policy and disgust
These reflections have been published as a letter under the heading "The readers' letters" of the Messaggero Veneto on 01 July 2009. A few months ago
Disconcert frequently uses the word in my thoughts, while in recent times has been replaced with disgust, in the figurative sense of moral revulsion. It can not really
more! We can see a sample of crap worthy of the Guinness Book of Records that filters through the hard news gives us a little national press still free, but also international. We just fell down!
E 'is now a fact that most of the media are "gagged" by allowing the ruler to administer them as a kind of tablets, or better, suppositories, absurd statements and phony news first proclaimed on television and then denied, or assigned to others, and "suggestions" to which head is more or less appropriate to include the advertising of their holdings.
Strange news blackout on the other hand, conflict of interest involving those in power and at the same time, controls a wide range of information.
disgust with the ethical confusion that we are witnessing: "Popes-gate", "Bari-gate", snatched photos, flights were available for minstrels and beautiful and young, too, girls.
disgust at the lack of respect for democracy, by those who govern us so that was chosen by the electorate, but should not forget that represents throughout the country, and therefore can not cancel any voice of dissent just because they get comfortable or to treat the government as a management board which controls who has the majority stake.
distaste for the superficiality and Boccaccio goliardic that can undermine the security of our nation. It is unthinkable that one of the leaders of the G8 can be blackmailed by any noble lady from the pant easy, in spite of any safety standard, was able to document his intimate encounters.
disgusted with the consensus reached by those who, sick of power, believes he can act above the law, to shoot zero on the Constitution and to feel entitled to ask to increase his powers. It would be desirable, Instead, the increased powers of constitutional organs of control, and this guarantee and protect freedom of the citizen, to every citizen, and to prevent the public becoming increasingly res res private.
Considering also that a family of five does not come at the end of the month, that have been lost many jobs and that there are workers who can not even enjoy the support of some social safety net, as they have repeatedly stressed Emma Marcegaglia Confindustria president, and Mario Draghi, Governor of the Bank of Italy, it appears that someone tells it right.
Meanwhile, those who govern us, with his incurable optimism continues to repeat that the worst of the crisis is over and that is the "left" which makes it a terrorist use.
disgust as the words "left" and "communist" change in meaning depending on latitude and longitude, in fact, if used in Italy is synonymous with all the atrocities that happen to public or private, while in Russia are meant business.
Miracles of Italian cabaret joke.
distaste for the bill which proposes the inclusion in our legal system, the crime of illegal immigration. Definitely the majority of Italians have forgotten our old when they were going to seek employment abroad. It is not bunkered down in the fort, and bragging of rejections operated on some of desperate boat that stops the migration. Perhaps we should provide aid to people in their countries. Perhaps it would be appropriate to regulate migration flows with clear laws and put in the conditions of immigrants live in dignity and enjoy all the social rights. Perhaps it would be appropriate to really become part of Europe and with other member states agree a common line. Do not forget that the first exploiters of these dispossessed are often just a few of our fellow citizens who take them in black to work as slaves without offering them any guarantee or civil rights.
disgust at the waste of public money. Air have been thrown million euro, for refusing to do election day, and this only for the particular interests of certain groups of political power.
distaste for arriving at a situation where, for excessive crushing of ideals and / or the pursuit of narrow interests, and there was no real opposition. The voters are weary and increases even more the disconnect between politics and citizens so as to ensure that the ranks of the "party of non-voting" Continued growth.
DISGUSTING extreme for the rejection of those who govern us to answer questions to shed light on events that are no longer private, but related to all the continuing stories with which our leaders were told we want to treat them as lunatics.
It 's time to stop to be insulted our intelligence!
The intellect is the greatest gift that we had and not use it would be an act of ingratitude toward the One who has it provided.
So think with your head, because what we teach our children to follow the smart politicians clinging to the chair from which to manage their private feud or to live according to the dictates of honesty and respect for the law?
