March 09, 2009
Live from Florence: the first national conference of the Five Star Civic Lists
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Live from Florence: the first national conference of the Five Star Civic Lists.
The programme that’s planned:
9.15 am registration
Introduction - Beppe Grillo
Politics - Marco Travaglio
Environment - Maurizio Pallante
Health - P. Gentilini, G. Miserotti, M. Bolognini
Energy - Marco Boschini
Recycling - Matteo Incerti
Connectivity - Maurizio Gotta (Anti Digital Divide)
Rights of the citizens - Sonia Alfano
Water - Riccardo Petrella
Watch the recording of the morning’s programme
Break
Presentation of the Civic Lists website
Speeches from the Civic Lists and the Meetups
Conclusion - Beppe Grillo
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February 22, 2009
Political communiquè number nineteen
Ps1: The national 5-Star Municipalities gathering will be held at the Saschall Theatre in Florence on Sunday, March 8, 2009. Register and take part in the Forum.
Ps2: Tomorrow, Sunday 22 February, around 17h30, I will be in Chiaiano to attend the public meeting concerning the waste disposal dump.
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February 17, 2009
The Great Purge
Either the PDminusL purges itself or it has to be purged by the Italians. What’s needed is a Great Purge for it to be liberated of the toxic waste of the Left. It needs to take inspiration from Stalin and the trials of the 1930s. Without bloodletting. It’s enough to get the votes in the forthcoming local elections and the European elections in June. The psycho-dwarf does not win on his own merits, but because of the demonstrable incapacity of Veltroni and Fassino and for the collaborationism of D’Alema, Bersani, Violante, La Torre, and so on and so forth. To be a candidate with the PDminusL is equivalent to political suicide, the kiss of death.
The PDminusL is the best friend of the enemy. For decades, it has gifted him radio and TV frequencies. A State “good” that allows the psycho-dwarf to get rich with advertising and by the daily brainwashing of the citizens. Day and night. Untiring. In exchange for what Violante? What’s the deal?
The PDminusL has not eliminated any filthy law. It has not reformed the electoral law, the one that allows Fassino to get his wife, signora Serafini elected SEVEN times to Parliament and that allows “Topo Gigio” to appoint the deputy Enzo Carra, a guy who has a definitive conviction. He has never dealt with the conflict of interests. Berlusconi is the son of Craxi, but after the death of the father, he has been adopted by the couple D’Alema-Violante.
What’s needed is a great purge to start afresh. The country needs alternatives to make a change, not these scoundrels. Veltrusconi is not an alternative, it is a business committee. In Piazza Farnese the family members of mafia victims spoke out. Not one politician, I repeat not one, of the PDminusL, deigned to participate. Last July, Piazza Navona was full of derided left wing voters of the “Scemo del Villaggio Globale”, called Topo Gigio, called Walterloo, called Veltroni. The referendum to change the rules of information, and the popular law for a Clean Parliament have been ignored, demonised. Populists, demagogues, qualunquists. Anyone who participated in the V-days has been treated as one with the plague. The Clean Parliament popular law is blocked in the Senate Committee thanks also to the members of the PDminusL. I’ve never heard their voice on the topic. But for the need, to avoid the trial of a parliamentarian, Veltrusconi is always a single person. Let Kamenev D’Alema go on trial. Let Zinoviev Violante enter the office of Ghedini. Let Bukharin Bersani sign up to the Confindustria of Ms Marcegaglia, to incinerators and the nuclear power stations.
A farcical party does not need farcical trials. This lot will not let anyone put them on trial even if they get to 3%. If Craxi destroyed the PSI, this group of full time politicians has destroyed the whole of the Left. “Addavenì Baffone!” {Stalin’s coming!}
PS. Today the lawyer, Mr. Mills was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months. All the information on the Mills case and on the involvement of Silvio Berlusconi is available in the article called Mills on trial, Berlusconi convicted.
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February 04, 2009
The Court of Accounts under Control
The Court of Accounts has the task of checking up on damage caused to the State or to any other public body by its agents and to oblige the people responsible to pay compensation. It is a controlling body that checks up on how our money is spent, the money we pay in taxes. The public administrators and the politicians are spending all their time in this legislature on putting under control, those that control them. After the ordinary magistracy, now it’s the turn of the Court of Accounts.
Vizzini, the Chair of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, has inserted an amendment in the law. Vizzini doesn’t have a minute to have a look at the “Clean Up Parliament” law signed by 350,000 Italians citizens, but he always finds the time for an amendment to save his colleagues’ skin. Vizzini’s “piggish” amendment places the magistrates of the Court of Accounts under the control of politicians. They can do what they like with our money with the sure knowledge that no one is controlling them.
Some are talking about a soft dictatorship or of new fascism, it’s nothing like that. This lot are only thinking of the money. Our wallets are their magnificent obsession. The CSM {Council of Magistrates} under control, the Court of Accounts under control, the Court of Cassation with Carnevale, the news media under control, Parliament under control. Crikey, either this lot are sick or they have a lot to lose.
They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
”We are starting off with the fact that the checks are getting ever less, at times there are checks in the town administrations, in the regional ones and so on, that have now disappeared, and the Court of Accounts has remained the last great safeguard against a certain type of wastefulness. It’s not that it works well! It costs so much, five times more than the Spanish Court of Accounts just to get the picture, and in certain parts of the country it works really badly, however, in spite of all that, it is anyway a controlling body that puts a limit on certain messy things.
It deals with a bit of everything: from the Red Cross to the Regions, the towns etc. And it happens that like all the organisations of the magistracy, the ordinary magistracy, the administrative magistracy, the TAR, the Council of State, the Court of Accounts, it has a self-governing structure so that it can be taken away from being controlled and interfered with by the politicians. Traditionally, and by law, this self-governing structure is headed by a Chairperson who is chosen by the politicians, this is true, but from a “shortlist of three proposed names” from a self-governing body that is equivalent to the CSM, just so that we understand each other, of the ordinary magistracy. The Council of the Presidency provided a “shortlist of three” and the government chose who they wanted from within this shortlist of three. Now it’s clear that if you go and change the composition of the whole of the Council of the Presidency, the more politicised Council of the Presidency will provide a different shortlist of three than it gave before, in which, in fact, the government will have the possibility of choosing the one it prefers in a more direct way than before. And that is exactly what is happening.
With an amendment inserted in the Brunetta law, proposed directly by Carlo Vizzini, the Chair of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, the former social democrat Minister who is today in Forza Italia, they want to turn upside down the Council of the Presidency and thus reduce the number of magistrates elected by their colleagues from ten to four, that is more than halved! In this way the leaders would have ever more weight and those elected by Parliament would have more weight because at that point there would be four magistrates elected by their colleagues, two experts placed there by the Senate, two experts placed there by the Lower House, thus POLITICIANS, as well as the leaders of the Court of Accounts, plus the head of the cabinet and the secretary, and in fact we are talking of functionaries, even though that is in inverted commas, and I say, that would be more exposed to interference from the politicians. This is the little game.
At the same time, the Chair of the Council of the Presidency and of the Court of Accounts (because the same person has the Chair of each) would have a load of extra power and in fact he would become the “dominus” of the whole situation. ..."
Gian Antonio Stella
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January 27, 2009
I know. Carlo Vulpio.
The latest Maroni regulation is the filming of demonstrators by the Scientific Police. Every march will be filmed, every face, every “fuck off” will be recorded. The filing cabinet of the State Police will be better than Facebook. In Lampedusa, in Vicenza, in Chiaiano, in Val di Susa, at the V-days, the citizens will be on file. The faces of a few million Italians will become the property of the Police filing system. We have to exchange the favour and film everything that happens in the demonstrations, in the marches, in the public meetings and put it online on the internet. Film every provocateur, every abuse of power, every act of arrogance and prevarication, misuse of power, every lie of the politicians. There’re more of us than there are of them. We have more video cameras. They are losing the information war. A video of Maroni talking about Lampedusa or of Bossi who calls the psych-dwarf a “Mafioso” is priceless.
Tomorrow bring your video cameras to Piazza Farnese and make films. Film everything and then upload it to YouTube. The blog will publish the films. I will send a selection of the best films to Maroni. He can then take his time in identifying the men of the Digos {Italian general investigative and special operations division}, of the special services, of the Police in civilian clothes and he can pass on to La Russa, the images of the military personnel.
They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
”I know that Luigi De Magistris has to be defended, that Clementina Forleo has to be defended, that Gabriella Nuzzi, Dionigio Verasani, and Luigi Apicella have to be defended.
And not just because they are magistrates, but because they are magistrates who have simply done their duty and for this reason they are paying the price.
With a transfer, with the suspension of their salary, with the downgrading of their functions.
They are paying the price because the Council of Magistrates has been following this line in recent years: punish those who are investigating and who are doing their job and who are not nestling down under the protective wings of the politicians and of the political groupings of the magistrates.
We are talking about magistrates without allegiance to groupings, without a party, of people who we are defending because we see in them the people who are defending our rights.
The demonstration on Wednesday, 28 January in Rome’s Piazza Farnese is not just a demonstration in defence of some of those principles of our Constitution that we see every day emptied of its content.
It is also a demonstration in favour of those rights that we must regain for ourselves and that each day are being denied to us.
Today we are in a paradox. What is happening is very important: up until now we were convinced, perhaps we even accepted, certainly not willingly, the idea and the principle that those who do not respect the law are getting away scot free.
Let’s say, those who kill are not going to prison.
But from now onwards we are seeing the opposite: those who respect the law are landing up in prison. Those, even magistrates, who give orders in accordance with the law, are considered out of line and deviants.
For this reason and not just for this reason, we all have to meet up on 28 January, in Piazza Farnese, Rome so that the rights that they want to take away from us, can be reaffirmed by each one of us, with, as always, a massive, peaceful, and democratic collective presence. I’ll be waiting for you.” Carlo Vulpio
PS Give support via Facebook Manifestazione per la Giustizia a sostegno del Procuratore di Salerno Luigi Apicella {Demonstration for the Justice System in support of the Salerno prosecutor Luigi Apicella}
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 07:34 PM in Politics
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January 26, 2009
I know. Sonia Alfano.
Sonia Alfano. Demonstration for the Justice System, 28 January, Piazza Farnese, Rome
The P2-people have occupied the media. This is their strength. With Vulpio, Gomez or Travaglio at the head of a TV News, they would not last two days. The Palestinians protest in Piazza del Duomo for the Gaza massacres? They forbid Italians to demonstrate in front of Churches and supermarkets. A young woman goes off into the countryside with her fiancé and is raped? We need 30,000 extra military personnel in the cities to control the Italians. It’s a “pre-coup d’état”. They are getting ready for the economic collapse that will bowl them over. The other countries are facing up to the crisis with economic measures. We are doing so with military measures. The Minister of the crisis will be La Russa, not Tremonti.
On Wednesday 28 January we have the opportunity to give our support to Justice in Rome, from 9 am in Piazza Farnese. I’ll be there.
They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
I know that in Parliament there are mafia people, servants of mafia, protectors of mafia and this is known to many Prosecutors Departments in Italy, many journalists and also many Italians, but not enough.
I know that the President of the Senate, Schifani, was a consultant with the town of Villabate when that town was under the control of the Mandalà clan, and that Schifani was a partner with the same boss Mandalà in Siculabrokers.
I know that the Minister Alfano kissed the boss Crocenapoli at the marriage of the daughter of that same boss of Cosa Nostra.
I know that Marcello Dell'Utri, convicted of many crimes, was convicted at the first level for mafia and the same Dell'Utri, has said that Vittorio Mangano, the stable manager at Arcore and a mafia person, is for him a hero.
I know that there are many corrupt magistrates, mafia people and friends of mafia people who have lunch and dinner with the bosses and with the “in-laws” of the bosses, and yet they have not been punished but rewarded and promoted.
I know that Article 3 says that all citizens have equal social dignity and are equal before the law. I know however, that 4 positions of State have done everything so that they are not put on trial and that they are above the law.
I know that Article 21 says that everyone has the right to demonstrate their own thinking freely in writing and with every other means of distribution, so the press cannot be subject to authorization or censorship.
I know that, unfortunately, this has never been respected. I know that we do not have a free press and that a huge number of journalists know, pretend to not know, close their eyes, and are servile to the system of power.
I know that Article 101 of our Constitution says that justice is administered in the name of the people and that the judges are subject only to the law and not to the abuse of the law or to political power.
I know that Luigi De Magistris, Clementina Forleo, the prosecutor Apicella have been transferred because they dared to carry out investigations on strong powers, on politicians, on business people and on the friends of politicians.
I thought that I had given to this country the biggest thing that I had, that is my family, and instead I realize that it was a sacrifice that is probably sent up in smoke even though it was done in the defence of a State based on the rule of law. And it has been thwarted with the installation of this dictatorial regime.
When I look at the “tricolore” {Italian flag} I feel a great anger because I identify the red that colours it with the blood of our loved ones.
That is why to go out into the streets and squares for me is not just a right but a duty, in regard for those who have lost their lives for our democracy. If we don’t show all our indignation to this regime, if there is no reaction, they will feel authorized to tread all over our dignity.
That is why I invite all the citizens who want to demonstrate with us to come out at 9 am in piazza Farnese, Rome on 28 January.” Sonia Alfano
PS Give support via Facebook Manifestazione per la Giustizia a sostegno del Procuratore di Salerno Luigi Apicella {Demonstration for the Justice System in support of the Salerno prosecutor Luigi Apicella}
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January 24, 2009
I know. Salvatore Borsellino
Salvatore Borsellino, Paolo’s brother, will be in Rome on 28 January 2009, at the demonstration called for by the Association of family members of Mafia victims to be held in piazza Farnese at 09h00, in order to testify regarding the destruction of the Justice system. I will be there.
Paolo Borsellino was murdered using TNT. De Magistris, Apicella and Ms Forleo have been suspended or transferred. The end result is the same: the justice system is dying. The whitewashed sepulchres of the former left wing stand by and watch the end of democracy while the P2 members and Lega members finish off the job. Don’t lets look the other way. Hey guy, lets not leave them alone with the riot squads.
"I know that, just prior to his death, Paolo Borsellino met with Mancino in Rome and came out of that meeting very upset.
I know that the Second Republic was born out of the murders of ’93 and on the basis of secret agreements.
I know that Luigi De Magistris was relieved of his duties in Catanzaro and dispossessed of his investigations in order to prevent yet another Tangentopoli scandal from exploding.
Last year I was in Catanzaro when the attacks of the powerful forces were being aimed mainly at Luigi De Magistris in order to dispossess him of the "Why Not", "Poseidon" and "Toghe Lucane" inquiries, which were in fact eventually taken away from him. At that time, I said that I was going to go to Catanzaro, together with many other young people, as if to Fort Alamo, because as far as I was concerned this was the last bastion of defence of the Magistrature.
Unfortunately, since then, many other things have occurred.
Unfortunately this attack on the magistrature continued on unabated, to the extent that we are now looking at the elimination of an entire Public Prosecutor’s Department.
We are now seeing the intimidation of a Public Prosecutor’s Department that was legitimately investigating another Public Prosecutor’s Department. And when this legitimately investigated Public Prosecutor’s Department complained, the CSM (Upper Council of the Magistrature) unfortunately did little more than send everyone home without examining the merits of what had occurred.
To make matters worse, they did something that had never before been done in the entire history of the Republic: they proceeded to place the Chief Public Prosecutor on unpaid suspension for having simply done his duty.
This is how the judges are being killed these days.
Once upon a time, judges such as Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone..., the very same Paolo Borsellino that had himself been investigated by the CSM, which did not however have the courage to proceed with this kind of assassination in the light of the public reaction.
Unfortunately, there no longer appears to be this kind of public reaction and, as a result, the powerful forces believe that they can do whatever they wish and, in accordance with the dictates of Minister Alfano, they have carried out an unspeakable act: they have essentially killed off a magistrate, namely Apicella, in much the same way as they had previously done with De Magistris and Clementina Forleo.
They killed him off without having to resort to the use of TNT, simply by means of official documentation.
Something happened yesterday that filled me with emotion. I received the most beautiful letter from Gabriella Nuzzi who resigned from the National Magistrates’ Association, saying that she had to be true to her own conscience and to the Constitution, and that she would continue to do so even though she has been stripped of her duties as Public Prosecutor.
It is alongside these very judges that we must stand, and it is for them that we must take to the streets.
On 28 January I will be in Rome, together with the Association of family members of Mafia victims and I hope together with many other likeminded people that will, in this way, offer resistance against what the current regime is trying to do in Italy.
We must support those magistrates that represent the last bastion of democracy in Italy.
We must prevent other magistrates being killed off.
I hope that there are many other magistrates that are prepared to follow the example set by Gabriella Nuzzi. I will continue to support these magistrates and I will remain close to them because I believe that this is a way for me to remain close to Paolo Borsellino and pay homage to his memory.
I hope that many, many, many other people will do the same.
Thanks." Salvatore Borsellino
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January 21, 2009
I know
I know.
I know that organized crime and the Masons are in control in Calabria and also in Rome.
I know that Luigi De Magistris has been removed from his position in Catanzaro and deprived of his investigations to prevent the explosion of a new Tangentopoli {Bribesville}.
I know that nine billion euro of European funds, that the citizens have no control over, is financing the mafia and the parties each year, and that that money is the basis of the exchange vote in the South.
I know that the fathers of this Republic, the second Republic, are the moral instigators of the murder of Paolo Borsellino.
I know that in Parliament there are mafia people, friends of mafia people, protectors of the mafia and that is also known to many Italian prosecutors, many journalists, and many Italians, but not enough.
I know that the Salerno Procura {prosecutors office} must be given the freedom to investigate the Catanzaro Procura.
I know that the “tribunale per il Riesame” {Appeal Court} has declared that the behaviour of the head prosecutor of Salerno and of his prosecutor Apicella to be proper behaviour.
I know that there is no war between Procure {prosecutors offices}, but that there is a procura that is under investigation, that of Catanzaro and one that has investigated in accordance with the law and the regulations, that of Salerno.
I know all this but I don't have the proof. Just a mountain, a colossal mountain of evidence.
I know that Alfano has the task of protecting Berlusconi from the justice system and not Berlusconi’s Justice System.
I know that 4 State positions are above the law, in a way that not even the King and the Princes were in the Middle Ages, so that they cannot be subject to the law, so that they cannot be tried, so that they cannot end up in prison.
I know that the State positions that are above the law, and thus outlaws, are called, in alphabetical order: Berlusconi, Fini, Napolitano and Schifani.
I know that Vulpio, a Corriere della Sera journalist has been removed from his job by the editor Mieli for having reported in his articles the excellent names of people involved in the current investigations in Catanzaro by the Salerno Procura, and among these there is Nicola Mancino, the head of the CSM {Council of Magistrates}.
I know that Paolo Borsellino met Mancino in Rome, just before his death, and he left the meeting just devastated.
I know that Apicella must not be removed by Alfano, the major-domo of Ghedini, Berlusconi’s lawyer who is defending him while he is receiving a salary as a deputy of the Republic.
I know, and a lot of people know that the second Republic came into being to save from prison, and perhaps from death, many politicians who are in a fluid relationship with organized crime.
I know that the second Republic came into being from the 1993 slaughters and on secret agreements.
I know that Napolitano knows, in his role as President of the CSM, but he prefers to turn the other way, every time. On the side of the parties and maintaining the System.
I know that there are 18 people with definitive convictions in Parliament, and a hundred who are under investigation or with first or second level convictions .
I know that the last elections were illegal and that the parliamentarians were chosen by the party heads working at their desks and that they are not accountable to the voters but to the interests of the parties or of the person who controls the parties.
I know that Luigi Apicella cannot be left on his own and that he cannot be suspended by any politician.
I know that Luigi De Magistris must continue with his investigations that are “Why Not”, “Poseidone” and “Toghe Lucane”.
I know that Clementina Forleo must get back the control of the investigation about Unipol and be free to interrogate anyone including Massimo D’Alema.
I know that if the magistracy is subjected to political power, if it loses its independence, the little that remains, then there will be no future and perhaps, there will not even be Italy.
I know that for these reasons, on 28 January 2009 I will be in Rome at 9 am, in piazza della Repubblica, together with Associazione dei familiari delle vittime di mafia (Association of the families of mafia victims}.
I know that, for these reasons, every Italian citizen should be present to bear witness in Rome.
PS Join the Facebook Group Manifestazione a sostegno del Procuratore di Salerno Luigi Apicella {Demonstration in support of the Salerno Prosecutor Luigi Apicella}.
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January 09, 2009
Politics is dead and the news medium is not in good health
Antonio Di Pietro has handed over the signatures against the Lodo Alfano to the Court of Cassation. That’s the law that makes 4 citizens more equal than the others before the law. From the balcony Corrado Carnevale was watching him. Kriptonite who unloaded the boxes reminded him of his old friends Falcone and Borsellino. A million citizens have signed against Veltrusconi. Now the signatures will be counted and examined one by one in the search for some formal error. This is what the Court of Cassation is useful for: to count and to break.
Last year I handed over your signatures for the three referenda on the freedom of information. For each one, five hundred thousand signatures were needed. An enormous number for a grassroots movement, without financing, without media coverage, but in fact with the parties, the rags and their editors ferociously against us. I believed and I still believe that the number was sufficient. The Court of Cassation had objections relating to the number of signatures and to their validity. Perhaps they lost a box on the way, perhaps the recording and the verification of the signatures had some kind of hitch. It’s still true that hundreds of thousands of citizens have asked for change in the direction of freedom of information. The end of the obscene and antidemocratic closeness between Mediaset and PDL. Newspapers used as tools of mass disinformation. No response from Veltrusconi. The signatures for the referenda and for the popular laws have become a bureaucratic fact not a political fact. Politics is dead if citizens have to sign for a referendum in order to be heard. And if not even the signatures are enough, what is left? The people “appointed” by Veltrusconi (not elected) in Parliament should ask themselves this question. If the citizens’ attempts to be heard are ignored and derided, what do they expect will happen? What will happen to them? They cannot truly believe that this “status quo” can keep going for long...
Since Kriptonite Di Pietro gained 15% in Abruzzo and since he collected the signatures to get the psycho-dwarf put on trial together with Mills, the family newspapers have devoted a front cover a day to him. Gaza city has been bombed? Let’s talks of Tonino‘s buildings. Obama presents the world plan to fight the recession? Let’s talk about Di Pietro’s slush funds. They did the same in the past with Bossi, with Fini, and with Casini to get them to get back into line. It’s the moment for weaklings as newspaper editors.
I don’t know whether I will do another referendum in a blocked party-ocracy like we have now. If I do, it’ll be for the abolition of the Gasparri law and the next time we will photocopy the forms and put them online before handing them over to the Court of Cassation.
PS: the helicopters have turned on their engines. I repeat: the helicopters have turned on their engines.
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December 31, 2008
New Year Address
”Humanity! People of Italy!
Are you all on holiday, all away, yes? With the “social card”, eh! “Social card” two English words to take you for a ride in Italian.
You’re on holiday but it’s not just you: it’s the whole of Italy on holiday. Italy’s on holiday for a month. It’ll open up again on 12 January…. who knows if Italy’ll open up again.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a great opportunity: in the year 2009 we won’t give a dam about it but it will wake us up from this coma and it will make us understand the situation we are in. This “shock” will only be good for us. It’ll be a traumatic “shock”. We are all in the “tunnel” and there are people who go on TV and say: “we have to come out of the tunnel, we will come through in 2010.” Stay in the tunnel! Stay in the tunnel! Outside it’s even worse!
Ladies and Gentlemen, democracy has gone away under our very eyes. Citizens are cut out of the field. Five people have elected this social network of people with previous convictions, ruffians, friends of friends, lawyers who make laws for the friends of friends.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in Abruzzo 50% didn’t go and vote: that’s our party. We said not to go and vote, because those elections were illegal and anti-constitutional. 50% plus what Di Pietro got: we are the majority in the country! They are the minority, and you can see it in the way they look: they are afraid.
We export marvelous things: first the pizza, culture…. now we export delinquents and convicts or those presumed to be such, into Europe. Del Turco and Bassolino will be going... this is the great characteristic that we have.
But the year 2009 will see the birth of marvelous things: we are at war, we are at war! Out of courtesy, every citizen must put on a helmet, go out and do Do-It-Yourself democracy! Do your own politics and you have enormous power: it’s in your tiny wallet, how you spend and how you don’t spend. I am following the psycho-dwarf’s advice. He anyway is raving about spending. It’s us, those who want to save. It’s us who are creating delirium in the economy.
We are truly in a strange moment, at a time when at the auctions for the Treasury Bonds, the BTPs and CCTs, two of the auctions were deserted. There’s something that doesn’t work out if the big institutions are not buying. Our debt is going up. The companies that close down are no longer paying taxes so there will no longer be an income for the State. People won’t be paying income tax, the debt will increase. It’s already more than 1700 billion and we have to pay 80 billion euro in interest each year and we break our balls on things like the “lodo Alfano”... You can see that in Tremonti’s face. He’s a phantom wandering around.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it will be a massive battle. It’s a great opportunity to change things and we will change things. We will change things, because we are starting at the bottom with the civic lists. We are turning the pyramid upside down. Citizens will be going into the towns. With other citizens, they will create transparency. From the towns to the Regions. Then from the Regions into Parliament. Turning the pyramid upside down, this is our battle. However, citizens must have proper information and you can only find that on the Internet, because the newspapers are by now a matter of the past.
There’s nothing left to find in the newspapers. Truth is no longer there. It’ll be something extraordinary… Ciro! Ciro! Leave the sandbags at the window! Don’t touch the shotgun! As I was saying... you have to stay calm.
Young people call me, youngsters ask me: “what future have we got?” Lads don’t worry about the future: you have no future. One less thing to worry about. Where will we finish up? We’ll end up with finding that a hundred business people, a hundred ticks have sucked this system dry.
These politicians who have been there for twenty or thirty years. Fassino’s wife, the wife of “globule”, signora Serafini has been in politics for thirty years and I haven’t understood what on earth she has done in thirty years. Ms Carfagna .... we have things that makes all the world look at us stupefied.
We have everything “nano” – it’s not enough to have a psycho-dwarf-nano, there’s another one, Brunetta who is an iPod nano.
We have things that we cannot manage to understand. We are in a delirium, against the flow.
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The citizens have been removed from any constitutional rights, from referenda to popular laws, to petitions. They are sent away from the town halls. Citizens must claim back democracy. So, happy war! Happy 2009! Stay up and above all keep calm! Ciro! Leave the sandbags where they are!” Beppe Grillo
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December 17, 2008
Political Press Release number eighteen
In Abruzzo, half of those entitled to vote didn’t vote. Chiodi won. Costantini lost, but he was one against everybody, one against Veltrusconi. For the PDminusL, it was better to have a disastrous defeat than the victory of a clean man. And they got that. The PDminusL wanted as a candidate, in the place of Costantini, the mayor of Pescara, Luciano D’Alfonso, arrested straight after the elections. If he had been presented and if he had won, he would have been mayor for a couple of hours.
The party that is not there is making progress. At the last national elections (unconstitutional because they did not allow for the choice of candidate) one in four Italians didn’t vote. Now it was one in two of the people of Abruzzo. The police swoops on the politicians continue in the whole of Italy. After Abruzzo, then Basilicata with the stopping of the PDminusL deputy Margiotta and the arrest of the CEO of Total. After Basilicata, Naples with the arrest of two PDminusL cabinet members and the request for the arrest of the parliamentarians Italo Bocchino of the PDL and Lusetti of the PDminusL. The top brass of the PDminusL are not resigning, they prefer to go to prison instead. Iervolino is reflecting. D’Alema is not having himself on trial. Franceschini wants (hold on tight!) the moral problem in the top position and Topo Gigio Veltroni is awaiting instructions from Arcore and declares that “he has innovated too little”.
Bassolino will be rewarded by the PDminusL with being a candidate at the forthcoming European elections. Even Del Turco, as soon as he’s out of prison, has got reassurances, but from the PDL, to sent off for Brussels and be a true reformist politician. The Italian Parliament is no longer enough to hold all the people under investigation and the convicts.
Luckily there’s Europe.
Italy is sinking into a dung heap and in Parliament they are talking about the reform of the justice system. There’s need for the reform of the political system, not the justice system. Two million unemployed are moving from the Centre and the North towards the capital. Can you not hear the hooves of the bison? Will they arrive first – or will it be the magistrates? Or will there be the famous third way, the one of the flight to Hammamet?
Vizzini, can you hear me? In the Senate Committee of which you are the president, lying still is the proposed law Clean Up Parliament. A first step for the reform of the political system. 350,000 people signed it. If the law is not discussed, I invite you to come to Rome so I can ask you to account for your silence. No to those with previous convictions in Parliament, two terms of office and then home, preference vote for the candidate. They are not extraordinary requests, but the ABC of democracy. PD and PDminusL are Siamese twins, if you separate them they both die. They have the same heart, the same brain, the same convicts.
They will never give up, (but is it in their interests?) neither will we.
(*) The Committee is led by Vizzini (PDL) and its members are Benedetti Valentini (PDL), Incostante (PD), Adamo (PD), Bodega (LNP), Bastico (PD), Battaglia (PDL), Belisario (IDV), Bianco (PD), Boscetto (PDL), Ceccanti (PD), Cossiga (UDC-SVP-Aut), De Sena (PD), Fazzone (PDL), Lauro (PDL), Malan (PDL), Marino (PD), Mauro (LNP), Nespoli (PDL), Pardi (IDV), Pastore (PDL), Pistorio (Misto), Procacci (PD), Saltamartini (PDL), Sanna (PD), Saro (PDL), Sarro (PDL), Vitali (PD).
