IMMIGRATION

There are more migrants in bookstores than at sea
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How to judge the tons of paternalistic and obvious literature? Obscene business
When social fashions spread in literature, moralizing, it's always a bad sign, especially for literature. Like the workerist narrative, the feminist one, taking into account that I yawn even with Verga's vanquished (great writer, for goodness sake), with neorealist raggedness, not to mention the boys in Pasolini's life, let's tell the truth: who reads them anymore? Maybe because true literature is always universal, this is why Proust didn't even care about the First World War.
 
Like migrants today. Not migrants per se, poor things, but the migrant novel, Maybe everything that is tear-jerking and edifying only edifies me as a huge pain in the ass. With Alessandro Baricco who last year even tried to pass off a classic like Steinbeck's Fury as a novel about migrants arriving in our country, that if you had never read it would make you want to, but luckily Furore is not what Baricco tells you, it is not a book by Baricco. Read More

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Actuality

Minister Fontana: “The League is preparing a crackdown on drugs”
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The announcement : “We are working on it with Salvini”.
War on drugs and dealers. This is the League's next battle, as announced in recent hours by the Minister for Family and Disabilities, Lorenzo Fontana, interviewed by Evening courier. The Northern League exponent confirmed the intent of his party and the government to implement a real crackdown on the circulation of narcotic substances: “The idea is to profoundly rethink the prevention and assistance system. But also review rules such as the 'modest quantity. On the one hand – continues the minister – it suggests that there is an admissible quantity, on the other hand it prevents drug dealers from being removed from the streets".
For Fontana “the modest quantity is a precious help for drug dealers who are unlikely to be found with higher doses. So they are arrested and in the evening they are already free".
But the Northern League's proposal risks clashing with the allies' projects 5 place. For about a month, the Five Star Movement has presented a bill to the Senate which aims to decriminalize the cultivation and recreational use of the so-called "light cannabis", an idea that neither vice prime minister Matteo Salvini likes at all, nor to Fontana himself: “I must also say that the so-called legal hemp, supported by important investments in marketing, I don't think it sends a good message.".
source – https://vocecontrocorrente.it/ministro-fontana-la-lega-prepara-una-stretta-alla-droga/

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Policy

Now Salvini can win the politics
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by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma on Libero, 12/02/2019
The affirmation of the League in Abruzzo as the first party of the center-right coalition was taken for granted, but alone Paolo Becchi, in the columns of this newspaper, he had understood that the League alone would become the first party in the Region overcoming the Movement 5 place. The political value of these regionals is therefore national.
The simple consecration of Salvini as the undisputed leader of the center-right coalition is not relevant. The salient fact is another: if in Abruzzo the League alone comes close to 30%, at a national level it cannot fail to have at least the 38-40%. That threshold that thanks to the mechanisms of the electoral law, the Rosatellum, allows you to win political elections.
And here very concrete scenarios open up. Berlusconi if ​​he doesn't reach a friendly land like Abruzzo, as it seems, the two digits and stops under the 10% he is destined to become extinct with his party or in any case becomes irrelevant for Salvini's new political project. Berlusconi can't even say that he made one of his candidates win in Abruzzo, because the winning President is from the Brothers of Italy. Forza Italia, apart from Liguria with a Toti who is also very close to the League, it no longer controls any Region. Everything has also changed compared to the regional elections in Molise and Friuli ten months ago, where Forza Italia overtook the League at least in the South, which now gets even more votes than Berlusconi once got. Read More

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Science and Bioethics

La Rai ha speso soldi pubblici per un documentario 'gender'
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The director is Adele Tulli, daughter of Serena Dandini.
A docu-film in defense of "gender" ideology, against gender stereotypes, which will serve to attack Senator Simone Pillon. It is described as “Normal”, cinematographic work directed by Adele Tulli, daughter of the presenter Serena Dandini.
The short will be screened at the Berlin Film Festival, which is taking place right now.
But the most shocking news was given in the last few hours by the newspaper "La Verità" and reported by "Libero". To carry out the project, the journalist's daughter (known for being an icon of the feminist galaxy) would have obtained financial support from Rai. Money from state television, In short, to which the funding given by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities would be added. A public investment to make political and ideological propaganda and ridicule the organizers of "Family day".
 
source – https://vocecontrocorrente.it/la-rai-ha-speso-soldi-pubblici-per-un-documentario-gender/

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events

The resistance of Venezuela
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THE ANTI-DIPLOMAT

by Gianni Mina’

Among the many lies that are told daily by the Western media regarding Venezuela there is one that unfortunately was also espoused by our Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi.

