Jacopo Fo: buone notizie - vignette

Perugia Italy a new ecovillage

Oh Mr. Obama, please! Only you can help us!
Mr. Obama, we are here in Italy, in the Empire outskirts, and we write to you because only you can help us.
Something weird is happening here.
Bush, that strange person, decided to build near Vicenza an enormous military base. There was another one already, but he thought it was tiny.
People of Vicenza and many other Italians came down to manifest their disagreement. We don't need at all a new military base, a new monument to money waste, to fear and to hate. We don't need greater missiles full of nuclear bombs.
Your election to the chair of President of the United States has marked a turning point in the history of this planet. Now we can imagine an era of peace, undestanding, communication. An era in which not to kill one another for oil and in which to take energy from the sun, the wind and the oceans.
Then, Mr. President, what has to do with this dream a new shimmering military base?
Do you really want to drop all that money into new underground bunkers, launch pads, bombs?
If someone gets mad, he could already launch enough nuclear missiles to destroy this planet a thousand times. What additional power could you get with this new base? When you end to build it, could you destroy the world the 1001'st time?
Is it really worth the effort? Do you really need it?
With the money spared by renouncing to this project, you could give food and education to a million children. If you, tomorrow morning, could announce such a thing to the world, people would say: "You see, this President really wants to change the world!", and this would protect America more than a hundred military bases.
What are new military bases for, however?
Soviet Union does not exist anymore, and its heirs are slowly opening to progress. War with China for oil will not be, since you are speeding by ten the transition to renewable power sources, with the big investments you are making.
A new military base will not be useful against the enemies of your homeland, wich are terrorists, difficult to hit with atom bombs. At the contrary, by building this mad thing, you will enforce the enemies of USA, who will say: "You see, Americans speak about peace, but build war."
It's not fair, for one who loves the dream of a new world, to invest money and skill to build, once again, cathedrals of terror filled with cannons and barbed wire. We need signs of love. Yes we can! Let's stop the night dogs.
Yesterday, in Vicenza, this dark dream of power caused more wounded people, and more pain.
Right now, this military base is arming the hands of the ones who know only hate.
People who wage war is infiltrating peaceful manifestants. And this fact is enforcing those who, into the police forces, hope the return of blackjacks and tear gas bombs.
Please, Mr. Obama, please! Make the impossible, the unexpected. A love gesture, a faith gesture, a prayer for the mankind's soul. Stop this madness.
We are fighting and screaming, from many years, against this senseless evil. But our protests are crushed, or ignored. We live in a strange place of the world, where wit is momentarily vanished.
We are fighting with all our forces, sincerely, but we are losing.
We can not stop this spinning gear, we are a vassal state, in the outskirts of the Empire. It's being executed here and now what Bush decided for us, and no one here could ever resist. There are treaties, agreements, obligations took by our strange rulers.
We alone can not win this battle of the civilization of peace, against the one of war.
You can do it. Only you can do it. If you act, we will be on your side, like always have before, and even more.
Together we can do it.

Jacopo Fo

Once again a misunderstood sense of the “Sacred” brings the ecclesiastic hierarchies to impose censorship.
The recital should have taken place in Assisi between the 2nd and the 5th of June but it would have most certainly caused a scandal. Not from a religious point of view, no, Dario Fo solely had the intention, through this new performance of his,  of proving that a  highly diffused  belief  is wrong.
The paintings within the Upper Basilica or Basilica Superiore attributed to Giotto in fact are not Giotto’s work. And the interesting thing about the matter is that besides being supported by the Franciscan friars of Assisi, Dario Fo’s thesis regarding those extraordinary paintings/frescos proves that Giotto was not the author but another  or other  great contemporary Maestro/s  realized those breathtaking frescos.
Dario Fo created a lecture-performance based upon the above thesis. The performance in divided into three separate evening events, the time needed to argue his thesis basing it upon different historical and technical  details. In particular, the fact that every school from Roman to Tuscan, had a particular, diverse and personalized technique of representing images through painting and the outlines or silhouettes used to reproduce the paintings themselves diversified in style and execution.
All these technical elements create a sort of  fingerprint hidden behind the painting itself, fingerprint that guarantees and assures  that Giotto can’t have participated to the realization of the masterpiece in the nave of the Upper Basilica unless in the role of simple assistant or apprentice.
But the cultural importance of the performance that  should have been rehearsed by Dario Fo with the support of the Mayor of Assisi Claudio Ricci, wasn’t enough for the Bishop Domenico Sorrentino who did not withdraw his veto.
Pop songs in front of the Basilica of San Francesco are fine, young girls dancing and even cabaret is acceptable but, please, do not perform anything from the history of art!
Incredible that in the year 2009 in Italy someone still can veto or forbid  a Nobel Prize Winner  of speaking of Art in front of a church.

