Salvini: «This government is scary. The strong powers will try to crush us"


Wall Street Journal: «Italy is a danger for the euro». Salvini: «The strong powers want to crush us»

According to the newspaper, the "danger" is represented by the "market shocks experienced last week on Italian debt and the new attacks against the European establishment by politicians in Rome"

Of Paola Di Caro

The first was Giancarlo Giorgetti about ten days ago: «I expect the attack, the markets are populated by hungry hedge funds who choose their prey and act". Parole, those of the Northern League undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, that had shaken the political scene, and which were immediately collected by other government officials. Like Luigi Di Maio, who immediately said he was ready to react if the much-feared storm on the markets were to arrive: «If someone wants to use the markets against the government, know that we are not blackmailable. There is no Berlusconi at Palazzo Chigi who gave up for his companies".

The Wall Street Journal article
L'articolo del quotidiano americano
The article from the American newspaper

Il 19 Matteo Salvini took up the theme of a possible assault on the government and the "Italian experiment" by international "strong powers" in August, with a stark warning: «They will try to crush us, but we will not retreat an inch. Almost as if to open a preventive polemical front, also - perhaps - in reaction to an article in the Wall Street Journal according to which the end of the "long marathon" to save Greece will mark "the closure of the Eurozone crisis", if it weren't for "Italy and the nagging fear that the euro isn't so stable after all". A "danger", the Italian one, represented by the «market shocks relived last week on Italian debt and the new attacks against the European establishment by politicians in Rome», which could lead to a "destabilizing capital flight". The financial newspaper explains that the decisive test will be in the autumn, when "the Italian populist government will have to present the budget law and explain how it will cover its expensive promises to voters".

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Foa, the monster of the week

Of Marcello Veneziani
But don't be ashamed to accuse the government in office and Salvini in particular, Of divide up the appointments as you have practiced all your life? Don't be ashamed – you leftists, you left-wing intellectual clergy, you left-wing newspapers and news, you seasoned Rai trade unionists and you more hypocritical and pompous right-thinking crypto-leftists – to cry scandal and be indignant just because the Grillini and the Northern League members, in modo naive, they follow the ways of subdivision that you have been practicing with servile professionalism for decades? On the contrary, in Renzi's time we even had to regret the usual division, because he took everything, on Rai and beyond. This time the rock of the scandal was Marcello Foa, came from the Giornale di Montanelli and then remained at the Giornale di Feltri until he moved to the Canton of Ticino to teach communication science and manage a Ticino publishing group. Never been involved in politics, no blemish on his criminal record or reputation, no suspicious connection. Nothing scandalous. But for the valiant Italian Information Collective plus Pd, starting with the Corazzata Repubblika, Foa says he is a student of Montanelli (a boaster, so), teaches manipulation of news i.e. fake news and not communication science, he is even a guest on Russia Today and therefore is a hired servant in Putin's service, he even retweeted something by one Francesca Totolo, “patriot financed by Casa Pound” (which notoriously has billions, other than poor Renzi with his little paper plane, at our expense, which cost a few hundred million). Read More

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How beautiful, the enemy has returned

Of Claudio Risé
How beautiful, the enemy has returned
Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More

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«Dear left-wing enlightened people, have you ever wondered why Italians don't think like you?»

Of Caterina Giojell
«Dear left-wing enlightened people, have you ever wondered why Italians don't think like you?»
Source: Times
Didn't read up yesterday Republic the appeal of the twelve finalists of the Strega Prize who ask for the order to close the ports to be immediately revoked, «but it's as if I had done it, these kinds of appeals are all the same and extremely predictable". Only the day before Luca Ricolfi, sociologist, professor of Data Analysis at the University of Turin and scientific director of David Hume Foundation, on the basis of the Ipsos survey which gave the 71 percent of Italians in favor of Salvini's hard line - «not just the voters who vote for the right or Five Star, but also a third of the voters of the Democratic Party" -, he had signed a letter to the illuminati on Messenger: «Dear progressive politicians, dear committed intellectuals, dear enlightened manager, dear prelates, writers, singers, professor, television hosts, journalists who every day practice heartfelt appeals to cultivate a sense of humanity, have you ever wondered why so many Italians don't think like you?».
On the other hand, he tells tempi.it, «I listened (what are youtube) the thought of one of these witch prizes, that a few days ago, when the Aquarius had not yet arrived in Valencia, he confessed: "I myself, I have to say, con realpolitik, which I was also ashamed of, I thought yesterday, I wished someone would die on the Aquarius ship. I said: and now, if a child dies, I want to see what happens to our government". There's no need to even specify who, in particular, made such a miserable reasoning why, judging by the non-reactions of the progressive world (and indeed from the official defenses of his words, that would have been "taken out of context") one might think that what escaped a single intellectual was the afterthought of many. An afterthought that is not only a sign of lack of humanity but also of little interest in the common good. I find the attitude of those who harbor within themselves such great hatred and contempt for their political adversary as profoundly barbaric that they wish for anything that could harm the enemy.: today that a child dies, tomorrow the spread will rise and Italy will go under. And look, I don't love this government at all, and the only explicit public position I took before the vote was against the League and the Five Star Movement, because I believed them (and I believe them) a danger for the Italian economy. But this doesn't lead me to hope that they will sink the country, on the contrary, I hope they are able to prove me wrong". Read More

