ROME - Like in Louisiana, the oil spills live here. Off the coast between Genoa and Savona more than 50 thousand tons of crude oil lying on the seabed. Forgotten by who should clean up the area, it pollutes the water, covers with a grayish mud the fishes that get cancer. Solidified by time up to look like moon rocks, oil crowds the Ligurian fishing nets despite thrown away from the area off limits. Yet, according to authorities, there should be no trace of the biggest ecological disaster in the Mediterranean. That of the supertanker Haven, sank before Arenzano 144mila tons of crude oil after an explosion that killed five sailors on 11 April 1991.
Since then there have been nearly twenty years but the effects of neglect or carelessness, bureaucracy or denouncing superficiality ,as Report (a well known italian tv show) broadcasts in a documentary this evening by Sigfrido Ranucci, are evident among those tarred fish dying from the bottom. A disaster without a guilty as the greek Cypriot company didn't paid out after blames the captain, who died in the accident. A disaster that continues in the indifference, although researchers paid by the State alerted the government and ministries of the seriousness of the situation.
Just a few numbers tell the italian story . In the aftermath of the accident, experts estimate the ecological damage in two trillion lire. Italy 117 receives as compensation for deciding to use it: 32 to cleaning up the sea and 60 communes of the coast by way of compensation. In fact, billions have been spent only 16 (about EUR 8 million) to reclaim part of the Haven - after the Berlusconi government had entrusted them to the Civil Protection in 2005 - and then certifying that the waters were clean. This was not, obviously, but so long ago and the other 8 million euro to clean up the water - and re-allocated to the Civil Protection in 2009 - were used to secure the Stoppani, a company that had polluted chromium and copper water, and partly due to the mobility of workers.
(www.repubblica.it)
The oil on the sea floor does not seem to be interested, you can not see from the shore, on the surface of the water either. So much so that the 60 billion going to compensate the municipalities are used to rebuild the boardwalk, Arenzano, fix the sewers or the area and the former railway. Yet experts have said many times over the years: there is no map of the seabed to find out where the tar is finished, there is risk to the sea, to the population. In 1995, four years after the disaster of the Haven, for example, researchers from the Institute for Applied Marine Research, commissioned by the Ministry of Environment to prepare a plan for remediation, with a bathyscaphe descend to 700 meters. And they see endless stretches of tar, fish in the crevices of bitumen.
"The problem is that the residual hydrocarbons are capable of inducing cancer. We found the fish that live in close contact with the bottom and noticed as one species in particular, show symptoms, signs of liver cancer." Reactions? "It was decided to turn a blind eye, as if the problem did not exist," said Ezio Amato, then scientific director of the government for the remediation Haven.
Since then nothing has changed, the fishermen in their nets find pieces of tar such as boulders, fishes covered in raw that they must clean up with oil if they want to sell it .The Civil Defence and the Presidency of the Council consider the matter closed . Only the Ministry of Environment says he is ready to collect reports of pollution, "as if he had never seen the report of its own scholars 15 years ago." But the worst, says Ranucci, is that the history of Louisiana could be repeated in Italy seen as the application is submitted for drilling in search of oil: from companies based phantom, without going on the seats, without even taking into account where you want it search for gas or oil is an active volcano.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Acerra reporters teased and fenced
Acerra incinerator, October 28, at 11. Called for a press conference by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who wants to make the point on the waste emergency in Campania, I and colleagues find that the private room at the meeting is unbecoming of a closet just over 10 square meters, less than twenty meters from the processes plant. There are just thirty chairs, including eight reserved for 'authority'. Berlusconi is inspecting the inside of incinerators: tour off limits to reporters, allowed only a few camera.
A diligent security officer of Premier, tells us that the press conference will begin after noon. We are packed like sardines. There are at least a hundred people, and moreover it was not difficult to foresee a boom in credit, given the theme of the conference and the expectation around the words of Berlusconi, and the trash is back to flood Naples and the press turned on again a spotlight on a new sexual scandal President of the Council.
