#federica speaks

[schmedterlingfreud]

May I ask what is your stance on feminism?

Sure! It makes me vomit, plain and simple.

I think modern feminism bases its narrative on shitting on the backs of what men have built for women and with women through the history of mankind.

Modern feminists are nothing more than ungrateful whiney brats, accommodated by a decaying society that right now needs strong men more than ever. They are hypocrites who scream at Patriarchy in a Western society, from their privileged homes and positions, without ever spending a single word to denounce those Countries and cultures that kill women just for the guilt of showing their hair.

I'm tired of living in a society that accommodates women like them, a society that puts them in positions they don't deserve just because they are women and not because of their true merits. And we all see the consequences, right? Plane crashes, forests on fire, collapsed bridges. Modern feminism isn't about equality,  it's about sinking men in favor of women who don't deserve to take their place.

I'm sick and tired of double standards. I'm tired of seeing men and the Patriarchy blamed for every flaw in modern society, and I'm tired of seeing children educated under this narrative. Girls are taught that they are capable of anything, that they are unique and special (spolier alert: we are not), while boys are only taught not to be Toxic.

Every day I see the world moving forward in this direction, and I am terrified by the thought of living in a world ruled by these so called progressive women. It literally makes me puke how the mainstream media, Hollywood, and corporations brainwash the younger generations into believing that a world governed by women would be more just, equal and ideal. Anyone who has worked with women even for just a day knows that this is not the case.

Women may fight many enemies, true, but I've always thought that women themselves are women's first and most feared enemies.

I'm speaking too much from my personal experiences? Maybe? But honestly I don't care anymore. In fact, I have always suffered the greatest cruelty and injustices from women hands. I have never seen those much vaunted qualities in practice: solidarity, collaboration, justice, sensitivity.

"Boo-ohh, but it's not their fault, it's the Patriarchal Society that pushes women to behave like this"

No! Fuck this shit! Women can be mean, cruel, stupid, useless, and our behavior is our responsibility, period.

... e ora vediamo quanto ci impiega l'amabile e tollerantissimo tumblr a bannarmi per aver osato parlare male delle femministe :D

#my post #the butterfly speaks #my asks #ecco federica ora che ti sei sfogata vai a prendere le tue pilloline da brava #i wrote this after my night shift and english is not my first language so please forgive my mistakes

[sumerianlanguage]

Did the ancient mesopotamians have pomegranates, and if they did, what did they call them?

They certainly did! Pomegranates were an important part of cuisine and a potent symbol in ancient Mesopotamia - and it’s even possible the Sumerians were the original domesticators of the pomegranate. Here’s an article from Federica Spagnoli at ASOR on the history and significance of the pomegranate in Mesopotamia and the Levant.

As for what they called pomegranates, the most common term is nuurma. When speaking, nuurma refers to both the fruit and the pomegranate tree, but when writing about the latter, a tree determinative 𒄑 is required: 𒉡𒌫𒈠 nuurma “pomegranate fruit”,  𒄑𒉡𒌫𒈠 nuurma “pomegranate tree”.

There is another term, laldar, which also means “pomegranate tree”, written either 𒄑𒋭𒁯 or 𒄑𒋭𒁕𒊑 in cuneiform, but it’s less common than nuurma.

#replies #sumerian cuisine #sumerian vocabulary

[female-malice]

Opinion | Women are leading a revolution in Iran. When will Western feminists help?

By Masih Alinejad

A new popular uprising is taking place in Iran, and this time women are in the lead. It’s incredibly inspiring to see — for the first time I can remember — unveiled women marching at the front. They have overcome fear and are challenging one of the main pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran: compulsory hijab.

These women are marching shoulder to shoulder with men, chanting against the whole regime. They are facing guns and bullets and demanding an end to a system of gender apartheid.

Mahsa Amini was only 22 years old. She wasn’t uncovered; only a few strands of her hair showed. And yet she was arrested by the so-called “morality police” and packed off to jail. Three days later she was dead. Many Iranians are convinced she was killed��—a belief reinforced by countless individual experiences with the brutality of the security services.

The news of her death has triggered outrage throughout Iran. Tens of thousands of demonstrators are defying security forces to ask why an innocent young woman lost her life to religious radicals who merely wanted to show off their militant male power. The compulsory hijab is not just a small piece of cloth for Iranian women; it is the most visible symbol of how we are oppressed by a tyrannical theocracy. Now, by drawing attention to that injustice, Mahsa’s death has the potential to serve as a new turning point for Iranian women.

They deserve the support of their Western counterparts. Yet so far we see little evidence that women in Europe or North America are willing to take to the streets to show their solidarity for a women’s revolution in Iran.

Recent experience has been discouraging. Over the past decade, we’ve seen female politicians from democratic countries — including Ségolène Royal from France, Catherine Ashton from the United Kingdom, and Federica Mogherini from Italy — don hijab on their visits to Iran. All these female politicians are quick to assert their feminist credentials in their own societies — but when it comes to Iran they go out of their way to show deference to the men who have elevated misogyny to a state principle. A regime that abuses and harasses millions of women each year does not deserve our respect. To do so makes a mockery of all our talk of universal human rights.

When the Women’s March took place in Washington, D.C., in 2017, I was happy to join. Along with the rest I chanted: “My body, my choice.” Some women might well choose to veil their faces and bodies in accordance with their religious or cultural beliefs — but that should be a matter of their own choice, not a rule imposed by the whips and clubs of men. Yet Western women seem only too happy to succumb to the standards dictated by the male tyrants in countries such as Afghanistan and Iran.

