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Stories and News No. 1052 Christmas is coming. No, that's not true, there’s still time. Well, it doesn’t seem so, if you look shops and roads beautifully decorated for the greedy occasion. Because let's face it, be brave. Let true meanings, good intentions, sweet letters, and holy processions be blessed, but the usual festivity that prefaces to the conclusive fires of the thirty-one is above all that, here. A big binge of food and gifts, wrapped in sparkling packaging, which often dazzle much more than the contents. So, at the end of the fair - or the party, here we are back on the collective blunder that distracts and fools. I’m talking about our daily dose of lies. Well-made type, huh? At this point two things must be put forward. Fake news existed long before we started calling it so, and one of the reasons since this site was born nearly ten years ago was just to put them down, using the only weapon available to the undersigned, that is, storytelling . The ...

Mother and son in the house where future is written

Stories and News No. 1051 Japanese politicians forced their colleague, Yuka Ogata , to leave Chamber as she sat with her seven-month-old son in order to highlight the difficulties encountered by parents in cases of serious shortage of facilities for infancy. So, here’s the story…   Mother and son. Let them share dreams and hopes. In the house where the present grows. Only men. Lonely men. Important men. Imported men. Deputies. Disputed. Supported without personality. Supported personalities. Supported leaders makers. Supported leaders. Fake leaders. Bosses with too many bosses. Popular bosses. Bosses without people. People without a seat. Submitted and ruffians. Honorably disapproved. Disgusted with honor. Dead senators. Senators forever. Counselors badly advised. Sellers of advisers. Advices buyers. Undersecretaries. Subdued friends. Under everyone, but well paid. Provident presidents. Vicious vice presidents. Shadow ministers. Shadowed min...

What's wrong with us?

Stories and News No. 1050 A group of activists made a replica of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, and then they secretly placed it on Björn Höcke's home, far-right AfD’s politician who says Germans should stop atoning for Nazi guilt … Dear victims , Of yesterday, tomorrow, more than ever today. I’m writing to you, who bear on your own skin the signs of the legalized infamy and shared on time as “the voice of the people”, then sold as “understandable anger”, and from the same, privileged position manipulated and synthesized, to be sold back to the same deceitful screamers, in the form of slogans and delusional government programs . You've got the answer, since you have paid the price of such inhumanity with your life. You know it, because you’ve been paying the bribe right now, at this precise moment, while those words are flowing on the page and maybe some eyes are reading. Tell us, please. What is wrong with us? How do we are so terribly obtuse to repeat fo...

When heroes need us

Stories and News No. 1049 The announcement that the Trump Administration is considering to revoke the US ban on imports of elephant trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe directly threatens the lives of African parks ranger, who are committed to protect animals and their ecosystems. I have a Mom. And I have a Dad too. That would be so much. Almost everything. I have a Mom, a Dad, and if everything goes in the right direction, one day I will also have my powers . No… what mutant? I'm always myself from day to night and that's fine. To fly? Maybe… Maybe I could be like those cartons creatures, but here, in the real world, the weight is everything, without jokes. You could design your ears as you wish and manipulate everything with those fraudsters machines you call computers, but at the end of the day, a jump is the maximum and I don’t complain. Because I know that soon or later I’ll come back down, to them. Nevertheless, I was talking about my fangs , what else? I...

Early departures

Stories and News No. 1048 I read that a Japanese rail company apologized to the passengers because their train started 20 seconds early. The Operator was "deeply" sorry for the incident after the 9.44 and 40 seconds Tsukuba Express left the station at 9.44 and 20... Well, we 're like that train. We left too early. In spite of the lies that are accurately fitted with crafty craftsmanship, the difference is that we have no company behind us, and not even an expert press office offering in our behalf public apologies with commendable solemnity. So, we do take the opportunity, though visionary, to ask for it. Forgive us, then. Forgive us if we have given up the urge to cross waves and walls to earn a fragment of possible horizon. Nevertheless, don’t be fooled. We immediately realized that we found the wrong century. Maybe planet too. For sure, humanity. But we’re not alone, here, on this page. The number is powerful and the room necessarily vast. Among us ...

Australia voted yes to marriage

Stories and News No. 1047 Listen, write it down, and listen again: Australia will legalize marriages . Incredible, right? What a day, guys. This is terrific. Something to remember, of course, but to mention, too. In the evening convulsed between sterile arguments and silly chats shared around, among trivial thoughts and fear . More than ever the latter, even if disguised from everything else. You might ask: how did they live before? Well, the question is reasonable, I’m aware of that. You know? They did wrong, that’s the only answer. For extended, they missed something extraordinary, unique, spectacular. In short, normal . Come on, let's say it together, indeed, let’s scream without any hesitation. It’s simple common sense, letting people to get married. How could you think of further insisting on the opposite way? Two creatures meet, both touching each other with glances and thoughts for an indefinite time, attraction starts demanding attention, as much the impell...

My name is Troll

Stories and News No. 1046 I read that Researchers from Edinburgh University have identified 419 accounts among the 2,752 ones recently suspended by Twitter in the United States that, on behalf of the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), operated to influence British politics. One of them aimed at provoking anti-Islamic sentiments in the hours after the Westminster Bridge terror attack in March, publishing among others a photo depicting a Muslim woman walking beside the victims, ignoring them with obvious indifference. This image was then shared on many English newspapers, including Mail Online and Sun, as well as thousands social networks pages and lots of international websites ever looking for such pseudo scoop. Now it emerges that the aforementioned picture was false , having been remodeled through a digital manipulation software... My name is Troll . By name and fact. This is my job, this is the mission, this is the profit. That's what you bought. I'm here fo...