May 18, 2018 - Articles

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Tonight I'm going to watch here on an Italian TV channel what supposedly is a great movie ( true story)...

 

"Trumbo" on the Hollywood script writer Dalton Trumbo and his conflict with the Un-American activities committee ( McCarthy) starring Bryan Cranston

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbo_(2015_film)

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4 hours ago, umbertino said:

Tonight I'm going to watch here on an Italian TV channel what supposedly is a great movie ( true story)...

 

"Trumbo" on the Hollywood script writer Dalton Trumbo and his conflict with the Un-American activities committee ( McCarthy) starring Bryan Cranston

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbo_(2015_film)

 

 

Really good ( and informative)...Recommended

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Milwaukee shooting: five dead at Molson Coors campus after employee opens fire

 

• Police identify attacker as 51-year-old man
• Authorities offer no immediate motive

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Thu 27 Feb 2020 01.29 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/26/milwaukee-shooting-reports-police-molson-coors

 

 

 

 

 

Why your brain is not a computer

 

For decades it has been the dominant metaphor in neuroscience. But could this idea have been leading us astray all along?

 

 

Thu 27 Feb 2020 06.00 GMT

By Matthew Cobb

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/27/why-your-brain-is-not-a-computer-neuroscience-neural-networks-consciousness

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US students appear in Italian court over police officer murder

 

Trial opens of pair accused of murdering officer during botched drugs bust in Rome

 

Staff and agencies in Rome

Wed 26 Feb 2020 19.52 GMT

 

 

Huge crowds attended Mario Cerciello Rega’s funeral last year

Photograph: Eliano Imperato/Getty

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/us-students-appear-in-italian-court-over-police-last-year

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Italy: 3 tonnes of cocaine seized on ship

Worth 400 mn, second biggest ever, 3 arrested in France

 

Redazione ANSA Florence

27 February 202019:39 News

 

 

 

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2020/02/27/3-tonnes-of-cocaine-seized-on-ship_ed9272e2-7a84-425e-b75d-e56190cd927a.html

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Revealed: fake 'traders' allegedly prey on victims in global investment scam

 

Suspected fraudsters lure investors with fake ads featuring celebrities such as Gordon Ramsay

 

Hilary Osborne

Sun 1 Mar 2020 17.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 2 Mar 2020 09.52 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/revealed-fake-traders-allegedly-prey-on-victims-in-global-investment-scam

 

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Oklahoma college recruiter fired after telling students to line up by skin color

 

Student said Oklahoma Christian University recruiter told students to line up and ‘barely talked about the school’

 

Associated Press in Oklahoma City

Mon 2 Mar 2020 13.21 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/oklahoma-college-recruiter-fired-students-line-up-skin-color

 

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'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela

 

Young people with HIV in Brazil’s poorest favelas often have no support, but in Boi Malhado, one team is determined to provide vital help

 

 

Tue 3 Mar 2020 07.00 GMT

Words and photographs by Sarah Johnson

 

 

 

Paraisopolis, the largest favela in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Photograph: Sarah Johnson/The Guardian

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/03/health-workers-scared-enter-treat-hiv-sao-paulo-favelas

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Nashville tornadoes: at least seven dead after twisters hit central Tennessee

 

• About 40 buildings collapse as police search for injured
• Schools close and Super Tuesday voting sites affected
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Associated Press

Tue 3 Mar 2020 13.00 GMT First published on Tue 3 Mar 2020 12.15 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03/tornadoes-cause-injuries-and-damage-in-tennessee

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Spain: huge haul of methamphetamine found in marble blocks

 

Five people held after 752kg of drug found in 25-tonne blocks imported from Mexico

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Wed 4 Mar 2020 11.18 GMT Last modified on Wed 4 Mar 2020 11.23 GMT

 

 

Blocks of marble containing methamphetamine are removed by investigators with hammers and chisels

Photograph: Guardia Civil

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/spain-record-haul-of-methamphetamine-found-in-marble-blocks

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Vinitaly Is the Latest Industry Conference Postponed Due to Coronavirus

 

Published on March 3, 2020

By Wine Enthusiast

 

 

https://www.winemag.com/2020/03/03/vinitaly-postponed-coronavirus/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venice architecture biennale postponed due to coronavirus

 

Event that brings together global design practitioners opts to delay launch until August, as Italy prepares for drastic restrictions on public events

 

Guardian staff

Wed 4 Mar 2020 17.04 GMT Last modified on Wed 4 Mar 2020 18.10 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/04/venice-architecture-biennale-postponed-due-to-coronavirus

