ROME - A SAFE HAVEN FOR ITALIAN JEWS

ROME – A CENTURIES OLD HAVEN FOR ITALIAN JEWS

Jews were brought to Rome by Pompey the Great and were soon appreciated for their financial and medical skills. They continued to prosper and grow in numbers. Jews migrated to every other region and province in Italy, where they formed important and viable communities.

Only in 1556, when they were forced to live inside a walled enclosure in the middle of Rome, was there any systematic persecution of the Jewish population of Rome.

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1937

ROME IS A HAVEN FOR MANY AN ALIEN. I TALKED WITH JEWS RUNNING BUSY
AUTO WRECKING SHOPS AND WONDERED HOW MANY OLD CARS AMERICA
WOULD SCRAP IF METAL JUMPED TO WAR PRICES AND FOUR GALLONS OF
GAS COST FIVE DOLLARS.

“THERE ARE PERHAPS 25,000 OF US IN ROME,” REMARKED THE FATHER OF A
LARGE FAMILY WHOSE YOUNGER MEMBERS WATCHED HIM MELT BABBIT
FROM BRONZE BEARINGS, “MANY OF US FOUGHT IN ETHIOPIA. WE ARE FREE
TO WORSHIP AS JUDEA, BUT WE ARE ROMANS TOO.”

ANOTHER JEW, A RETIRED CLOTHING MERCHANT SAID HE LIVED IN ROME
BECAUSE “HERE I FEEL MORE EQUALITY THAN I HAVE EVER KNEW.”


CHRISTIANS CITED FOR AID TO JEWS

New York Times (1857-Current file);Sep 18, 1933;ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2001)
pg. 12
Group of 12 Christians chosen by Jewish Newspaper Editors in Jewish year 5693

Mussolini is praised because he took pains to demonstrate that Italian Fascism does not tolerate racial and religious prosecution


JEWS UNITE TO AID GERMAN BRETHREN
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

New York Times (1857-Current file); Nov 2, 1933; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2002)
pg. 12

Chief Rabbi of Italy Speaks:

The most dramatic moment of the conference came tonight when Dr. A. Sacerdoti, Grand Rabbi of Italy, faced the delegates as a loyal Fascist, who repudiated the Nazi brand of fascism. Italian Fascism has never shown itself in the slightest degree Antisemitic as has been so plainly shown by many declarations on the part of its founder, Premier Mussolini.


In 1914, Mussolini shrewdly noted, during a visit to Berlin, that militarism was once again rearing its head. He saw and objected to Pan-Germanism first because it was dangerous to Italy, and second because of the general acceptance of the racial theories of Houston Stewart Chamberlain [1] and others, which were subsequently adopted by Hitler. They seemed to him to be ridiculous. He was opposed to anti-Antisemitism on the grounds that the Jews were an essential historical and useful element in Italian society.

Condemnation of Antisemitism abound in Mussolini's speeches, writings and conversations. In 1933 and 1934 he was an open opponent of Germany's racial policies. He instructed the Italian ambassador in Berlin to make personal representations to Hitler expressing Italy's concerns concerning those odious policies. These unsolicited and unwelcome representations became unpleasant to Hitler and he rejected out of hand the ambassador's Fascist views on these matters of German social policy.

Mussolini chose and relied on Jewish friends as readily and as freely as he would any other person in his journey, regardless of their race or creed as long as they were in agreement with his Fascist ideals and goals. Two women who influenced him in those days were Jews; Angelica Balabanoff and Margherita Sarfatti. Aldo Finzi held an office in Mussolini's first cabinet and Guido Jung was his finance minister for many years. Jews sat as Fascists in the Italian Parliament and, at the very beginnings, five Jews were at the founding meeting of Fascists in Milan, in 1919.

One of Italy's and Europe's leading industrialists and leader of Italy's Jewish communities, Signor Gianni Agnelli served as a military officer in the Italian Fascist armed forces in Russia. He was awarded the Italian Cross for Military Valor.

He viewed the Jewish population of Italy , as Italians first and Jews second

He was however strongly opposed to Italian and International Zionism on the basis that Zionism was more political than a representation of the Jews of the world, and that it was calculated to provide a conflict of loyalties in the Jewish people. He wanted to demonstrate to the world that Fascism, with its Latin humanity, was a superior and more desirable option than the Nazi barbarism, then becoming a social reality.

He knew that certain people in the West wanted and needed a war, and that in Adolph Hitler, there existed a prepared and anxious contestant in the political problems then facing Europe and the Far East. Given the horrific economic conditions then existing in most capitals of the world due to the protracted and unprecedented Great Depression, an all out war was not only inevitable, but imminent and desired. It was the emergence of the legitimization of the newly born Zionist movement by, the English parliamentarian, Lord Balfour with the passage of the Balfour Declaration which placed, on the European scene, another antagonist at this critical time in European and world history. These European disputes had been simmering since the Treaty of Versailles and were now no longer capable of being placated or ignored. Where was Italy to go in this scheme of things? To remain neutral, while others prepared for war, seemed to Mussolini to be a dangerous stop-gap measure. Also Italy was too important to both the Western powers and to Germany, its modern navy controlled the Mediterranean waters and its air force, one of the world's best at this period of history, the skies.



Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal, December 22, 1993
An Army of Schindlers From Italy
By Dorothy RabinowitzJournal editorial writer

Oskar Schindler, flawed hero of Steven Spielberg’s monumental film, “Schindler’s List,” came to Poland a profiteer and ended up a rescuer of many hundreds of Jewish lives. His story’s entry into the world, via Mr. Spielberg’s justly celebrated film, calls to mind a number of other unlikely rescuers of whose exploits little has been heard, however much they are known to historians.

I have in mind, namely Hitler’s allies, the Italians, whose government ministries and army and highest political circles moved heaven and earth to see to it that not a single Jew was deported from Italy. They schemed, they plotted, they resorted to the wiliest of strategies and delaying efforts -- including the invention of the most wonderful complicated “census-taking” known to man -- to ensure that no Jews under their governance fell into German hands. Not for nothing does the history of these plots sometimes read like farce.

Not only would the Italian government -- reflecting the popular attitude of the citizenry at large -- resist deportation, its army and consuls undertook extraordinary efforts to rescue Jews in their zones of occupation. As an Axis partner, Italy’s forces occupied a large sector of Greece, part of Yugoslavia, and eight sectors of southeastern France, including Nice.

The attitude of the occupying Italians with regard to Germany’s extermination plans for the Jews was made immediately clear to the great distress and confusion of the Germans and their French allies. For, as soon as the Vichy government rounded up Jews for arrest and deportation, the Italians military and foreign ministry demanded -- and obtained -- a stop to the arrests and deportations.

In Annecy, the French police, who had rounded up a train load of Jews for deportation, found themselves looking at the barrels of guns trained on them by soldiers of the Italian Fourth Army

In Greece, the Italian consuls and military - witness to the brutal deportations taking place before their eyes -- busied themselves handing out phony certificates of “Italian nationality” to the hunted Jews.

In Nice, the Italian commandant stationed Carabinieri outside the Jewish communal center and synagogue to make certain that Vichy police could not enter to make arrests.

What there was in the character of the Italians that made their resistance to mass murder so implacable, so different from that of the Vichy French, is a question we may ponder -- and one for whose existence we may be grateful.

Fascism and Comrades of Hebrew Religion

It is useless to deny that in the national-popular universe there exists different opinions both on the question of present Israel or on the Jewish Italian world or, better said, on Italians of Hebrew religion.

The Jews in our national territory have never been actually persecuted by Italians who in the vast majority of cases always helped them and hid them at risk of their own life and by often paying with dire consequences.
 
And we have numerous examples of soldiers, officers, officials, and comrades of the Militia, Police, and Carabinieri who defended them and removed them from the furious and murderous irrationality of German killers.
 
And we have heroes like Perlasca, comrade of the Spanish war and sent to the East, a Fascist from the start, who with his incredible effort, saved thousands to the point that he, a Fascist, was honored  in Israel as “ Righteous Among Gentiles”.
 
It is true that Italy, because of its alliance with Hitler, produced the most ridiculous “Race Manifest” but never with the terrible consequences as in Germany where the infamous “Nuremberg Laws” allowed every possible abuse on harmless people who were at the mercy of the Gestapo.
 
Is there still resentment and suspicion from the Italian Right against the Jews?
 
No, there is a rage of a different nature and an irrational pressure of a minority that directs over them traditional targets and divergent frustrations not bound to a coherent political train of thought and to adult and mature behavior.
 
How many ties there are between the Fascism and the Comrades of Hebrew religion?
Many, even though both the Right and the national and international Hebrew community have willingly ignored them because of that absurd policy of a partly historic revisionism.
 
