Stories and News

Stories and News No. 211 Yesterday in Rome we had yet another demonstration of what kind of country we have become. The Committee 3e32 , L'Aquila coordination network, had organized a manifestation in July 7, 2010, to bring to the streets the following demands: We first ask for the suspension of all taxes and charges, the freezing of loans and a series measures to support employment and the economy. I also read on the site of the promoters that there was great participation, by local and national organizations. Associations, political parties, committees, companies, municipalities and institutions like the University of L'Aquila and the Archbishopric. Like most of you know, the procession was stopped by the police. Consequently we saw another clash between officers and protesters, with three persons wounded. The news was obviously on the front pages of all media. As always, every newspaper tends to give a personal version of the facts. The absolute objectivity does not exist, ...

Stories and News No. 187 Time is honest could be the English version of Il tempo è galantuomo . That’s what Giampaolo Giuliani could think now. Do you know him? Giuliani... he’s that catastrophic technician of Gran Sasso National Laboratories who the Knight of Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Guido Bertolaso , before the earthquake of L'Aquila - in a phone call, called an idiot and that also was accused for undue procured alarm. Well, after just over a year, the Great Risks Commission of Italian Civil Protection is accused of failure alarm and investigated for homicide . If I could, today I would rip that Cross from Bertolaso’s chest, to put it on Giuliani’s one, naming him head of Civil Protection. Meanwhile, here's how the guilty meeting could have been… The Story: It’s March 31, 2009. The room is ready for the meeting, as the table too. The bottles of mineral water are all intact and so will remain after the meeting. It will be a formality. There is...

Stories and News No. 50 : The Story : Silvio has a large and beautiful garden full of flowers. He is not the owner, but he is responsible for it. Many people have put on him their trust and hope for a better garden. An unlucky day a violent storm crashes down on the beautiful garden. Many flowers are uprooted and perish. Silvio decides to move the surviving flowers inside a greenhouse. This one is realized in record time, with the hope that it is only a temporary solution. It is a narrow space; the light that comes from the transparent ceiling is in any way not comparable to the sun, which daily gave to flowers a natural and free present. Many begin to lose the wonderful colours that once they possessed. The air inside the greenhouse is not that fresh and clean outside. Also this is now affecting the health of plants. Silvio, who is used to talk to the flowers, assures them that soon they will return to stay in the garden. Words, words, a lot of words, he says. In fact a day comes when...