During his speech in the Chambers, the minister stated that the opposition in Venezuela, the one belonging to questionable characters such as Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado and Henrique Capriles, he had not participated in the last elections because the electoral consultation was not credible, in fact she was wearing makeup.

Now apart from that the whole world, if it is not in bad faith, knows that the defection was instead due to the opposition's inability to find a decent candidate after the failures of the supposed fighters for democracy in the country, it is clear that the truth is different.

Mortifying the validity of the last elections was the usual method to justify the failure of the opposition.

I remember the anti-Chávez campaigns, contradicted by the facts, and I remember the very facts that they had as guarantors, among others, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize, Eduardo Galeano, critical conscience of the continent and even the Foundation of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, people whose intellectual honesty was undeniable. And I remember the numerous electoral campaigns, whose democratic validity was monitored by more than 150 international observers. In May 2018, for example, the former prime minister of Spain, Josè Luis Zapatero had criticized the reckless attitude of the European Community which had left Venezuela to its fate of isolation. Read More

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World Economy

The “new world” dreamed of by Jacques Attali
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If the media was very focused on Brigitte, wife of Emmanuel Macron, on his legs, the outfits and their love story, they paid less interest to the "spiritual father" of the French president, the French economist and banker Jacques Attali, Mitterrand's historic advisor, then advisor to Sarkozy: he would have been the one to introduce Macron to Hollande who would then have called him as assistant secretary to the Elysée, finally in 2014 to hold the position of Minister of Economy under the presidency of Manuel Valls, taking over from Arnaud Montebourg.
It was Attali himself who claimed the spiritual "paternity" of the new French president of whom he speaks with pride ("He will be an extraordinary president"). Already in April 2016 predicted that an unknown would win the presidential elections of 2017 and indicated two possible names: Emmanuel Macron and Bruno Le Maire.
Attali, who helped write the Maastricht Treaty, he is a lobbyist who over the years has released disturbing interventions in line with his fervent non-fiction production (think about Brief history of the future of the 2006). The phrase «And what did the European rabble believe, that the Euro was created for their happiness?». Read More

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World Economy

Lira Euro passage. The Consulta ascertains that we have been robbed
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The sensation, with the transition from the Lira to the Euro, of having been robbed was immediate. The traders (those who have been crying about the crisis for a few years) they immediately took advantage of this to double the prices. With the approval of the State, which, as well as not forcing them to display the double Lira-Euro price for at least a couple of years, it doubled its bills and rates itself. Even inserting paper coins would have been enough 1 e 2 euro, to give more weight to money and greater awareness for consumers when spending it.

But beyond that, he committed another robbery, through the most pro-European government we have had in recent years: the Monti Government.

Come? Through the Save Italy rule (law 201/2011 art. 26), which he anticipated to 6 December 2011 the deadline for converting old liras into euros. A full three months in advance, given that the law of 2002 (introduced to manage the introduction of the euro) instead he stared at the 28 February 2012 the end of the right of exchange.
An advance that benefited the State between 1,2 e 1,6 billions of euros that, instead of ending up in the pockets of Italians in possession of the lire, were paid by Bank of Italy in three installments into state coffers to contribute to the reduction of public debt. That public debt that has been eating away at us for decades and that no government has been able to reduce.
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Catholicism

