FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

House of intolerance
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
The left it is today the main house of intolerance functioning at full capacity. Although defeated at the polls and a minority in the country, he exercises his intolerance on the living and the dead, on the elected and those not aligned with political correctness, uses the past as a weapon to attack the present, places vetoes and prohibitions, threatens those who express different opinions by presenting them as crimes, thanks to ad hoc laws that date back to its governments. He uses the shock troops of the media and the armored forces of the magistrates to put his enemies in check and outlawed. It is a house of intolerance that instigates ideological prostitution.
The reflection came to me yesterday following a small but yet another significant episode. They called me from Rai to ask me to participate in a program on right, extremism and intolerance. Pay attention to the theme, already says it all. They wanted me to make the right salami in a left sandwich, having a theme that already suggests the solution. We talk about the right and the association of ideas becomes a criminal association. Yet the right is politically the majority in the country, the right is historically a sense of the State and the Nation, the right is culturally tradition and civilization, order and security. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

Barbari o division
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Barbari o divisionFIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
The day will come when green will separate from yellow, the League it will be the new right and the M5 location it will be the new left. A new bipolar system will be born from the present government majority. The times could be quick if in the autumn or even immediately the coalition splits on the sensitive issues we already know, that is, migrants, judges, pensions, citizen's income, nationalizations, while on others such as Europe and the aversion to the Caste of potentates seem to be quite homogeneous. But if they resist the autumn test, there will then be the test of Europe when the two parties will present themselves divided and will hoard votes, some in the center-right area and the others predominantly on the left..
This prophecy has been circulating under the surface for some time, e Bobo Maroni has recently relaunched it, seeing the League as the heir of the right and Forza Italia and the Grillini as the heirs of the left and the Democratic Party. Compared to the new right and the new left that those falling caryatids will make? They will change their name, face and leader to their retreating parties, they will cling to the past (Veltroni and Berlusconi), they will try to open bridges to the two main Subjects through their ambassadors (Toti and Zingaretti). And to complete the game we will then have to see what happens to Fratelli d'Italia and Liberi e Uguali, if they are inside, out on sharecropping, satellites or on the sidelines, compared to the two main poles. Read More

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Actuality | FIFTH COLUMN

I know how it will end
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
I know how it will end. I know this because I know the story, I know people, I know the potentates, I know immigrants. I know them like you know them, from experience, precedents, realism and use of the world. Until yesterday the scene was as follows: I haven't heard an Italian that I didn't agree with Salvini, that he did not consider it absurd to incriminate an Interior Minister who is doing his duty, as well as his electoral mandate, to safeguard the nation's borders, as provided for by the Constitution, and protect Italians, reject illegal arrivals and reiterate that migrants do not land in Italy but in Europe. It is absurd that we have to remember Europe when it comes to paying debts or not breaking the bank. And instead we must forget about Europe when the migrants arrive because then, suddenly, we become a nation and we have to deal with it ourselves. Our sovereignty consists in the obligation to welcome them, even if everyone else doesn't want them. Until yesterday there wasn't a person I spoke to who wasn't of this idea in one way or another.
On the other hand, I haven't heard a news broadcast, and program, a commentator, a man of power or a newspaper that was not aligned against Italy, against the Italians, against Salvini and on the side of Europe that doesn't care about migrants, on the side of the judges who indict ministers in the name of the law, on the side of migrants who land illegally. A dry match, the united people on one side, compact power on the other. Almost no one in Salvini's company, the League is there but you can't see it, there is only him, there is the Meloni and then down the desert. The grillini, when they are not hanging on the Fig Tree, and therefore they lean to the left, they act like di Maio in order to float and stay where they are, and play at being superminister, he is ready to take it all back and dump the Ally on whom the Palace's media-judicial cannons are aimed, dai catto-bergogliosi to the scattered left. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | Non-fiction

How we got to this point
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Let's tell the truth, we Italians have become unrecognizable. If we were to meet on the street those of us today with those we were just ten years ago, we wouldn't recognize each other and maybe we wouldn't even say hello. But how did we get to this point? To understand the present let's take a step back to the past. So ten years ago, these days, he had become prime minister for the fourth time Silvio Berlusconi. The Grand Duke of Padania Umberto Bossi was with him in government. Finish he had become President of the Chamber and dolphin, successor in the breast. Gianni Alemanno was elected mayor of Rome. At that time the National Alliance still existed. The loser of that time was called Walter Veltroni. The Movement had not yet been born 5 place, Di Maio was a stadium mask and Renzi didn't exist, a bit like now; he was a kind of boy scout, he was not yet mayor of Florence. Another world, prehistory.
But what happened to get to this point? There are a thousand factors, and we won't do the whole story. But we would like to focus on one detail. Italy was tired of the left, then and now, she had been disappointed by her umpteenth government and had once again voted for the centre-right and her King, Berlusconi. What happened, at that point? I should tell two stories, actually three.
The first story is that the elements against that government were unleashed. Global economic crises, from America to us; European economic wars, Arab springs bearing down on us, judicial wars against Berlusconi, domestic and international political conspiracies, press campaigns. In short, an evil three-year period which then ended with the well-known white coup that ousted the Berlusconi government. The left doesn't know how to govern and doesn't know how to be popular, but he knows how to destroy, it has a terrible power of interdiction and intimidation. Read More

