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There is a link between Salvini in power and the collapse of the Genoa bridge”. A conspiracy theorist whose exceptional power we know assures us, Jacques Attali. The banker, creator of Macron, creator of the European treaties in the sense (by his admission) more antidemocratic, he wrote a poisonous paragraph in one of his blogs in the weekly L'Express, already reported for attacks on Salvini, That …
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“Consob warns the government: dangerous to disturb the markets". Here is a headline from the day after the Genoa disaster. The threat from Consob: Salvini and Di Maio, speaking loudly against Atlantia and the Benettons, they had caused the stock to lose "billions".. So according to this logic, It wasn't the collapse of the bridge that caused Benetton shares to fall, they are looking for me...
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Farewell to the raider Emilio Bianchi, 103 years, last survivor of the Alessandria enterprise https://www.ilmessaggero.it/primopiano/cronaca/addio_incursore_emilio_bianchi_103_anni_superstite_impresa_alessandria_durand_de_la_penne-1196188.html Winston Churchill, as the Times recently recalled in one of its moving obits, he was so impressed by that feat of the Italian enemy in the port of Alexandria that he ordered the leaders of His Majesty's Navy to adopt as soon as possible the techniques and strategies of the adversaries among the ...
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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”?
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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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THE INVESTIGATION
Of Roberto Pecchioli
We didn't want to believe it. The collapse of the Morandi Bridge, that we Genoese, with a touch of colonized provincialism we called it the Brooklyn Bridge, It's a shocking tragedy, for its load of victims, pain, destruction and the terrible consequences that will drag on for years. This is not the time for jackals, but help, of condolence, of help, of collaboration. However, one cannot remain silent, keep a lid on anger over another sinisterly Italian tragedy: a work of that importance cannot collapse after just one day 50 years. For the writer there is something personal, almost intimately in the pain of these hours. Children, we participated in 1967 at the inauguration of the bridge with all the school groups of Genoa. Equipped with a tricolor flag, stationed in front of the stage, we followed the ceremony, we saw with the wonder of age the president of the republic Giuseppe Saragat surrounded by men in full uniform and the imposing figure of the great cardinal Siri, historic archbishop of the city.
We have crossed that very long bridge thousands of times, seventy meters above the valley of the Polcevera stream full of council houses and industrial warehouses of the former Superba, every day for decades we saw and touched it on our way to work. It's no longer there and it's someone's fault. They talk about lightning, of an intense storm and structural failure. Let's wait to make judgements, but on the morning of the eve of the August bank holiday it just rained. No floods, from the years 70 we remember at least six, devastating, in the city of Genoa. We don't know how many lightning strikes have struck engineer Morandi's artifact in half a century (few knew that the work was named after him), nor how much rain has wetted the imposing structures since then. We don't accept, we will never recognize the hasty justification of these hours as valid. It will be Bar Sport indifference, but we know that Roman bridges have been standing for two millennia, and we don't believe in the inability of designers. But, in recent decades there have been many collapses, like tragedies due to neglect, to ignorance, to widespread corruption. Read More
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Do you know what Turkey's public debt is? Il 30% on GDP. A model country according to the dogmatics of ordoliberalism. And the public deficit? 1.5% on GDP. For the dogmatists of “We remain in the euro because we have a public debt of 130%", the very low Turkish public debt would have been a "guarantee against speculation", e “the attack of the markets”: Instead Turkey was…
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Even in France – in relation to the Benalla affair which overwhelmed Macron – the accusations began that, in Italy, were raised by Colle on "Russophiles" and "ultra-sovereignists" who threatened Mattarella's "freedom". With the same methods, the same insinuations and the same clumsiness and carelessness, but peppered with threats (like “the dossier swollen with pages” that…
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Because German business news: L’ US Army reports: Il 5 August 2018 the German soldiers with the 391 ° Mechanized Infantry Battalion provided fire support during a Georgian special forces exercise in the Waziani Training Area, Georgia. Germany joined others 12 nations to participate in the Noble Partner operation 18, “This is very important because we have a vision…
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