Monday, March 16, 2015

Other refugee problems

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Boat full of refugees going to Italy, just about every day there are boats full of refugees coming to Italy.






The entire world has refugees problem,
In the previous post we have talked about the emigrant problem in Europe, although Europe has the biggest flow of illegal migrant these days, it is not the only place that this exodus of people happens, because they happen in most other parts of the world as well: For instance in Australia the government is trying very hard to stop the boats of illegal emigrant to reach its shores, whenever they can they take these incoming immigrant to a less attractive place than Australia, they keep them over there for as long as they can and only those that are found to be real refugees are allowed to come to Australia; it might not work exactly like that but at least they try to stop the boats coming in easily, in the hope that less illegal migrant would come to Australia. 




Border fence between USA Mexico to stop illegal migrants. 












But this emigration problem is all over the world and also the USA has got this sort of problem with the people from Mexico that somehow find the way how to cross the frontier and enter USA, but over there at least the authorities try to stop it, and for this reason it is kept to a minimum and that is a good thing for many reasons. One of these reasons is the danger that they bring with them, because the receiving country may become impoverished and then their own people would want to move to another country, well I suppose this might not apply to the USA, because it is a big country and it is rich, but in general terms this is what could happen.
Now let us leave behind the emigrants that want to move to another country for financial gain, and let us talk briefly about the refugees from war thorn countries. These refugees really need some help and we should give it to them, but here we really should be cautious, we should really screen them to see whether they are refugees that other people have caused to become refugees, or they have taken part themselves in the causing of the wars, which in turn has made them refugees; this issue would be very important to know, because they might be those type of people that might cause the same problem wherever they go. We hope you see what we mean.

Risk refugees
Now that we are talking about war refugees let us look at those refugees that bring the most risk to the receiving country. Here you might have a shock to learn that the refugees that bring most risks are those refugees that come from religious wars, any type of these refugees bring danger with them wherever they go, because of their religious beliefs and they believe that killing other people is right, just because these people do not belong to their own religion, so their religion make them trigger happy and they go around killing other people.
In order to understand this issue, we need only to look at past religious wars and other meaningless acts that religious people have caused to understand what we want to say here. Let us just mention a couple of the most senseless things that religious people have done: The crusader is one and the other major one is the inquisition, these two acts have killed thousands of people in the name of God and religion. Therefore those extremist religious fanatics are to be treated with suspicion, we should be really careful to accept them easily in our country. We could say more but this means that we have to point out directly to those religious groups that we think are dangerous and we are not prepared to do that at this point of time.
If you don’t know about these two negative religious events of the Crusaders and the Inquisition try to read some of their history. You see today the religious people will avoid mentioning any of these acts. Anyhow we are pasting here some links for you to investigate.  
Now, here we would like to point out that the problem is not entirely the fault of religions, but it is rather the way that the people use them, this is one of the reasons why we have written our own religious theory of Reconciliation of the universe where we are suggesting how to attempt to modify religions in such a way that it would be harder for people to use religions for their own advantages. Here are a few article links that you can read, just to have an idea what we are talking about. Reconciliation of the Universe, God of the Universe description, God's central sit of government, I have only given you three links of the several articles we have written and if you are interested to read more it would be easy to connect to the other using these links above. 
That is all for the time being, but we will say more if we need to say more later on.        

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Our modern problems

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Modern worldwide problem
So many bout full of illegal migrant reach the cost of Italy just about every day; so one is forced to ask, for how long the Italian people should be able to help them. So I am afraid that soon or later the Italian might end up with a problem that is not easy to solve.