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am review – powerful portrait of a cultural giant

 

Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis and Morrison herself explore her work and legacy in this fascinating documentary completed shortly before the Nobel-winning author’s death

 

Peter Bradshaw

Thu 5 Mar 2020 12.00 GMT

 

 

Cultural force … Toni Morrison in 1997

Photograph: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/05/toni-morrison-the-pieces-i-am-review-

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

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Sweep of arrests hits US neo-Nazi group connected to five murders

 

Five senior members of Atomwaffen Division charged with federal crimes in recent weeks, including harassing journalists and activists

 

Jason Wilson

Fri 6 Mar 2020 08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 6 Mar 2020 08.12 GMT

 

 

US attorney Brian Moran stands next to a poster that was mailed earlier in the year to the home of Chris Ingalls, an investigative reporter with KING-TV in Seattle, during a news conference on 26 February

Photograph: Ted S Warren/AP

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/neo-nazi-arrests-deals-blow-us-group-atomwaffen-division

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Virginia becomes first southern US state to ban hair discrimination

 

State passes measure after incidents of employees fired and children disciplined over hair texture and type sparked outcry

 

Kenya Evelyn

Fri 6 Mar 2020 15.31 GMT Last modified on Fri 6 Mar 2020 16.41 GMT

 

 

‘This is not only unacceptable and wrong, it is not what we stand for in Virginia,’ Ralph Northam said of hair discrimination

Photograph: Karin Dreyer/Getty Images/Tetra images RF

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/06/virginia-hair-discrimination-ban

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8 March: International Women's Day: events highlighting gender inequality take place around the world - live updates

 

On International Women’s Day, we’ll be following the commemorative events all around the world

 

Molly Blackall

Sun 8 Mar 2020 10.32 GMT First published on Sun 8 Mar 2020 08.42 GMT

 

 

Live feed

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/mar/08/international-womens-day

 

 

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International Women's Day: asylum seekers protest at Turkish border

 

Women and children part of thousands who took to streets around world, but some protests turned violent

 

Helen Pidd and agencies

Sun 8 Mar 2020 19.46 GMT

 

 

Female asylum seekers stage a demonstration at the Turkey’s Pazarkule border crossing

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/international-womens-day-protests-strikes-marches-violence

 

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Max von Sydow, star of The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal, dies aged 90

 

The veteran actor, best known for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman, as well as roles in Star Wars and Hannah and Her Sisters, has died

 

Catherine Shoard

Mon 9 Mar 2020 15.17 GMT First published on Mon 9 Mar 2020 12.16 GMT

 

 

 

Max von Sydow in 2011

Photograph: Morris MacMatzen/Reuters

 

 

More pics & 1 vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-star-of-the-exorcist-and-the-seventh-seal-dies-aged-90

 

Great actor indeed...I liked him in many movies esp.  Sydney Pollack's "The three days of condor" starring Robert Redford

 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by umbertino

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Awesome movie imho...Much recommended

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor

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World's biggest porn site under fire over rape and abuse videos

 

Petition highlighting failure of Pornhub to protect rape and revenge porn victims has attracted over 350,000 signatures

 

Harriet Grant

Mon 9 Mar 2020 07.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 9 Mar 2020 14.43 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/09/worlds-biggest-porn-site-under-fire-over-videos-pornhub

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Don Rickles on Jay Leno w/ Roberto Benigni embracing absolute craziness 1996

 

 

 

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My fellow country man Roberto Benigni is actually crazy like a Tuscan horse but he recites Dante Alighieri's " The Divine Comedy" verses ( and is able to explain the story in real layman terms with zero pretension ) BEAUTIFULLY.....By doing that he has indeed contributed to the increase of Italy's people cultural level ( many live TV broadcasts on that)

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Benigni

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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison on rape conviction

 

New York judge imposed 20 years for a first-degree criminal sex act and three years for third-degree rape, to run consecutively

 

Lauren Aratani and Ed Pilkington in New York

Wed 11 Mar 2020 15.16 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/harvey-weinstein-sentencing-rape-conviction

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Police officer and gunman among five dead after shooting in Springfield, Missouri

 

• One officer and one other person injured, police chief says
• Suspect reportedly fired shots at several locations

 

Associated Press in Springfield, Missouri

Mon 16 Mar 2020 12.35 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/16/missouri-shooting-springfield

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Edited March 19, 2020 by umbertino

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