The Italian political demonstration in which Elon Musk (Atreju) also participated has ended

The day before yesterday, 17 December 2023, the political demonstration organized by Giorgia Meloni ended. The event, called Atreju, took place between 14 and 17 December 2023, and hosted numerous prominent figures including British Prime Minister Sunak and the richest entrepreneur in the world Elon Musk, as well as president of the social network Twitter .

Most people will most likely not follow politics and they will probably have learned about this event from online newspaper news, however even if they learned about it from online news they would hardly have understood the situation. The current government is causing disaster after disaster and at the event there was no talk of politics but only of abstract things such as Italian pride. Indeed, to divert attention from serious questions, such as the growth of people living in poverty in Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni decided to criticize both an influencer and the writer Roberto Saviano who fought against the Mafia and who lives in New York under continuous police. An unprecedented shame because President Meloni had the courage to say that the writer Saviano got rich by writing against the Mafia…

♬ ULTIMO – Alba

Yesterday at the Sanremo festival Marco Megoni deservedly won and as it was easy to predict… but there was also another song that deserved the victory: the song by Ultimo which finished fourth.

LYRIC

Amo l′alba perché è come fosse solo miaMi rilassa respirare l’aria pure tuaAmo l′alba perché è come fosse una bugiaMi rilassa quanto basta, ma tu poi vai viaE t’immagini se fossimo al di là dei nostri limitiSe stessimo di fianco alle abitudiniE avessimo più cura di quei lividi?Saremmo certo più distanti, ma più similiE avremmo dentro noi perenni brividiT’immagini se tutto questo fosse la realtà?Amo l′alba perché spesso odio la vita miaCamminando senza meta in questa strana viaAmo l′alba perché è come una sana folliaPuoi capirla se la senti e non mandarla viaE t’immagini se tutto stesse sopra i nostri limitiE credessimo ai sorrisi come i comiciSe non dovessimo parlare per conoscerciSe non amassimo soltanto i nostri simili?Forse avremmo gli occhi solo per descriverciPerché uno sguardo, in fondo, basta per dipingerciQuando vivi un giorno bello ridi e pensamiHo ascoltato i miei silenzi e ho avuto i brividiPerché dentro un mio respiro sei tu che abitiE quando vivi un giorno bello ridi e pensamiA me basta solo questo per non perdertiMa t′immagini se tutto questo fosse la realtà?

The first evening of Sanremo 2023

the photo of a frame taken from one of the rai videos of the sanremo festival

Yesterday the first evening of the sanremo festival of italian song and music took place. I haven’t watched it due to various commitments but it seems that the first evening lived up to expectations. In fact, this Sanremo had the record number of listeners in recent years, reaching a 62% share.
Furthermore, this year for the first time the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella was present at the Ariston theater in Sanremo. The expectations
have probably increased in recent days when it was announced that Zelensky would no longer participate in the last evening, after the storm of criticism in choosing to have the Ukrainian president. In terms of songs, I think it’s a recovering Sanremo although there are some unusual or out of the standard episodes such as the destruction of the stage flowers by the singer Blanco.

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♬ Marco Mengoni – Due Vite

as always marco megoni sings beautiful songs: this is the last song sung yesterday, February 7, 2023, at the first evening of the Sanremo festival of Italian music

