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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYtrh5WjlkAtML9AgfLCQix13jUcYCJSkjQMmSXmWJ2HqRX9b5AIRs3l1jAKMLJJGfee5glG1gAA5Lbn77jAkPferGwbk_o1SJ4TMj0z99DCPXs3c76nDbvBzWma536ckWpob-479wtQ/s400/euro-breakup.top.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5742596040396612738" border="0" /></a> This one I think, may be a provocative one... <t>N</t>ot being a politician or an expert of any sort in the matter of managing Europe's affairs, my reasoning will be somewhat more of a rough and crude thought, about the status of deep crisis that is gripping the European economy. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s1600/Separator+1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s400/Separator+1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> Having said all this in advance, now I will proceed with my illogical ways of thinking. <f>T</f>he current European crisis may be the result of a hidden agenda. And the driving force behind this agenda is the insatiable greed of a few rich and powerful over the masses. I do believe that this crisis was deliberately wanted and orchestrated, to create ideal conditions for later being able to conduce the European union and its whole economy on the same route of the capitalistic American model. <f>P</f>racticing capitalism American style on the European nations will never work, and for sure will be the death of capitalism. Big corporations, oligarchs and capitalism, go well hand in hand <f>E</f>uropean are jealous of their lifestyle, and the resulting values acquired after centuries of struggle to obtain more dignity in the workplace. They will fiercely defend what they have achieved and will not let egoistic big corporations and sold politicians, can dictate their lives in the name of capitalism. <f>I</f>f this occult maneuvering will ever succeed, then one of my cardinal convictions is that European Union will not be run as a democracy anymore, but more like of an oligarchy. Indeed, the fate of the European economy will be left on the hands of a few power-hungry oligarchs. The minimum wages and reduced unions power, are their main targets <f>T</f>he relocating of large factories in the third-world countries due to low wages, is not working anymore. Now corporations want to impose new rules to facilitate their factories return. Of course, big corporations influence over policy of national interests can be easily redirected in their favor with the help of some complaisant politicians. A couple of priorities in that hidden agenda in which I mentioned at the beginning: <ul><li>First priority - Reducing the European wages to a minimum to get closer to the capitalistic American model. </li></ul><ul><li>Second priority - Giving more power to employers to fire workers on the spot, without any possible (or at least some diminished) intervention from unions.</li></ul> <f>O</f>f course with this kind of priorities put on place, national economies will grow faster, but simply because the big companies will be the single ones profiting by cutting salaries together with the power of easily dismissing, at the only expense of workers. <f>T</f>o add to the equation, there is even more bad news. Now with the excuse of some European state being in financial crises, some experts to combat government debts due to excess government spending, have come out with the idea of implementing some severe austerity measures. Doing so, hitting even more severely the middle classes. Some final thoughts - Days of reckoning <f>T</f>he line of rigor imposed by the global and European markets (at the expense of ordinary citizens), to be able to balance the negative national budgets, created as a result to a mixture of financial speculations, bad managements, greedy big corporations and by corrupted banking systems. <f>A</f>nd yes, even banks are taking their share in this game of "arraffamento" - (grab all). People are generally fed up with how wealth is distributed across the different layers of society. Rich people getting richer and poor people getting poorer. I'm not predicting a specific event in the future, but the "occupy movements" taking place in Europe protesting against the banks, capitalism, and the austerity policy of the European Union could be a sign of times to come? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s1600/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s320/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519834306690409746" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlBrz0q3DdPJQfdTs_OKbFkvYNpVXBc6SK2419UZdK5qObAgBmAGUpAZNyQknQECz57MkJlAkcrcufpTCOOVUn_o5MVXdnjyFNjML0dA8w91KFs7rgLr9-WrE1VJ3KD3cRXez3DL69cg/s1600/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2012/05/some-thinking-on-europes-debt-crisis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYtrh5WjlkAtML9AgfLCQix13jUcYCJSkjQMmSXmWJ2HqRX9b5AIRs3l1jAKMLJJGfee5glG1gAA5Lbn77jAkPferGwbk_o1SJ4TMj0z99DCPXs3c76nDbvBzWma536ckWpob-479wtQ/s72-c/euro-breakup.top.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-3859037612756556124</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-25T22:58:04.650-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">golden age</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">history</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life expectancy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nostalgia</category><title>The dark side of the golden age thinking</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mywindowintheworld-general-contents.blogspot.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChZ-ztiU-8Rj46oVcW1wsBD5vEjx4kvRme4b1HhjRpj-pduYvAkMNPa1EEJUwZ2CVgyYKDTeC30BtHA3EGMsXUUYE22TUm3ERFm8RzSc4hPnjKg_Q6wwxH8eOCZ5z6KMw3d5dK_AQHxE/s1600/durerhorsemenb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChZ-ztiU-8Rj46oVcW1wsBD5vEjx4kvRme4b1HhjRpj-pduYvAkMNPa1EEJUwZ2CVgyYKDTeC30BtHA3EGMsXUUYE22TUm3ERFm8RzSc4hPnjKg_Q6wwxH8eOCZ5z6KMw3d5dK_AQHxE/s400/durerhorsemenb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723980533143513442" border="0" /></a> <t>T</t>here are people that find difficult to cope with the present and erroneously believe, if they could escape from the usual refrain of daily horrors (unemployment, wars, global warming, nuclear threats, terrorism, etc.) and be happier, only if they could have lived in an early time. A time in the golden age era. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s1600/Separator+1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s400/Separator+1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> Gee, my life would be so much better if I just could live in a past <f>I</f>n reality, their thinking it is more of a nostalgia. And this kind of nostalgia is denial, denial of a painful present. <f>T</f>hese people see those days (in which themselves did not live personally,) through rose-colored glasses. Their misconception that a different period of history is better than the one they live in today, is a defect of the imaginary. Their romantic imaginary. A falsely reproduction of the imagination due mostly, at their personal sufferings, their fears and by their own anxieties. <f>I</f>ndeed when looking back at a particular period, they tend to focus instead solely on positive experiences (blocking out the negative ones) lived through films and history books which do not always reflect those grim realities experienced daily by the people who really tested them. <blockquote>"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us" <div style="text-align: right;">Emperor Turhan - Babylon 5 (Written by J. Michael Straczynski)</div></blockquote> The only problem with the past, is that they were not so golden <f>I</f>n fact, those gold ages had their dark sides. If we could just travel back into any particular period of history, we will see that people's lives were most of the times filled with miseries. <a href="https://eee.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/NatureandArtifice/lecture5.html">Population Reducing Catastrophes</a> Famines: <ul><li> 1272, 1277, 1283, 1292, 1311</li><li> Great Famine of 1315-1317</li></ul>Wars and civil disorders: <ul><li> Hundred Years War (1337-1453)</li><li> local warfare caused destruction of crops, of houses, and of life in general </li></ul>Pestilence and Disease: <ul><li> The Black Death (1347-1352)</li><li> epidemic attributed to bubonic plague caused death of one-third to one-half of European population</li></ul> <f>I</f>f they were lucky enough to reach adulthood (because of the high infant mortality,) the life expectancy of an average man because of pestilences, famines, violent deaths, continuous wars and any other forms of natural or man-made calamities, was quite shortened. <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfEdFz4wKxfGT0yeW7JhJR4HdEGpm5rBVFhgeiNE1HzMOIL8Nu5HzaMAsK92j-Q0vDU_MWHjr7qZZvZoth100Z8uCGIrSI5bB-mzltp8SByrH1Pz0NEBbxWboVYbtK8HdlmwF2kIZh1w/s1600/Life+expectancy+variation+over+time.Bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfEdFz4wKxfGT0yeW7JhJR4HdEGpm5rBVFhgeiNE1HzMOIL8Nu5HzaMAsK92j-Q0vDU_MWHjr7qZZvZoth100Z8uCGIrSI5bB-mzltp8SByrH1Pz0NEBbxWboVYbtK8HdlmwF2kIZh1w/s400/Life+expectancy+variation+over+time.Bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723852861915204898" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_variation_over_time">Life expectancy variation over time</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_variation_over_time">(wikipedia.org)</a> </div> In short, their life span usually was not over 40 years old... I wonder, who is crazy enough to want to live in a past not so golden<img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/106.gif" alt="garupale" title="garupale" />?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s1600/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s320/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519834306690409746" width="246" border="0" height="153" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlBrz0q3DdPJQfdTs_OKbFkvYNpVXBc6SK2419UZdK5qObAgBmAGUpAZNyQknQECz57MkJlAkcrcufpTCOOVUn_o5MVXdnjyFNjML0dA8w91KFs7rgLr9-WrE1VJ3KD3cRXez3DL69cg/s1600/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" width="24" border="0" height="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2012/03/dark-side-of-golden-age-thinking.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChZ-ztiU-8Rj46oVcW1wsBD5vEjx4kvRme4b1HhjRpj-pduYvAkMNPa1EEJUwZ2CVgyYKDTeC30BtHA3EGMsXUUYE22TUm3ERFm8RzSc4hPnjKg_Q6wwxH8eOCZ5z6KMw3d5dK_AQHxE/s72-c/durerhorsemenb.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-1670006548377391750</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-24T20:23:18.613-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Apologies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Bentley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yahoo</category><title>Yahoo, its public forum, and Robert Bentley apologies</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Categories: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a><a href="http://islam.mywindowintheworld.com/">/Islam</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqhVADL4Ok06GwucizumfvRjtik-o2kcge4jM5Bn7Br1SsuZNWGY5HuvwkS1j7RGwxaNlqainItKd2iwVjDcExv9HmGm-x2mcdSvqCDTycdVx5MspuJH3WfKNDCVTcd6Kj5tciwGBRU4/s1600/Robert+Bentley+2.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqhVADL4Ok06GwucizumfvRjtik-o2kcge4jM5Bn7Br1SsuZNWGY5HuvwkS1j7RGwxaNlqainItKd2iwVjDcExv9HmGm-x2mcdSvqCDTycdVx5MspuJH3WfKNDCVTcd6Kj5tciwGBRU4/s320/Robert+Bentley+2.gif" alt="Yahoo News" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564456853519774626" border="0" /></a> <t>Y</t>esterday after I read an article on a Yahoo news, I tried twice to post a personal comment, and both times it was rejected. Thereafter, I got very disappointed! I couldn't understand why it was rejected. Solely, after I re-read the comment a couple of times I realized how simplistic, foolish, presumptuous and naive it really was... <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s1600/Separator+1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s400/Separator+1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> Here a short extract from that article: <blockquote>Ala. governor apologizes for remarks on Christians By BOB JOHNSON, Associated Press Bob Johnson, Associated Press – Wed Jan 19, 7:41 pm ET MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Two days after being sworn in as Alabama governor, Robert Bentley apologized Wednesday for proclaiming to a Baptist church audience that only Christians were his brothers and sisters and vowed to work for people of all faiths and colors. His comments Monday shocked and offended some believers of other faiths, but the backlash didn't seem to be a serious political wound for the retired dermatologist and Southern Baptist deacon.</blockquote> (If you would like to read it in its entirety, here is the link: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alabama_governor_christians?cmtnav=/mwphucmtgetnojspage/headcontent/main/apus_alabama_governor_christians//date/asc/1/0#mwpphu-container">Ala. governor apologizes for remarks on Christians</a>) note: because of Yahoo has replaced the article with a new one, I giving you now a new link: <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7388829.html">Ala. governor apologizes for remarks on Christians</a> and here is my comment: <blockquote>Why don't we start another war in the name of a God? In conformity with our consciences and our personal beliefs, why don't we start another war by the name of our God or any other God? This can be another of those perfect occasions (found right here, in this Yahoo's public forum) to start a new holy war between religions and civilizations. Even though I am myself a Christian, I totally disagree with his untimely comments. We must look at the fact objectively! He can be as much as he likes a Christian, but only when he is in his private... If wants to be a political figure, he should discard his beliefs so that he can manage public affairs in a fairly balanced way. We must learn from history! Don't ever mix personal beliefs with politics or in a long term what we're going to get will be nothing but troubles! For example: look at those Arabic countries where Islam has been, or it is an integrated part of their political system. Those same nations are now partially if not totally failed States! The United States are modern and civil societies, just because, our political systems have been freed by ideological corruptions and religious poisonings... Don't let religions be part or even to influence partially our political decisional affairs, ever!</blockquote> <f>A</f>ll the above made me think really hard on the nature of my blogging experience. Especially when I want to run a blog, I should be more careful on what I write. Even when I know that I'm posting anonymously, I should be more considered with my opinions, be a bit more responsible, weigh the words that I use because I never know what damage they could cause. <f>O</f>f course I can come out with some excuses, like I am not a professional writer, or I am not that smart <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/35.gif" alt="gile" title="gile" /> and so on. But in the very end, none of them are valid excuses because of the commitment I took when I decided to start a blog. Particularly, toward any possible reader I had to be: responsible, frank and honest, not disregard blatantly what I wrote because that could lead me toward some unpleasant consequence, don't post any demented nonsense (Ok, maybe some <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif" alt="gelakguling" title="gelakguling" /> ), and finally be balanced on my judgment. <f>I</f> know! I am not that perfect <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/26.gif" alt="nerd" title="nerd" />! Nevertheless, I'm trying to be the best blog writer I can be. <f>N</f>ow, going back to the comment I tried to post on Yahoo, I believe it was misunderstood. The first part of my comment wasn't an incitement to violence, and surely it wasn't a call for a holy war, but I was simple trying to be sarcastic on that argument! <f>R</f>egarding the last part of my comment, where I wrote about Islam been an integrated part of the political systems in all the Arab countries, and that they are partially or totally failed States. The only reason I could think of, is that Yahoo got overly scandalized about that remark? <f>R</f>ight! Like the Alabama governor, Robert Bentley with his untimely comments I should now prostrate myself and apologize. <f>A</f>lright, maybe I was a bit too crude and abrasive on the last part of my argument, but that it is so true! Islam isn't towards the Arabs that much beneficiary! Is it? Most of the Arab populations are uncultured, underdeveloped and generally poor. That's why some of the Arab prostration, may lead some of them in the becoming Muslim fanatics, and therefore, in the name of Allah, martyrs = terrorists! <f>W</f>ith that last part of my comment, I was trying to point out, the importance of separation between church and state as happens in any modern nation. <f>N</f>ow, I sorely regret to have written such stupid nonsense <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/66.gif" alt="tumbuk" title="tumbuk" />. Even though, they were all insanely irresponsible statements, Yahoo should have posted it anyway... Even when they were that bad, stupid and careless, and let decide its readers if they were worthy of some consideration <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/68.gif" alt="takbole" title="takbole" />! I'm not trying to be controversial, neither to criticize Yahoo for its decision, but this is what I firmly believe in: the freedom of expression even when it isn't so pleasant or too foolish.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s1600/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s320/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519834306690409746" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlBrz0q3DdPJQfdTs_OKbFkvYNpVXBc6SK2419UZdK5qObAgBmAGUpAZNyQknQECz57MkJlAkcrcufpTCOOVUn_o5MVXdnjyFNjML0dA8w91KFs7rgLr9-WrE1VJ3KD3cRXez3DL69cg/s1600/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/yahoo-its-public-forum-and-robert.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqhVADL4Ok06GwucizumfvRjtik-o2kcge4jM5Bn7Br1SsuZNWGY5HuvwkS1j7RGwxaNlqainItKd2iwVjDcExv9HmGm-x2mcdSvqCDTycdVx5MspuJH3WfKNDCVTcd6Kj5tciwGBRU4/s72-c/Robert+Bentley+2.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-3767879302518165015</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-24T16:04:34.663-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogging</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dying</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fighting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">inequalities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iniquities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">injustices</category><title>Some things are worth fighting for - worth dying for</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptzyJ2JQ2alD3iqc3z4TwjcRxZPI3MfDz8I4FEfiI2EuHDHO-yx57zp07qauitB5e6TTD6ZmX2-XyTAzvPBJzJH7QY_4WBNVUxF4apaPbdWiGH62grcLgRr-S8Nz4xv5aMd72iiYEbyU/s1600/freedom-1.1+%25282%2529.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptzyJ2JQ2alD3iqc3z4TwjcRxZPI3MfDz8I4FEfiI2EuHDHO-yx57zp07qauitB5e6TTD6ZmX2-XyTAzvPBJzJH7QY_4WBNVUxF4apaPbdWiGH62grcLgRr-S8Nz4xv5aMd72iiYEbyU/s320/freedom-1.1+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562541432475910626" border="0" /></a>They may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freedom! </div> <t>I</t> was thinking to start my posting again by writing something like this: It has been a while since my last post, and I want to apologize for that! Shamefully, I should totally blame my lack of appetite for blogging not because of shortage on valid materials, but rather on my mental fatigue. <f style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Y</f>ou see, hasn't been an easy task for me to post every other day. It has never been! