Whistleblowers - Brave Heroes or Social Outcasts? - huffingtonpost.co.uk
24 May 2012, 9:53 am
You are an informant. And you are in grave danger. In retaliation, you risk being kneecapped, 'tarred and feathered' or killed. You are worse than contemptible. You could be dead. But, in the wider world between the school playground and the criminal ...

Italian School Bombing Sparks Fear of Return to Bloodshed - Daily Beast
19 May 2012, 12:22 pm
Earlier this month an executive of state-defense subsidiary nuclear-development agency Finmeccanica was kneecapped in an attack on his way to work. Her body was literally shred to pieces from the metal shrapnel as the canisters and bin ...

Going to extremes: Europe's voters strike back - The Age
19 May 2012, 8:55 am
Tax offices in Italy have been firebombed, reportedly by anarchists. Last week in Genoa, the Federazione Anarchica Informale kneecapped an executive from a nuclear engineering company, part of the Finmeccanica industrial conglomerate. In a Milan court ...

The Incorrections: Things That Never Happened, And Still Won't - SBNation.com
17 May 2012, 1:22 pm
(Edit: you thought "someone" was in charge of college football, period.) Then real life came along and kneecapped your stupid ass right quick-like, and a decade passed before anyone even really started talking about a playoff. You now make an ...

Editorial - Bradburn for NZ coach - Stuff
15 May 2012, 3:19 pm
Instead, very early on in his tenure, Wright was kneecapped by NZ Cricket's love affair with Australian John Buchanan, who was appointed the organisation's director of cricket and to whom Wright was suddenly supposed to report. No wonder Wright wanted out.

Ron Paul Biographer: Campaign Shift is "Utter Idiocy" - Slate
15 May 2012, 8:02 am
Reason's editor, Matt Welch, led off with the big question. "How does it feel that Ron Paul kneecapped your book today?" asked Welch. "He sort of did the same thing for a better reason in 2008," said Doherty, "but this is an extremely un ...

Army to be used to protect targets of anarchist terror - La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno
14 May 2012, 7:06 am
(ANSA) - Rome, May 14 - The Italian government intends to use the army to help protect the potential targets of the anarchist terrorists who 'kneecapped' a nuclear-company executive last week. However, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said on ...

kneecapped nuclear exec has 'no comment' for aggressors - La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno
11 May 2012, 12:03 pm
(ANSA) - Genoa, May 11 - Ansaldo Nucleare CEO Roberto Adinolfi was released from hospital Friday and said he had "no comment" for his aggressors who shot him in the knee. Police said on Friday that a message signed by the Informal Anarchists Federation ...

After a Rebellion That Shook Albany, Three Falls From Grace - New York Times
9 May 2012, 9:09 pm
But I’m human, and I don’t wish anybody ill. It’s so frustrating; we were kneecapped by the four of them after Election Day.” One amigo remains in office: Senator Rubén Díaz Sr., a Pentecostal minister who is one of the Legislature’s ...

Italy's nuclear boss kneecapped - Sydney Morning Herald
8 May 2012, 8:46 am
The head of an Italian nuclear engineering company has been kneecapped by a gunman, evoking fears of a return to Italy's violent ''years of lead'' in the 1970s as the country sinks deeper into recession. Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive of Ansaldo ...