Italy Says Wikileaks Reports on U.S. May Harm Nation

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Italy Says Wikileaks Reports on U.S. May Harm Nation
By Jeffrey Donovan and Lorenzo Totaro - Fri Nov 26 15:20:46 GMT 2010

Italy’s government said “classified reports” on U.S. foreign relations expected to be published by the website Wikileaks.org may harm the country as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fights for his political survival.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said during a Cabinet meeting in Rome today that the documents may have “negative repercussions” on Italy, according to an e-mailed statement from Berlusconi’s office.

A probe into Finmeccanica SpA, the nation’s largest defense contractor, media coverage of a garbage crisis in Naples and the publication of the top-secret reports were “signs of a plot to strike at the image of Italy on the international stage,” Frattini said. The Cabinet “unanimously shared” his concern.

The government faces a test of its survival in confidence votes in parliament on Dec. 14. The Constitutional Court is due to rule that day on the validity of a law that grants Berlusconi and top officials immunity from prosecution while in office, a decision that may prompt the resumption of corruption trials against the premier. The Wikileaks documents detail graft allegations against foreign leaders, Reuters said on Nov. 24, citing people familiar with the reports.

The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that WikiLeaks.org “intends to release several hundred thousand” classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26, Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King wrote in a Nov. 23 e-mail to the defense panels. The reports concern ties with nations such as Italy, Russia, Turkey and Israel, Agence France-Presse said today.

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1. right -- because the behavior of nation's is all about image. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. You're right. And the same shadow government that exists on a global scale,

exists in the state and local areas of our nation. We're suppose to be good little peasants and tend to the fields and not complain, while they enjoy a much easier life, claiming to have reached their success through "hard work."

[de novo]

2. These shady and corrupt governments don't like their true colors showing, huh?

:rofl:

[malaise]

5. Ding ding

if their citizens had a clue they'd be in the streets.

[razorman]

6. Including ours.

[de novo]

10. Especially ours.

[ixion]

3. Ah, apparently Silvio wants a cut from Uncle Sam

One way or another, there's money involved in his statement.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Actually the things that may have been done in the reports would be what harmed the nation.

Not the reports themselves, not the posting of them.



Been listening to some great songs, Kate Klim is amazing.
Such great songs.

Kate Klim Throw Up Your Arms

Don't you get so tired of being so scared all the time, (<-- 'The Phoenix' )
Don't you get so scared of being tired. (<-- Mystery Men Leader style comment)

The moments I have found myself walking the thin line
Are the moments I have found myself inspired.
Don't you ever wonder just how fast this car can go,
I know it drives you crazy that I do.

Because you don't like big crowds and tight spaces or high places,
but you sure love having something to hold on to

Throw up your arms, this is the good part,
throw out your plans, 'cuase they don't do us any good up here
Hasn't it always been up and down and up again,
Till you know what you want and what you fear the most.

I know you don't really have to trust me,
because I think big and I fall hard, and I don't bend.
And you packed up all your daydreams
are they're overgrown and dusty,
don't you think it is time to bring them out again.

Throw up your arms, 'cuase this is the good part,
throw out your plans, they don't do us any good up here
Hasn't it always been up and down and up again,
Till you know what you want, and what you fear the most.


And then its all houses and treetops,
and you think you're going to put your head on the sky.
And then comes the time for the big drop
don't you think of closing your eyes.


Throw up your arms, 'cuase this is the good part,
throw out your plans, they don't do us any good up here
Hasn't it always been up and down and up again,
Till you know what you want, and what you fear the most.


That girls songs and lyrics totally rock! They inspire be beyond being able to express.

[RandomThoughts]

7. A movie clip, also inspirational.

Flight of the Phoenix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OqWezJDn_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACjOvyx5hs


Pull!

[kgnu_fan]

9. Nation? no, it's about the elite class who makes money off War Machine

[Toucano]

11. Berlusconi is a corrupt, pig-fucking scoundrel.

His political survival and the health of the nation are wholly separate things.