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s1600/Separator+1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisr96YIAQT4udjGp5rRArjGO2-03FMEk5M1nF_YzDZ3m57LWMGfn5pJstKiJQVu9O85JyuhjPllxD1UJXN1o4WgdoxQNDE2MrDECyOWy797JDm3oEce4oWj_rqRWrlbfgCqzmJ2_kYVEM/s400/Separator+1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">T</f>oday, I'll try to jump start it again by writing something, anything to revamp my old passion for blogging. Hopefully, this trick will restore it. <div style="text-align: center;"><img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/39.gif" alt="fikir" title="fikir" /> </div> <f>H</f>owever, later I got to read an email from my contact form, which had a positive impact on me. These're the kinds of true incentives, which could help myself in going on with my blogging passion. <f>F</f>irst I want to thank publicly Stephanie, for leaving a nice comment into my contact form: <blockquote>Hi - I just wanted to say that I love your blog because these are the things that also interest me. I have long been a fighter. And have long had the misfortune of trying to understand people - why does the gang member stay, why does the mafia rule, why the Taliban and the KKK - where are the Good people who wish to fight for what is just and kind and important? I don't know. I find myself repeatedly helping people to get up and out of their situations only to find them running back to what they know even if it destroys them. So Hats Off to people like Rita Atria - Viola Liuzzo - Madge Oberholtzer - And so forth and so on. I would rather be a martyr than a victim, an accomplice or a pawn. Some things are worth fighting for - worth dying for. Thanks for sharing</blockquote> My answer to this latter was: <blockquote>I'd to wade through a dozen of email scams before I could get to a genuine one, yours! And for that, I thank you from the bottom of my hearth. Now more than ever, I believe that these are the kind of comments, which may be worth the time I've spent for posting into my blog. I totally agree with your concept, be a fighter rather than submit to inequalities, injustices, iniquities and so on... be a martyr than a victim, an accomplice or a pawn. As you have mentioned my dear friend: Some things are worth fighting for - worth dying for. Thank you again, Red.eVolution <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/16.gif" alt="encem" title="encem" /></blockquote> <f>I</f> end this here, by re-proposing myself again with a regenerated determination on keeping going with my blog and the promise to write more on subjects such as the lack of equality for some sectors of mankind, its unfairnesses, its morally objectionable behaviors and anything else pertaining with these matters. Thank you all <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s1600/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s320/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519834306690409746" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlBrz0q3DdPJQfdTs_OKbFkvYNpVXBc6SK2419UZdK5qObAgBmAGUpAZNyQknQECz57MkJlAkcrcufpTCOOVUn_o5MVXdnjyFNjML0dA8w91KFs7rgLr9-WrE1VJ3KD3cRXez3DL69cg/s1600/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-things-are-worth-fighting-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptzyJ2JQ2alD3iqc3z4TwjcRxZPI3MfDz8I4FEfiI2EuHDHO-yx57zp07qauitB5e6TTD6ZmX2-XyTAzvPBJzJH7QY_4WBNVUxF4apaPbdWiGH62grcLgRr-S8Nz4xv5aMd72iiYEbyU/s72-c/freedom-1.1+%25282%2529.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-6449104008057478707</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:07:17.527-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">God</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">human being</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humanity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mystery</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>Why God, why me?</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdlxQvTVAMwNRG45aS_kAT0SY3kCcfa-VywTV_XasypnA6bOZqgNwu-FAnilV-tEy3Sofp_y9BWVxRvNhG8rmTo7s_bcoBgB80tMI4TBXDhAB1HNktt3JuBue0EbpKT0L8cn1t6HKFiA/s1600/3569912791_b426c76851_z.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdlxQvTVAMwNRG45aS_kAT0SY3kCcfa-VywTV_XasypnA6bOZqgNwu-FAnilV-tEy3Sofp_y9BWVxRvNhG8rmTo7s_bcoBgB80tMI4TBXDhAB1HNktt3JuBue0EbpKT0L8cn1t6HKFiA/s320/3569912791_b426c76851_z.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539312761750776866" border="0" /></a> <t>T</t>oday, I would like much to entertain all of you in a long and very futile conversation on God and his preferred creation, a true product of perfection: the human being. <f>I</f>n this passionate and mindless conversation of mine, would I try to unravel the eternal and yet unsolved mystery on the human creation (if indeed there were any?). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s1600/fbkbar22z.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s320/fbkbar22z.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519832839443989346" border="0" /></a> <f>N</f>ot, no really! It will be a simple questionnaire on the human existence and its earthly sufferings - and it'll be mostly based on the questionable rhetoric from religious teachings regarding its condition and existence in this planet, or it'll be more based on rationality <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/26.gif" alt="nerd" title="nerd" />? <f>M</f>aybe it will be a mix of both or else? At any rate, after that I'll be done with all of my nonsense, we'll see what will come out (hopefully everything will make sense <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/35.gif" alt="gile" title="gile" />). <div style="text-align: center;">Why God, why me? </div> <f>T</f>hroughout critical circumstances of my life, I was often used to cry: <blockquote> Why God? God why me? God why I have to suffer? </blockquote> ...and of course, the most obvious one: <blockquote> My God, what I have done to deserve it? </blockquote> ...I was looking very hard to find some answers (any answers) to questions from a God, who never gave any. <f>T</f>oday, in trying to help myself to find some answers, I'll use a kind of very eccentric criterion. In this criterion to formulate this my naive and somewhat crazy assumption, I'll be using (as usual) solely my <del>incorrect</del> reasoning. - Duh! <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /> <f>M</f>y religion has taught me, to invoke God in times of misery and sufferings by looking hard inside my own soul, my own spirituality. However, in the end, because my invocations were left unanswered by an indisposed God, and hence I felt alone and miserable. Consequentially, I was always led to the less spiritual part of myself, my brain (<img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif" alt="gelakguling" title="gelakguling" />), in order to get some comfortable answering. <f>M</f>aybe it's that there aren't really any valid reasons or religious explanations, for the existence of humanity or its sufferings? They are just there! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPR9zkQl8k0ao-DUOmdwpVQCYiYVxXb8aM5N5wDt-FwkyU6CSOubCtaA2uh3jNIWmDlrS1la4I37xmDgH0uddg8fIs5vLkPlGqguOnlBm2sBL1-W_mcBgbuuSrqWRj2FhjkCLqLVKCcJk/s1600/creation-adam.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPR9zkQl8k0ao-DUOmdwpVQCYiYVxXb8aM5N5wDt-FwkyU6CSOubCtaA2uh3jNIWmDlrS1la4I37xmDgH0uddg8fIs5vLkPlGqguOnlBm2sBL1-W_mcBgbuuSrqWRj2FhjkCLqLVKCcJk/s320/creation-adam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539314268508482610" border="0" /></a> <f>P</f>erhaps, the human being was just dumped on this lonely planet not by a supreme being, but rather by violent random acts, which were generated from a constant expanding universe? <f>D</f>o I have lost my faith, and thus I became an atheist or worst a sinner <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/20.gif" alt="nangih" title="nangih" />? Maybe I have, or perhaps it's just that I'm still searching for a tiny speck of evidence that God really does exist? <f>A</f>fter all, the perceiving and understanding for the mystery over the creation of mankind, isn't it perhaps an integral part of an elevated and rational mind? If yes, then why we need the help of a monotheistic religion (<img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/19.gif" alt="setan" title="setan" />) while coping with our daily doubts and misfortunes? P.S. Gee, I've just realized that this article comes with too many maybe and also many question marks! 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It's sad but true! We are all easily deceived by the beauty of things and never go to the point of their true qualities. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s1600/fbkbar22z.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s320/fbkbar22z.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519832839443989346" border="0" /></a> <f>A</f>n outer visual appearance of something or anything (this may be a non-animated object, as well be a living thing), has more importance than its true inner quality. Of course, beauty is a quality by itself - it gives pleasure to the senses. <f>H</f>owever, beauty and quality hardly ever go together. Because it's a formula that won't mix very well to combine a good final product. <f>N</f>ow, as a case in point, a very attractive or seductive looking woman, plus a good intellective quality (all that won't ruin the entire package. Will it? <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="sengihnampakgigi" title="sengihnampakgigi" />) it's very hard to find in a single soul. Of course, it can (rarely) happen. <f>A</f>nother case in point is when some of us are easily infatuated with a fancy car - but what about the functional part of it? Will this fancy car take us safely to our destinations, or if it will work flawlessly without giving us any kind of trouble during our journey? Probably, it will not without the functional qualities! <f>A</f>s you can see, beauty isn't synonymous with safety and reliability. Beauty is an optional not a requirement, in the other hand quality it is. In a real world quality should come before beauty, but that's not always the case. <f>T</f>he qualities of being dependable and durable in a car, for some people aren't first priorities. Appearances are on the top of their personal books. <f>F</f>or people happens the same thing, particularly in working places. If a guy or a girl, isn't visually very appealing, even though he/she possess qualities like knowledge or skills for a specified field, he/she will always come after the good looking guy/girl. <f>U</f>nfair, but that's how the world goes around. Appearence has its own privileges upon a quality. A product or a human being is and always will be evaluated first by its appearance and later by its quality/capability to perform or produce. <f>A</f>fter all, we all are after the beauty first. If we deny it, we are just plain liars.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s1600/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R8TNzoE1BCy8rM01jjQLM9DPT-4VSQ-JbVXCTTLVHI-ByJYV2UR7AHuYgLga9M8WpAwWDVP6-UAnr13ywz2eEjtuaVTTrf0xiXjWgxE5oGxerSiTlBKcBkAnUQOfxmYTsHSomooFUGU/s320/RedeVolutionfeather-1.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519834306690409746" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlBrz0q3DdPJQfdTs_OKbFkvYNpVXBc6SK2419UZdK5qObAgBmAGUpAZNyQknQECz57MkJlAkcrcufpTCOOVUn_o5MVXdnjyFNjML0dA8w91KFs7rgLr9-WrE1VJ3KD3cRXez3DL69cg/s1600/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/apparency-of-things-versus-their-true.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Px_QKVIYy9NkbVg7j1Z2D2wioO81AZPDkmupB2TJhUEB4BpfNR17ozNyeku9-VMST04WUf_JNMQ5y_GUDcG7C9wKT1cOQVAk4XUgXYdtNv718UHIsK6eCfGqyFRuyTAWTYFoqJH2cOo/s72-c/Beauty+versus+quality.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-2569038212385925967</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:08:23.042-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Article 587</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Divorce Italian Style</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Honor Killings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim mentality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sicilian mentality</category><title>Honor killings in a yesterday Sicily</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://honor-killings.mywindowintheworld.com/">Honor Killings</a> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3N-ES0xdAs1rO10Z1oE3XvpLDX1Jiwrhld9E_TxYPWC7VJwS_EaV0L3FhNJ2MK_vmad034ukZRMvVb0wfyEwv0XM7TIibrzkY-O_QgndodmviEHZfHkLzQIhcuZQVcOntOLl_edVUww/s1600/Marcello-Mastroianni-nel-film-Divorzio-allItaliana.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3N-ES0xdAs1rO10Z1oE3XvpLDX1Jiwrhld9E_TxYPWC7VJwS_EaV0L3FhNJ2MK_vmad034ukZRMvVb0wfyEwv0XM7TIibrzkY-O_QgndodmviEHZfHkLzQIhcuZQVcOntOLl_edVUww/s200/Marcello-Mastroianni-nel-film-Divorzio-allItaliana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529442473183339810" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce,_Italian_Style">Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce, Italian Style</a> </div> <t>I</t>n a not so remote past, i delitti d'onore (honor killings) weren't only an exclusive prerogative of Muslim countries - Shamefully even in Italy until a few decades ago, honor killings were happening. Even though under different modalities, these were mainly occurring in the south of Italy, particularly in Sicily. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s1600/fbkbar22z.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s320/fbkbar22z.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519832839443989346" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>hese honor killings were committed by enraged husbands, fathers or brothers, for the offense of an actual or perceived immoral behavior done by their wives, sisters, or mothers being punished for having tarnished their own reputation or that of their families, were not else than truly tribal justices. The killers were always justified for having defended their honor by the society at large. <ins>Even the Italian laws were much lenient toward those crime committed under the false pretense of, "honor".</ins> <blockquote>Article 587 Criminal Code Rocco (In force since 1930 and abrogated with the law n.442 of 08/05/1981) "Whoever causes the death of spouse, daughter or sister in the act when he discovers the unlawful sexual relations and the state of anger went from offense given your honor or his family, shall be punished by imprisonment three to seven years. The same punishment those who, in those circumstances, causes the death of the person who is in unlawful carnal relationship with the spouse, daughter or sister."</blockquote> <f>M</f>ost of the time the sentence was not more than 3 years. Often was under three years, and even to a not more of few months imprisonment. <div style="text-align: center;">***** </div> <f>W</f>hen I go back with my mind to many years ago, of when I was still living in my Sicily, I can clearly recall that some men were, indeed, wrongly inculcated in believing that they were the bosses and masters of their women, treating them as if they were properties (hopefully today, things have radically changed). <f>F</f>ortunately, I didn't grow up with that same kind of mentality, just because, culturally I had the advantage of getting better educational knowledges. Thanks to alternatives that I was able to get along the way, my attitude toward women wasn't that of a high being dealing with a subspecies but of an equal partner in life. Alternatives such as: getting a college degree, traveling abroad a lot, and thus, getting to know other cultures. <f>A</f>nd finally, a particular thanks to my sisters and my lovely other half, for having taught me that men aren't the dominant parts of humanity and that women are not the subordinate parts of it. <f>T</f>oday, I know very well that kind of Sicilian mentality toward women which was almost similar to those Muslim men of nowadays, in regard of their own women. Because of this reason I can now even understand, those Muslim men acting even worst with their own women because of honor. They have the same retrograde mentality that some Sicilian men were used to have. <ins>In many ways the Sicilian mentality and the Muslim mentality, could both very well be connected together.</ins> <f>F</f>or certainty, the Islamic culture had its part in heavily influencing the Sicilian culture. Its deleterious influences (especially when getting to the point of women treatment) was passed on to future generations of Sicilian men by Arab conquerors. <f>T</f>his their thirst for the conquest of the Sicilian land, lasted more or less a two centuries. These two centuries were characterized mainly by continuous horde of Muslim invaders, which at some point in history culminated into a Sicilian Arabic Caliphate. <f>T</f>he result of that Muslim heritage can be seen even today by just listening to the many Sicilian dialects which have embedded in them some Arabs words, and by looking at the many Arabs vestige left in Sicily even after the Normans drove them out. <f>I</f>'ll end here this rather protracted topic, with the addition of only a few more words: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ8rjgkuwV0IfuFFw4qRUmOKKNEAfbJwYSn2I89cQXvCYrdu9gAJfH9NZciODVDNro7ITwle-fn_l6MKM4ITu_JNkEqfegKm2fTD2i-5hqK1z9_jXmP_QGBcQmFTG2mDup2lCaR0xDnk/s1600/preaching_from_a_pulpit.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ8rjgkuwV0IfuFFw4qRUmOKKNEAfbJwYSn2I89cQXvCYrdu9gAJfH9NZciODVDNro7ITwle-fn_l6MKM4ITu_JNkEqfegKm2fTD2i-5hqK1z9_jXmP_QGBcQmFTG2mDup2lCaR0xDnk/s200/preaching_from_a_pulpit.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529430274225496226" border="0" /></a> Both sex should respect each other without looking into gender differentiations and the prerogative of a very little benevolent religion toward the gentle sex, but equally live their lives on this world which belongs to every creature without distinctions whatsoever. 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Back then, I knew it was a terrible accident. What I didn't know at that time was: How bad was it? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s1600/fbkbar22z.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSatPLAuNrPHmJdvLj5eWFFW1xWGgaYg0Qkv_Y96mZi8jNND9yb5awhGUoV4rkXzsEZVMvPRg2DINBdnqymtjOGG1YsKeeqgjr9AI2SqFLRWHYKzoSGFGjre4NQdibTX_xKRVh7L2LgY/s320/fbkbar22z.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519832839443989346" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>oday, many years after (even thanks to YouTube) I find out the total truth about the Chernobyl power plant disaster. In fact, it was bad very bad! Much worst than what was reported at that time by the worldwide news media. <f>I</f>t was the classical nightmarish dream that most apocalyptic visionaries have repeatedly (even though, under many forms) predicted to occur in our future, but that time it could have been for real! In fact, after the first explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, there was the possibility of a more catastrophic second one. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7ODB_KfZSiwpSVj0iSGUEfoKG7IHejfNQMlluNPNHkqgNAOH8rcvoWHSUmWoXxlYrFdH1iY-ReouVVzAcRKZUirzE7AcYW6KYghZ-idWQMB2J1a8xfzhKByjCUd5tMfpQuTtIE41cmE/s1600/CropperCapture%5B6%5D.Bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7ODB_KfZSiwpSVj0iSGUEfoKG7IHejfNQMlluNPNHkqgNAOH8rcvoWHSUmWoXxlYrFdH1iY-ReouVVzAcRKZUirzE7AcYW6KYghZ-idWQMB2J1a8xfzhKByjCUd5tMfpQuTtIE41cmE/s320/CropperCapture%5B6%5D.Bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522440289462263490" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>his second explosion could have been triggered by the tremendous amount of heat generated by the first explosion of the power plant. Once that heat reached a critical point, it would have managed to crack the cement slab of the same, and subsequently, only a 400 kg of uranium and graphite mixture would have been enough to heat the water beneath the nuclear reactor and create a chain reaction which could have set off the devastating second one. <f>I</f>n all probability, it would have been equal to a gigantic atomic bomb with the force of 3 to 5 megatons. This last explosion would have been accompanied by terrible shock waves and a massive raise in radio activity. As result, It would have claimed thousands of lives in a matter of hours. