Actuality | Non-fiction

The Maricello
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Of Marcello Veneziani
My father was a great builder of maricelli. As soon as he reached the sea, he undressed and began the work. He built a seat on the seashore with two larger flat stones and began his construction project with his feet in the water.. He gathered the largest stones in a circle, now moving them, now sliding them until they turn upside down, bringing their darkest side to light, an intense green belly inhabited by mussels, algae, crabs and snails. Then he created a double layer of enclosure for his natural swimming pool. He worked hard. Sometimes he finished the work when we had to go home.
When I was little the Maricello was made especially for me. I was happy to enter that paternal basin, I wallowed blissfully and protected; I was convinced that its very name, maricello, was derived from mine, or vice versa. But when I got a little older and went out to sea, my father continued his marine construction, with the same enthusiasm, even without a visible beneficiary.
He found emotional motivation again to build temporary swimming pools when his grandchildren arrived, and then my children. He made mischievous things for them, sometimes even double, to avoid interport conflicts between small usufructuaries. And he continued in his art of maritime construction even when they were grown up and he had now passed his gravest years. He arrived at the seaside and set to work diligently, as if he had a contract to respect with the harbor master's office or who knows. Or as if they were ex-votos for Neptune, for Aphrodite or for some unknown marine deity. Read More

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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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Actuality | Non-fiction

The gypsy taboo
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Sand you want to understand what political correctness is raised by the left and adopted by almost all the media, and what damage it actually causes in daily life, the Roma are the perfect sample. Once upon a time you said gypsies and you immediately reached for your wallet or purse, knowing you were taking a risk in their presence. Each of us has seen or experienced not one but ten incidents of theft and attempted theft by them. On the bus, on the street, in crowded places. Or even at home. You said gypsies and in the best case scenario you would get images of women asking you for alms in an insistent and threatening way, they forcefully shove flowers into your hands to demand money, or they cursed you. You said gypsies and images of beard-haired men with knives in their hands came to mind and you wished you would never meet them in solitary spaces.. You said gypsies and you remembered their degraded centers, worse than reception centers for immigrants, dirty and shady places that you need to stay away from. As soon as a gypsy settlement was established, thefts in houses and in the streets increased dramatically.

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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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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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Policy | Non-fiction

The disappearance of the left
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Of Marcello Veneziani
The disappearance of the left
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Upon closer inspection, Matteo Renzi was the last tram, the last trump card for the GMO left. Dopo di lui il disastro. Not even the scorching one, The crushing electoral defeat reveals the conditions in which the left is currently reduced. Incomparable shreds, wandering packs without direction and destination, total absence of leadership and credible programs for the country, survival of only a few oligarchies and then that's it. Today it alternately clings to anti-populism or the Grillini.
With Renzi, albeit due to a spectacular misunderstanding, the left touched the sky of 40% of approval with one finger. Short parable, then ended with a pigeon shoot by the most barbarians to bring down the "little tyrant", which however had brought them to the top of consensus, leading the country almost alone. Renzi missed "the appointment with history" when he didn't have the courage and stature to go through with his Party of the Nation, transverse, that left the old one behind, rancid, rancorous anti-fascist left to gain centrality in the country. He got scared, Renzi, of the hostilities gathered on the left, he tried to recover among his own; then crippled by the referendum, he tried in vain to relocate himself to the centre-left, pretending to be some kind of Prodi 2.0. And there it gradually lost pieces, managing to lose the sympathies gained in the center and on the right, without gaining the slightest sympathy on the left. But Renzi collapsed, the left is in dust, with no direction of travel, it only leverages resentment towards populists. Read More

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Vain, angry and a fan of Stalin. Controritratto del "mito" Pertini
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Vain, angry and a fan of Stalin. Controritratto del "mito" Pertini

Of Marcello Veneziani

Ah, Sandro Pertini, the president of the republic most loved by Italians. The people's president, of children, the cartoon with the pipe, the partisan president who abandons the protocol. The Impertinent. The Pure. Forty years after his election to the Quirinale, in a celebratory deluge, A hagiographic film about him will be released tomorrow at the cinema. We would like to integrate the holy card by telling the story of the other Pertini.
Upon Stalin's death in 1953, comrade Pertini, former pro-Soviet director of Avanti! and at the time the leader of the socialist group celebrated the dictator in Parliament. Here's what he said in Avanti!: «Comrade Stalin ended his day well, even if too early for us and for the fate of the world. His last word was peace. (…) One is amazed by the size of this figure… Men of every creed, friends and adversaries, must today recognize the immense stature of Joseph Stalin. He is a giant of history and his memory will never fade.". That praise, never retracted by Pertini, not even after all Stalin's crimes became known, it does not honor a fighter for freedom and the rights of peoples. Read More

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BERGOGLIADI | Non-fiction

Francesco, Marcello Veneziani accuses: "Più figlio della globalizzazione che della Chiesa"
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Image results for Bergoglio hereticE’ Seplenist, but some of his observations make us think. Let us therefore ignore the attribution of Catholic terms to the conciliars (N.d.r.)
http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sfoglio/13317619/papa-francesco-marcello-veneziani-figlio-globalizzazione-piu-che-della-chiesa.html
On the occasion of the first 5 years of pontificate of Pope Francis, The weather produces a special issue with a front page almost entirely dedicated to Bergoglio. Many comments on the Pontiff and his work, including that of Marcello Veneziani, “A vicar for three crises”. The editorialist clearly speaks of “radical turning point“, but it does so in critical terms. And he writes: “He is a Pope perceived as a son of his time rather than of the Church, son of globalization rather than tradition". And again: “A Pope open to the most distant, who loves the most remote neighbor, open to Muslims before Christians, to Protestants before Catholics, to the poor more than to the faithful, to individuals - even gays - more than to families".
Heavy words, In short, and Veneziani notes how “all this has been ennobled as a return to early Christianity“. In his analysis, the editorialist recalls how "once the Pope did not want to criticize some behaviors until yesterday considered deplorable by the Church, taking refuge behind Christian humility: Who am I to judge. One would have to answer him: you are a Pope, that is, a Holy Father, and you have not only the right but the duty to judge, to orient, to exhort and condemn. Otherwise – warns Veneziani – you are failing in your pastoral role, to your evangelical mission". Read More

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