At the risk control of the lucrative Fs on the Rome-airport
Daniele Martini (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
Il is the train the most expensive, most profitable and one of the most battered of Italy. Each half-hour runs between Rome and Fiumicino airport, 31 km non-stop. It's called Leonardo Express because it comes from inside the airport, the airport Leonardo da Vinci, in fact. For Railways who run the business is a real business, better ot the new high=speed trains.
For passengers, however, is a different matter. For them, those 31 miles are a nightmare, the worst card that the Eternal City can offer to those who decided to come and visit, the worst for workers that use it everyday.A deputy, Aldo Di Biagio of the PDL, in a query has described as "horrifying" that trip. The coaches are the same for 33 years, uncomfortable, badly reduced, with the toilet often closed or otherwise unusable. Every now and then undergo a refresher, described as "revamping" , which consists of some work for not dropping everything to pieces, a little 'maintenance of the interior and the seats and mainly a plastic brightly coloured surface on the outside body that give a 'so new' impression. The farmers would once have said that is how to tie the pig.
So far the train was operated by the Railways led by Mauro Moretti, but in times of liberalization of transports, also Leonardo Express is becoming an object of contention. The NTV (Nuovo carriage of passengers) who is preparing to compete with Fs on high speed from September next year, would get even with his trains on the Rome-Fiumicino. Alitalia and Rome airports are in favor of this input, because in fact, they feel directly and poor damaged by the service offered to their customers by railway train. Alitalia, which now considers the Fs a competitor on the link above all more profitable, the Rome-Milan, suspected that the low quality of treatment offered between Airport and Rome is just part of a hostile environment. Rome Airports estimate that a little 'less than half of the approximately 34 million passengers arriving and departing (since 2009) use the trains .Everyone is not satisfied with the service received and to bring together often end up in negative opinion on the train also the operator of the airport.........
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Pompeii: the collapse of the Domus Gladiators
Pompei: serious damage to the Italian artistic heritage as a result of a collapse that occurred in the archaeological site of Pompeii where collapsed the entire Domus Gladiators', so named because inside the athletes were training in the ancient Pompeii. The building was kind of a gym where gladiators trained and in which they laid their weapons within a few closets made in the walls. According to reports by the Superintendent, there were also painted on the underside perimeter of the room. The building, which opens on Via Abundance, the main street of the city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD C., was only open to the outside and was protected by a high wooden gate.
The collapse, according to initial investigations, occurred around 6 am and was noted by the custodians have just arrived at work at about 7.30. The area is currently fenced and can not be accessed. The Domus is on the main street, Abundance, the one most traveled by tourists, in the direction of Port Amphitheater. Prepared an alternative route for many tourists.
THE CAUSE - "Early this morning - explain the custodians - the first collapsed the wall of the Domus, and then, given the weight of the ceiling made with concrete, collapsed the entire Domus of Gladiators. It seems - they say - which have been the infiltration of water to cause the damage. " Even as we learn the causes of the Superintendent of the collapse can be attributed to the rains that have created or infiltration within an existing embankment at the side of the choir, or the weight of the roof of the gym itself. The house, in fact, was bombed during the Second World War and the roof was redone in the '40s and '50s. It is likely - they know the Superintendent - the ancient walls, years later, no longer have withstood the weight of the roof.
In addition to the investigations carried out by the Messenger on the health of the excavations of Pompeii, numerous complaints had been brought out by several politicians on the state of degradation of the archaeological area. "For months we denounce, with articles and searches, the alarming degradation of the excavations of Pompeii. The most serious crash this morning is proof that the Government and the Minister Bondi underestimate the situation and tell, for some time, quite a lot 'of nonsense, "says Luisa Bossa hours , deputy of the Democratic Party and former mayor of Herculaneum. "When we raised the issue of degradation in the ruins - says Bossa - Bondi responded offended and resentful, defending the work of its commissioners. The collapse of the Domus of the gladiators is the dramatic, but inevitable, response to those who think that to govern means to tell a bale a day, attacking those who complain.The Minister should come here and be looking at them with his own eyes. The situation of archaeological sites in Campania is dramatic. "
According to the mayor of Pompeii, Claudio D'Alessio, the collapse of the building was announced, "happens when there is no proper attention and care" for a secular heritage that should be "preserved from all types of stress even air. There is the sorrow of a all community - said D'Alessio - a territory where there is the world's largest outdoor museum which unfortunately is often overlooked. "
The collapse, according to initial investigations, occurred around 6 am and was noted by the custodians have just arrived at work at about 7.30. The area is currently fenced and can not be accessed. The Domus is on the main street, Abundance, the one most traveled by tourists, in the direction of Port Amphitheater. Prepared an alternative route for many tourists.
