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Perugia Italy
a new ecovillage

Ecological homes within an immense park where all is surrounded by nature.
Apartments available starting from 40 SQMTs and up.
Part of the real estate shared by all;  from  laundry to dance/recreation hall.
Thermal solar panels as well as photovoltaic panels, thermal insulation and highly efficient heating systems.
An extensive choice of houses, diverse in kind and positions.
Possibility of  partially or completely constructing independently.
A system of warranty and validation; highly professional  and experienced architects, engineers and constructors cooperating on a transparent, straightforward project supervised by Banca Etica as well as the Libera Università di Alcatraz.
The first homes are available immediately.

What exactly are Eco-Villages
The idea of creating places where people can live in harmony with nature and between themselves within a peaceful and joyful environment.
Eco-Villages are an alternative opportunity to build and live where projecting is at  the centre of human well-being as well as relating it to impact on the surrounding environment.
Eco-Villages are a model, an example of sustainable development and social relationships, successfully experimented for the past 50 years throughout the entire world.

The Solar Eco-Village – Ecovillaggio Solare
It is located within a vast territory of 400.000 SQMTs in a wonderful valley; only woods and a stream, century old olive trees and hills as far as you can see. This is what borders the Alcatraz park; 4 million SQMTs of green. The European Community has  registered this place as a Site of Community Importance “SIC”.
The Solar Eco-Village or Ecovillaggio Solare  is located between Perugia, Umbertide and Gubbio, 12  kilometers from Parlesca (we promise, there are no traffic lights around), where you can find a bank, a supermarket and an elementary school.

A great opportunity for making an important choice
The Eco-Village is made up of 5 groups of houses in an area of approximately 1.5 kilometers therefore feel assured that overcrowding is impossible. You can choose between homes located in neighborhoods (with surrounding houses) or isolated and lonely conditions if you prefer living on your own.
A group of houses can be found alongside a wonderful stream, another group of houses is located on top of a hill, other homes as situated in between the two previously mentioned locations. Some rest upon a hillock, others are “lost” in the woods. There are ancient, traditional homes built in stone, homes constructed with modern earth-quakeproof cement, wooden homes in lamellar panels either painted or covered in stone. You can choose your ideal home in your ideal finish. We like the idea of choice because it encounters every single person’s aspirations. We feel that diversity is a resource for mankind.

All the quality that counts
All the homes listed are characterized through the use of high quality raw materials and efficient, energy saving installments. The raw materials used are non toxic. All houses are completed with thermal solar and photovoltaic panels, a dual hydraulic plant for  high quality heating and cooling at extreme energy saving conditions. Every single apartment comes with  a 2000 SQMT garden, a vegetable patch, fields and woods. These open air properties can eventually be increased if one desires to cultivate or own more land.
It is a place conceived to make life easier, to facilitate and even induce social relationships offering opportunities of sharing and cooperating. No obligations, no one forced into anything, no ideologies to follow, just the deep and sincere desire to develop and share experiences in a different manner compared to standard city built  apartment buildings where nobody says hello as you walk down the aisle.

Cohousing opportunities
You buy your apartment and you automatically become co-owner of a share of 200,000 SQMTs of land, of a collective/community laundry, of a ball room/dancing and recreation area, of laboratories, of a bar  and restaurant along with a  hotel with 10 rooms, a photovoltaic installment and a  centralized  hydraulic  irrigation plant. A way  for rationalizing the concept of home. You don’t need a guest room anymore because your apartment   “owns”  a share of  and shares 10 bedrooms which you can use without any extra fees or costs.
The “apartment building areas”  are conceived in such a way to give owners the opportunity to create and invent cultural as well as economic activities that can bring an economical advantage to the entire community. Therefore, one of the advantages of  the economical aspect of the touristic-sales activities of the Eco-Village is that the activities can be organized by the owners themselves.
The idea is that instead of  paying the costs of running the place you can obtain economical benefits or gains from your real estate.

When can you move to the Eco-Village?
The first apartments will be ready within June 2010.

How much does it cost?
You have the possibility of obtaining financial assistance and/or a mortgage at advantageously fair  rates.
For those who have difficult or disadvantageous economical situations there is the opportunity of adhering to a group of self-constructors/self-builders, of obtaining a change of use for agricultural land bought at € 10,00.- per SQMT consequently  transforming it into residential zoning (we have already obtained a positive response from the Perugia City Council) thus building your own house in togetherness with a specialized cooperative society that works with funds obtained from the European Community in  sustainment/aid  to  popular construction.