Meander lines. One of the most popular: If you intend to resolve the emergency, such as organizing press conferences, we are ruined. It's hot. There is no air. You will suffer. When everything finally seems ready for the arrival of the premier, the diligent security officer of the above makes a stern face and points his finger at reporterswho,due to overcrowding are waiting standing and intend to follow up the conference, to the right of the conference table. "You have to go out for security reasons. Here you can not stand. " They fear that we throw a statue at the head of Berlusconi? The undersigned is one of the unfortunate. Neither the fact helps him to qualify as a journalist of 'il Fatto'. Indeed. The official insisted there is targeting. Then there appease: "So you will not be a press conference, they will only statements and there are no questions, there are outside speakers and follow everything." At that point all complain, that we should have called for? The fact is that, by citizens who still believe in the sincerity of the institutions, my colleagues and I remained standing and position ourselves we move outside, on the other side of that kind of prefabricated disguised as a press room, where he probably first guarded the brums and rags. Then there's the civil protection 'fencing' with the hurdles positioned as a kind of barrier between our position and the front door of the incinerator, where a summit concluded Berlusconi will have to go out, and Caldoro and Bertolaso, to cover the twenty meters that separate them from the place of the press conference. I and several colleagues at the Sole 24 Ore, of Rome, of Metropolis, some local newspapers, we remain open, with no possibility to move, trapped by the barriers. Only thing missing is for someone to throw us the peanuts.
Flash reaches Him. Cameras in action. Conference. Then you open to questions. And he unleashes the anger of those left out and can not ask them. The undersigned would like to ask the Prime Minister where he intends to locate the fourth incinerator I apologize to readers if I failed to do my duty to the end. But it was not my fault.
A diligent security officer of Premier, tells us that the press conference will begin after noon. We are packed like sardines. There are at least a hundred people, and moreover it was not difficult to foresee a boom in credit, given the theme of the conference and the expectation around the words of Berlusconi, and the trash is back to flood Naples and the press turned on again a spotlight on a new sexual scandal President of the Council.
Meander lines. One of the most popular: If you intend to resolve the emergency, such as organizing press conferences, we are ruined. It's hot. There is no air. You will suffer. When everything finally seems ready for the arrival of the premier, the diligent security officer of the above makes a stern face and points his finger at reporterswho,due to overcrowding are waiting standing and intend to follow up the conference, to the right of the conference table. "You have to go out for security reasons. Here you can not stand. " They fear that we throw a statue at the head of Berlusconi? The undersigned is one of the unfortunate. Neither the fact helps him to qualify as a journalist of 'il Fatto'. Indeed. The official insisted there is targeting. Then there appease: "So you will not be a press conference, they will only statements and there are no questions, there are outside speakers and follow everything." At that point all complain, that we should have called for? The fact is that, by citizens who still believe in the sincerity of the institutions, my colleagues and I remained standing and position ourselves we move outside, on the other side of that kind of prefabricated disguised as a press room, where he probably first guarded the brums and rags. Then there's the civil protection 'fencing' with the hurdles positioned as a kind of barrier between our position and the front door of the incinerator, where a summit concluded Berlusconi will have to go out, and Caldoro and Bertolaso, to cover the twenty meters that separate them from the place of the press conference. I and several colleagues at the Sole 24 Ore, of Rome, of Metropolis, some local newspapers, we remain open, with no possibility to move, trapped by the barriers. Only thing missing is for someone to throw us the peanuts.
Flash reaches Him. Cameras in action. Conference. Then you open to questions. And he unleashes the anger of those left out and can not ask them. The undersigned would like to ask the Prime Minister where he intends to locate the fourth incinerator I apologize to readers if I failed to do my duty to the end. But it was not my fault.
Berlusconi's new scandal
UPDATE: Further reports state that Ruby, the aspiring model making allegations against Berlusconi, did not indicate she had sexual relations with him, only that she went to his villa for parties and received gifts. The Telegraph reports that there are no charges facing either party.
Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being accused of giving a cash "gift" to Ruby, the moniker given to a teenage Moroccan model coming forth with the allegations, the Italian press is reporting. (Read the Google translation here.) The newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano is reporting that Ruby claims to have received 30,000 euro from the 74-year-old prime minister.
