Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

4 January 2010

Lettere dall'Italia - parte II

Ciao a tutti,

ecco qui la seconda lettera dall'Italia.
Il tono e' lo stesso della precedente se non piu' pessimista...

Ciao,
Antonio

P.S.
The english version will come soon...

SECONDA LETTERA

Ciao,

Scrivo a voi perché purtroppo la mia voce è nascosta tra le tante voci di un popolo italiano sempre più triste, solo e arrendevole di fronte alla prepotenza e all’arroganza di una classe politica ottusa e completamente indifferente ai problemi della gente.
La congiuntura internazionale è tale per cui bisogna sempre accontentarsi di quello che si ha, per cui bisogna solo ringraziare "Dio Onnipotente" di avere ancora quattro soldi in tasca per farsi una birra con gli amici e offrire una pizza alla ragazza di turno. E non abbiamo più neanche il tempo per incazzarci e andare in piazza dove rischi di beccarti una pallottola vagante dalla polizia o dal mafioso di zona. Non abbiamo il tempo e la forza perché siamo impegnati a lavorare sotto padrone o a sbatterci affinché il contratto venga prolungato, o perché ci prendano a fare uno stage non retribuito in cui se siamo carine e piacenti e ci facciamo toccare il culo, forse rimaniamo anche un altro anno con contratto a progetto.
L’Italia sta diventando sempre di più il paese in cui non ci sono certezze. Non ci sono certezze nei diritti in quanto ti possono incarcerare e tenere sequestrato 48 ore a Bolzaneto senza farti pisciare o ti può rapire la CIA , con l’avallo del governo, perché professi la tua religione e sei sospettato di terrorismo.
O semplicemente non hai la certezza che gli stupratori di tua figlia o della tua ragazza si facciano gli anni che meritano o che i picchiatori squadristi delle ronde vengano puniti in base alle leggi e alla costituzione che viene continuamente calpestata nei suoi valori democratici e della resistenza antifascista.
E soprattutto viviamo in un paese arretrato moralmente in cui la corruzione spadroneggia, ma ci si scandalizza se si parla di coppie di fatto e unioni civili omosessuali. E poi non si può neanche morire in pace perché il Governo che ormai ha rotto ogni indugio e va a vanti deciso verso un modello autoritario stile dittatura sudamericana, cerca di varare un decreto intervenendo in una questione spinosissima con la delicatezza di un elefante in una cristalleria.
Subiamo piccole violenze ogni giorno in questo paese. A partire dalla Televisione che per legge dobbiamo pagare per forza, ai divieti di circolazione quando non c’è la possibilità di scegliere mezzi non inquinanti, se non cambiandosi la macchina ogni anno per arricchire i concessionari e la famiglia Agnelli e simili; all’impossibilità di avere figli con la fecondazione assistita, al ricatto a cui dobbiamo sottostare se siamo immigrati e ci ammaliamo.
Non mi fa schifo il mio paese, mi fanno schifo le persone che lo governano e tutti quelli che non fanno niente per cambiarlo. Tutti quelli che dicono che Saviano è solo un irriconoscente e un rompipalle, quelli che dicono che Falcone e Borsellino volevano solo fare carriera, quelli che dicono che il pesce grande mangia sempre il pesce piccolo.
A volte mi vengono davvero dei pensieri cattivi, vorrei vedere un po’ di teste che cadono e un po’ di gente inferocita per le strade con i forconi. Pronti lì a piantarli nel culo ai manager che si alzano lo stipendio prima di andare in pensione o a quelli che per dimettersi si fanno ricoprire d’oro, o a quelli che sfruttano la beneficenza per arricchirsi o a quelli che vincono gli appalti nel mezzogiorno e poi si mangiano tutto e lasciano gli scheletri delle costruzioni sulle coste.
Scusate lo sfogo, ma è l'unica cosa che mi è rimasta. E lo faccio con voi prima di fare la fine di Piero Ricca che riceve denunce solo per andare a dire per strada e in faccia ai politici la verità.

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Lettere dall'Italia - parte I

Ciao,

questa e' la versione italiana (originale) della post precedente...

