Stamberg ,(Baviera), 5-2-2010 , ore 7.00

La Jaguar entrava da un ingresso secondario del parco della villa e si dirigeva verso l´edificio.

Un gruppo di persone li attendeva. La macchina si fermava davanti ad esse ed i due occupanti scendono.

Il Dr. Anwalt, un chirurgo, andava loro incontro e con un tono neutro

-Problemi ?

Roland risponde –no Dottore

Il Dottore faceva un cenno e due persone aprirono il bagagliao per appoggiare Sophie su di una barella e portarla dentro la villa.

Bene- riprendeva  il Dottore- ora potete andare

I due salutavano con un cenno e ripartivano verso l´uscita secondaria. Nel frattempo Sophie,sempre addormentata , e´giunta in una stanza interna della villa attrezzata come sala chirurgica. Un´infermiera prelevava del sangue.

Il Dr. Anwalt e´andato a cambiarsi e poi entrava nella sala. Sophie era nuda sul tavolo operatorio ed il medico la visitava. Un corpo sano.

Circa mezzora dopo l´infermiera che aveva prelevato tornava.

-Sana Dottore, non si rilevano problemi

Il Dottore annnuice

-Bene – un tono distaccato , impersonale.

Prendeva un bisturi e con la lama ne carezzava le labbra di Sophie

-Addio mia bella amica

Poi iniziava ad incidere. Dopo circa due ore ogni organo che poteva essere impiantato e´stato espiantato e riposto in un apposito contentitore. Il Dr. Anwalt e´soddisfatto per la precisione del proprio lavoro e da un ordine

-Portate gli organi all´aereo e liquefate il cadavere con ogni indumento.

Ripone guanti e camice su di un tavolino mobile e cosi´pure gli altri. Due persone guidavano al barella verso un sotterraneo dove una vasca con circa 100 litri di acido solforico attende il cadavere per scioglierlo completamente. Una terza persona portava il carello con i camici di chi ha partecipato all´operazione ,le federe, gli indumenti di Sophie per sciogliere il tutto.

Il Dottore esciva e va in una stanza. Nel frattempo gli organi erano portati a bordo di una Audi 8 e da li´in un aereoporto privato nelle vicinanze.

Le guardie ,complici, avrebbero fatto passare la macchina che portava gli organi a bordo di un aereo privato. Da qui in poche ore nelle celle di conservazione di una clinica privata in Russia legata al network del traffico di organi.

Il corpo di Sophie vieniva posto nella vasca e l´acido iniziava a cancellarne ogni traccia.

Mentre si annodava la cravatta il Dr. Anwalt sorrideva. Pensa che col denaro guadagnato con gli organi di Sophie l´indomani sarebbe andato in Karlplatz per comprare l´Aston Martin che desiderava.

Finito di rivestirsi usciva per raggiungere la sua Mercedes ed andare via in modo discreto dall´uscita secondaria del parco.

Mentre stava uscendo chiama une persona :

Pronto – una voce di una giovane donna

Sono io Heidi tutto e´andato bene ed i pacchetti sono in viaggio

-Bene ,perfetto. Ti auguro una buona serata

-Anche a te – chiudeva la comunicazione

I suoi collaboratori si stavano occupando di cancellare ogni traccia e poi di chiudere nuovamente la villa fino alla prossima operazione.

Paolo Dealberti© all rights reserved

Membro dell´Academy of Political Science ,(New York), del The Japan Institute of International Affairs,(Tokyo)

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Most often, as in the case of Andrea True or Traci Lords, they are reduced to pouting ciphers on dance tracks, while the less said about Pop You in the Pooper by Jeff Stryker, the … See all stories on this topic » The Guardian Go! Music & Dance calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 Times Herald-Record Also: “Conservatory Sundays — Music Alive,” Bard Conservatory musicians performing works by Tsontakis, Halle, Bernstein, Weill, Kukal and Sanchez, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 3 p.m. Oct. 28. 752-2380. bard.edu. Beacon Institute Gallery — “Bound … See all stories on this topic » Depeche Mode announces summer 2013 worldwide tour dates Examiner.com Depeche Mode · Live Music · tour dates · Concerts · Music. Advertisement. On Oct. 23 the English band Depeche Mode announced summer 2013 headlining tour dates in support of their upcoming studio album. The European tour begins May 7 in Tel Aviv, … See all stories on this topic » Music composer Palagummi Viswanatham dead The Hindu Well-known music composer and lyric writer, Palagummi Viswanatham, died of old age at his residence here on Thursday. He was 93. He is survived by a son and daughter. He was pioneer in popularising light music and also light classical music. Born in … See all stories on this topic » The Hindu Icona Pop: Music’s Next Big Thing Daily Beast Natives of southern Stockholm, Icona Pop are a part of the second wave of Swedish music acts that have crossed over into U.S. consciousness, including Lykke Li, The Knife, Miike Snow, and Robyn, with her recent comeback album. Unlike Robyn—and her … See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast Campaign Ad Music: It’s All About Emotional Response WBUR BOSTON — With Election Day looming, political war rooms are cranking out television ads hoping to sway undecided voters. News outlets — like ours — have been picking apart the torrent of images and messages this season, but what about the music? See all stories on this topic » WBUR Alicia Keys Launches Interactive App for Kids RollingStone.com Available today for $3.99, Keys produced the music for the app, which is set in LeeLee’s bedroom and allows users to read books, play music and write in a journal. The app was released by her own company, AK Worldwide, and Bento Box Interactive. See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com Carly Rae Jepsen to Be Honored With Billboard’s ‘Rising Star’ Award Hollywood Reporter Of her success, Jepsen says, “As a singer-songwriter having grown up listening to and being influenced by countless female artists, I am truly honored to be recognized by Billboard with this award, I hope to inspire others through my music the way … See all stories on this topic » Music DVD Review: The Doors – Live At The Bowl ’68 Blogcritics.org (blog) For a band long celebrated as one of the great live rock acts ever, the lack of any truly definitive concert document from The Doors – on record, film or otherwise – has for decades represented a very large, gaping hole in their otherwise stellar … See all stories on this topic » Gritty, Subterranean Music ABC News (blog) Marlon Krieger has traveled the globe as a photographer and filmmaker, deftly illuminating life and culture half a world away. Over the past few years, the intrepid New York artist has snapped revealing images in far-flung places, from Haiti to China … See all stories on this topic » ABC News (blog) Courtney Love planning Kurt Cobain musical, says manager The Guardian “[We] are currently working on a possible motion picture or Broadway musical based on the Nirvana catalogue, based on [Courtney's] life and Kurt Cobain’s,” Sam Lufti said. He wasn’t talking idly: Lufti made the comments under oath, as part of his … See all stories on this topic » The Guardian Fans, Artists ‘Blessed’ to be at Live Music Capital’s Premier Celebration Patch.com The Thursday night streets of Austin, Texas are lifting the bar high for the three-day musical jubilee that’s to follow. Floods of locals and temporaries are roaming on foot or by pedicab to the next thing that smells yummy, looks pretty or sounds … See all stories on this topic » Taking music round the clock Sydney Morning Herald Most of them are Victorian – from the MSO, Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne freelancers and the Australian National Academy of Music. Others are coming from other states and he expects these numbers will grow to cover last-minute emergencies. See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald The music of madness: Horror movie soundtracks The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Most horror buffs will agree that orchestral music is the most popular type of music for a horror film, as well as for many other genres. Since the birth of the horror movie up through the present day composers have relied on the wide range of … See all stories on this topic » Wallflowers let music do the talking Montreal Gazette MONTREAL — For a man who comes from blue-chip songwriting stock, and whose own lyrics always seem carefully worked on, Jakob Dylan seems given to only brief, blunt outbursts when talking to the press. But clearly, no offence is meant and none is … See all stories on this topic » Meet your new music overlords: K-Pop invasion Alaska Dispatch The Korean music industry revolves around large entertainment companies that scout out young talent, bundle them into boy bands and girl groups, teach them how to dance, and then present these highly polished acts to the world. “They’ve really … See all stories on this topic » LINKIN PARK, NICKI MINAJ AMONG AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 2012 … Artisan News Service … 25, 2012 by ArtisanNewsService. Linkin Park, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift join Christina Aguilera as performers for the 40th American Music Awards next month, which has become must see TV as evidenced by the famous Adam Lambert kiss a few years back. See all stories on this topic » DSO asked to add a concert to prestigious Carnegie Hall gig Detroit Free Press The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s previously scheduled appearance at Carnegie Hall on May 10, was going to be its first concert in the hallowed Manhattan temple in 17 years. Now, suddenly, it will be the DSO’s second concert at Carnegie Hall in 24 hours. See all stories on this topic » Local music: The P.O.S. guide to living Minneapolis Star Tribune “Working with the Deathsquads, I got better at using synths and got into electronic music more. I think there’s a lot of dance music that’s super-heavy, and is about using your synths in the most violent way possible. That’s what I always do with … See all stories on this topic » Minneapolis Star Tribune Who Are the World Music Rebels? AllAfrica.com When Joel Sebunjo put up posters announcing his upcoming World Music Rebels concert, a fan called with one question. Will musicians like Mun G, Jamal, Aziz Azion, GNL Zamba and Coco Finger (featuring on the poster) qualify as world music musicians? See all stories on this topic »

Ministro de Cultura de Bolivia habla en NTN24 sobre proyecto de ley para … CanalNTN24 Pablo Groux explica en NTN24 la finalidad del proyecto de ley para regular las redes sociales como Facebook y Twitter y explica que esta medida surge como respuesta a recientes agresiones e insultos a autoridades de estado, en especial a Evo Morales, … See all stories on this topic »

Javier Marías: ‘El Estado no debe darme nada por mi tarea de escritor’ Radio televisión Castilla y León El escritor Javier Marías, que este jueves fue galardonado por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte con el Premio Nacional de Narrativa por su libro ‘Los enamoramientos’, ha explicado esta tarde los motivos por los que ha decidido rechazar el … See all stories on this topic »

Cultura. La presentación del libro “El invierno del mundo”, de Ken Follett – 24/10 … Libertad Digital Cultura. La presentación del libro “El invierno del mundo”, de Ken Follett – 24/10/12. libertaddigitaltv. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading… 30,102 videos. Loading… Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it … See all stories on this topic »

“Observatorio Cultural” Platform to Spread Culture Online I Love Chile News The Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes and its Departamento de Estudios officially presented their new project – a new digital platform for culture, Observatorio cultural, and also announced the winners in the contest Haz tu tesis en cultura … See all stories on this topic »

Los mejores diseños de moda española del último cuarto de siglo Telemadrid.es El Museo Cerralbo se viste a la moda con las creaciones de conocidos diseñadores españoles. La exposición ‘La moda es sueño’, organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura, repasa los últimos 25 años de talento español a través de trajes, joyas y zapatos. See all stories on this topic »

Dos años sin Néstor Kirchner Télam Diferentes representantes de la política, la cultura, el arte, el espectáculo, el deporte, expresan su recuerdo sobre el ex presidente Néstor Kirchner, de cuya desaparición física se cumplirán dos años el próximo sábado 27 de octubre. Los cantautores … See all stories on this topic »

Artists to Back Recovery Efforts in Eastern Cuba Prensa Latina Imagen activa 25 de octubre de 2012, 16:29Holguin, Cuba, Oct 25 (Prensa Latina) Some 250 artists from 17 countries, taking part in the 18th Fiesta of Ibero-American Cultura, will support recovery efforts in communities it by Hurricane Sandy, said … See all stories on this topic »

ABAV 2012: Presidente da Empetur, André Correia, fala sobre o estande na Abav YouTube Loading… Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading… There is no Interactive Transcript. Published on Oct 25, 2012 by tvpanrotas. Carnaval, gastronomia, cultura estão presentes no estande de Pernambuco n 40ª edição da Feira das … See all stories on this topic »

1000 manos – 24-10-12 (5 de 6) TVPublica Argentina Conmemoramos el día de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, conocemos el trabajo de la asociación Entre todos, por una cultura solidaria, nos interiorizamos en la historia del trabajo de la policía federal en Argentina, aprendemos a preparar las … See all stories on this topic »

Cartelera Cultural del IPN CanalOnceIPN … y Alejandra Zermeño, además de una amplia retrospectiva de Saúl Kaminer son las exposiciones actuales del Centro Cultural Jaime Torres Bodet. Av. Wilfrido Massieu s/n, esq. con Av. IPN, col. Zacatenco www.cultura.ipn.mx. Tel. 5729-60-00, 5729-63-00 … See all stories on this topic »

Mercado&Cia 25/10/12 – Entrevista com Regis Becker Notícias Agrícolas Feijão: Está ocorrendo uma migração intensa do plantio de feijão para soja. O motivo é que o mercado da soja está muito valorizado, enquanto que o feijão é uma cultura arriscada para o plantio devido aos fatores climáticos. No entanto, o feijão também … See all stories on this topic »

Have a Musical Halloween San Francisco Classical Voice Berkeley: Casa de Cultura, Berkeley, A Brazilian Family Halloween Ball Oct 27, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Brasarte presents its annual Family Halloween Ball. Music, dancing, costume contests, a costume parade, and games. For families in search of fun and a … See all stories on this topic »

Iñigo en directo. Mister Trazo RadioTelevisión Castilla – La Mancha El arte urbano, puede ser legal e ilegal entra la cultura de la calle. El arte urbano puede ser como el arte que se puede encontrar e cualquier galería, el arte urbano no tiene porqué ser sólo pintura, el arte que está en la calle hacerlo más público … See all stories on this topic »

Theater review: Good taste and bad manners in ‘God of Carnage,’ ‘Art’ The News-Press The Naples troupe takes on two Yasmina Reza satires this month, and the ambitious double feature transports audiences from their comfy theater seats into a pair of tense living-room battles. Voices raise. Fists clench. Friendships and marriages come … See all stories on this topic »

Century RiverPark 16 theater ready to premiere Ventura County Star It is the company’s only NextGen Theater in Southern California and replaces the Century Theater off Johnson Drive in Ventura, which closed today after 26 years of operation. “What we’re doing in our NextGen theaters is putting all the latest and … See all stories on this topic »

‘A Summer Day,’ Starring Karen Allen New York Times You’ve seen this face before. That was years ago, but it looks the same, doesn’t it? Look harder. This face has definitely known a few decades since the first time you saw it; a fine tracery of lines lies over it, and resignation now shapes the set of … See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Covington theater renovation back on track, could open by mid-2013 NOLA.com Covington-area movie fans shouldn’t give up hope for a Hollywood ending just yet. After extended delays, the locally owned Southern Theatres is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate and reopen the vacant Holiday Square Cinema 12 movie theater. See all stories on this topic » NOLA.com