Ruby, who is not yet 18, reports that she visited multiple parties at Berlusconi's home last year. She has claimed that their encounters took place in Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, a city outside of Milan, according to the Dallas Blog. The PM has been accused of similar events before, including an alleged affair last year with Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model, after he attended her eighteenth birthday party and gave her an expensive necklace. Berlusconi denied the affair.
The allegations are also being compared with the scandal over Patrizia D'Addario, a call girl who claimed to have been paid to sleep with Berlusconi.
Ruby's allegations emerged after she was picked up by the police for not having a residency permit after being thrown out of an apartment she shared with a roommate in Milan. She asked for leniency because of her connection with Berlusconi, and then made the claims of sexual relations, reports the Telegraph. Investigating magistrates warn that "her accounts were sometimes contradictory and that she had made claims which she subsequently retracted," the Telegraph noted.
Berlusconi denies the affair, saying through a lawyer that, "alleged statements made by 'Ruby' in relation to events at the home of Berlusconi are completely unfounded,"
(huffington post)
Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being accused of giving a cash "gift" to Ruby, the moniker given to a teenage Moroccan model coming forth with the allegations, the Italian press is reporting. (Read the Google translation here.) The newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano is reporting that Ruby claims to have received 30,000 euro from the 74-year-old prime minister.
Ruby, who is not yet 18, reports that she visited multiple parties at Berlusconi's home last year. She has claimed that their encounters took place in Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, a city outside of Milan, according to the Dallas Blog. The PM has been accused of similar events before, including an alleged affair last year with Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model, after he attended her eighteenth birthday party and gave her an expensive necklace. Berlusconi denied the affair.
The allegations are also being compared with the scandal over Patrizia D'Addario, a call girl who claimed to have been paid to sleep with Berlusconi.
Ruby's allegations emerged after she was picked up by the police for not having a residency permit after being thrown out of an apartment she shared with a roommate in Milan. She asked for leniency because of her connection with Berlusconi, and then made the claims of sexual relations, reports the Telegraph. Investigating magistrates warn that "her accounts were sometimes contradictory and that she had made claims which she subsequently retracted," the Telegraph noted.
Berlusconi denies the affair, saying through a lawyer that, "alleged statements made by 'Ruby' in relation to events at the home of Berlusconi are completely unfounded,"
(huffington post)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The police spy on Facebook in Italy
In the U.S., including thousands of controversy, is studying a bill that, if approved by Congress, will allow the federal investigative agencies without a warrant to break into technology platforms like Facebook and gain all their confidential data. In Italy this have already done. The leaders of the police two weeks ago went to Palo Alto, California, and took away the first in Europe, a cooperation pact that provides for the possibility of activating an endless series of checks on the pages of social networks without having to submit a request of the judiciary and allow the time required for an international letter rogatory. This is because, they explain, the timely intervention is essential to repress certain crimes because of the speed at which changes in real time on the Internet.
The Italian digital detectives are engaged primarily in the fight against child pornography, phishing scams and data transmission, but also to avoid inconvenience to the public figures whose profiles are created without their knowledge. Intent may be shared, but in fact the police can open the virtual doors of our homes without requiring the authorization of a prosecutor. Specifically, the 400 staff of the Police Investigation Department of Post and Communications and record can browse through the nearly 17 million Italians to Facebook profiles.
But are we confident that everything will respect our privacy? In fact, a couple of years now, the Italian sheriffs riding over the prairies of bits,AAS Police, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza and even policemen plumb the Internet community to obtain sensitive information, build their network of relationships, confirm or refute alibis and prosecute offenders. More and more people lead a parallel existence on the Net and this explains why the investigations take their place alongside traditional long virtual stalking. The difference is that because of the enormous potential of the Web and the ease with which they violate privacy of others is very easy to get targeted by cybercop do not need stained with crimes, but enough to have allowed the friendship to someone who gravitate to environments "interesting" to the police.
