychologists mobilized to the smallest hint of trauma native to your parents no understanding, only threats of processes, the blackmail to take away the remaining children, the shame of being judged negligent parents. 'That only those who owned the house for ten generations can aspire to have children ... For others, swastikas ...

is not easy to explain why the human response that you might not expect that you've received a few. It 'difficult, in this mosaic of reasons There are many pieces, but I'll be your eyes and you see the area where I live, and perhaps understand a little bit. Of course we do not forgive, but perhaps some might find the explanation.

After learning of your death, Nourredine, today I went out on my way to the square of the quiet little town where I live, the rosy health that was once widespread now much less. Well-being that usually eludes migrants like you. At this time, the Rose would be able to blend in with the green of the League. Apparently they stay away, and look askance at the Pd on the porch of the Palace of the beam and the League on the porch del comune, ma si tratta solo di settimane… Il rosso e il verde della fusione che si prospetta (secondo il machiavellismo da strapazzo di Bersani, efficace risposta all’attuale delirio istituzionale) risulteranno in un colore nauseante, forse ancora più nauseabondo dell’ipocrisia separata di entrambi i partiti.

In questo tour de force il primo monumento che si incontra è la farmacia, antica, di fine settecento, che ancora conserva i vasi originali che contenevano le erbe officinali e i minerali, ed è una delle mete dei pochi turisti che capitano da queste parti. Sotto il portico della farmacia ci sono 4 musicisti tzigani che suonano e hanno messo una giacca per terra a mo’ di cappello per raccogliere qualche soldino dai passanti distratti che vanno o ritornano dal mercato. Non hanno molto successo, ma c’è una sorta di dinamismo che li circonda, un’elettricità che trovo assente nei capannelli di imolesi che si fermano a chiacchierare sotto l’orologio, tradizionale luogo d’incontro nella loro beneamata isola pedonale. Hanno l’occhio vivo dell’ outsider, che vede oltre la cortina fumogena dei rapporti che sembrano naturali ed eterni solo perché si svolgono con cadenza quotidiana. Dopo aver sorpassato i musicisti, a qualche passo di distanza ci si imbatte nel Palazzo del Beam, architectural glory of 1936 with relief that glorifies the exploits colonial. In this building, which clashes horribly with the old buildings with facades rebuilt in the eighteenth century that surround it, there is a life-size human silhouette that Bersani calls to roll up their sleeves. I strongly suspect that this poster is now ubiquitous in these parts is the result of some expert in public relations / communication that has taken literally the analysis of the linguist / political consultant George Lakoff U.S. during the last two election campaigns in the U.S. debating the concept "framing" and how it was necessary to move the frame than the stern father, represented by punisher Bush a quello di padre amorevole ma fermo, che, manco a dirlo, nel contesto italiano si trasforma in un Bersani seduto che si rimbocca le maniche ed esorta i figli a fare altrettanto… Sempre secondo questo sguardo abbacinato dalle magnifiche sorti e progressive, il “cambiamento” che tale strategia vincente ha inaugurato negli Stati Uniti sarà certamente emulato in Italia… Certo che a noi non devono venire gli americani ad insegnarlo, l’abbiamo nel sangue la nostra tradizione di gattopardi…

Proseguendo di altri quindici passi, eccoci al gazebo della Lega, con la loro inconfondibile foglia, frutto di novella mitologia. Cinque o se robusti native boys who look with the confident look of one who is finally making in hostile territory. Opposite, on the porch facing Liberia are stopped by a guy named George, which I always take the paper towels ... These subtleties of Italian political parties and he does not understand the problem does not even arise. I ask him about the political situation in his country, is a bit 'surprised, that capacity is not yet a quiet woman of my age may be interested in politics, but he assures me that in a few months in Liberia, there will be parliamentary elections for the moment ... his country has been plagued by unrest in North Africa ... As we speak I pass by and say hello to me Jessica, African-American girl, married to an ex-Yugoslav grown in our region, who met in Paris where they both were concerned with fashion ... it's a bit 'surprised that I am speaking in English with one of those guys hawkers selling African handkerchiefs, but for its Yugoslav-Italian-African-American girls it seems normal ... At this point later in the new supermarket to get some food and queued in front of me, I see the signature Louis Vouitton on the bag of my own age, very stretched , as used here, which includes water.