There was a great number of Italian Jews who supported the ascend of “IL Duce Mussolini”, five of them were among the 119 who founded the Italian Fascism Corps at San Sepolcro Square in Milan on the 23rd  of  March 1919 and  Cesare Goldmann was responsible for organizing the event.
 
Among the “Fascists Martyrs” who died in the conflict between 1919 and 1922, three were the Comrades of Hebrew religion, namely D.  Senigaglia , G. Balaffi, and B. Mondolfo and 746  Italians of Hebrew religion in 1923 were enrolled in the Fascist party while more than  300 were alongside IL Duce in the famous “ March to Rome”.
 
And this without counting the immense economic contribution that many of them gave to the newborn Fascist party and to the important friends of Mussolini.
 
Aldo Finzi, a Comrade of Hebrew religion, was the pilot who flew over Fiume together with G. Dannunzio and was one of the nine elected in 1921 as Congressman and later became Vice-Secretary at the Interior Ministry and a member of the Great Council.
 
Dante Almansi was second in command to the police chief De Bona and Guido Jung was Finance Minister from 1932 to 1935.
 
Maurizio Rava was Vice-Governor of Libya, Governor of Somalia and a General of the Fascist Militia.
 
Renzo Ravenna was a very personal friend of Italo Balbo, a very first member of the Fascist squad and for 15 years a Ferrara Podesta (Mayor).
 
Ugo Foa was awarded decorations many times for Militia Valor during the Great War, a lawyer, and among the very first enrolled in the Fascist Party was very important Official until 1939.
 
And did you know that the first Dean of the University of Rome was Giorgio Del Vecchio a Comrade of Hebrew religion?

And what can we say of Margherita Sarfati, lover of IL Duce before Claretta Petacci, publisher assistant to the news paper “ Popolo D’Italia” and Co- Editor of the “Gerarchia” (Hierarchy), the ideological magazine of the Regime.

Aside from these cases, from 1929 to 1935 there were 4920 Comrades of Hebrew religion accepted into the party and the exact percent (10%) of the Italian Hebrew  population of that time and the same as those enrolled to the Party in relation to the global population.
And this until the “Arian” blunder.

It is necessary to think and reflect on history itself without denying the evidence of the mistakes made and in the hope of arriving at what J. Evola defined as “The true awareness of the reality” in order to reach moral and internal fulfillment.

Francesco Zero
 
 

The Third Way

THE THIRD WAY

An Italian Political Renaissance Denied

On July 29, 1883 a son was born to a young married couple, then living in Varano di Costa,
overlooking the village of Dovia in the Commune of Predappio, Italy. The father, Alessandro, a
man earnestly interested in the political life of his country , was a blacksmith by trade. The
mother, Rosa, was educated as a school teacher. They both rejoiced at the arrival of their first
born, and baptized him, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini. Much later in life, after many
trials, this infant, now a man, was destined to have a remarkable impact on the daily life of
every Italian citizen at home or living abroad in other lands. Still later, his political,social and economic
talents and original ideas would affect the lives of millions of non-Italian people and eventually
the destiny of other nations of the world.

He was to become an explorer, much like the famed Italian explorers of the great age of
global explorers: Marco Polo, Cristoforo Colombo, Giovanni Caboto, Sebastiano Caboto,
Giovanni da Verazzano, Americo Vespucci, Eusebio Francisco Kino, and others, Instead of
going to sea, this man stayed at home, but like the explorers who proceeded him in life, he
would bravely set his mental sail in the dark, unknown, forbidding waters of political life; in a
voyage of discovery of a new territory of unknown political philosophy. He would in due
course discover The Third Way an unprecedented, entirely new political order of people
living together in a harmonious and prosperous society. His historical undertaking was made no
less dangerous or less certain by the fact that he remained at home in Italy, in order to
reach his political goals and ambitions for the general welfare of his fellow Italian citizens.

THE THIRD WAY

Until 1922, the political life of Western nations was sharply divided between the two ideologies of
Socialism and Capitalism. Each was then clearly opposed to the other’s way of supporting and governing a nation. It remains so today! Secondary labels are used today to describe the governments of the day in these two Western political ideologies: Liberals,Conservatives, Progressive Conservatives, Republicans, Constitutional Monarchies, Democrats, Marxist, Communists, New Democrats, Christian Democrats, and more. They all endorse and give their allegiance to either the Socialist or to the Capitalist camps. Mussolini knew both of these systems well. He studied them both as a young man and for a short while in Switzerland and in Italy worked with the Socialists as a Socialist newspaper
writer. He understood the social and economic power of Capitalism, living with it in Italy, and
looking across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States of America. He decided early in his
political life that neither was of great social value or offered genuine or sufficient benefits to the
citizens of their nations. With these ideas germinating in his mind and in his daily life as a
soldier, a writer, an editor, and finally as the publisher of his own newspaper, he decided it was
time to give birth to his new concept of political life -- The Third Way. At first he saw it only as
a process, not a political ideology or party, first to be tested in the ongoing life of a Socialist or
a Capitalist government. Eventfully he saw that it needed its own fertile ground to grow. It
demanded a completely new political enterprise. He named the process Fascism, in order to
confer a rebirth of the ancient Roman symbol of the Fasces, a cylindrical bundle of elm or birch
rods bound together by a red band from which an axe head projected. These were carried by
Lictors, the elite attendants and guards, before a Consul or High Magistrate as a symbol their
authority.

Keeping the importance of this symbolism in mind, he led the country from 1922 to 1943 to a
new incomparable era of social, political, scientific, medical, educational, artistic, pension,
labour, and entrepreneurial heights, never seen or imagined before in Italy or in any other
European nation. He transformed Italy from a divided, defeated nation of unemployed, hungry
people in 1918, to a nation of wealth, enterprise, and instituted a new pride of nationhood in the
Italian population. New models of social accomplishments and economic programs sprang up in
every sector of the land, for the young, the aged, the rich, the poor, while initiating and
introducing a new and invigorating cultural life for everyone in every region of the peninsula.

Under the brave, intelligent, vigilant, cautious leadership of Benito Mussolini, led by his Fascist
Doctrines and Institutions, Italy became the most successful nation on the face of the world. Not
since the regional City Republic glory days of the Italian Renaissance had Italy enjoyed such
universal renown and unprecedented high levels of national economic and social attainments,
laudatory international achievements, internal national unity, and cultural and educational
successes - Italy was the very model of social order and industrial and agricultural progress for
the nations of the world.

For these achievements the Italian people conferred on him the unprecedented honour of being
officially acknowledged and referred to as Il Duce: The Leader and Law Giver of the Nation.


INTERNATIONAL REPERCUSSIONS

In the years 1922 to 1939, Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Government’s social, economic,
religious, and cultural programs became a hallmark of new universal Governmental standards, of
national progress, pride and achievements not only for the Kingdom of Italy but were soon to be
adopted by several other world governments. The world stood in awe at the outstanding
achievements of this “young man” from Italy and beat a path to his doorstep. The political
concept of Fascism is a product of the Italian people, Mussolini was often heard to say and often
to write. He neither sought to export it and refused to make unnecessary trips outside of Italy,
unless he was invited to do so due to important international matters. If people of other countries
wish to know what Fascism is and what it does, let them watch what we do in Italy — they will
then learn all they wish to know.

But, in certain countries, and in certain spheres of financial and fraternal influence, powerful men
were ill at ease watching and taking note of the recent national and international successes of
Italy’s Fascist Government. They saw that their social and financial models were now being seen
as second-rate and in serious need of new blood and new thinking on their behalf. The western
capitalist countries of the world found themselves deeply entrenched in a soul searing, intractable
Economic Depression, ever since the capital market crash of 1929. They gathered in their
government offices, their private hunting lodges, and their ceremonial meeting rooms to consider
what their economic options were in the light of the ongoing multifaceted intellectual brilliance
and leadership of this political “boy genius” Benito Mussolini. They were very unhappy watching
his vision and national programs of good and stable government then being seen unfolding before
them in the daily lives of the Italian people.

Their war drums were unsheathed and tuned in preparation of a repeat performance of the 1914
- 1918 World War slaughter, which cost the nations of Europe and the World ten million dead and
twenty million wounded men, women and children.

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IN CONCLUSION: ITALY - A RENAISSANCE NATION

THE ROAD BACK TO ITALIAN SOVEREIGNTY

History – June 4, 1944

By May 1944, Monte Cassino had been taken but the historic monastery was destroyed. When General Mark Clark’s American forces joined up with the Allied force at Anzio, they swiftly moved north. On June 4th, 1944, General Clark's US 5th army entered Rome.