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In Cuba we vote, we'd better
Dear Severgnini,
is with immense pride that I propose a scoop to readers of "Italians" in the days of Sunday 21 and 28 October in Cuba Voting. But how - say at this point in several - Cuba was not a brutal dictatorship? And when do you vote in the brutal dictatorship? If we talk about Cuba, you do it there for about thirty years. 8.3 million voters over 16 to renew by direct secret ballot of the 15,236 members of the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power, which according to the Cuban electoral law will stay in office for two and a half years. In each of the 169 Cuban municipalities, more special than the Isle of Youth, the population will be divided by number of inhabitants in the districts, each of which expresses a delegate, which together will create the council of the people.
okay, but there there is only one party - continue to think of many - and then the elections are fake. In fact the party is unique. But while we are there so many parties and there is no possibility to choose the right person to vote, in Cuba there is only one party (horror) in which, however, can choose who you want. Yes, but if one does not identify with that party, shall be barred, objective at this point in so many. And why we would happen to someone who wanted to apply and does not recognize the capitalist logic of the market, the financial policy of the primacy of profit on solidarity (only true party of our existing parties)? In short, the end is so true that having many political parties mean more freedom of choice? Do not be so sure if it is true that "underneath are all the same (is not it like saying all around?).
Mirko Fabbri from the Corriere della Sera on 26 October 2007
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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Because the wind blows away the crisis the European left
The business world has lost the protection it enjoyed in the past and the weakness of the forces trade union to defend themselves can only choose individual streets. The figures are worrying to swell the ranks of abstention was precisely the voters traditionally loyal left to the young and the working classes. The defeat in the last general elections for Parliament in Strasbourg is forcing social democracies to rethink their theoretical and political horizons.
The results of European elections, which hit his left hand, raises two crucial questions: the first is on her current health status, the second on its future that now concerns the post-socialism. This reveals two answers to the contrary. The first relativized failure and insists on the special nature of this election, referring to the specificities of each country and recalling the history of the left shows a continuous succession of cycles sometimes favorable and sometimes negative. Second, while recognizing the relevance of these arguments, see in these elections - also preceded by other setbacks - a historic defeat. And it is this response that we have to consider.
In fact, the reformist left has had to collect sixteen defeats, some of which are of considerable scope, affecting its formation the most important and emblematic.
The left is affected, regardless of its current location - the opposition, alone or in combination to power in coalition governments - and regardless of its historical trajectory. How to explain such a disaster? Putting together a series of factual, economic reasons and more structural factors.
The record of abstentions recorded in the European elections is attributable to the electorate favored by the left: young people and especially the working class and blue collar workers and voters to more modest levels of education, which are today the most depoliticized, and less interested Europe. The supporters of the left who went to the polls have scattered their votes. Those who see the EU because of all its current difficulties voted for Eurosceptic parties, or perhaps for those xenophobic and populist, as seems to have been the case for a popular part of the electorate. The moderates, more volatile and uncertain than ever, opted for the center-right formations. The European-income insured and a high level of education, more open to the world, have preferred the Greens (in some developed countries, including France) considering that today the priority issues are those of ecology and the environment.
It also showed a significant paradox: far from encouraging, the financial and economic crisis has indeed damaged the left, who was convinced of having to take advantage, as the current situation marks the end of illusions about the benefits of the market and the collapse of liberal myth, with the need for rules and policies emanating from the State social. The Party of European Socialists, however, had no major difficulties in the adoption of a common manifesto, and his campaign was focused on social Europe. Even the radical left who believed his moment had come, to whip the one hand capitalism and reformism on the other, guilty of all the betrayals, while some progress despite having reported a total of ten members will be less in the future European Parliament . But how come you have not listened to the left? First, as Bernardo Valli wrote on June 9 of the Republic, because the right shown great pragmatism, has ceased to refer to neo-liberalism - which in fact Europe has never been converted - to adopt protectionist positions, and has not hesitated to embrace the themes of the Left.
also - and above - the left has tended to read the present through the spectacles of the past, without grasping the full complexity of this crisis, revealing far more profound mutations that afflict our society for decades. Crisis means unemployment, growing social inequalities, worsening of poverty, and yet, at least for the time this crisis has not attracted major collective mobilization. Because we are afraid. Why unions are weakened. Because there's been an evolution in social relations within firms. Because the world of work has changed. Why insecurity is now widespread. Consequently, many Europeans, deliberately or by force majeure, still attempt individual strategies of survival and adaptation, and would be considered free and independent, while having strong security needs. As for the elderly - which are always more numerous - are sensitive to issues such as security and immigration, and many aspire to re-establish their identity. Finally, in turn, also our political systems have changed dramatically, particularly with the emergence of democracy and public opinion, in which the role of leaders is crucial. It is clear that a decade in this area all suffer from a deficit left handed.
