A monk against hyenas


The Christian civilization of very Christian Spain is today in the solitary hands of a Benedictine monk of 46 years, Santiago Cantera, prior of the Santa Cruz Abbey, where Francisco Franco is buried. The monk defends in solitude the Christian burial of the Generalissimo from the lugubrious decision of the left-wing Iberian government to exhume Franco's corpse in 44 years after his death and chase him from his grave. Father Cantera denies authorization to the Spanish state to enter the chapel, desecrate the tomb and push Franco's remains elsewhere. The global left, and our local one, cheers for the macabre twist that the courageous prior calls "satanic". The socialists of Padro Sanchez and the Minister of Justice Dolores Delgado (signatory of the measure), they came to government without popular legitimacy, in the minority, after the crisis that overwhelmed the moderate popular government Mariano Raioj.
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L'anno che spiazzò tutti

Who would have ever thought, at the end of last year, that the 2018 it would have been a year like this. Who would have thought of a yellow-green government these days, a Di Maio to the government, a Salvini leader most loved by Italians and most hated by the media (the two things usually go together). Who would have ever thought of Prof. adv. Conte at the helm of the government, a Mr. Nobody who traffics with the powerful of the earth... And to the grillini who went from nothing to the ministry, from the square to the command.
Il 2018 it was the year that surprised everyone, even those who wanted this turning point. But the outcome was unexpected, and above all the alliance between dogs and cats. There are no governments in Europe that maintain such a high consensus, almost the 60% six months after taking office. They are largely minority governments. Think about how badly Macron is doing, it's at Merkel's, and May, and all the others. To find a still high popular consensus you have to go overseas, Trump or Bolsonaro.
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The moon and the bonfires of the New Year's Eve


But how stupid are the men who dramatize the passing of the year, said the moon looking down on the earth last night. He looked at them from above, plump and lonely, in the light of itself, while they set fire toritual New Year's euphoria. Scream, shots, congratulations, all for nothing, just to sanctify a trifle, a feast not for men nor gods, births nor deaths; agitated to celebrate only the passing of time. To delude ourselves of a transit between the No longer and the Not yet. But how stupid are the inhabitants of the earth, the moon said to herself, what do they have to toast for a day like any other, a handful of moments between the light of a passing year and the unknown darkness of another that comes, and then vice versa. Senseless carousel of time, that only atavistic lunatics can praise, faking farewell and welcome ceremonies to serial lumps of days.
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Chocolate politics

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by Marcello Veneziani
At Christmas, Italian politics hit rock bottom, getting lost in a jar of Nutella.
Un leader, indeed the most popular leader in Italy, the last hope of many, the interior minister, and at the same time the one who should change Italy and save it from malaise, he shows himself in public while biting into a slice of bread and Nutella. He thinks he appears reassuring in this way, common man, typical Italian, a bit of a boy, as good as chocolate, heroic with contempt for the danger of gaining weight. Banal, a little vulgar. Read More
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Censor it, interviews a fascist

Maximum solidarity all’ friend Gianluca Versace, who has never been a fascist or even a sympathizer. We are in the dictatorship of Single Thought?
The Holy Inquisition of the Press has condemned a journalist, Gianluca Versace, for airing an interview with a funny restaurateur, Ferdinand Polegato, dressed in fascist uniform, with the fez and the black shirt. Versace hosts a program, News today, of Canale Italia, very popular in the North-East which favors irregulars, countercurrents of every kind. He interviewed a fascist out of time, who had already been interviewed by others, and The Mosquito to other programs, because it is journalistically tempting to have someone who dresses like that and declares himself a fascist and perhaps miraculously shows up on video. Read More

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Phenomenology of the Trombone


A stone's throw from Italy and the world it rises Trombon Valley, media citadel inhabited by intellectuals and besieged by plebeian ghosts. The Valle dei Tromboni is a stone's throw from the city where ordinary people live but is light years away from everyday reality. In the Valle dei Tromboni a country is denounced every day, one World, inhabited by racists, led by fascists, crossed by armed herds of xenophobes, homophobic, sexists, Nazis. In the Valle dei Tromboni the red alarm bell continuously rings. If the sovereignists hold on to fear, the Trombone Masters live on Terror. Read More

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The uncle count


By Marcello Veneziani
Povera Theresa May. Poor Angela Merkel. Poor Emmanuel Macron. Povero Pedro Gonzales. Everyone's in trouble, in free fall, unpopular and crucified. And us? And, we are in bad shape as an indebted country, banned as the homeland of the populists in government, we will also be slapped, under threat of infringement proceedings, compared to other European states we have different types of problems, otherwise serious. Read More

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The family suffers from mononucleosis


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by Marcello Veneziani

The mononuclear family. But what does it mean? Serious sociologists explain, economists, statisticians and anthropologists which stands for family with only one element. But you're stupid? The typical family consisted of at least four elements, then it was a couple, now only one. It's like saying: there were three four musketeers but I only remember two: d'Artagnan... Or there is the tiraemolla family for all tastes: enlarged, elongated, transverse, crossed, crossed, with pellets, ecc. Two people together are family, even if they are there for just one day or just one sex. A man and a dog are a family? Of course, if it is already a family composed of a single person. Once upon a time they were called bachelors, unmarried, celibates, girls, vacation, now they have a family on their own. I, being a misanthrope, am a group alone? Read More

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Communism returns

by Marcello Veneziani
There isn't a day that goes by that fascism isn't mentioned as if it were just around the corner, about to return; the eternal, as he argued in an ideological pamphlet Umberto Eco. But you want to see that while the return of fascism is being narrated, another disturbing return is being prepared? Let's talk about communism, the event that most shocked the century in which we were born, because it lasted three-quarters of a century, it involved three continents and billions of subjects, it claimed the most victims ever, moreover in times of peace. A gigantic event, disappeared in the Collective Story, swallowed up in prehistory, as if it belonged to a geological era foreign to us. And instead, here he is climbing back into the caves of oblivion and coming back to the surface in our days. It dates back in the form of Pauperism, re-emerges in the form of Hospitality, returns in the global guise of Political Correctness. Let's call it by acronym PAP-Communism. It is communism returning, like illiteracy, reborn through ignorance and forgetfulness of the past. Read More

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The populists descended from the mountains

by Marcello Veneziani
Dear Professor Monti, senator for life and president for death, and distinguished exponents of the Unpopular Front who are drooling while waiting to see Salvini and Di Maio brought to their knees by Juncker and Moscovici, I am not asking you to convert to the reasons of popular and national sovereignty. God forbid. Everyone does their part and supports their positions to the fullest. But your problem was and still is exactly that, that you were not able to follow through with your intentions. When you were in government, no one expected citizen income, pop donations, quota pensions 100 and amnesties galore. But we expected you to be strong in your independence from the electorate and politics, by parties and polls, you started a drastic cleanup of our system. In what sense? Really cutting deadwood and waste, eliminating tips and political gifts, divesting, pruning public administrations, truly doing a restructuring of the state, a great reform. For example, the absolute and primary waste in Italy are the regions but politicians will never touch them because they are places and power; have you ever studied and attempted the possibility of abolishing them? Have you ever tried to halve the costs of buildings, from the Quirinale to the Parliament, their staff, supplies included? Read More

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