BUZZNET LOVE

24 September 2008

Sweetly travelling slowing down to then accelerate

”Now we are getting ready to take a ticket for these extraordinary motorways, a ticket then that is paid on the basis of what is not well understood … whether it is the quality of the service or the quality of the investment, but in both cases it should be free.
Now we are going to try some initiatives. OK! We have had enough of being taken for a ride.
Motorways as was well said by the economist of the University of Bergamo, Giorgio Ragazzi who has done an extraordinary book that I encourage you to get, that explains what has happened with the motorways, liberalized in the 1990s, paid for up to the last lira by our fathers and our mothers, by our big brothers, fed to this clique of fictitious entrepreneurs with ragged arses who take the concessions for ten years to the next ten years, fix the tariffs like that and we continue to pay something that should be returned to the citizens like they have done in Germany and in England. Once the expenses have been paid, the investments have been taken back and given freely to the English and German citizens. Here instead we want to get this lot to understand that by now with normal legal means, constitutional means, we have done referenda, two million people have signed in front of a public official with their documents, first and second name, taken to the Court of Cassation, put in a cellar with the moth balls…..
OK with these constitutional initiatives the citizen no longer exists. They have put a stopper in any way of hearing the voice of the citizens. OK, as I promised you we are starting off with the blog we are starting off with first person initiatives: every citizen becomes a journalist, a politician, one who informs himself. We have launched the “Breathing down your neck” campaign to take back the town councils with the web-cams and I am inviting you to do it. Go to your town councils and film them and then start to do initiatives like these. If the motorway companies like Benetton are taking our money to finance Alitalia or they are taking our money from the concessions of the citizens to buy land in Argentina and to move the capital abroad, good! We will try to give them as little as possible of this money. By avoiding motorways if it’s possible. By consuming less in the Autogrill and by trying to postpone for as long as possible the payment of the motorway tolls as we are doing now. Let’s see.

Beppe: I have forgotten my money. Can you do me a bill?
Toll operatorI can do a “failure to pay”.
Beppe: Yes. Will it come to my home?
Toll operator: Yes. It will come to your home.
Beppe: Or can I pay in a “punto blu”?
Toll operator: You can pay in a “Punto Blu” or in a manual entry point.
Beppe: Thank you.
If we give them this money in 15 days, we keep it for 15 days.
Beppe: Is there something like a penalty to pay?
Toll operator: if you pay within 15 days, no. On the fifteenth day onwards 2.58 euro.
Beppe: 2.58 euro as a fine.

OK if two or 300 thousand people were to do that Benetton would be waiting for the money for 15 days and for us it would give a lot of satisfaction! What I have to do at my age, whoever would have thought that!” Beppe Grillo


SUMMING UP:



The failure to collect the motorway toll at the motorway exit pay station is formalized by the issue of a report of failure to pay.
The sum settled within 15 days brings no increase in the sum due. Beyond that limit the payment of the toll means 2.58 euro extra.
The payment of the toll can be done in all the “Punti Blu” from Monday to Saturday during office hours, in all the motorway exit stations. Or in a post office by using a form.

For anyone who is obstinate and doesn’t pay, the procedure is triggered for the forced recovery of credit with the additional expense charged to the person owing the debt. Obviously, this delay, given that it is inconvenient, we allow ourselves not to advise it, however if there’s a lot of us who delay by 15 days the payment of the tolls that involves the issue of a little report, we believe that that is the best way to start to talk about our money and where it lands up….
While waiting for developments, Beppe Grillo and his staff wish you for now, a good journey!

 

THREE DAYS IN PRAGUE

How to organize the three days in Prague

The river of Prague, The Moldau, can be used as a natural border for our tour. The historic center of Prague is divided in 5 quarters: On the Right bank of the river: Old Town (Staré Město), the Jewish Quarter inside the Old Town (Josefov) and the New Town (Nové Město). On the Left bank the Castle Burg (Hradčany) which includes the Prague Castle (Pražský Hrad), below the Little Quarter or Little Town( Malá Strana).

First Day

I suggest to start with the Castle District, Hradčany that can be easily reached by tram 22 at the stop Pohořelec and you are already near two attractions: The Monastery of Strahov with its impressive libraries and nearby the Prague Loreto with its famous treasure. To reach the Castle I would suggest the picturesque street Nový Svět…and somebody might recall the famous Dvořak’s Masterpiece. If you are lucky in front of the Castle you might be delighted by the notes of a very good music group which normally plays in front of the main gate of the Castle.

For further information about the Castle visit: http://www.hrad.cz

After this visit you might want to take a lunch break so I suggest you to walk down to Malá Strana where you can find many restaurants. In the afternoon you can walk around this picturesque quarter where you wouldn’t find a single modern building but only Renaissance and Baroque.

Second day

I would spend the first part of the day in the Jewish Museum with its rich collections and the famous cemetery.

For further information about this museum: http://www.jewishmuseum.cz

After lunch break you can go around the Old Town and then the New Town with the renowned Wenceslav Square. You can visit the Charles Bridge either the first or the second day because it connects Malá Strana With the Old Town.

Third day

I would spend half of this day for more in deep visits and half day for shopping. Further information and travel tips can be found in other sections of this Site.

A very useful Site also in English is: http://www.pis.cz

Looking for the address of your accomodation or a street in Prague? click here

ENJOY YOUR TRIP!

Your Turn: Who’s at the top of your list?

Tiny coup d’état

A blogger has told me about a change in the Criminal Code that abolishes the crime of “coup d’état” . It happened two years ago, with the next to the last government of the psycho-dwarf. But no one noticed. I admit it, not even I did. Not even the newspapers and TV stations full of journalists and P2-ist directors did. They turned the other way in the face of the turning-upside-down of article 283. Since 2006, parties, undercover masons and organised crime can do a coup d’état without consequences. As long as they don’t use “violent acts”. They can do it with corruption, with deviated information, with criminals in Parliament subtracted from election choices because of the abolition of preferences.
These folk, whether they are PDL or PDminusL have taken precautions for the future. Just think if things change in the future. If democracy takes hold in Italy. And if someone asks for an account of these unpunished ones for their actions, even about the tiny coup d’état that they have already done. In that case, they would have recourse to the new Criminal Code, the P2 Code, in the name of justice.

Dear Beppe,
On 13 March 2006, various articles of the Criminal Code relating to attacks on the State were modified. Surely the country felt a great need for these modifications. The most interesting is that of article 283 of the Criminal Code. It said:
’Anyone who commits a fact aimed at changing the Constitution of the State, or the form of the Government, with methods not allowed for by the constitutional arrangements of the State, is punished with imprisonment for a period not less than 12 years.’ It was been altered to say: ’Anyone, using violent actions, who commits a fact aimed at changing (and appropriate for that) the Constitution of the State, or the form of the Government, with methods not allowed for by the constitutional arrangements of the State, is punished with imprisonment for a period not less than 5 years.’
With violent acts, not going via the party of which he is the boss or by corrupting parliamentarians by using their lovers. Get ready for the Coup, but don’t fear the ‘violent actions’, it will be perfectly ‘legal’. By pure coincidence it brings to mind that it was article 283 that brought the P2 to trial.”

PS On 25 April 2008 the TV stations of the whole world recorded V2 Day. In Italy only the Digos recorded it on closed circuit TV. The Australian TV broadcast an hour long programme. Even the Aussies know what is happening in the ‘Bel Paese’. I have extracted and subtitled 10 minutes of the broadcast. It is a great show!