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Ju tarramutu se reconosce pe quantu trojajo fa

Ju Tarramutu: trailer
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The blog beppegrillo.it and the earthquake have been travelling companions straight away with the testimony via Skype from Samanta Di Persio, the author of this book who lives in L’Aquila and who was among the people displaced that night.
The blog has published dozens of posts, hundreds of videos on the Internet (some of which were censored), thousands of comments from people from Abruzzo and elsewhere. Those who follow the blog know that the earthquake has nothing to do with the deaths. If this had happened in Japan, where the anti-seismic homes are the norm, then no one would have died. If the researcher of the Civil Protection, Giuliani, had been listened to, no one would have died.
Many homes were built of sand, the public buildings were among the first to collapse. The Procura is investigating and the blog will follow developments. The book “Ju Tarramutu” is a journey through the negligence of the anti-State. The story of a tragedy that is only a civil tragedy, not a natural one.

An extract from the book:
”I feel that I have made a commitment with my fellow citizens. When I tried to find their stories for the book … they insisted that I write the truth above all because what emerged from the media was a reality that was sweetening [...]
The afternoon of 6 April I had been into the city. L’Aquila was still a living city, in spite of the tragedy that had happened a few hours previously. There was a lot of traffic, people moved around on foot looking for somewhere to spend the night. If you go into the city today, you can see the abandonment of the city, an administrative lack of interest. The city is dirty, degraded, the grass by now has grown high at the edges of the pavements. Or rather, the differences are very evident. The part where the great people of the Earth met up and where conferences are still being held, is well kept. The secondary zones belong to the forgotten city, the phantom city.
It was emotionally difficult to write this book. My own memories were still alive. Inevitably, the existence of seventy thousand people has changed. I reckon that I am lucky as I am alive, and because my family is. An expert confessed to me that if it had lasted (simply) 5 seconds longer … there would have been many many more deaths, and that’s not to say what would have happened if it had been in the morning. The homes are being rebuilt. But to meet up with those who had lost everything has been harrowing. The hurt is still fresh; the scene is still in front of your eyes. The sense of life got lost that night, and perhaps the Civil Protection is partly responsible. Many people remembered that on 31 March the Great Risks Commission chaired by Barberi, with De Bernardinis for the Civil Protection, the vice-president of the INGV, Boschi, the mayor Massimo Cialente etc. The verdict: “No danger!” From the following day, the local TV broadcast a strip with a calming message for the population. Anyway if the top experts had said to stay calm, how could we contradict them? I personally did not go out when there were the tremors at 11:00 pm, because I thought it was stupid to go out into the street to them come back in again. I thought of the day after, of the day ahead of me. I realise that the experts had not even thought to increase the radio communication capacity. Everyone had problems of communication.
Three hundred and seven human beings no longer exist. Someone must have them on their conscience.” Samanta Di Persio

Comments

Last night, Annozero highlighted the plight of small businessmen, forced to shut down their factories after decades of unimaginable sacrifices, workers out of work and out of money and banks making money out of this crisis. Hard-working, honest, tax-paying people shed tears of pain and anger, stunned by what is happening to their lives, wondering who is doing this to them and what they did wrong to be treated like squeezed out throw-aways. Profit and greed are doing this to them.

Marino of the PD, and Porro from "Il Giornale" should be reminded that fifty or forty, or even thirty years ago small business owners were not as caring about their workers as they are today. So, if workers at that time considered them to be "class enemy" they had plenty of reasons to do so and Franceschini need not apologize in the name of those workers.

And, of course, Travaglio's thought-provoking editorial rattled Lupo's cage. The politician got personal and called Travaglio a "preacher" and a "priest". I'm not sure whether Lupo meant to insult or compliment Travaglio. Then he turned up the volume to interrupt and drown out Travaglio's arguments.

What's with right-wing politicians? They're all shouting or insulting when debating, did they go to Sgarbi's school?

Posted by: louis pacella | October 24, 2009 02:12 AM

The threat "uccidiamo Berlusconi" (kill Berlusconi) on facebook is the result of a country divided and where the left and right division keeps widening. And as they widen inflammatory, nonsensical statements are made, insults hurled and invectives launched by politicians, commentators, and broadcasters. Words may not break bones but, in the long run, they sure raise the level of rancour on both sides generating a vortex that sucks the whole country down into hatred. No one deserves to be killed or to be physically attacked for whoever he is, what he does or how he thinks. And no one should be subjected to mortal threats whether on facebook or other places. That threat "Kill Berlusconi" should give us pause and go easy on each other because we all live in glasshouses. You call me communist and I'll call you fascist and on and on. To be sure, this doesn't mean we should all start hugging each other but ease up on the blame game. Or, case in point, this issue of "Kill Berlusconi" was brought up tonight on Porta a Porta. And, inevitably, it started exactly the way I thought it was going to start. Who caused this outpouring of hate toward the Prime Minister? The left or the right? And, sure enough, Belpietrio blamed it on Di Pietro, then Bocchino got a list out of his pocket and began reciting the insults and invectives slung at Berlusconi by his opponents. And, of course, Belpietro and Bocchino failed to remind themselves that when it comes to killing people Brunetta wants to kill, not just one person, but thousands of leftists and he said so on national TV. This is not a tit-for-tat answer or to score rhetorical points but just to remind us all to chill out a bit.

Posted by: louis pacella | October 23, 2009 03:37 AM

I may be wrong on this, I think I heard the financial aid promised by the various European governments were mere politicians' promises: so far they sent nada. Again, I may have heard wrong.

Posted by: louis pacella | October 22, 2009 11:10 PM

In fact in my post at http://mgiannini.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-earthquake-in-italy-really-black.html I contended that an earthquake in Italy is not a Blacks Swan. The G8 organized there was also a scandal. Berlusconi begging for help to the world transforming a G8 in a charity occasion.

Posted by: M.G. in Progress | October 22, 2009 08:38 PM