The driver, the brother-in-law and the engineer

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From the interview with Walter Vezzoli in today’s Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Before I start: the article talks about a resort that doesn’t exist and isn’t even meant to exist. My dream was to create 30 homes that are energy-wise self-sufficient with purifiers that recycle rain water and with solar panels. Wind mills. A dream. It’s just that I’ve never found the money for the investment and thus all that is left of the village is to be found among the papers of some companies that are still active and of others that have closed down. Today’s newspapers are pointing me out as the man of the anonymous companies abroad, but I was living abroad. My son grew up in Costa Rica and I was the owner of a discotheque: where would you expect me to register the companies? Apart from the fact that I don’t have a cent, but there was no money to bring to Italy under the “Fiscal Shield” legislation. Because I was working there and I had different activities. Beppe Grillo? He’s never been to Costa Rica. Beppe Grillo’s investments? But what are we talking about? I’ll see what’s to be done and I’ll have a look to see whether I should bring a legal case for defamation. But the resort that l’Espresso is talking about does not exist. It has never existed. I went to look at 30 hectares of land and my thinking was that 15 of those would be for building. But I didn’t even buy one metre.
"Armonia Parvin", indicated as the mysterious company and perhaps connected to Grillo. It was a shop selling organic products measuring 20 square metres, then it was closed down as it wasn’t making a profit. Parvin is the name of Grillo’s wife of Grillo, but the owner of the shop was Parvin’s sister. It’s possible that she simply liked the name."

From the website "Ecofeudo.com": "In the era of stress and pollution in the cities, the project EcoFeudo proposes a model of life immersed in nature and well-being, but at the same time, offers high technology and maximum comfort. EcoFeudo creates a strong synergy between comfort and nature, between technology and environment. We offer homes in harmony with the Earth’s equilibrium of the world, of high quality and innovative design. The construction of each residence uses low-consumption technology and with zero impact on the environment that completely offset emissions of co2 into the atmosphere."
Tip for the journalists of l'Espresso: refer to Wikipedia and find out that the meaning of an “anonymous company” (Sociedad Anónima, abbreviation: S.A.), in Costa Rica and in nearly all the Spanish speaking countries of the world, is something like that of a “Società per Azioni” {joint-stock company} in Italy.
Checking sources: Costa Rica stopped being a tax haven in 2011. This is the OECD list of countries that have substantially implemented the internationally agreed tax standard recognised by international bodies. The list includes Costa Rica together with other states like Italy.

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Thank you Espresso!
The freedom of the press is precarious
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Posted by: Chris of Masters | March 15, 2013 01:36 AM


Below, when I mentioned Caminito – Buenos Aires’ Genoese district –I did not know to be so close to the Pope! People remember.

Posted by: Paolo G. Mazzarello | March 13, 2013 10:07 PM


7. messages with content that constitutes a violation of Italian Law (incitement to commit a crime, to violence, libel etc.)


WHAT FUCK IS THIS? ITALY MAFIA BUDGET IS 530 000 000 000 euros. ITALY HAS NO LAWS. When Italy start pay some TAXES?????

Posted by: Yrjö Alapää | March 10, 2013 04:33 PM


Dear everybody, to be trapped in this 'game' would allowed only them not convinced over the honesty behind Beppe's words. We see something different and the will, in turning this mentally 'glue pot' into something well-oiled, is strong for us: the people.
Claudio & Family

Posted by: claudio millanti | March 10, 2013 03:17 PM


Who the fuck is Beppe Grillo ?

In Italy he is well known, and it just depends on whose side you are.
If you slant towards the right - you hate Grillo [opinion has changed here recently]
If you slant towards the left - maybe you like him.
[But probably not much if you just recently voted the PD ]

Worldwide though, even 'expert' Italy observers such as the Economist sometimes get their facts wrong and nobody really knows much about Grillo other than that he is a loud mouthed comedian on the verge of destroying the EU if not the world.
This is changing pretty fast during the recent events, but still, there seems to be a lot of disinformation.

So,
If you really want to know who Beppe Grillo is
or to be more precise… who he isn't - have a look here:
http://www.beppegrillo.co

And this is not connected, agreed-to, sponsored by Beppe Grillo nor the M5S,
nor by any other pliticians.

It's just a private and free inhabitant of this planet expressing his opinion, who is wondering at the time of posting this message whether by tomorrow there will be any traces of it on this blog.

regrads

Me

Posted by: Me Us Them | March 9, 2013 12:36 AM


Are we joking, aren’t we? Who goes away working, or in search of work, is only an emigrant. Never mind Mr. Vezzoli and take care of your family. The good old, days a refugee in Caminito was at least picturesque and in Italy there weren’t so many stupid and villain blabbermouths.

Posted by: Paolo G. Mazzarello | March 8, 2013 11:12 PM


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