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHB3dr_h9OUpDHTyl09INKJ91nQbiz73RGNmH79pIIGEPujhdW7mlckfzqhc69-ZcExGNJ0-rOB9yqduorSWa8g1Ia5V7zLMNA1IMJ_PRwyIxtiU8IC2jo9Y7aH1JVu6V1HuwEGdAsjo/s1600/CropperCapture%5B7%5D.Bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHB3dr_h9OUpDHTyl09INKJ91nQbiz73RGNmH79pIIGEPujhdW7mlckfzqhc69-ZcExGNJ0-rOB9yqduorSWa8g1Ia5V7zLMNA1IMJ_PRwyIxtiU8IC2jo9Y7aH1JVu6V1HuwEGdAsjo/s320/CropperCapture%5B7%5D.Bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522440917807388882" border="0" /></a> <f>W</f>ithout much doubt, the last explosion could have very well resulted in extensive damages for all of Europe. So exceedingly large that it would have completely destroyed Minsk (a very large city located at 320 kilometers from Chernobyl) and rendered most of Europe an uninhabitable place because of the nuclear radiation fallout. I posting here only 1 video from YouTube (the one related to the second explosion), because the entire documentary is a ten videos long (too much for a single post). Chernobyl disaster (Ukraine 1986) part 4 of 10 <object height="288" width="392"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZiTQ8OGcYNo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZiTQ8OGcYNo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="392"></embed></object> If you wish to watch in its entireness here is the link to YouTube for the 10 videos documentary: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSpdSyT1ys&amp;feature=related">Chernobyl disaster (Ukraine 1986)</a> starting from part 1 of 10. <f>O</f>f course it didn't happened, but it could have well happened! The risk of a second explosion was for real, and the consequences to it would have been unthinkable. Just imagine what would have been a post-apocalyptic Europe today! Mostly, it would have been a contaminated wasteland by very high levels of radiations. <f>I</f> must say that I never been fond to the idea of nuclear energy, but I've always accepted it as as something unavoidable. Now I am completely oppose to it! Even when the experts of the nuclear field are telling us that with the modern technologies, the new generation of atomic power plants are very safe. <f>B</f>ecause, even when there is only one chance in one billion that in a nuclear power plant something goes terribly awry and it could cost the life and health of millions of people. 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Women are treated like they were properties of authoritarian fathers, brothers, husbands... and when they do rebel to their masters, they are harshly punished. It's even worst if they dare to commit an adultery, because they will pay with their own lives with one of the most brutal method of execution coming from the dark ages: the stoning! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> There is no end for the calvary of women in the Muslim world <f>I</f>n Iran, a 43-year-old woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was condemned for adultery to death by stoning. This woman has already been lashed 99 times and jailed for 5 years. Thanks to international pressures, Tehran has put the plan on hold for now. A final decision regarding Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani case is still pending, and it's possible that her sentence of death by stoning could be changed to death by hanging (a more human punishment <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/35.gif" alt="gile" title="gile" />) because of her (allegedly) involvement with the death of her husband. <f>I</f>n this very moment, there are at least another 10 women in Iran's jails waiting to be lapidated to death for adultery. <f>I</f> watched a movie a couple nights ago titled, "The Stoning of Soraya M" and it was based on a true story. There is the stoning scene which was very disturbing to watch. When I saw it, it felt like a punch in the stomach. I must confess, afterward I felt disgust and outrage <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/14.gif" alt="marah" title="marah" />, for the despicable act from those cowardly dogs against that woman! Here is the trailer I got from YouTube: Trailer: The Stoning of Soraya M <object height="288" width="392"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uWbdn5YfMJs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uWbdn5YfMJs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="392"></embed></object> That's how nicely women are treated in rigid Islamic societies <f>M</f>eanwhile, in western nations most of the Muslims living there are refusing to conform and adapt to the new standards of living which those same nations are offering them. In the same time the most radicalized part of these Muslim communities are feeling the need to replicate the same conditions of miseries, poverties and inequities (especially for women) and want to import into these same nation with their, "religion of peace" a pure product of evilness - Sharia's courts with all the inhumanities of their Sharia's laws. <f>I</f>f we give into the demands been made by these fanatic extremists, you can imagine that consequences will be catastrophic because of the collapse of those ideals on which these democratic nations are based. <f>I</f> wasn't sure to put the following video in this post (maybe a little too excessive <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/17.gif" alt="gigil" title="gigil" /> ), but maybe it can make us reflect in what we have and in what we could get if we let some Muslims have their ways: EUROPE vs ISLAM : Decide NOW before it is too late! <object height="288" width="392"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/h6xdYDbxZnI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/h6xdYDbxZnI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="392"></embed></object> <f>A</f>t a time when Islam is viewed by westerners as a religion of extremists, the stoning or even the hanging, of Ashtiani will simply reaffirm that view. Unfortunately, there isn't much of reasoning with some Muslims. They are too impervious to the notions of tolerance, political freedom and free speech, and because they just want to keep their authoritarian way of life over their women, these will firmly hold on their barbaric traditions for a very long time.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather.png" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/death-by-stoning-sakineh-mohammadi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGVLs0WlAw15HYuB2mefWBn0FUOcyM5C7LwnJc4d5KMPEfW0lJ5oZRF4Lr0hYIKyTmKTxAEzokcjw3jbYqPSwJN-Y1KxynFj8EDCkBZwDd1XTNJSvyYsxiCKQYYWiQTl-_9O7gbrXxOY/s72-c/capt.fad17a045ea043caa24eecf7f90b0bce-fad17a045ea0.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-2033571445450516488</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:10:09.338-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bribery</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">corruption</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Italy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Silvio Berlusconi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Transparency International</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">United States</category><title>Of corruption and bribery</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWGaZZXF8QozOxSyUc8lfkks6BTUZy02I-MrMtkbFb7vZMXMzxVK5IgoXJrG0zK06dppN-UD3xA8geZvA6ayw6PH_Wzb2jTe_fagBol7ZgF4bfGFqwTWWLuz-HskRCF1uoBVLiti-lhc/s1600/imgname--britain_moves_on_bribery---50226711--bribery3.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWGaZZXF8QozOxSyUc8lfkks6BTUZy02I-MrMtkbFb7vZMXMzxVK5IgoXJrG0zK06dppN-UD3xA8geZvA6ayw6PH_Wzb2jTe_fagBol7ZgF4bfGFqwTWWLuz-HskRCF1uoBVLiti-lhc/s320/imgname--britain_moves_on_bribery---50226711--bribery3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511657040884937666" border="0" /></a> <t>I</t>n Italy, especially in the south part of it, it is more of a customary tradition to oil some wheels to make sure the system will work in their favor, and this will usually translate in bribing someone. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>here are commonalities among some Italian politicians, <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/36.gif" alt="celebrate" title="celebrate" />like it is a national pastime. I'm talking about the collecting of bustarelle (small envelops containing bribe money). <f>I</f> can still recall (after all this years), of some Sicilian politicians who were masters and completely dedicated to this national pastime. <f>N</f>ot just politician, even Italian businessmen are tempted to illegally jump any red tapes that could otherwise block their roads to success, by just playing a game. The game (as I like to call it) of corruption and bribery. <f>N</f>owadays, by just looking at the Italian news I can see the landscape hasn't changed that much! The Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, started his career as a businessman and rapidly reached the top level of the Italian politics not without an extensive record of controversies (including mafia collusion, false accounting, tax fraud) on alleged corruption and bribery's charges which paved his road to success. <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9efFGI2BP45F4mgYtsejxGz-mqjRjwnZxvEffclQcaSVgVNZpCaJ3airdjhdz-UI0ntKeQbKsGQnD4mwqM9JxxNw_cquOfAHTvPndVWZH3grVJzjkyK-1lYPtHQlAJLuWjwGOnl717Q/s1600/225px-Silvio_Berlusconi_(2010)-modif.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ9efFGI2BP45F4mgYtsejxGz-mqjRjwnZxvEffclQcaSVgVNZpCaJ3airdjhdz-UI0ntKeQbKsGQnD4mwqM9JxxNw_cquOfAHTvPndVWZH3grVJzjkyK-1lYPtHQlAJLuWjwGOnl717Q/s320/225px-Silvio_Berlusconi_(2010)-modif.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511657406017236626" border="0" /></a>Silvio Berlusconi - Prime Minister of Italy </div> Now you can say that he really is, "the Master of this Italian national game"!<img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/102.gif" alt="tension" title="tension" /> <f>A</f>s you can see, such practices are commonplaces in Italy. Not doubts, even common citizens can play this national pastime. Anyone could easily bribe a corruptible city official for a reasonable prize of a tot lire (lira - old Italian currency, today Euro currency) for an own interest. <f>T</f>he forms that bribery can take in Italy are numerous. For example, anyone can easily bribe his way out from paying a traffic ticket, or a father could easily get for his own son, a secure governmental job by just paying some people placed high enough in the Italian governmental sphere of influence. <f>N</f>ow here is a 2009 list of Countries in which the corruptions are less diffuse, Italy is placed in the 63rd in it. This survey from <a href="http://www.transparency.org/">Transparency International</a> has examined 180 States based on perceived levels of corruption in the public sector and it has assigned votes from 0 to 10, where 0 means nation at the mercy of corruption and a 10 means a virtuous nation. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.transparency.org/imaps/cpi2009/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtnO-uARwRpPUlfjKnHzTIWDEc9NROR-Us2x2YoyWEjb54NPnhahD0ZO29aP6L_qlFvVMd_K7oLjwqyzTWFQUEkmguDWuDorvFYTiBxjbhy5a5g319WCLfSET-sUJv2N4TtAZp-BEpEk/s320/Corruption+Perceptions+Index+2009.Bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511676674100937794" border="0" /></a>Click map above to launch an interactive version with individual country scores.The darker the blue, the higher the perceived level of public sector corruption. <div style="text-align: center;">(P.S. You need Flash Player and JavaScript enabled to make this work) </div> <f>N</f>ew Zealand is the least corrupted country with a score of a 9.4, in second place Denmark with a 9.3, and in the third position Singapore with Sweden sharing it with a score of 9.2. <f>I</f>taly has scored in it with a 4.3 and it is far behind the United Kingdom (in the 17th position with of a 7.7 score), Germany (in the 14th position with a score of 8.0), France ( 24th with a 6.9 score) and finally the United States (in the 19th position with a 7.5 score). <f>A</f>nd at the bottom of this list, countries like Myanmar (placed in the 178 with a 1.4), Afghanistan (in the 179 with a 1.3) and last Somalia (in the 180th with a mere 1.1) are the lowest-ranked countries in this <a href="http://www.transparency.org/">Transparency International</a>'s annual global survey. As you can see by reading from this list, war-torn and poorer nations are the most corrupt. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAgVS-o-NSDdQbg-Txf9nV3u-8t1xRmRnLPq8IAxQdNl7QSi86lLDHml2bUIKPTqPvacdcDpBsa6vN7yC2DpCtg3NznNhHT-U-hspg0hTrv8NTX8ESxIfBvFik-TKViEqNsinGFR74qY/s1600/bribes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAgVS-o-NSDdQbg-Txf9nV3u-8t1xRmRnLPq8IAxQdNl7QSi86lLDHml2bUIKPTqPvacdcDpBsa6vN7yC2DpCtg3NznNhHT-U-hspg0hTrv8NTX8ESxIfBvFik-TKViEqNsinGFR74qY/s320/bribes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511658539667458274" border="0" /></a> <f>A</f>ll the above doesn't mean that here in the U.S. politicians, businessmen and common people as well, do not have the same tendency to moral looseness <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/65.gif" alt="siul" title="siul" />! When comes down to individual corruptibilities the people from here aren't refractory, or immune to the monetary allurements. <f>Y</f>ou can well say that the system of punitive laws and investigative works put in place in the U.S. are more effective than in Italy. And because of this more complex system of checks and balances here in the United States, these endless games of corruptions and briberies can't be played as often as happens in Italy or in any other nation.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/of-corruption-and-bribery.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWGaZZXF8QozOxSyUc8lfkks6BTUZy02I-MrMtkbFb7vZMXMzxVK5IgoXJrG0zK06dppN-UD3xA8geZvA6ayw6PH_Wzb2jTe_fagBol7ZgF4bfGFqwTWWLuz-HskRCF1uoBVLiti-lhc/s72-c/imgname--britain_moves_on_bribery---50226711--bribery3.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-8745517659027920665</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:10:31.240-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Belice valley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giovanni Falcone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">informants of Mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lupara</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Paolo Borsellino</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Partanna</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rita Atria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">witnesses of justice</category><title>Rita Atria - A victim of the Mafia</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category:</div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mafia.mywindowintheworld.com/">Mafia</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwr9YFHMBNVfLzWRtUbkUJlzjR4yeQv5EimLea8tYZgWO11Rs1q_7m2pUBqg6cHAWx-vVm3b-83O_fiUFqaPr1GTlcZVgIUSG27NzcpnB7n1i7s3-_WXN1HQPo2V4SOPZydAt9KsiK2TA/s1600/the-sicilian-girl-poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwr9YFHMBNVfLzWRtUbkUJlzjR4yeQv5EimLea8tYZgWO11Rs1q_7m2pUBqg6cHAWx-vVm3b-83O_fiUFqaPr1GTlcZVgIUSG27NzcpnB7n1i7s3-_WXN1HQPo2V4SOPZydAt9KsiK2TA/s400/the-sicilian-girl-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507653069957695106" border="0" /></a>The Sicilian Girl </div> <t>I</t>n this post (after many months of silence... sigh) I'll be talking about a real story that happened in Sicily many years after I left. And unfortunately, I came to find out about it after casually watching a movie. At first, I didn't realized that this story was based on real events, and also that this movie made me realize how much I didn't know about Sicily since I left it. <f>I</f>n this movie (The Sicilian Girl - La siciliana ribelle) is depicted the true story of a Sicilian girl who lived her very short life in a very close family/mafia environment. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;">The name of that young girl was Rita Atria</div> <f>R</f>ita Adria lived in a famiglia intisa (well respected family) in Partanna a small town in the province of Trapani. At the age of eleven years old her father - don Vito Adria known as the, "paciere" (pacifier) a man from the old Mafia style - was killed by the men of rival Mafia gangs, because of a regional power struggles occurring in between the 1987 and 1991 (a Mafia war for the Mafioso dominion of the Belice valley which left dead on those streets dozens of people). <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAjzRnsnK-oxuO3L-qxIsD8kNl9Avz4mGcG98PYgJ7ZuAP29DB5dbEXa-OGNM2t59ZVm8AHyDPST7O-1_fn3f6y2V_-MZ9sfLnNqFXIw3s2AqkG8v72DvapM9cTtXOHgHK2xlQU4XY6V8/s1600/Belice-map-bjs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAjzRnsnK-oxuO3L-qxIsD8kNl9Avz4mGcG98PYgJ7ZuAP29DB5dbEXa-OGNM2t59ZVm8AHyDPST7O-1_fn3f6y2V_-MZ9sfLnNqFXIw3s2AqkG8v72DvapM9cTtXOHgHK2xlQU4XY6V8/s400/Belice-map-bjs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507654234556138994" border="0" /></a>The Belice valley </div> <f>D</f>on Vito got killed two days after the wedding of his only son Nicola with a woman by the name of Piera Aiello. Nicola (a Mafioso himself) after the violent death of his father (don Vito) decides to take revenge on his father's killers, but six years later on June 24, 1991 he too got killed by two men that entered his home with a double barrelled, sawn-off shotgun (the Sicilian classic <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/mafia-coppole-and-lupare-part-i.html">Lupara</a>). <f>H</f>e dies not before her sister Rita, collects the most intimate confidenze on the transactions and dynamics of the Partanna's Mafia clans on her personal diaries. Her sister-in-law (Piera Aiello) after the death of her husband Nicole came with the decision to collaborate with the Italian justice and her deposition caused the arrest of many Partanna's Mafiosi. She can't longer tolerate, "i silenzi omertosi" - (is an Italian term for the Mafia’s code of silence) of an entire town and then she too became like her sister-in-law a, "testimone di giustizzia" - (witness of justice). <f>I</f> like to stress that Rita Adria like her sister-in-law Piera weren't, "pentite di mafia" because they have not committed any crime to regret. I prefer to refer to them in this post as, "testimoni di giustizia". <f>I</f>n fact, many people in Italy still confuse the, "testimoni di giustizzia" - (witnesses of justice) with the, "pentiti di Mafia" - (informants of Mafia): The, "testimoni di giustizzia" are people who have never committed any crime and that decide to spontaneously collaborate with the Italian justice system. In the other hand the, "pentiti di Mafia" are former Mafia clan's members who have committed crimes of any sort that at some point decided to turn against their criminal organization for various reasons. The Sicilian Girl - La Siciliana Ribelle <object width="392" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/f4X2vo8sNDU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/f4X2vo8sNDU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="392" height="288"></embed></object> <f>A</f> picciridda (the little one - that's was the way don Vito Atria was used to call his little daughter Rita) at the age of seventeen she decides too, to take revenge for the deaths of her father and brother by talking to the Italian magistrates the same way her sister-in-law Piera did. On November 5, 1991 she got out from her home to go to the school... instead, she went straight to the office of <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/facing-mafia-la-mattanza-chapter-ii.html">Paolo Borsellino</a>, (back then procurator of Marsala) to turn over to Borsellino her testimony and precious diaries in order to denounce many local mafiosi. <f>O</f>f course (like her sister-in-law's decision), after her move many more ended up in handcuffs. Now everyone in Rita's town hates her too, even her own mother doesn't want to know about a daughter that speaks with the sbirri (minions of the Italian state - italian cops), anymore. Meanwhile Borsellino worried for the fate of the, "picciridda" tells her to take an Italian map and cut the Sicilian island out of the map and throw it away for good, "you must forget Sicily!". Afterward, he puts Adria under a witness protection program and moved her to a new secret location in Rome. <f>O</f>ne thing for sure, slowly during the all of Rita's hard deal, her obsession of revenge for her loved ones turns into a lonely quest for justice. <blockquote style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Mafia it's us, with our wrong ways to think and behave</blockquote> <f>D</f>uring the last months she lived in Rome the only figure she could really count on was the judge <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/facing-mafia-la-mattanza-chapter-ii.html">Paolo Borsellino</a>. Indeed, she saw in him a sort of protective father figure. In her diaries she wrote a lot about him. Even the Sicilian judge considered her more like a daughter than a witness, especially, because he had already a real daughter the same age as Adria. <f>I</f>n 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, Palermo, less than two months after the death of his good friend <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/facing-mafia-la-mattanza-chapter-ii.html">Giovanni Falcone</a>. <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLAW0dE8hLwEfr_Pqkv7EZkxE2kRqlz_yVWD60tU1lltlHnN45mABbHQrNy7lLSKw0VzCjfAmgVrtXHKiNIfuptrjWSROc-aLlgfHziEEIovRljoX0KumGXxrOvxaMaLVDgqjognTmpk/s1600/220px-PaoloBorsellino.