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December 11, 2008
The frog in the saucepan
Gelli challenged at Sanremo
The Italian people are like a frog in a saucepan. At the beginning the water was tepid, almost nice and refreshing. One degree at a time in twenty years we have reached the cooking point. The frog has become numbed and it doesn’t notice that it is being boiled alive. It just needs a bit more of the flame and it will be cooked and defunct. An attack against the Constitution, the control of the magistracy, gagging the Internet and the P2’s programme has been achieved.
By now anyway, information is under control. The “Why Not” and “Poseidon” investigations have got stuck in the mud. A Commissioner has been imposed on the Salerno Prosecutors Office that was investigating the Catanzaro Prosecutors Office as a result of the denunciation coming from Luigi De Magistris. The scurrilous and servile media put Catanzaro and Salerno on an equal footing and talk about a war between the Prosecutors Offices. But there’s only the one, that of Salerno that was investigating the other because that is its competency by law. The media are keeping quiet about the investigations of De Magistris and about the NINE BILLION EURO of our taxes, transformed into European funding with the flick of a switch, that are swallowed up every year by the parties and by the mafias in the South. The country is sinking into an abyss and we are feeling a bit chilly. We are used to having a fever at 40 degrees.
The 98 billion euro in sanctions to the concessionaires of the slot machines has not been mentioned by any TV News programme. Not even for 10 seconds. How many politicians are there behind that money? Taranto is dying. Dioxin is causing thousands of cancers a year with 1,300 deaths. There’s more dioxin in Taranto than in Austria and Switzerland put together. And meanwhile, the psycho dwarf is refusing to sign the European agreement on the environment. The newspapers are talking about pigs with dioxin, but we are further ahead, we have children with dioxin. They breathe, they absorb dioxin, and they die.
Yesterday I went into a shop. They were offering handouts together with the comics and the magazines. One on the speeches of Mussolini with an “il Duce” exhibition plate as a gift and one on the history of fascism with a Mussolini watch and a helmet. People get used to it. The temperature rises by 2 tenths of a degree. It’s bearable. What’s the limit? The point at which the Italian is cooked? They want to rehabilitate the convict Craxi. They make more equal than the others, four people who are not ashamed of their impunity and they allow themselves to be seen as though nothing had happened. The band of four: NapolitanoBerlusconiSchifaniFini. Licio Gelli, convicted for attempting to obstruct the investigation into the slaughter at the station in Bologna, the most serious in the history of the Republic, is giving us lessons. He’s made out to be a sage. He gives TV programmes. The heat rises. The Sanremo Meetup group and “la Casa della Legalità” {the house of the rule of law} obliged him to enter by the service door at one of his meetings/interviews. Gelli was protected by the Police. Great lads! If we don’t want to end up boiled we have to get a move on. Enough with lessons on democracy given by scoundrels and convicts thanks to the cover of the media.
One, a hundred, a thousand Sanremos! More Meetup groups, more democracy. Make yourselves known and multiply yourselves.
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December 03, 2008
5 Star Civic Lists
Many people have asked me many times, even on this blog, to create a party. But it’s you who are the party, not someone else. It’s from the citizens that change must come. Not from the parties. Delegating without participating, is not democracy. It is, in the best of cases, civic I-couldn’t-care-less. In order to change Italy, Italy first has to change the citizens. To put them in a position to be informed, to make choices, to check up. The Towns are the building bricks on which is constructed the fabric of the country. We will reconstruct the country with new 5-Star building bricks. I am making available the Blog and my image, you (if you want) your commitment. For every town councillor elected in the 5 Star Civic Lists there will be a citizen who can find out about the tenders for contracts, the investments, the collusion, and inform us by using videos or an article published on the Internet. The “Breathing down your neck” operation has demonstrated the arrogance of self-referential power, anyone filming a PUBLIC meeting is sent away from the venue. But they cannot throw out of the council chamber, the Civic List town councillors. In 2009, there will be local elections. Thousands of towns will elect their Mayor and town councillors. Anyone who wants to, can create a 5 Star Civic List using the associated symbol.
The requirements for anyone wanting to create a list are as follows:
- at the time of becoming a candidate and for the whole duration of the elected term of office, every candidate must not be signed up to a political party or political movement.
- every candidate must not have a criminal conviction, even one that is not definitive
- every candidate must not have had more than one previous term of office as an elected representative, at a national or local level, regardless of the constituency where he is she is a candidate.
every candidate must reside in the electoral district of the town where they intend to be a candidate
-for the town council elections to a town that is capital of its province, the candidates can reside in one of the towns in that province
- there can be only one 5 Star Civic List per town
- for the administration of the town, the 5 Star Civic Lists can join up with other lists in which no convict is present
The programme of the 5 Star Civic Lists will be done together with you, on this blog, in the coming months. It will be a reference programme that the lists can use for inspiration. The Programme will be presented on 31 January in Florence at the first national meeting of the Lists.
They will never give up, (but is it in their interests?) neither will we.
FOR THE CONSTITUTOIN OF 5 STAR CIVIC LISTS, CONSULT THE CIVIC LISTS WEBSITE.
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November 27, 2008
Clean Up Parliament: the first responses
Belisario, Italia dei Valori
350,000 citizens are waiting for the employees of the Senate Committee (*) to examine the “Clean up Parliament” proposed popular law: no convict in parliament, two terms of office, direct preferences for the candidate. Two of them have replied with a video, Italia dei Valori’s Pancho Pardi and Belisario. The others play the silence game. It’s not understood why they are paid with our taxes. They don’t carry out their work and they don’t even communicate with the 350,000 voters, tax-payers, citizens.
I’ve just remembered that before the collection of signatures, I sent out a questionnaire on the three proposals to all the parliamentarians. 204 of them responded . Today, even more sure of their impunity, how many would respond?
Among the 204, there are three members of the Committee that has to evaluate “Clean up Parliament”: Enzo Bianco (PD), Lucio Malan (PDL), Mauro Maria Marino (PD). What did they say then?
For the convicts out of parliament they all agreed. Malan was asking for “heavy sanctions of the monetary type” for a party that puts forward as a candidate any person with previous convictions (in his party, Topo Gigio Veltroni’s PD, Carra was elected and he has been convicted for false declarations to the public prosecutor....).
For “two terms of office and then home”, Bianco and Malan expressed a wish for the eternal armchair (Bianco expressed his fear of becoming a pensioner). Marino was however in agreement.
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- Read the document with the responses of the 204 parliamentarians of the previous legislature on the topic of Clean up Parliament: www.beppegrillo.it/immagini/Sondaggio_parlamentare.pdf
(*) The Committee is led by Vizzini (PDL) and its members are Benedetti Valentini (PDL), Incostante (PD), Adamo (PD), Bodega (LNP), Bastico (PD), Battaglia (PDL), Belisario (IDV), Bianco (PD), Boscetto (PDL), Ceccanti (PD), Cossiga (UDC-SVP-Aut), De Sena (PD), Fazzone (PDL), Lauro (PDL), Malan (PD: L), Marino (PD), Mauro (LNP), Nespoli (PDL), Pardi (IDV), Pastore (PDL), Pistorio (Misto), Procacci (PD), Saltamartini (PDL), Sanna (PD), Saro (PDL), Sarro (PDL), Vitali (PD).
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November 23, 2008
Democracy or not
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others
Italy is not a democracy. It’s a telecracy, an oligarchy, a mafiocracy. All of these together, but not a democracy. The citizens cannot elect their representatives. So it is not an elected democracy. The citizens cannot participate in public decision making. So it is not a participatory democracy. The citizens have no right to be informed. So they cannot make decisions. But if citizens cannot elect or participate or be informed, what is left?
It’s extraordinary how the Italians, most of them, don’t realize and remove the reality of living in a dictatorship. When I think about it I get uncomfortable. Only for five minutes, which are however, long minutes. Then my body temperature goes up and I start bashing away at the keyboard like a machine gun. Any scrap of information is like a democratic bullet. Another hole in the colander of the system. They cannot silence all the voices on the Internet.
I have received two letters about the existence of democracy, one from Federico in Amsterdam and one from the Villafranca Meetup.
In Italy, water has been privatised by the psycho dwarf (did you know that?), however in the Netherlands, water policy is determined by the people of the Netherlands. The town of Vigasio in the Veneto region is pouring cement over 4.5 million square metres, but they don’t want the citizens to get in the way. The Local Authority is “Casa Loro” {their house} but the salaries they receive is our money.
They will never give up, (but would it be worth their while?) neither will we.
"Dear Beppe,
I am Federico Bonelli from Amsterdam. I have received a letter in which I have been asked to vote for representatives on the water management council. The council is public and elected. In the letter, there’s the form and a pre-paid envelope, and it gives an internet site for information about lists of candidates and their policies.
I went to the website and entered my postcode and then I saw a number of questions to which you can reply freely. You can say anything from "totally agree" to "completely disagree". The questions are significant and I get help from Babelfish (yes, the Dutch language is not easy!), from Wikipedia and occasionally I ask my wife, who is Dutch. The program creates a graph with two axes: spending and environment. My vote is represented as a pencil and the opinions of all parties are represented by their symbols. If my vote is in the same place as a symbol, then you see the name of the person to vote for with the responses they gave to the questionnaire and the reasons they have given for their answers.
Who has paid for this service? The citizens through their taxes! Because it was created by the water organisation.
Instead of public money going to the party to produce a flood of letters or commercials on TV, here they use my money to publicise the views of candidates and to compare them with mine.
Relevant questions, not rubbish. "Is it OK to ban people from watering their gardens?" "Should farmers pay for cleaning up the water?" "Is it OK to expropriate land to increase the green areas?"
The questionnaire has obliged me to find out about the issues and I now know a little more about water. But there are many other considerations to note: democracy in relation to environmental choices that relate to you, linked to the territory and essential resources, use of government money not to finance the populist campaign of the party, but to make known to the citizen, the views of the party; Internet and statistical tools to inform the citizens. I think of Italy and I want to cry. To console myself, I drink a glass of tap water. It's very good. I remember Rome's water when I was a child ... before it was normal that it had a horrible taste to make us buy bottle after bottle of mineral water. Greetings." Federico
"Dear Beppe,
We are the members of the Meetup group of Villafranca (Verona). On November 18 we attended the Vigasio council meeting where they are debating a huge project called Motorcity.
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We have already repeatedly denounced the fact on our blog and on our Meetup. Thanks again." Friends of Beppe Grillo, Villafranca di Verona
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November 20, 2008
Cossiga, why are you not speaking out?
The draft popular law “Clean up Parliament” is still waiting to be discussed in the Senate by the Committee for Constitutional Affairs (*). The request to the members of the Committee to express their opinion on the three modifications to electoral law:
- no convict in Parliament (today there are 18 of them )
- two legislatures and then go home
- direct elections of the candidate with voting for a named person
has been welcomed only by Pardi and Belisario (IDV). In the next few days I will publish the films with the declarations.
The others on the Committee are staying silent.
An understandable silence: if they lose their place as parliamentarians what else can they do in life? Who will give them a salary?
The silence of Cossiga, a member of the Committee, however surprises me. “Francesco, why are you not saying anything?
I am doing a named call to the lifetime senator and emeritus president. Let him make a pronouncement. In the last few weeks, he has been beating up professors and students remembering the great times of terrorism and of the infiltrators, but also the presumed bosses on a political and operative level (Fini, Scajola, De Gennaro) of the G8 slaughter with the call for a Committee of Inquiry that:
”should shed a clear light on the painful facts that happened, including the killing of the young Giuliani, carried out by a carabiniere and full clarity on the activity of the government, and in particular of the then Vice President of the Council, the honourable Gianfranco Fini, who was strangely present in the Police Headquarters during the time of these happenings, of the then Minister of the Interior, Claudio Scajola and above all, especially after the declarations of the current Chief of Police Manganelli, on the operation of the former Chief of Police Gianni De Gennaro, because it was he, according to the overall meaning of the declarations by Dr Manganelli, the top person responsible for the operational management on that day and because he is at the top of the Security System for the Republic and it is in his interests that full clarity is revealed on his activity…”
A committee to change Italy exists already, it is the one of which Cossiga is a member. Let him make it function and let it take the draft law into Parliament. The fish always smells starting at its head.
Out with convicts who are making laws for themselves. Out with lifetime politicians. Out with wives, lovers, relatives, comrades and lackeys appointed by the party secretaries.
I’m waiting for you on the blog.
(*) The committee has Vizzini (PDL) as president and its members are Benedetti Valentini (PDL), Incostante (PD), Adamo (PD), Bodega (LNP), Bastico (PD), Battaglia (PDL), Belisario (IDV), Bianco (PD), Boscetto (PDL), Ceccanti (PD), Cossiga (UDC-SVP-Aut), De Sena (PD), Fazzone (PDL), Lauro (PDL), Malan (PDL), Marino (PD), Mauro (LNP), Nespoli (PDL), Pardi (IDV), Pastore (PDL), Pistorio (Misto), Procacci (PD), Saltamartini (PDL), Sanna (PD), Saro (PDL), Sarro (PDL), Vitali (PD).
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November 12, 2008
Signatures for the Popular Law and the Referendum
""Saviano Continua" – pasting up posters in Milan
Finally they have gone back to talking about Beppe Grillo in the media. I missed that. Now that the Court of Cassation has decided that the signatures are insufficient or not valid for the referendum on the abolition of the Order of Journalists and the financing of newspapers (a billion euro a year) and for the end of the Mediaset-RAI duopoly they can uncork the champagne bottles in the HQs of the newspapers and the political parties. Take advantage of it because the celebration will soon end. Advertising is migrating to the Internet together with news and you will not be there.
I accept the decision of the Court of Cassation. I don’t even want to discuss it. I take note of it. But this is one thing that you perhaps don’t know. The signatures for the Clean Parliament are valid. Has some journalist informed you of this great news item?
Your signatures have arrived at the Senate. The discussion of the law has been “assigned to the First Standing Committee (Constitutional Affairs) by the reference body on 22 May 2008. Announcement of the session number 7 of 27 May 2008.” I am waiting to be called. Among the members of the Committee there’s even Francesco Cossiga. Crikey. What luck!
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November 07, 2008
The unemployed councillor
David Borrelli, Treviso Town Councillor on the Grilli Treviso election list
David Borrelli is a town councillor on the Grilli of Treviso ticket. David made himself available in order to make a contribution, and he is succeeding. If the revolution is not television-based and begins from below, then he is a perfect example.
In the upcoming 2009 municipal elections, there must be at least another 1,000 Borellis on the Election Lists for the town councils (within the next few days I will be announcing the symbol...). So that there can be transparency, so that our citizens may be well informed and so that things can improve. Meanwhile, however, we must ensure that David stays in his post. A town councillor’s salary is not enough to live on, so either the party tops up, or one must be receiving a pension, or one must be independently wealthy. David does not fall into any one of these categories. He is a computer technician and the company that he currently works for wants to fire him. The reason? "He no longer invoices as much as he used to..." due to the amount of time that he must dedicate to the residents.
Anyone wishing to contact him can send him an e-mail at: info@davidborrelli.it
They may never give up, but neither will we.
"I put my name on the Grilli of Treviso election list because I believe that it is every citizen’s duty to do so and because, if we don’t approve of what this Government is doing to our Country, we must stand up and be counted and personally step into the political arena. That is why I decided to seek a nomination for the position of Mayor on this ticket and, on 14 April this year, I was elected as town councillor.
The experience so far has proved to be far more positive that what we expected, in the sense that we have been able to obtains some good results, such as for example, we have managed to replace all of the municipal vehicles currently registered in the name of the town council with equivalent vehicles that run on LPG or methane and we have a number of projects in place regarding our water, as well as other projects regarding waste disposal, all part of a programme that was agreed even by other nominees who were unfortunately not elected when I was.
I am also employed as a computer technician and systems analyst and my office is located some 35 kilometres away from my Municipality. This is perhaps the biggest problem I have at the moment because, unfortunately, my town councillor duties seldom if ever blend in seamlessly with the demands of my full time job and so, the company that I am working for has been obliged to kind of push me into a corner by demanding that I choose between my work as town councillor and keeping my job with the company.
I would dearly love to continue on as town councillor until my mandate expires, above all in the interests of those people that voted for me and those who decided put their trust in this election list of honest, capable people. Clearly, however, I have a serious problem as regards managing to get to the end of each month on the councillor’s salary, and so I am also obliged to consider my full time job. Unfortunately my job demands that I spend time with customers and the two or three half-afternoons per week taken up by my town council duties means that I have had to spend less time with the customers and I have thus been invoicing far less than my colleagues. As the only elected councillor, I also unavoidably sit on every permanent council committee, so I have far more commitments than do the numerous council members representing the larger parties in the town council, who are able to share the load more widely. What this means is that my commitment is virtually a daily one due to the fact that, since I am not a political expert, I need to spend quite a bit of time preparing myself on quite a wide variety of topics.
The Treviso Town Council still holds a number of quite obvious surprises in store for me, in the sense that because I am not classified as either left wing or right wing, I am in a position to dialogue freely with whomever I wish. I have always been extremely honest and we have never allied ourselves with any individual or for that matter any party, but only with certain ideas and so, we support good ideas, irrespective of whose ideas they may be. My greatest problem, therefore, is that of my job, in the sense that I am now being forced to find another profession, something that would be compatible with my duties as town councillor, that is if I wish to carry on doing two jobs. Otherwise, I will have no option but to resign from the council and get back to my full time job.
I am a computer technician. I have built up a certain amount of experience in this field and I am now able to install any type of computer or network system and configure it so that it meets the requirements of any company without any problems whatsoever. I appeal to anyone that is in a position to offer me a job here in my hometown, one that is compatible with my council commitments. I am prepared to do anything and I hope that through this appeal on Beppe Grillo’s blog, someone will come forward to help me resolve this problem because all I want to do is continue to fulfil my political commitments and be able hold down a job at the same time." David Borrelli
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5-Star Municipalities: Capannori, Lucca
Separated waste disposal: The Capannori model
Refuse is a myth. It doesn’t exist. The Municipality of Capannori has proved it. Taking one step at a time, it is possible to achieve a situation of "Zero refuse" and to recycle and make money from recycling. If the Municipality of Capannori has succeeded, why can’t the same be done elsewhere? Why not the other Municipalities, instead of poisoning their residents, food sources and the environment with their incinerators? Yes, why not? What do the town councils have to say for themselves? In whose interests? And why do they refuse to allow the public sittings of their town council to be filmed? Bashfulness? They will never give up, but neither will we.
"Capannori is the first Italian town council to adopt a “Zero refuse strategy”.
In recent years, Capannori has proven that increasing amounts of refuse is not an immutable fact.
The Municipality, together with ASCIT (the local company that deals with the collection of refuse), have undertaken a complete re-organisation of the service. They have eliminated all of the communal bins and have begun doing “door to door” home refuse collection, providing each family with the necessary equipment for differentiated waste disposal.
In Capannori, this “door to door” refuse collection service has been established for 26 thousand of the 45 thousand residents, with more than 80% of the refuse now being separated.
Between 2004 and 2007, some 56,861 tons of refuse have been sent for recycling.
Since the implementation of the “door to door” refuse collection service, the quantity of non-separated refuse has dropped by more than 10,000 tons.
Solely thanks to the separate collection of paper refuse, in 2007 we saved 100,000 trees, 2.85 million litres of water and 9,100 tons of CO2 emissions were saved. By way of example, the 2.85 million litres of water saved is equivalent to the annual water consumption of 31,647 residents.
Then again in 2007, a total of 15,723 tons of separated refuse were collected. In the Province of Lucca, the average cost for the disposal of non-separated waste is equivalent to 160 Euro per ton. If those 15,723 tons had landed up in the non-separated refuse circuit, the cost of disposal for the refuse would have run to 2,515,680 Euro.
Instead, the cost of delivering the 15,723 tons of separated material to the recycling plants amounted to only 507,688 Euro. Furthermore, it must be remembered that paper is a resource with a certain value. In fact, the sale of the collected paper provided revenues of 340,010 Euro: therefore, there was a saving of 2,348,000 Euro.
“Door to door” refuse collection requires more workers. From when these operations began, until today, 30 new people have been engaged.
With the savings achieved by not having to dispose of non-separated refuse, in addition to covering the cost of the new engagements, the Municipality has been able to reduce the waste disposal charges debited to each resident by 20% on the variable portion."
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Prepared by Marco Boschini, www.comunivirtuosi.org
Ps: The Pissed-off Grillo guys of Faenza are busy organising the first “P-Day: The revenge of the Piadina (Maize-meal pancake)” event for Saturday, 8 November. This will be a day when people will be able to go to one of the stalls that will be set up and eat a “piadina” at half-price, thereby symbolising our rejection of the American fast-food multinationals and the re-discovery and protection of our own local flavours. If you happen to be passing through the Emilia-Romagna Region, please pop in.
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November 06, 2008
The unbearable heaviness of Obama
Barack Obama: First presidential address
Obama has won. I am happy, but I’m suffering more than before. Obama declared: “The United States is the place where everything is possible.” I look at my country where nothing is possible. A P2-ist as Head of the Government. An indecent Opposition. Information under control. And I get a great sadness coming over me.
Obama, young, cultured, slender, intelligent, coloured, talks about the future, about innovation. “Change has arrived”, he said. “Our victory has started from the bottom.” With us when will it arrive? Gerontocracy and Oligarchy reign. People like Berlusconi, Napolitano, Gelli, Andreotti are old people in the range of 70 to 90 years old. They want to live into eternity up to 120 years.
The country is a room full of stale air. The smell of power is contagious for us. We no longer smell our own smells. Anyone who wants to open the window and bring in winds of change is murdered as happened to Borsellino and to Ambrosoli. Or sidelined, and attacked by the institutions and the media. Like De Magistris, like Forleo.
Just imagine Obama who as the first action of Government declares his own immunity by law so as to save himself from a corruption trial. He would last a few hours, then he would have to take refuge abroad. Just think of Obama talking about incinerators and nuclear power stations, then McCain would have won. Obama is hope, Veltrusconi is condemnation.
I feel an unsupportable heaviness on top of me. More than before, I feel a stench of arteriosclerosis in the streets. Tonight Italy has suddenly got old. We look at ourselves in the mirror and we get a shock. What have we become? Without a radical change what can we look forward to? The Internet is what first announced Obama’s victory. 3,000 Italian towns out of about 8,000 are without ADSL. Worse than in Africa, but with the antiquated digital terrestrial.
I apologise, I have to collect myself. Obama has delivered a low blow. From today, it will be more difficult to understand why we are living, why we have to live in this state of collapse. The Internet has been fundamental for his campaign. It is an indication of the end of newspapers and TV. The revolution in Italy, if it comes, will not be via the TV . Let us be informed and inform others via the Internet, without let up. Perhaps the window will swing open, crikey. They will never give up, neither will we.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 10:37 AM in Politics
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October 29, 2008
The Parliament of the Gelmini should be closed
Blog interview: Aldo Giannuli, lecturer in Contemporary History, Università Statale di Milano
The decree under the aegis of Gelmini has been approved. Anyway parliament is by now discredited. It is useless. The government decides, decrees, orders. I propose the closure of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate. The psycho dwarf’s majordomos vote on command. They have the majority. They don’t discuss the texts of the laws to be approved with the Opposition (not even with this stand-in Opposition).
Italy has become a private presidential Republic. It’s Tar Head that commands in his own name and on behalf of the powers that put him there, to represent them. It’s as though Morpheus Napolitano didn’t exist. He shakes hands and drinks tea. Parliament is just an expense for the tax payers. It should be closed down. And while we are at it, let’s close down the schools, whatever is left of the schools after years of being ignored by the governments. What’s the point of studying if you won’t have a job, if you can’t participate in the democratic life of your country, if you live submerged in information of the regime? Survival? But at the age of 20 years old, survival is an insult.
Listen to Aldo Giannuli, lecturer in Contemporary History at the State University in Milan. With the Gelmini decree, funding is taken from the Universities and the staff. In “seven to eight years, the number of academic staff will go down by about 40 per cent.”
They will never give up, neither will we.
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”The situation of the universities has already been disastrous for many years. Anyway, the Gelmini decree cannot take the blame for everything that has been put down to it because the Gelmini decree is just finishing off a story that was started off by the former Minister Ruberti and that is going ever nearer to the privatization of the university and its transformation into an enterprise. This is happening in a university that for some time has been poorly resourced from a financial viewpoint. Structurally, the lack of finance is part of the history of our universities.
For more than 35 years, our universities have received on average 25% less, in relation to the State accounts, when compared to how much is received by the average University in Europe. Ours are the universities that are the worst organized and the worst paid in relation to which there have been a series of erroneous reforms and they are by now on the verge of collapse. In this situation, there are new cuts added and you can understand that this represents the final blow for a structure that is in crisis. If this reform says that in the next few years it is possible to have a recruitment competition for one person for every five that retire, can you tell me what meritocracy we are talking about? If there are no competitions, what merit are we talking about? We are talking about 1 in 5 until 2011 and then 1 in 2.
Now, if you know that by 2014 we will see the retirement of almost 50% of the academic staff, this means that within seven to eight years, the number of academic staff will go down by about 40%. Thus just to start with, let us ask if there is to be recognition there must also be the opportunity to show that, otherwise what merit are we talking about? Meritocracy is a concept with which I am profoundly in agreement, as long as it is not just a word. Meanwhile, our society is indeed not meritocratic, not just within universities but all over.
There’s nepotism in the universities. Just look at the universities in the South. But not only there. Where entire family-clans are installed in the faculties of the universities.
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Posted by Beppe Grillo at 05:15 PM in Politics
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October 23, 2008
Attention all shipping
The psycho-dwarf has issued an “Attention all shipping”. He has taken inspiration from his model, Putin. And he has declared with articulation of the words, worthy of a landowner talking to his servants: “Today I will call the Minister of Internal Affairs, and I will give him detailed instructions” for the use of the Police in the schools that are occupied.
Maroni-receive-instructions, the same person who is convicted and sentenced to 4 months and 20 days for resistance and assault (biting the calf) against a public official.
I, more politely, would like to give some advice, not a warning, to the Navigator: to cut and run. He’s not the only one who is responsible for the collapse, even though he is the most visible one. It’s not worth having to pay for everyone. It’s best to do as the Romans do and to disappear quietly.
The collapse of finance is passing the baton to the economy. Not everyone has shares, but everyone does shopping and has to keep a family.
The companies are strangled by debts and the banks no longer give credit. On average, every Italian company has debts of 176,000 euro, the grand total of company debts has gone up to 916.3 billion euro. How many companies will close this year? At least 300,000, but this is a cautious number, very optimistic. In 2009, industrial production will go down, the Gross National Product will be negative, the closures could well double. When production goes down you lose jobs. How many will be staying at home by the end of next year? Two million is a plausible number.
3.2 million families are at risk of losing their house. The repayments for the variable rate mortgages are becoming unsustainable. Will they finish up in the street? It’s possible.
Iceland has gone bust. Whoever would have said that a month ago? Will Italy go bust? Who hasn’t thought that at least once? The public debt will be about (without being too much in the public eye in the media) around 1,700 billion euro with 80 billion a year to be paid in interest.
It’s no longer the time that Gianni Letta went. The great moment of Alifarce, of smocks at school and fingerprints for the Roma people, has finished. And also that of the save-the-trials law and the Lodo Alfano and Topo Gigio’s phantom Opposition.
From Palazzo Chigi to Hammamet takes a blink of an eye. In the event, let the Navigator take Veltroni with him.
They will never give up, neither will we.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 09:20 PM in Politics
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October 06, 2008
Political Press Release number sixteen
Gengis Khan
Nothing will budge this people. Only hunger, perhaps, could. To be governed by delinquents and incapable people has for some time not disturbed their consciences.
Italians are sleeping beauties. The country is governed by P2-ists. They have been like that full-time since the 1970s. Gelli has retired but Berlusconi and Cicchitto have never handed in their resignation. Italy is also managed by former communists, now PDminusL, who when they were alive never worked for and have never been even communists. D’Alema, Veltroni, Fassino and the 7-legislature-consort Serafini. Always in the wrong but never in Opposition, always maintained by the tax payers. Good for nothing and capable of everything.
This “robbery-style social-capitalism” has provided food for the Camorra, the Ndrangheta, the Sacra Corona Unita. It has allowed organized crime and the politics of kick-backs to manage local communities like rubbish tips.
Now the banks’ alarm siren is sounding. They have to be protected. Certainly, if the banking system collapses, and people discover they have no savings, without being able to do the shopping, this band who have been occupying the institutions will have to get worried. And very much so. A piazzale Loreto won’t be enough to hold it. When it was necessary to protect the citizens from the Tango bond, from Parmalat, from Cirio, from variable mortgages that put the noose round the neck of the families, from derivatives, from futures, from investment funds with the worms inside, then NO ONE intervened. Ask yourselves why. The response is simple: banks and politics are the same thing. The same body. “Uno e bino”. Corrupted and corrupter who exchange roles, but always within the realm of legality. The law protects illegality, in case it doesn’t protect it enough, it is reinforced by decriminalizing “false accounting” Write Geronzi and read psycho-dwarf, dictate Passera and compare with Prodi, exclaim Profumo and the foundations appear. The Investment trusts, the long hand of the parties, they are shareholders of the banks. They choose the CEOs, approve the accounts, the investments.
Italians sleep, sleeping beauties, cradled by the media controlled by the media and the banks, who numb their senses. It is a people of rabbits hypnotized by a serpent. It can wake up in time or end up devoured. I don’t know.
However, I can’t stay and watch. The scoundrel leading the PDminusL even more Topo Scemo than Topo Gigio, is asking what has happened to Beppe Grillo. I am here, still here, day after day. Blacked out by all the media, even the gossip magazines, on the orders of Veltrusconi. First they cancel you from the information media, then they even pull your leg.
At the forthcoming local elections in 2009 there will be civic lists of the blog, I will make the symbol known in October. In January I will hold a national meeting of the lists and of the MeetUps. They will never give up, neither will we.