After Mussolini’s treacherous betrayal and abduction on June 25, 1943, the Italian people were
faced with a nation of political chaos and corruption, double dealings, vindictiveness,
cowardice, and a three year history of an incredible, and now proven to be unnecessary, loss of
thousands of Italian lives, destruction of major historic Italian Cities and ancient religious
institutions by the invading Allied land and air forces. The near total bombing destruction of the
fourteen hundred year old Benedictine Abbey at Monte Casino is a classic example of their
policy of retribution being inflicted on a defeated nation.

The Monastery was built by St. Benedict as the mother house of the new Benedictine Order in 524.

On 12th February the exhausted US Army at Cassino were replaced by the New Zealand Corps. Alexander now decided to use these fresh troops in another attempt to capture Cassino. General Bernard Freyberg, who was in charge of the infantry attack, asked for the monastery be bombed. Despite claims by troops on the front-line that no fire had come from the monastery, General Harold Alexander agreed and it was destroyed by the United States Air Force on 15th February, 1944.


On the surface all things have been rebuilt and restored in Italy today thanks to the nation’s
industrious and very talented engineers, builders and artists, but lying deep in the collective
subconscious psyche of the Nation the infectious scars of the national sins of this period of post-
Mussolini politics remains. The victorious internationalists, with their carpetbag array
of political, economic, social and political treaties and agreements, have taken possession of the nation’s soul.


TODAY

With more than 2,500,000 American military personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that American democracy has spawned a global military Empire. There are over 100 military bases in Italy alone!

When will the American Military leave Italy?

A nation defeated in war must, by political and military requirements, relinquish its constitutional sovereignty to non-Italian authorities and can only regain its constitution by becoming a sovereign people and nation once again. Another Italian Renaissance is needed

ITALY – A RENAISSANCE NATION

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, Italy assumed cultural leadership of the whole Western world and held that position for the next 200 years.

AN ABORTED RENAISSANCE

Another Renaissance began on October 29, 1922 and led the nation and the world in entirely new concepts of national social programs of labour, health care, education, retirement, family bonuses, financial and economic laws and applied transportation and communication sciences. This embryonic promise of the birth of a new Italian nation all came to a tragic end on July 25, 1943 when it was was fatally aborted by Anglo-American and Communist war governments and their Italian agents and counterparts.



Today the only way not to live in fear of revolution is to think that we are
now in the full swing of one. I am not afraid of the word. I am a revolutionary
and a reactionary. I am afraid of the revolution which destroys and does not
create. I fear going to extremes, the policy of madness, at the bottom of which
may lie the destruction of our fragile mechanical civilization, robbed of its moral
basis, and the coming of a terrible race of dominators who would reintroduce
discipline into the world and reestablish the necessary hierarchies with the
cracking of whips and machine guns.

Benito Mussolini, Milano 1919

US MILITARY BASES IN ITALY

List by Region

Trentino Alto Adige

1. Cima Gallina [Bz]. Communication Station and USAF radar.

2. Monte Paganella [Tn]. USAF Telecommunication Station.

Friuli Venezia Giulia

3. Aviano [Pn]. The biggest advanced base, nuclear deposits and center for USAF telecommunications in Italy [at least 3000 troops and American civilians]. In the base there are USAF operative forces ready for combat [a group of fighter bombers] that were used in the strafings in Bosnia. Moreover, the 16th Air Force and the 31st Fighter Wing and not to mention a Marines squadron of F-18s. It is presumed that the base holds nuclear bombs in an underground bunker, whose construction was authorized by Congress. In the Aviano area base in the Pordenone region there are permanent deployments since 1994 of the 31st Fighter Wing, equiped with 2 squadrons of F-16s [in the war against Yugoslavia in 1999, in 78 days there were 9000 missions: a record] and the 16th Air Force. The latter was equipped with F-16 and F-15 fighters, and has the task, under the U. S. European Command, to not only plan and to lead operations of aerial combat in southern Europe, but also in Middle East and North Africa. It operates, with a staff of 11.500 military and civilians, from two main bases: Aviano, where one finds the General Division, and the Turkish base of Incirlik. The latter base will be the main base for the aerial offensive against northern Iraq, but the use of planes of the 16th Air Force will be planned and directed by the General Division of Aviano.

4. Roveredo [Pn]. US Army storage.

5. Rivolto [Ud]. USAF Base.

6. Maniago [Ud]. USAF shooting range.

7. San Bernardo [Ud]. US Army munitions depot.

8. Trieste. US Naval Base.

Veneto

9. Camp Ederle [Vi]. General Division of NATO and command of SETAF of the US Army, which controls American forces in Italy, Turkey, and Greece. In this base, there are land troops normally in Italy: an air transported battalion, an artillary battalion with nuclear capability, three companies of the kind. Important telecommunication station. The American military and civilians that operate at Camp Ederle should number about 2000.

10. Vicenza: SETAF (Southern European Task Force) command. 5th Allied Tactical Air Force. Probable depot for nuclear war heads.

11. Tormeno [San Giovanni a Monte, Vi]. Arms and munitions depot.

12. Longare [Vi]. Important arms depot.

13. Oderzo [Tv]. Arms and munitions depot.

14. Codognè [Tv]. Arms and munitions depot.

15. Istrana [Tv]. USAF base.

16. Ciano [Tv]. US telecommunication and radar center.

17. Verona. Air Operations Center [USAF] and NATO SETAF base. USAF telecommunication center.

18. Affi [Vr]. US telecommunications center.
19. Lunghezzano [Vr]. US radar center.

20. Erbezzo [Vr]. NSA antenna radar.
21. Conselve [Pd ]. US radar base.

22. Monte Venda [Pd]. US telecommunications and radar antenna.

23. Venezia. US Naval base.

24. Sant'Anna di Alfaedo [Pd]. US Radar base.

25. Lame di Concordia [Ve]. US telecommunication and radar base.

26. San Gottardo, Boscomantivo [Ve]. US telecommunication center.

27. Ceggia [Ve]. US radar center.

Lombardia

28. Ghedi [Bs]. USAF base, communication station and nuclear bomb depot.
29. Montichiari [Bs]. USAF air base.
30. Remondò [Pv]. US Army base.

108. Sorico [Co]. NSA antenna.

Piemonte

31. Cameri [No]. US air base with NATO coverage.

32. Candelo-Masazza [Vc]. USAF and US Army training, with NATO coverage.

Liguria

33. La Spezia. SACLANT (Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic) Anti-submarine center. [see 35].

34. Finale Ligure [Sv]. Telecommunication station of the US Army.

35. San Bartolomeo [Sp]: Center of research for submarine warfare. Composed of 3 structures. First of all is SACLANT, an affiliate of NATO that is not indicated on any map of the Atlantic Alliance. It would have been better if SACLAT hadn't specified precisely marine research: in a dossier prepared by the Federation of Rifondazione Comunista, it says that "occupation of areas that mirror the water for military requirements of the Italian state and not a shelter for the 6th US Fleet." Then there is Maricocesco, an agency that resupplies the navy. Lastly, Mariperman, the permanent commission for experimenting with war materials, composed of 500 people and 11 institutes [of artillary, munitions, and missles, to the underwater crews].

Emilia Romagna

36. Monte San Damiano [Pc]. USAF base with NATO coveraege.

37. Monte Cimone [Mo]. US telecommunication station with NATO coverage.
38. Parma. USAF depot with NATO coverage.

39. Bologna. Telecommunication station of the Department of State.

40. Rimini. US logisitcal group for the activation of nuclear bombs.

41. Rimini-Miramare. US telecommunication center.
Le Marche

42. Potenza Picena [Mc]. US radar center with NATO coverage.

Toscana

43. Camp Darby [Pi]. SETAF has the biggest logistical depot in the Mediterranean [between Pisa and Livorno], with about 1400 men, where the 31st Munitions Squadron is. Here, in 125 underground bunkers, is stocked a strategic reserve for the US Army and aeronautics, estimated at more than a million and a half munitions. Closely connected through a web of canals near the port of Livorno, across Navicelli Canal, there is a base for refueling the navy units stationed in the Mediterranean. The 8th Support Group and US Army base for supporting the American forces south of the Po River, the Mediterranean, the Gulf, North Africa, and Turkey.

44. Coltano [Pi]. Important US-NSA base for telecommunications: from here all of the collected information is managed from the centers of telecommunications of the Mediterranean. US Army munitions depot; NSA base.

45. Pisa [aeroporto militare]. Irregular USAF base.

46. Talamone [Gr]. Irregular US Navy base.

47. Poggio Ballone [Gr]. Between Follonica, Castiglione della Pescaia and Tirli: US radar center with NATO coverage.

48. Livorno. US naval base.

49. Monte Giogo [Ms]. US telecommunicatino center with NATO coverage.

Sardegna

50. La Maddalena - Santo Stefano [Ss]. US atomic base, submarine base, naval squad in support of American aircraft carrier "Simon Lake".
51. Monte Limbara [tra Oschiri e Tempio, Ss]. US missile base.

