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hotel pisa guide

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:01:12 GMT

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With dozens of quality establishments available to choose from, many of which are situated directly downtown and within walking distance of the leaning tower of Pisa, finding a Pisa hotel that meets all of your financial and personal requirements is a breeze (especially with this handy Hotel Pisa Guide).

When you discover that the city Pisa offers so much more than just tourist attractions, you may just decide to extend your stay. Come visit the historical tower of Pisa, and experience a warm welcome from one of the many quality Pisa Hotels during your Italian Lakes Holiday.

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Cheap International Airfare

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:50:36 GMT

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Should schools be allowed to have crucifixes?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:04:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This @breakingtweet shares how government orders a schools in Italy to hang crucifixes and then to take them all done. It makes me think about the arguments in America about prayer in the schools and whether we should teach creationism or evolution? What are your thoughts about this? Tweet us or leave a comment!

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The European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes in Italian schools citing that they run counter to a child’s right to freedom of religion, reports the BBC.

The ruling overturns a law dating back to the 1920s where it was a requirement to hang crucifixes in all classrooms.

Tags: creationism, crucifixes, freedom of religion, law, religion, schools and religion

African Muslim with 'violent genes' gets sentence cut

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:34:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: *wtf*......

Clip Source: www.nature.com

An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour — the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.

A court in Italy has cut a prisoner's jail term because he has genes associated with aggressive behaviour.Ingram Publishing

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayout's testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.

“There's increasing evidence that some genes together with a particular environmental insult may predispose people to certain behaviour.”

Pietro Pietrini
University of Pisa

Tags: genetics, science, law, sentencing, racism, eu, islam

Italian Doctors REFUSE to Prescribe Vax...TOO RISKY !

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:52:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rumormillnews.com

Italian family physicians refuse to prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine for their patients, claiming that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.

The country has ordered some 48 million doses of the A/H1N1 vaccine, enough to immunize 24 million of its population, and plans to start a mass vaccination program in the coming weeks.

Italian media outlets have, however, claimed that many of these vaccines would be useless as the majority of Italians including the Deputy Health Minister Ferruccio Fazio and the Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno have decided against vaccination.

According to a recent survey conducted, six out of every ten Italian family physicians do not prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine for their patients particularly those with heart diseases.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110686§ionid=3510212

Latest figures revealed that swine flu has infected more than 540,000 individuals, claiming the lives of 30 in Italy.

European Court bans classroom crucifixes

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom and revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows"
- A.N. Whitehead

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The woman who took the case to the Strasbourg court is Soile Lautsi Albertin, an Italian citizen of Finnish origin. In 2002, she asked the Vittorino da Feltre primary and middle school at Abano Terme in the province of Padua, attended by her two children, to remove the crucifixes from classrooms in accordance with the principle of the secular state.

The case went back to the TAR, which in 2005 itself rejected the appeal, maintaining that the crucifix is a symbol of Italian history and culture, and so of the country’s identity and of the principles of equality, liberty, tolerance and secularism of the state, a position confirmed by Italy’s Council of State in 2006. But now, the tables have been turned.

the Italian government must pay her 5,000 euros in moral damages. It is the Strasbourg court’s first ruling on religious symbols in school classrooms. “Now Italy will have to take account of the sentence by the European court of human rights”, commented Ms Lautsi

Tags: eu, freedom, religion, italy, islam, muslim brotherhood

Cheap Student Flights & Airfares

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:36:08 GMT

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To/From	LAX	PHX	DFW	CHI	JFK
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Frankfurt, Germany	$ 668	$ 658	$ 598	$ 578	$ 438
Amsterdam, Neth.	$ 655	$ 676	$ 570	$ 378	$ 380
London, England	$ 688	$ 778	$ 748	$ 538	$ 436
Rome, Italy	$ 678	$ 678	$ 628	$ 598	$ 588
Madrid, Spain	$ 658	$ 736	$ 628	$ 378	$ 348
Ibiza, Spanish Island	$ 568	$ 618	$ 558	$ 498	$ 568
Dublin, Ireland	$ 678	$ 768	$ 678	$ 618	$ 488
Athens, Greece	$ 771	$ 787	$ 718	$ 668	$ 588
Budapest, Hungary	$ 929	$ 969	$ 958	$ 818	$ 668
Istanbul, Turkey	$ 848	$ 806	$ 718	$ 718	$ 658
Kiev, Ukraine	$ 738	$ 787	$ 728	$ 618	$ 568
Moscow, Russia	$ 688	$ 787	$ 748	$ 628	$ 618
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Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Terrorist Kidnapping Case

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:02:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One of those convicted, former Milan consular official Sabrina De Sousa, accused Congress of turning a blind eye to the entire matter.

"No one has investigated the fact that the U.S. government allegedly conducted a rendition of an individual who now walks free and the operation of which was so bungled," she said, speaking through her lawyer Mark Zaid.

Despite the convictions capping the nearly three-year Italian trial, several Italian and American defendants – including the two alleged masterminds of the abduction – were acquitted due to either diplomatic immunity or because classified information was stricken by Italy's highest court.

The case has been politically charged from the beginning, with attempts to mislead investigators looking into the cleric's disappearance and derail the judicial proceedings once the trial was under way. But the Italian-American relationship, conditioned on such issues as participation in the Afghan campaign, is unlikely to be hurt by the convic

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MILAN — An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.

