Translated by Daria Evangelista The National Symphony Orchestra of Greece ceases its activity. On the internet we can see the video of its last concert. The musicians are crying. In those tears, a mixture of dignity and despair, I read the word "END" for the greatest country of culture, I read the total failure of the European Union. To shut down a full orchestra means to destroy an important part of the cu ...

Sentenza Berlusconi. Su consiglio di Michele Misseri,Sandro Bondi confessa:"Ho stato io a comprare i senatori insieme a lu trattore nuovo" ...

Northern Lights Season is Starting. In these days the lovers of this wonderful phenomenon can't help but renting a glass igloo in Finland to sleep under the Northern Lights. Aurora season has been in high gear for nearly a month in Abisko, and it looks as though this year could be something very special. We are entering the peak of the solar maximum, and if history is any indicator we should see a marked in ...

Translated by Daria evangelista The words in the "B Vocabulary" are generally composed of a noun and a verb. For example there are precise expressions that mean orthodoxy, the enthusiastic acceptance of the Socing and the rejection of the past, that is identified with the wickedness and decadence. The word "thoughtcrime" is created to replace and then remove the words and with them the concepts of freedom, ...

Se tu hai una mela, e io ho una mela, e ce le scambiamo, allora tu ed io abbiamo sempre una mela per uno. Ma se tu hai un'idea, ed io ho un'idea, e ce le scambiamo, allora abbiamo entrambi due idee. (If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have t ...

Mike D’Antoni has resigned as coach of New York Knicks! ...

«My name is Gerry, I am 36 years old and I live in Corfu, in Greece. Here in our country the situation is critical: now we can't do the lifestyle of few years ago by austerity measures, the unemployment has been above 20% and is increasing the number of homeless. The middle class no longer exists, there are only the super rich tax evaders with offshore accounts and the lower class that strives to pay additi ...

Translated by Daria Evangelista In the dystopian world described by George Orwell, everything revolves around one possible point of view: the one of the Party. The Big Brother invents the neolanguage, whose main function is to "simplify the possibilities of thought" to forbid the principles and values that are different from those imposed by the ruling class, the Party. "Once we will be at the end, we will ...

Translated by Daria Evangelista "This is our first morning without Silvio Berlusconi. I do not think that things will change in the economy of our state: we will always be "normal" citizens who pay the highest price of the sacrifices that must necessarily be made. But at least this morning, I'm not so ashamed to be represented by a liar, vulgar man, that I have not voted and that I have never been represent ...

Translated by Daria Evangelista In 1984, the world is divided into three states: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Oceania is a dystopian society, governed by the principles of Socing, the english socialism, and commanded by the absolute leader, the Big Brother, who is omniscient and omnipresent. His control over the people is total: the big screens in homes are equipped with video cameras always trained on ci ...

Translated by Daria Evangelista "The Mafia is not invincible. It is a human fact and, like all human facts, it has a beginning, and it will also have an end. But we must realize that it is a very serious phenomenon and that you can't win it claiming heroism on unarmed citizens, but engaging in this battle all the best forces of the institutions. " httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK23xp5ZEbc These words are ...

Catello MarescaTranslated by Daria Evangelista Hands up those of you readers who know that Gaddafi has died. You are so many, I lost count of how many arms were raised to the sky. Well! Now hands up those of you who know who Catello Maresca is. Very few, almost none. These days the body and blood of the rais came into our homes every day and every hour: Gheddafi was on the tv, an the internet... everywhere. ...