Ciao,
Antonio

PRIMA LETTERA:

Caro Antonio,

sono preoccupatissimo per la situazione in Italia dove siamo GIA' parzialmente in una forma di dittatura (impossibilità di scegliere i propri rappresentanti politici per via delle liste "blindate", magistratura intimidita e castrata (vedi intercettazioni), informazione assente o serva, armi di "distrazione di massa" attive ogni giorno ed ogni ora, verità sbeffeggiata e ribaltata, opposizione politica - tranne Di Pietro - inesistente ...) e peggioreremo di molto negli anni a venire.
I gruppi su Facebook inneggianti alla mafia sono stati, molto probabilmente, inseriti da qualche scagnozzo per servire da scusa per una censura globale della Rete e chiusura, o condizionamento pesante, dei blog scomodi.
E anche noi ci siamo forse "cascati", iscrivendoci ai gruppi "anti-mafia-su-facebook".
L'ignoranza e l'inconsapevolezza dilaga fra la gente ed è disarmante.
Il cinismo e la falsità dei politicanti, e la loro fantasia e spregiudicatezza nel male, sono a livelli mai visti.
Ti confesso che oggi stavo cercando informazioni su come si può fare per acquisire la cittadinanza francese.
E' solo una pazza idea senza probabilmente un seguito, anche perchè ho *** anni ormai e la salute non buona, ma ...
... scusa lo sfogo, e tieni ben d'acconto il tuo lavoro all'estero.
Poveri noi!!!
(P.S. Utilizza pure come vuoi, se vuoi, questa missiva, ma non citare il mio nome perché ho paura).

3 January 2010

Letters from Italy - part I

Dear Readers,

I recently received some emails from friends who, for various reasons, have to live in the modern version of the fascist Italy (i.e. under the Berlusconi's regime).
All these friends are very high level persons, and for them it is a continuous suffering to stay in a country where the words morality and ethic are just ancient Greek words without any meaning...

To leave in a country, where the information does not exist any more, and where the most of the people surrounding you have been brainwashed by 25-years long of Berlusconi TV model, it is not easy...

I feel really sorry for these friends of mine and the only thing I can say is that
  • I will always be ready to provide my help to this poor south European country
  • and that they can come to stay with me in Munich whenever they want to finally feel what does it mean to leave in a free, advanced and modern country as Germany it is.
yours sincerely,
Antonio

P.S.
I will not report any name of the authors of the mail for obvious reasons.

FIRST MAIL:

Dear Antonio,

I am extremely worried about the situation in Italy where we are ALREADY suffering a certain form of dictatorship (for example we cannot elected our political representatives since the elected candidates are selected by the parties without any democratic logic, the justice is all over the country continuously intimidated and stopped from doing its work), the media are absent or are just slaves (n.d.a. of Berlusconi), informations through the television channels is reduced to a distraction weapon, where the through is modified and changed (n.d.a. according to Berlusconi's needs).

Last but not least, the political opposition does not exist, a part the small party of Di Pietro. In the next years the situation will worsen. In Facebook appeared some group, likely inserted by some Mafia-boy (nda, = "scagnozzo") to be later on used (by the governmental officers) to apply a global censorship to Internet with the consequently closing, or strong re-dimensioning, of blog that do not report the unique voice of the Italy's owner (n.d.a. Berlusconi). And probably we have been tricked too, joining these anti-Mafia group that appeared afterwards in Facebook.

Ignorance and unawareness are spreading through the population, and this is disarming. The cynicism and truthlessness of the politicians, and their imagination and unscrupulousness to do bad things, reached a level that we never saw before.
I have to confess you, that today I was looking for information to apply for the French citizenship. I know, that it is a crazy idea, that probably it will never be realized, also because I am xxx years old and my health is not good any more, but....

Sorry for the outburst, and keep safe your job abroad.
Poor Italy!

(P.S. You can use as you want this letter, but please do not report my name since I am afraid of)

28 November 2009

Boccamafiosa

Bocca Mafiosa (Testo)

Lo chiamavano Bocca Mafiosa
portava l'amore portava l'amore
lo chiamavano Bocca Mafiosa
portava le gnocche a Villa Certosa

appena egli scese in campo
contro le forze della sinistra
tutti si accorsero in un lampo
che era un colluso ed un piazzista

chi fa politica per un ideale
chi se la sceglie per professione
Bocca Mafiosa né l'uno né l'altro
lui per scampare alla prigione

ma la passione spesso conduce
a soddisfare le proprie voglie
a frequentare le minorenni
fino a tradire la propria moglie

e fu così che da un giorno all'altro
Bocca Mafiosa subì l'affondo
degli scoop de La Repubblica
e dei giornali di tutto il mondo

ma tutti gli uomini del Presidente
con una strategia surrettizia
sui tg e nelle televisioni
non diffondevano la notizia.

Si sa che la gente mantiene il silenzio
come Mills fece per l'assistito
si sa che la gente mantiene il silencio
se tale silenzio è retribuito

così una escort mai stata ministra
che le parole del premier registra
si recò alla procura di Bari
a testimoniare sui loschi affari

e rivolgendosi al Cavaliere
e all'avvocato suo faccendiere
disse "le cose che ho rivelato
saran valutate da un magistrato"

e quelli andarono da "Il Giornale"
e rilasciarono un'intervista:
"quella schifosa c'ha qualche mandante
sicuramente un comunista"

"E arrivarono a diffamarmi
questi cosacchi questi cosacchi
se qualcuno vuole incastrarmi
risponderò con le mie armi"

il senso etico non è una dote
di cui sian colmi i politicanti
ma quella volta a difendere Silvio
non si schierarono tutti quanti.

