Carry-over this wonderful article that we found to Deborah Billi of petrolio.blogsfere.it
“I read somewhere that we have now reached a point, in this country, that if politicians rapinassero jewelers would not matter anything to anyone. We do not know what else we get to suffer, because there is a rebellion, or at least the healthy indignation civil.
Who knows, Perhaps if our fellow citizens who think only of football and they knew that their pockets are considered to be African and fools to boot, maybe something smuoverebbe. I'm talking about water, Paul indeed speaks Rumiz, one of the best Italian war correspondents (Dalla Bosnia a Kabul): occupandomene, after 35 years of occupation, I felt the same thrill of the Balkan War.
Read his article, better than anything I could write. Rumiz describes exactly the situation of the great water heist in Italy, and very properly correlates the expropriation of the resources of the country to brutal colonial systems that have occurred in Africa, where ignorant people, illiterate, does not have cohesive supinely accepted that what had become of others their, ending with the pay and not salted.
The "deep country" is now so weakened that the predatory behavior that we have turned first to Libya and Ethiopia and then to Eastern Europe, may be facing towards Italy the same without the risk of a revolution.
We too will become landfill, mine, plantation.
And we have the weak areas are left completely alone with strong powers. Like the Central African tribes.
Can you find a difference? The difference between Campania and Somalia, polluted by all sorts of special waste, become landfills across Europe amid the indifference of the people who see and are silent for years (rather, on: in Somalia, at least you have taken to piracy, to be compensated); the difference between Nigeria and Basilicata, where the oil companies extract and pollute without giving anything in return, to people who are content with the crumbs; the difference between Taranto and the outskirts of Nairobi, irrelevant where people die from pollution by dioxins or lead; between the Val di Taro in Emilia and the Congo, Both robbed of their main resources by unscrupulous people and willingness of local politicians:
There is a factory of mineral waters from the slopes of the Apennines that sucks so powerful that in times of drought, the villagers - until recently known for its therapeutic springs and now semi-abandoned - no water in the pipes remain public.
There is a protest, but the mayor reassured everyone in the city council. (…)The country's water is already given up for lost, requisitioned by the owners of mineral. The idea that this is a public good and a priority does not touch either the mayor or the people resigned.
And even the Africans, probably. And what's the difference with Africa, in all this?
- Concreting of the national parks
- Requisition of sources
- Privatization of public water
- Landfills and incinerators in the most pristine areas of the country
- Return to Nuclear
- Works great with the tax militarization of the territories and the destruction of entire habitats
- Rivers already in agony, spread of further hydro
- Wind farms that are changing the face of the Apennines
We are treating it as an African, should be explained to a nearby indifferent, careless, concerned about his new car and pissed on landings of unlucky people, but much more like him than you think. Why is it people who have learned to suffer, which is placed in the hands of corrupt, who do not know their rights… just as is happening to us.
The case of Finnish multinational company describes as a central Italian region of: "Ease of penetration, minimum cost of settlement, zero social conflict ". Mostly, "Ecological few objections".
It seems the Congo, Italy is rather. ”
From the petrolio.blogsfere.it 22 May 09
