L'Italia bastonata dall'Europa incassa il sostegno di Trump
The EU attacks the yellow-green government. Salvini: “We have the consent of 60% of Italians”. And Conte receives the support of the US ambassador: “The elections in Italy have shown that the people have spoken”
Of Andrea Indini
L’European Union stick hard, the United States responds by shielding itself. While the Conte government is grappling with a difficult economic maneuver, that raising the bar of deficit/GDP ratio al 2,4% destabilizes relations with Brussels, unexpected support arrives from overseas.
By participating in a forum organized by’Ansa, the American ambassador in Rome Lewis Eisenberg he made a statement as banal as it is unpopular nowadays. “Regardless of how any of us think – he chanted – the latest elections in Italy have shown that the people have spoken. This is democracy”. An obvious thing that, but, certain European commissioners don't always keep this in mind. Read More
Populism, sovereignism and billions to poverty... one can give oneself courage
Of Rosanna Spadini
Source: Comedonchisciotte
At the beginning of the eighth chapter of “The Betrothed”, our Don Abbondio, what one cannot give oneself "courage", while he was casually reading a book, he happens to read the name of a philosopher by chance “Carneades who was he?”, which he knew nothing about, except that perhaps he had heard of it at least once along the way, useless course of his life.
Now we could say the same thing... what kind of animal is "politics".? A weeder that is disturbing just to mention, or a unicorn straight out of some sort of contemporary bestiary. If politics cannot be given courage, what is it for? Now it seems that the yellow/green government has plenty of courage, determined to free himself from the financial pockets he has been thrust into.
Demagogic maneuver said some barn owl on a media tour, forgetting that the DEF finally represented the affirmation of politics on finance, challenging the mesh of European vetoes and constraints, which have contributed to increasing the level of poverty in Italy, reduced to the bottom of the EU.
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Migrants rape and commit crime. But Caritas doesn't want it to be known
The report by Migrantes and Caritas on migrants: “Stereotypes and fake news create hysteria”
Of Claudio Cartaldo
Now the Caritas e Migrants they also want to indicate the news that Italians must see or read about migrants.
The reason? According to Church organizations, it is necessary that “our communities” acquire a new "grammar of communication" that is "adherent to the facts and respectful of people".
The immigration report
In their Report Immigration, Caritas and Migrantes monitored the news regarding immigration that appeared in the prime time news programs of the Rai networks, Mediaset and La7. And what comes out of it? That in twelve years pieces, services and minutes dedicated to the topic of immigration have grown exponentially, up to ten times as much as in the past. In fact, we arrived from 380 news of 2005 all 4.268 of the 2017.
According to the report there would be a correlation between the flows migratory who arrive in the Bel Paese, the media interest in immigrants and "events of a political nature" that concern the country. “It's striking to note – we read – that the feeling of threat to safety and public order traced back to immigration experienced since 2013 constant growth. During the 2017 prime time news programs mostly focus on migratory flows (40%), reserving almost half of the news for the numbers and management of landings on the Italian coasts. An additional one 34% of the tele-journalistic services is dedicated to issues relating to immigration, crime and security“.
Caritas and Migrantes criticize the fact that they are almost never there “good news” sui migrants. To the story of the welcome, Indeed, In the 2017 only 11% of the news was reserved. But there must be a reason, no?
The immigration report
In their Report Immigration, Caritas and Migrantes monitored the news regarding immigration that appeared in the prime time news programs of the Rai networks, Mediaset and La7. And what comes out of it? That in twelve years pieces, services and minutes dedicated to the topic of immigration have grown exponentially, up to ten times as much as in the past. In fact, we arrived from 380 news of 2005 all 4.268 of the 2017.
According to the report there would be a correlation between the flows migratory who arrive in the Bel Paese, the media interest in immigrants and "events of a political nature" that concern the country. “It's striking to note – we read – that the feeling of threat to safety and public order traced back to immigration experienced since 2013 constant growth. During the 2017 prime time news programs mostly focus on migratory flows (40%), reserving almost half of the news for the numbers and management of landings on the Italian coasts. An additional one 34% of the tele-journalistic services is dedicated to issues relating to immigration, crime and security“.
Caritas and Migrantes criticize the fact that they are almost never there “good news” sui migrants. To the story of the welcome, Indeed, In the 2017 only 11% of the news was reserved. But there must be a reason, no?
The crimes of migrants
In fact, there is data to certify the boom in crimes involving immigrants. Cold numbers. To reveal them, as written by Newspaper, it was there Hume Foundation in the analysis entitled “Crime and Immigration in Italy”. The data comes from Istat, who put them together by asking the prosecutors and the Ministry of the Interior (therefore taking into account both convictions or open proceedings and simple complaints). What comes of it? That in all types of crime the crimes of immigrants are greater, in proportion to the population, to those of the natives. You are surprised? No. But apparently Caritas does. For example in voluntary homicides from 2006 al 2015 the accused immigrants grew by 22% while the natives have decreased by 17%.
