Actuality | Culture

Checkmate the news wizards
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Of Marcello Foa
Checkmate the news wizards
Source: aldogiannuli
The contemporary world is characterized by a heated debate on the role and future of information: information always seen as an instrumental component of modernity, given that diatribes such as the one that arose over so-called fake news were essentially focused on their consequences for electoral purposes. The information is, in any case, a battlefield where each contender is interested in putting their most refined strategies into play; a very often overlooked role is the one played, in this context, by spin doctors, communication experts linked to political power who, moving in the shadow line between institutional and personal communication of leaders, exercise a decisive weight in the orientation of public opinion. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

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 | CLEAN HANDS

The latest from the EU: the web without images (and without ideas). It's called censorship. I'm not there. And you?
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Of Marcello Foa
Screenshot 2018-06-24 all 16.16.34They've been trying in every way for a long time, in the United States and, above all, in Europa. Those who follow this blog know how I think: since the establishment lost control of the Internet and especially of social media, conveying non-mainstream ideas and encouraging the affirmation of alternative movements, those who are contemptuously defined as “populists”, any pretext is good to encourage measures to limit freedom of thought. They tried using the battering ram of "Fake news" and the attempt is still ongoing, in these hours they are using another lock pick, he copyright.
As he reported, in perfect solitude, Claudio Messora up Byo Blu the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, on the proposal of the inevitable German commissioner Oettinger, gave the first green light to the Copyright Act, that in fact, if it is also approved in the Chamber, will allow the introduction of censorship measures.

The article 11, establishes the so-called “link tax”. We're not talking, to avoid misunderstandings about films or songs or entire books, but we are talking about the text that, quoted verbatim refers, “even to the smallest fragments of articles containing news”, that they “must have a license”. You know that little preview text that appears next to or below a link, in the absence of which no one in their right mind would dream of clicking? Ecco, that should also be properly licensed!

Messora explains, which continues like this: Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Seeing what a man Macron is? Orgoglio e dignità dell'Italia, finally
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Of Marcello Foa
Seeing what a man Macron is? Pride and dignity of Italy, finally
Source: Marcello Foa
But if the spokesperson for En marche!, the party of French President Macron, judges Italy “vomitevole”, because it shouldn't be said? Because some of the mainstream press feels the need to tone it down, maybe even hide, as if the reputation of France had to be defended? Today that title appeared on some sites, then disappeared, then reappeared; others have drowned the epithet inside the piece.
All this, journalistically, it doesn't make sense. The insult was there, sure enough there was, very heavy. And although Macron himself then partially corrected the aim, judging the Italian government “cynical and irresponsible”, the case is serious.
The Italian press must not be embarrassed, who if anything should be indignant. It should be the French because it is not the Italian position that is unsustainable but theirs. Of that France that closed the ports even a year ago; which brutally rejects immigrants at the Ventimiglia border, without compassion even for children and pregnant women, and even allows himself to trespass with his gendarmes into Italian territory.
The hypocrisy of Macron and his party is flagrant. And their macroscopic double standard gives the character of this European Union, never supportive in times of need and which sees Italy as a country to be exploited, to humiliate, to buy.
That country, but, thanks to Salvini and the Lega government- 5 position, now he says no and raises his head with pride. He demands respect, does not accept lessons from Paris. And he won't go back. Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Fake News and induced truths
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Of Enrica Perucchietti
Fake News and induced truths
Source: Italicum
Interview with Enrica Perucchietti, author of the book “Fake News”, Arianna Publishing 2018, edited by Luigi Tedeschi

  1. According to the thoughts of Walter Lippmann, our perception of reality is conditioned by images, concepts, moral values ​​not directly acquired, but transmitted to us by others. Therefore, the narration of facts is necessarily subjective, a representation of reality formed through stereotypes, assumed as interpretative canons of reality itself. In the fluidity of today's telematic communication, therefore, new stereotypes replace old forms of manipulation of reality. It is therefore necessary to conclude that the perception of reality is always mediated by the uninterrupted succession of cultural stereotypes over time, every truth arises from selective parameters of interpretation of reality itself. In this case the post-virtual truths of media technology, they do not end up being equated with the metaphysical conceptions of philosophical knowledge and/or with the transcendent truths of religious faiths?