THE CAUSE - "Early this morning - explain the custodians - the first collapsed the wall of the Domus, and then, given the weight of the ceiling made with concrete, collapsed the entire Domus of Gladiators. It seems - they say - which have been the infiltration of water to cause the damage. " Even as we learn the causes of the Superintendent of the collapse can be attributed to the rains that have created or infiltration within an existing embankment at the side of the choir, or the weight of the roof of the gym itself. The house, in fact, was bombed during the Second World War and the roof was redone in the '40s and '50s. It is likely - they know the Superintendent - the ancient walls, years later, no longer have withstood the weight of the roof.
In addition to the investigations carried out by the Messenger on the health of the excavations of Pompeii, numerous complaints had been brought out by several politicians on the state of degradation of the archaeological area. "For months we denounce, with articles and searches, the alarming degradation of the excavations of Pompeii. The most serious crash this morning is proof that the Government and the Minister Bondi underestimate the situation and tell, for some time, quite a lot 'of nonsense, "says Luisa Bossa hours , deputy of the Democratic Party and former mayor of Herculaneum. "When we raised the issue of degradation in the ruins - says Bossa - Bondi responded offended and resentful, defending the work of its commissioners. The collapse of the Domus of the gladiators is the dramatic, but inevitable, response to those who think that to govern means to tell a bale a day, attacking those who complain.The Minister should come here and be looking at them with his own eyes. The situation of archaeological sites in Campania is dramatic. "
According to the mayor of Pompeii, Claudio D'Alessio, the collapse of the building was announced, "happens when there is no proper attention and care" for a secular heritage that should be "preserved from all types of stress even air. There is the sorrow of a all community - said D'Alessio - a territory where there is the world's largest outdoor museum which unfortunately is often overlooked. "
Thursday, November 4, 2010
We are fed up guarding the Prime Minister's escorts
"We are fed up. We are not carabinieri ( police) to guard the escorts of the Prime Minister. Many of our colleagues were killed while they were escorting the magistrates or politicians who defend the state. And we i ... can you believe that? ". So talk some "boys" of the escort services. Carabinieri trained to defend the "personality" entrusted to make risk their own lives. "But here we are making the drivers at parties. For this, after being so quiet and obedient, now we want to, at our risk, make our voices heard.
"PARTIES at Arcore (prime minister private home) are in the week ends from Friday to Monday. Many are just on Monday. In the summer they multiply. We accompany the guests to the villa and then we wait it out. We see groups of young girls. They come with various means. Many NCC, hire cars with drivers. Some coaches, those from 10-15 seats. Some girls come directly with Emilio Fede(director of the most popular tv news show in Berlusconi Mediaset) in his car, others drop out of the car Lele Mora .
"Last summer we saw a lot of parties at the villa in Arcore. Other times we have accompanied our personalities in restaurants in Milan, such as 'by Giannino', in Vittor Pisani, Central Station. Or in a private homes . What do we know what happens there? There
imagine them, maybe use drugs or break the law and laugh at us, saying we are safe here, we also have-the police who protect us.
And which kind of people there are in those parties? When we joined up the police we need to demonstrate to be clean for two generations, our fathers and grandfathers had no propbels with the justice, and now we end to guard to people who maybe can not be cleaned ones. "
"Yes, last summer Arcore there was a bustle. Ruby? No, I do not remember, but you know, are many, all equal, ... ... We recognized a reporter. And some involved in tv shows. Many of them understand that they are foreign, many have the cadence in Naples. Then some leave at the end of party, other remain there for the night, but it is difficult to keep the accounts, there's a bustle that ...".The President? With us is kind. Sometimes he has come to say goodbye, tell a few jokes. Once he said: 'Oh, blessed are you who now go home to sleep, fuck does concern me'. ... One night she sent us a girl who made us belly dancing ...".
"At the end of the evening we report the personality at home. Some girls go out to Milan, the others remain in-house for the night. It happens that we must accompany personalities that go around to accompany the girls in residential Milan there, Sometimes he goes home with the last one.l And we must accompany our personality to the door ,and sometimes is "shames us"
take the elevator with an elderly man and a too young girl. We think of tour daughters and say we do not like this world. It will be moralism, but we do not like. "
"We happened to do missions abroad and foreign colleagues who encounter in our own work joke for this story-of the parties, and girls. But is it possible that we have to be ashamed for doing a work for the institutions and defending the state? We schedule eight-hour shifts per day, which often become twelve. We also do 120 hours of overtime, but there are charged a maximum of thirty, a 6 euro per hour and a half, plus a meal voucher from 7 euro. Okay-do not we complain, is our work. But I would like to do for the state, not-for this is shame. We would like to protect the personality of the institutions, not people who make us shamed before the world. " "However we are not complaining of our salary. Only we wonder if it is right that a pretty young girl with no other political experience to take 15 000 euro per month.
