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26/09/2022

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Early results suggested her nationalist party would be the top vote-getter, leaving Ms. Meloni poised to be Italy’s first female prime minister and the first with post-Fascist roots.

26/09/2022

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Brothers of Italy’s victory represents several firsts. Italy will have its first woman prime minister. And both Italy and Western Europe will have their first far-right majority government since the fall of Mussolini and the end of the Second World War.

Meloni’s trajectory owes much to that history. Beginning as an activist of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement in the Roman working-class district of Garbatella in the early 1990s, Meloni rose to prominence in a political milieu that didn’t deny its heritage.

She stated in an interview with French TV in 1996 that Mussolini was a “good politician” and “all that he did, he did for Italy”.

While Meloni now says Italy has consigned fascism to history, vestiges of her party’s political roots remain. For example, the flame in the party’s symbol is taken from the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, and there have been recent instances of its politicians and supporters performing fascist salutes."

Within the overall success of the right, there are winners and losers. Meloni is obviously the former, and Salvini is the latter.

For the main party on the Left, the Democratic Party, it’s yet another bad day. Having dropped to under 20% in the 2018 general election, they look unlikely to do much better than that this time. Their failure to find a campaign narrative beyond “stop the far right” and to create a broader coalition underlined the strategic ineptitude that has long undermined the Italian left.
[theconversation.com]

Italy will have its first woman prime minister. And both Italy and Western Europe will have their first far-right majority government since the fall of Mussolini and the end of the Second World War.

25/09/2022

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LiveUpdated Sept. 25, 2022, 3:42 p.m. ETSept. 25, 2022, 3:42 p.m. ETItaly Live Updates: Vote Coming to a Close in Pivotal Election for EuropeOpinion polls suggest that Italy’s next leader could be Giorgia Meloni, a far-right leader with post-Fascist roots. She would be the nation’s first female ...

25/09/2022

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Weeks of opinion polls suggested that Giorgia Meloni

06/09/2022

"An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.
“I won, and I didn’t break any rules,” the artwork’s creator says."" [nytimes]

“I won, and I didn’t break any rules,” the artwork’s creator says.

06/09/2022

""Ancora un volta dalla Russia arrivano dichiarazioni strumentali a poche settimane dal voto. Ennesima prova che le autorità russe si stanno rendendo protagoniste di chiare ingerenze, con la diffusione di notizie propagandistiche. " [ANSA.IT]

La portavoce del ministero degli Esteri russo Maria Zakharova: 'Il piano Cingolani per la riduzione della dipendenza dalle fonti energetiche russe è imposto a Roma da Bruxelles e Washington' (ANSA)

06/09/2022

A controversial new climate study has found that, even if greenhouse gas emissions were halted tomorrow, it might not be enough to stop temperatures from continuing to rise. [ecowatch.com]

A controversial new climate study has found that, even if greenhouse gas emissions were halted tomorrow, it might not be enough to stop temperatures from continuing to rise. Researchers at the BI Norwegian Business School used the ESCIMO climate model to determine that the permafrost would continue....

22/08/2022

La causa sono le cosiddette PFAS. A dirlo è uno studio del Politecnico federale di Zurigo e dell'Università di Stoccolma.

02/04/2022

To be read, definitely..

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience "the end," no matter how we define it.

22/03/2022

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The giant circle of stones could have tracked each day in a 365.25-day year

01/03/2022

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“We continue to call war war,” Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. “We are waiting for the consequences.”

01/03/2022

2nd step...

The Ukrainian government has today said Belarus has invaded the country, joining the Russian offensive only hours after Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko claimed he had no plans to join Putin's war