Room to read

Dear Friends,

this email is about fund-raising for a charity association and the goal is to raise money by selling a Calendar for the upcoming 2010.
Since some months we, my girlfriend and I, are involved, to a certain extend, in the activities of a no-profit association called "Room to read". But what is "Room to read"?

Room to read started from an idea of John Wood, who at that time was a high executive of Microsoft for the Asian-Pacific region.
The source of inspiration of Mr. Wood was a series of trips he had to Nepal.
At the end of his first trip he had the chance to visit the school of a village.
Once he visited the school, he asked if he could have had a look at the library.
Unfortunately, the library was just a locked up cabinet containing few and damaged books, which appeared to be backpacker castoffs.


Moreover, the watchman said that he couldn't let the library opened and the borrowing of the books was limited, since otherwise the children would have damaged the books by consulting them too often.
After this revealing experience, Mr. Wood had to leave Nepal, and as soon as he went back to his office, he decided to collect as many books as he could. To fasten the collection of books he contacted via email all his colleagues and friends by asking to send to his private address in USA all the second hand books. Mr. Wood would have paid all the expenses for the delivering.
After few days, his father had to call him to communicate that there was no space any more in the garage where the books were arriving. The books continued to arrived even in the following days. After some time, Mr. Wood went back to Nepal to personally deliver the collected books in the amount of 37 big cartoons. Now he was ready to take care of the new organization.

One of the idea behind Mr. Wood organization is to help girls during their education. The reason why Room to read helps only girls and not boys is due to the fact that a girl will be one day a mother, and a mother will transmit her knowledge to her sons and daughters. Therefore, more than one generation can be educated by helping a single girl.
The amount of money needed to provide a full scholarship to a girl in the countries were Room To Read operates is of 250 USD/year. For a 10 years education is obviously 10 times more, which is the ideal goal of each found raising for Room to read.

Fang Fang and I, invested in the acquisition of calendars about 400$ for 60 calendars.
The cost of each calendar is 4€. We bought some at 10€ and some at 4€.

Therefore, a normal price, per calendar, of 10€ would donate 6€ to Room to Read.
It has to be pointed out that Room to Read is, in its category, the charity association, with the highest efficiency in terms of money that really goes to the people who need them.
85€ out of 100€ go to the children.

We know that many of you will buy in the next weeks gift for all your beloved and friends.
We are convinced that this calendar is a very meaningful and smart gift to let other people know the enthusiastic, useful and forward-looking work of Mr. Wood and his colleagues.


Our education and the education of the people surrounding us, is one of the most powerful means to improve the current world which, we believe, needs to be strongly improved.
By supporting a girl to acquire the needed education, we are simultaneously helping her and her relatives to live a better and less problematic life.

If you are interested in buying one or more calendars, please let us know!
We appreciate your kindness in advance!

yours sincerely,

Fang Fang and Antonio

P.S.
The calendar weight is 180 g and the postage costs are the following:

inside European Union:
3€/500 g that can contain up to 2 calendars
6€/1000 g that can contain up to 5 calendars

outside Europe the prices are doubled, while in Germany they are halved.

If you are interested in, please send me an email to napoli.antonio@gmail.com with your request and your complete address, afterwards I will send you my bank account for the money transfer and of course the calendars.

The idea of freedom according to Microsoft....

I wanted to use the service of "Microsoft Office Online"...this is the answer I got when I tried to log in....(I use Ubuntu...)

best regards,
Antonio

This world is really at the end....

Hallo,

Few weeks ago, I sent an email describing a discover that may significantly help the early detection of cancer at a very early stage.
I sent this mail to all the people I have in my contact list. Among them there are several PhD, Doctor, Prof...etc. etc.

The email was in English, and although my English is not at a very good level, I believe it is understandable by everybody. Moreover, since the inventor is Italian, there was no excuse to say, sorry but I do not understand English...because the link was also available in Italian.

As I have just written the mail was sent to about 250 persons...
So far, after three weeks, I got NO answer...
Nobody believes that this email is important. Probably because nobody dies of cancer in this stupid world. Someone asked me, what should I have answered....Well, there are several options....