Modern worldwide problem
Dear readers of our blog, Genzano it story, this time we are not going to post the post that we said we would, we will be coming back to that later on; but we will be posting this new type of blog post, because the problem that we see coming could and would also affect Genzano itself, so we would like to say how we see what is happening in the world about the refugees or illegal emigrant, and how this could affect us all.
This article are our personal views of the problems that are happening these days in the entire world; so we would like to have our say by writing this article about illegal emigrant and refugees, because we would like to highlight this modern worldwide problem, hoping that somehow people will be more attentive to this phenomenon of illegal emigrant that are forcing their way into another country, even when that country does not need them or want them, because they are causing many problems.
We all know that we the modern civilized western world are usually willing to help if we can, as long as our position is not put at risk by what we are doing, so, we are willing to help these people in need, especially if they are real refugees running away from wars and other extreme happenings that rends their place of residence dangerous or useless, but at the same time, we should face the truth and see that we all have a limited capacity to help these people, therefore when that capacity is exhausted, we need to be really careful that we don’t end up in a bad way ourselves and instead of being able to help others we need help ourselves from other people, because we have lost the capacity to be self sufficient.
This is the danger that some parts of world are facing today, we really should try to see where all this illegal emigration might take us, you see sometimes we have reasons to believe that this illegal emigration is a dangerous thing that the world unwillingly allows to go on; it is like invading another country without waging war, but some of us don’t see the danger that these illegal emigrant bring with them.
For instance Italy is decriminalizing clandestine immigration; this seems to give more say to the new arrival of clandestine immigrant, because they are not viewed as criminals just because they are illegal immigrants. Okay that seems very good from the immigrant point of view, but at the same time it encourages other new emigrant to move to Italy. As we all know Italy has only a limited capacity to absorb the influx of emigrant. Therefore the politicians are kidding themselves that they need people to work, in order to pay for the aging pensions and other welfare that the government pays for; but the question here is where is the work that these immigrant can do, when there is no work for the Italians people that are already there?
What we have said above is just a view of how we see this worldwide problem or phenomenon that is happening these days. The worrying part of it is that it seems to increase; in 2013 Italy has had over 40,000 illegal immigrants and this year is increasing, so nobody knows how all this will end. Anyhow let us see what has been happening lately and then we will come back to discuss other financial problems.
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More boat people        
This photo above shows people in Libya waiting in this detention centre for a chance to go to Italy, or any other European country.
The Libyan government said that they are struggling with these enormous arrivals of migrating people and would like more aid from EU countries.
There is a report that a boat with 400 people sank and many people are feared dead.      
Looking at what is happening it is hard to say what the receiving countries could do to avoid other consequences that could follow from this overflow of forced emigration, what seems most important here is this that we should try to help the most in need, but we have to keep in mind that we cannot help them all, so we need to find ways about how to slow this emigration down, after all the people that reach Italy and other European nations look well and healthy, so they are not really starving where they come from.
Therefore they could have stayed in the country of origin longer, but that is not all, because not only they come without being invited, and worst of all is that they pretend from the Italian government a house or some sort of accommodation; they have really a twisted view of what is fair for everybody to ask and receive, since they think only about themselves, you see, they don’t see that for today whatever the government would be able to distribute to the people, first and foremost there must have been somebody that worked hard to make those things.
 For these reasons of production, all those things that the government might have available should first of all be given to the people that have produced, and then if there is anything left, they would be distributed to the incoming immigrant that have never done anything to produce them. I know that some of you are going to say that I am a hard man, but that is the only way that the world can afford to go on. Now what we have said here is about what is happening in the Mediterranean Sea between Africa and Europe, but there is more as you will see in the article here under.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Madonna church