52. Sinis di Cabras [Or]. NSA data processing center.

53. Isola di Tavolara [Ss]. US Navy submarine support radiotelegraphic station.

54. Torre Grande di Oristano. NSA radar base.

55. Monte Arci [Or]. US telecommunication station with NATO coverage.

56. Capo Frasca [Or]. US heliport and system radar.

57. Santulussurgiu [Or]. USAF telecommunication station with NATO coverage.

58. Perdasdefogu [Nu]. Experimental missle base.

59. Capo Teulada [Ca]. From Capo Teulada to Capo Frasca [Or], approximately 100 km of coast, 7,200 hectares of land and more than 70,000 hectares of "off limits" zones: shooting range for navy and aerial practices for the US 6th Fleet and NATO.

60. Cagliari. US naval base.

61. Decimomannu [Ca]. US airport with NATO coverage.

62. Aeroporto di Elmas [Ca]. USAF air base.

63. Salto di Quirra [Ca]. Missile shooting range.

64. Capo San Lorenzo [Ca]. Training zone for the US 6th Fleet.

65. Monte Urpino [Ca]. US and NATO munitions depot.

Lazio

66. Roma. Command for the Central Mediterranean for NATO and the US interforce logistic coordination. NATO station.

67. Roma Ciampino [aeroporto militare]. Irregular USAF base.

68. Rocca di Papa [Rm]. US telecommunication station with NATO coverage, with probable connection to the underground installations at Monte Romano.

69. Monte Romano [Vt]. US Army shooting range.

70. Gaeta [Lt]. Permanent base of the 6th Fleet and of the naval squadron that supplies the aircraft carrier "La Salle".

71. Casale delle Palme [Lt]. NATO telecommunications school under US control.

Campania

72. Napoli. Command of the Marines Security Force. US submarine base. Command for the USAF in the Mediterranean. Port normally employed by the civil units and US military. It is estimated that annually from Naples and Livorno 5000 military container trips are made.

73. Aeroporto Napoli Capodichino. USAF Air base.

74. Monte Camaldoli [Na]. US telecommunication station.

75. Ischia [Na]. US telecommunication antenna with NATO coverage.

76. Nisida [Na]. US Army base.

77. Bagnoli [Na]. Seat of the biggest center of coordination of the US Navy in all telecommunication activities, command and control of the Mediterranean.

78. Agnano [in the vicinity of the famous race course]. US Army base.

80. Licola [Na]. US telecommunication antenna.

81. Lago Patria [Ce]. US telecommunication station.

82. Giugliano [vicinanze del lago Patria, Na]. Statcom Command.

83. Grazzanise [Ce]. Irregular USAF base.

84. Mondragone [Ce]: US and NATO Center of Command for underground anti-atomic weapons, where they want to marry the US and NATO commands in case of war.

85. Montevergine [Av]: Communication station for the US.

Basilicata

79. Cirigliano [Mt]. Command for the US Naval Forces in Europe.

86. Pietraficcata [Mt]. Center for telecommunications for USA and NATO.

Puglia

87. Gioia del Colle [Ba]. US air base and technical support.

88. Brindisi. US Naval Base.

89. Punta della Contessa [Br]. US and NATO shooting range.

90. San Vito dei Normanni [Br]. Would have been the home to a thousand American troops of the 499th Expeditionary Squadron. Secret service base. Electronics Security
Group [NSA].

91. Monte Iacotenente [Fg]. Base for the complex radar NADGE (NATO Air Defense Ground Environment).

92. Otranto. US radar station.

93. Taranto. US Naval Base. Storage for USA and NATO.

94. Martinafranca [Ta]. Radar Base USA.

Calabria

95. Crotone. Telecommunication station and radard for USA and NATO.

96. Monte Mancuso [Cz]. Telecommunication station for USA.

97. Sellia Marina [Cz]. Telecommunications center for the US with NATO coverage.

Sicilia

98. Sigonella [Ct]. Main land base of the Navy in the central Mediterranean, logistic support of the 6th Fleet [about 3400 between military and civilians]. Beyond US Navy unit, it accommodates various tactical squadrons of the USAF: helicopters of the type HC-4, hunting Tomcat F14's and A6 Intruders, groups of F-16 and F-111 equipped with nuclear bombs of the B-43 type, from more than 100 kilitons each.

99. Motta S. Anastasia [Ct]. Telecommunication station for USA.

100. Caltagirone [Ct]. Telecommunication station for USA.

101. Vizzini [Ct]. Various US storage. Note: a non-comissioned officer of the aereonautical military has written to us, specifying that there are no US installations in this Italian military base.

102. Palermo Punta Raisi [aeroporto]. Irregular USAF base.

103. Isola delle Femmine [Pa]. Munitions depot for the US and NATO.

104. Comiso [Rg]. The base will be dismantled.

105. Marina di Marza [Rg]. Telecommunication station for USA.

106. Augusta [Sr]. Base of the 6th fleet and munitions depot.

107. Monte Lauro [Sr]. Telecommunication station for USA.

109. Centuripe [En]. Telecommunication station for USA.

110. Niscemi [Cl]. NavComTelSta base [US Navy communication].

111. Trapani. USAF Base with NATO coverage.

112. Isola di Pantelleria [Tp]: Telecommunication center for the US Navy, air base and NATO radar.

113. Isola di Lampedusa [Ag]: US Coast Gaurd Base. Center for communications for the NSA.

WHAT IS THE F35

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Program Overview

Organization

International Participation

Field Activities


The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program, formerly the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) Program, is the Department of Defense's focal point for defining affordable next generation strike aircraft weapon systems for the Navy, Air Force, Marines, and our allies. The focus of the program is affordability -- reducing the development cost, production cost, and cost of ownership of the JSF family of aircraft.

The JSF will fulfill stated Service needs as follows:

U. S. Navy First day of war, survivable strike fighter aircraft to complement F/A-18E/F
U.S. Air Force Multirole aircraft (primary-air-to-ground) to replace the F-16 and A-10 and complement the F/A-22
U.S. Marine Corps STOVL aircraft to replace the AV-8B and F/A-18 as their only strike fighter
United Kingdom Royal Navy & Royal Air Force STOVL aircraft to replace Sea Harriers & GR.7s as a supersonic strike fighter
Other Countries Potential JSF customers include current operators of F-16, F/A-18, and AV-8B
Prior to the start of System Design and Development (SDD) in Fall 2001, the program facilitated the Services' development of fully validated, affordable operational requirements, and it lowered risk by investing in and demonstrating key leveraging technologies and operational concepts. Upon SDD contract award to Lockheed Martin on 26 October 2001, the program embarked on full development of three affordable and effective JSF variants.

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Technology
Variants


Following an intense four-year competition, the U.S. Department of Defense on 26 October 2001, named the Lockheed Martin lead Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team as the winner of the contract to develop the F-35 JSF. The F-35 team immediately entered the program’s 10-year System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase.


Boeing X-32A and Lockheed X-35A at Edwards Air Force Base. Photo by John B. Carnett.


The SDD period involves the development and testing of the entire aircraft system, including its manufacture. During SDD, the team will build a total of 22 test aircraft. Fourteen will undergo flight-testing, seven will be used for non-airborne test activities, and one will be used to evaluate the F-35’s radar signature.

Nine nations are partnering in the F-35’s SDD phase: The United States, United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Australia. Partnership in SDD entitles those countries to bid for work on a best value basis, and participate in the aircraft’s development. Additionally, Israel and Singapore have agreed to join the program as a Security Cooperation Participants.

Lockheed Martin is the F-35 prime contractor, while Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems are principal partners in the project.

Final assembly of the F-35 will take place at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Northrop Grumman Corporation in Palmdale and El Segundo, California will manufacture the center-fuselage, and the aft fuselage and tails will be manufactured by BAE Systems in Samlesbury, England. Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth will manufacture the forward fuselage and wings.

Flight-testing will be conducted at Fort Worth, Edwards Air Force Base, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Additionally, the STOVL and CV variants will undergo sea trials aboard American, British and Italian aircraft carriers.

