Of Luca Leonello Rimbotti
Source: Italicum
Literary utopia, or a true manual for building politicians? Criticism of Plato's most scathing and incisive work has often moved between these two poles, considering this capital text from time to time as a rhetorical exercise, or an ontological proof, or instead, something that is to be shared, a true manifesto of universal politics, capable of constituting at any time a code of exemplary social stability. Other times however, as in the case of the liberal Popper, Plato and his “Republic” played the part of public enemy number one, the ideology that, proposing a well-organized society in itself, firm and solid and therefore closed to external dangers and evils, more than others, it endangers the beatitudes of the "open society".
The catalog of positions that the Platonic "Republic" presents is one that is difficult to digest for those with an egalitarian stomach, pacifist and progressive. It is impossible not to see that ancient classicism and postmodern degeneration are in antithetical positions. For bourgeois and moderate eyes, cosmopolitans and "do-gooders", Plato's thought represents the greatest scandal: it outlines the community to the highest degree, and therefore dismisses individualism a priori, which instead is the great refuge of liberal impotence. These are some of the most qualifying points of Platonic politics, which constitute – as rightly so, from his point of view, Popper noted – how much more unassimilable to the mentality of post-modern "democrats".: the rigid and severe paideia, the education and selection to which Plato entrusted in the "Republic" the growth of the ruling classes of the ideal city; the suppression of individualism in the face of the prevalence of community interests; community, really, of women and property; the abolition of private property; the dominance of the "organic" State over the individual, whose rights are unknown, but only duties; the type of government, hierarchical, aristocratic and elitist, in which philosophers participate and not at all the mass of the people. All this scandalises the hypocritical and fraudulent nature of modern "democrats"., who pass off their upper-bourgeois oligarchies as governments "of the people" and exchange their financial dictatorships for services rendered to the majority. Read More
United States and Iran: Europe to the test
Of Fulvio Scaglione
Source: Fulvio Scaglione
The Iranian crisis, much announced and finally exploded, will test the European Union. It is not the first time that the EU has had to demonstrate its virtues, and the results were not brilliant. This, but, it could be the last because the cancellation of the Treaty signed in 2015 with the government of Hassan Rouhani it could decree the end of any attempt to give Europe a political physiognomy.
The question is very simple. According to the European Union (and also the UN and Russia, moreover), the agreement of 2015, built to block Iran's path to military nuclear power, works, Iran respects the pacts and there is no reason to cancel it after such a short time. According to the USA (and also Israel and Saudi Arabia), on the contrary, the agreement is full of holes, it offers no security guarantees and Iran lies, because he continues to try to prepare the atomic bomb.
It would be difficult to imagine a sharper difference of opinion than this. Which is furthermore broadened by questions of economic interest. The USA wants to favor traditional partners in the Persian Gulf, who are, among other things, much richer than the Iranians. Europe has a long and cordial commercial tradition with Iran, enjoyed above all by Italy and Germany. Our country is now the second largest exporter to Iran (especially mechanical and chemical industries) and the second importer (especially oil) after Germany, first in both sectors. In the 2011 commercial relationships between Italy and Iran they reached their peak, with a value of 11 billions of euros. In the 2012 sanctions, also imposed by the EU, they caused the value of a to collapse 1,3 billion, but the projections for the 2018 they talk about 3 billion, therefore we are rapidly regaining our former positions. Read More
When Zionism collides with reality
Of Stanley L. Cohen*
Source: Comedonchisciotte
“The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish were thus premeditated, so evil and so devastating, that a civilization cannot tolerate them being ignored, because it could not survive their reiteration"
With these authoritative words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Attorney, had opened the work of the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.
In charge of ascertaining the guilt of prominent members of the army, of politics and the judicial apparatus for violations of international laws... including war crimes, crimes against humanityand against them laws of war…the court had validated the principle of personal responsibility for the genocide against Jews and other ethnic groups, that had been considered, from the German state, a threat to one's own, declared, racial supremacy, religious and political.
Although these crimes had manifested themselves in different forms, their savagery resulted, actually, from a shared collective thought, who considered all those destined to be suppressed by the state not only (beings) inferior, but unworthy of life itself… men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of grotesque derision, whose very existence contaminated the national concept of racial supremacy.
