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The Sad Spectacle of the Whining Don: the Thug-in-Chief Throws His Vassals Under the Bus

Edit CounterPunch 15 Mar 2016
He has given himself the right to kill his own citizens, to record all we do on-line and on the phone, and of course, spy on the most intimate deliberations of each and every one of his counterparts (and their most important advisors) around the world ... that the thug adhere rigidly to an honor-bound code of silence, something the southern Italian mafias refer to as omertà ... ....

David Bowie profile: enigmatic singer who refused to play along

Edit The Irish Times 11 Jan 2016
It was a horribly mundane way for such an otherworldly figure to vanish from public view. While performing at a festival in Scheeßel, Germany, on June 25, 2004, David Bowie began to experience pains in his arm and shoulder. What the singer thought was a trapped nerve turned out to be an acutely blocked artery requiring emergency angioplasty ... His collaborators observe an impenetrable omertà backed up by strict non-disclosure agreements ... ....

Carrie Fisher’s Crazy ‘Star Wars’ Ride: Cocaine, the Rolling Stones, and That Slave Bikini

Edit The Daily Beast 08 Dec 2015
The Daily Beast sat down with Princess Leia herself—and her celebrity dog, Gary Fisher—for a wildly entertaining chat about the ‘Star Wars’ films ... That’s not a difficult time!” ... Abrams’ Star Wars ... And given the movie’s omertà, with a plot that's proven more difficult to penetrate than the Death Star—press weren't even allowed to screen the film prior to conducting interviews—we're relegated to discussing her past escapades ... ....

FA in shock – there’s a woman giving an opinion on football!

Edit The Independent 25 Oct 2015
There must be a handbook at FA headquarters, well-thumbed and copiously illustrated, entitled ... speaking out ... She implied what many people believed ... She has broken the omertà, the stiff camaraderie that requires members of boards to nod and wink at one another across wooden tables regardless of the petty nonsenses or flagrant injustices being exhibited at the time ... Read more....

L'evasione conviene all'UE e al Governo italiano. Eccovi, in esclusiva, le prove (MoVimento 5 Stelle) ...

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2015
(Source. MoVimento 5 Stelle). Che Jean-Claude Juncker, presidente della Commissione Europea, sia un mentitore seriale ormai è cosa nota ... Il fattaccio la dice lunga sui criteri di trasparenza, anche mediatica, che aleggiano attorno alla Commissione Speciale TAXE, quella istituita 'appositamente' per smascherare i grandi evasori d'Europa ... Il percorso della TAXE è carico di omertà, ostacoli e contraddizioni ... Incredibile, ma purtroppo vero....

Give Me a Crash Course In . . . Michelin stars

Edit The Irish Times 21 Sep 2015
Restaurateurs were acting like bleary teenagers this week, constantly swiping their phones. Why? It was the annual bloodsport that is the release of the Michelin stars in its 2016 guide to restaurants in Britain and Ireland ... How are the stars decided? That was a secret until 2004, when one of their own, Pascal Remy, broke the omertà and published The Inspector Sits Down at the Table, which accused Michelin of sloppy standards ... ....

Keidel: Yoenis Cespedes Should Be Your National League MVP

Edit CBS Sports 15 Sep 2015
By Jason Keidel. » More Columns. Over the last seven weeks, the Mets have become the core of Big Apple baseball. And while there are several reasons, we know the main reason. Yoenis Cespedes ... And they are 9 1/2 games ahead of the Nats, the largest lead in MLB ... Right? ... Paul Goldschmidt ... He won’t win it, because there’s some twisted omertà among sportswriters that says you must play over 120 games to be considered the best player ... ....

FOIA Editorial: In Portsmouth, omertà

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 13 Sep 2015
Portsmouth’s City Council recently voted 4-2 to sanction members with fines of no less than $1,500 for breaking the confidentiality of a closed session....

Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin stay calm under fire

Edit The Irish Times 25 Aug 2015
Then he resumed his summer vacation ... Martin also continued his assault ... But Sinn Féin appeared not to be discomfited ... Cheap stunt ... But nobody has been charged for the murder. The experience of other republican murders and actions, such as the beating to death of Paul Quinn and the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery, tells of the power of community control through fear and just how difficult it is to breach the republican code of omertà ... ....

If I bash my employer online, can they trace it back to me?

Edit New York Post 24 Aug 2015
I don’t believe employee surveys and complaint lines are truly anonymous. I have a few choice words to say about my employer — but I can’t afford to put my job in jeopardy. Can the company trace anything, given today’s technology? ... Sounds like my normal Italian Sunday dinner in the old neighborhood! Don’t you know the Italian term for vow of silence — omertà? Follow that....

Blood doping: Is fixing athletics Lord Coe's greatest ever challenge?

Edit BBC News 05 Aug 2015
It has indeed pursued 63 cases based on the biological passport programme with 39 athletes punished ... Leaked IAAF doping files ... It will not have escaped attention that as recently as 2012, the IAAF rated Ashenden highly enough to ask him to sit on an expert panel on biological passports, but he declined because he felt he was being "muzzled", accusing the anti-doping movement of fostering a culture of 'omertà' ... print....

How Snoop Dogg and 9 other misbehaving passengers got lifetime airline bans

Edit New York Post 28 Jul 2015
Being asked to leave a plane before your flight certainly is dramatic. Having the police waiting for you after a flight might even get you on the news ... a ban for life ... WATCH ... That’s for sure ... Given the airlines’ omertà regarding lifetime bans, it’s probably not surprising that they rarely publicly reveal who ends up on that blacklist (although sometimes they will if they’re really mad at the person they’ve banned). Related ... 1 ... instant ban ... 2....

IoS letters, emails and online postings (12 July 2015)

Edit The Independent 12 Jul 2015
The article “NHS should not pay for religious care, say critics” (5 July) is a rehash of a six-year-old campaign by the National Secular Society ... The reporter overlooked new developments in healthcare chaplaincy ... John Dowdle ... Please let Teri Pengilley know that without her compelling portrait of Roberto Saviano I wouldn’t have read James Hanning’s interesting piece on him (“Omertà does not seem to be in his vocabulary”, 5 July) ... Tweet ... ....
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