State Schizophrenia
I’m publishing Marco Travaglio’s article called "Europa7, lo Stato copia Mediaset" {Europa7, the State copies Mediaset}.
Today the Council of State, after 9 years of legal battles in Italy and in Europe, will decide the amount to be paid by the State in recompense to Europa7 for the failure to assign frequencies to them and whether to finally let them broadcast nationally. In the discussion, the government is represented by the State Advocacy Service. They have surprisingly been given the task by the Minister of Communications, Paolo Gentiloni and asked to reject the requests of the publisher Francesco Di Stefano and to defend the status quo: that is the Gasparri law and the right of Rete4 to occupy the frequencies even without a concession (lost by Mediaset and won by Europa7 in 1999).
A fact that is quite individual: the Unione had promised to repeal the Gasparri law and on 31 January the European Court of Justice gave its support to the rights of Europa7 against those of Rete4. But that’s not enough. To defend Rete4, the State Advocacy Service representing the Prodi government copied in its memo, whole pages taken from that of the Mediaset lawyers. . Not to cite their hypotheses in inverted commas. But to take them on as their own, without even giving details about where they came from. The Berlusconi group officially is not one of the parties to the discussion: Europa7, for the failure to assign the frequencies, has cited the State through the Ministry of Communications and the Authority overseeing Communications. But Mediaset intervened anyway with a memo, knowing well that, if the frequencies were to be assigned to Europa7, it would be Rete4 to lose them. And the State Advocate, Maurizio Di Carlo, what does he do? Cut and paste of the Mediaset memo, without even trying to camouflage this authentic privatization of the institution at the service of the “Biscione”. The whole thing, even before Berlusconi is back in government for the third time.
Read and compare the memo by the State Advocacy Service (55 pages) and by Mediaset (78 pages). The complete text is given on www.voglioscendere.it. It’s a tragicomic party game of “Spot the difference”. The most obvious is that the State defends Rete4 with even more passion than Mediaset does. For the rest, page after page plucked exactly as it is from the documents of the Berlusconian company. A few examples: Pagine 9 of the State Advocacy document: ten lines (from 7 to 17) copied from page 49 of the Mediaset memo (lines 1-15). Page 5 (from line 20) to Page 6 (up to line 18) of the State Advocacy are identical to pages 60 (from line 3), 61 (all the page) and 62 (up to line 11) in the Mediaset document. Pages 17 (from line 7) and 18 (up to line13) of the State Advocacy document are the same as pages 60 (from line 3), 61 (all the page) and 62 (up to line22) in the Mediaset document. Page 53 (lines 4-23) State Advocacy document is plagiarized from pages 39 (from line 9) and 40 (up to line5) in the Mediaset document. On page 35 (lines 27-31) of the State Advocacy document, there are the same words as on page 47 (lines 17-22) in the Mediaset document. And so on. Once there’s a “thus” missed out. In another place there’s a “in relation to this” instead of “firstly”. All the rest, including erroneous punctuation (many commas between the subject and the verb), is identical. The same is true for the conclusions with outcomes that are at times comical.
According to the State Advocacy Service, if Europa7 has not had the frequencies, it’s their fault: they should have “acquired them even on their own initiative” (and where? And how? With weapons in their hands?), given that the State: “didn’t have the actual availability of the frequencies” (obviously: they allowed them to be kept by Telepiù nero and Rete4, by now without the concession). And anyway – Di Carlo added – by dis-applying the Maccanico law and the Gasparri law and turning off the analogue frequencies for Rete4 would not mean the automatic transfer to Europa7 (and to whom, thank you?).
Basically the State is ignoring the recent verdict of the European Court in Luxembourg, requested by the very same Council of State, according to which the community regulations “are an obstacle to a national system of regulations whose application means that an operator that owns a concession finds it impossible to transmit because a lack of frequencies assigned on the basis of objective criteria, that are transparent, non-discriminatory and proportional.”
Thus, it’s enough that the “transitory regime set up in favour of the existing networks” to the disadvantage of Europa7, in accordance with the Maccanico law, of the “save-Rete4”, of the Gasparri law, of the Gentiloni draft law (that never became law). All the laws that should be repealed.
They are not: “the free provision of services” protected by community regulations – writes the European Court – “they need not just the concession of the authorisation to broadcast, but also the assigning of the frequencies”, otherwise, “an operator cannot make use of the rights given to it by community law for the access to the TV market”. With this verdict in their hands, the lawyers Grandinetti and Pace working for Europa7 ask the Council of State for the frequencies and recompense for the damage suffered.
The “emerging damage”, that is the money spent so far for the investments required by law for anyone who wins a concession (more than 120 million euro). And the “lucro cessante”, that is the loss of profits of the TV that was never born (more than 2 billion euro). Always assuming that the Council will give a verdict telling the State to finally assign the frequencies to them.
