Good people versus the people of respect in the Sicilian society.

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Mafia

Since I was a little boy in Sicily, I learned to distinguish the people in general as good people and people of respect.

I remember of when people were mentioning my family in their conversations, and they were always referring to my family as good people. What that meant? I learned soon what they really meant.


"Good people" was a way to distinguish the honest hard working people inside the Sicilian society from another kind of people. This other kind of people which reputations were with dubious moralities, and they were the so-called, "people of respect".

The people of respect (also mis-regarded as honorable people) was and still it is in Sicily, the people gravitating around or living within the Mafia's contest.

When the common people were mentioning them in their private conversations, they were always doing it with uneasy feelings of hidden fears. In fact the phrase of, "people of respect" evokes till these days in the honest people a bad concealed truth, and this truth was that they were indeed all fearful of them (the mafiusi).

That was and unfortunately still it is, the sad truth. When you found yourself in some particular circumstances and you asked to someone close to you, who were those people present at that moment and this someone was telling you that they were people of respect, then you realized soon what that meant. That meant to be cautious, to be afraid, because you never knew what they wanted from you.

Indeed, what you really heard when you were hearing those words in the Sicilian society for sure was: fears, intimidations, extortions, murdering and so on. As you can see, there was little of respectfulness on those words and more of fearfulness. That's what the mafia really evoked in the minds of the Sicilian men when those words were spoken, and none of respectability.

Now, I want to tell you a story of when I was a teenager living in Sicily and I had a small incident with one of these people of respect.

This incident happened one summer morning, and I was with the company of my young friends. My friends and I were all playfully horsing around a nearby empty water channel.

During this playfulness, I felt someone grabbing my right shoulder with excessive strength. Then, in a puzzled way, I turned myself around and saw a tall old man with completely white hairs under a black coppola looking angrily at me. He started shouting at me with an old Sicilian dialect, which I could barely understood.

While I was trying to make sense of the words rushing out from the mouth of this old guy, he was already pushing me toward the edge of the empty water channel. After we reached that edge, he pointed his index finger to something which I could barely see down there.

I was totally confused up then. I could not make any sense of what he was trying to tell me, and either the why he was pointing his finger to that mysterious thing at the bottom of the channel.

At that point I was getting in a mix of frustration, angriness, and fearfulness. Slowly my brain started to decipher the intelligible words shouted at me from the old guy (later, I found out this old guy was on his seventies).

He was accusing me to had thrown his metallic wheelbarrow to the bottom of that channel. I promptly rejected his accusation vented on me, and his face started to twist more in an unrecognizable mask of angriness (I want to be more specific, in that incident I believe I was around the age of nine or maybe eleven years old). The kind of exaggerated reaction of this old guy, was like he was dealing with an adult guy capable to stand up to his confrontational attitude.

In fact now, he was pushing me harder to the edge of the channel while with a furious tone of voice (the kind tone of voice from someone used to give commands) he was ordering me to go towards the bottom of it to recover his metallic wheelbarrow. Right that moment, I started to think that the old man must had been out of his mind for wanting from me something like that, in spite of my young age. For me at that young age, his request sounded like he was asking me to descend from a very high mountain's peak, to recover a very heavy metallic object at the bottom of it.

Consequentially to his unreasonable request I started to cry while I was imploring him to let me go, but still he kept insisting with his absurd request. I can't recall how long he persisted with his absurdity. Eventually, he gave up and let me go but not before he warned to harshly punish me if he ever saw me again around that place.

Later, I had a conversation with some acquaintances about that old guy. I asked them who he was, and they told me he was a man of respect. A man of respect which was the family head of the Di Maggio's clan. To be more concise, he was a mafia boss well know and respected (I dare to say that more than respected he was feared) in the neighborhood where I lived.

In those days, I started to learn for the first times those words, "men of respect" and their real meanings.

Those same words, kept coming back during the rest of my years I lived in Sicily. I can say today, that harsh, brief encounter with the old, "respected" man was for me a childhood trauma, as well the first lesson on the real nature of the mafia's grasp on the minds and lives of the honest Sicilian people.

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A personal analysis on a pernicious disease. - Islam, the end of many cultures.

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Islam

Despite the fact that the Arab world is geographically positioned side by side (even though is physically divided by the Mediterranean sea) with the European continent, since historically it has always been, the antithesis of the European Christianity and its many cultures.

The culprits of these constant alienation and confrontation reside for the most part, inside their own archaic Arabic cultures, and most of all, in their religion of nearly-peace, "Islam".


Nowadays, these fundamentally different models of cultures have collided in confrontational manners. All this difficult situation was created by far, with the help of European's fanatic visionaries on a new era for Europe. Their personal ideas on a new Europe with their wrong ideologies and their theorizations on multi-ethnic societies came to life, when they thought, the time was right...

Multiculturalisms, a new trend for European cultures to commit suicide?


