Policy | Non-fiction

Si insedia il "governo del cambiamento" to the test of facts
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Of Matthew Castagna
The Lega-Movimento government takes office 5 position. Many no longer hoped for it. On the contrary, after Giuseppe Conte's remission of his mandate and Cottarelli's ascent to Colle, most saw yet another caretaker government on the horizon. Perhaps some had already begun to advise the two leaders to take the much more comfortable and less responsible role of tribunes of the plebs.
Instead something has changed, right at that stage. To demonstrate, if there was still a need, than in the politics of the so-called “Third Republic” all the schemes have failed, in addition to consolidated institutional relationships and practices. Yesterday Prof. Lawyer. Giuseppe Conte returned to the Quirinale with the team of Ministers and the swearing-in took place. Next week there will be the final passage of the parliamentary confidence vote, which does not cause particular concerns and will be greater in the House and more restricted in the Senate.
What has changed in the space of a week? There was a compromise with Europe to be able to govern. We have seen first-hand that those who try to form an executive, complete with prime minister, program and majority receives the “not ” dell’ EU through the institutional guarantee figures, if it doesn't reassure the markets, that is, the Paris-Berlin axis that rules in Brussels through its banks, its lobbies and its rating agencies. Salvini, but not only that, ha, Therefore, concluded that we are one country “with limited sovereignty”. E’ objective. If you don't find at least one method of coexistence, even by divorcees at home, with them, go home. Everything else is sterile rosiconi propaganda. What happened is clear proof of this, even for those who, possibly, they wanted not to see. The new government has reassured people about remaining in the Eurozone, in exchange for a sovereignist policy on immigration and taxation. Already yesterday, but, authoritative government officials have said that Italy will also do those things that someone in the’ The EU might not like it. It will be true? The facts will speak and we will judge on those, because diplomacy is one thing, reality is one thing. Circumstantial phrases are one thing, actual policies are one thing. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

With the new government, the Germans will be forced to listen to the Italian proposals
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Image results for Merkel and new governmentOf Marcello Minenna
What is happening in Italy represents the stone in the pond of German and French intentions, the stimulus to reflection for a European apparatus that so far has shown itself to be almost indifferent to the economic and social implications of too rigid fiscal discipline.
The first exam will be, like at school, in June on the occasion of the meetings of the Eurogroup and the European Council on the review of the Monetary Union.
But unfortunately it is difficult to concentrate on this, given the heart-pounding developments in the Italian political scenario; developments that are fundamentally derived from the expansive approach of the Lega e economic policy program 5 position. Read More

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Science and Bioethics

The end of our civilization
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of the doctor Silvana De Mari
We have thrown away our place as a child of God to become a child in an orphanage… Let's start again from the rosary

Ha mirror Konrad Lorenz, in The Eight Deadly Sins of Our Civilization, that a civilization is like an ecosystem. When you suppress something in an ecosystem, something that seemed useless or irrational or harmful, absolutely unexpected catastrophes can result, completely involuntary and delightfully irreversible. A civilization is like a tapestry: a thread is cut in one place and half the tapestry falls apart.
As Chesterton's good soul said, before pulling down a fence, ask yourself the question of why it was built. Maybe it's true that it's useless now, but it might not be, so ask yourself this question, and start telling yourself right away that if the only answer that comes to mind is that you are certainly much more intelligent than your ancestors who were idiots, that answer is wrong.
A civilization has formed over centuries and all the pieces make sense.
With this I do not mean that societies must remain immobile and always identical to themselves, otherwise we have terrifying circular civilizations where everyone always does the same things. The operation, but, made with the Enlightenment first and then with '68 – that is, to denigrate and deny religiosity, the myth, the ritual, without even wondering why they were born, what were all their meanings and advantages, without even having a doubt that there was a meaning and an advantage somewhere – it was suicide. I'm making an absolutely secular statement, which has value even for non-believers. Read More

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Culture

Voltaire never said: "Non sono d'accordo con quello che dici, but I would give my life so that you could say it"
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Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

And in any case this sentence states the impossible in that one must be tolerant with the tolerant, vice versa, one cannot help but be intolerant towards the intolerant
Of Alfio Squillaci

