Antonio di Pietro, Minister and other political functions
"Since June 1999 Di Pietro has been a Member of the European Parliament. In this capacity he has been Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with South America then for Central Asia and currently for South Africa.
In 2000 he founded the party called Italia dei Valori (Italy of Values). At the moment he is its Executive President. At the 2006 elections the Unione won and Italia dei Valori becomes the fourth party in the governement with 20 MPs in the Lower Chamber and 5 Senators. He was assigned the Ministry of Infrastructures.
Only two years after the 13th and 14th April, and after the fall of the Prodi government, the Italians rerurned to the polls. Italia dei Valori doubled its 2006 results, bringing in a Parliamentary team of between 42 elected deputies and senators, with a 4.37% in the Lower House and 4.1% in the Senate." (From youtube)
"Question from a viewer: I would like you to speak out in front of all Italians and our Parliament about two issues that are worrying us, the first is bank seignorage, the other is ... how come do we have NATO planes flying all over our heads, releasing chemtrails with heavy metals and barium?
Di Pietro: Right away ... about bank seignorage, this is a veritable scandal, seignorage is worse than extortion, it is worse than extortion because it is legalized. Concerning the aeroplanes, that is an even more complicated problem; our airspace, but not only our airspace, our sea and land sites are still occupied (Soru is leading a harsh battle on this matter), they are occupied by military forces which are not Italian. Now, no one's arguing that there shouldn't be deposits or stocking sites scattered in the global territory, but that this should be done without any involvement of the hosting country ... we in Italy don't even know if and how many nuclear bombs we have ...
Talk show host: It seems that we have some ...
Di Pietro: So it seems.
Talk show host: That's how it looks, there's been talk about Aviano, anyway ...
Di Pietro: But it is not possible for others to decide on our behalf, it's a limitation of sovereignty, having said that we should all take our responsibilities, that's for sure. We would all prefer. .. I hear many people say there shouldn't be ... I've even heard official proposals that our police should be disarmed; well, I would like that too.
Talk show host: It's utopy.
Di Pietro: Yes, I mean, we should keep our feet on the ground.