Otherwise Europa7 would die for ever and Di Stefano would have the right to the value of the whole company. The government of the Unione, by means of the State Advocacy Service, talks in playback: text and music from Mediaset. No reimbursement. No frequencies. Long live Gasparri. Rete4 sine die. Everything as before, as ever. Berlusconi would not have known how to do better.”
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Caro N'Donio,
se ti fai un giro in internet ti accorgerai che il ministero delle pari opportunità è stato assegnato ad una modella hard core.
Insomma un ministro senza portafoglio e però spesso senza le mutande.
Ma quali pari opportunità può garantire un ministro che fa del suo corpo merce da arrapati.
Avevamo avuto tempo addietro Cicciolina come
semplice deputato adesso siamo arrivati ad un ministro,continuando di questo passo sono rimaste solo due cariche istituzionali:il presidente del consiglio e il presidente della Repubblica.
N'Donio che li pozzeno accide qui non g'è più sgampo.
Gianfrango
Posted by: Gianfranco Corrias | May 12, 2008 06:24 PM
I admit it, it really hurts me seeing Al Gore backing Silvio Berlusconi, via Letizia Moratti or less. Ok, Letizia Moratti is one of the most democratic persouns of PD (m) L , Popolo dei mafiosi in liberta´, Milan with her is a bit better than the stinky Wc full of mafiosi and nazist we had with that Hitler of Gebriele Albertini, but 9 people out of 10, i wd say not a bit more, 95 people out of 100, wkg with Berlusconi, are all linked with killing mafiosi ( even present chief of Defense, Ignazio La Russa, saw his family beeing big money washers of multi killers of Corleone, you can imagine now, himsf and his secret services, what dirty stuff will do of Italy) and nazist, so, that Al Gore, even said is acceptable to have Berlusconi with political and dictatorial media power, really hurt me. But, there´s a but, now thanking the Very High. Great have been last words of Al Gore, in Rome, while presenting Current Tv. In Italy, Al Gore, we have not democracy anymore, since 1994, since Silvio Berlus xu xlux cl oni, entered in it, to avoid bankrupcy, and lot of people said, probable jail too ( not me; i have not said that, cause i never celebrate other people troubles, but his chief Mafiaset Mediaset, said clearly if we did not enter in politics, we wd have probably have gone in a prison for mafia; he and not me)
Posted by: Nista Michele | May 10, 2008 12:03 PM
On 10.12.2003 ( not to forget, double Abu year: Omar e Graid) a naziskin put tho fingers big as two hands on my throat and said " you tk too much bout Berlusconi, i´ll strangle you now". My life got saved by two miracles: the Spirit the Creator gave me, causing an over reaction from me, mixed to the more fundamental arrival of a brave persoun who saw all the sceene. That was a murder ordered by Silvio Berlusconi to Giuliano Ferrara, then to Gaetano Saya, to be made to me, as punishment of hvg never acptd a Nerone, an Erode, a King Sole, an Adolf Hitler, a Francisco Franco, an Augusto Pinochet, a Pol Pot, a Ceausescu, mixed at a Frank Genovese, at a Lucky Luciano, at a Lucky Luciano Moggi, like Silvio Berlusconi, to dictaturate and devastate my native country. I had to go to reside abroad to remain alive. ONLY INTERNET GIVES VOICE TO THEESE EXTREMELY TRUE STORIES, NOBODY MAY CARE BOUT THEM, BUT WITHIN MY LITTLE, MY TEAR ON THE OCEAN, WILL ALWAYS BE PUT BY ME, WITH NOT ANY ESITATION OR SHAME TO MAKE ALL THIS POTENTIALLY KNOWN, IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY AD FREEDOM, REGARDLESS THE HUMILIATION I MAY FEEL, STS, IN THE MEANTIME. In 1996 when that Mafiaset Camorraset Ndrangaset Goebbelset Mediaset got put in the market, there was a very filo nazist dealer of a super extremely, at that time at least, filonazifascist bank, still there now, but mvd from London to Hong Kong now, Daniel Hegglin of Morgan Stanley, sbdy dfng himself satanist and especially Xuxluxclanist, manipolating against all the bourse pstns of dealers of Italian St Exchg to push them off business, just cause they were not Berlusconians. I was "top of the list", they used to sing bout me " Michele Nista il primo della lista", like "Michele Nist first of the list". Ant that hpnd. Extremely corrupted nazifascist Xuxluxclanist Racist Satanist Antidemocratic Daniel Hegglin of Morgan Stanley used to move intelligence to know what i was buying in the market, for my clients, or whatever, and immediately started to abuse mkt against me. Me vs the nazi of Morgan Stanley, on Berlusconi´s usl order, was like an aunt against 1234890 panthers, and this just cause I was saying bout the bloody nazindrnaghetaro uncanstandable overdngrs concentration of powers of Silvio Berlusconi. When Daniel Hegglin of Morgan Stanley was not doing that, Lehman, via Giorgio Magnoni ( his brother Ruggero is there masonaziBerlusconian manager) was doing it. Theese posts are messages in the bottles but i´ll alws throw them till death
Posted by: Nista Michele | May 7, 2008 05:21 PM