PS: The rabbit is cross-eyed. I repeat: The rabbit is cross-eyed.
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October 03, 2008
Online referendum for the Dal Molin military base
Nuclear weapons at Ghedi Torre and Aviano
In Italy, democracy is “a lost cause”.
The referendum regarding the new American base in the Dal Molin area of Vicenza, ordered by Mayor Variati for 5 October and sanctioned by the Veneto Regional Administrative Court, has been blocked by the Council of State. The reason given for blocking the referendum is that no survey needs to be conducted simply to confirm the fact that residents are in favour of increasing the wealth of the Municipality in which they reside. It would be like asking them if they are in favour of increasing their personal wealth. "It is a lost cause”.
They would rather use the Dal Molin area to create the largest American military base in Europe. If war ever breaks out against the United States, the front line will be in the Vicenza region.
The Council of State’s response is both naïve and illuminating. Naïve in the sense that it denies the citizens the right to increase their Municipality’s wealth. Naïve in the sense that it separates the municipality’s wealth from that of its residents. Illuminating in the sense that it denies freedom of expression because clearly the residents of Vicenza DO NOT want any foreign power’s military bases in their area. Illuminating in the sense that they are pursuing a policy of dictatorship, which is strangling us a little at a time, just as a python would.
We are not permitted to choose our preferred representatives for Parliament, and of those that are in Parliament, 18 of them are convicted criminals. In future, we will no longer even be able to choose our preferred European Union Parliamentarians. The 350,000 signatures submitted in favour of the popular law for a Clean Parliament have simply been ignored by the politicians, as have the signatures in favour of a referendum regarding freedom of information. The signatures for a new electoral law, instead, were simply used to wipe their arses with. Morpheus Napolitano chose to order the last general election using the crap law instead of allowing the Italians to have their say.
Now, with the Vicenza story, they have gone too far. They have taken away the townspeople’s right to speak, this after having taken away their right to representation. The Italian citizen is no longer even allowed to say yes or no. And not a peep from Parliament. Topo Gigio Veltroni, D’Alema and Fassino have left Mayor Variati all alone, a member of their own party, who has decided to hold the referendum anyway, next Sunday in front of the schools. Government Commissioner Paolo Costa, who was appointed by Prodi, has inexplicably stated that: “The referendum is a useless consultation exercise. The Americans will come here simply to lie around”. The “Masters in our own homes” Lega loves the 90 American nuclear weapons at Ghedi Torre and Aviano and obviously wants 1, 100 or 1000 bombers emblazoned with stars and stripes in their beloved “Padania”. The Deputy Chairlady of the Lega’s Deputies, Manuela Dal Lago, declared that: “Consultation is useless since it concerns a “lost cause”. Galan, Premier of the Region currently occupied by the Americans, has pointed out that: “The Veneto calling for a “NO” is the minority, losing and unfortunate Veneto”.
That remains to be seen dear Galan, we will soon see who is the minority and who is unfortunate.
Bush is on his way out and not even the psychodwarf will be around forever.
I will be in Vicenza on 5 October and I will use my blog to launch an on-line referendum regarding Dal Molin.
Vote and spread the news about the referendum for Dal Molin on your blogs and turn this into a “winning cause”.
Blog Referendum on www.beppegrillo.it
regarding the new DAL MOLIN military base in Vicenza
Are you in favour of the Municipal Council of Vicenza, in its role as official political and administrative policy-making body, adopting a resolution to implement a municipal council wealth acquisition procedure, starting with the de-zoning of the "Dal Molin" airport area – where the construction of a United States military base is envisaged – with said area to be re-zoned for communal purposes, thereby safeguarding the environmental integrity of the site?
Anyone voting NO wants the new DAL MOLIN military base in Vicenza.
Inserisci il referendum nel tuo sito: copia e incolla il codice
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 07:29 PM in Politics
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October 02, 2008
Town Bankruptcy
Creative finance
The town of Catania has collapsed, the account in the red amounts to at least 300 million euro, perhaps more than 800. Scapagnini, the psycho-dwarf’s medical man instead of getting his just desserts has received a gift, in fact “The inter-ministerial commission for economic programming has made available an allocation of 140 million to tackle the financial emergency of the organization.” Catania is not an isolated case. In 2007 there was the hole in Taranto with 316 million euro. A few months ago the State’s General Accountant found a massive crater of 10,709 million euro in the accounts of the city of Rome. Towns spend money they haven’t got. And they go bust. In these cases it should be the mayor together with the whole town council that goes bust. The difference should be put up by them, not us, not the coffers of the State.
The towns, to make money, have started to become banks and speculate on derivatives. According to Wikipedia, derivatives are: “financial instruments whose values depend on the value of other underlying financial instruments. The main types of derivatives are futures, forwards, options, and swaps. The main use of derivatives is to reduce risk for one party. The diverse range of potential underlying assets and pay-off alternatives leads to a wide range of derivatives contracts available to be traded in the market.”
Haven’t you understood anything? Neither have the mayors and that is why the towns are going bust.
Derivatives make it possible to have immediate liquidity on possible profits. For example, if you invest 100, you can immediately get cash for 150 (capital plus hypothetical profits). The banks that offer derivatives anyway get their commission, often of a few million euro, and they are exempt from any risk. If the derivative loses, the town loses everything and has to pay back the money. Usually the due date of the contract for the derivatives falls after the end of their mandate. So basically, the debts are paid by their successors. The risks of derivatives for towns, provinces and regions is 10 billion euro.
Leading the classification of Derivative Towns is Milan with exposure to debt of 300 million euro in derivatives. Moratti’s response was not slow in coming. On 16 October, the city council will weigh up whether to take legal action against the banks that convinced the City of Milan to sign up to different derivative contracts.” Thus UBS, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Depfa.
Basically she is accusing the banks of taking advantage of those without the mental capacity to understand.
A winning approach. In fact, any judge, when faced with a mayor that has invested the money of the citizens in derivatives would have them locked up.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 08:21 PM in Politics
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September 24, 2008
Sweetly travelling slowing down to then accelerate
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”Now we are getting ready to take a ticket for these extraordinary motorways, a ticket then that is paid on the basis of what is not well understood … whether it is the quality of the service or the quality of the investment, but in both cases it should be free.
Now we are going to try some initiatives. OK! We have had enough of being taken for a ride.
Motorways as was well said by the economist of the University of Bergamo, Giorgio Ragazzi who has done an extraordinary book that I encourage you to get, that explains what has happened with the motorways, liberalized in the 1990s, paid for up to the last lira by our fathers and our mothers, by our big brothers, fed to this clique of fictitious entrepreneurs with ragged arses who take the concessions for ten years to the next ten years, fix the tariffs like that and we continue to pay something that should be returned to the citizens like they have done in Germany and in England. Once the expenses have been paid, the investments have been taken back and given freely to the English and German citizens. Here instead we want to get this lot to understand that by now with normal legal means, constitutional means, we have done referenda, two million people have signed in front of a public official with their documents, first and second name, taken to the Court of Cassation, put in a cellar with the moth balls…..
OK with these constitutional initiatives the citizen no longer exists. They have put a stopper in any way of hearing the voice of the citizens. OK, as I promised you we are starting off with the blog we are starting off with first person initiatives: every citizen becomes a journalist, a politician, one who informs himself. We have launched the “Breathing down your neck” campaign to take back the town councils with the web-cams and I am inviting you to do it. Go to your town councils and film them and then start to do initiatives like these. If the motorway companies like Benetton are taking our money to finance Alitalia or they are taking our money from the concessions of the citizens to buy land in Argentina and to move the capital abroad, good! We will try to give them as little as possible of this money. By avoiding motorways if it’s possible. By consuming less in the Autogrill and by trying to postpone for as long as possible the payment of the motorway tolls as we are doing now. Let’s see.
Beppe: I have forgotten my money. Can you do me a bill?
Toll operatorI can do a “failure to pay”.
Beppe: Yes. Will it come to my home?
Toll operator: Yes. It will come to your home.
Beppe: Or can I pay in a “punto blu”?
Toll operator: You can pay in a “Punto Blu” or in a manual entry point.
Beppe: Thank you.
If we give them this money in 15 days, we keep it for 15 days.
Beppe: Is there something like a penalty to pay?
Toll operator: if you pay within 15 days, no. On the fifteenth day onwards 2.58 euro.
Beppe: 2.58 euro as a fine.
OK if two or 300 thousand people were to do that Benetton would be waiting for the money for 15 days and for us it would give a lot of satisfaction! What I have to do at my age, whoever would have thought that!” Beppe Grillo
SUMMING UP:
The failure to collect the motorway toll at the motorway exit pay station is formalized by the issue of a report of failure to pay.
The sum settled within 15 days brings no increase in the sum due. Beyond that limit the payment of the toll means 2.58 euro extra.
The payment of the toll can be done in all the “Punti Blu” from Monday to Saturday during office hours, in all the motorway exit stations. Or in a post office by using a form.
For anyone who is obstinate and doesn’t pay, the procedure is triggered for the forced recovery of credit with the additional expense charged to the person owing the debt. Obviously, this delay, given that it is inconvenient, we allow ourselves not to advise it, however if there’s a lot of us who delay by 15 days the payment of the tolls that involves the issue of a little report, we believe that that is the best way to start to talk about our money and where it lands up….
While waiting for developments, Beppe Grillo and his staff wish you for now, a good journey!
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 06:07 PM in Politics
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September 21, 2008
The Veltrusconi Wall
Watch the video
There are 18 convicts in Parliament. Those under investigation and those convicted at the first and second levels amount to more than 70. They will never give up, neither will we. 350,000 signatures for a Clean Parliament are lying in a cellar in the Senate available for Schifani and the P2.
The psycho dwarf and Topo Gigio Veltroni have allowed Prodi to fall, but not Mastella. They closed up the gap that was created with V-day to delay the collapse. PDL and PDminusL are the country’s true problem. The triumph of anti-democracy. Who do they really represent? Who are the true bosses and inspiration for Veltrusconi?
Del Turco, who had created a relationship with the ever-honest Fassino, the Unipol one, has finished up inside, but almost all of them could land up there. The division of the regional contributions for Health is the next Tangentopoli.
They want to take every voice away from us. Veltrusconi wants to eliminate the right to choose the candidate for the European Parliament and to bring in the threshold at 5%. Two bastard things. The first perpetuates the appointment by the party secretaries of those like Carra, Dell’Utri, Carfagna and Serafini even in Europe. The second prevents the minorities from being represented. In the European Parliament, the problem of governability so beloved of Veltrusconi does not exist. A threshold is only useful to get rid of all the others. They want to be the only 2, PDL and PDminusL that anyway are just one, with the parliamentarians appointed by them. Those with previous convictions, and their family members, lovers and lawyers. Instead, the rest of the country has to be honest as Andrea from Turin reminds us.
Dear Beppe,
Nothing new … but always devastating even after you have been talking about it on the blog for 2 years. I have to present a form to start a commercial activity online, to be handed in to your own town hall 30 days before the start of the activity. I am attaching it for you so that by going to read the footnotes that give the requirements that stop you from carrying our a commercial activity (generally they are online activities) you find:
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1) Art. 5, commas 2 and 4, D.L.vo 114/98 Comma 2: Unless they have been given rehabilitation, the following cannot carry on a commercial activity:
a) those who have been declared bankrupt; (letter repealed by art. 20 of D. Lgs. 12 September 2007, n. 169);
b) those who have a conviction with a sentence given by a judge for an unintentional crime, for which there is a penalty of a prison sentence of not less than 3 years, given that the sentence has been enforced and it was higher than the minimum.
those who have had a prison sentence, given by a judge, for one of the crimes written at title II and VIII of book II of the Criminal Code, that is receiving, recycling, issuing unbacked cheques, fraudulent insolvency, fraudulent bankruptcy, usury, kidnapping for extortion, robbery;
those who have had two or more convictions with a prison sentence or a fine, in the five years preceding the start of the activity, certified by a sentence given by a judge for one of the crimes laid out in articles 442, 444, 513, 513Bis, 515, 516 and 517 of the Criminal Code, or for the crime of fraud in the preparation or in the buying or selling of food, as laid down by special laws;
those who are subject to one of the preventative measures named in Law 27.12.1956 n.1423, , or in relation to whom one of the measures set out in Law 31.5.1965, n. 575, that is they have been declared habitual or professional delinquents or with such a tendency.
Comma 4: The prohibition from exercising a commercial activity, according to comma 2 of this article, lasts for 5 years and starts from the day that the penalty has been served or it has been extinguished in another way, that is, if there has been the concession of the conditional suspension of the penalty, from the day the sentence was pronounced by the judge.
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This is the link: http://www.comune.torino.it/commercio/moduli/pdf/mod7_2008.pdf.
There. It’s clear then! If convicts cannot have jobs in the public administration in the towns, the provinces, the regions; if they cannot be officers in the security forces, public officials, in the magistracy, just think… and if they cannot even start up a commercial activity … it’s clear that the only thing that convicts can do is to attach themselves to a chair in Parliament and defend the place and the privileges with all their weapons!” Andrea, from Turin.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 08:17 PM in Politics
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September 09, 2008
Democracy stopped at Desio
A citizen is exercising his constitutional rights: recording and distributing the contents of a public town council meeting. The one in Desio. He is thrown out and taken to the Police station and after that he is called by the Carabinieri and threatened with a court action by two town councillors if the film clip is published on the Internet.
These folk are completely mad. Putin is no match for them.
The sessions of parliament are broadcast live and the town COUNCILLORS don’t want to be recorded? Power is going to the heads of our employees. They are the sun stroke attacks of democracy. The blog will publish the video as soon as Giacomo sends it in and it is making its lawyers available if there should be a court action. To be taken to court for democracy is an honour!
"Dear Beppe,
I am Giacomo of the Desio MeetUp and I tried to exercise my rights to record and distribute images of the OPEN town council meeting on 29/05/08. It was a PUBLIC meeting during which the bosses of the company PEDEMONTANA s.p.a and the leaders of the town administration discussed the merits of the project for the new motorway that will go through and DEVASTATE our territory that is already devastated (here we have the highest number of building speculation projects and abusive tips in the whole area that more or less corresponds to the new province of Monza and Brianza and furthermore, we are “waiting” for the construction of another incinerator in addition to the one that already exists).
During the session I was called by the president of the town council to explain why I had a video camera with me. So I said that it was part of the “Breathing down your neck” initiative. In reply I was told that the regulations forbid such behaviour and the majority of those in the chamber voted for me to stop recording. Soon after that I was taken to the Police station by the local police who initially wanted the cassette with the video and in the end they left it with me with the agreement that I would not share it on the web. A few weeks later I was called by the Carabinieri who read to me a declaration by two councillors, a sort of threat to take court action that would be triggered if I were to publish the images. Desio is the geometric centre as well as being the neural node for the work of cementification, the interests at play are great, and that explains, but does not justify, the CENSORSHIP. Now my question is, given that I am still in possession of the “incriminating” images, what would I really be risking if I were to put them on the INTERNET? Is there a law, apart from article 21 of the Constitution that I could base my actions on?
In the certainty of meeting with your availability and that of the Blog. Sincerely” Giacomo Sicurello
PS In the past, you have been to Desio for a show… WOULD YOU COME BACK?
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 06:00 PM in Politics
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September 06, 2008
Municipalities: masters of our own homes!
Municipal Council meetings are public events. They can and should be filmed and made available to any citizens who are not present at the meetings. All you need to do is enter, announce that you wish to film the proceedings and then begin filming. At the municipal council meetings, certain decisions are made that affect our future, including issues ranging from water to healthcare and from education through to the environment. The municipal councillors are our employees and, as such, they are obliged to publicly account for their actions.
What I am writing is nothing revolutionary by any means. Were this to be read by a Spaniard, or by an American for that matter, they would act rather surprised because they accept this as being par for the course. In Los Angeles, City Council meetings, which are their equivalent of our Municipal Council Meetings, are broadcast live via cable TV on Channel 35 and on the Internet. Information is a public service. Municipal debates are public events. The decisions made at these meetings are part of the public record. Mayors and councillors who prohibit the filming of council meeting proceedings have a somewhat exclusionist view of politics. What they don’t appear to realise is that their salaries are paid by the very people who wish to film the proceedings and thereby check up on what they are getting up to. The Municipalities themselves should be voluntarily filming Council Meetings and making them available live on-line, and they should accept any viewer comments made on the Internet.
Dear Mayors and Councillors, what have you got to hide? All those Euros that enable you to make ends meet or, better still, to live rather high on the hog are given to you by the citizens. When these citizens walk into Council Chambers, you should welcome them with open arms. These are your bosses that are coming to visit you. These are your true principals. Should you decide to have them evicted by the Police or the Carabinieri (and on what grounds would you be entitled to do so?), they should turn around and withdraw the mandate they gave to you in the first place.
I am inviting all of the MeetUp groups to film their local Municipal Council meetings and post them on YouTube, labelled as: “Breathing down your neck”. This blog will show all of them, one by one.
Before the 2009 administrative elections, we need to find out precisely which councillors and mayors are on the side of the citizens and freedom of information, and which of them are, instead, nothing more than well-paid lackeys of the political parties. Anyone prohibiting the citizens from filming the proceedings must not be re-elected. They may never give up, but neither will we.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 05:02 PM in Politics
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The new Italy belongs to the municipalities
Quinto Vicentino and Torri di Quartesolo are two small municipalities that have won the battle against the American Army. The doubling of the United States Military base in Vicenza has ground to a halt. The two municipalities have managed to halt the construction of the new barracks to house the military personnel. There is an existing regional law that limits the number of buildings that may be erected in agricultural areas. If the planned 215 houses had been built for the American soldiers, the remaining residents would not have been able to build anything more for the next 10 years.
Kambiz Razzaghi, Works Manager in charge of the construction works for the new Dal Molin military base, has said that: “Yes, Quinto is dead”. So the Americans are homeless, at least for the time being. What they are thinking of doing is spreading themselves out throughout the area, in small enclaves in a number of the Vicenza municipal districts. Ten houses here, another fifteen there, and some housed in the various Bed and Breakfast establishments in the Veneto Region.
The municipalities are the fulcrum of the lever that will eventually raise up the whole of Italy. This was proven in the Val di Susa, in Campania and now in Vicenza. It is impossible to lie to those who see what is happening with their own eyes. The new Dal Molin military base would turn Vicenza into one of the biggest targets in the whole of Europe in the event of a war against the United States. This would, after all, be the biggest military base in Europe, from which it would be possible to despatch bombers loaded with atomic bombs. There is no valid reason for setting up a base such as this.
On 5 October 2008 Vicenza is scheduled to hold a Municipal Referendum regarding the construction of this base. The quorum for this referendum is 35,000 voters. I will be there to lend my support. My hope is that, at some stage in the future, Kambiz Razzaghi will say that: “Yes, Dal Molin is dead”.
There is yet more good news from Vicenza, namely the Dal Molin 2.0 plan submitted by the “Vicenza, 5-star municipality” Civic List plan, submitted by Davide Marchiani. According to this plan, a solar energy farm would be set up in place of the military base. Vicenza would score around one billion, three hundred million Euro over a period of 20 years. This would mean free electricity for 25 thousand of the 43 thousand families. The project is illustrated in detail in the attached document, which can be downloaded. Therefore, I hereby invite the people of Vicenza to support the project and the residents of other municipalities to copy it.
They may never surrender, but neither will we.
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September 04, 2008
Delirium
The country is in a complete delirium. It’s impossible to discuss with the psycho-dwarf or with Topo Gigio Veltroni. They are null-entities who believe they are important. One is Napoletone and the other is Obama bianco de noantri. It’s only us who have white primates in power. The others show them off at the zoo. Putting ourselves on their level means losing our wits. Nothing of what they say is true, or even important or even intelligent. Whoever sees them talking to the external world, like the foreign media, cannot understand them, They are like mad people at liberty. They have put a cork in the nation with regime information.
The delirium of democracy spreads out and whatever it touches gets transformed into shit. The citizens cannot film their employees during town council meetings. They cannot elect their employees in Parliament and in the future not even for Europe. They are not equal for the law in relation to the band of four.
Our employees are inside a mad house. They understand each other, but they no longer know what reality is. They get it muddled up with their private interest or those of the party. The future is the nuclear power stations, the incinerators, the car parks, the bridges over the Straits, the tunnel in Val di Susa, digital terrestrial and the magistracy on a leash. They are Veltrusconi-like deliria. They are called dialogue positions.
We tried to talk to these mad people with our proposals for Prodi, the popular initiative law, the collection of signatures for the referendum, the denunciation to the European Parliament in Strasburg and in Brussels and a thousand other things. It was no use. If you discuss with a mad person, anyone watching you from outside sees two mad people who talk nonsense. A new party in Parliament is the equivalent of a sane person inside a criminal mad house. They would become equal to the others, it’s just a matter of time. We rely on abroad for energy and we don’t exploit renewables. We rely on abroad for foodstuffs and we cover over wheat fields with asphalt. We have one of the biggest public debts in the world and we make a gift of 5 billion dollars to Libya. Egypt imports bread from the Ukraine and we import atomic power stations. Russia threatens nuclear retaliation against Georgia and the American atomic bases with 90 nuclear war heads are on our soil at Ghedi Torre and at Aviano.
The mad people don’t know they are mad and they believe that the true mad ones are those who are sane. We don’t have alternatives to do-it-yourself democracy, to self-government, to the garrisoning of the territory, to the participation in every decision relating to the collectivity. The delirium of Parliament has to be dismantled from the bottom like a Lego construction. We have to claim back our towns and where this is not possible, put the mayors and the cabinet members under control. By filming them, interviewing them, denouncing their “omertà”.
In 2009 there’ll be local elections. It is one of the last chances to exit from the delirium and enter into modernity. In the next few weeks, I will publish a symbol that will be common to all the civic lists, a reference programme drawn from the thousands of ideas received for the primaries from the citizens and a date for a national meeting of the lists and the meet ups that will be held at the beginning of next year. Out of the delirium, into the reality.
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August 29, 2008
Pty Ltd Countries
Countries are increasing beginning to resemble public companies. Like any public company, these Pty Ltd Countries can fail and go bankrupt. Foreign Policy and The Fund for Peace have released the 2008 Index of failed Countries. At what point does a Country cease to exist? “When the national government loses control of all or part of its territory and is no longer able to ensure the personal safety of its citizens. When governments lose their monopoly on power and the country’s laws, and law and order begins to disintegrate. When governments can no longer guarantee essential services such as education, health and food supply, then they lose their legitimacy” (*).
In its earliest stages, failure is accompanied by increasing inflation rates and deterioration of the country’s entire infrastructure, followed thereafter by civil war, terrorism and the prevalence of organised crime.
The assessment of the health of Countries involves looking at 12 different variables, including the situation as regards human rights, public services, demographic pressure and the number of refugees. Any country that exceeds 100 points ceases to exist. In the past four years, in other words since the aforesaid Index has been calculated, the number of failed Countries has risen from 7 to 13, and the number of aspirant failed Countries, with a points score of between 90.1 and 99.3, have risen to 22.
When a Country fails, it contributes to global instability. Criminals begin to use the Country to traffic in drugs, like in Afghanistan, which has become the heroin production capital of the world. The Country hosts terrorist groups, and here Iraq is the world leader. Civil wars expand beyond the national borders, as happened in Rwanda. The environment is decimated, as has happened both in Haiti and in Somalia. Epidemics spread out of control.
At one time, the imperialist Countries represented the greatest threat to world peace. Now the failure of Countries represents the greatest threat. How many Countries need to fail before our civilisation, as we know it, disappears completely?
The top ten former Countries are, in order: Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, Iraq, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, the Ivory Coast, Pakistan and the Central African Republic.
Finally, there is also some good news. Italy is not yet officially listed as a failed Country. This is notwithstanding the fact that this Country pretty much meets all of the criteria used to define a failed Country. Perhaps, here by us, the anti-State has replaced the State, without anyone realising what is happening.
(*) Lester Brown in “Plan B 3.0”
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August 25, 2008
Men and half men, ominicchi, piglianculo and quaquaraquà
Italians didn’t deserve Giovanni Falcone. He knew that they would murder him. Just as Paolo Borsellino knew. They went to their death like the first Christians in the Coliseum. Left on their own by the institutions, the parties, by many colleagues. Borsellino died in front of his mother’s house. No security measure had been arranged. He went there every Sunday. The car with the bomb was parked at a few metres from the bell for the gate. On 13 July 1992, six days before the attack, he said to a police officer: “I am in a state of turmoil. I am worried for you, because I know that the TNT for me has arrived [from the continent – editor] and I don’t want you to be involved” (*)
Sixteen years after Capaci, the President of the Council is called Silvio Berlusconi. In Parliament there’s Cuffaro and Dell’Utri. The mafia no longer needs bombs. The laws are enough for them. “A rapid list of ‘reforms’: 1) substantial abolition of art.41 bis that prevented communication between prisoners and the outside world; 2) reworking of certain articles of the penal code procedures that have placed limits on the usability of the declarations on the prosecution side; 3) after the reworking of these regulations, truly giving in to the requests of the right, no arrangement has been set up to protect the non-mafia citizens who give evidence in mafia trials; 4) the new law on justice collaborators has provoked just one consequence: no one is repenting any more; 5) the possibility to widen the institution of the abbreviated rite even to more serious crimes, with an immediate discount of a third and at the same time the conclusion of investigations on those happenings. To that, add the fact that no initiative has been taken to make operational the database of bank accounts and deposits that was set out in 1991 at the suggestion of Giovanni Falcone”. (**)
Interviewed by Francesco Licata in February 1991, Falcone allowed himself to speak freely: “But what are they thinking of these gentlemen? Is it true that they are convinced that we are all equal? Do they believe that I am saving my life? I am not afraid to die. Me, I’m Sicilian. Yes, I’m Sicilian and for me, life is worth less than this button.” (**)
The psycho-dwarf wants to reform what is left of the justice system and he says he wants to do it “having been inspired by Falcone’s thinking”. He can allow himself to do that without any journalist present, spitting in his face or, more soberly, reminding him of the time spent by Mangano at his villa in Arcore. The reform of the justice system has already happened some time ago.
It has been done by D’Alema and Fassino, Castelli and Berlusconi, Prodi and Mastella. One step at a time. One lengthening of the time for the Statute of limitations at a time. One pardon at a time. One limitation of wire-tapping at a time. One abolition of false balance sheets at a time. Today we are at the bipartisan nails in the coffin.
In Sciascia’s novel ‘The Day of the Owl', Don Arena divided humanity into men and half men, “ominicchi, piglianculo and quaquaraqquà”. Falcone was a man. We who are left, what are we?
(*) L’agenda rossa di Paolo Borsellino Lo Bianco, Rizza. Published by Chiarelettere
(**) Storia di Giovanni Falcone. La Licata. Published by Feltrinelli
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August 19, 2008
Eleições Limpas
Has the Italian Parliament become black? No, just a bit dirty. Mussolini would have been ashamed to have been shoulder to shoulder with people convicted for mafia and for corruption. The definitive convicts are in the PDL “but also” in the PDminusL. The living dead of the Left denounce the disappearance of public opinion. That that they have ignored, taunted, insulted. Populist, justicialist, “qualunquista”. For this lot, if the general public don’t have their opinions, they don’t exist. I have the idea that the convicts, even for really serious crimes, definitive or at the first or second level, think they have got away with it. There might be a reason for this. Topogigissimo Veltroni with his shadow government is an Italian-style farce. You’d need Alberto Sordi with his inimitable raspberry to define him. The Lodo Alfano has made the Band of Four untouchable and the psycho-dwarf is finally relaxed.
I want to reassure Curzio Maltese, Nanni Moretti, Eugenio Scalfari and the Intellectuals of the Left. The general public exists! It was there in all the squares in Italy to discuss energy, renewables, WiMax, the sustainable economy. In Bologna on 8 September 2007, in Turin on 25 April and in Piazza Navona on 8 July 2008. Its voice is talking about the future and they are the past. They can’t manage to hear it. The request for a law for a Clean Parliament has been ignored. Parliament is more infected than before, more distant from the people than before. Deputies and Senators, wives, lovers, mates, lawyers, corrupted and corrupters are “appointed” by the parties. Parliament has become a public location for private actions.
The other nations are overtaking us in everything, even in justice, even in South America. A blog has indicated that in Brazil the AMB, (Association of Brazilian Magistrates) is promoting the “Eleições Limpas” {Clean Elections} initiative. In Brazil, right from 1990, it’s possible to elect candidates who have definitive convictions, thanks to a popular law. The AMB has asked that at the forthcoming local elections even those who have been convicted at the first level should not be eligible for election. The STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) has turned down the request. So the AMB has started a collection of signatures for a new popular law.
Brazilian candidates are not different from ours. Their convictions go from corruption, to money laundering, to extortion, to drug trafficking. There is a tiny difference, Brazilian public opinion is not considered to be justicialist because people don’t want to be represented by convicts. The magistrates are not subversive if they ask for a clean up in Parliament in the government and the United Opposition don’t pass their time protecting each other from the citizens.
The AMB publishes on its website the up-to-date list of all the candidates who have an ongoing trial. In Italy it’s done by a comic. In Brazil the magistrates.
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August 12, 2008
Political Press Release number fifteen
The collection of signatures for a Clean Parliament has been ignored. V2 day for freedom of information in a free State has been blacked out. For the regime of Forza-DS it never happened. Italian politicians are better than those of the former USSR. Facts exist ONLY if their media tell them.
A few million people went into the streets in less than a year. They asked for a future and they got a raspberry. They asked for honest people in Parliament and they got the lodo Alfano.
They asked for safety at work and they got La Russa’s Carabinieri in the building sites. A part of the Italians, those that are the most well informed and the youngest. The precarious ones, the ones who have studied at university, the unemployed who were asking for a change have had in return a “f..k off” Together with disdain, scorn, refusal to engage.
