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Good day. Today it seems inevitable that we talk about the “Save the Lists Decree”, as they call it. It’s the usual swindle to give a wrong name to something disgraceful and try to make it less shameful. This is not a “Save the Lists Decree”. It’s a “Save Berlusconi Decree”, just for a change. I apologise to those who have got my book, it already needs updating because this is the latest “ad personam” law, but the latest is always the next to the last

According to Maroni, the interpretative decree “does not introduce any modification of legal regulations”, but it gives “a correct interpretation” to the regulations. Who decides on the correct interpretation? He and his chums in the government! Napolitano is more uncertain, in fact for him, the decree “has not presented evident defects of unconstitutionality”. If announced by Morpheus a non-evident defect of unconstitutionality means definite unconstitutionality.

There are only two kinds of people that are in favour of nuclear power, namely those who are ill-informed and those that stand to profit from it........

The Region of Piedmont has decided to produce 20% of its energy it needs from renewable sources. How does it want to do this? By the destruction of woodland. To produce energy, 2.2 million cubic metres of wood each year will be used, according to the mad regulations of the new regional law on forestry (L.R. 4/2009). A law in complete conflict with the arrangements for sustainability of the Resolutions approved by the Ministerial Conferences on the protection of the forests in Europe.

An article published on 13 February in "The New York Times" has been hardly noticed in Italy. And yet it is the bell that indicates the end of recreation for the Italian economy. The headline "Wall St. helped to mask debt fuelling Europe’s crisis" summarises the hypothesis of the three authors: L. Story, L. Thomas, and N. Schwartz. The American banks and above all Goldman Sachs have allowed certain European countries to hide their deficit from the EU.

The statements made by the oncologist Patrizia Gentilini are really serious. She refers to falsification of documents used by public associations to deny the effects of incinerators on health. To conceal the new tumour factories. I think it’s appropriate for a magistrate (surely at least one magistrate reads the blog) to take official action to check up where the truth lies. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
“I am Patrizia Gentilini, a doctor, an oncologist

Last week saw the disappearance of Marco Travaglio’s video called "I bertoladri {the Bertolaso thieves}" in his series of Passaparola broadcasts. The film reappeared after a couple of days following on from actions by my staff. The motive reported by YouTube was: "This video is no longer available following a violation of copyright complaint from Mediaset".

Perhaps never before in Italian history has a public work been so useless in such an obvious way as the TAV in the Susa Valley. An engineering feat that will cost tens of billions of euro at the expense of the tax payer, on a stretch that is already served by railways and motorways, to get ready for an increase in goods traffic that will never happen, but that in fact will decrease.

L’Aquila is a ghost city. It has been like that for the last 11 months, since the earthquake of business deal, of night-time laughter from the speculators, of the houses of sand, of the cardboard hospital, of the students killed by carelessness. L’Aquila is a piece of glass shattered into a thousand pieces and never put back together.

At the inauguration of the Five-Star Movement in Milan, I sketched out the Movement’s Programme in broad terms. In the coming months, there will be plenty of time to discuss it online and to improve and amend the programme accordingly.