Anti-fascism and eco-monsters: who was Riccardo Morandi, the designer of the Genoa bridge

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Genova, 15 ago – What unites the Corviale snake in Rome, an attempt that started badly and ended worse to build a public housing "barracks" in Soviet style bridge over the Polcevera collapsed yesterday? A name, that of engineer Riccardo Morandi.
Born in Rome in 1902, he began his activity in the 1930s by experimenting - among the first in Italy - with the use of reinforced concrete and pre-stressed reinforced concrete. At the beginning of his career he designed churches and cinemas, and then specialized in the construction of bridges.
The skills in the field of reinforced concrete they are worth the call to the team that will design and build the Corviale, where Morandi will work alongside the architect Mario Fiorentino. The result is dramatic: almost a kilometre (e 11 floors in height) of a real city dormitory on the outskirts of the capital where the building boom of those years created eco-monsters destined to last and produce devastating effects. Applied social engineering will result in failure, managing to replicate for the worse all the distortions imported from the total and totalitarian planning that was experimented in the same period in the Soviet Union.
An ideological aspect, the latter, which cannot be overlooked. We are in the Italy of the conflict (also armed), in which remaining helpless in the face of political opposition is almost impossible. E Morandi had made his choice: “His family – writes Repubblica on the occasion of his death, er he 25 December of 1989 – they remember him as a man who always made a point of defending his independence from all powers, starting with the fascist one of which he was an opponent".
Source: https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/cronaca/antifascismo-ecomostri-chi-era-riccardo-morandi-91330/ Read More

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Italian ship rescues and brings immigrants back to Libya. E' the first time

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Of Adolfo Spezzaferro
For the first time, an Italian ship, after having rescued the immigrantsin mare, brought them back in Libya. It's about the Ace Twenty-Eight, a support vessel for an oil platform, That, in application of what has been established by the Italian government, coordinated with the Tripoli Coast Guard which is competent in those waters for the management of SAR search and rescue operations.
The boat, reports The Press, “it seems he followed the indications from the Coast Guard operations center which ordered the commander of Asso via radio from Rome 28 to coordinate with the Tripoli Coast Guard. Essentially the order was to bring those migrants back to Libya.".
“We have learned that one of the dinghies reported today by the Italian Coast Guard with 108 people on board in the Mediterranean were rescued by the ship Asso Ventotto, flying the Italian flag, which is heading towards Tripoli. We do not yet know whether this operation takes place on the recommendation of the Italian Coast Guard, but if that were the case it would be a very serious precedent, a truly collective rejection for which Italy and the ship's commander will answer before a court“, he said Nicola Fratoianni of Free and Equal, aboard the Open Arms. “International law – he adds – provides that people rescued at sea must be taken to a safe port and those in Libya, despite the mystification of reality by the Italian government, cannot be considered as such". Read More

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We really should defend Israel as a “bulwark of the West”?

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THIS IS WHY’ EUROPE HAS NO ROOTS “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN” BUT ONLY CHRISTIAN ROOTS AND TRADITION
Of Adriano Scianca
Israel? It is the "bulwark of the West". How many times have we read it, even these days, especially on the right, even among the visitors of this site. They are therefore defending “the West”, Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinians? E, above all, they are defending us too? It's important to ask yourself this, because if the Jewish State has always divided public opinion on the basis of often pre-political criteria and if the objections raised against it are often of a moral nature, then they exist, more coldly, of the political categories that should be drawn upon to bring the issue back to less slippery terrain.
Ora, that Europeans use the category of the West to define themselves is in itself rather paradoxical if one only considers that the very concept of the West was explicitly created in an anti-European key. In practice, Europeans today claim with passionate fervor belonging to a community of values ​​that was created precisely to exclude them and which has partly accepted them within itself, as vassals, except that they were defeated in a world war. For their part, Americans famously began to conceive of themselves as the West not to incorporate Europe into a broader Atlantic context, but to underline the firm break with everything that the Old Continent represented. It was President Thomas Jefferson who stated that America represents a "separate hemisphere", evoking a meridian - more moral than geographical - to separate the land where "the lamb and the lion will live in peace with each other" from corrupt Europe and its vices. In reality he was merely repeating Washington's teachings, that in 1793 he had already declared: “I am sure that the will of the United States is to have nothing to do with the intrigues and political disputes of the European nations”. President Monroe expressed the same concept when enunciating his famous theory aimed at excluding any European intervention in the New Continent (essentially “America for the Americans”). In fact, the meridian evoked by Jefferson was supposed to separate Good and Evil, the kingdom of equality and freedom from the land of hierarchy and oppression. Ora, mind you America believed it could embody this rejection of Europe by electing itself the Promised Land, that is, the New Israel based on membership (OR BETTER, AMERICANIST INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLICAL STATEMENT, N.D.R.) as stringent as possible with the biblical dictate. Read More

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