There are no more secrets about the terror campaign unleashed from the Third Reich, as he invaded nations and unleashed international violence never seen before. Nor have its methods of total war ever been subject to serious debate, both towards the military, than against civilians. Even if someone has chosen to dispute the number of victims or to rework the exact instruments of persecution, no serious historian doubts the role played by cattle trucks, from the ghettos and crematoriums in a conscious effort to silence the diversity of life, while most of the world looked elsewhere. Read More
Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations
Of Saeed Jalili
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.
The Iranian Riyal has lost nearly two-thirds of its US dollar value over the past three years [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters]
Friday's move (ndt 13 apr.) is considered part of efforts to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the dollar currency, as a result of tensions with Washington, as well as preventing general instability on the markets generated by fluctuations of the Iranian Rial against the dollar.
In a cabinet meeting, the government has decided that all ministries, State organizations and companies should refer to the exchange rate with the euro, which the Central Bank of Iran will have the task of communicating frequently, the IRNA news agency reported.
It is unclear when this decision will take effect, but the entrepreneurs have said that they will wait to know the implementation methods before these new conditions can take effect.
“I suppose if they use the euro as their official currency, this will reduce the psychological impact of the rial fluctuations on the dollar”, he said, ad Al Jazeera, Newsha Sheikh Soleimani, which imports raw materials for the processing of bricks and ceramics in Tehran.
“Our company operates mainly in euros, but some invoices are issued based on the rial-dollar exchange rate” but his company recently had to suspend all transactions due to uncertainty over the value of the foreign currency.
“I welcome any move that can bring stability to the foreign exchange market”.
The loss of value
Valiollah Seif, head of the Central Bank, he had already said that the use of the dollar in financial transactions is not "logical"..
Iran's trade revenue is mainly in euros due to sanctions on the US dollar, he stated. Therefore, Seif added, the country's financial reporting should use a more stable and widely used reference currency in trade.
As part of the agreement Iranian nuclear power of the 2015 with world powers, all sanctions related to Iran's controversial nuclear program have been lifted.
Despite this, due above all to persistent tensions with the United States, There are still limitations on Iran's accessibility to US currency.
These restrictions have contributed to the fall in the value of the rial against the dollar in recent months.
The dollar traded at an all-time high of 60.000 Rial last week, teasing, among Iranians, serious concerns about the stability that the President Hassan Rouhani had brought about the economy by controlling exchange rates.
Since last year, the rial lost approximately 50% of its value compared to the US currency, which some Iranians buy in large quantities as an investment in times of great economic uncertainty.
A sudden drop in the value of the Rial is expected to cause an increase in the price of imported goods and increase the inflation rate.
To control the currency crisis, the government last week froze free trade in the us currency by introducing an official rate of 42.000 rials for every dollar.
The Central Bank said it would provide dollars only to those registered to use them for specific purposes, while the free exchange of foreign currency will be deemed illegal.
Seif, Head of the Central Bank, faced lawmakers' fury last week, when he took the parliamentary podium to explain the new forex policies. He suggested to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the use of the euro in foreign trade to replace the US dollar.
A short term fix?
A short term fix?
In the meantime, a currency trader told Al Jazeera that these new policies are “good news for importers and exporters”, but which have generated confusion for its business.
“Even if the government replaces the dollar with the euro, the dollar is still traded and used as an investment by many in the free market.", he said, preferring to remain anonymous.
“I hope these decisions are not just temporary measures – like a fever-reducing pill – because international restrictions on the dollar affect our economic stability”.
There have been growing concerns among Iranian businesses about a possible US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
US President Donald Trump should decide the 12 May if his administration confirms sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal.
He believes the deal isn't working because it doesn't address Iran's missile program, as well as its military presence in the region.
Iran says its missiles are for defensive purposes.