Gianni Barbacetto (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
"PARTIES at Arcore (prime minister private home) are in the week ends from Friday to Monday. Many are just on Monday. In the summer they multiply. We accompany the guests to the villa and then we wait it out. We see groups of young girls. They come with various means. Many NCC, hire cars with drivers. Some coaches, those from 10-15 seats. Some girls come directly with Emilio Fede(director of the most popular tv news show in Berlusconi Mediaset) in his car, others drop out of the car Lele Mora .
"Last summer we saw a lot of parties at the villa in Arcore. Other times we have accompanied our personalities in restaurants in Milan, such as 'by Giannino', in Vittor Pisani, Central Station. Or in a private homes . What do we know what happens there? There
imagine them, maybe use drugs or break the law and laugh at us, saying we are safe here, we also have-the police who protect us.
And which kind of people there are in those parties? When we joined up the police we need to demonstrate to be clean for two generations, our fathers and grandfathers had no propbels with the justice, and now we end to guard to people who maybe can not be cleaned ones. "
"Yes, last summer Arcore there was a bustle. Ruby? No, I do not remember, but you know, are many, all equal, ... ... We recognized a reporter. And some involved in tv shows. Many of them understand that they are foreign, many have the cadence in Naples. Then some leave at the end of party, other remain there for the night, but it is difficult to keep the accounts, there's a bustle that ...".The President? With us is kind. Sometimes he has come to say goodbye, tell a few jokes. Once he said: 'Oh, blessed are you who now go home to sleep, fuck does concern me'. ... One night she sent us a girl who made us belly dancing ...".
"At the end of the evening we report the personality at home. Some girls go out to Milan, the others remain in-house for the night. It happens that we must accompany personalities that go around to accompany the girls in residential Milan there, Sometimes he goes home with the last one.l And we must accompany our personality to the door ,and sometimes is "shames us"
take the elevator with an elderly man and a too young girl. We think of tour daughters and say we do not like this world. It will be moralism, but we do not like. "
"We happened to do missions abroad and foreign colleagues who encounter in our own work joke for this story-of the parties, and girls. But is it possible that we have to be ashamed for doing a work for the institutions and defending the state? We schedule eight-hour shifts per day, which often become twelve. We also do 120 hours of overtime, but there are charged a maximum of thirty, a 6 euro per hour and a half, plus a meal voucher from 7 euro. Okay-do not we complain, is our work. But I would like to do for the state, not-for this is shame. We would like to protect the personality of the institutions, not people who make us shamed before the world. " "However we are not complaining of our salary. Only we wonder if it is right that a pretty young girl with no other political experience to take 15 000 euro per month.
Gianni Barbacetto (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Gays furious with Prime Minister
The representatives of the homosexual community, even those on the right, react strongly to the sentence of Berlusconi. And on the internet, post, articles, start by telling people outraged and offended.
MARCO EASTER (www.repubblica.it)
The homophobic WORDSby Silvio Berlusconi bounce in a few minutes on the forums and sites in gay issues, but also travel on the boards of Facebook of the main exponents of the Italian gay movement. The comments are those of people angry and offended, which ask associations to intervene, and not confined to public statements. Some would like to organize a major national demonstration in Rome, but also sit-in protest in front of the prefectures (and, for today at 18, the Radical Certain Rights Association is planning a protest in front of Palazzo Chigi). Others go further and even suggest a "tax strike" by the Italian homosexuals. Prime Minister reproach also the story of Ruby, with all its implications, and "partying with minors."
The associations that fight for gay rights claim an apology from the prime minister, while also Alfonso Signorini, a TV director who smiled the other times, has distanced itself from the Chairman of the Board: "This time I disagree with Silvio Berlusconi . On the sexual tastes everyone shall be free to express their feelings, without discrimination. " Enrico Oliari, chairman of GayLib (gay center-right) in front of the "new "i have it hard" by Berlusconi, announces its membership in the Future and Freedom. The Arcigay, through the chairman, Paul Patane, speaks of "macho culture backward and offensive to gay people
but also for women, who comes from an attitude of contempt for the dignity of persons and confirms the climatee grotesque and embarrassing in which the prime minister is plunging the country. "On the parliamentary front, the deputy lesbian Paola Tanning (Pd) shows that "the contempt of the Prime Minister for Women is amply demonstrated by the large number of outputs vulgar and misogynistic to which we referred in recent years, revealing the medieval idea he owns about women. Its equation of homosexuality in a negative value, is yet another demonstration of his inability to govern, to stay in politics and to keep abreast of European political leaders. "
The anger and indignation on the Web is fueling the hours passed. The video documenting the response of the gay President of the Council is spreading virally. While all major groups attack the prime minister, the web collects the outburst of homosexuals who have felt, once again, offended and trampled by the words of the Italian prime minister. Gay on the portal. it 1, bringing to mind all the previous attacks Berlusconi towards homosexuals, the outburst of the LGBT community is hard. "But how can determine what is best? 'S like saying that it is better than chocolate ice cream or with pistachios. . And always macho phrases against these poor women whoto be of some value must be beautiful. He talks? who to be watchable had to redo everything. As I say? We can only wish him to have so many grandchildren who prefer to watch the boys. He will pass away,gays will remain, "wrote a user who signed roudolph1250.