The risk exists. Yet the truth is one, with its infinite nuances, beyond the stereotypes or cultural archetypes that each of us has inherited or been indoctrinated into. I agree with the philosopher Alain De Benoist according to which the intent of post-truth would be to discredit the truth by presenting it as a "great story" which can no longer be believed precisely because everyone has constructed their own subjective truth. It would be the triumph of relativism: everything becomes “relative”, virtual and therefore chaotic. At this point of collective disorientation, Power guarantees the existence of its own truth through the supervisory action of the mainstream media and the laws introduced to guarantee order. That is, we want each of us to be increasingly wary of the news we can find on the web even if it is documented and true and, more generally, of alternative information to make exclusive reference to "certified" news.: we must only rely on what the Party says and has decided for everyone. The others will be conspiracy theorists, webeti and well poisoners. Read More

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Actuality | Policy

The spin doctors, ecco chi pilota l'informazione
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A communication expert like Marcello Foa explains who really commands and holds the reins of the games

Of Marcello Foa

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Foa's latest book: the information is manipulated al 70%, but people noticed. And he's getting bored

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Here we are: the EU creates a network of censors. Freedom of opinion is in danger!
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Of Marcello Foa
Here we are: the EU creates a network of censors. Freedom of opinion is in danger!
Source: Marcello Foa
The European Union and the United States have been preparing the ground for a year and a half. And now here we are: Soon we will have a network of fact-checkers, naturally independent, naturally abiding by a rigorous code of ethics and naturally dedicated to the supreme cause: the fight against fake news or the monster that shakes the establishment's sleep.
All this, actually, as I have been saying for some time, it has only one purpose: legitimize the introduction of censorship, limit the impact and spread of non-mainstream ideas, naturally denying that it is censorship. But so it will be: there is no true democracy when someone claims the right to decide what is true and what is false, and making it inviolable and sacred, what is actually a very dangerous form of strabismus, because it only points to part of the problem, fake news spread by social media, and the real scandal is ignored, which is represented by the manipulation of news created within governments, whose impact is infinitely greater. Any lie about Syria, on Ukraine, on Greece remains rigorously unpunished, as long as it originates within an institution, precisely those institutions that now demand, for our good, to limit the boundaries of freedom of expression.
The European Union yesterday took another fateful step, announcing measures, “preparatory”, waiting for further "fine-tuning", already announced for December. The setting is soft, so as not to alarm the masses and in fact few media talked about it; the outcome, but, it's a given. It cannot be otherwise when it is announced, as did the EU Security Commissioner Julian King who

The manipulation of public opinion through fake news is a real threat to the stability and cohesion of our European societies

announcing

the creation before the summer of an independent European network of fact-checkers and in September of a European platform on disinformation to help them in their work. Furthermore, Brussels will launch a new call this year for the production and dissemination of quality information on the EU through data-driven news..

Already, but what checks? What data? Those certified by Macron or the US State Department who decided to bomb Syria without evidence, only on the basis of news reported by the media and social media? Those issued by NGOs which, although presenting themselves as non-governmental, are actually financed by Western governments, becoming a disguised but very effective tool in the context of modern asymmetric wars?
King also launched social media measures from Facebook and Twitter, just as Zuckerberg, to the European Parliament, he announced the creation of a small army of twenty thousand guardians to guarantee the fairness of the "2019 European elections" that is, to take away the lifeblood and visibility of sovereignist ideas and movements that are critical of the EU. Therefore to limit freedom of opinion from above, as happens only in authoritarian regimes.
Unfortunately, the scenario we outlined by Alberto Bagnai is confirmed, Vladimiro Giacché and myself, during the very crowded conference which took place last Saturday in Rome, organized by The dissident intellectual and by the association a/symmetries. A conference that aroused the enthusiasm of those present and which you can follow thanks to Byoblu by Claudio Messora, who filmed it.
The looming battle for truly free information will be tough, very hard. And we will need it, like never before, of your support.
Here is the video, good vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPakayBRjac

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Putin is indeed guilty? Something just doesn't add up in the Skripal case
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Of Marcello Foa
Putin is indeed guilty? Something just doesn't add up in the Skripal case
Source: Marcello Foa
We are really sure that the Russians were the ones who poisoned the former spy Skripal and his daughter? Allow me to raise more than one doubt by carefully examining the news that has come out so far. The points that don't add up are these:
Primo. What is the motive? What is the interest in Putin? Let me explain: everyone recognizes the Russian president's great sagacity in calibrating his moves. He excels in both strategy and tactics. We have long known that the United States (which drive Europe) they are engaged in an operation to wear down the Kremlin aimed at obtaining a realignment towards pro-American positions, which can only be achieved with certainty through a change of regime or with Putin's exit from the scene. Since a colored revolt is unfeasible, the scenario is to make the weight of sanctions and international isolation unsustainable, causing Russian elites to rebel against the newly re-elected president.
In this context, every pretext is used to unnerve or weaken Putin. Knowing the end goal, you have to ask yourself: but what interest did the Russian president have in trying to eliminate a former spy, however out of the picture, resorting to the most spectacular of assassination attempts, the only one that - after the pollonio affair - the whole world would have attributed to the Kremlin? You will agree: it doesn't make sense. Diplomatically it would have been suicide, because it would have offered the West an opportunity for a further anti-Russian campaign, which in fact occurred promptly. No, Putin is not the leader to make these mistakes. Read More

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