The performance “ Giotto o non Giotto” (Giotto or not Giotto) will be recited in July as follows:

2-3 July  in Cesena at the Rocca Malatestina
8-9 July in Florence in front of the Basilica of Santa Croce
25-25 July in Perugia in the San Francesco in Campo square

Dear Mr. Barak Obama,
President Elect of the United States of America,
we are writing you this letter because first of all we’re Italian, and secondly we find ourselves in difficulty and do not know who we can turn to for help.
Our government has decided that it is not convenient to invest in renewable energy supplies or efficient energy solutions. They say that our country is  on the edge of bankruptcy and that they have no more money to invest. They declare that the only possible solution is to continue polluting and wasting energy.
According to the treaty undersigned in Kyoto, we should reduce Co2 emissions of 6,5% and instead we’ve increased them of 9,9% in the past 7 years. They say that if we should reduce emissions and save on petrol it would cost the nation too much money and many companies would be destined to close down.
Berlusconi, who is always a funny chap, affirmed that considering ecology in his program would be comparable to a person with pneumonia worrying about a hair perm.
Our governors cannot understand that one of the reasons why the current financial  crisis in Italy is more violent than in past years is due to the fact that we keep on wasting energy whilst others have started to save it.

Dear all,
The current situation in Italy is not at all easy, especially when it comes to facing alternative energy supplies as well as maintaining agreements regarding the Kyoto treaty.
Our government has repeatedly stated that the global recession/crisis is a good excuse, if not a wonderful excuse, to cut on investments in this specific sector and, unfortunately, it has already put into act it’s verbal intentions: Decree nr. 185 called “anti-crisis decree” forecasts extreme cuts on costs as far as natural power supplies/energy efficiency are concerned  including a series of bureaucratic complications which make it practically impossible to have access to tax reliefs for those private citizens who intend or  wish to install alternative/natural power plants within or around  their own homes thus supplying to their own needs in an independent and environmental friendly way by improving  energy efficiency.
Just to give you an idea; 820 million Euro were spent in 2007 in comparison to the 82 million foreseen by the end of 2008.
Thermal solar panel installations for the supply of hot water cover 100 sq.mts every 1000 inhabitants in Austria, 240 sq.mts every 1000 inhabitants in Greece and only 10 sq.mts every 1000 inhabitants in Italy. This should give you a general idea of how investments are made in Italy.
The cost coefficient for private heating in the north of Italy corresponds to 140/210 kcal per sq.mt whereas in Austria it corresponds to 80 kcal per sq.mt. The difference between the two costs is absolutely evident.
We’re very worried, and that’s the reason why citizens like ourselves are trying to organize a small event  to attract the attention of Italian media which seem not very interested in the matter.

by Jacopo Fo

If you look up a history book you’ll find  that blacks are the most stupid people in the world. They  never invented anything, they cannot boast  ancient civilizations, they’ve always been beaten by everyone; Arabs or Europeans indistinctly. 
Blacks were people who submitted to centuries of slavery without rebelling whatsoever. They were just so far behind that they couldn’t even invent an alphabet of their own or a style of writing. They’re still  dying of starvation because they have no spirit of  initiative when it comes to working. And once the colonial regime fell, they started a general massacre killing one another with such a primitive instinct to leave you astonished: millions of dead killed with machetes so as not to waste ammunitions. All we know about black people is that they run fast, they strike hard, they have rhythm and black men have super cocks. Then, then this Obama guy shows up from nowhere and becomes President of the United States.
Leftists like being precise by stating that we are all equal. They even say we all descend from a few black skinned women. Cavalli Sforza proved this through his studies on DNA. Consequently  we are all black, therefore racism makes no sense whatsoever. We may want to add that the majority of black people are poor and desperate, may they be living in the heart of  Africa or some United States ghetto; poor and desperate not because they don’t know how to work or develop but because colonialism destroyed  great African civilizations from the roots by imposing 5 centuries of violence and incredible robberies which left the continent barbarized.  

