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Still existing soft power

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I had today a meeting with the group of the Gramene research project at Cornell University. The head of the group Panka Jaiswal is from India. The other group members I met were from Taiwan, China and Eritrea, no US American.
I know, there are many people who take this as a weakness of the US American System. The research is based on the presence of PhD Students and Postdocs especially from Asian countries. You can see this also as an expression of the strenghts of the American system. It has still enough softpower to attract the talented people from all over the world.

Agrovoc eConference

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In these weeks an electronic discussion conference about AGROVOC takes place. More than 150 practitioners from all over the world subscribed to the conference and more than 50 are activiely participating. Topics are the coverage of AGROVOC, governance, language versions, institutional collaboration and others. The last phase, which just started will discuss the AGROVOC concept server.

Protesting against George W or for the USA?

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In the occasion of George Ws visit to Rome the entire left went to the streets to demonstrate against the America President. Obviously neither a visit of Mr. Putin nor of Mr. Ahmadinejad nor of Mr. Omar al-Bashir would have triggered a similar reaction. The ideological status of the left is painful and embarrassing. But I felt also embarrassed by Marco Panella's idea to organize a counter demonstration to support the USA. Couldn't we get a free, indipendent, not subaltern but admiring position regarding the European offspring on the other side of the Atlantic?

Il Partito Democratico è già morto - almeno per me

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Quando ho visto oggi sul tappeto rollante in palestra gli impressioni dal family day sulla TV non sapevo se piangere o ridere. Questo accumulo di ipocrisia e bigotteria era veramente insopportabile. Tornato a casa ho ripreso la bicicletta e sono andato a Piazza Navona per partecipare alla manifestazione dell'orgoglio laico. Comincio a dire: meglio insieme con falce e martello e i communisti rifondati per difendere le libertà individuali che con questi come Rutelli, che ha detto di non participare al "family day - che ridicolo in inglese- " perchè ero vice presidente del consiglio.

KARIM, IL BLOGGER, CONDANNATO A QUATTRO ANNI DI CARCERE

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""Dichiaro di rifiutare qualsiasi legge che non rispetti i diritti
dell'individuo e la libertà personale": per questa dichiarazione,
nonché per aver espresso altre opinioni "pericolose" in merito alla
tolleranza religiosa e all'uguaglianza tra i sessi, in Egitto lo
studente ventiduenne Abdul Karim Suleiman, ossia Karim Amir, è stato
condannato a quattro anni di carcere con l'accusa di avere insultato
il presidente egiziano e la religione islamica.
Il ricorso in appello ha confermato la sentenza e l'accusa ha

Manifestazioni

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This saturday I became aware of two different manifestations. One was at the TV (I am always looking at the TV in the Gym....). More than 150.000 people were demonstrating in Ankara for the non religious character of the Turkish republic and against the possibility of an islamistic president. A woman was speaking to the crowd. I was very much touched.

When I went home I encountered on Via Cavour the following:

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