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Benetton Maletton
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
The Benettons not only produced sweaters and managed highways but were the first local factory of global ideology. They were not only sponsors but also precursors of the ideological alphabet, symbolic and sentimental of the left. They were the bridge, it's worth saying, between the multinational interests of global capitalism and the Americanization of the planet, with their profits and their marketing and anti-racism messages, against sexism, in favor of society without borders, lgbt, transgressive and progressive. Their campaigns, entrusted to Oliviero Toscani, they tried to unite the shock side, which often bordered on bad taste and a punch in the stomach, with the progressive humanitarian message: multiracial society, without borders, without distinctions of sex, of religions, of ethnic groups and peoples, with special attention to minors. Remove barriers everywhere, except at toll booths, where it comes to taking tolls. Benetton recently also carried out humanitarian campaigns on immigrant boats and launched a video "against all resurgent racism". The connection between sermons on the skin of the desperate and selling sweaters or charging cars tolls is mysterious. Read More

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Tragedy of Genoa: Statement from Prime Minister Conte
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FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Today the Government, through the competent Directorate of the Ministry of Infrastructure, formally forwarded the information to "Autostrade per l'Italia". letter of dispute which initiates the procedure for terminating the concession.
The Government accuses the concessionaire that he had the obligation to take care of the ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the A10 motorway, the serious disaster that followed the collapse of the bridge. The concessionaire will have the right to send its counter-arguments within 15 days, without prejudice to the fact that the disaster is an objective and indisputable fact and that the burden of preventing it fell on the concessionaire who was responsible for the maintenance and custody obligations.
News has spread that Autostrade per l'Italia would be willing to rebuild the bridge at its expense. If this proposal is formalized the Government will evaluate it, but not as a counterpart to giving up the voice of all the victims of this enormous tragedy. If this bridge reconstruction initiative is charged to "Autostrade per l'Italia" it will only be as temporary compensation for damage, without prejudice to the wound inflicted on the victims, to their families and to the country is immeasurable and certainly cannot be healed in this way. Read More

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Prosecutor Gratteri in Paola: "Fare pulizia tra i magistrati. And also among journalists"
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Gratteri discusses justice and information in Paola starting from the memory of Enzo Lo Giudice, Craxi's lawyer in “Clean Hands”. «I am Minister of Justice? Those who love me say that I was saved". Belpietro: «Magistrates who make mistakes should be suspended.
PAOLA «Among some lawyers and some clients the width of the desk has reduced. Allow this, especially in the criminal field, it is very dangerous. But it is dangerous not so much for the relationships created with clients but with fellow lawyers. Frankly, there are too many of them, and there are also too many cases that should not be in court". Nicola Gratteri in the cloister of Sant'Agostino, to Paola, thus answers journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's first question. The lawyers Marcello Manna and Francesco Scrivano nod. The humidity of a strong summer storm mixes with the human warmth of an audience that sits down to commemorate one of the greatest lawyers in republican history: Enzo Lo Giudice. «I always say this to young people – continues the magistrate – don't look for shortcuts, they are not needed, make sure that the desk has a wide margin with your clients". And the desk of Enzo Lo Giudice it was wide. Craxi's lawyer in the “Mani Pulite” trial, communist formation, but above all a pure guaranteeist as his first practitioner recalls, now a lawyer, Francesco Scrivano. Defending the socialist leader in the judicial tornado set up by the "Clean Hands" pool of the three magistrates Davigo-Di Pietro-Colombo, for Lo Giudice it also meant dealing with the first real episode in Italy of what is today defined “media trial”. Since then everything changed. Even a notice of guarantee turned into a hearing in the newspaper columns. «The directors of the most important Italian newspapers – says Scrivano – called each other to agree on the title to be given the following day». Read More

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Migrants, the revelations of a deep throat: "Mai salvato gente in pericolo, It's a first-come, first-served business"

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Migrants, the revelations of a deep throat: "Mai salvato gente in pericolo, It's a first-come, first-served business"The shocking revelation to the National Newspaper by a security officer, who wishes to remain anonymous, employed on a Save the Children ship: “The relationships between smugglers and many organizations are evident”

“I saw few migrants in danger of their lives, we don't have Never saved anyone who was dying at sea: it seemed more of a race to see who could get there first“. The interview given to has the effects of a bomb National newspaper Qn by a security officer employed on Vos Hestia, una nave di Save the Children, who wishes to remain anonymous. “Once we took a boat with people in good conditions - he says. – Ten minutes from the Libyan coast, not on the high seas. The relationships between smugglers and many organizations are evident. None of the migrants care, it's a business“.

“For me a problem of conscience”“Perhaps some NGOs are truly animated by a humanitarian spirit. But this talk of going to the Libyan coast is neither in heaven nor on earth. Out of thousands of people rescued perhaps only the 20-25% he deserved help“, continues the anonymous witness in the shock interview a Qn. “We loaded young North Africans who had been expelled from Italy. But I say, who we brought to Italy? We did not bring the desperate Syrians or those from Mali fleeing from hunger. For me it was personally also a problem of conscience“.