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Sabor Y Cultura – 90.3 KEXP “El Sonido” mix by Righteous Trash on … Listen to Sabor Y Cultura – 90.3 KEXP “El Sonido” mix by Righteous Trash: Righteous Trash presents “Sabor Y Cultura“, an exclusive mix for 90.3 KEXP Seattle’s … soundcloud.com/righteous-trash/sabor-y-cultura ‘Cloud Atlas’ is one of the best movies of 2012, but you’ll probably hate it Examiner.com Here’s a truth few would dispute; the Wachowski siblings (Andy & Lana) have not made a good quality movie since “The Matrix” in 1999. The two movie sequels were subpar and “Speed Racer” was just awful. Their newest venture is “Cloud Atlas” which is … See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com New York’s movie screens load up on horrror New York Daily News Many of the films in Lincoln Center’s “Scary Movies” program are actually decades old, but have rarely been seen since their release. Now’s your chance to catch Wes Craven’s “Deadly Blessing,” featuring an unknown Sharon Stone, or Martin Sheen in John … See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News ‘Chasing Mavericks’ is a by-the-numbers tribute Boston.com It’s unclear where they stand on the rest of the movie. Hungering for competently photographed, orchestrated, and edited surfing shots is one thing. Most movies chop unevenly between real actors and their stunt doubles, between handsome long shots and … See all stories on this topic » Do You Like Scary Movies and Books? New York Times (blog) Weeks earlier, another horror movie, “House at the End of the Street,” grabbed the top spot. And in April, “The Cabin in the Woods” opened strong, proving that four walls and demonic activity within them are all that is needed to scare the bejesus out … See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog) Movie franchises are holiday gifts that keep on giving USA TODAY Producer Barbara Broccoli, who has been working on Bond movies since 1979′s Moonraker, says the series has been emulated so often that audiences forget how trailblazing it was when Sean Connery first appeared as a brutal spy in 1962′s Dr. No. See all stories on this topic » ‘Smashed’ a little too sure-footed Boston.com The most interesting thing about “Smashed” is the way Kate, the movie’s alcoholic schoolteacher, never looks drunk — at least, not the way drunk people do in the movies. Her face isn’t falling off. Even when she stoops to urinate in a convenience … See all stories on this topic » MOVIES: As villain, Bardem gives ‘Skyfall’ a jolt San Angelo Standard Times NEW YORK — In one long take, Javier Bardem grandly strides into the latest James Bond film. Walking slowly across a cavernous lair and toward a foreground where Daniel Craig’s 007 sits tied to a chair, Bardem — as the film’s villain, Raoul Silva … See all stories on this topic » Warner Bros. to Hold Movies From Redbox for 28 Days Wall Street Journal Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. movie studio agreed to sell DVDs and Blu-ray discs to Coinstar Inc.’s Redbox 28 days after they go on sale, a buffer that other studios have also used to try to protect flagging home-video sales. By keeping the rental … See all stories on this topic » Movie review: ‘Fun Size’ NorthJersey.com The large cast includes, clockwise from top, Victoria Justice as Wren, Thomas Mann (driving) as Roosevelt and Patrick de Ledebur as Mike Puglio; Jackson Nicoll as Albert and Thomas Middleditch as Fuzzy (driving); and Justice, Chelsea Handler as Joy and … See all stories on this topic » NorthJersey.com MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Sessions’ is a movie with a climax The Patriot Ledger Last year, when I told friends about a little film called “The Artist,” they scoffed at seeing a silent picture starring anonymous French actors. But once they gave in and went, they couldn’t thank me enough. This year, that movie is “The Sessions,” a … See all stories on this topic » Go! Exhibits & Galleries Openings calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 Times Herald-Record Albert Wisner Library — “Quintet Photographs” and photos of men and women from the community who served in the military during the Korean War era, Nov. 1-30, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick. Also: “City Without Walls: Metro 28 Exhibit,” through Oct. 31. See all stories on this topic » Swann Galleries‘ Rare & Important Travel Posters Sale announced Art Daily On Thursday, November 8 Swann Galleries will conduct their annual auction of Rare & Important Travel Posters, which offers some of the finest examples of travel images from around the world. A dazzling assortment of French Art Deco posters features a … See all stories on this topic » Jones Art Gallery story Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Fans of avant-garde art may be thrilled by the unusual pieces displayed in the Perspective Gallery this month. The work of potter Joey Jones is being showcased until Nov. 10, and the works on display have been more audacious than the gallery’s standard … See all stories on this topic » Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Schroeder Romero Abandons Chelsea, Deciding Physical Gallery Not Worth the … ARTINFO With expensive art fairs clogging up the annual schedule, and mega-galleries like Gagosian, David Zwirner, and Pace each taking up almost a whole block in the neighborhood, is there any chance for smaller outfits to continue paying the rent in Chelsea? See all stories on this topic » Report: Galleries Represent More Male Artists Than Female Artists GalleristNY Here’s some disheartening news to consider this afternoon: 67 percent of galleries at London’s recent Frieze Art Fair have rosters with less than one third women, according to the East London Fawcett Group, a U.K. gender-equality organization. It … See all stories on this topic » GalleristNY Popular Entertainment Photo Galleries CBS Local WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJZ) — Protestors demand the reinstatement of a Gallaudet University administrator suspended for signing Maryland’s same-sex marriage petition to referendum. Political Reporter Pat Warren reports on a rally held at the school. See all stories on this topic » Imgur evolves into an image-only version of Reddit VentureBeat “Imgurians” may sound like a group of ancient Greek warriors, but it’s actually just the name image-sharing site Imgur’s most active users have given themselves. Imgur is perhaps best known as the most frequently submitted URL on community link sharing … See all stories on this topic » Visual Arts Calendar ReporterHerald.com PieceWork Pincushions, Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland. Winners and honorable mentions from PieceWork magazine’s Excellence in Needle Arts Award contest. Works in five categories: knitting, crochet, beading, needlework and … See all stories on this topic » From the Spirit: Artist Abraham Anghik Ruben Washington Post Artist Abraham Anghik Ruben talks about his art and its Inuit influences. Twenty-three of Ruben’s massive sculptures will be part of the exhibit “Artic Journeys/Ancient Memories” at the Smithosian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit … See all stories on this topic » Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei goes ‘Gangnam Style’ NBCNews.com (blog) Updated at 12:42 p.m. ET: BEIJING – Released this past summer, Korean pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style” quickly became a global phenomenon. Within months, the infectious song has been watched over 530 million times and recently earned the distinction … See all stories on this topic » The Artist Next Door Wall Street Journal Artists don’t attempt altruism this extreme: Plenty make pieces that pinpoint social ills or serve as political gestures, but arguably, no one—until Gates—found a way to leverage an artistic practice to make a realtime, bottom-line difference in the … See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal Artistic Touch: Art left an early imprint on Venturan Ventura County Star “I had a friend who was a really good artist,” Gibbs said. “I thought I couldn’t be an artist because I couldn’t draw like her.” Then after she finally started taking art classes about 14 years ago, she had to be persuaded to show her work. “I thought … See all stories on this topic » Artist Liu Bolin helps Ford Fusion stand out by making rivals blend in Autoblog (blog) Liu Bolin, the world-renowned Chinese artist famous for painting himself to camouflage into the background of an image, has teamed up with Ford for its latest advertisement for the 2013 Ford Fusion. The print ads aim to highlight how the styling of the … See all stories on this topic » Lincoln artist reflects on career, inspirations Wicked Local Lincoln portrait artist Jane Cooper currently has a show of her watercolor work running at the Lincoln Public Library through Oct. 30. One wall in the gallery shows members of her immediate family including her grandsons, Alex, Nils, Michael and Jack … See all stories on this topic » Video: Trick shot artist Geoff Swain teaches Ian Poulter a couple things Yahoo! Sports (blog) Ian Poulter doesn’t have to worry about quitting his day job anytime soon, but if he ever tires of doing over-the-top celebrations and sinking clutch putts, he has something to fall back on: trick shots. Trick shot artist Geoff Swain got together with … See all stories on this topic » DJ Spins Museum’s Attitude New York Times By the end of their walkabout, which hadn’t begun with an agenda, Ms. Tomer and Mr. Miller were sketching out ideas that he will explore in a yearlong artist residency at the Met that begins Friday with a screening of the 1956 South Korean film “Madame … See all stories on this topic » New York Times Artist’s eye sees our city in softer light Stockton Record Stockton artist Vanessa Hadady lists her home/gallery on Church Street, a half-block from Gleason Park in a neighborhood rife with drug trafficking and vagrants. Location, location, location. Potential buyers “hang up the phone when they find out where … See all stories on this topic » Jacques Barzun Dies at 104; Cultural Critic Saw the Sun Setting on the West New York Times Jacques Barzun, the distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history and came to see the West as sliding toward decadence, died Thursday night in San Antonio, where he lived. See all stories on this topic » New York Times Cultural historian, author Jacques Barzun dies The Associated Press By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer – 1 minute ago. Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in his 90s with the acclaimed “From Dawn to Decadence … See all stories on this topic » Londonderry’s City Of Culture Celebration: New Sam Shepard, And Seamus … Huffington Post LONDON — The Northern Ireland city of Londonderry has announced a program of arts events ranging from punk to painting to celebrate its role as the U.K.’s “city of culture” for 2013. The program announced Thursday includes a new play by U.S. writer … See all stories on this topic » Jacques Barzun, wide-ranging cultural historian, dies at 104 Washington Post Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian and administrator whose sheer breadth of scholarship — culminating in a survey of 500 years of Western civilization — brought him renown as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century, died … See all stories on this topic » Honey Badger arrested for drugs in Baton Rouge Examiner.com Celebrity News · lsu football · Pop Culture News. Advertisement. Former LSU football star Honey Badger, who’s real name is Tyrann Mathieu was arrested on Thursday, October 25 on drug related charges. TMZ reported today that the Baton Rouge Police … See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com ‘Hunger Games’: Parodies And Pop-Culture Call-Outs Aplenty MTV.com Well, it was only a matter of time. Unless you’ve been hiding out in District 13, you probably heard the news that “The Hunger Games” has won itself a parody in the form of the feature film “The Starving Games,” which will not only spoof the dystopian … See all stories on this topic » Rachel Martens column: Culture’s depiction of nuns needs to change Appleton Post Crescent “A Question of Habit” is a documentary that addresses a stereotype that has existed in the United States since the mid-20th century. This stereotype is that nuns, due to one popular image or another, can’t be taken seriously and their great … See all stories on this topic » Change in gun culture needed UW Badger Herald Following the tragic shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Democratic lawmakers said they plan to introduce legislation that would force people under restraining orders to prove they have given up their weapons. The current law requires people with … See all stories on this topic » Houston art gallery’s show of works by fugitive accused of vandalizing Picasso … Washington Post A Houston art gallery has raised the ire of the local art community by staging a show of works by a 22-year-old who’s been on the lam since being charged with spray-painting a Pablo Picasso painting. Despite the uproar, Cueto James Art Gallery owner … See all stories on this topic » Bonny Zanardi: Art workshop focuses on the garden San Jose Mercury News She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Maryland in College Park and also studied at the Art Students League in New York City, California Art Institute in Calabasas and at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, as … See all stories on this topic » Clowns learn the secrets and art of making people laugh during convention in … Fox News Clowns learn the secrets and art of making people laugh during convention in Mexico City. Published October 25, 2012. Associated Press. MEXICO CITY – Laughter was a serious matter at a clown convention in the Mexican capital, where hundreds of the … See all stories on this topic » Art Academy hosts photo-focused exhibits Cincinnati.com The Art Academy of Cincinnati and FOTOFOCUS host the first exhibition of Polaroids from Laurel Nakadate’s “Stay the Same Never Change” project, one of three photo ‘focused’ exhibits on display through Oct. 31. “The work is about the young female … See all stories on this topic » ‘Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles,’ at MoMA PS1 New York Times Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980,” an exhibition at MoMA PS1 about black artists who lived and worked in Los Angeles during a time of revolutionary changes in art and society. It is not specifically addressed by the exhibition, which was organized by … See all stories on this topic » New York Times Art Institute to use iPads to add to visitors’ experience Chicago Sun-Times The two men’s work — and the works of dozens of other artists — merge on Sunday when the Art Institute of Chicago rolls out LaunchPad, a series of iPads filled with custom information available throughout the Eloise W. Martin European Galleries of … See all stories on this topic » Salina Art Center names new executive director Salina Journal “Bill has a passion for the arts in our community and in our state,” Ebert said. “He believes in letting the Salina Art Center be a window to the rest of the world of what the arts in Kansas represent. He also relates well with our donors. 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Pubblicato : September 19, 2011 ( questo  capitolo e´tratto da 2Prosumerzen anno1.Cronache di un anno di guerra tra gli Stati Sovrani e i (nuovi) Poteri Forti Globali)

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A metà 2012 le previsioni sulla congiuntura tedesca hanno confermato quanto scritto in merito al fatto cha Berlino non possa fare a meno della EU.

La prestigiosissima rivista Foreign Affairs edita dal Council of Foreign Relations ha pubblicato nell´Ottobre 2012 un articolo del Professor Adam Tooze,( Co-director of International Security alla Yale University),che conferma nella sostanza quanto qui scritto un anno prima. L´articolo e´” Germany unsustainable growth” – FA Vol. 91/N.5 Sept-Oct 2012)

La deriva populista della Cancelliera Merkel iniziò il 15 ottobre 2010 quando di fronte al congresso dei giovani della CDU disse che il problema che blocca la Germania erano gli stranieri. Vi fu una standing ovation di non meno di 10 minuti. La frase ,molto imbarazzante se udita all´estero, poi non venne ripetuta nei servizi televisivi, ovvero fu trasmessa una volta sola. Si può capire l´imbarazzo se sentita all´estero dato che l´ultima volta che un cancelliere tedesco accusò un gruppo etnico-sociale di essere la causa dei mali Tedeschi si trattò di Hitler che accusava gli Ebrei.

Nel 2010 un sondaggio evidenziò che il 28% dei Tedeschi chiedeva soluzioni da destra estrema contro gli stranieri. Erano i mesi delle 20 edizioni in poche settimane del populistico e ridicolo libro dell´ex-portavoce della Bundesbank Sarazin. Populistico in quanto cavalcava questo sentimento. Ridicolo perché le statistiche usate dall´autore a dimostrare le sue tesi “semplicemente “ le contraddicevano. Ad esempio, in un capitolo di circa 40 pagine sul perché la presenza di stranieri nelle scuole riducesse le performance degli studenti tedeschi mostra una statistica a supporto. Peccato che poi quella stessa statistica dicesse che:

a) Le classi con più alta presenza di stranieri hanno delle performance superiori di quelle con minore presenza .

b) Presi singolarmente i gruppi di studenti stranieri hanno performance medie superiori dei tedeschi.

