Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Dose Coco Butter Take Off Spot

Descartes and the Defence of the West and Islam



The continuing controversy triggered by Tariq Ramadan, are fed more from his ambiguous behavior dall'approccio theorist who would like to advocate. In very simplistic way we would like to summarize. The comeback began with the crisis Nasserian Islamic and secularist European-style model, had some key points. The first we have mentioned took place and caused the "radical" of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt, Sayyid Qutb, the second was komehinista the revolution that brought the Shiite Muslim to come to terms with the political management of power ( Ithna'ashariyya denied by tradition). The attempt to manipulate Islam Nasser presented as 'social religion', starting from the root rational and free of "mysteries" that characterizes it, fails, accompanied by harsh repression, will be executed Qutb in 1966. Khomeinism with the concept of slow-growing religion world-applied to the Shiite political universe will create structures and institutions better suited to modern social roots in Islam and "unhappy." But let's get to the contact points between "modernity", understood according to the Western canon, and some steps in the "philosophy" of Islam. Qutb cites the "perfect human equality and the strong social solidarity, but reads the West as wicked and corrupt. The Tunisian Rashid al Gannushi, on the contrary he studied Western philosophy and perceives it as a "counterweight Islamic ideological doctrines "(from Arcipelgo Islam," of Mezran-Campanini, Laterza publisher) and works in a redefinition of the Arab-Islamic religion and modernity will be able to decline. Even though he ends up executed in 1987. Positions between two samples can be "radical" and "moderate", putting the box quaedismo dell'ultraradicalismo. But both are violently anti-capitalist, anti-Zionists frankly, even if the latter does not seem tinged with anti-Semitism. The node, as explained in the chapter on the Islamic worldview of the book "The Defense of the West '(Liberal edition) is the anthropological view of culture Muslim, where the individual is subordinate to the community and the concept of free will and truly made problematic by some theological passages, if we can define them. The first is the legal value of prayers revealed the origin of the law. The second and the replacement of the formula ebraicocristiana "man-God" in that a "man-Vicegerent of God, with all that this entails in terms of philosophy of" politics ". Since God made man and denied to the Cross, the only transcendent God, but without the "mysteries", there is a border and the possibility of a future dialogue between the two worlds. From the God-Man comes anthropocentrism West, from the "madness of the Cross" the concept of free will. Man-regent of God derives approach 'subjects' of the person, where the community prevails over the individual, closer to Marxist sociology that the Lockean contract. Neither the rational nature of Islam has produced thinkers like Descartes, with all due respect to the Wahab. Although the definition of Muslim society as prewestfalica may be limited, we can hardly equate the political-institutional fruits it produces. It is true that under the reign of the Umayyad and Abbasid then the religious and political functions were separated and no longer had the overlap between the Head of State and the vicar of God on earth, but that did not produce evolution, just a change. The struggle between caliphs and ulama, he saw the latter winning. The caliphs became so easy keepers of the orthodoxy of Islamic laws. But this is not related to the separation between "throne" and "Church" from which derived, in time, the parliamentary constitutional, but simply the result of a power struggle inside the whole theological culture of Islam. But where would the ability to find points of contact 'fertile' is in infection with Greek philosophy, passed by Avicenna in the West with his works on Aristotle, came to us through the commentaries of al Farabi. But it would be an operation in cold that ignores the "hot" of Islamist revancha for too long held the corner from the faux modernism import. A secular bigotry has long been in crisis in Europe, which no longer has any appeal in the Arab ruling classes and the Middle East. However, it is the way forward, pending a Nahda (Renaissance) culture in the West.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Singapore Buy Nutrition

What say the" Voltaire "?



Bokenforde Ernst-Wolfgang is the father of a paradox. He is German and is the son of postwar Germany, where he tried in every way to build an architecture of the State had not the faults and fragility of the Weimar Republic. We have tried in a state model that is called "liberal" - but that is the result of a certain ideology continental-guarantor of an alliance between the "Throne" and "Church". According to the current defenders of secularism of Europe, agreed on an interesting meeting at the American Studies Center and coordinated by the Director of Reset, Giancarlo Bosetti - promoter of the indexing of Magdi Allam - we are not in a post-secular society, but pre -secular. If anyone had doubts about the future dell'oltranzismo secularist could touch theories and theorems of a certain academic abstraction from reality. Mind you, Many have been the analysis of great interest, first that of the protagonist who has proposed a model of open secularism (and German) as opposed to a closed version (the French pre-Sarkozy, we might add). Theses interesting because it opens a dialogue on the continental model than the Anglo-American - also gutted by the activation of Emilio Gentile. "American religious vs. secular Europe", another paradox where the grandchildren of the Pilgrim Fathers would be more lay people as more religious. In fact, 90 percent of Americans say they believe and the same percentage would vote for a candidate to the White House, Christian, Muslim or jew, but only 15 percent over the would for an atheist president. And "riciccia" the history of civil religion or "ceremonial deism." In short, a whole series of discourses who forget that the invention - if we may so call it - of separation between church and state comes from the words of Jesus: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar ...». Okay, but we can not stand to quibble. However, you do not know where the boundary is that, within the public space, the boundary area between cultural determination and political will. What is the distinction between the recognition of cultural differences, as components of a plural society and the political effect that will change their nature. Take an example. In Turkey, the universities, it is forbidden to wear the traditional veil. So many children use different forms of clothing to make it clear that they are believers. They want to occupy public space as cultural determination, but above all as an action "politics" that can lead to changes in the laws of the State. Defenders of the neutral state, the enclosure within which everyone can freely profess his faith or no faith, lack of confronting this reality. Theorize in the abstract, the justice of a procedural democracy and are suspicious of the proposal Bokenforde, who at least has the merit of opening a door to the importance of "tradition" than political models. Someone has also revived the vision of renaissance of the conflict between the liberal state and the Church ... Mah! It's like talking of 'habeas corpus' and the law of Justinian, in principle is correct, but called some yawn. However, in Cologne, which has a Muslim community of half a million people, have found the solution. The two minarets of what will be one of the largest mosques in Europe should be at sufficiently lower (55 meters) of the Gothic spire of the Cathedral.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

