A country with a brain in smoke (of cannabis)

Of Claudio Risé
A country with a brain in smoke (of cannabis)
Source: Claudio Risé
A country with its head in smoke: This is one of the emergencies that the new government will have to face, without wasting too much time. On the consumption of cannabis and its derivatives, marijuana and hashish, Italy is at the top of the charts. His young people (dai 15 ai 34 years) they joint the 6% more than the European average; and this also leads to peaks in smoking and alcohol consumption. A sick youth appears, weak, insecure, scared. Anyone who works with teachers knows this well: Accompanying pupils on school trips is now at multiple risks, illnesses among children, complaints from hoteliers, accidents and unforeseen events of all kinds, not always without deaths, then told in the news. But adults don't joke either: here too we are at 32% against the 26% of EU average. Contrary to the slogan dear to the elites: “the joint does nothing” (and the psychedelic painter Matteo Guarnaccia already made a cartoon about it in the 1990s: “who knows how bored he is”), all this smoke leaves traces first and foremost in hospitals: il 15% of new users end up in treatment for panic attacks and out-of-control states. Also because people don't even know what they smoke: the THC level increased by more than 10% in 10 years. If there is a borderline situation, on the border between psychosis and “normality”, with a couple of joints it suddenly slips where it shouldn't (and “royalty”). Read More

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Cosa c'è dietro l'immigrazione di massa

Of Ilaria Bifarini
What's behind mass immigration
Source: You are afraid
In recent years, European public opinion has learned to understand and in some way metabolize the phenomenon ofmass immigration. Throngs of men, women and children crowd around uncomfortable boats that sail the Mediterranean Sea until they are reached by boats of the now well-known NGOs, which take on the task of ferrying migrants to the northern coasts. This is only the last stage of a process that begins in the immigrants' countries of origin, but which has its roots in the financial mechanisms that regulate the global economy.
Austerity, debt, Malthusianism
The topic was discussed last Thursday at the Theater Hall of the Cristo Re Foundation, in Rome. Speakers Enzo Pennetta, biologist, teacher and writer, e Ilaria Bifarini, economist, author of the books Neoliberalism and mass manipulation (2017) e The Colonists of austerity: Africa, Neoliberalism and mass migration (2018). It is an analysis of the facts that starts from afar that Bifarini offers, which is defined as one “redeemed Bocconian”, from the name of the prestigious university where he studied, the “Bocconi” in Milan, factory of future high finance managers.
L’austerity, in his opinion, e even before the debt, they would be the triggers of mass immigration as well as the globalization of poverty. Austerity that, in Pennetta's introduction, would find a correlation with the Malthusianism, economic doctrine inspired by the Englishman Thomas Malthus according to which the population grows faster than the available resources. Hence the necessity, promoted by followers of this theory, Of reduce social assistance because it encourages population growth. And exactly cuts in public spending are the point of contact between Malthus and austerity. Read More

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The Porcata

Let's take this opportunity to answer a question that came in recently: “Why, unlike other sites similar to yours, you cover current events a lot?” Why, rejecting intellectualism and loving non-fiction, we live in this world and not in the empyrean, therefore we prefer to give food for thought on what actually happens so as not to only give what is theoretical or theoretical. Furthermore 10 years, the choice proved to be a winning one”. (N.d.r.)
Of Marcello Veneziani

In the end, the rubbish arrived. Out with the populist government that came from the polls, away the minister unwelcome to the eurarchs, the technical government wanted by the Palace is born, in the name of European economic terrorism. One nightmare ends and another begins, maybe worse. Three months and we are worse than before. Mattarella's no to Savona and, through him, the entire establishment, it is the no to sovereign Italy.
If you go to vote, Salvini and the center-right start with the advantage, Di Maio takes a big risk and Diba is back in his place; but now expect the anti-populist bombing, financial terrorism to sow panic among people and intimidate voters... After a long agony the second republic is over but we don't know what stuff is starting: the third republic, the fourth international, Beethoveen's fifth... Read More

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BIG GUY: IF THE VATICAN RECOMMENDED MATTARELLA'S TORPEDO TO THE LEAGUE-M5S GOVERNMENT...

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Of Marco Tosatti
Big Guy – who has important contacts on this and the other side of the Tiber – it foreshadows a disturbing hypothesis, that is, that the Holy See communicated to the Quirinale a message of support for the constitutional forcing operation aimed at derailing the hypothesis of a Lega-M5S government, which had a solid parliamentary majority. If we take into account the statements of the president of the CEI Bassetti, of those of the general secretary Galantino and of the fund of the director of Avvenire, Tarquinius, which is one of the journalistic and media expressions of the latter, and Antonio Spadaro's tweets, director of Civiltà Cattolica, the rumor or hypothesis, call it what you want, It's absolutely plausible. Perfectly in line with the policy of contiguity adopted by the top bishops towards Renzi, he PD, and the left in general; the new collateralism. But let's see what Pezzo Grosso writes about it.
“I must declare that after the so-called government of President Napolitano in 2011, I understood the message clearly: elections serve exclusively to measure the political maturity of a people. If these people demonstrate immaturity, must be helped not to make mistakes. The European government of the Ventotene manifesto applied in practice. Read More