Il triste e´che milioni di lettori ,politici come il Presidente della Baviera Seehofer e legioni di commentatori non abbiamo saputo leggere queste statistiche che contraddicevano Sarazin.Stendiamo un velo pietoso sul fatto che quando l´autore ebbe la responsabilità delle finanze di Berlino il deficit cittadino esplose a livelli che in Grecia od in Italia i più perversi fautori del consociativismo in termini di spesa si sognano e lo stendiamo altrimenti diviene ancora più “triste” capire il successo di questo autore come opinionista.

Secondo Partick Gensing ,(il cui blog investigativo, http://www.npd-blog,info, ha vinto il Grimme Online Award), il partito di estrema destra NPD ,che siede in più di 200 città, promulga come nuova soluzione finale la deportazione dei circa 15 milioni di stranieri. Viene da chiedersi quando le autorità si decideranno sia a chiuderne il sito che a rendere il partito fuorilegge. Dobbiamo aspettare la parola “lager” al posto di “ deportierung” ,( = deportazione), ?

Nel 2011 in molte università Tedesche nei corsi di IT ,applicazioni Internet veniva detto che nel caso di opzioni cloud computing non ci si doveva fidare di società leader mondiali angloamericane, (tralasciamo che alcuni di questi docenti possano anche credere alla mitologia che queste società siano in mano al complotto globalizzante giudaico-massonico-plutocratico come pure alla leggenda metropolitana dei cultori delle teorie dei complotti universali che dice che-dopo una serie di complicate manovre degne di un iniziato ai massimi livelli in un romanzo di Don Brown – nel software excel si apra una schermata in cui compare il diavolo con il viso di B. Gates …).

In questo contesto la Cancelliera e gli strateghi della CDU hanno pensato di cavalcare il populismo in ottica elettorale .

Ma non bastava dire che gli unici che lavorano in Germania erano i Tedeschi e bisognava anche dire che gli unici che producono in Europa sono … i Tedeschi. Gli stranieri in Germania e gli Europei in EU possono avere il tenore di vita che hanno solo grazie ai laboriosi Tedeschi che lavorano e producono per tutti.

E così e´iniziato il populismo sull´euro ed il debito Greco che poi e´divenuto arroganza in Europa minacciando a destra ed a manca di andarsene se non si seguivano i diktat di Berlino e dando credito ad una teoria del XIX secondo cui se Berlino si allea con Mosca e domina la Siberia diventa padrona del mondo. L´alleanza Berlino-Mosca rende inutile la EU e rende le due nazioni invulnerabili verso gli USA.

L´arroganza e´una cosa la realtà un´altra.

Per smantellare la vuota retorica di quest´arroganza e populismo usiamo solo ed esclusivamente dati di origine governativa Tedesca .

Iniziamo dal debito Greco ed e´ora che iniziamo a parlare usando dati che sono a disposizione di tutti , solo a volerli usare.

Se si ha un debitore si ha un creditore ed e´colpa del creditore se si e´esposto in maniera incontrollabile con un debitore irresponsabile. Nessuno lo aveva obbligato. In pratica il problema del debito Greco e´innanzitutto un problema del sistema bancario tedesco e francese.

Secondo i risultati del report a seguito dello stress test sulle banche EU,(European Banking Authority, EBA 2011 EU-wide stress aggregate report,august 2011), le banche Francesi e Tedesche si sono pericolosamente super-esposte con Atene al punto da detenerne almeno il 20% del debito. Non lo hanno fatto certo per dare denaro a quelli che qualcuno ha definito come i Greci fannulloni che non lavorano e vogliono anche andare in pensione prima del cittadino Tedesco ma per finanziare investimenti che hanno garantito lucrosi affari al Made in France ed al Made in Germany. Se la “mamma di tutti i debiti” sono gli investimenti per le Olimpiadi e´bene ,allora, andare a vedere, per esempio, chi abbia costruito l´infrastruttura telefonica Greca e con chi si e´indebitata Atene per pagare questi lavori che hanno prodotto occupazione anche nelle fabbrica dei produttori in Francia ed in Germania per non parlare delle super pagate carriere dei menzionati banchieri.

Questo e´quanto accaduto ed il problema Greco non e´un problema Europeo nel senso che l´euro e´a rischio di estinzione ma e´un problema Europeo nel senso che nessuno si possa permettere che una o due importanti banche Francesi e Tedesche entrino in default magari in contemporanea.

Se la Cancelliera Merkel avesse detto questo e si fosse poi sanzionato i manager che hanno in maniera cosi irresponsabile concesso crediti le cose sarebbero andate diversamente e si sarebbe dato meno fianco alla speculazione.

Ovviamente la critica e´estendibile anche al Presidente Sarkozy ed ai suoi calcoli politici per le presidenziali 2012.

Ma questo avrebbe tolto argomenti alla retorica che e´divenuta arroganza in merito al ruolo di Berlino in Europa.

Fin da subito era chiaro che Berlino non aveva la forza finanziaria che si vantava di avere avendo dovuto correre a chiedere aiuto al Fondo Monetario Internazionale.

In merito poi al fatto che Berlino sia indispensabile per ogni politica estera almeno tre eventi hanno ridimensionato questa presunzione :

1) Francia ed Inghilterra nel novembre 2010 hanno stretto una patto militare speciale che ridimensiona e non poco ogni ruolo di Berlino,il cui esercito per inciso e´inferiore a quello della Turchia.

2) Sotto la guida della Polonia il V4 ha creato nella primavera 2011 il primo battle group operativo in Europea e lo ha fatto come struttura indipendente sia dalla NATO che dalla EU che come chiaro segnale politico sia verso Mosca che verso Berlino.

3) La guerra in Libia ha dimostrato che sia la EU che la NATO vanno avanti senza il placet di Berlino

Partendo da quest´ultimo dato si rileva che i destini dell´Europa passano da Parigi e non da Berlino.

A Parigi si va per le soluzioni politiche relative alla politica estera,(leggi la guerra in Libia),come pure per quelle economiche, (leggi la crisi del debito Greco).

Per quanto poi concerne la minaccia di lasciare l´Europa la logica del mercato dice ben altro e lo dice con dati di origine Tedesca sull´import/export, (Aubenhandel 2010, 10.03.2011 http://www.destatis.de).

Leggendo le statistiche in merito ai mercati per l´export tedesco si vede che:

- Il 1. Mercato al mondo per il Made in Germany e´la Francia

- Gli USA sono il 4. e con una differenza di solo un miliardo di euro l´Italia e´il 5.

- La Cina e´il 7. mercato dopo l´Austria e con solo 9 miliardi di euro di differenza con l´8. che e´il Belgio.

- La Russia e´il 13. mercato dopo la Rep. Ceca,(12), e la Spagna , (11)

- L´indebitata Grecia èun mercato migliore,(33),delle ricchissime Arabia Saudita,(35), ed Hong Kong ,(37)

- il Portogallo  èil mercato n. 24 al mondo mentre Hong Kong e´il n. 37. il S. Africa il n. 26 ed i mitici Emirati Arabi con la leggendaria Dubai sono il n. 27

- Nei primi 20 mercati al mondo troviamo 12 paesi EU e non si trova la superpotenza India

- I mercati del descritto nuovo asse del potere mondiale ,ovvero i BRICS, sono Cina,(7),Russia,(13),Brasile,(19),India ,(21),S. Africa,(26), come elemento di paragone il Belgio e´il mercato n.8

- Le cose assumono una dimensione ancora più EU-centrica quando si analizza quali siano i primi 20 paesi fornitori di prodotti di cui Berlino ha bisogno per il proprio sviluppo. Se la Cina e´il 1. fornitore l´Italia e´il 4. … Di questi 13 paesi sono EU ed i non EU sono in ordine Cina (1),USA (3),CH (8),Russia (10),Giappone (13),Turchia (17) ,S. Korea (20)

In altre parole questi dati del governo Tedesco ci dicono che quando in una lista di 20 si ha che 12 dei maggiori mercati e 13 dei maggiori fornitori al mondo sono EU e´difficile pensare che Berlino possa fare a meno della EU e che Cina e Russia, BRICS sostituiscano con un mercato eguale se non più grande. Viene da chiedersi quali dati abbia letto la Cancelliera.

Se a questi dati si unisce che  èdato come accettato che se la Germania uscisse dall´euro il neo-marco sarebbe rivalutato di non meno del 30% vediamo quanto il chiedersi se Berlino abbia veramente o meno bisogno della EU sia solo vuota arroganza diplomatica ad uso e consumo del populismo elettorale interno.

Infine secondo il Bundeministerium der Finanzen,(aprile 2010) :

- Il livello deficit/surplus e´80.8% per l´Italia ,79.4% per la Germania,32.3% per la Grecia

- Il livello deficit/surplus in rapporto al PIL e´5.3% Italia, 3.3% Germania, 13.6% Grecia

Sfortunatamente il non aver impostato un serio set di soluzioni politiche partendo da questi dati reali,(e come detto anche il Presidente Sarkozy ha la sua responsabilità in quanto concentrato per le presidenziali 2012),ha ottenuto di rinforzare il populismo ,(anche xenofobo),e la speculazione.

Aver usato questi dati come sono avrebbe tolto alla speculazione ogni possibile spazio di manovra consentendo di preservare le ricchezze di milioni di risparmiatori,(e scusate se questo può sembrare populismo).

Fatto e´che arroganza e populismo sembrano non pagare elettoralmente. Cancelliera Merkel ora che ha perso le sue elezioni cordialmente la preghiamo di pensare ai risparmi di milioni di Tedeschi come pure a quelli di milioni di Europei che poi comprano anche il Made in Germany e cosi si evitano disoccupati in Germania e per farlo di riflettere sui dati che seri e qualificati professionisti Tedeschi elaborano per il suo governo… Danke !

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Beirut, 18 luglio 2012

Il Bombardier Challanger 850 stava dirigendosi verso la sezione per i jet privati. Registrato a nome di una dozzina di società facenti capo a non meno di tre trust sparsi in altrettanti centri offshore in giro per il mondo era “il giocattolo”, come lo definiva lui, che Tom Anderson usava per girare per il mondo. Tom era seduto in fondo, da solo, ad occhi chiusi assaporando le note di Mendelson quando una hostess si avvicinò

-Dottor Anderson siamo arrivati –sorridendo

Tom aprì gli occhi – grazie – guardò fuori mentre entravano nell´hangar e si alzò. Prese la valigetta in pelle di Prada e dopo essersi infilato la giacca si diresse verso lo sportello dove altre persone del suo team lo attendevano.

Lo spörtello fu aperto

-Andiamo

Due uomini della sua scorta, professionisti della società di Matthew Simpson, uscirono per primi. Uno scese le scale e dopo essersi guardato intorno fece un cenno al collega rimasto sulla scaletta. Questo a sua volta rivolto a Tom

-Dottor Anderson, prego

Tom uscì con il resto del suo team ed iniziò a scendere sorridendo a chi lo attendeva.

Hamed Al-Rashid, la mente finanziaria degli Hizbollah, era venuto a prenederlo di persona.

Hamed –allargando le braccia giunto a terra

Tom – abbracciandolo- che bello rivederti

-Anche per me mio caro amico ed ho notizie che ti faranno felice

-Benissimo, andiamo – indicando un´Audi Q7 blindata

Salirono su diverse Audi Q7 blindate dello stesso colore ed il corteo si diresse ad alta velocità fuori dall´aeroporto verso una villa nella periferia della città.

Sul SUV di Hamed è salito solo Tom ed un vetro rendeva insonorizzato l´abitacolo in modo che l´autista e l´uomo della scorta davanti non potevano sentire.

-          Puoi parlare Tom , il Mossad non arriva qui

-          Benissimo Hamed –sorridendo- come ti dissi buone notizie. Il Reverendo Grooney ha accettato il nostro piano e ci garantisce appoggi all´interno di gruppi di potere importanti negli USA

Hamed annuiva

-          Come avevamo pianificato il candidato Repubblicano ed il suo staff non sapranno mai di questo

-          Si , meglio cosi´

-          Aponte

-          Appena mi hai chiamato usando nel nostro discorso la parola concordata per informarmi che  tutto era stato accettato ho immediatamente contattato chi dovevo e li troverai ad aspettarci

Tom annuiva

-          Anche loro sono motivati ed attendono di iniziare

-          Noi in America siamo pronti e nei prossimi giorni inizieranno a girare il film

-          Bene, quello che stiamo facendo non ha precedenti –Hamed -e dopo il mondo sarà diverso

-          Si Hamed,diverso. Questa guerra iniziò così tanto tempo fa che è impossibile darne una data. Ed ,ormai, non ha più nulla a che vedere con idee o fedi e neanche con etnie o culture

-          Hai ragione Tom – lo interrompeva Hamed – ha a che vedere solo con il potere nelle sue  varie forme nel tempo e nello spazio

-          E noi siamo una di quelle forme. Noi apparteniamo alla punta di diamante che ha  la forza e la voglia di prendersi quel potere che gli spetta. Ci chiamano in tanti modi da  sub national powers a non state actors ma alla fine siamo solo potere che vuole essere riconosciuto come tale per …

-          … per aver altro potere – sorrideva Hamed

Il corteo era arrivato al fondo del viale che portava alla villa e le porte del garage sotterraneo erano aperte

-          Troppi droni- Hamed ,indicando il cielo con un dito- per uscire all´aperto

Le macchine parcheggiavano nel garage sotterraneo e gli occupanti scesero per dirigersi verso due ascensori.

Le porte degli ascensori si aprirono in un ingresso illuminato dal sole. La villa era stata costruita ad inizio secolo da un mercante Olandese ma da anni era di proprietà di una delle società della galassia economica che  costituiva il braccio finanziario degli Hizbollah.

Le persone si diressero verso uno dei saloni e le porte si chiusero dietro di ,loro.

All´interno del salone una decina tra uomini era in attesa. Uno di loro si alzò per dirigersi verso Hamed e Tom.

-          Hamed, grazie per l´ospitalità a nome di tutti noi. Tom, carissimo,spero che tu abbia fatto un buon viaggio

L´uomo era lo Sceicco  Hasina Al Khaja ed era membro del consiglio di sorveglianza del Fondo Sovrano dell´Arabia Saudita oltreché l´uomo di fiducia per gli investimenti di diverse personalità chiave dell´Arabian Peninsula. Un uomo sulla sessantina,elegante ,in un completo grigio perla di Ermenegildo Zegna, che aveva studiato a Cambridge ed alla Sorbonne.