"Berlusconi wants to make a scapegoat the most vulnerable gays to divert public opinion from its mess," says an anonymous commentator. Someone gets angry with those who, in the video of homophobic statement, welcomed the sentence with applause: "What is most disgusting is that they have laughed about it and some have applauded! But in which country do we live?" . Over ten thousand contacts showed the piece in a few hours.
On Queerblog, many remember the story of Ruby to the premier and the "parties with underage girls." Resentment runs in the form of invective, sometimes harsh. "Better to be gay than to do with the minor parties daring!" Writes "marriage." Some are addressed directly to gay voters of the PDL, "Toc toc! The pro-gay Silvio awhere are you?," and then "Tell that to the many gays who vote." More Vehje net: "I would like to invite all the gay right, and those who voted and continue to vote for it, kindly spit in his face." The anger at times, gives way to disappointment and bitterness: "I feel humbled and I was really hurt by this phrase. I do not have to be respected even by a person with a charge so important?". Comparisons with other countries, according to the users of this blog, send us directly to those organizations where homosexuality is a crime: "We are the same as Nigeria," comments the user Gustolo.
Gay forum on the news comes shortly after 12. "Maybe he realized that he can just look at because if it had the texture of those not even touch with a pair of tweezers. And this would be a serious man?"
Another site, gay. TV 2, the actual wording of the reactions. "Better to be gay than to be the Premier," says assenziozero while Yagonos88 asks "how do you vote to continue this right racist and bigoted." Fearless says: "And that's what we pay for government? Poor Italy. It is even more sad to think that these measures because if they can afford." Only about taxes: "If straight people want him to recognize the superiority, say 'ok, you feel even more', you just stop to offend and humiliate gay citizens, who pay taxes as all other citizens heterosexual. "
the 'Board President's Facebook Arcigay, Paolo Patanè, raises the idea of forms of protest, even sensational. Johnny proposes: "Paul, we should begin to ask all gay Italians, to stop paying taxes. Or armed revolution, or you stop paying taxes. There are two solutions, and would like to avoid the first. " Claudio launched the idea of some events: "We must respond immediately and strongly to the allegations of petty and offensive Berlusconi. Let's go well with the sit-in in front of the prefectures in the short term but we organize a major mobilization in Rome." Among requests for intervention by Mara Carfagna, Minister for Equal Opportunities ("but she has nothing to say?"), One recalls the statements of Veronica Lario: "He had said his wife is ill, an international disgrace" Fabio Croce notes the editor.
It also suggests the possibility of a collective complaint: "You can make a complaint to the General Chairman of the Board? I would be the first in a long line just to collect signatures." The same outrage can be found on the bulletin board of a member of PD, Paola Conca. "I would note that while we gay / lesbian, love the sunlight, returning feelings and affections, he buys everything abusing his power and his money, commodifying the body of others," writes Alexander. "The only real excuse, now, is to retire from the scene and they go to do with the pigs his friends, attacked by shouts Salvatore Aurelio Mancuso, president of Equality Italy, which must also intervene to quell the excesses of some commentators. The same Mancuso, in a note, shows that Berlusconi "in trouble, pull off the joke homophobic, the Prime Minister of a country founded Europe, which has voted for the Charter of Nice, which is forced to fight all forms of discrimination including one for sexual orientation. Ask immediately apologize to the millions of Italian citizens homosexuals, right and left, and is ashamed of homophobia than any other European country would be immediately condemned by all political democracy. " Continuing with the associations, the Mario Mieli Homosexual Cultural Circle advises Berlusconi "a careful reading of the Constitution that he and his government would love to change," while paying a call on Italian MEPs to denounce "the regrettable behavior President of the Council through a query to the European Parliament. Finally, Imma Battaglia, president of Gay Project, says that "it is better to be gay, and I say a woman who loves women, who despise abuse, as now seems to do, of his position as rich and powerful man."
MARCO EASTER (www.repubblica.it)
The homophobic WORDSby Silvio Berlusconi bounce in a few minutes on the forums and sites in gay issues, but also travel on the boards of Facebook of the main exponents of the Italian gay movement. The comments are those of people angry and offended, which ask associations to intervene, and not confined to public statements. Some would like to organize a major national demonstration in Rome, but also sit-in protest in front of the prefectures (and, for today at 18, the Radical Certain Rights Association is planning a protest in front of Palazzo Chigi). Others go further and even suggest a "tax strike" by the Italian homosexuals. Prime Minister reproach also the story of Ruby, with all its implications, and "partying with minors."
