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Shadrach in the furnace of Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg, Shadrach in the furnace, Urania Collection 095, December 2010, p.. 375, € 5.50

The 8 September 1976, the Great Helmsman ended his earthly existence in the arms of one of his many "friends." It is no coincidence that the great Robert Silverberg (1935-living) to give prints Analog August and October of that year, the story of Shadrach Mordecai, personal physician to Mao II Genghis Khan IV. We are in 2012 and the organic degeneration, a disease that affects the human body by destroying it, left in the hands of Genghis II Mao IV the fate of the world, and became the capital Ulan Bator, while the affected people are dying from the disease, with only who has access all'antidoto escapes, the dictator tries to live eternally changing parts of his body (as, indeed even the Great Helmsman, sick of Lou Gehrig's disease had attempted to do, including acupuncture, traditional medicine and pretty girls) in preparation for various projects through the "exchange" the souls of all the Avatar Project (to say the cinema today did not invent anything).

death and immortality are one of the obsessions of Silverberg, one of the "grand old men" survivors in the world of science fiction, author of some of the most important works in the history of science fiction (think night Ali, 1969; Dying inside, the second trip in the desert holidays, all published in 1972; Love in the time of the dead , 1974; Man stochastic , 1975), and of which Giuseppe Lippi track to end a brief but decisive part. But with interest thanatological Silverberg has always considered science fiction as a political weapon, and again drawing of a dark and personal future, which (with some ambiguity) will remedy Shadrach, in direct and constant contact with Mao, through a very sophisticated system to help monitor their conditions, will find a way to influence his decisions (which most hospital policies) acting on his health.

We are in the seventies and the American public that novels come off significantly from the average of the time (and today), large space psychology, twists but drowning in the middle of the plot, good feelings (political and generalized) and excessive didacticism period are the backbone of this dystopia. Together, of course, a shift away from tradition and a beautiful series of reflections on death.

Francis Emery

What Happend To Fakku.com

Mickey and the mystery of the released documents - remarks on the strange case of Lazarus Assange

Julian Assange, the famous rapist International consenting women (we are not a bit 'all?), Is unexpectedly back in "freedom" on bail, and bail! The charge for which the dangerous criminal is wanted in Sweden is no longer so laughable that it can not be sustained for a long time, but this new Fantomas, along with his formidable organization, has engaged in other acts equally unbearable for the Western democracies.

The dissemination of news both real and significant, in fact, is contrary to the current tenets of good journalism, which provides that the people ox should be provided alternative news false or irrelevant. With such behavior, Assange and his Spectre arise therefore well beyond the justifiable: and in fact no political force, except for some extreme here and there, we dream of defending them.

we join.

Assange is a despicable character, a rapist, a cyber criminal, a spy, and, most importantly, physically it is not even 'I'm much.


There must be a crime somewhere

Out of curiosity, entirely academic, however, try to see what are the crimes for which Dr No could be extradited to the United States USA. According to BBC News

( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11952817 ), known not tested early against spies, criminals and rapists, the process that should lead to the Black Spot in Guantanamo Bay is far from obvious.
First, it takes a charge.

Currently, the United States, Private First Class Bradley Manning awaits the decision of the court-martial, accused of having provided classified material to Wikileaks.
Manning, however, is a civil servant, an American citizen, a member of the Armed Forces.
Assange not.

Assange is an Australian citizen, has disclosed classified information remained well outside of U.S. jurisdiction and is not currently on American soil.
Hardly, therefore, the notorious terrorist will be accused of having committed the facts / crime on American soil: the principle of territoriality of criminal law, baby!

a chance, however, is made up of the crime of conspiracy , common to the criminal U.S. and Britain. Variously defined and used throughout the centuries, in summary punishing the offense was committed by those who agree to commit a fact / offense, regardless of the actual commission of the same (anticipation of the threshold for liability to punishment). In this case, Dr. Moriarty would have agreed with the naive soldier and would contest in the realization of the crime that only the soldier would have committed (ie theft of confidential documents: the only revelation of classified information, in fact, does not seem viable in the American, because Bob Woodward would otherwise be in jail since the 70s).
Here the problems begin.

Diabolik, in fact, he should at least have a shred of subjective element, namely the consciousness and willingness to compromise American national security. Of this there is no proof. On the contrary, in November, Dr. Mabuse contacted the U.S. Ambassador in London asking for help and advice on the possibility that the documents raised certain individuals at risk. Following the rejection, Mr. Hyde concluded that the risk of harm to the international policy America should be modest. Assessment, however, confirmed by the Minister of Defense, Robert Gates, which he declared that the spread of the cables would have been embarrassing, but would have only "modest" impact on U.S. international policy.