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Sovereignists of the world unite. A manifesto against globalization

Of Luigi Morrone
Sovereignists of the world unite. A manifesto against globalization
Source: Corriere della Sera
Since the seventies of the last century, we are witnessing a rebirth of interest in the historiographical debate around the idea of ​​"Nation". The essay “The Nation: Story of an idea” by Anthony David Stephen Smith, just published Rubbettino, with an understanding introduction by Alessandro Campi, outlines the current situation of the debate. A debate commonly marked by a banally post-Marxist approach, which tends to confine the "construction" of the idea of ​​the Nation to mythology, according to a refrain repeated as an ossified formula: “It is not the Nation that creates nationalism, but the opposite". According to this paradigm:
1. The concept of Nation was established in the 19th century and any attempt to backdate it is marked by obvious forcing, because only in the modern era were the conditions created for the construction of "nationalist myths";
2. Nationalism "invents" the idea of ​​the Nation starting from these myths to which a shared "identity" can be traced, which was called “Culture-Nation” by nineteenth-century nationalists (Cultural nation), that is, belonging to a community of culture and lineage that precedes its organization into a State. Myths that are completely made up (come Ossian) or which take inspiration from historical figures, transfiguring their reality. He is born, Like this, the epic of the rooster Vercingetorix, of Arminius, prince of the German Cherusci, of the Celtic leader Ambiorix, National hero of Belgium, del Cid Campeador, for Spain, by Alexander Nevsky and Ivan Susanin, for Russia;
3. The idea of ​​"Nation", as a “liquid” idea, it no longer makes sense in the present time, where it is destined to give way to the idea of ​​a trans-national community, daughter of globalization.
In this perspective, pointed out in the 1940s by Hans Kohn, it moves, first of all, the anthropologist Ernest Gellner, but his theories were further refined – among others – by Eric J. Hobsbawn, da Benedict Anderson, there Ottfried Höffe, da William H. McNeill, da Michel Theretschenko. Such theses, prevalent in mainstream literature today, however, they find refutation in scholars such as Adrian Hastings and John Armstrong. Read More

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The struggle for liberation from the prison of the People begins

Of Maurizio Blondet
The struggle for liberation from the prison of the People begins
Source: Maurizio Blondet
It is now clear to everyone. It's not about public debt, del rating, or the euro. It's about the struggle for liberation of a people from plutocratic oligarchies, established themselves as a dictatorship. It will be a tough fight, because the enemies of freedom have all the powers in their hands and we have already seen them, since Greece, capable of any inhumanity. It is the Resistance that awaits your generation, young. Read More

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THE EU OR OTHER FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CANNOT DECIDE WHICH MINISTERS ITALY SHOULD HAVE

Written and reported by Antonio Socci, “The Stranger”

The film that is airing these days is incredible. Germany complains about the intolerable interference of Italian voters (via Lega and M5S) in the formation of the new government in Rome which - apparently - they provide from Berlin, like you do with a colony.
In fact, from Berlin they make it known that they do not tolerate ministers they do not like. It's all out in the open, just read the newspapers.
She is scandalized "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for the insubordination of the Italians towards the Germans: “Italy wants an enemy of Germany in government”.
Where "enemy of Germany" is simply meant an economist who wants to defend the Italian national interest and is critical of German arrogance. We have to stay, by subjects, under the Teutonic boot and kiss it too?
The "Sueddeustche Zeitung" explicitly exalts Mattarella who - according to them - is under siege from Italian voters: “never before has a President of the Republic been put under so much pressure as in recent days by the two parties” who “persist on the name of the radical Eurocritic Paolo Savona”.
According to them, it is not the EU, especially the Germans, to exert intolerable pressure on an Italian Head of State, but the parties most voted by Italians would be the ones who would press unduly who simply govern according to the Constitution. As if Mattarella was at the Quirinale to represent the EU (i.e. Germany).
But it is possible that Mattarella, instead of recognizing the will of the Italian voters, will become the spokesperson for the diktats coming from Berlin?
Hopefully this isn't the case. But you understand well what is happening when you read the Quirinalist of the “Press” Ugo Magri – very Mattarellian – who writes: “it is certain that Mattarella has raised the case of new book from Savona which puts to rest all the anti-Germanic feelings of its author, and accuses the Germans of hegemonic aims comparable to Hitler's".
And we need to think about when Matteo Salvini dice: “It's madness, it is pure madness to blow everything up because Merkel doesn't like Paolo Savona, because he dared to criticize Germany in one of his books".
With the full and significant support of Giorgia Meloni, in this battle for national independence, Salvini he rightly thundered: “German newspapers and politicians insult: Italian beggars, slackers, tax evaders, freeloaders and ungrateful. And we should choose an Economy Minister who suits them? No, Thank you! Italians first".
Salvini reasons with common sense and with the dignity that every political leader should have, as if we were in a country where the Italian people are still sovereign, according to the article 1 of the Constitution.
But evidently in recent years in Italy the pillar of the Constitution has been silently forgotten - defining it contemptuously sovereignism – and allowed foreigners to dominate.
So now Germany feels entitled give us orders. And the technocracy of the EU, in recent days, felt entitled to send its preventive warnings to Italy.
Without the highest offices of the State having felt obliged to defend the dignity and independence of Italy which among other things is one of the major industrial powers in the world.
No European country has seen such a thing foreign interference (not to mention the insolences that the German press throws at us).
On the contrary, Mattarella, instead of rising up against these intolerable interferences by the EU and Germany, seems to become their spokesperson and - turning the tables - accuses foreign powers and the EU of imposing "diktats"., but the League who simply - based on the vote received from the Italians - indicated Paolo Savona for the Treasury Ministry.
It seems like the situation described by Manzoni in the “Betrothed”. After the overbearing diktat of Don Rodrigo - who had ordered through two bravoes: “this wedding shouldn't happen” – Don Abbondio began to invent excuses, refusing to marry Renzo and Lucia to obey the arrogant lord.
The two young people thus devised a way to circumvent the incomprehensible veto of the fearful priest, ma don Abbondio scatenò il finimondo accusando di prepotenza Renzo e Lucia.
Manzoni comments:
“In the midst of this greenhouse greenhouse, we cannot stop ourselves from stopping for a moment to reflect. Renzo, that screamed at night in someone else's house,
who had snuck in there, and kept the master himself besieged in a room, he has all the appearance of an oppressor; nevertheless, at the end of the day, he was the oppressed. Don Abbondio, surprised, put to flight, scared, while he calmly went about his business, it would appear to be the victim; nevertheless, actually, it was he who was committing an abuse. This is how the world often goes...".