LYRIC

Siamo i soli svegli in tutto l’universo
E non conosco ancora bene il tuo deserto
Forse è in un posto del mio cuore
Dove il sole è sempre spento
Dove a volte ti perdo
Ma se voglio ti prendo
Siamo fermi in un tempo così
Che solleva le strade
Con il cielo ad un passo da qui
Siamo i mostri e le fate
Dovrei telefonarti
Dirti le cose che sento
Ma ho finito le scuse
E non ho più difese
Siamo un libro sul pavimento
In una casa vuota
Che sembra la nostra
Il caffè col limone
Contro l’hangover
Sembri una foto mossa
E ci siamo fottuti ancora una notte
Fuori un locale
E meno male
Se questa è l’ultima
Canzone e poi la luna esploderà
Sarò lì a dirti che sbagli ti sbagli e lo sai
Qui non arriva la musica
E tu non dormi
E dove sarai
Dove vai
Quando la vita poi esagera
Tutte le corse gli schiaffi gli sbagli che fai
Quando qualcosa ti agita
Tanto lo so che tu non dormi dormi dormi dormi dormi mai
Che giri fanno due vite
Siamo i soli svegli in tutto l’universo
A gridare un po’ di rabbia sopra un tetto
Che nessuno si sente così
Che nessuno li guarda più i film
I fiori nella tua camera
La mia maglia metallica
Siamo un libro sul pavimento
In una casa vuota
Che sembra la nostra
Persi tra le persone
Quante parole
Senza mai una risposta
E ci siamo fottuti ancora una notte
Fuori un locale
E meno male
Se questa è l’ultima
Canzone e poi la luna esploderà
Sarò lì a dirti che sbagli ti sbagli e lo sai
Qui non arriva la musica
E tu non dormi
E dove sarai
Dove vai
Quando la vita poi esagera
Tutte le corse e gli schiaffi gli sbagli che fai
Quando qualcosa ti agita
Tanto lo so che tu non dormi
Spegni la luce anche se non ti va
Restiamo al buio avvolti
Solo dal suono della voce
Al di là della follia che balla in tutte le cose
Due vite guarda che disordine
Se questa è l’ultima
Canzone e poi la luna esploderà
Sarò lì a dirti che sbagli ti sbagli e lo sai
Qui non arriva la musica
Tanto lo so che tu non dormi dormi dormi dormi dormi mai
Che giri fanno due vite
Due vite

Serie A has restarted: Juve hope to avoid heavy suspensions after the scandals…

Stadio Olimpico, Roma, Italy – Free Image of Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/it/foto/XcvAfCgYX0Y

yesterday the Italian football championship, the Serie A, restarted after a long break due to the World Cup (QATAR 2022) which this year took place for the first time in the winter period… At the beginning of the World Cup, in the end of November, the incredible news came out that the entire board of directors of the Juventus Club had resigned, including Andrea Agnelli, part of the family that has been managing Juventus and Fiat for centuries, the Turin-based car manufacturer, the most important in Italy and probably among the most important in Europe.

Describing what the Turin club may have done is difficult because Italian investigations are currently being carried out which are also connected to the European ones. One thing is certain, the irregularities of the team can lead in the worst case scenario even to relegation to Serie B, and obviously the consequent disqualification from the European cups (also in progress).

In itself, even a winning team is often hated by the opponents, especially Juventus which is the most titled in Italy. Since the 90s, especially after some successful episodes in the league (particularly against Inter), Juventus was always seen as a club that put pressure on refereeing in a direct or even indirect way… After the Calciopoli scandal that cost Juventus relegation, we thought finely about a cleaned up football… Obviously the latest scandals that have escaped have nothing to do with arbitrage but it is certain that it is sad to see a team like Juventus again in the spotlight of scandals. Nowadays I don’t think there’s a top club that is free from irregularities and in one way or another everyone falsifies their accounts… I hope football can improve

In Italy Environmental and tourist drama: snow is completely missing in the Apennines.

in the previous weeks I had already written on this blog about the climatic conditions that have been experienced in Italy in recent months… in particular from May 2022 until today, January 2023: temperatures above the average by even 10 degrees, and days that seem more of spring that winter. Just today, an article came out in ANSA (National Associated Press Agency) according to which snow is completely missing in all the regions with the Apennines: a monstrous and incredible fact that I believe has never occurred in the last few seconds in the Italian peninsula. Foreigners will probably mostly know the Alps, located in the north, which are known for their snow, skiing and tourism, but generally also the Apennines, between central-northern and central-southern Italy, have mountains which have always guaranteed winter tourism… This year there isn’t a single peak or ski slope that has the necessary, and it’s not even possible to make artificial snow because the temperatures are so high that they never drop below below zero, not even at night.

