Protest in Venice, Italy as Trump's ambassador shows off massive yacht

My friend Mimmo in Italy set me this video.

He wrote, 'Recently in Italy, there have been demonstrations against the presence of Ambassador Fertitta's mega yacht in Venice.'   

The yacht cost $450 million (£341.6 million) and boasts six floors, two helipads and multiple swimming pools. 

Clearly a statement by a Texas cowboy about the size of his ego and something else....

People during the video march, are confronted by police, they hear speeches and project their outrage at the US.

One speaker called the visit of the rich American ambassador's yacht the 'Concentration of arrogance, wealth and power'. 

One of my favorite signs in the protest reads 'MAGA - Make America Go Away'.

Being an ambassador is actually a tax-payer funded holiday in an 'exotic' location for the time in office of the president.

Nothing more.

The US military empire, with its unforgiving 800 bases around the globe, has left a grim legacy in the places where it has assumed local power due to its muscle. 

People are fed up with it and want it gone - now.

Bruce

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Pat Elder, an American peace/environmental activist and organizer of Military Poisons, reports the story below about a U.S. base near Venice poisoning the local water:

An emotionally charged, high-stakes environmental crisis unfolded in Western Friuli, Italy on July 13, 2026. It culminated in a volatile public meeting in Porcia, Italy, a town located about 7 km from the fire training area at the U.S. Aviano Air Base. Porcia is 90 km north-northeast of Venice.

The emergency assembly drew over 300 deeply concerned and angry residents.

The public outcry was triggered by severe PFAS contamination suddenly reported in local groundwater. The crowd was furious over delays in transparency, and people demanded immediate accountability. PFAS stands for per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances. There are 40,000  different varieties of PFAS. PFOS and PFOA are types of PFAS. They all move around and injure us in different ways. 

It caused a firestorm. In immediate response to the findings of poisoned water, the mayors of four neighboring municipalities—Porcia, Aviano, Fontanafredda, and Roveredo in Piano—issued joint emergency ordinances. These orders imposed a  ban on water extraction from all private artesian wells within the designated "red zone" perimeter. The ban strictly prohibits utilizing well water for human consumption, vegetable gardens, and animal watering.

‍At. U.S. bases around the world, airmen dug craters and regularly filled them with hundreds of gallons of jet fuel and other hazardous substances. They ignited the fuel, creating a massive fireball that airmen would extinguish using the cancer-causing foams. The training went on either bi-weekly or monthly from the early 1970’s. The consequences are apocalyptic.

For thousands of years before the Roman conquest, people of the Pordenone Plain relied on the region's abundant artesian groundwater for drinking water. That is over now.