Catholics between Europeanism and Populism | FIFTH COLUMN

Media versus people
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Media versus people
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Cara Lilli Gruber, but how can Italians trust you if you write about itSet a comment with a title like that: “All populists lie. They are dangerous and opportunistic"? And the title faithfully responds to the development. He knows he's offending three-quarters of his viewers?
Like the 60% I feel like one of the Italians right now, with all the critical reservations that I do not hide, more on the side of the populists than their enemies. And I'm not just offended by his definition, how hurt by Italian, as a journalist and free thinker. I would never use a statement like that even for the worst enemies; I would distinguish, I wouldn't feel in possession of the truth. I don't bet on the success of this government, I say it every day. And it surprises me that the one attacking in that way is the one who was generous with the Grillini and their sponsors, to the point that often – even the other day with the embarrassing, rambling, Dibba's rant – gave the impression of being Grilli Uber. I don't hold the inconsistency against you, they are his business, I know that grillini are fine for her if they hang to the left, if instead they ally themselves with Salvini they become bad. There are people who still divide humanity into fascists and anti-fascists, and reality is lost, the present, the world, 70 years of history, communism even.
Through her, actually, I take it out on the media, the Press and TV which are offering a disgusting and desolating spectacle: the Italians on one side and them united on the side of the establishment. I wouldn't have expected the opposite but at least a variety of positions and the ability to distinguish and analyze; someone equidistant, someone else who understands people's reasons, someone who recognizes pieces of truth in the opponent. No, Nothing, a Chinese army, monolithic, monotonous. Like in war. Read More

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Actuality | Catholics between Europeanism and Populism

Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)
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Of Ernesto Galli of the Loggia
Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)
Source: Corriere della Sera
Every time it decides to commit suicide, the Left knows that it can always count on those who are ready to help it get the shot in the barrel.: they are the intellectuals on his side. Who in turn know that whatever they say or do they can always count on the masochistic silence of their victim. This is the first reflection that comes to mind when reading Tomaso Montanari's long article «The invented identity of Italians» (The Fact, 10 September). And immediately afterwards one cannot help but think that on certain subjects in Italy any discussion is impossible since instead of trying to understand the other's reasons everyone repeats their own like a mantra for the public of aficionados. Montanari's thesis is perfectly expressed by the title of the article: the Italian identity does not exist. In his opinion, the term identity itself is a cursed term, serving only to fuel "the poison of identity rhetoric" and therefore to justify the "us" against "them", the doctrines of «rejection», «the concentration camps in Libya», the «foreigner as enemy» as well as obviously «the cultural paradigms (…) connected to the ghosts of Nazi-fascist nationalism", the "Italians first" and so on sermonizing. All infamies attributable precisely to the infamous concept of identity. Read More

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Actuality | events

Orbán all'Europarlamento: "Non accettiamo minacce e ricatti. We will not be a homeland of immigration"
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The Hungarian Prime Minister speaks before the plenary in Strasbourg “to defend Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years”

Orbán all'Europarlamento: "Non accettiamo minacce e ricatti. We will not be a homeland of immigration"
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STRASBOURG – After partially anticipating his speech with several posts on his Facebook profile, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke today in Strasbourg at the European Parliament hearing on Sargentini report in which it will be decided whether or not to sanction Budapest on violation of the rule of law. “You have already formed an idea about this relationship, and my intervention will not change your opinion, but I came anyway. You will not condemn a government, but Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years. I'm here to defend my homeland”, said the Hungarian prime minister, who defended his actions above all due to the broad consensus that his government receives at home. And really comforted by internal consensus, Orban had no problem taking sides directly against the European institutions: “Hungary will be condemned because it has decided that it will not be a homeland for immigration. But we will not accept threats and blackmail from pro-immigration forces: we will defend our borders, we will stop illegal immigration against you too, if necessary”. The leader of Fidesz, who is part of the European People's Party family in Brussels, he stated how the measures on immigration were taken on the basis of the will expressed by the Hungarian people: “We are the ones who defend our borders and only we can decide who to live with. We stopped hundreds and thousands of illegal migrants and defended Hungary and Europe. The Hungarians have decided that our homeland will not be a country of immigration.". Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