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 333px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLAW0dE8hLwEfr_Pqkv7EZkxE2kRqlz_yVWD60tU1lltlHnN45mABbHQrNy7lLSKw0VzCjfAmgVrtXHKiNIfuptrjWSROc-aLlgfHziEEIovRljoX0KumGXxrOvxaMaLVDgqjognTmpk/s400/220px-PaoloBorsellino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507657179621685106" border="0" /></a>Paolo Borsellino </div> <f>R</f>ita learns the bad news from the television. And now, without the fatherly figure of a Borsellino ready to shield her from anyone and everyone, for sure she must have felt like the only world she has ever known was gradually shattering into very small pieces under her own feet. <f>A</f> week later (it's the 26 July, 1992) after the Mafia's massacre of Via d' Amelio, in an apartment of Rome probably alone and in a mental fragility, Rita approaches a window and jumps it. Her poor body will be found on the pavement under that window of the penultimate floor in via D'Amelio. She was only 17 years old. <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7JcOLfWd6Kd56Joadv1pt2GJMmnprLMnq1m194TXT4-eWsAMGMnZCVDqTe14s7PJeqG4cizlBXlKaGHbDQH3yF1JWs3pQDQR0cRVsMrHjb5c04BsSeU-huW78b4Xrh6ngwGPyQCMgqw/s1600/200px-Rita_Atria.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7JcOLfWd6Kd56Joadv1pt2GJMmnprLMnq1m194TXT4-eWsAMGMnZCVDqTe14s7PJeqG4cizlBXlKaGHbDQH3yF1JWs3pQDQR0cRVsMrHjb5c04BsSeU-huW78b4Xrh6ngwGPyQCMgqw/s400/200px-Rita_Atria.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507650148331868146" border="0" /></a> Rita Atria (Partanna, 4 September 1974 – Rome, 26 July 1992) </div> <f>S</f>ome time after the funeral, Rita's mother went to the cemetery with an hammer in her hand to break her daughter burial stone without mercy. That's the real Mafia! A lethal cancer capable to destroy even special rapports between mothers and daughters.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/rita-atria-victim-of-mafia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwr9YFHMBNVfLzWRtUbkUJlzjR4yeQv5EimLea8tYZgWO11Rs1q_7m2pUBqg6cHAWx-vVm3b-83O_fiUFqaPr1GTlcZVgIUSG27NzcpnB7n1i7s3-_WXN1HQPo2V4SOPZydAt9KsiK2TA/s72-c/the-sicilian-girl-poster.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-7097546092012415123</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:10:53.071-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humanity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">moralities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Unthinkable</category><title>Unthinkable - What means to be human?</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"><div style="text-align: right;">Category:</div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOLXxvQwUB9mBguroFJb8i5tCNOc_oCn8KjKYtn-ocDQh_LMC7LcZhNnVRB5h8IFgOx2sxiQwtRtF089hVhutQBK0VKly4UhVKtaEsQaauLozAJ7tGtYBlv3a5GdYfJyfAmJSW8YnZXs/s1600/200px-Unthinkable.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOLXxvQwUB9mBguroFJb8i5tCNOc_oCn8KjKYtn-ocDQh_LMC7LcZhNnVRB5h8IFgOx2sxiQwtRtF089hVhutQBK0VKly4UhVKtaEsQaauLozAJ7tGtYBlv3a5GdYfJyfAmJSW8YnZXs/s320/200px-Unthinkable.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493586309517991666" border="0" /></a> <t>A</t> couple of nights ago I watched a movie which in my humble opinion is one of the most thought provoking movies I have seen in many years, Unthinkable (Unthinkable is an American suspense thriller directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen and Carrie-Anne Moss - and if you like, You can read the entire plot here in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthinkable">Wikipedia</a>). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>B</f>y just watching this movie many of us will be put in very conflicting debates. Some of you could even see it as an anti- Muslims movie, but I don't see it as such because I believe it makes us reflect a little more on the real nature of humanity! It makes us ask questions like: is it morally permissible to commit terrible atrocities on other human beings when a given situation arises? <f>A</f>nyway after watching it, I couldn't refrain to ask myself some moral questions like: how far I'm willing to go to save millions of lives by just using brutal methods to obtain vital informations without losing my own humanity? <f>O</f>r could I keep more easily my own humanity and thus my moralities, by letting those millions to die of a sure death? What I meant is: let those millions be lost but at least I could have kept my sanity by not torturing those two poor children, after done with their father. <f>T</f>o be able of choosing and later to justify one of the above solutions, I do really need to be totally desensitized on the matter (gosh, what a horrible thought <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/24.gif" alt="gelakguling" title="gelakguling" /> ). Unthinkable Trailer 2010 <object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/pIpenejMR8I&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/pIpenejMR8I&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="285" width="340"></embed></object> <f>T</f>his, "Unthinkable" movie poses a moral dilemma: how much someone is willing to reach a point of pure cruelty, by inflicting unimaginable pain to his/her procrastinated victim and his family in order to save a few millions? <f>I</f>n fact, This movie put a nude a simple truth! We as human being, are indeed capable of unthinkable acts of horror by being torturer, judge, and executioner of a human life, without respect for any morality knowing that if, when we weren't capable to react with necessary inhumanity to an imminent danger, later, we'll have to face tragic consequences because the lack of it (inhumanity). <f>I</f>n normal situations (as we like to think) we can be moralists and judgmental, but put ourselves in a tragic situation that demands some atrocities from our part in order to save many other our similar, then, our morals will for sure perish in this inconceivable (in normal conditions it would be inconceivable) process. Final thought: <f>W</f>hat will be left inside of us when it has been devoid of any trace of morality? What we will become? Of course after those terrible acts will be consummated, what we'll be left of us would be empty shells completely denuded by any sign of human decency. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicsDd6nmGaccf4C12fguA7iXE71qmQaj35gQQRbNeHB12Mwg8ELestSyo8yxYWaiVEkKDuSMNQ9kW1aZv143fer780VlWiRmIC6f2l8G_LN8LnUno8OII_f-1sZuFxv1afC7gxQpo7MzE/s1600/0mr4n5rcpgm4astq6c66fejhzz5tnzejzf30i6vipn3arbmeff526afeeew3pprou6vvnh8monster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicsDd6nmGaccf4C12fguA7iXE71qmQaj35gQQRbNeHB12Mwg8ELestSyo8yxYWaiVEkKDuSMNQ9kW1aZv143fer780VlWiRmIC6f2l8G_LN8LnUno8OII_f-1sZuFxv1afC7gxQpo7MzE/s200/0mr4n5rcpgm4astq6c66fejhzz5tnzejzf30i6vipn3arbmeff526afeeew3pprou6vvnh8monster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493594029387425810" border="0" /></a>Yeap! In a plain and simple way we'll be more like beasts, or worst, atrocious things <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/13.gif" alt="hah" title="hah" /> walking on this earth. 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In January 15 1968, when I was still living as child in Sicily and I had the very first experience with earthquakes. I remember that they weren't so destructive like those recently two, at least not close to where I was living, but a couple miles away toward the quake epicenter they really were. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>he first tremors started in the night at 3 a.m. between the 14th and 15th of January 1968 hitting the Valley of Belice with the force of a 6,4° Richter scale earthquake. About fifteen towns were badly damaged, and towns like Gibellina and Salaparuta were completely destroyed. In those tragic days, 370 people died and over 70.000 were left homeless. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRcbBbR6UKoshiIcACgiVaFfzwBtWWD_63OHJaIMO8tnOln2AFPhk1dnziLc74m_xyQorqGIMQaU_i5MNcqtt1VnnMkdSKCd6inEzgdbKs1XfKy5k8nYCPx4XXNdgWy3HGG10Rgs5YVc/s1600/_38408833_assissi300bbc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRcbBbR6UKoshiIcACgiVaFfzwBtWWD_63OHJaIMO8tnOln2AFPhk1dnziLc74m_xyQorqGIMQaU_i5MNcqtt1VnnMkdSKCd6inEzgdbKs1XfKy5k8nYCPx4XXNdgWy3HGG10Rgs5YVc/s320/_38408833_assissi300bbc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452893273806496386" border="0" /></a> <f>A</f>fter all these years I still have vivid memories of those horrible moments. I remember waking up to the first earth's shaking without much realizing what was going on, and seeing my mother in a total panicky mood while rushing into the room where I and the other of my brothers were sleeping. <f>A</f>fter helping us in dressing up, she together with my father pushed us through the stairs of two floors. Even though the all matter happened in few seconds, I had the creepy sensation we were all moving in a very slow speed. In fact, it felt like we were pulled by an invisible gravitational force toward the earth's center, and each of our steps were very painful to perform because of the sensation of our legs been all in a sudden transformed in very heavy metallic lead. <f>D</f>uring the all commotion, I felt the constant shifting of the all building while we were moving toward the door exit, where, I noticed my father's desperation while he was attempting to open it when we realized with terror the door frame was folding itself to one side. In 1968 exactly 42 years ago, many countries on the Belice's Valley were completely destroyed by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6,4° <embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.it/googleplayer.swf?docid=919280148612298323&amp;hl=it&amp;fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> <f>A</f>fter the initial difficulty of my father in opening that door, finally he succeeded in his task and right after hastening us outside the building. <f>O</f>nce we were outside of our building, we saw all our house neighbors pouring out of their own apartments while screaming, "u tirrimuotu, u tirrimuotu" ( the earthquake, the earthquake). I must confess, right after I saw that apocalyptic scene of grown men and women in their own panic running toward a safety zone, I understood years later, the danger of myself and my family were in that night... Devastating earthquakes are a recurring phenomenon in vast parts of Italy as you can see from the detailed map bellow: <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBBOBc1q75jeNhjdFYDsWE733Z4hWeu1yujaz7zTGctGdwO-KcCZZeA6S-_5say0e0-WuUBWR9kRPZx8kdCkSruN-b2EGc_DdZEkjME7p_bKmROduOvGLj8oQZFwXdKOwUMXJir5B1UQ/s1600/Seismic+activity+in+Italy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBBOBc1q75jeNhjdFYDsWE733Z4hWeu1yujaz7zTGctGdwO-KcCZZeA6S-_5say0e0-WuUBWR9kRPZx8kdCkSruN-b2EGc_DdZEkjME7p_bKmROduOvGLj8oQZFwXdKOwUMXJir5B1UQ/s320/Seismic+activity+in+Italy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452891409698277570" border="0" /></a>Map of the seismic activities in Italy </div> <f>W</f>e spent the rest of that night sleeping in my father car, but the following couple of nights we lodged in a temporary shelter. It was a large and very solid one low room structure made up of very light materials, and it was located up in the hills. It belonged to one of my father's brothers, indeed, we shared it with another two of my father's brothers and theirs families. Even though it was very cold inside, we felt very comfortable in it because we were like in a big family reunion enjoying one of their weekend festivities. <f>T</f>he following days were really tedious because many thought the worst was gone, and many people including my family went back to what we thought the normalcy of every day life, when indeed they weren't! The Sicilian land kept shacking uninterruptedly for another exhausting couple of weeks. <f>O</f>ne day while I was in school, another of those earthquakes struck the building and the entire schoolchildren with their teachers had to flee in a frenzied panic. You can well figure out once we were outside in the open space, all the chaotic and indescribable confusion created by apprehensive parents rushing to the school's yard for their own children. <f>T</f>oday that I'm living in New York City, I remember to have experienced in the past years a couple of tremors (those earthquakes occurred on Oct 27, and on Jan 17, 2001 in the New York area with a magnitude of 2.6° and 2.4° on the Richter scale). Of course nothing on the big scale but on very low intensities, so low that most of the New York population didn't even felt them and they only found out about those earthquakes only thanks to the local news medias. How Likely is an Earthquake in NYC?<object id="5327" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" height="394" width="448"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param name="movie" value="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/syndication?id=85916032&amp;path=%2Fstation%2Fas-seen-on"><embed src="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/syndication?id=85916032&amp;path=%2Fstation%2Fas-seen-on" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" height="394" width="448"></embed> <f>T</f>hankfully, I'm living now in an almost earthquakes free city. What a luck! Hopefully it stays this way for a long time. Hopefully...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </object></div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/sicily-day-earth-shook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPiVXlhVhoZFxn0-dd656AKYXQ1suZ4wAM2z8rMGMJ64NLmMXwqj8TfSPOLYY4mM5GfcdPQ3XGCi5eYXCi4avTHUa8kOzNOrAjxinSQ02t9D9o1S1qooY4LlDETxVOrs6ZsGpWosXyZsc/s72-c/resize2_1a.aspx.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-146130582709168094</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:11:33.973-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blogging</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogosphere</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elites</category><title>When a blog dies out...</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"> <div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0hinsUwkP61QabPjaBxCbNH52I_c1XoDmJPkYsKgMiMMKia6hm1M8SB1jqDa_QcK4Pxvx34G7WT0g2xkdN-7Glq9YEfSaU55CUgwWwMeqBp797gAxBSMKaRGQInrfV0_R10XT-pHP-A/s1600-h/ADEADBLOG-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0hinsUwkP61QabPjaBxCbNH52I_c1XoDmJPkYsKgMiMMKia6hm1M8SB1jqDa_QcK4Pxvx34G7WT0g2xkdN-7Glq9YEfSaU55CUgwWwMeqBp797gAxBSMKaRGQInrfV0_R10XT-pHP-A/s320/ADEADBLOG-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443874243087034690" /></a> <t>W</t>hen a blog is left to die out because of the blog's author vanishing in the nothingness, no eulogies or flowers are left on its tombstone to purposely mark its premature dismissal, but just a veiled sadness left to commemorate its sudden abandonment... <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/20.gif" alt="nangih" title="nangih" /> Indeed, there are no written excuses to mark its death or any other signs of termination which could tell us a bit more on the reasons of why this blog is not longer kept breeding new posts! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>H</f>mm... maybe all the above sounds a little too melancholic and a bit poetic (probably too much, eh? <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/31.gif" alt="busuk" title="busuk" />), but it's OK. Indeed, I've never considered myself to be much of a pro. I'm just an average blogger... maybe even less than an average blogger (below mediocre would've probably been more than adequate to describe my real capability in blogging). <f>A</f>nyhow, lately I've been checking some blogs and I've noticed that many of these blogs haven't been any longer updated by their original authors. Of course, I don't know the whys and wherefores of these bloggers giving up on blogging! I just can speculate on the reasons that brought them to their final decisions. However, I must admit that their act of desertions make me feel a bit saddened <img class="emoticon" src="http://wolverinex02.googlepages.com/icon_sad.gif" alt="sad" title="sad" height="15" width="15" />. The act of giving up on their own passions, makes me reflect on my own passion for my blog. <f>H</f>aving the right mental attitude before creating a weblog plays a very large role in its future success. Many people just build a website and expect to get fast results. Unfortunately, they don’t get their much hoped results very quickly. The bottom line is that they become disappointed very soon and decide to quit. <f>A</f>nd consequently to all the above, I've been thinking of various possible reasons on why blogs die out, and I came out with a few concise and succinct answers on this matter. <f>T</f>he initial impetus for blogging was suddenly stopped after bloggers couldn't find any valid reasons to keep on going. Following I've compiled a list of possible reasons for quitting from blogging: <ol> <li>The lack of a proper planning Bloggers will find soon enough how inconspicuous their efforts can be, if they are launching their own blogs without much of a proper planning ahead of time. In fact, a proper planning before starting a blog seems to be one of the main mistakes for a blog failure among various reasons.</li> <li>The lack of good quality contents Another reason is the lack of quality contents, or the complete lack of any (bad or good they could have been). Attracting a readership is very hard without valid contents and running out of them it is sure death for blogs. Also selecting a topic (a single topic is better) beforehand, that alone could really help in focusing into which path a blog should move.</li> <li>The lack of motivations and therefore loss of interest. In the beginning we probably started very enthusiastically our own first blog, and our enthusiasm could have lasted anywhere from a couple of weeks to two/three months, at the most not more than six months. What happens later is, a decreasing in our appetite to blog. Most of us discover how hard can be blogging for a long time, and without a prompt remuneration (it can be monetary of even simple appreciations) to our efforts, we are more prone to easily quit. A not responsive audience to our postings could very well deplete sooner or later, the necessary attention to help ourselves focused on the main task of writing and thus keeping our blogs alive. Little earnings also could well translate in loss of interest.</li> <li>Little monetary profits Money, could very well be another motivation for people to stop blogging. But in reality to get back some pay off from our hard work while blogging, takes a lot of dedication and even a lot more of our time involvement! And of course, a lot of people are not willing to waste all of their times in something realistically considered too unreliable as a source of their main incomes.