I don’t consider such feminists to be true advocates of women’s rights. The true feminists and women’s rights activists are those in Afghanistan and Iran who are stepping forward, at great cost, to resist the Taliban and Islamic republic. They are the true feminist leaders of the 21st century, risking their lives by facing guns and bullets. They will go on fighting against the regimes, and we who have the privilege to live in free countries should actively amplify their voices. This is the moment for women in the West to stand with Iran’s mothers, daughters and sisters.

I will not remain silent. I will continue to speak out until compulsory hijab laws are abolished. Like the women now taking to the streets in my home country, I, too, have been targeted by the regime. I have chosen to speak up despite that regime’s attacks on my family, and its attempts to have me abducted or killed. In this, I feel deep solitary with the thousands of women protesting in Iran. I will continue to do what I can to support their struggle, to help them achieve their rights.

My wish is for all of us to be louder than the tyrants. I call on the free world to join the protesters in calling for an end to the murderous regime of the ayatollahs. Iranian women are fighting to recover our dignity and exercise our personal freedoms — so that, one day, all Iranians can finally choose our government in free and fair elections. We shouldn’t be afraid of the religious fanatics and the jihadists. They are the ones who are frightened. It is why they seek to keep women down. Women in the streets are paying with their lives for change. But too many in the outside world are shaking hands with our murderers.

I am asking all Western feminists to speak up. Join us. Make a video. Cut your hair. Burn a headscarf. Share it on social media and boost Iranian voices. Use your freedom to say her name. Her name was Mahsa Amini.

[cloudiness]

Here’s Carlos’s interview for Sky Italia right after the France GP 2022; you’ll find the translated transcript right under the cut.

Unfortunately I had to record this from my tv screen because I couldn’t find it anywhere else but I wanted to share it because Carlos is pretty happy and they also share some laughs..sorry for any mistake or typo, I was kinda in a rush and Davide Valsecchi speaks his own language which is impossible to translate..anyway, ENJOY! ✨🌶

( @whosays75 eccola qui, ho avuto qualche giorno di inferno ma alla fine ce l’ho fatta..qualità salutiamola ma dettagli)

(you can see I’ve put timestamps here and there just so that you can follow along if you need to)

Federica Masolini: Charles Leclerc..microphone…did I say Sainz? I said Sainz..?

Carlos Sainz: You said Leclerc

FM: Because I was reading the rankings, you’re fourth, one point over Russel, did you have water(during the race)? Was is difficult from a physical point of view?

00:18 

CS: I didn’t drink because we are a bit overweight and so I decided to not have the..

FM: Water bag (she said literally ‘canteen’ but we know it’s a bag)

CS: The water bag, because I don’t sweat that much so I’d rather be a tenth faster but it was really hot, especially in the beginning with the ‘hards’, the tyres were very hot, it was really difficult to overtake but then I changed them with the ‘mediums’ and from then on I was faster, I did some good overtaking, I even got to the first positions and then it happened whatever happened but I’m happy of my race.

FM: Could you recount your overtakes with us? Because Davide Valsecchi was particularly excited(while watching he race), I’d start from the one over Russel, with Davide, give us your comment on it.

00:59

Davide Valsecchi: Yes, take a look here because about the one with Russel we said there was pride, aggressiveness,  determination, around the outside at “Signes”, when you’re there the standard is to let the gas go but you pushed it, did it just feel right?

CS: Yes, here I followed his wake then I was beside him and I pushed him a little towards the right side to give him less corner so that I then was on the outside; it was difficult because it wasn’t clean, there was a lot of sand, but we did good, and here you’ll see that I star off good at turn 9 then follow the wake, battery, almost touching his rear tyre, here I pushed him towards the right side of the track to then have more corner and make it, in dire straits(referred to the gesture he makes with the hand under his chin) but I made it. 

DV: Bravo!

FM: How much does this kind of overtaking excites you during the race?

1:46 

CS: There’s adrenaline, there’s a lot of adrenaline, it’s amazing and it’s the reason why I love F1, this kind of moments, right? (These moments) That give you this happiness while driving, that knowing feeling that you’re doing something really dangerous, really extraordinary, that’s what I live for, no? That’s why I’m a driver.

FM: “Da WOW!”(literally ‘something that makes you say wow’) as Marc Genè(one of the commentators) would say, and then we have the one with Perez!

2:11 

CS: Da WOW *laughs*

DV: You didn’t make it around the outside there

CS: No

DV: I mean, you tried but they(Redbull) are faster than Mercedes and you had to give up, but I wonder, after, at this moment, where you are on the outside, he did a move on you, right? before the exit?

2:26 

CS: Yes, this overtake was really difficult because putting yourself in that position is already a hard thing to do but from here we then had like 7/8 turns were we were driving alongside..how do say it?

FM: Alongside

CS: Alongside each other, and you have to think that we were going 250 km/h, 7 turns at 250 Km/h are wonderful and to make them with Checo it’s always an honor because he’s a driver who always respects space and I always had him in my spot…where I couldn’t see him, how do you say it?

