WORLD CONFLICT

L'arma della propaganda di guerra
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Giuseppe Federici Study Center – For a new onset

Press release no. 30/19 of the 4 April 2019, Saint Isidore of Seville
The weapon of war propaganda
“The fundamental mechanism of propaganda is binary, unchanged for centuries: talk a lot or stay silent all the time”.
Reflections on the Battle of Baghouz
It is fought bitterly, and with no holds barred, the battle against the last stronghold of ISIS. And here too the curse of all the latest wars is repeated: mostly civilians die. Even when “ours are coming”.
The fundamental mechanism of propaganda is binary, unchanged for centuries: talk a lot or stay silent all the time. Talking a lot about other people's "sins" and keeping quiet about your own. A crude but effective mechanism, especially since mass information exists (in order of pervasiveness) newspapers, television and the Internet.
We can see this clearly even now that we are talking about Baghouz, the dark Syrian city along the Euphrates, a few kilometers from the border with Iraq, rose to sudden fame because it was transformed by the jihadists of the Islamic State into the last bastion of their resistance. The Syrian Democratic Forces are moving against Baghouz (Syrian Democratic Forces, Sdf), alliance of Kurdish and Arab units supported politically and militarily by the USA.
When, In the 2014, the jihadist militia made its appearance in Syria and Iraq, founding the Caliphate (but ISIS had already been operating before), More time has passed than it took, at the time, to annihilate Hitler and the formidable war machine of Nazism. And Hitler didn't have a coalition against him 70 Countries like he had instead, at least in theory, l’Isis. It is therefore more than time to put an end to these terrorists who have decided to die rather than surrender. Also because the end now near has not made them better: as ISIS forces retreat, those of the SDF discover mass graves full of corpses of murdered civilians. A, pare, with dozens and dozens of bodies of Yazidi women murdered after being used as slaves.

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Salvini effect, tagli all'assistenza dei migranti: in Treviso the coops are leaving
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Yesterday there was a summit in the prefecture visiting the new tender with the rules of the Salvini decree. Dozens of migrants at risk "on the streets"

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source – https://tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/treviso/cronaca/2019/04/03/news/effetto-salvini-tagli-all-assistenza-dei-migranti-a-treviso-le-coop-se-ne-vanno-1.30158121
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events

'Bella ciao' sung to children, storm in a kindergarten in Bologna
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The teachers included it in a compilation for the little ones to listen to after lunch. Forza Italia rises.
“Bella ciao” also arrives in nursery schools. It happens at Bologna, where some teachers created an ad hoc compilation for the children to listen to after the lunch break. There are many songs in the playlist and among these also the historic song symbol of partisan resistance. The news began to circulate in national newspapers and led to...'insurrection of the centre-right opposition in the city council.
He spoke of an "inappropriate initiative with political connotations". Francesco Sassone, municipal councilor of Forza Italia. Statements which, however, were defined as devoid of sense and substance by the municipal administration.
But this is certainly not unique. Already during last Christmas, always in Bologna, a parish choir ended up in the newspapers for singing "Bella ciao", as a religious prayer, in Church.
source – https://vocecontrocorrente.it/bella-ciao-cantata-ai-bambini-bufera-in-un-asilo-di-bologna/

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D'Urso e Pupo demoliscono la famiglia in prima serata: ecco il 'poliamore'
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The singer supports the need to live with two women at the same time.
Barbara D'Urso still against the natural family. The Mediaset presenter's strategy continues, which for a month now has been dedicating its first evenings to "hot" topics, always ready to create tension and attract spectators. After talking about a uterus for rent, surrogacy and gay adoptions, this time the central topic of the first evening was the so-called "polyamory". The protagonist of the episode was Abundant, which he told the presenter, guests and post the details of living with two women at the same time. In fact, the singer has been divided for years between two love relationships experienced at the same time. One with his wife Anna and the other with his girlfriend and manager Patricia.
Needless to say, there was a lot of dismay in the studio, especially for the ease with which the former host of "Affari Tui" described his elaborate sentimental situation. “I love them both equally. The family that many people talk about does not exist. Everyone cheated, everyone has a lover. I just made something very widespread official. They accept each other.".
While distancing himself from Pupo's choice, D'Urso herself invited her guests not to point the finger at "polyamory": “It's still love, and where there is love there is family“. A broken record repeated endlessly by the presenter already in previous episodes.
 
