THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN

Putin, that famous democrat, so defined by Berlusconi, comes up to the rescue of Assange criticizing his arrest and declaring the latter's arrest as antidemocratic. Of course, in Ryssia they would not have arrested Assange, just executed him in the streets. That's democracy.

We are now waiting for Berlusconi to offer political asylum to Assange... so that he can be deported to Guantanamo, as per good Italian and US traditions.

25 JULY 1943

On 25 July 1943, Mussolini was demoted and arrested.

Ennio Flaiano °, an Italian writer and journalist, wrote to his newborn daughter :

“One day you will be surprised to hear how much we suffered during twenty years on moral decay. You will not believe it and you will possibly rebuke us saying : why didn’t you kick him out before ?....
We do not know what the future has reserved for us. But we know for sure that God is back. The Player fife painted by Manet is playing for you the sweet song of Freedom. Play it forever, player fife”.

Many are resisting the antidemocratic behavior of MUGABERLA*

° http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Flaiano
* *(see http://aprile25.blogspot.com/2010/03/mugaberlu.html)

SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY IN ITALY

(5 March 2010 - mourning democracy in Italy)


Have you ever had to meet deadlines?

To apply for a job, to pay a fine, to appeal a decision, to file taxes, to reimburse your loan, to vote?

Have you ever been fined for not observing time limits? Or have your requests ever been rejected for the same reason?

Companies are declared bankrupt when the fail to reimburse their loans. Not to talk about the hundred of thousand of US families who were evicted for the same reason.

Our life, since birth, is governed by deadlines, starting from the time limit to declare a new-born baby to the authorities.

And the majority of us have missed some deadlines and paid for it, in many ways.

The same applies for elections for public office. Electoral codes are very strict due to the strategic importance of elections. Even in Italy.

But not for MUGABERLU *

His party failed to submit on time the application for the next regional elections in Latium.

The list was rejected by the judges in charge of the procedures.

His party appealed.

The appeal was rejected.

MUGABERLU’s government issued an “interpretation” decree, with retroactive value in its views, to explain what the law really means (and not what everybody had thought and applied for more than 60 years!)

But such a decree is unconstitutional as, in Italy, Regions have the right to issue their own electoral codes for regional elections. In that case, the central government cannot overrule the regions (unless the regional law is not unconstitutional itself, which was not the case here).

The judges declared, surprise surprise that the decree could not apply to Latium.

MUGABERLU’s party filed again its request to be allowed to participate in the elections, thanks to the same decree. Other judges rejected the request.

And now MUGABERLU declares that his party suffered a violent injustice by the judges who applied the law and calls his supporters for a massive street demonstration. Sad memories of the twenties when Mussolini took the power with the support of part of the population.

Personal laws, as the 20 already approved in the interest of Berlusconi, are an abuse. Calling for popular demonstrations against one of fundamental component of the democratic state is subversion. Such a call by a Prime Minister is a coup d’état.

Italy is at the edge of totalitarism. When will the EU countries, the US react? When it will be too late, as usual? As when Mussolini and Hitler took the power? Democracy in Italy is in danger. Violence may erupt. The Italian democratic allies will be responsible if this happens.


*(see http://aprile25.blogspot.com/2010/03/mugaberlu.html)


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MUGABERLU

By now, Italy has become a real banana republic. And MUGAbe is getting a fair complexion when he compares himself to BERLUsconi.

Think at this:

Nineteen laws approved by the Parliament to protect Mugaberlu and one more in under discussion.

Out of 14 trials:
One was archived;
4 times Mugaberlu was acquitted;
once he was acquitted because in the meantime his government had passed a law establishing that forged accounts, the crime he was accused of, were no longer a crime;
5 times he was acquitted because the time limit had been shortened by his government;
2 are ongoing (and in one his lawyer was already recognized guilty of corruption on his behalf);
One is under instruction.

Mugaberlu continues to control television and a large part of the press. Public TV considers that being public means being the Master’s voice. To the point that they broadcast false information (Mugaberlu’s lawyer was “acquitted” they said instead of saying that he had been found guilty of corruption (and condemned to pay a huge fine) on behalf of Mugaberlu, but that he could not be prosecuted due to the shortened time limits imposed by Berlusconi himself. Worse, the majority of the channel journalists defended the director of information, and the TV CEO, appointed by Mugaberlu, refused to meet the representatives of 150,000 citizens who had called for sanctions against the Director of information.

Mugaberlu’s servants imposed the suspension of any political debate on public TV (there are practically none on his channels) before elections, to avoid criticisms.

The main Italian publisher, Mondadori, that belongs to Mugaberlu, refused to publish a book by Sepulveda , who was under contract with them, as too critical of Berlusconi himself.

