Beppe Grillo's Blog

Rigor Montis

The money you earn belongs to you, but only up to a certain point. An Amato who goes into your account at night can always be found. Money has become as well as a hidden microphone, also a subcutaneous chip. It has evolved from a financial instrument to an instrument of control. Anything but wiretapping. It’s used to track your actions, to connect you forever to a bank even though you hate banks, to bring into your bedroom a functionary of the Treasury to verify to whom you paid and why, 252 euro on the evening of the second Thursday of October three years ago at 9:15 pm. "Respond you wretch or I’ll call Equitalia". Every government follows its inclinations, its culture. The government of Bankers is no exception. Pensions and the salaries of public employees can be withdrawn in cash only up to 500 euro. The rest will have to be paid into the bank or into a Post Office account or with prepaid cards, perhaps with Tremorti’s social card. In the decree they haven’t yet included the “Gratta e Vinci” scratch cards or the “Il Milionario” cards or the waste paper of the BTP {government bonds}. But it’s just a matter of time, especially for the government bonds. All the transactions on your current account, even the withdrawals from a bank machine and the credit card payments, basically your life, will be made available to the Tax authorities from 01 January 2012. It’s set out in article 11 of the "Emersione di base imponibile" {emergence of the tax base}. For each transaction will you have to keep the receipt, the reason for the payment, and the address of the plumber to avoid penalties? And using cash then? Why not pay in cash and say you wasted it away on women and champagne? Wrong! In the future there’ll be an upper limit for withdrawing cash from the bank. The next arrangement from Rigor Montis will be the taxation of the bricks of your house used to hide the banknotes. Meanwhile, it’s impossible to tax “technically” with a 1.5% extra, the total tax dodgers, the ones that made use of the Fiscal Shield. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

Silenzio si ruba {Silence, there’s thieving}, by Marco Travaglio.
Un anno di illegalità permanente {a year of permanent illegality}
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Comments

I am Italian, but I think that only a comment in this area has a chance to reach Mr Grillo's attention for what I am going to say. Even if it is "fuori tema", and even an "anatema" (as he will soon see). I know that I only have a few instants before Mr Grillo obliterates these lines... oh what the heck, here I go.

There is a form of nuclear power that is safe, infinitely less pollutant than the traditional one, and that can even burn the "nuclear waste" of existing nuclear. It is based on Thorium, dissolved in liquid Salts. It was discussed in 1944 between Enrico Fermi and Eugene Wigner (a Hungarian genius). They disagreed (alas!) and went their own ways.
But 30 years later (1973) Nixon stopped the "Liquid Thorium" effort because it did not produce plutonium (needed for the cold war bombs).

And this path was forgotten... until in 2000 an engineer working for NASA, studying which form of energy could sustain a "Lunar community" got desperate: no petroleum, no coal, no gas, no water, no sun for 2 weeks! and PWR/LWR can't work there (no rivers!)... until he found on a shelf a book on the "forgotten path" to nuclear: it solved the problem!

(I switch to Italian, damnit!). E poi si chiese: ma se è la soluzione per una comunità Lunare... perché diavolo non per una comunità sulla Terra?

Per chi è arrivato fin qui, vedere questo video di 10 minuti:
In Inglese: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vzotsvvkw
Versione Italiana: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OAAdMY0AI

Posted by: Raul Parolari | December 10, 2011 11:29 AM

The first thing the BCE should do is withdraw all 500 euro notes from circulation and make holders cash them in at the Bank of Italy, Spain, France etc subject to proof of source. That would cause a few headaches to the big tax dodgers and illegal money. Next is to outlaw the use of tax havens and claw back all the money that Europeans hold in offshore banks.
Next outlaw all the tax avoidance schemes thet Governments have rubber stamped for their wealthy friends. A dream , perhaps, but necessary to solve the crisis

Posted by: peter fieldman | December 9, 2011 06:51 PM