101. Civis Romanus Sum

“I am a Roman citizen” was a proud boast in the first century A.D. It implied the obligations of citizenship but also guaranteed privileges and rights that would be observed and protected by the Roman government.  Among those...

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102. Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five years

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103. China cancels 80% of Iraq debt

BAGHDAD – China has agreed to cancel 80 percent of the 8.5-billion-dollar debt it is owed by Iraq, the finance ministry in Baghdad said in an official statement on Tuesday. It said a bilateral agreement was signed in Beijing, without...

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104. Clima, Onu ammette: «Himalaya, i ghiacci non si scioglieranno nel 2035»

MILANO - Scusate, ci siamo sbagliati: faremo meglio i conti. L'Ipcc (Gruppo intergovernativo dell'Onu sul cambiamento climatico), premio Nobel per la pace nel 2007, ha presentato le proprie scuse all'India, il cui governo aveva vivamente...

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105. Crimini di guerra israeliani, in fotografia

TRADUZIONE EFFEDIEFFE

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106. Caritas Gerusalemme: la Cisgiordania ha bisogno di acqua potabile

Le acque residue stanno danneggiando le coltivazioni JALBUN - Un villaggio e gli insediamenti che lo circondano in Cisgiordania sono stati inondati dalle acque residue e gli abitanti hanno difficoltà a ottenere acqua potabile. Una...

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107. Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the...

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108. Chinese official slams Western banks

A senior Chinese official who oversees China’s largest state-owned enterprises has publicly slammed western investment banks for “maliciously” peddling complicated derivative products that caused huge losses for Chinese...

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109. Clinton Family Will Celebrate Chanukah This Year

OY! Marc is marrying a ‘shiksa‘ ! That was the first reaction of the Mezvinsky family when it was announced their son Marc will soon marry Chelsea Clinton. Let’s have a look at this American Jewish family….. ...

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110. Cohn-Bendit : "Les Suisses doivent revoter"

La voce del padrone. Cohn-Bendit ordina: “Gli svizzeri devono rivotare”. La stessa “Europa” che impone all’Italia di togliere i crocifissi dalle aule, vuole che la Svizzera si riempia di minareti. Le Temps :...

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111. Congressmen Denouncing U.N. Inquiry Receive Handsome Donations from Pro-Israel Lobby

Domestic policies such as health care reform and financial regulation are dominating Congress’ legislative agenda this year. But on Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved a non-binding measure denouncing a United Nations inquiry...

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112. Curious Meeting at Treasury Department

ll ministero del Tesoro americano ha invitato otto bloggers a discutere... La Rete si sta facendo ascolatre (in USA almeno) The Treasury invited a small group of bloggers for a “discussion” with senior officials on Monday....

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113. Concilio tradito? Disputa su Rahner

Troppo vicino a Hegel e Heidegger, troppo «relativista»... Il dibattito sulla piena ortodossia del grande teologo riprende quota grazie a riletture globali del suo pensiero. Ci sono fiumi carsici che scorrono a lungo prima di...

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114. Chiamata Per l'italia: Ora i diritti

Fascisti pro gay Il no alla legge sull'omofobia si è consumato in un clima da caccia alle streghe. Ma così ci allontaniamo dall'Europa E' giunta l'ora che il Popolo della libertà affronti fino in fondo la questione dei...

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115. Cash-strapped Britons are selling kidneys to pay mortgages and clear debts

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116. Can't smell Israel

On September 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama will preside over a U.N. Security Council session on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. In March 2010, Moscow will host a Global Nuclear Summit that the U.S. has agreed to attend. The...

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117. Crolla il mito di Medjugorje

Negli anni, molti a Medjugorje dicono di aver trovato la pace nell’anima, molti di aver trovato consolazione, altri dicono di aver visto migliorare la loro salute, altri dicono di non aver trovato che un semplice posto come ce ne sono altri....

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118. Could George W. Bush end up behind bars?