The future of Sovereignty
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Of Roberto Siconolfi
The future of Sovereignty
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. Read More

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Identities die between racism and anti-racism
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Of Alessandro Soldà Cristofari
Identities die between racism and anti-racism
Source: over the line
Let's start with a news story: an American girl publishes some photos on her social profile in which she is wearing a beautiful evening dress at a party (whose dress code requires a certain elegance).
However, alongside the compliments, some more comments appear under the photographs critics, let's just say she is insulted: his fault is that of wearing a traditional Chinese dress, symbol of female emancipation, without knowing the meaning, disrespecting the entire Chinese people.
And so we don't miss anything, she is also accused of cultural appropriation and to bend a symbolic dress to the pure hedonism symbol of American capitalist and consumerist society. In the end, despite the cowardly and senseless attack, those photos remain on his profile: because she likes that dress, and it certainly won't be that gratuitous malice on social media that will force her to change her mind.
Faced with this story, one remains perplexed; on his part there was no obvious or at least voluntary lack of respect towards China, living in a society where the consumption it is the prevailing culture to the detriment of the previous traditional and historical heritage - which is that of individuals and their respective peoples -, and it is therefore normal not to be aware that certain accessories and objects refer to an event or story of fundamental and historical importance for a nation, as is the case with the girl's dress. Read More

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Culture | Non-fiction

Guareschi, del '68 se ne fece un baffo
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Like today (yesterday for those reading, n.d.r.), fifty years ago, in the fateful '68, he went to the other world Giovannino Guareschi. He left the small world that few had described, to reach the big world, the one where that Lord lived who in his House gave advice to one of his fiery dependents on earth, Don Camillo. At least that's what Guareschi says.

He left early, Giovannino, a 60 years, after a troubled life, between concentration camp, prison under fascism and anti-fascism, plus a host of books translated all over the world, of very popular films that represented that fabulous post-war Italy, and adventures in the press, like his impertinent Candide who played a decisive role in the defeat of the social-communist popular front in the 1948 elections.
Giovannino died on 22 July '68 but he had time to write his last Don Camillo dedicated to today's young people. The book was released posthumously and marked the striking contrast between the old communist Peppone (that the anti-communist Guareschi had made sympathetic with his irrepressible humanity), the tough Don Camillo and a young, beardless protester, who was traveling on a motorbike with studded and fringed bags and a black jacket with a skull and the words "Veleno". Which becomes the boy's nickname for Guareschi and also the metaphor of the protest. "The Chinese" also arrive in the town of Brescello and upset the ideological geometries of the Italian-Stalinist Peppone and also displace the religious ones of the parish priest. Guareschi links the protest to the advent of the consumer societyi. For him the antagonism between the two phenomena is only occasional, related, not substantial. Consumerism devours the small ancient world and the old faiths, but he catches Peppone who leaves his bike and rides in a red spider. Consumerism is the habitat of 1968. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The adventure of a poor Christian
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Image results for FontamaraOf Roberto PECCHIOLI
The adventure of a poor Christian was Ignazio Silone's last literary work, the author of Fontamara. Exit with great success in the fateful 1968, recounts the convulsive Roman and Neapolitan months of Pietro di Morrone, the monk who ascended to the papacy in 1294 with the name of Celestine V after infighting of a corrupt church, returned after a few months to his hermitage in the Maiella mountains following the abdication that Dante called "the great refusal". Silone intended to represent the opposition between the individual and the Church in his fellow countryman Abruzzo, even more so the irreducible gap between the honest man and power.
Following the paths of disarmed Catholicism has become the daily adventure of poor Christians. We believed that nothing could surprise us more than what comes out of the mouths of members of the hierarchy, but we were wrong. In recent weeks, two significant episodes have caused new disturbance and renewed dismay. The first is the phone call between Gianni Vattimo, marxist philosopher, proclaimed homosexual, standard bearer of postmodern nihilism in the insidious form of so-called weak thought, and the tenant of Santa Marta Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Between the two, whose approach was perhaps favored by the class's common condition as conscripts 1936, the most concrete was the Turin thinker, which, according to the reconstructions, he would have proposed to his successor (or better, to the impostor, n.d.r.) of Pietro to put himself at the head of a sort of international against the excessive power of money. Vast programme, commendable and widely shareable, but certainly distant from the religious mission. Read More

