Cinque Stelle senators propose to decriminalize illegal immigration, Grillo replies that xenophobia is popular:

Ma prima di arrivare alla decisione serale, la giornata era stata segnata dal dura reprimenda di Grillo e Casaleggio indirizzata ai senatori M5S che avevano proposto e poi votato l'emendamento incriminato. «L'M5S non è nato per creare dei dottor Stranamore in Parlamento senza controllo». Per i due leader M5S l'emendamento è un invito ad imbarcarsi per l'Italia. «Il messaggio che riceveranno sarà interpretato nel modo più semplice: "la clandestinità non è più reato". Quanti clandestini siamo in grado di accogliere se un italiano su otto non ha i soldi per mangiare?».
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«Il M5S - ricordano Grillo e Casaleggio - non è nato per creare dei dottor Stranamore in Parlamento senza controllo. Se durante le elezioni politiche avessimo proposto l'abolizione del reato di clandestinità, presente in Paesi molto più civili del nostro, come la Francia, la Gran Bretagna e gli Stati Uniti, il M5S avrebbe ottenuto percentuali da prefisso telefonico». «Sostituirsi all'opinione pubblica, alla volontà popolare è la pratica comune dei partiti che vogliono "educare" i cittadini, ma - avvertono - non è la nostra. Il M5S e i cittadini che ne fanno parte e che lo hanno votato sono un'unica entità».

(Corriere della Sera)

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Edward Snowden given `integrity in intelligence' award | The Raw Story

US fugitive Edward Snowden has been honored with a prize awarded annually by former CIA staff for exhibiting "integrity in intelligence," the group said.

The 30-year-old, currently in Russia, is wanted by Washington on espionage charges after disclosing details about the vast scope of the US government's surveillance operations.

The Government Accountability Project said Snowden received the Sam Adams Award -- a "symbolic candlestick" -- at a ceremony in Moscow late Wednesday.

Alice Munro: AS Byatt, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín hail the Nobel laureate | Books | The Guardian

This is the Nobel announcement that has made me happiest in the whole of my life. I remember reviewing Alice Munro in the Toronto Globe and Mail and saying she was as great as Chekhov, and the Canadians were surprised but happy. She has done more for the possibilities and the form of the short story than any other writer I know. You can never tell what she is going to say next - or what you the reader are going to feel next - from line to line. She appears to be in perfect control of her writing, but I interviewed her onstage once and she described how she writes enormously long versions of stories and then cuts them into shape. I admire this immensely. One of my favourite moments in her fiction comes in a story where a woman thinks of her day and then of her life as a series of things that have got to be done and are done: "not much to her credit to go through her life thinking, Well good, now that's over, that's over. What was she looking forward to, what bonus was she hoping to get, when this, and this, and this, was over?" One of her great gifts is recognising these peculiar - in some ways ludicrous - rhythms of mental life.

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins 2013 Nobel peace prize - live updates | News | theguardian.com

Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, currently working to destroy Syria's stock, is announced as winner