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Nobel economics winner Krugman against Mattarella's choice. Ecco perché l'antipolitica vince sull'establishment

Written and reported by Antonio Amorosi
Nobel economics Krugman against Mattarella. He prefers the euro to democracy
Nobel economia Krugman, harsh criticism of Mattarella: prefers the Euro to democracy. Krugman is not a populist but he makes it clear why the choice is wrong

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Mattarella's no? Between political choices and strong powers

Image results for Mattarella and the powers that beWritten and reported by Marco Milioni
The reasons why the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella he de facto said no to an executive made up of Lega and M5S with Paolo Savona at the Economy and Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister they are the subject of a very harsh clash. And they will be for a long time. And as happens in such cases, the reasons for such drastic choices trigger reactions of all kinds: there are insults on the web. There is the harsh and thoughtful criticism of a high-ranking constitutionalist like Massimo Villone, until reaching the j'accuse by Massimo Fini and Ugo Mattei. All this suggests that the stakes are very high.
Now it would be important to be able to understand whether the head of state's niet really only has generic correlations with the need to protect savers or if there is something else underneath. First of all, who are the savers that Mattarella is referring to?? It is Mr. Bianchi and Mrs. Rossi who have put away some BTP? They are the large stakeholders who professionally make profit from the public debt of nations? To try to shed some light on this cave, it is necessary to account for an indiscretion that has been circulating for several hours among the Venetian parliamentarians recently elected between Palazzo Madama and Montecitorio.. An indiscretion according to which people very close to Mattarella would have advised the head of state against allowing a minister considered disinclined to the wishes of large investors in government bonds to set his sights on the chest which at the Ministry of Economy contains one of the best kept and most controversial secrets of recent years: that of derivatives subscribed by the State to guarantee public debt. Read More

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They were a disaster for 40 years… and now they are in a hurry. (That is to say, every time the media loves someone, this someone does damage...)

Of Marco Giannini
They were a disaster for 40 years… and now they are in a hurry. (That is to say, every time the media loves someone, this someone does damage...)
Source: Comedonchisciotte

Italy is a strange country, we see "unified networks" broadsides raining down on the Government in the process of being formed and this happens precisely from people like Monti, Berlusconi, Bossi, Renzi, Study Program, Veltroni, Padoan and Cottarelli (FMI…), who since the time of the Moro murder have contributed to devastating the country, in ideology and practice, polluting its culture and exporting its well-being.
To name a few, the “Riforma Treu” of work which has brought precariousness to monstrous levels, compressing the economy and causing insecurity, the rules of entry of foreigners functional to the downward competition between Italians and foreigners regarding wages and social rights, the knowledge reforms which have weakened the role and figure of the teacher (inwards and outwards) and destroyed the civic sense of the country as well as the quality and meritocracy of the school, the contemporary and dramatic comparative flattening of the level of competitiveness of our universities implemented at the beginning of the millennium which made, moreover, i university baronies even more "expensive" and politicized, the “Divide et Impera” implemented by 1994 (acting on obsolete grudges and ideologies) which polarized Italians into "right" and "left" (theoretically appropriate dynamics) but transversally (!) given that the main division should have been between city instances (contemptuously defined as “populist”) real economic and those of speculative income, primarily those of the large financial corporations (rooted abroad) with their very powerful political-institutional-lobbying apparatus (…), the Bank of Italy/Treasury divorce, the privatization of banks and shares of Bankitalia (…), the next one theft of our gold reserve, the wild liberalizations of capital and supplies which have increased the cost of living, the emptying of the CGIL now reduced to a moribund business committee, the Franco-German financial technicalities passed off as “Europe” which have uprooted and are uprooting huge slices of well-being (tens of billions a year) with pro-bank and pro-multinational rules that have high unemployment and high taxation as their "net profit"., the ideological exaltation of globalization.

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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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If you want peace, don't make war on us

Of Sergey Lavrov
If you want peace, don't make war on us
Source: Panorama
In an exclusive interview with “Panorama” on newsstands on 3 maggio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, almost 15 years close collaborator of Putin, accuses the United States, Great Britain and a "small but very aggressive" group of Russophobic European countries. They have to resign themselves, dice, the world is no longer theirs. And he gives his version of the Salisbury poisonings and the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. «The G7 is now inadequate, a model for the future is the Moscow-Beijing agreement".
Lavrov, in the interview he talks about all the main issues that have seen Russia as a protagonist in recent months, from the poisonings of spies in England to Syria, from the United States to relations with Europe.
Here are some passages from the long interview which can be read in full in the weekly: Read More

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