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This is the Madonna church, as it is today.
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The Madonna church
Today in Genzano di Lucania there is still an important church that has the name of this Madonna that we call; Maria Santissima delle Grazie, as it happened, some years had passed by from the day that they found the Madonna icon near Capo Daqua fountain, when somebody dreamed that the Madonna wanted a church of her own built on a hill called ‘Montefreddo’; the story for building this church says that there was this person that dreamed that the Madonna wanted a church, now it happened that the night the dreamer dreamed this particular dream was snowing, but in the morning the snow had melted away everywhere except where the dreamer had dreamed that the Madonna wanted her church built. The dreamer told her dream to the people of Genzano, which then they understood and took notice of the strange event of the snow. Therefore it was then decided that the new church would have to be built where that large patch of snow was left. And this is the reason why the church of this Madonna was built on this high hill of Genzano called, Montefreddo.
With the building of the Madonna church many more devotees came to adore this Madonna, and they prayed to her for graces or miracles; and many graces they received in return, so this Madonna sanctuary grew and became well known all around the country for a few centuries, but then one day a fire broke out in the crowded church, because they had too many things going on at the same time and some people perished. After that it was closed for a while and when they fixed it and opened it again, it was not as popular as it had been before.
Nowadays, although this Madonna church has been damaged badly twice by earthquake and once by fire, as we have said above, it has been rebuilt and restored and it is still very popular, but not quite as much as it used to be, I suppose it is the sign of the times, because people nowadays don’t believe in religion as much as they used to do in the old times.
Anyhow, in the town of Genzano of nowadays, we still celebrate a great feast for this Madonna, the yearly festivity for this Madonna are held for three days the first week end in August. We will have to come back to tell you about these festivities later on; because now I would like to tell you what else the people of Genzano did after they found the Madonna near Capo D’aqua fountain.
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Madonna chapel and fountain
Let us go back at the site where they found the Madonna and what the people of Genzano did soon after they found this Madonna; we have already mentioned above that they were going to built a chapel, and so they built the chapel; but at the same time they built a larger fountain, because when the people of Genzano were digging to find the Madonna icon, they also found another large spring of water, so they channelled this water to make a larger fountain nearby that to these days is called Capo d’aqua, because on the abundance of this spring waters.
Since then this fountain has been rebuilt and enlarged about year 1800, in order to serve the people of Genzano as the population was growing larger. The fountain has inscribed in a corner the name of a certain ‘Lepore’, perhaps he was the mayor of the town at the time when they built or rebuilt the fountain. It is a large and abundant spring fountain situated just downstream from where they had found the Madonna, and just about where the Del’monte chasm and the Greek chasm meet, but well before they merge with St. Antun or St Michael chasm downstream. The fountain was built as a simple country fountain, and it has five or six large troughs of about three metre long and one metre wide, all built of solid and simple masonry. There are reasons to believe that the people of Genzano have used a lot this fountain outside the town, because there was no reticulated water in town in those times and the Cavallina fountain in the town was not large enough to supply the entire town.
So, this fountain was used in various ways, as there are two troughs which have three and four water sprouts each, which are fed from the spring and are constantly pouring water into the troughs. The two troughs with the sprouts are reserved for the animals to drink, and for those people that want to fill some sorts of vessels straight from the sprouts. From these two troughs then the water runs out into the rest of the troughs, and these secondary troughs were used to do the town’s washing, since there was no reticulated water in town in those times.
Capo d’aqua fountain was very popular in the old times, there was even a song that a young girl used to sing happily, she would sing about the time when she would go to Capo d’Aqua fountain to do the washing. I can still remember a few of the dialect verses that I learned when I was young, and they go like this:
Italian dialect verses.
Me chiam Rosa e teng vent’ann
E a Capodaqua ije lav li pann
Kess eij la dota ca me dai mam
na strecatora e na cest pei pann.
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English version
My name is Rose and I am twenty
And a Capo D’aqua I wash my clothes
This is the dowry that my mother gives me,
A scrubbing board and a basket for clothes
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This is the story of this Madonna that we have told just the way we know it, next time we will have to think of something else to write our next post. See you soon.  


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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Madonna is found

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This is the real effigy of the Madonna that was found at Capodaqua fountain
in the year 1621, Anyhow this is how we the people of Genzano would see the Madonna effigy that is set high in the wall above the high altar in her own church. This effigy stays there all the time, so when every year we have a feast for this Madionna we use another Madonna statue.













