cosa diavolo si sta aspettando per il piano X?

Once again on L'ultima Parola, a political talk show on Italian TV, journalists from "Il Giornale" minimized the significance of Wikileaks as gossip. It's astonishing how Italian right-wing journalists can be so dismissive when their American colleagues want to see Assange burn in hell. Why would they be so cruel? Why would Obama have fits about the Wikileaks revelations? Could it be that he doesn't want people to know what's going on in Afghanistan and Iraq? Could it be that he doesn't want people to know about the partnership between corporations and government? Could it be that Bank of America shopped around looking for cyberspace securities companies to plant phony documents to discredit Wikileaks' irrelevancy? And could Italian journalists explain why right-wingers are calling for the execution of Assange if they thought the cablegrams were irrelevant? Why do they think the U.S. wants to extradite him from Sweden? The importance of Wikileaks is that finally people around the world can see the hypocracies of top American diplomats, be they friendly to U.S. interests or not. The cablegrams open up windows for people to see views that otherwise would not be seen, like American crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and what Americans think of the Italian Prime Minister, among other things.

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er, excuse me Beppe. Your point is? I've often wondered, since your satire is so pointed about Italy's ills, but you so rarely mention the church (if at all) whether you are a good Catholic. The above comment of yours, particularly in view of its context, could be seen as somewhat fundamentalist. To put it mildly.

You say: 'Perhaps it would have been better to change the date to a more worthy one, 2 June 1946, the birth of the Italian Republic, for example.'

I strongly advise your readers not to support this suggestion. I write as a (serious) astrologer and can tell you that the chart of the Republic is (to say the very least) not helpful to its becoming a successful republic, most especially if you're a woman; as must - over 65 years - have by now become pretty clear.
Specific and relatively difficult cycles of eclipses add to the problems and this year a total solar eclipse at 11deg. Gemini exactly conjoins that of the Sun's position on June 2nd. 1946.
In fact, I understand that the legal birth of the Republic wasn't actually the 2nd., but the 10th. June. (The 2nd. was only the date the referendum was held; its chart is - unbelievably - even more ominous for women!)
It would be brilliant if (once the present period of international unrest subsides) an entirely new beginning were possible to achieve. A new kind of state, with men and women as equal partners, one which would work alongside those brave new states which people throughout the world are at this very time seeking to forge; a state which would be properly served from the outset by informed, balanced, intelligent and sensitive media.

I seriously suggest that an enquiry should be set up now - one which ultimately would consider consulting a body of world-class astrologers who could help select a suitable future moment for the birth of such a new, challenging but ultimately fulfilling, constitution for this most beautiful of countries.

PS Don't take my word for it. Get some genuinely respected astrologers (that's not the same as fortune tellers!)to check for yourselves the astrology I have so minimally outlined.