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FIFTH COLUMN | History

In Prague the dear beloved Soviets
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Like today, in the night between 20 and the 21 August fifty years ago, Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring dream of freedom. They will talk about it adequately on TV and in the newspapers? They will also remember this shadowy side of '68? They will remember the infamy of those who defended them and took their side, as the Italian communists did? Or they'll say it's been too long now, and therefore we can talk about fascism and Nazism every day, dead 73 years ago, but we can no longer talk about communism, which is much more recent and present?
It should also be remembered that a part of the Italian communists dissociated themselves from the PCI and condemned the Russian invasion, as the Manifesto group did. But with a small detail: they did not dissent to embrace socialism with a human face but to pursue a much more inhuman socialism, the Chinese one, with Mao who with his cultural revolution was much bloodier than Stalin and Brezhnev. In a debate in a hall of the Chamber opened by Napolitano, a few years ago I remembered the silence of the PCI regarding the revolt, the contempt towards the insurgents and the silence of the party and L'Unità towards dissidents, come Jiri Pelikan, which was then "adopted" by Craxi's PSI. Fassino pointed out to me that, on the contrary, the PCI had supported Prime Minister Dubcek and socialism with a human face. Right, until Dubcek was in power, tolerated by the Soviet Union… But later, when the tanks arrived, and there was the revolt, an embarrassed silence fell and the orthodox thesis prevailed, supported precisely by the communist right of Amendola and Napolitano, that those who show solidarity with the insurgents are playing the usual lurking reaction game. The Italian communists aligned themselves with the Soviets, like in Budapest before, in '56, and to Gdańsk and Szczecin afterwards, in the '70s. Furthermore, we must not forget that until 1978 the funding for the PCI and L'Unità continued to come from the USSR, and the contributions from the Italian-Czechoslovak Association continued to arrive. That's how it was in '68, the Soviet tanks lost a few r and for the local communists they remained the dear beloved Soviets... Read More

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Actuality | FIFTH COLUMN

Benetton Maletton
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
The Benettons not only produced sweaters and managed highways but were the first local factory of global ideology. They were not only sponsors but also precursors of the ideological alphabet, symbolic and sentimental of the left. They were the bridge, it's worth saying, between the multinational interests of global capitalism and the Americanization of the planet, with their profits and their marketing and anti-racism messages, against sexism, in favor of society without borders, lgbt, transgressive and progressive. Their campaigns, entrusted to Oliviero Toscani, they tried to unite the shock side, which often bordered on bad taste and a punch in the stomach, with the progressive humanitarian message: multiracial society, without borders, without distinctions of sex, of religions, of ethnic groups and peoples, with special attention to minors. Remove barriers everywhere, except at toll booths, where it comes to taking tolls. Benetton recently also carried out humanitarian campaigns on immigrant boats and launched a video "against all resurgent racism". The connection between sermons on the skin of the desperate and selling sweaters or charging cars tolls is mysterious. Read More

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Actuality | FIFTH COLUMN

Count of miracles
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
He will be a walk-on, but Giuseppe Conte makes an impression at Palazzo Chigi. So far in his seventy-day trip around the world he has never made a mistake, a phrase, a statement. The only gaffe belongs to his previous life, when he wrote CVs to bulk up a bit. Now there's no more need to argue, in two months he created an enviable CV, reality surpasses rumor. In his speeches perhaps he will keep to the obvious, on the generic, doesn't decide much, it merely entertains, repeat, simulate; but the little he said and the very little he did, he said it and he did it well, without ever going unbalanced. He kept himself on edge with a prodigious balancing act, than even the tightrope walkers at village festivals, those that in our Puglia we called tarall'e Zucchere. He managed not to displease Di Maio, Salvini and Mattarella, indeed he gave the impression of agreeing with each of them. It is Padre Pio's last miracle to demonstrate that nothing is impossible, even that a Count suddenly becomes prime minister, without firing a shot. And don't be attacked by anyone, print included. Read More

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