2:57 

FM: CIECO! (literally means “BLIND” and it’s pronounced just like ‘Checo’ in Spanish)

CS: Yes, PUNTO CIECO! (blindspot) 

FM: Precisely

*they all laugh because of the involuntary play on words*

CS: And here you see that I can’t do like I did with Russel because he(Perez) has much more speed but here I manage to keep him on the outside, he leaves me space, here we touch a bit and I attempt the overtake around the outside

DV: This idea of cutting the corners, I don’t know when it came to you, but this idea of cutting forced him to close(the trajectory) and made it so that you have inverted the trajectory 

CS: Yes here I keep inverting the trajectory to give me clean air and here he closes, we almost touch, I went on the right and then I threw the car towards the outside to then be on the inside here, it was really wonderful.

DV: Great move!

3:38 

FM: And you also had the strength to talk during this overtake, did you realize that?

CS: *Laughs* In that moment I was fighting for P3 so I told myself if I have to stop and lose 32 seconds it doesn’t matter if it’s now or the next lap so just let me finish this overtake…

FM: Let me have fun!

CS: I wanted to have fun but then they asked me to stop.

4:00

Carlo Vanzini: We also had a lot of fun watching you, I have a question, were you also thinking about the DRS? Because when you went on to the straight you had the DRS and you were just in the right spot to then attack him.

CS: Yes, I was.

CV: That was the real magic.

CS: Yes, I had to take everything into consideration because I knew that if I came first at the DRS line he was going to catch me on the straight. I did good, I wanted to be on the inside to overtake but not too forward so that I could have the DRS, it all worked perfectly and I did it.

CV: If I can ask another thing to Carlos, do you guys think you now have the best car overall?

CS: In quali yes, I think that we’ve proven it in many races that we can take the pole positions with this car, in the race it depends, it changes every race; we are now at the tenth one fighting with Redbull and in Austria for whatever reason we were faster and we had less tyre degradation, in the race before Charles and Max were almost equal, before that one they(Redbull) were faster, earlier we were faster…during the race it’s always pretty close but in the flying lap this car is really strong.

FM: Have you spoken with Charles yet?

CS: No, it’s really too bad for him but we all make mistakes, I made some at the beginning of the year and people were mean to me because they looked like stupid mistakes but, trust me, we’re driving these cars to the limit, right at the front, it’s not easy; we are pushing a lot and when I say a lot I mean A LOT, we are taking many risks and these things can happen, once or even twice a year, it might happen even to Max next in this season, and I completely understand how this kind of things can happen.

FM: Mattia told us “I’ll ask the boys to smile while looking at the data of this car, we have 10 more races to win and above all we have a 1-2 to make in Hungary”

CS: Yes, that would be amazing, it’s what we’re aiming for because we have the car, we just need to keep believing that it’s possible.

FM: Thank you

CS: Thank you

FM: Ciao Carlos, congrats! Grazie to Carlos Sainz, amazing race for him!

#carlos sainz jr #carlos sainz jr. #f1 #i don't even know how to tag this #let me know if something's not clear or big typos and grammar mistakes #videos #video #mine

[royal-confessions]

“I think its interesting to me how Spanish media is reporting that the royal family are embarrassed of Victoria Federica's fashion career and that she has stopped speaking to her mother and Felipe. Victoria isn't even titled and yet her fashion career is causing discord (and she has never spoken of leonor and sofia to the press). Same thing for leah behn with her make up career and maud behn with appearing on the masked singer in Norway (and both have never given interviews about ingrid alexandra). It seems to me that not having a title does not remove the restrictions that royal families and society wishes to place on royal adjacent kids. I am waiting to see what will happen as from next year with nikolai and felix in Denmark.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#victoria de marichalar y borbon #leah behn #maud behn

[mariacallous]

Since the heady post-Cold War years, when many in the Free World were sure that the global tide was moving less toward dictatorship and extremism, and more toward freedom and tolerance, the world has instead shifted dramatically the other way.

As Western governments exhibited moral, military and strategic complacency, ant-democratic regimes and forces gained ground. Today, more, not less, people live under tyrannical and fanatical rule, and rulers are finding more cruel and dystopian ways to oppress them. Children, who have nothing to do with any of this, are caught in the maelstrom. Moreover, children increasingly targeted with violence and atrocities.

Tragically for children and their persecuted families and communities, in parallel with the serious deterioration in global human rights in recent decades, there has been a significant decline in human rights advocacy. Moreover, Reagan-esque speeches and coherent geopolitical strategies in defense of the democratic way of life have been conspicuously absent.

Progressives have succumbed to moral relativism that emphasizes “co-existence” with authoritarian, even brutal, regimes; international corporations have overlooked human rights violations for the sake of profit; new-right isolationists have simplistically equated overseas involvement with “endless war.”

Thus, the imperative of standing up for human rights that deeply influenced post-World War II thinking, policies and institutions, has become a niche endeavor, pursued by certain groups and committees, while not seen as a personal or societal obligation.

Making matters worse, my scan of human rights reports reveals only a marginal and occasional (and declining) focus on children. Save the Children, Justice Rapid Response (JRR) and The Ukraine Conflict Observatory are commendable outliers.

Appalling mistreatment

According to JRR’s Federica Tronchin, “it has become very clear that one of the overlooked components of international justice work is child victims.” Yet children around the world today are enduring heinous, heartbreaking levels and kinds of mistreatment. In Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, Myanmar, Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, North Korea, Tibet, the Xinjang region of China, and many other places, their situation is dire.

Children are physically, intellectually and emotionally dependent and impressionable relative to adults, and rely on adult protection, assistance and guidance. On the other hand, children are vulnerable to being hidden and silenced by adults who choose to do them harm. Sadly, in places beset by oppression or terror, parents, relatives and mentors can be so persecuted themselves that they cannot, as hard as they try, shield the children from horrors.