As from today, it is very hard to foreseen the outcomes of all this mess created as result from national multiculturalisms been forcibly melted into single identities under the banner of, "globalization".

Threatened by big masses of Muslims entering Europe's borders together with the backwardness of their so called, "religion of peace" Europe is today on the verge of been conquered without a real war going on.

Islam has greatly failed its own people. And now in this modern age, it has become a latent infection for the rest of all free societies. Already, Islam is ready to spread its malefic influence toward anything that divert from the Koranic teachings.

When Islam comes to dominate other cultures, those other cultures are often destroyed.

BetBasoo

Potentially the mere existence of this pestilential malignancy can be a dangerous downfall for all the progress made by the free minds belonging to all the mankind, during its long journey throughout its history of discoveries and enlightenments, for the sake of human evolution.

All of these advancements, created after centuries of human struggle to free itself from its own chains of darkness and ignorances, and today this progress, is in danger of been annihilated by a regressive force such as the Islamization of all the European continent and following the rest of the world.

After all the struggling from our dark past, what we are getting today are many humanitarian reforms, and most important freedoms. The freedom to express freely our thoughts without the fears of reprisal and persecution by an uncompromising Islam.

Now, what I am afraid of is: free thinking being banished or ostracized from society by unmerciful Sharia courts alongside its deleterious Koranic's laws!

Islamic devotees (mostly the fanatic wings of Islam) have been trying more and more, to push Christian nations to become Islamic nations.

Islam is a religion of peace and to prove it we'll kill you!


A religion which was and is, endlessly nurtured and worshiped throughout the centuries by those fanatic and extreme adherents of this brand of religion which was named, "Islam". Now it is pushing even harder to proselytize more believers in its ranks, to ultimately render more fertile for its sustainers to reach their prefixed goal, the Islamization of the old continent, and later the entire globe.

In Euroland, an out of time and out of touch religion together with a bunch of retarded Koranic laws which will stain in the long run even the already existing cohesion with other cultural diversities.

Nefarious schemes has been perpetrated by these Islamic, "enthusiasts" infiltrated in the European soil which are already portraying gloomy scenarios under the shadow of rigid Sharia courts.

Europe has the right to preserve its identity, and not to be watered down by sentiments for multiculturalisms!


Differences between conservative Islamic values and Europe's traditionally secular liberalism are been daily tested inside the European borders. Exacerbated continuously by cultural sensitivity and by short-sighted and sometimes too zealous European politicians, as end result, European citizens are becoming more wary of the continuous Muslim's mass immigration into the heart of Europe and their presumably full integration with the rest of the native populations.

How all will end?

All will end with the creation of a fully reformed Islam that can coexist peacefully with the European values.

It's that really possible?

I wish, I can live long enough to see that happen. Because differently, God helps Europe!

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A new economic rating for nations is needed.

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General Contents

A new economic tool for rating the economy status of a nation is needed.

Why?

Italy has the third public debts in the world, but still it is managing this crisis fairly well. The reason is: the public debts' data alone doesn't tells us much about the true economic health of a nation.

In fact, Italy has better standing on the private debts than the United States, meaning that Italian banks and industries are far less financial indebted than the American counterpart.

As a matter of fact, better readings for a correct interpretation of the true economic strength from nations is needed. The creation of a new form of indicator which will accumulate the private debts of a nation together with its public debts. Consequently at the creation of this new indicator which will consolidate the two debts in one single reading. Then, and only then, we'll have the correct economy's health of a specific nation.

For sure in this new rating system the United States will scores much worst than Italy, and that's why these two nations in the face of this economic crisis are performing differently.

As proof of the economic performance of these two nations, I'm adding two links where you'll get some more infos:

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Conclusions:

The past United States' political system has failed its own people by far. Today, after the election of Obama as the new American President, there are some American conservatives which are afraid that this Obama's Presidency will change the American economic system by creating one which will resemble more to a socialistic system and less of a capitalistic one.

Now, Obama has vowed for a new plan to repair and to revive the American's shattered economy. A new U.S. political system which is more inclined towards the people and not towards the rich. How bad that will be if that will ever happen, for the people of the United States?

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Is the American capitalism a model for bankruptcy?

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This last American financial crisis has shown the real weaknesses of this nation's economic strength. The United States are or were, one of the wealthiest and strongest economic nation in the world. But how much of all that, is still holding true nowadays?

Is the American capitalistic model, a model of bankruptcy especially for the common U.S. citizens?

The rich of the U.S. will sail this current economic crisis with more or less worries for their own pockets. In the other end, while this economic storm is still going on, who is really bearing (as always happens in these kinds of situations) the full brunt of this economic turmoil are the common citizens with less cash availability in the hands, and even less confidence to overcome it.

This U.S. financial crisis has also spurred a global economic recess, and while the United States has to deal with it in various ways to solve this economic crisis, I find out that in the world there are some exceptions of nations been more capable to deal with it.