How To Delete Atheros

Glucksmann and bad teachers



the interesting controversy on the evil teachers - is permissible, desirable and useful dialogue with the Islamist intellectuals? - Lacked the long list of names already intervened in the confrontation of ideas, André Glucksmann (Corsera 09/19/2007). One of the few French intellectuals took to the field to defend the first Benedict XVI in Regensburg, then the poor Redeker. The contribution was instrumental in systematizing and give the shirts to the teams in the field. The positions of the West have no small difference. In practice Glucksmann, the fighters are divided into the Western camp in agnostic, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali-Dutch origin protected in the United States - expressing a secular pride with a degree of intolerance equal to that of radical Muslims. For this school of thought every religion is the enemy of modernity. In France our counts Pascal Bruckner in this team. Then there are the intellectuals of Anglo-Saxon tradition (Ian Buruma and Timothy Garston Ash) who may not consider the "Age of Enlightenment fundamentalists" can turn to the good comparison. It is "confrontation" with respect to a fundamentalist vision of man, by both parties, it would seem. This culture-related Glorius Revolution, who managed to change society at the time, with no violent tendencies Jacobin, never put God out of history and modernity has never linked the redemption of religion. The integrationist model multicultural English - now in crisis - is something very different from the kind since the French "Conseil francais du culte Muslims," \u200b\u200bcreated by Sarkozy, pointed to the model of "citizenship believer." "C'est dans la République a place" that given to Islam, according to the new President is confident that the Islamic culture could simply be rimetabolizzata sauce "Republicain. Well, Glucksmann Anglo-Saxon approach leads to the red herring of a clash of civilizations. For the French philosopher, agnosticism and secularism against the Community Volterra model - the latter point very sorry for the keeping of République - still works fine. In France, perhaps it could still be useful, we would add, if it was not the flip side of religious fundamentalism. Because the comparison is between two different anthropological models. Looking ahead, the Greek polis would replace the Islamic madina. Glucksmann where we feel that captures the spirit of the times, and evaluation of the phenomenon of terrorism, "when a man blows himself up in a crowd, crime is human, too human," and the feedback for a class d ' intellectuals, "beautiful souls" with their ethical indefferentismo "too inhuman." At stake there would be a clash between cultures or civilizations, but the war between 'freedom and slavery. "