The possibility of diminishing costs by buying apartments at various phases of construction (for example; you can choose inner finish and work on it yourself instead of having a builder/plumber/carpenter work in your place)

The financial aspect of the entire operation as well as  the technical and economical supervision are run by the Banca Etica which  is partner of the consortium who manages the building/construction of the project.

Prices starting from € 2,000 per SQMT. 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150 SQMT apartments available. For those who decide to adhere within December 2009 it will be possible to make structural changes inside the chosen apartment(s) without having to face any extra costs regarding project modifications. The cost for the collective/community share is € 25,000.-
Prices are blocked until the 31st of Mars, 2010.

Is it possible to buy Safely at a Fair price?
We are all aware that buying a house is a big step in life and we’re aware of that strange state of anxiety that overcomes us here in Italy when we’re about to sign a real estate contract because it could be that we are fooled into something we’re not completely aware of. That’s the reason why besides projecting the entire Solar Eco-village Eco Villaggio Solare we’ve also thought of how to make it a sure and safe purchase.
Our objective is to supply you with what should normally be supplied when you buy a house: to truly  pay what you get, nothing more and nothing less.
We have therefore set-up a system the supplies the opportunity of buying a house in an informed and fully aware manner where credentials are clear and transparent under all aspects.
Those interested in knowing more about the solar panel/photovoltaic installments and the principals of bioclimatic concepts which are at  the basis of the Solar Eco-Village can adhere and participate to seminars organized on spot. You will be supplied with detailed information and explanations regarding technical aspects and choices of  raw materials used for construction as well as the functioning of various running systems/plants such as hydraulic/plumbing, electricity, water, sewage, agricultural irrigation etc.)
In addition to the above you can also ask for detailed information regarding  project validation.
The Eco-village is unique for methods of selection in construction, starting from the budgets requested from builders which have been validated by the Banca Etica so as to give all guarantees regarding the buying of something that is really worth the money you’re paying  and that what you’re paying  is truly a fair bargain.
The Banca Etica, through its participation in the consortium, runs and supervises the entire project. Sergio Los and  Natascia Pulizer, who both have 30 years of experience regarding ecological construction and engineering, have taken care of and managed all territory analysis and projecting applying architectural and thermal criteria based upon the local climate.
Professor Maurizio Fauri of the University of Trento did all verifications regarding energy efficiency.

The raw materials used for construction have been supervised from a toxic point of view so as to guarantee upmost quality in components. Analysis was done by the Conal Institute of Milan with the supervision of Doctor Corrado Giannone. All choices made regarding raw materials were assessed by a working group of the Libera Università di Alcatraz that already boasts a 30 year experience in constructions as well as the restoration of existing homes.
The companies who run the project from a building and construction point of view are Service Legno and Safra with which we of Alcatraz have already, in past experiences, cooperated on large projects here and elsewhere. Both companies are absolutely trustworthy.
The Solar Eco-Village will have  the Energia Arcobaleno brand mark associated to  it’s name.

Do you want to buy immediately?
Send us an e-mail at info@ecovillaggiosolare.it and we can fix an appointment regarding when you can come and visit the houses and the land. We will happily accompany you throughout your stay. If you want to receive more information on how the houses are built or  if you wish to participate to one of the seminars mentioned previously where you can directly  talk to architects and engineers please let us know. Should you choose an apartment  and should  you have clear ideas regarding  the characteristics with which you intend to finish it internally, you can book it by anticipating € 5.000.- (five thousand Euro and the money can be refunded). Banca Etica will keep it in consignment and it will be used to put technicians to work regarding any changes you wish to be made on the initial project. But believe us, we do need a guarantee which shows you are truly interested in buying one of the houses we’ve proposed.
At this point in time we will prepare detailed estimates and calculations regarding the final cost of your apartment including any changes and/or modifications you have chosen to include. We present you the estimate and only then can you decide whether you wish to buy or not. Should you answer be positive then we will fix an appointment with the notary, should it be negative we will reimburse you  your € 5.000.- (five thousand Euro).

The first eco-house built in Alcatraz

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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.