Similar data they had been spread by Interior Ministry also for the 2018. Among the crimes reported to foreigners, sexual violence was on the rise (+5,7%), the robber (+5,7%), the thefts (+5,1%), scams and computer fraud (+4,3%), up to obviously drug-related crimes (+5,2%). And to think that crimes by foreigners are increasing, the general ones are decreasing. In general between 1 January and 30 June of 2018 have been reported and/or arrested 429.506 people, of which 136.876 foreigners (il 31,9% of the total). After all, the same Migrantes report also certifies that “al 31 December 2017 the prison population matters 19.745 foreign prisoners among defendants, convicted and interned. Compared to the same period of 2016, when immigrants were 18.621, If it registers an increase in +6%“.
The Caritas alarm
Yet Caritas carries on. “We have heard how stereotypes about migration can create collective hysteria – said Don Francesco Soddu, director of the Italian Caritas – we cannot ignore the concern for the construction of clichés about migrants and those who work to host them. NGOs are portrayed as enemy number one“. According to Soddu “there is a distorted narrative of the migration phenomenon”. And so there the she is ready to “promote everything that can contribute to the containment of this cultural drift“.
The Gentiloni government cuts 10 millions for disabled people, but Martina attacks Fontana
Disabled, “fund reduced by 10 millions". Martina: "shame". But it's a boomerang for the Democratic Party: the cut is made by the Gentiloni government
A statement from the League for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities denounced the cut in appropriations. And Martina immediately attacked the Lega-M5s executive on Facebook: “Yet another madness that only causes damage to those who are most fragile”. The Minister of the Fontana Family intervened to deny it: “It is disconcerting that a former minister does not know what his government was doing”. And the dem secretary deletes the post
Of Louisiana Gaita
Ten million less for people with serious disabilities and devoid of family support. The news, which concerns a significant cut in resources expected for 2018 and the 2019, she ended up at the center of a sometimes paradoxical story. Because after the publication of a press release from Ledha, the League for the rights of people with disabilities, in which the president Alessandro Manfredi referred to the “overall gap in two years that the government has applied to the 'After us' fund as part of the Budget Law”, the secretary of the Democratic Party Maurizio Martina, together with other exponents of the Pd, attacked the current executive in a post published on Facebook. “The umpteenth madness of a government that only damages those who are most fragile” he wrote yesterday afternoon Martina. Evidently forgetting that, actually, “It was the government that cut those funds Gentlemen, of which Martina “He was a minister.”. He explained it last night, in another post, the minister for Family and Disabilities Lorenzo Fontana. E, contacted by ilfattoquotidiano.it, from the Ministry they let it be known "that they have already taken action to provide for the restoration of the bottom and also evaluate the enhancement”. In short, a boomerang for Martina That, Indeed, he was quick to delete the post on Facebook. But the cut remains. “In Lombardy Region – lets know ilfattoquotidiano.it the Pirellone – the cut of 5 million of the funds for the 'After Di Noi' measure arranged by Gentiloni government it will cost more than 850.800 euro, i.e. the 10% of the sum allocated by the allotment". Read More
Interview with Northern League minister Fontana: "Alleanza identitaria per influenzare il Ppe a Strasburgo"
Photo: Tony Gentile/Reuters
“An important signal from Sweden: work for the European elections starts in October, we aim to be the second group in the EU Parliament”
Of Angela Mauro
“The good result of the Sweden Democrats is a very important signal. Starting from October we will start working tables with other European identity forces to build together a platform for the May elections. Realistic goal: become the second group in Strasbourg and thus influence the choices of the European Parliament, perhaps by building a majority with the EPP to prevent there being another consociation between the People's Party and the Socialists”.
Lorenzo Fontana rejoices at the result of Jimmie Akesson's right-wing elections in Sweden. In this interview with Huffpost, the Northern League minister, former Northern League MEP and mastermind of the League's sovereignist turn, traces the stages of Matteo Salvini's political project between now and the European elections in May 2019. Mission: conquer Brussels and Strasbourg and change the characteristics of the EU.
Let's start from Sweden: there was no exploit by the populists, although they have gained support.
Last week's polls had them between 16 and the 19 percent, I'd say they turned out to be right: the 'Swedish Democrats’ they went beyond the 17 percent, while the Social Democrats are also declining in Sweden, the homeland of social democracy. E’ the trend of the last ten years.
Now what happens, from now to the European elections in May?
The brief, I think since October, there will be a series of working tables with other European identity forces to build a platform for the elections. The first should be in Vienna.