</li> <li>High expectations People usually make blogs thinking to be ranked among the very best, sooner than they thought! Although it’s not bad to have such high expectations in the very beginning of blogging, for certainty, their initial enthusiasm could well had met some initial failures resulting in disappointments and dissatisfactions. Especially, when a partial or total lack of traffic to their blogs will deeply frustrate their initial expectations. However, the important thing is not to get frustrated by the very first blog's failures, like in the case of an absolute absence of devoted affectionados (followers, fanatics) of any blog, but then, try to keep the right mental attitude to overcome any potential aversion during this yours (and mine) long traveling to become a successfully elite blogger!</li> </ol>No! It isn't my blog obituary (yet <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/25.gif" alt="angel" title="angel" />)... <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichv_ABSxYsdMLbwklENYyeeVVNKZ-1qZviyLhI2zAZx-PijatqWOyIWjO4_rtmoJc0LkRjmGMPqz0sJEIbKqkj5es6jlUlwU3ZsVeV6LGZu_m1MwewEpKMdlo5MazpQcdbv00M_UlgPI/s1600-h/dogsandblogsnewyorker.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEichv_ABSxYsdMLbwklENYyeeVVNKZ-1qZviyLhI2zAZx-PijatqWOyIWjO4_rtmoJc0LkRjmGMPqz0sJEIbKqkj5es6jlUlwU3ZsVeV6LGZu_m1MwewEpKMdlo5MazpQcdbv00M_UlgPI/s320/dogsandblogsnewyorker.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443873741379403266" border="0" /></a><f>I</f>n my case, my blog isn't dead! I just struggling to keep it alive, and I must say I starting to feel it as a lost battle already. <f>T</f>he reason? I've been trying harder and harder, to squeeze out some more juice from my poor brain to get some fresh ideas in creating new posts for my blog, but nothing seems to come out from it anymore. In truth, I'm getting physically and mentally very tire. Right now, too many things are going on my personal life! <f>M</f>ost likely, one day I'll simply disappear (like many other bloggers already have done it) in the dark of the night without leaving behind any trail of my presence in this ethereal world called, "blogosphere" but my lonely blog... What sadness, but c'est la vie (that's life!). <f>I</f>s all this endless blah, blah, blah of mine a pre-posthumous goodbye? No! It is for now a simple, "au revoir". Hopefully, I'll be back very soon. <blockquote>In conclussion, a couple of footnotes for some potential ideas on future blog's posts: Sometimes, I start to think about all the time I have devoted to this blog which I could have well spent in some other more remunerative activities <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/64.gif" alt="duit" title="duit" />. and... How and when we get to be professional bloggers, and if someone (probably sitting in the Olympus's Mount among the other Gods) will tag us with some sort of honorific label with written on that we've been elevated to be among those glorified elites of the blogosphere <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/19.gif" alt="setan" title="setan" />?</blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/03/when-blog-dies-out.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0hinsUwkP61QabPjaBxCbNH52I_c1XoDmJPkYsKgMiMMKia6hm1M8SB1jqDa_QcK4Pxvx34G7WT0g2xkdN-7Glq9YEfSaU55CUgwWwMeqBp797gAxBSMKaRGQInrfV0_R10XT-pHP-A/s72-c/ADEADBLOG-1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-3958267774302991248</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:11:56.315-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bloggers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogsphere</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">chrisg.com</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">copyblogger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elites</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">JohnChow</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">problogger</category><title>Some generic thoughts on the elites of the blogsphere</title><description><div style="border: 8px solid rgb(250, 235, 188); width: auto; height: auto;"><div style="width: auto; height: auto; background-color: rgb(250, 235, 188);"><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFJt0_3K6WHp_tXkMpv00DcTMSQvC3cN8yBZNxq2zD6XSl87ktzn6hjLZj3i3DHFK7yIXPjeNIJt0AoDo-CmdzeAIOjldjVHSeLwj09Yh__dIAYpsOGx5pkrWk999cjxg2D4bMpvjwU8/s1600-h/Preacher-at-Pulpit-copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFJt0_3K6WHp_tXkMpv00DcTMSQvC3cN8yBZNxq2zD6XSl87ktzn6hjLZj3i3DHFK7yIXPjeNIJt0AoDo-CmdzeAIOjldjVHSeLwj09Yh__dIAYpsOGx5pkrWk999cjxg2D4bMpvjwU8/s320/Preacher-at-Pulpit-copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435694087770024466" border="0" /></a>~My two cents on the elite bloggers~ </div> <t>I</t> may dislike some elite bloggers, especially those bloggers whose blogs are mainly focused in topics such as: how to make money with a blog. With the exception of a few like Problogger, which (are maybe) be doing some good job in really helping other bloggers to achieve better quality blogs, just for the passion of it. Others, such as JohnChow and similar, which (I think) are doing it expressly for the love of money (but at any rate good for them). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> Why? <f>B</f>ecause I feel like they are preaching from their high pulpits to a public of mediocre bloggers (like myself). <f>T</f>hese so called, "pros" are always ready to dispense advices and tips to help improve our performance with our blogs. But are they really helping us, "the mass of mediocre bloggers" achieve want we want? Its like they are giving to the blogger community something back with their expertise, but to me they're not really doing that... If they were, don't you think by now the blogsphere would have been full of professional and wealthy bloggers? <f>W</f>hat they are really doing is to help themselves to climb the mountain a bit higher by getting more exposure in the blogsphere thanks to us, "the common mortals" You may say I am envious at their success. Of course I am not! <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/44.gif" alt="pinokio" title="pinokio" /> Ok, maybe a little bit I am. Besides, there another motivations for me to dislike some of them. <f>S</f>ometimes, they may make us feel sort of outsiders or unfits in being parts of this virtual world, incapable to even manage our own blogs because we are a bunch of retards. <blockquote> I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Money I Make Online <div style="text-align: left;"><ins style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JohnChow</ins> </div></blockquote> <blockquote> What I’m on about is helping bloggers to not only be profitable and have traffic but to build blogs that have profile, influence, authority, credibility, respect and a brand that opens up opportunities beyond quick profit. <div style="text-align: left;"><ins style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">problogger</ins> </div></blockquote> <blockquote> Good blogging creates authority, plain and simple. Writing consistently about your area of expertise makes you an authority figure within your industry and niche. <div style="text-align: left;"><ins style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">copyblogger</ins> </div></blockquote> <blockquote> It’s much slower and harder with an authority blog to develop traffic as you have to be more choosy. It’s not enough just to do linkbait or SEO tricks, you have to attract the right people and delight them with your content so they subscribe and come back. <div style="text-align: left;"><ins style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">chrisg.com</ins></div></blockquote> <f>T</f>o some, all that may sound rather they're helping themselves in inflating their egos and increase their wallets in size. Anyway, who in the hell put them in charge into telling us what to do with our own blogs! Who are these people?!? Its like that they are telling us what to do with our personal lives. Beyond my area of expertise <f>W</f>hen I went to check on some of these, "professional" blogger's sites, I didn't fail to notice that while these blogs were getting getting tens if not hundreds comments for each of their articles, guess what? When I went to check the blogs of their commenters, the funny thing was that these same commenters while leaving their comments in those elite blog/websites (or whatever they are) what most of them were getting in their own blogs were... zips, nada, nothing. Some others were getting one or two comments, and a very few luckier even some more comments but nothing on the same scale which these, "elite group" were getting. Really funny, isn't it? <f>A</f>nd as final thought: it looks to me that these elite bloggers are mostly centered on purely profits and traffic for themselves rather than helping anyone else! <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/76.gif" alt="banyakckp" title="banyakckp" /> What's your thoughts - have I been enough controversial with these all my blah, blah, blah? <img class="emoticon" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/107.gif" alt="bising" title="bising" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </div></div></description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-generic-thoughts-on-elites-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFJt0_3K6WHp_tXkMpv00DcTMSQvC3cN8yBZNxq2zD6XSl87ktzn6hjLZj3i3DHFK7yIXPjeNIJt0AoDo-CmdzeAIOjldjVHSeLwj09Yh__dIAYpsOGx5pkrWk999cjxg2D4bMpvjwU8/s72-c/Preacher-at-Pulpit-copy.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-7840398393376477458</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:12:20.725-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogging/mania</category><title>Me, myself, and my blogging/mania</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiV6GyrI0kvvn5OOl5_7apN3_Xcx6-uL7Wr9dpLxVlhFVHFF2zc4nA4kfyVe0iHXkhv3k6fkIcSgO6wdozE0HbhpSjxpsSAGo2dxxIinjKquH7G3R8XZFdJ4TtzASLSnx7u0D3eLXLck/s1600-h/blogs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiV6GyrI0kvvn5OOl5_7apN3_Xcx6-uL7Wr9dpLxVlhFVHFF2zc4nA4kfyVe0iHXkhv3k6fkIcSgO6wdozE0HbhpSjxpsSAGo2dxxIinjKquH7G3R8XZFdJ4TtzASLSnx7u0D3eLXLck/s320/blogs.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432703904141476082" /></a> <t>A</t>fter some moments of rethinking on my blogging/mania, I was (once again) on the verge to give it up! Why? <f>Y</f>es, why the heck I started in the first place it? I'm still wondering about why I began blogging. I guess out of boredom! That's what I thought at first, but in a second thought wasn't there any real answer to this my preponderant personal dilemma. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>F</f>rankly, I didn't know nothing about blogs when I started it, and yet if I can say it, till these days I don't know much about blogging. I'm very conscious about the many mistakes I've made on my blog, and still I wasn't able to fix them! Why? First of all, I knew I had to find a single topic which could have made writing posts much easier on myself, but I couldn't decide on which topic to settle on for my writing-appetite, so that I kept blogging away without much consideration on visitors coming to my blog! <f>A</f>t some point, I had decided to fix this my own mistake by creating the, "Topic by categories" hoping that guess visitors would have found an easier way to navigate my blog. But, I guess that solution hasn't worked wonders! <f>L</f>ast answer to my problem was, for me to create a new blog with a simpler layout and most important a single topic. Indeed, I was working for some time in a new blog, but at some point I went back to my old blog and I thought to all the time I had invested on it. In fact, in that particular moment I felt like I was abandoning a my own child, and that's when, I realized that I could not gave it up on my first blog at all. Been the enemy of myself <f>O</f>f course, if I wanted to keep it running I had to change something about it. Not changing the blog's layout (too much work), but at least give a more clear direction in what I was going to blog about. You know, a single topic which could have kept visitors coming back for more on the same subject and don't get confused on my writing-wandering by changing topic regularly. And that's when I started to feel like I was being the enemy of myself. I knew what I had to do but I wasn't able to do it, because of my own inability to settle for a single subject to write about. I was well aware at the way I was mentally beating up on myself, for something that once I thought to be a foolish thing just wasting my time! <f>I</f> was once more struggling with myself while I was deciding toward what direction I should have moved my blog, you know, give a specific goal to its own existence. One day, I asked myself what the word, "blog" really meant and subsequently to my question I gave a simple answer. <f>B</f>logging for many bloggers could mean many things, but at some point I did realize that I couldn't compare or even come close to one of those big name bloggers from the blogopshere which are specialized in a particular niche, so that I had to move toward something simpler where I wasn't compelled to compete with. A knew right then, I had to redefine/strategize a new conception for my blog. Like the creation of a daily journal of my life where I could be able to space everywhere I wanted, without much limitations of a topic. A simpler weblog not devoted to any topic, but a kind of personal written log of daily events and thoughts. <f>I</f>ndeed, why couldn't my blog been a simple dairy without a real topic in which talk about. You know, like a personal online diaries. The one you write about your daily life, your daily doubts, your daily emotions on personal matters... and why not, even on worldwide events that hit our own moral senses. <f>S</f>o that for the moment, my personal little dilemma it is solved. I will make my blog a personal dairy, and with a possibility that in time I will change my own blog layout... and possibly its own name. And maybe, maybe I will decide in a remote future to create a new blog, and who knows... maybe even a real website (just a wishing thought of mine). <blockquote style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.</blockquote> <div style="text-align: left;">Wish me luck...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/me-myself-and-my-bloggingmania.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiV6GyrI0kvvn5OOl5_7apN3_Xcx6-uL7Wr9dpLxVlhFVHFF2zc4nA4kfyVe0iHXkhv3k6fkIcSgO6wdozE0HbhpSjxpsSAGo2dxxIinjKquH7G3R8XZFdJ4TtzASLSnx7u0D3eLXLck/s72-c/blogs.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-1310621127960733812</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:12:48.811-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">freedom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">green movement</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Iran</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Iranian revolution</category><title>Tears and blood in Iran for freedom</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://general-contents.mywindowintheworld.com/">General Contents</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUzp1QX3O7_XAKKHSEDBe-mQeP69SPkxKx9EgMeedomz02JVWpA0sJMlCHdHESZUW3Pz2pt9xmVz5OsW4lRYWwcd5NCHXPaBUw5jBNjp3dAH9oxNx_ASjzl8bsU07uYGGt5q2t9nQH2M/s1600-h/i31_19363371.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUzp1QX3O7_XAKKHSEDBe-mQeP69SPkxKx9EgMeedomz02JVWpA0sJMlCHdHESZUW3Pz2pt9xmVz5OsW4lRYWwcd5NCHXPaBUw5jBNjp3dAH9oxNx_ASjzl8bsU07uYGGt5q2t9nQH2M/s320/i31_19363371.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422683775325329234" border="0" /></a> <t>A</t> six and half months of clashes after a suspicious tainted election that has divided the nation of Iran, where is taking now the green movement with its civil protest? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>T</f>he Iranian clerical regime has been telling its own people that foreign forces are fomenting the opposition movement, but the people of Iran doesn't believe in it anymore. One thing for sure, the Iranian people have had enough and wants now a change on the top! <f>E</f>ven after the conservative Islamic cleric dominated state has been taking steps to restrict the flow of information to the outside world (especially with the usual banning of the foreign press), the Iranian people have found ways to communicate and let us know their current situation, with a flow of crude images of beatings and murdering. The Islamic Republic of Iran moving toward a procrastinated destiny <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEnOj9ErydTOBxrvI-DtDdRTCFt-KQcQnJiH4s6UU9UjZeq4pu27PsCW9aPGSPu_7Ra4t4AC2jMvdvEm-ttrycoTXFDADVQ9Fdpop3XD3DY5hEPxZyf-WAE_vvhX9x707j3OTyER4LZI/s1600-h/Iraaaan_4__664503a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJEnOj9ErydTOBxrvI-DtDdRTCFt-KQcQnJiH4s6UU9UjZeq4pu27PsCW9aPGSPu_7Ra4t4AC2jMvdvEm-ttrycoTXFDADVQ9Fdpop3XD3DY5hEPxZyf-WAE_vvhX9x707j3OTyER4LZI/s320/Iraaaan_4__664503a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422685534426992962" border="0" /></a> <f>A</f>re these protests taking Iran to a new Iranian revolution? For the time being this is not a revolution, or maybe it is the start of a new one! Well, we'll see how history will play it out... For the moment what we are witnessing is, a regime that is oppressing its own people with brutal forces by operating its own repressing mechanisms to prevent the reformist movement from freely express their dissent for the lack of justice and freedom in their own nation. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvsH03-wDT-oBixK_bpDhYVS4EiYvrfFo3VNkVO2rIDd5DP_TjjyoTkraLGCfBg2DOoQ-qlc-9SiFKC-CMpzR5Xc7x64BpdQM1fock3DAXK56bZb9ZDX-_s5Ebp_HQY-IFbiMO1cyUEs/s1600-h/iran_0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvsH03-wDT-oBixK_bpDhYVS4EiYvrfFo3VNkVO2rIDd5DP_TjjyoTkraLGCfBg2DOoQ-qlc-9SiFKC-CMpzR5Xc7x64BpdQM1fock3DAXK56bZb9ZDX-_s5Ebp_HQY-IFbiMO1cyUEs/s320/iran_0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422686252862596738" border="0" /></a> <blockquote>Humanity can't be chained and restricted from its own freedoms for very long, and because of its inherited condition of being born free, humanity, soon a later will rebel with excessive force to its own tyrant. <div style="text-align: right;">Red.eVolution </div></blockquote> IRAN - Road to Freedom <object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/r6z2eMbYpRM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/r6z2eMbYpRM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="285" width="340"></embed></object> <f>L</f>ooks to me that since this world came to be doesn't matter what part of it an individual lives in or what religion he practices in it, but when comes to personal freedoms any single individual living in this our planet will fight his oppressors with last of his remaining forces to defeat them! Bella ciao, Iran <object height="285" width="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/SNocyz1NRjA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/SNocyz1NRjA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="285" width="340"></embed></object> We, the people of the free world are with you in your fight for freedom and democracy. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/RedeVolution/RedeVolutionfeather-1.gif" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/01/tears-and-blood-in-iran-for-freedom.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUzp1QX3O7_XAKKHSEDBe-mQeP69SPkxKx9EgMeedomz02JVWpA0sJMlCHdHESZUW3Pz2pt9xmVz5OsW4lRYWwcd5NCHXPaBUw5jBNjp3dAH9oxNx_ASjzl8bsU07uYGGt5q2t9nQH2M/s72-c/i31_19363371.