This is the statue of the Madonna that we take around town, ween we celebrate this Madonna feast














The Madonna is found
In our last post of this Madonna story we said that the people that were trying to find the Madonna became tired and decided to build a chapel instead, as they were doing this some rocks fell from the chasm wall above, so, they decided to remove the fallen rocks and sort them out, so that they could use those rocks to build part of the chapel anyhow. And then it happened; it happened the 25th day of March 1621 late in the afternoon, it was about the time when in the church they say this afternoon prayer called Vespers, at this time of the day most people that are in the country would pack up to go home. But there was a worker working at the fallen stone heap, and although he was tired he felt that he wanted to do just a little bit more before he would turn in, so he kept working just a little bit extra: His name was ‘Giovanni Malatesta’ and he was digging with a pick to get the stones loose from the fallen heap of rocks, when he hit a very hard rock, and a beautiful aroma filled the air: he had struck with his pick the sculpture of the ‘Madonna with Child’. What a shock to this man must have been, when he realised that he struck with his pick the icon of the Madonna over the eye. They say that he never was the same man again from the shock, and it is said that he died early in his life not long after this event took place.
As soon as they realised that they had found the Madonna, somebody ran up the road to town, to let the people of Genzano know that they had finely found the Madonna icon, and the good news spread so fast, and most of the town’s folks went to see for themselves, even though it was already evening and it soon would be dark.
The whole town was in feast for a very long time afterward.
All the religious authorities were in due time advised about the finding of the Madonna icon, and they took part in the prescribed religious events that followed. A Chapel was built on the spot where they had found the Madonna, with the intention that one day they would build a church there. After they found the icon of the Madonna with Child many people came to adore this Madonna, they came from the surrounding towns and also from far away towns and they received so many miracles from this Madonna that would be even hard just to count their number.
Taking the Madonna to town
But there is still an extra story to tell about this Madonna, this story might be a bit out of the ordinary ways that normal things happen, and therefore today many people might not believe it, but then we have to think that here we are talking about Madonnas and therefore also miracles, we also have to keep in mind that the old people believed that it really happened, so let us tell you the story just the way it has been told and retold many times from the elders of the town.
The folklore story of this Madonna goes on to tell us, that while they were taking the Madonna effigy they had found at Capodaqua to the town church, of Maria SS Della Platea, which was the main church of the town, when they reached the entrance of the town, as you know in those times every town had their entrance doors that were shut at night to guard against thieves and assaults from outside, anyhow when they reached the entrance of the town the Madonna effigy became very heavy, it was so heavy that the bears had to stop and set the devise they were carrying the Madonna with on the ground.
Then when they tried to lift her off the ground again they could not lift her; so the priest and the town authorities started to think, why this was happening and what they could do to fix this unseen problem, some wise man started saying that perhaps the Madonna wanted to be recognized that she was a very powerful being, and to recognize her the best thing to do was to give her the keys of the town and hope that this was what the Madonna wanted, so somebody went to fetch the keys and placed the keys beside her effigy, and soon the effigy became light again and they were able to take her through the entrance of the town and then into the church. This is one of the folklore stories of this Madonna.
Now let me add this last bit to the story, I remember when I was young that at this same entrance the Madonna came into Genzano town the first time; sometimes would come some pilgrims to adore this Madonna with child, and they were bringing with them a little statue of a child, I don’t know exactly what all this meant, but there is a phrase in the Genzanese dialect “U bambnid d Frenz” meaning the little baby Jesus of Forenza; Forenza is a town that would take several hours to walk to reach Genzano, and they did all this walking to come and adore this Madonna, there were really believers in those old days.
The people of Genzano celebrate the feast of this Madonna every year and here is a link of the procession in the very old part of Genzano, I hope it works for you:
We will continue to tell the story of this Madonna in our next post, The Madonna church, see you soon.