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Dissolution of state factors
Of Luciano Del Vecchio
Source: Appeal to the People
For about a quarter of a century, a massive and progressive occupation of power by supranational private potentates has been modifying and distorting the legal nature of the modern state, which seems to revert from a state of law to a balance sheet. Globalization has taken hold and digital technology has developed, the rule of law, which is based on legislative activity, the division of powers and on the prevalence of a Constitution, has progressively lost ground. On the one hand, the constitutional changes were inspired by the principle of the minimal state of liberal ideology, on the other the constitutional norms, escaped the distortion and liberal tampering, are not concretely applied by quisling because they are postponed, in the source hierarchy, to the rules of the European treaties. Our Constitutional Court, interpreting the art too broadly. 11 Cost., it established the superiority of treaties over domestic law: ruling that the courts of other countries, Germany in the lead, they were careful not to adopt. He moved in parallel with the judges a political class That, educated by history and home tradition to transformism, he felt no scruples of dignity and coherence in crossing all sides from one pole to the other, to finally recognize oneself as uniformed and flattened everything on liberal ideology: This group was and still is the most suitable to transpose and slavishly apply the tables of the law, not just the orders of the European Commission, but also simple agreements dictated by international trade or financial organizations. Magistrates, politicians, academics, intellectuals, commentators and TV commentators, a whole army of attendants to hand over power into private hands, they were raised and "fed" in the climate of political revolution, economic and technological that, since the end of the 80s of the last century, it destroyed the old cultural and legal categories of public law. Today an economic and financial oligarchy, intentionally stateless or cosmopolitan, which becomes law with the power of money and technology, it replaced the rule of law, invalidating the ancient definitions of legal science e, with a new modality in history, exercises real power detached from the idea of the State, indifferent to the territory, foreign or hostile to the people. Handing over the structure of state power into private hands involves not so much the elimination of the State as the last and only institution to defend the community of citizens and the general interest, as much as its metamorphosis: the rule of law historically and politically relegates itself to a patrimonial state of absolutist memory.
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The American New World Order is officially dead
Of Henry Tougha
Source: Voices from abroad
A mainstream source such as Bloomberg states The American dream of imposing its own system of global control is officially dead. Russia, after recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union, together with a new power like China, they have escaped US leadership by creating alternative poles of influence. Naturally Bloomberg takes an absolutely favorable and rosy point of view on the new peaceful and collaborative world order that the United States would try to pursue and considers its end negatively, casting the responsibility on the authoritarianism and power aims of China and Russia. In essence, however, this official renunciation of the ambition to integrate these countries under the American empire does not mean peace: according to Bloomberg the consequence will be that the USA will have to commit itself in an increasingly aggressive manner to militarily defend the hitherto consolidated American empire.
at Hal Brands, 27 September 2017
American foreign policy has reached a historic turning point, and here's the surprise: it has little to do with Donald Trump's exhausting and controversial presidency. Read More
Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Source: Economic Scenarios
Even at the last moment, M5S and Lega have reached an agreement for the formation of a political government which determines an essential turning point: this is the first real victory of the sovereignist forces. First of all, towards Europe: in a Union that, after all, it had managed to ensure its balance even in the presence of anti-European forces, a "sovereignist" Italy is now arriving, led by an alliance between the two main “national-popular” forces. Elsewhere, we had had defeats: despite Le Pen's good electoral result, Macron's France prevailed, as well as in Germany, despite the nationalist exploit, the system has regrouped. Ecco, the Italian novelty: the “system” was unable to regroup, to absorb and neutralize the oppositions that crossed it. Right, everyone tried in every way: Berlusconi thinking of a center-right government that would find the support of the "responsible" in parliament, the Democratic Party hoping for the President's government, Mattarella with his hypothesis of a "neutral government". But in the end Lega and M5S won: they will govern, Together, after Berlusconi's step aside. As it was in the nature of things from the beginning. Read More
Orban: "Preserveremo l'identità cristiana della Nazione, no space for supranational activities"
Of Ismaele Rognoni
The day before obtaining the confidence of the Hungarian parliament for the third time in a row, Viktor Orban stated that “the new government's priority will be to preserve national security and Hungary's Christian identity”.
These words come after those of last Friday when in a radio interview Orban underlined how “his executive will continue to work on building an old-fashioned Christian democracy, rooted in European traditions, we believe in the importance of the nation and in Hungary there is no space for any type of supranational activity”.
A further characteristic of previous Orban governments was that of a growing contrast with the world of pro-migrant NGOs. If continuity in this sense were to occur, one of the first laws to be passed could be the so-called 'Anti-Soros' law, guilty, according to his accusers, to support the massive arrival of groups of non-EU migrants on European territory through strong economic support to the NGOs themselves. Read More
Freedom is not free, nor politics
Of Alberto Bagnai
Before diving into reading the DEF, of which I should be rapporteur in the Special Commission […] I would like to remind one thing to all those whom this blog has taught to read reality with different eyes, to connect the dots into a coherent picture.
If you can listen today these words, o these words, that is, if you can feel represented in our institutions, if you can hope that words will be followed by deeds, if you have a reasonable and well-founded hope that our country will regain awareness of its dignity, and that institutions return to thinking in terms of national interest and not magical thinking, if this happened, you certainly owe it to Claudio's tenacity [Villages] and mine, to our willingness to fight for our country, for ours (that is, yours too) interest: this, naturally, it was a necessary condition.