Sceicco Al Khaja – Tom – è un onore rivederla

-Il piacere è mio e so che ci porti ottime notizie

Si – Tom scrutando negli occhi il rabbino ultra-ortodosso Samuel Yovel

Rabbino Yovel – Hamed, cogliendo lo sguardo di Tom e dirigendosi verso il rabbino

Dottor Al Rashid – il piacere è mio- il rabbino alzandosi- perché siamo qui per allearci contro dei senza Dio

I due si strinsero la mano e poi il rabbino si rivolse a Tom

Dottor Anderson che bello rivederla qui questo significa che le mie preghiere si sono avverate –porgendo la mano a Tom

-Rabbino Yovel  l´onore è mio e le mando i saluti del Reverendo Grooney

Il rabbino annuiva e poi indicava di sedersi.

Tom e gli altri si sedettero

Come sapete- Hamed – Tom ha  avuto luce verde dai gruppi di potere negli USA legati al Reverendo Grooney e quindi siamo qui  per rivedere gli step operativi che dovranno realizzare l´Operazione Blasfemia – sorrideva nel pronunciare quella parola- ma prego Tom aggiornaci

-Grazie Hamed –Tom con un tono tranquillo- l´appoggio del Reverendo Grooney ci garantisce quello di poteri forti negli USA  e non solo visto le loro ramificazioni. Poteri che sono sia all´interno delle burocrazie degli state actors che in quelle dei non state actors che di questi sono ramificazioni ,ovvero le  varie organizzazioni internazionali dalla NATO alla EU od alla Asian Development Bank come pure la World Bank o la WTO. Senza trascurare, ovviamente, le ramificazioni in non state actors come quelli che noi rappresentiamo e che hanno un interesse comune

- certamente – il rabbino Yovel – e questo ci consente di avere un appoggio influente nelle due dimensioni che contano. Quella dei governi e dei  non state actors di loro emanazione ma anche in quella dei non state actors come noi. Ovvero dimensioni che coi governi hanno poco a che vedere ma che sono potentissime come holistic organizations nel mondo delle religioni o,come lei e lo sceicco, in quello della economia finanziaria reale,corretto Tom ?

- si Rabbino Yovel ,corretto ed ha colto il punto chiave. L ´Operazione Blasfemia è la prima  nel suo genere al mondo se si considera sia la trasversalità dei soggetti politici- marcando la parola nel pronunciarla- che il livello delle persone coinvolte. Questi poteri hanno in comune una visione del mondo dove non vi è spazio per i deliri del relativismo culturale ma che pensano ad un mondo dove Dio sia dominante e dove ogni persona ritrovi la gioia della serenità psicologica e spirituale del medioevo quando la coscienza del proprio ruolo nella scala sociale e ,soprattutto, di quello che si poteva chiedere portava ad una armonia sociale custodita dalle varie religioni

-si, Tom – il rabbino- a quei tempi le persone non avevano bisogno di Freud o dello yoga  e non sapevano cosa significasse la parola stress. Venivano da noi e da noi avevano le risposte. Accettavano il loro posto nella piramide sociale ed accontentandosi erano felici. Altri,illuminati,badavano a loro avendo la capacità di divulgare la Parola. Qualunque essa sia- rivolto ai Mussulmani Sunniti e Sciiti nella sala.

-Certamente Rabbino – Suliman Al Abbar, un imam sulla cinquantina tra le menti ideologiche degli Hizbollah e rettore di un madras, una scuola, importante in Libano – ha ragione. In quell´era d´oro di civiltà le fedi avevano raggiunto la massima espansione che le armi per cui combattevano avevano consentito ed ora i più illuminati tra di noi lo hanno capito. Ed i più illuminati sono quelli che questo mondo laico denigra come estremisti,fanatici … .ultra-ortodossi- sorridendo al rabbino- non capendo invece che noi siamo i soli custodi della purezza della fede e della liturgia. Noi per gli Sciiti , i Wahabiti per i Sunniti dal XVII secolo,i new born del Reverendo Grooney nel mondo della Riforma ed in quello Cattolico realtà come quelle che il Cardinale Lefevre aveva creato ed ,ovviamente , voi nel mondo Ebraico.

Il Rabbino annuiva

E noi- continuava l´imam- abbiamo capito la grande lezione della storia. Ovvero che non è un caso che le religioni si siano fermate dove le armi si sono fermate. Abbiamo,quindi,capito che il nostro compito è di essere uniti nel volere un mondo dove una elite ,noi, domina all´interno di aree geografiche ben definite ma mossa dal comune sforzo di educare le masse ad accettare una piramide sociale- virgoletta con le  mani- dove ognuno è conscio del proprio immutabile posto e quindi felice perché si accontenta.

Si- il Rabbino Yovel – Imam Al Abbar come nel medioevo e non è un caso che tra le 60 maggiori organizzazioni armate che lottano contro questo ordine mondiale e che sono descritte come – virgoletta con le dita – terroristiche la maggior parte siano a fondamento religioso e di tutte le religioni

Certo- l´imam- non è un caso .È un segnale della volontà divina e non può essere altrimenti. Solo questi depravati laici,senza rispetto per la volontà divina e persi nella solitudine del loro delirio individualista possono definire come terrorista chi combatte per il ritorno del Supremo. Un ritorno in forme e con nomi diversi ma  altro non può essere perché solo la ristretta elite a cui noi apparteniamo ha capito che questo è strumentale al fatto che le masse non possano capire il disegno universale perché perdute nella loro ottusa mediocrità e quindi in ogni luogo noi ci dobbiamo chiamare in modo diverso. Sta a noi guidarle nelle nebbie della loro inevitabile ottusa ignoranza -sorrideva,convinto dell´assoluto fondamento di quanto aveva appena finito di dire.

I presenti annuivano

Grazie Imam Al Abbar per le sue parole ispiratrici-riprendeva Tom- che mi renderanno più facile introdurre il tutto´Operazione Blasfemia è finalizzata ad indebolire Obama nella fase finale delle elezioni. Il candidato Romney come pure i suoi collaboratori più stretti ed il vertice del partito Repubblicano non ne sono informati ma  questo è irrilevante. Irrilevante dato che  sia la nostra infiltrazione  nelle strutture di potere reale delle burocrazie nazionali ed internazionali come pure il potere che abbiamo con non state actors ci consentono di andare avanti senza di loro

-          Un utile idiota insomma – sorrideva Hamed

-          Hamed – ironicamente Tom – un po´di rispetto stiamo parlando del prossimo Presidente degli USA

I presenti nella stanza sorrisero a conferma del commento di Hamed

-          L´azione- Tom riprendeva a parlare- è rapida e la preparazione è semplice. Il punto chiave è scatenare la reazione e qui- guardando negli occhi i presenti- abbiamo predisposto ogni possibile azione che farà un uso eccezionale  di internet – si interrompeva- Un uso che ne  evidenzierà anche I limiti per gli osservatori più attenti

-          Ovvero ? – il rabbino

-          Internet in sé per sè non conta molto e sicuramente molto meno della mitologia che si è creato intorno. Ne abbiamo una serie di esempi.

-          -Spiegati meglio- lo sceicco

-           Vede caro Sceicco Internet è uno strumento come altri ed è formidabile a saperlo usare bene ma non è da sopravvalutarsi e, soprattutto, si deve evitare di usarlo nel modo sbagliato. Le farò quattro esempi per spiegarmi. Esempi che venendo da diverse realtà sono una conferma. Il primo esempio è l´Egitto.Tutti conosciamo e nessuno nega l´importanza dei social network nella prima fase della rivoluzione. Diciamo fino al dimissionamento di Mubarak ma tutti tendiamo a dimenticare un fattore importante che se fosse stato compreso avrebbe subito reso chiaro il limite di Facebook e di Twitter

-          -Ti riferisci al fatto che  fu ,in quella fase, una rivoluzione eminentemente urbana e nella fattispecie  solo in due  città,ovvero il Cairo ed Alessandria

-          – Sì, Hamed – Tom – è questo il punto chiave da cui partire. Nella fase successiva,ovvero quella  che portava alla elezioni in Egitto ed in Occidente in troppi hanno creduto che bastassero i tweets ed i profile Facebook quando invece  contava solo e soltanto il radicamento sul territorio. Ovvero un chilo di farina e di fagioli vale più di diecimila tweets – sorridendo

-          Chiaro- interrompeva il rabbino- e logico. Intende dire che  se invece di giocare nel cyberspace  avessero organizzato una mobilitazione nelle strade  andando a dare alle persone  quello che  serviva …

-          -come hanno fatto I Fratelli Mussulmani – Tom interrompendolo- ed hanno vinto. Mentre in occidente si filosofeggiava sulla e-democracy e mentre  in Egitto tanti attivisti si sentivano elite illuminata capace di muovere le masse ad ogni post in rete i Fratelli Mussulmani usavano il loro radicamento nel sociale e la loro forza economica per  dare assistenza sanitaria o farina … ed hanno vinto.

-          Si ma l´Egitto era una realtà particolare – lo sceicco

-          -ne siamo così sicuri ?- Tom – mi lasci elencare gli altri esempi. La Russia dove tutti sappiamo che  i tweets di Mosca e San Pietroburgo non incidono il consenso di Putin nel paese e, cosa ancora più tragica, non esprimono le cause non urbane  del dissenso esistente.

-          – Vero- Hamed

-          – E la Grecia ? L´Italia ? – continuava Tom – in Grecia ,al pari dell´Egitto, un partito , in questo caso di estrema destra, ha ottenuto consensi elettorali e guadagnato 12 deputati non con i profile in Facebook ma mandando gente per le strade a pattugliare dove la criminalità degli stranieri creava un problema  come pure a distribuire cibo e medicinali a persone che non potevano pagarseli. Ed in Italia, dicevo, abbiamo un altro esempio in un altro contesto. Tutti conoscete il Partito Pirata.

I presenti annuivano

-          Bene è in Italia dal 2006 e non stanno combinando nulla nonostante siano tutti dei maghi della rete ma  allo stesso tempo in Italia un movimento politico basato sulla rete ha  avuto un successo enorme nelle ultime  elezioni amministrative. Come è possibile?

-Come? – lo sceicco

-Semplicemente perché questo movimento ruota intorno ad un personaggio noto in Italia che ne fa da volano mentre il Partito Pirata Italiano non ha nessuna figura mediatica equivalente

- Quindi non è la rete ma questo personaggio che fa la differenza per i due partiti che usano Internet per avere consenso politico?- il rabbino

-si Rabbino Yovel e su questa comprensione dell´Effettivo valore  della rete che  consideriamo indispensabile che  il grosso sia fatto nelle strade. La rete sarà il detonatore ma se  non  vi saranno I  vostri radicamenti sociali a fornire massa critica alla esplosione  non accadrà nullla

- Non è un problema- annuendo l´imam- perché attiveremo le nostre strutture  come casse di risonanza per questo trailer in modo che l´effetto sia il più dirompente possibile anche se questo comporterà violenza e morte.

Tom osservava l´imam dritto negli occhi- si morte e distruzione

Il silenzio calava sulla sala e dopo alcuni minuti il rabbino

-          Un prezzo inevitabile

-          Si-Hamed con un tono che faceva intendere di andare oltre per quello che  tutto sommato riteneva un dettaglio, ovvero la morte di persone innocenti- ma Tom prego continua

-          Grazie Hamed- contento che  questa dimensione  rimanesse ipocriticamente sullo sfondo- i disordini in giro per il mondo saranno accompagnati da azioni sul territorio USA che  aumenteranno la sensazione di paura

-          Che azioni?- il rabbino

-          Non temete, non ci saranno attentati o disordini ma solo azioni che genereranno una psicosi di paura sulle immagini dei disordini. Nel pratico minacce a luoghi pubblici per attentati che poi si riveleranno inesistenti ma  che  coi breakingnews di radio,televisioni ed RSS genereranno il ricordo di 9/11 e con esso paura … insicurezza … sfiducia

-          – sfiducia in Obama

-          -si – sorrideva Tom- e… bingo

Tom finiva di parlare attendendo che gli altri nella sala commentassero

-          I nostri contatti a Teheran – Hamed – ci hanno assicurato una piena  copertura degli eventi e l´idonea propaganda mediante il loro canale televisivo internazionale Press TV

-          Una domanda – il rabbino

-          Rabbino Yovel ?-Tom

-          – da lì a poco il Papa sarà in Libano …

-          -non vi sarà alcuna manifestazione od altro fino a che il Papa sarà qui- Hamed – sarebbe un boomerang .Anzi ,e non sarebbe la prima volta, anche noi parteciperemo nel garantire la sua sicurezza.

-          -per una ragione simile – Tom – non vi saranno neanche ripercussioni sui mercati finanziari oltreché per motivi di sicurezza per noi

-          – effettivamente- sorrideva lo sceicco- se qualcuno iniziasse a giocare al ribasso … beh sarebbe come lasciare una firma

-          -esatto – Tom – la nostra sarà una prova di forza  che  verrà capita al tempo debito dai veri global players di questo pianeta e tanto più saremo rapidi e chirurgici – virgolettava con le dita- tanto più il nostro potere rispetto ad altri gruppi di potere mondiale si rafforzerà

-          Inshallah – l´imam

-          -si ,Dio vorrà questo -il rabbino- da parte nostra,come concordato, salterà fuori una serie di offese e nessuna smentita al fatto che la persona che  sarà indicata come il finanziatore sia un ebreo ultraortodosso.

-          Bene- Hamed – esattamente quello che serve a noi per –sorrideva -accusarvi ulteriormente ed aizzare ancora di più il fuoco

-          – le persone che ho coinvolto – lo sceicco- faranno pressione sulle autorità Wahabite che  finanziano perché si esprimano contro il trailer e che lo facciano in modo da incendiare gli animi

-          – e noi svilupperemo una accorta  campagna mediatica- Tom – dove da un lato otterremo il controllo di danni collaterali rispetto all´Islam grazie alle dichiarazione di importantissimi intellettuali e teologi che  sono sul libro paga di una società di comunicazione che è coinvolta in questa operazione. Allo stesso tempo creeremo nel mondo Islamico una sensazione di insoddisfazione con una serie di commenti di un numero di intellettuali non meno prestigiosi che difenderanno la libertà di  parola che da noi fa giudicare il film come satira di bassissimo livello mentre per i Mussulmani è blasfemia

-          -e questo renderà di fatto impossibile una soluzione e le cose  andranno avanti nel modo e per i tempi che vogliamo noi- Hamed

Tom annuiva

-          Tom – il rabbino- ringraziamo Dio che ti ha  dato l´abilità che hai per pensare questo piano

-          Si alzava dalla poltrona per abbracciarlo. L´Iman lo seguiva

-          Grazie – Tom

-          Ora è bene se ci dividiamo – Hamed – possiamo giocare con il Mossad ma abbiamo i nostri limiti

-          Si ,certo- il rabbino- dato che –con ironia – per loro sono terroristi dal 2011 alcuni  nostri  fratelli

Hamed indicava la porta e le persone nella sala iniziavano ad uscire.

