Actuality | Non-fiction

The State is the opposite of a family
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Of Ilaria Bifarini (Bocconiana redeemed)
The State is the opposite of a family
Repeated exposure to an image or content causes the individual to modify their perception of reality and internalize the message conveyed. It's what psychologists call the "priming effect", and which advertisers and communication experts know very well. The more a message is repeated and emphasized, perhaps through the shape of the commercial, the more familiar it will be.
Thus it can happen that a concept lacks truthfulness, but repeated insistently and convincingly, acquires the rank of truth. This is what happened with the fake economic news of the moment, as absurd as it is apparently effective: the state budget would be like that of a family. Journalists repeat it in unison, television hosts, economists and indifferent people. So do ordinary people, fast in economics and above all in good faith, he internalized a completely misleading thought.
According to this logic, when a country has public debt - therefore normal in a modern economy- she should behave like a good and careful housewife: tighten belts and cut family expenses. As, how a temperate woman will save on food, on clothing and, in conditions of extreme ratio, to health care for themselves, for your spouse and children, so the State should follow his virtuous example. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Anti-Italians
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Of Marco Cedolin
Anti-Italians

Source: The corrosive
The Conte government, being made up of two certainly non-revolutionary parties that have gathered great popular consensus and precisely by virtue of this they govern, without a doubt, no one will make Italy leave the EU and the euro, it will not give the country a sovereign currency, it will not close ties with NATO and will not bring about an epochal revolution. To achieve these objectives, Italians should have voted for the parties that proposed them, and they existed both in this and in past electoral cycles, but they remained at a standstill with percentages in the order of zero point, demonstrating unequivocally how the “revolution” at least at this moment it is not in the minds of the people who clearly consider it a leap in the dark.
Despite this, the Conte government, for the first time since Craxi's ouster, he is proving to take care of the problems of Italians, instead of banks, of the spread, of the markets, of what Europe asks of us and all the other amenities that have characterized the unique thinking of all previous executives…. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The peacefulness of good
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Of Adriano Segatori
The peacefulness of good
Source: Italicum
I borrow the title of an article that appeared in "L'Espresso" of 30 September signed by Giuseppe Genna, but subverting the direction. He speaks of the peacefulness of Evil, flirting with the banality of Hanna Arendt; I prefer the Good one, given that the evil of disinformation is widely represented by him and his associates.
He further demonstrated that the technique of confusion and communicative falsification is an art 2500 years ago Sun Tzu placed it alongside that of war: Above all, you defame the good of your opponent; employ the meanest and most infamous individuals; be generous in paying for information, these and other gems were widely used by Mao himself. Ma “The Soviet Union was the leader” as Dario Fertilio highlights in an old essay entitled "The Devil's News", in distorting every form of truth and ethics.
Here then is explained the strategy that is deployed daily by the terminal Italian left, as if the gene - or the defect - of lying were transgenerational.
Not being able to analyze the cited article in its complex system for reasons of space, it is necessary to focus attention on some specific ideas. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Effort is good: makes you less stupid. Don't let cars steal it
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Of Claudio Risé
Effort is good: makes you less stupid. Don't let cars steal it
Source: Claudio Risé
Sweat and responsibility are part of life since the labor of birth.
When they try to get rid of it, men and society weaken themselves and yes
they undo. Caesar Augustus and the Benedictine monks had already understood this.
The oldest of fake news, the hardest to die? The one that assures us
that freeing ourselves from fatigue is an extraordinary deal. Indeed the most important of
everyone. Transfer the effort to others, to someone or something that will do it for us
place is the ancient dream of the lazy that slumbers inside us, While
we work. It's also the message of much advertising. But it's about
nonsense, practicable for a short time.
It's this one, for example, the story (told by folk tales throughout the
world, in different ways but with the same moral) of the Prince who exchanges the
his situation with the poor to free himself from his princely labors and
see life from another point of view. Proposal immediately accepted by the other, ben
happy to free himself from the toil of being poor. After some vicissitudes though, Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Populism, sovereignism and billions to poverty... one can give oneself courage
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Of Rosanna Spadini
Populism, sovereignism and billions to poverty... one can give oneself courage
Source: Comedonchisciotte
At the beginning of the eighth chapter of “The Betrothed”, our Don Abbondio, what one cannot give oneself "courage", while he was casually reading a book, he happens to read the name of a philosopher by chance “Carneades who was he?”, which he knew nothing about, except that perhaps he had heard of it at least once along the way, useless course of his life.
Now we could say the same thing... what kind of animal is "politics".? A weeder that is disturbing just to mention, or a unicorn straight out of some sort of contemporary bestiary. If politics cannot be given courage, what is it for? Now it seems that the yellow/green government has plenty of courage, determined to free himself from the financial pockets he has been thrust into.
Demagogic maneuver said some barn owl on a media tour, forgetting that the DEF finally represented the affirmation of politics on finance, challenging the mesh of European vetoes and constraints, which have contributed to increasing the level of poverty in Italy, reduced to the bottom of the EU.
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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