I know, these scenes might not have seen them in Palermo or in the suburbs of Rome and this is certainly not explains a lot, but I said is only one piece, and if we analyze all the pieces that make up Italy, who knows a shred of image of the country in which we live we can not train, outside of maybe a slow ideological po'offuscate new times. Who knows, maybe a bit 'of indignation we are not able to retrieve it, zealous devotees of rationality and fair play . delegation to rid the scourge of politicians, priests, celebrities and journalists instead of a catharsis television anchor who knows that we can not take the first step to recover a little of the dignity with which you are reclaiming the nostri cugini del mediterraneo del Sud.

Questo è il minimo che dobbiamo a voi ragazzi, arsi vivi, perché le vostre ceneri non rimangano sterili.

Pina Piccolo, 19 febbraio 2011






Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ramps For Sale For A Bmx

... Meanwhile in France and

Riceviamo da Stefano, che ringraziamo, la segnalazione di un articolo del Il Post che a sua volta riprende un pezzo di Le Monde .

Per chi conosce la situazione della cartellonistica in Francia , sia nelle città che fuori, leggere che si "... intende mettere un freno al lento degrado dei nostri paesaggi urbani e periurbani e migliorare l’immagine delle nostre vie e delle nostre città ..." suona davvero beffardo!

Noi a Roma stiamo ancora cercando il bandolo di una matassa che ogni giorno si fa più ingarbugliata mentre in Francia, con una situazione che definire idilliaca, rispetto alla nostra, è certamente diminutivo, are anxious to halt the deterioration.

It 's true that among the foundations of the infamous DC n.37/2009 resolution reads: "That the amendments in question are ... all designed to put into practice the principles of transparency and effectiveness of administrative action" and we know then how did it all end.

And then also the excellent premises of the new French legislation could be favors to local cartellonari veiled disguise, as reported by committee that campaigns for the removal of billboards from the city.

However, the comparison between our reality and that is very French to drop their arms.

Finally a consideration: the billboards in France is dealing with the ecology minister , while in Rome should be treated with the commissioner for trade .

cousins \u200b\u200bacross the Alps will have reason to consider an environmental issue or billboards Noantri Romans to treat a purely commercial matter?

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Play Super Munchers For Free Online

Where do we stand with the resolution - the last step in the Commission on Trade

Following the advice provided by municipalities on our proposal for resolution of citizens' initiative, the next step is in the Commerce Commission of the City.

have long waited for the scheduling of the measure for debate in the Commission, but now a new unexpected will further slippage. E 'come to set to miss the President of the Trade Committee, Hon. Massimiliano Parsi, died after a long illness.

This will require the Commission to elect a new president to meet scheduling and restart the action on hold.

The prediction is that our resolution is presented in the Commission after the middle of March and probably what will happen simultaneously with the same issue in the Commission's Master Plan on advertising systems approved by the City Council.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

What To Do About Mild Ptosis

still illegal and partisan

We report the article in the Corriere / Rome that contains, among other things, the complaint of 8x3 boards attached to the amnesty that the parties are packed in the decree Milleproroghe.

If the drafter of the national electoral law in force was to define a "crap", as one might call the amnesty which is being adopted to send unpunished parties (on both sides, it should be specified) that have wrapped it up and continue to wrap our city?

Thursday, February 17, 2011

How To Redo A Metal Boat

amnesties Two 4 x 8 x 3 = A 3 = FORBIDDEN!

As you can see from the photos that we publish something has changed on the mega plants Pubbli Rome.
Each poster 8 x 3 has been replaced by two 4 x 3!
And all this was done in a hurry in the night just past. Obviously we are also followed closely by the billboard companies ...

