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July 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Cardin, whose personal wealth is estimated at more than 300 million euros,
designed the tower with his nephew, Rodrigo Basilicati, an architect.
He recently said that, because of his advancing years, it would be his “last
great project”.
Many other cities around the world would have been happy to welcome the
development, he said, but he chose Venice because it is close to San Biagio
di Callalta, the village where he was born.
“We chose this apparently ugly and difficult location because we hope
that it will convince other people that Porto Marghera can enter a new
chapter,” Mr Basilicati told the Corriere del Veneto newspaper.
“We’ll create four to five thousand jobs, maybe even 7,000, and we want
to give employment to people who have been out of work.” The
skyscraper, which will feature a helicopter landing pad, apartments,
restaurants, offices, hotels, nearly 60 lifts and a cinema complex, has the
backing of local politicians.
Luca Zaia, the head of the Veneto region, has hailed the Italian-born
impresario as “a 21st century Lorenzo the Magnificent” – a
reference to one of the most powerful Medicis, who was a statesman and
patron of the arts in Florence during the Renaissance.
Mr Zaia said the tower would be Venice’s answer to the Eiffel Tower and the
Louvre, all rolled into one. “And it will be the start of the
renaissance of the whole Porto Marghera area,” he said.
Politicians gave the green light for the development earlier this year, but
like many such grandiose projects in Italy,
it has since become bogged down in controversy.
Italy’s civil aviation authority, Enac, says the tower is so high that it
could pose a problem for aircraft using the nearby Marco Polo airport, the
gateway to Venice for millions of foreign tourists each year.
Historians and cultural heritage figures say it is too large – and too vulgar
– to be built anywhere near Venice.
Tomaso Montanari, an art historian, said it was the sort of ambitious project
that the “emirs of the Gulf” would have dreamt up.
He said the tower looked like “an enormous finger pointing at the sky”.
Gianfranco Bettin, another historian, said there was a risk that the tower
would look “out of proportion” not only with nearby Venice but
with its immediate surroundings.
Mr Cardin is due to lay the first symbolic stone of the project in September,
but the controversy has raised a question mark over whether that will happen.
He is reportedly becoming impatient with the delays and has said that if
Venetians cannot sort out their disagreements, he will take his vision
elsewhere, perhaps to China or, as his critics are calling for, Dubai.
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