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Like Galileo never wrote: «And yet it moves» and nowhere in Machiavelli's works is it found: "The end justifies the means", in the same way Voltaire never wrote or said «I don't agree with what you say, but I would give my life so that you could say it". So where does this urban legend come from??
I remember the television journalist Sandro Paternostro, vain and inconclusive Rai foreign correspondent, the one who definitively set, also for those who succeeded him, il “canon” of television correspondence from London on the thematic chain of caps-of-the-queen-dog-shows-and-so-minchionando (and all of Hume's and Dickens's England, of Labor and Shaw go to hell) he loved repeating this formula on the television program “Right of reply” from a few decades ago.
AN IMPOSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT TOLERANCE
Even today it is retorted with great emphasis and citrulla magnanimity every time you show elegant tolerance towards your opponent. It is as full of vain fair play as it is logically meaningless only if we think that if we grant our opponent the freedom to say everything, even the intention to kill, us or others, on the one hand he would already do it and long before we sacrificed ourselves to allow him to say it, or it would do so with our consent.
The idea of ​​tolerance can only start from one “ethical minimum” and it can only be mutual, Obviously, but he cannot allow ideas of extermination or other abominations in his interlocutor, that therefore no one, and moreover at the sacrifice of his own life, may allow you to tell anyone. If in fact one must be tolerant with tolerant people, vice versa, one cannot help but be intolerant towards the intolerant.
PHRASE MAY THIS
But cutting it short, Mr. de Ferney never said such a phrase. Why then is it attributed to him? The only known version of this quote is that of the English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall, «I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it», The Friends of Voltaire, 1906, also taken up in the subsequent Voltaire In His Letters (1919).
To close the story of this false quote, Charles Wirz, Conservator of “the Voltaire Institute and Museum” of Geneva, he remembered in 1994, che Miss Evelyn Beatrice Hall, mise, wrongly, in quotation marks this quote in two works dedicated by her to the author of «Candide», and expressly recognized that the quotation in question was not Voltaire's handwriting in a letter of 9 maggio 1939, published in 1943 in the titled volume LVIII “Voltaire never said it” (pp. 534-535) of the magazine “Modern language notes”, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943, Baltimore.
BELOW IS THE EXTRACT OF THE LETTER IN ENGLISH
«The phrase “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” which you have found in my book “Voltaire in His Letters” is my own expression and should not have been put in inverted commas. Please accept my apologies for having, quite unintentionally, misled you into thinking I was quoting a sentence used by Voltaire (or anyone else but myself).»
MY OWN EXPRESSION = I SAID SO, NON-VOLTAIRE
The word “my own” are italicized intentionally by Miss Hall in her letter.
If we believe certain commentators then (Norbert Guterman, A Book of French Quotations, 1963), the phrase would also be in a letter of 6 February 1770 to Abbé Le Riche where Voltaire would say: “Mr. Abbot, I hate what you write, but I will give my life so that you can continue to write.”
Too bad if you consult the letter cited, neither such a phrase nor the concept will be found. This letter being short, it is better to quote it in full and write the final word on this legend.
LETTER TO ABAB LE RICHE
«A m. The Rich,
in Amiens.
6 FEBRUARY.
You left, Sir, of which pour of which. You will find stubborn barbarians everywhere. The number of wise people will always be small. It is true that it is increased ; but that's nothing compared to fools ; et, unfortunately, they say that God is always for the big battalions. Honest people must hold tight and covered. There is no way their little troop will attack the party of fanatics in the open countryside.
I was very sick, I die every winter ; this is what makes, Sir, that I answered you so late. I am no less touched by your memory. Continue your friendship ; she consoles me for my ills and the stupidities of humankind. Receive insurance, etc.»
AN UNSTOPPABLE SLOGAN (EVEN IF FALSE)
But by now Miss Hall's phrase had crossed the Atlantic and after a small rebound in the restricted circles of liberals it had entered the formidable circuit of the American media, via the popular Reader's Digest (June 1934) e la Saturday Review (11 Maggio 1935). And since then its spread has been unstoppable. Read More

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Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Mexico: they pretend to be trans to be elected with the pink quotas
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Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

Other news from the gay world (less and less cheerful): in China no web censorship of LGBT content, in Madrid the People's Party impose gender ideology in schools, Luxuria and the right to communion
and Times

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Seventeen of the nineteen trans are not trans, but they declared themselves trans only to be elected as women. The tongue twister serves to describe the paradoxical situation that has arisen in Oaxaca, Mexico, in the municipal elections and reported in the Foglio.
When the lists were presented, the associations that bring together transsexual people had rejoiced at such a high number of candidates. Then, the bitter surprise. It's not about trans but about smart males who, taking advantage of the article 16 of the new law that protects the choices of these people, they declared themselves women so as to increase their chances of being elected thanks to the pink quota.
Oh-oh, something doesn't add up. When they realized the scam, the associations got angry. «It has been identified that 17 from the 19 approved applications are not part of the transgender community", said leader Naomy Méndez. Hence a complaint to the federal authorities, who launched an investigation.
This will be resolved with the obligation for candidates to present themselves not as a fictitious name, how it happened, and having to campaign by publicly identifying themselves as transsexuals to voters.
Note from BastaBugie: here's more news from the gay world (less and less cheerful).

http://www.bastabugie.it/it/edizioni.php?id=561

Original title: Males who pretend to be trans to be elected with pink quotas

Source: Times, 11 maggio 2018

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PROVITA | Science and Bioethics

Firma per prevenire l'aborto!
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For women's health:
Sign so that they are truly informed about the physical and psychological consequences of voluntary abortion
ProVita Onlus – together with the AIGOC, the Committee Let's Defend Our Children, Christians for the Nation, Life is, Ora et Labora in Defense of Life, Human Life International, AiBi Friends of Children, Movement with Christ for Life Schio, The New Daily Compass, the Permanent Table for the Family with the Veneto Region, Freedom&Persona, the Pope John XXIII Association, the Family Love and Generation I Want to Live Movement - invites everyone to sign this petition.
Dal 1978, year of the legalization of abortion in Italy, more than six million lives of children in the womb have been taken. This is the main drama of abortion: a death sentence before being born.
However abortion is harmful more people: not only the child but also the mother, the father, the brothers, the grandparents. I physical and psychological damage that abortion causes to the mother are unfortunately serious and real, but no one warns her about the danger she runs. Read More