This political class is to be removed as a block. With these you would land up right in Argentina. The public debt is exploding. Food costs have gone up by 30%. Tens of thousands of homes have been repossessed because the families can no longer manage to pay the mortgage. The corrupted ones in Parliament are with the corrupting ones. Corrupted is the one who does not denounce, who get by.
Corrupted are all the parliamentarians who approved impunity of the top positions. They are rotten inside. The economy is knocking on the door, when it is opened you will find the Italians in their underwear and the responsible ones abroad. Health is the new Tangentopoli {BribesVille}
The politicians go where the money leads. And it’s the Regions that have the money. The ones managing them are presidents on the Right and Left. They are creating a wall to avoid a Sanitopoli {HealthSystemVille} of gigantic proportions.
The judges in Abruzzo who have dared to touch Del Turco will end up like De Magistris and Forleo. What’s to be done? The time of referendum and popular laws has finished. They use the signatures to clean their arses.
It happened even for the new election law. Napolitano, former DS, called the elections when the referendum should have been held. The priority was dictated by Veltrusconi, not a million citizens.
I will ask nothing more of this political class. To change they need to be substituted by the citizens.
From September, I will support the civic lists for the local elections in 2009. I will start an information campaign abroad about the dictatorship that is present in our country.
I will ask those who follow the blog to participate in a series of immediate actions to change our reality. Information, health, food, employment mobility, work. An action each month to hit them in their wallets and to take back our country for ourselves. They will never give up, neither will we.
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August 04, 2008
We are winning (and they know it)
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Many people have written to me to say the signatures have been no use. That they will do what they want to anyway.
The signatures are useful to count us.
Many people say that the V-Days have been a "wham bam thank you ma'm".
The V-Days have been useful for us to see each other, to touch each other, to smile and to affirm our right to shout out that we are alive, we are still alive. They have not beaten us and they will never beat us.
Many people say that all this has served no useful purpose if Berlusconi is still there, if the P2 and the Mafia are in Parliament.
But they are the past, can’t you see them? They are living in fear, in special laws, in the army.
The future is beauty and they do not form a part. This is why they are sad. This is why we will win by taking them for a ride.
Jacofo Fo has sent me a poem for V3 day.
”We are winning
But this day will we do a Vaffanculo Day of laughter?
We are winning
Don’t let yourselves be bowled over by the TV News images!
We are unhinging the immobile mud from the frozen spirits.
We are making love more.
We are beating the dawn drums more.
We are thinking up colossal jokes.
Berlusconi’s new laws, Veltroni’s sadness
Don’t fall into the trap.
They are about to fall into the wide open mouth of the past
Like drops of rain
It will still last a bit longer but then we will say: do you remember the fear?
The oil is finished, we must change.
The information monopoly is finished
On the Web, you can’t forbid me to tell
It’s like when they invented the telephone.
After a bit they didn’t use the carrier pigeons.
The world changes.
Just think once upon a time sex didn’t exist, just single cell asexual organisms
They multiplied by parthogenesis, that is they split in half.
And it was not a pleasant experience.
Now we are extremely sexual pluri-cell organisms, we can make love and sing.
But it has to be clear there’s need for a bit of a push to make the inexorable wheel of History keep turning.
We have to launch a total offensive, it’s our historical task as progressives.
We do nothing else: we start general mobilizations one after the other, every time we have the breath to do it. We like it like that. You get to know loads of interesting people and at times you also get satisfaction.
And today the total offensive on today’s agenda is to make more love. A tiny bit of effort, we can even get better.
Write a poem for the person you love.
Tell a friend you are fond of them.
Draw a flower on the wall in front of their house so every time they go out they’ll remember that you love them.
Do something extraordinary, reckless
Kiss her on the lips as though it were the first time
It’s enough to put behind you the line of the past.
And to live in that instant just before the first time that we kissed. And to remember that for an instant, while the mouths are getting closer you picked up the perfume that was rising from her neck.
Let your lips part, your tongue is waiting for a taste that you have never experienced.
A flavour that contains the sound of rice leaves that unfurl in the humidity of the water.
…. "
Jacopo Fo
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August 03, 2008
Brokeback Italy
A three-act comedy:
Topo Gigio Veltroni to the rescue
Main actors: Antonio Di Pietro, known as Kryptonite, Walter Veltroni, known as Topo Gigio and the shadow Government of the Pdwithoutanel.
Off-screen prompt (inaudible): Berlusconi, known as the Psychodwarf
Act One:
Antonio Di Pietro begins gathering signatures for a referendum calling for the abolition of the Alfano Draft Bill. This is an unconstitutional Law that makes four of this Country's citizens more equal than all the rest. Their names, in alphabetical order, are as follows: Berlusconi, Fini, Napolitano, Schifani. One of these has been involved in court cases for the past fifteen years. The other three have not been accused of anything, but they nevertheless went along for the ride. Kryptonite Di Pietro is asking for help from his allies in the Pdwithoutanel in order to gather 500,000 signatures by September 2008 so as to be able to hold the referendum during the spring of 2009.
Act Two:
Topo Gigio Veltroni convenes a meeting of the shadow Government on 31 July in order to discuss the referendum. Topo Gigio quotes Oscar Luigi Scalfaro: “Depending on the outcome, a referendum will always results in greater visibility for the party promoting it. However, should it be a failure, even as a result of the failure to reach a quorum, the entire opposition would land up looking bad”. Addressing his shadow Government, Topo Gigio highlights “the very wise words uttered by Scalfaro”. This is a quantum leap in terms of Veltroni’s terminology. He has moved on from the use of multiple adjectives, such as his unforgettable “intellectual, rational, reformist camp”, and on to the use of superlatives. Topo Gigio will not agree to a referendum because “it could fail”. This is his favourite strategy, which he once again adopted during the last elections. Don’t take part in order not to lose. Veltroni explained to the shadow Government that: “there are other priorities, such as the social welfare crisis, salaries and the Country’s growth”. Finally he concluded in truly statesmanlike fashion, but also as a refined diplomat and filmmaker that: “We don’t want to focus the main attention back on the Berlusconian controversy”. The applause from the senior members of the PDwithoutanel moved him. Follini is overcome and sighs: “You are right and you are wise, well done Veltroni…”. Rosy Bindi added that: “Notwithstanding the fact that the PDL is undoubtedly busy raping the Constitution, the path chosen by Di Pietro is wrong”.
Act Three:
In the 2009 European elections Veltroni is rewarded by the voters for his “very wise”, but also “intellectual, rational and reformist” political line, with a new Walterloo. The PDwithoutanel splits in two out of joy. Veltroni steps down as party secretary of the PDwithoutanel, reiterating a previous statement he made on 19 February 2008: “You will never hear me launching any sort of attack against him (Berlusconi - Ed). The one involving him is a joyous controversy, but that’s okay. The Italians tired of all the improprieties, only to land up with a Country that is immobile”.
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July 27, 2008
The Lisbon Treaty
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"The Lisbon Treaty was born to replace the European Union Constitution, which was rejected by the French and Dutch referendums back in 2005. In the Berlin Declaration of 25 March 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Premier Romano Prodi suggested that a new treaty would come into effect in 2009, the same year as the elections for the new European Parliament.
At that same time, the "Action Committee for European Democracy" was given a mandate to re-draft the Constitution, which was subsequently presented on 4 June 2007: the new document, which uses just 70 articles and 12,800 words to include the same innovations as those contained in the previous version of the Constitution, which contained some 448 articles and 63,000 words, thereby becoming a point of reference for negotiation." Wikipedia
The Lisbon Treaty is, to all intents and purposes, the new European Union Constitution. Will anyone who has had the opportunity to read this document please raise your hand. Our employees in the Senate obviously know this document off by heart. As a matter of fact, they voted in favour (unanimously) without any hesitation whatsoever and without bothering to inform us accordingly.
"EU: the Senate’s unanimous yes to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty - Rome, 23 July - unanimous yes to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. At Palazzo Madama, the vote, with no votes against and no abstentions, gave the green light to the Draft Bill to ratify and implement the Treaty signed in Lisbon on 13 December 2007, which replaces the European Union Treaty and the Treaty that established the European Community. The draft Bill to ratify the Lisbon Treaty is currently under examination by the Chamber."Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor
The Irish proceeded to reject the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum. The Czech Republic and Poland have expressed certain serious concerns. The European Constitution MUST be put to the test by means of a consultative referendum. It needs to be explained, illustrated, motivated. It is not simply another official formality. It will change our lives and those of our children.
Does the European Constitution perhaps clash with the Italian Constitution? Reading through both these documents would appear to indicate that the answer to that question is yes. Here are two examples:
Justice:
The Italian Constitution – The judges (who represent judicial authority) shall be independent from the Government (which represents executive authority).
The Lisbon Treaty - "The (European) Court of Justice shall consist of one judge per member State. It is assisted by Advocates General ... They are nominated, by mutual agreement, by the Governments of the member States..."
War:
The Italian Constitution – "Italy rejects war as an offence against the liberty of other populations and as a means for settling international disputes. Subject to similar undertakings by other States, this Country agrees to any necessary restriction of sovereignty in terms of any provision that ensures peace and justice between all Nations, and promotes and favours any international organisation established for this purpose."
The Lisbon Treaty - "The security an mutual defence policy is an integral part of foreign policy and mutual security. It ensures that the Union has an operational capacity at its disposal and has access to any necessary civilian and military means. The Union may make use of said means on missions outside of its borders for the purposes of maintaining peace, preventing conflicts and reinforcing international security, in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Charter. The execution of these tasks is based on the individual capabilities provided by the member States."
We have had a lot to say about the Alfano Bill, yet nothing is said about the European Court of Justice’s dependence on certain Governments that eliminate their own magistratures' independence from the executive authority.
We are busy betraying the spirit of the Italian Constitution (which rejects war) and approving the so-called "operational capability " to " prevent conflict ".
Do yourself a favour and compare our Constitution with the Lisbon Treaty, article by article and post your observations in the comments section.
I will use these to draft a document to be posted on the Internet and I’ll also send a copy to our employees in Parliament.
Bloody hell, we simply can’t afford to take our eyes off them, not even for even a second.
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July 14, 2008
Letter to the stillborn Lega
A member of the Lega (Lega Nord Party) asked me to publish his letter.
"Dear Beppe Grillo, I am sending you this open letter to Umberto Bossi because I know that if you post it on your Blog, then he will certainly read it. Thanking you in advance." Dante.
“Umberto,
I feel that I can take the liberty to speak to you on first name terms because I have followed you ever since 1987, when you were drawing pictures of chickens for the posters for “Roma Ladrona” (Rome the Robber). Today you have run away from home, but I will be waiting for you in any event. Our door is open. I stopped voting for you when you went in with Berlusconi, the very same man that you used to call the Mafia Don of Arcore and at that time, as I’m sure you remember, all the rank and file members agreed with you. I don’t know why you did this. I don’t believe that you did it for the money, all those billions that he is said to have paid to buy you, nor do I believe for a moment that you feared for your safety and that of your family because of death threats made by the Mafia. These are things that should never be said. I am convinced that they have tried to buy you and to intimidate you, but as far as I’m concerned you are not the type of person that is for sale and you have always shown a certain amount of courage.
I believe that you have abandoned the Lega where our origins lie for tactical reasons, in order to get federalism introduced sooner and, for this reason, you went ahead and made a pact with the devil, with the one who represents the very opposite of what the Lega stands for, Dell’Ulti and Licio Gelli’s man, the son of Bettino Craxi, the heir of the very same Andreotti that forty thousand of us told to fuck off in the field at Pontida, long before Beppe Grillo had even thought of telling people to fuck off. The Lega invented “fuck off”, indeed, you invented it.
I believe that Berlusconi, excuse the language, has screwed both you and the Lega and that he is the only one that has scored in the process. You presented him with a gift of five years in power without getting anything in return. While he has managed to introduce certain laws for his own benefit, the Lega has received nothing, indeed less than bugger all. Now you have promised that you will deliver fiscal federalism and, if you manage to do this, all hail to you, however, I don’t believe they will allow you to deliver. They cannot afford to simply shut down the bankrupt Centre and South of the Country, which survive on the taxes deriving from the productivity of the North, because there would be a revolution in Sicily, in Calabria and in Campania, where the only important business enterprises are the Regional Administration, the Provinces and the Municipalities. They would all die of starvation. Fiscal federalism would result in revolution and secession. You know this very well, as do they.
Since you joined up with Berlusconi, you have had to swallow a number of bitter pills, but in this legislature the pills are truly gigantic: the public loans to Alitalia, the Messina Bridge, and Naples’ rubbish brought up to the North for disposal. During the past three months, all you have managed to discuss are laws aimed at blocking all of Berlusconi’s many pending court cases. The “safety for the citizens” that you talked about during the election campaign has been sacrificed at the altar of Berlusconi’s impunity. The gypsies were here before the elections and they are still here now. The illegal aliens were landing here before, as they are still landing here now. The only tax revenue that the Municipalities of the North had at their disposal was the ICI (Property Tax), which has now been cancelled. The North’s companies are closing down, a fact of which the Lega is painfully aware, as a result of taxation, VAT deposits that are never reimbursed, the IRAP (Regional Business Tax) and the thousands of other pain-in-the-arse Italian bureaucracy requirements.
Our companies are closing down, Umberto, while you are spending your time covering Berlusconi’s arse and hoping for the arrival of federalism. Once Berlusconi has managed to sort out all of his legal problems, you can just as well forget all about fiscal federalism. I hope (I really do hope) that I am wrong, but you are likely to be left empty handed and with a ruined party. Should you dare to raise your voice, Berlusconi will squash you and take up with Veltroni, or Casini, or both. And, on his television stations, he will treat both you and the Lega in the same way as he is currently treating Di Pietro.
I remember how, one day, in the Oltrepò Pavese area, there were only thirty of us there to listen to you speak, yet you spoke to that handful of people for no less than two hours. You explained to them how the Church intimidated free thinkers and how they burned the heretics. Sabina Guzzanti would have been making notes, now a convent girl has taken your place. It is never too late to turn back when you have taken the wrong road.” Dante
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July 10, 2008
Fifteen years of "Forza DS"
I’m publishing the text of my speech yesterday in Rome’s Piazza Navona
”Italians! We weren’t connected because of a “technical” event. I was connected until four, ten minutes ago. Everything was OK. Then, strangely, the signal went. So, you will have to imagine for yourselves. I have to imagine you and you will have to imagine me. Don’t imagine me fatter, evil, sweating and as one who spits out swear words. I have done a “ghandian” course and the most disgusting word that has passed my lips in the last 6 months is: “belin!”. Thus, imagine me slimmer, thinner and much nicer. I have no intention to offend anyone. I want to imagine you and why you are there. You who are in forty or seventy thousand – the Questura will say two thousand five hundred. Why are you there? You are there also to demonstrate your existence, dear friends. Perhaps I’ve got more against you than against the psycho dwarf, dancing girls and similar. I am angry with this great extraordinary way of taking us for a ride that they have been doing to the Italian citizens for15 years. Taking us for a really really big ride. By this pretend government and this pretend opposition. That’s why we find ourselves in this situation. You are there and I am here to talk about, I don’t know who to. By now we’ve got total delirium. The psycho dwarf, Berlusconi, has gone to Japan for the G8 and he has collected another, shit character in the name of and on behalf of the Italian people. With this expression “Italian people” dear gentlefolk, I can no longer identify myself. And I would like – I have even spoken to my lawyer – that every time that Berlusconi calls on the Italian people, he adds an extra bit: “apart from the Grillo family!” OK, but it’s not even the psycho-dwarf’s fault. The psycho-dwarf is only the effect. The cause is what I said earlier. There has been a single party. A single party for fifteen years. They were just pretending. Prodi, Berlusconi, D’Alema, Berlusconi. It’s all a way of taking us for a ride. So what needs to be done? I don’t know what needs to be done. This is a government, dear friends, that lives with TV labels. In any old people, in any old country in the world, whether it’s totalitarian, or democratic, if a premier telephoned to sell a “fica” in leasing, as our premier has done, to corrupt some senators, to bring down the government, he would have been stopped by a coup d’état. What’s not important is the “fica”, dear friends. What’s important is what people want. And he gives people what he wants. A certain type of people. In no state in the world would there be a premier who with his lawyer, Previti, corrupted a judge to buy the biggest publishing company in the country. What country has this one become? That’s why I’m angry.
Conflict of interests. Shit. The Left and the Conflict of interests. The first thing it should have done was the law on the Conflict of interests. But it’s a conflict that also relates to their interests. That’s why I am so enraged. But that’s saying nothing, enraged
They’ve gone beyond that. I don’t know who this Veltroni-Topo Gigio is. Is he the new Mastella? Who is he? Who is this great person? He’s not even a man. He’s a subject! What is he? An adverb! What is it? I can’t even manage to understand what his speeches are. He puts in an adjective and some nouns. He doesn’t have a heart, or lungs, or a brain. He just has nouns.
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July 08, 2008
Veto on the Trip to Rome
Through my lawyers, I have asked for permission from the Questura di Roma for the Trip on 25 July. The route was due to pass in front of the headquarters of the parties and in front of Parliament. The Questura has forbidden it to pass in front of the headquarters of the parties and in front of Parliament. For security reasons. They proposed a touristic alternative with piazza della Repubblica, the Fori Imperiali, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, via della Cuccagna and Piazza Navona.
The possibility of marching pacifically past the headquarters of the parties has been denied us. Their rent is paid by the citizens. There’s a prohibition on offering our greetings to our employees, whose salaries are paid for by the citizens. It has not been allowed that we demonstrate peacefully with bicycles, wheelchairs and rickshaws.
The party headquarters, by now metastasis of democracy, are off limits for the citizens, they have become a militarized zone. They go from the security of Topo Gigio Veltroni’s loft, the splendour of the psycho-dwarf’s headquarters in via dell’Umiltà and that of Azzurro Caltagirone in via Due Macelli. On 25 July we will not be able to remind these gentlemen and ladies the names of the convicts that they have elected, from Carra to Dell’Utri to Cuffaro.
While the country is on the brink of economic collapse, our employees are trying form morning to night to not be put on trial. Block on the trials. Transfer of trials. Challenging the judges.. PDL and PDminusL have decided to approve the law of the Band of Four, the Schifoalfano. The fantastical Four: Napolitano, Schifani, Fini and Berlusconi, will be able to commit crime with impunity during their term of office. If not one of the four has taken a stand against this law, it means that it is useful for all of them, not just for the psycho-dwarf.
On 25 July we will not be able to do the Trip to Rome. I have decided to cancel it. I don’t feel like risking the safety of the young people who would pass, even in the face of a prohibition, in front of the headquarters of the parties with the police ready to charge. Soon there will be another appointment. Time is on our side. A signal is enough to get everyone to act. The straw dog is about to go up in flames.
PS. This evening I will take part in the demonstration in Piazza Navona. Watch the live broadcast on the blog.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 09:54 PM in Politics
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July 02, 2008
The Republic of pimps
Tomorrow the psycho-dwarf will be the guest of his employee Mentana in his Matrix programme on his Canale 5 channel to say “calmly and serenely that the justice system is a true emergency”. For him.
The country, calmly and serenely, will listen to him and then will tell him to F..K off.
The psycho-dwarf wants to abolish intercepts for most crimes. The ones in which politicians and industrialists are involved.
Telephone Matrix, 06/57787833 and read out to Mentana one line from those that follow about the situation in the Country of pimps accompanied by a “F..K off.”!
- More than 40% of the national wealth is illegal (report of the High Commission on anti-corruption). F..K off.!
- Illegal labour market and undocumented work: 27% of the GDP (source: OECD) F..K off!
- Tax dodging: 200 billion euro (source: Secit and Revue de droit fiscal) F..K off!
- Big companies with turnover greater than 50 million euro that dodge taxes: 98.40% (source: Tax Collection Agency) F..K off!
- Illegal exporting of capital 85-90 billion euro (source: Confcommercio, Eurispes, Procura Nazionale Antimafia, the weekly magazine Economy ) F..K off!
- Consolidated wealth of the mafias: 1,000 billion euro (source: Confcommercio, Economy, Procura Nazionale Antimafia) F..K off!
Mafia affiliates, excluding the white collar workers who make use of the recycled money: 1,800,000 people (source: DIA and report by the Antimafia Parliamentary Commission 2003) F..K off!
Percentage of extortions per region on the total, for Campania 14.9%, Sicily 12.9% and Lombardy 10.4% (source: Ministry of the Interior) F..K off!
- In its latest report the Anti-Corruption Commission stated: we are worse now than at the time of Tangentopoli, corruption is a burden in every sector and health is the land of conquest. F..K off!
PS Thanks to La Casa della Legalità for the data.
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June 30, 2008
Mascalzone latino
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Antonio Di Pietro on Berlusconi: "Ponce!".
Berlusconi on Antonio Di Pietro: "Mascalzone!" (Rascal)
I’m publishing the letter sent to me by Antonio Di Pietro
Dear Beppe,
There are moments in the life of the nations when the citizens have to make choices. Moments in which it’s no longer possible to pretend that nothing is happening and continue to believe that in the end, nothing really will change. The laws that are continually being proposed by the new government are an attack on democracy. If they are passed, the regime will win and democracy will be the loser for an indefinite period of time. It is enough to manipulate information and thanks to this, to get elected to Parliament. Then to make laws against the Constitution, against the independence of the magistracy, against the security of the citizens, against the freedom of information. One law after another.
What distinguishes a prime minister of a democracy from a dictator? The true distinctive feature is the absolute impunity of the dictator. When Silvio Berlusconi has achieved that, Italy will be in all ways a dictatorship. What’s surprising is that authoritative opinion leaders have given credit to Silvio Berlusconi with qualities of a statesman and it’s surprising how a part of the opposition itself has believed it to be possible to start up a dialogue with him on the reform of the institutions. Berlusconi’s history speaks for itself. His numerous trials, the conviction of his lawyer, Cesare Previti, for the corruption of judges for Mondadori, his membership of the P2, the abusive occupation of the frequencies on the part of Rete 4. The list is endless as are the damages suffered because of him by our country. Above all, I’m referring to the extinguishing of the civic conscience, of the morale and of ethics. As a devastating example that Berlusconi has offered to the nation and to the young generations over almost 20 years, an example of his impunity. A situation similar to that where the village lads in the South admire the local mafia or camorra person.
Today, 27 June 2008, the Council of Ministers approved the DDL to guarantee the impunity of the top positions in the State while they are in office, so that they thus become more equal than the citizens before the law. In the last few weeks, laws have been presented by the government for which the definition of “shameful” is not sufficient. It is more correct to call them subversive and criminal as they undermine the basis of the State and are in favour of delinquents.
The suspension of trials for a year means the avoidance of the possible conviction of Berlusconi in the Mills trial in Milan.
Another one hundred thousand trials will be blocked for crimes that range from rape, to fraud, to the kidnapping of minors. The security of the citizens, so much discussed during the election campaign by Berlusconi and the Lega, is sacrificed to the interests of the President of the Council. The prohibition on publishing the intercepts once they have been deposited in the tribunal and available to the two sides in the case, and thus in fact already public, would have prevented us from knowing about Parmalat or about the local wide-boys.
The journalist who publishes the intercepts would end up in prison, his publisher would close down and the one who has committed the crime would not have to respond to public opinion.
With this law, in the United States there would not have been Watergate and Nixon would not have resigned. Italia dei Valori will propose a handful of referenda to repeal these laws against democracy and if necessary it will promote actions of civil disobedience like the publication of judicial acts. No one can stand and look any longer.
On 8 July in Rome at 6:00pm in Piazza Navona, at the same time as the approval of the law on intercepts, Italia dei Valori together with leaders of civil society are having a demonstration for the freedom of information and for justice.” Antonio Di Pietro
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June 27, 2008
Silvio Horror Picture Show
Showing on all screens in Italy the “Silvio Horror Picture Show”. By now we are at the hundredth episode and people can’t stand it any longer. A bit because of the heat, the heels, the greasepaint, the head of tar. He spends every Saturday morning with his lawyers to defend himself from the magistrates. 798 prosecutors or magistrates were dealing with him between 1994 and 2006. All ideologised, metastasis of democracy, all communists. On Saturday morning the people however spend their time pulling in their belts and reading about the trials of the defendant Silvio Berlusconi in the newspapers. The people have other things to think about. Work, security, the house, debts. But since 1994 without respite they’ve had to deal with a bloke who has problems with the law, who is a member of the P2, who has occupied the media thanks to the fugitive Craxi. People are asking: “If he had been a regular citizen would he be in prison already?” And again: “Is the President of the Council paid to solve the problems of the country or just his own?”
PS. There’s dynamite in the stove. I repeat: There’s dynamite in the stove.
Today's Financial Times says:
“Oh no, not again
Once more, Berlusconi’s focus is on himself and not Italy
Silvio Berlusconi has been in power in Italy for almost 50 days. Watching his new government in action is a bit like sitting down to view a bad old movie again. When the Forza Italia leader last ruled Italy from 2001 to 2006, he spent too much time legislating to protect himself from prosecution and too little reforming Italy's sluggish economy. It is too early to make firm judgments, of course. But Mr Berlusconi's latest essay in government already has the makings of another horror show.
Once again, the 71-year old prime minister is spending much of his political energy legislating to protect himself from Italy's public prosecutors. He wants to pass a law that would suspend for one year most court cases where the alleged crime carries a sentence of more than 10 years. If this law is passed, it would scupper a trial due to start next month in which Mr Berlusconi is charged with paying $600,000 to his British lawyer, David Mills. Needless to say, the opposition has dubbed the legislation the "save the premier law".
Mr Berlusconi does not stop here. He is also trying to introduce a law that would give immunity from prosecution to the top office holders in the Italian state, including himself. Such legislation would be unthinkable in most western states and was deemed unconstitutional by Italy's supreme court when Mr Berlusconi last tried to introduce it in 2004. Now he is back in office, Mr Berlusconi is having another go.
All this would be of modest interest if Mr Berlusconi were expending the same amount of energy reforming Italy's sluggish economy. But here, too, fears are mounting. Last time he was in power, one of Mr Berlusconi's worst errors was to let Italy's deficit and debt levels spiral out of control. One wonders if we are about to see the same again.
The Berlusconi government last week introduced a budget that will see the public deficit rising from 1.9 per cent of gross domestic product in 2007 to 2.5 per cent in 2008. The rise may be justified by low economic growth; but there is no sign yet that this government is maintaining a tight grip on public spending.
For Italy's sake, things must improve from here. The country has one of the slowest growth rates in the eurozone. It needs serious, responsible government to turn the economy round. Mr Berlusconi yesterday said Italy's public prosecutors had subjected him to an endless "Calvary". But the only Calvary being suffered in this story is the one endured by Italy, which needs a dramatic reversal in its political and economic fortunes.”
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June 25, 2008
25 July 2008: The Trip to Rome
On 25 July 2008 there’ll be the Trip to Rome. The route will wind round the HQs of the parties that are expropriating democracy. The streets of the capital, deaf and grey, reduced to a bivouac of soldiers by the psycho-dwarf, will be filled with colours. Via della Scrofa (AN), via dell’Umiltà (PDL), Piazza Sant’Antanastasia (PDminusL), Via Due Macelli (UDC), a spectacular show.
Anyone participating in the Trip will have to be on foot or on non-motorised transport. The only limit is your imagination. Bicycles, rickshaws, skates, skate boards, on the back of a mule, on a sledge pulled by a San Bernardo or in a horse-drawn carriage.
During the Trip there’ll be a distribution to the people of Rome of fliers containing all the “porcata” {pig-like-things} about the Justice System that have been approved by the Grand Council (the former Council of Ministers) of the psycho-dwarf and its catastrophic effects on the security of Italians. The PDL, voted in for security, did not however specify that they were referring to the security of not finishing up in prison for their leader. Legislative details.
Delinquents out of prison. Tribunals paralysed. The save-the-criminals law. 95% of crimes not punishable. The army in the cities. I smell a slight scent of shit in the air.
On 25 July 1943 “il Duce” was sacked by the Grand Council and he was then arrested. It’s a special day. An anniversary that augurs well.
Translation from the Italian entry in Wikipedia: “The agenda item prepared by Grandi was one of the three agenda items presented to the secret sitting of the Grand Council of Fascism organised for Saturday 25 July 1943 (that turned out to be the last). The agenda item was approved and brought about the fall of Benito Mussolini and opened up the final phase of the fascist regime, characterized by the Italian Social Republic.”
From Beppe Grillo’s blog: “The Grillo Trip to Rome was organised for Friday 25 July 2008. It brought about the final phase of the Berlusconian regime and it was felt to have led to a new Renaissance.”
The details of the itinerary and the starting time will be given in the next few days.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 01:01 PM in Politics
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June 12, 2008
The most beautiful couple in the world
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In the beginning (and also in the end) there was Andreotti with 16 terms of office. We have been providing for his upkeep since just after the war. Only a few steps behind, there’s Emilio Colombo (14), Cossiga (13), Tremaglia (11), Pisanu, La Malfa and Scalfaro (10), Martinat and Tassone (9), Berselli, Fini, Casini, Matteoli and Colucci (8), D’Alema, Finocchiaro, Turco, Nania, Luigi Grillo, Pontone and Serafini (7). After that there are 12 parliamentarians with 6 terms of office, 58 with 5, 77 with 4 and 163 with 3.
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 5 + 7 + 12 + 58 + 77 + 163 = Three hundred and thirty one.
The popular law presented in the Senate, into the hands of Franco Marini (6 terms of office), signed by 350,000 citizens, asked for a maximum of 2 terms of office, ten years, more than what Alcide De Gasperi did. More than enough to serve own’s country.
The limit of two terms of office would have renewed Parliament. Instead, they have re-elected themselves. The voter could not choose the candidate. The business committees that manage our tax receipts confirmed themselves and they appointed their executives, spokespersons, lovers, wives and secretaries.
