Actuality | Non-fiction

And now go with the spare
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Of Marcello Veneziani

They are waiting for them at the gate, with rifles drawn. On Rai, in the Ministries, in the public sector, everywhere there will be nominations. And they are already starting to mix threats and victimization. They resume, as has happened at least since 24 years, from the first short Berlusconi government, to talk about proscription lists, of severed heads, as soon as someone dares to talk about change.

Take Rai for example. Once upon a time it followed a deplorable criterion called subdivision, that is, the tasks were divided between the parties. Then Renzi arrived and played the ace-winner; and he had no alibi, But I put the best in there; no, he put scraps, napkins, licks ad personam at command posts. And now, as soon as someone mentions from the government to need to change, they adopt a proven system: they raise the bar against the government, they mark more everything that contrasts it, because then they will be thrown out, they will say it is to censor their well-known independence. And not because they are inadequate, because turnover is expected in a democracy, because they flopped, and because they were there not for merit and quality but only because they were at the service of the company. No, they will protest against discrimination, victims of the populists, sovereignists, fascists, racists, Nazis, therefore fallen for freedom. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

Luigi Bisignani at IL TEMPO: Matteo's secret plan
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Image results for the man who whispered to the powerfulL’“man who whispers to the powerful” expresses his opinion in one of his usual Sunday letters to the editor of The weather, second newspaper of the capital. The reader will wonder why these sporadic spaces are given to those who are extremely distant from our positions in many respects. Well, after meeting him, the reason is easy to say: l’ “man who whispers to the powerful” can say things, sometimes, more interesting than others. No offense to those who don't whisper anything to anyone… On the contrary…(N.d.R.)
Of Luigi Bisignani
Dear director, Matteo Salvini, like a lion in the savannah, sniffs the air and prepares the next attack to conquer more and more territory. The first moves went better than expected and now that it has placed the immigration front at the center of the European debate, among other things, ridiculing Macron and taking Merkel's applause, can handle “from above” relations with his allies, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy, who, in order not to be destroyed, will do everything not to turn him against each other. The Movement 5 position, weakened for a number of reasons, first of all the internal struggles between the Grillo-Di Battista-Fico group and the Di Maio-Bonafede-Casaleggio group that have been tearing it apart since they began to smell the scent of power, loses more and more consensus. With a savannah with such an arid landscape, the lion Salvini is secretly preparing his plan B: it will be taken, in one shot, those disappointed by Berlusconi, of Meloni but above all a part of that Grillino electorate who can no longer tolerate that summary justice and facade environmentalism that blocks investments and new infrastructures. Read More

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Actuality | Policy

The new horizons of the Italian Parliament
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of the Prof. Roberto de Mattei

The Conte government has obtained confidence, by a wide margin, in the House and Senate, but above all it was born with broad popular support. In fact, the polls attribute this to the two political forces that express it, Five Stars and League, about the 60% of suffrages. However, no government like this has been opposed by almost all of the Italian mass media.
Antonio Socci has well described this "universal prejudice" above Libero (3 June), while Marco Travaglio, are The Daily Fact (6 June), published a long anthology of the heavy judgments reserved for the nascent government by almost all the newspapers, left and right.
Conte was accused of being a «friend of the people like Marat» (Corriere della Sera, 18 maggio) and to prepare «a Venezuelan future» for Italy (The Sheet 16 maggio). «There is an Italian case in the West», wrote the director of The Press (27 maggio), while for the director of Republic, «the mixture of inexperience, improvisation and arrogance will not take long to emerge. Fasten your seat belts» (2 June).
This ideological factionalism has translated into violent intolerance towards the new Minister of the Family, Lorenzo Fontana, guilty of speaking out in favor of the natural family, protected by the article 29 of the Constitution, of having detected the existence of a demographic crisis in Italy and of having participated in the March for Life of 19 maggio. Read More