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 COMUNICATO STAMPA
 
 Organizzata dal Comitato Per Foggia Città Martire e per la istituzione di un giorno del ricordo di tutte le vittime civili italiane dei bombardamenti anglo-americani del secondo conflitto mondiale, si è svolta ieri mattina a Gorla/Milano la prevista cerimonia di commemorazione dei Piccoli Martiri del 20 ottobre 1944, vittime insieme alle loro maestre e alla Direttrice, del criminale bombardamento alleato. Quel giorno, una pattuglia di B24 e B27, i cosiddetti Liberators, sganciarono sulla scuola elementare Francesco Crispi del quartiere alla periferia di Milano,  oltre 500 chili di esplosivo, distruggendo completamente l'edificio e seppellendo sotto le macerie i piccoli scolari.
Dopo la deposizione di una corona d'alloro, alla presenza di un centinaio di cittadini, il Prof. Nicola Cospito, intervenendo a nome del Comitato, dopo aver chiarito il senso della manifestazione e gli scopi dell'Associazione, ha voluto stigmatizzare l'ipocrisia di quanto scritto sulla targa posta a ricordo della strage. Tale targa infatti tace sulle circostanze e sugli autori del vile attentato, nello sforzo evidente di celare la matrice americana dell'attentato terroristico. Il Prof. Cospito, commemorando i Piccoli Martiri, ha inoltre sottolineato come oggi, a distanza di 64 anni da quello spaventoso eccidio, sia scandaloso come sul territorio italiano, nelle basi militari USA siano custoditi micidiali ordigni nucleari,  mentre nella base di Cameri, in provincia di Novara, sia in fase di progettazione e di costruzione un nuovo terribile aereo da bombardamento americano, l'F35. L'Italia, che tanto ha sofferto sotto i bombardamenti americani, ha sottolineato Cospito,non può essere complice della messa a punto di altri  futuri crimini .
  Gli stessi concetti sono stati ribaditi da Adriano Rebecchi, Responsabile del comitato di Verbania "Disamericanizziamoci", che nel leggere il saluto di Alessandro Mezzano, Presidente del Comitato per Foggia Città Martire, ha sottolineato come da parte di tutti gli italiani sia venuto il momemto di uno scatto di orgoglio nel rivendicare la sovranità nazionale svenduta dai governi di centro-destra e di centro-sinistra.In questo senso il  NO   alle basi militari americane sulla penisola deve essere totale. Tanto Cospito che Rebecchi hanno ribadito che il comitato si farà promotore di altre iniziative fino a quando nel nostro Paese non verrà istituito il giorno del ricordo dei caduti civili italiani. E questo nonostante il silenzio emblematico del Presidente della Repubblica Napolitano, che non ha sentito il dovere di rispondere alla lettera che il Comitato gli ha indirizzato in questo senso  diversi mesi orsono. Va rilevato infine che il Comitato per Foggia ha raccolto l'adesione di centinaia e centinaia di italiani che hanno risposto all'appello dimostrando il loro sincero patriottismo.
  Questo l'indirizzo elettronico del comitato:  comitatoperfoggia@libero.it
 
Il servizio fotografico della manifestazione a Gorla può essere visionato sul sito  http://nazionalpopolari.spaces.live.com/
 
TRANSLATION
PRESS RELEASE

Organized by the Committee For Foggia City of Martyrs and for the establishment of a day of remembrance of all the Italian civil victims of the Anglo-American airstrikes of the Second World War, the prearranged ceremony took place yesterday morning in Goria/Milano commemorating the Little Martyrs of October 20, 1944, victims of the criminal Allied raid who died along with their teachers and their Principal. That day, a squadron of B24 and B27, the so-called “Liberators” dropped their payload on the Francesco Crispi elementary school located in the suburb area of Milan, more than 500 kilograms of explosives, thus completely destroying the building and burying the little school children under the rubble.
After laying a laurel wreath, in the presence of about one hundred people, Prof. Nicola Cospito, speaking in the name of the Committee, after clarifying the meaning of the demonstration and the aims of the Association, purposely censured the hypocrisy of what is written on the plaque placed in remembrance of the massacre. In fact, the said plaque mentions nothing regarding the circumstances and those responsible for the vile strike, an obvious effort to hide the American matrix of the terrorist attack. Prof. Cospito, commemorating the Little Martyrs, underlined also how scandalous it is today, 64 years after that frightening slaughter, that in the US military bases are found deadly nuclear armaments, while in the Cameri base, in the Province of Novara, there is a project underway for the construction of a new terrible American bomber, the F35. Italy which suffered so much under American bombardments cannot be an accomplice to the start of other future crimes.
The same ideas were reaffirmed by Adriano Rebecchi, Director of the Verbania Committee “Let us abandon our American cloak”, who while reading the greetings from Alessandro Mezzano, President of the Committee for Foggia City of Martyrs, underscored how all Italian felt a burst of pride in the laying claim again to national sovereignty which was sold out by center-right and center-left governments. In this sense, the NO to American military bases in the peninsula must be total. Both Cospito and Rebecchi reaffirmed that the committee will champion other initiatives until a day of remembrance of Italian civil victims is established in our Country. And all this while there is emblematic silence on the part of the President of the Republic, Napolitano, who did not feel the duty to answer the letter that the Committee sent him for this matter several months ago. Finally, we stress that the Committee for Foggia has received the support of hundredths and hundredths of Italians who have answered the call thus demonstrating their sincere patriotism.
This is the e-mail address of the Committee: comitatoperfoggia@libero.it
Photo service of the Goria demonstration may be seen at: http://nazionalpopolari.spaces.live.com/

WHEN IN ITALY TODAY

WHEN IN ITALY TODAY

When speaking with Italians today in Italy it soon becomes apparent that the average Italian only
knows little more than what the rest of the world knows about the life and career of Benito
Mussolini. Both only know what the world wants them to know. In Italy’s public places there are
no testimonial monuments to be seen as there are for famous Roman-Italian men of past centuries.
Nothing speaks to the glorious past of twenty-three years of Fascist National Government and the
Grand National Dream of their former Prime Minister — Il Duce. Successive governments of all
stripes have successfully suppressed all manifestations of the important historical memories of Benito Mussolini.

In the small hamlet of Giulino di Mezzegra, at the entrance gate wall of the Villa Belmonte, a visitor will see the only marker remembering Benito Mussolini — a small black metal cross inscribed Benito Mussolini 28 Aprile 1945. This cross marks the spot where Mussolini and Claretta Petacci were murdered by an assassin’s bullets. This marker has all the style and materials known to a local craftsman, This is not an official National Memorial but still, in its simplicity gives great credit to the faith and decency of the people of the Mezzegra area and more specifically to the owners and inhabitants of the beautiful Villa Belmonte — after all they live
there — it is a private residence. They are to be applauded.

Rome and Italy in concert have produced a race of intellectual giants over the past three thousand years and holds a well deserved global reputation as such. In its public and private places modern Italy pays respect to these great men of the Humanities, the Sciences and the Arts. Today Italy steadfastly refuses to recognize the intellectual genius of Benito Mussolini who’s political,economic and social concepts remain unique and unmatched in the annals of world governments.Fascism is Italian to the core of its essence.

Italy and the Italian people are much the same as those of other nations and other people that have been slowly but surely formed as Franchise Nations taking on the image and the cultural of those who found total victory in Italy in 1945.

In Rome any Guide Book will provide the traveler with an entry known as the English War Cemetery which is located close to the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, and lies beneath the ancient Aurelian Wall. A peaceful, well manicured green grassed cemetery yard with rows and rows of white wooden crosses marking the 429 burial sites of English soldiers who died while fighting in Italy. A grand Cupola Entrance space greets the visitor. In the frieze above the visitor will find engraved in English and Latin words:
THESE SOLDIERS OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GAVE THEIR LIVES TO
PRESERVE LIBERTYAND BY THEIR SACRIFICE RESTORED THE FREEDOM OF ITALY
AND THE ANCIENT FRIENDSHIP OF THE ITALIAN AND BRITISH PEOPLES 1939 - 1945

The existence of these ubiquitous war memorials dot the landscape of every city and town in most
parts of the world where soldiers have died and are now buried. An annual homage is paid to the
heroism and valor of these fallen warriors, who are in reality mere victims of war, by political
wreath laying, legion parades, civic ceremonies and endless emotional survivor speeches.
If these dead soldiers could speak to the nation and to those gathered at these war memorials, it
would not put an end to wars, there is too much appetite and planning for that end, but it would
allow them to vent their anger and rage so as to refresh the minds of the living to the utter folly
of these wars and destroy forever the inane purposes of these ceremonies with their faux pomp
and national ceremonies. Only they know the truth of war and the savagery of sudden death on a
battle field of war.
What is relatively unknown and not properly understood today is the fact that if a new war breaks
out in the world the safest place to be may be in the military. All newly developed weapons are
designed to eliminate as quickly as possible, large numbers of civilians living in the major capital
cities of the world. At the moment the United States of America has a unseen fleet of Trident Class
submarines each carrying atomic payloads of two dozen intercontinental ballistic missiles
roaming the oceans of the world daily on a twenty-four hour basis. In the air they have a unknown
number of Strategic Air Command aircraft bombers patrolling the skies of the world daily, again
with a deadly payload of atomic weapons of mass destruction on board. The enormous
unpublished national cost of these programs employs a major portion of the nation’s military
budget. As both of these military delivery modes are invisible to the average person’s naked eye
little notion is taken, said or asked by the citizens of the world or their governments. Only their
odious telltale vapor trails are seen scratching the morning and evening skies. If the USA
government has the approval and sanctions of the world’s international atomic regulatory bodies
for these military expeditions is not known. It is likely that these hegemonic international flights
and the underwater expeditions will continue as they have for the last fifty years.