Friday, September 7, 2007

Left Side Shooting Pain

Ramadan and myopia Europe



"No dialogue with bad teachers," are the words of Marc Augé, the ethnologist of 'non-places', which underlines the impossibility dialogue with the characters Tariq Ramadan. Is not surprised that the United States have included in the list of unwanted and Ramadan is no contradiction in the fact that the Time has added to the list of the hundred most influential intellectuals in the world. Often the influence is not a parameter of merit sufficient to define the goodness of ideas and who the champions. There is therefore one who takes a clear position against certain "sappers" of dialogue between the West and Islam. It will be of French origin Augé, the fact that more than others feel the sound of the underground river of anti-Semitism, which flows into the bowels of Europe and France in particular, to make the proceedings less forgiving ethnologist to the ambiguities and attitudes "missionaristiche" of some intellectuals. The controversy about the power of the Jewish lobby in the world, in the U.S. and France - with particular attention to the media - is only one way to tell the Jewish minorities: bend, when it cries in the face of the intention to annihilate you, do not react, but passively suffer in silence. One technique that often is also used against the Catholic Church.
missing the "good faith". This is the crux. Augé sees in an attempt to give a religious response to social problems treacherous strategy of Islamism. Center the problem, but not quite. It is true that the suburbs were burnt on the base part of social problems, in part - perhaps predominantly - of cultural issues. The sense of recognition, the public identity of ethnic groups who are in mid-stream. Are no longer and not yet. Not more than citizens of countries of origin, not yet citoyen the new France. Sarkozy "does not believe in sectarian or indifferent to a conception of secularism, or at a location of religion in competition with the republic "as described in" The grandeur of Allah and the recipe Sarkozy "the book" Defending the West 'by Pierre Chiartano (Liberal edition with a preface by Renzo Foa). What terrifies the Alpine is the political Islamic communitarianism that threatens to bring down the foundations of the state, with the release of needs and demands of the Islamic community from institutional and social circuit. Radicalism is a shortcut to fill the heads of a youth in disarray. Not only that, but Europe must quickly recast the cultural codes of the proposal, now all biased towards secularism devoid of appeal, not only for Muslims. In culture clash is as if Europe is still tilted to discharge a weapon, but failed in many other provisions. On the other hand, Islam for nearly two centuries has been a marginalization as a result of a culture imported from Egypt to Mesopotamia, then in Turkey found the greatest fulfillment in Kemalism. Ataturk's formula tied to the modern rejection of religion. Today that model is in the corner, it is rusty. Islam looks to Europe with large enough not consider us equal partners. Here as in another chapter of the book "Defending the West '(Regensburg last reduced the West) is analyzed the problem.
"Islam looks at us suspiciously, why? The answer appeared in the columns of the Corriere della Sera (September 2006), in the words of the Holy Father recalls the old criticism of the secularized societies. Therefore their ambiguous relationship with the concept of evil. Scientistic ideology and bad word of declination of the reason they have produced two devastating effects in Europe and in Islamic societies that suffered years of nationalism, a social-baahtista or Kemalist. First idea of \u200b\u200bmarginalization of the individual in accordance with the law, the superstructure. Second, the falsification of the concept of truth and goodness. It is the function in context between the individual and evil, responsibility away the first was annulled the second or vice versa. The processes of identification and recognition of people were moved to land concepts. He sublimated the mud race, class or nation, we have forgotten the grace of truth. Mud and grace are the components of man and free will is what gives precedence over one another, in a daily battle. To forget is to lose the man, who is Christian or Muslim "(pg. 190).
This is an example of the new cultural figure that Europe should acquire in order to have hopes of winning the confrontation with the "bad teachers." It is not an answer that exception for reason or thought layman. He will not be subcontracting ideological religion of the West, but the humble acknowledgment of the changing times.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

The Best Clip Of Yiff

REVIEW OF INFORMATION ON DEFENSE. "Effective, well for those who do not "chew" the matter "The West



The number 3 / 07 of the prestigious journal published by the Ministry of Defence - will be distributed to all diplomatic missions in the world - was released to rencensione book "Defending the West '(Ed. Liberal with a preface by Renzo Foa). Currently it is not yet available on-line version of the publication.

Chiartano Pierre made a trip around the world, driven by the "search for truth." He did it aboard a new means of locomotion: the culture. He left his thoughts in this essay, "Defending the West 'where, from a fateful date, September 11, 2001 - the date which can be attributed the coining of the term' asymmetric 'in the field of modern conflict - describes the impressions and inferences that took visiting Europe, America, China, Middle East, Israel, Lebanon and Afghanistan. He looked so secular religious positions, analyzed by alternative points of view, the Italian situation, in relations with the international context which, by now, you can not help but share his fate.
Here's the "means" with which the Author moves, the culture, may be the key for the interpretation of the new scenario and can help the reader to enter into arrangements, sometimes confusing, international relations, the balance of globalization, and understand that it is not always true that the Western powers, with its technological development, are winning against the unpredictable and antiquated systems of terrorists and subtle alliances can become pawns in a game tends to balance of power. It does so with particular attention to describing facts, analyzing situations, using language in the form of journalistic effective even for those not "chew" the matter. If you have the grim truth at the end of the book will set the player, I personally enjoyed reading that, 'to get out of survival, to build a strong civic conscience and to live as men ... "just that everyone, at every level, do one's duty" simply and humbly. "

