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The unknown public official
The Committee to Authorise Proceedings in the Lower House has given the green light for Fassino. DAlemas case has been sent to Strasbourg.After two months, they discovered a procedural twist. It happened by chance. It was an unknown official working for the Lower House who discovered it. After the unknown soldier, the unknown official. The official promptly alerted Giovanardi, the President of the Committee to Authorise Proceedings. President Giovanardi told the DS representative. The DS representative immediately called Violante. Violante immediately telephoned the DS-dioxin senator and lawyer, Calvi. Calvi sent the happy news via radio to DAlema sailing on his yacht Ikarus. Two days later, having been reached by a homing pigeon, even Fassino knew. He didnt fail to give a comment supporting the justice system: But what are we talking about. Its not a political matter, it is exquisitely judicial. The law is clear and you cant go against the law.The local house of liberties was...

This evening lets all go to the Town Council meeting
Anyone who incites the crowd, who is outside the institutional river bed is condemned. The language of V-Day is criticized to avoid talking of its contents and the causes that brought it about.V-Day has proposed a popular draft law with three elements for a Clean Parliament. Italian citizens queuing up for hours, signed it. Where is the violence? Where is the fascism that Scalfari was talking about?The civic lists take the citizens back to the centre of public life. They are allowed for by Italian law, they have always existed. Where is the demagogy and the qualunquismo that the professionals of politics are screaming about?We are in the river bed. Public life interests us. Apart from anything, it is the legitimate property of the citizens. The blog has proposed a programme: "Citizen Primaries" on the economy, transport, energy, health, and telecommunications. Has any of the media taken it into consideration? Has it perhaps been analysed and discussed? Since 8 September, every...

TFR: If you switch you are lost
Investing your end-of-work-lump-sum in shares and bonds has not been a good idea. Luckily 60% of the workers in the private sector have not listened to the Sirens of the private insurance sector and they have done well. Beppe Scienza explains why. Dear Beppe,Its good to know that I have given good advice. Above all, that way they cant accuse you of just denouncing things without ever making concrete proposals. The recent falls in shares and bonds show how appropriate it was to keep your TFR. www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2007/06/tfr_muttering.html).Basically the referendum to get rid of the TFR did not get through: more than 60% of the private sector workers chose not to do without it. Newspapers and TV invited them to listen to the politicians and the economists who were friends of the private insurance sector. Instead, the Italians, (rascals that they are!) to a large extent disobeyed Cesare Damiano, the Minister of Labour and the former director of the pension fund, they disobeyed...

A letter from Father Benjamin
I am publishing a letter from Father Benjamin..Dear Beppe Grillo,I am Father Benjamin. I dont know if you remember, but in March 2003, before the American aggression against Iraq, I said on Porta a Porta that there were no weapons of mass destruction in that country, and that it was all a put-up-job by Washington to deceive the UN and public opinion.I said that if they invaded Iraq they would not find any weapons of mass destruction, but they would meet with heroic resistance to their invasion. They answered me with insults and slanders, and gave orders to the television networks and radio stations not to discuss my books and films about Iraq. When you tell the truth and the powerful Lie-makers cannot reply with further falsehoods, they use denigration, insults and defamation. God bless you, Grillo. They also treated me as a terrorist, because I told the truth about what was really happening in Iraq and denounced the falsehoods of the Lie-makers in London and Washington. The...

We are the State!
In Bolognas Piazza Maggiore there were dozens of people with me: architects, philosophers, journalists, economists, ordinary citizens, campaign groups, environmentalists, artists. No one has talked about them. No one has talked about what they said, their suggestions, their accusations. Their words were listened to by a square full of silent and attentive people that seemed like a church. Im going to offer them to you one by one on the blog. This time its Alessandro Bergonzoni with his magical speech: We are the State! Thanks, Thanks Grillo! A notable event. Notes for a notable event. Grillo has given us the way and for me the way is through the voice. We need to speak and to do, to combine the speaking and the doing. Signing. That is go and sign, lets go and sign, head, no mind, head. Use your head, otherwise itll be us doing the penance! Its us thatll be condemned if we dont change. This time its not bad manners to point out. A popular uprising. Grillo said the people must...