The stinky bloody empire of this nazirat Silvio Berlusconi, has been funded on some 262 mlns euros ( of now) given by Stefano Bontade ( the richest mafioso of all the times, the one hvg strtd to import cocaine from Colombia and eroine from Thailand to then export it to all the rest of the world) to the father of Silvio Berlusconi, Luigi Berlusconi, whose bank, Banca Rasini, has been shut down on order of american Dea, cause was an enormous laundrier of killing mafia money. And Us knows that very well, how don´t they feel disgusted to have shareholders of them in this dirty Killingbloodyset JohnGottiset FranciscoFrancoset Mediaset? How can George Bush and his son can call Silvio Berlusconi a great man, when they know very well he ordered and financed the bombing murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, that used to work shoulders by shoulders with their Rudolph Giuliani, exctly when the bank of Luigi Berlusconi, father of Silvio Berlusconi, got shut for the enormous money laundrying it was doing? Basically the Bush are telling they are fans of devastating killing mafiosi; mafiosi in some way, themselves too, by backing Silvio Berlusconi, in a sense, automatically are calling thmslvs now, sorry. Do you want to know how this stinky nazirat made real money? I tell you now. Stefano Bontade, the updescribed richest mafioso of all the times, gave 262 mlns of euros ( of now) to laundry to Berlusconi father and son, via nazifascistset Lodge p2 of Licio Gelli. Silvio Berlusconi cashed, asked to his big mafia rival, Toto Riina, to kill him, paid him off 20 per cent of the above mntd 262 mlns euros, and with the rest strtd to invest here and there. Check date of death of Stefano Bontade and date of first big investments of Silvio Berlusconi and you can realize stg ysf too. All the companies of Berlusconi are controlled by 21 financial " boxes" by Bnl fiduciary ( main italian mason, I wd say, satanist bank), and who is behind theese companies? Nbdy knows and he does not want to declare it. It is as if Rupert Murdoch wd wnt to bcm Presid of Us, expltg his tv on his fvr, and hvg the owners of his Fox and Sky Tv, kept secet to everyone, even though all the people wd actually know behind thoose are the narcos of Colombia! Do you wanna give me this bullshit it cd happen in Us, Al Gore? I admired you, but your backing of a nazimafioso like Silvio Berlusconi, only cause you are both intl masons i find it extrmly disappointing, if not heartbreaking. Up here last dtls
Posted by: Nista Michele | May 7, 2008 04:43 PM
I came to know that during the board of mngmt of some three months ago, at which Fedele Confalonieri put at the votes the buy back of his stocks Mafiaset Camorraset Ndrangaset Nazistset AlCaponeof2000set Mediaset, he said more or less, theese nazifascist, throwing up words:
" within next three months, at the 14.4.08, we´ll have in front of us three possibilities:
a) Victory at elections, got in any way we can ( meant obvsly via frauds too; as his usl!!). Then Italy we´ll be in our pocket entirely and we´ll make sure we won´t loose it for at least some 20 years with good or bad manners, and so, if we wd do some buy back of our stock now, I´m confident we cd sell back our stocks next fall at 8,5 euros
b) we´ll have to share power with Veltroni, and in that case, Goffredo Bettini told me, Antonio Di Pietro wdn´t have any chair at all, and Mediaset, wdnt be touched neither by mistake, too; so, we wd still control evtg, but with more needed sensitivity; this I wd say for more or less 3,4 years and in that case, I blv we cd sell back our stocks around 6,5 euros, anyway, still next fall
c) we wd loose elections, but then we wd prepare at 99 per cent civil war, to detouch north of Italy from the rest; i know there are already 100.000 weapons hidden in Varese and Como area ( that´s why Bossi said he has 300.000 hot guns ready), and we need to do just a wistle to our swiss friends and from germain Suisse we wd get one other million weapons very quickly
So, since the stock went under under 6,5 euros, we´re pyg JP Morgan, all the difference between this price and the present market price, as of the last privatization agreement, let´s hope to return to be the one and only boss of this country so that we cd sell back all the stocks that we´ll buy now on profit.
Buy back promulgated".
Investong in a stock as Mafiaset Camorraset Ndrangaset Nazistset Goebbelset MafiosiofLosAnagelscalledInzerilloset Mediaset is exctly as investing in businesses of Mobutu in the Zaire of the 70s. In the ones of Pinochet and Massera in Chile and Argentina still of 3 decades ago. Is such an enormous devastating shame that Us companies are backing a dirty stinky nazist, a sender of killers of mafia like Silvio Berlus xu xlux cl oni. There are tons of prooves he created his very bloody super criminal pseudo empire on the base of the money of Stefano Bontade, the richest mafioso of all the times. Every wdwd company backing Berlusconi in bckg Hitler mixed at Al Capone. UN stop this now
Posted by: Nista Michele | May 7, 2008 04:12 PM