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.

The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.

Biography

Early Life

John Keats was born on 31 October 1795 to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. Keats and his family seemed to have marked his birthday on 29 October, however baptism records give the birth date as the 31st. He was the eldest of four surviving children; George (1797–1841), Thomas (1799–1818) and Frances Mary “Fanny” (1803–1889). Another son was lost in infancy. John was born in central London although there is no clear evidence of the exact location. His father first worked as a hostler at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop inn, an establishment he later managed and where the growing family lived for some years. Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support this. The Keats at the Globe pub now occupies the site, a few yards from modern day Moorgate station. He was baptised at St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate and sent to a local dame school as a child.

His parents were unable to afford Eton or Harrow, so in the summer of 1803 he was sent to board at John Clarke’s school in Enfield, close to his grandparents’ house. The small school had a liberal, progressive outlook and a progressive curriculum more modern than the larger, more prestigious schools. In the family atmosphere at Clarke’s, Keats developed an interest in classics and history which would stay with him throughout his short life. The headmaster’s son, Charles Cowden Clarke, would become an important influence, mentor and friend, introducing Keats to Renaissance literature including Tasso, Spenser and Chapman’s translations. Keats is described as a volatile character “always in extremes”, given to indolence and fighting. However at 13 he began focusing his energy towards reading and study, winning his first academic prize in midsummer 1809.

In April 1804, when Keats was eight, his father died after fracturing his skull falling from his horse when returning from visiting John and his brother George at the school. Thomas died intestate. Frances remarried two months later, but left her new husband soon afterwards, and the four children went to live with their grandmother, Alice Jennings, in the village of Edmonton. In March 1810, when Keats was 14, his mother died of tuberculosis leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother. She appointed two guardians, Richard Abbey and John Sandell, to take care of them. That autumn, Keats left Clarke’s school to apprentice with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary, neighbour and doctor of the Jennings family, and lodged in the attic above the surgery at 7 Church Street until 1813. Cowden Clarke, who remained a close friend of Keats, described this as “the most placid time in Keats’s life”.

Early Career

From 1814 Keats had two bequests held in trust for him until his 21st birthday: £800 willed by his grandfather John Jennings (about £34,000 in today’s money) and a portion of his mother’s legacy, £8000 (about £340,000 today), to be equally divided between her living children. It seems he was not told of either, since he never applied for any of the money. Historically, blame has often been laid on Abbey as legal guardian, but he may well have also been unaware. William Walton, solicitor for Keats’s mother and grandmother, definitely did know and had a duty of care to relay the information to Keats. It seems he did not. The money would have made a critical difference to the poet’s expectations. Money was always a great concern and difficulty for him, as he struggled to stay out of debt and make his way in the world independently.
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise —
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

“”
The sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
October 1816

Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, Keats registered as a medical student at Guy’s Hospital (now part of King’s College London) and began there in October 1815. Within a month of starting, he was accepted as a dresser at the hospital, assisting surgeons during operations, the equivalent of a junior house surgeon today. It was a significant promotion marking a distinct aptitude for medicine, the position bringing increased responsibility and workload. His long and expensive medical training with Hammond and at Guy’s Hospital led his family to assume this would be his lifelong career, assuring financial security, and it seems that at this point Keats had a genuine desire to become a doctor. Keats lodged near the hospital at 28 St Thomas’s Street in Southwark, with other medical students.

Keats’s training took up increasing amounts of his writing time and he felt increasingly ambivalent about his medical career. He felt presented with a stark choice. Keats’s first surviving poem, An Imitation of Spenser, had been written in 1814, when Keats was 19. Now, strongly drawn by ambition, inspired by fellow poets such as Leigh Hunt and Byron, and beleaguered by family financial crises, he suffered periods of depression. His brother George wrote that John “feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself”. In 1816, Keats received his apothecary’s licence which made him eligible to practise as an apothecary, physician and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced to his guardian that he had resolved to be a poet, not a surgeon.

Though he continued his work and training at Guy’s, Keats was devoting increasing time to the study of literature, experimenting with verse forms, particularly at this time sonnets. In May 1816, Leigh Hunt agreed to publish the sonnet O Solitude in his magazine The Examiner, a leading liberal magazine of the day. It is the first appearance of Keats’s poems in print and Charles Cowden Clarke refers to it as his friend’s red letter day, first proof that Keats’s ambitions were valid. In the summer of that year he went with Clarke to the seaside town of Margate to write. There he began Calidore and initiated the era of his great letter writing. On his return to London he took lodgings at 8 Dean Street, Southwark and braced himself for further study in order to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

In October, Clarke introduced Keats to the influential Hunt, a close friend of Byron and Shelley. Five months later Poems, the first volume of Keats verse, was published, which included “I stood tiptoe” and “Sleep and Poetry”, both poems strongly influenced by Hunt. It was a critical failure, arousing little interest, although Reynolds reviewed it favourably in The Champion. Clarke commented that the book “might have emerged in Timbuctoo”. Keats’s publishers, Charles and James Ollier, felt ashamed of the book. Keats immediately changed publishers to Taylor and Hessey on Fleet Street. Unlike Olliers, Keats’s new publishers were enthusiastic about his work. Within a month of the publication of Poems they were planning a new Keats volume and had paid him an advance. Hessey became a steady friend to Keats and made the company’s rooms available for young writers to meet. Their publishing lists would come to include Coleridge, Hazlitt, Clare, Hogg, Carlyle and Lamb.

At Taylor and Hessey Keats met their Eton-educated lawyer Richard Woodhouse. Woodhouse, who advised the publishers on literary as well as legal matters, was deeply impressed by Poems. Though he noted that Keats could be “wayward, trembling, easily daunted”, Woodhouse was convinced of Keats’s genius, a poet to support as he became one of England’s greatest writers. Soon after they met, the two became close friends and Woodhouse started to collect Keatsiana, documenting as much as he could about Keats’s poetry, an archive that survives as one of the main sources of information on Keats’s work.Motion casts him as Boswell to Keats’ Johnson, ceaselessly promoting the writer’s work, fighting his corner, spurring his poetry on to greater heights. At the end, Woodhouse would be one of the few people to accompany Keats to Gravesend to embark on his final trip to Rome.

In spite of the bad reviews of Poems, Hunt published the essay Three Young Poets (Shelley, Keats and Reynolds) and the sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, foreseeing great things to come. He introduced Keats to many prominent men in his circle, including editor of The Times Thomas Barnes, writer Charles Lamb, conductor Vincent Novello and poet John Hamilton Reynolds, who would become a close friend. He was also meeting William Hazlitt regularly, a powerful literary figure of the day. It was a decisive turning point for Keats, establishing him in the public eye as a figure in, what Hunt termed ‘a new school of poetry’. At this time Keats wrote to his friend Bailey: “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination. What imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth”. This would eventually transmute into the concluding lines of Ode on a Grecian Urn: “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ – that is all / you know on earth, and all ye need to know”. In early December, under the heady influence of his artistic friends, Keats told Abbey that he had decided to give up medicine in favour of poetry, to Abbey’s fury. Keats had spent a great deal on his medical training and had made several large loans that he could ill afford.

Having left his training at the hospital, suffering from a succession of colds, and unhappy with living in damp rooms in London, Keats moved with his brothers into rooms at 1 Well Walk in the village of Hampstead in April 1817. Both John and George nursed their brother Tom, who was suffering from tuberculosis. The house was close to Hunt and others from his circle in Hampstead, as well as to Coleridge, respected elder of the first wave of Romantic poets, Around this time he was introduced to Charles Wentworth Dilke, James Rice and Benjamin Bailey.

In June 1818, Keats began a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland and the Lake District with his friend Charles Armitage Brown. Keats’ brother George and his wife Georgina accompanied them as far as Lancaster and then continued to Liverpool, from where the couple would emigrate to America. They lived in Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky until 1841 when George’s investments failed. Like Keats’ other brother, they died penniless and racked by tuberculosis. There would be no effective treatment for the disease until 1921. In July, while on the Isle of Mull, Keats caught a bad cold and “was too thin and fevered to proceed on the journey”. After his return south in August, Keats continued to nurse Tom, exposing himself to infection. Some biographers suggest that this is when tuberculosis, his “family disease”, first took hold. Tom Keats died on 1 December 1818.

Wentworth Place

John Keats moved to the newly built Wentworth Place, owned by his friend Charles Armitage Brown. It was also on the edge of Hampstead Heath, ten minutes walk south of his old home in Well Walk. The winter of 1818–19, though a difficult period for the poet, marked the beginning of his annus mirabilis in which he wrote his most mature work. He had been inspired by a series of recent lectures by Hazlitt on English poets and poetic identity and had also metWordsworth. Keats may have seemed to his friends to be living on comfortable means, but in reality he was borrowing regularly from Abbey and his friends.

He composed five of his six great odes at Wentworth Place in April and May and, although it is debated in which order they were written, “Ode to Psyche” opened the published series. According to Brown, “Ode to a Nightingale” was composed under a plum tree in the garden. Brown wrote, “In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. When he came into the house, I perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. On inquiry, I found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feelings on the song of our nightingale.” Dilke, co-owner of the house, strenuously denied the story, printed in Milnes’ 1848 biography of Keats, dismissing it as pure delusion.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

“”
First stanza of “Ode to a Nightingale”,
May 1819

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode on Melancholy” were inspired by sonnet forms and probably written after “Ode to a Nightingale”. Keats’s new and progressive publishers Taylor and Hessey issued Endymion, which Keats dedicated to Thomas Chatterton, a work that he termed “a trial of my Powers of Imagination”. It was damned by the critics, giving rise to Byron’s quip that Keats was ultimately “snuffed out by an article”, suggesting that he never truly got over it. A particularly harsh review by John Wilson Croker appeared in the April 1818 edition of The Quarterly Review. ” John Gibson Lockhart writing in Blackwood’s Magazine, described Endymion as “imperturbable drivelling idiocy”. With biting sarcasm, Lockhart advised, “It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes “. It was Lockhart at Blackwoods who coined the defamatory term “the Cockney School” for Hunt and his circle, which included both Hazlitt and Keats. The dismissal was as much political as literary, aimed at upstart young writers deemed uncouth for their lack of education, non-formal rhyming and “low diction”. They had not attended Eton, Harrow or Oxbridge and they were not from the upper classes.

In 1819, Keats wrote The Eve of St. Agnes, “La Belle Dame sans Merci”, Hyperion, Lamia and Otho (critically damned and not dramatised until 1950). The poems “Fancy” and “Bards of passion and of mirth” were inspired by the garden of Wentworth Place. In September, very short of money and in despair considering taking up journalism or a post as a ship’s surgeon, he approached his publishers with a new book of poems.They were unimpressed with the collection, finding the presented versions of “Lamia” confusing, and describing “St Agnes” as having a “sense of pettish disgust” and “a ‘Don Juan’ style of mingling up sentiment and sneering” concluding it was “a poem unfit for ladies”. The final volume Keats lived to see, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, was eventually published in July 1820. It received greater acclaim than had Endymion or Poems, finding favourable notices in both The Examiner and Edinburgh Review. It would come to be recognised as one of the most important poetic works ever published.

Wentworth Place now houses the Keats House museum.

Isabella Jones and Fanny Brawne

Keats befriended Isabella Jones in May 1817, while on holiday in the village of Bo Peep, near Hastings. She is described as beautiful, talented and widely read, not of the top flight of society yet financially secure, an enigmatic figure who would become a part of Keats’s circle.Throughout their friendship Keats never hesitates to own his sexual attraction to her, although they seem to enjoy circling each other rather than offering commitment. He writes that he “frequented her rooms” in the winter of 1818–19, and in his letters to George says that he “warmed with her” and “kissed her”. It is unclear how close they were, but Bate and Gittings suggest the trysts may represent a sexual initiation for Keats. Jones’ greatest significance may be as an inspiration and steward of Keats’s writing. The themes of The Eve of St. Agnes and The Eve of St Mark may well have been suggested by her, the lyric Hush, Hush! ["o sweet Isabel"] was about her, and that the first version of “Bright Star” may have originally been for her. In 1821, Jones was one of the first in England to be notified of Keats’s death.

Letters and drafts of poems suggest that Keats first met Frances (Fanny) Brawne between September and November 1818. It is likely that the 18-year-old Brawne visited the Dilke family at Wentworth Place before she lived there. She was born in the hamlet of West End (now in the district of West Hampstead), on 9 August 1800. Like Keats’s grandfather, her grandfather kept a London inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis. She shared her first name with both Keats’s sister and mother, and had a talent for dress-making and languages as well as a natural theatrical bent. During November 1818 she developed an intimacy with Keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of Tom Keats, whom John was nursing through this period.

On 3 April 1819, Brawne and her widowed mother moved into the other half of Dilke’s Wentworth Place, and Keats and Brawne were able to see each other every day. Keats began to lend Brawne books, such as Dante’s Inferno, and they would read together. He gave her the love sonnet “Bright Star” (perhaps revised for her) as a declaration. It was a work in progress which he continued at until the last months of his life, and the poem came to be associated with their relationship. “All his desires were concentrated on Fanny”. From this point there is no further documented mention of Isabella Jones. Sometime before the end of June, he arrived at some sort of understanding with Brawne, far from a formal engagement as he still had too little to offer, with no prospects and financial stricture. Keats endured great conflict knowing his expectations as a struggling poet in increasingly hard straits would preclude marriage to Brawne. Their love remained unconsummated; jealousy for his ‘star’ began to gnaw at him. Darkness, disease and depression surrounded him, reflected in poems such as The Eve of St. Agnes and “La Belle Dame sans Merci” where love and death both stalk. “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks;” he wrote to her, “…your loveliness, and the hour of my death”.

In one of his many hundreds of notes and letters, Keats wrote to Brawne on 13 October 1819: “My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving – I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you … I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion – I have shudder’d at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr’d for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you.”

Tuberculosis took hold and he was advised by his doctors to move to a warmer climate. In September 1820 Keats left for Rome knowing he would probably never see Brawne again. After leaving he felt unable to write to her or read her letters, although he did correspond with her mother. He died there five months later. None of Brawne’s letters to Keats survive; he requested that her letters be destroyed after his death.

It took a month for the news of his death to reach London, after which Brawne stayed in mourning for six years. In 1833, more than 12 years after his death, she married and went on to have three children; she outlived Keats by more than 40 years. The 2009 film Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion, focuses on Keats’ relationship with Fanny Brawne.