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Actuality | Policy

The Yankee Way to Sovereignty
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Of Riccardo Paccosi
The Yankee Way to Sovereignty
Source: Bye Bye Uncle Sam
The ambivalences of the emerging sovereignist perspective analyzed in relation to the Italian case.
A contribution to read carefully.
I started talking about the existence of a Yankee Way to Sovereignty, more or less since I started identifying myself, from a Marxist point of view, with this political category. So, around the 2012.
Indeed, since the advent of the Monti Government's austerity in 2011, it was immediately clear that, in the face of German rigidity which directed the positions of the European Union by imposing social butchery policies on Greece and Italy, on the part of the United States there was a decidedly more elastic attitude towards public spending and the state budget. The troika that gave order to the Euro-Mediterranean governments, in other words, appeared to be made up of the “good cop” IMF and the “bad cop” European Commission.
As, many public figures who in that period and in various capacities spoke out against austerity - for example Paolo Barnard, but also Stefano Fassina - also explicitly stated the need to seek political support in the United States and in the Monetary Fund to escape from the death trap of the fiscal compact and German control over our economy.
Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge.
Eight years of austerity have almost completely eroded it, among Italian and European public opinion, the pre-existing support for the Eurofederalist perspective and have brought, Therefore, sovereignism at the center of the political debate and made those political forces that have a parliamentary majority, with varying degrees, they claim to go back to sovereignist issues. Read More

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Actuality | National Economy

German financial terrorism against Italian sovereignty
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Of Luigi Tedeschi
German financial terrorism against Italian sovereignty
Source: Italicum
Germany dominates Europe through financial terrorism, a weapon of mass destruction for states, which entails the abrogation of democracy.
It was all already planned, however, it was an easy prophecy.
Mattarella's veto is perfectly consistent with a practice inaugurated by Napolitano and now consolidated, that of the president's governments. That this practice is in open conflict with the constitution, that governments elected by the people are removed and other "technical" governments appointed by Germany and European diktats are put before national sovereignty is now clear to everyone. A de facto presidentialism imposed by Europe has emerged. But above all, appointing Cottarelli in Conte's place, Mattarella has made a political choice that clearly violates the Italian constitution.
That of the technicians is in fact an eminently political choice that deposes popular sovereignty. That's how he expressed himself Marco Della Luna in the book“Traitors in the government” (Arianna Publishing 2013), in relation to the appointment of the Monti government by Napolitano: “… In the case of the Italian situation, and in general of a complex system like every country is complex, the problems are many (not just cheap, but also sociological, hydrogeological, legislative), they are unclear but controversial in their identification and causes; there is no precise and shared technique (Why, even within technical economic science there are totally divergent schools both in the analysis of the causes and in the recipes, indeed the crux of the choices is between opposing economic models); it's not just about solving problems, but to choose which objectives to pursue, what priorities to set, which social classes to tax, which to deprive of assistance, which development model (or modestly survival) adopt, and perhaps even more whether to defend a certain national independence or not, whether to accept or reject a Euro-financial architecture under German hegemony, how to challenge and change the current structure of the Eurosystem. All these choices are choices purely political, non-technical; e, based on the Italian Constitution and the general principles of representative democracy, just a political government, with a popular mandate, can be legitimately placed to carry out them. Not a technician or a government of technicians. And in fact the Monti government has done so, with the explicit and repeated endorsement of Napolitano, a series of heavily political choices, ideological, classiste, and very little "techniques". The thesis of the government of the technicians is a lie to cover up a clear and fundamental unconstitutionality, cannot be remedied retrospectively by a parliamentary vote, especially since the parliamentarians and the parties were not free and serene, but they were held under various threats, internal and external, from the spread to early termination before the pension accrues". Read More

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CLEAN HANDS | Non-fiction

«Maggio ’68», the revolution of nothing
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Report Roman correspondence

Of Giovanni Tortelli
The events of the student protest that from the squares of Paris to those of half of Europe gave rise to "May '68" took the form of a true cultural revolution, and as such they were warned. The '68 movement had all the characteristics of the cultural revolution: spontaneity, the surprise effect, the grassroots initiative and the transversality of the demands.
Which were not political except very indirectly. They were indeed bearers of a new deontological and teleological order to replace a system in which the individual's way of thinking, the organization of the family and social institutions were still based on the principles of a hierarchy and natural law authority, principles that came definitively, if not quite suddenly, delegitimized.
Of course. No delegitimizing force - least of all the 1968 protest - could have had success against archetypes of natural law as implicit in man and rooted in his lifestyle and faith as the family., institutions and the entire social order including the Church, if we had not already taken action against them at the time with strokes of Jacobinism first and then of modernism. Read More

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