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Lt. Col. Valter Cassar

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Paracetamol Kills Dogs

of" sappers "with no river connection



Tariq Ramadan continues to provoke controversy and debate. Finally, Paul Bermann (TheNew Republic) and Ian Buruma pigeonholed into the category of the cultured people with whom you communicate well. Bermann says, inter alia, that "dialogue with someone does not mean lying at his feet" and did a flawless Buruma argues, "if you compare yourself only with today's laity, do not you compare yourself with anyone." Well, starting from these two statements, let's move on, accepting the invitation of the two experts. It is true as Buruma says that the biggest mistake of the West, especially Europe, is to continue to not take into account that the banners of secularism - in almost all latitudes - no more flutters, because of the sirocco wind that comes from 'Islam, but not all. Pierre Chiartano in his "Defending the West '(Ed. Liberal - foreword by Renzo Foa) explains, in nearly 300 pages, like the pendulum of history has turned again, as was the time of the Peace of Westphalia - in the opposite direction. It is an anthropological problem of man's vision that clashes with reality. "In the West, as in the East is the transcendent dimension of human identity that has taken over the reins, pulling a new culture that has its own language." To try to dialogue with Islam by using the old secular grammar, reading the man-dimensional (only reason) is the biggest mistake the West can not afford to do. That said, however, the risk of making an omelet, stirring the pot too fast, it's real. The secular culture - Buruma does not belong to you, because for years he had perceived the importance of the "dust of God" - might be overcome with guilt and open, so the new dialogue, but with the wrong partners. The writer has had the opportunity to listen and watch live Tariq Ramadan. The effect of ambiguity that had caused the reading of his writings was, if possible, increased. Below is a track that you can read in full at (http://difesadelloccidente.blogspot.com/2007/05/la-sala-rossa-della-fiera-del-libro-di.html). The intervention of Ramadan occurs after another speaker described the men 'blacks' MI-6 (British counterintelligence) in their ambiguous relationship with Islamic terrorism.
"Look after this psychological preparation of the audience, he materializes, Tariq Ramadan. Just got out of the lineup of an Alitalia flight, landed late, does not fail to underline our. Then part of the indictment in a form very clever, because it enters the pragmatic dimension of the analysis. First dimension: the relationship between policy and intelligence and between this and terrorist groups. The second relates to religion and its ability to build an individual identity and public life. Here the message is for the European political institutions. The third dimension concerns the search for a synthesis to find solutions concrete. Point on which it is difficult to disagree. Where Ramadan touches emotional chords of many calls and when the values \u200b\u200bof democracy. "Democracy is also a responsibility, it is not always right," applause "out of hand," as they say. Too bad that so fervently democratic, and so true intellectual passion - to be recognized - is serving a message that define ambiguous is an understatement. It is the duo-Ahmed Ramadan create perplexity. Feelings of guilt are triggered by the first introduction of the doubt that democracy is ill as a political mechanism that is inoculated from the second. When the West begin to understand that its survival is at stake? ".
The theme - we were at the Turin Book Fair last May - was linked to the borders, then the 'sappers' could be the protagonists of that cultural event very interesting. Pierluigi Battista, the Courier today, speaks of "Dear paradigm" and presents shared reason for caution in dialogue with certain "sappers." Calls to "flush out" the elusive and ungraspable Ramadan. The problem is that, from every angle you look at it, the approach of Ramadan, the dialogue is one-way: they are open to dialogue with Europe that, sooner or later, will be dominated by Islamic culture. You your interest to keep channels open, if you do not succumb. A model very similar to those put in place after the Moorish occupation of Andalusia. The bridge is there and also the keeper of the bridge, ready to dialogue with those who decide to cross it. Only that it is a "one way" towards Islam. It would be better to speak of the road, a path to the annulment of the European and Western Europe. The river is not the obstacle is only one part, ours.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Pokemondeluge Downlod

Chinese




will not be taken off the old Tupolev 95 August 17 from seven Russian bases to reactivate the mechanisms of the cold war. Not even the capacity to carry 12 nuclear warheads in almost every corner of the globe will make people forget that the antiquated Bear or Tu-160 Blackjack are no longer afraid. He begins to worry, however, the constant repetition of joint maneuvers of the covenant of Shanghai (Shanghai Cooperation Organization). Mainland China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are part of an alliance of mutual aid, which could create some problems to Western interests in Central Asia and, in time, the Pacific Ocean, with reference to the two main allies. That relations between the Kremlin and the West not those are more than once is known. The genesis of these problems with intelligence is told in a book chapter "The defense of the West" (ed. Liberal, with a preface by Renzo Foa ) by Pierre Chiartano , analyst, journalist, expert military and cultural issues, which laid bare the problem Putin, well before the international press realized what was happening in Russia. When in Rome ... democracy is, the figure could be to interpret the evolution of Russian and increasingly turned his gaze to the East seems to snub Europe and Washington. "In this situation, Russia should develop relations with former Soviet republics selfishly taking its national interests. Solidarity can not allow the head of Turkmenistan of infringing the rights of ethnic Russians, Ukraine of stealing Russian gas to Belarus and Russian journalists to pursue. It's geopolitical interests in the Russian North Caucasus require a showdown with Georgia "is the thought of Sergei Markedonov, head of department at the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, which took over the complete failure of the CIS united in an effort to maintain the fragments of the Soviet Union, perhaps forgetting the trampled freedoms within its borders even as the events and Litvinenko Politoskaya have shown. Russia today can only pump a little 'petro-rubles "in an old military taking in water on all sides. A show for the Russian public that the USSR and former members now look forward to the new tsar. E 'understanding of China that becomes dangerous when viewed in the light of what is still very difficult balancing act after the Cold War. Beijing wants to become a maritime power to protect the valuable oil supplies needed to keep alive its incredible growth, at the expense of civil liberties and social environment. The same argument for a Chinese military presence in Central Asia, to secure the communication routes with the least valuable Russian oil (load of sulfur and other impurities) and with the most useful gas in these regions are rich. Holds true for the Middle East and parts of Africa like Sudan and Nigeria, or the black gold of the new quadrilateral "Chavez" in South America. The moves have been evident since the late nineties and set up a future in shades of gray, where the old bipolar confrontation will replace a less defined in comparison asymmetric means ( proxy wars, economic wars, compared to the soft power ) but precise in its outlines strategic for the achievement of a global hegemony. The heart and soul of the globe on the table comparison of a player, no holds barred and means. Much more dangerous than the Cold War, a cast and a dynamic bipolar nuclear deterrence. The latter, in particular, is currently lacking in the ideal conditions to work as a brake on their missteps, ill-considered decisions. Today, unfortunately, every option is open, the danger is real and possible.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Sample Letter Disconnectio






I always wear pantyhose. Even in summer, wearing pantyhose very sheer (8 or 10 den) makes us more attractive.

