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The mayor of Naples on Thursday ordered armed guards to escort garbage trucks around his city, warning that organised crime rings were fomenting a grave waste crisis that is putting residents at risk.
"The environmental and sanitary situation is serious. There is a real risk for the health of citizens. The situation is made more difficult because the garbage is being set on fire," Luigi de Magistris told reporters.
"We will ask the police to provide an armed guard for the trucks," he said after signing an order that will enforce the new measure for 30 days.
Naples is the stronghold of the Camorra -- a powerful international crime syndicate with a wide range of activities including drug trafficking, as well as major interests in construction, import-export and waste disposal.
De Magistris said the Camorra was against him because he wanted an "environmental revolution" that would enforce legislation on recycling garbage and therefore take a chunk of traditional revenues away from the Camorra.
The newly-elected leftist mayor of the southern Italian city also accused Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his government of failing to help.
"Berlusconi has shown with his actions that he doesn't give a damn about Naples. He has washed his hands of it like Pontius Pilate," he said.
De Magistris won a local election last month against a candidate from Berlusconi's ruling People of Freedom party, which also lost control of Milan.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano also stepped into the debate over the garbage crisis in Naples, plagued for years by problems with its waste disposal system that have been aggravated by the stranglehold of the mafia.
"An intervention is absolutely indispensable and urgent due to the worsening of the acute and alarming waste emergency in Naples," Napolitano told Il Mattino, the local newspaper in Naples, calling on Berlusconi to take action.
More at the link.The mayor of Naples on Thursday ordered armed guards to escort garbage trucks around... more
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Only on May 10 Joel Hyatt and Al Gore met with James Murdoch to protest against what is' a clear political and ideological decision.
On May 13, probably worried about a possible public reaction, Sky sent to hide their true intentions and his only unacceptable offer (1 million euro, the same figure that had proposed to close the channel , less than 1 / 3 of the annual fee from 2008 to 2011, or about 3.2 million euros). An affront to which Joel Hyatt said the mail (shown below): "it must be a typographical error."
And 'this is why Tom Mockridge sent the same document bianchetto hiding the figures to all subscribers who have contacted Sky to complain.
Current never asked for 10 million dollars. The only request made in connection with the offering of 13 May, was an increase of 0.02 € per subscriber (then about € 1 million more per year).
Now Sky maintains that the fax sent on April 22 was just il'inizio negotiation.Only on May 10 Joel Hyatt and Al Gore met with James Murdoch to protest against what... more
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Use your Google translator to English.
This is the official Current TV effort to save Current TV Italia.Use your Google translator to English.
This is the official Current TV effort to save... more
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ROME -- Al Gore's Current TV is feeding an Italian craving for serious news in the Silvio Berlusconi era and helping to redefine the founder's vision for an unconventional, unbiased, in-depth news channel.
Just a few months after the localized Current Italia started beaming on Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia in 2008, the channel's general manager, Tommaso Tessarolo, was given the freedom to reboot it.
He threw out the model that San Francisco-based Current TV had been using Stateside since its 2005 inception -- five-minute news pods, many of them user-generated, and replaced it with longform news pieces.
"But we remain close to the original vision of Al Gore, who wants to democratize TV," Tessarolo says.
Current CEO Mark Rosenthal, the ex-MTV exec who took over as topper in 2009, says Gore's original attempt to reinvent news journalism with video shorts tied closely to the Internet was unique. "But it didn't really work," he adds.
Since then, Current Italia has been a beacon for the company in several ways, says Rosenthal, who also oversees Current's British incarnation, which was set up in 2007.
Tessarolo has built the Italo channel around Current's signature "Vanguard" documentary series, which Rosenthal calls "the only boots-on-the-ground show on TV in the U.S." next to CBS' "60 Minutes."
Independent information is hard to come by in Italy, where most media is influenced by political or business interests, or both.