Saint Philip Neri... a saint to understand how much Christianity is characterized by true joy
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Saint Philip Neri is a particular saint. If you really want to choose an adjective, it can be said that his was a cheerful sanctity; in the sense that it was a holiness marked by the desire to highlight how Christian life is capable of giving true joy. Philip Neri (“Pippo bono” for friends) it was brilliant, witty, he always had a ready and biting joke (like a good Tuscan) and so much goodness, understanding and availability. “Retreat, Gentleman, retreat. Hold back the wave of your grace” he said when his heart was full of happiness and gratitude. At the same time he prayed to the Lord to keep his hand on his head."…otherwise – he used to say- Filippo, without your help, he does some of his own.”
Holiness as a providential sign
The sanctity of Saint Philip is a providential sign in a time in which Catholicism had to respond to the sad Lutheran atmospheres. It must be remembered, Indeed, that the Protestant theory of justification , as a simple attestation from God but not as a real and substantial event in the human soul, it entailed an admittedly pessimistic perspective in the theology of the Reformation, distressing and sad. More simply - according to Protestantism- God would not recognize it as true justification of the sinner, but he would pretend that it is so even if it is not; instead in Catholicism the justification it is real and substantial.
But let's go back to Saint Philip Neri. He was born in Florence in 1515. Son of a notary, He was soon orphaned by his mother; ma, despite this, he had a peaceful childhood, facilitated by his cheerful temperament. He studied music and poetry and was very sensitive to beauty, especially that of nature.
At eighteen he was sent to Cassino, from a merchant uncle to learn the trade. However, in the Lazio town he was immediately attracted by the majestic abbey and felt a strong push towards religious life, but the Lord did not want him to be a monk. Read More

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Uncategorized

Watch out for Guaido, first LGBT activists elected in its ranks. And not only that
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As we all know by now, these are particularly critical days or weeks for Venezuela, Country theater of a bitter dispute that sees it, in fact, commanded simultaneously by two presidents in open conflict with each other. On the one hand, we have Nicolas Maduro, the president formally in office who denounces a coup attempt against him, While, on the other, there is the young man Juan Guaidó, the president of the National Assembly, the parliament, in practice, who claims the constitutional right to perform the functions of president ad interim, until the next free elections are called.
Ora, the impossibility of sympathizing with the communist Maduro is evident, who also in recent days was the author of a very violent attack on the country's bishops, according to him responsible for the crime of «hatred», this is because they dared to denounce the rampant corruption with their homilies. An accusation to which the local Episcopal Conference reacted by warning that it is an attack on the entire Church. Emblematic, in this sense, the words of the bishop of San Filippo, Monsignor Victor Hugo Basabe, who rebuked those who still do not understand how «the fundamental cause of Venezuela's woes is the persistence of an economic model, political and social that denies God and therefore human dignity».
Parole, those of Msgr. Wild, from which it is objectively difficult to dissociate oneself. The point, in this whole affair, but it is that not even Juan Guaidó seems to be that leader of mirrored virtue which – in the face of new basic freedoms that it could guarantee, now absent in the country tyrannized by Maduro – could guarantee real well-being for Venezuela. Read More

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World Economy

La Cina alla conquista dell'Italia
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Report by Emilio Giuliana
The building of the former State Mint in Rome? Now it is run by the Chinese. Raul Gardini's palace in Ravenna? Now it is run by the Chinese. The Doge's Ball Palace in Venice? Now it is run by the Chinese. The Roma bar in Carpi, the one where Dorando Pietri worked, legendary marathon hero collapsed one step away from the finish line? Now it is run by the Chinese.
And they became Chinese, among others, the Goldoni tractor company in Carpi, the one that effectively mechanized the Italian countryside; the historic Quarella marble company from Verona, Masterwood from Rimini, the Motovario metalworking company of Formigine and the Odeon cinema chain&Uci. Where at this point, a crime film could be staged. Which however is very similar to a horror film.
In fact, there are not only famous cases, bounced prominently in the newspapers, like those of Ferretti yachts, of the Krizia fashion house, of Pirelli, of Inter or Candy appliances: Beijing's shadow is stretching across our entire country. It happens day after day, brick by brick, neighborhood after neighborhood, factory after factory. After all, we know that China has set out to conquer the world. President Xi Jinping, defined by the Economist as the most powerful man on the planet, has launched a massive plan to promote acquisitions on five continents.
And Italy is a special observation. Of our country, the Ming grandchildren love everything: the singing, the music, fashion, the Staircase. And they can't wait to conquer us. A fine 2017 they flew the Chinese flag 641 Italian companies, with beyond 32 thousand employees and a turnover of approximately 18 billion a year. And the conquest, in general silence, it doesn't stop. Read More

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