The text of the video declaration:

"First of all, ciao everyone. We haven’t seen each other for quite a bit. I’m devoting myself to agriculture. I’m getting ready for the future. I’ve got a piece made up of strips and a kitchen garden. I’m doing my kitchen garden: I’m beating with nature, with lettuce. I’ve found the water in a well that was there. I’ve chopped up the wood. I’m really getting myself ready for the future that will be that one then!
I can no longer put up with hearing these things about the debt. I’m complimenting myself because here I have this letter dated March 2008, printed off the blog. At that time I said what is happening now. Why did I say that? What is incredible about me that I can forecast these things? Absolutely nothing. I’m free to say things. Just like for Parmalat when I forecast what would happen two years beforehand. It was really simple to forecast where the debt was taking us and where it had taken the country, Europe, the world. Here there’s metaphysics. I’ll tell you what I wrote: “The state of siege proclaimed yesterday by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano has exasperated the population weighed down by the serious crisis of the economy. During the night, people spilled out onto the streets and squares of the main cities of the country, ignoring the measures taken by the authorities and asking for the resignation of the Minister of the Economy Giulio Tremonti.” Tremonti has resigned and the Berlusconi government has fallen. I said this three years ago: “The debt will dominate us.” I said all these things, but it was me that said it! But Monti, these professors, the great professors with extraordinary degrees, where were they? Getting salaries in the universities. I exposed myself to risk. I was a comic and I was risking a section of my fan-base, I understand that because they see me talking about things that are perhaps not suitable for my profession, but I was risking a bit of my life. I have put myself on the line. And instead, these people, what do they do? Now they are in government and they are proposing sales tax from 21 to 23. When Berlusconi did it, it was 21 and straight away: “unjust measures for the less well off.” In fact the sales tax hits the poorest people. At 23 is everything OK? This lot think of doing economic budgets touching these bands and they are not giving anything?
I’ve read the first interview of this Minister that still calls himself “of the Environment”, I don’t know why. He said four things: “We can go back to nuclear as I’m convinced by the safe stuff, GMOs are really good, I taste them every day, it’s quite likely that water will once more become private because it’s logical that it becomes private because we cannot do without it, incinerators are OK, the TAV will surely be done and the bridge over the Straits is an exciting project." In 4 lines he has put himself against 30 million Italians. He is either stupid or he cannot think of governing, of being a Minister, without talking of civil society which is what has substituted politics today.
But he wrote these things and he has always written them. I ended up in Time, but I wrote to Time: “you are mad, take me out of this here magazine. I don’t belong to these assemblies of knowledge and of world culture, I am just a normal citizen who observes with a critical viewpoint.” But then who were these folk? Who are these people who have been holed up in the universities and have never even put themselves forward even a tiny bit, why have they not been shouting out about this stuff ? I was shouting about it three years ago in Piazza Navona at NoCav Day. I was on the telephone and I was shouting: “look it’s not this malevolent dwarf that’s the problem, the problem is the debt”. We had 500 thousand companies that were closing down. I was talking about these things. They wanted to interrupt the sound.

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