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Foul of the center-right in Copasir (Urso president), Galateri (Generali) slurpa Draghi, Kamala Harris trumpeggia?

Not only Galateri (Generali), Urso (Copasir), Draghi, Kamala Harris and Capristo. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. Bits of press review in the tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

THE CENTER RIGHT IS SQUAGLIA ON COPASIR

ALL THE POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SUBBUGLES WHO PREVIOUSED THE ELECTION OF URSO AT COPASIR

SACRED AUDIT

TRUMPIST KAMALA?

INDIRECT EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWN

AAA LOOKING FOR (AND NOT FINDING)

CIG OR NOT CIG?

AMARA & CAPRISTO

ENVIRONMENTAL TURBANCES

TEUTONIC TURBAMENTS

AMERIKAN TURBAMENTS

BLACK PURPLE ON ASTRAZENECA

QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE

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EXTRACT FROM AN INTERVIEW BY CORRIERE DELLA SERA AT D'AMATO:

«I feel a wind of environmental fundamentalism stronger and stronger. The Green deal wanted by Europe represents a great challenge, an opportunity for growth and is fundamental for the salvation of the Planet. But there is a risk that it will turn into a black deal if you don't take action in time. The declinist forces point to what they call a happy degrowth. Which has nothing happy about it… ».

Antonio D'Amato, former president of Confindustria, at the helm of the Seda group, European leader in food packaging and packaging, is used to speaking directly. "In Europe, two visions are being compared: the fundamentalist one and the one that wants to make the sustainability of the Planet possible, but without losing sight of the fact that the European economy must remain strong, competitive, also very attentive to social stability, if it really wants to contribute to improving the fortunes of the planet "

But the turning point of the Green deal and the Recovery plan should serve precisely this transition.

"True. But I think there was an uncritical adhesion to the Green deal, without perceiving that strong ideological drifts were hidden behind absolutely acceptable objectives. All the countries have reached out to obtain the funds of the Recovery, but this drive that I would define Taliban is putting entire supply chains at risk. The legislative yards now open in Europe on agri-food, packaging, biodiversity and others are all inspired by the same paradigm: the world population is growing, per capita GDP is growing, consumption is growing and, therefore, to save the planet, we need to reduce lifestyle change. Behind I see very dangerous interventions, not only for industry but for the very model of Europe that we want. A Europe that knows how to be a leader in the circular economy, not that establishes a system of prohibitions that have completely different consequences from those that are announced … "

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EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW BY CORRIERE DELLA SERA WITH ANTONELLA VIOLA ABOUT ASTRAZENECA AND J&J VACCINES:

Should the Open days based on AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, both viral vectors, be suspended for younger people?

“It is very wrong to propose these vaccines to young people, especially women. I have always been convinced that they should not be given to people under the age of 55 », repeats for the umpteenth time Antonella Viola, immunologist, professor of general pathology in Padua, scientific director of the pediatric research institute Città della Speranza.

Why?

"To have no doubts, it is enough to read a work published in the journal Science where it is explained how as you go down with age the risks of receiving these vaccines greatly outweigh the benefits. On the other hand, in younger people the danger of having serious consequences due to Covid is very low. This is why France has decided to limit the two viral vector vaccines to people over 55 ».

Here, the Aifa drug agency's recommendation is for a preferential use over the age of 60, while the EMA has not placed any limitations. Do you think this indication should become more stringent?

“Yes, that recommendation should be clearer and more peremptory. Especially since, compared to when it was widespread, the epidemic situation in Italy has changed a lot. The virus circulates less, we have doses of vaccine at will. So there is no reason to rush to vaccinate ».

Don't you have to rush too much?

«It pays to choose the safest vaccine in relation to age. In these cases, Pfizer and Moderna preparations based on messenger RNA. Even so, we would arrive in September with a large part of the immunized population ».

How would the term of preferential use change?

“I would write that viral vector vaccines are not recommended under the age of 60 unless you want to narrow it down to 40 or 30. It is above all important that young women know that these compounds have a higher risk for them than men for the development of rare thrombosis accompanied by platelet deficiency ».

So you are for a firm line?