In moments of relax, flip through a magazine and smoking a cigarette, I find myself stroking my legs shrouded in tights, right up to the mound. At this point, excited is a must ...

Friday, August 10, 2007

Should I Wax Before A Shower

pantyhose stockings, tights and seduction


A woman wearing stockings or tights is more attractive than one that shows her bare legs.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Neti Pot Colloidal Silver

" The last limes "- exclusive to the Review Blog - Massimo De Angelis

The book Defense West of Pierre Chiartano , is challenging from the title. The noun "defense" immediately evokes the September 11 2001, when all the tv went to the strip in the world, "U.S. under attack." Who can forget?
Since then the U.S. has felt called to the defense. To protection against 'Islamist terrorist attack by Al Qaeda. Interpreted as a defense by the U.S. defense throughout the West and its values. And here the matter is complicated. In fact, most European countries, after having bestowed certificates of solidarity in September, immediately after coincident to distance themselves from the defensive line in the U.S. by Operation Enduring Freedom. And here we come to the second noun of the title, the West: its uniqueness is in question. It is not the problem of different methods and strategies but first of identity. And here comes the culture wars, to use a long-term in vogue in the U.S.. Culture wars that split the West and the U.S. too. Since the early seventies. What happened? Deconstructionist and postmodern theories have eroded the concept of truth. From a sociological-historical has carried out a revaluation of cultures "oppressed." The mixture of those philosophical and historiographical these revisions have led to the complaint-condemnation of Western culture that could not camp any "superiority" cultural and moral, and therefore saw its privileges considered a result of abuse. This has led to multiculturalism in the U.S., which is mixed with Marxist third worldism in Europe and ultimately resulted in the conventionalism and moral relativism in Europe and the United States. So we said, a terrorist war on the other side of the culture wars. There are two distinct but interrelated levels even in the biographies of the enemies of the West, starting with Bin Laden and suicide bombers against the Twin Towers. There are two floors, two levels of the survey Chiartano not escape but which it does indeed post. In this sense, his book is two-dimensional: he never loses sight of the international strategic space of the Exchequer and the other side of the underwater cultural conflict. Outlines scenarios or sometimes even conflict frames economic, energy, financial, military, on the the basis of studies think tank world and U.S. first, with evocative passages such as the connection between China, Iran and Venezuela's Chavez. Highlight the cultural dilemmas of the West, his dramatic erratic, is the self-forgetfulness. First of all Europe. The US-European disagreement on Enduring Freedom is likely to be a new treason of the clerics. Because the conflict is not about how. E 'for the substance. The West has produced and produces scientific and technological innovation and thus economic, financial, military. In support there is culture, Western humanism, the Western freedom. The great problem of our times is that the China and other parts of the Third World to acquire technological and economic capabilities. The problem is that they do this without acquiring an ethical-political values. But one thing is huge potential financial and even military personnel are therefore in the hands of other democratic powers which are available to dictatorships. Another thing is that biotechnology delicate instruments primarily from ethical point of view are disseminated to the responsible persons and things, and informed that they are used among people unaware. This is the cultural heart of the challenge today. But Europe has been little or no awareness. This is because, as I said earlier about the culture wars, Europe first repudiates the moral foundations and religious its very civilization, as has long highlighted the research of Jurgen Habermas. And 'This is the fruit of secularism of the West looks like Michael Novak in a recent note on secularism and its crisis in Europe after September 11. The paradox is therefore secularism. Western and even Arab. It is not able to meet in Cairo as in Paris, the fundamentalist resentment. Is not able to respond in terms of values \u200b\u200bbecause they do not understand the scale of the challenge. It is unable to respond because the military in political secularism is unable to mobilize sufficient moral energy to meet the costs of a tough response to Islamic fundamentalism. The issue, to ' bone is this. It 's true that the problems stem from the fact that we live in complex societies that still wants to be such. But this observation is reduced to chat if you do not see that this complexity is the product of a culture and may be said of a civilization and a spirit and that if you leave this basis that complexity is baseless and to some extent meaningless.
Chiartano Pierre, in his book, explains the totality of these issues, he catches the thread of Ariadne is essential to move through the maze of our time: the West is, first and fundamentally, political and economic freedom, but this is based freedom of conscience and thought which, in turn, has a basis in which the religious consciousness has its origins in Jewish-Christian monotheism. You can dig and articulate what you want but either you have this light or in darkness. West groping in the dark. Europe above all groping in the dark it did not know the rebirth and moral ideal that America has been called neo-conservative. That place can understand. We Europeans, however, no longer mindful of the origins of our civilization, having forgotten we no longer know what is our identity. We do not know why and who defend us. We are afraid of the bombs, of course. But we are not able to resist the power that morally and politically decides to make them explode. Better red than dead "said a sad slogan at the time of the Cold War. And today those who would be prepared to say that more Taliban killed? Then we risk being overwhelmed. But in fact risk the worst. We risk not being equal, we Europeans of the responsibility we have towards history and the world. Because today it is imperative to build a peaceful world. The West has the greatest responsibility in this task because it is the most advanced part of humanity and with more means. But if he forgets that his moral and spiritual superiority, then it is not able to pay those resposabilità. And then one day could meet the challenge of civilization not on the basis of its culture and its values, but one of fear and simple survival instinct. At that point the answer should be crisp. At that point the war from '45 that might be deemed impossible to go back to being a realistic assumption and I really believe this is the greatest risk and the new West dall'eclissi hidden guilt that may arise from this eclipse.

