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Italy Reels From Racist Attacks, Rancorous Politics
Matteo Renzi, the former center-left Italian premier, called the attacks on people of "different skin colors" an emergency. He said it is no longer possible for anyone, especially those in government, to deny that.
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[Silvini] added: "I want politicians and do-gooder journalists to remember that I don't judge people on the basis of their skin color, I divide them between good people and delinquents. There's a future for the first, not for the others!"

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"What this means, I believe, is that a country with its own currency would not be subject to the kind of self-fulfilling panic that is now arguably hitting Italy."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Aug 1st, 2018 at 05:05:18 PM EST
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Italy never fulfilled the entry criteria for joining the euro and was likely to do so. Just as with Greece. The ECB knew it for Italy, just as they did for Greece.

This is the central damning failure of the euro and the ideas underlying it. Failures that are likely to bring about the end of the EU which will be torn apart as country after country go under and descend into some form of authoritarian control demanding border controls

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Aug 1st, 2018 at 07:47:42 PM EST
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So I suppose you're over your panic?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Wed Aug 1st, 2018 at 08:07:51 PM EST
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Panic? I don't think I ever descended into panic, just a cynicism about the Tories and brexit that slumped into the dawning realisation that the UK Govt would follow the Cockburn rule of doing the "worst possible thing in the worst possible way".

I am now totally at one with the universe and can look at the night sky and see the flaming meteor of death looming and know there is no way to dodge it. Panic is pointless in such circumstances

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Aug 2nd, 2018 at 01:06:41 PM EST
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< wipes tears >
alrighty then

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Aug 2nd, 2018 at 01:20:19 PM EST
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Tension mounts in Italy amid escalating racially motivated attacks | France24 |

Italy has seen an explosion in racist attacks in recent months, and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini stands accused of inciting a climate of hatred with speeches on migrants. However, many argue the roots of the problem go much deeper.

However, in the wake of the Osakue scandal, Interior Minister Salvini argues that there has been no increase in racist acts in Italy.

But on the weekend in a small town south of Rome a Moroccan man was killed. The Moroccan was chased by a car of Italians who suspected him of being a thief. The man ran for his life, injuring himself in the process, and was ultimately beaten to death.

In the capital of Sicily, Palermo, a Senegalese man was also beaten-up to the cries of "dirty n***o". And in February, a former candidate of the Northern League opened fire on a crowd Africans in Macerata in central Italy, injuring six people.

"Trivialisation of fascism"

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'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Wed Aug 1st, 2018 at 10:17:31 PM EST
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