Marvellous thought: Lower and Upper House freed from political professionals. From Giovanardi and Gasparri (6), Castelli and Cicchitto (6), Rutelli and La Russa (6), Berlusconi and Emma Bonino (5), Baccini and Landolfi (5), Melandri, Miccichè and Prestigiacomo (5), Follini and Scajola (4). With them out, there’d be spring in the air, a feeling of Renaissance, of the future.
The limit of two terms of office is a life insurance for the citizens. The number of terms of office is directly proportional to the power exercised by the parliamentarian. The greater the number of terms of office, the more the “ad castam” laws The power of the multiparlamentarians is a weight on democracy.
The job of deputy or senator gives a good income. No preparation is needed. There are no responsibilities about what you do. The salary is the highest for the job in the whole of Europe. You get a pension with a single term of office. It protects you from prison.
On their own they will never go. They have removed from us the possibility to choose the candidate for this reason as well. To be able to do their own thing. Within the boundaries of the rule of law of course.
The symbol of these lifelong self-elected people is a couple. The most beautiful couple in the world. Husband and wife. Same party, that of Topo Gigio. Same ambition to have the Italians provide for their upkeep for all their lives. Fassino (6) and Serafini (7). 6 + 7 = 13 terms of office: in millions of euro of salary and benefits, how much does it add up to?
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June 09, 2008
Fetal Federalism
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Fiscal federalism is coming. You’ll see. It’s true that it won’t be tomorrow, but everything will change.
Money to those who produce. A kick up the bum to 4 and a half million State parasites. Zanna Bianca Maroni and Boss(ol)i can’t wait to get thieving Rome out of their hair, as well as the mafias and the terùn {people of the South}.
It’s their forbidden dream. Better than the “grana padano” {famous hard cheese} there’s only the “grano padano” {money from the Po basin}. This is why Boss(ol)i became a Minister. He managed it after having threatened civil war with 70,000 hot rifles. Only “il Duce” before him.
While Boss(ol)i is studying the cards, fiscal federalism, rather than advancing, stays silent. He doesn’t hate words from the Po valley but Roman waste. It’s Fetal federalism
That’s talking about Alitalia and a loss of 2 million euro every 24 hours. That whispers the billions of euro for the Bridge over the Straits. It’s the voice of Fede that costs, even to the people of Lombardy, 350,000 euro from 01 January 2006, each day, every day.
It’s the only federal tax in existence, ICI, that is taken away from the towns. It’s the RAI that takes on as employees 1300 precarious workers, an unwieldy State machine that is by now from the Po Valley and Rome, almost from the foot of the mountain. Fiscal federalism is like faith. It’s not possible to explain it with words alone.
“Padano, tàs e paga”. The ones raking in the money are the Lega that fights and governs. Fetal federalism, like paradise, can wait.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 11:30 AM in Politics
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June 04, 2008
Political Press Release number thirteen
The elections have left a sense of emptiness. Representation emptiness. Participation emptiness. Voting was simply a cross. A ritualized gesture.
The parties were one and the other one, the psycho dwarf and Topo Gigio. PDL and PD-without-L. The same logic of power. The same fear of losing power. The same programme. The same candidates, interchangeable, Ichino, Calearo, Carra, Ciarrapico. In the past, the Italians have chosen. For the Republic and for the Monarchy. For the social-communist front or for the Christian Democrats. They decided their future. Italians voted for divorce, for abortion, “no” to nuclear.
For the abolition of public financing of the parties. For a new electoral law. In the past, they were voters, general public, campaign groups. Today they are nothing any more. They are aware that they have no reference points. No institution is a voice for the citizens. The fear of change makes everyone a relative, an accomplice, from Morpheus down. The parties are undressing democracy, one leaf at a time, like an artichoke. A feather at a time like a chicken.
The citizen feels just a slight pain. Democracy becomes dictatorship, but no one knows. The Constitution is an unbearable weight for the parties. They organise wide-ranging understandings to change it.
A mess up blessed by the Head of State. The magistracy is almost impotent. The law on intercepts will give them the final blow. The Police, as admitted by their leader, is living a perpetual amnesty. The delinquents are arrested and a minute later they are out, thanks to the “ad personam” laws of the psycho dwarf. Italy has gone bankrupt to save just one person. It would have been better to give him life-long impunity, a blank cheque, a one-way air ticket for Hammamet. Politics is dead.
The citizens have understood, they are mourning inwardly. Emptiness. In response to the word “future” there’s an emptiness of words. Incinerators, nuclear power stations, militarization of the country. The education system is producing the best donkeys in Europe. The political system has liberated those with previous convictions in Parliament. Tiredness. Italy is tired. It has no exit routes. The system is blocked. Bokassa Bassolino and Tar Head are the same thing. They love each other without hiding it any longer.
The Spartacus witnesses, the Rubbishtown trial, are killed like cherries. One attracts the other. There are no bodyguards for them. And if they are not there, there’s always a reason.
Honest citizens are clandestines. They are the majority, but with hope removed, perplexed, incredulous. Waiting for a signal. Tiny cracks in the walls. This political system will finish, or the country will finish. Italians know this. Perhaps the parties don’t know it yet.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 10:44 AM in Politics
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June 02, 2008
Rubbishtown/ Bokassa Bassolino
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In Campania, the crisis was planned. I got a signal about this when on 23 February 2008, 30,000 young men and women of the MeetUps came out into the streets and into Naples’ piazza Dante to celebrate and to teach each other how to reduce and separate out their refuse, to do curbside collections, composting, and mechanical biological processing. And to demand to have recycling centres like that at Vedelago that transforms scrap, without burning, into synthetic sands for construction purposes. A serious State would have raised up those young people as an example for Naples and for Campania. A colluding State censored them. The event, captured by the TV cameras of the BBC and CNN and other foreign media, was given a black out by the national TV and newspapers, to such an extent that David Willey, the BBC’s Italy correspondent, commented: "To open the newspapers on the following day and not find anything, is embarrassing, but it is clear that in Italy there is no free and independent press.”
The crisis is a film that has already been written. Instead of doing curbside collection in Naples as laid out in the detailed plan, drawn up and paid for in 2003, they are going ahead with incinerators and rubbish tips. In spite of 53 arrests and remands, among which that of Bassolino and the CEOs of Fibe and Impregilo.
260 towns have already started curbside collections in Campania and three months ago there were 146 of them. Another 98 will soon join in. In TV they only talk about incinerators and rubbish tips instead of explaining how to reduce the amount of refuse and how to separate it out. The European Union has given the red light to Berlusconi’s plan and the media and the politicians just speak about “doubts”.
No one is talking about the intervention priorities as set out by Europe. Just rubbish tips, incinerators, rubbish tips (WHO GAINS FROM THEM?), to then make a discovery, as Walter Ganapini has done . He is an honorary member of the scientific committee of the European Environment Agency and he has discovered that a rubbish tip has been in existence and it could have been used and thus avoid the rubbish crisis.
Listen to his interview.
I am asking for the intervention of the Court of Accounts and of the European Union about the plans for the curbside collection that were never put into effect. About the billions of euro in European financing that have disappeared into the air. Dear Europeans, as I have already asked you when I was in Strasburg in November, stop every flow of public money going to Bokassa Bassolino and his cannibals. Italy will be grateful to you.
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May 26, 2008
Political press release number twelve
Delirium. A bridge across the Straits of Messina. Delirium. Nuclear power stations. Delirium. The Army in Campania. Delirium. Some new incinerators. Delirium. Criminals in Parliament. Delirium. 95% of crimes going unpunished thanks to the made to measure laws. Delirium. Tar-Head as Prime Minister, thanks to Craxi’s television broadcasting concessions. Delirium. The bullshit electoral law. Delirium. Unconstitutional political elections. Delirium. Public opinion ignored with the scrapping of the referendum regarding the electoral law, public funding and the NO to nuclear power. Delirium. Italy without any freedom of information, somewhere between Botswana and Iraq. Delirium. Campania, Calabria and Sicily in the hands of the mafia groups. Delirium. Arson attacks against the Rom camps. Delirium. Bassolino and Iervolino fail to resign. Delirium. Topo Gigio fails to fire them. Delirium. The decision handed down by the European Court of Justice condemning the Gasparri Law is ignored. Delirium. Rete 4 is costing us 350,000 Euro in fines every day, ever since the first of January 2006. Delirium. Lovers, secretaries, trusted lawyers, spokesmen and hangers-on become senators and deputies. Delirium. The only thing missing is Caligula’s horse. Delirium. Expansion of the American military bases in Italy. Delirium. Andreotti, statute-barred for collusion with the mafia becomes senator for life. Delirium. Millions of Euro of European Community funds magically disappear in Campania. Delirium. A moratorium on the influx from Rumania is applied almost throughout the whole of Europe with effect from the first of January 2007, but not in Italy. Delirium. 22,000 Italian companies operating in Rumania thanks to European Community funding (our taxes) while there is unemployment in Italy. Delirium. The price of petrol is rising, utility bills and fuel costs are going up but ENEL and ENI are making more profit. Delirium. Geronzi, often-investigated, becomes the boss-man of Mediobanca. Delirium. Scaroni, sentenced criminal, now the boss-man at ENI. Delirium. Six million temporary workers. Delirium. The lowest rate of development and the highest Government costs in the whole of Europe. Delirium. 350,000 signatures calling for Clean Government are dumped in the cellar at the Senate. Delirium. 1,636 billion Euro of public debt and 70 billion in interest payments every year, equivalent to three annual budgets. Delirium. Emma Marcegaglia, suddenly an expert in nuclear power, and Rubbia in Spain. Delirium. The country has entered into a new state: Delirium. “A altered state of mental confusion, involving twitching and hallucinations, caused by acute feverish activity and mental illness” (“Nuovo Zingarelli”).
Italy has had a fever for far too long, now comes the Delirium. Delirium means going off the rails. We have derailed. The ship’s cook is now piloting the ship while the captain lies under the covers, fast asleep. In a democracy, the captain represents the public’s wishes.
The strawberries need to be picked. I repeat: The strawberries need to be picked.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 01:15 PM in Politics
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May 23, 2008
Even buffaloes get angry at times
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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." Thomas Jefferson
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May 17, 2008
Closed-door democracy
We live in a totally different world. Our employees are busy isolating themselves from the rest of the Country. Their alibi is governability. There can never have be too much governability for their liking. It has become like a drug. Maximum governability equates to minimum democracy. Control of the media equates to regime.
They are busy stripping democracy like one strips an artichoke of its leaves. One leaf at a time. They have already eliminated direct election. They have eliminated any differences between the various parties’ election programmes: the only remaining difference between the PD and the PDL is the letter “L”. They have eliminated the smaller parties. They have eliminated the opposition. Now they are about to eliminate Parliament.
Fini, the newly elected President of the Chamber, called Kriptonite Di Pietro to order when he brought up the matter of Tar Head’s criminal record and his conflict of interests. “Honourable Di Pietro, you are well aware that it is natural for there to be interruptions, but this also depends on what is being said”. An item missing from the bundle.
Topo Gigio and Tar Head sniffed each other. They decided that they actually liked each other. They got married. The marriage was consummated yesterday on a sofa inside a political complex, far away from the prying eyes of the rest of the Country. Far from the eyes of all those Italians that voted for the Democratic Party in the hope that they would constitute an effective opposition in Parliament rather than be buddy-buddy.
The decisions regarding our future are being made behind closed doors. There will no longer be any discussions held in Parliament. Parliament will only be expected to ratify the wishes of two people sitting drinking tea in some or other lounge. The deputies and senators will not present any opposition whatsoever. They have been elected by the party secretaries after all, not by the citizens. They are nothing more than well-paid employees dependent on their masters.
What is going on is the creation of closed-door democracy. The latest political creation of the italic genius. Emergencies by which the Country will be governed. The squatters, the refuse, security. First they create these emergencies and then they use them in order to justify their own existence. But they are the real emergency. A democratic emergency. The citizen must never find out, the Parliament must never speak out and the television and the newspapers must never inform. We can expect certain serious decisions to be taken for the good of the Country, always and only for the good of the Country. They are busy preparing the ground.
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May 15, 2008
Political press release number eleven
The inaugural Veltrusconi government has been installed. This has doubled the number of ministers. Each minister now “also” has a shadow lackey. Topo Gigio spoke like Cicchitto. Tar Head offered him the new millennium P2 membership card with built-in ATM card. Kryptonite Di Pietro was imitating Giacomo Matteotti. The Democratic Party members did not applaud him. They were too busy wearing out their hands in support of the psychodwarf. They are the opposition after all, but they are “also” the government. A government in opposition. Together we can do anything. Forleo could have herself placed under investigation and then transferred away from Milan. Travaglio could institute proceedings against himself and then get himself thrown out by RAI. Anno Zero could be shut down. Finocchiaro could continue to defend Schifani. It can be done. The separation of responsibilities between public ministries and judges. The judges’ legal dependence on the Government. It can all be done. Changing the Constitution. Gagging the media. Paying out billions of Euro in fines for Rete 4. Prohibiting the publication of the content of telephone taps. It can all be done. Finally it can all be done. The gathering of signatures calling for three referendums for free information in a free State continues unabated. The signatures will be delivered to the Court of Cassation during the month of July. Within the next few weeks, Beppe Grillo will be calling for the cancellation of the annual RAI licence fees on a national basis. Beppe Grillo will soon be launching a campaign for bloggers to spread the news. All of us are journalists. The truth is a right and spreading the truth is a social duty. On the Internet, we are all upstanding bearers of the truth. They will never give up, but neither will we.
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May 14, 2008
Bossi’s Thoughts
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Bossi. What was Bossi thinking while Asphalt Head was talking in Parliament? While all Topo Gigio’s troops where declaring their eternal love for him? And while Fassino-Unipol-five-terms-of-office was showing off in a tri-slingual bipartisan exercise? What was the “Senatùr” thinking when he saw seated on the benches in front of him, P2-folk and mafia-folk?
I used voip to connect up to his brain and I intercepted signals from his synapses and probe his memory. The result is just amazing.
”The only reform that is really dear to Berlusconi’s heart is that his TV channels are not touched. Instead, I’m saying that we need to take them away from him, because his TV channels are against the Constitution.
The first reform to be done is to get information to circulate. Berlusconi is everything but he’s not a democrat. Gelli created “il progetto Italia” and the good man Berlusconi was in the P2. Berlusconi is much worse than Pinochet. 1(*)
Well does it seem possible that a person who owns 140 companies could act in the interests of the citizens? When he cries, you have a laugh: it means that everything is OK, that he hasn’t yet found the code for the cash safe. He’s trying all the time: the RAI, the magistracy, the pardon for his get-rich-quick-building-entrepreneur friends, pensions. 2(*)
We would need to trigger the law for the reconstruction of the Fascist Party. These are that thing there. And it can easily be shown to be true. Inside them they have no election mechanism. This party has been built by a band of 10 people who stay behind the screens and control it, not respecting the rules of the Constitution, they are calling the President of the Republic a “golpista”, they empty Parliament of powers and they want to create an executive with no controls above them.
Furthermore, they use the TV channels, that are political tools put together by Berlusconi when he was in the P2, in accordance with the “progetto Gelli”: whereby from a political viewpoint, the country should be made of the Right against the Left after the break up of the consociational mechanism that acted as a shock absorber.
They have used the TV channels as a bludgeon to do and undo. They are an anti-democratic band about whom it is good that there is some magistrate making enquiries to see whether there is the crime of reconstruction of the Fascist Party 3(*). Watch out, that one wants to make us a gift of another Twenty Years. 4(*)"
1(*) La Padania and Telepadania, 11/11/1998
2(*) 8/8/1994
3(*) Ansa 19/1/1995
4(*) 9/5/1994
The quotes are from the book: "Se li conosci li eviti" by Travaglio-Gomez and published by chiarelettere
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May 07, 2008
Clean Parliament 2008
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The signatures collected on 8 September are lying somewhere in the Senate of the Republic. The presentation of the popular law was set for February. Then the government fell. Once both chambers have been made up and the new government has been installed I will make a request to be able to show Parliament the proposals in the name of 350,000 citizens: no convict in Parliament, a maximum of two terms of office, the restoration of direct preferences. I’m under no illusion about the response of the 70 (SEVENTY) who have previous convictions at first or second level or waiting a verdict. I’m not even holding out hope on the crowd of those who have been elected many times, the most brilliant of whom are the diamond couple Fassino-Serafini, husband and wife who have 11 terms of office between them. And to finish off, I’m not expecting that lovers, brothers, sisters, offspring, office workers of the party imposed by Veltroni, Berlusconi, Casini and Bossi want to restore the direct preferences. If the laws for a clean Parliament were to be approved, nearly all the parliamentarians would have to pack their bags and recreate themselves a life at their own expense and say “good-bye” to public contributions.
Since 8 September, anyway, something has happened. The number of 24 convicts has gone down. An improvement of 29%. A fact that is not to be ignored. But still to be worked on. The drop is just due to the disappearance of certain parties. Just think, for example, to the missing but important contribution of De Michelis’s socialist party. The record still stays with the PDL with 11 convicts an unbeatable 65%. When these caricatures of parties disappear there will no longer be convicts. They are anyway business committees by the light of day with a person to refer to (called a leader) who decides who to employee, who to protect with parliamentary immunity, who to pay and who to buy. It’s the evolution of politics subtracted form popular sovereignty and covered by the media. The politics of the fish market.
Superciuk Bondi and Veltroni declared in the election campaign that they would not have put forward convicts as candidates. The former then added that that didn’t count for political convictions. The latter then put up as a candidate Enzo Carra definitively convicted and sentenced to one year 4 months for having made false declarations to the public prosecutor. Today, I am publishing the up to date list of the convicts in the 2008 Parliament with their offences. Pass around the banner on your blogs. Every so often, read them so that you don’t forget.
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April 28, 2008
Political Press Release number 10
Right and Left do not exist. What exists is a business group. Italy is its business. Our taxes are its revenue. The media are its voice. Good and bad journalists do not exist. What exists is regime information. It’s only an issue of nuances between l'Unità and il Giornale, between Tg1 and Tg5. Journalists don’t exist. What exist are people who have the courage to display the truth and they become heroes, stars, citizens with bodyguards. People who write, speak and communicate exist. They are called men and women. What exists is the natural order of those who know how to read, to write, to speak and who use these abilities to describe the world. No one is a journalist. We are all journalists. On the internet we are all journalists. The newspapers and the TV are the past. V2 day has demonstrated that information is on the Internet. The film clips of the cities that participated in V2 day are on the Internet. Hundreds of witness statements of V2 day in Piazza San Carlo are on the Internet. The number of signatures collected in total for the three referenda is about 1,500,000. It has never happened in the history of the Republic in such a short time. For each referendum, 500,000 signatures are needed. For the whole month of May, the collection of signatures will continue with the signing tables. We need as big a number as possible to have a safety margin. In July 2008, Beppe Grillo will deliver the signatures to the Court of Cassation. Information in Italy can no longer be reformed. It has gone into metastasis in the Board of Directors of the banks and the industrial firms, in the press offices of the parties and the gentile salons. New information on the Internet needs creating. On 25 April the partisans of information came out into the streets. On 25 April even Asphalt Head came out with Ciarrapico. Guess who are the ones preferred by Topo Gigio, of the PD doc (whose origin is controlled) and their newspapers. We are all Don Peppone and we are all Don Camillo. You can’t rewrite history, but you can create the future, invent it. The truth is our future. Let’s keep the flame alight.
Example of journalism:
L'Unità after V2-day reports: "Piazza San Carlo cannot contain more than 40,000 people"
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L'Unità for 1 May 2007 in piazza San Carlo: "At least 100 thousand people"
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April 24, 2008
Information Fascism
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Today’s edition of La Repubblica has noticed V2 Day. De Benedetti’s newspaper writes that the choice of 25 April for V2 Day is “the umpteenth provocation” in relation to the Resistance that “everywhere there will be confrontation between the crowds called to collect together by the comic from Genoa with those who intend to remember the Liberation.”
I’m saying this in metaphoric terms they are stupid statements dictated by fear and the interests of the shop. V2 Day is the continuation of the Liberation and it does not want to have a confrontation with anyone who is inspired by that date. The artisans, the labourers, the free men of 25 April are our brothers.
25 April is not owned by the intellectuals of the Left, a definition that corresponds to an empty tyre.
It is not owned by the parties who have sold the workers and freedom of information for a dish of lentils cooked in Arcore. It is a celebration for all the Italians who want a free country. Italy must be liberated once more. It is a former democracy. How else can you call a country in which information is in the hands of the power groups? In which Silvio Berlusconi is President of the Council thanks to the control of 3 TV channels and the Mondadori group. The former were gifted by the fugitive Craxi. The latter the result of corrupting judges.
25 April is not owned by those who talk with bankers and not with the labourers who gave them the vote, of the one who reassured Asphalt Head on impunity and who wants to do with him the Bi-Chamber agreement, the Constituent, the new election law and any other obscene act in a public place.
V2 Day wants to restore information to the legitimate owners: to the Italian citizens. Our fathers and grandparents cleaned up Italy but they haven’t finished the job.
The new fascism is the control of information. The new fascists are those who control information.
Sign for the three referenda: abolition of the Order of Journalists, abolition of public financing of a billion euro a year to publishing, abolition of the Gasparri law and the duopoly Parties-Mediaset.
Freedom of information in a free State. V2 Day 25 April
PS On 25 April I will be in Turin in Piazza San Carlo. V2 Day will start at 3:00 pm and will finish at 10:00 pm.
The day can be viewed on:
- satellite on EcoTV channel SKY906
- online on C6 TV
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April 23, 2008
Political Press Release number 9
In a few days, a single person will have control of 6 national TV channels. The seventh will be in franchising as it is now. The Voice of the People (called Asphalt Head) will be the future President of the Council. For the citizen it will change nothing. Information was of the regime before and it will be afterwards as well. But it’ll be in a homogeneous way, without posing embarrassing problems of subtle imperceptible comparison between the servant doc Fede and the servant dop Riotta. A single voice a multitude of ears. A guitar of Apicella at Porto Rotondo and a hundred servile journalists. A moon at Marechiaro and the statue of the Madonna in Milan. Montaneli and Biagi under a tombstone. The Italian is like a budgerigar in a cage. He’s frightened of liberty. He’s used to not knowing the truth about Borsellino’s death. About Italicus and about Piazza Fontana. About the G8 in Genoa and about incinerators. He wants to believe with all his might that the pluri-president of the Council Andreotti was absolved and not “prescritto” for mafia dealing. The TV Italian imagines a new Parliament made up of good people. Not of convicts and people on remand. Those who control information win. Those who suffer it, loose. A virtual world becomes reality, delinquents become senators and deputies. It’s all true, it’s all false. The one who shouts the loudest gets the cow. On 25 April we are liberated from nazi-fascism. 63 years later we can liberate ourselves from the fascism of information. It’s more difficult than it was then. It’s no longer rifle against rifle, hand grenade against armoured tank. The battle is between consciences that have gone to sleep and the freedom of thought, between those who no longer want to fly and those who cannot renounce the sky. On 25 April we can change the country. We have the duty to do it for our children and for our conscience. The liberty of information cannot offer discounts. Three referenda for freedom of information in a free state: abolition of Mussolini’s Order of Journalists, elimination of a billion euro a year public financing of publishing, abolition of the Gasparri law and the duopoly Parties-Mediaset (shortly to be Mediaset-Mediaset). In 400 Italian cities signatures will be collected. In tens of foreign cities there will be information about the control of the media in Italy. Music, bicycles, festivals and signs of peace. A new Renaissance. After so much shit, for Italy it is a duty. On 25 April, Beppe Grillo will be in Turin for a non-stop in Piazza San Carlo. From 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm. So many free voices will fill Turin with words of hope. Coraggio! PS In Genoa on 25 April, from 9:00 am till 11:00 pm in Piazza della Vittoria, V2 DAY will go on normally. The morning will be devoted to "Fronte del Porto" with speeches by workers and the projection of the documentary film: "De Ma". In the afternoon and evening apart from a live broadcast from Turin, there will be different speeches including: Marco Preve journalist with la Repubblica, Marco Menduni and Bruno Lugaro, journalists with Il Secolo XIX, Asia Ostertag a justice collaborator.
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April 17, 2008
Political Press Release number 8
The party does not exits. Here are the figures. Lower House: Italians with the right to vote: 47,126,326. Valid votes: 36,452,305. Abstentions and blank and invalid voting papers: 10,674,021, that’s 22.6%. Senate: Italians with the right to vote: 43,133,946. Valid votes: 32,771,227. Abstentions and blank and invalid voting papers: 10,362,719, that’s 24%. The most important drop with respect to the 2006 elections, (with 2,109,734 fewer) was for the Senate. Almost 1 in 4 Italians refused the unconstitutional elections. The third Italian party. The 1990s saw the end of ideologies. Today we are witnessing the end of the parties. One at a time they are leaving us. They are falling like the leaves of the plane tree in Autumn. Slowly, but steadily. Communist party, socialist party, (fused) Radical party, Christian Democrats, Greens, (fused) National Alliance. There are only a few who are left. The PD-folk are camouflaged, for each election they change identity so as not to get shot down by the voters. They are meat and fish, rice and cheese, a soup of beans and turtle. A mixed stew. A Walterloo. The other parties don’t exist. They are nominal votes. A name for everyone and all the votes for one. There are Azzurro Caltagirone and Asphalt Head. Boss(ol)i and the kryptonite Di Pietro. They are “ad personam” parties. The future we can expect is Highlander. There’ll only be one left. And perhaps not one. It’s enough to wait on the bank of the river. The blog’s civic lists are growing. Town councillors for now in Treviso and Rome. Sonia Alfano regional councillor in Sicily. Results obtained without publicity, without public money, without TV, without newspapers. But with honesty, with the door to door. With the Internet. 407 cities have already signed up to the referenda for freedom of information in a free State. V2 Day. V2 Day. 25 April.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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April 16, 2008
Rehabilitating Parliament
Of the people elected to Parliament, there are 70(*) who are convicts, “prescritti”, under investigation, defendants and on remand. There were 100 as candidates. It wasn’t you who voted for these 70. They were chosen by the party secretaries. By the party prison officers. Recruited in the tribunals and at the prison exits.
The 70 newly-elected people are split up as follows:
- PDL 45 (proposed: 56)
- PD 13 (proposed: 18)
- Lega Nord 7 (proposed: 8)
- UDC – Rosa Bianca 5 (proposed: 9)
On 8 September 2007 a million and a half people came out into the public spaces. 350,000 citizens gave their signatures for three popular laws for a Clean Parliament.
They’ve obtained something. But it’s small fry. In fact the number of people definitively convicted has gone down from 24 to 16. What’s increased is the number of people convicted at the first and second levels, like the new senator Cuffaro UDC, who can defend themselves better thanks to parliamentary immunity. What’s stable is the number of “prescritti” and the number of those under investigation. For the former, the verdict arrived beyond the maximum time limits, and they’ve got themselves a new life, for the latter lot any final conviction will no longer happen.
The bigger parties stand out for their candidates. Even in this case Testa d’Asfalto has ridiculed Topo Gigio with a smashing 3 to 1.
The 70 were elected for lack of information. Their names were not on the voting papers. I had asked for the criminal records certificate as well as the name, so that the citizen could choose the preferred convict. But they did not oblige.
On V2 day we will have another look at the convicts, from one to sixteen. We cannot let ourselves forget them.
Freedom of information in a free State.
V2 day - V2 day - 25 April 2008
(*) Source: “Se li conosci li eviti” by Marco Travaglio and Peter Gomez
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April 11, 2008
Senate 2008
Read the names of the pre elected in the Senate. They are more or less always the same, from Castelli to Calderoli, Bonino "Mother Teresa of Confindustria", Fassino's wife "Seven Terms" Serafini, Follini, Sircana "Beau de nuit", Dini the oldie, Pera the intellectual. Always them. They found America in Palazzo Madama. We put the money for the Marshall plan. They'll never go away. The Senate is their club Med
Check through the list and then compare it with the election results. If the majority of the names coincide, it will mean that they have succeeded in taking you for a ride. A non-vote is the only useful vote.
Seats will be allocated by party in accordance with the following layout:
- Sinistra Arcobaleno 14
- PD 126
- Italia dei Valori 6
- SVP 3
- UDC 3
- PDL 146
- Lega Nord 12
- MPA 3
- Autonomie Liberté Democrazie 1
- Associazione italiana Sud America 1
To the list you need to add the 7 life Senators.
Read and download the document for the Senate 2008
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Cabinet 2008
With the voting booths not yet open for business, here is what the new Chamber of Deputies will look like. On 13 and 14 April, we won’t be able to vote for any candidate. They have come to some sort of agreement and, thanks to an entirely unconstitutional law, they will be electing themselves. This cock-up of a law is basically everyone’s doing: from the centre-right that proposed the law, to the centre-left that failed to repealed it during their two years in Government, through to the State President who went ahead and called an election before holding a referendum on the new electoral law.
All that Joe Citizen can do now is make the sign of the cross. This is not democracy. It is not even a distant imitation of democracy. It is simply a case of the Country being occupied by an across-the-board group. A group that has elected itself and that is about to send to Parliament a bunch of lovers, wives, sentenced criminals, statute barred offenders, people under investigation and others remanded for trial.
Check through the list and then compare it with the election results. If the majority of the names coincide, it will mean that they have succeeded in taking you for a ride. A non-vote is the only useful vote.
Seats will be allocated by party in accordance with the following layout:
- Sinistra Arcobaleno 43
- PD 180
- Italia dei Valori 20
- SVP 3
- UDC 32
- PDL 293
- Lega Nord 41
- MPA 6
The 12 deputies elected abroad by means of the direct preferential vote have not been counted.
Read and download the document entitled Cabinet 2008
Ps: In the upcoming blog postings, I will be posting the names of the Senators and all of the Parliamentary candidates with some or other case pending within the justice system: there are 100 (ONE HUNDRED!) such cases, a nice round number.