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But “State Secret” can mean “Bribes”? (Question to the Prosecutor's Office)
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Of Maurizio Blondet
Since the Benettons do not supply the State with missiles, advanced armaments, radar – because the motorway concessions were covered by state secrecy? It's a question I would like to ask, as a poor citizen, to judges, prosecutors: what other reason can they imagine for this state secret! – if not hidden exchanges and benefits between the politicians who granted them, and those who enjoy the concession of a very profitable monopoly? I ask sincerely: because I can't imagine anything else. Maybe judges and prosecutors, but yes. They have a reason to find this secret very normal. And for this reason they have not moved despite the fact that the Transport Authority has also repeatedly underlined the need to make these contracts public, that concern a public service and public power. And although in any other country the Ministry of Transport makes the contracts and documents governing the relationship between the State and the managers of the motorway networks available for consultation, as - after all - of any public service granted under concession.

Bribes can be assumed? Under-the-table payments in any form to the concessionaire government party? This is asked naively, given the enormous profits that the company in question derives from the management of the monopoly: almost the 26 percent of turnover net profit, you seem to 1,042 billion . And a gross operating margin that makes the economic journalist Fabio Dragoni say the following dirty joke: “An EBITDA of almost 68% on turnover like that of #Highways credo can only be overcome by drug trafficking". And why Mario Giordano calls them “Vultures”?

Every year Italians have paid tolls for almost 6 billions of euros, triple what they pay with the Rai license fee. Of this money, only a small part goes to the state: 842 millions.

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Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse
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Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse.

Merkel is sovereign, not Salvini. And of the most tribal kind, short and obtuse.

I happened to listen to a speech by Maurizio Molinari on Radio Radicale, the neocon director of La Stampa, on the "revolt of the middle class" which has become anti-European and votes for the "sovereignists". Apodictic as usual, Molinari declared that "sovereignism" is "a version of nationalism", but less beautiful than the nineteenth-century one: that expressed a “will to unite”, to “add”, This …
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Becchi: «E invece io dico attenti a quei due che resteranno alleati a lungo»
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THE OPINION
Luciano Tirinnanzi intervista Paolo Becchi su Panorama N. 34, 09/08/2018
«According to the authors, è in atto un passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica basato su un dato che – credo anch’io – non può essere contestato. The inability of the so-called "progressive" forces to serve the interests of workers and small and medium-sized businesses, in short, of the majority of Italians. […] I believe Becchi is right when in one of his articles on the "sovereignist revolution", collected now in this book, maintains that the opposition between "right" and "left" has now been overcome by that which in my opinion sees people and elites opposed. […] I want to give new impetus to popular sovereignty. “Italians first” means nothing more than this. They left us a country with little hope for the future and with few smiles. Rebuilding it won't be easy. But I promise you that I will give it my all".
It is an extract from the preface signed by the Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, which baptizes the political essay by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma, From the Second to the Third Republic, appena uscito per Paesi edizioni (304 pp., 12 euro). A book that, first, recounts the birth of the Lega-M5s government and frames it as a definitive overcoming of the political past. Ma è davvero così? We asked Professor Becchi, first ideologist of the Cinquestelle and now closer to the positions of the League.
«Il passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica è avvenuto senza coinvolgere la Costituzione, therefore it is partly an improper definition, but which nevertheless tells of the exhaustion of a political process that began in the 1990s. As I write in the book, il suo aspetto innovatore è nella sintesi tra sovranismo identitario, that of Salvini's League, and social sovereignty, proposed instead by Di Maio and the Cinquestelle. Non a caso l’uno si è preso il dicastero dell’Interno e l’altro quello del Lavoro. Terza Repubblica significa avere un governo che sta facendo nascere qualcosa di nuovo, without throwing the constitutional rules to the wind". Read More

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Morandi Bridge, from 'absolute stability' to 'intense degradation'
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Morandi Bridge, yes “absolutely established” of “intenso degrado”: so Autostrade changed to soli 2 years the judgment in the official reportsREPORT
…So Autostrade changed to soli 2 years the judgment in the official reports
In the 2009 Motorways for Italy “has repeatedly provided guarantees” about the “presumed old age” of the structure, That “it just needs, like all works of a certain importance, of constant ordinary maintenance”. In the 2011 the work is described, Instead, come “subjected to enormous stress” and for this reason “subject to continuous maintenance for years”. The evolution in two subsequent reports from the company that has the concession for the viaduct
Of Marco Pasciuti
An infrastructure characterized in 2009 and "absolute safetye stability“, on which the company "has repeatedly provided guarantees". That's just two years later, In the 2011, is described as being afflicted with “intense degradation” and has therefore been “the subject of a for years continuous maintenance“. It's the way in alone 24 months the judgment of Motorways for Italy on the Morandi bridge, collapsed yesterday in Genoa causing the death of at least 37 people.
The theme is that of the construction of Western Gronda, new motorway section capable of guaranteeing the doubling of the existing A10 in the section crossing the municipality of Genoa, from Val Polcevera to the town of Vesima. A link road that is part of the project to improve the traffic of the capital, intended for projects Apsi – which has the A10 motorway under concession, she takes care of its maintenance and has come under fire in the hours following the tragedy – to “improve traffic conditions on the existing network”, “support economic growth”, “improve the road safety” and “offer an alternative to the only Ligurian motorway axis”. A topic that triggers a bitter political confrontation, which merged nine years ago into a participatory democracy project: il public debate held in the capital between February 1st and 30 April 2009. Read More

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