Turin City Council Meeting
Citizens are waking up. They are beginning to realize that public affairs do not belong to the parties but to them. The Meeting at the Turin City Council, after many years, has seen some employers in the Sala Rossa with an undoubted benefit to their activity. The eye of the master fattens the horse and makes the city cabinet members bubbly. Im publishing a report from the Turin meetup group. Dear Beppe, The operation "Fiato sul collo" {Breathe down your neck} has officially started in Turin, with participation at the City Council meetings and those of the city zones (where the law says it is also possible to speak). Comments of the employee councillors given to the local press:- Agostino Ghiglia (AN) : [...] Having said that I detest Grillos qualunquismo, citizens are welcome to participate in the work of the city council. It is a way of exercising control..- Mario Carossa (Lega): A good way of combating absenteeism- Antonello Angeleri dell'Udc: "[...] Their presence made the...

The Maroni Law
The law on precarious workers should be re-labeled with the name of its true owner. That is Roberto Maroni. For the love of truth, the law on precarious work should be called the Maroni Law after the Minister of Labour at that time. Professor Mauro Gallegati shows us the effects of the Maroni and explains to us that theres no work in Italy. In fact, when there is work, precarious work does not exist and theres no need for any law. Dear Beppe,I would like to offer to the readers of the blog, certain reflections about things that have been read and spoken in the last month in Piazza Maggiore that would have been an insult to Marco Biagi. About unemployment that hardly exists any longer, about flexibility that creates work that doesnt exist. Let us start by recognizing that there is a distinct difference between Biagis white paper about employment and law number 30 (that is not Marco Biagis law, but rather it is Maronis). Biagis white paper proposed combining flexibility with...

The scapegoat
I dont agree with the Ceppalonic massacre game. Mastella is only a scapegoat. The best there is in the field of politics. This is why they chose him.But the Great Pardon was not his idea. Im sure of that. He was ordered to do it. By whom? By Parliament. And who was in Parliament that was pushing the most? Him, the psycho dwarf. The one who talks too much of security in the squares and streets with the red care worker. Mastella said many times that he received Berlusconis support for the Great Pardon. I believe him. The Great Pardon was useful for keeping the corrupt administrators from going to prison, not for freeing convicts. Mastella today said a great thing, he announced a book: about all the other castes, starting with the journalists.This time I agree with him. I offer him my preface or if he prefers, we can write the book together. Ill go out to Ceppaloni if he invites me there. Im publishing a letter from Sonia Alfano and the brother of Paolo Borsellino addressed to...

My house cow
Reduce the price of milk and dont pay the pizzo to the intermediaries? With cows you cant. Bureaucracy and the great groups of packaged milk do not tolerate unpackaged milk.Signor Andrea Busetto, a farmer rearing cows, explains how and why. If they take the distributor away from him, the farmers will bring their cows straight into town together with Bersani. Our country is one of positional incomes, of corporations, of castes. We pay the pizzo on everything. It is the State that has corrupted the mafia not the other way round. One cannot even sell the milk from ones own cow. Dear Signor Grillo,I am Andrea Busetto from Pesaro, 47 years old, I rear cows and bring up 2 children (my wife brings me up). Two years ago I was one of the first in Italy to try my luck with unprocessed milk. And to tell you the truth I was doing reasonably well, with 6 distributors operating throughout the province. All went well for a year. Then someone started to say (the only company making and selling...

Appeal for Justice
The Soviet Unions Pravda was an information model for Italian newspapers and TV stations. I published a post with an appeal from Sonia Alfano and Salvatore Borsellino to the Head of State to stop Mastella and send him home as soon as possible and keep the prosecutor De Magistris in Catanzaro. No one has reported the letter. However they have used two of my jokes to talk about an entwinement with Mastella.Dear strong powers, I am referring to the parties and the corporate groups that control information, tell your servants to be more clever when they are lying. Other wise everyone will notice. De Magistris must remain in Catanzaro to complete his investigations. What credibility can a government have if it behaves like the psycho-dwarf in relation to the magistracy? Im again publishing the letter from Sonia Alfano and Salvatore Borsellino. Napolitano if you are there, knock once.We are asking for the intervention of the Head of State to put an end to the embarrassing and offensive...

Chin up!
Those who listen to the speech of a politician instead of going to lectures, get training credits. That happened for the Pisa University students who were present at Bertinottis oration. Those who give their support to a judge who is doing his duty against the mafia clans and the castes, are suspended from school. Thats the way Italy works Aldo Romagnino head of the liceo scientifico {scientific high school} Siciliani has suspended the young people who protested against the mastellata of the transfer that the CSM has been asked to do of the prosecutor Luigi De Magistris. Will the Minister of Education send in his inspectors? Will the head teacher be referred? Will some of the head teachers have the good taste to dissociate themselves from this action?Italian citizens are intimidated from when they are tiny. If they were to grow up free and courageous like the young people from Calabria of ammazzatecitutti, tomorrow they could become dangerous lovers of justice like Scopelliti...