The associations that fight for gay rights claim an apology from the prime minister, while also Alfonso Signorini, a TV director who smiled the other times, has distanced itself from the Chairman of the Board: "This time I disagree with Silvio Berlusconi . On the sexual tastes everyone shall be free to express their feelings, without discrimination. " Enrico Oliari, chairman of GayLib (gay center-right) in front of the "new "i have it hard" by Berlusconi, announces its membership in the Future and Freedom. The Arcigay, through the chairman, Paul Patane, speaks of "macho culture backward and offensive to gay people
but also for women, who comes from an attitude of contempt for the dignity of persons and confirms the climatee grotesque and embarrassing in which the prime minister is plunging the country. "On the parliamentary front, the deputy lesbian Paola Tanning (Pd) shows that "the contempt of the Prime Minister for Women is amply demonstrated by the large number of outputs vulgar and misogynistic to which we referred in recent years, revealing the medieval idea he owns about women. Its equation of homosexuality in a negative value, is yet another demonstration of his inability to govern, to stay in politics and to keep abreast of European political leaders. "
The anger and indignation on the Web is fueling the hours passed. The video documenting the response of the gay President of the Council is spreading virally. While all major groups attack the prime minister, the web collects the outburst of homosexuals who have felt, once again, offended and trampled by the words of the Italian prime minister. Gay on the portal. it 1, bringing to mind all the previous attacks Berlusconi towards homosexuals, the outburst of the LGBT community is hard. "But how can determine what is best? 'S like saying that it is better than chocolate ice cream or with pistachios. . And always macho phrases against these poor women whoto be of some value must be beautiful. He talks? who to be watchable had to redo everything. As I say? We can only wish him to have so many grandchildren who prefer to watch the boys. He will pass away,gays will remain, "wrote a user who signed roudolph1250.
"Berlusconi wants to make a scapegoat the most vulnerable gays to divert public opinion from its mess," says an anonymous commentator. Someone gets angry with those who, in the video of homophobic statement, welcomed the sentence with applause: "What is most disgusting is that they have laughed about it and some have applauded! But in which country do we live?" . Over ten thousand contacts showed the piece in a few hours.
On Queerblog, many remember the story of Ruby to the premier and the "parties with underage girls." Resentment runs in the form of invective, sometimes harsh. "Better to be gay than to do with the minor parties daring!" Writes "marriage." Some are addressed directly to gay voters of the PDL, "Toc toc! The pro-gay Silvio awhere are you?," and then "Tell that to the many gays who vote." More Vehje net: "I would like to invite all the gay right, and those who voted and continue to vote for it, kindly spit in his face." The anger at times, gives way to disappointment and bitterness: "I feel humbled and I was really hurt by this phrase. I do not have to be respected even by a person with a charge so important?". Comparisons with other countries, according to the users of this blog, send us directly to those organizations where homosexuality is a crime: "We are the same as Nigeria," comments the user Gustolo.
Gay forum on the news comes shortly after 12. "Maybe he realized that he can just look at because if it had the texture of those not even touch with a pair of tweezers. And this would be a serious man?"
Another site, gay. TV 2, the actual wording of the reactions. "Better to be gay than to be the Premier," says assenziozero while Yagonos88 asks "how do you vote to continue this right racist and bigoted." Fearless says: "And that's what we pay for government? Poor Italy. It is even more sad to think that these measures because if they can afford." Only about taxes: "If straight people want him to recognize the superiority, say 'ok, you feel even more', you just stop to offend and humiliate gay citizens, who pay taxes as all other citizens heterosexual. "
the 'Board President's Facebook Arcigay, Paolo Patanè, raises the idea of forms of protest, even sensational. Johnny proposes: "Paul, we should begin to ask all gay Italians, to stop paying taxes. Or armed revolution, or you stop paying taxes. There are two solutions, and would like to avoid the first. " Claudio launched the idea of some events: "We must respond immediately and strongly to the allegations of petty and offensive Berlusconi. Let's go well with the sit-in in front of the prefectures in the short term but we organize a major mobilization in Rome." Among requests for intervention by Mara Carfagna, Minister for Equal Opportunities ("but she has nothing to say?"), One recalls the statements of Veronica Lario: "He had said his wife is ill, an international disgrace" Fabio Croce notes the editor.