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April 09, 2008
Political Press Release number seven
Without freedom of information there’s no democracy. If information becomes the tool of private interests and of the parties, there’s no democracy. If Asphalt Head has three national TV channels and 40 newspapers and magazines, there’s no democracy. If the parties have control of the RAI there’s no democracy. The non vote is a vote. The non vote is the vote of informed citizens. If election referenda are cancelled by Calderoli or postponed by Napolitano, there’s no democracy. If 350,000 signatures for three popular laws are festering in a cellar in the Senate, there’s no democracy. If we can’t vote for a candidate, there’s no democracy. If Cuffaro, Crisafulli, Carra, Dell’Utri, and Cesa are already elected to Parliament, there’s no democracy. If after the rigged elections there are 100 people who have been convicted at the first level, the second level or definitively or on remand, representing us, there’s no democracy. If the newspapers receive a billion euro a year in public financing, there’s no democracy. If Rete 4 doesn’t move to satellite after the verdict of the European Court of Justice, there’s no democracy. If Ms Bonino has no urgency to apply the European verdict on Rete 4 and she declares this with no shame, there’s no democracy. If Bossi can threaten the State with rifles, there’s no democracy. If the parties take the mafia votes, there’s no democracy. If Bassolino is President of the Campania Region, there’s no democracy. Without the freedom of information, it’s not possible to choose. Citizens have the right to be informed. Without this right there’s no democracy. Citizens have the right to be represented by gentlemen. Without this right there’s no democracy. On 10 April, Beppe Grillo will be in Pescara to support the civic list for the local elections. Beppe Grillo is not supporting any national list for the national elections. The Rome Tribunal has prohibited the use of the name and the image of Beppe Grillo for the lists “Grilli parlanti” and “No Euro – Lista del Grillo”. The TV channels and the newspapers cannot promote these lists. The TV presenters cannot promote these lists. Beppe Grillo invites you to read the verdict of the Tribunal. Support the civic lists in your cities and the regional list of Sonia Alfano in Sicily. The renewal of the Country starts with the towns and the Regions. The renewal starts with the young people. Freedom starts with the freedom of information. V2 Day - 25 April
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April 06, 2008
PDuequadro P2squared
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The Rome Tribunal has prohibited the use of my name and my image by the lists for the national elections that appropriated these without the right. The lists “must cease every use, in any form and mode, the name and the image of Beppe Grillo and every reference to him and in particular they must abstain from identifying the political activity of these lists by the use of symbols, graphic elements and writing that can be connected directly or indirectly to the person who has made this request” For the details, read the verdict.
The lists cited in the verdict are: "Amici di Beppe Grillo", "No Euro - Lista del Grillo","Movimento ultima speranza - Grilli d'Italia", "Forza Grillo", "Lista Grilli Parlanti" and "Grilli d'Italia".
The national elections are unconstitutional. We cannot choose the candidate and not even the programme. They are just a pretext to form the Veltrusconi government. The general dress rehearsals for the mess ups are in front of our eyes. The Maroni law (number 30) is what they both want. The Gasparri law is what they both want (they can’t stand the Gentiloni law). The conflict of interests, the same. The “ad personam” laws likewise.
This election law, a true expropriation of democracy, is what is wanted by both Asphalt Head and Topo Gigio. The Centre Left has had almost two years available to them to change it. It has done nothing. Not just Cuffaro and Dell'Utri will be re-elected “but also” Carra, Crisafulli, D'Alema, Fassino (4 terms of office) and his wife Serafini (5 terms of office). Parliament’s diamond couple. They even choose the same testimonials: “precarious workers” “but also” industrialists. Uncensored folk, “but also” those with a criminal record. After the elections Veltrusconi will cut out the Lega and Antonio Di Pietro and make a single party. PD and PDL will become PDuequadro {P2 squared}. The evolution of the P2. They’ll give the party card number 1 to Topo Gigio, the psycho-dwarf will give his old card number 1816, a gift from Licio Gelli. The next elections will be simpler. The elections of the perfect swindle. The non vote is the only useful vote.
In the name of the Italian people, I would like to ask for 300,000 euro a day, starting from January 1 2006 for the Radical Party. It is the fine that we will pay for not having applied the European verdict for assigning the frequencies from Rete4 to Europa 7 at the last Council of Ministers. Minister Emma Bonino, Mother Teresa of Confindustria, has in fact declared that the verdict “did not have an urgent character”.
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April 04, 2008
Open letter to Antonio Manganelli
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"Dear doctor Antonio Manganelli,
the term with which I address you, namely “gentile”, is not purely coincidental, it is what I would wish the State Police Force to be, namely, gentle towards the Italian public that it is assigned to protect. You see, I have a strange feeling that, in the view of the public, the State Police Force is assuming a role that, I am sure, it does not want to play, nor should it be obliged to play, namely that of protector of the interests of the political parties, as well as their misdeeds and their numerous previous offenders and statute-barred offenders.
I see this same feeling reflected in the eyes of the young girls beaten with truncheons in Bologna during the demonstration against Giuliano Ferrara. Their only crime was to have launched a barrage of tomatoes against a gentleman who is attempting to cancel a referendum, and who, from the comfort of his television studio, sponsors any war whatsoever, as long as it’s American. Where else can our youth show their dissent, even by shouting, if not in the streets? The information that they receive daily, via the newspapers and television broadcasts, is screened. It is a tool in the hands of the groups in power, used to ensure that they stay in power. The youth is well aware of this fact. For them, however, all that remains are the far too frequent attacks and beatings. What the politician and his paid journalists get, instead, is protection provided by his men, the escort and the blue cars. The crowd in Piazza Maggiore was made up of families with small children, not dangerous terrorists.
I also saw this same feeling reflected in the eyes of the elderly people beaten by the Police at Savignano Irpino. Dazed, confused and incredulous pensioners, who had most certainly never before been beaten up by young men in uniform. Those elderly people were protesting against the destruction of their land, which, by the way, is also your land doctor Manganelli. They could not understand why Bassolino, the co-architect of the chaos, was still in power as Governor of the Campania Region, for the same reason that no red-blooded Italian understands why or, for that matter, finds it unacceptable. They could not understand the blows, the truncheon blows or, for that matter, the bloodshed.
I also saw this same feeling reflected in the eyes of the mother and father of Federico Aldrovandi when I met them, a little boy beaten to death by a street patrol. I heard it in the statements made by the people tortured at Bolzaneto and in the “Mexican butchery” that is the Diaz school.
You may well object, claiming that these are mere episodes, a case of a few bad apples in the bunch and, to all intents and purposes, you may well be right. In the calendar of Lay Saints, on the list of those that have given their lives for an honest Italy, which I publish each year on my blog, the State Police is first in line. Hundreds of Policemen have got themselves killed in order to establish the rule of law in Italy.
On 8 September last year, I was in Bologna for the V Day celebrations. Piazza Maggiore and the adjoining side streets were filled with some 150,000 people. No helmets to be seen, no shields, no men in uniform standing in front of the podium. No incidents, neither before nor after, nor during the demonstration, which went on for something like ten hours. There was, however, much anger being vented against a shameless political class and against the duly convicted criminals seated in Parliament. The same people that your men arrested in the past. And against the statute-barred offenders that your men have unfortunately been unable to arrest, thanks to the made to measure laws. Most of these people, condemned and statute-barred, will continue to hold their posts as senators and deputies, even after the upcoming elections.
As you are well aware, they will be elected automatically, thanks to the elimination of the preferential vote. As a result of the cancellation of an electoral law that was voted for by the majority of Italians. Were they able to choose, there is no way that the voters would ever elect these people.
Politics cannot hide behind a problem of public law and order. The State Police must not be allowed to become the armed wing of those that have destroyed the Country so as to avoid having to face the citizens. I am not sure that the Police Force deserves this, but nor does the Italian population. I wait in anxious anticipation for your response, which I undertake to publish on this blog. Kindest regards.” Beppe Grillo
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March 31, 2008
Political Press Release number six
Messina, Caltanisetta, Catania, Palermo. Squares full in a sunny weekend. 10,000 people in Palermo. Young Sicilians with clean faces. The regime information blacked out my presence. The regime information ignored the list of Sonia Alfano, a candidate for the regional elections. The Sicilians have cancelled out Gianfranco Fini, the psycho-dwarf’s carer. Only 300 turned up to see a political corpse. Vote for Sonia Alfano, she’s not Crisafulli nor is she Cuffaro. She’s not Topo Gigio nor Asphalt Head. The Messina Town Hall is under the authority of a commissioner. The Palermo Town Hall is closed for the elections. Our employees are all at the Mondello beach. Beppe Grillo will be present to support the civic lists for the towns. April 1st at Ischia. April 5th at Vicenza. April 6th at Treviso. April 10th at Pescara. The national elections are unconstitutional. Places in the Lower and Upper Houses have already been allocated by the Party Secretaries. The useful not vote is the only useful one. Veltrusconi does not want Antonio Di Pietro as the Minister of Justice. Veltrusconi does not want the freedom of information.
Veltrusconi wants convicts in Parliament. Veltrusconi doesn’t want mess ups, but “agreements on reform”. Civic lists with the name of Beppe Grillo are illegitimate. Beppe Grillo will be in tribunal to ask for the urgent withdrawal of: NO EURO – LISTA DEL GRILLO. The hearing is on April 4th at 11:30 am at the Rome Tribunal. Treviso-Roma-Vicenza-Pozzuoli-Pescara-Fiumicino-Massa-Pisa-Viterbo-Nettuno-Tivoli-Villafranca di Verona-Ischia-Bitonto-Formia-Campi Bisenzio-Cepagatti are the civic lists that draw inspiration from the blog. Spread the word.
Print out the flyers. Use megaphones. April 25th is getting nearer. V2 Day is getting nearer. True information is getting nearer. Three referenda are getting nearer. No to Mussolini’s Order of Journalists. No to financing of a billion euro a year to publishing. No to the Gasparri law and to the parties-Mediaset duopoly. 200 tables in 200 cities are already ready. Millions of forms for the referendum are being distributed. Ask for the forms. Open up new signing points.The bubble is deflating. I repeat: The bubble is deflating.
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March 30, 2008
The seven storeys
Once upon a time, prior to the elections, we talked about development, innovation and the future of the new generations. About a better world. Now, slowly, slowly, election after election, sinking ever lower, we have finally hit rock bottom. Without even being aware of it. The years have passed and Italy, as we knew it, no longer exists. The political debates have turned into an analysis of our national disasters. They remind us of the discussions of the elderly who firstly ask whether you know who died yesterday (they already know …) or whether you know what ailment the woman across the road is suffering from (they already know …). This is no longer a Country for the young people.
The parties discuss Alitalia’s bankruptcy, the failure of Malpensa, the catastrophe of the toxic refuse in Campania, the decline of tourism, the radioactive mozzarella cheeses, uncontrolled immigration, the breakdown of law and order, the public debt, and the mafia. This is how the 2008 electoral campaign will be remembered. The new hot topics, the new ailments afflicting the Country, which our employees would seek to cure. They, the very people who are the viruses, those responsible for the problems. Without shame. Rather a dead body at home than a Veltrusconi in the doorway.
In his story entitled “The seven storeys”, Dino Buzzati tells the parable of a man admitted to the seventh storey of clinic to be treated for a minor ailment. Every time his condition deteriorates, he is moved down to the floor below, without any chance of moving back up. Until he reaches the first floor, where his condition continues to deteriorate and he eventually dies. Well, we are already in the cellar!
They are the ones that created the problems we now face with regard to safety, salaries, home ownership and organised crime, yet now they are offering us solutions. The same political class that failed in the first place, is now proposing to intervene with their “necessary measures” for the good of the Country. This would be something like having Jack the Ripper in the operating theatre. Alitalia failed during the five-years that the Tar-head – Emmenthal Lunardi (Prime Minister – Ministry of Transport) pair were in office. Campania became the world’s dumping ground thanks to Bassolino and his protector D’Alema. The public debt skyrocketed during Tremonti’s reign. Each disaster has a name attached to it. Fortunately there is a name attached to it. Make these people lower their voices during their rallies. Make them step down from their soapbox. Make them climb back into their busses, accompanied by their information slaves.
V-day 25 April. Freedom of information in a free State.
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March 27, 2008
Political Press Release number five
Enough of Politics over Justice. Enough with “prescrizione”. Enough of Fassino’s wife in Parliament for the fifth term of office. Enough of Fassino, director, “not born under a cabbage”, still in Parliament. Enough of the mafia candidates. Enough of the “Village People” in the Lower House. Enough of the living dead in the Senate. Enough of Ikarus – Asphalt Head and the Alitalia pest. Enough of the extra virgin Formigoni and his “communicated and liberated” at Lombardy Health. Enough of Carra, Dell’Utri, Cuffaro as candidates. Enough of the Light Blue Caltagirone and the interests of his father-in-law. Enough of Geronzi in the bank and not in the tribunal. Enough of Forleo being on trial. Enough of D’Alema who refuses trials. Enough of De Magistris being under investigation. Enough of the ceppalonic Mastella and his end of term handshake of 300,000 euro. Enough of the 13 billion euro TAV in Val di Susa and local railways in collapse. Enough of Bassolino and the radioactive buffalo mozzarella. Enough of the tall stories of the magician Otelma Bondi. Enough of the indulgent smiles of Politics maintained by the State. Enough of the shit of Fede and of Riotta that is oozing out of the TV. Enough of the verbal abortions of Ferrara maintained by the State. Enough of the control of information by mediasetpartiesconfindustria. Enough of increases in the price of petrol to motorists and the profits of ENI’s major shareholders. Enough of Telecom Italia shares plummeting and Tronchetti on a boat with Afef. Enough of Malpensa the hub in Bossi and Maroni’s Varese desert financed with our taxes. Enough of poison on payment in the city with Moratti’s Ecopass. Enough of the building constructors’ EXPO 2015. Enough of incinerators and tumours in accordance with the law. Enough of false national lists at the elections bearing my name. Enough of Tremonti who explains to us how HE has brought down the economy. Enough of Castelli who explains to us how HE has reduced Justice. ENOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!!! Enough of holding your breath. Enough of living in apnea. Enough of whispers of delusion. Enough of puffs of anger. Enough of words not spoken. Enough of the profession of politics. Enough of the politics of the crafty ones and the society of stupid people. Enough of the recession. Enough of the uncertainty of the penalty. Enough of delinquents without frontiers in Italy. Enough of the United States military bases in Italy. Enough of Italy as a logistics platform. Enough of the speculation of the Town Councils on building permits. Enough of politicians on TV with nothing to say. Enough of the information servants licking their arses, and never asking a question. Enough of this media clowning around. Enough of De Bortoli, with Floris, with Vespa, with Mieli, with Giordano, with Belpietro with all their ninety degree colleagues. Enough. On 25 April we will shout out: “Enough!” Freedom of information in a free State.
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March 22, 2008
The useful non-vote
From the Garzanti Dictionary:
Voto [vó-to]:
1. an expression of desire, when electing someone or needing to make a collective decision.
Utile [ù-ti-le]:
1. that is useful, able to satisfy a need
2. that offers some advantage, some profit; an effective aid.
The kind of election scheduled for 13 April is not at all contemplated in the dictionary since we will not actually be electing anyone, but simply making a cross on party logo. Even the possibility of making a collective decision has also been excluded from the political elections. In fact, this is not a referendum, nor is it a public law proposal.
In order to update the usage of the term “vote”, we must therefore introduce a totally new meaning:
1. a ritual event whereby citizens ratify the choices made previously by the political parties.
Now let’s move on to the term “useful”. Here the situation is decidedly better.
The adjective “utile” (useful), together with the new meaning of the word “voto” (vote), is perfect: “voto utile” (Useful vote).
A useful vote may “be useful, may satisfy a need”. This is easy to prove. Remove all the guilty parties from the court cases, rehabilitate all those with criminal records, sort out all of the wives, arouse all the mistresses and find suitable placements for the children of….. A useful vote “offers some advantage, some profit and is an effective aid”. The guaranteed financial returns include 25,000 Euro per month, a full pension after only two and a half years, a blue "company" vehicle and, only for the sinners, cocaine and whores and Air Force Helicopters.
The campaign to get your vote knows no bounds. Morpheus Napolitano reminded us of this fact during one of his few moments of lucidity from far-away Chile. He defended the political parties, calling it the expression of democracy, and then proceeded to launch an attack against what he called simple populism. Then he went back to sleep.
As usual, the psychodwarf and Topo Gigio are always first in line in claiming their right to the useful vote. If you vote for them, your vote is useful, otherwise not. Without your vote, Tar-head would no longer have Rete 4, his criminal buddies or his conflict of interests. The Mayor of Rome would be obliged to move to Rwanda or to Madagascar, to write books and to save endangered populations. Do it for their sake. Do it for your own sake. Tell them to fuck-off on 13 April by exercising your right to a “useful non-vote” (abstention) in the political elections.
[nón] [vó-to] [ù-ti-le]:
1. reclamation of the State by the citizens
2. de-legitimisation of the parasitic behaviour of the political parties.
V-day 25 April. Freedom of information in a free State.
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March 16, 2008
Don’t vote for the Merlin lists
The electoral lists are like a transparent Easter Egg. There’s no surprise. Dell’Utri, Cuffaro, Carra, Crisafulli have already been elected, together with all the others. They will become our employees at 25,000 euro a month even Fassino (for the fourth time), his wife (for the fifth time), D’Alema, the lawyers and the secretariat of the psycho dwarf. The Lower and the Upper houses are full. Sold out.
Parliament is the new brothel of the Italians. The 2006 Calderoli/psycho-dwarf piggish electoral law brought in closed lists. The Merlin lists. It took away from the citizens the possibility to choose their own candidate. Deputies and Senators are picked up from the streets of Italy by the party secretaries. By now they are political figures between pimps and ponces.
Your vote is of no use. The game has already been played. Don’t you believe that? Before the elections, I will publish the composition of the Lower House and of the Upper House, name by name, “prescritto” by “prescritto”, convict by convict. After the elections, check who has been elected. If my forecasts are correct it means you have been taken for a ride.
There’s another thing I can’t stomach. That the mayors and the presidents of the Regions can resign so that they can be candidates in the national elections. The citizens of their towns and regions voted them in for a 5 year term of office. They were employed to do a specific job. They don’t give a toss about their employees. About their town, their region. Formigoni resigns as President of Lombardy to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. Topo Gigio Veltroni resigns as Mayor of Rome to become Party Secretary. But don’t you feel you have been taken for a ride? The money for the regional and local election campaigns in Lombardy and Rome, the citizens’ time, new elections, new local cabinet members. These folk change position each time they can earn more. They are political prostitutes.
Not voting is the only choice left to you. Don’t give legitimacy to an unconstitutional electoral law. Explain to those who believe they are exercising their rights on 13 April that they are victims of an enchantment. Anyone who votes becomes an accomplice, even if they don’t know it.
Print and distribute the V2-Day flyer..
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
1. Put your photos on www.flickr.com with the tag V2-day
2. Put your videos on www.youtube.com with the tag V2-day
3. Give your support to V2 day
4. Download the V2-day flyer
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March 06, 2008
Political Press Release number four
Differences between the PD and the PDL do not exist. The national elections on 13 and 14 April do not exist. It is only painting a scene. Papier maché of posters and TV studios of servants. They are lost votes. Not to vote in the national elections is the answer to this regime.
It’s the only democratic weapon left. Sonia Alfano is a candidate for our lists in the regional elections in Sicily. She has received numerous threatening letters. No solidarity from the parties. Excellent signs. It means she is an honest person.
On !5 March Beppe Grillo is in Rome to support Serenetta Monti, a candidate for Mayor of Rome in the civic lists. The spread of knowledge is fundamental. The organisation of people in campaign groups and in civic lists is democracy. Knowledge, organisation, local civic lists.
It’s the Internet epidemic: Sicily, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Treviso, Rome, Vicenza, Pozzuoli, Pescara, Fiumicino, Massa, Pisa, Viterbo. The regime’s password: counter-information., TAV, military bases, incinerators, debts, deaths at work. Power alone does not exist. It is created by us. The future exists. Our offspring exist.
Our commitment MUST exist. Out with the scoundrels and the court jesters from the public arena. Everybody out. Civil commitment, civil denunciation, support to honest people. Who lies, out. The “prescritti” out.
Convicted felons out. The incapable out. Shout it out when they talk in the streets: OUT! Go with them to their campaign bus and their Blue Car. Honest Italians take back the country. Civil commitment, denunciation, information. Your life is now. It is just one life. Forward with optimism towards the catastrophe (their catastrophe).
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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March 03, 2008
Everybody Out!
Everybody Out! You have destroyed the country. Your faces on the walls are for us. Our “Fxxk offs” are for you. Not one of you deserves the votes of the Italians. Dear employees, your aims are well known, all three: armchair, impunity, business. There are gentlemen among you and they are the first ones who should go. There are few of them and they are most noticeable. They make us feel all tender and lots of anger. They are political footballs. A bit naïve. A bit silly.
Everybody Out! In fifteen years you have taken the country back to the time after the war. Finocchiaro and Bianco say they are bowled over that I am supporting Sonia Alfano’s regional civic list in Sicily. Beautiful minds, you offend me. There is no difference between you and the psycho dwarf. You are the party of the status quo that has allowed the Centre Right every piggish thing without ever lifting a finger. The party of Bassolino, the “cozza” of Naples. Of Topo Gigio who is afraid of his own shadow and even of D’Alema’s shadow and talks of everything. But not of conflicts of interests, of Rete 4 on satellite, of the corruption of judges for the purchase of Mondadori. You are those of Bettini, the PD spokesperson who stated that Antonio Di Pietro “is not suitable for the role of Minister of Justice”. Perhaps he wants to appoint him Minister of the relationships with parliament or Undersecretary to the Minister of Defence. Anywhere he doesn’t disturb those who manoevre. You are those of the Great Pardon, of Unipol, and of Ms Forleo on whom you have fixed the muzzle. Di Violante who guaranteed the TV channels to the psycho dwarf and has even declared that in Parliament.
Everybody Out! Casini, Azzurro Caltagirone, who embraces Moggi and keeps Cuffaro out of prison by making him a candidate for Parliament. Casini always shown with the crucifix behind him. If Christ could, he would come down from the cross and give him a kick.
Everybody Out! Make yourselves forgotten. Oblivion could save you. No one wants Mastella any more. He has done his dirty work. Now he just gets votes lost. Pastella stated, sweating, that Beppe Grillo would not have had him end up like Moro nor even like Craxi. Perhaps he is best to look out for those who sent him and not look to a comic. Your faces on the wall are a provocation, an incitement to popular anger. The elections are anti-constitutional. We cannot choose the candidate. We can only vote for the unified party of the Siamese Twins.
If a German were to not have voted during the Nazi era. If a Soviet citizen were to not have voted during the era of Stalin. If an Italian were to not have voted during the Fascism. What would you call them? Democrats, free people? You too be that. Don’t vote in the national elections. Exercise your right to not be kicked in the backside.
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March 01, 2008
Illegal political elections
The upcoming political elections are unconstitutional and their outcome will be null and void. I am absolutely flabbergasted that the State President did not FIRST insist on the referendum being held, as requested by the citizens, and THEN call for elections.
Was the psychodwarf perhaps threatening to march on Rome if the Houses were not dissolved? Were the members of the Lega Nord grabbing for their rifles? Napolitano could have sent in the army and got it over with. We are paying him to make decisions, not to build a statue to Pincio.
The Constitution is very simple and well written. It is open to discussion but not to interpretation. The first article states that: "Sovereignty belongs to the population ". Deputies and senators are instead elected by the party secretaries. Almost 80% of Parliament is decided by only two people, namely Topo Gigio and the psychodwarf. It is their Parliament, a veltrusconian Parliament rather than an Italian one. Do you actually realise what a monumental joke these elections are? What is taking place is a great market for electoral lists. A market in which there is a bit of everything. Dancing girls and whores, convicted criminals and statute–barred individuals. Every day there is a new candidate from uncivil society. With the backing of some temporary worker or an escapee from the workplace slaughters. And this even after Law 30 was not changed, after the pardons freely absolved and sent out those guilty for the white deaths. The same parties, the same leathery faces. Italy has become just like Byzantium prior to its fall. Everyone interprets, everyone covering his/her own arse. Everyone is right, everyone else is wrong... When next you meet a politician, read the Constitution out loud and demand that he/she respects it. An unconstitutional Parliament has no legitimacy. Its members should go and play swingball at Arcore or at the Rome Film Festival.
Here is a report on the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) application submitted by three attorneys who are against the electoral law.
"Elections to be held on 13/14 April: application to Tar. The electoral law is unconstitutional and violates the European Human Rights Convention.
Today, three citizen voters, namely attorneys Aldo Bozzi of the Milan Court, Giuseppe Bozzi of the Rome Court and Giuseppe Porqueddu of the Brescia Court have proposed submitting an application to the Tar in Lazio, contesting the validity of the Presidential Decrees calling for meetings to elect members of the House of Delegates and the Senate, specifically the section which implements the provisions of the Calderoli law, which are in striking contrast with the basic rights of citizens and the constitutional prerogatives of the State President.
Following on from the findings of the Constitutional Court in its sentence No. 15 of 2008 (approval of the electoral referendum), the applicants are asking that the TAR raise the matter of the constitutionality of the Calderoli Law, with specific reference to three critical issues, namely:
1) The closed lists, which deprive the voter of the right to select persons to represent them in Parliament
2) The allocation of majority status, which is not subject to achieving any sort of minimum threshold
3) The indication of the Candidate for Premier on the ballot paper
The voters’ inability to choose between the candidates changes the entire nature of Parliament because it turns all the elected people into party representatives or representatives of the chief politicians that picked them, rather than public representatives, thereby suppressing the constitutional principle of representivity and the independence of Parliamentarians, who should be free to carry out their duties without being subject to any mandate. Furthermore, the law also violates the European Human Rights Convention (article 3 of Protocol I).
The allocation of majority status, free of any obligation to achieve any sort of minimum threshold, profoundly alters the composition of the representation. Both of these systems, namely, the majority status system and the closed list system, were used in the past by the Fascists, by means of the Acerbo law of 1924 and the subsequent Law of 1928, in order to prevent the electorate from exercising free choice and to embarrass Parliament.
Indicating the coalition Chief as the Candidate for Premier on the ballot paper prejudices one of the State President’s functions granted to him by the constitution itself, namely that of appointing the Prime Minister ".
P.S. the gathering of the Friends of Beppe Grillo planned for the Island of Ischia is looking for candidates to add to the list that will be put forward for the upcoming administrative elections. Anyone who may be interested should contact Andrea D'Ambra (andreadambra@gmail.com).
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February 27, 2008
Political Press Release number three
The civic lists are being formed. The first ones are in Pescara, Rome and Vicenza for local elections. And in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Sicily for regional elections. Foreign banks are selling our State bonds. Our exports are decreasing. The public debt is going up, 1626 billion euro. State costs are increasing. Electoral promises are fewer taxes and more work. We’ll have more taxes and less work. The country is a resource for the politicians and for their mass bureaucracy. A lifelong income with the taxes of the citizens. They are devouring Italy. It’s not true that the political class is all the same. But the few gentlemen that are part of it make it legitimate. It’s not possible to vote for the less worst. We mustn’t lose hope for a better one. Whoever votes for the less worst makes the worst legitimate. The elections are anticonstitutional. We cannot choose the candidate. And no newspaper is talking about it. No TV is shouting it out. I repeat: We cannot choose the candidate. Two people are choosing the names of 80% of the deputies and senators. They are writing the Lower and Upper Houses. They are called Veltrusconi. They are the same person, the same party, the same programme, the same ministers. Beppe Grillo was in Naples on 23 February for Rubbish Day. Press conference with 120 journalists. Many international newspapers. 30,000 people in Piazza Dante. Anyone wanting to know what was said by cancer experts, environmental and energy experts will have to learn English or German. Read Die Zeit or The Herald Tribune. Il Corriere and la Repubblica dedicated a tiny patch of the dimensions of a postage stamp. Italian information is under control. It is wartime propaganda against the Italian people. Everything you don’t know is true. Don’t read the newspapers. Don’t watch the TV. Think with your own head. Lift up your head.
For a new Renaissance. V-Day 25 April.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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February 24, 2008
The PD/PDL’s electoral programme
The PD/PDL’s electoral programme:
The psychodwarf does not want a law against conflicts of interest
Topo Gigio does not want a law against conflicts of interest
The psychodwarf wants to keep his three television broadcasters and continue to be a politician
Topo Gigio wants the psychodwarf to keep his three television broadcasters and continue to be a politician
The psychodwarf wants the incinerators
Topo Gigio wants the incinerators and takes on board the 83-year-old Veronesi, also known as Cancronesi
The psychodwarf does not want to comply with European court decisions and put Rete 4 on satellite
Topo Gigio does not want to comply with European court decisions and put Rete 4 on satellite
The psychodwarf does not want the telephone taps to be made public after the parties have been informed
Topo Gigio does not want the telephone taps to be made public after the parties have been informed
The psychodwarf does not want any more public trials involving Cuffaro, Fazio, Fiorani, Consorte, D’Alema, Fassino and himself as a result of telephone taps
Topo Gigio does not want any more public trials involving Cuffaro, Fazio, Fiorani, Consorte, D’Alema, Fassino and the psychodwarf as a result of telephone taps
The psychodwarf wants the 43-kilometer long Val di Susa tunnel, which will cost the tax-payer 14 billion Euro and transport goods at 130Km/hr in 15 years’ time
Topo Gigio wants the 43-kilometer long Val di Susa tunnel, which will cost the tax-payer 14 billion Euro and transport goods at 130Km/hr in 15 years’ time
The psychodwarf wants to create the new electoral law together with Topo Gigio
Topo Gigio wants to create the new electoral law together with the psychodwarf
The psychodwarf wants to create a broad-based government after the elections
Topo Gigio wants to create a broad-based government after the elections
The psychodwarf wants Gianni Letta to be the Club Premier
Topo Gigio wants Gianni Letta to be the Club Premier
If you are unable to make your choice based on the programmes, then simply consider the differences between the two leaders:
the psychodwarf dyes his hair and wears high heels,
Topo Gigio has white hair and wears glasses.
