Stories and News

Stories and News No. 683 Brittany Maynard has only six months left and has decided to die on November 1. She will use a right. The right to choose when and how to leave. This makes me recall a phrase, inspired by a woman bereft of her husband because of an apparently blind, but certainly dumb bomb. For a life going away, there's always another one arriving . Well, if a life goes away claiming a right, leave behind billions of lives. With the gift of same number of rights. The right to shake hands with the present moment, here and now, really. And the right to write with your pen, your own history. The right to understand what is really important, shutting down the noise by fools who rush around us. And the right of coloring at your will what is darkness is for everyone, beyond the last boundary. Despite some claims to know more than you. Sacred right, that. Because if you take away from me the choice to imagine a horizon of my taste, while I'm here, maybe in a...

The world media is now flooded with marriage between the so-called 'Prince' William and Kate Middleton. Newspapers, television, the ceremony is on the top news all over the planet. On the web, everywhere you had the chance to follow the live of the wedding, even on Youtube , right in the channel of the British royal family. I'll be venal, but the first question I asked myself is this: how much does this show cost ? Well, it seems that we are talking about 70 million, almost 80 million € . Wow. In times of crisis, is not it a bit too much? "It’s their business," the fanatic liberal with the ass on the upper floors that passes here might say. "They have money and spend it as they wish." Well, it is not like that… Those 80 million euros will not come all from royal family’s pocket. Let’s read this bill. Only for the security , the wedding costs 33 million, about 40 million € . According to Sir Paul Stephenson, deputy commissioner of Scotland Yard, at least...