In Milan, for example, a section of the local police wanted by Deputy Mayor Riccardo De Corato unleashes his "cast" in groups of writers, in order to infiltrate their community and identify the signatures of urban graffiti to track and report them to the authors for contamination . The bands of Chinese adolescents, between Lombardy and Piedmont, terrorizing his countrymen with extortion, are continuously monitored by the interpreters of the police who sneak into QQ, the most popular chat community. Even South American gangs, the protagonists in the past score-settling in Genoa and Milan, are monitored by the police. And the boards of the offices of the flying squad are covered with photos downloaded from Facebook, where the leaders of gangs that call themselves the Latin King, or Forever Ms18 were tagged with other guys from South America, enabling agents to know their plan.
True experts in the monitoring of the Web are now of Digos investigators, who have stopped growing a beard to stroll around the centers or to shave the hair to attend the curves of the staDIUMSs. Much easier to break into groups considered at risk with the click of a mouse. As for the Carabinieri, each operating department authorizes its military, the degree of sergeant up, log in to any website for undercover investigations, especially in the world of drug dealing among young people who use chat to fix the exchange of drugs or to order doses to be received in schools. While, to prevent trouble during the rave, the companies of the Carabinieri of the province was asked to join the social networking site Netlog, where fans of techno music come together for rallies calling fans from all over Europe. Searching for ravers there are twenty compartments of the Police Post and Communications, located in all regional capitals and 76 sections located in the province.
"Our goal is to prevent the raves before they begin," they explain, "and so we join in the discussions between the organizers and participants in social networks, forums and blogs." So it can happen that even those who have just participated in a chat room to comment on a band ends up being X-rayed without his knowledge.
In theory, these activities are coordinated by the prosecutor leading the investigation of individual facts or phenomena wider. The leaders of social networks do not hold us to know and speak of a general offer of cooperation with law enforcement to prevent their platforms favoring certain crimes.
A detective reveals to Milan "The Express" and, thanks to the permissions of the judiciary, which has long obtained from the makers of Facebook to see the hundreds of Italy's reserved as many people, even managing to have access to the contents of the chat by going back in time to one year. Those who believe that you have set the functions of confidentiality so as not to let anyone see the photos, post and exchange messages with other friends, in fact, if there is a suspect in his group, is laid bare and of these intrusions will never be known.
And the court is not always made aware of how investigations are conducted . A Carabinieri officer, who asked to remain anonymous, admits that certain violations of the law on confidentiality of communications are conducted with ease, "Sometimes," says the officer "create a false female identity on Fb, MSN or other chat insert in the profile picture of a woman police officer, preferably young and pretty, and launch the bait. Our attempts a virtual police officer with the person on which we collect information, possibly complimented for a tattoo. And soon we are part of his group managed to become "friends" of all the subjects that interest us. "
Of all this activity, the officer explains, "we do not always a guide to the prosecution and in minutes we only mention a mysterious source confidential." From today, under cooperative agreement with Mark Zuckerberg signed by the police, who carries out these investigations may fail to alert a judge to ask why "the investigative imagination can wander," predicts an official of Polposta, "and virtual observations can also be used in prior investigations. "(www.espresso.repubblica.it)
The Italian digital detectives are engaged primarily in the fight against child pornography, phishing scams and data transmission, but also to avoid inconvenience to the public figures whose profiles are created without their knowledge. Intent may be shared, but in fact the police can open the virtual doors of our homes without requiring the authorization of a prosecutor. Specifically, the 400 staff of the Police Investigation Department of Post and Communications and record can browse through the nearly 17 million Italians to Facebook profiles.
But are we confident that everything will respect our privacy? In fact, a couple of years now, the Italian sheriffs riding over the prairies of bits,AAS Police, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza and even policemen plumb the Internet community to obtain sensitive information, build their network of relationships, confirm or refute alibis and prosecute offenders. More and more people lead a parallel existence on the Net and this explains why the investigations take their place alongside traditional long virtual stalking. The difference is that because of the enormous potential of the Web and the ease with which they violate privacy of others is very easy to get targeted by cybercop do not need stained with crimes, but enough to have allowed the friendship to someone who gravitate to environments "interesting" to the police.
