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Silence of the Italian media on Tiananmen: the Chinese regime won

14 June 2018 by admin

Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

Courier, Repubblica and the others forgot about the 29th anniversary of the massacre in China, but they told us about the anti-robot strike in Las Vegas, Nobel Prize winner Malala's defense of university hangovers, a new drink from Japan, ecc.

Of Leone Grotti

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More than 115 thousand people in the square to remember one of the largest massacres in contemporary history ordered by a totalitarian regime against its own people. It happened in Hong Kong, where myriads of young and old for the 29th consecutive year lit a candle in Victoria Park to "resist authoritarianism" and condemn the Chinese Communist Party, that the 4 June 1989 ordered the People's Liberation Army to massacre students peacefully gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
NOT EVEN A LINE IN THE ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS
It's an event. In a world where young people are accused of being careless, concerned only with the moment and lacking historical memory, tens of thousands courageously take to the streets (Hong Kong is certainly not free from the influence of mainland China) to denounce one of the greatest horrors in history, fruit of one of the bloodiest regimes in history, e… no one talks about it. Leafing through the pages of the main Italian newspapers, one discovers that today no one has dedicated even a single line to the event.
Worse. Corriere della Sera, Republic, Press, Sheet, Newspaper, Libero, Sole 24 Ore, Daily Fact: no one found space – not even a short one, not even a box, not even a photo, not even a line – to mark the 29th anniversary of the massacre. In the editions of 3-4-5 June the main Italian newspapers dedicated articles to the most disparate topics: the anti-robot strike in Las Vegas, Nobel Prize winner Malala's defense of university hangovers, the criticism of Blair's former spokesperson for not doing housework, the success of the Ogiek tribes of Kenya and that of the new alcoholic drink from Japan. But not a word about the tragic events in Tiananmen Square. Read More

Actuality | Non-fiction

Stop Italy, I want to go down

4 June 2018 by admin

Of Roberto Pecchioli

Source: Heretically
Stop Italy, I want to go down. One of the problems, getting older, it is no longer being able to understand what we see. The codes to decipher the new reality slip out of our hands, one feels like a stranger, inadequate and we end up withdrawing into ourselves. If "they" see it, we remain spectators of events that happen despite us and of which we are unable to identify the meaning or direction. How to watch a Bengali film in the original language. This is why so many of us want to come down.
Little Italy has become Italiaccia. For a couple of days we had three governments. The one in charge "for the handling of current affairs", as the bombastic and subtly humorous formula of the official protocol states, that of “the president” by Carlo Cottarelli, official of the International Monetary Fund, as well as the one unwelcome to all oligarchies, led by Professor Conte with the participation of the sinister Bolshevik, fascist and anti-European Paolo Savona. The Jesuit training of the head of state made it possible to resurrect a theological category that had fallen into oblivion, that of sins committed with thoughts, parole, works and omissions. The trial of the intentions of the diabolical octogenarian Savona, ready to exit the euro 48 net hours (?!) however, it allowed Italians to see more clearly.
The good Mattarella presented himself to the people to claim the stop in Savona in the name of the Markets, revealing – holy naivety – who is the guarantor and president. The European Commissioner with a German passport, HerrOettinger, he too was struck by an attack of sincerity, he growled that the Markets will take care of it (always with a capital letter!) to teach the Italians, small, neri, dirty and stinking to vote properly. Even Juncker, perhaps betrayed by the Belgian beer, he revealed opening words how annoyed the inhabitants of the country are, slackers, maintained, corrupt (very true, but in crowded company) and many other things. Read More