ENZO CUCCHI AT THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY

FEAST OF SAN GENNARO MULBERRY STREET, LITTLE ITALY, NEW YORK CITY

Still chasing after bread-crumbs, after agreeing to freeze Social Security cost of living increases for a two year period, while the price of a carton of eggs, a loaf of bread, hald a gallon of milk,and orange juice all increased to 4-5 dollars, now the Republican's plan "Pledge to America" wants to privatize Social Security, as if it were the solution to all fiscal malaises.

Many recipients are disabled, not only retirees. Again, it targets the weaker in society to harm them even more.

(The Nation )

BERLUSCONI DOES IT AGAIN! Here is an ad to take pride in keeping illegal immigrants out of Italy. In the meantime, Giovanardi, the current government's under-secretary of Family is declaring that gay couples adopting children show a higher incidence of being part of a ped-porn circuit. And, to prove that illegal expulsions are racist, Berlusconi backed Sarkozy's latest shedding off of France's ROM population, which European Government's Viviane Reding declared " a shame". Vice President of the Commission for Human Rights, she mentioned that not since Hitler had there been a persecution focusing on the Rom in Europe. Those ejected had some criminal record, and their camps were demolished.For Sarkozy and Berlusconi, these were internal matters for both countries, France and Italy, should the latter decide to continue to bother the Rom. They rely on statehood in this case: this from a premier backing Bossi, a Lega politician who doesn't consider Italy a country or Roma the nation's capital and plans on moving everything up north, to give jobs to his followers and dissolve Italian unity to favor lega federalist policies.

Newt Gingrich is angry at the president for holding anti-colonialist positions which he sees as Kenyan, and not King George's;
Reverend Jones forgot to burn himself in effigy since he ceded on the Koran; in the meantime his efforts were celebrated in Pakistan by those who set fire to a Christian school, killing 5 one a thirteen year old student;
In Italy, a right winger Berlusconi parliamentarian, Stracquadanio, just announced that it matters not how a politician creates a career for him or herself, including prostitution, and that the vote is determined also by physiques and overall handsomeness or beauty;
three italian factory workers died by exhalations after having being given clearance to clean a cistern. Not the first time.

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL DOESN'T MAKE IT CONSTITUTIONALLY;
Author of the vagina monologues and fundraiser eve ensler is battling cancer and misoginy
A PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL MONITORS ITS STUDENTS WITH VIDEOCAMS
pennsylvania court declares unconstitutional a hazletown law barring immigrants from rentals in the city
(Democracy Now)

and today is 9.11. regardless of Koran burning or one big lump of Americana sentiment.