Massimo De Angelis , journalist, member of the Scientific Foundation Liberal

Friday, July 27, 2007

Write Protect Remover

Sergio Romano: State and Globalization



Pierre Chiartano interview Sergio Romano by Stiglitz in Fukuyama, the concept of state and globalization. From these themes was made into a paragraph from the book "Defending the West '(ed. Liberal) with a preface by Renzo Foa

We wanted to seek advice from Sergio Romano, one of the sharpest analysts of international politics from the extensive diplomatic experience , professor, columnist and tireless author of dozens of publications on the history of our country and the relationship between Italy and the rest of the world.

Fukuyama is right when he says that it has been emphasized uncritically as the abandonment of the role of the state was taking shape within the strong dynamics of globalization. The reduction of areas was accompanied a more effective role?

I have the impression that there has been, in the nineties, a trend, a trend ideological orthodoxy proclaimed that the progressive decline of the state in favor of the spontaneous organization of society, market economy. Like all trends, like all fashions can also bring positive results, create the climate within which certain reforms that are necessary and which are thus better met. Please note however, that the ideological trend has never been fully realized. It is true that the State has ceased to perform his duties simply because a growing number of intellectuals and ideologues he proclaimed the decline. The state has continued to perform his duties while on the one hand and deregulated, as we had suggested to Mrs. Thatcher and President Reagan, not a day passed without the other would introduce new regulations. Do not forget that the European single market, one of the most positive results of this prevailing trend, has been implemented with strokes of rules, guidelines, laws because otherwise he would never be realized. Should therefore always make a distinction between the ideas prevalent in a certain period of history, interesting, and can also have positive effects, and the reality is something else entirely. It is true what he says Fukuyama, that the tendency to regard the state as an artichoke that needed to remove one leaf at a time, now is not proclaimed as genuine and heartfelt. We find fewer people who says "less state, more companies," perhaps because the pendulum is swinging the other way. Compared to these ideological tendencies should exhibit a certain detachment because it tends not to subvert the status quo ever.

The crisis and economic stagnation increases the uncertainty and the need to feel protected

course, because these trends are influenced by moods, by the psychology of society at a given time. The fact that the economies Western things are not going very well in recent years has had the effect of revaluing the role of the state.

But the perception of citizens with the disappearance of an identification process established as one of the nation, tempered by the values \u200b\u200bof democracy, failed or something intangible economic needs are to dominate?

Undoubtedly the time when the economic situation is positive and the market does not automatically produce the well-being that instead it was thought he was capable of producing citizens turned in on itself on the institutions which are more familiar and unfamiliar, thinking have some advantage.

It is an image reproduced for all European countries?

The individual EU states, even those were, somehow, re-evaluated in terms of functions over the years. Why not in a good economic situation, in a time when the modernization threatens the privileges, the social conditions of a number of groups, each wrapped around what has further ensured in the past. This is what happened with the re-nationalization in the EU, to the extent possible, the economic policies. But I do not think it's a lasting trend over time, if I look I see a detached historical European states, apart from these fluctuations pendulum, continue to lose the sovereignty that remains the great trend of history. The national character of the state is a process that had its maximum brightness between 1848 and 1918, is not included in the tables of the law of universal history.

Stiglitz in his analysis, in essence, says that economic models should be flexible with respect to the genius loci of the countries on which they affect. Less graphics and more parameters and cultural mediation?

Stiglitz is a very fine and intelligent. I think this is the finding that certain ideologies of the market as the supreme regulator of human fortunes were destined to collide, perhaps, over time, with situations that do not confirm its validity. Globalization, which is a long-term phenomenon and that, in itself, is a positive phenomenon, has questioned the prosperity of some social groups that, for better or worse, within the national state had managed to live. In other words, the Italian textile and suffering, of course, ask the State to be helped because they see their fate in jeopardy. This leads to putting in place measures that delay the decline of certain social groups. In all European societies there is a certain fear of modernization and globalization, is part of the ups and downs of life of a nation. Some people took advantage
and rides with the modernization courage and some people do not. In the end who must disappear, disappears. We arrive at the problem

China, a giant that someone has already seen as the star of a new bipolar competition with the American-led West. Developing a middle class to force the hand of the Communist Party of China, on a course of reform, there appears to give the desired results. Taking into account the complexity of the situation what is the key to understanding of the Middle Empire for the next year?