In Milan, for example, a section of the local police wanted by Deputy Mayor Riccardo De Corato unleashes his "cast" in groups of writers, in order to infiltrate their community and identify the signatures of urban graffiti to track and report them to the authors for contamination . The bands of Chinese adolescents, between Lombardy and Piedmont, terrorizing his countrymen with extortion, are continuously monitored by the interpreters of the police who sneak into QQ, the most popular chat community. Even South American gangs, the protagonists in the past score-settling in Genoa and Milan, are monitored by the police. And the boards of the offices of the flying squad are covered with photos downloaded from Facebook, where the leaders of gangs that call themselves the Latin King, or Forever Ms18 were tagged with other guys from South America, enabling agents to know their plan.
True experts in the monitoring of the Web are now of Digos investigators, who have stopped growing a beard to stroll around the centers or to shave the hair to attend the curves of the staDIUMSs. Much easier to break into groups considered at risk with the click of a mouse. As for the Carabinieri, each operating department authorizes its military, the degree of sergeant up, log in to any website for undercover investigations, especially in the world of drug dealing among young people who use chat to fix the exchange of drugs or to order doses to be received in schools. While, to prevent trouble during the rave, the companies of the Carabinieri of the province was asked to join the social networking site Netlog, where fans of techno music come together for rallies calling fans from all over Europe. Searching for ravers there are twenty compartments of the Police Post and Communications, located in all regional capitals and 76 sections located in the province.
"Our goal is to prevent the raves before they begin," they explain, "and so we join in the discussions between the organizers and participants in social networks, forums and blogs." So it can happen that even those who have just participated in a chat room to comment on a band ends up being X-rayed without his knowledge.
In theory, these activities are coordinated by the prosecutor leading the investigation of individual facts or phenomena wider. The leaders of social networks do not hold us to know and speak of a general offer of cooperation with law enforcement to prevent their platforms favoring certain crimes.
A detective reveals to Milan "The Express" and, thanks to the permissions of the judiciary, which has long obtained from the makers of Facebook to see the hundreds of Italy's reserved as many people, even managing to have access to the contents of the chat by going back in time to one year. Those who believe that you have set the functions of confidentiality so as not to let anyone see the photos, post and exchange messages with other friends, in fact, if there is a suspect in his group, is laid bare and of these intrusions will never be known.
And the court is not always made aware of how investigations are conducted . A Carabinieri officer, who asked to remain anonymous, admits that certain violations of the law on confidentiality of communications are conducted with ease, "Sometimes," says the officer "create a false female identity on Fb, MSN or other chat insert in the profile picture of a woman police officer, preferably young and pretty, and launch the bait. Our attempts a virtual police officer with the person on which we collect information, possibly complimented for a tattoo. And soon we are part of his group managed to become "friends" of all the subjects that interest us. "
Of all this activity, the officer explains, "we do not always a guide to the prosecution and in minutes we only mention a mysterious source confidential." From today, under cooperative agreement with Mark Zuckerberg signed by the police, who carries out these investigations may fail to alert a judge to ask why "the investigative imagination can wander," predicts an official of Polposta, "and virtual observations can also be used in prior investigations. "(www.espresso.repubblica.it)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Against ethnic stores
Novara (town in the north) gets the order against the stores' ethnic ',' After the no to the Islamic veil, the prohibition of "station" in parks and gardens for more than two people to sell and consume alcoholic beverages in all areas of green space with 24-hour 24-games, there's "the provisions to combat urban decay. " This is the order of "restriction of business and craft of selling products 'ethnic' and provisions for foreign operators," issued on 11 October by the deputy mayor of the town of Novara Silvana Moscatelli (PDL) is a successor to former mayor Massimo Giordano (Lega Nord) (party in the government) revoked by its function - but not resigned - to be appointed Deputy Mayor for Economic Development of the Piedmont Region.