Italy, in spite of its ratifying the UN conventions on corruption and the OECD Convention against bribery, made corruption a little more than a misdemeanor and shortened the time limits . At the same time, Mugaberlu and his allies celebrate Mr. Craxi, a former socialist Prime Minister, a good friend of his, who instead of facing the justice went on voluntary exile in Hammamet (Tunisia), a tourists’ paradise, after an (in)famous speech at the House stating that what he had done (corruption officially to finance his party) had been done by everybody (omitting to say that he had also become rich through corruption).

Allegedly to protect the privacy of citizen, as if the majority of citizen would be subject to wiretapping, in fact to protect himself and his combinazione allies, and the Mafiosi, Mugaberlu is pushing for a law that would de fact make it impossible for judges and police to wiretap suspected criminals. His Mafia friends are applauding.

Mugaberlu extended the concept of “emergency”, applicable to natural disasters to facilitate bureaucratic procedures, to “special events” such as the celebrations for a Saint, the World swimming championships in Rome, the 150 years of Italian unity (a date known since 150 years only thus justifying the emergency and urgent measures ) to the point that a small clan of friends of his right hand (the same who said that the Americans were lousy in the rescue of Haiti) Bertolaso made money without any control (now under investigation by the Justice).

The scandals with prostitution (women and men) continue to be revealed. And his taste for young women was confirmed with the presence at the next elections of his personal dental hygienist, Nicole Minetti, he met last December only after the “attack” he was the victim of.

Mugaberlu continues in his attempts to destroy the checks and balances system of the democracy, by attacking the independence of judges, the President of the Republic, the opposition. His concept of democracy is totalitarian: majority has all rights, minority can exist if it agrees with him. His last creation : a retroactive decree that determines what the time limit means for presenting electoral lists. His slaves, apparently to accommodate his last minute wishes to change the lists to be presented, did it after the time had ended (Rome). Or had not presented the minimum number of valid signatures (Milan). But Berlusconi and his advisers changed the rules that had always applied, just to cover the cases of his party, while many other parties had been rejected but no retroactive law was issued to reinstate them.
His coalition applauded a senator who had been forced to resign, not to be kicked out from Parliament, for false statements, for being elected through fraud organized by the Mafia, for being financed by the Mafia.

Pending the approval of another law that would protect him from trials while Prime Minister, he is using all possible delaying tactics to avoid testifying in court, thus hoping to reach the shortened time limit he cooked.

We often hear the Americans, and the Brits and Sarkozy, criticizing, rightly so, leaders (dictators ?) of developing countries for undemocratic behavior. All capitals know what is going on, at least by reading leading newspapers such as The Economist or Le Monde or El Pais, but hopefully through their ambassadors’ reports. Nothing to say about Mugaberlu ? Come on Ms. Clinton, silent for a change ? Wrong time, madam. Soon it will be too late and Italy will no longer be a democracy (is it still one ?). Indeed you are used to get along with dictators such as Mobutu, Pinochet, Argentineans and Brazilian generals, Saudi’s king, and more. So, one more or one less, it does not matter provided you can keep your atomic bombs stored in Italy.

Picture: mentecritica.net

Icing on the cake for Berlusconi

The “attack” against Berlusconi could not have come at a better time for him and his clique. The real icing on the cake.

It arrives at a time when Berlusconi’s star was fading, when his continuous manipulation of the law to avoid trials, his family affairs, and his links with the Mafia, known since tens of years, were putting him against the wall, finally.

Now, thanks to the attack, he is a victim, although he is the one who created the violent political climate the Italian President, just before the incident, was trying to defuse.

He had just attacked the President, the most respected politician in the country, the Constitutional court judges, and the judges at large, all communists according to him, and of course the Press and the public television he controls.

But contrary to what officially his party was preaching, what even the Pope (usual interference with the Italian politics !) had asked for, the cooling down of the political debate, his lieutenants have today worsened it.

As usual, it is another those who changed side (Berlusconi’s party is full of these who jumped on the winning wagon, see for example in this blog “Culture Berlusconi’s way”) was the originator, a certain Fabrizio Cicchitto, a former left wing socialist, who, after almost thirty years in politics, suddenly, in 1999, became a supporter of Berlusconi. True that, like Berlusconi, he had been a member of an infamous right wing secret Masonic lodge, the P2, that conspired against the democracy. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Cicchitto).

Today, in Parliament, he attacked the press, political opponents, a press group that has been critical of Berlusconi (L’Espresso belonging to a “Jew” who recently also took the Swiss nationality as a sign of thanks to a country that had saved part of his family and for that he is now being quoted as “a foreign editor”) in an extremely violent manner.

Now the Government is after the Internet (that usual scapegoat) and will pass laws to limit free speech both on the Web and in the streets, limiting even further freedom in the country. And the manipulation of the information, already very high through the control Berlusconi has of practically 95% of television channels will continue. It already started, with Facebook groups created for various purposes such as the support for the earthquake victims and whose purpose was modified overnight in pro-Berlusconi groups without the knowledge nor consent of the friends of the group. Another indication of what freedom means for Berlusconi’s party and for himself : freedom of supporting the Prime Minister.

