Great idea of bypassing Italian journalists !! Italian press is not working in a free environment. Every journalist has his own political party agenda to follow. Beppe is doing the right thing. To those claiming that M5S politicians are new thus not up to the job, I want to say: what about the old ones ?? What benefit italians got from old and corrupted fart men who contributed to the Bel Paese downfall ?? It is time to see things as they are, not through the italian media lenses. Italian TVs and newspapers are just a bunch of pure crap. This is a revolution against those who manipulate reality and many italians fall for it.

People are losing future and hope. It is time to give the right sense of what kind of society we want to live in and we want to give to our children.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/beppe-grillo-taps-into-frustrations-of-european-lost-generation-a-886715.html
Let's see it

Wednesday 6th March. Saw first 2 deputies from M5S on TV this morning. Italian press (TV and Newspapers) falling over themselves to find some "chink in the armour" but both elected people stood their ground and deflected pointed questions in a professional manner. It seems the Italian media just don't understand things are changing and M5S will not be from derailed from their objectives by arrogant interviewers who are just looking for a scoop or to win a point. The future of Italy and dare I say Europe depends on accepting this game changing reality and finally lets governed people drive their wishes without being clouded by party politics, corruption and rich lobbies.
DJJ

It’s amazing to see how so many people keep deluding themselves with the wishful thinking that with time things will revert to the old good order. They can’t see even remotely that the debt crisis coupled with the Euro currency folly is laying bare the deep cracks in a ruinously decaying political order based on representative democracy.

With relentless erosion of ethical standards in society – lack of accountability – the so-called representatives of the people, have gone so far in asserting their elitist privilege of being above the law that they have ditched whatever pretension of shame: “We can do whatever we like in full daylight and nobody is allowed to reprehend us”.

Representative democracy is a system so flawed that in Italy a crook who was due for jail, by the means of his riches and disproportionate sway on the media, could find his way through, up to the top and stay there for almost 20 years, backed by hordes of enthusiast supporters and bunga bunga followers. Isn’t that an outstanding evidence of how representative democracy has become the decadent political system of a decadent society? It happened in Italy, not a third world fledgling democracy where ballots can be easily rigged.

When the man got his hands firmly on the power, surrounded by a swelling army of sycophants, he devoted his best energies and talent to devise ad-personam laws to get himself free from the litany of charges he had to face in various courts. So privilege became the norm.

“Privilege” comes from Latin “privilegium”, a special law devised to favour a private person (privus). In principle democracy and privilege is an oxymoron: weren’t just abolition and prevention of whatever kind of privilege the main foundation of democracy? In Italy representative democracy has failed to such an extent that it became a handy tool for openly denying the very foundation upon which democracy is supposed to stand: NO PRIVILEGE.

All other parties from whatever political orientation, entangled on their own in all kinds of murky deals, couldn’t resist participating plus or less overtly to the happy party. The mindset and the mechanics at work are astonishingly reminiscent of organized mobsters.

In a decadent society where the accountability compass has long been ditched and replaced with rampant and pervasive relativism, while borrowed money kept flowing everybody kept dancing and spending. Suddenly the shock came, the faucets of lending went dry and, as Rogoff and Reinhard say, the endgame began. The day of reckoning is approaching for both overleveraged economies based on frantic pace of consumptions and overleveraged governments used to buy consensus through unsustainable commitments to spend.

There are two ways of looking at the world, said Bertolt Brecht, either with a full belly or an empty one. It isn’t easy to adapt to an empty belly when such experience is unprecedented. Resentment rising from empty bellies is now running high, people feel cheated, so what they say is: “We trusted you and now we are getting poorer while you have filled your coffers and your cousins’. Now we want to get rid of you and we’ll not trust anybody anymore. We’ll just do the job ourselves.” Obviously nobody is ready to take his share of responsibility for having cast his ballot for such lousy people for so long.

It's at this junction that two critical factors come into play. One is the young generations, heavily touched by unemployment they feel deprived of the right to have dreams, which is the deepest sense of being young. They have a lot of rage, a lot of energy and almost all of them are web savvy.
Internet is indeed the second critical factor to be taken into account. No need anymore of laborious process for aggregating people behind political platforms the way traditional parties are used to do, endless meetings and discussions, package it properly, hand it over to your representative jumbo-man and be faithful, he’ll take good care. No need to go through a representative in order to aggregate people of similar political leaning and give voice to shared demands and grievances.

Internet keeps people instantly and constantly wired to each other. They can discuss issues, propose and confront solutions and take decision horizontally and very fast. All this give them the feeling of not being alone and powerless, the easy to communicate offered by the web makes aggregation so easy and fast, and aggregation is power.

Entangled in the throes of the end of the overleveraged economy cycle, crippled by the Euro folly straitjacket, feeling at astronomical distance from petty obtuse eurocrats, coming now to realize the heavy price society has come to pay for having since long ditched ethics in favour of all inclusive relativism, they are full of rage, are armed with the power of the web and have come to a conclusion: lying, cheating, stealing, corruption and what else, all belong to the DNA of representative democracy.

Hi everyone !!I read many posts and I saw the big interest for italian politics !!This blog and 5 stars moviment were born to fight italian corruption and old system (LA CASTA ).Now the most important thing is to make known italian old corrupt system !!I hope you will diffuse 5 stars ideas:-D

Hi Beppe:

Re: DO THE RIGHT THING

Hi Beppe:

As you know, 7,000.000 pensions are well below any decency - The New World Order not so secret agenda wants starving slaves - not to mention the esodati, why don't you pay these people asap with the rimborsi elettorali money which, by the way, belongs to them.

It would be a very nice move while you set up the new govt.

I wish you all the best to you and the Movement, that reminds me Milos Forman's movie Taking Off made real.

Barbara Hofmann Cortesi

Dear Diane, very few politicians are honest but so few people are honest too. Who is not honest, can become honest only if is very young. The defects of human kind are bigger than its virtues, but hope often is daughter of education. A chance is reading your optimistic words.

Beppe Grillo the italian leader of the M5S movement 5 stars, who is he and what is the movement, how the small businesses are expecting a change through this movement, don't listen to what the media are saying, take your info directly from the voice of the italian citizens

Sadly this is a world wide phenomenon. All electorates put their trust in politicians if they are naive... history has taught us that very few politicians are honest. this is why so many people don't vote at all. Although that is wrong... there are those who have starved or even died so that we have the democratic right to vote.

However, having seen the live streaming of fresh faces today introducing themselves I was filled with a sense of hope... They all want honesty and we can't afford the luxury of a negative thought right now. We have to take a leap of faith and give these people our support.

This is a unique opportunity to redefine what a politician is... an existing merriam/webster definition is: 'a person primarily interested in political office for selfish or other narrow usually short-sighted reasons.' http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politician

We have to change the meaning to something more inspiring and positive! Maybe in time 'politician' will not be such a dirty word...let's hope so! Meantime let's give The Five Star Movement a chance..it may be the last we have...

People of other nations...Translate article of blog and diffuse them!!And above ,share this !!!

Oh cazzo ma perchè mettete i post con il titolo in inglese (esempio i partiti copia e incolla!!)e poi questi sono scritti in italiano.Se non curate bene la parte international perderete risonanza al livello europeo!!!Farete la fine dell'"Uomo Qualunque"se non vi inventate cose international nuove.A MORTE IL PAPA'!!POPE DEAD!!!