1. you could have helped me to understand whether this research makes sense (it has been certified by FermiLab and other important institutions), but maybe FermiLab and the others are something stupid as well the nobel price, and therefore the research is a shitty one....This sound pretty much reasonable in a world were a pornostar counts much more than people working at the FermiLab
   
2. you could have forwarded this email to anyone you know, to understand once again whether is a real thing, or just publicity...The researcher looks very serious, and he said it clearly that he is willing to give its patents for free...he doesn't want to make any money out of it...
   
3. you could have started a discussion with me or you friends with the same purposes I mentioned above
   

Instead what did I get? ZERO answers...
On the other hand, few days ago I sent an email containing three pictures of the wife or beloved of three men...There was a picture of Michelle Obama, Claudia Bruni, and the Italian Monica Lewinski, Ms. Mara Carfagna...In all the pictures the three women were indicating a size with their hands....the size (according to the funny email) was the size of the dick of their partner...you understood it correctly, I wrote Dick, like the former vice-president (and real one) of USA.
I received it from a friend and I forwarded it...Strangely I received more answers to this stupid and idiot email than the one (zero) I received about the machine to early detect cancer...You may say, of course, this was such an important and interesting email, why are you so surprise of that? Can you imagine, now we believe to now with a certain accuracy the size of the dick of two presidents and a dictator. What is more important than that? Advances in early detection of cancer? Bullshit!

I have to assume that if a scientific invention that may be useful to save hundred of thousands of people every year is less important that the size of the dick of Obama, Berlusconi and Sarkozy, this world is really at the end...
If someone find the time to answer to my stupid email, and he/she doesn't find the same time to answer to the first email, I am pretty sure that this world has NOT A SINGLE chance not only to become a good place, but at least a decent place...And this unfortunately happens on a daily base.

I am so disappointed about this episode, that you cannot imagine. I though that facebook was a nonsense place, a place were nobody answers to serious things and everybody finds time and hours to answer to stupid-low cultural level stuffs. (this happens every single moment)..
It seems now to me that facebook is not alone...

Sorry for the anger...

best wishes,
Antonio

An interisting machine to early detect cancer

Dear Mr. Obama,

I am an Italian researcher living in Munich.
I got to know from some friends the following research concerning a machine to early detect cancer diseases.
I know that you are a sensible and intelligent man, therefore I decided to write this short message.

The researcher seems to be serious, and his researches too. I had a look at his CV and his works, and he surely knows what to do!
His work has been already certified by several universities, research centers, and famous professors.
All the certifications were successfully passed.
Although the evidence of the importance of invention, it seems that the big producers of medical machine do not want to finance his work, since they claim that it will not be profitable.
Moreover, Dr. Crosetto doesn't want to earn money from his patent and this may be an obstacle to the realization of his detection machine.
I hope that you or some of your collaborators will have time to have a look at "Crosetto foundation" web site, and hopefully your administration, in case you think it makes, sense, will be able to make possible the commercialization of this machine.

Your sincerely, and thanks for your work!
Antonio

Is Italy the only one to be blamed?

Here comes a recent letter I wrote to a journalist who was talking about our beloved Prime Minister:


Dear Dr. Geoff Andrews,

My name is Antonio Napoli.
I am a young Italian researcher in the field of telecommunication.
I just finished to read your very interesting article, hereafter reported:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/berlusconi-s-scandla-italy-s-tragedy

and I would like to discuss few points with you :

In your essay you clearly describe some truth concerning the current status of the modern Italy.
Your analysis is certainly much deeper than many others I have been reading in the last years, and in particular in the last weeks.

You pointed out several issues that may arise in case Berlusconi's leadership terminates in the next weeks/months, by comparing it with what happens to Mussolini the 25th July 1943. Well, the situation is very different, and apart the fact that Berlusconi may be betrayed by his allies I don't see any other relations between the two men. #Mussolini was a dictator that lead Italy to a dramatic war, but, at least, Mussolini loved, although in a very particular way, Italy. On the other hand Berlusconi loves only himself and money, and he has no interest in his own country.

You mentioned that even if Italy will be one day free from Berlusconi's regime, the country will still suffer a dramatic decadence.
In this concern, you are fully right. The Italian society has been destroyed by more than 20 years of complete and extensive brain-washing.
The brain of Italians is nowadays as the Latin said like a "tabula rasa", an empty and cleaned blackboard.
If one day Berlusconi will resign or die, the Italian society will be, probably, not ready to deal with the current modern world.
Moreover, already many people, in particular many young researchers, left Italy, and the country will suffer because of the dramatic
lack of knowledge in technology, medicine, mathematics and whatsoever is needed to build an advanced economy in this second millennium.