The order sets out some stakes for the business of foreigners. First, the prohibition of open stores, "ethnic" like less than 150 meters from each other, to translate the signs in Italian, the introduction of a language test 'to assess the basic knowledge of Italian language and reading skills of an Italian text "unless the operator has not already earned a degree in our country. Last but not least, the prohibition of forming knots of people who consume food and drinks outside of work. "
"This is ridiculous order, restricts freedoms and discriminatory - says Nicholas Fonzo, Novara city councilor and member of the Left, ecology and freedom - ridiculous because taken literally would require the translation of foreign words now commonly used as a 'restaurant', 'pub', 'brasserie', 'bed and breakfast' and so on. Freedom-and discriminatory because it prohibits individuals to form groups outside shops, however, only turning to foreigners. Can you imagine a policeman in fact going to fine the group of boys outside the pub during the hour of the aperitif? "
For Alderman Mauro Franzinelli Security, the controversy of the opposition are "understandable, but instrumental." The order of the commissioner would have to do anything but a discriminatory: "It is not possible to concentrate the business 'ethnic' all in the same area of the city, particularly in the district of Sant'Agabio where foreigners, mostly North African represent more than 30% of the population. " This explains, according Franzinelli, because the spacing of at least 150 meters ethnic shops of the same type. "As for symbols, it is obvious that you refer to those languages that are incomprehensible to Italians as Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese and not those easily recognizable."
"The ordinance is very general - continues Fonzo that last week, along with all the opposition, called for the convening of a special commission in an urgent session to discuss the measure - it is not clear which languages refer or who are the figures responsible for carrying out checks on. " Indeed, the order is known as "sales and / or production of handmade products that are predominantly 'ethnic' food." But what is meant by 'ethnic'? The text reads "products are not part of culinary tradition and Italian food." The croissants? The chicken curry? The hamburgers? No, "the kebab rotisserie of China and the Islamic butcher shop for instance." In short, the order points the finger at the Arab and Chinese businesses but placing them as an example only and do not explicitly evoke.
The content of this ordinance, it seems more political than technical. "Just a little 'more than common sense - says Paolo Cortese, commander of the municipal police of Novara - These ordinances provide for penalties which then are never actually applied." How to identify and fine in fact the "station" of two or more persons in a park at night? "The rules are there and must be respected - continues Cortese - The Italian test may seem discriminatory but it serves to protect all foreigners and Italians." Out of 35 stores checked by the ASL, 21 were non-standardized, 3 were closed for lack of elementary hygiene rules. "When we go to serve the legal documents in these stores, we frequently encounter in owners who are unable to understand the content of what is alleged against them. Then it is clear that the need to know the Italian is not discrimination but a matter of integration and the protection of public health. "
The order sets out some stakes for the business of foreigners. First, the prohibition of open stores, "ethnic" like less than 150 meters from each other, to translate the signs in Italian, the introduction of a language test 'to assess the basic knowledge of Italian language and reading skills of an Italian text "unless the operator has not already earned a degree in our country. Last but not least, the prohibition of forming knots of people who consume food and drinks outside of work. "
"This is ridiculous order, restricts freedoms and discriminatory - says Nicholas Fonzo, Novara city councilor and member of the Left, ecology and freedom - ridiculous because taken literally would require the translation of foreign words now commonly used as a 'restaurant', 'pub', 'brasserie', 'bed and breakfast' and so on. Freedom-and discriminatory because it prohibits individuals to form groups outside shops, however, only turning to foreigners. Can you imagine a policeman in fact going to fine the group of boys outside the pub during the hour of the aperitif? "
For Alderman Mauro Franzinelli Security, the controversy of the opposition are "understandable, but instrumental." The order of the commissioner would have to do anything but a discriminatory: "It is not possible to concentrate the business 'ethnic' all in the same area of the city, particularly in the district of Sant'Agabio where foreigners, mostly North African represent more than 30% of the population. " This explains, according Franzinelli, because the spacing of at least 150 meters ethnic shops of the same type. "As for symbols, it is obvious that you refer to those languages that are incomprehensible to Italians as Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese and not those easily recognizable."
"The ordinance is very general - continues Fonzo that last week, along with all the opposition, called for the convening of a special commission in an urgent session to discuss the measure - it is not clear which languages refer or who are the figures responsible for carrying out checks on. " Indeed, the order is known as "sales and / or production of handmade products that are predominantly 'ethnic' food." But what is meant by 'ethnic'? The text reads "products are not part of culinary tradition and Italian food." The croissants? The chicken curry? The hamburgers? No, "the kebab rotisserie of China and the Islamic butcher shop for instance." In short, the order points the finger at the Arab and Chinese businesses but placing them as an example only and do not explicitly evoke.