source – https://vocecontrocorrente.it/durso-e-pupo-demoliscono-la-famiglia-in-prima-serata-ecco-il-poliamore/

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IMMIGRATION

Libya, 'ong non entrino in nostre acque'
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(ANSA) – ROMA, 2 APR – Notice from the Libyan Navy and Coast Guard to NGOs: “do not enter our territorial waters and do not intervene near our coasts”. The Libya Explorer website reports it. Libyan authorities cite last year's cargo ship hijacking 27 March
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source – http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2019/04/02/libia-ong-non-entrino-in-nostre-acque_4f9e27d3-b625-4ee4-b644-1aaeb30cc188.html?fbclid=IwAR3gwa7k_LknwwsoQ56wu9nEVGXdZGhrOzY-i4DxlPro2Nj7ycVd8P6OQf8

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Catholicism

Pope Pius XII on the immoral use of marriage and contraception
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• Often the child is unwanted; worse, it is feared; how could readiness for duty still exist in such a condition? Here is your apostolate [the Pope is speaking directly to the midwives] must be practiced in an effective and effective manner: first of all, negatively, rejecting any immoral cooperation; therefore also positively, turning your delicate care to dispelling preconceptions, the various apprehensions or pusillanimous pretexts, to push away, as much as possible, even external obstacles, which can make accepting motherhood painful. If we do not resort to your advice and your help to facilitate the procreation of new life, to protect it and guide it towards its full development, you can certainly lend your cooperation; but in how many other cases are you resorted to to prevent the procreation and preservation of this life, without any regard to the precepts of the moral order? Read More

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Hands cut off from thieves and stoning for homosexuals and adulterers, the new laws in Brunei
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By order of the Sultan of Brunei, one of the richest men in the world, from this year the new penal code comes into force in the small South-East Asian country which introduces crimes and penalties inspired by the most stringent precepts of sharia, Islamic law, such as the death sentence by stoning for homosexuals and amputation for thieves.
Amputation of hands and feet for the crime of theft, prison and for those who do not pray and even death penalty by stoning for adulterers and homosexuals. We are not talking about ancient laws dating back to the Middle Ages but about the new legislative reform in force in 2019 in Brunei. Per volere del sultano Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the richest men in the world and in power continuously since 1967, in fact, from next week all citizens of the small south-east Asian kingdom will be subject to the new penal code based on sharia, ancient Islamic law. In reality, the local government had announced the fundamentalist turn for some time by introducing new rules little by little, new crimes and increasingly severe penalties such as the ban on drinking alcohol and the obligation to go to the mosque for Friday prayers, but now the transformation appears complete. Read More

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IMMIGRATION

Trump effect: fewer and fewer Muslim immigrants in the USA
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The news of the decline in arrivals of Muslim foreigners was immediately welcomed with enthusiasm by Republican leaders, while it was lambasted by those democrats
In the United States has been achieved in recent days, according to the most recent statistics, the lowest level of Muslim immigrants of the last 39 years.
The US State Department, in collaboration with the think-tank Migration Policy Institute, has in fact recently published a dossier that highlights the effects produced by the restrictive policies launched so far by Trump regarding the entry into the country of Islamic foreigners. As a result of the hard line promoted by the White House against the migratory flows of Mohammedans, the United States has recently achieved a minimum level of arrivals of Muslim subjects.

From October 1st 2018 until 31 March 2019, explains the document in question, they would have entered American territory 12,151 immigrants, of which only the 13% made up of adherents of Islam. This percentage is, according to the authors of the dossier, the lowest ever reached since 1980. According to researchers at the State Department and the think-tank, Muslim arrivals in America would instead have reached their peak during the presidencies of George W. Bush e in Obama. When there were two such individuals in government, the Mohammedans would in fact consistently constitute more than 30% of foreigners admitted to federal territory. Read More

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Policy

Abbreviated farewell rite, Molteni: «Historical result. Chi uccide sconta l'ergastolo senza sconti»
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«A historic achievement». No more shortened trials and sentence reductions for crimes punishable by life imprisonment. Finally. The undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior Nicola Molteni, who has already been fighting for this principle since the last legislature, thus defines l'ok in the Senate – con 168 favorable votes (League, FdI, M5S, Leu) 48 opposite (Pd, FI) e 43 abstain – to reform of the Criminal Code which provides for theexclusion from the 'abbreviated procedure' of those who have committed very serious crimes punishable by life imprisonment.
Nicola Molteni, This is a long-awaited measure: certain sentences cry out for revenge. What changes now?