It also suggests the possibility of a collective complaint: "You can make a complaint to the General Chairman of the Board? I would be the first in a long line just to collect signatures." The same outrage can be found on the bulletin board of a member of PD, Paola Conca. "I would note that while we gay / lesbian, love the sunlight, returning feelings and affections, he buys everything abusing his power and his money, commodifying the body of others," writes Alexander. "The only real excuse, now, is to retire from the scene and they go to do with the pigs his friends, attacked by shouts Salvatore Aurelio Mancuso, president of Equality Italy, which must also intervene to quell the excesses of some commentators. The same Mancuso, in a note, shows that Berlusconi "in trouble, pull off the joke homophobic, the Prime Minister of a country founded Europe, which has voted for the Charter of Nice, which is forced to fight all forms of discrimination including one for sexual orientation. Ask immediately apologize to the millions of Italian citizens homosexuals, right and left, and is ashamed of homophobia than any other European country would be immediately condemned by all political democracy. " Continuing with the associations, the Mario Mieli Homosexual Cultural Circle advises Berlusconi "a careful reading of the Constitution that he and his government would love to change," while paying a call on Italian MEPs to denounce "the regrettable behavior President of the Council through a query to the European Parliament. Finally, Imma Battaglia, president of Gay Project, says that "it is better to be gay, and I say a woman who loves women, who despise abuse, as now seems to do, of his position as rich and powerful man."
"Better to be passionate about a beautiful girl than a gay."
By Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press
ROME - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi insisted Tuesday that his government would last its full term despite a new clamour for early elections after he intervened to spare a teenage runaway named Ruby from possible jail time.
Opposition politicians have called for Berlusconi to resign, charging that he abused his office by calling police in May when Ruby, then 17, was detained for an alleged theft.
Newspapers have reported that Berlusconi told police that a local party official would take custody of the girl from Morocco, who reportedly visited Berlusconi's Milan villa on at least one occasion.
Even centre-right commentators in Berlusconi's family-owned newspapers have criticized him for intervening in a possible criminal case. Berlusconi's now-estranged ally, Gianfranco Fini, said his antics had embarrassed the country.
But Berlusconi again defended his lifestyle and fondness for young women, telling a trade fair in Milan on Tuesday it was
His comments sparked immediate condemnation from gay rights group Arcigay, which demanded an apology for causing offence to both women and gays.
Berlusconi assured supporters his government still had a majority and would last the remaining three years of its five-year term. He said early elections would be a disaster for a country emerging from the economic crisis.
Italian voters, he said, "would have the right to say 'How is this possible? We elected you two years ago and we gave you the majority to govern and instead of governing you're here fighting.'"
He called the Ruby scandal a "paper storm" whipped up by hostile, deceptive newspapers and again defended his decision to intervene in her case.
In May, Ruby was detained by Milan police for an alleged theft but was let go after Berlusconi called police and arranged for a party official, onetime showgirl and Berlusconi dental hygienist Nicole Minetti, to take custody of her.
Berlusconi has admitted to intervening to help Ruby and said Tuesday he'd do it again.
"You will see when this is over that there was nothing more than an act of solidarity ... which I would have been ashamed not to do and I did it and I do it regularly because I'm made that way," he said.
Ruby, meanwhile, told Libero, a conservative newspaper close to Berlusconi, that she would tell her version of the story Thursday on a popular state-run RAI television talk show. Her comments have been inconsistent and even Libero questioned her truthfulness.
She repeated she never had intimate relations with the premier, though she said she "adored" him. She clarified that while another young woman linked to Berlusconi, Noemi Letizia, referred to him as "papi," she called him "premier."
Berlusconi's relationship with Letizia, an 18-year-old would-be model from Naples, sparked a scandal last year that prompted Berlusconi's second wife to file for divorce.
Soon after, a high-end prostitute, Patrizia D'Addario, claimed she had spent a night with the premier and had tape recorded their encounter.
The conservative Italian leader has said he has never paid anyone for sex. Prosecutors have said Berlusconi was not under investigation.
ROME - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi insisted Tuesday that his government would last its full term despite a new clamour for early elections after he intervened to spare a teenage runaway named Ruby from possible jail time.
Opposition politicians have called for Berlusconi to resign, charging that he abused his office by calling police in May when Ruby, then 17, was detained for an alleged theft.
Newspapers have reported that Berlusconi told police that a local party official would take custody of the girl from Morocco, who reportedly visited Berlusconi's Milan villa on at least one occasion.
Even centre-right commentators in Berlusconi's family-owned newspapers have criticized him for intervening in a possible criminal case. Berlusconi's now-estranged ally, Gianfranco Fini, said his antics had embarrassed the country.
But Berlusconi again defended his lifestyle and fondness for young women, telling a trade fair in Milan on Tuesday it was
His comments sparked immediate condemnation from gay rights group Arcigay, which demanded an apology for causing offence to both women and gays.
Berlusconi assured supporters his government still had a majority and would last the remaining three years of its five-year term. He said early elections would be a disaster for a country emerging from the economic crisis.
Italian voters, he said, "would have the right to say 'How is this possible? We elected you two years ago and we gave you the majority to govern and instead of governing you're here fighting.'"
He called the Ruby scandal a "paper storm" whipped up by hostile, deceptive newspapers and again defended his decision to intervene in her case.