In such terrible places, adults in power can get away with physically or sexually assaulting children, abducting or conscripting them, bullying or indoctrinating them. When even loving caretakers are not free enough to save children, it is up to adults in the Free World – policymakers, lawmakers, journalists, academics, NGOs, religious leaders, citizens – to speak and act.

The first and fundamental step is deciding not to look away. Might free peoples be moved to care more about severely oppressed peoples if they looked beyond their nationalities – Syrians, North Koreans, Venezuelans, etc. – and focused more on their personal struggles in the thralls of extremist regimes? And might they especially be moved if they looked at the plight therein of children?

Overlooking human rights means overlooking children who desperately need a light shone on their tragic reality. It is in dark, invisible places that those who exploit children prefer to reside.

Ukraine

Regarding Ukraine, it should be impossible to support a negotiated settlement that would allow Russia to keep some occupied territories after seeing Russia’s barbarically cruel treatment of children in those territories and throughout Ukraine.

In addition to bombing apartments, schools, hospitals, farms, cultural treasures and critical infrastructure, all the while ravaging, raping and torturing, Russians have abducted hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus. At least 6,000 of them are held in camps and facilities where they are indoctrinated, a new report shows.

Imagine the unimaginable: the trauma to children and loved ones of being forcibly separated. Russia’s war of aggression has in addition left at least 1,500 Ukrainian children orphaned, and many casualties.

Ukrainian children have seen things no child should ever see, from soldiers raping or torturing their mothers or relatives to the utter devastation of their homes and towns. Adolescents have been victims of rape and torture and children were not spared the massacre and horrors at Bucha and elsewhere. The psychological scars of enduring relentless bombardment and witnessing terrible atrocities should not be underestimated.

China

The topic of children forcibly separated from parents and homes leads to China, where, too, the cruelty to children defies imagination. As part of its genocidal policies against Uyghurs and Tibetans, Xi Jinping and Chinese Communist Party cadres have created a system of “coercive boarding schools” that isolate millions of children from their families, and indoctrinate and militarize them.

Scholarly research (especially by Dr. Adrian Zenz) and leaked videos expose the CCP’s dystopian surveillance-police state in Xinjang and Tibet: not only the extreme torture and abuse of adults in camps and forced labor facilities, but also the sadistic intimidation of young children by overpowering males in locked “boarding schools.” One particularly heartbreaking video shows little boys trying hard not to cry to avoid punishment. 

North Korea

The subject of camps, in turn, leads to North Korea, where horrific atrocities continue, but regarding which the Free World is numbingly silent. While the government relies on an entrenched system of camps, I have argued the country itself is like a camp, wherein the people endure ubiquitous, omnipresent repression and indoctrination. Children are brainwashed from an early age and family members are expected to spy on each other.

Highlighting a 2016 report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Marcus Noland showed that North Korean Christians are especially vulnerable: “Christians are routinely sent to the kwanliso or political prison camps. There they are subjected to torture including beatings, being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges, trampled underfoot, and used as test subjects for medical training and experimentation.”

Since then, gruesome torture of Christians, including young children, in “re-education camps” has actually increased. Christian persecution is at crisis levels across the world yet is mostly ignored. Following North Korea and Afghanistan, which are the very worst, countries with the worst Christian persecution are Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and India. Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, too, face religious persecution along with smothering socialist repression.

Syria

Syria is another country whose people are mostly forgotten, in spite of the endless hostilities and atrocities, including against children, committed by Bashar al Assad and allies Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.

In a recent article, I highlighted the suffering and the increasing indifference of the “international community,” and the regional fallout. A 2020 UN report showed children experiencing devastating hardship, abuse and trauma. Children were being killed and maimed in a war that included pro-government forces’ use of cluster munitions, thermobaric bombs and chemical weapons.

Children “suffer(ed) from disabilities as well as devastating psychological and development issues.” Children as well as adults have been subjected to detention, physical and sexual violence, torture and mass displacement, and still endure a reign of terror. The dire humanitarian and refugee crisis cry for our attention.

Middle East and Africa

In Iran, the regime brutalized young protestors who demonstrated in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the hands of the “morality police.” Protestors as young as 12 were raped and violated. The brave Iranian people want release from a regime that deploys detentions, torture and executions against free speech and expression, persecutes ethnic minorities, women and adolescents, and endorses child marriages.

In Afghanistan, the precipitous withdrawal of US forces and ascendancy of the Taliban have meant children live with terror, homelessness, hunger, extreme misogyny, child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, sexual abuse and lack of decent education. The scourge of child trafficking for sexual exploitation or forced labor has metastasized across the globe and, because it’s become a serious problem in the US, is finally garnering our serious attention.

The number of children living in conflict zones and/or displaced has increased dramatically in the last 30 years. Many conflicts, such as in Yemen, Myanmar, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan and Somalia,  include Islamist terror, murder of civilians, and child soldiers whose ranks have grown steadily in recent decades.

Child soldiers are all too often kidnapped, physically or sexually assaulted, plied with drugs, brainwashed and threatened into participating in attacks. Children in Palestine and elsewhere are indoctrinated toward jihad, and Gazan children are tragic victims in the current war. The world saw some of the worst atrocities it had ever seen in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack against Israeli families and teenagers. Israeli hostages, including adolescents and children, have suffered the cruelest inhumanity, including repeated rape of young women. Meanwhile, antisemitism is growing alarmingly worldwide.