(CNN) - Could George W. Bush or some of his top aides end up behind bars? It's extremely unlikely, but the Obama administration is taking its first steps along a path that could lead in that direction, with the investigation of...

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119. CIA Blackwater Op Infiltrated Ron Paul Campaign

The Wayne Madsen Report says that the CIA used Blackwater linked mercenaries as journalists in order to gather intelligence. Allegedly, two people working as sub-contractors to the CIA had significant links to Blackwater’s operations in...

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120. Corruption fears over Afghan poll

Afghanistan's presidential election has been beset by fraud and corruption, a BBC investigation suggests Voting cards are being sold openly and candidates have been offering thousands of dollars in bribes for votes. The findings came as...

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121. Coup d'accélérateur pour les lignes à grande vitesse

In Francia raddoppiano le linee ad alta velocità L'objectif est fixé : le réseau ferroviaire à grande vitesse devrait être doublé d'ici à 2020. Pour y parvenir, il faudra lancer...

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122. Chinese town sealed off after man's death from pneumonic plague

BEIJING - The town of Ziketan in northwest China's Qinghai province has been quarantined following a man's death from pneumonic plague, state media reported. Official news agency Xinhua quoted local health officials as saying a 32-year-old...

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123. Court: Some money-laundering cash may be from Israel

The source of at least some of the millions of dollars involved in alleged money-laundering by five of the rabbis arrested last week came from Israeli sources, The Jerusalem Post has learned. According to court documents obtained by the Post,...

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124. Charges dropped against settler filmed shooting Palestinians

The State Prosecution said Tuesday that it was dropping charges against a resident of Kiryat Arba who was caught on film shooting at two Palestinians in the West Bank last December. The prosecution said it made the decision not to try Ze'ev...

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125. Conference to Celebrate Uyghur Week

Il 19 maggio scorso c’è stata questa conferenza a Washington, sotto gli auspici del National Endowment for Democracy...e un mese dopo, ecco i disordini degli uiguri (che hanno le loro ragioni peraltro) The World Uyhgur Congress...

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126. Calls grow within G8 to expel Italy as summit plans descend into chaos

While US tries to inject purpose into meeting, Italy is lambasted for poor planning and reneging on overseas aid commitments Preparations for Wednesday's G8 summit in the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila have been so chaotic there is growing...

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127. Cellulari, parcheggi, portaborse le mille richieste dei senatori

Palazzo Madama, nel bilancio case ad ex parlamentari ROMA — Imbottire le strade del centro storico diRoma, magaril'isola pedonale tra Palazzo Madama e il Pantheon, con una bella sfilza di posti auto riservati agli onorevoli senatori....

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128. Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals

GAZA - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being "treated more like animals than human beings", former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday. On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel's January bombardment of Gaza and its...

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129. China Corners Over 90% of Market for Rare-Earth Metals

La Cina si accaparra il 97 per cento dei metalli rari... servono per nuove tecnologie, auto “verdi”, eccetera China has cornered 97% of the world market for rare earth metals, according to Byron King (the Times Online puts the...

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130. China Corners Over 90% of Market for Rare-Earth Metals

China has cornered 97% of the world market for rare earth metals, according to Byron King (the Times Online puts the number at 95%, and the Financial Times puts the number at "over 90%"). What are rare earth metals? Most people define...

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131. Crimes against Christianity

Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, an especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews. In the past, when the...

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132. Corruption, Gay Pride and other USA "values" being imposed on Iraq

Ecco la libertà che gli abbiamo portato The private party of the Iraqi trade minister It is not about corruption (as if the rest of the cabinet are not corrupt), it is about this private video. Source...

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133. Cambodia: A Sinister Precedent

Last September, during the American presidential campaign, I wrote a column declaring that the United States had again invaded Cambodia, only this time “Cambodia” was Pakistan. President George W. Bush had ordered U.S. ground attacks on...