The reformist left was neither property nor dumb. He refused to resume, as the radical left, the old recipes of the past has explored other avenues, trying to address new groups of voters. But against a united right, capable of incisive proposals, determined to impose cultural hegemony and to respond to the needs of identity that occurs in Europe, is divided on the defensive, without planning or identity, no leader, just credible and in tune with the changes taking place. Therefore, the reformist left has a priority: to start as soon as a reflection on the foundations and conditions of his reformism, and analyze the complexity of changes taking place in societies and our democracies. Pain of his death.
Marc Lazar from the Republic of June 16, 2009
(Translated by Elizabeth Horvat)
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Historia vitae Magiste
Here in Athens we do like.
The freedom we enjoy extends also to their daily life, we do not
we are suspicious of each other and do not bother if ever our
next to our neighbor like to live in his own way.
We are free, free to live just like we like
and yet we are always ready to face any danger.
An Athenian citizen does not neglect public affairs when it expects to
own private affairs, but also is not concerned with public affairs
to solve his private matters.
Here in Athens we do like.
We have been taught to respect the judiciary, and we were also taught to respect
laws and to never forget that we protect those who receive
offense.
And we were also taught to observe those unwritten laws that
reside in the universal sense of what is right and what is
common sense.
Here in Athens we do like.
A man who does not care about the state we do not consider it harmless, but useless
, and although a few are able to give life to a
politics, all well here in Athens we can judge it.
We do not regard the discussion as an obstacle on the path of democracy
.
We believe that happiness is the fruit of freedom, but freedom
is only the fruit of the value.
So, I proclaim that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that every Athenian
growing developing in him a happy versatility, self-confidence,
readiness to face any situation and for this reason that our city is open
the world and we never expel a foreigner.
Here in Athens we do like.
Historia Magistra Vitae! Let us not forget!
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In response to my letter published Messaggero Veneto Monday, June 1 under the title "Culture-a definition not fashionable", a friend sent me an email which included sharing the speech to the Athenians, written by Thucydides, and held by Pericles in 461 BC.
I honestly do not remember, but even many politicians in our country, given what they say, feels and sees and is seen as trying to do to drift our democracy. Re-reading this book gave me the chills because the concepts are expressing a political program of great relevance for each state, body politic ", civilized people.
At this moment I believe that these principles even though it is set 2470 years ago in the land where he was born democracy, can be adopted as a moral guide for all who are to govern at the local, national and European level.
Here in Athens we do like. Here
our government promotes the many instead of just a few:
and this is called democracy.
Here in Athens we do like. The laws here
ensure equal justice for all
in their private disputes, but we never ignore the merits of excellence.
When a citizen stands, then it will be, in preference to other
, called to serve the state, but not as an act of privilege as a
reward merit, and poverty is not an impediment.
I honestly do not remember, but even many politicians in our country, given what they say, feels and sees and is seen as trying to do to drift our democracy. Re-reading this book gave me the chills because the concepts are expressing a political program of great relevance for each state, body politic ", civilized people.
At this moment I believe that these principles even though it is set 2470 years ago in the land where he was born democracy, can be adopted as a moral guide for all who are to govern at the local, national and European level.
Here in Athens we do like. Here
our government promotes the many instead of just a few:
and this is called democracy.
Here in Athens we do like. The laws here
ensure equal justice for all
in their private disputes, but we never ignore the merits of excellence.
When a citizen stands, then it will be, in preference to other
, called to serve the state, but not as an act of privilege as a
reward merit, and poverty is not an impediment.
Here in Athens we do like.
The freedom we enjoy extends also to their daily life, we do not
we are suspicious of each other and do not bother if ever our
next to our neighbor like to live in his own way.
We are free, free to live just like we like
and yet we are always ready to face any danger.
An Athenian citizen does not neglect public affairs when it expects to
own private affairs, but also is not concerned with public affairs
to solve his private matters.
Here in Athens we do like.
We have been taught to respect the judiciary, and we were also taught to respect
laws and to never forget that we protect those who receive
offense.
And we were also taught to observe those unwritten laws that
reside in the universal sense of what is right and what is
common sense.
Here in Athens we do like.
A man who does not care about the state we do not consider it harmless, but useless
, and although a few are able to give life to a
politics, all well here in Athens we can judge it.
We do not regard the discussion as an obstacle on the path of democracy
.
We believe that happiness is the fruit of freedom, but freedom
is only the fruit of the value.
So, I proclaim that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that every Athenian
growing developing in him a happy versatility, self-confidence,
readiness to face any situation and for this reason that our city is open
the world and we never expel a foreigner.
Here in Athens we do like.
Historia Magistra Vitae! Let us not forget!
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