Time to act

Clearly, democracies’ languid deterrence, flimsy penalties on atrocity committers and frequent willingness to overlook human rights did not buy the longed-for post-Cold War repose. Perhaps recognition of our own lethargy and apathy will compel us to face the consequences for the world’s children?

On the other hand, perhaps recognition of the abuse, targeting and traumatization of children will open hearts and minds to broader concerns of human rights; analysts arguing against appeasement of the world’s worst dictators and aggressors would do well to highlight their mistreatment of children.

Voice of America-type programs should be invigorated and should include specialized focus on children in the hands of extremist groups and regimes. The US Congress could use the Magnitsky Act as a model for imposing sanctions and financial penalties on authoritarian officials responsible for “crimes against children.”

Western entities and companies that abet the abusers should be exposed.

With both impassioned pleas for liberty and brutal crackdowns on civil society intensifying, free people should show they care about the freedom of others, especially the most innocent and vulnerable. Who better to be alert to the worldwide suffering of children, and to the terrible predicament of their parents and loved ones, than policymakers, journalists and citizens who are free to speak and act. The time to remain silent and indifferent has passed.

[jon-astronaut]

So, I have a few thoughts about the Spera storyline. 

It’s a very bold choice in terms of writing. It might not have landed for some people and I totally get that but it did land for me. I agree with people who said that we should have watched this topic with Viola or Federica as mains. It’s a too important and heavy topic that it would be better if we watched it through the eyes of a main instead of a love interest and a friend. However, I get why they did it. This storyline gave Federica a plot of her own before truly saying goodbye to the original generation, and if they want to make a new generation it gave the audience a more in depth look into a member of the new gen. 

I do think despite being from an outsider’s perspective they did the storyline justice. We actually get to hear how Viola felt shame, how she was afraid of being judged, how she tried to tell herself that she had consent in it. Elia’s reaction to everything was as it should be. He never once thought about judging her and judged Spera instead. He didn’t even question Viola too, that’s important because he saw Sperra as a friend. When he told the boys about it, they just asked him if he was sure and after he said yes they didn’t question it further. When they asked who it was Elia didn’t give Viola’s name, same way Viola didn’t give Federica’s name. Viola repeating Carmela’s words about being manipulated, both the girl squads supporting their friends at the police station, and Federica’s words at the radio urging people to speak and not be silent are super important. I think they showed the side of Viola and Federica as much as they could with Elia as a main.

But the main reason I’m okay with this being set in Elia’s season is because it’s not used as a storyline for Elia to grow as a person. Like I said Elia already gave the best and the proper reaction. Viola’s and Federica’s plots weren’t used for Elia’s sake. Rather from his perspective it was a plot of seeing the world as it is, realizing the people you trust are not always as they are. I think in the end it helped Elia and their relationship that Elia and Viola both opened up to each other. 

And finally coming to the fact that it’s Spera. Like I said it’s a bold choice. It completely changes the way I view the scenes with him in season 2 that I used to adore. I think if this storyline was happening the best choice was Spera instead of a random teacher which would have made the plot pointless and just for drama. Here instead we have Elia and the boys faced with actually having to grow up. Their world at 17-18 is literally shattered when they learn about Spera, the man who was their friend, who helped them. He was such an integral part of Marti’s journey and suddenly he is gone and everything he knew is gone too. I think, as the show truly lets go of these characters forcing them to grow up is a good way to let them go because were are not in season 1 anymore where they were teenagers. They are on their way to be young adults and their world is gonna shatter again and again.

The silver lining is that they have each other. That’s what the hug in the cafeteria showed. No matter what happens contrabbandieri have each other and they don’t need anyone else. And le matte have each other. And all of them have each other. 

#skam italia #skam italia spoilers

[the-annotated-antichrist]

Act I, Track 04 - Signs are here

Song links: Spotify - YT Music - Apple - Tidal

Today we meet Johanna Orsini, who was already mentioned in the last track. She is the main antagonist of the story and played by Chiara Malvestiti, an Italian soprano singer whom people who have seen Therion live in recent years will be well-aquainted with.

Another fun fact that you may or may not care about: Chiara started singing for Therion due to a recommendation by Melissa Ferlaak, who plays her mother in this work!

Chiara Malvestiti photographed by Federica Moretti

Born in Rome and remarkably gifted in many aspects already as a little girl, [Johanna] did choose to join the official school of the Catholic Church. When her parents and sister moved to Berlin, she demanded to stay in Rome and was left in the care of a fanatic religious sisterhood. As an adult she has become the leader of the same group, which has very strong bonds to the now restored Vatican state.

In this track, Johanna has a meeting with her order (which seems to include men too at this point). Also present are her two assistants and confidantes Agnes and Mare. I will write more about them later so this post doesn't become too long. The song starts out in a tranquil and solemn mood, I picture candles being lit in a gorgeous church.

[All:] In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust

However, the members of the order are actually disquieted and the song becomes more tense:

[All:] Watching the sign of the Capricorn Daughters and sons of Adam Darkness, Johanna No longer sworn to cross the path of heaven [Agnes:] Enter night, enter night, fallen angel Satan Praised Master Jesus, enter thy dawn Hallelujah [Johanna:] I am ...still your Johanna

Sinners are, clearly, everywhere. What is a religious order to do? What will Johanna, being their leader, advise?