Some of these exceptions are in the old continent. In particular one of the European's nations, which is it Italy. What I have learned, was indeed that Italy is coping with this economic crisis much better than the United States of America.

Afterwards to it, my personal question was: the why of that?

In Italy the private debts are much lower than the U.S. debts, and for the mere facts even lower than the English debts, or the Irish's debts (these nations share most of the same financial and economical models).

In fact, while Italy doesn't have to create more public debts to cure its own financial woes, the United States has to invest a lot of money in the hope to avert an immediate financial meltdown. And of course to get fresh cash to pay for avoiding a financial meltdown, the United States has to squeeze more juice from the wallets of the American people.

Now my thinking on this financial situation is this: perhaps inside the American's economical models lies the truth about their own economy's weakness on the global markets...

Using different approaches by national governments for the social benefits.

Now, what are the differences between these two economic systems which are allowing them to deal with this global economic crisis.

While in Italy the social economic market is that of a state which is closer to the needs of the majority of its own people, rather than, closer to the needs of the few Italian's industrial tycoons.

On the contrary in the United States, the social economic market seems to be all bent to protect the welfares of the industrial tycoons, in spite of all the needs of the majority of the American people.

In what ways, the Italian people are benefiting more from an Italian economic system than the U.S. people with their own economic system?

First and foremost, the Italian people are getting some more benefits from their own social economic system by allowing them to not be worried to the extremes in the case of they losing their jobs. Because in the event that it happens, they, the Italians will get some more social protections than their U.S. counterparts.

Second, the Italian are more inclined to save than more on spending their hard earned money. Instead most of the U.S. citizens, because of their attitude to frenziedly spend all of their money like there's no tomorrow, most of these people when they've lost their jobs are left in deep desperation and with almost none of the same social protective net of the Italians.

You see: most Italians have saving in the Italian banks, but most U.S. citizens have only debts with the American banks. This American spending attitude is due to the American life style's pressures on its own people.

Third, most of the Italians own their houses...in the other hand, how many U.S. citizens own a house?

and lastly...

Fourth, Italians are getting better (unfortunately this is not always true, especially in the south of Italy... but this is an other story) and mostly free health cares than the U.S. citizens.

Continue...

Next: A new economic rating for nations is needed.

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Of when I was living in another dimension.

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Today I want to share with all of you, a weird experience I had in my past.

Did ever happen to you, to apparently live in another dimension? This weird experience happened to me more than once, but if you ask me how many times it happened, frankly, I can't answer it at all. I never ever told to anyone about it, for the simple reason it was a real weird one, and besides I was afraid I could end up in a psychiatric ward.

Now, what this experience was it's very hard to tell even today.

Here I go:

I remember in the past, to have had some unusual feelings when they were less expected, and all of them happened indifferently in the daytimes and as well in nighttimes. Mostly, they were sensations of temporary living in another dimension, a dimension in which I didn't belong.

All of those sensations were happening when I was in a sort of dreamlike state, and even though I consciously knew back then that I was fully awake when they were happening. In those moments I felt like I wasn't in my body anymore, but I was living in somebody else body. Also in those weird moments, I had the clean impression that all around me was from an alien ambient, like I wasn't anymore on earth but in a bizarre and strange planet.

Another thing which hit me about those moments was, when they were happening during the daylights they felt more real to me. The brightness levels of those days were so blinding and painful to watch, like there was too much light been emanated from the sun.



Also the people around me looked so bizarre, so alien. The all looked luminescent and almost transparent, sort of evanescent beings. Even physical objects appeared to me weirdly. I felt that buildings around me had real bodies and souls, like they were breathing organisms. At the same time to my eyes, those buildings seemed that they were been slanted out from their equilibrium points.

In addition to that strange atmosphere, I didn't fail to notice the air which was getting in my lungs was filled with more pure oxygen and it was much warmer than usual.

At times in those moments, I was really terrified. I had the clear sensation that something awful was going to happen. Despite the fact that I wasn't feeling any pain, I was afraid that I was dying.

Why?

Why I was so scared that I was going to die, in such beautiful and not easily explainable days. I couldn't answer my own question. Fortunately, I knew in those awkward moments that they weren't going to last forever.

Five minutes, maybe half of an hour, or maybe two hours passed before everything ended. Exactly, I didn't know how long they lasted but eventually they always ended, although, the rest of those particular days went on like nothing ever happened.

Today, I can't still figure them out the whys and wherefores they were occurring to me. Those unusual moments were for me sort of out of body experiences.

Maybe unknowingly, in those strange days I was in the verge of some serious illness. Or maybe those weird moments had something to do with my body's chemicals balance.



On second thought I believe, on those weird moments I was really been transfered into a parallel dimension by some evil Martian.

But, despite the fact that they are unpleasant moments to remember even today, ultimately I prefer to remember them as some kind of spiritual events.

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