What’s better, natural or dyed hair?
Vote for the shampoo, do it in the interests of democracy.
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February 17, 2008
Towns out of control
The town council meetings must be open to the citizens. Anyone who prevents this must be denounced. The mayors and the cabinet members do not tolerate the presence of their employers. They prefer to invite others who eat from the public cake: industrialists, lobbyists, construction people. I no longer want to tolerate this situation of expropriation of democracy.
The constitutional and democratic space of the citizens is being reduced ever more: they can’t choose the candidate, the proposals for popular laws are ignored, they are not consulted on the electoral programme, referenda are cancelled.
The young people of the Rome Meetup were not able to participate in the town council meeting. There was the approval of the final action of Topo Gigio: the new regulatory plan. The Meetup has presented a statement to the Rome Questura and reserves the right to denounce to the prosecutors, Veltroni and his councillors. If requested to do so, the blog and its lawyers will lend a hand. Stay tuned.
Let’s keep a check on our employees with the operation "Fiato sul collo" {Breathing down your neck}.
"The other day something of a seriousness that is unheard of, happened in Rome, in the seat of the top local democratic institution and that is in the town council meeting. There was the session for the Council to discuss and approve Veltroni’s Nuovo Piano "Regalatore". {New “gifting” plan} for Rome. Let it pass (it’s a way of saying) that it’s a regulatory plan wanted strongly by the construction people. Let it pass (it’s still a way of saying) that it is a plan in which there has not been acceptance of the hundreds of observations from campaigners and associations that asked for a greater protection and regulation of environmental and cultural goods.
A plan that allows variants in all Rome neighbourhoods, without ever having to come back to the Council, that does not protect the public green space and the town planning standards of the individual neighbourhoods and with a valid “ecological network”.
A plan that will allow for the demolition and reconstruction in the historic centre without a recovery plan, that will cancel out Rome’s historical memories allowing for the demolition of ancient dwelling houses and buildings of industrial archeology that were protected by the “plan of certainties”.
A plan that does not resolve the problem of housing because it allows for public financing of villas and apartments wanted by the construction people, instead of using the funds to construct housing for public ownership..
However, what must not be allowed to occur and that must not occur is that Roman citizens IN THEIR HOME TOWN are kept out of the Council Chamber on a pretext while inside there is the pretend discussion of the approval! In fact, the plan was voted for by ALL the left wing majority in the Chamber in a Chamber that was half empty, with the presence of construction people and building entrepreneurs (apparently expressly invited) while access to representatives of campaign groups and simple citizens was not given. For hours they asked town councillors of the right and the left to be able to enter WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY HELP!
You need to have the cheek of the resigning Veltroni who declared: “a plan that has been approved by the democracy of the city” when instead he will go down in history as the mayor who did NOT want the participation of the city NEVER responding to the appeals of the associations and the citizens who asked him to apply the regulations for public participation (whose application is set out in the town Statute)
The PR mayor (like those in the disco) has first made of our city what he wanted and then he has made the Council Chamber like the living room in his own home, deciding, it seems to give INVITATIONS (lust like in the disco!!!), who to let in and who to keep out, so that for the TV channels present there was the guarantee of long applause from the construction people who are the owners of this new "Regalatore" {gifting} plan
What happened is unheard of, unacceptable and ANTICONSTITUTIONAL. If this is the Rome model that Veltroni wants to export to the rest of Italy, we Romans say NO THANK YOU. Meanwhile we have deposited a statement with the Rome Questura recounting the facts and we reserve the right to go to the Procura della Repubblica di Roma {Rome prosecutors} to deposit, with the help of our lawyers, a formal denunciation of what has happened." Rome Meetup
Formal statement to the Rome Questura
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February 15, 2008
Political Press Release number two
Political Press Release number two
On 25 April in Piazza Castello in Turin, there will be V2 day. In all the squares of Italy there will be a collection of signatures for three referenda for the freedom of information in a free State. It is not possible to bring forward V2 day. In the election period, the squares are made available to the parties. Beppe Grillo has asked about the availability of certain squares before 13 April and has received a refusal. Change must come from below, from the citizens who are informed. A national civic list now with this electoral law is suicide. For 13 April, civic lists will be present in many cities. I will be present in the cities during the election campaign. For the local elections of 2009 there will be hundreds of civic lists. The mass disinformation media are at work to hide the problems of the country. The parties occupy the news. With few exceptions, the journalists are servants of the parties. Print out and give out “La Settimana” for all those who cannot get connected to the Internet. On your blogs, write about the daily falsities of the regime and unmask them. No to convicted criminals in the electoral lists. No to those who have been convicted and to those who are still convicted at the first appeal, in the electoral lists. Those who are elected/appointed and are waiting for a decision on their ongoing trial get parliamentary immunity and avoid prison. No to parliamentary immunity. There are no citizens who are more equal than others. The blog will publish the names of the “prescritti”, of those who are convicts even after two appeals, and those who are convicts after one or no appeals whose names are in the electoral lists. The date of 13 April is a date like the others. Whoever wins loses anyway. Be informed and inform others. V-day 25 April.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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3. Give your support to V2 day
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February 13, 2008
A voice from Kosovo
Kosovo will proclaim its independence from Serbia in a few days. The United Nations will withdraw and in its place 17,000 NATO soldiers will arrive and 1,800 police from European forces. Unemployment is reaching 50%, exports are 6% of imports, for energy, they depend on Serbia. Kosovo is a fragile State and it has widespread corruption. Less than in Italy but still a substantial amount.
The blog has interviewed Avni Zogiani of the association NGO COHU! (Wake Up!) of Pristina. Avni has started a campaign against corruption in the Kosovo Parliament. He has put on the Internet, the profiles of 55 candidates involved in corruption episodes. 28 were not elected, that’s more than 50%. With us we have got rid of only one out of 24, Cesare Previti, that’s about 4%. In Kosovo, they have stronger guarantees. The military occupation is a democratic incentive.
The blog will publish a list of “prescritti”, those convicted at the first and second stage and at the final appeal whose names are in future electoral lists. When you see a poster use a felt tip pen to add the crime to complete their curriculum vitae.
Text:
“Well, it is expected by the end of the week, most probably on Sunday or Monday. I mean the institutions of Kosovo will declare intention, as they call it, of independence, and they’re going to have a resolution in Kosovo Parliament as well. A kind of supervised independence and it will pay the way for a new EU mission in Kosovo. Practically the UN mission is going to be replaced with EU mission…..”
Read the whole text
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February 12, 2008
Double Black Hole
Two Black Holes are absorbing politics and they are being absorbed at the same time. Everything that gets near t them disappears. They are two Black Holes that are indispensable for stability. For the progress of the Nation, to not eliminate the conflict of interests. The double Black Hole has not put forward a programme. It hasn’t yet published the list of candidates. However it has the consensus of the majority of Italians on a confidence vote.
The polls are in favour, even though only the imbeciles can give an opinion on the vote without knowing the names of their representatives and what they will go off to do. It is a vote with logo, an “a priori” vote. The polls and the ones that commission them, are not discussed. If the question asked to the interviewee were “Would you vote PD or PDL without knowing anything about their programme for government or whether they are putting up candidates with previous convictions?” The answer would be VAFFANCULO with 50% each.
The two Black Holes, Veltroni and Berlusconi are the only choice given to us. For the governability of the country. With no alternative. It’s a double single choice, the same DNA.
In the post-election period there will be an institutional mess-up, a great coalition to save the country. The form could be a Veltrusconi government or a joint table for the reforms. The substance won’t change. In 2006, they stopped us from choosing our candidate. In 2008 they’ll stop us from choosing the party. Next time they will appoint everyone deputies and candidates for life. In 2011, or shortly after that, if nothing changes, we will come out of the Euro and we will consolidate the public debt. We will manage to do this thanks to a stable government and servile news media.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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2. Put your videos on www.youtube.com with the tag V2-day
3. Give your support to V2 day
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February 10, 2008
Political Press Release number one
Democracy can only start from the bottom. The new Renaissance will originate in the towns. The Civic lists must get organised for the local elections on 13 April 2008. The blog will give support to civic lists. Beppe Grillo will be present in the cities that present a civic list. The national elections in April are against the Constitution. The citizens cannot choose their own representative. State concessionaires must not be doing politics. Referendums cannot be cancelled. Referendums cannot be postponed. The result of the forthcoming election is null. Information is in the hands of the economic groups and the parties. It’s State Rubbish. Beppe Grillo will participate in Rubbish Day in Naples on 23 February together with experts and doctors to relaunch the separate collection of refuse and for the health of the citizens. The news has gone astray. Beppe Grillo will make a deposition of three proposals for referendum with the Court of Cassation in February. Abolition of the Association of Journalists. Abolition of public financing of the press. Abolition of the Unified Text on the radio-TV system that makes news a prostitute to the interests of the parties and Mediaset. On 25 April, there will be voting on the referendums in all locations in Italy. The proposals for popular laws for a Clean Parliament that have been placed before the Senate, have been ignored by our employees. Convicted Felons out. Two terms of office. Direct voting for the candidates. 350,000 Italians signed. Signatures confirmed by public officials and by the towns where they reside. Never before in Italy in a single day. A work that took months by thousands of people. The parties have occupied democracy. Parliamentarians are not elected, but appointed. To be appointed, they just have to pay. A million Euro a deputy. Three million Euro a senator. The conflict of interests is a conflict with the country.
For a new Renaissance. V-Day 25 April.
PS: The felt tip pens have run out. I repeat: The felt tip pens have run out.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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February 08, 2008
You are Beppe Grillo!
Television time is being taken up by politicians discussing percentages, coalitions, partnerships, waiver agreements and constituencies. These people are out of touch with the Country. Nothing is ever said about our affairs, employment, health and the environment. They explain that politics is a vocation, a life mission. Once they have gotten those first votes, they go on to become politicians for life. As Franceschini said, anyone who is involved in politics should be prepared to get his/her hands dirty. Bribes, administrative crimes and corruption can always be washed clean by means of official pardons, new rules or by abolishing the crime of financial fraud. There is no such thing as impossible dirt. There is always some sort of made to measure law that turns the dirt as clean as driven snow. The Italian politician MUST have dirty hands. In England they are called “civil servants”, here by us, instead, they are known as “dirty hands”.
Yesterday, something happened to shepherd in the New Year. After having listened to the politicians (whatever that may mean), including Prestigiacomo’s sneezes, Furio Colombo’s convulsions and Franceschini’s little or nothing, a young man took over the floor. He spoke about job security, the new types of poverty and about work-related illnesses (tumours). He yelled at them, saying that they are simply totally useless, yet very well paid people who talk through their hats. He simply said out loud precisely what many Italians are thinking. Then another young man intervened. A twenty-year-old wearing a tie and spectacles, who scored top marks in a public service recruitment and selection exercise, with no godfather to back him up. Precisely because of this, he was not selected. He explained that there is no such thing as right or left. These are nothing more than metaphysical concepts. He went on to tell those employees of ours to fuck off. Now, these are guys that are setting a worthy example, which we should follow.
You, the reader, are Beppe Grillo.
You too can get onto a television programme, stand up and vindicate the Italians. You too can talk about a clean parliament, about temporary employment, about job-related deaths and differentiated waste collection. You too can shout about it. You too can question one of our employees about conflict of interests, about financial fraud, about pardons, about Europe 7, about the bribing of judges on behalf of Mondatori, and DEMAND an answer with a television camera focussed on your face.
You are Beppe Grillo.
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February 06, 2008
The electoral law is unconstitutional
The spectacle of a President of the Republic who looks on, in silence, while the President of the Court of Accounts, Tullio Lazzaro, declares that corruption in Italy is increasing in assigning contracts, in the health system, and in procurement is a desolation. Napolitano says not one word. He does not feel it is necessary to go on TV when faced with the statement: “The protracted inaction for years has caused incalculable damage.”
The Institutions have become the Notaries of Destruction. They take note, they make records, they provide evidence. The State is falling into an abyss, but with the full awareness of the Great Bureaucrats. The citizens, like the stars, stay and watch.
I have reread the Costitution, its 139 articles, its thirty or so pages.
Article 1 specifies:
- The sovereignty belongs to the people
Article 48 has two points:
- Voting is personal, equal, free, and secret
- The right to vote may not be limited
The “piggish” electoral law imposed by the Centre Right in 2006 cancelled a referendum and eliminated direct preferences. An unconstitutional law.
We can’t have elections with this law. The result would be illegitimate. It impedes the direct choice of candidate. It limits the right to vote. Having cancelled the referendum any ounce of sovereignty of the people has been removed.
In the Constitution there are “Constitutional Guarantees”.
Article 134 says
- The constitutional court decides: - disputes concerning the constitutionality of laws and acts with the force of law adopted by state or regions
I have decided to put forward a formal written petition to the Constitutional Court for it to declare the “piggish” electoral law to be unconstitutional and cancel it.
In fact, Article 136 specifies:
- When the court declares a law or an act with the force of law unconstitutional, the norm ceases to have effect from the day following the publication of the decision.
The Court has two months to decide before the elections. If it declares the law to be unconstitutional it will be still possible to vote with the preceding law or move the voting until after the referendum, that is set for May and straight away annulled with a move by professional cheats.
This self-referencing political class has cancelled two referendums on electoral law. It makes desk-top decisions about who has to represent us in Parliament. Is this constitutional? And if it is, then what is unconstitutional? Stay tuned!
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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February 05, 2008
Italia-Kenya Twinning
The blog has used Skype to interview combonian missionary Renato Kizito Sesana about the situation in Kenya. Italy and Kenya have a lot in common: denunciation of electoral fraud, widespread corruption, contestation about military bases of the United States, manipulation of reality, politicians who seem to be on opposing sides who go out to dinner together in Nairobi’s best restaurants. Citizens used as political tools. In Italy we are still waiting for the epilogue.
I’m proposing a twinning between States and an exchange of leaders. Berlusconi and Veltroni to them. Kibaki and Raila Odinga to us.
Text:
”The current situation in Kenya arose from the elections of 27 December that were bitterly fought over. They have seen the official victory (by a few thousand votes) of Kibaki who was the president before that.
Straight away violent reactions broke out, from the opposition, accusing the government of electoral fraud and refusing to recognise Kibaki as President. What now seems very clear is that the violence that broke out after the announcement of Kibaki’s victory was carefully prepared in advance in different parts of Kenya. During all the pre-electoral phase, there was a strange campaign by which the opposition said “it’s our turn”, implying that there had been two Kikuyu presidents, and a Kalenjin president and that therefore it was the turn of Kenya’s third largest tribe in terms of numbers. This had already given a strong tribal labeling to the campaign. In the last few weeks this was aggravated by the fact that the opposition had started to say “if we don’t win it’ll mean that there has been fraud”.
Corruption in Kenya, that was really serious at the time of the previous president, Daniel Arap Moi, has been reduced but it is anyway at a very serous level and people are extremely tired of this. They can’t cope with it any longer. The government then has probably given themselves a blow to their own feet because they have moved Kenya’s commercial interests from Europe, the United States and England towards Japan and the East in general. While the leader of the opposition, Raila Odinga who is almost famous for being a man of the left, in reality has made promises to the Americans and to the West to come closer together again. Kibaki had refused an American military base on Kenya’s soil. Without a doubt there have been interferences and support at a world level on the elections in Kenya.
I think that the tribal issue is only a mask for other issues. It is a tool that the politicians have manipulated and made worse first of all to get votes and then to provoke violence. Politicians of different parties and belonging to different people of Kenya meet up, talk. People of the upper middle classes meet up, talk, go to dinner together in Nairobi’s great restaurants, and there are lots of them and they are in the biggest rich neighbourhoods of Nairobi. There has been no rivalry. There has been no problem. It has been the poor to break out in violence against each other under the pretext of ethnic rivalry. I believe that first of all, to find a solution to this problem, time is needed because the two sides straight away started off with such different positions and so rigidly diverse that it is impossible for them to change in a short time. We need to give them time to change their positions whilst saving face.
I believe Kofi Annan’s position is wise. He has come and is not imposing time limits. What is important is that the violence stops and the reaction to the violence. If the leaders really wanted it, if Kibaki and Raila Odinga wanted to stop their followers I am convinced that they could do so within a matter of very few hours. It would be enough to give a firm and precise condemnation of the violence and that hasn’t yet happened. Then they can negotiate and talk as they like. But the fear is that there is the temptation to use the violence. From the government side to use the repression of the police. From the opposition’s side to use the violence of the unemployed, the drifters, the young who are let loose, paid against the tribe of the President and kidding themselves that this brings advantages to their political position. " Renato Kizito Sesana, combonian priest
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January 28, 2008
Bulow and the parasites
Achille Lauro, an old politician from Naples. For each vote he gave two shoes in exchange. One before and the other after the election. Italian politics have been lauro-ised. Cuffaro was elected for the 300,000 jobs that rotate round the Region of Sicily. Mastella is loved in Ceppalonia for the same reason. They are benefactors with the money of other people. The politicians have become employers of the employers. A vote, a salary. But who are the ones paying the salary of the parasitic public bureaucracy? The employment competition is won always by the one who is adjacent, recommended, the family. It’s an exchange vote, money for a mark on a symbol. Money for doing nothing. Of course, the less you do, the less you make a mistake. The problem is that the money to keep going has finished. Even in our country there have been honest politicians, a few, but there have been some, and one of these is Bulow.
"Dear Beppe,
I am Antonio of the Lodi Meetup. I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I had the fortune to know Arrigo Boldrini nicknamed "Bulow". He was a magnificent person who will be missed by this country that is by now tormented. He was a great man in his simplicity and he was tiny in that he didn’t want to appear unless there was the need to decide to do something for the people who he loved so much, for his country that with honour and honesty, he saved from fascism and from naziism.
It was great to hear him talk about how you can serve the State with passion and honesty, qualities that these scoundrels who are governing us don’t even have in the soles of their shoes, and I remember the advice that he offered me for my role as local councillor that at that time I held in the town where I lived.
”When you are a public administrator you must always act in the interests of the citizens who elected you and who have had trust in you. If for a single moment, while you are carrying out your role as a representative of the institutions, you feel like doing something in your own personal interest, abandon everything straight away, because that is no longer your position.”
I beg you Beppe, publish this which is my final thought for my friend, Arrigo Boldrini. Who knows whether he will connect to the Internet in that place where he has gone for a better life.
”Bulow, we will miss your simplicity when you passed the evenings with us in the farm house in the countryside of Romagna eating ham and piadina {unleavened bread}and playing cards. I remember when you told me that it was your ideological conviction that made you refuse private property and you lived in public housing with a fair rent and that you alone paid more than all the other residents put together, given that you received the salary of a Senator of the Republic.
I remember that you told me that in Rome you went by train with the Senator’s card and that you refused the special “blue car”, State flights and other privileges because they were costs to be paid for by everyone. You were a great politician who always had respect for the people and the country that you represented. That respect that these crooks and delinquent politicians, who have elected themselves and who have followed you in your role, only have for the strong powers of which they are servants. They have respect for Don Ciccio who gets votes for them. They have respect for their shady interests in controlling their power, apart from for us.
I never asked if you believed in God. Or whether you were an atheist, or simply a lay person. But when you meet Him, you must tell Him that those like you on earth no longer exist, and that if He doesn’t take care of saving us, it really will be the end for us. Ciao Bulow." Antonio
PS Elio Veltri was presented in a TV broadcast as a representative of the "Beppe Grillo Civic List". I want to tell all not to do this. I have not authorised anyone to use my name for a list.
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The Dancing is Over
V-Day on 8 September 2007 was organised to change the electoral law. Three points: convicts out, two terms of office and direct preferences that no-one mentions, it has become like the third Fatima secret.
For the first time in the history of the Republic, 350,000 signatures were collected in a day. V-Day was buried with political ignorance and insults. The Centre Left criminalized it. The Centre Left jeered at it.
The week before V Day, I organised a press conference in Florence. I invited 500 journalists. Only 7 signed up. I cancelled it. I telephoned l’Espresso to suggest they do an article on V Day. They told me they had “other priorities”. The only publications that were interested were foreign ones: American, English, French, German, Australian Argentine… To whom I gave tens of interviews, hardly any of which were reported in italy.
Topo Gigio and the Centre Left are now imploring a new electoral law before we go to vote. These shameless wretches, in two years of government have given birth, in agreement with the psycho-dwarf, to the law of the Great Pardon so that the administrators appointed by politicians and the bankrupts could avoid landing up behind bars. Among others, Cuffaro and signora Dini are saying “thank you”.
In 2006, the Centre Right changed a law that was the result of a referendum, against the wishes of the citizens, taking away the right of voters to choose their candidate. This for me, whether or not it is Constitutional, whether or not it is legal, is called COUP D’ÉTAT. The change to the electoral law was illegitimate. Voting in these conditions will lead to closed lists of convicts, of bootlickers and relatives.
The priority of Prodi’s government should have been the electoral law. It should have been changed in the first 100 days together with the conflict of interests, and then straight away there should have been a popular vote. Instead of messing around in the Senate with the Mastella. In a campaign meeting before the elections, Fassino said that the priority was work, work, work…. And not the conflict of interests. We’ve seen what work they created. Underpaid and deadly.
Today this band of deficients (and that’s not an insult) is handing the country over to the Berlusconian abyss. For us it’s going to be hard. For them, it’s over.
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January 24, 2008
Civic Lists: Starting Now
Go to www.beppegrillo.it/listeciviche
You will have noticed. Each day there’s a new news item of mass distraction. Contrada, the abortion law, the Pope at the Sapienza University. The front pages of the newspapers are there for that. The servile journalists just talk about fried air.
They are cover titles. They hide reality. They are useful to work in the shadows. To avoid every change. As happened after the murder of Moro in 1978, after the slaughters of Capaci and via D’Amelio in 1992 with the death of Falcone and Borsellino. After that the “prescritti” Andreotti and Berlusconi became President of the Council.
Politics is a cover activity for power.
The electoral law and the conflict of interests are the true parties on which the destiny of the country is played out. These are the things that must be discussed live in Parliament in front of the Italians.
From today, the blog will do active politics with a site dedicated to the civic lists, to the citizens who take hold of their own destiny in their hands, their own town, their own Region.
I am setting out the requisites to create a civic list that is certified and published on the blog.
Requisites
1 At the moment of their candidacy and during the whole of their elected term of office, the candidates must not be signed up to any political party or political movement.
The candidate must not have criminal convictions, even those that are not definitive, nor must they have criminal trials ongoing at the time they become candidates.
3 The candidate must not have previously served more than one elected term of office, at a central or a local level, apart from in the electoral district in which they are presenting their candidacy.
Every candidate must reside in the electoral district of the town or of the Region (according to whether it’s a matter of town or regional elections) where they are putting themselves forward as candidates.
Commitments
1 Every candidate is committed to resigning their elected position if during the time that they are in office, they lose, or they are shown to not have had even at the beginning, one or more of the minimum requisites described above. If that doesn’t happen, the whole list will lose the right to qualify their activity with certification on the blog.
2 At the moment of their candidacy, the list will publish on the internet, in a special and suitable web space, the names of the people on the list with their CV according to a standard that will be defined, with their manifesto programme for government and they will at the same time, start a blog that is open to all citizens and allows for the free exchange of opinions and criticisms with the people making up the civic list.
3 The list cannot be associated with other parties or lists, unless they are certified on the blog, to govern the town or the Region (the Province is not considered as it should be abolished).
For a New Rebirth.
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Resignation letter for the employee Cuffaro
There is oceanic solidarity with Cuffaro from our employees. Today it his turn, tomorrow it’s mine? Solidarity becomes automatic, a Pavlov reflex. A survival instinct. The togas {of the magistrates} are always red. Either with blood or because they hand out sentences. The world of politics is one in which only the one who can be blackmailed is safe. He’s not a danger for the others. He cannot denounce. The politician who can be blackmailed is obliged to maintain “omertà”.
Cuffaro in himself is not the problem. He’s not the first nor will he be the last to be convicted. The silence of the institutions is serious. They are abdicating from their role of guarantors of justice and social order. If one who has been sentenced to 5 years can continue to be the President of the Region, nothing is illicit.
Antonio Di Pietro has sent me a letter in which he has asked Romano Prodi to oblige Cuffaro to resign as laid down by law and the President of the Council can ensure that it is enforced. Let Prodi do this. If he leaves the scene he will be remembered for an act of justice.
To the President of the Council of Ministers, Honourable Professor Romano PRODI
As you know, on 18 January, the Palermo Tribunal pronounced judgement and convicted the President of the Region of Sicily for helping the mafia and revealing secrets.
The facts that have been verified by this trial have emerged and are extremely serious. This is seen not just from the important sentence handed out (five years in prison and perpetual prohibition to hold public office) but above all in as much as it is a question of helping the mafia and revealing official secrets in relation to investigations regarding mafia affiliates. I am keen to underline two considerations about this.
Firstly, the agreement on the modality for intervention in the affair, specifically applying what is already obligatory according to the regulations in force. In fact, in relation to this, article 15, comma 4-bis of law number 55 dated 19 March 1990 sets out the need for suspension, even in the case of a conviction which is not definitive.
As is well known, the institutional route to take is for the President of the Council, having listened to the Minister for Regional Affairs and the Minister of the Interior, adopts the measure that ensures the suspension.
For facts that are clearly serious, this outcome comes from the need to guarantee the protection of the public interest, which has been damaged by his staying in his position and carrying out the related institutional functions by a person for whom it has been verified that he does not have the essential requisites to hold an elected public office. But, above all, it is urgent that I put forward a second consideration.
As a Minister of the Republic and above all as a citizen, I am disconcerted by the reaction that has been the characteristic of the behaviour of the President of the Region of Sicily with respect to the conviction and that for anyone with dignity and respect towards the institutions should have only suggested the need to offer his resignation.
I believe that the Government cannot remain inert in relation to this affair and that it is indispensable to take concrete measures, in conformity with what is laid down by the regulations, so as to ensure the primacy of law and the full respect of the principles of the rule of law, and in this way, restoring credibility and the authoritativeness of the institutions of the State.
It is a question of an action that is imposed by duty for the respect that we all owe to the institution and the law. But even before that, for the moral debt that we have to make good for the many, too many, victims of the mafia and their close family.
Never as in this affair, is there the need to act and to act fast and it is the duty-bound form of fulfilling the requirements of the law that must distinguish a governing class that is worthy of this name, from one that is hypocritical and mean. I am convinced that you are not deaf to these needs, and in a manner that we agree on we will be able to express the response that is the most convinced and worthy of respect for anyone that has preferred to sacrifice themselves to the mafia rather than reveal official secrets to them.” Antonio Di Pietro
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January 22, 2008
Time has run out
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The politicians are the majordomos of the parasitic or mafia economy or of the combination of the first with the second. The bosses give orders and they carry them out. The cover for their actions is given by the media, who anyway respond to the same bosses.
The citizen can only decide on the basis of the information available to them. Thus they are kept in an assisted coma.
The media are the connecting link between the politicians and the economy. Without the support of the media the politician would not be elected. Without the lies of the media the politicians would not be able to act undisturbed.
If the incinerator is good for the media, it is good for everyone. If Andreotti is innocent for the media and not “prescritto” for his mafia connections, he becomes one who is persecuted. If Cuffaro goes back to work after a five year sentence, it is a normal fact. If no national newspaper comes out with the headline: “SHAME!” on the front page for the telephone call Berlusconi/Saccà discussing the prospects of a uterine coup d’état. If Casini, with Azzurra Caltagirone, is invited onto the TV by the timid Fazio to defend Cuffaro without anyone to rebut what is said like say Rita Borsellino. If, if, if. The Italains are tired of “if”
The media no longer manage to cover the reality of poverty, of corruption, of the inability of the inept who are in the government and in the opposition. In another country, Mastella would have been the dishwasher in a Pizzeria. The psycho dwarf would have written successful books like “My prisons” the “Telesales from Sing Sing”.
They are getting ready for elections. With this electoral law they will all get reconfirmed. There is no preference vote. The lists will be decided by the party secretaries who will confirm their servants and family members. The economic situation is serious. The American recession is arriving and the weakest will pay the consequences. Italy can no longer stand up. Neither a government of the psycho-dwarf , nor a government of Topo Gigio which is the same thing. The two of them, hand in hand will go to Rome to see the premier of the film dedicated to the escaped prisoner statesman Craxi by his daughter.
Going back to vote with the porky electoral law is an insult to the Italians. In this case, there’s no sense in voting. Let them vote on their own. Perhaps they will gain more time, but their time is about to finish.
V2-day, 25 April, for freedom of information:
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January 14, 2008
Veltrolusconi
For Veltroni, it’s not possible to do the electoral law without Berlusconi.
For Veltroni, it is possible to do the electoral law without the Italian people.
For Veltroni, it’s not possible to do the electoral law in Parliament.
For Veltroni, it’s not possible to do the electoral law taking into account the three proposals for the popular initiative “Clean Up Parliament” law.
For Veltroni, the electoral law is discussed in the parlours of the party secretaries in secret.
For Veltroni, the 350,000 Italians who signed to get rid of convicted felons from Parliament are worth less than a “prescritto”.
For Veltroni, the electoral law is something that is within the parties and there’s no need for a referendum.
For Veltroni, the electoral law is not to be discussed in the Lower or Upper House in full view of the country.
For Veltroni, the one with the control of the media is the true interlocutor.
For Veltroni, direct preferences for the candidate is out of the question.