[Johanna:] Stand, dearest Agnes, by my side And Mare join her in the light Come, let our prayer rise and shine The flame of holy war ignite [All:] Jesus, save us, children of God! [Johanna:] Signs are here to tell of Antichrist [All:] Jesus, save us, children of God! [Johanna:] Stars align to form the end of time

Johanna sees very clearly that the Antichrist will soon arise and that they need to be vigilant. She speaks of holy war. I can see her walk around while speaking, addressing each person in turn. The song ends on a calmer note, with a call to unity:

[Men:] Two paths diverge in time Choose the one light travels by

[All:] Free thy soul and unchain thy heart Free thy soul and unchain thy heart In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust In the grace of God we trust

Clearly, Johanna is doing a fine job keeping her order focused and motivated. But where is she leading them? We will see...

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Random Undertale hc i have

So basically to me Underfell underground is in Italy (following the idea of a shared surface) okay?

So when i tell something about fell frisk i actually call em Fede

The reason is that Fede can be the shortening of both Federico (male name) and Federica (Female name) but it's also the word for "faith" in Italian!

Toriel is actually Tosca and Alphys Alice

Edge and Red remain the same because i simple can't see em with different names

My idea is that edge and red made contact in the underground where everyone always has this lenguage that morphs into the same (like they aren't speaking English but everyone is speaking the same lenguage)

So they reach the surface and the skelebros get set on finding the others

Sans and papyrus (classic) are from the US

Edge and red from Italy

Stretch and Blue are french

Mutt/slim and Black are German

A friend suggested the horror bros are from Alaska

And Cash and his bro are like obviously Slavic

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5x07

- Why are you using a mug instead of a bowl, man? - Marti giving Filo advice on how to play chess, like who asked you :P? - Nico doesn’t even mind that Marti agrees about first times being a disaster for everyone, he knows he got better U_U - 13 feels so young, especially after teaching them for a year! - Marti, what with that reaction? Filo is speaking the truth (about Ele and Edo too) - At least someone else had the decency to write it only in a bathroom stall. - Alessia has been kind of shitty to talk about Elia’s “situation”, but perhaps she also didn’t quite understand why he panicked and run away? - The conversation with Federica was long overdue!! It was about time at least one of the boys apologised for calling her like that... - At least he’s working, unlike you stupid lot. - He should have fired you for stealing anyway... - It’s not a SkamIT season if there isn’t someone one calling out alt right idiots and punching them. - THIS AERIAL SHOT OF ROME AT NIGHT <3  - They were even too nice on Instagram compared to what people wrote on Twitter when the theme of the season came out... - More realistic than the car crash in Skam France, where Arthur just stand there waiting to be run over. - Mr Santini, a man that can read the room <3 - Silvia is getting better at baking, good for her. - They could have mentioned an actual medical term for what’s bothering Elia, btw. - I wish I didn’t know already about Spera, this would have been way more shocking.

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Josep Borrell's 'Garden' analogy

'Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing. The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden. The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means. Yes, this is my most important message: we have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world.' (J Borrell, 2022.)

In what has been described as a neocolonial rant, EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell used a garden metaphor to explain his perceived societal divide within the world.

Borrell's statement negatively characterises human populations and their environments, pushing an elitist neocolonial idea that Europe is broadly better. This ideology could have negative consequences within the EU and its relationship with other countries, by implying a heroism of embarking into the 'jungle' that is the rest of the world.

Member of the European Parliament Marc Botega condemned Borrell's speech with the following statement,

'What's the difference between a garden, and a jungle? A garden is a nice place where civilised human beings walk around, a jungle is the heart of darkness, where wild animals live. Many people in Africa, Asia, Latin America remember very well how in the name of civilization, European colonisation treated them like wild animals; enslaving them, torturing them and even putting them in human zoos. Therefore, when the highest diplomat of the European Union compares Europe to a garden, but especially the rest of the world to a jungle, the message that these people hear is that Europe is still driven by neocolonialism. We can not let that message pass.' (M Botega, 2022.)

Whilst the global-political implications are broadly more important than the metaphorical wording; I am interested in the 'garden' context of this controversy.

Both of these speeches separate the garden as a pristine entity representative of a curated, put-together environment, with jungle representing chaos and wilderness. The generalisations and metaphors mentioned here are a reminder to carefully examine what my painted garden and wilderness environments speak to contextually and even politically. The heaviness of meaning in which applying a human attribute to these environments can have is something my work should be aware of, but stay detached from in a way. Maintaining this balance could be done by implying human presence, but letting the environment lead the painting and combat any loaded symbolism.

The social-economic status associated with gardens is also highlighted here, and its symbolism of wealth and 'beauty.' Within these preconceived Eurocentric ideas about gardens, I am curious to portray contemporary gardens in Aotearoa that at times reminisce the elitist traits decorated throughout the manicured landscape - but also observe the areas in which it is none of these things, and still a garden.

The stark contrast in which the garden is described against the wilderness/jungle, such as in this political context but also broader cultural ideas, is something of interest in my practice. Questioning the garden's position as this pristine, perfectly curated environment of human craftsmanship is something that I wish to explore further - and see the interconnection and overlap with its surrounding environment of wilderness.

Unlike the generalised characterisations stated in Borrell's speech, I seek to find the interplay between garden and wilderness and question the hierarchies applied to these environments.

References:

Borrell, Josep. Speech at European diplomatic academy. Retrieved from Youtube: AFP News Agency 'Europe is a garden' says EU foreign policy chief during speech in Bruges | AFP. Oct 18, 2022.