The objective element of the offense, Satanik should have cooperated in, or instigated, subtraction of the documents, something for which there is no evidence: on the contrary there is evidence that Swamp Thing has acted as a recipient of the documents themselves, but merely publish them as did the Republic or the New York Times.


There must be a court in Stockholm

Let us admit that Dr. Doom is extradited to Sweden to meet its darkest sexual misdeeds. Despite the difficulty in formulating an indictment for the reasons above, Sweden is likely to receive from the Land of the Free (also known as the home of the brave) a request for extradition based on a charge of conspiracy .
This request must be evaluated on the basis of international agreements governing extradition between Sweden and the United States.
Apparently (and I may be wrong) extradition between Sweden and the U.S. (and vice versa) is governed by the Convention, TIAS 10812, signed in Stockholm on 14 March 1983 and in force since September 24, 1984.

The Convention provides:

a) Art. C. II 1: it is possible that the extradition for crimes punishable under the laws of both States by imprisonment of not less than two years. E 'at least doubtful that the Swedish law provides for punishment of two years for the strange offense defined above.

b) art. C. II 3: The above also applies to conspiracy and attempt.

c) art. IV c.1: if the crime committed outside the jurisdiction of the requesting State (USA), extradition would be possible if the courts of the requested State (Sweden) should be competent to exercise jurisdiction in similar cases (certainly not ) or if the person was a citizen of Requesting State ( certainly not ).


Soon, something inventiamoci

Apparently the notorious international criminal, as happens in the best spy stories , will do away with it, ready for the next episode: it will be extradited to Sweden, where he will be acquitted of the charges of rape and will be denied where the request for extradition in the United States. What can I say? It would be yet another proof of the inefficiency and the inability of European laws to ensure American security (the one with a capital S, the only one that matters) if it was not obligated to a conclusion, based on a bilateral treaty, also signed by then U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
We can not trust anyone over. Here it takes at least Sylvester Stallone ....

Ugo Chickens

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Flyers Anti-Capitalist

During the night of the group Independent 15/12/2010 bardonecchiese hung around the city 'leaflets against insecure.
Every day we hear about the labor crisis, unemployment, workers who spent climbing on the roofs of businesses to protest, of young people who can not find work and many other workers forced to layoff because 'firms or fail or even worse, outsourced production overseas.

's time to say stop to this massacre capitalist who is bending our people.

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Alberto Cola - A beautiful katana

[...] Mishima put his hands in his pockets and looked around, mouth reduced to a thin cut across the face without expression. Seem to contemplate life from the last step of a guillotine. Then, little by little, gained the door. [...] [...]

live every moment in my cage of senses atrophied. I follow the movements of my two companions unable to speak and react, knowing that something goes beyond my perception, it keeps me from a distance. [...]

I could not resist. Lazarus Alberto Cola is so well written that I could not quote a few passages to allow the casual reader of this article to enjoy his style, so intimate and personal. Yet it is mentioned that those are the most striking passages: two passages chosen more or less randomly, with, as the only search criterion, the absence of revelations, not to anticipate anything of the plot. I finished the book in two nights and I regret that in reality, such work needed to be enjoyed for longer. It 's so rare to read these days and especially in Urania, authors worthy of the title, which, when you find one, you should sip.

The story is very good, exciting without being a barren sequence of actions (see Bay City): This is a noir very poetic, a brief history of flight between the lines that reveal a painful anxiety that only the nobility and beauty of the purest feelings - and the occasional rare - it can give comfort.

Yet few comments I want to do: if this novel has to be assessed under the current Italian fiction, one can not but praise unreservedly. It 'good, inside and outside the genre. But if we look up and surpass our narrow borders and sad, my point is that Alberto can do much more. The skill with which he has assimilated the lesson of Gibson, collecting and making her the most delicate and sensitive tone of the founder of cyberpunk, can lead very far: it can allow him to fly from a literary continuum overcome and deal with the true spirit of cyberpunk .. . create worlds that are adjacent to ours and make us see the monsters that we unconsciously every day life. The sharp edge is there, just ahead.

Sharpen katana Alberto, we are all with you. And thanks.