In May, Ruby was detained by Milan police for an alleged theft but was let go after Berlusconi called police and arranged for a party official, onetime showgirl and Berlusconi dental hygienist Nicole Minetti, to take custody of her.
Berlusconi has admitted to intervening to help Ruby and said Tuesday he'd do it again.
"You will see when this is over that there was nothing more than an act of solidarity ... which I would have been ashamed not to do and I did it and I do it regularly because I'm made that way," he said.
Ruby, meanwhile, told Libero, a conservative newspaper close to Berlusconi, that she would tell her version of the story Thursday on a popular state-run RAI television talk show. Her comments have been inconsistent and even Libero questioned her truthfulness.
She repeated she never had intimate relations with the premier, though she said she "adored" him. She clarified that while another young woman linked to Berlusconi, Noemi Letizia, referred to him as "papi," she called him "premier."
Berlusconi's relationship with Letizia, an 18-year-old would-be model from Naples, sparked a scandal last year that prompted Berlusconi's second wife to file for divorce.
Soon after, a high-end prostitute, Patrizia D'Addario, claimed she had spent a night with the premier and had tape recorded their encounter.
The conservative Italian leader has said he has never paid anyone for sex. Prosecutors have said Berlusconi was not under investigation.
"Better the pretty girls that being gay"-Associations in revolt:
"Better to be fond of beautiful girls than to be gay," said Silvio Berlusconi at the end of his speech at the Fair of the cycle and motorcycle in Rho (Milan). A phrase out of place without being harassed by any application, the externalized cold representatives of associations of homosexuals. But Berlusconi went further back also never abandoned the idea of gag: "The government intends to reintroduce a Bill in Parliament to regulate the interception, this topic is in the hearts of Italians, we have polls that say so." The law, he explained, will include three points: "the use of this instrument should be limited to international terrorism, criminal organizations, child abuse and killings, the eavesdropping can not be produced as evidence by the prosecution nor the defense
On Facebook, in a few minutes mounted the protest. After the sentences about gay prime minister, some have created a profile: "Better gay than Silvio Berlusconi."( The page, where the premier is portrayed with the Libyan leader Gaddafi, reached in a few minutes several accessions.
From Internet to the world of politics was unanimous dissent: "Berlusconi inaugurated the shape of whoremongers moralists." Franco Grillini stigmatizes the words of the Prime Minister. According to the honorary president of Arcigay these jokes are "homophobic, and just from bars and go along with those of last October."
Italy of Values, where Grillini is responsible for civil rights, has publicly announced that it will challenge the Prime Minister when he opens the conference on the family, from 8 to 10 November in Milan.
Berlusconi's line "hides its difficulty of these hours on the case Ruby," said Aurelio Mancuso, president of Equality and historical leader of Italy Arcigay. "I hope that at this time gays in this country, whether right or left, have a start, because a prime minister of this type is not really worthy to lead Italy." He continued: "Berlusconi has sought to convey a message very clear: I think he wanted to wink at the sexism and machismo that is always present in this country, and remember to heterosexual males who think in a way that is better to be these instead homosexual. " There is another aspect that Mancuso wanted to emphasize: "The prime minister of a founding member of Europe, which has voted for the Charter of Nice, is forced to fight all forms of discrimination including one for sexual orientation." A laughter is the reaction of the president of Arcigay Paul Patané that learns from the statements of Mr Berlusconi: "One might say that good taste should be preferred to the banal vulgarity. A machismo that thought out of date. In reality the problem is serious, it's amazing how we continue to refer to gay people with negative sense. At the bottom is a confirmation: "Italy is the European country with the highest rates of homophobia among the institutions."
Enrico Oliari, chairman of GayLib, sided with the center-right, seems resigned: "We are used to be embarrassed by Mr Berlusconi," he says. "The morality of Berlusconi goes to school there. The problem is not so much machismo, the problem is that these are the people who tell us how to set the Italian family. Every time I ask him the rights it gives us lessons on how it should be the family, and then hand it to minors. "
It is not the first time that Berlusconi stumbles into a gaffe against them: "Berlusconi has said different. Was the famous phrase that the other party are gay, "says Oliari stressing that the association is the principal center-right," Berlusconi would do well to catch up the other leaders of the European center-right, instead of shooting stupidities ".
(www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
On Facebook, in a few minutes mounted the protest. After the sentences about gay prime minister, some have created a profile: "Better gay than Silvio Berlusconi."( The page, where the premier is portrayed with the Libyan leader Gaddafi, reached in a few minutes several accessions.
From Internet to the world of politics was unanimous dissent: "Berlusconi inaugurated the shape of whoremongers moralists." Franco Grillini stigmatizes the words of the Prime Minister. According to the honorary president of Arcigay these jokes are "homophobic, and just from bars and go along with those of last October."
Italy of Values, where Grillini is responsible for civil rights, has publicly announced that it will challenge the Prime Minister when he opens the conference on the family, from 8 to 10 November in Milan.