The problem is that China is growing very dynamically in terms of social underdevelopment, this allows her to capture the market with products compete with many European industries. Fine, but at the same time China is becoming, in turn, a market. If you are Italian and can not sell planes to China, feel much the crisis in textiles, but if you are German or French and can sell air in Beijing will not hear this crisis. It is our problem, not China. We are somewhat lazy in the last twenty years, leaving the industries that would help us to seize the opportunity that the Chinese market offers us. We are on the losing side. Other countries are both losers and winners in some areas altri.Sul problem for the development of democracy the country is a totally new model. It had never happened in the world that an authoritarian system, totalitarian least nominally, with a single party and a strong control over the company at the ideological level, he was able to leave the great energy with the country's economic growth rates that we all know. In general we had been taught to think that, when formed of dynamic economic classes that reinforce and develop, they create conditions for democracy. Because at some point, these classes will want to influence the legislative framework, seek assurances and greater authority. We always thought that this Chinese system was not designed to last indefinitely, because it contains within it an incompatibility between the authority and rigidity the political system and the extraordinary flexibility of the economy. I still think that way, it can not last forever. But what matters in politics is the forecast, I might be right but if I had fifty years that would be the point?

Pessimistic?

I'm neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If the person is doing business with China should not listen to those who make these considerations, is mistaken, because in the meantime could develop good business, and if the system would rule for another ten years would also repay the investment. The system should be designed to last because it is a contradiction, but this is only because we say we have not seen anything like it in history. And if this was the first time?

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Reasons For Lump Blood In Stool

" The defense of the West 'has been featured on "Planet Book of the Ministry of Cultural AA and BB





"Planet Book" is an activity of the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities, which aims to promote the activities of ' Institute for the Book. "Defending the West 'has been reported among the news of June 2007

The Institute for the Book (IPL) was created in late 2005 under the General Directorate for Libraries and Institutes for raising the cultural books and reading in public policy administration. Italy is a country in which we read little and tends to increase the gap between non-readers and casual readers (the vast majority) and so-called "readers" strong (a minority, albeit tough). For this reason, the birth of the IPL is an important first step, without thinking of an organic sector, a model europeo.L 'Institute is well aware that the ultimate goal is the reader, real or potential. And that the 'goal' should become, immediately, a person may be involved, an active role. IPL aims to collect, coordinate and re-launch projects that reflect and convey an idea of \u200b\u200bthe book as a vital "friendly" inserted in daily life, a different agenda to prevail quality culture in this area. Therefore, the IPL, intends to base its programs on energy and coordination of initiatives, in both the cultural and local institutions (Regions, Provinces, Municipalities), and by all the subjects that make up the chain of the book. This action, supported by a program of long-term communication, through the involvement of institutions and the media will focus with the institutional activities to support the distribution of books and reading in Italy and abroad (participation in trade fairs, incentives to translations, initiatives in schools and libraries) and will unfold in a series of events organized by the Institute for Paper, which will affect many Italian companies (especially in Central and South ) since October 2006.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Stuck With A Commercial Builsing

