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Apr 5, 2014 19:04:59 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Apr 5, 2014 19:04:59 GMT -5
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/terror-in-venice-italian-authorities-arrest-24-for-plotting-violent-secession-9235935.html
Terror in Venice: Authorities arrest 24 for plotting violent secession from Italy
Italian authorities have arrested more than 20 secessionists, including a former MP, on suspicion of terrorism and possessing weapons of war as part of a plan to separate the region of Veneto from the rest of Italy.
Italian police said the group had turned a bulldozer into a war tank and planned to use it in a violent attack on St Mark's Square in Venice.
The incident is reminiscent of a more than seven-hour takeover of the piazza's bell tower by secessionists in 1997, who proclaimed an independent, if short-lived, Venetian republic
finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/04/silicon-valley-discovers-secession-decides-its-cool/
Silicon Valley discovers secession, decides it's supercool
Separatist movements used to be wacky and fringe, and they have a lousy track record. But don't tell that to venture capitalist Tim Draper.
FORTUNE -- To believe the headlines, one of the hottest ideas to come out of Silicon Valley in the last year is the notion of self-government. Specifically, that the tech capital of the world should split off from California and launch itself as a sovereign startup free of the legacy burdens of its mothership.
The argument for secession has been advanced with all the overheated bombast you'd expect from entrepreneurs convinced they'd be living in a utopia of their own making if they could simply opt out of the country. But redrawing the California map has taken a (slightly) less fanciful turn with the push by investor Tim Draper to divide it into six separate states. Draper late last year quit his day job as an investment partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the firm he co-founded in 1985, to focus on the project -- along with an entrepreneurship education program. Draper's goal is to force a referendum onto the November ballot, and he tells Fortune the effort is "almost on track" to collect the necessary 800,000 signatures by the mid-July deadline.
www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/04/357219/venezuela-opposition-plans-secession/
Opposition groups plan secession in 6 states: Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says that the country’s intelligence services have obtained documents revealing a plan by an opposition sector to launch a movement for secession in six states.
In a speech at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, Maduro said that his opponents want to separate six of the country’s 23 states.
Maduro said that barricades set up by opposition protestors in city streets to block traffic are also part of the secession plan.
“They say in their plan that the consequence of the violent chaos caused by the barricades must be for people to feel obstinate and assent to the separation,” he said.
According to Maduro, Zulia, Tachira, and Lara are among the provinces on the opposition’s target list.
“In Carabobo, the first autonomist meeting has already been concretized, and then the rest of the states in crisis will follow,” he added.
The Venezuelan president said that according to the plot, some of the states “would join Colombia and others the United States.”
Terror in Venice: Authorities arrest 24 for plotting violent secession from Italy
Italian authorities have arrested more than 20 secessionists, including a former MP, on suspicion of terrorism and possessing weapons of war as part of a plan to separate the region of Veneto from the rest of Italy.
Italian police said the group had turned a bulldozer into a war tank and planned to use it in a violent attack on St Mark's Square in Venice.
The incident is reminiscent of a more than seven-hour takeover of the piazza's bell tower by secessionists in 1997, who proclaimed an independent, if short-lived, Venetian republic
finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/04/silicon-valley-discovers-secession-decides-its-cool/
Silicon Valley discovers secession, decides it's supercool
Separatist movements used to be wacky and fringe, and they have a lousy track record. But don't tell that to venture capitalist Tim Draper.
FORTUNE -- To believe the headlines, one of the hottest ideas to come out of Silicon Valley in the last year is the notion of self-government. Specifically, that the tech capital of the world should split off from California and launch itself as a sovereign startup free of the legacy burdens of its mothership.
The argument for secession has been advanced with all the overheated bombast you'd expect from entrepreneurs convinced they'd be living in a utopia of their own making if they could simply opt out of the country. But redrawing the California map has taken a (slightly) less fanciful turn with the push by investor Tim Draper to divide it into six separate states. Draper late last year quit his day job as an investment partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the firm he co-founded in 1985, to focus on the project -- along with an entrepreneurship education program. Draper's goal is to force a referendum onto the November ballot, and he tells Fortune the effort is "almost on track" to collect the necessary 800,000 signatures by the mid-July deadline.
www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/04/357219/venezuela-opposition-plans-secession/
Opposition groups plan secession in 6 states: Maduro
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says that the country’s intelligence services have obtained documents revealing a plan by an opposition sector to launch a movement for secession in six states.
In a speech at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, Maduro said that his opponents want to separate six of the country’s 23 states.
Maduro said that barricades set up by opposition protestors in city streets to block traffic are also part of the secession plan.
“They say in their plan that the consequence of the violent chaos caused by the barricades must be for people to feel obstinate and assent to the separation,” he said.
According to Maduro, Zulia, Tachira, and Lara are among the provinces on the opposition’s target list.
“In Carabobo, the first autonomist meeting has already been concretized, and then the rest of the states in crisis will follow,” he added.
The Venezuelan president said that according to the plot, some of the states “would join Colombia and others the United States.”