THE TWIN WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Enough has been said and printed about the subject of Weapons Of Mass Destruction in the past two years to last a lifetime. This four word phrase is now world famous and synonymous with the employment of nuclear and chemical instruments of warfare. The term itself has become a social and political weapon in and of its own self - a handy tool for speechwriters and press conferences. It is designed to intimidate and warn “rogue” nations of the world that are proving to be nations and regions of “concern” for the new International League of Power Nations formed after 1945. These weapons are now seen as the ultimate “Sword Of Damocles” in today’s political affairs of modern man. One slight “miscue” and the ultimate tragedy begins or ends as the case may be.

It is now sixty years since the world has witnessed the first and the last military use of “nuclear” power against a nation’s citizens. None have been used since those historical three days in August in 1945 when the United States Military bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most recent American “shock and awe” fire bombing of Baghdad, Iraq on the evening of March 21, 2003 creating a massive fire storm of 1500 bombs and missiles came as close as the world has seen a repeat of the frightful use of scientific military weapons being used against innocent civilians since the1945 nuclear bombings of Japan.

Important, non-explosive weapons of mass destruction, have now replaced the incomprehensible terrors of a military use of new “Hydrogen” bombs in any imaginable international conflict amongst the nations of the world.

Meanwhile, while this heavy , highly dangerous present day “weapons of mass destruction” political opera plays itself out towards its dramatic ending, an entire unnoticed obscure world of other programs of weapons of mass destruction works its way into our own private lives and homes via the cable wire which now penetrates the walls of our only sanctuary and fortress against the lies and the fabrications of the false and disreputable world of modern day political policies. This is the new and highly contagious world of Mass Media and Mega Money - weapons of social destruction.

Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian born, 1911-1980, “oracle” and communications “sage” saw the highly dangerous toxic and explosive effects of this volatile mixture of mass media and high octane fuel of money on modern man. Understanding Media:The Extensions of Man (1964) became McLuhan’s most widely read and influential book, explores the electronic age and its affect of both the individual and society in general.


After three thousand years of explosion, by means of fragmentary and mechanical technologies,
the Western world is imploding. During the mechanical ages we had extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central
nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet
is concerned. Rapidly we approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological
simulation of consciousness. When the creative process of knowing will be collectively and
corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we have already extended our
senses and our nerves by the various media. Whether the extension of consciousness, so long
sought by advertisers for specific products, will be“a good thing” is a question that admits of a
wide solution.

Western man acquired from the technology of literacy the power to act without reacting. The
advantages of fragmenting himself in this way are seen in the case of the surgeon who would be
quite helpless if he were to become humanly involved in his operation. We acquired the art of
carrying out the most dangerous social operations with complete detachment. But our
detachment was a posture of noninvolvement. In the electric age, when our central nervous system
is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole
of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action.
it is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and disassociated role of the literate Westerner.


“ It is obviously true that most bomber pilots are no better and no worse than other men. The majority of them given a can of petrol and told to pour it over a child of three and ignite it, would probably disobey the order. Yet, put a decent man in an airplane a few hundred feet above a village and he will, without compunction, drop high explosives and napalm and inflict appalling pain and injury on men, women, and children. The distance between him and the people he is bombing makes them into an impersonal target, no longer human beings like himself with whom he can identify.” (Anthony Storr: Human Aggression, 1968)


Clearly, after reading Marshalll McLuhan’s erudite, prophetic, and very insightful investigations into the new “Environments” that we now live in and that shapes and controls the form of human associations and actions that now exist in the world, we should accept the notion and the idea that a new world of electronic information and images exists for our benefit and personal fulfillment. Most governments and major corporations understand and accepts these findings and conclusions and now see great advantages in their support and involvement in these new communication tools which allows them to “read” new insights into the minds and the nature of their customers and their citizens.


INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

All of the communications instruments that make up today’s “Information Age” have improved the general life-style of millions of people around the world, many in various stages and in various ways: information, travel, entertainment are a few. Each and every step and manifestation of these new technologies brings with them new and invigorating ideas and concepts of life for most of mankind.

But there are those in governments and media-based corporations, and those with special goals and ambitions that have large pools of money at their disposal, and are assisted with a staff of social scientists that see in these McLuhan ideas, only new , better, and less costly ways of furthering their global goals and ambitions. They are in our midst spreading their centuries old propaganda of division and hate. Now they have newer and better communications devices to complete their devious programs. They are resource complete with both personnel and financial resources. You know them well - you see , read or hear their electric voices every hour of every day. They involve their organizations in the entire range of social communications, from general elections, to the production and promotion of print and film products and networks. Their money is ever at work.


Under existing political forms, he says, the first illusion is participation. The second illusion is that there are solutions, e.g. there is no ignorance where there is no learning. There is no poverty where there is no affluence. There is no privacy where there is no public. These, and many other forms, are complementary. The white man creates the colored man, as affluence creates poverty. A convict has no privacy. He has solitude. A tribal man has no privacy. Under electric conditions there can be no privacy. The privacy invaders are the bulwark of the new knowledge industries, from the pollsters, to the insurance companies, and the credit ratings, “the eye in the sky”, the age of the snoop.

(letter dated April 14,1969 from Marshall McLuhan to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada)

THE MEDIA AND THEIR MESSAGES
The USA is the world’s foremost economic and military power. It also is now the world’s main source of new global electronic media technology, offering the world a new international network of powerful governmental and private media organizations with their programming of domestic and international programs of American culture, political, economic and social concepts and ideas - a major new export commodity.

The average American spends approximately eight hours a day with print and electronic media - at home, at work, and while traveling in a car. This includes four hours of television, three hours with radio, and one-half hour each with a newspaper and recorded music. Surveys show that 98% of Americans have television sets, 82% of which watch “prime time” and cable programming, 84% listen to radio, and 80% read a daily newspaper. Nearly 50% of the population have access to computer Internet programming.

Most of the nation’s primary sources of news and information are in the communications business to make money. Media and communications organizations have an annual income of 242 billion dollars - one of America’s largest business groups. Advertisers spend over 215 billion dollars annually to bring their products to the attention of the public. The various components of the media provides employment for hundreds of thousands of technicians, writers, artists, performers, and intellectuals that shape attitudes and beliefs by their media presence.

The print and electronic media in the United States, offering a wide variety of entertainment and news options and opinions to the American public are a pervasive element in American society.

The nation’s daily televised world of happy, youthful, attractive, smiling, active, prosperous people, who do not work, is a false, misleading, and illusionary picture of daily American life. This not what Americans experience in their own very real lives of labour, pain and tears which they see from their own private windows on the world around them. Only the five o’clock local television news programs is the real world of news of the murder and mayhem in the cities they live in. This half hour or so is filled to capacity with local stories of deaths, crimes, mixed with the political and economic news that pertain to their own state or city. Weather and sports are added as “lighter” news events to fill their local television agenda.

With the advent of television in the late 1940s the new electronic medium made quick inroads into the world of newspaper publishing. Newspaper publishing had made several individuals very rich men by their creation and ownership of newspaper chain organizations that published and financed many of the major newspaper companies then servicing America’s largest cities. Today’s top five daily newspapers by circulation in the United States are the Wall Street Journal, U.S.A. Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. The U.S.A. Today is edited and composed in Arlington, Virginia, and transmitted via satellite to several printing plants around the country and two printing plants in Europe and Asia. The International Herald Tribune is an American owned global newspaper, printed via satellite in 11 cities around the world and sold in 164 countries.

The advent of television also sounded the demise of large magazine organizations such as The Saturday Evening Post in 1969, Look in 1971, and Life in 1972.Today, Time, TV Guide, and Newsweek survive along with several thousand “special interest” magazines.

Starting in the 1950s, radios became standard equipment in automobiles and started a whole new group of listeners: American commuters driving to and from their workplace. Today “talk radio” with its telephone call-in feature has captured most of the country’s radio audience. The call-in format is now heard on an ever growing number of radio stations. Music and hourly news updates remains the main radio fare both daytime and evening listening. Sports is also a major subject for a number of cities having major league sport franchises. Besides the 10,000 commercial radio stations in the United States, more than 1400 are run by universities and publicly funded institutions.The United States Government has a host of daily “Radio Free” radio and internet website information broadcasts to all sectors of the world.