Italian democracy is in danger, if not almost dead. It is not a joke, it is a tragedy. And the recent attack against Berlusconi may be the icing on the cake for him to create a real dictatorship under the excuse of the vote of the majority of the Italians, which was not even the case.

When will finally European leaders react ? they did when the extreme right took power in Austria. But very little time is left before Italy is condemned to be a “real democracy” like Russia, as Berlusconi often says referring to the achievements of his friend Putin.

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ONCE UPON A TIME

there was a little judge, doing his work diligently.

There was also a very rich man, controlling the Press and the Television, and the Parliament

The little judge was unlucky enough to be called upon to judge a civil case against the main company of the rich man. He did his own work, studied recent judgments where it had been found that the company of the rich man had bribed judges and lawyers, listened to both parties and condemned the rich man’s company to pay 750 million € of damages.

The rich man threatened the little judge stating that soon people will learn “crusty stories” about the judge. And so it happened.

The main TV channel of the rich man had a scoop on the judge to show that he had a “funny” behavior: they had followed him and recorded him walking back and forth in front of his barber shop ! He was waiting for his appointment and, imagine what, smoking a cigarette (forbidden in the barber shop).

Then, when he left the barber shop, he walked rapidly, imagine imagine, and did stop only twice: once at a traffic light and once to…switch a cigarette on. If he had been normal, of course, he would have looked at shop windows, gone to a coffee shop, looked at girls asses. Nothing !

Finally, supreme crime, he was recorded in a park, reading his newspaper, wearing white shoes and light blue socks.

How could such a crazy man dare judging the richest man in the country, asked the latter’s TV channel ?

Regrettably, this is not a fairy tale. It happened last week. The country is Italy, the rich man is Berlusconi, and he is the Prime Minister.The judge is Mesiano. And the Italians lost a little more freedom, just last week. Putin must be proud of his student.

Thus, as of tomorrow, following the example of the opposition party leader, I will be wearing light blue sock….

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Democrats

He (Berlusca) did it again: a couple of years ago he had declared that Putin was a real democrat. A couple of weeks ago, in launching a new satellite TV channel he owns, declared in Tunisia that President Ben Ali, well known for his repression of any opposition, is a "sincere democrat".

Possibly his press agents and his little dog Frattini, so-called Minister for Foreign Affairs, had forgotten to draw his attention to the 2008 Human Rights Watch Periodic Review of Tunisia which said, among others, " The government uses the threat of terrorism and religious extremism as a pretext to crack down on peaceful dissent. There are continuous and credible reports of torture and ill-treatment being used to obtain statements from suspects in custody. Sentenced prisoners also face deliberate ill-treatment." ( http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/04/06/universal-periodic-review-tunisia ).

Who will be the next dictator crowned by Berlusconi as a real democrat? All the bets are for al Gaddafi Berlusconi just honoured with a visit and the sending of the
Italian Air Force acrobatic team.



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Political news in Italy

The last week-end there were local elections in Trentino Alto Adige or Sud Tirol as the Germans and Austrians say.

The results show a scary increase by almost 300% of the extreme German speaking right, from 5% to 14.3%. This was noted by all news reports.

Different approach regarding Berlusconi's majority: the news stated that it was the first Italian speaking party. This is correct. They omitted however to point out that it lost 30% of votes going from 11.8% to 8.3% !

What is worse, is that such mis-information comes from the public radio and television, not only from the Berlusconi's owned ones.

Conflict of interest ?

In December 2006, Mr. Berlusconi organized a major demonstration in Rome, against the then government led by Mr. Prodi. The extreme right, the conservatve catholics, priests and nons afraid of laws to protect unmarried couples, politicians missing power etc.

It was a huge demonstration.

TV5, a TV chain owned by Mr. Berlusconi gave special emphasis to it: a special jornal, about a dozen journalists to cover the whole event, with live broadcast.

Yesterday there was an equally huge demonstration of the opposition against Berlusconi's government. No TV coverage, no special journal, no nothing.

The objectivity and balanced coverage of news by Berlusconi and his slaves.

Grande, Grandissimo

These days one can read quite often the same question in the Press: was G.W. the worst President the US ever had? When one sees his legacy, the unanimous answer will probably be yes: not only screwed up the world peace but even the world economy.

Unanimously? Not really. He will still have an admirer: Berlusconi. During his speech at the White House on Columbus Day, he stated in fact that G.W. will be remembered as a “grande (great), grandissimo(very very great)” President.

True that G.W. always treated Berlusconi very well, one wonders why but. And probably Berlusconi, for whom European leaders have little consideration, is so grateful to him for that.

And surely G.W. is pleased to be considered as well as Mr. Putin, the other hero of Berlusconi.

Poor Italy!

CHINA is also

North Korea
Burma
Sudan and Darfour
Zimbabwe
Tibet

Tiananmen square
The highest number of death penalties in the world
The majority of fake western products
Censorship
Corruption

It is a dirty game !