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134. Citing Auschwitz, Pope Assails Hatred

TEL AVIV — Recalling a visit to the Auschwitz death camp, Pope Benedict XVI wound up a sometimes fraught and often politically charged trip to Israel and the West Bank on Friday with a call for peace and a plea that the Holocaust —...

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135. Causes of the Crisis

Editor’s note: These remarks were delivered to a meeting of the Texas Lyceum in Austin on April 3, at a debate between University of Texas professor James Galbraith, an Observer contributing writer, and former Majority Leader Richard Armey,...

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136. Carla's agony as intimate photos of her with ex-lover are stolen in raid on Paris flat

La Putain de la Republique.... Hundreds of 'highly intimate' images of the French president's wife and her former lover have been stolen during a burglary. The photographs and videos of Carla Bruni, who is on an official trip...

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137. China has been secretly stocking up on gold

China is really looking at a lot of other options to get away from the U.S. dollar. The latest report is that it has been building huge gold reserves. There is no doubt that China wants to get out and away from the U.S. dollar now. We have heard...

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138. China admits to building up stockpile of gold

SHANGHAI/BEIJING - China revealed on Friday that it had secretly raised its gold reserves by three-quarters since 2003, increasing its holdings to 1,054 tonnes - or a pot worth about US$30.9-billion - and confirming years of speculation it had been...

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139. China’s Underground Church: Anguish and Dismay over Vatican Betrayal

More than a year and a half has passed since Benedict’s Letter to the Catholic Church in the People‘s Republic of China was signed. In it, he effectively asked China’s loyal and long-suffering underground Catholic Church to...

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140. CIA fears torture prosecutions

Only some of the secrets of US ‘ghost’ prisons have been revealed THE CIA fears some of its operatives could face prosecution for torturing high-level terrorist suspects, despite President Barack Obama’s promise of legal...

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141. Celente indica la Rivoluzione quale unica soluzione

Kingston NY -- Tassati a morte, arrabbiati coi salvataggi del governo, offesi dall'avidità di Wall Street e pieni di amaro risentimento verso un sistema che ricompensa dei ricchi immeritevoli, il pubblico americano è pronto alla...

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142. Confrontation looming between U.S. and Israel

(WMR) -- According to senior State Department sources, a major confrontation is looming between the United States and Israel over policies ranging from Palestine to Iran. The new Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu government of Israel is pushing an agenda...

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143. Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing

A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. The systems generally work...

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144. Commentary: Chavez and allies manipulating anti-Israel views

Here's what surprised me the most during a weeklong vacation in Argentina and Uruguay: People seem to be following the Middle Eastern conflict in Gaza much more closely – and passionately – than in the United States. Newspapers in...

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145. China to Boost Yuan Swaps, Payments on Dollar Concern

China’s leaders, increasingly concerned about the nation’s $740 billion of U.S. Treasuries, are making it easier for trading partners and consumers to do business in yuan. The People’s Bank of China has agreed to provide 650...

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146. Chas Freeman and the Perils of Articulate Partisanship

A retired Foreign Service Officer and frequent American Diplomacy contributor who, like the subject of this essay, frequently offers “contrarian views in … glittering, memorable prose,” examines the aborted nomination of Chas...

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147. Credit Default Swaps – Exercises in Surrealism

At the quantum level, the laws of classical physics alter in intriguing ways. In financial markets, at the derivative level, the rules of finance also operate differently. The derivative industry’s indefatigable advocacy of credit default...

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148. Crisis advice: ‘Sell your shoes before your gold’

The United States is experiencing a new kind of gold rush as many Americans are queuing up to sell their gold trinkets simply to make ends meet. The value of gold is on the rise, and any income people can get in such a credit crisis is welcome....

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149. CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years

A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable...

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150. Charles Freeman's Victory

Forced to withdraw, he took the Israel lobby down with him The nixing of Charles "Chas" Freeman from a post as head of the National Intelligence Council is not, as is commonly averred, a victory for the Israel lobby. It is, instead,...

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