Below are photos of plants "processed" in Controversial Portuense Street 341 (opposite side),

Via Ramazzini,


not reported before in a Street of Magliana opposite side of the street 31
(if you enlarge the photo show still under the original poster 8 x 3),


and one in high street Via Portuense 849 (opposite side), Corviale area, which has as peculiarities of all the previous being on pedestrian crossings and do not cause visible trace of a plate authorization.
What you see in the picture, in fact, is a blank name plates Pubbli Rome.



The Committee has been reported directly to the Office of the City of Rome Affisioni illegitimate plants, using the relationship that is activated recently between him and the Organizing Committee, we know that the checks have already started and it seems even the first minutes with the sanctions.
ask at this point that we proceed immediately to the relative obscurity and, in the absence of removal of the plant by the name of the owner in time, due to the removal.
The fact that you are covered with posters of 8 x 3 4 x 3 is of no importance: the plants are in fact marked the 8 x 3 and are therefore banned from all regulations.

Cameltoebeach Volleyball

Press Release - Plant 8 x 3 and amnesty

PRESS RELEASE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE APPROVES INITIATIVE TO THE PEOPLE AMENDMENT OF REGULATION ON billboards

In the last few days we saw surprised and incredulous posting in our city of many, huge posters of magnitude m. 3x8 , using two 3x4 boards contiguous. All this by a small political group that advertises an upcoming political appointment, apparently oblivious to the insult perpetrated against the city.

Only now we understand why a lot of arrogance and indifference to the dignity of our city. Monday, 14 was approved for the benefit of political parties, under the decree so-called one thousand extensions yet another amnesty for wild manifesto.

With this amendment the "continued and repeated violations of rules on advertising through billboards and posters of manifesti politici o di striscioni e mezzi similari, potranno essere definite in qualunque ordine e grado di giudizio, nonché in sede di riscossione delle somme eventualmente iscritte a titolo sanzionatorio, mediante il versamento, a carico del committente responsabile, di una imposta pari, per il complesso delle violazioni commesse e ripetute, a 1.000 euro per anno e per provincia ". Il pagamento delle sanzioni dovrà essere effettuato entro il 31 maggio 2011.

Si tratta dell’ennesimo “tana libera tutti” , dell’ennesima dimostrazione di come i partiti si ritengano al sopra della legge. In a situation of serious economic crisis in which families and companies seek to move forward, honest and tightening their belts, it gives the signal that the law is not equal for all., Is given the green light to daily plundering of the decoration of our city of Rome and in particular, every day offended by posters and billboards of all types in breach of the Highway Code and the many constraints.

We expect that the Administration Capitolina hit with all the means at its disposal the arrogance of those who every day tarnish the image of our city and threatens the security of its abitanti. 

I Romani sono stanchi di collusioni e lassismo.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Penny Boat Lab Activity

receive and publish - Doubling! Piazza Barberini

Premessa indispensabile: il Comitato Promotore della delibera d'iniziativa popolare ha sempre mantenuto una posizione al di sopra delle parti politiche e così intende fare anche per il futuro.

Non è quindi il contenuto dell'impianto pubblicitario qui in discussione ma la nuova preoccupante modalità che alcune ditte hanno introdotto per rendere ancora più invadenti le loro installazioni.


The plant pictured is installed at the civic Via Portuense 341. These two systems side by side and used 4x3 with one HUGE poster.

We showed that the maximum size of the advertising was to plant 12 square feet, as per resolution n.37/2009 CC, Art. 4, paragraph 2 b).

maybe we're wrong??

Update: a more Tuscolana at the Cinecittà studios!


Reaffirming that the advertisement of these posters is irrelevant for us, and unless someone proves that the legality of these plants, we judge them plenty of time over a measure that is filled .
Remembering episodes of the recent past, in which the Mayor Alemanno intervened directly and promptly to remove advertisements deemed offensive (in February 2009 and July 2010), we turn to him to intervene directly with equal readiness to bring these facilities within the limits of legality and, especially, del rispetto che merita una città come Roma .