«No more discounts and “prizes”. This is a battle of civilization and justice that responds to the principle of certainty of punishment. It was unheard of for very serious crimes for which the code provides for life imprisonment, hardened criminals could essentially skip the trial and get a “reward”, i.e. the "discount" of a third of the sentence".
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source – https://www.secoloditalia.it/2019/04/rito-abbreviato-addio-molteni-risultato-storico-chi-uccide-sconta-lergastolo-senza-sconti/

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FIFTH COLUMN

Spain between Franco, the reds and José Antonio
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FIFTH COLUMN

by Marcello Veneziani

Eighty years ago in April, the bloody civil war ended in Spain. The Caudillo Francisco Franco came to power. Conservative Spain, Catholic, military and nationalist eradicated republican Spain, communist, secular and anti-fascist. Francoism was the ideal target to concentrate the Absolute Enemy of modernity and the left in a single image: scammer, militaristic, fascist, clerical, servant of the Americans. An ideal summary of the Enemy and the military representation of God, Homeland and Family. Then in Italy, with the Francoist paradigm you killed two birds with one stone: fascism and the DC, with respect to which Franco was considered the link, the living demonstration of clerical-fascism, reactionary synthesis between military, clerical and dictator. The clerical-fascist is the opposite cousin of the catho-communist. This was confirmed by the support given by the Church, then Opus dei, the agrarians gave in to Francoism.

Actually, Franco's victory marked a double defeat: a greater one than communism and the republican secularism that was its ally; and a minor one, but no less significant than fascism. Here the key figure of Spanish “fascism” comes into play: the Marquis José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Phalangist movement. A convenient reading tells that the Falange became a pillar of the Franco regime which established the cult of José Antonio in Spain. In reality, things went differently. The Falange wanted to carry out a further revolution, that starting from socialism and trade unionism it turned to a national and spiritual perspective. Against the restoration of the order dreamed of by conservatives and the military, José Antonio in the Falange manifesto dreamed of a new order: “No one exceeds us in anger and disgust towards the conservative order, hungry for enormous masses and tolerant of the golden idleness of a few". And he added: “After the clashes, any collaboration with the elements of the order is expressly prohibited". Read More
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Help, the 'ndrangheta discovered bitcoins (and there is no law to prevent money laundering)
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From Bitcoin LinkieReport by Mario Spezia
Louis Bonaventure, ex boss crotonese, now a justice collaborator: “The 'ndrangheta is no longer coppola and lupara. The new mafiosi are all graduates and up to date with technological developments. You don't become a boss just because you're a killer, but if you are capable of thinking and making money without having problems"

It sounds like the plot of a James Bond film. Eidoo, startup founded by Italians that allows you to conserve, convert and spend cryptocurrencies, chooses in 2017 as an operational headquarters an apartment in a building confiscated by the 'ndrangheta in Chiasso, in Switzerland, exactly a 400 meters from the border with Italy. Among the owners of the property there is a former consultant of the company, Oliver Camponovo, sentenced to three years in first instance by a Swiss court for having facilitated the money laundering of a gang. From that building in via Giuseppe Motta, private crowdfunding starts, unregulated, called in jargon Ico, to finance the company that reaches i 27 million dollars, 18 only in the first hour of trading. It is the highest figure ever obtained by an Italian cryptocurrency startup. But a small portion of that funding, made by anonymous users, it could come from gangs of the 'Ndrangheta That, as stated by the Anti-Mafia commission, now launders their money through bitcoin.