💡 🎄 the 2022 Christmas illuminations of the City of Campobasso

December 27, 2022, I walk through the city and I see some people walking on the street; most of them are crowded together in a bar in the center of the square. The air is fresh but not cold or frozen in fact even the skating rink tends to melt: fault of the last few weeks with tropical temperatures…
This year many doubted that the Christmas lights were at risk because the war in Ukraine war created higher energy prices
… but this year too Campobasso has showcased some beautiful lights ..

The Tropical Christmas of 2022: the anomalous heat that has been raging throughout Italy for weeks..

THE TROPICAL CHRISTMAS – https://pixabay.com/it/photos/christmas-tropicale-decorazione-6593136/

A few days ago I saw on the news that in the States there is an arctic perturbation that has hit a large part of the United States, bringing it to its knees and leaving millions of inhabitants without light and with temperatures even below -40.

It seems incredible but this year in Italy there seems to be a tropical climate that doesn’t even exist in Miami. It’s been incredibly hot for weeks: temperatures even 10 degrees above average… and with a sun that makes it seem like summer. The incredible thing is that this anomalous heat started from the beginning of 2022 with little snow and then continued with the beginning of the summer of May, drying up most of the rivers.

This Christmas is unrecognizable.

The effects of climate change are increasingly evident: the Mediterranean is more subject to it because it is influenced by thermal anticyclones coming from Africa.

♬ Måneskin – THE LONELIEST

Lyric

“THE LONELIEST”

You’ll be the saddest part of me
A part of me that will never be mine
It’s obvious
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest
You’re still the oxygen I breathe
I see your face when I close my eyes
It’s torturous
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

There’s a few lines that I have wrote
In case of death, that’s what I want, that’s what I want
So don’t be sad when I’ll be gone
There’s just one thing I hope you know, I loved you so

‘Cause I don’t even care about the time I’ve got left here
The only thing I know now is that I wanna spend it
With you, with you nobody else here
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

I’m sorry but I gotta go
If you’ll ever miss me give this song another go

And I just keep on thinking how you made me feel better
And all the crazy little things that we did together
In the end, in the end, it doesn’t matter
If tonight is gonna be the loneliest

You’ll be the saddest part of me
A part of me that will never be mine
It’s obvious
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

You’re still the oxygen I breathe
I see your face when I close my eyes
It’s torturous
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

You’ll be the saddest part of me
A part of me that will never be mine
It’s obvious
Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

2nd July (’22): Palio di Siena [Italy]

The Palio di Siena (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːljo di ˈsjɛːna]; known locally simply as Il Palio) is a horse race that is held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade, or city wards. The Palio held on 2 July is named Palio di Provenzano, in honour of the Madonna of Provenzano, a Marian devotion particular to Siena which developed around an icon from the Terzo Camollia [it] area of the city. The Palio held on 16 August is named Palio dell’Assunta, in honour of the Assumption of Mary.

Sometimes, in case of exceptional events or local or national anniversaries deemed relevant and pertinent ones, the city community may decide for an extraordinary Palio, run between May and September. The last two were on 9 September 2000, to celebrate the city entering the new millennium and on 20 October 2018, in commemoration of the end of the Great War.

The Corteo Storico, a pageant to the sound of the March of the Palio, precedes the race, which attracts visitors and spectators from around the world.

The race itself, in which the jockeys ride bareback, circles the Piazza del Campo, on which a thick layer of earth has been laid. The race is run for three laps of the piazza and usually lasts no more than 90 seconds. It is common for a few of the jockeys to be thrown off their horses while making the treacherous turns in the piazza, and indeed, it is not unusual to see riderless horses finishing the race.