However, it wouldn't have been enough.
So that these good ideas, although not particularly original, On the contrary, I would say: good precisely because they are not particularly original, to the limit of the tautological (an unsustainable monetary arrangement is unsustainable, Procyclical fiscal rules are procyclical), so that these ideas, I said, could be transformed into political practice, could reach the Palace, another junction was essential. The real turning point was the listening that Matteo Salvini gave to our message. What allows you to see yourselves represented in the Senate and the Chamber today was the intellectual humility and openness of spirit with which Salvini accepted, unlike everyone (that is, everyone) the other Italian politicians, to confront an alternative vision of the world. I add that even this would not have been enough.
If you can listen today these words, o these words, that is, if you can feel represented in our institutions, if you can hope that words will be followed by deeds, if you have a reasonable and well-founded hope that our country will regain awareness of its dignity, and that institutions return to thinking in terms of national interest and not magical thinking, if this happened, you certainly owe it to Claudio's tenacity [Villages] and mine, to our willingness to fight for our country, for ours (that is, yours too) interest: this, naturally, it was a necessary condition.
However, it wouldn't have been enough.
So that these good ideas, although not particularly original, On the contrary, I would say: good precisely because they are not particularly original, to the limit of the tautological (an unsustainable monetary arrangement is unsustainable, Procyclical fiscal rules are procyclical), so that these ideas, I said, could be transformed into political practice, could reach the Palace, another junction was essential. The real turning point was the listening that Matteo Salvini gave to our message. What allows you to see yourselves represented in the Senate and the Chamber today was the intellectual humility and openness of spirit with which Salvini accepted, unlike everyone (that is, everyone) the other Italian politicians, to confront an alternative vision of the world. I add that even this would not have been enough.
For Bergoglio all religions are good: slap to the Holy Christian Martyrs!
Watch and listen to the video carefully:
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In truth it is the “Our Age” of the Second Vatican Council which lays the doctrinal foundations to equalize the one Way, Truth and Life (Jesus Christ) with the error (heresies, other religions, other philosophies, nihilistic ideologies etc.). This equalization has edified, over the years, the new ecumenist Church, conciliar cosmopolitan, which is not Catholic because it contradicts the Trinitarian Dogma, precisely by putting him on the same level as Allah, Yahweh, Luther and company. So Bergoglio is only the latest (for now) of the apostates occupying the Throne of St. Peter, the dioceses and parishes. Before him, we get to Roncalli.
THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND HAPPINESS
Bergoglio should be deeply ashamed when reading the few lines that follow: these two young women could have very easily saved themselves for what the judge considered a mere formality: incense idols. Instead Bergoglio incenses and honors idols exclusively for his own vainglory! Read More
CONCILIAR TRAGICOMICS: Merkel premiata ad Assisi con la "Lampada della Pace"
IT IS NOT’ A JOKE. POOR S. FRANCESCO! (n.d.r.)
Assisi, Angela Merkel receives the Lamp of Peace from Saint Francis: “Peaceful coexistence of peoples”. The German Chancellery was awarded the ambitious recognition today
12 MAGGIO 2018 DAVIDE GIANCRISTOFARO ALBERTI
Angela Merkel in Assisi for the Lamp of Peace – Twitter
The Prime Minister was also there, Paolo Gentiloni, today in Assisi, for Angela Merkel's award ceremony. The German Chancellery received a coveted award, The Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis, awarded to those who distinguish themselves in the field of peace. The two leaders of Italy and Germany were the protagonists of a brief exchange of words. «Thank you for the collaboration that has existed between our countries during this period», the words of the Italian politician to Merkel, who in turn replied: «Thank you Paolo, I worked well with you". The Church, as La Repubblica writes, in recent years he has begun to see Germany not only as a country that aims to safeguard its national tradition, but also as a nation committed to defending the climate and the welfare state, with an eye towards migrants. The Pope met with the chancellery six times, and on one visit he gave her a medal depicting Saint Martin taking off his cloak to cover a poor man. (update by Davide Giancristofaro) Read More
La profezia di San Francesco d'Assisi: la divisione nella Chiesa e l'antico serpente sul trono
It is an apocryphal text attributable to the Spiritual heretics or Fraticelli of the Middle Ages. Cf Membership no. 49, April 1999, pp. 65-67. Therefore it has no reliability on a Catholic level. While on a historical level it is an interesting observation. The clarification, arrived from Don Francesco Ricossa, which we thank, is also useful at the source “Gloria.tv”
Reporting of Luciano Gallina
“Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy shepherd, but an exterminator".
