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Mafia, corrupters, cheats: stand for election! Stories and News No. 252 It is today news that the Italian Constitutional Affairs Committee in the Senate has voted yes to the retroactivity of the ( Berlusconi ) immunity law called Lodo Alfano . The possibilities of this yet another attempt to save Silvio by his trials had already been presented by Italy media time ago, I just wrote something about it. In detail, the general sense of the law is this: The trials of the President of the Republic or the Prime Minister, also related to events prior to the taking of their office, may be suspended by resolution of Parliament . The author of this royal favor is Carlo Vizzini , among other things accused by Massimo Ciancimino - Vito Ciancimino gangster's son - of having paid him € 900,000 in bribes. The object of scandal for many opposition politicians is the fact that this unfair measure was also voted by Gianfranco Fini ’s new coalition members , recently critic ally of Berlusconi. Th...

Stories and News No. 251 I read this morning of yet another controversy around an Italian TV show, at least considering the anticipations, promises crackling and predictably uncomfortable for RAI managers - especially of those who composed it, exploits. This time we are talking about Vieni via con me (Come away with me), a four episodes series hosted by Fabio Fazio , with Roberto Saviano as regular guest star. I just wrote and I will not bore you coming back on the precious, indeed, the decisive contribution of marketing that more or less censorship attempts offer to TV heroes. If this were not enough, it is sufficient that La Repubblica newspaper published an interview with Saviano where he declares that RAI fears what he and Fazio will tell, to attract the attention of the large public. In particular, this hot series of preliminaries to the audience record orgasm regards the fees of some guests of the first episode, including Roberto Benigni , considered too high by RAI bosses....

Stories and News No. 250 Today, two news particularly caught my attention. The former is the imminent publication by Wikileaks of about 400,000 secret documents on the Iraq war. At the time of writing this post, the site is ' currently under scheduled maintenance ', waiting to give the people of the world wide web its hottest files. Meanwhile, these people are practically clogging it of visits, despite U.S. government has prepared a task force to respond. Wikileaks also informed that the U.S. authorities have directly contributed to the blocking of donations on the site. Nevertheless, this represents an extraordinary marketing campaign for them, don’t you agree? The latter news regards Silvio Berlusconi . I refer to the last episode of Report , an indipendend Italian journalistic TV program, which recently accused Berlusconi of having illegally bought some villas in the islands of Antigua. Thanks to anticipations in many media and particularly on the bril...

Stories and News No. 249 " I do not want any accident and I say in the Fiom’s interest. At times like this we need distancing the violent people by all democratic persons . " This excerpt is taken from the interview that the Italian Minister Maroni released today, in response to those who have strongly criticized his alarm declaration launched yesterday ahead of saturday event: " The risk of infiltrations on Saturday's Fiom manifestation is high, as also the analysis of our services said, but our focus will be maximum. " Without controversy, it will seem strange, but I agree with Maroni. He is right in both his statements, especially the second in order of time. I make his words mine. More than ever at this time we need distancing the violent people by all those democrats . We must have maximum focus . So, in my little, I started to work. I hope that my contribution will be appreciated both by Fiom and the Minister Maroni… The Story: I hope this info...

Stories and News No. 248 I just learned that the Rai General Director Mauro Masi - which inspired the character jealous of his glass yesterday I wrote about, has asked his lawyers to sue The Manifesto , a traditionally Left Newspaper. The object of the scandal would apparently be a satirical cartoon by Vauro , depicting the Masi practically camouflaged as Ivan Bogdanov , referred to be leader of the Serbian mob, which prevented the last soccer game of Italia national team. The text of the cartoon is divided in two parts: The Serbian ultras who made suspend the game at Marassi Stadium was arrested and Wanted the ultras servant who made suspend Annozero Rai (The director Masi has ordered the suspension of Annozero’s host, Michele Santoro). Now, trust me, I did not see where the offense is. On the glass , I saw the logic. Let's be honest: we all love our glasses and those who deny consciously lie. But in this case, I can not understand why Rai director is so much angry to sue. I...

Stories and News No. 247 I just read that the RAI TV journalist Michele Santoro has been suspended for ten days and without salary for the same period from 18 October. Apparently, the so-called disciplinary action was decided by the General Director of RAI Mauro Masi , as a result of the insult directed by Santoro to him - if I correctly remember, in the first episode of Anno Zero talk show: " Fuc… your glass! " Yes, that is not a mistake, he said glass . Masi immediately wanted to clear that there is no question of censorship: " The disciplinary action can not be considered in any way attributable to publishing initiatives aimed at restricting the freedom of expression or the right to criticize. Santoro has been guilty of disciplinary violations in two very specific ways: the use of television for personal interest and offensive direct attack on the General Director… " That's him. Now, I have a vice. When I hear someone who talks about himself in third perso...

Stories and News No. 246 "I think the dramatic attack suffered by the woman in Rome is an act of common delinquency ." These words are by Samuele Piccolo, delegate to Development of the suburbs of the Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno. Common delinquency … In my humble opinion, in a boy who hits a woman's face with his punch and sends her into a coma, under the general indifference - all well documented in a video by the subway cameras, there is and above all there should be nothing of common. On the contrary, what has become habitual is the shameful way in which these horrendous news are told and commented by Italian media. Besides, if among the protagonists of the fact we have a foreigner, all limits can be exceeded. Even when the immigrant has the role of the victim. You can easily image what happens when we have the vice versa. If in Italy we’ll go to the polls in March 2011, you will see how the various TV news and newspapers Right-handed, and the delirious talk shows wi...