Dietro al suo culo c'erano tutti
Minzolini, Fede, Gasparri
con una lingua talmente asciutta
che sembravano dei ramarri

ad osannare chi da trent'anni
con le sue imprese, con le sue imprese
ad osannare chi da trent'anni
condiziona tutto il paese

c'era un cartello giallo
con una scritta nera
diceva "candidami alle europee
te la do se mi fai far carriera".

ma gli scandali di Berlusconi
che siano tangenti o che sian condoni
nella Repubblica delle Banane
durano solo due settimane

e all'occasione successiva
con altre zoccole si divertiva
chi ebbe un lavoro chi ebbe una spilla
lui solo in mezzo a tante Brambilla

persino il parroco lo disprezza
per la sua lotta all'immigrazione
lo spot effimero della monnezza
il nucleare, la sicurezza

e con Obama neopresidente
inevitabile è il paragone
a loro un giovane vincente
a noi un maniaco col pannolone!

P.S. I
Per chi non lo sapesse: escort non e' una macchina della ford, ma significa, volgarmente parlando, puttana...

P.S. II
qui c'e' trovate la canzone

4 July 2009

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

17 January 2009

Book Review - Borsellino's red diary


Dear Readers,

I finish reading a book about the Italian judge Paolo Borsellino and one of his diary.
Mr. Borsellino was world-wide famous for his investigations, in strict collaboration with Mr. Giovanni Falcone, about Sicilian mafia.
This post does not want to talk about the role and the work of these two judges and also victims of mafia, but rather it wants to describe the book aforementioned.

When Paolo Borsellino was barbarously murdered in Palermo on July 19th, 1992, only 53 days after the assassination of his friend and colleague Mr. Falcone, he had a small red diary with him.
Mr. Borsellino used to bring this red diary always with him. His wife Agnese confirmed that he was almost sleeping with it.

What did Borsellino use to write on that diary?

According to his wife, sons, and collaborators, Mr. Borsellino made use of it as a prospect for his idea concerning his current and future investigations.
And which were the current investigations of Mr. Borsellino at the time he has been murdered?
Mr. Borsellino was a member of the so-called Mafia Pool, which consisted of few experts about the mafia problems in Sicily working at general power of attorney of Palermo. The leaders of that group were Mr. Falcone and Mr. Borsellino.
From the murder of his colleague Mr. Falcone up July 19th, 1992, day of his death, Mr. Borsellino was investigating on the assassination of Mr. Falcone.

In fact, after the murder of Mr. Falcone, Mr. Borsellino mentioned to several persons (one of them was the head of the district in charge to investigate on the murder of Mr. Falcone), that for him he was clear who killed Mr. Falcone. All these notes and memos have been written, according to his wife and collaborators, on the red diary. Moreover, the red diary contained also notes concerning others investigations that were ongoing at general power of attorney of Palermo. One of this was about the connections between Sicilian mafia and Mediaset, the company belonging to Silvio Berlusconi.

Mr. Borsellino was murdered by an enormous amount of trinitrotoluene placed closed to the entrance of the building where his mother lived. The explosive was place inside a car.
The diary was in Mr. Borsellino's bag, and his bag was in his car, and it was found untouched after the explosion. All the documents that Mr. Borsellino carried with him have been regularly found inside the bag, except the red diary.
A Carabiniere, later on identified as Giovanni Arcangioli, has been photographed while he is carrying Mr. Borsellino's bag somewhere. The bag that after the release of this photo, was found once again inside the car. But now without the red diary.

The book tries to reconstruct the events between the assassination of his friend Mr. Falcone and Mr. Borsellino's murder. The idea of the book is interesting and surely provides some knowledge to the readers. On the other hand, as Mr. Borsellino's wife declared, Mr. Borsellino did not share the contents of his diary with anyone, apart, with his colleague and friend Mr. Falcone. Therefore the book cannot provide the solution to the mystery of the red diary contents.

Now we have to identify who took advantage by the stealing of the red diary belonging to Mr. Borsellino. Since we do not have any evidence, it is difficult to make any statements.
On the hand we are capable of thinking and we should use our intelligence to conjecture the reasons behind the disappearance of Mr. Borsellino's red diary.

Mr. Borsellino was hardly investigating on the death of his friend Mr. Falcone, a man who has been materially assassinated by Mafia. I expressly write "materially" because the reasons behind his assassination are far from being only related to the Sicilian criminal organization.