After summoning his brothers shortly before his death (1226), Francis warned of future tribulations, saying: “Brothers, act with strength and firmness while waiting for the Lord. A period of great tribulations and afflictions in which great temporal and spiritual dangers and embarrassments will occur; the charity of many will grow cold and the iniquity of the wicked will abound. The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and others will have withered to the point that very few Christians will want to obey the true Supreme Pontiff and the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity.
“At the decisive moment of this crisis, a non-canonically elected character, elevated to the papal throne, he will do his best to wisely dispense the deadly poison of his error to many. Read More
ALFIE EVANS SHOULD HAVE DIED: SHAME!
Report National Anti-Organ Predation League
Alfie died at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool on 28 April after extubation (removal of support ventilation) performed on 23 April by order of the British Court (and European Court collusion) who imposed kidnapping and death on the little boy "for his best interest", in absolute contempt of the wishes of his parents who wanted to care for him elsewhere.
After extubation Alfie defied doctors' expectations, starting to breathe on his own. He continued to breathe on his own for 5 days. They were practiced on him 4 injections with drugs shortly before his death.
No one can say whether Alfie would have had a better chance of treatment in another hospital, as the parents claimed with determination and Herculean effort, or how long he would live; he certainly would not have died like that due to the stubborn choice of the medical and legal authorities who considered this death acceptable. Read More
Verona, Ass. Cultura Briani gay-friendly? Castagna asks for resignation and Briani backs down
On the side The Corriere di Verona of today, insert of Corriere della Sera
Of Lucia Rezzonico
PRESS RELEASE FROM YESTERDAY:
This evening at the Camploy MUNICIPAL theater the show shown in the attached poster will take place, whose director is Tommaso Rossi, well-known promoter of LGBT theories on gays and the "couple" (also called family by them) homosexual. Show about homosexuals, That, apparently, had the approval of the Councilor for Culture Francesca Briani who seems increasingly out of place in this Administration. It's hard for us to believe that’ Councilor has not read the program of this Administration which supports Mayor Sboarina, that you don't remember some of his battles, ended up in all the newspapers, even recently. The Veronese, like it or not, they also voted Sboarina for these positions.
In any case, Briani appears progressive, That, on a cultural level it brought nothing or very little to the citizens of the centre-right area who voted for it. A gay-friendly girl with the dress on the right but her head on the left, whose immediate resignation we formally ask because it is not in line with the program of the municipal administration. A S will be delivered to you. Rosary and a copy of the Catechism where it is explained that sodomy is among the impure sins against nature that cry out for vengeance before God, second in gravity, only to voluntary homicide. Let's hope so, Like this, at the beginning of the process of conversion to Catholicism.
Matthew Castagna, National manager of the Christus Rex Catholic Club
Reflections on the "idolatry of the migrant"
Of Anonymous Pontino (and “Yes Yes No No”, n. 5, in the year 44, 15 March 2018)
Promises of happiness that turn into their opposite are Satan's oldest trick.
The seductions of well-being and easy entertainment have only been given to us long enough to take away the spiritual resources that will instead be necessary in the future of deprivation and desolation that awaits us.
The people, in large part, has been conditioned to live on induced consumption, idiotic shows, soccer, games, lotteries, free sex, drugs, to forget empty lives destroyed by moral regression, unprecedented civil and social.
We have lost our way.
You want education in discipline and Christian values in schools, perhaps a reevaluation of the values of Cavalry in a society where footballers and showgirls are the models proposed to our children? then you will all be against each other, including “evolved” Catholics, the “open” ones, committed to crushing with mercy any opposition to "welcome at all costs" in accordance with the new one “idolatry of the migrant”. Read More
Argentina turns to the IMF and people take to the streets
Report Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
A financial debacle that reopens old wounds for Argentines in recent days with the national currency, the weight, under the threat of hyperinflation and a president Mauricio Macri which to save the economy and spare its people from a new financial crisis is asking for help from the International Monetary Fund.
Although the central bank of Argentina has decided for a huge increase in the rates three times since 27 April, issandoli al 40%, the peso continued to collapse and the president had to do resort to International Monetary Fund, looking for a standby agreement for a loan of at least 30 billions of dollars (although other sources even talking about 50 billion). Which means on standby? Which wouldn't be cashed in right away, but used if the situation worsens further. Read More