Berlusconi's televisions imposed a model of life where to reach success you do not need to work hard and study.
Meritocracy is an unknown word to the ordinary Italian. His model tells us that everything you need is your beauty, luck, and astuteness.
Moreover, Berlusconi convinced Italians that honesty and respect of the law is something dumb.
These two "strong achievements" of his televisions and many others have set dramatic limitations to the future of modern Italy,
which will lead to a terrible crisis under all the thinkable aspects. Italy is likely going to live its worst crisis since the end of the Roman empire.

This is surely something sad, and something that in your article has been reported.
By the way, I have a simple request for you, since I recognize the deepness of your article, I think we can move forward and mention other issues, so far neglected, in order to provide your readers a complete picture of causes and effects.

I have the impression that in the article you've never mentioned the key-points of Berlusconi atypical government or maybe better say regime. Berlusconi is the main outcome of the influence and interference of other countries (mainly GB and USA) on Italy.

Here is the weblink of an example written in italian
http://www.movisol.org/08news019.htm

here is another one in english
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3182451.ece

GB and USA were extremely afraid of the power of the communist party in the 70s, and they planned (please have a look at other recently declassified documents of the GB secret service), in case Italy would have democratically elected a government formed by the democratic and the communist party, to overthrow it with a coup.
I think you may agree with me that as Berlusconi represents something atypical, also the interfering in the interior affairs of another government is also something atypical. Moreover, we are talking about "plans" to overthrow a government, which is one of the worst crime a government can ever plan.

During the 1970s Berlusconi was selected in order to realize the goal to take the power through a "white coup", in other words without killing anyone. This had to be done through the television and other tools. About this you might be interested to read something about P2 and Licio Gelli, who was the head of a masonic illegal association named "loggia P2", and Berlusconi was one of his member.
The "Loggia" had plans to bring Italy to "modernity" and the plans were consisted of five main points. Berlusconi was able to fulfil all of them,
and he received the congratulations from Gelli himself as a proof that the connection between them is not only a "mere conspiracy theory" but a well clear and stated fact.

So far, It is not official, since not all the documents have been declassified, that P2 + (GB + USA) secret services worked together in order to destabilize the weak Italian Democracy. Here we could, unfortunately, and hopefully for the next few years, only conjecture about the dramatic secret operations occured in Italy in the 1970s in order to defend the western world from the danger of communism. In other words, we cannot state that Gelli + Berlusconi + CIA + MI5 surely worked together.

BUT...we certainly know two facts:

• first, GB and USA were afraid of the Italian communism, because it could have show, as well as Allende in Chile, that there was a third way opposing the capitalism of western countries and the communism of the USSR. From official declassified documents we know that they planed as an extreme solution even to overthrow the democratically elected Italian government in case the communist party would have been part of it.
• second, in Italy there was an association which had, as main part of his program, the introduction of a media-based dictatorial regime, result that has been fully achieved.
  

Therefore, although we do not have all the documents we need, since we are person endowed with a brain, we can put together all the pieces of this big puzzle, (see also memories of Aldo Moro's wife concerning the fears of the former Italian statesman about Kissinger), and build the whole picture of the latest part of Italian history.

Of course, in the modern history of Italy there is not only one subject which is guilty.
That is to speak out that not only the GB and USA secret services are the causes, but also the structure of Italian society itself with all his characteristics made it possible. But you know, you cannot blame a child who gets a lung cancer if his father smokes all the time.

With this email I would like to invite you to consider also the aforementioned aspects, which are not negligible issues.
And please ask GB and USA citizens not only to criticize and blame Italy, but also to criticize their own governments for what they did to us.
It would be nice, if some of the journalists, writers, and professors of the Anglo-Saxon world start,one day, to mention the responsibilities of their own governments and if one day they finally stop to describe Italians just as a flock of sheep unable to make any real changes.

I am shame of my country, and that's way I left it, but I know that a significant part of its guiltiness comes from foreign interventions.
Thanks a lot for your attention,
Yours Sincerely,
Antonio