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Let's say it: the sovereignists are right and insults won't stop them
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Of Marcello Foa
Let's say it: the sovereignists are right and insults won't stop them
Source: Marcello Foa
And to say that until recently, mainstream intellectuals attempted to discredit the sovereignists as dangerous neo-fascists. Today we can say it: the sovereignists were right and there is no insult that will be able to stop us, for a reason as simple as it is unexpected: voters are destroying, ballot after ballot, that neo-globalist and transnational construct that years of incessant propaganda have attempted to transform into an unavoidable Destiny. I confess it: it was difficult to imagine it in these proportions. The media campaign (but not only that) launched by the establishment to stop populists in every country (from the United States to Great Britain, from Austria to Italy) it has been of unprecedented virulence and is destined to last. Just think of the latest shameful accusations from Repubblica which labeled as "red-brown" many intellectuals guilty of being in favor of the Legastellato government and which accuses Matteo Salvini of being a Nazi. Mud, garbage, nothing but rubbish.
Trump in the United States suffered the same treatment. Yet the defamation no longer takes hold, not even if it is screamed by 90% of the media; On the contrary, produces the opposite effect. The popularity of the president of the United States is very high, the League goes from victory to victory and i 5 Stars have crashed to the left that Democratic Party for which almost all the talk shows support. All this happens because citizens are tired of no longer being masters of their own destiny and are no longer enchanted by narrative, drenched in spin, aimed at creating the impression that the state is a relic of the past and that the world will be ineluctably multicultural, multiethnic, governed by virtual democracies but de facto controlled by self-appointed elites lacking popular legitimacy. More than a relic, the State is more alive than ever! Read More

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Actuality | Policy

Putin interviewed by Austrian TV ORF
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Image results for PutinOf Vladimir Putin – 05/06/2018
Source: Aurora site
In view of the visit to Austria, the President of Russia answered the questions of the presenter of the Austrian ORF, Armin Wolf.
Armin Wolf, presentatore dell’Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF): Mr President, his first visit abroad takes you to Austria. This is a sort of incentive for a benevolent policy towards Russia on the part of the Austrian government, who lashes out against new EU sanctions and has not expelled Russian diplomats over the "Skripal case"?
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I don't think that a European state as respected as Austria needs incentives. We have long had good and deep relations with Austria. Austria is our traditional and reliable partner in Europe. Despite all the complications over the years, our dialogue in the field of politics, of security and the economy has never been interrupted. Our trade with Austria has grown by 40,5% last year. We respect Austria's position and its neutral status. Russia, Obviously, is one of the guarantors of this status, having taken part in the drafting of the State Treaty. We collaborate with the Republic of Austria in various sectors: in the economy, like I said, in politics and security. In the economy, we collaborate in various sectors. Not just energy, although I would like to say more about it later, but also in aircraft construction, aviation safety and hydroelectric engineering. More and more Austrian capital is invested in Russia. We consider it a sign of confidence in the economic policy pursued by the Government of the Russian Federation. We take on important projects. Thanks to our cooperation, Baumgarten, and therefore Austria, it has become the largest gas hub in Europe. We have many common and similar interests, so we were happy to welcome Federal Chancellor Kurtz to Russia, in February. It is from these considerations that my visit to Austria is being prepared and I hope it will take place soon. Read More

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Orban's rise in Europe: Hungary as an alternative model
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Of Lorenzo Vita
Orban's rise in Europe: Hungary as an alternative model
Source: The eyes of war
Viktor Orban has become, over the years, one of the most important leaders in Europe. And now, his message, begins to penetrate the entire continent.
The victory of John Jansa in Slovenia, ally of Orban, it is an unmistakable signal. Not so much in the numbers of the electoral victory, but in meaning. The group Visegrad, the one to which Hungary is part, has a new ally in Ljubljana.
And the merits of this victory are largely to be assigned to the Hungarian prime minister who was able not only to ride the wave of protest (particularly on migrant issue), but also penetrate the political debate. Clear messages, simple words, deep meanings. Like the last appeal addressed to the Slovenian people “Vote for the survival of the nation”.
I media e Orban in Slovenia Read More

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