La segnalazione è stata da noi inviata all'indirizzo sindaco@comune.roma.it 
Chi lo ritenesse opportuno può reiterarla.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Williams Rogers And Son Aa

Calicanto

















Pina Piccolo

(in praise of the riots in winter)

The whiff of calicanto

That sudden you invest

The face cut by the wind

T'inebria melts and you

Winter

months before the crocus

Buchi land

numb

Langue body

The vein

throbbing

of spring

How loose cannon

Inscrutable

expert eye,

Unexpected

Intense rises

Scent of

Change

The squares purified

From the ashes of slain

Wonder

feet of clay

landslides

From tide

branches calicanto

Flower suddenly

on apparent

Examination gray

Humble calicanto

What everyone forgets

In the chill of the mind

Winter

pale yellowness

That flame

Become et'accende.

(February 5, 2011)


Saturday, February 12, 2011

Fotos Sundiro 125_phoenix



Durante la ricognizione di alcuni impianti pubblicitari nel centro storico, ci siamo imbattuti in questo bell'esempio di affollamento di cartelloni.


Siamo in Piazza Barberini, proprio davanti al cinema, e la foto mostra tutte le tipologie di impianti tipiche del centro: paline con l'indicazione the square (just under the plate in travertine), Taxi cartel clock, and finally in the middle of the sidewalk a sign 1x2 Nevada company (which, it must be said, always stands out for its elegance and appropriateness of their installations.)

Apart from these signs of public benefit, there are others which close the view remained: the subway pole, a sign that the species of birds that you can appreciate the area and a ticket of (!?!) 'ATAC.

En passant, in the background, hidden among the installations, there is a fountain by Bernini.

How To Do A Weave With Bangs

If not now, when? It

There are moments in history when it is necessary to raise its head in a gesture of pride, angry and scream ENOUGH!

This is not a country for women (although, in truth, it is not even a country for workers and young people seeking employment), this is a great circus dwarfs and dancers and the god it can run is the old but evergreen god of money.

Sex Power money: a triad is not new under the sun, a workhorse of sexist ideology, one pillar on which the houses are built for power.
What then these houses are called Arcore and are brothels (in the sense of brothels) are not è solo una questione privata che non ci riguarda, soprattutto ci riguarda in quanto donne (ma spero che riguardi anche quegli uomini di buona volontà e di più buone pratiche).
Vedere tutti i giorni che il modello femminile dominante è quello delle letterine, veline, escort, che si fa carriera politica più velocemente se si passa per il letto di qualcuno (certo una pratica vecchia come il mondo, ma mai così istituzionalizzata e fatta oggetto di rappresentazione), vedere altre forme di prostituzione non meno orribili, come quelle di chi difende a spada tratta questo sistema di cose per non perdere dei privilegi, arrampicandosi su odiosi cavilli e fondandosi sulla odiosa doppia morale, tutto questo davvero ci fa precipitare in un climate of decline at the end of empire.
The commodification that is made each day of women's bodies in all possible fields from advertising to the halls of power must become indignant because the body is our body and for all that demeans our dignity as women affects us all, and all !

We still have to fight for our rights because there are still few women in the institutions and too many die murdered by husbands, ex, boyfriends, men in short, because we are not free to self-determination, but we are "free" to sell our bodies.
go down then all square. We leave our homes, to give us the image of us who want to be, to cry out that freedom is not to sell, if you must sell we are slaves, we reverse the dominant cultural model, we start from, and build both the thinking and actions and practices of freedom. We look forward to

:
ANCONA at 16.00 in front of Teatro delle Muse.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Blueprints For Race Buggy

The Parable of the Arab dignity

















Adel Jabbar (sociologist and essayist)