Denise Bresci

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directory Filippo Timi

Among all that is worth buying, talking about movies (not much), it is an important place in Yearbook 2010 Film Film TV (p. 304, € 10.00), unfortunately only available on newsstands and will eventually be wiped out with great speed. People flock

movie fans to buy, so you find yourself facing a series of reviews (smart) film releases on the Italian market between November 2009 and October 2010, is a kind of handbook to be inserted between ' latest edition of Meredith and the year of Cineforum just ended because, as we all know, in Italy's cinema it is spoken in many (though few in one go, also because of the senseless policy of the managers, that multiplexes have scared away the audience), but the Most do not seem to have licenses to do so.

glance at the newspaper reviews, those of Italian newspapers, local or national, usually has the effect away rather than closer, and film critics often ignore even the object of their work. It 's the Kali Yuga of taste, and in front of the Kali Yuga anything is possible ... But here

reviewers can do their job: this is the band of Film TV (the only weekly that instead of indulging the private lives of celebrities and gossip from the fuoriscena really takes care of cinema, besides television), deployed here in all its breadth and captained dall'immarcescibile Aldo Fittante sets up the volume.

Next, the "Playlist movie" chosen by the reviewers (whose autobiographies would be better not to have included) and those close to TV, DVD, Blu-Ray, more than fifty films not to miss the 2009-2010 period, but the corpus of the volume are the reviews of 296 films out in Italy, from 27 November 2009 to October 22, 2010, analyzed by the signatures of 23 per week and quality assured, because the reviewers belong more or less all area of \u200b\u200bintelligent criticism: from Cineforum in Nocturno, a The poster thanks to (as a host external) Alberto Silvestri, critical precisely de The poster and capintesta of Alias.

Of course not everything that shines before us.
Film TV is the prerogative of the critical democratic, progressive and politically correct at all costs, which, though cleansed by Zhdanovism forms of low-cost (i), in contrast to the criticism "Atlantic" (ii) and the "Catholic "(iii), is able to think more in terms of beauty, but also around the concept
Beauty, alas, no more than platonic, it would be discussed (and renegotiate).
As they say in these cases, sometimes one gets the impression that he had seen another film ( The fourth type of Osunsanmi, for example, or Peli's Paranormal Activity, two films that are drowsiness state pure, but are not even scoffed a bit ', and indeed even the first one wonders whether it is a fake ... oh Gods!) remains puzzled by the enthusiasm is genuine and a bit' late-adolescent reserved for small films a pure special effects such as Avatar Cameron (but again we're in good company: See The philosophies of Avatar for types of Mimesis, edited by Antonio Caronia and Fabio Tursi), or perplexed by the harsh criticism of Hachiko-Your best friend of Hallstrom (which will not be a masterpiece, but it is an honest film about the relationship between animals and men, and there were ...) But the value judgments, you know, the relativism that so worries the right-minded is the master, and any discussion of aesthetics is no point of principle.

So: well be an annual volume of reviews that we refresh the memory of what we saw (before we forget) and show us what you can see what we have lost. Ben is, perhaps edited in the library besides the newsstands, so that people on Sunday "I Feltrinelli in to see the news "(which is clever) but the last cheat the last genius of italic letters you bought a serious book.

Ben is also the view of instituting Fittante, that although he comes out with a praise of Avatar than by Cinephile by fans of Star Trek (frightening aesthetic category for all purposes), troubles us the idea distribution and film production today.

And after having read, for fun, even the reviews of the films that we watched, we forget that this year, in Italy, has absconded - and widely - both in art film As in those movies that once would have described as "great".

Finally, we also do our playlist. Except that it is national, we will call in another way. For example, the ten best films of the year ...

1) Bright Star

2) The Road

3) A Serious Man

4) Moon

5) Agora

6) The Lovely Bones

7) Departures

8) Lourdes

9) Alice in Wonderland

10) Invictus.

And good reading.

First Arcovazzi

(i) writer reminds the label settantasettesca of "the right film" unexpectedly applied to certain films in recent years, as if the concept of "right" presupposed by the low specific aesthetic values \u200b\u200bor political content, low IQ, and, conversely, the incense mediocre movie after all but the smell of leftism ...

(ii) that is where any crap coming from the States is a masterpiece, if it is anti-twice, and makes it attractive also because they sell so cinepanettoni

( iii) that transforms the aesthetic ethics, and ethics in a case of Catholic Action, in fact, and although it considers the cinepattoni for the nonsense they are, suggest them as "family entertainment"

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Marianne

Best wishes to all the people That know how to give a gesture of love, to caress, They gather and the noise of the snow That falls ...... to the bears and a goog lethargy!

Best wishes to all the people who can give a gesture of love, tenderness, and captures the sound of falling snow .................... and bears a good hibernation!