Last months: Rome

During 1820 Keats displayed increasingly serious symptoms of tuberculosis, suffering two lung haemorrhages in the first few days of February. He lost large amounts of blood and was bled further by the attending physician. Hunt nursed him in London for much of the following summer. At the suggestion of his doctors, he agreed to move to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn. On 13 September, they left for Gravesend and four days later boarded the sailing brig “Maria Crowther”, where he made the final revisions of “Bright Star”. The journey was a minor catastrophe: storms broke out followed by a dead calm that slowed the ship’s progress. When they finally docked in Naples, the ship was held in quarantine for ten days due to a suspected outbreak of cholera in Britain. Keats reached Rome on November 14, by which time any hope of the warmer climate he sought had disappeared.

Keats wrote his last letter on November 30, 1820 to Charles Armitage Brown; “Tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to write a letter. My stomach continues so bad, that I feel it worse on opening any book – yet I am much better than I was in Quarantine. Then I am afraid to encounter the proing and conning of any thing interesting to me in England. I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence”.

He moved into a villa on the Spanish Steps, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum. Despite care from Severn and Dr. James Clark, his health rapidly deteriorated, and the medical attention he received may have hastened his death. In November 1820, Clark declared that the source of his illness was “mental exertion” and the source was largely situated in his stomach. Clark eventually diagnosed consumption (tuberculosis) and placed Keats on a starvation diet of an anchovy and a piece of bread a day, hoping to reduce the blood flow to his stomach. He bled the poet; a standard treatment of the day, but probably contributing significantly to Keats’s weakness. Keats’s friend Brown writes: “They could have used opium in small doses, and Keats had asked Severn to buy a bottle of opium when they were setting off on their voyage. What Severn didn’t realise was that Keats saw it as a possible resource if he wanted to commit suicide. He tried to get the bottle from Severn on the voyage but Severn wouldn’t let him have it. Then in Rome he tried again … Severn was in such a quandary he didn’t know what to do, so in the end he went to the doctor who took it away. As a result Keats went through dreadful agonies with nothing to ease the pain at all.”

On 10 December, Severn returned from an early walk and woke Keats. Immediately, the poet began to cough and then vomit blood, about two cupfuls. Clark was summoned and promptly bled him. The loss of blood dizzied and confused Keats. When Clark left, Keats got out of his bed, stumbled around the rooms, and said to Severn, “This day shall be my last.” Severn feared a suicide attempt and hid any sharp object he could find as well as the laudanum prescribed by Clarke. Keats was delirious for the rest of the day, until a violent haemorrhage and bleeding weakened him into calm. Over the next nine days he suffered five severe haemorrhages and continued bleedings by Clark. The doctor visited constantly and put him on a strict diet, mostly fish. Keats begged for food, believing he was being starved. Clark held no hope of recovery and admitted as much to Keats. The poet’s thoughts turned again to suicide and he begged Severn for the laudanum, at first appealing to Severn’s self-interest, but he was refused. Keats became angry; he raged at Severn for keeping him alive against his will. When Severn, not trusting himself, gave the bottle to Clark, Keats turned on the doctor asking “How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?”

Death

The first months of 1821 marked a slow and steady decline into the final stage of tuberculosis. Keats was coughing up blood and covered in sweat. Severn nursed him devotedly and observed in a letter how Keats would sometimes cry upon waking to find himself still alive. Severn writes,

“Keats raves till I am in a complete tremble for him…about four, the approaches of death came on. [Keats said] ‘Severn—I—lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don’t be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come.’ I lifted him up in my arms. The phlegm seem’d boiling in his throat, and increased until eleven, when he gradually sank into death, so quiet, that I still thought he slept.”

John Keats died on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was to be placed under an unnamed tombstone which contained only the words (in pentameter), “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” Severn and Brown erected the stone, which under a relief of a lyre with broken strings, contains the epitaph:

“This Grave / contains all that was Mortal / of a / Young English Poet / Who / on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart / at the Malicious Power of his Enemies / Desired / these Words to be / engraven on his Tomb Stone: / Here lies One / Whose Name was writ in Water. 24 February 1821″

There is a discrepancy of one day between the official date of death and that on the gravestone. Severn and Brown added their lines to the stone in protest at the critical reception of Keats’s work. Hunt blamed his death on the Quarterly Review’s scathing attack of “Endymion”. As Byron quipped in his narrative poem Don Juan;

‘Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle
Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.
(canto 2, stanza 60)

Seven weeks after the funeral Shelley memorialised Keats in his poem Adonaïs. Clark saw to the planting of daisies on the grave, saying that Keats would have wished it. For public health reasons, the Italian health authorities burned the furniture in Keats’s room, scraped the walls, made new windows, doors and flooring. The ashes of Shelley, one of Keats’s most fervent champions, are buried in the cemetery and Joseph Severn is buried next to Keats. Describing the site today, Marsh wrote, “In the old part of the graveyard, barely a field when Keats was buried here, there are now umbrella pines, myrtle shrubs, roses, and carpets of wild violets”.

Reception

When Keats died at 25, he had been writing poetry seriously for only about six years, from 1814 until the summer of 1820; and publishing for only four. In his lifetime, sales of Keats’s three volumes of poetry probably amounted to only 200 copies. His first poem, the sonnet O Solitude appeared in the Examiner in May 1816, while his collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems was published in July 1820 before his last visit to Rome. The compression of his poetic apprenticeship and maturity into so short a time is just one remarkable aspect of Keats’s work.

Although prolific during his short career, and now one of the most studied and admired British poets, his reputation rests on a small body of work, centred on the Odes, and only in the creative outpouring of the last years of his short life was he able to express the inner intensity for which he has been lauded since his death. Keats was convinced that he had made no mark in his lifetime. Aware that he was dying, he wrote to Fanny Brawne in February 1820, “I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”

Keats’s ability and talent was acknowledged by several influential contemporary allies such as Shelley and Hunt. His admirers praised him for thinking “on his pulses”, for having developed a style which was more heavily loaded with sensualities, more gorgeous in its effects, more voluptuously alive than any poet who had come before him: ‘loading every rift with ore’. Shelley often corresponded with Keats in Rome, and loudly declared that Keats’s death had been brought on by bad reviews in the Quarterly Review. Seven weeks after the funeral he wrote Adonaïs, a despairing elegy, stating that Keats’ early death was a personal and public tragedy:

The loveliest and the last,
The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew
Died on the promise of the fruit.

Although Keats wrote that “if poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all”, poetry did not come easy to him, his work the fruit of a deliberate and prolonged classical self-education. He may have possessed an innate poetic sensibility but his early works were clearly those of a young man learning his craft. His first attempts at verse were often vague, languorously narcotic and lacking a clear eye. His poetic sense was based on the conventional tastes of his friend Charles Cowden Clarke, who first introduced him to the classics, and also came from the predilections of Hunt’s Examiner, which Keats read as a boy. Hunt scorned the Augustan or ‘French’ school, dominated by Pope, and attacked the earlier Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, now in their forties, as unsophisticated, obscure and crude writers. Indeed, during Keats’s few years as a published poet, the reputation of the older Romantic school was at its lowest ebb. Keats came to echo these sentiments in his work, identifying himself with a ‘new school’ for a time, somewhat alienating him from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron and providing the basis from the scathing attacks from Blackwoods and The Quarterly.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

“”
First stanza of “To Autumn”,
September 1819

By the time of his death, Keats had therefore been associated with the taints of both old and new schools: the obscurity of the first wave Romantics and the uneducated affectation of Hunt’s “Cockney School”. Keats’s posthumous reputation mixed the reviewers’ caricature of the simplistic bumbler with the image of the hyper-sensitive genius killed by high feeling, which Shelley later portrayed.

The Victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which Keats was posthumously fitted. Marked as the standard bearer of sensory writing, his reputation grew steadily and remarkably. His work had the full support of the influential Cambridge Apostles, whose members included the young Tennyson, later a popular Poet Laureate who came to regard Keats as the greatest poet of the 19th century. In 1848, twenty-seven years after Keats’s death, Richard Monckton Milnes wrote the first full biography, which helped place Keats within the canon of English literature. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Millais and Rossetti, were inspired by Keats, and painted scenes from his poems including “The Eve of St. Agnes”, “Isabella” and “La Belle Dame sans Merci”, lush, arresting and popular images which remain closely associated with Keats’s work.

In 1882, Swinburne wrote in the Encyclopædia Britannica that “the Ode to a Nightingale, [is] one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages”. In the twentieth century, Keats remained the muse of poets such as Wilfred Owen, who kept his death date as a day of mourning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Critic Helen Vendler stated the odes “are a group of works in which the English language find ultimate embodiment”. Bate declared of To Autumn: “Each generation has found it one of the most nearly perfect poems in English” and M. R. Ridley claimed the ode “is the most serenely flawless poem in our language.”

The largest collection of the letters, manuscripts, and other papers of Keats is in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Other collections of material are archived at the British Library, Keats House, Hampstead, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Since 1998 the British Keats-Shelley Memorial Association have annually awarded a prize for romantic poetry.

Biographical Controversy

None of Keats’ biographies were written by people who had known him. Shortly after his death, his publishers announced they would speedily publish The memoirs and remains of John Keats but his friends refused to cooperate and argued with each other to the extent that the project was abandoned. Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828) gives the first biographical account, strongly emphasising Keats’s supposedly humble origins, a misconception which still continues. Given that he was becoming a significant figure within artistic circles, a succession of other publications followed, including anthologies of his many notes, chapters and letters. However, early accounts often gave contradictory or heavily biased versions of events and were subject to dispute. His friends Brown, Severn, Dilke, Shelley and his guardian Richard Abbey, his publisher Taylor, Fanny Brawne and many others issued posthumous commentary on Keats’s life. These early writings coloured all subsequent biography and have become embedded in a body of Keats legend.

Shelley promoted Keats as someone whose achievement could not be separated from agony, who was ‘spiritualised’ by his decline and too fine-tuned to endure the harshness of life; the consumptive, suffering image popularly held today. The first full biography was published in 1848 by Richard Monckton Milnes. Landmark Keats biographers since include Sidney Colvin, Robert Gittings, Walter Jackson Bate and Andrew Motion. The idealised image of the heroic romantic poet who battled poverty and died young was inflated by the late arrival of an authoritative biography and the lack of an accurate likeness. Most of the surviving portraits of Keats were painted after his death, and those who knew him held that they did not succeed in capturing his unique quality and intensity.

Letters

Keats’ letters were first published in 1848 and 1878. During the 19th century, critics deemed them unworthy of attention, distractions from his poetic works. During the 20th century they became almost as admired and studied as his poetry, and are highly regarded within the canon of English literary correspondence. T. S. Eliot described them as “certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet.” Keats spent a great deal of time considering poetry itself, its constructs and impacts, displaying a deep interest unusual amongst his milieu who were more easily distracted by metaphysics or politics, fashions or science. Eliot wrote of Keats’s conclusions; “There is hardly one statement of Keats’ about poetry which … will not be found to be true, and what is more, true for greater and more mature poetry than anything Keats ever wrote.”

Few of Keats’s letters from the period before he joined his literary circle are extant. From spring 1817, however, there is a rich record of his prolific and impressive skills as letter writer.Keats and his friends, poets, critics, novelists, and editors wrote to each other daily, and Keats’ ideas are bound up in the ordinary, his day-to-day missives sharing news, parody and social commentary. They glitter with humour and critical intelligence.Born of an “unself-conscious stream of consciousness,” they are impulsive, full of awareness of his own nature and his weak spots. When his brother George went to America, Keats wrote to him in great detail, the body of letters becoming “the real diary” and self-revelation of Keats’s life, as well as containing an exposition of his philosophy, and the first drafts of poems containing some of Keats’s finest writing and thought. Gittings describes them as akin to a “spiritual journal” not written for a specific other, so much as for synthesis.

Keats also reflected on the background and composition of his poetry, and specific letters often coincide with or anticipate the poems they describe. In February to May 1819 he produced many of his finest letters”. Writing to his brother George, Keats explored the idea of the world as “the vale of Soul-making”, anticipating the great odes that he would write some months later. In the letters, Keats coined ideas such as the Mansion of Many Apartments and the Chameleon Poet, concepts that came to gain common currency and capture the public imagination, despite only making single appearances as phrases in his correspondence. The poetical mind, Keats argued:

has no self – it is every thing and nothing – It has no character – it enjoys light and shade;… What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the camelion [chameleon] Poet. It does no harm from its relish of the dark side of things any more than from its taste for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity – he is continually in for – and filling some other Body – The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute – the poet has none; no identity – he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God’s Creatures.

He used the term Negative capability to discuss the state in which we are “capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason …[Being] content with half knowledge” where one trusts in the heart’s perceptions. He wrote later: “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty” again and again turning to the question of what it means to be a poet. “My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk”, Keats notes to Shelley. In September 1819, Keats wrote to Reynolds “How beautiful the season is now – How fine the air. A temperate sharpness about it … I never lik’d the stubbled fields as much as now – Aye, better than the chilly green of spring. Somehow the stubble plain looks warm – in the same way as some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my Sunday’s walk that I composed upon it”. The final stanza of his last great ode: “To Autumn” runs:

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,-
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Later, To Autumn became one of the most highly regarded poems in the English language.

There are areas of his life and daily routine that Keats does not describe. He mentions little about his childhood or his financial straits and is seemingly embarrassed to discuss them. There is a total absence of any reference to his parents. In his last year, as his health deteriorated, his concerns often gave way to despair and morbid obsessions. The publications of letters to Fanny Brawne in 1870 focused on this period and emphasised this tragic aspect, giving rise to widespread criticism at the time.

