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• Imagine

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  (A video against the war, including the actual war in Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia)
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  Imagine there’s no Heaven
  It’s easy if you try
  No hell below us
  Above us only sky
  Imagine all the people
  Living for today
  Imagine there’s no countries
  It isn’t hard to do
  Nothing to kill or die for
  And no religion too
  Imagine all the people
  Living life in peace
  You [...]

• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]

• Italy: two immigrants killed each other

  Monday, July 21st, 2008

  Two immigrants were found killed near Rome yesterday, a Romanian and a Poland. One with powerful blows in his head, the other stabbed with a knife in his neck. The Italian police says that it is possible that the two immigrants killed each other. Or, maybe, they were killed by other [...]

• Italy: Rome starts today fingerprinting the gypsies

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  This is the first time after the World War II when a government initiate an ID action based on racial criteria. During the next 48 hours, Rome’s authorities will fingerprint about 10,000 gypsies, helped by the Italian Red Cross.
  In accordance with ANSA agency, about one hundred employees of the Red Cross [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• A new world?

  Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

  Is the capitalism able to overcome the actual crisis in the world?
  I talked some time ago about big changes in the geopolitics and economy due to the global warming and climate change. Now, it seems that the financial crisis and the food crisis make the changes. Is there any connection between the [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems.
  Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
  The Canadian Press
  PRISTINA, Serbia - Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …
  Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
  Times Online, UK
  Russia warned the West [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• Benazir Bhutto killed in a suicide explosion at Rawalpindi

  Thursday, December 27th, 2007

  Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed today when a suicide bomb exploded outside Liaquat Bagh, the venue of the rally, Interior Ministry Spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said in a phone interview from Islamabad.
  “Terrorists are trying to derail the election process,” Interior Ministry Spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said in a [...]