Botega, Marc. Speech at European Parliament meeting. Retrieved from Youtube: Middle East Eye. MEP Marc Botenga condemns EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s “garden” speech. November 2022.

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INMA South Asia Media Summit – 12 August 2022

Just as every publisher must have an editorial strategy to make her platform distinctive, compelling, and profitable, she must have a technology strategy of how to ally with or outwit big tech. Both strategies require a measure of experience, investment, accomplishment or execution of the last major shift of restructuring, and the ability to know or anticipate the future. Thus, the astrologer has been replaced by information or knowledge events such as the INMA summits.

Unfortunately, the virtual events bring the level of networking down, especially for the mortals who take part. The superstars can maintain their bandwidth with the experts who they can often afford to hire as consultants. However, the idea for every media institution should be to have its own in-house aware, knowledgeable, and creative think tank. And for the regional media to have its community of experts, researchers, and technology developers. INMA does this to a large extent as its experts and speakers, both local and global, are practitioners or else acutely aware of the news media in the subcontinent. but as Dolly Jha suggested on the first day of this year’s event, the legacy print media itself could do much more as a community. 

The second day of this year’s event again emphasized measurement. Ulbe Jelluma, managing director of Europe for Print Power in Belgium, speaking of a hybrid media mix for advertisement performance, warned participants of the gap between the perception of print’s effectiveness versus its reality. In determining media choice, he suggested the parameters for measuring performance levels for print – by business effects, response to adverts, attitudinal changes, behavioral changes, amplification of other media performance, and dwell time.

One of the most interesting presentations on branded content could also be one of the scariest for news publishers. Aditi Shrivastava, co-founder, and CEO of PocketAces-FilterCopy in India, spoke assuredly about her organization’s success in creating value with branded content. She explained with examples how her company produces an entire 360 degree of content integrating viral videos, on-demand entertainment, and unique experiences. “Produce content in the same way and of the same quality as you would even if no advertiser was supporting it,” she said. One may disagree with the philosophy of branded content but as one could see from her examples and list of clients, there is no escaping either its importance or momentum. 

Federica Cherubini, head of leadership development for the Reuters Institute for the Study for Journalism, shared a wide range of insights for editorial teams from the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2022. Her presentation on trust, avoidance, and other media habits, unfortunately, did not show any of the data directly related to India and South Asia although she said several times that there were special sections or pages in the report that covered the region. 

The overall study is based on a sample size of 2,035 of the Indian population of 1.393.4 million, giving the internet penetration as 54%. The sample size is similar for every country researched. Singapore, for example, has a sample size of 2,017, a population of 5.9 million, and an internet penetration of 88%. Apart from quibbling, the report is heroic and any shortcoming only points back to the Indian news media for its lack of investment in its research. 

Looking at the two-page article on pages 134 and 135 by research associate Anjana Krishan, covering the India research with graphics in the report, one finds it informative and useful despite its compactness. The data cites sources with footnotes that I have omitted. The report itself is easily accessible and downloadable. 

“Television brands NDTV 24x7, IndiaToday TV, and BBC News are the most popular offline brands with our mostly English-language internet-using survey respondents, along with national newspapers such as the Times of India, Hindustan Times, and The Hindu. Print and broadcast television channels are self-regulated in India, with several television channels infamous for sensationalizing news and conducting polarized debates. Print media recovered from the pandemic slump with an overall reported revenue growth of 20% in 2021, including a strong bump from advertisements.

“But legacy media platforms are facing stiff competition online from vibrant, digital-born brands that pursue independent journalism. Many rely on non-profit revenue models, such as grants and reader donations to supplement advertisements. Other digital-born brands such as Newslaundry are entirely driven by subscriptions and donations. The Wire takes strong editorial positions that are anti-establishment and investigative in nature, while Newslaundry eschews editorial positions altogether and believes in portraying diverse viewpoints from the ground. The News Minute caters specifically to news from South India while The Quint aims to build community partnerships through its citizen journalism initiatives and fact-checking services, in addition to regular news. The digital market saw an overall growth of 29% in 2021, with advertising and subscription revenues growing at 29% each.

India is a strongly mobile-focused market, with 72% accessing news through smartphones and just 35% via computers. News aggregator platforms and apps such as Google News (53%), Daily Hunt (25%), InShorts (19%), and NewsPoint (17%) have become an important way to access news and are valued for convenience.” 

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While Italy congratulates itself for finally locking up one of its most ruthless mafia bosses, Matteo Messina Denaro, after a 30-year search, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government is mulling a reform that critics say could make it much more difficult to investigate organized crime and other serious offenses.

Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio is determined to tighten restrictions on police wiretapping, which members of the judiciary consider essential but which conservatives say has gone way too far in breaching citizens’ privacy. The issue is reviving long-simmering tensions between Italian magistrates and right-wing politicians—tensions that already flared in the 1990s and 2000s under the governments of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a tycoon with nearly permanent legal woes who accused “red robe” judges of wanting to take him down for political reasons and whose conservative Forza Italia party is currently a key member of the ruling coalition.

“Italy is not made up of prosecutors,” Nordio said as he addressed Parliament in January. “And this Parliament must not be supine and acquiescent to those positions.”

The minister argues that wiretapping is too widespread, intrusive, and expensive, and that transcripts are leaked too frequently to the press—including names and private details that are caught up in the recordings but are often irrelevant to the case.