John Keats’s Published Books:

Addressed to Haydon (1816) text
Addressed to the Same (1816) text
After dark vapours have oppressed our plains (1817)
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove (1814)
Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl! text
A Song About Myself
Bards of Passion and of Mirth text
Before he went to live with owls and bats (1817?)
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art (1819)
Calidore: A Fragment (1816)
The Day Is Gone, And All Its Sweets Are Gone
Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca text
A Draught of Sunshine
Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1817)
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Epistle to My Brother George
First Love
The Eve of Saint Mark
The Eve of St. Agnes (1819) text
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1819)
Fancy (poem)
Fill for me a brimming bowl (1814) text
Fragment of an Ode to Maia
Give me women, wine, and snuff (1815 or 1816)
God of the golden bow (1816 or 1817)
The Gothic looks solemn (1817)
Had I a man’s fair form, then might my sighs (1815 or 1816)
Hadst thou liv’d in days of old (1816)
Happy is England! I could be content (1816)
Hither, hither, love (1817 or 1818)
How many bards gild the lapses of time (1816)
The Human Seasons
Hymn To Apollo
Hyperion (1818)
I am as brisk (1816)
I had a dove
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (1816)
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d
Imitation of Spenser (1814) text
In Drear-Nighted December
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (1818) text
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there (1816)
La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) text
Lamia (1819)
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing (1814 or 1815)
Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair
Lines on The Mermaid Tavern
Meg Merrilies
Modern Love (Keats)
O Blush Not So!
O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown (1815)
O grant that like to Peter I (1817?)
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell (1815 or 1816)
Ode (Keats)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) text
Ode on Indolence (1819)
Ode on Melancholy (1819) text
Ode to a Nightingale (1819) text
Ode to Apollo (1815)
Ode to Fanny
Ode to Psyche (1819)
Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate (1815)
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve (1816)
Old Meg (1818)
On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me (1817)
On Death text
On Fame text
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816) text
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour (1816)
On Peace (1814) text
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies (1815)
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt (1816 or 1817)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (1817)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)
On the Sea (1817) text
On The Story of Rimini (1817)
On The Sonnet
The Poet (a fragment)
A Prophecy – To George Keats in America
Robin Hood. To A Friend
Sharing Eve’s Apple
Sleep and Poetry (1816)
A Song of Opposites
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (1816)
Staffa
Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay (1814)
Stanzas
Think not of it, sweet one, so (1817)
This Living Hand
This pleasant tale is like a little copse (1817)
To —
To a Cat
To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses (1816)
To a Lady seen for a few Moments at Vauxhall
To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown (1816 or 1817)
To Ailsa Rock
To Autumn (1819) text
To Lord Byron (1814) text
To Charles Cowden Clarke (1816)
To Fanny
To G.A.W. (Georgiana Augusta Wylie) (1816)
To George Felton Mathew (1815)
To Georgiana Augusta Wylie
To Haydon
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles (1817)
To Homer
To Hope (1815)
To John Hamilton Reynolds
To Kosciusko (1816)
To Leigh Hunt, Esq. (1817)
To My Brother George (epistle) (1816)
To My Brother George (sonnet) (1816)
To My Brothers (1816)
To one who has been long in city pent (1816)
To Sleep
To Solitude
To Some Ladies (1815)
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d (1816 or 1817)
To the Nile
Two Sonnets on Fame
Unfelt, unheard, unseen (1817)
When I have fears that I may cease to be (1818) text
Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
Where’s the Poet?
Why did I laugh tonight?
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain (1815 or 1816)
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (1816)
Written on a Blank Space
Written on a Summer Evening
Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison (1815)
Written Upon the Top of Ben Nevis
You say you love; but with a voice (1817 or 1818)

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Il 13 marzo 2012 sera si e´tenuto un incontro tra il Presidente del Consiglio Monti e l´ABC ,(ovvero i vertici dei 3 più grandi partiti Italiani elencato in ordine esclusivamente alfabetico, Alfano,Bersani,Casini).

L´Italia e´ una delle realtà in cui si stanno svolgendo esperimenti politico-istituzionali altamente sofisticati che possono essere di modello a livello mondiale.

Le altre realtà sono la EU, gli USA, UK, Spagna,Francia, Grecia,Russia e Cina e noi sintetizziamo questi esperimenti con due parole chiave :

- POLITICRACY = POLITIcs+ technoCRACY

- TECHNOPOLITICS = TECHNOcracy + POLITICS

La dimensione Politicracy prevede che sia il potere politico eletto,(quelle che definiamo come le Politicaly Elected Elites,PEE),che comandi su quello tecnocratico che si limiti ad eseguire come un esecutivo tecnico senza legittimazione elettorale ma solo politica derivata dal consenso di una coalizione di partiti.

La dimensione Technopolitics prevede invece che il governo tecnico abbia una legittimazione politica generata dal vacuum di potere lasciato da una classe PEE incapace di governare ed ora una coalizione fornisce la legittimazione del consenso elettorale ad un corpus tecnico che e´legittimato politicamente dall´incapacità´della PEE di agire.

Il primo a parlare di un governo legittimato politicamente fu l´On. Casini in una nota trasmissione televisiva in onda alle 20.00. Ed ora in Italia stiamo vivendo una situazione in cui un corpus legittimato elettoralmente da la legittimazione politica ad un corpus non eletto ma che e´il governo.

De facto si e´sancito un modello chiaro in cui si distingue tra LEGITTIMAZIONE ELETTORALE e LEGITTIMAZIONE POLITICA.

A pensarci bene si ripete a livello nazionale quanto gli SA,(State Actors), fanno in tutte i NSA come il Fondo Monetario Internazionale o la Unione Europea. Un corpus legittimato elettoralmente conferisce legittimazione politica ad un corpus tecnico che poi opera come braccio esecutivo.

Ma dal 2008 la situazione si e´complicata in quanto i corpus tecnici/burocratici delle varie realta´NSA hanno iniziato a muoversi di “moto proprio” ben più velocemente di quanto non facessero prima … e non solo loro.

In Italia uno scenario politico post 2013 dato che tutti,ormai,vedono Monti come un candidato per un nuovo governo potrebbe essere quello di un cartello elettorale che abbia la legittimazione elettorale per divenire corpus parlamentare che poi legittimi politicamente a sua volta un corpus di non eletti che divenga il governo tecnico. Un interessante esperimento politico-istituzionale a livello mondiale che ha molta più importanza dello spread rispetto al Bund Tedesco.

In altre parole in Italia il punto chiave e´chiedersi:e´la tecnocrazia che sottoscrive i desiderata della politica od il contrario ? Ovvero “Monti e l´ABC” oppure ”l´ABC e Monti” ?

E se il 20-25% non vota perché intende “politica” come sinonimo di partitocrazia allora questo significa che per il 1. partito Italiano,( gli astenuti),la precedente domanda si ponga in questi termini :e´la tecnocrazia che sottoscrive i desiderata della partitocrazia od il contrario?

Tecnocrazia,partitocrazia,politica … l´Italia, oggi decide il suo futuro in un mondo in tensione nella ricerca di equilibri tra SA e NSA nell´amalgama che si muove tra questi tre vertici sembrerebbe, no?

Sembrerebbe infatti ma le cose sono molto più complesse.

Siamo il paese che nel 2010 ha importato un numero di auto dal valore superiore a 110.000€ tale che ne abbiamo una ogni 296 persone. Ma allo stesso tempo abbiamo un 30% di precari e tra questi due estremi il resto del paese che possiamo classificare in maniera semplicistica, ma molto simbolica nella (triste) provocazione,come un paese con utilitarie da 7.000 fino a berline da …111.000€.

Verrebbe voglia di sintetizzare provocatoriamente con una “fotografia” della situazione sociale che ritrae una sorta di nuova struttura di vassalli,(auto da almeno 110.000€),valvassini i e valvassori,(utilitarie da 7.000), e poi i precari.

Una provocazione amara ma che ci parla di una realtà altrettanto amara : in un paese dove ogni 296 persone qualcuno può comprarsi un berlina super lusso e´difficile pensare che vi sia un reale desiderio di incidere sui privilegi che ogni gruppo sociale difende.

Ma l´Italia e´anche un esperimento interessante in quanto membro di un particolare “G” ovvero del G7 dell´organized crime.

Italia,Russia,Cina,Israele,India,Giappone,Turchia sono i centri delle più sofisticate organizzazioni criminali al mondo. Un vero non state actor ,ovvero un potere alternativo allo stato. Anzi meglio de facto uno stato,ovvero un Non State Actor, (NSA),!

Sabato e domenica scorsi la Confindustria ha tenuto due giorni di convegno. Sentire la diretta generava tristezza. Vedere che altre nazioni,(Brasile,Germania,Polonia),hanno potuto fare riforme che hanno richiesto anni e´un esempio di ottimismo nel senso che e´la prova che se ne può uscire. Sentire che ci vogliono 10 anni e´anche accettabile ma poi, tristemente, il solito avvitarsi nel fatto che noi Italiani siamo “troppo”.

Troppo creativi,intelligenti,fantasiosi,dinamici,bravi … insomma TROPPO FIGHI !

E questo avvitamento sul proprio ombelico fa pensare che tutti i presenti al convegno possano comprarsi una macchina da almeno 110.000 euro sapendo bene che il gioco incrociato degli interessi di bottega consente di preservare questo status quo dove da un lato ogni 296 Italiani qualcuno gira in super car e dall´altro il 30% della popolazione appartiene a quella che noi definiamo come L Generation = Lost Generation ,(ovvero il proletariat del XXI)… .

(Per inciso se consideriamo come campione della popolazione solo i maggiorenni allora siamo a 1 ogni 220 Italiani … .)

Eppure le cose si muovono per cambiare e questo movimento fa si che l´Italia sia oggi uno dei laboratori politici più interessanti al mondo anche se, per triste ironia, sembra che siamo così presi dalle nostre botteghe da pollaio che siamo gli unici a … non accorgersene.

Paolo Dealberti© all rights reserved

Membro dell´Academy of Political Science ,(New York), del The Japan Institute of International Affairs,(Tokyo)

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Denver, 10 luglio 2012

- Ma non fu Clinton a dire che in altri tempi quello lì ci avrebbe portato le valigie – la voce sprezzante ma calma di chi è abituato a comandare – … parlo del negro ovviamente

Le persone intorno al tavolo annuivano

-quindi non nascondiamoci dietro tante ipocrisie

- alea iacta est – una donna sulla cinquantina vestita con un elegante completo di Burberry

Appunto Annie- sorridendo rivolto alla donna- per ogni azione esiste una prima volta e la prima volta segna anche il confine di quello che poi diviene accettabile e , diciamo pure, la normalità. Ovviamente se ha successo e noi siamo qui per avere successo

- Effettivamente Tom – John Scalisi, un uomo che da poco ha superato i quaranta e che fa parte dell´ultima generazione di technocrats che costituiscono uno dei nervi della nuova elite mondiale in termini sociali- prima i presidenti erano uccisi.

- Si John riprende a parlare Tom Anderson il CEO di una società controllante una dozzina di hedge funds in giro per il mondo- e la massima espressione di quel modo di fare fu raggiunto negli anni sessanta. Se ci pensiamo bene- con un sorriso ironico- è disarmante vedere come nessuno storico o politico abbia evidenziato che una classe dirigente fu ammazzata durante un periodo di turbativa sociale ben più grave di quella attuale. I fratelli Kennedy, Luther King, Malcolm X, un noto sindacalista colluso con la mafia ma ora John è diverso. Ucciderlo sarebbe troppo pericoloso per noi.

- Concordiamo tutti che lo sarebbe-, interviene un uomo sulla sessantina dai modi molto garbati e socievoli.

- Grazie Reverendo – rivolto all´uomo, il reverendo Martin Grooney capo di una chiesa new-born legata al Tea Party ed alla destra neo-fondamentalista Cristiana- e per questo agiremo in maniera molto più indiretta ma non meno spettacolare e, soprattutto, non meno efficace per i nostri interessi

- – e quali sono i nostri interessi? Sai a volte faccio fatica a ricordarmelo ma io sono solo un povero ex-soldato e non sono abituato a pensare molto ma ad ubbidire – con un tono ironico Matthew Simpson, un ex-ammiraglio dei SEAL al vertice di una società di private security forces con un selezionatissimo portafoglio di clienti impegnata in alcuni fronti chiave all´interno dei 38 scacchieri geopolitici in cui il mondo è diviso.

- I nostri interessi sono di salvare la forma di una democrazia e riempire ogni spazio di potere lasciato da classi politiche elette formate da persone incapaci, corrotte e senza una cultura sulle cose del mondo. Mettere in atto una silenziosa penetrazione dall´interno come aveva ipotizzato Gramsci fino al momento in cui a loro non resterà che lo scannarsi in beghe inutili all´interno di parlamenti svuotati di ogni potere reale. In fin dei conti a questi – Tom, con un tono di disprezzo- non interessa altro che il loro seggio perché è dei falliti che altrimenti si sognerebbero la vita agiata che fanno

Matthew annuiva- si ed ora possiamo dare un altro colpo per ridimensionarli ulteriormente

Appunto Matthew – Tom – ed è incredibile pensare come tutto questo sia facile se si sa cosa fare al momento opportuno in un mondo dove l´illusione di accedere ad ogni fonte di informazione nasconde la realtà che il potere non è conoscenza ma comprensione

… e manipolazione- Annie

- Si … anche manipolazione Annie e siamo qui per acoltarti

Grazie Tom Annie Carson, CEO di una società di comunicazione leader mondiale che conta tra i propri collaboratori un numero impressionante d’intellettuali, opinion maker, professori in ogni settore dello scibile umano. Una forza basata sull’´intelligentia, che al momento opportuno sa scrivere e commentare a seconda dei bisogni di un numero limitato di clienti che possono pagare onorari a sei zeri- l´operazione è chiamata in codice “Blasfemia”- sorride- ed è mirata a creare un danno di immagine ad Obama colpendolo dove ha avuto maggior successo , ovvero la politica estera. Creeremo un evento che genererà ripercussioni violente in tutto il mondo Islamico e che, soprattutto, darà´impressione che la Presidenza sia incapace. Incapace sia perché presa di sorpresa che perché incerta nella reazione.

- Bene- il reverendo

- L´idea è semplice: faremo un film su Maometto. Un filmetto low budget e nessuno si accorgerà che viene fatto. Al momento opportuno uscirà in Utube un trailer di quindici minuti in cui Maometto verrà ridicolizzato come un maniaco e violento idiota

- Utube ? – il reverendo- uhmm … non si lasciano troppe tracce?

- No- John se si sa come fare e se, come noi, si ha la tecnologia e faremo in modo che le tracce portino dove vogliamo noi.

- E dove ?- il reverendo

- Ebrei –sorride Annie

- Ebrei – annuisce il reverendo-, il mondo è così pieno di benpensanti e moralisti della società civile che alla parola “ebreo” abboccano sempre come utili idioti accetttando senza riflettere che siano colpevoli di ogni cosa di cui li si accusi

- Appunto- Tom – le cose semplici sono sempre le più complesse. Ma prego Annie continua

- Grazie Tom – effettivamente Reverendo faremo leva sul mai assopito razzismo latente basato su una ignoranza cronica a riguardo degli Ebrei . Ovviamente in questo saremmo aiutati da gruppi di potere che ,come noi, hanno interesse che nel mondo la tensione rimanga alta per poter meglio scardinare le strutture di potere attuali profittando dei vacuum lasciati dalla incompetenza del personale politico.