Television, in the past fifty years, has become the most popular and influential medium in the United States and the world - this electrified medium now exercises enormous influence on the public opinion and way of life of most of its international audience. In the beginning three privately owned networks offered free TV programming financed by selling air time to commercial companies that wished to publicize their products at certain times during their broadcast day. N.B.C., C.B.S., and A.B.C. then controlled the television market. By 1994 almost 60 percent of households has subscribed to cable television and non-network broadcasting.This new market gave birth to the twenty-four hour music and movie networks, which in turn created the Cable Network News program, CNN, a twenty-four hour a day news program based in Atlanta Georgia. In the last few years a new entry has challenged all of the past TV history and introduced its brand of universal “sky“ satellite TV broadcasting which now encircles the entire globe. The News Corporation has a stable of 14 Film Companies, 6 Sky Satellite operations, 11 Cable companies, 4 magazines, 3 newspapers, and 3 book publishers.

Movie films made in the United States are shown in more than 150 countries worldwide and American television programs are broadcast in over 125 international markets. The U.S. film industry provides the majority of prerecorded cassettes and discs seen in millions of homes throughout the world. This vast complex audiovisual industry is responsible for the total world exposure of American made films made and distributed by American companies such as The Walt Disney Company, Sony Picture Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios, and Warner Brothers Entertainment are the major production engines of a large number of American made movies made annually for domestic and international distribution.The number and contents of these American films have secured a prime position in world movie markets ever since the end of the war i

COULD WORLD WAR TWO AND THE HOLOCAUST HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

The day Mussolini stopped Hitler

July 25th Will Mark the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s First Defeat.

The front page of the New York Times documented the event with this headline:
Austrian Nazis Kill Dollfuss*…Italian Army, Navy, Planes Ready to Act.
*The premier of Austria

Upon hearing the news of the German assassination of Austria's Prime Minister Engelbert Dollfuss Mussolini gave orders for four divisions to be sent to the Brenner Pass. He wanted England and France to join him in protecting Austria from Hitler's “Anschluss” plans but received none.

The Nazi takeover of Austria failed and Hitler was handed his first defeat by the timely and forceful action of the Italian government. Italian appeals to France and Britain for a similar show of force against Hitler went unheeded.

The two leaders agreed to meet for their first time on June 14th 1934 in Venice to discuss Germany's plans for Austria. Mussolini advised Hitler that he would defend Austria's sovereignty as an independent state, and admonished him for his persecution of the Jews and the Church. He took a dislike for all that Hitler said and told his advisors later that Hitler talked too much and avoided current matters of State. Mussolini had saved Austria from from the “Anschluss ” (political annexation)

Although popular history emphasizes the appeasement of Italian and German dictators during the late 1930’s as the cause of World War II, more and more evidence is pointing to an unwillingness of Great Britain to join in a collective security pact with Italy in the early 1930’s. Their misjudgment not only sent the wrong signals to European powers but it prevented a united front against Nazi Germany early in the decade. Modern day war historians must reexamine the 1930’s with particular attention to such events as the Stresa Front, the proposed 4-power pact, the 1934 Austrian crisis, the Anglo-German naval treaty of 1935, and the conflicts within the British cabinet.

The Stresa Front Conference at Stresa, Italy, April 11-14, 1935 was held at the initiative of Mussolini to discuss, with representatives of England and France, needed programs and agreements to contain the growing German military influence and menace in Europe.

THE SEEDS OF WAR

THE SEEDS OF WAR

Contrary to modern popular belief, the seeds of World War 2 were not planted in Berlin, Rome,
and Tokyo. They were disseminated initially in Paris, France in June of 1919. The Paris Peace
Treaty of Versailles was destined to become the first forewarning of the inevitability of an even
greater war that was to follow in twenty years. The six months of conceiving and articulating
the 440 Articles of the Treaty would eventually change the history of European politics,
economics, and society and serve as a prelude to the commencement of another war. The
ruthlessness of the unforgiving highly restrictive national, military, and financial repayment
terms of these Articles, became a virtual guarantee that Germany would have no other option
than to go to war once again, to protect its national sovereignty and independence from the
mandates of the Triple Entente powers of Britain, France and Russia. When England and France
declared war on September 3, 1939, Germany was ready, willing, and most able to once again
regain its economic freedom from the stringent terms of the Treaty of Versailles. In preparation
Germany had assembled what was to become the most multitalented, rigorously trained, and
highly devoted military force that the modern world had ever seen.

Italy remained neutral and worked vigorously and persistently in an attempt to find a solution,
or at least a compromise, that would eventually end in a peace agreement between the warring
nations. Italy saw this as the only way to ward off a prolonged and damaging war in Europe.
After seven months of fruitless efforts in this search for peace, and now knowing that a
diplomatic solution was not possible or even sought by the Allies, Rome decided that it also
would soon be a target of their military forces, and decided that its best and only solution was
to engage the nation in this ongoing war, in order to save the nation and its government from
the certainty of being invaded by Allied troops. On June 10, 1940 Italy ended its neutrality and
entered the war, united with the German Government.

This horrendous war that claimed 55 million lives and that destroyed much of the infrastructure
of global civilizations, was a product of the hallowed political and financial halls of England,
France, Russia, and the United States of America. In order that the real reasons for this war
would never be made known to the world, a perpetual propaganda crusade of words, images,
and voices would be required. A media arsenal of falsehoods, misrepresentations, untruths,
forgeries, lying, exaggerations, provocations, frauds, fabrications, deceits, shams, double
dealings, and hypocrisies, was duly fabricated and has been unabashedly promoted ever since
by these four Allied Nations. This unending campaign of treachery and deception has served
them well now for sixty years.

The United States and Britain decided to launch the two Persian Gulf Wars of February 1991,
and March, 2003, using an identical collection of falsehoods and political deceptions in order to
justify another unnecessary war. It succeeded in 1939 in Europe and worked again in the
Middle East. The formula is simple. It works every time.

DEMOCRACY - A CIVIL RIGHT OR A POLITICAL VEIL

DEMOCRACY - A CIVIL RIGHT OR A POLITICAL VEIL

Today the sad realization for millions of people around the world is the brutal fact that
thousands of young innocent men, women and children are dying daily as martyrs in today’s
“War On Terrorism.” This scandalous reality is being played out graphically twenty-four hours
a day on television networks around the world and is sure to leave a long lasting impression of
horror and fear in the hearts and minds of both the young and the old of the world. A multitude
of reasons are officially “spoken of “ by military and governmental officials in their effort to
justify the invasion of Iraq by the American Government - oil, hidden nuclear and chemical
weapons, inept and faulty intelligence, democracy, freedom, liberty, etcetera. These and other
nebulous reasons have nothing to do with America’s unilateral decision to bomb, invade and
occupy Iraq. The rational for this and other recent military interventions was born in post war
1945 when the total victory of the Allied Military Forces in Europe and Asia provided the basis
needed for the birth and establishment of an terrible order of International Political Dominators
who plan to introduce a new order of political, economic and social programs on the world: a
policy of madness that will rob much of the world of its solid moral basis.
They learned the various skills of political deception and fabrication required for the creation of
an unnecessary but nevertheless desired war from their political progenitor’s bitter brew of
propaganda used in the 1930s in order create a believable list of reasons and justifications for
their military carnage in the Second World War.

They do all this with the consent and the approval of their very own citizens by the means of
our modern process of periodic public democratic elections: the dynamics of which they fully
understand and have learned to control. This “popular” vote is often only a prelude to a
complete and “ numerically mandated” dictatorship by the executive branch of a modern
democratic government. The early noble Greek philosophical idea of a Democracy often ends
as soon as the last ballot is counted.
An ever increasing tempo of “State Sponsored Terrorism” is a modern day problem of immense
proportions that has a profound social and cultural effect in every corner of our planet. Recent
years have become a labyrinth of fire and brimstone suffering for those people unlucky enough
to stand in the path of the military fireworks of predatory nations intent on the fulfillment of
their programs of domination in order to establish new political, social, and economic
arrangements for the nations of the world.. It is not important how many innocent people have
to die: who will remember those tens of thousands of unidentified martyrs who must suffer an
early death as a result of these policies four years from now when free and democratic elections
are held once again?