Mafia in Italy, as well as everywhere in the world, strongly interacts with the central government. In Italy we call it mafia, in others countries you would call it corporatocracy or bank system.

Mr. Falcone and Mr. Borsellino were the most important experts about mafia problematics in Italy, and among the most important in the world. Moreover, their intelligence and know-how about mafia was far away from any other investigator. In other words, if they had not killed them, they would have, one day, discovered the connections between mafia and politics.
Therefore both of them had to be murdered. And once they assassinated one, the second deserved immediately the same destiny, before he could understand who decided to kill the first.

Following the assassination of these two astonishing figures, the feeling of a certain indignation arose in Italy. This atmosphere continued for less than two years, when a member of a Mason association, called P2, with the purpose of organizing a coup in Italy, took the power.
This man, Silvio Berlusconi, distracted Italians attention (by means of his televisions) from corruption and mafia problems. In fact he was involved in the first, and to some extention in the second.

In the years following the assassination of the two judges in Palermo, Berlusconi's media brainwashed Italian citizens by convincing them that all the judges (investigating on the political class and mafia) belonged to some secret communist sect.
Although the boundary condition were totally changed with respect to July 1992, the general attorney of Palermo was still able to finish part of the work started by Mr. Borsellino and Mr. Falcone. Particularly, under the leadership of Mr. Caselli, who was the head of the justice office in Palermo during these years, it has been possible to definitively establish the implication in mafia affairs (at least until 1981) of Mr. Andreotti, a man who has been for seven times (even thought each term was quite short) prime minister in Italy.

your sincerely,
Antonio

5 July 2008

Pompeii, shame of Italy

Dear Readers,

On the most popular Italian new papers, at least on the on-line version, the following news has not been adequately reported. Hereafter I post a reportage realized by BBC about the current status of the archaeological area of the old roman city of Pompeii.
Click here to watch the reportage.

Pompeii lies in a state of total abandonment and the news has been finally broadcast all over the world.
But what happens right now so special, in Pompeii?? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Pompeii has always been in such ignoble conditions since nothing serious has been proposed along the last 50 years to protect and preserve one of the most important world wide heritage.
Nevertheless, the BBC reportage is worth to be watched, since it, at least, spreads the news out of the Italian borders and makes the entire world aware of it!

I was born in Salerno, a city about 40km south from Pompeii.
Since I was a child, my father and grand father taught me about the beauty of archeology, and since I used to spend my holidays in Salerno, I had the opportunity to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum several times.

The last visit goes back to the summer of 1986. At this point in time I started to notice that there were clear signs of degradation and abandonment. My eyes can still remember that in almost all the Roman houses there were graffiti about everything: from the declaration of love between lovers until the support of some football club. In Pompeii you could really find everything, except protection and preservation of the monument. Since than, in order to avoid feeling sad about Pompeii, I decided not to visit it any more.

Pompeii is something unique, as many other monuments of Italy. And as many other places or heritages of our glorious past, is not preserved and enhanced in order teach our children about our history.

This particular relationship with cultural heritage is very common in Italy. Perhaps we have too many monuments and we do not realize their importance; perhaps we are lazy and we do not want to do anything to protect them; perhaps we are so disorganized and these are the consequences.
No matter what is the cause! What matter is that Italy is not allowed to destroy his history, since it represents one of the most important part of the western history.

To change the current situation is obviously not effortless, in particular referring to the current modern Italian society, where everything counts, except what should really counts.

The national government, the local government, and the people living in that area, instead of acting to modify the current status, instead of working all together to recover the lost time, instead of planning and basing their future on the preservation of a heritage that can also represent a enormous source of incoming, instead of all these possible approaches, their solution is to do nothing!

I thought several time how we could preserve and protect our monuments, and in particular these kind of places. I believe that one possibility to save Pompeii, Herculaneum and the other archaeological areas existing in Italy is to make them profitable for the local inhabitants. If the local economy was based on the archaeological excavations, Pompeii would be preserved forever by the local people, without any help, advice or suggestion from the national government!

To realize it, we must create, around the old roman city, a network capable to welcome and inform the tourist visiting Pompeii at the same level of any other famous place. If we can make that, we will probably dramatically improve the current status!

At the moment, there is almost no organization: The touristic point are something still rare, the information in English are almost always unavailable, and a guided tour in English is just impossible to get.

If the archaeological area of Pompeii does not generate any profit, it makes it something useless to the eyes of the people leaving in the near area. I can bet that I can find someone right now in Pompeii still wondering why instead of preserving this old, useless houses, we do not build some casino or houses for the inhabitants.

Of course, this approach is valid for any other abandoned or degraded monument. A wide use of it would allow to make profitable any place, and more important will let our children to fully enjoy our wonderful cultural heritage.

Waiting for your comments, I wish you all the best!
Antonio