- Chi ?- il reverendo

- Reverendo Simpson non è un mistero che molte chiese sovvenzionano campagne contro Israele dopo Durban. È talmente noto che ormai nessuno ci pensa più ´o quasi anche se non è un problema trovare del materiale serio a conferma , ad esempio lo studio” EUROPEAN, US, AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FUNDING BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISM IN MAINLINE CHURCHES”,(n.d.a . documento reale vedere appendice).Allo stesso modo non è un mistero che alcune chiese evangeliste simpatizzino con la componente ultra-ortodossa Israeliana con cui condividono la vision territoriale di Israele.Quindi non si stupirà se un primo gruppo di alleati li troveremo proprio in questi fondamentalisti che vogliono lo scontro. E per avere lo scontro hanno bisogno di tensione e di una controparte che a sua volta lo desideri

- Gli Ebrei – sorride il reverendo con tono sarcastico- … eh si, penso che non esista nulla che non possa essere addebitato ad un complotto ebraico senza che falangi di utili idioti della società civile inizino a starnazzare accusandoli. Semplice ma geniale anche perché la quasi totalità di questi pensanti,che si reputa informata perché legge Wikipedia, non sa che oggi il maggior problema per la sicurezza e per l´esistenza di Israele non è la questione Palestinese od Al Qaeda ma le tensioni interne tra la parte secolare e quella fondamentalista ultra-ortodossa.

- Grazie – Annie riprende- Reverendo per il suo commento. Lei ha ragione se pensiamo che dal 2011 alcuni generali dell´esercito Israeliano ed alcuni ministri hanno iniziato a definire come terroristi gli elementi radicali dei coloni ebrei in West Giordania. Ad esempio il generale Israeliano Nitsan Alon ,ovvero il responsabile della forza militare in West Bank, già l´anno scorso ha definito questi ebrei ultra-ortodossi come dei terroristi contro cui l´esercito Israeliano deve fare di più per non parlare del fatto che ,sempre nel 2011, i ministeri degli interni,della difesa e della giustizia Israeliani li hanno ufficialmente definiti come terroristi senza menzionare poi che da un anno vi sono manifestazioni che lacerano Israele tra i laici e gli ultra-ortodossi. Manifestazioni in cui due Israeliani laici si sono dati la morte incendiandosi,(nda fatti e nomi reali, vedere appendice), e questo ci consente di introdurre il secondo gruppo di alleati, ovvero gli Arabi. Immaginiamo per un momento una Syria post-Assad dove il tutto si risolverà in uno scontro tra Sciiti e Sunniti. Gli Sciiti sono la minoranza e perderanno. Una Syria cosi strutturata non sarà più l´alleato di Teheran e questo ridimensionerà il potere degli Hizbollah in Libano ma anche quello di Hammas in Gaza. Il tutto unito al fatto che per gli USA il Medio Oriente sta perdendo sempre più rilevanza strategica dato che il combinato effetto delle nuove green technologies e dell´energia prodotta dal gas di scisti, pensiamo ad esempio al giacimento Marcellus,(nda dato reale, vedere appendice), che stimano produrre gas quanto il Qatar,ci renderanno sempre meno dipendenti da quella regione per l´energia.

- A questo punto le assicurazioni sulla vita di molti regimi della regione salteranno- Tom.

- In effetti – Annie – stiamo parlando delle monarchie che ,contrariamente a quanto si pensa, non sono secolari e ,tranne quelle del Marocco e della Giordania,non godono della protezione carismatica di una discendenza diretta dal Profeta.

- Per quale motivo pensate il Kuwait sia il maggior investitore estero nel Regno Unito da circa quaranta anni ? O pensiamo che sia proprio una coincidenza che un numero impressionante di inglesi occupi posizioni chiave nella regione ? (n.d.a dati reali vedere appendice) -Tom

- Davvero ?- sorpreso il reverendo-, non capisco …

- Caro Martin – Tom – forse sarai sorpreso di sapere che a causa degli interessi contrastanti delle inglese BP e dell´americana Aramco nel 1952 truppe Saudite e dell´Oman si fronteggiarono per l´oasi di Buroimi al-Alain . L´Oman tutelava gli interessi della multinazionale Inglese ed il regno Saudita di quella Americana e le forze anglo-omanite cacciarono quelle saudite,(n.d.a fatto storico,vedere appendice)

Il reverendo Grooney ascoltava sorpreso

- Un angolo del mondo molto complicato ma prego Annie continua e scusa l´interruzione

- Di nulla Tom, anzi le tue parole renderanno più comprensibile quanto sto per dire. Dalle parole di Tom e da quanto stavo dicendo prima appare chiaro che un Iran che esporta petrolio ed importa benzina via Dubai con un sovraprezzo del 25% rispetto al mercato mondiale senza Syria e con gli Hizbollah ridimensionati non è poi questa potenza che si suole descrivere se siamo al punto che iniziano a circolare articoli che descrivono un Iran con la bomba atomica come un elemento di stabilità nella regione

I presenti annuirono pensando ad un articolo appena pubblicato su Foreign Affairs,(nda : vedere appendice).

- Quindi – continuò Annie- nulla di strano se anche alcuni gruppi di potere Arabi sono contrari ad ogni forma di assestamento geopolitico che li renda meno strategici.

- E quindi disposti ad aiutare chiunque possa evitarlo- intervenne John

- Esattamente John – riprendeva Annie- e per questo abbiamo trovato alleati nella regione che al momento opportuno incendieranno le masse.

- Ovvero ? – il reverendo

- È meglio che se lo spiega Tom- Annie

- Grazie alle nostre operazioni finanziarie- Tom riferendosi agli hedge funds che controllano- siamo in contatto con il centro del potere della regione sia perché gestiamo parte delle ricchezze delle persone che contano e sia perché lavoriamo con i Fondi Sovrani locali. Quindi non è stato difficile parlare con chi è sensibile a questa visione ed ha concreti interessi ad aiutarci

- Capisco – il reverendo – e come si attiverebbe il caos ?

- Opereremo in sincronia- riprendeva Annie- con i nostri alleati Arabi ed ultra-ortodossi Ebrei. Gli Sceicchi convinceranno gli Iman che finanziano a lanciare proclami contro il trailer in questione. I fondamentalisti ortodossi , dalle cui file arriverà chi ufficialmente produrrà il film, a loro volta insulteranno i Mussulmani ed infine Imam ed intellettuali Islamici sul libro paga della società di comunicazione per cui lavoro completeranno l´opera con scritti insospettabili di fanatismo perché di accademici e con interviste a Press TV.

Il Reverendo annuiva- capisco a quel punto le strade si infiammeranno. Ci saranno manifestazioni contro ambasciate, consolati …

-diciamo pure anche degli scontri e dei morti- con un tono neutro Annie- ma tutto gioverà al nostro scopo e non ultimo la data

-ovvero ?

- 9/11…ovvero per l´undicesimo anniversario Obama si ritroverà con gli Americani che vedranno in TV bruciare le loro bandiere

- e non solo-interveniva Matthew – poiché vi saranno azioni anche sul territorio Americano

-come azioni sul territorio Americano, non capisco ? – con un tono preoccupato il reverendo

- non tema Reverendo- cogliendo il tono preoccupato- non ci saranno vittime ma solo paura. Nel pratico telefonate che faranno evacuare edifici pubblici come scuole od ospedali con la minaccia di una bomba per rappresaglia a quanto nel trailer

-bene- il reverendo con un tono rassicurato – tutto questo mostrerà un presidente debole e soprattutto lo colpirà nell´unico ambito dove può vantare reali successi, ovvero quello della politica estera

-appunto- Annie- ed a poche settimane dalle elezioni

-un colpo mortale – il reverendo

-esattamente-Tom – e per precauzione in nessun modo il candidato Repubblicano ne sarà al corrente e questo per ovvi motivi

I presenti intorno al tavolo annuirono

-perfetto allora iniziamo- il reverendo – io mi occuperò di parlare con chi devo all´interno dei gruppi religiosi, nel Tea Party e nel partito

- benissimo Martin e noi ci occuperemo del resto. Annie dei media, John di internet, Matthew delle minacce sul territorio USA ed io – sorridendo Tom- parlerò coi nostri clienti Arabi e gli ultra-ortodossi Ebrei.

Il reverendo si alzò- ora preghiamo affinchè Dio aiuti le nostre azioni e ci aiuti a dare al mondo una leadership che gli sia fedele

I presenti si alzarono. Il reverendo alzò le mani al cielo iniziando a recitare una preghiera da lui scritta anni orsono

Paolo Dealberti© all rights reserved

Membro dell´Academy of Political Science ,(New York), del The Japan Institute of International Affairs,(Tokyo)

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Uscivano dal locale ,con calma come due innamorati. Roland si fermava sul marciapiede e faceva un cenno. Una Jaguar XJ silver si fermava davanti a loro. Roland apre la porta davanti

-Sali amore

Sophie osservava la macchina e vedeva all´interno una persona e guardava Roland con un punto interrogativo negli occhi

-Ti presento il Dr. Rochard e´il notaio. Gentilmente ci accompagna e´nella periferia

L´uomo alla guida , giovane anch´esso, si volta e sorridendo – Charles Rochard un piacere consocerla

Sophie sorride – Sophie Chandon piacere mio – ed entrava nella Jaguar

Roland chiudeva la portiera e saliva dietro. La macchina partiva per inserirsi nel traffico senza farsi notare.

Roland iniziava a parlare – la casa e´una villa con un piccolo parco ad est di Paris ma non temere e´ben collegata anche con il tuo ginnasio. E´il tuo ultimo anno e non voglio che perdi tempo – le teneva la mano

Sophie era persa questa era la sua nuova realta´..sorride – una villa ?

-Si non molto grande ma per ora puo´bastare

Il navigatore indicava come prendere il ring che portava all´autostrada . La Jaguar volava una volta in autostrada.

A questo punto Roland la tirava a se ed un ago le entrava nel braccio. Secondi …Sophie sentiva il dolore ma era bloccata dalla sorpresa e poi sveniva.

Il compagno di Roland entrava in una strada secondaria e da qui svoltava in un diramazione che portava in campagna. Fermava la macchina. Scendevano e mettavano Sophie narcotizzata ed imbavagliata nel bagagliaio .

Poi rientravano in autostrada destinazione la Germania. Un viaggio che sarebbe durato una notte prima di arrivare a destinazione.

Istanbul…6.6.10 : ore 20.20

La Mercedes si dirige verso il ponte i vetri scuri sono come una lente di un occhiale da sole in cui si riflettono i raggi della notte.

-Allora Veneziano – con tono caldo inizia a parlare Yalcin- benvenuto a casa

-Grazie Kartal – il suo soprannome , aquila in Turco- mi mancava

Yalcin apre il finestrino e la brezza porta loro il profumo dell´ Asia. Viaggiando su una corsia privilegiata e la macchina con targa consolare di Montecarlo viene inghiottita dal ponte.Discrete altre due Mercedes di eguale modello e colore la seguono e precedono.

Per alcuni minuti le parole non servono il Bosforo parla per loro. Uomini del Mediterraneo sofisticati viaggiatori del mondo ,legal alien ovunque grazie a cio´a cui appartengono si perdono in radici che ,come rivoli di un unico fiume,si dipanano nelle ragnatele degli universi mondo. In un fiume che ha visto tanti futuri da un passato lontano.

Kartal – inizia il Veneziano – come avrai capito ci muoviamo in un mondo nuovo

Sorride e risponde- ed a quanto mi risulta dentro una nuova etnia Englishman ?

Il Veneziano annuisce – si ormai ha raggiunto una dimensione sociale tale che…

-Si ho letto – lo interrompe Kartal- e ricordo un reportage in Click sulla BBC parlavano addirittura di un progetto per un avatar in grado di viaggiare tra i mondi. Allora pensai ad un video-game ma ora inizio a capire.

-Si siamo e lo siamo da tempo ben oltre un gioco od una chat

-Capisco anche Henry mi ha confermato

-Acrab e´arrivato ?

Henry Den Norske Frimurer ,detto Acrab , la mente finanziaria del team. Laurea ad Harvard ,specializzazione in finanza internazionale alla London School of Economics , master alla Sorbonne e Phd a Yale. Docente universitario alla UCLA e nella univerista´on-line On-science. Consulente di geo-finanza del Governo del Regno Unito. On-science e´una univerista´sponsorizzata da un fondo di investimento che ha curato anche il venture capital di INSIMUL una societa´in cui Renzo,Yalcin ed altri del loro team sono soci fondatori e manager.

-Sta arrivando e stiamo andando a prenderlo e poi andiamo da Insimul

-Gia´a casa

INSIMUL e´ un network di locali unici al mondo. Sono una catena localizzata nelle citta limes , faglia del mondo. Ovunque la storia si ritrova per decidere tra uno dei futuri possibili. Scelti accuratamente in base a coordinate astrali e collegati tra di loro life a chi li visita danno la sansazione di ricevere …energia da ogni luogo collegato.

Sono costruiti come teatri. La sezione dei loggioni ospita libri ed opere d´arte da tutto il mondo in vendita. Il palcoscenico e´un vero palcoscenico in cui si eseguono performance artistiche. La sezione dedicata alla poltrone ospita il ristorante  edil lounge .

Poi vi e´una parte underground che ospita una discoteca ed una sezione privata. Ogni INSIMUL ha una terrazza che in inverno e´coperta da una vetrata. Meta´della terrazza e´dedicata a vernisage.Gli INSIMUL sono luoghi che emanano energia culturale negli humus di citta´che sono il limes dove si fa la storia.

Insimul….ensamble in latino… .

L´Insimul Istanbul e´ di proprieta´di Yalcin e ci sarebbero andati dopo aver prelevato Acrab.

Il corteo di Mercedes arriva all´aereoporto di Istanbul e si dirige allo scalo dedicato agli executive. La prima macchina fornisce le identificazioni. Le altre due restano dietro coi motori accesi in una posizione che consente un rapido disimpegno. La corazzatura al kevlar al quinto livello le protegge fino ad attacchi con granate da 25mm.

Entrano e si dirigono ad un hangar. Una volta dentro si fermano. Kartal ed il Veneziano scendono. Un Gulfstream G650 entra nell´hangar.Il miglior executive al mondo con una autonomia di 12.964 km consente traversate oceaniche go&back senza rifornimento.Sulla coda le insegne consolari di Montecarlo in quanto appartenente a Kartal.

Le formalita´ alla partenza ed all´atteraggio per chi viaggia nel mondo dei jet executive sono ben altre rispetto a chi viaggia anche in first o business class. La discrezione e´la regola. Il Gulfstream si ferma e loro si avvicinano alla scaletta. La scaletta scende ed Acrab compare.

Il Veneziano attende delle risposte.

Paolo Dealberti© all rights reserved

Membro dell´Academy of Political Science ,(New York), del The Japan Institute of International Affairs,(Tokyo)

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