license to kill some of the West



Vladimir Putin calls "mini-crisis" triggered by the struggle between spies in London. Toned down, perhaps by paying a pledge to good relations with Bush. American administration there are those who discount does not make it to the new tsar in the Kremlin and has never gone so much the thin while traveling in Russia. The rule of law must be respected everywhere in the boundless Russia also dispersed between West and East, where people like Putin and his unconventional way of doing politics. The crisis was born out of the deal Litvinenko, an entire section of the FSB was responsible for internal security, who rebels against orders that it considers 'infamous'. Executions and political implications in the attacks 'Chechen' in Moscow, plus some other little thing that concerns Czar Vladimir. Very interesting in this regard Nekrasov's documentary with extensive interviews with Litvinenko and video confessions of FSB agents. In the book "Defending the West '(Edizioni Liberal) Pierre Chiartano with a preface by Renzo Foa, you can read several paragraphs dedicated to the policy of the Secretary of State Rice in Russia. The result is a cross-section of the relations between the West and Moscow, already foreshadowed the crisis we are experiencing in recent weeks: "The war on the oligarchs who some call" decolonization "is more like to clean the inside of the friends of the Americans, who wanted to introduce Competition and meritocracy rather than a transaction transparency of power. The so-called oligarchs would be a countervailing power that would have made from inner bank to the "snooty" Rice, who wanted to dictate the rules of democracy. To Putin, that perfectly represents the trinity emperor-state-people It seemed a scenario to be deleted. In short, the former KGB man wanted to get out of the way anyone could impede his plan for a new Russia, to be carried out with tsarist methods, of course. Boris Berezosvkij exiled in London licks his wounds and mourning its dead, just as Vladimir Gusinskij both lucky compared to Mikhail Khodorkoskij, interned in Siberia. For other revenge was served with a helping hand, that almost no one refused. Today's events Politoskaja Litvynenko and rekindle the interest of Europe to a near and forlorn after the wall with black gold and gas, is experiencing a golden age, which has rekindled plans and ambitions. Chechnya Georgia and Ukraine are on the blacklist agenda Putin, when Europe was lukewarm to interfere, for fear that the bill could levitate Russian gas taps or close. Putin sees NATO as "dressed in the American West," and juggles with Beijing to help China to act as a barrier to American power in Central Asia. However, he wants to avoid making the earthenware pot in the middle of the iron pots of U.S. and China. A complex game of geopolitical conflict and economic partnership, that between Washington and Beijing that the "tangerine" in St. Petersburg will try to exploit to the last in his favor. The pendulum between democracy of ancient Athens and the eastern satrapies intends in Russian sauce. Where the model of market openings of the Chinese Communist Party became an entrepreneur-owner, is opposed to democracy across the Atlantic to those jerks who do not know of Eastern things, to what people are used to bend my head - miss Stalin and Brezhnev, according to recent polls - to look cynically at their own interests, and needs to be ruled with a firm hand. The approximately 18 thousand nuclear warheads stored who knows in what manner, seem to have become more a problem of the residual power that the weapon was that, compared to the raw materials of which Russia is a rich, political weapons far more modern and sharp. Germany's Schroeder to Moscow looking to sail to Europe to the East, the Merkel is more firmly anchored in the North Atlantic, but does what it can, constrained by the politics of the day by day that is hungry for money, power and consent to take up a Grand Coalition a bit 'wobbly. So Russia becomes an issue at the State Department and the proxy war in the Middle East, and not only acquire a value from a global clash of a new settlement for the balance of power. " (Or you can purchase the book online at the Internet Book Shop, or see the list of libraries on http://difesadelloccidente.blogspot.com).
Condoleezza Rice, yesterday, from Lisbon, has returned to the attack with a lunge to Putin about the Litvinenko case: "Russia must honor the extradition request and should cooperate fully with the British authorities. " The reference to extradition concerns one of the main suspects of the murder that the former agent Andrei Litvinenko Luguvoi that in reality, according to rumors, was the assassin of Commons at the bar of the Millennium, when the first poisoning attempt had failed. Litvinenko when he arrived at that meeting in the center of the city had already been poisoned by polonium. In the background is politics, Putin's departure from the West, the abandonment of the CFE Treaty el'ostracismo against the anti-missile shield, the only defenses against a possible Iranian threat. Now the young head of the Foreign Office, David Miliband, collects the support of Washington and the criticism of Vladimir Cizhov Russian representative within the EU. Minimize and perhaps Putin is right, knowing that the real concerns of Washington's much more to the East.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Duckbill Playtus For Sale

The strange European



The Italian foreign minister criticized the West who do not want to deal with Hamas. "It is a popular force that won democratic elections, with this attitude is a gift to Al Qaeda, Judgement today in the columns of Corrierone. He adds that "with the boycott the West does not give an extraordinary display of democracy. " Well. Let's start from the beginning with a clarification: even the Nazis rose to power through democratic elections. We know that democratic procedures are not enough to create institutions democreatiche. But we want to take up the challenge of D'Alema and ask that the West (or accident) refers. Why in the powder is not with the dialogue that we can solve anything. D'Alema and Fassino say that sitting at a table is already a recognition between the parties. They use a language useful for bargaining or the Levantine palaces of Rome that is little related to reality. Hamas may also come to the table but its stated aim is to wipe out Israel. Today is a less pretentious goal of a time as the Pax Americana in the Middle East, Asia and the alternative is shaky is around the corner. Just being able to wait. If this was the view then D'Alema had a hundred, a thousand reasons to bog down dialogue on tables useless and dangerous. Why dangerous? Because when and whether a contractor coffin - takes violent action, for example - you pay a price in credibility than your country and weaken the cause "moderate". Each opening European Union, including formal, but simply in the guise of political understanding, is likely to fuel the belief that there are allies along the path of violence. Regardless of the correct behavior or unfair. Massimo D'Alema is the son of a cultural tradition that makes the "reason of state" the quintessence of politics, even in foreign affairs. Untie the ethics of the people from the States and does not judge the behavior to occur such as trivial. The United States from Jefferson to Wilson - with the exception of Theodore Roosevelt - Clinton and Bush Jr does not distinguish the moral development of individuals from the States, both must be judged by a unique perspective. Prove to be as children of a democratic culture more mature, less oligarchic and less dusty than that distinguishes many European chancelleries and the Foreign Ministry. The model characterizes the Anglo-American diplomacy in part because Israel also shares an important ethical array of cultural origin (many of these issues are discussed in the book "Defending the West 'Liberal Editions Pierre Chiartano with a preface by Renzo Foa). This double standard, which involves a double-talk, causing massive damage and extraordinary misunderstandings. If caliamo this reality in the already complicated situation in the Middle East mess is served. We do not doubt the "seriousness" of Hamas, but also add that the Nazis were the SS were "serious and honest" pace of the bizarre law that D'Alema in "his" West.