Of late, I have been listening to and reading a number of debates about rape.
I have found the contentions of the people engaged in this battle absolutely correct; however, at this juncture, I wonder whether we are really invalidating - might I say, unhinging - the ideology of violence.
I wonder whether it is not high time for Italy to bear in mind and put to good use the experience of feminists in other countries who have, long since, unceasingly attacked both sexual violence and its deep cultural roots. The crux of the matter is that, in Italy, the undue influence, the coercion of its authoritarian Catholicism is most unconscionable.
We are still overpowered by Sexual Taboos!
(And, in this context, we could expatiate at length on the relationship between sexual disinformation, record numbers of rapes, record levels of corruption, and record breaking lack of freedom in the media along with the very existence of Berlusconi, the Living Anomaly…)
In Italy, the first point about which very little has been and is being said is the crucial relationship between rape and pleasure.
The prevailing idea in the (Italic) feuding patriarchal culture regards rape as a winning act of dominion.
The male manages to gain pleasure from a woman against her will, humiliating her.
This firm belief is one of the elements that increase raped women’ s sufferings.
However, is the picture really thus?
By no means, as affirmed by such nearly archaic texts as William Reich’s “The Sexual Revolution”. Overpowered by the patriarchal culture of dominion, the rapist IS UNABLE  TO EXPERIENCE AN ORGASM.
This is an essential detail upon which Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian feminists and therapists have been working for decades.

Let’ s begin a strategic workshop!

Women are not interested in sexual techniques per se. Men are keen on doing certain things (see the fulminating success of “mutual cunnilingus”);  women are not.
We are different. In point of fact, women like their men to know where their G spot and clitoris are. All in all, women expect a minimum of techniques. Yes, an absolute minimum; i. e.  men should be sensitive enough as to listen to them whilst fondling them softly and slowly.
However, beyond that minimum indispensable knowledge of female anatomy, the grade women will give men is related neither to their technical feats, nor to their peculiar tricks or postures and not even to the size of their penis or biceps.
Women, the absolute majority of them, are looking for something that is not directly related to the sexual act per se. Something that happens before or during intercourse but is not sexual. In the ‘70s, foreplay was the discourse; banalities and nothing else. Women are not interested in having their thighs stroked for 8 minutes before switching to the raw act. Women are moved by the aura, the spirit, the atmosphere, the relation and the symbolism of what is happening. Something the male is hard put to understand. It took me centuries…At long last, I have come to realize that, for women, intercourse is 70% amazement.
Do you want to drive your woman sexually crazy? Amaze her!

Please note: This article contains a few explicit phrases concerning sexual techniques. Should you be  underage or should you feel that the arguments discussed could offend your sensibility please do not read any further. Thank you
The editorial staff

This workshop is apt to develop a collective thought concerning the “Absolute Theory of the perfect blowjob”
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After the incredible success of “Supportive haemorrhoids” we will now give start to another workshop on the web!

The need I feel  to write is a personal  liberation as words crowd on the keys of my lap-top. I’ll try to proceed  by images.
I’m on the train for Pescara, we’ve already crossed Ancona and the Conero valley and the railway starts running alongside the sea. In the distance we can see a tiny beach and a procession of camping areas with house trailers and bungalows at approximately 10 meters from the train-tracks. How can the people manage to sleep at night when trains go by?
Why didn’t they go further up north or maybe even a little more south where camping places cost the same but at least no trains disturb night’s rest?
This decision put’s me under pressure. I’m afraid of living together with millions of  other people who after a year of toil and trouble decide to spend a week of vacation right up against the railway.
Why do they have so much hatred for themselves?
For which reason do people have to punish themselves in this way?
There’s a connection between amassed, piled-up camping places parked along railway tracks and the war in Iraq.
I’m  absolutely certain about this affirmation.

Bush will never be substituted by another, things will never change.