but what can one expect from modern day northern-italians... beyond the boundaries of the direct family everything is allowed, which is a severe case of ethical inbreeding. i must have mistaken the open warmheartedness of the southern italian as the norm here, but northern italians are just the same, and equally sloppy, although they desperately try to appear as if they are not which makes them the hypocrits..
sforza italia!

Robert Morrison is right Beppe.

Recently I wrote a comment appreciating this blog and the fact that it was a means of free expression in an otherwise repressive society when it comes to the distribution of information.

In that same post I also complained about the poor standards of the english translation of articles posted by Mr Grillo. I also complained that the blog should not be encumbered by the Italian disease of "near enough is good enough" and should therefore adhere to its own philosophy and attempt to impart information, in whatever language, in an understandable and legible context.

Yet here we are and my post has been deleted. Who deleted it? What was so abhorrent in what I said that could offend people? What was written that violated Italian law?

It seems that my only culpability was that I dared to criticise the tranlator of this blog.

Hence, and with sadness because I believe in what you are doing, I call you hypocrites

The Red Army liberated Auschwitz, January 27, 1945. That day is now known as Remembrance Day. In fact, last month, world-wide events marked the 65th anniversary of that liberation. The theme? Never again, never forgotten. Unfortunately, since the Holocaust we've had one genocide too many and seen emaciated people behind barbed-wires. Seems mankind never learns. A few days ago I saw a video on L'Unita, showing the conditions people endure in the "Identification and expulsion centres" in Italy: they're appalling. You don't believe me? Go on line and see for yourself. To be sure, there are no gas-chambers or ovens and the weather is mild, but the treatment of migrants awaiting to be identified is a few notches above the treatment reserved for animals. However, there is an analogy between Hitler's extermination camps and the so-called "identification and expulsion centres" in Italy: people's passivity. A lot of Italians are as passive to migrants in the "centres" as Germans were to Jews in extermination camps. And like no country showed concern about fleeing Jews, no country is showing concerns for the human rights of migrants forgotten in the "centres" for as long as a year.

Vorrei sapere quante Berlusconi gli ha offerto per fare quella dichiarazione. O forse e' un voltafaccia di quelli che ci devi mangiare un quintale di sale insieme per conoscerli.