And it's not the only cryptocurrency exchange startup at risk. Because in this spy movie plot, there is no agent 007: at the moment there is no Italian or European regulation that can stop the possible laundering of mafia gangs through bitcoins. «We cannot exclude that someone linked to mafia associations has purchased ours utility token (a voucher to use the startup's services in the future)», explains an Eidoo spokesperson, «but it would have been risky and stupid to do it with Eidoo because there are easier foreign sites, fast and impersonal to achieve that goal". Read More

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Science and Bioethics

The clinic loses the embryos: il business dell'utero in affitto fa l'ennesimo danno
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The embryos were probably reused. The discovery due to an invoice sent twelve years after an in vitro fertilization.
In the 2004 Marisa Cloutier-Bristol and her husband had gone to a fertility clinic to secure one pregnancy and starting a family. They had had some problems and the facility had guaranteed the production of at least one embryo. In fact, he gave life to four embryos.
The problem is that the “doctors” told her that none of them were usable. The woman and her husband returned home, saddened by not being able to have their child. And if the practice is already questionable, what happened next borders on the limits of the absurd.
Meanwhile the couple, after much effort, she managed to have a child. But they both would have wanted many more. Suddenly, but, the woman's husband died. The woman remarried. And after a few months, at the clinic, suddenly, contacted her, saying that there was one of his embryos preserved in the "freezer".
The woman was dumbfounded: she was told her embryos were unusable. And instead, after fifteen years, he discovered that one was still there. Except she couldn't "use" him anymore: not only the woman has passed the 40 years, but since the husband is deceased it is not possible to implant it in her womb because "there would be no consent".
«It's like mourning a dead child. I feel completely and utterly robbed.", the woman said, who sued the clinic to understand what happened to the other embryos. Since the clinic lends itself to surrogacy, the suspicion is that the woman's embryos were used clandestinely for this purpose.
It's yet another damage to the uterus-for-hire business: the embryos of a natural family, traditional, they ended up who knows where for a large fee. And now what remains is only a deep pain.
source – The clinic loses the embryos: the rented womb business does yet more damage

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"Lori Lightfoot sindaca Chicago, historical!". But that's not true
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“For the first time a woman, for the first time a black one, for the first time a lesbian elected mayor of Chicago. A vote that will go down in history", says Enrico Mentana. “Chicago makes history,” he says Republic. We're talking about Lori Lightfoot, new mayor of the American city.

Ora, anyone who follows politics in any depth knows well that one of the parties' key strategies for electing "safe" candidates is to present them in the constituencies traditionally close to their symbol. In Italy for example, we know well that for the so-called "red" regions a candidacy in the ranks of the PCI first and of the PDS, DS and PD then meant having an almost certain chance of victory.
It shouldn't even be necessary to point this out, but evidently in certain cases it becomes impossible to move on.
Chicago, look a little, it is a fiefdom of the Democratic Party dal 1931. The last Republican elected is in fact William Hale Thompson, whose term began on 3 November 1927 and finished the same day as 1931. From Anton Cermak onwards, took office as representative of the "blues" on 7 March 1931, the windy city had only democrats as its first citizens.
While Open, Repubblica and Huffington Post celebrate the victory of the "first black and lesbian mayor" (which may also be true from their point of view, let's be clear), they stop to reflect on the fact that his election was decided first and foremost by the party, who nominated the woman in a municipality that was practically already assigned, before popping the champagne and turning every burp into a revolution. Thank you.
(Of Stelio Fergola)

source – https://oltrelalinea.news/2019/04/03/lori-lightfoot-sindaca-chicago-storico-ma-non-e-vero/

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FALSE RELIGION

L'ISLAM POLITICO E LA DIMENSIONE SPIRITUALE DELLA GEOPOLITICA
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Report by Giacomo Bergamaschi

Some interesting and intelligent comments to my recent article, for which I thank the authors from now on, they give me the opportunity to delve deeper into some aspects, by force of circumstances, I had to leave it out in that context. The main criticism of the piece is not about, upon closer inspection, the now imminent centrality of a new universal Mediterranean mission, nor the soon-to-be new Han-led social-Confucian anti-liberal global order, but the role that political Islam plays and would play in this context.
At this point a very brief historical-cultural introduction is necessary. The most advanced historiography, like a certain "idealistic" Germanic and Italian philosophy, sees an authentic "metaphysical-cultural" degree in the thought model based on war strategy, superior to both the scientific and economic ones. About that, Samuel Huntington's perspective itself seems very clear to me.

source – https://sollevazione.blogspot.com/2019/04/lislam-politico-e-la-dimensione.html

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