WAR LORDS AND THEIR WAR GAMES

Who are these men who travel to the far ends of the earth to meet in secret rooms and conceive
and execute special and far reaching agendas in concealed documents which in due course will
affect the lives, fortunes and destiny of millions of global citizens their families and their
children? Are the Americans? Are they English or British? Are they Jews? Regardless of what
their passports show and state they are none of the above. They are Internationalists! Their loyalty
and their allegiance is to another concept of a nation state still unannounced and unnamed — but
nevertheless fully developed in their minds
From whom did they received their mandate and their authority to do such things? It is too easy
to say from the results of a free and democratic election. If that is the one and only honorable
way for citizens to select their political leaders it is a flawed system of government. They exist
and operate veiled by the modern day chimere of Liberalism, Democracy, Freedom,
Conservatism, Monarchy, Federalism, International Treaties and Alliances, and Government by
Administrative Decree. The world has now had two hundred years of democratic maleficent rule
by their elected heads of governments and in some cases their heads of state. Surely the average
citizen now knows what is being told to him and what is actually being done regarding the state
of affairs of their governments and like sane and rational men and women should have a pretty
good idea of who are the bandits and who are the robbed. Today many democratically elected
governments are using their tax based revenues for their private enrichment and their global
sectarian goals and ambitions.

Roosevelt's Campaign To Incite War In Asia And Europe

President Roosevelt’s Campaign To Incite War in Europe

Not so well known is the story of Roosevelt’s enormous responsibility for the outbreak of the
Second World War itself. This essay focuses on Roosevelt’s secret campaign to provoke war in
Europe prior to the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939. He bears a grave responsibility
before history for the outbreak of the most destructive war of all time.

Institute for Historical Review
The Secret Polish Documents
Mark Weber

Ezra Pound

In 1939 he made a trip to Washington, D.C., where he spoke with members of Congress about
his economic policies and about his fear that Roosevelt, the bankers, and the armaments
industry were leading America into another war. He began regular broadcasting his ideas over
Rome Radio, in a program aimed at the English-speaking world. Mixing reflections on
literature with tirades against Roosevelt, usury, and international finance.
(The Heath Anthology of American Literature)
Houghton Mifflin
Ezra Pound 1885-1972

Gore Vidal

Vidal points out something that has been long known to us, but never before admitted, namely
that President Roosevelt deliberately provoked the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor.” They
deliberately cut off Japan’s oil supplies, then refused to sell them scrap metal, and so on. So
they attacked. The attack on Pearl Harbor was worth more to Roosevelt than several
divisions…. We still have not been told the reason why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor! Roosevelt
provoked the attack, but the national mythology requires him to be a saint, so nothing is said
about it. The press and the media are owned and controlled by our ‘corporate masters‘ They
control all the flow of information, so that the great majority of Americans do not know what is
going on
The Decline and fall of the American Empire
BBC interview with Gore Vidal with Andrew Marr
Written by Alan Woods
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MUSSOLINI FRESCO AT MADONNA DELLA DIFESA CHURCH MONTREAL

The Church of the Madonna della Difesa is a church in Montreal Canada. built in 1919 by
Italian immigrants to Montreal, specifically those from Molise, to commemorate the apparition
of the Madonna La Difesa, in Campobasso, Molise. It was designed by Roch Montbriant and
Quebec artist Guido Nincheri.

It is famous for its frescos by Guido Nincheri.

Guido Nincheri (1885 –1 March 1973) was a Canadian artist working mainly in stained glass
and fresco. Born in Prato, Italy, he studied art in Florence and immigrated to Montreal in 1915
after a short stay in Boston where he decorated the Opera House.
A particularly well-known fresco depicts Benito Mussolini; painted before World War II, it
commemorates his signing of the Lateran Accords.*

A statue in front of the church
commemorates “victims of all wars.”

* The Last Centurion Volume I – pages 39-41 Paragraph 3 - The New Rome and The Holy See

PIUS XII SPEAKS ABOUT BENITO MUSSOLINI

Pius XII speaks about Benito Mussolini:

"The greatest man I have ever met and without a doubt among the most kindhearted: for this I have a lot of evidence to prove it."

As affirmed by Pope Pius XII, . 1952

ITALIAN PROGENITORS

THE WORLD OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN CITIZENS BORN OF ITALIAN PROGENITORS

Recent Population Censuses in both countries provides the astonishing information that approximately 15 million American citizens and 1.3 million Canadian citizens mark their Heritage as Italian. Most take great pride and personal pleasure of having an Italian family name, attending Italian banquets, and the present popularity of Italian culture. They live in a country both rich and abundant in goods and services in what is generally referred to as "The Good Life." As a result the former wartime period of Italian political, social, and economic history has had little affect, in any meaningful way, on their personal life here in North America.

Now that they have seen and learned how quickly and easily wars are made by their own governments, they may be better prepared to understand how their parent's former country became involved in the military conflict of World War II, which claimed over sixty million innocent lives from 1939 to 1945.

The history of the horrendous period of Italy's war years and immediate post-war years plays no part in their popular knowledge of Italian historical information. They, along with most Americans and Canadians only know and accept the war-time history that they has been told by their governments via a vast network of media outlets over the past sixty years.

THE BIG LIE

We have been told ever since 1945, by every media means known and available to the authors of a multitude of malicious lies, that Italy and its people were forced to live their lives for twenty-one years under a political regime of a very evil, corrupt and cruel dictatorship, and that finally in 1943 Italy was invaded by the Allied Armies of America, Canada, Britain, Australia, and freed and liberated from this period of political terror and crime, and that the Italian Prime Minister of Italy, from 1922 to 1943, was assassinated by “partisans” and his body and others were hung and desecrated in a public square in Milan -- A ruthless and shameful display of civic brutality now seen and known to the entire world, by sixty years of publication in films and photos.

The Allied military presence in Italy began with the invasion of Sicily on July 10, 1943. Fifteen days later Benito Mussolini was no longer the Prime Minister of Italy. His traitorous successors, as arranged by agreement with the Allied Forces, all left Italy for other lands and left the nation and its people to live a life of absolute social, political, economic and military confusion and suffering. The Allied Forces marched and bombed their way northward through the entire peninsula and then eventually took over the government and control of the nation in Rome on June 4, 1944. They bombed most of the major cities and industrial sites from Naples to Milan as they wished, destroying much of Italy’s historically important sites and regions including parts of Rome. Their excessive and now seen as unnecessary bombing raids was a military/political program of callous revenge, terrorist bombings on a country and a people who had no army, no government and no will to continue the war. The criminality of the total destruction bombing of the Benedictine Monte Casino Monastery stands out as a classic example of the gratuitous Allied bombing strategy.

LEARNING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITALY'S IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE WORLD FROM
JULY 29,1883 TO APRIL 28,1945

First one must earnestly hunger for the truth which can become a long and challenging journey. Then one must become a reader of important history books, articles, and documents. A reliance on media outlets for a personal evaluation of what really happened during these years is very dangerous and very often misleading! In Italy today the victorious Allied Governments retain their hegemonic presence with military bases and more importantly in vital National Articles in the Italian Constitution which were drafted in essence by legal and military agents of the victorious Allied Nations.

IF THESE CHAOTIC DAYS OF CIVIL STRIFE AND CONFUSION ALONG WITH THE COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF ALL GOVERNMENTAL ORDER AND ASSISTANCE ALONG WITH A LEGACY OF FOOD SHORTAGES AND STARVATION ARE THE DAYS THAT YOUR GRANDPARENTS, OR YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER, OR GREAT UNCLE OR AUNT RECALL AND PLACE ALL THE BLAME ON THE SHOULDERS OF BENITO MUSSOLINI, THEY ARE MAKING A MISTAKE. ALTHOUGH HE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE OF A PATRIOTIC MARTYRDOM, HE WAS INNOCENT OF THESE LAST DAYS OF NATIONAL SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHAOS, DOUBLE DEALINGS, TREACHERY, VINDICTIVENESS AND DIVERSE POLITICAL AND MILITARY COMMANDS WHICH WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY.

This Allied landing in Italy was not a day of liberation, as is celebrated in Italy each year, but rather an Invasion of Occupation. They, the Americans are still there; in the Italian Constitution, in three military bases and especially in NATO of which Italy is a member. It is unknown if this was a political choice or an obligation of all post war governments of Italy.

LEARNING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF MUSSOLINI

Investigating newly published literature regarding the fascinating and altruistic history of the life and times of Benito Mussolini, the most disparaged political genius of twentieth century European history, will become a very rewarding enterprise for anyone of Italian heritage. One day the mysterious disappearance of the contents of the of the satchel of top secret personal documents he carried with him during those fateful last days in Lake Como in 1945 will eventually be revealed for the entire world to read. Then the truth of the vast devastating wartime period of Italian history and the nations and men responsible for this worldwide war will be finally brought to light.


N. B. Recommended Reading List: The Last Centurion, Volumes I and II, Rudolph S. Daldin: Mussolini www.Benito-Mussolini.com

Mussolini:A New Life, Nicholas Farrell.

If you read Italian please visit: http://www.filippogiannini.it. Signor F. Giannini is an author of very important Books and ongoing Articles on life of Benito Mussolini.