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Pound, the unforgivable
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Pound, the unforgivable
If I think about November 1st 1972, when he died Ezra Pound, A black gondola appears in my eyes as it carries the poet's body in a sober chestnut coffin on its final journey to the Island of San Michele.; his thin, curved, hieratic body, his head framed in a mythical white crown on his head and around his face, which shone in the sun like a hieratic aura. Every time I go to Venice I can't separate what I see from what I remember, every gondola seems to me to preserve the memory of him, the remains of the mad poet, who loved Italy and its tradition, Dante and Cavalcanti.
For days we have been talking insistently about Pound in relation to current events, indeed to political-judicial news. They are indignant that a movement like CasaPound he “appropriated” that name. And, for goodness sake, Ezra Pound House cannot be a besieged fort or an alternative social center for young political militants; but let's remember into which house Pound was forced by the beautiful democratic and Western world: the Pisan cage of a concentration camp, the Saint Elizabeth criminal asylum… Of course, the real Pound House is not a closed place, it is the sea of ​​Venice, the city of art and poetry like Florence, the glorious sky of Rome. Read More

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Raibelli
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Of Marcello Veneziani
There is one emergency among others in Italy, not the most important, God forbid, but perhaps the most conspicuous. AND the monopoly of the public narrative, an indecent spectacle. State information, and a large part of the private one, every day he churns out a one-sided version of the facts according to the ideological-political canon of the left. Even now that the left does not govern and represents a highly minority share of Italian citizens. On the contrary, the collapse of consensus and credibility accentuates rather than attenuates the bias of information, also to establish an alibi in advance: the nominees want to be seen as victims of purge when new appointments are made, given that the political shareholder of reference who has always appointed the top management has changed. And so for preventive purposes they increase the doses of their factionalism to then pass as martyrs of the Idea and the Profession. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

Padre Pio's greatest miracle
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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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Media versus people
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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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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

House of intolerance
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Of Marcello Veneziani
The left it is today the main house of intolerance functioning at full capacity. Although defeated at the polls and a minority in the country, he exercises his intolerance on the living and the dead, on the elected and those not aligned with political correctness, uses the past as a weapon to attack the present, places vetoes and prohibitions, threatens those who express different opinions by presenting them as crimes, thanks to ad hoc laws that date back to its governments. He uses the shock troops of the media and the armored forces of the magistrates to put his enemies in check and outlawed. It is a house of intolerance that instigates ideological prostitution.
The reflection came to me yesterday following a small but yet another significant episode. They called me from Rai to ask me to participate in a program on right, extremism and intolerance. Pay attention to the theme, already says it all. They wanted me to make the right salami in a left sandwich, having a theme that already suggests the solution. We talk about the right and the association of ideas becomes a criminal association. Yet the right is politically the majority in the country, the right is historically a sense of the State and the Nation, the right is culturally tradition and civilization, order and security. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

Bergoglio contro i "cani selvaggi"
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The demonstration of how a non-believer can reach shared analyzes and conclusions on the work of Bergoglio and the Counter-Church, without going so far as to define it as such. We know that and we remember that. But the part about the Council is really excellent.
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Of Marcello Veneziani
No, Holiness, a Pope cannot call “wild dogs” the next one, especially when it comes to Catholics, Christians, believers. Dogs is the derogatory definition that Muslims give of infidels and Christians. Even the most ruthless terrorists were defined by the pontiffs who preceded Francis, “men of the Red Brigades”, ISIS men. More cups. To descend to those lustful levels is not worthy of a Holy Father. Silence and prayer were the most dignified responses.
For goodness sake, let's not be beautiful souls. We know what a vermin there is in the intestines of the curia and in the slums of the Church. The pedophilia racket, like the gay lobby that Bergoglio himself once mentioned, these are just some of the dark sides of the Church. That pedophilia whose proportions are disconcerting, collegiality, mutual complicity, before its single and very frequent episodes. But beyond those murky turns that concern the sexual sphere there are at least two others: one focused on malfeasance and the other on the no-holds-barred war to conquer roles of clerical power. Tours that are certainly not born with Pope Bergoglio but they are the b-side of the Church, its face corrupted and has presented itself with ups and downs for several centuries, with a special emphasis since atheism and nihilism have also corroded faith within the sacred doors of the Church. One would want to invoke the dogs to heal the Church but the dogs of the Lord, what the Dominicans called themselves, to which the most brilliant Doctor of the Church also belonged, San Tommaso d’Aquino. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