The content of this ordinance, it seems more political than technical. "Just a little 'more than common sense - says Paolo Cortese, commander of the municipal police of Novara - These ordinances provide for penalties which then are never actually applied." How to identify and fine in fact the "station" of two or more persons in a park at night? "The rules are there and must be respected - continues Cortese - The Italian test may seem discriminatory but it serves to protect all foreigners and Italians." Out of 35 stores checked by the ASL, 21 were non-standardized, 3 were closed for lack of elementary hygiene rules. "When we go to serve the legal documents in these stores, we frequently encounter in owners who are unable to understand the content of what is alleged against them. Then it is clear that the need to know the Italian is not discrimination but a matter of integration and the protection of public health. "
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Corruption, Italy getting worse
For Transparency International is the place 67th
The Beautiful Country, the world's top fair, slips four positions compared to 2009 and ends behind Rwanda and Samoa. The United States out of the top twenty, only winning the 22nd step
ROME - Bad news for corruption theme in the Bel Paese. According to the NGO Transparency International ranking, prepared and presented this morning by analyzing 178 countries, Italy slipped to 67th place in the index on corruption. Our country is set back four positions compared to 2009 and as many as 12 on 2008.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is considered far more credible in the world to measure corruption in the public sector. In addition to cases of corruption in the strict sense, affect the CPI all issues of mismanagement of public at large that occur in the country, a very large extent at the local level. In fact, health care (administered by the Regions) is the sector where most poor governance manifests itself. And the CPI recorded that the credibility outside Italy on corruption is decreasing and that the alarm on domestic social issue is growing.
Countries receive a score from zero to 10 (with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10 low). Italy is in 67th place with a score of 3.9 worsened compared to 2009 (when it was in 63rd place with a score of 4.3) and 2008 (at 55th place with 4.8).Better than we do and Rwanda Samoa. The most honest countries are more peaceful: Denmark and New Zealand. At the bottom, the countries devastated by war (Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia) or ruled by a military junta as Burma. The United States has left the top 20 of least corrupt will, at 22nd place.
The Beautiful Country, the world's top fair, slips four positions compared to 2009 and ends behind Rwanda and Samoa. The United States out of the top twenty, only winning the 22nd step
ROME - Bad news for corruption theme in the Bel Paese. According to the NGO Transparency International ranking, prepared and presented this morning by analyzing 178 countries, Italy slipped to 67th place in the index on corruption. Our country is set back four positions compared to 2009 and as many as 12 on 2008.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is considered far more credible in the world to measure corruption in the public sector. In addition to cases of corruption in the strict sense, affect the CPI all issues of mismanagement of public at large that occur in the country, a very large extent at the local level. In fact, health care (administered by the Regions) is the sector where most poor governance manifests itself. And the CPI recorded that the credibility outside Italy on corruption is decreasing and that the alarm on domestic social issue is growing.
Countries receive a score from zero to 10 (with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10 low). Italy is in 67th place with a score of 3.9 worsened compared to 2009 (when it was in 63rd place with a score of 4.3) and 2008 (at 55th place with 4.8).Better than we do and Rwanda Samoa. The most honest countries are more peaceful: Denmark and New Zealand. At the bottom, the countries devastated by war (Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia) or ruled by a military junta as Burma. The United States has left the top 20 of least corrupt will, at 22nd place.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Go Luxemburg!
Dolce and Gabbana are close to trial for tax evasion by one billion euro. The indiscretion of the press is a few days ago. In June, the City of Milan unrolled the red carpet for the twentieth anniversary of the brand, proposed as an important cultural event. Screens, Celebrities, City Hall turned into a set of advertising, a drink offered to the people in the downtown bars. The fiscal and judicial investigation was already known but it was preferred not to talk about, in the name of "Made in Italy and its suppliers. In the silence of the city, broken only by our voices.And now?
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