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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:55 pm
by Cochise
I’d to make it clear I feel almost exploited, cause the spur making me wrote is quite triggered by events in my personal sphere and I can remark the evidence these events are piloted.
Reading a previous post from mine (privacy violations) you can get an idea about the kind of events I’m talking about.
I’m even disposed to state clearly if anyone should be interested.
These events are added to a general situation sickening me as much, so I feel the need of talking about this situation. I’m sorry for “blogging” a bit this context; I’ll just hope you’ll understand that national pride and mind opening of the most of people around me should make this an hard ranting to be done in this words.
Why the shame of being Italian?
Couldn’t I be disgusted living in a country having the national debt my country has, and watching THREE Italian ships running the America’s cup?
Now leaders of the majority coalition are talking about economic recovery showing data of +0.7% related to gross domestic product, but it’s evident to common people in what pockets that money is going around.
Another argument is Messina’s Straits’ bridge. A clear example of wrong (or corrupted?) way of public funds employment.
The above mentioned work should have the magic power of revitalizing the region economy through the expansion of commercial communication opportunity.
Who had the “luck” of coming in Sicily by train, knows that the main city here and in Calabria are connected for long parts by a single track, badly laid railroad, and the most of the carriage pool in these countries dates from later ’70.
Well. The main shareholder of this project is the national railway company and this 6 milliards euros project do not include modernization of the railway! This is as shame. Ragamuffin trains here in comparison with the rest of the Europe, but a bridge fit for the richest countries of the world.

Even from the architectural point of view the project is out of context: 380m high piers besides 1 of 2 floors little houses. The slenderest of the three Sicily’s corners disemboweled by that pier and related road/railway links…

In this month the contract by tender was signed by Impregiro. The rescission penalty amount is almost the whole cost of the work.
Some days after the contract was signed, the UE announced the suspension of its contribution because no environmental impact report was presented.

The project most probably will never start, cause strongly opposed by environmentalists and resident people; and, above all, by the political coalition that seems to be favourite for the government elections on next spring.
But the money is already in already full pockets. And this is also a VERY BIG shame! A legally perpetrated crime.

I took part in some demonstration, till this summer, but now I’m really confused: obstructing the work now could result in a big gift for Impregiro and its recipients. Do not obstructing it could result in seeing a place ruined by a work which probably will be completed in the next century perhaps (is the way the things go here), or never.
:mad:

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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:43 pm
by bosone
totally agree.

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:09 am
by garyb
unfortunately, the guys in charge act like that here as well, often enough...making money is good, no? :razz:

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:53 am
by Cochise
Problems related to my ADSL connection started this summer seem gotten worse today.
For three times in 5 minutes I've got lost connection.
:mad:

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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:38 am
by Shroomz~>
Cochise, i think you need to move to a new country :wink:

Or at least a new City/Town :smile:

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:12 am
by Cochise
This is my point of view about the bridge.
Marked on the right is the pylon(224m high) used for electric line till 1994.

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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:39 pm
by Cochise
On 2005-10-28 07:38, Shroomz wrote:
Cochise, i think you need to move to a new country :wink:

Or at least a new City/Town :smile:

Many times I think this way, but...


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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:00 pm
by Cochise
The risk is my "mind opening" could become a reality, one of this days.

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:31 am
by Cochise
But...it's der loona!

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Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:07 am
by Cochise
On 2005-10-28 03:24, stardust wrote:
This type of abuse is unfortunately taking place almost everywhere.

the lobbys are stronger than the civil welfare.
I think layers far off from vertex in the lobby's pyramidal structure should be anyway sensitive to propaganda...

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:17 am
by Cochise
However, this is the kind of mind opening I mean

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Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:21 pm
by hubird
:lol:

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:22 am
by Cochise
On 2005-10-29 05:02, stardust wrote:
this is like you are parachuting, are you ?
parachuting

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luna
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:34 am
by Cochise
OK.
Stop joking.
It's time for music here, now.
Any advice, contribution or help for contesting sounds will be heartily highly appreciated.

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:06 am
by Herr Voigt
Italy is the country of Belcanto and melodies. So, go on making music. :smile:

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:58 am
by Cochise
Sorry, but I can't understand this perspective. The pier in foreground is turned towards the observer, but the route is orientated towards the landscape.
Sh*t. If this is seriusness...

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:03 am
by Cochise
On 2005-10-30 11:06, Herr Voigt wrote:
Italy is the country of Belcanto and melodies. So, go on making music. :smile:
I've just to look for some good mandoline samples
:grin:

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:19 am
by Cochise
On 2005-10-28 01:09, garyb wrote:
unfortunately, the guys in charge act like that here as well, often enough...making money is good, no? :razz:
Stealing/eating up or wasting taxpayers money is a shame allover the world.
The impudence used here is however an incitement to evasion and unlawfullness.
It's joking with people sweat.

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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:40 am
by Cochise
Hey garyb (or anyone else), would you hold any example of this kind of things in your country?

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:58 pm
by garyb
here in Long Beach they are shoving a LNG plant down our throats saying that there is suddenly a dire shortage of natural gas. the "authorities" even went so far as to threaten that the garbage might not be picked up(the trucks run on LNG) without the storage facility.

that's one off the top of my head. really, examples of abuse and corruption are too numerous to recount. corruption and misuse of public funds extends to small things like the wealthy neighborhoods here getting new curbs and sidewalks even though the curbs were not broken while the rest of town is a minefeild of broken curbs and sidewalks. the city has the nerve to claim that it is near bankruptcy and can't afford to fix them...budget crises and yet SOME people's situation improves...Long Beach is part of the Port of Los Angeles complex, one of the busiest shipping centers in the world. there's a LOT of money here.....

complaining is easy though....


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