Quello che sta succedendo nel mondo arabo e in particolare in Tunisia e in Egitto, come in Yemen, Giordania, in Algeria, sta a dimostrare che è terminato un periodo nel quale quasi tutti i paesi arabi hanno convissuto con la paura. Hanno convissuto con la repressione, spesso feroce, con sistemi assolutamente autoritari, dittatoriali, dispotici, con una componente di corruzione molto evidente, con dei regimi che hanno escluso per anni buona parte della popolazione dalla partecipazione alla vita pubblica e politica, non solo impaurendo ma anche impoverendo. In conseguenza di tutto questo le manifestazioni di oggi sono caratterizzate da due elementi: da una parte la rivendicazione della libertà e dall'altra parte the demand for social justice and especially the demand for dignity.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall nell''89 the Arab world is left out of any dialectic of change, the events of today show that the climate of fear and terror is over and we face launching a new trial. What are the stages, goals, interpretations of public life is to be seen, but while these events give a very clear signal: the populations of Arab countries are no longer willing to bear or economic conditions or political conditions in which they lived years.

I use an image making clearer the conditions under which these people found themselves, namely that of a triangle, which has worked all these years of repression and as a fence of absolute despotism. A triangle composed, first, a wave of religious fundamentalism that was devoid of a design and clarity of a true interpretation of the needs and demands of the population, the other side by a system of secular governments, willing, familistic and often corrupt, as the third side then the interference of foreign powers that have supported the schemes, which will certainly support played a key role in facilitating the work of decades for long authoritarian and violent cliques. The foreign powers that have supported these schemes often remained silent about the violations of basic rights of the people.

Today, all these elements that have supported the regimes of the area are in crisis before that happened, the grassroots movements that have rebelled against their condition. Whether it is in Egyptian and Tunisian opposition parties said the official opposition, but often less than -decoration have been bypassed, but the opposition itself, the real one, the one that has lived for decades in una situazione di repressione quasi totale, è stata scavalcata da queste forze popolari che ora stanno rivendicando - pagando anche un alto prezzo- un accesso alla partecipazione politica e un nuovo ruolo dello stato come garante delle esigenze di larga parte della popolazione.

Quel triangolo su cui si basavano questi regimi è ora in frantumi: sia i regimi, sia gli stessi movimenti integralisti, sia le potenze straniere si trovano in forte difficoltà di fronte agli avvenimenti attuali. C'é da dire che questi movimenti non nascono dal nulla, non nascono come mera sollevazione spontanea per rivendicare il pane; stiamo parlando di popoli che have a long history, have a conscience and a sense of itself as many other peoples in the world, especially with a history of struggle for liberation from the yoke of colonial power. In some periods people have moved in terms of revolt, rebellion, though, being unarmed people without outside help, have often been suppressed in the blood. Many of the activists were tortured, imprisoned, exiled, but now it seems that the fear and repression are not sufficient to stem this flow of "revolutionary" claims of calling for the end of unpopular regimes, corruption, rot, to achieve social justice , freedom and dignity, showing an awareness policy very mature.

I think the crucial components of insecurity and lack of freedom of the citizens. Feeling persecuted (even at home) as a human person, has had a significant and important. Let us remember also that if in the '60s and 'these 70 states have had an economic path that has guaranteed income redistribution and the creation of a minimum of Welfare, now this has failed, many state-owned were privatized in fact, in many cases, bought up, "familizzate" by relatives of those who ran power, which in the eyes of the people is absolute dominance.

In repressive regimes so there are even places where people can meet, and often there are no spaces or references to the civil society organizations. This is why tools like Twitter, facebook, cell phones, text messages have become subsidies to exchange information, to know what is happening in different places, in different situations. Today, the electronic connections are very strong terms, are connections that bridge the gaps and even people away from places of power are able to connect, access information, acquire knowledge.

decades also seeing the evolution of a global civil society which is an exchange of languages, themes such as justice, freedom. In recent decades, these processes have become more rapid. The Al Jazeera television has become such a virtual place where people can participate in a series of containers recognize cultural and political rights, there are continuously played debates on sensitive and delicate that they appear completely different points of view. In the case of what happened in Tunisia, in fact, by mid-December, AJ has been censored when the regime has understood the importance of the capabilities of this television to follow the riots in different parts of the country, where the Tunisians are informed of their events and demonstrations of support from other Arab populations. During a broadcast a Tunisian national interviewed said that 70% of what has happened, the success of the revolt was made possible thanks to AJ , but not because AJ fostered or maintained, but because evidence, he showed that that occurred, while state television hid everything.