It is now clear that there is something at stake here much more than a simple ministry and much more than one EU reform like the one proposed by Savona (all the experts, aware of the situation, they know that change needs to be made), ma our own national sovereignty is at stake.
Mattarella risks taking on the very serious responsibility not only of sink a government, but also of drag the presidency of the republic into political contention and therefore in a very serious one institutional crisis.
Once the Quirinale enters the political dispute, some might even argue that the Italian state is submitting to the diktat of foreign powers.
As president Mattarella took the oath with these words: “Giuro di essere fedele alla Repubblica e di osservarne lealmente la Costituzione”. He knows well that this means being faithful to the Italian Republic and not to the German one. He knows well that he has to be guardian of the Italian Constitution, not of Merkel's wishes.
As a French economist said (moreover pro-European) Germany, after destroying the economy in Europe, is in danger of also destroy democracy. They “allow” you to change governments, but never policies. And this – complains that economist – will mark the end of the euro.
Antonio Socci
From “Free”, 27 maggio 2018
In the photo: Silvestro Lega, Bersaglieri with Austrian prisoners in the wars of independence (1861)
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Court of Auditors, the cost to the State of each asylum seeker is 203 euros per day. (other than that 35)

Image results for defend EuropeOf Maurizio Blondet
For the reception of immigrants on Italian territory, In the 2016, the National Fund for asylum policies and services, managed by Ministry of the Interior, without including the so-called costs. “indirect”, recorded financial commitments for totals 1,7 billions of euros.
Even the European Union, for the same year, contributed funding for 46,8 million euros which however represent only the 2,7 percent compared to the burden placed on the state budget and on the shoulders of Italian citizens.
To this must be added the cost for the country of the failed relocation of migrants in other European states, on the date of 15 October 2017, amounts to no less than 762,5 millions.
The technical accounting document analyzed, specifically for the three-year period 2013/2016, the first reception, i.e. the services provided to foreigners from disembarkation to accommodation in the CAS and subsequently in the Cara. High costs emerged in the face of poor services, absence of adequate fiscal controls, long times for identification and asylum applications, lacking territorial governance by the Interior Ministry in the collection centers.
In short, according to court of accounts the reception system would be expensive, ineffective and summary. The system for managing the reception of immigrants has come under the scrutiny of the Court of Auditors, in a compendium of 150 pages, all the obvious critical issues of the phenomenon. Read More

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Government, The markets like Carlo Cottarelli. Spread in calo a quota 190, bene l'euro, which then oscillate

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The objective data is that in Italy, if Merkel doesn't like you, the EU and the IMF cannot be governed. Even if you have a parliamentary majority, a shared program, an appointed prime minister, the team of ministers. The fact, which emerged yesterday in its total drama, what should not be surprising but rather indignant is that those who would like to change the political situation are stopped by the strong powers. (n.d.r.)
Skipped the Lega-M5s government, Italy remains under special observation. The differential between Ten-year BTPs e Bund tedeschi, although controlled by the quantitative easing of the Bce, it immediately began to expand beyond the 200 basis points after opening at odds 190,3 points against i 204 of the closing on Friday. The harsh institutional conflict weighs heavily, with the contractors who evoke theimpeachment for the head of state who he called to Colle Carlo Cottarelli with the intention of entrusting him with the task of forming a technical executive. Il yield on the ten-year bond Italian, who had come down to the 2,34%, he returned to the 2,43%. Read More

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