STATUARY, or, SOMEONE'S LOSING THEIR RELIGION.

You wouldn't believe me. If you didn't or if you did and I were wrong, I'd be facing a fine of at least 24,000 euros as a blogger who took her time reporting the truth. Good thing I'm a satirist.On top of which, these are constitutional matters, involving freedom of thought and speech,which inevitably share an international legal connection to all democratic countries, so if one country, such as Italy, claims that the internet is for everyone, then has another politician say well, no, I'll fine bloggers out of their business, what mess will that degenerate?

TREMONTI,

Italia's current rightist Economics Minister is busy shelling Vendola,a member of the opposition party, with threats of a "numbers or/and Greece" approach for a current overhaul of the Health System. The latter has been documented as scandalously misrun and underfunded, enough to press too many prisoners in mental hospitals, overdose them, have women die in childbirth because nearby hospitals could not sustain the birth, and in one case, strap to bed and cut a anal hole to ease torture, not hygiene. Vendola says this won't do, it's not about cuts it's about finacing to relieve the destitution. Tremonti, also responsible for many insults to Italia's southern areas, Vendola being the President of Puglia, a southern region, is also well known for saying that fiscal cuts to opensioners have statistically never met with strikes, so it's an easy piece to play.So he Greece and numbers, Vendola numbers are fine by me as well, Tremonti as a reply, Greeces and numbers again. Greece was in european newspapers in the spring not only for its fiscal and economic crises, but also for the unrest and riots the government's over taxing was producing, with full intevention by the usual anti-riot police corps against students who occupied the university, saying it was state run therefore theirs, and thousands of anarchists were imprisoned. Most of these riots are concerning civil liberties, but I don't hear it much in the Media, or sligthly in people's consciousness here in the States. Wouldn't it encourage soldiers in Afghanistan exposed to suicide vehicles to know that the world is in an uproar, even cops are striking in Italy, and that democrats up for re-election disagree with President Obama claiming that the war effort is not an investment if the risk is outright murder and there is something obscene in sacrificing the lives of even volunteer military types? Which leads us to statuary number two:

SARKOZY, whose wife is plastered all over Rolling Stone for being an ex-model, as if model signified hip, progressive, and au courant by osmosis. Okay, so, Sarkozy. Judges declared some ROM (gypsy) communities in need of exile from France. Sarko, in an effort to go medieval, falls straight on the Inquisions splayer part and flaps the ENTIRE ROM population out of France well, say, by three months. After an immigrant was murdered by the usual anti immigrant cop team, and this along with much else, brought to the current banlieue (suburb in Europe is much like inner city here)riots. Struck by lighting, but then again, statuary, he also is working on denying citizenship to all who strike fight or react against murdering cops in France who are French, while the person being dragged away somewhere is not originally, but then again, only their definitions qualify who is or is not French, I just couldn't.

The question is: where is the currrent Street Fighting Man, and were the sixties and seventies only an intersection of peculiar political-musical talent?


Next white block awardee: THE JEWISH ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE,

who nixed the Cordoba initiative on Ground Zero, or a mosque and a progressive mUslim community center in an area that, in their view, would traumatize too many people, which just shows how far removed the organization is from the news, or history for the past decade or more, 40 years, or, since the 80's which is when Fundamentalists began appearing in the media and politically involved groups. We are in Afghanistan, supporting the Afghani, we are for self-determination in voting or what, exactly? Go see Restrepo, at least.