Barbari o division
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Of Marcello Veneziani
The day will come when green will separate from yellow, the League it will be the new right and the M5 location it will be the new left. A new bipolar system will be born from the present government majority. The times could be quick if in the autumn or even immediately the coalition splits on the sensitive issues we already know, that is, migrants, judges, pensions, citizen's income, nationalizations, while on others such as Europe and the aversion to the Caste of potentates seem to be quite homogeneous. But if they resist the autumn test, there will then be the test of Europe when the two parties will present themselves divided and will hoard votes, some in the center-right area and the others predominantly on the left..
This prophecy has been circulating under the surface for some time, e Bobo Maroni has recently relaunched it, seeing the League as the heir of the right and Forza Italia and the Grillini as the heirs of the left and the Democratic Party. Compared to the new right and the new left that those falling caryatids will make? They will change their name, face and leader to their retreating parties, they will cling to the past (Veltroni and Berlusconi), they will try to open bridges to the two main Subjects through their ambassadors (Toti and Zingaretti). And to complete the game we will then have to see what happens to Fratelli d'Italia and Liberi e Uguali, if they are inside, out on sharecropping, satellites or on the sidelines, compared to the two main poles. Read More

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I know how it will end
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Of Marcello Veneziani
I know how it will end. I know this because I know the story, I know people, I know the potentates, I know immigrants. I know them like you know them, from experience, precedents, realism and use of the world. Until yesterday the scene was as follows: I haven't heard an Italian that I didn't agree with Salvini, that he did not consider it absurd to incriminate an Interior Minister who is doing his duty, as well as his electoral mandate, to safeguard the nation's borders, as provided for by the Constitution, and protect Italians, reject illegal arrivals and reiterate that migrants do not land in Italy but in Europe. It is absurd that we have to remember Europe when it comes to paying debts or not breaking the bank. And instead we must forget about Europe when the migrants arrive because then, suddenly, we become a nation and we have to deal with it ourselves. Our sovereignty consists in the obligation to welcome them, even if everyone else doesn't want them. Until yesterday there wasn't a person I spoke to who wasn't of this idea in one way or another.
On the other hand, I haven't heard a news broadcast, and program, a commentator, a man of power or a newspaper that was not aligned against Italy, against the Italians, against Salvini and on the side of Europe that doesn't care about migrants, on the side of the judges who indict ministers in the name of the law, on the side of migrants who land illegally. A dry match, the united people on one side, compact power on the other. Almost no one in Salvini's company, the League is there but you can't see it, there is only him, there is the Meloni and then down the desert. The grillini, when they are not hanging on the Fig Tree, and therefore they lean to the left, they act like di Maio in order to float and stay where they are, and play at being superminister, he is ready to take it all back and dump the Ally on whom the Palace's media-judicial cannons are aimed, dai catto-bergogliosi to the scattered left. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

How we got to this point
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Let's tell the truth, we Italians have become unrecognizable. If we were to meet on the street those of us today with those we were just ten years ago, we wouldn't recognize each other and maybe we wouldn't even say hello. But how did we get to this point? To understand the present let's take a step back to the past. So ten years ago, these days, he had become prime minister for the fourth time Silvio Berlusconi. The Grand Duke of Padania Umberto Bossi was with him in government. Finish he had become President of the Chamber and dolphin, successor in the breast. Gianni Alemanno was elected mayor of Rome. At that time the National Alliance still existed. The loser of that time was called Walter Veltroni. The Movement had not yet been born 5 place, Di Maio was a stadium mask and Renzi didn't exist, a bit like now; he was a kind of boy scout, he was not yet mayor of Florence. Another world, prehistory.
But what happened to get to this point? There are a thousand factors, and we won't do the whole story. But we would like to focus on one detail. Italy was tired of the left, then and now, she had been disappointed by her umpteenth government and had once again voted for the centre-right and her King, Berlusconi. What happened, at that point? I should tell two stories, actually three.
The first story is that the elements against that government were unleashed. Global economic crises, from America to us; European economic wars, Arab springs bearing down on us, judicial wars against Berlusconi, domestic and international political conspiracies, press campaigns. In short, an evil three-year period which then ended with the well-known white coup that ousted the Berlusconi government. The left doesn't know how to govern and doesn't know how to be popular, but he knows how to destroy, it has a terrible power of interdiction and intimidation. Read More

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