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Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Minister Fontana: "L’odio delle élite non mi spaventa"
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Minister Fontana: "L’odio delle élite non mi spaventa"Of Lorenzo Fontana, Minister of the Family, 4/06/2018
The head of the Family writes to Il Tempo: “I fight against the fury of relativistic ideology”
Dear director,
I thank you, The weather, Your editorial team and all those who have expressed support for me in the days in which a strong attack attempt is underway not only against me, but against the values ​​in which the silent and calm majority of the country is reflected. What we have seen is bitterly reminiscent of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's predictions: «Swords will be drawn to show that the leaves are green in summer», a prophecy that no longer seems so remote. And that's what happened. We stated things we thought were normal, almost taken for granted: that a country needs to have children to grow, that mom is called mom (and not a parent 1), that dad is called dad (and not a parent 2). We said that the last and only ones who must have a say on education, raising and caring for children are really mum and dad, sacrosanct principle of freedom. The reaction – of certain environments that make relativism their flag – it was very violent. A fierce barrage of insults began, offenses, even personal ones, threats (which will be brought to the attention of the competent offices). Social media has amplified the scope of this action, conducted by some on the table. We live in strange times. The fury of a certain relativistic ideology goes beyond the boundaries of reality, even going so far as to question some clear evidence, which are fully reflected in our Constitution. «The Republic recognizes the rights of the family as a natural society founded on marriage», reads the article 29, which will be the principle of action as a minister.
That said: the revolt of the elite does not scare us and we are not scared of facing the dictatorship of single thought. Let's move on, with great motivation, we have many projects to implement. We do it with the many who – like you – they showed us their solidarity. You have been and are numerous and a heartfelt thank you goes to all of you. History comforts us. «They will call you papists, retrogradi, intransigent, clerical: to be done!», said Saint Pius. And we are proud of not being afraid to call ourselves Christians, to call us mothers, fathers, to be for life. We have broad enough shoulders to resist gratuitous attacks by responding with the evidence of the facts, the strength of ideas and the concreteness of actions. Honor to a free newspaper that has the courage to express counter-current positions. Never before has fighting for normality become a heroic act like in this moment. Read More

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Actuality | Policy

Point of no return
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Penelope's web. It is woven during the day, it unravels in the evening. Or if you prefer, another state abortion is announced. After three months, Cottarelli's undertaking appears difficult, who also seemed to have left with all the right blessings, except for one negligible detail, the sovereign people. That annoying little charm there, called Italy. And yet he is still at sea, and you run with the headlights off in the night along a Roman road full of potholes and ambushes. The Weaver, Mattarella, he lost the clue, he made glaring mistakes, perhaps ill-advised, he managed to blow the pan first, then the embers and now he risks being left with the match in hand while the spread grows with panic. He no longer knows which way to turn, the abyss advances, specters of elections are stirring in the sun.
Whatever happens we know that we have now achieved the point of no return. An unbridgeable abyss has been dug between the Single Bloc of Power and the whole of Italy. The Single Block includes he Pd, the Great Press, Big Finance, the Caste, the Palaces, starting from the Quirinale… Then there's everything else. Which is not just the Square, the Grillino and Northern League people, the militants, but also the many refractory ones, the independents, the bilateral disgusted, the many who live, they think, they work outside the Single Block.
A was being born for the first time absolute minority government, enactment of the Single Block, in spite of the vote and Italy. Other times the technical governments of the Palace had at least one fig leaf in Parliament. This time there isn't even that, even the Democratic Party, which was the sole shareholder of reference, understood that it was better to withdraw, also because Cottarelli only announces cuts, tears and blood. At the beginning Mattarella had also discarded the hypothesis of a centre-right government that had a relative majority in parliament. And instead he then launched an oligarchic government, the PD-Potentates coalition. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The Porcata
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Let's take this opportunity to answer a question that came in recently: “Why, unlike other sites similar to yours, you cover current events a lot?” Why, rejecting intellectualism and loving non-fiction, we live in this world and not in the empyrean, therefore we prefer to give food for thought on what actually happens so as not to only give what is theoretical or theoretical. Furthermore 10 years, the choice proved to be a winning one”. (N.d.r.)
Of Marcello Veneziani