Human rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush administration's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where torture was permitted. The American Civil Liberties Union said the verdicts were the first convictions stemming from the rendition program.

The Obama administration ended the CIA's interrogation program and shuttered its secret overseas jails in January but has opted to continue the practice of extraordinary renditions.

The Americans, who were tried in absentia, now cannot travel to Europe without risking arrest as long as the verdicts remains in place.

Tags: italy, cia, courts, justice, extraordinary renditions, convictions

European Union court bans crucifixes in Italian classrooms

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:10:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

By Nick Pisa

04th November 2009

Crucifixes have been banned in Italian schools by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights.

The decision has enraged politicians, with Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini saying: 'This is a death blow for a Europe of values and rights.

'Europe's roots lie in its Christian identity. At a time when we're trying to bring religions closer, the Christian religion gets whacked.

The case was brought by a Finnish woman, Soile Lautsi, who is married to an Italian.

Both are atheists.

The European court's ruling, which will be enforced in three months, said crucifixes could disturb children who were not Christians.

And it ordered the Italian government to pay 5000 Euro moral damages to Lautsi.

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini introduced legislation in 1924 ordering all classrooms to display crucifixes. Despite several attempts to have the law overturned in recent years it has stood.

secular, state-run schools must 'observe confessional neutrality

Tags: antichrists, crucifix, european union, italy, new age, religious freedom

Vatican summons world leaders to discuss Church's fears that politics is losing its religion

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:53 GMT

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By Nick Pisa

04th November 2009

Catholic convert Tony Blair is among several world leaders being invited to attend a top level summit with Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the role of the Church in politics.

The two-day summit will be held at the Vatican and will include other Catholic politicians from all over the world, including German chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. vice president Joe Biden, former Spanish PM Jose Maria Aznar, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Church officials have been quietly working on the conference, which will be called 'Witnesses of Christ in the Political Community', for several months.

Items to be discussed include the family, right to life, Christian roots, education and bio-ethics.

He has met current Pope Benedict XVI and he has also set up The Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Two months ago he told the Communion and Liberation Committee in Rimini, Italy, that switching to Catholicism was like 'coming home' and is now 'where my heart is.'

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Italian court convicts 23 CIA agents over rendition

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:44:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Italian prosecutors had charged the Americans and seven members of the Italian military intelligence agency in the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as //Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003. Prosecutors said he was snatched in broad daylight, flown from an American air base in Italy to a base in Germany and then on to Egypt, where he asserts that he was tortured.//

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Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.

Critics of the Bush administration have long hailed the case as a repudiation of the tactics it used to fight terrorism. And the fact that Italy would actually convict intelligence agents of an allied country was seen as a bold move that could set a precedent in other cases.

Judge Oscar Magi handed an eight-year sentence to Robert Seldon Lady, a former C.I.A. base chief in Milan, and five-year sentences to the 22 other Americans, including an Air Force colonel and 21 C.I.A. operatives. Three of the other high-ranking Americans were given diplomatic immunity, including Jeffrey Castelli, a former C.I.A. station chief in Rome.

“Of course it was an illegal operation. But that’s our job.

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ITALY CONVICTS 23 AMERICANS FOR C.I.A. RENDITIONS.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:45:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

Judge Oscar Magi convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric on Wednesday in Milan.

The case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who drew the first convictions involving the American practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more open to coercive interrogation techniques.

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23 Americans Convicted in Italy for CIA Kidnapping

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:46:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Americans were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003, in Milan, then transferring him to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He was released after four years in prison without being charged.

The trial is the first by any government over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which transferred suspects overseas for interrogation. Human rights advocates charge that renditions were the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted.

Italy's government has denied involvement.

Among the Americans acquitted was Jeffrey Castelli, a former Rome CIA station chief, who prosecutors had alleged coordinated the abduction. The two other acquitted Americans were also assigned to the U.S. Embassy in the Italian capital and thus were covered by broad diplomatic immunity.

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MILAN — An Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism.

Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom today that he was acquitting three other Americans.

Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence.

The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, were tried in absentia. Their lawyers entered innocent pleas on their client's behalf. They are considered fugitives from Italian justice.

In Washington, CIA spokesman George Little declined to comment on the convictions. He said, “The CIA has not commented on any of the allegations surrounding Abu Omar,” the kidnapped man.

The CIA has declined to comment on the case

CIA agents convicted in Absentia!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:47:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, Guess they can never return to Italy!!

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Italian judge convicts 23 Americans of kidnapping in CIA extraordinary rendition of cleric

The Canadian Press Photo: Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks in a Milan court, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. THE ASSOCIATED...

MILAN, Italy - An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism.

Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom Wednesday that he was acquitting three other Americans.

Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence.

The Americans were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr

The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, were tried in absentia

Italy Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:43:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Direct challenge to extraordinary rendition.

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(AP) – An Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three other Americans, citing diplomatic immunity. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady received the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 each received a five-year sentence. All were tried in absentia.

All but one of the Americans were identified by prosecutors as CIA agents. Their lawyers entered innocent pleas on their behalf, and they are considered fugitives from Italian justice. They were convicted of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr and transferring him to US bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Nasr was released after four years in prison without being charged.

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