Stories and News

Stories and News No. 90 The Story: I am dead. I don’t have nationality, because now I belong to the earth. All earth. I have no longer age, because time has stopped. My time. I stopped fighting to survive, so you do not need to worry. I am no longer a threat to your wellbeing. Besides, now you have no power over me, because you cannot do anything to me. Pain is a memory. Fortunately. Do not pity me. Take your compassion to those who still need you. Are you offended because someone enjoys just a hundred kilometres from me? Come one, don’t be hypocrites. I am dead, I told you. For me there are no more distances. They are the only important thing to you, be honest. The distance between the ship and my body, the distance from which you are viewing the photo itself, the distance between your full belly and your conscience… They no longer exist to me. And perhaps, they did not have sense even before. As between United States and Afghanistan: Between Russia an...

Stories and News N. 89 The Story : Once upon a time there was a president elected by the people. The president was a billionaire and come on: let’s be honest. The rich, you know, thinks only to become richer, never to help others. Yet the people trusted him. The billionaire president had in his past allegations of violations of banking laws and insider trading, although he rejected them as a clear political use of justice. Nevertheless, the people believed his words. The billionaire president owned a television channel, an airline company and a soccer team , and entering the government, was clearly subject to a serious conflict of interest . However, the people voted him with this conviction: if he was good to make a success of its business, he will do the same with his people . The billionaire president had a political career marked by a scandal , because years ago, in a previous election campaign, he was the victim of an interception from which emerged his attem...

The beginning of 2010 is marked by a terrible tragedy. Of course I'm talking about the Haiti earthquake . The number of deaths is between 30,000 and 100,000 and at least three million people have been devastated by the disaster. I will not dwell too much in citing the article in Le Matin , which publishes the warning of the geologist Charles Patrick , professor of the Institute of Applied Geology of Havana, who apparently had already planned earthquake. I don’t want to be caught in controversy if earthquakes can be predicted or not. Until otherwise proven, the earthquake is a natural event, a phenomenon that is part of our planet’s life. Moreover, many of you could warn me and remind me that now is not the time for polemics, but for solidarity and aid. It’s time to open the bag. It’s time for us, fortunate of having one. From what I read , apart from the various interventions of doctors and officials of the various humanitarian organizations, the world is sending millio...

To the people of Haiti… After the earthquake After the earthquake everything can start again. After the earthquake we all return the same, as in dreams. After the earthquake we remember why we were there, in that house with those people, at that time. After the earthquake we love more who remained. After the earthquake we know better who is gone. After the earthquake we feel small. After the earthquake we forget what time it is. After the earthquake we discover who really loves us. After the earthquake we like the taste of water. After the earthquake to sleep is a privilege. After the earthquake to dream is an achievement. After the earthquake, the future is no longer granted. After the earthquake the present is the most precious thing. After the earthquake we expect the best from everything. After the earthquake we don’t care how . After the earthquake we care what . After the earthquake we know it may return. After the earthquake we want to be ready. After the e...

Stories and News No. 88 The Story (rewritten...): " Bettino Craxi was a scapegoat... " Augusto Minzolini , director of Tg1 . Well, like the director of the most seen Italian television news, I am also good to change the History: " Adolf Hitler was misunderstood... " Paul Joseph Goebbels , Propaganda Minister in the Third Reich. " Attila was just eccentric... " His son Ellac , who succeeded him as king. " Ner o was a kind man... " Poppaea Sabina , his second wife. " Pol Pot was an enlightened leader... " Khieu Samphan , president of Cambodia between 1976 and 1979. " Charles Manson was only a dreamer... " Susan Atkins , a friend and companion in adventure. " Lord Voldemort is a good-natured guy... " Lucius Malfoy , loyal to him. " Joker is just a humorous person... " Cat Woman , another enemy of Batman . " Hannibal Lecter is a sensitive person... " Frederick Chilton ...

Come on. What the son of mobster former mayor of Palermo, Vito Ciancimino , said cannot be true. In summary, from what I read in the newspapers today, Massimo Ciancimino argues that there was a pact between the boss of Cosa Nostra , Bernardo Provenzano , and the policemen who arrested another leader of the Sicilian Mafia, Totò Riina , with the aim of secreting the various documents that he concealed, documents that would have been able to bring down Italy . But this is not possible… Also according to Ciancimino Jr., negotiation between Cosa Nostra and the State began after the killing of Falcone and Borsellino . On the one hand Totò Riina and on the other the police and, as people informed of the facts, the former vice-president of the Superior Council of Magistracy , Virginio Rognoni , and the current, Nicola Mancino , a former President of the Senate too. No… I can’t believe it! It is absurd… Don Vito’s son claimed also that his father was cooperating with the Italian secr...

Stories and News No. 87 The Story: January 12, 2010 Dear diary, Yesterday Miep Gies, the woman who tried to protect Anne Frank and saved her diary, died. She was 100 years old. Miep, or Hermine Santrouschitz, was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria. Just eleven, due to lack of food, she moved with her family to Leiden, a city of the Netherlands and two years later they went in Amsterdam. It was there that she had an encounter that would mark his whole life. A simple encounter as it could happen every day, even today. Otto Frank was a German businessman of Jewish origin and had a factory that sold compounds for the production of jams. Miep was looking for a job and Otto employed her. The girl was smart and she quickly became a manager. So far so normal, except that she became also a friend of Otto’s family. The friendship nurtured affection, affection increased mutual understanding and mutual understanding is notoriously unpredictable. In fact, just at the home of Fra...