For Veltroni, the limit of two terms of office and then home, is not practicable.
For Veltroni, Mondadori legitimately belongs to the psycho-dwarf.
For Veltroni, Rete 4 does not have to go on satellite.
For Veltroni, whoever controls the media can do politics.
For Veltroni, the million and a half who participated in V-Day can blow off.
A question: “But who is Veltroni?”
A reply: “He is the Mayor of Rome.”
A question: “And how is he doing?
A reply(from the Pope): “"In Rome there is really serious degradation"
Topo Gigio Veltroni is not a deputy and he cannot present draft laws. He is a part-time Mayor. This man wants to decide for us. Let him get himself elected, let him get into Parliament and present one of his proposals. For the moment, let him take care of his own city, given that he is paid for that.
PS The Senate’s first Commission of Constitutional Affairs has started to examine the “Clean up Parliament” law. The examination of the text is being done in conjunction with others on the same topic. In the summary of the sitting (www.senato.it then click on "IN SEDE REFERENTE") it says among other things:
The PRESIDENT [Enzo Bianco] backs up the proposal put forward by the senator Brisca Menapace and is reserving the right to present it to the Office of the President integrated with representatives of the Parliamentary Groups for the mode and the time frame to carry out a hearing of the representatives of the promoters of both the popular initiative draft laws (numbered. 1900 and 1936), in accordance with article 74, comma 3 of the Regulations.”
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January 03, 2008
The end of democracy
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One of those who spoke at V-Day in Bologna was Massimo Fini. He expressed a concept summed up by Charles Bukowski: "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
If representative democracy is the best of all possible worlds, its degenerated Italian version is the worst of the best possible worlds. In Italy the citizen counts for one, but is worth nothing.
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"I am obviously in agreement with the three basic tenets of V-Day, namely, that there should be no convicts in Parliament, that no Parliamentarian should be permitted to serve more than two terms and that we should go back to choosing our own candidates. I believe that this is one way to make presentable something that is not currently presentable, something that is indecent, a form of fraud. This is called representative democracy. I have always defined representative democracy, and continue to do so, as a way of scr...wing people with their permission, especially poor people. Above all, we have never really understood precisely what representative democracy is. Norberto Bobbio, who dedicated his entire lengthy and laborious life to this subject, cannot get to the bottom of it. At various times, he has indicated sometimes nine, sometimes six and sometimes three elements as being essential for a representative democracy. Whatever the case may be, we will look at two elements that are generally accepted as being essential for democracy, namely, all votes must be equal or, as the British say, one man, one vote, and everyone must be free to vote. Well for starters, all votes are not equal: consensus is simply an illusion. The definitive reason why all votes are not equal was amply illustrated by what has become known as the Italian Elitist School of the early nineteen hundreds, namely Gaetano Mosca, Vilfredo Pareto and Roberto Michels. Mosca states that: “A hundred people who always act in unison and by agreement will always manage to overcome a thousand others acting freely” Consensus is not free because it is widely affected by the mass media, not coincidentally also called the instrument of consensus, which is in the hands of the usual handful of well known people. In reality, representative democracy is a system of oligarchies, organised minorities and masked aristocracies that trample the individual citizen, the free man who does not with to humiliate himself by become a slave of these oligarchies, parties or other economic or criminal groupings that are so often linked together. Representative democracy should be the very thing that free thought would want to enhance, namely, merit, ability and potential, and the ideal citizen in a democracy becomes its designated victim. Without delving too deeply into theory, the fact remains that we are all aware that we count for nothing and that our voice is not being heard. Some years ago, in Piazza San Giovanni, a million people were brought together because of ad personam legislation, a very difficult topic indeed, when it is, in fact, far easier to bring people together for economic reasons. Well, there was no response whatsoever, neither from the right, nor from the left. On the contrary, in the left wing it was often said “non mi confonderai con un girotondino” (surely you’re not calling me a girotondino), as if street demonstration were not the citizen’s primary political right, even before the right to vote. The problem is one of global democracy, in the west, however, as Grillo has so ably demonstrated, the Italian system has suffered a certain intolerable decay. Hans Kelsen, who is neither a Marxist nor a Taleban extremist, used to say that representative democracy is simply a set of illusions, and he maintained that the apparent function of democratic ideology is to provide citizens with an illusion of freedom. He also asked himself how long this extraordinary division between reality and ideology could continue. This is the very same question that I have been asking myself for quite some time now. Naturally, the kind of democracy founded on bloodbaths have put on a conceptual lid, a kind of closure regulation, maintaining that democracy is the be all and end all of History and that we are all, therefore, condemned to die as democrats. I, instead, believe that sooner or later it will all come to an end, as does any system that fails to comply with any of its premises. It won’t be a unique event, like this wonderful event organised by Beppe, nor will it happen in Grillo’s lifetime, or mine for that matter. But sooner or later a fraud such as this will have to be eliminated. Thank you." Massimo Fini
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December 23, 2007
Italian racoons
A Mayor of Rome, secretary of a party that has never stood for election. A man with multiple convictions, whose friends and cronies have landed up in jail. These two men are busy negotiating our future. They are busy deciding how the Italians should vote. They are designing the geography of those elected. Percentages, boundaries, merges, rewards for majorities, deputies and senators.
Topo Gigio Veltroni himself is not even a deputy, at best he could stand in the municipal elections. The psychodwarf is a professional shopper, who believes that everything has its price. He is still trying to work out what the PD’s price is, but he knows that it will be a bargain since they have always sold themselves short.
Two people deciding for 58 million Italians, without the necessary institutional authority to do so. The electoral law must be discussed in Parliament, out in the open. Using clear, simple terms that are easily understood by the citizens. The current situation, however, is worse than the fog in the Padana Valley. Each party is required to state their position, if they have any such thing, live on television from the Chamber, the Italians will listen and judge for themselves. They are the voters. The law is in their favour. They need to know everything, absolutely everything. They must not be made to eat any pre-packaged meal.
We are paying (far too much) for a Parliament (that we did not elect) to draft the laws. Topo Gigio and the psychodwarf have no legal right to draft a new electoral law on their own. If they are to decide on the new law, ensconced in their offices, then this could be called a Coup d’Etat.
Bertinotti is concerned about the privacy of a man who attempted to bribe a senator. Instead of kicking this (low down) insult to democracy out of the Chamber, he is trying to protect the man's privacy. Boia Faust(o) (Bloody Hell). RAI, a public service organisation, is pulling out all the stops in order to bring down the Government. And so it is. Excuse me Bertinotti, but I don’t give a f … about these people’s privacy. I want them out of Parliament, out of public service. These are immoral people who have always behaved like pigs with regard to the law. And you, gentle soul, choose to protect their privacy, while some or other Letizia Vacca is demanding the transfer of the judges involved in the Mastella and D’Alema investigations.
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December 15, 2007
A rickshaw for a new “takeoff
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What beautiful people I saw this morning as I was pedalling through the streets of Rome. They were too good to me. Certainly, when you have an avenue of people shouting “Sei er mejo” (You’re the best) at you, it does tend to go to your head just a little. I felt like a triumphant Caesar riding on that rickshaw.
When I arrived at Palazzo Madama with the boxes containing your signatures, it felt like I had woken from a beautiful dream. The dream of a population that is free, without anyone convicted of any crimes, even serious ones, sitting in Parliament. Marini received me and he was very kind.
A Senate office bearer made me become official, with the number 1936. He had some sand in his pockets. I became suspicious because he was using it to bless the forms (reference to sandbagging). He mentioned clauses, procedures, amendments and tampax. The “Clean Parliament” popular law could, in fact, be “absorbed” in the legislative proposals being made by Calderoli, he of the “porcata” who, in the interests of coherence, takes a pig out for a walk of a Sunday morning. And this could perhaps be the best of all the possible outcomes. In full compliance with constitutional parliamentary process the three proposed bills could, indeed, immediately be archived by the parliamentary committees, without ever having been discussed in the Chamber.
I explained to Marini that, for the first time ever in the history of our Republic, 350,000 signatures were gathered in a single day, in favour of a popular law, the first time that one and a half million REAL people came out to show their support. He became thoughtful and I believe he will mull it over for at least a quarter of an hour. Then he will smoke his pipe.
In the latest Censis Report, De Rita defines our Country as: “A mucilaginous society in place of population development”. The Demos Report-La Repubblica painted a picture of “An Italy that is insecure, disheartened and tired of the old things carrying on”. The New York Times carried an article on us, which seemed more like a death announcement.
These signs should be enough to wake the dead.
However, State President Napolitano stated that: “Grillo’s Italy is not the real one”. And he is right, it is indeed his Italy, created by his political class. The same class that has been ensconced in the halls of power for the past thirty/forty/fifty years. I want to reveal a secret: the grey panthers are controlling Italy. Those who, in the interests of solidarity, are thinking about pensions for their contemporaries, while forgetting about the young people who will never actually see their pension.
My dear politicians, whatever the meaning of the word, the re-creation is about to come to an end.
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December 11, 2007
The kites
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Today there is something new in the sun (*), in fact something ancient: I am living elsewhere and feel that the parties are being re-born around me. I loathe Springtime names in the dead of winter. It is much like the greenhouse effect that is warming up the backsides of the party secretaries.
”Topo Gigio” Veltroni announces the “Democratic Party” and the psychodwarf responds with his own “Italian People’s Freedom Party”, while the three red dwarfs dilibertobertinottimussi, together with Snow White Pecoraro, set up the “Rainbow Left-Wing”, a cheerful Storace announces “The Right-Wing” (of the Arcore’s ring road) and Fini reveals the ace up his sleeve and is to change the name of his party from AN to “Alliance for Italy”.
He who fails to change with the times is lost, and he who fails to change his name will be recognised. Instead of fleeing abroad or retiring to the countryside, the politicians are instead having a complete makeover. They have realised that something is not working as it should and that the citizens, who are openly insulting them in the streets, are not too happy with what they are doing.
Miracles do sometimes happen. Occhetto and Ingrao have reappeared, as have Cossutta and Intini. Had Craxi remained in Italy, he would now certainly be the preferred bipartisan candidate for the post of State President.
As well as names, percentages are also beginning to appear. There are those with 35%, those with 15% and yet others with 29%, no one ever goes below 10%. It is a form of creative electoral accounting, where the total not only exceeds 100% of the potential votes, but it can indeed reach 200% or more. It is the optimism born of the desire to take the piss out of us all.
In order for things to really change, our employees should find themselves a new name and surname. Pier Ferdinando Casini – Caltagirone Blue, Walter Veltroni - Romino Pink. The psychodwarf could perhaps hold a referendum amongst his forty million supporters in his three million gazebos, to choose freely from a list of two possible names, namely Licio Mangano or Vittorio Gelli.
After choosing a new name, they could then perhaps change their hair colour. No one would recognise a blonde Fini, or an embarrassingly blushing-redheaded Mastella. And finally, with secret service protection, they could change both their address and their facial features.
This would be a real change. The citizens would once again start voting, as happy as children “from another place, another season and another life”.
(*) From the poem entitled “L’aquilone” (The Kite) by Giovanni Pascoli
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December 07, 2007
EU/4 The parliamentarians
Each year, Italy pays approximately 12/13 billion Euro over to the EU. These billions land up in a communal fund, which is then shared out in favour of the developing areas. What we get back amounts to about 8/9 billion. Where do these funds go? Almost entirely to three Regions, namely, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. European funds, which consist of monies originally paid from our taxes, therefore, take a trip via Rome-Brussels-Naples (or Palermo, or Catanzaro). A one-way trip with no political accountability required from even one of the Republic’s Ministers. In fact, the decisions are made in Brussels and bear the signature of some unknown official.
The regions of the South have managed to achieve some development, thanks to the European Community policies and the tens of billions of Euro received over time. The organised crime syndicates and political lobbying groups have evolved into veritable integrated multinational companies.
But what happens to the 4/5 billion Euro difference, which is not returned to Italy? These go to “poor” nations, normally the new entrants into the EU. Such as Romania for example, which will receive 28/30 billion Euro in development funding between 2007 and 2013. And who contributes to that country’s development? The fearless Italian businessmen! Italy currently has 22,000 companies operating in Romania, and is that country’s top business partner. Any Italian company establishing itself in Rumania undoubtedly has certain advantages, such as low labour costs, favourable tax rates and access to European financing. Then, perhaps, the product is resold as “Made in Italy”, earning more than it would have previously. Romanian Premier Calin Tariceanu explained that Europe should not fear any uncontrolled influx of people from his Country, because “Romania has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the whole of Europe” (see interview). Our whole world has been turned upside down. Those remaining in Italy are lambasted, are obliged to pay their taxes in advance and do not have access to any State funding. So he/she moves to Romania. Taking Italian money with him/her. That money left over from the charity handed out to our Southern Regions by the new Southern Bank that we now call the EU.
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December 02, 2007
The thing
Image from the film "The Thing"
All we ever seem to discuss are symbols, names and things. Not the future. Not the problems. The white Thing, the Red Thing, the yet to be named thing of the psychodwarf, the co-operative white and faded red thing of “Topo Gigio” (Italian cartoon mouse) Veltroni. The Cosa Nostra, which holds the copyright, is not for the time being submitting its lists but is satisfied with a number of proxies.
Our employees move around, they do things. They change the party’s name so that all track of it is lost. Just to look busy. They raise clouds of dust. They hide facts. The newspapers write entire pages on the leaders’ meetings, on the great communicators and on broad understandings reached However, our dear “Topo Gigio”, who voted for the centre-left, wants no broad understanding with Previti, Dell’Utri and Berlusconi’s Party. I already know what your answer will be:”But what are you telling me?????”.
Which leader are they gossiping about? The leaders of the National Health? The lack of safety and the new poverty, a judiciary that has been enslaved or marginalized and the level of information between Botswana and Nigeria, whose daughters they are? I’ll tell you what. They are sons of bitches. The new party headquarters, the new symbols, the positions of Brambilla and De Mita, who is acting as tutor for the new managers of the Democratic Party. And it does not end there.
Mrs. Moratti, mayor of Milan, is under investigation. All good and well, however, on request by two courageous journalists (they may be few but they are nevertheless there) this Blog had already hinted at the reasons for the investigation, on 4 July 2007.
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Why have the national newspapers failed to mention anything in this regard? Why have the news services of Raiset failed to examine this situation in depth? We always seem to have to wait for the magistrates before announcing the news. And then only once it can no longer be avoided and, in any event, the word is then only spread by the accused, who are, as usual, serene, always serene, but they are serenely grabbing us by the b…. What’s the bet that the Milan magistrates are going to come to the same sort of sticky end as did De Magistris and Forleo, in other words, get transferred, slandered or suddenly removed from office, never to be heard of again.
In the next few days I will be depositing the V-day signatures. Getting these certificated was hard work. I will take them personally to the Senate and I have requested a meeting with Senate chairman, Franco Marini, in order to explain the initiative to him. The presentation of the public initiative law known as “Clean Parliament” should take place in the house sometime during the early months of 2008. Stay tuned!
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November 26, 2007
The warning from the Hill
From the Hill, every so often, a warning arrives. It’s the famous “warning from the Hill”. From up there, the President of the Republic is always observing and when necessary, he “warns”.
Warning is that special attention devoted to magistrates and telephone intercepts. A warning is , usually , an appeal to reduce the noise levels, to protect the privacy of the politicians, to condemn the desire to be at the centre of attention of chattering judges. The warning is a battle in civility, an appeal for civil cohabitation. It’s like a flash of lightening from Zeus that always strikes the same trees and saves the rubbish tips.
The President, apart from warning, usually sleeps, not on his laurels, but on the honourability of Parliament. And its convicts and “prescritti”, on the obvious mafia contacts of some parties, about information that disappears. He sleeps soundly. If you mention the words D’Alema/Unipol, Berlusconi/Mondadori o Mastella/Why Not he has a slight jump. Tint tiny. Not noticeable. He takes his salts and then he gets better. With the names De Magistris and Forleo, however, he warns straight away without hesitation.
The President is elected by the parties, and does his duty, he looks after them tenderly. Hi s age ennobles him. With that age he can say what he wants. Like the grandpa at the table when the sweet arrives. Once upon a time, there was the mouth of Virna Lisi. Today there are the presidential false teeth. The President should be elected by the Italians, not by our employees. He must be no older than 50 years of age. It’s no use having a president from a nursing home offering a guarantee of the status quo for the parties. I want a young person, from civil society, not connected to the parties. Am I asking too much? We have to ask too much! We are playing for our future which these 70 and 80 year olds will never see.
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November 22, 2007
Information is at the basis of democracy
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Everyone knows that Forza Italia is (was?) a plastic party. The psycho-dwarf confirmed that on Sunday. A party isn’t dissolved just at the wish of one person. Normally you have a conference of all the elected people, there’s a discussion of the programme, of the new name. Then there’s a decision decided by the majority. That’s what happens in democracies. None of his aides, lackeys or bag carriers has uttered a word. And you can understand that. Without him where are they going? They are simply courtesans. His party, however they want to call it, is just his, private property, a “telecratic” organisation with objectives of control and lucre.
The parties have killed that little bit that was remaining of democracy by eliminating the preference vote. The Unione’s first action should have been the restoration to the citizens of a fundamental right: that of selecting their candidate. It hasn’t happened. Now there’s talk of German-style proportional representation, of Swiss-style majority and of double-event French-style. But what are they rabbiting on about? In 2005 you adopted the Italian-style fxxking up with the new electoral law. This is what you should be talking about.
There’s no one starting off with a forethought, that says that if you copy the electoral mechanisms of a democracy that you first need to adopt the basics, the fundamentals.
And that is a cardinal point in Germany, in Spain, in France, in every country worthy of this name, that you cannot have a dominant presence in the news media and at the same time do politics. For the other parties it’s like fighting against the heavy weight world champion with an arm tied behind your back.
The Berlusconi phenomenon is not compatible with democracy. His newspapers, his TV channels, are not compatible with his presence in politics. This is what Veltroni, Prodi, Fini, Bertinotti and all the others should be talking about straight away: of democratic information media, not about acronyms and percentages. But they won’t do so because they too get benefits from it.
Democracy has become marketing. The State is not controllable by the citizens. Let’s take back the information and news media.
V-day - 25 April - V-day – 25 April.
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November 18, 2007
European Parliament/1: Beppe Grillo
With Luigi De Magistris and Marco Travaglio, I was invited to the European Parliament by Giulietto Chiesa. We talked about European funding that arrives in Italy, where it goes to and how it is spent. I asked for transparency about the destination of the funding or a block on funding to Italy. The funding is a transaction on behalf of others. We give it to Europe with our taxes and Europe gives back a part. Today I am publishing my initial speech. In the next few days there’ll be the speeches of De Magistris, Travaglio and of the European deputies who were present in the Chamber.
”I don’t know why I am here. It’s the last chance. I try to do a bit of communication trying to entertain my neighbour, but it’s not the situation today judging by your faces.
The problem is that in my country, communication is finished. I come here to beseech you; a big part of criminality and of illegality comes from here, from European funding. I come with a prayer from my heart: don’t give any more money to Italy! Do this for our good. It’s like giving finance to Bokassa.
1221 frauds have been discovered, 5 times the European average. We manage to use just 43-44% of this money. But to whom does this money belong? A tiny part of this money is even mine. What route does it take? We give about ten-twelve billion Euro to the European Union and it gives us back about five to ten. This is a sort of laundering of dirty money. Instead of giving and receiving this money, I beseech you, don’t give us any more and we won’t give any more to you. We will use the money ourselves trying to do that in a more dignified manner.
The citizens know nothing about these things. If you talk to a citizen of the European Union, they know nothing. They don’t know what it is, whether it works. There was an attempt to do a Constitution that I’ve read and I got half a nervous breakdown. No one knows anything. Only that the seats on the bus are 30cm, we know that there’s an ID card for dogs. You do some laws with 26 exceptions. In the Netherlands you can smoke a joint. In Italy you get 4 years in prison. What has Europe become?
We want a bit of clarity about the money. It would be good if instead of passing through the Regions, (that really are associations for crime in our country), that it is monitored through the Internet. The Internet exists, but in Italy, it’s almost as though no one knows what it is. There are seventy year old politicians but here there are young people who know how to use the Internet. The Internet is a form of control. You can't rob with the Internet. Put on the Internet all the figures, the steps to pass the money around so that any citizen can check it. Either do that or don’t send us any more money.
Prodi, in the Financial Times, replied to the question: How many Romanians have entered Italy? Reply: "Nobody knows". There was a fund of 200 million Euro for welcoming and we have not used it. There’s no talk of a moratorium. So with this money what do we want to do? Welcome foreigners that can no longer fit or finance the companies to make them stay in Italy?
In Romania there are 22,000 Italian companies that have taken money. This money should have been given to the companies to stay in Italy. I don’t want you ever to send us anything more! Now an expert will explain to you where your money lands up. I repeat: You are funding Bokassa.” Beppe Grillo
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November 15, 2007
Salvatore Borsellino has Mastella-ised himself
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To be Mastella-ised is a status symbol. It’s like the Gold medal on a civilian level. At the time of “Clean Hands” a politician without a couple of “avvisi di garanzia” {notification of impending investigation}. was a nobody. In these Ceppalonic times, in which even the tragedies become farces, being sued by Mastella is a badge of honesty for the citizen.
Salvatore Borsellino has decided to Mastella-ise himself and he explains the reasons in this letter.
”Dear Beppe,
I have received a letter from Benny Calasanzio full of dignity and disgust for the latest unacceptable outburst from signor Clemente Mastella (It disgusts me to use for this character, the title of Minister of the Republic.) who has announced his intention to sue Beppe Grillo for his declarations at the European Parliament and to want to hand over any money coming from the process to the families of mafia victims.
The threat of being sued is a scare that is currently used as a surrogate to the “mafia warnings” by politicians who are used to this type of procedure, to try and silence the accusations against themselves from journalists, writers, presenters and even ordinary people who write on the Internet and on blogs.
Even signor Mastella himself, not long ago, didn’t find any better way to respond to accusations against himself with open letters published on the Web and during the broadcast of Anno Zero than to remind me that “he had granted the Borsellino family a pension.”
On that occasion I responded firstly to signor Mastella that it is not a matter of a “grant” from a Minister, but a “recognition” from the State, but probably signor Mastella is too familiar with the habits of clientism to grasp the difference.
Secondly, as far as I am concerned, apart from obviously not being a beneficiary of any pension, I have even renounced asking for the “provisional” that I could have asked for as an injured party in the trial for the assassination of my brother because what I am due from the State is only Justice and not an economic measure.
But probably signor Mastella is not competent even in matters of Justice and thus has not thought it worth giving me a response.
To end then I am reminding signor Mastella that in his statements made to the European Parliament, Beppe Grillo did nothing more than report what I had already stated in an open letter dated 20 September:
”Yesterday it was necessary to kill one after the other two judges who alone were fighting the battle that the Italian State not only has always refused to take on but that it has often fought on the side of those that should have been the enemy to be eradicated and that often it has directly armed.
Today not even TNT is useful any more, today it’s enough, in broad day light, to “avocare” an investigation in which one of the few remaining courageous judges was about to arrive at the level of the “untouchables” for everything to continue to go on as established.
So that this caste that has cut itself off from the real country and from honest people who still exist, even though they are guilty of a silence that by now is confused with indifference if not with connivance, can shamefully continue to govern our country and to cultivate their own exclusive interests in a State that it now considers to be its own exclusive property.
Today it is enough that an unworthy Minister like signor Mastella blackmails a beautified Head of the Government, perhaps with him too being involved in the same affair, threatening a government crisis, for the whole political class to close ranks round their worthy representative and the message arrives loud and clear at the wobbly top of the magistracy.”
That’s what I wrote and I reaffirm it.
If signor Mastella thinks it necessary to sue Beppe Grillo for his statements, I beg him to do the same thing to me. In that way I can hand over, as a family member of a victim of the mafia, a part of the gains that will be derived from putting his “warning” into action.
I don’t think I can add anything to Benny Calasanzio’s letter except to say that I stand with him in his request made on behalf of his own family.
It is so full of offended dignity and of disgust for the squalid declarations of the politicians that it refers to, that any other word would be superfluous.” Salvatore Borsellino
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November 07, 2007
La Voix de la Vallée
It’s not allowed in Italy to have a proposal referendum. The citizen can only annul the rubbish voted through by Parliament. And if they succeed, as in the case of public financing to the parties, the politicians ignore them. They get round the law or they do a new one.
In other States, the citizens can make proposals. With us we can only suffer. The people deciding is populism. The people proposing a law is demagogy. If however the law is done by the party employees in Parliament chosen by FassinoRutelliBertinottiFiniBerlusconi in our faces, then yes that is democracy.
To get the proposal referendum we would need to change the Constitution. Parliament will never do it. The Constitution is a garment tailor-made for the parties. Sewn on them, comfortable, wide enough for them never to have to say “I’m sorry” to the Italians. One day it’ll be necessary to take a hand to the Constitution, and make it become a true living tool, in the hands of the citizens. Not a memorial for memories.
To discuss the Constitution in Italy you need to be a Constitutionalist (what does that mean?) just as to talk about the Maroni law (he hides better than a mole) you have to be an expert in Labour Law. The magic word to block every change is “Anti- Constitutional” It works better than “Vade retro Satana”. The Constitution is afraid of the strong man and the people. It has handed over Italy to its representatives, to the parties who have not given it back since then.
There is however a sign of change. In the autonomous region of the Valle D’Aosta the proposal referendum has been introduced. For the first time in italy it’s possible to approve proposals of popular laws. The people become law makers.
On 18 November there’s voting on five law proposals for the rules for the election of the Council and the Regional Junta and the future of the regional hospital. The minimum quorum for participation is 45%. The parties invite the people not to go to vote and they are not talking about it. Sunday 18 November everyone off to vote early in the morning. Even in Rome they have to hear la Voix de la Vallée.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 09:48 PM in Politics
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October 22, 2007
The Final Solution
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Mastella is being investigated by De Magistris for abuse of office, illicit financing of the parties, collaborating in fraud in relation to European and national financing. As soon as he discovers it he asks for his transfer. He doesn’t succeed. De Magistris becomes the one under investigation. Someone leaks reserved information to the Catanzaro Prosecutor. De Magistris receives an envelope containing bullets. He continues all the same. Mastella threatens to send Prodi home in the Spring. The investigation is immediately removed from De Magistris. Does it finish here?
Yes. It’s the end, but the end for the Centre Left. It is dead, defunct. No party has called for the resignation of Mastella. Shame on you! In a normal country, Mastella would be at Ceppaloni harvesting the tomatoes. And Prodi is under investigation as well? He’s calm. The judge no longer exists and he, together with his mate Mastella, is in Naples to receive the Pope.
Marco Travaglio has sent me a letter about the final solution.
”Dear Beppe,
Two weeks ago at Annozero, I called to mind Licio Gelli and the Plan for the rebirth of the P2 and they were up in arms. In fact, I was too optimistic at that time. By now we are beyond Gelli, beyond the P2. We are at the political-judicial coup.
For once, following the technical-judicial aspects of the decision to wrench the “Why Not” investigation on Prodi, Mastella & Co. from the investigator, that is from the prosecutor Luigi De Magistris, is useless and misleading. It’s best to get to the essence immediately, that is: the magistrate who had collected enough elements to investigate Mastella for abuse, fraud and illicit financing, that is he reckoned to have found the money, cannot bring his investigation to a conclusion, even though on the home straight. The dossier will pass to another magistrate, who will take months to study all the official documents. And if he doesn’t want to end up like De Magistris – attacked by the Right and the Left, defended by no-one, under inspection for months and months, dragged in front of the CSM, put forward for immediate transfer, and in the end have his work taken from him – he will listen to the loving advice that the government will give him and the opposition as well, for once so united: archive everything, let it be, turn to another task.
Whatever he says to himself, this is not a private matter between De Magistris and Mastella. This is the final solution after twenty years of war of politics against the Justice system. It is the crowning glory of the dream of the various people like Gelli, Craxi and Berlusconi to stop at birth the investigations into power. Gelli, Craxi and Berlusconi in their naïvety, thought that to do that it was necessary to modify the Constitution, by writing there that the career of prosecutor is separate from that of judge and that the prosecutors must obey the government.
Mastella and the ones behind him understood that it’s not necessary to change the regulations: it’s enough to change the actual conditions so that all that happens. As soon as a prosecutor opens a dossier on the friends of a Minister, he asks for him to be transferred. (The prosecutor, not the Minister). Even if the request has no foundation, it doesn’t matter: when the magistrate arrives at the crucial part, going up a level from the friends of the Minister to the Minister himself, the Minister will make out that the prosecutor is doing that because he’s angry with him. And, with the game of the three cards, he will convince some other magistrate to swap the cause with the effects and snatch the investigation from the prosecutor for “incompatibility”. It’s as though the prosecutor was angry with the Minister, and not the Minister with the prosecutor. It’s called “preventative war”, and it wasn’t even invented by Mastella. It was already expressed as a theory by Mao: “Strike one to educate a hundred.” It works.” Marco Travaglio
Read the interview to Luigi De Magistris.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 12:55 AM in Politics
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October 15, 2007
Chomsky and the machine for producing candidates
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Noam Chomsky has given me this interview about V-Day and on the reactions of the parties and the media.
Chomsky says: “the political activity of the parties now is to produce candidates using mechanisms that are controlled by concentrations of economic power that marginalize the population.”. You are only an elector “who has the right to vote and who passes your life delegating and receiving commands but you have found your new liberty “ as in Giorgio Gaber’s song.
Chomsky expresses a strong concern for the liberty of information and for the future of the Internet.
The next V-Day will be about information. The date will be revealed in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
"V-Day Clean Parliament . Nothing in the press. It's extremely impressive that it could be done and it must reflects the substantial if not overwhelming feeling on the part of the population that something dramatic has to be done about this persistent