In the end, the rubbish arrived. Out with the populist government that came from the polls, away the minister unwelcome to the eurarchs, the technical government wanted by the Palace is born, in the name of European economic terrorism. One nightmare ends and another begins, maybe worse. Three months and we are worse than before. Mattarella's no to Savona and, through him, the entire establishment, it is the no to sovereign Italy.
If you go to vote, Salvini and the center-right start with the advantage, Di Maio takes a big risk and Diba is back in his place; but now expect the anti-populist bombing, financial terrorism to sow panic among people and intimidate voters... After a long agony the second republic is over but we don't know what stuff is starting: the third republic, the fourth international, Beethoveen's fifth... Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

L'Avvocato d'ufficio
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Image results for Luigi BisignaniWe welcome this article for its sagacity and probable realism’ “man who whispered to the powerful” (from the title of his latest book), recently to Verona (photo on the side, outside the Capitolare Library) for the presentation of Mauro Mazza's book “Bergoglio and prejudice”, where we were able to get to know him and collect some political anecdotes dating back to the Andreotti era. To understand each other, he is the one who wrote about the probable Lega-M5S government agreement three years ago
Of Luigi Bisignani
Prime Minister Conte accepts the assignment from Mattarella: "I will be the defender of the Italian people" But after a very long conversation at the Quirinale he bows to Europe and the list of ministers.
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Culture | Non-fiction

Radical-chic and ignorant-pop
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Tom Wolfe died in America last Monday and I would like to say something about radical chic, of which he was the discoverer and brilliant slayer. I too have criticized them since I met them, As a boy I read Wolfe's book against them which Alfredo Cattabiani had published in '73 by Rusconi. On the contrary, before the radical-chic I met their ancestor, lo snob of which Panfilo Gentile spoke ill, noting that snob stands for without nobility, fake nobleman who poses as one. As well as opinionated, i radical chic they snob they become detestable when they become intolerant towards those who do not belong to them race.
But I don't like their backhand at all either, crude pop ignorance. That of those who hate all reading and despise everything that smells of art, thought and culture, that of those who make contemptuous and demented judgments online without understanding, without knowing; that of those who hate the world and belch and fart against the universe and all greatness in the name of freedom and rights. That of those who suffer fromegalitarian envy, he wants to make those who are better off than them suffer and have them confiscate what they have deserved and achieved. In short, those who assert their encyclopedic ignorance as a right and a virtue. Sometimes they are even right-wing people, although usually the homunculus-type is below the right and left. I can't say which is worse, radical-chic or rude-pop. Or better, I would know: the worst are those who make their arrogance or ignorance fall on others. Read More

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Actuality | Culture

Liberation from rhetoric
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Liberation from rhetoric
Source: Marcello Veneziani
What would you say if we made a TV show called the Gulag Archipelago? That we went crazy, the gulag has been closed for several decades. It's an old story. And instead there is a brand new program, titled The defense of the Race, Of Gad Lerner, dedicated to a magazine and the terrible events of eighty years ago. Events evoked three times a day after meals.
The program has the obvious function to fan the flames of anti-racism and to establish an infamous bridge between the racists of the past and the centre-right press of today. Starting right from Il Tempo, to whom Lerner wanted to dedicate the incipit of the program, sticking to the fact that that infamous magazine, very read (and sometimes even written) by many who later become communists, socialists, lay people, Christian Democrats, had its headquarters in the same building as Il Tempo. If the blame also falls on the tenants of the buildings, Imagine the blame that should fall on those who participated in movements that decreed the killing, for example, of Commissioner Calabresi. Read More

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