To build an alliance… whatever you call it: sovereignist? Populist? Identity? Read More
Seizure of Lega funds, Becchi: "Salvini ha tre strade. I rule out Berlusconi's help"
“It is clear that they are trying to put a spoke in our wheels. And the accusation of kidnapping, and abuse of office, and the seizure of accounts... it seems to me that this is going too far. It is clear that someone is not resigned to the fact that Salvini is in government". The Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini says this in an interview with The Press after the ruling of the Review which authorizes the seizure of 49 millions from the Northern League for electoral reimbursements presumably not due since 2008 al 2010. What will the League do now?? How will it be able to remain standing without a euro of financing given that the sentence orders the seizure of present and future accounts and therefore also of the sums that will be received? The philosopher Paolo Becchi He has an idea of his own and he exposes it to The Special.
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Salvini speaks of a political attack, claiming that some would be annoyed by the fact that the League is in government. Share? Read More
Flat tax and minimum income, what will be in the maneuver
The government is testing the budget law: “Flat tax and minimum income not alternatives, but we will keep accounts in order”
Of Chiara Sarra
“We will make Italians smile”. After the majority summit in view of the economic maneuver.
Luigi Di Maio reassures “the markets and above all families with unemployed children and parents who are unable to retire or have grandparents who have a minimum pension”.
“Citizenship income and flat tax are not alternatives”, promised the M5s deputy prime minister, speaking of the measures most dear to the two souls of the government. Just before a Radical Radio he had talked about one “Copernican revolution in spending Italians' money”: “All the available resources are starting to be spent on a country that for years has seen the money go to the banks and instead now it is starting to be spent on the Italians”, he explained. The whole thing – promises – “with a courageous budget law that will keep the accounts in order”: “The objective is to implement economic measures, do not challenge Europe on the accounts”.
The maneuver will still contain – they assure from Palazzo Chigi – all economic issues addressed by the contract. “Citizenship income must be included in the Budget Law, the overcoming of Fornero, aid to businesses”, Di Maio said, “All this is possible if we start changing the paradigm, if we put citizens at the center. Fare citizen's income in Italy it means helping businesses and artisans, because those people who will be the recipients of the income will spend money, she will be trained for new jobs and we will be able to reintegrate her by eliminating a part of poverty in Italy. That is the factor that is bringing us to a social condition where diversity is increasing”. Read More
The warm autumn, the spread and the objective of bringing down the Government
Naturally, there are a series of pressures for the Five Star Movement to break with the League, most feared – at least today – by the heuristic elites, both for his tough positions on immigration and for his evident euroscepticism. After all, it was precisely the League that insisted that Paolo Savona go to the MES. And it's no coincidence that, head of the budget committees of the House and Senate, there are two exceptional Eurosceptics: Claudio Borghi and Alberto Bagnai. In short, this Government is the furthest thing that exists from the religious heurism that has governed us in the last twenty years (the worst of which is certainly the one suffered in the last part of the last Berlusconi legislature and in the previous legislature).
Precisely for this reason, many are rooting for the break between M5S and Lega, dreaming of a turnaround, with a reworked M5S that is more accommodating towards heuristic policies. The reasons - it is reiterated - are the attitude of total closure towards mass migratory flows from the African continent and Euroscepticism. Both put a spoke in the wheels of the project of wage deflation and the dissolution of nation states, in favor of the pro-European superstructure. So here they are waving the racist and nationalist scare, to try to induce public opinion to believe that the path taken by the current Government of confrontation with the European Union is the worst and most dangerous for the destinies of the Italian people. Read More
The powder keg Libya: we risk losing Tripoli too. And migrant trafficking has become an industry
Of Alberto Negri
Source: Alberto Negri
Italy also risks losing Tripoli? Fayez Sarraj's government, supported by the Islamist brigades but under constant attack from the other militias _ despite yet another fragile truce _ appears increasingly weak, General Khalifa Haftar in Cyrenaica is increasingly threatening towards Italy, Macron's France increasingly determined to pursue its agenda to call elections by the end of the year.
But what is Italian policy in Libya? No one is really able to answer despite Salvini and Moavero's visits to Tripoli. Indeed, Italy seems almost isolated, despite the Tripoli government being the one recognized by the international community as opposed to Haftar's power, backed by France, Egypt, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. In reality, American support for the Italian positions also appears very evanescent: the impression is that Trump told Prime Minister Conte the same nonsense about Libya that Obama told Renzi, that of our pre-eminent role in Libyan affairs which in practice the other powers do not recognize in us except in words. Even the publicized conference on Libya in Rome, to be held in October, it appears incongruent if the French and Haftar position prevailed in order to hold new elections, even just presidential ones (without legislative and constitutional reform). Read More