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-1980537762707321577</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:13:17.376-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">illuminated Islamic movement</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovative processes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim hostility</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslims' afflictions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Western models</category><title>The roots of Muslim hostility and rejection toward Western cultures</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://islam.mywindowintheworld.com/">Islam</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO36M-0iP7_DTfIYdEGSTsE1ja-nznqKcV-UOLE83EN8sdRz_qAVisFbEDicAha7EF4aXmTFcuCSo38SD0-wJLAsx4OI3_21WuJAOu3-ECBoj8LAad60pnMv8qnN6H0pe1iFVH9KIr4s/s1600-h/US_flag_burning_2a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO36M-0iP7_DTfIYdEGSTsE1ja-nznqKcV-UOLE83EN8sdRz_qAVisFbEDicAha7EF4aXmTFcuCSo38SD0-wJLAsx4OI3_21WuJAOu3-ECBoj8LAad60pnMv8qnN6H0pe1iFVH9KIr4s/s320/US_flag_burning_2a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420772267044333234" border="0" /></a> <t>O</t>nce thanks to Islam, Muslim civilization may have achieved great importance in economic, literacy, scientific and mathematical discoveries. But in this our modern world, Islam has only greatly impaired much of Muslim aspirations into a deepening inferior state of decay. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> <f>I</f>n fact, the conditions in which some Muslim nations are living in today, are based on social and political foundations dictated by a retrograde and undermining force such as Islam. An Islam, which with its restricted malevolent and contort vision on the Muslim world, is indeed, incapacitating any single Muslim nation to fully develop into modern and vibrant societies. <f>A</f>t the present time, many in the Middle East are blaming Westerner ideologies and influences for their lack in achievements. But, what about the simple truth! The simple truth that the lack of freedom inside these Muslim nations plus a guiding force such as Islam which may be the main culprit for their diminished strength in world stage importance. The separation of Church and State. <f>R</f>eligions should be excluded from running national affairs, and nothing sounds more true especially when comes to Islam. Indeed, in the case of Islam without much exaggeration I can affirm that the more Islam a nation gets and the less freedom this same nation will get. And unfortunately, that's what is really much happening in the Middle East nowadays! Muslims' afflictions. <f>A</f>n apparent imposing Western presence with the additions of growing awareness of the weakness, poverty, and backwardness from within the Islamic world when the same is compared with the advancements of a progressive Westerner hemisphere, it has in the end helped in creating a rising tide of rebellion against this so called, "Western dominion". <f>S</f>ome Muslim's distresses, are being currently manifested with extreme hostilities toward everything that looks, smells, and sounds of Westernized. And even though some Muslims are currently living in Western societies, they are incapable to accept their values, and as a matter of fact, with their vivid desires to reaffirm and reestablish an Islamic greatness and values, these extreme Muslims are even trying to destroy their hosting systems by replacing them with the one that they had just left behind. <f>T</f>here was a time of when many Muslim nations (thanks to some enthusiastic Muslim reformers) tried to emulate Westerner societies by importing and installing models of democratic imitations inside their own societies, hoping to elevate their depressed realities toward better conditions. <f>B</f>ut them, had miserably failed because they were partially, or wrongly applied, or because very few were the beneficiaries involved in the (back then) innovative processes. In fact, Western models for those Muslim nations were just simulated models which in return brought them more poverties and tyrannies. <f>O</f>f course, there can be many others explanatory for Muslim hostilities toward Westerner cultures. But definitively I'm not an expert on the subject, so that, in this rather reductive considerations of mine for the lack of Muslims achievements, I would conclude them here by saying: it isn't even so surprising that many discontent Muslims were willing to listen to those voices from radical Imams which were telling them that the old Islamic ways were the best and that the only ways they had left were to throw away those infidels' introductions from the reformists and go back to the true path that Allah through Islam and its prophet Mohamed had dictated for them... ...and that Islamic fundamentalism can't be the only one that have been incorporated in the traditional Islam, but nowadays there are other movements which are more open and more tolerant. And ultimately, those movements could help inspiring (like in the Islamic civilizations from the past) a new Islamic Renascence, that could give to today's Muslim masses some inspiring tools to achieve their wishes. <f>S</f>ince those innovating processes failures, many years are passed. And yet, mostly of Muslim states are still ruled by either a ruthless repressive or a deeply theocratic regimes, coupled with their millenarian Islamic cultures which only breed poverty, lack of education, and total despair in both urban and rural parts of most Muslim countries. Those factors are in fact in the very end, what have really created a danger mix of Islamic fanaticism and terrorist activities. <f>L</f>et's all hope that some illuminated Islamic movement which professes the use of reason and individualism above old traditions and religion will succeed, and it will bring about many humanitarian reforms inside Muslim societies.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEZ4N9So0lfCVTkd6p2lzGCI9JUr5mnGEfJfnyIwlsmAC8ly4YikNUzLrQlDabjtWABy1rnyu0doC15akptpzwpkqTR-2QZvaRGAjt1cwE5PgrqrsmgXrpzN271WiFfvANcvIXk14xIw/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOEZ4N9So0lfCVTkd6p2lzGCI9JUr5mnGEfJfnyIwlsmAC8ly4YikNUzLrQlDabjtWABy1rnyu0doC15akptpzwpkqTR-2QZvaRGAjt1cwE5PgrqrsmgXrpzN271WiFfvANcvIXk14xIw/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417343438577719010" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vGTWCiQxOPSYmoRvfNSMaqK4maKbRS5m16LVwVIKOpbDXpIJAi5GIlAti-r4jrJJ2DHM4YWtzkUIqDa9aoBwYWZ_V0YI_60Q7KQLO__PUhR_5_8rnThG3Bk1ZIV7S4vqfrbj6MyoMuI/s320/upbtn2.png" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/roots-of-muslim-hostility-and-rejection.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO36M-0iP7_DTfIYdEGSTsE1ja-nznqKcV-UOLE83EN8sdRz_qAVisFbEDicAha7EF4aXmTFcuCSo38SD0-wJLAsx4OI3_21WuJAOu3-ECBoj8LAad60pnMv8qnN6H0pe1iFVH9KIr4s/s72-c/US_flag_burning_2a.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-9067652503498985598</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:14:10.732-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Europe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Honor Killings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islamophobia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim</category><title>Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion (part III)</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://honor-killings.mywindowintheworld.com/">Honor Killings</a><a href="http://islam.mywindowintheworld.com/">/Islam</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVUvDtyqCE5UlOwMBUEHaT_oE0Oq9I6GgNLnTyzvxcdhontCHBHDOvVKwK6AuDGwZe0CuqVMmwPp5TA1biOCOj1APe4j-QZ_oWbj1FGE2UBxmwhgsXa6l8xY0Dqvoax7b-Cosp2ZnMiE/s1600-h/TheySeem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVUvDtyqCE5UlOwMBUEHaT_oE0Oq9I6GgNLnTyzvxcdhontCHBHDOvVKwK6AuDGwZe0CuqVMmwPp5TA1biOCOj1APe4j-QZ_oWbj1FGE2UBxmwhgsXa6l8xY0Dqvoax7b-Cosp2ZnMiE/s400/TheySeem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416166843281008402" border="0" /></a> <t>A</t> last addition: there wasn't any plan from me to write a third part of the, "Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion" but after reading an article from the Herald Sun I've decided to add this last part. <div style="text-align: center;">One more reason for Western civilization to despise Islam? </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s1600-h/fbkbar22z.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 41px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjcp2KXw5hzFAmfZf-EB7ZP98M90ks7Uebm5HB1zu1aN7WTi6uZgVdhwQGig6nVUI1bbb3eeJbwn0AUItqV47HOxAZMOUCG7BdvbS2t0GbIyAMRfGkpQ-NR628BZ4J1ZwTdkV_ewZ8Bo/s400/fbkbar22z.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415673673133402466" border="0" /></a> from: <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/men-sought-to-kill-woman-for-adultery/story-e6frf7lf-1225807527490">Herald Sun</a> Men sought to kill woman for adultery in Spain <blockquote>SPANISH police have arrested nine men suspected of seeking to have a woman killed after they accused her of adultery, claiming they were following Islamic law, authorities said. The men were arrested on November 14 and seven have been held in jail, a police spokesman said. According to police, the woman had been taken in March and held in an isolated house in Valls in northeastern Catalonia. Authorities say the men set up a court there to judge her for adultery. "These men had formed a kind of court to apply (Islamic) sharia law,'' the spokesman said, adding the woman told authorities she was tried and sentenced to death. She was later able to escape and report what happened to police.</blockquote> <f>N</f>ow following, a couple of questions regarding Islam: Would Islam really be that beneficial to Europe's interests? and... Does Islam poses no threat to Europe values? <f>I</f>n my opinion, we will be very disingenuous to say that Islam is compatible with any principle of democracy and social equality. Islam indeed is, not other than a bunch of unreasoning pretension ideas (and hence not a real religion), created by a false interpreter (Muhammad) of the will of God. And today Islam is guarded by a gang of Islamic extremists to incite gender inequality and to submit to it, the capacity from human minds to think freely. <f>I</f>slam has a reputation (which it's getting more tainted as time goes by) to defend from the assault of severe criticisms coming from free spirits of this modern era! How it will do it? For sure, by not blowing up or slaughtering innocent's lives to sacrifice in the Allah's name! <f>H</f>ere, I want to emphasize for the sake of argument that in Europe in some respects there are some forms of Islamophobia. Yes, not doubt about it! But, in the same time isn't Europe the most liberal, tolerant, pluralistic society humankind has ever known! Is it? <div style="text-align: center;">Why these days standing against Islam's nonsense makes you a racist? </div> <f>I</f>n conclusion, isn't really my intention in this blog to foment any anti-Muslim sentiments but questionings about Islam beneficence toward open societies, and to do it so I want to be able to dispute it without the limitations of expressing myself freely without being called a racist, which eventually even in a partially Islamized society would happened by imposing on me restrictions on my personal freedom of expression. Naturally there is some form of Islamophobia in Europe, but Islam (not doubt about it) is clearly Freedom-phobic. <f>T</f>hese last parts aren't mine but I took from a commentary section of the <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2401565/posts">Free Republic</a>: <blockquote>To: george76 This one’s simple: Islam is a totalitarian political movement which uses religious symbolism and beliefs to bind together its believers. It’s remarkably effective at confounding the opposition and maintaining group cohesion. Here in Spain is a great example. Without any sort of prompting or coordination from above, Islam believers, on their own, begin to establish their political structure inside the host’s government and apply their law to their own believers. Communists try to do this in a clumsy manner with “cells” and little groups of believers, but the left is a clumsy buffoon compared to these guys. I’ll be willing to bet that there’s actually a tipping point when a minority of the population is Islamic in which the mass of believers starts undermining the culture and political structure of the host country. It would be interesting to know what that percentage looks like. In any case, if Islam succeeds in its mission, humanity sinks into a long dark ages berift of reason and individual rights. God help us. </blockquote> and... <blockquote>To: redpoll Here's the gist of it with the exemplar countries stripped out for space and readability considerations: Islamization of a society begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for discriminatory religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other manifestations tend to infiltrate, eroding and contaminating the culture. As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize among other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world. When Moslems approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing genocide), use of Sharia law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels After 80%, there is daily intimidation and violent jihad, some state-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Islam. 100% supposedly ushers in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace. There is supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word Unfortunately, peace is never achieved! As in the 100% states above, the most radical Muslims intimidate, spew hatred, violate women and children, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, using rationalizations and corruptions of every basic human decency. Whether in mutilating women or raping young boys, they invoke the name of religion for authority. One only need to recall the killing of innocent female children in Saudi Arabia by religious police, or the atrocities of the Taliban in order to realize that we are in a war where our enemies do not fight by the rules governing civilized nations.</blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/islamic-culture-degeneracy-and-social_17.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVUvDtyqCE5UlOwMBUEHaT_oE0Oq9I6GgNLnTyzvxcdhontCHBHDOvVKwK6AuDGwZe0CuqVMmwPp5TA1biOCOj1APe4j-QZ_oWbj1FGE2UBxmwhgsXa6l8xY0Dqvoax7b-Cosp2ZnMiE/s72-c/TheySeem.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-128287287197491197</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:14:42.314-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cheap journalisms</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Europe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islamophobia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">minaret</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Switzerland</category><title>Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion (part II)</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://islam.mywindowintheworld.com/">Islam</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Trw2sGnThIYvdG8zsfiw-wO5fOv7lX3XL_9CxALrJnG4F4FgzKZUn_wbUZVuygAbln-aqzPWBQ87l4mvAne7FUw2hxA_s-HoelRIDN-tkpeeXytsSb0aoQZZ5Hg-kSK-PGCJe1QcTSo/s1600-h/6a00d8341c630a53ef012875fa75ed970c-400wi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Trw2sGnThIYvdG8zsfiw-wO5fOv7lX3XL_9CxALrJnG4F4FgzKZUn_wbUZVuygAbln-aqzPWBQ87l4mvAne7FUw2hxA_s-HoelRIDN-tkpeeXytsSb0aoQZZ5Hg-kSK-PGCJe1QcTSo/s400/6a00d8341c630a53ef012875fa75ed970c-400wi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413747704085841778" border="0" /></a> These days already, I have read enough of incoherent and illogical reasonings from would-be journalists preying into Europeans' fears of Islam, for their filthy personal gains. These misleading reporters of truth, had once again plunged into the last story of anti-Islamic manifestation by distorting and twisting it, as they like it. <div style="text-align: center;">The Swiss minaret ban. </div> The Islam-intolerance marked by these so called, "journalists" in their personal articles aren't just exploiting the causes and effects of the fears deriving from European populaces been infected by a demoniac visionary theorization for all humanity, but (with the exclusions of a few) they've continuously (and I even dare to say) intentionally, blamed only one side with constant criticism of Islamophobia. The dislike of Islam is well-founded in Western countries, and they've been far too tolerant of Muslim extremism and intimidation. Are the irrational and intrinsic fear of Islam have struck once again in Europe's heart? And now that some European nation's citizens, are trying to stand up at this demoniac force by not been hushed anymore by the fears of been instantly labeled Islamophobics (and as usually occurs in these kind of events), them, these European's citizens have been also, unceasingly criticized (besides from the cheap journalisms) by political correctness and apologetics of this false doctrine of peace. The outlawing minarets' law in Switzerland has (maybe) helped in galvanizing anti-Islamic movements in act these days all over Europe, and in the same time this law has made myself wondering on: what will come next? Minarets, along with women's veils, Sharia's courts and the fear of homegrown terroristic cells, aren't all dominant symbols of a benevolent (not so much hypothetical) Islamism advancing in Europe but the advancing guard of an evil empire ready to strike at the core of dying civilizations. The minaret is another symbol of a political and Islamic aggressiveness toward Westerner nations, and now that Europeans are trying to safeguard their own cultures from been polluted by a pretentious and deranged religion... and these apostasies of the truth are rejecting what for centuries Europeans had fought for, "Democracy and Freedom". On a personal note: <blockquote>the growing of Islamophobia in the West isn't to be squarely blamed on the Westerners but on those Muslims which wouldn't adjust and assimilate to a better world by leaving theirs behind.</blockquote> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT0Vx0_B5-c_sKQOLpuxLaUV8uo5IdMYew3g6rFbGQQd0vRdC0WCS-FY-8BvIPKnpCkMB9RxHMp5Lp6_2yhoeRr-8yZq-ujPPemwOEelT34_0AEgIfHwsdqiV63qwQhz_Zg4xK1vHSdXg/s1600-h/FranceMW.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT0Vx0_B5-c_sKQOLpuxLaUV8uo5IdMYew3g6rFbGQQd0vRdC0WCS-FY-8BvIPKnpCkMB9RxHMp5Lp6_2yhoeRr-8yZq-ujPPemwOEelT34_0AEgIfHwsdqiV63qwQhz_Zg4xK1vHSdXg/s320/FranceMW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413746546396297970" border="0" /></a> Nowadays however, if Western societies will act toward Islam according their consciences and moralities, they, these Western societies will soon be overrun by a bunch of possessed Islamists asking them to submit their believes and free minds, to their bloody God. Is this what we all really want? Go back into medieval times! If we act according to what is right and wrong, soon, very soon we will! Islamic extension on European continent, isn't a conundrum for European's politicians to deal at easy with political's appeasements, but with swift and harsh political actions now rather than later, when it will obviously be too late to fix it! For sure, if we keep ourselves in this same route of ignoring this increasing problem with inactions, we are procrastinating our fates to a certain future of perennial darkness. Next: <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/islamic-culture-degeneracy-and-social_17.html">Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion (part III)</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/islamic-culture-degeneracy-and-social_10.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Trw2sGnThIYvdG8zsfiw-wO5fOv7lX3XL_9CxALrJnG4F4FgzKZUn_wbUZVuygAbln-aqzPWBQ87l4mvAne7FUw2hxA_s-HoelRIDN-tkpeeXytsSb0aoQZZ5Hg-kSK-PGCJe1QcTSo/s72-c/6a00d8341c630a53ef012875fa75ed970c-400wi.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-776137948336220366</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:15:15.061-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cultural suicide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sharia</category><title>Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion (part I)</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://islam.mywindowintheworld.com/">Islam</a> </div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEuvYb5FiTYqP_vkDHdGPJDKD-tU58sHBdFTw0zLYexaDxrTcjEVBOYTrTrjHZwSturXV_RNl-gZHoLaExE45dWyQ8L1kcLVDrnZsPTmRM5zyeZ39GkBURhatuPlJLP1kmT5PxCcGMwY/s1600-h/muslimDM1511_468x310.