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Rome, Apr 17, EFE, (Camera: Álvaro Caballero).- Few know more about confinement than Roberto Saviano, the Italian journalist and writer who has dedicated his life to investigating the mafia and who has lived with a bodyguard for 14 years, ever since he was sentenced to death by the Camorra after the publication of "Gomorra". In a conversation with EFE, he reflects on the reality of confinement in the face of the coronavirus crisis, on his life experience and the growing power of the mafias taking advantage of this situation of weakness.SAVIANO'S SOUNDBITE TRANSLATIONS:1- "Companies that wash hospital sheets. Companies that supply ambulances. Funeral parlours. Food distribution. What does all this mean? That they are already winning because they have invested in sectors that are on an incredible rise."2- "With the pandemic, things are changing. With the pandemic, they realize that with relatively minimal investment... For example, with 50,000 euros of shopping bags they give people for a month, they have the whole neighbourhood with them, instantly. Before the effort was much more burdensome, it had to be more important."3- "The truth is that the answer is completely trite: money. They must give money. There is no other immediate answer. Access to funds and allow companies and individuals not to sell their lives, not to be forced to resort to any economic model of survival".4- "Everything. They have done everything wrong. The red zone with delay. The management of the sick who have wanted to be sent to the nursing home, probably for interest, for money. They probably imagined that in the nursing homes it was not as deadly of an epidemic as it, unfortunately, is, especially for certain people. So Lombardy has seen its system of efficiency born of the balance between the public and the private fail. Lombardy, which has always been ruled by the League and the reactionary right-wing has always made propaganda saying that the Lombard public health system was the best in the world. Obviously, the situation has shown that the reality is quite different. 5- "The crime that Viktor Orban has done, is a crime. He has ended Parliament with an authoritarian operation, taking advantage of it as all military and authoritarian regimes have done". 6- "Orban is the first dictatorship within Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authoritarian risk is enormous, because the pandemic creates the state of exception, and the state of exception dispenses with democratic rules and initiates what these political groups have been seeking for years, a single guide, a single direction, a single power'. 7- "Very fragile, very fragile. Europe seems dead with the COVID. Now they are trying to straighten out the course. Europe has only two possibilities, either to refound itself exactly as the founding fathers imagined it to be, a United States of Europe, or to die. Because if you consider the pandemic to be a purely Italian or Spanish or Portuguese problem, you are delirious, it is not. 8- "In general, after pandemics, there are no attacks of solidarity, of trust towards others. Because while after a war with the other you are at peace, because there has been a peace treaty, of negotiation, with the other you feel repaired, because there are no more uniforms, there is no order to charge or shoot. The other is no longer your enemy because there has been a formal halt that has closed the conflict. Not with the pandemic, because the others are still dangerous, because mismanagement could infect you, or you could infect another. Even if the pandemic ends, or there is a cure or vaccine, the suspicion remains. The distance between us, politically or socially, we can resolve, but culturally it is a very long way away. 9- "It would be enough for me to go out a little bit again to recover, like everyone else, a little bit of the measure of a life in which you do not feel completely imprisoned. Having said that, nostalgia is the greatest internal danger, and I have not managed to live well with nostalgia. For many it is a resource, for me, it is a continuous trap. Because nostalgia grips you, it deforms what you've lived through, you've probably lived through things with normal intensity and nostalgia describes them to you as moments of happiness, of great vital intensity, of pleasure. 10- "Especially trying not to lengthen the day, but to widen it. Live everything with more intensity, the music you listen to, the book you read, give it as much time as you can without being distracted".
Highlights from some of the top films of the holidays with stars and interviews. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Skyfall, Lincoln and Rise of The guardians are the top four picks.
Une vidéo complète de gameplay de Settlers: Rise of an empire. Cette vidéo sous-titrée en français présente les caractéristiques principales du jeu. La première partie est ici: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPZyiaMoE6E
Settlers Rise of an Empire video walkthrough mer Nederlands onderditeld (Part 2) See Part 1 first : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA73Rw6jsYI
After the opening ceremony, the Vespa World Days 2024 in Pontedera are fully underway but even today, on the second of the four days of the scheduled festival, an incredible number of Vespisti are still arriving in Vespa’s native city from all over Europe, joining the thousands of enthusiasts who had already arrived over the past few days. As we await the final numbers, the 2024 edition of the Vespa World Days already promises to be one of the biggest Vespa events ever.For the first time, the annual rally for all the national Vespa Clubs from all over the world is being held precisely where Vespa was born and where it has been manufactured non-stop since 1946. A truly special edition, also because it celebrates 140 years of Piaggio, the company founded in 1884, where representatives have already arrived from Australian and South American clubs, as well as from the USA and China and, obviously, from every European nation.The anticipation of the Vespisti and all the guests is steadily growing for the great Vespa Parade, the procession of all the Vespas participating in the rally scheduled for tomorrow where thousands of Vespas and Vespisti will be riding through the Valdera. Among the enthusiasts departing at 11:00 AM from Viale Italia in Pontedera, will also be TV host Rudy Zerbi.There was a small taste of the parade today, with the various tours which took the Vespisti on a true Tuscany Experience to discover spectacular routes to such places as Pisa and Volterra, a long line of Vespas, led by the special GTS 300 delivered yesterday to the State Police, which will also be a protagonist in the Parade tomorrow. Besides the big parade, the highlight of the day tomorrow will be in the Vespa Village with the Concours d’Elegance, an opportunity participants will not want to miss to see some of the most beautiful and rarest Vespas accompanied by the elegance of riders and passengers.
Kia has revealed its Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) future strategy at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Kia’s PBV business will initially be based around the introduction of an all-new, modular vehicle, previewed by the Kia Concept PV5.This future vision was presented alongside a multi-phase plan that will see PBVs revolutionize the mobility industry while helping to advance Hyundai Motor Group’s ambitions in robotics, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and autonomous driving.Kia PBVs are a total mobility solution that combines fit-for-purpose EVs with advanced software solutions based on the Hyundai Motor Group’s software-to-everything, or SDx, strategy. As a Platform Beyond Vehicle, Kia PBVs will open the door to new businesses and lifestyles by redefining the concept of space thanks to advanced, tailored interiors that provide ultimate freedom and flexibility.
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