Click on the article to read more ...ROME -- Al Gore's Current TV is feeding an Italian craving for serious news in... more
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An American teacher vlogs about being stranded by the volcanic ash cloud over London. (Updated Thursday, April 22 -- Originals posted in comments below)An American teacher vlogs about being stranded by the volcanic ash cloud over London.... more
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Ce l'abbiamo fatta! Current ha vinto un prestigioso Webby Award '09 nella categoria "Best Interactive Video" per Hack The Debate, l'evento condotto in partnership con Twitter che ha consentito a tutto il mondo di interagire nel corso dei dibattiti presidenziali americani mediante una piattaforma crossmediale.
Ecco un video che fa riferimento ad Hack The Debate:
http://current.com/items/89467100_hack_the_debate_sizzle_excerpt
Inutile dire che siamo felicissimi di poter celebrare questa vittoria che ha richiesto un grande impegno da parte nostra ed ha permesso a migliaia di persone di essere parte di qualcosa di straordinario e rivoluzionario.
Grazie a tutti quelli che hanno reso possibile tutto ciò.
La pagina dei vincitori sul sito ufficiale dei Webby Awards:
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_film.php#Best%20Use%20of%20Interactive%20VideoCe l'abbiamo fatta! Current ha vinto un prestigioso Webby Award '09 nella... more
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A new ad campaign for Current TV's original documentary series "Vanguard" (current.com/vanguard) has been banned in Rome.
One of the banned ads was for "America's Secret War" (http://current.com/items/89438469/la_guerra_segreta_all_iran.htm). And the other was for an investigation into a mafia hit on a Catholic priest.
Tommaso Tessarolo, General Manager of Current Italy, is fighting the censorship. Below is a translated letter that Tommaso wrote and posted to the facebook group "Censored by the City of Rome" (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128786715074):
"I want you to know how astonishing and worrying has been the decision of the Commune ofRome to CENSOR the promotional campaign set for the Subway system(and not for the bus system as declared by ATAC – Rome’s Public Transportation).
Why is it that in Milan this campaign was calmly accepted, but in Rome it was brutally censored? The answer is likely in two keywords: Bible and Vatican. This last one we know is closer to Rome than to Milan. Too bad that that those who have censored our campaign haven’t even taken the time to understand what it referred to. It’s the premiere of our VANGUARD series, of which one episode is about a priest who was killed by the mafia.
Are these the messages that should be censored you think?
Or perhaps the censorship’s goal is to attack the only channel in Italy that has real investigative journalism.
We firmly believe that people are tired. Tired of the situation in which decades of horrible politics have kept us back, tired of being lied to, tired of television channels that do everything except inform.
We are convinced that these messages (this campaign) should be encouraged and applauded, NOT CENSORED. From March 9 on CURRENT we will step on the accelerator even more, we will go out on the field to report every day, because we are convinced that to change this world, a world we many times dislike, we have to understand it. And to fully understand it, first someone has to have the courage to tell it like it is. WE WANT TO HAVE THIS COURAGE. We want to share it and to continue going forward with our TV and online project, with the PARTICIPATION of everyone who wants to join us in this battle.
This censorship might be the first of many. And that’s why it’s important for this group to exist as an active watchdog against those who want to prevent the truth from being told."
Thanks!
Tommaso Tessarolo
General Manager
Current ItalyA new ad campaign for Current TV's original documentary series... more
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In the light of recent events that have taken place in the state of California, many people have decided that it’s time to take matters into our own hands. We will not sit back and let the rest of the world decide what we can and cannot do in America the Free.
We have borrowed from the Chicano movement and modified their "Day without a Mexican" into "Day without a Gay."
This concept is simple, but makes a huge impact.
On December 10th, 2008 we ask that all people in the LGBT community and all of our supporters call in sick to work and do not attend school. We ask that you do not purchase anything that day. We want California to see how many of us there are, and that there may be a person in their life that they didn’t know was gay.
Please join us. I know, personally, how extremely difficult it can be to come out and be open about yourself. I have overcome my fear, and I hope that all of you are able to as well.
We need to stand strong in California, and around the country. We need those that oppose us to know that we are strong and that we will NEVER GIVE UP.
Join us, and gain your equality. **this is not restricted to California**
The Official Website: day without a gay * orgIn the light of recent events that have taken place in the state of California, many... more
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