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Messina, Caltanisetta, Catania, Palermo. Squares full in a sunny weekend. 10,000 people in Palermo. Young Sicilians with clean faces. The regime information blacked out my presence. The regime information ignored the list of Sonia Alfano, a candidate for the regional elections. The Sicilians have cancelled out Gianfranco Fini, the psycho-dwarf's carer. Only 300 turned up to see a political corpse. Vote for Sonia Alfano, she's not Crisafulli nor is she Cuffaro. She's not Topo Gigio nor Asphalt Head. The Messina Town Hall is under the authority of a commissioner. The Palermo Town Hall is closed for the elections. Our employees are all at the Mondello beach. Beppe Grillo will be present to support the civic lists for the towns. April 1st at Ischia. April 5th at Vicenza. April 6th at Treviso. April 10th at Pescara. The national elections are unconstitutional. Places in the Lower and Upper Houses have already been allocated by the Party Secretaries. The useful not vote is the only useful one. Veltrusconi does not want Antonio Di Pietro as the Minister of Justice. Veltrusconi does not want the freedom of information. Veltrusconi wants convicts in Parliament. Veltrusconi doesn't want mess ups, but "agreements on reform". Civic lists with the name of Beppe Grillo are illegitimate. Beppe Grillo will be in tribunal to ask for the urgent withdrawal of: NO EURO - LISTA DEL GRILLO. The hearing is on April 4th at 11:30 am at the Rome Tribunal. Treviso-Roma-Vicenza-Pozzuoli-Pescara-Fiumicino-Massa-Pisa-Viterbo-Nettuno-Tivoli-Villafranca di Verona-Ischia-Bitonto-Formia-Campi Bisenzio-Cepagatti are the civic lists that draw inspiration from the blog. Spread the word. Print out the flyers. Use megaphones. April 25th is getting nearer. V2 Day is getting nearer. True information is getting nearer. Three referenda are getting nearer. No to Mussolini's Order of Journalists. No to financing of a billion euro a year to publishing. No to the Gasparri law and to the parties-Mediaset duopoly. 200 tables in 200 cities are already ready. Millions of forms for the referendum are being distributed. Ask for the forms. Open up new signing points.The bubble is deflating. I repeat: The bubble is deflating.
beppe believes berlu and veltrone are just two horns of the same dilemna, do you feel this way too?
also what do you think about malpensa, de gondi? 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Beppe Grillo is an important part of the civic and political panorama in Italy at the moment. But to put Berlusconi and Veltroni on the same level is an over-simplification if not outright qualunquismo (Ah, there-all-the-same). After all, Antonio Di Pietro is now running with Veltroni.
It's tantamount to saying Kerry and Bush are the same, so vote for Nadar.
The Malpensa farce has exploded tonight. Spinetta, head of the AirFrance-KLM delegation, broke off negotiations this evening and flew back to Paris. Within minutes the CEO of Alitalia resigned. The rightwing wants to make it an electoral issue. Now they've got it. Come back in three months time and we'll see what happens to Alitalia- if they're going to get a better deal.
By the way, the UIL syndicate (for what they're worth) broke off talks yesterday. They are angry because many commentators noted that several family members of the UIL's top brass are running in Berlusconi's party. They are outraged that a similar connection can be made. I thought it's worth repeating here. I wouldn't want people to believe there's a connection, you know.
As far as Malpensa goes, the other day summed it up nicely. Alitalia closed down business there, cutting 70% of their flights, while Prodi and Formigoni inaugurated the expressway that finally connects Milan directly to Malpensa- a decade late. Malpensa lost to all the small airports in the North that do a much better job of moving people. It's called deregulation and competition, a simple reality. Now Lega Nord is doing the patriotic number as if we're supposed to practice reverse socialism and save Malpensa at our expense. Turn into a cargo hub or let it rot.
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