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEuvYb5FiTYqP_vkDHdGPJDKD-tU58sHBdFTw0zLYexaDxrTcjEVBOYTrTrjHZwSturXV_RNl-gZHoLaExE45dWyQ8L1kcLVDrnZsPTmRM5zyeZ39GkBURhatuPlJLP1kmT5PxCcGMwY/s400/muslimDM1511_468x310.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413001180259852834" border="0" /></a> While the world is sleeping, a silent and danger peril is slowly sneaking up on our morals and beliefs.... A forthcoming threatening future isn't that hard to envision in our minds anymore!!! Shutting down our hears wouldn't avoid us the perceiving of those ominous noises (coming from a savage bunch of hollering Islamic supporters) of arriving from the background to us, and either closing our eyes wouldn't make those indigestible pictures (of indiscriminating terrorist's bombings on innocents), to magically disappear from our consciences. Ignoring this problem wouldn't be sufficient to make it cease to exist in our nightmares, or to avoid all together the danger of cultural suicides due to Islamized societies where Sharia's courts will humiliate human dignities by just the limiting of the basic liberties! We don't want in our societies, a bunch of fanatic savages ready to burn and kill over a cartoon, or the murdering of their sisters because they've shamed their family! Do we? And now we all, are well aware to the need of waking up without delay to this threatening dogma before it is too late. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0To6wiN4FlIqeLkVimIEFXPGqK_zb0P10HD5cyDAkb0FL2JRdHAYgn7q-L4B2h0Kp6OO2hTdjCvFmpNveKReFn3pn05we7akspGoTYqc2efP-5tVCYVLUWAxnwOsUNyh_IjZ36rGzE8/s1600-h/islam.democracy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0To6wiN4FlIqeLkVimIEFXPGqK_zb0P10HD5cyDAkb0FL2JRdHAYgn7q-L4B2h0Kp6OO2hTdjCvFmpNveKReFn3pn05we7akspGoTYqc2efP-5tVCYVLUWAxnwOsUNyh_IjZ36rGzE8/s400/islam.democracy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413000318379769282" border="0" /></a> What it's Islam? Islam is: an oppressing religion, a tool for the subservience of women, a culture degeneracy, a community dis-cohesiveness and more, much more of negativity. What isn't Islam? Islam isn't: a religion of peace, a harmonizing factor for societies, a highlighted ideology, or anything else of positively influential to modern societies. <div style="text-align: center;">*** </div> Of course, behind a Muslim's label lays a human being in flesh and blood. But when this same human being is under the curse of a a malefic force such as Islam, and this human being is forced to extremism from the worst of fanaticism ever lived in human's history, well, what we'll get is a mindless zombie that is ready to sacrifice himself and the lives of innocents in the name of this deceiving religion of peace. Avoiding the path of cultural suicide. We wouldn't want a gang of savage Islamic extremists roaming tirelessly our streets, in search for sinners to be punished under unmerciful Sharia's laws. Or worst, to witness the burnings and killings over a Danish cartoon! Wouldn't we? Nevertheless we wouldn't accept in our beloved nations, the murdering of their own sisters because they've shamed their families! And now, after years of experiencing the, "Islamic's effect" in our modern societies, we, the decent people, the people that believe in free speech and in the principles of democracy couldn't take it any longer. We've had enough of it! Next: <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/islamic-culture-degeneracy-and-social_10.html">Islamic culture degeneracy and social dis-cohesion (part II)</a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/islamic-culture-degeneracy-and-social.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEuvYb5FiTYqP_vkDHdGPJDKD-tU58sHBdFTw0zLYexaDxrTcjEVBOYTrTrjHZwSturXV_RNl-gZHoLaExE45dWyQ8L1kcLVDrnZsPTmRM5zyeZ39GkBURhatuPlJLP1kmT5PxCcGMwY/s72-c/muslimDM1511_468x310.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-33125524315823242</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:15:46.666-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bustarella</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cesare Terranova</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sicilian</category><title>Why the Mafia can't be defeated in Sicily? (part 2)</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mafia.mywindowintheworld.com/">Mafia</a></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83r9xXXq1uZe7JJoHFXhF1Zr6S20sP4rtxgs7-OfB3pkq8U5AriLuxwMGG9XHiZzPLTPu2dBw7RsVY1c-ebmmP3cOAKBc9FZL0Dg2HvrkoCCwu5m1zh_pXo7bcoNu4WoNSAHltTwGHWg/s1600/guerra-mafia-alcamo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83r9xXXq1uZe7JJoHFXhF1Zr6S20sP4rtxgs7-OfB3pkq8U5AriLuxwMGG9XHiZzPLTPu2dBw7RsVY1c-ebmmP3cOAKBc9FZL0Dg2HvrkoCCwu5m1zh_pXo7bcoNu4WoNSAHltTwGHWg/s400/guerra-mafia-alcamo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406519544347701202" border="0" /></a> Removing those misfit kids from the Mafia's claws before they'll become adults and from there callous criminals, shouldn't be that hard to do it. By simply giving some possibilities for better futures to them and their parents, these kids will become productive and responsible adults to a modern society. Of course all this will be only possible if, the Italian national institutions will set a policy from preventing those kids in becoming the next, "Mafiosi". From what I could see, there were two main culprits to be called in cause: the first culprit as I said is, the Italian State not doing much (besides the detecting/policing, prosecution and jailing works on affiliated of the Mafia) on the prevention. I don't believe in the effectiveness of a zero tolerance policy the same ways it was applied (more likely it was imposed) on the New Jersey and New York's populations, for safer and cleaner neighborhoods! That kind of policy isn't going to work in the Sicilian Society, but only steer social unrest. Giving jobs to those low income family living in run-down neighborhoods is, of course, a first line to fight criminality perpetrated by minors. Those same neighborhoods should be cared more from the Italian government, to prevent the Mafia of using them as a reservoir to resupply its troops. Moreover, new resources should be spent in those neighborhoods, like social workers taking care of low ambient families by helping them arise to high standards of living. Those same social workers should in the same time, enforce the kids' parents to send their children to attend schools and do follow up their progress during their growing up. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPHytuzZ0UjDL-nULKE41fd-EIOxjbLXwXrYeFBhfyQzs3c0FRSG0ikxRcNnLjPdIdNHwZ6nNgjX7F2PqzaBqbzSZMBsW2wXuyh6yYTsm4hmcWv40oTuW-f1nlMCxFEfqeZDIcQiEFbE/s1600/0_bambinispazzatura010alta333500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPHytuzZ0UjDL-nULKE41fd-EIOxjbLXwXrYeFBhfyQzs3c0FRSG0ikxRcNnLjPdIdNHwZ6nNgjX7F2PqzaBqbzSZMBsW2wXuyh6yYTsm4hmcWv40oTuW-f1nlMCxFEfqeZDIcQiEFbE/s400/0_bambinispazzatura010alta333500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406521473377814866" border="0" /></a> Police patrolling on foot those streets should be a norm, especially in very difficult neighborhoods, to prevent the criminality of infiltrating them. Parks should also be created in those neighborhoods, to give to the people that are living in them a sense of communities. As well, garbages should be collected regularly, streets, schools and any other social infrastructures should be well maintained in those same neighborhoods, to not give a false impression to those people that the Italian national government doesn't really care much about them. The second culprit is: in the Sicilian culture there are many things that should be thrown out! In the Sicilian culture is indeed occulted, a certain mentality of mafiositi. For example: in Sicilian dialect there are some words like mafiosetto/mafiosetta (youngsters, acting in mafioso's ways) not seen and used in derogatory terms by a part of the Sicilian population but as some form of rewarding badges for an ill-mannered youngster. People looking to circumnavigate (as I mentioned in a previous post, see: <a href="http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/fighting-mafia-incorrect-conceptions.html">Fighting the Mafia-Incorrect conceptions and bad attitudes from the Sicilians people</a>) the normal difficulties of the day to day life, by applying unorthodox methods to beat the system by form of cheats such as l'arte di arranggiarsi (the art of getting by) by asking favors to the wrong people. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjkhQS-60jaqx5xFr1TO982EAQ-2TrAEbCB0wE0qvrDw-eEBRcZtAjWwfc8wVmG42_dhMSKs-h94W4ZI0RrlF4iqb3V2lgpIkO49_oa17WFnaLbvBOZmJPGxa3bDcCaLVk6IJGF-VAgY/s1600/sicilia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjkhQS-60jaqx5xFr1TO982EAQ-2TrAEbCB0wE0qvrDw-eEBRcZtAjWwfc8wVmG42_dhMSKs-h94W4ZI0RrlF4iqb3V2lgpIkO49_oa17WFnaLbvBOZmJPGxa3bDcCaLVk6IJGF-VAgY/s400/sicilia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406518912961495042" border="0" /></a> They see politicians stealing and cheating on regular basis, or when seeing the employers not paying the taxes or not paying themselves the appropriate salaries. An other of unethical behaviors is when they are seeing someone to pay the, "bustarella" (little envelopes containing cash which is used to bribe someone in getting in return a big favor). Unfortunately, to a portion of the Sicilian population such occurrences are seen as a normalcies, and when they can they'll apply the same methods. All the above statements are not helping much in fighting the Mafia at the present time, but helping the Mafia in its own survival. Until the culprits which I have mentioned in this current post are not defeated, the Mafia too won't be defeated! I must point out that in the Sicilian past somehow, must have been an hidden agenda from some political puppeteers which were acting in the shadows to keep the Sicilian's status-quo unchanged for personal gains. <blockquote>"The Mafia is oppression, arrogance, greed, self-enrichment, power and hegemony above and against all others. It is not an abstract concept, or a state of mind, or a literary term... It is a criminal organization regulated by unwritten but iron and inexorable rules... The myth of a courageous and generous 'man of honor' must be destroyed, because a mafioso is just the opposite."</blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdUUuvsCx99M8MWhzKZ93yXQ4P2bhwlwRIDYoqjfBYZ0U91Urv_FWm9JQpeFl_FuvMDId4oae8ym3Rj-jkkBUodKjq-AQk2x9hry3j8Jaj7jlYjmgU7CVJ_yUYaXSO7dZJ-yyI9caLGs/s1600/Cesare+Terranova.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 357px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdUUuvsCx99M8MWhzKZ93yXQ4P2bhwlwRIDYoqjfBYZ0U91Urv_FWm9JQpeFl_FuvMDId4oae8ym3Rj-jkkBUodKjq-AQk2x9hry3j8Jaj7jlYjmgU7CVJ_yUYaXSO7dZJ-yyI9caLGs/s400/Cesare+Terranova.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406512887390051330" border="0" /></a>-- Cesare Terranova, Italian Magistrate murdered in 1979 </div> Nowadays things are looking a bit different for Sicily and maybe, maybe, there is finally some hopes for the honest, working Sicilian families.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-mafia-cant-be-defeated-in-sicily_21.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83r9xXXq1uZe7JJoHFXhF1Zr6S20sP4rtxgs7-OfB3pkq8U5AriLuxwMGG9XHiZzPLTPu2dBw7RsVY1c-ebmmP3cOAKBc9FZL0Dg2HvrkoCCwu5m1zh_pXo7bcoNu4WoNSAHltTwGHWg/s72-c/guerra-mafia-alcamo.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-6499470395075464281</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:16:01.637-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Giovanni Falcone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Palermo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">picciotti</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">scippo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sicily</category><title>Why the Mafia can't be defeated in Sicily? (part 1)</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mafia.mywindowintheworld.com/">Mafia</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6V3p5T1ZVZKZr3fBOIspWeZElZ4s4ygvW_jwzqBn2MoTqe4gzkPraEgLQnuMFSuFOcjof5h73GEvQyj4ImytShLgN78VnB7TruMVn9icMuuk2r1qBaAqQK0paURTT-vUvFaP6mhX5j8/s1600/sopranos1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 349px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6V3p5T1ZVZKZr3fBOIspWeZElZ4s4ygvW_jwzqBn2MoTqe4gzkPraEgLQnuMFSuFOcjof5h73GEvQyj4ImytShLgN78VnB7TruMVn9icMuuk2r1qBaAqQK0paURTT-vUvFaP6mhX5j8/s400/sopranos1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405888286644974114" border="0" /></a>The Sopranos </div> The Mafia is a sort of ghost, invisible to anyone visiting Sicily unless he does know how to look for it, for all other residents it's all an other matter... First, it's the kind of Mafia you won't find on American movies but the kind of Mafia you'll find in Sicily has nothing appealing. Those American movies based on the glamorous American Mafia are contrasting sharply with the reality of the Sicilian Mafia. The Sicilian Mafia is a revolting, treacherous, deceitful, viscid, threatening world that like a leech sustains itself by bloodsucking vital lymph from the sane tissues of the Sicilian society. <div style="text-align: center;">Why the Mafia can't be defeated in Sicily? </div> That's the one million dollar question which I wish, I could answer it! I'll take my years I lived in Sicily as an example while I'm trying to give an answer to this Sicilian eternal dilemma. I remember from the experience that I had acquired while I was living in Palermo, that there was a stratified society similar to many other societies you'll find around the globe: there were the wealthy of an upper class, the middle-income people (as might be expected) from the middle-class, and last a lower class made up of the underprivileged such as: the poor, the helpless, the illiterates, the miserables, the misfortunate people, along with all the other kind of inadequates from a society (note: this last class sometimes has been rejected by the the rest of the upper-classes, but it has also been totally neglected by a failing Italian system for a very long time). <div style="text-align: center;">*** </div> Now, from this lower class is where most of the times the Mafia refuels its ranks. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaWcFu2zfjPtNrs7BUBa2m-Em6f8DQ_TmjhRRqMnzpsysvBrQ9tw8rkE7a4VlEbLYKKZ2sKX2Oe88mJMs1G0OF-2slbAZUrpkDUePyfTpo9vL7t5Q1TR4fgnXsGf0B8qMosXCUf9K2kc/s1600/zen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaWcFu2zfjPtNrs7BUBa2m-Em6f8DQ_TmjhRRqMnzpsysvBrQ9tw8rkE7a4VlEbLYKKZ2sKX2Oe88mJMs1G0OF-2slbAZUrpkDUePyfTpo9vL7t5Q1TR4fgnXsGf0B8qMosXCUf9K2kc/s320/zen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405887309090651826" border="0" /></a> The people of this class, usually lives in unacceptable conditions inside run-down neighborhoods where crime is the norm, and where the kids of this lower class hardly get to finish the primary schools so that they can manage to speak a decent and acceptable Italian language. Those kids are usually been neglected by their own fathers (ordinarily these fathers are men with stone aged mentalities) and are spending the rest of their days hanging around the streets by doing nothing or almost nothing! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQW5iZuOe011foDntnoSdbxpNePewyKdvCKhnjN_2KUSf0k05JkpkyVuUhEqj8-H7J-u5TrkuFI4BpI8JjQRgMOTYHmFOekGuCxEY7u-djIbJEczHiubDZsSThSKCix7Ojo2cLee4kzI/s1600/t02r10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQW5iZuOe011foDntnoSdbxpNePewyKdvCKhnjN_2KUSf0k05JkpkyVuUhEqj8-H7J-u5TrkuFI4BpI8JjQRgMOTYHmFOekGuCxEY7u-djIbJEczHiubDZsSThSKCix7Ojo2cLee4kzI/s320/t02r10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405885459831288882" border="0" /></a> That nothingness is where takes those kids in looking toward detrimental activities. First of all, they start their petty crimes activities with broken-windows, small burglaries, doing small favors of doubtful nature to the next neighborhood's thug (like delivering packages of drugs, or delivering dubious messages to the local bosses, etc and etc...) <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjfE0L3DDwLMU8zc8mPaBUA4UhhSK_DiOKjka-pVpd3XFin3nnU-13vIu2RKBJCjShOI-K7APgRqqQJkInBgmH1Kfii05WLWclG2qfvhbPguVWm3j25JPAfFVa8AuNMU7fPKcDcdzkqRw/s1600/lannino119553760701132156_big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjfE0L3DDwLMU8zc8mPaBUA4UhhSK_DiOKjka-pVpd3XFin3nnU-13vIu2RKBJCjShOI-K7APgRqqQJkInBgmH1Kfii05WLWclG2qfvhbPguVWm3j25JPAfFVa8AuNMU7fPKcDcdzkqRw/s320/lannino119553760701132156_big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405884060441313234" border="0" /></a> And soon, very soon escalating these activities with their first, "scippo". Scippo? What is this thing called scippo, you may ask! Ask a tourist that went to Sicily for a vacation, and maybe, he can answer you. The, "scippo" may sound like a beverage's name but it isn't. It's a violent motorcycle theft, and it is caused by the grabbing of an incautious's property with a violent pull by one or two kids while they are riding fast their motorcycle. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycQup7wqoXx_0rE0i33EcrTr0dZ3FUGbPJ8IfJwTSYAKNQmcNnbAHNWDlnSVIM0uUuajOmNMHv4IY4RP0MMDHTP3kCXBrpiyLnax4vAZT76Sd1jU7v8CV-YRus-Wx6iFMR6cjiu3dfs8/s1600/scippo-132d4-thumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycQup7wqoXx_0rE0i33EcrTr0dZ3FUGbPJ8IfJwTSYAKNQmcNnbAHNWDlnSVIM0uUuajOmNMHv4IY4RP0MMDHTP3kCXBrpiyLnax4vAZT76Sd1jU7v8CV-YRus-Wx6iFMR6cjiu3dfs8/s320/scippo-132d4-thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405883496139994066" border="0" /></a> Consequentially to that violent pull, the poor tourist is left on the street floor badly bruised and sometimes even with broken bones (this form of stealing it is most of the times, practiced on unaware tourists and rarely on the locals because the locals know where to find them or to who to talk to get the stolen property returned). As soon these kids grown up and the local family Mafia have noticed them, they will be engaged in their ranks as, "picciotti" (literally it means youngsters but in the Sicilian culture it was also used for soldiers) to do their dirty jobs. Mafia is an invisible and invincible force incapable of been defeated by traditional policing methods! <blockquote>I believe we should still have a long time to confront ourselves with the organized crime of mafia origin. For a long time, not for the eternity: because the Mafia is a human phenomenon and like all the human phenomenons it has an its beginning, an its evolution and it will also have an its end.</blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisYiOBwhaiSSyf1CGuVaUQCWr5Zag6H01WL5E2BjLnj9Pi7jEiO9Oskn2Z2ltLT2jEw7Bh4S-QKAfOAz8bK_FCwsI8I_ATdWjrg7Fh2RQ9wiUvVhfAYLBFt_hbWL8prQViBqAZUC5HtPA/s1600/180px-Falconebn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisYiOBwhaiSSyf1CGuVaUQCWr5Zag6H01WL5E2BjLnj9Pi7jEiO9Oskn2Z2ltLT2jEw7Bh4S-QKAfOAz8bK_FCwsI8I_ATdWjrg7Fh2RQ9wiUvVhfAYLBFt_hbWL8prQViBqAZUC5HtPA/s320/180px-Falconebn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405882064309806722" border="0" /></a>Giovanni Falcone (assassinated Italian judge) </div> Now my next question is: why this malicious cycle can't be broken by removing the running water from the watermill? 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(part 2)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-mafia-cant-be-defeated-in-sicily.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI6V3p5T1ZVZKZr3fBOIspWeZElZ4s4ygvW_jwzqBn2MoTqe4gzkPraEgLQnuMFSuFOcjof5h73GEvQyj4ImytShLgN78VnB7TruMVn9icMuuk2r1qBaAqQK0paURTT-vUvFaP6mhX5j8/s72-c/sopranos1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-343717537720524212</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:16:22.140-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Conca D'oro</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leoluca Orlando</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sack of Palermo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Vito Calogero Ciancimino</category><title>The years of the MAfiA's reign in Palermo.