Category: Argomenti vari

UN reform

United Nations actually need reform.

It became a self-referential body, where 90% of time and resources are spent to keep the machine going. The flow of information and action points at the interior of the organization rather than outside.
Some people are preparing reports for other people who are using those reports to establish new guidelines for the preparation of the next report.

We were right, when we were young, to say that those salaries, those cars, those radios represented a waste.

Of course, an international arena trying to influence the reality is needed, and some, few, results are there, but it simply cost too much. And produce little. And many of the people do not produce anything valuable. And are not good for the job.

Qualunquismo is probably an illness coming with age, but, I quote again Patricia De Lille: enough is enough.

Madoubougie


Progressing in the production of different textile items, we met Madoubougie, the king of waxing and colouring, who’s producing several fabrics with the enterprise’s official logo.

In order to preserve their privacy, I have treated the image below, unfortunately through this process the variety of colours got lost.

Madoubougie is the business name of this African entrepreneur, made of the abbreviation of his name (Madou for Mamadou for Mohammad) and bugie (= wax candle) as for his main working tool.

He produced already a pagne in green and is now working on scarlet, violet and blue.

I look forward to seeing the outcome.

It’s a shame

I sympathize with British people, specially Londoners, and with the police too, submitted to very difficult situation and stress.

I know that mistakes, sometimes horrible and dramatic mistakes are possible, and it is very sad when innocent people are involved.

But the phrase of Mr. Blair (as reported by The Guardian), after expressing soreness for the death of Jean Charles De Menezes is a shame:

“I think it is important that we give them every support and that we understand that had the circumstances been different and, for example, this had turned out to be a terrorist and they had failed to take that action, they would have been criticised the other way,” he said.

And the fact that this news -8 bullets shot at the head of this young guy guilty of wearing an heavy coat in London-, was not among the main news in the home page of The Guardian web site and was not at all present in Times home web page today contribute to the sense of misery.

And the ‘scoop’ on him being a student and on his supposedly expired student visa is desolating.

On the same web edition of The Guardian, Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation Liberty, said she was “disgusted” by the suggestion that someone’s immigration status might have any relevance to the value of their life.

At last, the declaration of Mr. Straw, Foreign Affairs Secretary as reported in Italian by L’Unità, that
the request for compensation will be treated in a short time and with the most of goodwill is the final injury.

Is this justice?

While in Spain, I read an article about a woman. Her daughter, about thirteen, was raped by an old man.

He was put on trial and sentenced to several years of prison.

After a while, he enjoyed of some preventative measures and was freed.

He went to the neighbourhood where the other family was living. In a bar.

The girl saw him and informed the mother.

She went to the petrol station with a bottle. Filled it up with petrol then went to the bar, spilled the petrol on the man and put him on fire.

I couldn’t avoid sympathizing with the woman.

But I wouldn’t like to live in that neighbourhood.

Quebra pedra

While the little Paula is struggling for her growth, myself decided to avoid the nuclear therapy recommended by an urologist (it seems someone studying remote planets and strange life forms) to destroy my stones and to make use of the traditional knowledge of Brazilian Indian populations.

Therefore, we asked a Copacabana UN blue helmet going back home to find the quebra pedra, forest plant with evocative name (break stone) and curative properties, in order to prepare infusions and compresses.

Let’s hope everything will turn out well (especially for Paula).

I’ve got stones

Some nights ago I woke up in pain.

It was not for humankind general situation neither for the current Italian political circumstances; the soreness was coming from inside. No, not from my soul, but from the kidneys. Actually, the right one.

I have got stones. Four of them, from 0,2 to 0,4 centimetres.

Back on the Coast I’ll have to make use of a ‘lithotripsy’ machine. Good luck to me.

Referendum: good news

Italian media are celebrating the ‘victory’ of the abstentionist faction at the referendum on medically assisted procreation.

I wonder: if they really represented the majority, why didn’t they go to the polling stations to vote NO ?

Would they have won?

Then, a political or ethical option has not won yesterday in Italy.

The winner is the lazy, unuseful, apolitical, unengaged, TV-corrupted section of the population.

Joined, for this occasion, by some lazy, opportunist, clerical, pavid political figures, already working to capitalise their move.

Nevertheless, 12 millions citizens considered seriously their responsabilities, voting yes or not.

This is good news.

Support Committee for Rutelli in Ivory Coast

Following the recent enlightening positions taken by Francesco Rutelli on various issues, we, Italian expatriates in Abidjan, decide the establishment of a Support Committee for Francesco Rutelli in Ivory Coast.

In fact, we would like to send Rutelli in this African country, so that he does not represent anymore a menace for the residual hope of a coherent and rational political debate in Italy.

To join the Committee, open the window and shout strong and clear: Rutelli, vattenn…..