The dates of 14 and 25 January 2011 will be etched in the depth imagination of the Arab nations. Populations for many years are waiting to surrender to shake off a horrible heap of failures and defeats on all floors especially the perpetuation of Palestinian suffering and the plight delI'Iraq.

This revolution was born from below, without any external support, unlike of "color revolutions" supported by foreign powers. Events are non-functional power to any project large, medium or small, are manifestations of civil disobedience, unarmed, nonviolent and then this refutes the fact that anni si va sostenendo in Europa, che la società musulmana si identifica con la violenza. La seconda questione è che con queste manifestazioni non ci si muove per questioni religiose, per difendere chissà quale astratta sacralità, ma per difendere la dignità di quei cittadini. Sono manifestazioni povere, non hanno neanche molti striscioni, sono manifestazioni dove si scrivono cartelli a mano, dove le parole d'ordine sono la libertà, la dignità, la democrazia, no al dispotismo (Istibdad), no alla corruzione (Fasad). La forza di queste manifestazioni è che sono sostenute da esponenti dei ceti medi, dagli operai , dai contadini, by women, by men, the elderly and the young . They are popular movements, not particularly ideologicizzati.

These movements do not arise, as they say in Europe's political jargon, because we are the vanguards who foment, they drive. The avant-garde if there will be born from these movements, will be out of the people who actually participated. We must not overlook the presence of a certain political realities with roots, because these events are not born from nothing, we were in the past protests, riots and demands that represent references significant for activists today.

addition to the political forces in favor of a radical change there are groups that have many links with old and new colonial powers, there are characters that can be recycled, can claim a liberal language, can do openings of a certain kind, very moderate, with adjustments for front, but are awaiting the opportunity to enter the game and monitor its effects. Certain that the outside powers will try to find strategies to prevent, abort, crush, to the best of cases, finding a compromise for adjustments timidly liberal politically and economically. But I do not think that is sufficient to answer the needs of a society where about 60% of population is young, with very high levels of education, high expectations, other than their parents. It has to do with a new very large segment of the population that feels completely excluded, so the adjustments will not hold up long facade, but we will need radical reforms at both politically and economically, because people is tired of living in unacceptable conditions and accept servility as a recipe to go to a new progress.




Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Guest Book Sayings For A Funeral

receive and publish - in the quagmire of the exceptions to the MC

receive and publish pictures of two new plants located in Via Leone XIII.





With mt.4 less than the median, this is all stuff that should not be there, and even considering all the exceptions to Highway Code which have been granted on advertising systems, we wonder how we can assist with new installations that violate the code.
All this without considering the danger that this plant is usually for motorists, but especially for motorcyclists.

Friday, February 4, 2011

How To Dahvie Vanity Hair

Signs of useless advertising '

This is the type of signs pubblicitari definito di "pubblica utilità", che si trovano ormai ad ogni angolo di strada nelle zone più centrali di Roma. Se si percorre Via del Corso o Via Nazionale, ad ogni incrocio o vicoletto ci trovi uno di questi cartelli, che con la scusa di indicare il nome della via fanno pubblicità a "questo o a quello".
Ma di che utilità può essere un cartello che mi dice in che via mi trovo se a pochi centimetri c'è l'indicazione originale, magari su lastra di travertino antico?

E ancor di più, di che utilità è un cartello che viene piantato su uno spartitraffico,  fra 3 semafori,  e me li impalla in turn, according to where I come from?
The utility is only for the publicity and the company owns the billboard, it is clear?
Above are the most basic sign of contradiction, because it should be called "systems of public uselessness", and indeed, hiding the view of motorists at traffic lights, you should call "public danger".

Francis