THE EUROPEANS CALL FOR THE COUP – to save Democracy, obvious

Of Maurizio Blondet
From what I understand, Mattarella doesn't want the ministers that the government alliance proposes to him. They say he keeps calling Draghi to get it, let's say, instructions or opinions: “Conti is fine?”. Draghi: For goodness sake, and who knows him. It’s incompetent. He's a technician (the media repeats: incompetent, too technical, he falsified his CV)

NOT COMPETENT ENOUGH.

Mattarella: “They propose Paolo Savona to me, accept it? Draghi: “From bad to worse, that is too competent. He is also one of the system, so we cannot attack him like a barbaric invader. Former general director of Confindustria and Minister of Industry in the Ciampi government, long years alongside Guido Carli, who as Treasury Minister signed the Treaty of Maastricht for Italy. Experienced. He knows too much. It would be able to pilot the agreed exit from the euro. He knows how to do it. It would put Merkel and Macron in difficulty in the negotiations. No no, really not".

TOO competent.

I media strombazzano: Paolo Savona is anti-euro, it's not good. We need a minister who is not critical of the euro, otherwise Europe feels offended. Others explain: Paolo Savona is inside the System, therefore in contradiction with populism. Rejected.
Mattarella vetoes.
President Mattarella takes his time. He continues to receive messages from so-called Europe: “Italy respects its commitments”; “President, do not allow the barbarians to destroy the splendid work we have done in Brussels".
One hundred and fifty German economists sign a fiery document in which they demand that Italy leaves the euro. Which demonstrates the state of mental confusion in which we have plunged them: prima, when the option of exiting the euro appeared in the Lega-M5S draft, everyone screaming that it's a scandal! And they force you to cancel that option. Then the same option appears with the signature of 150 German economists, and that's fine.
And what does Mattarella do? Wait. He waits for Salvini and Di Maio to propose the right ministers to him. Right according to pro-Europeans and the media. It is clear that he would be happy if Salvini and Di Maio proposed to him: as chairman of the board, we absolutely want Gentiloni. As Minister of Economy, we choose on our own initiative, Padoan. To Foreign Affairs, Alfano. Faithful to Education… Read More

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Infrastructure, the rumors and the Venetian lead

Image results for Venetian foothillsOf Marco Milioni

Hello dear readers,
I believe that these rumors that run along the Veneto-Rome axis could interest you. We talk about the infrastructure department…
The rumors come from Rome. As part of the formation of the new government led by the Northern League and Five Star Movement, some Venetian names would have been circulated for the infrastructure department, one of the most strategic. These are names that are not only eligible for the ministerial position, but also for that of undersecretary. The first is that of Silvano Vernizzi, today CEO of Veneto Strade, he was for a long time the extraordinary government commissioner for the Veneto Pedemontana. His choice would be at Lega quota but very well appreciated by Fi circles. Another name that is circulating is that of Massimo Colomban, former councilor for subsidiaries in the municipality of Rome in the M5S council, He has a past in the centre-right and would not be unwelcome to the League. The latest name circulating is that of Massimo Malvestio, well-known lawyer from Treviso, known for being one of Zaia's spin doctors, in his case his name would have been proposed without the interested party being immediately made aware of it. Rumors have already circulated among the M5S base that they would not have liked the three names because they were considered too close to the Venetian infrastructure establishment. In the Region that once belonged to the Serenissima, some more delicate games are being played in the field of great works. Just think of the conclusion of the MOSE, to the Marghera reclamation, to the canals for large ships and the Pedemontana Veneta, the Valdastico Nord and the Orte Mestre not to mention the Tav Brescia, Verona Vicenza, Padova. These are projects opposed by the M5S and instead by the League, in a coalition with the centre-right he has always supported it. As has been explained several times in the national press (from Fatto and Corsera first and foremost) right in Veneto, in terms of infrastructure, a crucial game will be played for the country, within which it will be important to understand how much the lobbies that operate behind the infrastructure sector will be able to make their weight felt on the unborn government.

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Lega-M5S government, Here is the contract and list of ministers

SalviniReport Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
ROMA (WSI) – More than a draft agreement, for some it is seen as a gauntlet to the European Union capable of sending the financial markets into a tailspin. Let's talk about the contract that Lega e Five Star Movement have developed and which they will soon bring to the attention of the Head of State, thus giving the green light to the new government.
Compared to the version leaked byHuffington Post in the new contract, thorny references disappear, such as the creation of an exit mechanism from the euro and the request to Mario Draghi of the ECB to cancel i 250 billions of debt for Italy.
However, some key points remain that could damage relations with Brussels. Not to mention that the coverage to be found for all these measures will be considerable and the budget constraints do not allow much room for manoeuvre.
Some points of the programmatic design still require some reflection, like them flat tax rates, the proposal to establish a regional Cie, the reform of the prescription, a law on mosques, up to the commitment to suspend executive works and re-discuss the Tav project in its entirety. Read More

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Report: John Brennan Worked ‘Pee Dossier’ into Obama’s Daily Briefing, Called Steele ‘Credible Source’

Report Breitbart

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan (R) listens while making personnel announcements during an event in the East Room at the White House, on January 7, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Obama has …
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A new report alleges that former CIA Director John Brennan included claims from the dubious Steele dossier into President Barack Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief — without disclosing the source of the allegations.
“Brennan put some of the dossier material into the PDB [presidential daily briefing] for Obama and described it as coming from a ‘credible source,’ which is how they viewed Steele,” a source close to the House probe told Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry.
“But they never corroborated his sources,” the source added.
The allegations began to reach the PDB after Obama ordered Brennan to produce a report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, just one month after President Donald Trump won the White House. In January, both Obama and Trump were briefed on the Intelligence Community’s findings.
Brennan’s actions appear to contradict former DNI chief James Clapper and fired FBI Director James Comey’s claims that details of the dossier were unclassified, despite being a part of the highly classified PDB.
In February, Brennan was ensnared in the House Intelligence Committee Republicans’ investigation into the “origins” of the Steele dossier. The former spy chief was asked to complete a questionnaire concerning his possible role in the sourcing and dissemination of allegations detailed in the unverified dossier.
Brennan testified to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) in May 2017 that he had “no awareness” that Steele existed.
Brennan also told House investigations that the dossier was “not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment” of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Plato's Republic: a philosophy against the modern world

Of Luca Leonello Rimbotti
Plato's Republic: a philosophy against the modern world
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

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Dissolution of state factors

Of Luciano Del Vecchio
Dissolution of state factors
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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Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic

Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
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

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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

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