Berlusconi's line "hides its difficulty of these hours on the case Ruby," said Aurelio Mancuso, president of Equality and historical leader of Italy Arcigay. "I hope that at this time gays in this country, whether right or left, have a start, because a prime minister of this type is not really worthy to lead Italy." He continued: "Berlusconi has sought to convey a message very clear: I think he wanted to wink at the sexism and machismo that is always present in this country, and remember to heterosexual males who think in a way that is better to be these instead homosexual. " There is another aspect that Mancuso wanted to emphasize: "The prime minister of a founding member of Europe, which has voted for the Charter of Nice, is forced to fight all forms of discrimination including one for sexual orientation." A laughter is the reaction of the president of Arcigay Paul Patané that learns from the statements of Mr Berlusconi: "One might say that good taste should be preferred to the banal vulgarity. A machismo that thought out of date. In reality the problem is serious, it's amazing how we continue to refer to gay people with negative sense. At the bottom is a confirmation: "Italy is the European country with the highest rates of homophobia among the institutions."
Enrico Oliari, chairman of GayLib, sided with the center-right, seems resigned: "We are used to be embarrassed by Mr Berlusconi," he says. "The morality of Berlusconi goes to school there. The problem is not so much machismo, the problem is that these are the people who tell us how to set the Italian family. Every time I ask him the rights it gives us lessons on how it should be the family, and then hand it to minors. "
It is not the first time that Berlusconi stumbles into a gaffe against them: "Berlusconi has said different. Was the famous phrase that the other party are gay, "says Oliari stressing that the association is the principal center-right," Berlusconi would do well to catch up the other leaders of the European center-right, instead of shooting stupidities ".
(www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
Monday, November 1, 2010
Berlusconi new scandal
(www.canada.com)
The teenage Moroccan model at the heart of a sex scandal in Italy said Friday she was "sorry" for the trouble she has caused, as Silvio Berlusconi faced calls for his resignation.
Karima Keyek, 17, previously identified only by her stage name "Ruby", said she "felt bad" over the affair and had removed herself from Facebook, where she had called herself Ruby Rubacuore - Ruby the Heartbreaker.
"I'm sorry for everything that has happened," she said from a women's shelter in Genoa. "Above all I'm sorry because I've involved people who just wanted to help me and never asked for anything in return."
The girl ran away from home in her early teens and is understood to have worked as a belly dancer and waitress as she tried to break into television.
In an affair the Italian press has dubbed "Rubygate", she is reported to have attended dinners at Mr Berlusconi's villa outside Milan, where she allegedly witnessed group sex games that the prime minister and his entourage nicknamed "bunga-bunga" parties.
Her lawyer, Luca Giuliante, said: "She needs to be left alone because she is a very young girl involved in an affair that is much bigger than her."
Mr Berlusconi, 74, was accused of a gross abuse of power after officials in Milan confirmed they had received a call from his office in Rome on May 27 when Karima was being questioned about an alleged theft. Mr Berlusconi appeared to confirm the claim, saying: "I'm a kind-hearted person. I like to give help to people who are in need of it."
Opposition MPs said that in any other Western democracy, such an interference in the judicial process would have forced a leader to step down.
Mr Berlusconi's lawyers have strongly denied any suggestion that he had sexual relations with the teenager
The teenage Moroccan model at the heart of a sex scandal in Italy said Friday she was "sorry" for the trouble she has caused, as Silvio Berlusconi faced calls for his resignation.
Karima Keyek, 17, previously identified only by her stage name "Ruby", said she "felt bad" over the affair and had removed herself from Facebook, where she had called herself Ruby Rubacuore - Ruby the Heartbreaker.
"I'm sorry for everything that has happened," she said from a women's shelter in Genoa. "Above all I'm sorry because I've involved people who just wanted to help me and never asked for anything in return."
The girl ran away from home in her early teens and is understood to have worked as a belly dancer and waitress as she tried to break into television.
In an affair the Italian press has dubbed "Rubygate", she is reported to have attended dinners at Mr Berlusconi's villa outside Milan, where she allegedly witnessed group sex games that the prime minister and his entourage nicknamed "bunga-bunga" parties.
Her lawyer, Luca Giuliante, said: "She needs to be left alone because she is a very young girl involved in an affair that is much bigger than her."
Mr Berlusconi, 74, was accused of a gross abuse of power after officials in Milan confirmed they had received a call from his office in Rome on May 27 when Karima was being questioned about an alleged theft. Mr Berlusconi appeared to confirm the claim, saying: "I'm a kind-hearted person. I like to give help to people who are in need of it."
Opposition MPs said that in any other Western democracy, such an interference in the judicial process would have forced a leader to step down.
Mr Berlusconi's lawyers have strongly denied any suggestion that he had sexual relations with the teenager
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