“This is about limiting the arbitrary manner in which this tool is being employed,” said Pietro Pittalis, a Forza Italia parliamentarian. “No one is denying that wiretaps are indispensable. The problem is their abuse, what has been done with [recorded] conversations that have destroyed lives and careers.”

An example often mentioned by wiretapping critics is the media lynching of former Economic Development Minister Federica Guidi, whose private quarrels with her romantic partner, a businessman under investigation for trying to take advantage of her position, appeared in many Italian newspapers in 2016. She resigned shortly after, despite being never formally accused of any wrongdoing. The probe never resulted in a trial.

The details of the new measures are still being hammered out. The justice minister insists that the rules won’t change for probes into mafia-related crimes and terrorism, but his insistence that too many phones are being tapped compared to the number of cases actually prosecuted is ruffling feathers in the judiciary.

“If politicians want to elevate privacy to an absolute right, at the expense of the need for collective security, they should say so,” one prominent prosecutor lashed out.

Funding for police wiretapping has already been cut this year, and many people worry that fewer resources and stricter rules will end up hampering the fight against other serious crimes and, indirectly, against the mafia itself.

“It’s very rare to receive complaints of mafia behavior from the start. To bring to light a criminal organization that operates in a territory in secret, taking advantage of a code of silence, you need to begin by investigating other offenses,” said Giuseppe Santalucia, president of the National Association of Magistrates.

At times, Nordio has underplayed the usefulness of wiretaps even for mafia investigations, claiming in December 2022 that “a real mafioso doesn’t speak on the phone.” A few weeks later, Messina Denaro was caught with a cellphone on his person and another in his car, largely thanks to clues that his close circle had let slip in recorded phone conversations.

Despite his arrest, mafia organizations like the Sicilian Mafia (known as Cosa Nostra), the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, and the Neapolitan Camorra still thrive in Italy’s south and beyond. Direct turnover of their illegal activities has been estimated at 10.7 billion euros (around $11.5 billion) per year. Increasingly business-oriented criminal cartels have infiltrated large swaths of the economy and can often count on the support of crooked public officials. Asked who’s winning the battle between the state and the mafia, Catanzaro chief prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, a high-profile target of the ‘Ndrangheta who’s been living under heavy police escort for three decades, answered that at the moment, “it’s a draw.”

To keep it that way, let alone to start winning, magistrates say they need every tool in the box. But it’s not only on organized crime that the government is being accused of going soft.

Since taking power last October, the ruling coalition has approved a series of measures that, according to critics, amount to giving white collar criminals a free pass. For offenses like corruption and embezzlement, the government has softened punishments and is preparing to ban the most invasive forms of electronic surveillance—particularly the use of malware that turns the suspect’s phone into a microphone, allowing police to record what happens in its immediate surroundings. Another controversial step was to raise the limit for cash payments from 2,000 euros to 5,000 euros ($2,200 to $5,400), which critics say will benefit money launderers and tax cheats in a country where almost one-fifth of taxes due are evaded.

The governing majority said it wants to defend people’s freedom and privacy and that corruption is best tackled by simplifying administrative procedures rather than through harsh punishments. The opposition isn’t buying it.

“It’s as if when it comes to corruption and other economic or fiscal crimes, there was a higher level of forgiveness, as if those were not serious offenses because they are committed by white collars, by businessmen, by the wealthy,” said Federico Cafiero De Raho, a parliamentarian with the Five Star Movement and a former national anti-mafia prosecutor.

Each year, Italy loses an estimated 13 percent of its GDP to corruption, or 237 billion euros ($254.9 billion)—the highest figure in the European Union in absolute terms. Corruption is also widely blamed, at least in part, for the sky-high cost of building infrastructure. Italy’s annual spending on infrastructure as a share of GDP is 43 percent higher than in France, whose surface area is almost twice as big.

Illegality often reaches the very top of the country’s institutions. Italy’s entire political system was swept away three decades ago by a massive investigation into illegal party financing, and politicians in trouble with the law, especially on the right, remain common currency.

“There is a long list of high-profile and local figures from that camp who have ended up in prison. Therefore, the center right has never liked the work of the judiciary,” said Piero Ignazi, a political scientist at the University of Bologna. After many attempts to alleviate his legal problems during his stints in power, Berlusconi was ultimately convicted of tax fraud in 2012 and barred from office for several years. As recently as of mid-December 2022, a former Forza Italia senator and former undersecretary at the Interior Ministry, Antonio D’Alì Jr., was sentenced to six years in jail for complicity in mafia crimes.

Not everybody on the right has the same attitude toward the justice system though. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party is rooted in a post-fascist tradition that has historically been tougher on crime than Forza Italia, insisting that convicted offenders should serve their sentences with no shortcuts, said Marco Tarchi, a professor of political science at the University of Florence. Both Meloni and Matteo Salvini, whose far-right League party is the third main component of the ruling coalition, have struck a relatively conciliatory tone toward the judiciary in recent weeks.

Meloni rejected Berlusconi’s initial pick for justice minister and installed her own man—but one well known for his views, which echoed those of Forza Italia. Meloni appears thus to have preserved a patina of independence while largely giving in to Berlusconi and Forza Italia’s approach in an area that’s always been one of the tycoon’s top priorities.

“The question is whether it’s an actual concession or a tactical move,” Tarchi said, meaning Meloni could talk reform to woo her partners but try to limit the real impact over time. “It’s too early to tell.”