</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mafia.mywindowintheworld.com/">Mafia</a></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBJVitxCKb-6JIwpPsVxCAt9jZSzfY3c6eN_EuxDatTsRH_65zM_f4TzWn6idpRiUApUvtpNEW634COoD5gUa6SeF58LhlMJ-L6s9c8RWOrHtqlTgbwArBuLpTxYXzsVhDou75V_VZ1E/s1600-h/Red's+MAfiA.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBJVitxCKb-6JIwpPsVxCAt9jZSzfY3c6eN_EuxDatTsRH_65zM_f4TzWn6idpRiUApUvtpNEW634COoD5gUa6SeF58LhlMJ-L6s9c8RWOrHtqlTgbwArBuLpTxYXzsVhDou75V_VZ1E/s400/Red's+MAfiA.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401663371249293986" border="0" /></a> Before the carnages of the anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992, and before the carnage of Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa in 1982, and even before many other carnages that happened over there, there was a time in which Palermo was living in an apparent state of optimism while the Mafia was having very good times! Those were the years of when the Sicilian's Mafia families were dictating their laws, the years where legality and national institutions were partially active in Sicily, the years of the Mafia's illegal building constructions, rampant misappropriations, and corrupted mayors. <div style="text-align: center;">The years of Palermo's sack. </div> Thanks to the Mafia, there was for Palermo a partial era of economic boom (the only one I could ever recall from the years of my growing up in Palermo). All over the city of Palermo there was a frenetic activity of constructions. Construction buildings were springing up all over the city, like they were malefic mushrooms. I remember those years as the, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Palermo">Sack of Palermo</a>". <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP2KtenNk9FAoEjPIMpCGEtQA-K8vlk5wzwouC2V0b9RMslJs74_8WFYKJ99PAJouSBZq66jnJh13uqi9tq8rP-EPDWpwhN-bg5G9Dl9xIvh0aJzNCPN4kBPZZ1qcn-p5D4D2AVsZvdtc/s1600-h/1303984zm7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP2KtenNk9FAoEjPIMpCGEtQA-K8vlk5wzwouC2V0b9RMslJs74_8WFYKJ99PAJouSBZq66jnJh13uqi9tq8rP-EPDWpwhN-bg5G9Dl9xIvh0aJzNCPN4kBPZZ1qcn-p5D4D2AVsZvdtc/s320/1303984zm7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401811930103889618" border="0" /></a> I still have in my memories of a much smaller Palermo than it's today. From up above the mountains that are surrounding it, you could have had an astounding panoramic view. Palermo looked like was made of gold because of all its lemon's trees cultivations, and for that specific reason Palermo's valley was named, "La Conca D'oro" (the golden valley). From where I lived, my father to get in the city's center for work, he had only one small street available to reach his destination. Along this single street there was nothing but trees, interminable lines of lemon's trees and a few old buildings scattered all over. <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknaN4DaJLdU5yzoA74ga5LZNKkyDJYewJXlc_4r1UA-LgmXKo10GmeiQj8ePxhu-J4jqqLGYoTI75D1hNtxFjjiEbsV0JBNS2BUzKgoJ-qIYLtPNT2GukJ9S4Oll7B1Ih19O-njZBgPw/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknaN4DaJLdU5yzoA74ga5LZNKkyDJYewJXlc_4r1UA-LgmXKo10GmeiQj8ePxhu-J4jqqLGYoTI75D1hNtxFjjiEbsV0JBNS2BUzKgoJ-qIYLtPNT2GukJ9S4Oll7B1Ih19O-njZBgPw/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401807040444401266" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">La Conca d’Oro - (golden valley) </div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil painting of, "Francesco Lo Jacono' (1838-1915) </div> In a very short time everything was destroyed and replaced by a process of savage urbanization, even thanks to little controls from the competent authorities. I remember, a few of those Liberty stile Villas at the corner of viale della Liberta and viale Lazio, been bulldozed down just for speculative interests. I was too little to figure out why those marvelous Villas were demolished. The penetration from the Mafia of the public administrations was so deep, that they did find very little oppositions to their devastating pillages to the city. The Mafia sacked Palermo the same way the barbarians did to Rome. That's why that devastation is still remembered till these days as the, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Palermo">Sack of Palermo</a>". <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3toCtJ8M_xA2_-O7V10P46tR6pTiB1ZO7fR19nbuQhm4mNjg09DX70MN6A8QZyj8xVUQKoh7CcozrjJrgWfAaK9Zx5wy7FU_SHBeuVEOwXDTWgmCr6bPe4XJcmTq9RgQw-dCK1IDgAeI/s1600-h/vito-ciancimino.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3toCtJ8M_xA2_-O7V10P46tR6pTiB1ZO7fR19nbuQhm4mNjg09DX70MN6A8QZyj8xVUQKoh7CcozrjJrgWfAaK9Zx5wy7FU_SHBeuVEOwXDTWgmCr6bPe4XJcmTq9RgQw-dCK1IDgAeI/s400/vito-ciancimino.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401805879394541026" border="0" /></a>Vito Calogero Ciancimino. </div> The sack of Palermo was, the construction boom from the 1950s through the mid 1980s. The high point of the sack happened under the Christian Democrat Mayor Salvo Lima. Vito Calogero Ciancimino (born in Corleone) also a Christian Democrat, became assessor for public works and building permits under Salvo Lima. At some point Ciancimino himself became mayor of Palermo, and he gave out a record number of licenses for building constructions, which all of them were managed from the Corleonese's Mafia. Who was Ciancimino? He was an Italian politician and in the same time a criminal! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4AoVi0wgxZjQR5Ku2QpOb-Aj_CPisOfBUZb4GKPDpsCJLPymQ-kY1_oTCiT1UlN7Y5HlIYeQTZ4U7DQfMzKn-kZVhSIwIBSCpqELP63gurL0kWK0B2fHvuuxnPK8GBHEUOCyJ0JilgZo/s1600-h/1304111vx3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4AoVi0wgxZjQR5Ku2QpOb-Aj_CPisOfBUZb4GKPDpsCJLPymQ-kY1_oTCiT1UlN7Y5HlIYeQTZ4U7DQfMzKn-kZVhSIwIBSCpqELP63gurL0kWK0B2fHvuuxnPK8GBHEUOCyJ0JilgZo/s320/1304111vx3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401810519187319010" border="0" /></a> I remember from those times, the people of Palermo were much happier because there were more jobs availability (thanks to all the illegal construction buildings that were going on around all the city), and more jobs meant more cash were flowing into their packets. I remember that even my father was happy, because he was doing businesses in his shop with people in a hurry to spend their money. <div style="text-align: center;">The Mafiosi are the bad guys! </div> Unfortunately for the Palermitans that were wrongly believing that Mafia with its thriving and lucrative businesses of the cement coupled with cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking (and believe me, some Palermitans knew back then, who really had the hands firmly on the power of command) were really bringing jobs for everyone... <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnljLorPUuIOA3egxngYhjSnOTM84hjk1SLkt0H5hsG6wnlCYx7zr1B8UqHhxJhxguQSjmYpq4Gct_-ooinPQvESWjtCKWNu_qRG83fj-oM_RuXNKaGxzgtcjm5lZ97Xjm0hP16_-uNzQ/s1600-h/280_0_626983_193095.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnljLorPUuIOA3egxngYhjSnOTM84hjk1SLkt0H5hsG6wnlCYx7zr1B8UqHhxJhxguQSjmYpq4Gct_-ooinPQvESWjtCKWNu_qRG83fj-oM_RuXNKaGxzgtcjm5lZ97Xjm0hP16_-uNzQ/s320/280_0_626983_193095.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401812086525023090" border="0" /></a> Naturally, their dreams of better lives were easily shattered once the Italian State decided to put a stronghold to the Mafia's unrestrained criminal activities with the cement, by closing down all the building constructions and starting penal processes to the Mafia and all of the corrupted politicians accused of Mafia association. Consequentially to the Italian State's actions, a darker and deeper depression came back more revengeful than before by rolling down on a once green city, and now silent, exhausted, and cemented with its citizens left at the top of their desperations and drained from their energies and hopes. There was in those years, unattainable social peace for Sicily because of (besides the criminal organizations) inept and sometimes corrupted politicians. I don't know right now, but back then there were politicians very easily corruptible in exchange for votes, and the Mafia knew very well all that. Politicians were colluding together with the local Mafia's boss by plaguing the well-being of Sicilians, and overall, the same was happening to the rest of the south's Italian regions with their local 'Ndrangheta/Cammorra/Sacra Corona Unita/Stidda's bosses and their illicit activities! <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_d9M-lXUB6BRpjWC54_gkLISgbSXWIBi1colHIWZWDRYH5lMXmrJRTmjTT6mkaRPJYj6qLTGhpDfOyC5dqp9UGzXXJjsDbscTOXyimdYdlDn2RQyaKJ-dxDtagoi-gXbYOtG2YB05t_M/s1600-h/ORLANDO.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_d9M-lXUB6BRpjWC54_gkLISgbSXWIBi1colHIWZWDRYH5lMXmrJRTmjTT6mkaRPJYj6qLTGhpDfOyC5dqp9UGzXXJjsDbscTOXyimdYdlDn2RQyaKJ-dxDtagoi-gXbYOtG2YB05t_M/s400/ORLANDO.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401804909140283842" border="0" /></a>Leoluca Orlando - Former mayor of Palermo. </div> I would like to dedicate this post to one of the few good men left in Palermo, because of his activities in understanding, fighting, and sharing awareness on the pervasiveness of the Mafia in Sicilian society. This man is <a href="http://leolucaorlando.it/">Leoluca Orlando</a>, a former (and very honest and uncorrupted politician) mayor of Palermo.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s1600-h/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpgQabGNgbs04R2Cw9h6qGbdLT46slX4d1K2H1dqTWNVKl3AoQNGcqdQ47SKEgdRiL1OF3fhlfpXpEz3yNfucVAFLZcmAYWd9fykiu15uwj-WQiI5o1KUYOsAGzjRa3lfSMcuoHRMkrg/s400/Red.eVolution+feather.jpg" alt="Signature" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245201086252860258" border="0" height="153" width="246" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0)"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYxy5QSyhOH3ySpkzadm18cugn3zs4Mzyauf5JZ-N9HOIHUkQrUL4ux-8MWfGNpntD25d5kBUbHsejqoSXQ2fUNI7zsoCJM4lmMGaMkfLa51CK-LGDUI45CsNigLnrM0BeAvbd7Xnlxk/s400/upbtn.gif" title="Go Top Page" alt="Pointer" border="0" height="24" width="24" /></a> </description><link>http://mywindowintheworld.blogspot.com/2009/11/years-of-mafias-reign-in-palermo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Red.eVolution)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBJVitxCKb-6JIwpPsVxCAt9jZSzfY3c6eN_EuxDatTsRH_65zM_f4TzWn6idpRiUApUvtpNEW634COoD5gUa6SeF58LhlMJ-L6s9c8RWOrHtqlTgbwArBuLpTxYXzsVhDou75V_VZ1E/s72-c/Red's+MAfiA.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3156832126620977449.post-2538901939648329143</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T09:16:55.400-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fighting the Mafia-Incorrect conceptions and bad attitudes from the Sicilians people.</category><title>Fighting the Mafia-Incorrect conceptions and bad attitudes from the Sicilians people.</title><description><div style="text-align: right;">Category: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://mafia.mywindowintheworld.com/">Mafia</a></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8I9hz-1YN-sCZejwJ4lvMiZ_FpyyeybDOAjQVXg5sKT9OcwBEfOqi30FRsf-Er9LcccauTMP8pT3kvlvLUf6pVIoIumK2GYzkejkT-KSzi7-NstemL3h3rBRX1gq6NSre7wePr9XsaU/s1600-h/5-minute-mentality-design-banner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 117px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8I9hz-1YN-sCZejwJ4lvMiZ_FpyyeybDOAjQVXg5sKT9OcwBEfOqi30FRsf-Er9LcccauTMP8pT3kvlvLUf6pVIoIumK2GYzkejkT-KSzi7-NstemL3h3rBRX1gq6NSre7wePr9XsaU/s320/5-minute-mentality-design-banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400702988618331714" border="0" /></a> Looking inside a Sicilian's ordinary mind can be a very difficult task to accomplish, because of his impenetrable mentality. Sometimes looking inside an ordinary Sicilian's mind can make you better understand the social impact of the Mafia, and all of the mafiosi's typologies that are deeply entrenched into a society. There are many Sicilians (not mafiosi) which are proud to know mafiosi and they brag about it whenever they can. Just to mention to know a mafioso make them feel feared and respected, like they were mafiosi themselves even though they aren't! If I know someone I am someone. But the thing is, if this someone is a mafioso it's even better. You know, he can open many doors for me. That honorable guy sent me here! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRg4JYkYko3GU705jOexEbNhd4slBMhYrLmzdPiL6Sv_VnFXem8F84lb26i_l0XN5jw31FjNPZPWDZUN7PylY9m8YOJoVHcoq01AhjhVen5lVgzn6UVujEtX604ZimC1b1OvDovB0nhA/s1600-h/img_256082_lrg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRg4JYkYko3GU705jOexEbNhd4slBMhYrLmzdPiL6Sv_VnFXem8F84lb26i_l0XN5jw31FjNPZPWDZUN7PylY9m8YOJoVHcoq01AhjhVen5lVgzn6UVujEtX604ZimC1b1OvDovB0nhA/s320/img_256082_lrg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400702855276052482" border="0" /></a> "In Sicilian dialect: mi manna u zu' toto, or mi manna u zu' pippinu (it's impossible to translate, so that I give you a different English version hopefully with the same meaning)... To an employer: that honorable guy (intending a politician, someone very important, or a mafioso) send me here for a job, and now you must (note: the request is an imposing one) give me a job. While buying a new car, a new house or whatever: that honorable guy send me here to buy a new car, a new house or whatever for myself, now you must sell it to me very cheaply. In short: because of, "that" guy you must treat him respectfully. The real meaning of the words Mafia and Cosa Nostra in the Sicilian society. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv73yoGKDXlNiHwBM3DSE3wAHxYX6h4ksx40BLlkn4nNwD415vp0F6amrAnV-92dgPSjzkBsddrbOpgfIGtQdnlTk3Ec9osa3q-jvHczDALUECOtmrD4-5kaz0rDhpCICHksMkuIrJUeI/s1600-h/cosa_nostra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv73yoGKDXlNiHwBM3DSE3wAHxYX6h4ksx40BLlkn4nNwD415vp0F6amrAnV-92dgPSjzkBsddrbOpgfIGtQdnlTk3Ec9osa3q-jvHczDALUECOtmrD4-5kaz0rDhpCICHksMkuIrJUeI/s320/cosa_nostra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400702652511132178" border="0" /></a> <blockquote>I use the word, "Mafia" often and almost never the word, "Cosa Nostra" (meaning belonging to us) when I talking about mafia topics because on those words there are differences in their meaning, sometime very slight differences that only Sicilians can understand.</blockquote> Cosa Nostra, what it really means? Unfortunately is very hard to explain it in a plain english, but I'll try it anyway! The common Sicilians never use the words, "Cosa Nostra" when they want to indicate a mafioso, or hes belonging to a family of mafiosi, but they just say: a mafioso, or he belongs to a mafia's family. Only mafiosi call the mafia organization the Cosa Nostra, and thus they named their organization Cosa Nostra. The common Sicilians call it simply Mafia or Mafia organization, never Cosa Nostra. In matter of fact, I remember when I was used to live in Sicily and the Sicilians never spoke about the mafia organization as the Cosa Nostra, but only as the Mafia (news media sometimes refer to the mafia with a symbol, the octopus's symbol because of its many tentacles). In the other hand, the everyday Sicilians are using the words, "cosa nostra" in regular sentence, for their real meaning like: these toys belong to us. You see, "cosa nostra" means: it belong to us. That's what really means in regular conversations. Keep also in mind to pay close attention, to the tone of voices and the facial expressions when Sicilians are pronouncing words, because sometime they can have different meanings. In the case of when the Sicilians are using the words, "e' cosa nostra?" (is it ours?) with a particular tone of voice and contemporaneously they are lifting an hand in the air to make a circular motion with their fingers toward their interlocutor, what they are saying to them with their gesture is: did you steal that? Instead, when they want to allude something or someone that belongs to the mafia, they say in a disdainful way: cosa nostra eh! When Sicilians are saying jokingly to their interlocutor, they say: lui e' cosa nostra; what they are saying is: he is with us. The words cosa nostra, when it is pronounced among mafiosi can have also many meanings. A mafioso when using those same words he intent also something different, and by the way, the mafioso uses them when he's only with other similar. As I said, when they are conversing among them, they are giving to the words, "cosa nostra" also different meanings (now that's the hard part), but remember to pay attention to the different tone voices and facial expressions when they are spoken those words. When they say: non ti proccupare di lui, e'cosa nostra; what they are really saying is: don't worry about him because he's with us (meaning he's a mafioso like us). When they are simple saying: lui/esso e' cosa nostra (meaning: it is ours); they are saying: don't worry about it/him, we'll take care of that problem or any other problem that will arise. Sometimes that problem could even be an assassination. You see, a subtle change of voice, some gestures, an expression of the face, and the adding of a few more words into a short sentence of two words as the, "cosa nostra" and it'll be enough to pronounce a death sentence. At last, the mafiosi are using the words Cosa Nostra to name their organization, including any mafioso from top to bottom together with all of their filthy activities. And of course, there are many other instances where those words are used, but they'll take too much space in a single post just to talk about them. L'arte di arranggiarsi (the art of getting by). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2R16TS_WGLS9h-mAu9IzmhBPnFva4vkiMM7aJr3Lr-mIC6WOgI-n4pIPL5BwF7yPiQhs5QzrxRZvpvMTtgwizuaqInXkTYtKM-BjAgMtohV569T5121j3RvwdJMwLHF4bZZ6cQAKAM0/s1600-h/img_180707_lrg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2R16TS_WGLS9h-mAu9IzmhBPnFva4vkiMM7aJr3Lr-mIC6WOgI-n4pIPL5BwF7yPiQhs5QzrxRZvpvMTtgwizuaqInXkTYtKM-BjAgMtohV569T5121j3RvwdJMwLHF4bZZ6cQAKAM0/s320/img_180707_lrg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400695580400156018" border="0" /></a> If the Mafia still esiste in Sicily in part is because of some honest citizens that sometimes are unknowingly or knowingly too condescending with their social attitudes, and and because of them, sometimes they are even imitating mafiosi's behavioral by getting their hands on whatever don't really belong to them by using an unethical shortcuts. In south of Italy, there's a way of thinking that is called l'arte di arranggiarsi (the art of getting by), and it's deeply embedded in the DNA of many people. Sometimes this kind of thinking can be very bad, often contrasting with ethics and laws. More often than not, this form of cheating to beat the system can lead someone to deal with mafiosi, camorristi, or any other form of criminal organizations by asking them favors to get what they are looking for. Of course, the mafioso himself will be very happy to help you (for his help in time, he'll ask you a big favor in return). This kind of thinking from ordinary citizens on the south regions of Italy, it's what really keeping the mafia and any other criminal organization to fade away from theirs cities. These cities can't become modern and industrialized, not until the bad attitudes from those people of arranggiarsi (of getting by) is removed. Look in Italy: the north and south part of it, industrially there are totally unbalanced. North regions are more wealthy than the south regions, and that's why many poor people decide to leave from the south regions with destinations toward the north of this nation, or altogether to emigrate in a new nation. Naturally if you could look inside a Sicilian's mind, you could find many other answers that could explain why the Mafia hasn't been defeated yet. To entirely explain the whys and wherefores of the Mafia still living in Sicily, it would take to write many more chapters or to write an entire book which right now I not feel particularly motivated in doing it! Or maybe it's just because I'm not really that capable to do it? 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