Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Addio bel Paese

Rome dispatch
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Arrivederci, il bel paese
New laws allow Italians who have broken planning rules by desecrating
their beautiful country to legalise their offences. Silvio Berlusconi
stands to benefit, reports John Hooper
John Hooper
Friday November 26, 2004
The Guardian
Introduced to Italy by Italian language text books adorned with
drawings of sun-kissed beaches, snow-capped mountains and rolling
green hills, foreigners are not surprisingly ready to believe it is
indeed "il bel paese".
If all they do thereafter is visit Tuscany, or Umbria, they are
unlikely to have their dreams impaired. But if they venture further
afield, they will find a country of sharp contrasts. Italy's cities
may be as incomparably beautiful as ever, but its countryside, its
shores and mountains have been devastated in the past half-century.
Nowadays, a drive through this once-lovely country all too often takes
you past endless advertising hoardings and laybys piled with litter,
along coastlines blighted beyond saving by unlicensed construction,
into highlands that are being systematically robbed of their wildlife
by unauthorised development.
A law forced through parliament this week will help to speed up the
process of desecration. The prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has
already passed measures allowing people who have broken the planning
laws to legalise their offences by paying a fine to the authorities.
The legislation takes the principle a bold step further by applying it
to protected areas. Opposition critics claim the true aim of the bill
was to protect Mr Berlusconi himself from the possible consequences of
alterations made to his luxurious seaside property on Sardinia.
The prime minister's villa stands on the coast and should therefore be
covered by a raft of laws designed to protect the shoreline. But
earlier this year it acquired a reproduction Greek amphitheatre and a
boat entrance, tunnelled into the coastline, that will allow arriving
visitors to tie up underground and step into a lift that will whisk
them to the heart of the billionaire politician's holiday retreat.
Among Mr Berlusconi's guests on Sardinia last summer was Britain's
prime minister, Tony Blair.
The bill passed this week enables anyone who carried out unauthorised
building work in an environmentally sensitive area before the end of
September to wipe clean the slate by handing over between &#8364;3,000
(£2,105) and &#8364;50,000. There is a condition. The offender must
convince the authorities of the compatibility of the building to be
amnestied with its surrounding landscape.
In places, that could lead to amnesties being refused. But in Italy,
as in other countries, builders and developers make it their job to
cultivate good relations with local officials, so refusals are likely
to prove the exception rather than the rule.
One ray of light in the law is that it speeds up procedures for
demolishing the most outrageous planning violations. In Italy, entire
tourism complexes and housing estates get put up without permission
from anyone.
The bill, nevertheless, prompted an uproar after it was tabled in the
upper house, the senate. The government resorted to a confidence vote
to get it through - a sign that it was unsure of obtaining sufficient
backing from within the ranks of the majority. Had the government lost
the vote, it would have been forced to resign, so coalition senators
were effectively obliged to turn up and back it.
Exactly the same procedure was applied this week in the lower house,
the chamber of deputies. The bill was approved by 316 votes to 225
after a heated debate in which Green MPs waved pictures of the prime
minister with a slogan that said "Legalise Lies Too".
What now remains to be seen is whether, among those applying for a
planning amnesty, will be one S Berlusconi, occasional resident of
Porto Rotondo on Sardinia. He has until January 31 to take advantage
of the law.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

Arrivederci, il bel paese
quello che mi fa incazzare e' che c'ha ragione....
vado in austria e in montagna e' tutto rpeservato, casette base, tutto
in legno, rigore edilizio assoluto
vado nelle regioni a statuto speciale in italia e vedo che si sono
difese bene, niente da invidiare ai paesini austriaci  o svizzeri (
quasi niente...)
Poi vai a madesimo...bormio....aprica.....
e sbocchi
Cristiano

 The Guardian
Guardian tradotto dall'inglese in italiano ?  Il Manifesto.......
I rapitori delle Simone ? Per il rosso Guardian erano della Cia........
Uno dei due rapiti insieme alle due Simona, l'ingegnere iracheno Raad Ali
Abdul Aziz ha confermato a Sky news che i rapitori erano di nazionalità
irachena.
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Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill
16-09-2004
The Guardian
Spies and covert operations are not a conspiracy in Iraq; they are a daily
reality. According to CIA deputy director James L Pavitt, "Baghdad is home
to the largest CIA station since the Vietnam war", with 500 to 600 agents on
the ground. Allawi himself is a lifelong spook who has worked with MI6, the
CIA and the mukhabarat, specialising in removing enemies of the regime.
http://www.stopusa.be/scripts/texte.php?section=BD&langue=0&id=23039
Limited 2004
Clas
La disinformazione mette il mondo intero in fiamme, l'informazione le
spegne

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Perchè ?
Perchè faccio notare e capire CHI scrive cosa e PERCHE' lo scrive ?
Ah, si, si....
Clas