«The data says so. In a document dated April 23, the EMA published a graph that clearly shows how the benefit of receiving AstraZeneca decreases with age in an epidemic situation comparable to ours today. A 20-29-year-old boy has a 4 in 100,000 chance of avoiding hospitalization for Covid and a 1.9 chance of having post-vaccination thrombosis. Let's take the 60-69 range: 19 cases out of 100 thousand of avoided hospitalization, compared to 1 case of thromboembolism, half ».

Enough Open day for young people?

“The Regions must stop competing to see who vaccinates the most without putting safety first. Post vaccine thrombotic events are very rare but even one episode is a tragedy. The story of the 18-year-old hospitalized in Genoa is painful ».

Who should choose the most suitable vaccine?

"The family doctor who knows his patients."

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LAUNCH AGI ON ARREST OF AMARA:

The Public Prosecutor's Office of Potenza turns on a new light on the former prosecutor of Taranto, Carlo Maria Capristo, subject to the obligation of residence. The investigation concerns the management of some events relating to the former Ilva when Capristo headed the Taranto Public Prosecutor's Office. The Sicilian lawyer Piero Amara, arrested , would have been the contact man with Capristo when the lawyer was consultant on behalf of the extraordinary administration of Ilva, the latter entrusted to commissioners appointed by Mise.

According to the Power Prosecutor's Office, there would have been an exchange of favors relating to the legal proceedings for the former Ilva, a company that in the years of Capristo in Taranto also asked for a plea bargain. With today's new measures, the magistrates of Potenza have arrived on the trail of the first investigation, the one that in May of last year had brought Capristo to house arrest for an affair relating to pressures that Capristo himself, when he led the Prosecutor's Office of Trani, would have exercised on prosecutor Silvia Curione regarding an investigation.

The latter, wife of a prosecutor, Lanfranco Marazia, who was Capristo's substitute in Taranto (Curione and Marazia are today at the Bari Public Prosecutor's Office while Capristo, who has always rejected all the accusations and is currently on trial in Potenza, is in pension). Under his management in Taranto, Capristo has been interested several times in issues related to the former Ilva.

An activism that did not go unnoticed even if repeatedly the Public Prosecutor took an interest in the factory and not only for the events relating to the Ambiente Svenduto investigation, i.e. the management of the Riva group, an investigation that resulted in a trial in the Court of Assizes which ended at the end last May with heavy sentences .

In March 2019, for example, Capristo promoted a summit in his office with various subjects, not only judicial, for a situation on the remediation work of the plants. The summit was attended by the then government commissioner in the reclamation of Taranto, Vera Corbelli, Arpa Puglia and also ArcelorMittal Italia, with the then managing director Matthieu Jehl.

ArcelorMittal took over from the commissioners of Ilva in November 2018, becoming the plant manager. After the summit, none of the participants made statements to reporters. Only Capristo spoke and said: “There will be periodic meetings in the Prosecutor's Office. Each one will represent the works that are carried out and planned under the supervision of our offices ”. “The State exists – said the prosecutor – and today it was present in all its components of verification and validation of certain data. There are immediate answers because the programs in progress will also be verified by us ”.

But before that, in September 2016, Capristo released after a short time the conveyor belt of the blast furnace 4 of the iron and steel plant of Taranto where there had been a fatal accident at work. Giacomo Campo, a 25-year-old worker employed by the contractor company Steel Service, had lost his life, got stuck in the conveyor belt while removing the ore from the same belt. The prosecutor Capristo, announcing the release of the tape and the related area, stated that the operation was also necessary for safety reasons, since a particular and technically complex system such as a blast furnace could not stand still for a long time.

It also emerged that the conveyor belt in question had a large gap, of about 200 meters, so much so that the company had to replace it while the cut belt remained under seizure, available to the judiciary and experts to analyze the reasons that had determined the break. Regarding the extent of the gash, the prosecutor Capristo, then, while not explicitly speaking of sabotage, nevertheless said that there were signs, under the scrutiny of the judicial authority, which suggested the presence of internal and external actions in the factory contrary to the environmental remediation project.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/galateri-generali-draghi-kamala-viola/ on Wed, 09 Jun 2021 07:24:23 +0000.