Padre Pio's greatest miracle
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Padre Pio's greatest miracle is still underway: it is to ignite faith and devotion in full irreligion and in full atheism. And still today, fifty years after his death. It is a miracle that is unprecedented and that the saint did not perform on anyone in particular, but to the entire people of his devotees, including those who are not believers and practitioners but who believed in Padre Pio's sanctity long before the Church certified it.
Il 23 September of 1968 a life went out and a light came on. That light still shines fifty years later and is linked to the name, all’immagine, to the bleeding hands of that Capuchin saint with his brusque ways, from rustic and dialectal Italian, by the spirit that shone in his seeing eyes. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The future of Sovereignty
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The future of SovereigntyA RELIABLE OPINION TO REFLECT ON
Of Roberto Siconolfi
Source: Heretically
The entire political-ideological movement linked to the sovereignist/populist alignment moves in a context and in a series of precise directions. Continuing along this path new questions arise, on crucial choices which can be responded to either with the dry alternative or with the affirmation of a plural ideological-political wave which despite having a very distinct central axis, contains “different” if not even “contrasting” options. As for the context,starting from the most obvious aspect, we must take note of the definitive drying up of the left political area but more precisely of Marxism. The death of Domenico Losurdo embodies a symbolic end of all "intellectually honest" Marxism with which it is still worth dealing and with which one can also find points of convergence for very concrete political battles. The same can be said for certain political subjectivities, representatives of that area. However, we must realize that Marxism is completely finished, and not for reasons of who knows what historical significance. It has reached its lowest point, the “0” of its descending parable.
The new era, the new millennium, the possibility of looking with a broad historical perspective must bring, and already brings, for those who haven't noticed, to the affirmation or rather the "return" of completely different principles and values ​​that would be more appropriate to define as "spiritual". The inconsistency and "desolation" of the "materialist" and "economist" proposal of Marxism is very little in comparison and is no longer even felt. It is no coincidence that these war remnants of intellectuals, various groups and small groups, they no longer know what to do with the current phase. The worst of them bark fascist and racist, the best present us with the usual pappardelle about socialist revolutions, with the "economy at the center of everything" and the "class struggle" as the engine of historical changes. (…) Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

L'Occidente senz'anima
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Of Roberto Locatelli
The soulless West
Source: The Rebel newspaper
For a hundred years now, the quality of life in the Western world has undoubtedly accelerated and improved unapproachable by the other countries in the world.. Technique and technology, applied to all branches of our life, individual and collective (work and social), they improved the quality, contributing to the lengthening of average life, to the enjoyment of free time and hobbies, to the possibility of traveling and learning. Think about medical and pharmaceutical technology, essential for the treatment of diseases and well-being, not to mention nutrition, with an immense availability of variety of foods throughout the year, to conclude with the means and tools used in carrying out the work, increasingly digitalized and less and less physical. Read More

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Non-fiction | History

Memories of an era – Fra' Ginepro, the Franciscan who brought Mussolini back to the Faith
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Of Luciano Garibaldi

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Fra' Ginepro from Pompeiana (photo from the Ragazzi del Manfrei website)

He was a priest, Don Ennio Innocenti, theologian and historian, famous radio preacher (his broadcasts entitled “Listen, it's evening"), as well as founder of the “Sacra Fraternitas Aurigarum in Urbe”, to reconstruct Mussolini's path towards faith. He did it with a book, “Dispute over the conversion of Benito Mussolini”, published in Rome in the mid-nineties, precisely from the Fraternitas (via Capitan Bavastro 136, 00154 Roma). Don Ennio Innocenti had dedicated twelve years of research and personal investigations to this unusual story. At first, had revealed what Father Eusebio OFM had confided to him, born Sigfrido Zappaterreni, chief chaplain of the Black Brigades, moved to Argentina after the war and died in Buenos Aires. Several times - this was revealed by Father Eusebio to his brother - he received the sacramental confession of Benito Mussolini. Afterwards, it was another Franciscan who administered it to the Duce, after confessing it himself, the Eucharist. His name was Fra' Ginepro. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

"Il decadentismo fa decadere il cattolicesimo"
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Reporting of Federici Studies Center

Report: “Decadentism causes Catholicism to decline”
Review by the writer and journalist Rino Cammilleri of Don Francesco Ricossa's book “The shame of tradition” published in the newspaper of 23 September 2018.

http://www.centrostudifederici.org/segnalazione-decadentismo-decadere-cattolicesimo/ Read More

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